NYC Mayor Plans BLM Mural in Front of Trump Tower

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Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning to install a massive Black Lives Matter mural right outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, The Post has learned.

Plans for the mural — which will be painted in yellow block letters along Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th streets — come as the city grapples with troubling surges in gun violence and illegal firework activity.

“Obviously he is doing it to antagonize the president,” a source said. “This is what he is concerned about while the city burns. What an amateur politician.”

The source said the mayor’s office reached out to the Department of Transportation about the feasibility of the mural — but it was mentioned that de Blasio wanted it done. . .

De Blasio hatched the idea a few days after Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser had “Black Lives Matter” painted along a street leading to the White House, according to a second source. The plan was finalized last week — after locations for the other murals across the five boroughs were announced on Juneteenth, the source said. (Read more from “NYC Mayor Plans BLM Mural in Front of Trump Tower” HERE)

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Explosive New FBI Notes Confirm Obama Directed Anti-Flynn Operation

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Newly released notes confirm President Barack Obama’s key role in surveillance and leak operation against Michael Flynn, the incoming Trump administration national security adviser. The handwritten notes, which were first disclosed in a federal court filing made by the Department of Justice on Tuesday, show President Obama himself personally directed former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to investigate Flynn for having routine phone calls with a Russian counterpart. He also suggests they withhold information from President Trump and his key national security figures.

The handwritten notes from fired former FBI agent Peter Strzok appear to describe a Jan. 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting between Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Comey, Yates, and then-national security adviser Susan Rice. The meeting and its substance were confirmed in a bizarre Inauguration Day email Rice wrote to herself.

It was at this meeting, which was confirmed by testimony from Comey and Yates, that Obama gave guidance to key officials who would be tasked with protecting his administration’s utilization of secretly funded Clinton campaign research, which alleged Trump was involved in a treasonous plot to collude with Russia, from being discovered or stopped by the incoming administration. . .

“Make sure you look at things and have the right people on it,” Obama is quoted as saying.

Comey’s description that the Flynn-Kislyak phone calls appear “legit,” shorthand for “legitimate,” is also in the notes. Until this week, this exculpatory information was withheld from Flynn and his defense team, multiple congressional committees, and the American public. A lengthy campaign to illegally leak selectively edited defamatory information through media accessories damaged the Trump administration and spurred the appointment of a special counsel to investigate anyone associated with the Trump campaign. (Read more from “Explosive New FBI Notes Confirm Obama Directed Anti-Flynn Operation” HERE)

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Flynn Breaks Silence After Appeals Court Orders Dismissal

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Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on Wednesday spoke out on his case for the first time, calling the federal appeals decision to order his case dismissed a “good thing” for him and his family and “a great boost of confidence” for the American people and “our justice system.”

Flynn, on Wednesday afternoon, surprised Rush Limbaugh by dialing into his radio show, just hours after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered a lower court to allow the case against him to be dismissed, as requested by the Justice Department, likely ending the years-long legal saga stemming from the Russia investigation. . .

“I just want to say from the bottom of our hearts, you know, you’ve been right from the beginning, and we can’t thank you and your listeners enough for all the support that they have given us through this, through this fight,” Flynn said. “Obviously the fight’s not over, as you’ve been highlighting…not just today, but for a long time.”

Flynn added that “what the decision today is really—it’s a good thing for General Flynn, it’s a good thing for me, it’s a good thing for my family, but it’s a really great boost of confidence for the American people and our justice system.”

“Because that’s what this really comes down to,” he continued. “Whether or not our justice system is going to have the confidence of the American people in it, and boy—“ (Read more from “Flynn Breaks Silence After Appeals Court Orders Dismissal” HERE)

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Five Major Witnesses Rebut Bolton Book

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At least five major witnesses reject substantive claims in John Bolton’s forthcoming, 592-page memoir titled “The Room Where It Happened.” . . .

1. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: Pushing back hard against Bolton’s credibility and access, Pompeo told Fox News host Sean Hannity Monday that Bolton was shut out of key meetings because colleagues were worried that Bolton would leak or lie about the meetings.

“I haven’t read the book in its entirety, but the excerpts I’ve seen, there’s lots of falsehoods, there’s lots of lies contained there,” Pompeo told Hannity, saying he disagreed with the book’s title, “The Room Where It Happened.”

2. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer: At a Senate Finance Committee hearing Wednesday, Lighthizer firmly rebutted Bolton’s claim that President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping for help winning the 2020 election. “Absolutely untrue, never happened,” Lighthizer said. “I was there, I have no recollection of that ever happening. I don’t believe it’s true, I don’t believe it ever happened.”

3. Bolton’s former chief of staff Fred Fleitz: The fact that Trump “decided last June not to bomb Iran,” Fleitz told Fox News, “disproves” what he called the premise of Bolton’s book — that the “president doesn’t have principles [and] he’s not qualified to lead.”

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Democrats Create a Workaround to Advance Voter Fraud

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Despite what the media tell people, outside large urban areas, leftist political ideology isn’t very popular in America, and that’s true despite decades of leftism in education, news, and entertainment. Leftists, however, have developed a way to circumvent the fact that stubborn Americans will not vote for Marxist policies or politicians: they use judges to advance their agenda. That’s why, as we saw with the Brett Kavanaugh nomination, leftists will do anything to get their people on the Supreme Court and to keep conservative judges off the Court.

What works best for leftists is to have state attorneys and judges willingly work with them to overthrow the will of the people, the written law, or the Constitution. In Minnesota, leftists are using this tactic to force mail-in only voting on the state. Mail-in voting is an invitation to uncontrolled voting fraud, something that mostly favors Democrats. After all, the Democrats’ idea of a good election is to walk through the streets calling, “Bring out your dead!”

. . .The good news is that the Trump campaign and the local Minnesota Republican Party are actively fighting the tactic. Their fight is only going to be as effective as the federal courts in Minnesota allow it to be. As we’ve seen with the hard-left Ninth Circuit and the Roberts-controlled Supreme Court, activist judges believe that the black robes they wear give them a magical conduit to a purer form of “truth” that is always Marxist. (Read more from “Democrats Create a Workaround to Advance Voter Fraud” HERE)

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Michael Flynn Wins Ruling Ordering Judge to Dismiss Case

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By Bloomberg. A federal appeals court ordered a judge to immediately dismiss the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

A divided three-judge panel on Wednesday said U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington did not have the authority to decide on his own whether to grant the government’s surprise motion to dismiss the case or examine whether it was part of a corrupt effort to aid one of Trump’s political allies.

“This is plainly not the rare case where further judicial inquiry is warranted,” the court said. “The government’s motion includes an extensive discussion of newly discovered evidence casting Flynn’s guilt into doubt.” (Read more from “Michael Flynn Wins Ruling Ordering Judge to Dismiss Case” HERE)

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Conservative Judges Order the Dismissal of Michael Flynn’s Case

By NBC News. . .By a 2-1 vote, a three-judge panel said U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan had no choice but to grant the Justice Department’s motion to drop the case against Flynn.

“Because this is not the unusual case where a more searching inquiry is justified, and because there is no adequate remedy for the intrusion on ‘the Executive’s long-settled primacy over charging decisions,’ we grant the petition for mandamus in part and order the district court to grant the government’s Rule 48(a) motion to dismiss the charges against Flynn,” Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee, wrote in the three-judge panel’s majority decision.

. . .Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec tweeted on the ruling as well, posting, “WIN in General Flynn’s case.”

Judge Robert Wilkins, appointed by former President Barack Obama, authored a partial dissent to the court’s ruling on Wednesday, saying that the appeals court should have waited to see whether Sullivan granted or denied the government’s motion to abandon the case before deciding whether to order him to drop it. (Read more from “Conservative Judges Order the Dismissal of Michael Flynn’s Case” HERE)

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Why are Authorities Letting Jeffrey Epstein’s Fixer Ghislaine Maxwell Get Away With It?; Mystery Filing to Prevent Alan Dershowitz Access to Secret Epstein Files; Judge Hammers Dershowitz’s Lawyer

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By New York Post. Since the death of sex trafficker-rapist-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein last August, the woman who allegedly recruited his many, many underage girls and sexually abused them herself has been in hiding.

[But] Ghislaine Maxwell has hardly been moving cave-to-cave. Most recent reports put the 58-year-old in a luxury apartment in Paris, right off the Champs Elysees. . .

So: where is the urgency? Why hasn’t this depraved criminal suspect, one who by many credible accounts sexually abused minors for years, been arrested yet?

. . .Maxwell is one of the world’s most wanted women, sought by the FBI for questioning. Yet before the lockdown, she was seen swanning around Paris, patronizing high-profile, four-star restaurants and cafés, dropping into art galleries, a scarf tied around her head as if she were Jackie O on Fifth Avenue.

These are the defiant actions of a remorseless woman who knows she is well protected. Her hiding seems almost performative. Maxwell isn’t hunkered down on a private island or on a yacht in international waters. Her whereabouts are well known. (Read more from “Authorities Are Letting Jeffrey Epstein’s Fixer Ghislaine Maxwell Get Away With It” HERE)

(Editor’s note: the reason why they’re letting her get away with it is because she has the world’s rich and powerful on video tape committing lewd acts with children)
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Mystery Filing: Don’t Give Alan Dershowitz Access to Secret Jeffrey Epstein Files

By Law and Crime. Someone really doesn’t want celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz to access the long-sought-after tranche of secret Jeffrey Epstein files. But we don’t know who it is.

An unknown person represented by counsel filed a letter motion with the Southern District of New York (SDNY) on Monday arguing that Dershowitz should not be allowed to bypass the system for release of the Epstein files. That system is the result of a years-long legal battle hashed out between attorneys for Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Epstein’s alleged groomer Ghislaine Maxwell.

John Doe alleges in the filing:

By [a recently submitted court] letter, Dershowitz sets forth his intent to seek an order compelling Plaintiff Giuffre “and others” to produce “all filings and discovery materials, including third-party discovery,” from Maxwell, including documents governed by the Maxwell Protective Order and sealed materials presently under review by this Court pursuant to the agreed-upon protocol.

(Read more from “Mystery Filing: Don’t Give Alan Dershowitz Access to Secret Jeffrey Epstein Files” HERE)

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Judge Repeatedly Loses Patience With Alan Dershowitz’s Lawyer During Hearing on Jeffrey Epstein Files

By Law and Crime. A federal judge repeatedly lost her patience with an attorney representing Alan Dershowitz during a Tuesday hearing over two separate but related defamation cases concerning Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged global elite-servicing sex trafficking operation.

The specific subject of the hearing was a recent Dershowitz motion to modify a years-old protective order in the settled defamation case between Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s alleged groomer. While the actual controversy between Giuffre and Maxwell ended in 2015, Giuffre and her legal team have fought for years—occasionally alongside attorneys for the media–to unseal the documents in that case.

The process of sealing, unsealing and eventually releasing those documents has been controlled by a protective order issued by the Southern District of New York (SDNY) in 2016. A pitched legal battle has been fought in recent years to have those documents released to the public due to the highly sensitive allegations they likely contain. . .

Giuffre has long alleged that Dershowitz, who previously worked as of Epstein’s lawyers, was one of the men who took part in Epstein’s alleged network of young girls. She also alleges that Dershowitz had sex with her approximately six times. Dershowitz has consistently maintained his innocence and repeatedly called Giuffre a liar. He said they’ve never met. (Read more from “Judge Repeatedly Loses Patience With Alan Dershowitz’s Lawyer During Hearing on Jeffrey Epstein Files” HERE)

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Armed Protesters ‘Take Over’ Wendy’s Parking Lot

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Armed protesters stood guard on Tuesday at an Atlanta-area Wendy’s, the site where Rayshard Brooks, a black man shot twice in the back by an Atlanta police officer, died earlier this month.

Earlier in the day, a group of people had “taken over” the burned-out property in South Atlanta, according to local reports.

People living in the area also have complained that the protesters who remained were no longer peaceful, but instead were using the space for their own gain and at times blocking people on the street from getting by.

They claimed the Atlanta police weren’t doing much to solve the problem, making life for those living in the neighborhood a living nightmare. . .

Jones has been living about a mile from the Wendy’s where Brooks was shot and said it’s been physically difficult to get to her neighborhood ever since the group took over the parking lot and began wreaking havoc. (Read more from “Armed Protesters ‘Take Over’ Wendy’s Parking Lot” HERE)

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FCC Orders China-Owned Phoenix TV to Cease Us-Mexico Broadcasts Within 48 Hours; China’s Warning After U.S. Labels 4 Media Firms as “Propaganda Outlets”

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By Washington Examiner. The Federal Communications Commission gave a Chinese government-linked Phoenix Radio, which broadcasts from Mexico into the United States, just 48 hours to cease its cross-border operations after it concealed the company’s ties to Beijing.

The FCC’s International Bureau announced Monday that it dismissed a broadcast application to deliver Mandarin Chinese programming from a studio located in California to XEWW-AM in Mexico for rebroadcast back over the border into the U.S. The FCC said the application was dismissed “because the parties failed to include in their application a key participant” — Phoenix TV — “which produces the Mandarin programming in its studio.”

Phoenix Radio is partially owned by two Chinese government-owned groups, Extra Steps Investment Limited and China Wise International Limited. The FCC said, “The parties have 48 hours to cease broadcast operations related to this application.” A 10-page order laid out the FCC’s reasoning.

”Given Phoenix Radio’s extensive role in the operation of the California studio at issue, it was a violation of the Communications Act for that company, which has ties to the Chinese government, not to be included on the application filed with the Commission,” an FCC spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “Therefore, the application was deficient and was dismissed.”

The Phoenix TV radio station owned by China used a tower in Mexico to broadcast into Southern California. The Free Beacon reported the Mexican station was bought by a China-linked investment group in 2018. Phoenix TV came under scrutiny earlier this year when a journalist from the outlet questioned President Trump during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing. (Read more from “FCC Orders China-Owned Phoenix TV to Cease Us-Mexico Broadcasts Within 48 Hours” HERE)

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China’s Warning After U.S. Labels 4 Media Firms as “Propaganda Outlets”

By NDTV. China threatened Tuesday to retaliate against new US restrictions on Chinese state media, escalating tensions between the two superpowers as they crack down on each other’s news outlets.

The US State Department said Monday it was reclassifying four organisations — China Central Television, China News Service, the People’s Daily and the Global Times — as foreign missions rather than media outlets in the United States, adding to five others designated in February.

China has already expelled more than a dozen American journalists as part of the row.

On Tuesday Beijing decried the latest US move as “bare-faced political suppression of Chinese media” that “further exposes the hypocrisy of the so-called freedom of speech and press which the US likes to flaunt”.

“We strongly urge the US to reject this Cold War mindset and ideological bias… otherwise China will have no choice but to make an appropriate response,” said foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian at a routine briefing. (Read more from “China’s Warning After U.S. Labels 4 Media Firms as “Propaganda Outlets” HERE)

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Tyson Foods Plants Report 95% of Coronavirus Positives Were Asymptomatic

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Rather than focus on the number of cases of coronavirus, why won’t the media spend more time focusing on the fact that so few of them are serious and that we have overreacted to the virus since March? We are seeing a lot of cases, but very few hospitalizations, as shown in the latest test results from a meatpacking plant.

“Hundreds test positive at Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas” was the headline of an AP article on Sunday. That will naturally alarm the public. However, the real headline is that although 13% of all Tyson Foods employees in Benton and Washington counties tested positive, 95% of them had no symptoms. Twenty-six of the 481 who tested positive did present some symptoms. In the Berry Street facility, which had the largest number of cases out of the six facilities, 223 of 227 who tested positive were asymptomatic.

The media and political elites refuse to report the good news that the models were off, the virus was always more prevalent then we thought, and therefore, it’s much less deadly than we thought. They continue to use the discovery of more cases as a pretext for more draconian shutdowns and restrictions, as if this is still the virus with a 3.4% fatality rate that the World Health Organization predicted.

When the CDC estimated that the infection fatality rate was 0.26%, that was factoring in a 35% asymptomatic rate. But what if the virus is even more prevalent than that because the share of asymptomatics is even higher? Some estimate the number to be at 80%. An Italian study found that 70% of those under the age of 60 were asymptomatic.

Given that the majority of people who get the virus are asymptomatic, we can no longer assume that even the serology tests are capturing anywhere near the full number of people who already got the virus, because many who had the virus test negative for antibodies. Earlier this month, a study from the University of California found, “Growing evidence suggests that asymptomatic and mild SARS-CoV-2 infections, together comprising >95% of all infections, may be associated with lower antibody titers than severe infections.” They estimate that only 40% of asymptomatic patients would retain antibodies for 180 days, 60% of mildly symptomatic, and 95% of severe cases.

Another study from China published at Nature Medicine estimates that “40% of asymptomatic individuals became seronegative and 12.9% of the symptomatic group became negative for IgG in the early convalescent phase.” A study from the University of Zurich found a close relationship between the severity of the viral infection and the number of antibodies produced during the convalescent period of that patient. The level of antibodies seemed to correlate nearly perfectly commensurately to the severity of symptoms prior to recovery.

Thus, an unknown percentage of those who show up negative in serology tests likely had the virus but no longer present with antibodies. This is aside from the theory that some people who don’t present with symptoms never produced antibodies because T cells and B cells from the immune system warded off the virus. A brand-new study from Strasbourg University Hospital in France found that a majority of mildly symptomatic patients studied warded off the virus with T cells and did not produce antibodies. The researchers therefore conclude that “epidemiological data relying only on the detection of SARS-Cov2 antibodies may lead to substantial underestimation of prior exposure to the virus.”

While it is unclear whether these individuals remain immune to a secondary infection if they don’t have antibodies, what is clear is that exponentially more people likely had the infection. Which in turn means that the fatality rate is even lower than we think. Thus, the next time you see the media reporting on discovery of more cases without accompanying data on ICUs and fatalities, just know that their report is proving the opposite of their panic-driven headlines. (For more from the author of “Tyson Foods Plants Report 95% of Coronavirus Positives Were Asymptomatic” please click HERE)

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