"Accuracy and ideology PJ Media is an extreme far right[17] American news, opinion, and commentary website. Overall, PJ Media is to be Questionable based on extreme right wing bias, promotion of propaganda and conspiracies as well as numerous failed fact checks. One recent false allegation in January 2020 was a fake story by anti-Muslim PJ Media Columnist Richard Spencer[18]to smear U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar by falsely claiming that she advised Iran to attack Trump-branded hotels in the world, thus committing treason[19]. This slandering story by PJ Media was also promoted on their Facebook Page[20][21]. Of course, this was a false story[22] by the PJ Media Contributor, who also runs the anti-Muslim conspiracy blog Jihad Watch. "
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I was just going to link to the filing from the lawyer, but I figured since PJ Media was where I learned about it (and the story is backed up by other news sources), I'd link to them.
By the way, Richard Spencer is the white nationalist dude. The article on PJ Media is by Robert Spencer, who is a different person. What would that be, a false smear Inception?
yankees60 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 8:39 am
The source of the article to be trusted?
The article accurately quotes Flynn's own attorney and provides a direct link to the court filing to back it up. So yes.
I'm more interested in what your doubt about the veracity of a well-known court case implies about the sources you do trust. If the truth surprises you, maybe it's time to branch out!
The report said investigators found facts in all 25 applications that were either not supported, not clearly corroborated or inconsistent with documentation in factual-support files, though it didn’t look at the broader case file for such information. It said the review had found an average of 20 issues per application, with as many as 65 issues in one, and fewer than five in another.
The findings follow a December report in which the watchdog found a series of errors in the FBI’s pursuit of a wiretap against Mr. Page, a former Trump foreign-policy adviser.
In four additional applications, the FBI couldn’t locate the files of factual support, the report said.
The report said investigators found facts in all 25 applications that were either not supported, not clearly corroborated or inconsistent with documentation in factual-support files, though it didn’t look at the broader case file for such information. It said the review had found an average of 20 issues per application, with as many as 65 issues in one, and fewer than five in another.
The findings follow a December report in which the watchdog found a series of errors in the FBI’s pursuit of a wiretap against Mr. Page, a former Trump foreign-policy adviser.
In four additional applications, the FBI couldn’t locate the files of factual support, the report said.
It's stuff like this that makes me intellectually sympathetic to the libertarian ideal.
Government authority, arbitrary abuses of power, and the lack of any real checks and balances are the issues that plague our society today.
What really worries me is how the government is going to use the (legitimate) COVID-19 pandemic to permanently erode our freedoms.
Maybe after this pandemic, the only way a person will be allowed to buy or sell anything in public will be if a personal device or implanted chip (“mark of the Beast”) verifies that the person isn’t currently infected by the seasonal boogeyman virus.
That’ll get both the libertarians and the Christian fundamentalists excited!
Tortoise wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:55 pm
Maybe after this pandemic, the only way a person will be allowed to buy or sell anything in public will be if a personal device or implanted chip (“mark of the Beast”) verifies that the person isn’t currently infected by the seasonal boogeyman virus.
That’ll get both the libertarians and the Christian fundamentalists excited!
There was a weird conspiracy theory about Bill Gates wanting to implant such a chip. It was supposed to tell you whether or not someone had been tested. i thought it was a funny parody of Windows certification (proof of purchase), but there are people out there who took it seriously.
Monstres and tokeninges gert he be-kend, / And wondirs in the air send.
That was so funny and disturbing at the same time. It really makes you take a step back and ask WTF the government is ordering (this is not the cops' fault, they are doing their job) and why we are allowing it.
There's a book that goes in-depth into that phenomenon. A universal aspect that one notices is that the process follows a crawl-walk-run escalation.
The Gov of IL is now threatening to pull the business license of anyone who violates the order. It's not your business, it is the state's (and the city's) and you operate it only at their pleasure.
We're definitely seeing governments probing to see how much they can get away with.
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A friend sent me this. I don't like John Oliver as much as I used to and disagree with him often. Also, this is only tangentially related, as it's local news coverage that's getting roasted. But, the police get singed a little.
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I just saw videos and articles re: the Tyler Canaris (victim) — Michael McMaster (policeman) incident.
social media, youtube, heavy.com …
I generally support the police and they’ve always been good to me, but I am increasingly aware of incidents like these.
Monstres and tokeninges gert he be-kend, / And wondirs in the air send.
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