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Jun 20 2020

Reflections upon Juneteenth and “White Guilt”


Fanning the flames of racism (historical, institutionalized, or manufactured) keeps American citizens prisoners to the past

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Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—June 20, 2020

Reflections upon Juneteenth and White Guilt, Tim Kaine

This past Tuesday, Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) proved himself to be an utter embarrassment to the good people of Virginia in a speech he gave in the Senate by his claim that the United States “created” slavery and “didn’t inherit slavery from anybody.” Senator Kaine was giving a speech in support of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, a bill that Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA.)  jointly introduced into the Senate. Tim Kaine may want to check reputable history books rather than relying primarily upon the pious propaganda from the New York Times’  “1619 Project,” which is an outright distortion of American history.

Kaine is a Virginian, yet historically challenged

Kaine recently urged fellow senators to “dismantle the structures of racism that our federal, state, and local governments carefully erected and maintained over centuries.” Kaine the anti-historian has explained:

The first African Americans sent into the English colonies…were slaves, they had been captured against their will, but they landed in colonies that didn’t have slavery — there were no laws about slavery in the colonies at that time… The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody. We created it. It got created by the Virginia General Assembly and the legislatures of other states. It got created by the court systems in colonial America that enforced fugitive slave laws.

What Kaine would be challenged to explain, either due to ignorance or deception, is the the “Virginia General Assembly” in 1619 consisted of the royal Governor appointed by the King of England, a Council of State appointed by the Virginia Company, as well as 22 local land owners, elected only by owners of land via the Virginia Company, via the permission from the King of England. That was how monarchy operated in 1619. Kaine could also be challenged to explain that the War for Independence from British tyranny did not simply end the slavery that had been implemented on the plantations. Kaine may do well to catch up by reading the Declaration of Independence that condemned the King for allowing colonies to be poisoned by slavery.

Kaine is a Virginian, yet historically challenged, and he would likely not be aware of the pains it took for another Virginian, former President George Washington, to free his slaves in that state, even after victory over the daunting British government. The laws supporting the “peculiar institution of African slavery” were established by the British government. George Washington did free his slaves, but revisionist historians omit this history. Yet, Washington’s actions of freeing his slaves were quite controversial in the time he lived. Despite fierce opposition and severe resistance, he made it happen.

With the help of former Virginia governor, Thomas Jefferson, Washington managed to repeal the old British law regarding manumission of slaves

Despite Washington’s misgivings about slavery after he helped win independence for the United States, Washington had to fight to change the laws of Virginia that would allow a slave owner to free his slaves. During the period prior to 1782, British colonial law in Virginia restricted slave owners in their efforts to free their slaves. A slave owner could only set a slave free for “meritorious service” and only with the approval of the Governor and his selected “council” (other landed slave owners). However, in 1782,  with the help of former Virginia governor, Thomas Jefferson, Washington managed to repeal the old British law regarding manumission of slaves. Emancipation of slaves under the new U.S. law was permitted through a split allocation in a deed from the sale of land, or through one’s last will and testament.

Washington had tried in vain to sell his property. Ultimately, a few months before he passed away, he drafted his last Will and testament that stipulated the freeing of all of his slaves upon Martha’s death. He had lamented that he wished he could free all the slaves at Mt. Vernon, but they did not all belong to him. Some belonged to Martha’s heirs, and they were not even hers to free under the state law.

Complicating this inheritance issue was the fact that over the years after their marriage, Washington’s slaves had intermarried with Martha’s slaves, and law required that they would have to be returned or taken in by the heirs of her first husband. If Washington freed his slaves without being able to free Martha’s slaves, it would have divided the various families, and that was something Washington did not want to do.

Washington also stipulated in his will that the elderly ex-slaves would be provided for, specifically clothed and fed, by his direct heirs, and the younger, freed children would be taught to read, to write, and some valuable trade in order to provide support for themselves. Martha Washington actually carried out her husband’s wishes to free the slaves within twelve months of his death and ultimately allowed them to stay on at Mt. Vernon if they had family members there.

Juneteenth was the outcome of the practical fulfillment of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

Indeed, former President George Washington was a man ahead of his time because his personal emancipation of his slaves set the precedent for another president to create another Emancipation Proclamation, but it proved as controversial as Washington’s emancipation.

Juneteenth was the outcome of the practical fulfillment of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth was initially celebrated upon announcement   of Union Army “General Order No. 3” in Galveston, Texas. However, this military order was a military mandate. The southern Democrats had preferred to fight to hold onto their “rights” to own other human beings. There was no intent to follow any precedent that had been set by George Washington or the northern states. The Democrat slave owners had to be forced by the Union military to emancipate their slaves.

Unfortunately, President Lincoln was murdered in April, less than a week after the Civil War ended, so any basis for his plans for freeing the slaves was handled by the Union Army. And unfortunately, over 620,000 men and boys died during the American Civil War. Americans just celebrated Memorial Day at the end of May, a holiday born from the ashes and loss during the Civil War. This Sunday, Americans celebrate Father’s Day, but consider this: over 300,000 boys and men died so that freedom could be extended to the former slaves. Among those who gave their lives for that freedom, there were so many fathers and would be fathers whose lives were cut short because the evil of slavery had to be rectified.

Juneteenth should be celebrated because liberation should be celebrated. Juneteenth should be celebrated without “white guilt.” 300,000 plus boys and men paid in blood for the sins of slavery in America owners. Their blood should wipe away any “white guilt” unless of course, like Tim Kaine and the Democrats, people get fixated upon it and want to displace their guilt upon their willing victims. Fanning the flames of racism (historical, institutionalized, or manufactured) keeps American citizens prisoners to the past.

Juneteenth should continue to be celebrated as Freedom Day for all people because a victory over tyranny should always be celebrated.

Jun 20 2020

Hypocritical UN Human Rights Council Members Exploit George Floyd Killing


The United States certainly does not need the advice of UN bureaucrats, unaccountable globalist forums or mouthpieces representing psychotic dictatorships

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Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—June 19, 2020

Hypocritical UN Human Rights Council Members Exploit George Floyd Killing

The dysfunctional United Nations Human Rights Council, which the United States exited for good reason two years ago, is exploiting the tragic killing of George Floyd. The Council decided to hold a U.S. bashing fest entitled “Urgent debate on systemic racism and police brutality in the United States.” The debate, which concluded on June 18th, followed on the heels of a harsh anti-American statement issued by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. That statement denounced the United States for alleged “systemic and structural discrimination” which “disproportionately promotes racial disparities against African Americans.” It called for the United States to make what would amount to a public confession of the alleged “existence of structural racial discrimination” in American society.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said, after referencing George Floyd’s killing specifically, that it was “necessary to make amends for centuries of violence and discrimination, including through formal apologies, truth-telling processes, and reparations in various forms.”

UN Special Rapporteur E. Tendayi Achiume urged the Human Rights Council to create a UN Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racism and Law Enforcement in the United States, which was also advocated by the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent and anti-American so-called human rights groups.

The UN Human Right Council’s “urgent debate” was requested by Burkina Faso on behalf of over 50 African countries. “The tragic events of 25 May in Minneapolis in the US which led to the death of George Floyd led to protests throughout the world against injustice and police brutality that persons of African descent face on a daily basis in many regions of the world,” Dieudonné W. Désiré Sougouri, Permanent Representative of Burkina Faso, said in a statement. Why, Mr. Sougouri, were you and the world silent about police brutality in your own country when Burkina Faso’s security forces allegedly executed 31 unarmed detainees on April 9, 2020 in the northern town of Djibo?

George Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, asked the Council members for their help to “get justice for my brother George Floyd.” He told them via video, “You in the United Nations are your brothers and sisters’ keepers in America, and you have the power to help us.” If George Floyd’s brother is seeking justice for his brother from the UN Human Rights Council, he will be sorely disappointed. Members of the Human Rights Council who are the most vociferous in railing against the United States are among the world’s worst serial human rights abusers. Current non-member dictatorships Iran, North Korea, and China, equipped with plenty of experience in killing, torturing and imprisoning their own citizens at will, added their voices to the Council’s open debate targeting the United States.

In a statement delivered to the United Nations Human Rights Council on June 16, 2020 by Hillel Neuer, the executive director of the Geneva-based independent human rights group UN Watch, Mr. Neuer cited several examples of African members of the Council with horrendous records of racism and oppression. Yet these countries dare to sit in judgment of the United States.

Yet these countries dare to sit in judgment of the United States

Mauritania, Mr. Neuer pointed out, has “an estimated 500,000 black slaves, with CNN referring to Mauritania as ‘slavery’s last stronghold.’”

Libya, Mr. Neuer said, “subjects up to a million African migrants to virtual slavery—trapped in a terrifying cycle of extortion, imprisonment, forced labor and prostitution,” while Cameroon “crushes protests by the English-speaking population, and has committed atrocities, including massacring civilians, rape, and burning villages.” The Democratic Republic of Congo’s “police just 2 months ago killed 55 people, in a coordinated crackdown on a religious sect,” Mr. Neuer added.

Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General, was asked at a press briefing on June 17th how the opinions on police brutality in the United States by the likes of Venezuela and other Council members with atrocious human rights records can be taken seriously. Haq replied with the moral obtuseness of the typical UN bureaucrat that “there’s no rule that says that, in order to take issues seriously, we must ourselves be perfect.” He added, “In order to deal with these issues, we ourselves have to take a critical look and a hard look at what each country does.”

The United States does not claim to be perfect. No human being is perfect. However, the direction of U.S. history is towards creating a more inclusive society with equal opportunity and the equal protection of the law for all. The United States is dealing directly and openly with its past and present shortcomings. It is directly addressing race relations and police misconduct today, with remedial steps being taken at the federal, state and local levels. “We call upon all governments to demonstrate the same level of transparency and accountability that the U.S. and our democratic partners practice,” said the U.S. ambassador in Geneva, Andrew Bremberg.

The United States certainly does not need the advice of UN bureaucrats, unaccountable globalist forums or mouthpieces representing psychotic dictatorships.

Jun 20 2020

Bill Gates – The Agenda


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Jun 20 2020

Attorney General Bill Barr Removes SDNY Attorney Geoffrey Berman – UPDATE: Berman Refuses to Leave…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on June 20, 2020 by 

Officially it’s being called a “resignation” according to the Associated Press.  However, all the right Lawfare “beach friends” are going bananas as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, is being replaced.  [DOJ Announcement Here]

According to the DOJ release Berman is being replaced by the nomination of Jay Clayton, currently the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Additionally, “Craig Carpenito, currently the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, will serve as the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, while the Senate is considering Jay Clayton’s nomination.”

(Via AP) […] Geoffrey S. Berman is stepping down as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Attorney General William Barr said in a statement. The office is one of the nation’s premiere districts, trying major mob cases and terror cases over the years.

It was unclear why Berman was leaving his position after serving more than two years. The announcement was made late Friday and came after Barr visited New York City to meet with local police officials. And Trump is nominating the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission to the job, a lawyer with virutally no experience as a federal prosecutor. (link)

UPDATE: USAO Geoffrey Berman is refusing to leave:

Well, there we have it.  That explains things; Jeffrey Berman is a member of the Lawfare resistance, a “beach friend” per se…

It’s worth keeping in mind that Berman’s office was the lead in several high profile cases assembled by Robert Mueller.  Additionally, AG Barr brought in five+ outside U.S. attorney’s to review all of the Mueller cases as an outcome of the FISA court order to conduct a sequestration review of any/all evidence that might have been used as an outcome of the fraudulently obtained Carter Page FISA warrant.

As CTH noted at the time…. “If you consider that several DOJ offices may be involved with the material under review, including the Southern District of New York; The Eastern District of New York; The Eastern District of Virginia; The Washington DC District, and even Main Justice itself; it makes sense that outside DOJ personnel would be needed for this review.”

There’s no evidence the moves are connected to the sequestration review, but with USAO John Durham looking deeply into the background of DOJ and FBI activity surrounding the effort to target candidate Trump, and later President Trump, there could be a possibility that several lanes are merging.   Obviously, AG Barr feels very confident to make the moves and subsequent recommendations to President Trump for replacements.

All of the exit moves and incoming replacements are coming to a head at the same time; early July. The current SDNY move is effective July 3rd, which is the same time that FBI chief legal counsel Dana Boente is leaving his position.  Both Boente (FBI) and Jeffrey Berman (DOJ-SDNY) appear to be resigning by Bill Barr’s request; essentially being told to leave.

Other activity this week that may hold deeper connection:

♦On Monday House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler announced that two former Special Counsel Robert Mueller attorneys, John W. Elias and Aaron S.J. Zelinsky  would be designated as “whistleblowers” to give testimony against AG Bill Barr. (LINK)

♦On Tuesday, the last remaining DOJ advisor to Jeff Sessions, Jody Hunt, announced his intent to leave the justice dept effective “early July”. (LINK) Mr. Hunt was Jeff Session’s chief-of-staff, and one of the key advisors responsible for the decision to recuse from the Mueller probe. (LINK)

♦On Wednesday the DOJ announced that Solicitor General Noel Francisco will be  departing: “Solicitor General of the United States Noel Francisco announces his departure from the Department of Justice, effective as of July 3, 2020.” (LINK)

♦And now on Friday Geoffrey Berman is removed and replaced at the SDNY office; and his exit is also timed for July 3rd. (LINK)

In addition to an identical exit time, one thing all of these departures have in common, including FBI legal counsel Dana Boente’s exit, is their connection to former AG Jeff Sessions (appointments) and DAG Rod Rosenstein (oversight); and ultimately each of these individuals is connected to the larger Robert Mueller special counsel activity.

Their previous work in the DOJ and FBI during the soft-coup insurance phase; which specifically involved the use of the special counsel appointment; in conjunction with the ongoing –and expanded– internal investigation by John Durham; which now includes seven or eight outside U.S. attorneys offices; just seems too coincidental.

The media are framing the use of outside attorneys as Bill Barr working on behalf of President Trump to undermine current and former prosecutions. However, understanding the January FISC order requiring the sequestration effort, the use of outsiders is absolutely necessary.  This is a big shield that AG Barr is likely keeping in his back pocket until after Nadler launches his impeachment attack.

The same U.S. Attorneys, prosecutors and FBI agents who used evidence gathered from the fraudulent FISA warrants cannot be the same attorneys, agents and prosecutors making decisions about what parts of the warrants were used to gather evidence and how each part of any case was assembled by the use therein. It is a simple matter of a conflict of interest carried by any prosecutor that used corrupt evidence.

The Robert Mueller team of FBI investigators and special counsel prosecutors certainly used the fraudulently obtained FISA warrants as part of their investigative evidence collection. Common sense would tell us this had to be the case or the FBI and Mueller team would not have requested July 2017 renewal of the FISA warrant two months after the special counsel team was assembled.

If the FBI & Special Counsel were not using the FISA warrant(s) to capture information, they would not have needed them renewed. Despite media spin to the contrary, the simple truth of renewals holding investigative value is evident in the renewal itself (ie. common sense).

Under this rather extensive effort to find exactly which investigations -over the course of three years- were touched directly, or indirectly, by the four FISA warrants; and/or which investigative paths may have been influenced downstream or enhanced -by varying degrees of importance- by evidence stemming from the FISA warrants; a reasonable person could see how AG Bill Barr would need to put a team together to retrace the investigative steps and make the sequestration determinations.

Overlay USAO John Durham doing a deeper and more lengthy investigation that touches the edges of the underlying warrant, and, well, that’s quite a lot of review ongoing.

Obviously, for reasons of biased intent, corporate left-wing media would like to ignore why outside prosecutors are needed under this framework. The media ignore in part because honest reporting would require an admission the FISA warrants were fraudulently obtained; and in part because the left-wing media have never informed the public of the DOJ/FBI sequestration effort in the first place. Likely well more than half the country has no idea the DOJ and FBI have been told to go find the material.

There have been numerous articles, thousands of words, and endless hours of pundit protestations about Bill Barr using outside DC lawyers to review all of the previous DOJ attorney activities; yet not a single time have they ever acknowledged the originating order from the FISA court requiring the DOJ/FBI to conduct the review.

Imagine that?

(Washington Post Link) […] Shortly after the McCabe announcement on Friday, officials said that Barr had assigned Jeff Jensen, the U.S. attorney in St. Louis, to review and “assist” prosecutors currently handling the case of Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who is still awaiting sentencing after having pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The Jensen appointment marks the latest iteration of an unusual trend inside the Justice Department of tasking outside U.S. attorneys with reviewing, managing, or reinvestigating work that would otherwise not be in their portfolio. Much of the effort seems aimed at re-examining the work of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, whose probe of possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign infuriated the president, or at targeting the president’s foes.  (read more)

Like I said, the Washington Post (above) and the New York Times (LINK) have both written pearl-clutching articles about Barr using DOJ “outsiders”; yet never once have they noted the FISA Court order that preceded all of these outside USAO’s entering the picture and receiving instructions from Bill Barr.  In order for media ideologues to continue advancing their political narrative they have to pretend not to know things…

…But Truth Has No Agenda!

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Jun 20 2020

Zogby Analytics Poll: 55% of Voters Believe Joe Biden in Early Stages of Dementia (Including 32% of Democrats, 71% of Union Workers)…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on June 19, 2020 by 

Wow.  There’s no way the DNC and/or James Clyburn can advance their candidate with this reliable poll result…. It might not be discussed openly; but this resonates loudly.

Zogby Analytics finally asks the poll question everyone talks about but no media journalists will admit to discussing.  Zogby Polls asked 1,007 likely voters:

        • 55% of Total likely voter respondents said it is likely.
        • 77% of Republicans said it is likely.
        • 56% of Independent voters said it is likely.
        • 32% of Democrat voters said it is likely Joe Biden has dementia.

Zogby Poll – […] There was also an inverse relationship in the data between age and the likelihood of voters believing Biden had early-onset dementia, for example; as the age of voters increased the likelihood of voters believing Biden was exhibiting early-onset dementia decreased. Younger voters aged 18-24 (60% more likely/40% less likely) and 18-29 (59% more likely/41% less likely) were more likely to believe Biden had dementia than older voters aged 65+ (50% more likely/50% less likely).

African Americans (43% more likely/58% less likely) were less likely than Hispanics (61% more likely/39% less likely) to think Biden was in the early stages of dementia.

The voters most likely to believe Biden was having cognitive issues were staunch Trump supporters; weekly Walmart Shoppers (64% more likely/36% less likely), weekly Amazon shoppers (67% more likely/34% less likely) and union voters (71% more likely/29% less likely).  –LINK–

THIS IS NOT A MEDIA POLL – If 32 percent of Democrats, 56 percent of Independents and 71 percent of union voters think Joe Biden has dementia…. there’s just no way the DNC will let him stand as their candidate.

All media polling is manipulated.  This is not a media poll.

The media will obviously not discuss this poll result, but you can be 100% certain that inside the club this is a big flare and will not be ignored.  The question now becomes who will the DNC put in his place?

Jun 20 2020

Lt. General Keith Kellogg Gives Background on John Bolton’s Personal ‘War Pig’ Agenda….


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on June 19, 2020 by 

Special Asst. to President Trump and National Security Advisor to Vice-President Mike Pence, Keith Kellogg, appears with Lou Dobbs to provide some background context into former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

As Lt. General Kellogg explains, Bolton came into the administration with a hidden personal agenda; perhaps organized by DC elements and and assisted by covert conservative media who were trying to eliminate the presidency.

Jun 20 2020

Seattle Healthcare Worker Indicted for Stealing and Selling Ventilators, COVID Supplies on eBay….


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on June 19, 2020 by 

Considering the fast-moving news cycles, this DOJ indictment has many elements of seemingly disconnected narratives.  Apparently healthcare workers were not just proficient parading around in their insufferable Tik-Tok videos.

A Seattle healthcare worker -a ‘respiratory therapist’- has been busted stealing COVID-19 supplies, including ventilators, from the VA hospital and selling them on eBay.

WASHINGTON STATESeattle – A 41- year-old Bonney Lake, Washington, man was charged today in U.S. District Court in Seattle with theft of government property for his scheme to profit by stealing and selling respiratory support equipment from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran.

GENE WAMSLEY was employed as a Respiratory Therapist at VAMC until he was placed on leave from VAMC on June 9, 2020. WAMSLEY made his initial appearance on the criminal complaint today in Seattle.

“Right now respiratory support equipment is critical in medical care for those suffering with COVID-19 infections. To steal and sell equipment needed to care for our veterans is a shocking betrayal,” said U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran.

According to the criminal complaint, the investigation began in January 2020 when VAMC reported two bronchoscopes missing from the hospital. A third bronchoscope was reported missing in April 2020.

Staff at the VAMC had noticed bronchoscopes listed for sale on eBay from a seller in Bonney Lake, Washington. The investigation linked the sale of three bronchoscopes to WAMSLEY. A further review of eBay records revealed WAMSLEY had sold five ventilators in March and April 2020.

Three ventilators were found to be missing from VMAC during the same time period. EBay records reveal a variety of other respiratory support equipment sold by the account linked to WAMSLEY. Administrators at VAMC confirmed the items were used in the respiratory therapy department.

Law enforcement executed a court authorized search warrant at WAMSLEY’s home on June 9, 2020. Medical supplies and eBay sales records were seized in the search. (read more)

Several months ago President Trump was criticized for stating their was something odd about the amount of COVID supplies that were seemingly missing from shipments made to numerous hospitals; the corporate media went bananas at the implication healthcare workers might be stealing…  Well?

Jun 20 2020

Tulsa Mayor Rescinds Curfew: “No Longer Necessary”…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on June 19, 2020 by 

After consultation with President Donald Trump, Tulsa Oklahoma Mayor G.T. Bynum has cancelled the curfew that was in effect around the Trump rally venue.

…“Last night, I enacted a curfew at the request of Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin, following consultation with the United States Secret Service based on intelligence they had received,” Mayor G.T. Bynum said in the release. “Today, we were told the curfew is no longer necessary so I am rescinding it.” (LINK)

Jun 20 2020

Kayleigh McEneny White House Press Briefing – Video


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on June 19, 2020 by 

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany holds a press briefing with the always insufferable White House press pool from the Brady room.

Jun 20 2020

White House Economic Advisor Kevin Hassett Impromptu Presser Discussing COVID-19 and Economic Reopening…ses


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on June 19, 2020 by 

President Trump’s White House Economic Advisor Kevin Hassett holds an impromptu press availability to discuss continued efforts to reopen the economy while mitigating COVID-19 impacts.

As Hassett notes in all states where the economy has reopened there is significant economic rebound including strong sales and a need for rapid reemployment. The underlying economy is very strong; the primary issue is getting all states to reopen.