This Week in the World Affairs Brief
THE FBI RAID ON TRUMP’S HOME
Monday’s FBI raid on former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home has shocked and angered the former president and has his supporters up in arms. Everyone is wondering what the agents were searching for. So far the speculation from the mainstream press is typically apologetic for the government. Initially they claimed it was over “15 boxes of presidential material” demanded by the National Archives, but admitted in the same story that Trump had already turned over that material earlier this year. Now a supposed “leak” to the Washington Post says it was “nuclear weapons documents” to reinforce the urgency of this raid. That’s ridiculous since just two months prior the FBI had searched through the very room where they brought out this week’s offending boxes of documents. Monday’s raid appears to be a “fishing expedition” to turn up something on Trump. Warrants require law enforcement to show some kind of proof that the evidence they want is at the location at that time and some kind of surveillance is typically used to back up that request—either a wiretap or informant. I suspect the latter. Sure enough, Newsweek scooped this week that there was, in fact, a mole at Mar-a-lago informing the FBI about documents there and where they are kept. Trump has never be good at keeping Deep State spies out of his staff. It is doubtful that this “confidential source” will be revealed when the DOJ unseals the warrant, as Merrick Garland promised yesterday, but one thing is certain, this raid has Trump supporters and even mainstream Republicans fired up and will curry to Trump’s favor unless something seriously damaging to Trump’s reputation comes from it, or, barring that, a criminal conviction sufficient to disqualify him from running in 2024. There is always a danger when agents invade and search a home that they will plant the evidence they a seeking, and this nuclear weapons document idea being floated may be a hint as to what they intend to foist on Trump in order to convict him of a serious crime. To receive a free one-time copy of the brief, click on Request a Sample on the left.
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- New IRS Police Powers
- Current Recession is Mild So Far
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- Navy Implicated in TWA 800 Tragedy Confirmed
Daily News
New Arms Depot Blast In Crimea An Act Of Sabotage, Kremlin Admits
Aug 16, 2022
Russia's Defense Ministry on Tuesday confirmed a rare act of what appears to be a Ukrainian sabotage operation in Crimea. This after video emerged online showing a series of explosions after a fire engulfed a munitions depot there.
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ZeroHedge
London Sex Change Clinic For Kids Shut Down And Sued By 1000 Families
Aug 16, 2022
Tavistock's shut down reaffirms the growing concerns among the public about the deceptive nature of gender ideology and the fact that children with no legitimate understanding of sexuality have been mutilated chemically and physically in the name of political cultism rather than personal health. It has been recently revealed that the clinic is also facing a massive lawsuit of at least 1000 families of former patients and the list is expanding daily.
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ZeroHedge
Roy Moore Awarded Over $8 Million In Defamation Case
Aug 16, 2022
The juxtaposition of the quotes were meant “to create the false impression that Judge Moore solicited sex from a 14-year-old Santa’s helper at the mall. The very source they cite in the ad refutes that statement,” the complaint stated
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ZeroHedge
Nurses Who Left the Health Care System to Focus on Early Treatment Describe ‘Brutal’ COVID-19 Treatment Protocols
Aug 16, 2022
Kay was looking for other options when she found an inpatient protocol designed Dr. Paul Marik, founding member of Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, which purported to have a 94 percent success rate.
However, after Kay pitched it to the head of the pulmonary critical care department, she was dismissed, and the physician boasted that the hospital had a 66 percent survival rate at the time.
“I told him, ‘I feel like we can do better,’ but I was very quickly shut down,” Kay said. “I became very angry because I’m watching people die and I knew we could have been doing better.”
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The Epoch Times
Putin & Kim As Leaders Of World's "Most Sanctioned Countries" Pledge Deeper Ties Against "Hostile" US
Aug 16, 2022
The pledge came in the form of an exchange of official diplomatic notes in which Putin wished Kim "good health and success" - and spelled out a desire for closer cooperation, coming at a key moment where Moscow has been on the offensive in trying to strengthen strategic alliances with non-Western countries, notably China and India also among them, as the Ukraine invasion has blown past six months.
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ZeroHedge
North Korea soldiers in Ukraine would be logistical 'mess’ Putin won’t 'allow': Russia expert
Aug 16, 2022
"The command-and-control aspect of it is impossible. They do not speak Russian,"
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Fox News
DOJ Opposes Release Of Underlying Affidavit For FBI Mar-A-Lago Raid
Aug 15, 2022
"it would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course,..."
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ZeroHedge
Why the Case Against Donald Trump Remains Incomplete
Aug 15, 2022
The point is only that we still do not have sufficient information to judge the basis for the raid or the prospects for prosecution despite the often breathless coverage. The affidavit remains key to ending this speculation and quelling conspiracy theories. That is why Attorney General Merrick Garland should call for its unsealing.
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Jonathan Turley
Rand Paul Calls For Repeal Of “Egregious” Espionage Act
Aug 15, 2022
“The espionage act was abused from the beginning to jail dissenters”
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Summit News
Arizona ‘Has Had Enough,’ Starts Stacking Shipping Containers in Border Wall Gaps
Aug 15, 2022
The stacked shipping containers will reach about 22-feet high and will be linked together and welded shut, Ducey said. The existing border wall constructed during the Trump era is 30-feet high.
Border Patrol agents in the Yuma Sector have experienced the largest spike in apprehensions along the southern border since President Joe Biden took office.
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The Epoch Times
Former National Intelligence Director: Trump Has ‘Ultimate Declassification Authority’
Aug 15, 2022
“The president does have ultimate declassification authority. He can literally declassify—and President Trump had that authority, and could declassify anything you want while he was president,” John Ratcliffe, a Republican congressman before Trump appointed him to be director of national intelligence, said on Fox News.
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The Epoch Times
French conservatives slam push by Macron’s deputy to legalize voting for all foreigners in municipal elections
Aug 15, 2022
Across the West, the left is pushing for voting rights for non-citizens to secure permanent majorities
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ReMix
Missouri AG Questions Need for Potentially Armed IRS Army
Aug 15, 2022
Schmitt, who is a Republican Senatorial Candidate, sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles P. Rettig on Aug. 11,questioning the agency’s massive expansion plans that include hiring 87,000 more IRS employees over the next 10 years.
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The Epoch Times
Congressman Perry Gets Phone Back From FBI, Unclear About Motives Behind Seizure
Aug 15, 2022
He is still uninformed as to why the phone was confiscated by the FBI. However, Perry was informed by his attorneys that he was not a target of the FBI’s investigation.
After the seizure, Perry had blasted FBI agents for making no attempt to contact his lawyer who would have made arrangements to submit the phone if needed by the agency.
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The Epoch Times
"They Can Do Audio, Video, & Physical Surveillance On You 24H/365D A Year": Rex Lee On Intrusive Apps
Aug 15, 2022
“You have to look at an app as legal malware. And that’s the best way you can describe apps today. An app—whether it’s a social media app developed by Bytedance, such as TikTok, or Facebook, or Instagram—any of these apps, they are basically legal malware that enable the developer to monitor, track, and data mine the end user for financial gain 24 by seven, 365 days a year.
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ZeroHedge
Taiwanese Officials Trounce Pelosi After Son's Huge Holdings In China Tech Exposed
Aug 15, 2022
Pelosi is not only a major investor in Borqs, a player in the Chinese internet-of-things and 5G sector, but has also worked as a consultant for the firm, rewarded for his services with 700,000 shares in the firm, at which time his holdings were exceeded only by CEO Pat Sek Yuen Chan.
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ZeroHedge
The TWA 800 Whistleblower Is Legit
Aug 15, 2022
Two missiles were fired. Over his headset, Teele heard the announcement, “Birds away.” A few minutes later, he heard “Splash,” meaning the missiles had hit the target. Soon after that, he heard someone say, “Wo, wo, wo.” And another person added, “Wait a minute. We hit an Airbus.”
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American Thinker
Here's The Warrant: DOJ Investigating Trump For Potential Violations Of Espionage Act, Obstruction Of Justice
Aug 12, 2022
But as @charlie_savage points out. NONE of the 3 crimes cited in the warrant turn on whether the information is classified.
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ZeroHedge
CDC Admits It Gave False Information About COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance
Aug 12, 2022
That statement was false.
Clinical trials of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines detected neither myocarditis nor pericarditis, two types of heart inflammation. But by April 2021, the U.S. military was raising the alarm about post-vaccination heart inflammation, and by June 2021, the CDC was publicly acknowledging a link.
The CDC previously corrected the false statement but did not say whether its teams had ever analyzed VAERS reports.
“In reference to myocarditis abstraction from VAERS reports—this process began in May 2021 and continues to this date,” the CDC spokeswoman said in an email.
The CDC has still not released the results of analyses.
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The Epoch Times
Grocery Inflation Hits Highest Level in 43 Years Despite Biden’s ‘Zero’ Inflation Messaging
Aug 12, 2022
While the annual pace of inflation in the United States eased slightly in July, a deeper dive into the numbers reveals that some of the categories that hit everyday Americans especially hard in the pocketbook have soared, with the price of groceries jumping to the highest level since 1979.
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The Epoch Times
WOW!!! CDC Completely Reverses Course. IT’S OVER!
Aug 12, 2022
No symptoms? No problem.
Vaccinated or unvaccinated? Same guidance.
Exposed? No need to even quarantine.
Students exposed? They can stay in class
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Peak Prosperity
"Be Willing To Use Deadly Force": IRS Sparks Uproar Over Job Posting
Aug 12, 2022
"Major duties" of the job include "Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary," and "Be willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments."
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ZeroHedge
FBI Had Mole Inside Mar-A-Lago: Report
Aug 11, 2022
According to Newsweek, the FBI had a 'confidential human source' (a mole) inside Mar-a-Lago, who was "able to identify what classified documents former President Trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents."
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ZeroHedge
Florida Man With Concealed Firearm Kills Gunman Who Threatened To "Shoot Up The Crowd"
Aug 11, 2022
West Palm Beach Police said the man refused to drop the weapon after yelling out mass shooting threats, and that was when a 32-year-old man with a concealed weapon license fired his pistol, hitting the armed suspect.
The law-abiding citizen immediately called 911 late Sunday night after he shot the crazed gunman. Detectives said the 22-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.
Instances such as this where a good guy with a gun neutralizes an armed person threatening to kill others tend to be ignored by liberal mainstream media because it goes against the left's narrative of more gun control.
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ZeroHedge
Playbook of the Democrat Party — Cloward and Piven
Aug 11, 2022
Cloward and Piven is the Playbook of the Democrat Party. It is the second part of this two-pronged approach:
When you don’t have logic or reason on your side, use power.
If you don’t have enough power, flood the system to acquire more.
Flooding the system was the Cloward and Piven strategy to bring down this country. Create real or phony problems that “require” government actions that begin the process of shifting freedoms from individuals to the State.
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Economic Noise
Florida Board of Medicine Moves to Ban Transgender Treatments for Minors
Aug 11, 2022
A pediatric endocrinologist, Dr. Quentin Van Meter served as an expert for the state and warned the board that a growing number of children are seeking these treatments of gender reassignment.
“This is a giant experiment on United States children,” Van Meter warned the board.
Speaking to the board, Van Meter said that Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom have “halted treatment” for transgender youths.
“They found that there was far more harm than any benefit in allowing these children to receive any kind of medical intervention,”
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The Epoch Times
Senators Introduce Bill to Stop Chinese Communist Party From Buying US Farmland
Aug 11, 2022
Two Senate Republicans have introduced a proposal to stop the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from purchasing farmland in the United States, arguing that the communist regime’s acquisitions on American soil pose a threat to national security.
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The Epoch Times
Ring Cameras Amassing Info On Users...And Their Neighbors
Aug 11, 2022
Ring, the company behind the top-selling brand, maintains a vast database on its users and their cameras. Ring is an Amazon subsidiary, thanks to the tech giant's 2018 purchase of the company for over $1 billion.
Ring says it doesn't sell its customers data, but sometimes it gives it away for free -- to the police. In the first half of 2022 alone, Ring fielded more than 3,500 requests from law enforcement agencies.
Ring keeps plenty of info that you'd expect them to have. According to Wired magazine:
Ring gets your name, phone number, email and postal address, and any other information you provide to it—such as payment information or your social media handles
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ZeroHedge
Inflation Reduction Act Will Increase Middle Class, Small-Business Taxes: Tax Law Expert
Aug 11, 2022
While Democrats insist that the Inflation Reduction Act won’t boost taxes on people making less than $400,000 a year, collateral effects from the legislation will cause workers and small businesses alike to pay more, according to Preston Brashers, a senior tax policy analyst at the right-leaning Heritage Foundation.
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The Epoch Times
Two-Dozen GOP Lawmakers May Force Capitol Police To Release Unseen J6 Footage
Aug 11, 2022
As the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol continues its effort to prove allegations of insurrection against former President Donald Trump and his supporters, Capitol Police and House Democrats continue to block all efforts to force the release of all surveillance video footage and emails, which could possibly exonerate those being accused of wrongdoing. Now, Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) is citing a United States Code that could legally force the release of that evidence.
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The Epoch Times