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Sunday, November 21, 2021

Holy SH*T, she went there! Former Trump admin and filmmaker Amanda Milius DECIMATES David Brooks and all leftist media in LEGENDARY thread

We hadn’t actually heard of Amanda Milius until we came across this thread, even though she is responsible for the number one documentary on Amazon right now, not to mention the daughter of legendary screenwriter John Milius who was responsible for writing Apocalypse Now, Conan the Barbarian, and a plethora of other epic films.

Seems she was a bit perturbed (heh) with New York Times’ David Brooks … and the leftist media in general.

This thread.

Wow.

Meep.
We love her point about how they have to reduce people to their own lazy and quite frankly boring stereotypes of people on the Right.

Straight.
Fire.

Oh, did we mention she also worked for the Trump administration?
Yeah, we dig her.
Keep going.

What she said.

She’s your...

Oh-a-oh

I met your children

Oh-a-oh

What did you tell them?

Video killed the radio star

Pictures came and broke your heart

Oh-a-a-a oh

And now we meet in an abandoned studio

We hear the playback and it seems so long ago

And you remember the jingles used to go:

Communist China Has Disappeared Tennis Star Peng Shuai After A Chinese Official Sexually Assaulted Her....

Google Is Now Censoring American Journalists On Behalf Of Communist China

The Pentagon’s Engagement with ‘Allies’ and Enemies Puts America Last

The United States should use its military might to protect our borders and defend our sovereignty.

The Senate moved last week to prepare for debate over the National Defense Authorization Act for 2022. When passed, the NDAA will determine how hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are spent. Unfortunately, our military and political leaders are likely to continue a decades-long tradition of spending billions on wasteful, poorly thought-out initiatives that will do little to protect our country, its borders, or its sovereignty.

Even worse, in some cases, U.S. tax dollars may end up empowering hostile powers and bad actors around the world—including those who call themselves allies of the United States yet pursue agendas that harm American interests. They often don’t make headlines at Fox or CNN, but their actions have real and lasting consequences.

This exact situation is unfolding with the French aviation firm Airbus, which is a top contender for the Air Force’s next-generation tanker aircraft program. The company has a lengthy track record of unscrupulous relationships with nations that are either apathetic or hostile towards U.S. interests.

For example, the Department of Justice found in January 2020 that Airbus had engaged in a “massive” multi-year scheme to secure lucrative contracts in China through bribery and corruption. The firm also concealed its illegal dealings from the U.S. government in order to secure licenses to export sensitive American military technology.

Airbus ultimately agreed to pay more than $3.9 billion in fines to the United States and other nations affected by its deceptive practices, but the damage has already been done. Nonetheless, the Department of Defense continues to view the firm as a potential reliable partner that might deserve to receive billions of American taxpayer dollars.

Last year, one of Airbus’ former subsidiaries was also found guilty of corrupt dealings with a barbaric foreign regime: Saudi Arabia. Following an investigation by the British government, the French aerospace giant’s now-defunct subsidiary will be forced to pay more than £30 million, or approximately $42 million, in fines.

At least Airbus hasn’t yet used American military funding to empower rival superpowers, as Israel did in the 1980s—four decades and billions of dollars of U.S. assistance ago. America’s difficult Middle East ally and client state developed an uncomfortably close relationship with China after the United States cut off support for an Israeli fighter jet program. The aircraft, called the Lavi, would have been Israel’s cutting-edge domestically built fighter at the time, but with American aircraft like the F-16 already available, the United States determined that paying Israel to design a similar jet made no sense.

Rather than drop the Lavi, the Israelis promptly made an arrangement with China to share the program’s technology. Several years later, the Chinese unveiled a suspiciously Lavi-like aircraft called the J-10, which is now the most numerous fighter jet in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force inventory.

Israel is far from the only Middle Eastern power that has abused its alliance with the United States. Dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey have long exploited their role as arbiters of the region’s oil market and overall stability to get away with corruption scandals like the one involving the former Airbus subsidiary last year. Turkey, meanwhile, enjoys the added advantage of NATO membership, which gives it cover to fuel conflicts on Europe’s periphery—and profit from them in the process.

In recent years, Turkey has sold unmanned aerial combat vehicles to Azerbaijan and Ukraine, two countries whose belligerence in local territorial disputes has threatened to...

No, I can't forget tomorrow

When I think of all my sorrows

Well, I had you there but then I let you go

And now it's only fair that I should let you know

What you should know

I can't live, if living is without you

I can't live, I can't give any more

Can't live, if living is without you

I can't give, I can't give any more

WATCH: Europe Erupts Against Lockdowns, Vax Mandates with Protests in Rome, Vienna, Netherlands

Mass demonstrations erupted across Europe on Saturday with protests being staged in Vienna, Rome, and The Netherlands as governments across the continent reimpose lockdown restrictions and introduce draconian vaccine measures amid rising cases of the Chinese coronavirus.

An estimated 38,000 people marched on the Wiener Ring on Saturday in Vienna against the imposition of new lockdown restrictions. Organisers of the event claimed that as many as 100,000 people turned up for the protests.

The Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung reported that there were at least ten arrests during the protest, as demonstrators clashed with police, who were reportedly attacked with fireworks.

The protest in Vienna came after the recently installed Chancellor of Austria, Alexander Schallenberg, imposed a nationwide lockdown and announced that starting in February, vaccinations will become mandatory on pain of fines and possible prison sentences.

In Rome, approximately 4,000 people gathered in the Circus Maximus, with chants of “liberty” ringing out in the ancient stadium, according to the local Il Messaggero newspaper.

The demonstration also saw pro-Trump banners and featured slogans such as “people like us never give up”.

Italy has recently enacted a requirement of the so-called Green Pass for the workplace, restaurants, and gyms among other public spaces.

Violent scenes were once again seen across The Netherlands after a night of rioting on Friday evening in Rotterdam. At least 19 people were arrested in The Hague, amid reports of widespread vandalism and attacks on police officers, five of whom were injured, according to De Telegraaf.

Chaotic scenes were also witnessed in...

Soros Prosecutors Let Sex-Offender CVS Burglar Free

Virginia Commonwealth's attorneys frequently let criminals walk

After a registered sex offender was arrested twice in three days on felony charges in Northern Virginia, local leaders are wondering what it takes to land a criminal behind bars when lenient prosecutors backed by George Soros are administering justice.

The serial CVS bandit, Karim Clayton, 44, has a seedy criminal history ranging from menacing a CVS employee with a knife to leading police on a high-speed chase on a major regional thoroughfare.

But Fairfax County prosecutor Steve Descano and Arlington County prosecutor Parisa Dehghani-Tafti—who cruised to victory with six-figure donations from Soros—have brought charges against Clayton at least a dozen times between them, only to abandon their cases or plead him out on paltry misdemeanors with almost no jail time.

"Radical leftist prosecutors like Steve Descano and Parisa Dehghani-Tafti do not represent the public or crime victims," said Sean Kennedy, president of Virginians for Safe Communities. "Their allegiances lie with criminal defendants first, last, and always."

A two-year-long spike in violent crime is a political hazard for President Joe Biden and Democrats. Virginia governor-elect Glenn Youngkin (R.) hammered a public safety message throughout his campaign, promising to fully fund law enforcement and fire an inmate-friendly state parole board. Republican candidates in the commonwealth are homing in on a similar strategy ahead of next year's midterm elections.

Thus far, Clayton’s twin arrests in the last week of September have netted him only three months in prison. He was arrested for assault and battery on Sunday, Sept. 26, in Fairfax County and released on bail Monday morning, according to Virginia court records. That case has not yet been resolved. Authorities arrested Clayton the very next day in Arlington County for stealing from a CVS.

Court records show Clayton was sentenced to 12 months in jail after Dehghani-Tafti's office pled him down to a misdemeanor for the CVS robbery. He can serve nine of those months on probation, however, meaning he will spend just 90 days behind bars.

On a separate occasion in June 2020, Clayton robbed a CVS in Chantilly, Va., in broad daylight. Clayton fled in a 2016 Dodge Journey and led authorities on an extended chase with speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. The chase ended when Clayton crashed in Arlington.

Clayton faced a felony eluding and disregarding police charge, which Descano’s office pled down to a misdemeanor in September 2020, according to court records. He was sentenced to 180 days in prison, but could log up to 170 of them on probation. He also faced a felony assault on law enforcement charge arising from that event from Dehghani-Tafti's office, which was abandoned in September 2020.

Apart from his Northern Virginia crime spree, Clayton registered as a sex offender in Washington, D.C., following a 2015 conviction for abuse of a child. He lives one-third of a mile from an elementary school, according to a home address listed on a sex offender registry. He’s been prosecuted in D.C. courts for driving under the influence, tampering with a GPS ankle monitor he was required to wear as a condition of...

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Rittenhouse Protesters Chant For Communist Revolution

Protesters in opposition of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict chanted for a “communist revolution” on the streets of Chicago Saturday.

Political activist and Baptist pastor Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH coalition led the march throughout the city with calls for the Department of Justice to investigate the verdict, according to CBS Chicago.

Footage captured a crowd of people marching the streets with a signs that called Rittenhouse a “white supremacist” and demanded to end the “fascist USA.” The crowd chanted in support of a communist revolution.

“The only solution is communist revolution,” the crowd is heard chanting.

“That’s right, we need communism. That’s what we need. We need that! We need that, sister, we need that very much,” a female demonstrator said.

The protest began around 2 p.m. at the Federal Plaza located on 219 S. Dearborn with hundreds of participants marching to Madison Avenue, then to North State Street and West Randolph, according to the outlet. Jackson called the Rittenhouse verdict “a major blow against justice and open season by the violence of the right-wing military.”

“I’m still very, very disappointed. Just a travesty of justice,” protester Alicia Senior-Saywell said, according to WGN 9. “The illegal gun in possession, the Kenosha police basically deputizing him. All of it is based in racism.” (RELATED: Biden Says He ‘Stands By’ Rittenhouse Verdict, Later Adds That He’s ‘Angry And Concerned’)

Rittenhouse was acquitted of five felony charges brought against him on Friday over the fatal shootings of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber at a riot on Aug. 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The then-17-year-old was also charged for the shooting-related injury of Gaige Grosskreutz.

Witnesses testified that Rosenbaum “lunged” towards Rittenhouse in an attempt to grab his AR-15 style rifle, while Huber repeatedly hit him in the head with a skateboard.

Protests erupted in major U.S. cities in opposition to the verdict. In Brooklyn, New York, protesters could be heard changing “every city, every town, burn your precinct to the ground!” Protesters also gathered in front of...

Rising up, back on the street

Did my time, took my chances

Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet

Just a man and his will to survive

So many times it happens too fast

You trade your passion for glory

Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past

You must fight just to keep them alive

It's the eye of the tiger

It's the thrill of the fight

Rising up to the challenge of our rival

And the last known survivor

Stalks his prey in the night

And he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger

Google Is Now Censoring American Journalists On Behalf Of Communist China

YouTube and its parent company Google targeted a video about the suspicious disappearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai by journalists Saagar Enjeti and Krystal Ball on Thursday, in a continuation of the tech company’s running interference for communist China.

In a 10-minute “Breaking Points” video titled “Chinese Tennis Star VANISHES After Rape Accusation,” Enjeti and Ball discuss Shuai’s allegations that China’s former Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli sexually assaulted her. “After she posted that, overnight, she was disappeared from the Chinese social media,” Enjeti says in the video.

Enjeti also noted that a Chinese state media outlet had released a statement purported to be from Shuai, denying the allegations and insisting, “I’m not missing” and “everything is fine.”

“I hope to promote Chinese tennis with you all if I have a chance in the future,” the statement continued. Enjeti said the statement only increased concerns of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) about Shuai’s statements.

“Reports are that if you even post about her or about this official or even say things like ‘tennis’ on … their version of Twitter, then that will be censored and blocked,” Ball added, noting that Shuai’s original post alleging the assault was taken down by Chinese censors within 30 minutes.

But after “Breaking Points” posted the video about censorship in communist China, Enjeti said YouTube notified the journalists that their video had been found not “suitable for all advertisers” and “as a result, it will continue to run limited or no ads.”

The notification also said the video had been “manually review[ed],” confirming that no accidental algorithmic error was responsible.

The incident isn’t the first time Google has worked in tandem with Chinese censors. The Intercept reported in 2018 that Google would be introducing “Project Dragonfly,” a censored search engine in China, “which will block searches related to free speech, human rights, and democracy” and “reportedly link any searches entered by a user directly to his or her phone number, allowing Chinese authorities to easily track citizens seeking out blacklisted...