When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

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Sometimes you drain the swamp. Sometimes the swamp drains itself.

Related: Flynn sentencing delayed (again)

Update.

Make haste, lay waste.

Another update. Prosecutors in charge of the federal case against Roger Stone may have lied to the Department of Justice about their lengthy prison sentence recommendation for Stone, according to a new report.

February 11, 2020: Reader Tips

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For tonight’s entertainment, we offer you an extremely beautiful rendition of Hallelujah. Julia Westlin is from Sweden but now lives in Canada with her partner, David MeShow. As someone who knows very little about music and singing, I do have a few questions for those of you who are more musically inclined. How was the audio for this video produced? Does Ms. Westlin sing different renditions of the song in different octaves and then they’re all combined together? Most curious.

Your best tips of news events over the past 24 hours are much appreciated!

Chinada

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Odd story.

China recently discovered how astroturfing, creating fake “grassroots” support, loses its impact when the deception aspect is revealed. A recent example (late January 2020) occurred outside a western Canada (Vancouver) courthouse as demonstrators assembled to protest efforts to extradite a Chinese telecommunications executive. This was a big deal in China because this defendant worked for Huawei, the largest telecom company in China and the world. A crowd gathered carrying signs demanding the release of the Huawei executive. One sign even made reference to a pair or Canadian diplomats arrested in China and charged with espionage. That was relevant because the diplomats were actually taken as hostages to pressure the Canadian government to release the Huawei executive. Soon after the demonstrators began their protest things took a turn for the bizarre.
 
When reporters went to interview some of the demonstrators it was discovered that the demonstrators didn’t know they were demonstrators. The sign carrying group had been hired as background performers for a music video and were paid a hundred dollars each for two hours work. The “background performers” were not happy to find out they had actually been hired for astroturfing. This form of Information Warfare has been increasingly used because it’s a relatively cheap way to get some favorable publicity, especially if the astroturfing stunt goes viral on the Internet and becomes a news event. This only works, of course, if the audiences doesn’t know it’s astroturfing, especially before the event is even concluded.

They usually just hire our politicians.

Drain The Swamp

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Kurt Schlichter: Time for Trump to Get His Godfather On

Update:

Officials confirmed that Trump and national security adviser Robert O’Brien have cut 70 positions inherited from former President Barack Obama, who had fattened the staff to 200.

And — The White House Has Identified and Will Cut Ties With ‘Anonymous’ Resistance Official

One gets the sense they’ve known for some time who these people are.

Make haste. Lay waste.

It’s Probably Nothing

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Random news roundup, drop your own in the comments:

@inteldotwav — UK man linked to at least seven other coronavirus cases, possible superspreader

@nytimes — Nearly 100 people died from the coronavirus on Sunday, many of them in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the epidemic. It was the single deadliest day since the outbreak began.

Associated Press: At a Chinese-run hospital in Zambia, some employees watched as people who recently returned from China showed up with coughs but were not placed in isolation. A doctor tending to those patients has stopped coming to work, and health workers have been ordered not to speak publicly about the new virus that has killed hundreds around the world.

@ChinaScience The incubation period of the novel #coronavirus can be as long as 24 days according to a study led by Zhong Nanshan, leader of the high-level expert group for fighting the virus.

Just when you thought the Chinese Ambassador had put those crazy conspiracies to rest. – White House asks scientists to investigate origins of coronavirus

@DrEricDing – UK cutting itself off from China: @British_Airways is now suspending all flights to Beijing and Shanghai until April 1st. These two China flights are among the biggest money makers for BA. If they’ve given up on them, that’s pretty effing big deal.

More from the Propaganda Zone.

Climategate 2020: The Blacklist

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Forbes;

A climate advocacy group called Skeptical Science hosts a list of academics that it has labeled “climate misinformers.” The list includes 17 academics and is intended as a blacklist. We know of this intent because one of the principals of Skeptical Science, a blogger named Dana Nuccitelli, said so last Friday, writing of one academic on their list, “if you look at the statements we cataloged and debunked on her [Skeptical Science] page, it should make her unhirable in academia.”
 
That so-called “unhirable” academic is Professor Judy Curry, formerly the chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, and a Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society. By any conventional academic metric, Curry has compiled an impressive record over many decades. The idea that she would be unhirable would seem laughable.
 
But there is nothing funny about Skeptical Science. Today, Curry should be a senior statesperson in the atmospheric sciences community. Instead, she is out of academia. She attributes that, at least in part, to being placed on the Skeptical Science blacklist and its use, as expressed by Nuccitelli, to make her “unhirable.”
 
I asked Professor Curry about this situation. She explained, “In 2012 I was informed by my Dean that the administration wanted me to step down as Chair. While there were several reasons for this, one obvious reason was extreme displeasure by several activist climate scientists who had a very direct pipeline to the Dean.”
 
So Curry stepped down and started looking for administrative positions at other universities, “At the time, I was getting numerous inquiries from academic headhunters encouraging me to apply for major administration positions, ranging from Dean to Vice Chancellor for Research. I applied for several of these, and actually interviewed for two of them. I did not make it to the final short list.”

Closer to home: The City of Regina is axing self-described “sensible environmentalist” Patrick Moore from its sustainability conference this spring.

Not an innocent mistake. Did you think they’d stop at gender “science”?

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