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Thursday, March 17, 2022

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #299

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #298

Military Doctor Attests She was Ordered to Cover Up Wave of Injuries Following COVID-19 Vaccine Regime

A medical officer with the military has testified in court that she was told by a superior to suppress her findings with regards to the DoD’s Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) after the vaccine mandate.

Dr. Theresa Long said while giving testimony in court that she and two other medical professionals found a spike in cancer cases, neurological disorders and miscarriages after the vaccine mandate went into place. She and the others who made these shocking discoveries were ordered to keep quiet.

“I have so many soldiers being destroyed by this vaccine. Not a single member of my senior command has discussed my concerns with me … I have nothing to gain and everything to lose by talking about it. I’m OK with that because I am watching people get absolutely destroyed,” Long said in court.

Liberty Counsel is representing 30 members of the military who are fighting back against the Draconian vaccine mandate within the military. They presented their case to Judge Steven Merryday, who has granted a preliminary injunction to two military plaintiffs allowing them to get around the vaccine mandate.

The hearing took place on March 10 where the Department of Defense (DoD) requested for the injunction to be waived while the case is being appealed. Chairman of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver stated that the DoD is refusing to send witnesses to be cross-examined, suggesting the possibility of a cover-up.

“They send these declarations that some JAG attorney writes, and somebody in the military signs off on them,” Staver said.

Furthermore, Staver said the DoD is presenting information in court that is “outdated, wrong, and would really be subject to dismantling under cross examination” without providing any witnesses to corroborate their...

Given the secret nature of his work, it is not surprising that Stefan Halper’s exact role in these scandals is still debated by insiders and historians.

In the late summer of 2016, Stefan A. Halper met with at least three of Donald Trump’s associates in England and the United States, bragging about his friendship with Russian spies who “can be very helpful to us at this time.”

As they listened to his tales of foreign intrigue and promises of illegal foreign help, what George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, and Sam Clovis did not know was that Halper was not who he said he was. He was, indeed, a spy, but his handler was not the Kremlin – it was the FBI. Armed with leading questions and on at least two occasions a hidden tape recorder, Halper had been tasked by the bureau with finding dirt on the Trump campaign.

Halper’s undercover operation, which was documented in a report by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General, would prove largely a bust. Transcripts between Halper and Trump campaign officials would show that none of them took the bait, or appeared to otherwise be soliciting Russia’s help in the 2016 presidential campaign

Even now, it might seem odd that the FBI made Halper, then a septuagenarian Cambridge University professor, a linchpin of its top-secret counterintelligence probe codenamed “Crossfire Hurricane.” But a closer look at Halper’s life and work makes that decision seem inevitable. Stefan Halper is the Zelig of modern American political scandal – a chameleon-like figure who keeps appearing when mischief is afoot.

A Wide Resume, and Questions About It

The former son-in-law of a top CIA official, Halper cut his teeth in the Nixon White House during Watergate. The New York Times identified him as the Reagan campaign’s point man in an alleged effort to spy on President Jimmy Carter. He was later chairman of a bank that helped provide money to surreptitiously fund Nicaragua’s pro-American contra rebels during the 1980s. In the run-up to his subterfuge in the Trump-Russia caper, Halper was paid more than $1 million by a Pentagon office that produced work deemed of such little value that Sen. Charles Grassley recently identified it as a prime example of the government’s “systemic failure to manage and oversee” spending.

Given the secret nature of his work, it is not surprising that Halper’s exact role in these scandals is still debated by insiders and historians. An examination of long-ignored records by RealClearInvestigations, however, shows that Halper has added to the mystery by appearing to consistently misrepresent his background and experience on resumes.

From Halper resume posted on Institute of World Politics website (removed 2020).

There is, for example, no public evidence for his claim, on a resume he submitted to the Ford White House, that he was class president at Stanford University in 1967 or a Fulbright scholar. Nor is there any for the claim on another resume that he held the prestigious position in the Ford administration listed.

Halper declined to speak with RCI when asked for an interview in person at his Virginia home. He also declined to respond to a letter from...

Five Things You Didn't Know About St. Patrick's Day:

St. Patrick Was Not Irish

His birth name was actually Maewyn Succat -- it wasn't until he was in the Church that it was changed to Patricius, or Patrick. St. Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland, was born in Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, which is in Scotland. As a teenager, he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and enslaved as a shepherd for several years. He attributed his ability to persevere to his faith in God.

Did St. Patrick Drive All the Snakes Out of Ireland?

Despite the popular lore, St. Patrick did not drive the snakes out of Ireland because the island did not have any to begin with. Icy water surrounds the Emerald Isle, which prevented snakes from migrating over.

Green?
Green may be the national color of Ireland, but the color most associated with St. Patrick is blue. The Order of St. Patrick was established in 1783 as the senior order of chivalry in the Kingdom of Ireland. The color associated with the honor needed to differentiate it from the Order of the Garter (dark blue) and the Order of the Thistle (green). So they went with blue.
Largest St. Patrick's Day Parades Are Held Outside of Ireland
The first St. Patrick's Day parade was held in the U.S. The Irish have been celebrating the feast of St. Patrick since the ninth century, but the first recorded parade anywhere was in Boston in 1737. The parade was not Catholic in nature, though, because the majority of Irish immigrants to the colonies were Protestant. Ireland did not have a parade of its own until 1931, in Dublin. Even today, 18 out of the 20 largest St. Patrick's Day parades are in the states -- New York's is the largest.
Shamrock Used to Explain the Holy Trinity
St. Patrick used a three-leafed shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to pagan Irish, forever linking the shamrock with him and the Irish in the popular imagination. He would tie shamrocks to his robes, which is why the color green is worn.

St. Patrick's Day Girl:

The Justice Department on Wednesday accused five alleged agents of the Chinese government of spying on U.S.-based critics of the Chinese Communist Party, including a congressional candidate and the father of an American Olympian.

Prosecutors accused Qiming Lin, a former officer in China's domestic spy bureau, of attempting to hire a private investigator to manufacture a sex scandal against an unnamed House candidate in New York. They also accused Shujun Wang, the head of a pro-democracy organization in Queens, of using the group to spy on activists and provide intelligence to the Chinese government. Three other operatives are accused of trying to bribe a federal official to obtain the tax returns of a pro-democracy dissident.

Prosecutors allege that the defendants are part of a "transnational repression scheme" to silence critics of the Chinese government. The communist regime has increasingly used covert agents to stalk and harass dissidents in the United States. The Justice Department charged eight Chinese nationals in 2020 with stalking and harassing Chinese dissidents in New York as part of Operation Fox Hunt, the Chinese Communist Party initiative to track dissenters living in the West. Also in 2020, prosecutors charged a New York City police officer with spying on Tibetan nationalist groups on behalf of the Chinese government.

According to the Justice Department, Lin hired a private investigator in New York to "undermine the candidacy" of a House candidate on Long Island. The candidate is not identified in court filings, but details suggest it is Xiong Yan, a naturalized U.S. citizen who helped organize the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

Lin asked the private investigator to set the candidate up with a prostitute in order to manufacture a sex scandal, prosecutors allege.

"You go find a girl for him, see if he would take the bait," Lin wrote.

Lin also suggested that the private investigator could physically harm the candidate in order to remove him from the campaign trail.

"But in the end, violence would be fine too," Lin allegedly wrote. He suggested that the investigator "beat him until he cannot run for election" or orchestrate a car accident.

Prosecutors allege that Shujun Wang, the founder of the pro-democracy organization, secretly collected information about Tibetan and Uyghur activists in New York City on behalf of the Chinese Ministry of State Security.

"While ostensibly lending a sympathetic ear, Wang reported on statements activists made in confidence to him, including on their views on democracy in the PRC, as well as planned speeches, writings, and demonstrations against...

Visage à trois #122

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CUSEF rears its head, again.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman served as a Senior Fellow at a graduate school receiving funds from and collaborating with a controversial Chinese Communist Party influence group flagged by the U.S. State Department for its efforts to infiltrate American politics, The National Pulse can reveal.

Vindman, who testified during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial, served as a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) from September 2020 to August 2021.

As a Foreign Policy Institute (FPI) Senior Fellow, Vindman also participated in several events promoting his book “Here, Right Matters” with SAIS during his fellowship.

SAIS, however, has accepted funding from the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) and sent its students on trips to China sponsored by the foreign influence group.

CUSEF functions as part China’s “United Front,” which the federal government identifies as Beijing’s covert operation “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and “influence foreign governments to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing.”

The U.S. State Department compares the United Front to the Chinese regime’s “magic weapon” to advance its preferred policies by infiltrating American politics, media, and academia.

In 2017, SAIS announced a new endowed professorship in its China Studies department and launched a new research project called the Pacific Community Initiative, which aims to examine “what China’s broader role in Asia and the world means for its neighbors and partners.” Both projects were sizably funded by CUSEF, as flagged by Foreign Policy.

Beyond accepting funding from CUSEF, which has used similar tactics on Western journalists in exchange for “favorable coverage” of the Chinese Communist Party, SAIS has also sent its students on trips to...

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #296

New Media Poll Debunks Fake ABC Poll About So-Called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill

On Monday, a poll from far-left ABC News/Ipsos claimed that 62 percent of the country opposed the Florida bill prohibiting sexual grooming teaching elementary school kids sexual orientation, gender fluidity, and identity.

On its face, the poll was a joke. The idea that nearly two-thirds of Americans are comfortable with the idea of teachers grooming engaging with prepubescent children about sex, much less the confusing subcultures of homosexuality, bisexuality, and switching genders, is absurd.

The poll was an obvious hoax, a rigged poll meant to gaslight those opposed to such madness into believing they are outnumbered. The stupid media have been playing this corrupt game with polling for decades. By and large, the public has caught on, but still…

And I’m not just saying that. Over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey dug into the internals and smoked out ABC’s rat:

In the first place, just how did this panel manage to oversample LGBTQ respondents? That is not a demographic that typically gets oversampled in polls. Are we to believe that it’s a coincidence that ABC/Ipsos just so happened to oversample this community on a polling question that directly relates to them?

Especially given the smaller sample size for a national poll (622 adults, not registered voters), it would appear that the pollster focused on specific localities where one would normally find a greater-than-usual percentage of LGBTQ respondents. If the calls were made mostly in urban areas, and perhaps especially in urban areas known for a more robust LGBTQ culture, then it would not only explain the oversample but also the results from non-LGBTQ-identifying adult respondents.

Hoax, hoax, hoax, hoax, hoax…

Enter New Media…

The Daily Wire just published an exclusive poll that shows 64 percent “support the Florida bill’s ban on classroom instructions on sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-3, or at any level if it is not presented in a manner that is age or developmentally appropriate.”

Here’s my favorite part: only 21 percent oppose the ban.

Specifically, in the state of Florida — and again, this is no surprise — 62 percent of Democrats back the ban, as did 63 percent of black respondents and 66 percent of Hispanics.

“Do you believe it is appropriate or inappropriate for teachers and school personnel to instruct children in kindergarten through 3rd grade on various sexual orientations?” the poll asked. Almost two-thirds (65 percent) said no, including 69 percent of PARENTS.

“Do you believe it is appropriate or inappropriate for teachers and school personnel to instruct children in kindergarten through 3rd grade on gender identities, such as transgenderism?” A full two-thirds (66 percent) said no, including 69 percent of PARENTS.

“Over half of the survey’s respondents (52%) also indicated they believe parents should be able to pursue civil actions against school districts if their children are taught about these topics in ways they believe are inappropriate,” the poll found. Hell, yes. Bury these...

Just the News found on laptop seized by FBI dozens of emails in which presidential son coordinated travel, corresponded with agents on his protective detail

Days ahead of his trip to Mexico in spring 2011, Hunter Biden got an email from a Secret Service agent coordinating his protection detail.

“Hunter, when you have some free time, I would like to discuss the Monterrey trip with you,” Secret Service agent Yvonne DiCristoforo wrote then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son on April 28, 2011.

"I have some specific information to provide you that we received from our Mexico City office,” she added. “I know you are out of the office this evening, but if you could contact me at your convenience, I would appreciate it."

File: Monterrey-redacted.pdf

Secret Service records show Hunter Biden, in fact, took the trip with agents protecting him between May 15 to May 17, 2011.

The email, contained on a Hunter Biden laptop now in FBI custody and reviewed by Just the News, may not seem that significant at first blush. But it has significant meaning to Senate investigators.

Why? Because the Secret Service, after years of delay, told GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley, Iowa, and Ron Johnson, Wisconsin, last month the agency has been unable to locate any emails or other records showing its agents coordinating travel for Hunter Biden.

"The Secret Service worked extensively with your committees, and agreed to search parameters provided by your office as to identify communications regarding Mr. Biden's travel," Secret Service Director James M. Murray wrote the senators on Feb. 14.

"These search parameters did not yield communications for the years 2010, 2011, or 2013," Murray added.

File" 2022-02-14 Secret Service to CEG RHJ (Hunter Biden Follow Up) (2).pdf

In fact, Just the News found about five dozen emails between Hunter Biden and his Secret Service handlers on the FBI-seized laptop for those same years, as well as other ones in other years that Senate investigators said they had not...