90 Miles From Tyranny

Thursday, April 29, 2021

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1338

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

TOTALITARIANISM: The FBI Just Raided Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment

The New York Times is reporting that the FBI just raided Rudy Giuliani’s apartment. The reason? The law enforcement agency was looking for electronic equipment.

“Federal investigators in Manhattan executed a search warrant on Wednesday at the Upper East Side apartment of Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who became President Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer, stepping up a criminal investigation into Mr. Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine, three people with knowledge of the matter said,” the Times reported.

“One of the people said the investigators had seized Mr. Giuliani’s electronic devices,” the Times added.
This would be an unprecedented escalation of the Department of Justice’s persecution of political enemies of the Biden administration.

“The United States Attorney’s office in Manhattan and the F.B.I. had for months sought to secure a search warrant for Mr. Giuliani’s phones,” the Times noted, adding, “Spokesmen for the F.B.I. and the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment.

Rudy Giuliani was at the forefront of the effort to secure Hunter Biden’s laptop. The FBI’s execution of a search warrant against Giuliani reeks of...

CNN's New "Reporter," Natasha Bertrand, is a Deranged Conspiracy Theorist and Scandal-Plagued CIA Propagandist

In the U.S. corporate media, the surest way to advance is to loyally spread lies and deceit from the U.S. security state. Bertrand is just the latest example.

The most important axiom for understanding how the U.S. corporate media functions is that there is never accountability for those who serve as propagandists for the U.S. security state. The opposite is true: the more aggressively and recklessly you spread CIA narratives or pro-war manipulation, the more rewarded you will be in that world.

The classic case is Jeffrey Goldberg, who wrote one of the most deceitful and destructive articles of his generation: a lengthy New Yorker article in May, 2002 — right as the propagandistic groundwork for the invasion of Iraq was being laid — that claimed Saddam Hussein had formed an alliance with Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. In February, 2003, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, NPR host Robert Siegel devoted a long segment to this claim. When he asked Goldberg about “a man named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,” Goldberg replied: “He is one of several men who might personify a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda.”

Needless to say, nothing could generate hatred for someone among the American population — just nine months away from the 9/11 attack — more than associating them with bin Laden. Five months after Goldberg's New Yorker article, the U.S. Congress authorized the use of military force to impose regime change on Iraq; ten months later, the U.S. invaded Iraq; and by September, 2003, close to 70% of Americans believed the lie that Saddam had personally participated in...

The FBI is Combing Through Illegally-Gathered Private Data to Build Cases Against Trump Supporters

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is combing through the data of Americans gathered illegally by the National Security Agency (NSA) to build cases against Trump supporters and other so-called right-wing extremists.

A heavily-redacted report has been declassified from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) secret court showing that the FBI received private information about right-wing individuals in September 2019. This occurred as the FBI was ignoring pressing ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter terror threats while former President Donald Trump was still in the White House.

An FBI spokesman released a statement justifying the illicit privacy violations against the 4th Amendment rights of citizens, saying that the “query incidents referenced in this report occurred prior to implementation of the FBI’s system changes and training.”

“The FBI is dedicated to full adherence with FISA’s requirements and to keeping the American people safe from national security threats,” a senior FBI official said.

The FBI is taking this information without a warrant, and the mostly-peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 – falsely called an insurrection or a coup by the fake news media – has given them the perfect excuse to justify this unconscionable power grab.

Big League Politics has reported on how the political establishment is calling for the war on terror to be brought to the homeland in the response to Jan. 6:

“Since the Jan. 6 mostly peaceful protest on the U.S. Capitol, many so-called conservatives have demonstrated their hatred of Trump and shown they had been working to subvert his America First agenda all along.

Arguably the worst examples of this establishment trend come from the Washington Examiner, a media outlet that is bankrolled by a Trump-averse globalist billionaire. The ostensibly conservative outlet has been echoing Democrat talking points since Jan. 6, blaming President Trump for allegedly inciting the violence and promoting impeachment as a legal and viable option.

In a recent article, the publication took it a step further by advocating for an abolition of the U.S. Constitution for the Biden administration to wage the war on terror in the homeland against Trump supporters.

The article titled...