/qnotables/ - ===Q Notables===

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468374 (312219ZAUG23) Notable: 23909-A

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>>65859 PDJT: Congratulations to the Boone County Republican Party on a very successful Eisenhower Social!

>>65860 PDJT: There has never been a President that worked so hard for Iowa, and delivered such results—My great honor! I hope each and every one of you will sign up and join our Campaign. MAGA! IA.DonaldJTrump.com

>>65863 PDJT: I LOVE IOWA!

>>65864 PDJT: If you are a Fisherman, Hunter, or a Sportsman, I can’t even imagine you could vote for this Group of Maniacs—They want to take away everything. DON’T VOTE DEMOCRAT!

>>65881 PDJT: We are going to win the Florida Primary, and we are going to win the State of Florida for the third straight time in November 2024!

>>65882 PDJT: To every Homeschool Family, I WILL BE YOUR CHAMPION!

>>65883 PDJT: As President, I will ensure that America is the place where the cost of Energy is the lowest, and the Economy is the strongest!

>>65884 PDJT: I fought for Nevada like no Administration in History, and unleashed American Energy like never before. Together, we will SAVE THE ECONOMY!

>>65885, >>65893, >>65894 PDJT: Super PAC set up for DeSantis will now back Trump

>>65888 PDJT: Crooked Joe Biden is spending $25 Million on dishonest TV Ads to lie to the American People. We can’t let him get away with it!

>>65890 PDJT: Is there anyone on the Planet that doesn’t know what I look like? And yet, for some reason, the Communist Democrats in Atlanta made a Mug Shot of me!

>>65891, >>65895 Trump waives arraignment & his atty files not guilty plea in Fulton Co

>>65876 Insurers don't have to pay Chicago Trump Tower's pollution fines

>>65877 Fulton County DA Fudges Case Law in the Trump RICO prosecution

>>65878 Judge McAfee says there will be a live YouTube stream — operated by the court — of all Fulton County hearings & trials related to the Trump indictment, in addition to pool media coverage

>>65896 PDJT: We owe our children GREAT schools that lead to incredible jobs, so that they can have a wonderful life. I want them to be more successful than “TRUMP!”

>>65897 PDJT: REALLY BAD POLLING FOR RON DESANCTIMONIOUS!

>>65899, >>65901, >>65902, >>65903, >>65904 John Solomon: PDJT on LIVE right now

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final

unless @45 posts again, kek.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468407 (312225ZAUG23) Notable: ZH: Why Won't COVID Lockdown Tyrants Admit They Were Wrong?

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Why Won't COVID Lockdown Tyrants Admit They Were Wrong?

Nearly 100 universities are requiring masks this fall.

Lionsgate movie studios in Los Angeles and Atlanta-based Morris Brown College this week stated they are reinstating not just mask mandates but social distancing measures and contact tracing.

CNN, which led the panic in 2020 and 2021—causing manic school, restaurant, and business shutdowns and vaccine mandates—recently put out a headline on its website that encouraged its readers not to go outside without a mask on. Really? The latest evidence finds this is less dangerous than a normal flu virus and tracking data suggest that the wave has already peaked.

What’s even more disturbing here is that the leftist medical community and the media aren’t renouncing their calls for mitigation strategies that were catastrophically wrong in the panic era of 2020 and 2021—but instead calling for more of these assaults on freedom in the future.

It is one thing for well-meaning medical experts to have disagreed about how to best combat a once-in-a-half-century deadly virus. We didn’t know exactly what we were dealing with. But now we know with concrete scientific evidence that most mandates and lockdowns had a small impact on the spread of the virus and on fatalities. It turns out there was almost no difference in death rates in states with strict lockdowns and no lockdowns at all. The same is true of cross-country evidence.

Healthy children were never at risk from COVID (something we knew early on), so shutting down schools for one or two years was a sop to the teachers unions but a disaster for this generation of kids. Test scores are the worst in 30 years.

Before the pandemic, only 15 percent of public school students were chronically absent—more than 18 or more days a year.

Stanford University education professor Thomas Dee’s data shows an estimated 6.5 million additional students are now chronically absent. In Connecticut and Massachusetts, chronic absenteeism remains double its pre-pandemic rate.

But polls show that Democrats—even those that are highly educated—generally still support the lockdowns that were mandated. These are the same people who lecture about “following the science.” The most comprehensive study by experts at Johns Hopkins University found death rates from lockdowns were reduced by 0.1 percent. But how many people died from the isolation of lockdowns, delayed health screening from cancer, the increase in drug overdoses?

Biden’s vaccine mandates only made Americans more resistant to get pricked. They backfired.

Worst of all, Anthony Fauci, who remains a hero of the Left, recently not only refused to admit the errors of his advice but said the “lockdown was absolutely justified.”

Why does this bizarre rewrite of recent history matter? Because the fearmongering Left can’t wait to install new lockdowns every time we have a new flu virus and health scare. They’ve even started putting out feelers for occasional climate change economic shutdowns.

Those who love freedom must strenuously resist this coming tyranny.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/why-wont-covid-lockdown-tyrants-admit-they-were-wrong

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468418 (312226ZAUG23) Notable: MTG: Join me LIVE at my Floyd County Town Hall

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https://gab.com/repmtg/posts/110986531454800122

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

@repmtg

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Join me LIVE at my Floyd County Town Hall!

You won’t want to miss this: https://fb.watch/mMOuZM_afJ/?mibextid=qC1gEa

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468458 (312233ZAUG23) Notable: #23909-B

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>>65848 Student Loan Forgiveness Update 2023: Biden Cancels $72 Million of Debt

>>65849, >>65855, >>65858, >>65865, >>65880 Who/What is "GCHQ Bude"? DIG

>>65850 GA Senator Colton Moore: "MAKE MY DAY" - we have to DEFUN Fani Willis!

>>65851 What sentence is Proud Boy leader Zach Rehl facing?

>>65852, >>65853 CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS & SASHA LATYPOVA DISCUSS HOW THE CABAL STEALS LAND AND REAL ESTATE

>>65854 Fulton County Jail Mass stabbing - KEK

>>65856 Jack Posobiec | The Roseanne Barr Podcast

>>65857 Harrison Floyd: Thinking to run for GA-7 in GA To Fix The Corrupt System That Unlawfully Imprisoned Him

>>65861 Frank Zelenko shares his late brother's protocols - Roseanne podcast

>>65862 Brian Pritchard Rips Apart "Republican Ruling Class" Destroying Georgia

>>65866 Proud Boy Joe Biggs sentenced to 17 years

>>65867 Top Russian rocket scientist who had previously assisted foreign colleagues at NASA dies from poisoning after two-week fight for life

>>65868 Ex-CIA Agent Who Signed False Letter About Hunter Biden Laptop Tried To Hide Her Work For Twitter

>>65869 Former Attorney General Bill Barr argues Trump's trials will not interfere with 2024 election

>>65870 Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson alleges CDC participated in censoring info on covid vaxxes

>>65871, >>65872 @DonaldJTrumpJr: We're going LIVE at 6 PM est with one of the nation's top lawyers about weaponization of the justice system

>>65875 @ChuckGrassley For 2yrs Biden admin has withheld info frm Congress & the public abt VP Bidens use of non-govt email/mishandling of classified info

>>65874 UN publishes final draft of declaration that targets "misinformation," backs WHO pandemic treaty

>>65886 Twitter can now harvest YOUR 'biometric' information including fingerprint, face recognition and eye tracking data - as Musk's site quietly updates its T&Cs 'for safety purposes'

>>65887, >>65889 Sundance: "Old Mules": Battle of Athens Aug 1

>>65892 @BonginoReport - James Comer Says Biden Impeachment Is Imminent

>>65898 MAUI: MEDIA BLACKOUT LOCKDOWN IN LAHAINA WEST MAUI AFTER FIRE

>>65900 People's Bank of China established nationwide minimum down payment reqts on homebuyers at 20% and 30%

>>65906 ZH: Why Won't COVID Lockdown Tyrants Admit They Were Wrong?

>>65907 MTG: Join me LIVE at my Floyd County Town Hall

>>65908 ATF Goes Around Congress: Publishes Universal Background Check Rule

>>65909 Judge Issues Order INVALIDATING Ban on Handgun Sales to Adults Under 21 Years Old

>>65910 Secretaries of Several States Begin Legal Review to Determine if They Can Disqualify President Trump from 2024 Ballot

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468557 (312251ZAUG23) Notable: Suspected drone ‘neutralized’ near Russian airport

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31 Aug, 2023 21:24 =

=Suspected drone ‘neutralized’ near Russian airport – governor==

Another unidentified object has been detected in the area days after a drone raid on Pskov airport

The Russian military has spotted a suspected hostile drone in the Russian city of Pskov, near the airport that was attacked by multiple Ukrainian drones earlier this week, regional Governor Mikhail Vedernikov said early Friday morning.

An airspace control post in the area of Kresty, near Pskov airport, “detected a single unidentified object in the sky,” he confirmed on Telegram around midnight local time.

The official shared a brief video of what he called the “measures undertaken to neutralize” the object, which appears to show anti-air gunfire lighting up the night sky.

There was no damage or injuries on the ground as a result of the incident, Vedernikov said. The Defense Ministry has yet to comment on the alleged new attack.

In the early hours of Wednesday, the Russian city of Pskov, near the territories of NATO members Estonia and Latvia, came under attack by a swarm of drones. Local authorities and emergency services said that several Il-76 transport planes were damaged in the attack, but the military has yet to confirm these reports. The airport briefly canceled all flights to assess potential damage to the runway, but fully resumed operations on Thursday.

Meanwhile, after Kiev will not admit their counteroffensive has failed miserably, they revert back their tried and true method of terrorism against civilians and civilian structures, that Nina Jankowicz taught them

https://www.rt.com/russia/582183-pskov-airport-object-neutralized/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468565 (312253ZAUG23) Notable: Ukraine threatens long-range strikes into Russia

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31 Aug, 2023 17:53

Ukraine threatens long-range strikes into Russia

Kiev claims to have weapons that can hit targets 700km away

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said on Thursday that the country has produced long-range weapons domestically, while his top security official claimed that a new missile program is in place.

“Successful use of our long-range weapons: the target was hit 700 kilometers away!” Zelensky posted in a Telegram message, referring to an exercise by the Ministry of Strategic Industries. Zelensky did not specify what kind of weapon was used, or what the target may have been.

Shortly afterwards, National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Aleksey Danilov posted a 20-second video on X, formerly Twitter, showing what looked like a missile being launched into the night.

“The missile program of the President of Ukraine in action. The tests are successful, the implementation is effective,” Danilov said. “Sevastopol is waiting, Kamchatka is waiting, Kronstadt is waiting...”

While it sounds like a threat against Russian naval bases or even a peninsula in the Far East, it appears to be a misquoted lyric from a popular song by Lyube, said to be the favorite band of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Several Ukrainian media outlets linked Danilov’s post about the “missile program” with Zelensky’s claim about a long-range weapon, though there is no evidence to suggest a connection.

The “700 kilometers” may be a reference to Pskov, a city in northwestern Russia which is precisely that far from Ukraine’s borders, but just 30km away from NATO member Estonia. Several military transport planes were damaged at Pskov airport early on Wednesday, in what local authorities described as an attack by more than ten drones. There has been no official confirmation from either side as to what kind of UAVs may have been used in the attack, or where they came from.

Zelensky, Danilov and other Ukrainian officials have repeatedly insisted that they use only domestically produced weapons against Russian territory, since the US and its allies have ostensibly forbidden them to use Western-provided missiles and drones for this purpose. (Zelensky begged all arms companies and the MIC to send all their experimental weapons for Kiev to test them and use them to see if they were effective. That’s probably where they are getting them.)

Earlier this week, however, The Economist revealed that Ukrainian drone operators greatly rely on Western intelligence and satellite data to avoid Russian air defenses.

Ukraine first targeted Moscow with drones in May, and began launching more frequent attacks in July, as its much-heralded counteroffensive in the south became bogged down in Russian fortifications.

The attacks have caused only minor property damage so far and the Kremlin has described them as “acts of desperation,” meant to cover for Kiev’s failures on the battlefield. According to US officials, the attacks are intended “to bolster the morale of Ukraine’s population and troops,” and show that Kiev “can strike back.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/582170-ukraine-long-range-claim/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468573 (312255ZAUG23) Notable: Member state blocks EU military aid to Ukraine

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31 Aug, 2023 21:03

Member state blocks EU military aid to Ukraine – Borrell

Hungary is holding up "European Peace Facility" funds earmarked for Kiev

The EU has been unable to release €500 million in ‘European Peace Facility’ funding for Ukraine, due to opposition from one of the members, the bloc’s foreign policy commissioner Josep Borrell told reporters on Thursday. The country was later identified as Hungary.

“I have to regret that the 8th tranche of the European Peace Facility (EPF) is still blocked,” Borrell said after an EU ministerial meeting in Toledo, Spain. “I hope we will be able to unblock [it] in the next [few] weeks. But this is a problem that is still pending to be solved.”

Budapest has been blocking the EPF funds for months,objecting that Kiev has designated a major Hungarian bank as a ‘war sponsor’*. The bloc has used the EPF, established in March 2021, as a way to fund weapons and ammunition deliveries to Ukraine outside of normal budgetary procedures.

Following the meeting of EU defense ministers on Wednesday, Borrell spoke of the need to train more Ukrainian troops faster, noting that almost 40,000 conscripts will have undergone training at various EU sites this year, including at the Spanish military academy in Toledo itself.

Thursday’s meeting involved foreign ministers, and included a briefing by Ukrainian FM Dmitry Kuleba. At the press conference, Borrell spoke of the need for the EU to support Ukraine “today, tomorrow and always” in a manner that is “predictable and sustainable,” but mainly financial.

The Spanish politician again mentioned that he had proposed to the European Commission to create a new Ukraine Assistance Fund, spanning the period from 2024 to 2027, and expressed hope the body would “reach an agreement by the end of the year.” Borrell envisioned the fund to amount to about €5 billion annually, for a total commitment of €20 billion over the next four years.

While Borrell spoke as if Brussels could afford to leverage its entire economic, political, and military might in the service of Ukraine, Hungary has been skeptical of the bloc’s policies.

Speaking at a forum in Slovenia earlier this week, Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto described the EU as being in a “very bad shape” due to the Ukraine conflict, “worse than at any time in the past, in terms of security, economy and energy supply.” The bloc’s commitment to arming Ukraine has made it unable to broker a peace, while the EU’s energy, security, and economic prosperity have been dealt serious blows by the embargo against Russia, according to Szijjarto.

(*The EU is using Kiev as the attack dog on Hungary, the EU could have gotten Hungary to release those funds more than 6 months ago, if they demanded Kiev retract the accusation of Hungary Bank being a “war sponsor”. But they won’t because EU is using Kiev in every way, they can’t conduct themselves. The EU wants to replace the leaders or destroy Hungary and get rid of any conservative leader in the EU, which EU has “very few”, but they won’t. They use this non- EU countries that are begging to get into the EU to attack Russia, to do things they can’t do according to their charter.)

https://www.rt.com/news/582180-hungary-eu-ukraine-aid/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468595 (312258ZAUG23) Notable: President Donald J. Trump reacts to the latest news that has exposed Biden’s ties to Ukraine

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>>65899

President Donald J. Trump reacts to the latest news that has exposed Biden’s ties to Ukraine

Watch the full interview on #JustTheNewsNoNoise with @jsolomonReports and @AmandaHead here: https://rumble.com/v3dko8c-president-trump-interviews-with-john-solomon.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae1nthI0tiE

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468612 (312301ZAUG23) Notable: Russian ally responds to demands for expulsion of Wagner troops

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31 Aug, 2023 15:13

Russian ally responds to demands for expulsion of Wagner troops

Neighboring countries are fomenting hysteria about the private military company’s presence in Belarus, says Alexander Lukashenko

NATO countries have no right to demand the expulsion of Wagner Group soldiers from Belarus while they host sizable contingents of foreign troops themselves, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday.

Speaking at a meeting of the nation’s Security Council, the Belarusian leader delivered a stern response to neighboring Poland and the Baltic states, which had urged Minsk to remove the “extremely dangerous” Wagner fighters from the country earlier this week.

Lukashenko pointed out that NATO countries are constantly increasing their military presence on the Belarusian border, while accusing Minsk of “mythical aggressive intentions that have never existed.”

According to Lukashenko, Poland and the Baltic countries are stoking hysteria about the Wagner private military company, which moved to Belarus after a short-lived mutiny in Russia in late June. It was part of a deal between Moscow and the group’s chief Evgeny Prigozhin, who recently died in a plane crash.

The response to [these complaints about Wagner] is simple: Neither Poland, nor Lithuania, nor any other Baltic country should host a single foreign soldier. Then, they can raise objections to the presence of military personnel from other countries here. In the meantime, these are unreasonable and stupid demands.

Lukashenko also blasted Poland’s decision to no longer abide by the Cold War-era Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which sets limits on several categories of military equipment that can be stationed on the continent.

“This is a dangerous step… How should we react to all this? Not to mention the preparation of Belarusian fugitives on their territory to stage a military coup in Belarus,” he added.

In June, Lukashenko accused Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine of training armed “extremist” groups to infiltrate Belarus.

Speaking on Thursday, the Belarusian leader said Minsk was ready to restore relations with its neighbors, while inviting Polish delegates to monitor the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) military exercises that will be held on the country’s western border in early September.

Lukashenko’s comments come after Poland and the Baltic states warned that they may close all border crossings with Belarus in the event of a “critical incident” after repeatedly accusing the neighboring country of facilitating illegal migration in the EU. In the past, Belarus’ neighbors have also repeatedly claimed that Wagner operatives were attempting to infiltrate Poland.

https://www.rt.com/russia/582155-belarus-wagner-nato-lukashenko/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468741 (312324ZAUG23) Notable: Kiev worries West might renege on F-16 deliveries

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31 Aug, 2023 09:43

Kiev worries West might renege on F-16 deliveries – NYT

Ukraine wants to get the advanced fighter jets before elections in the US, the outlet has reported

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is scrambling to complete an agreement for delivery of F-16 fighter jets to his country as soon as possible, according to the New York Times. Zelensky fears that shifting political sands in Western countries could undermine support for Kiev and in particular scupper his hopes for the warplanes, the outlet reported on Wednesday, citing sources.

According to serving and former US and Ukrainian officials interviewed by the paper, Kiev “senses a ticking political clock” when requesting the US-designed F-16 aircraft. Zelensky apparently wants to get as many jets as possible before elections in the EU and the US “bring a change of heart in the governments that have promised the planes,” the report said. (Zelensky knows he has no dirt or blackmail on Trump, so he wants to use what he has quickly)

The international coalition to help Kiev procure F-16s and train Ukrainian pilots was first announced by the UK and the Netherlands in May, with a total of 11 countries backing the effort. However, Ukraine does not expect to receive the first of the promised warplanes until 2024.

While the administration of US President Joe Biden has signaled that it would allow Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands to send their F-16s to Ukraine, a new president could reverse this policy if the delivery has not yet been completed by the time they come to power, an unnamed American official told the paper.

Another former US official suggested that Zelensky also wanted to secure the deliveries in case “a sluggish counteroffensive erodes political support among allies.”Ukraine has been unsuccessfully trying to breach Russian lines since early June, losing more than 43,000 service members, according to Moscow.

The scramble to secure the fighter-jets comes amid increasing skepticism among Republicans in the US Congress about sending further military support to Kiev, with many citing a lack of financial transparency and strategic vision on the part of the White House. The growing chorus of discontent has also been echoed by former US President and current GOP presidential candidate frontrunner Donald Trump.

Trump has repeatedly slammed the Biden administration’s handling of the Ukraine conflict, noting that Washington is “giving away so much equipment” to Kiev while it does not have enough munitions for itself.

Meanwhile, Moscow has repeatedly warned the West against supplying Ukraine with F-16s, arguing that the move could be interpreted as a nuclear threat as these jets can potentially carry atomic weapons.

(I hope the Military has convinced Bidan and the Admin, it’s not a good idea to give a Terrorist country high tech American weapons and planes, to a country that could turn on us at any time.)

https://www.rt.com/russia/582132-ukraine-f16-deliveries-elections/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468770 (312330ZAUG23) Notable: 23909-A

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23909-A >>65847

>>65849, >>65855, >>65858, >>65865, >>65880 Who/What is "GCHQ Bude"? DIG

>>65859 PDJT: Congratulations to the Boone County Republican Party on a very successful Eisenhower Social!

>>65860 PDJT: There has never been a President that worked so hard for Iowa, and delivered such results—My great honor! I hope each and every one of you will sign up and join our Campaign. MAGA! IA.DonaldJTrump.com

>>65863 PDJT: I LOVE IOWA!

>>65864 PDJT: If you are a Fisherman, Hunter, or a Sportsman, I can’t even imagine you could vote for this Group of Maniacs—They want to take away everything. DON’T VOTE DEMOCRAT!

>>65881 PDJT: We are going to win the Florida Primary, and we are going to win the State of Florida for the third straight time in November 2024!

>>65882 PDJT: To every Homeschool Family, I WILL BE YOUR CHAMPION!

>>65883 PDJT: As President, I will ensure that America is the place where the cost of Energy is the lowest, and the Economy is the strongest!

>>65884 PDJT: I fought for Nevada like no Administration in History, and unleashed American Energy like never before. Together, we will SAVE THE ECONOMY!

>>65885, >>65893, >>65894 PDJT: Super PAC set up for DeSantis will now back Trump

>>65888 PDJT: Crooked Joe Biden is spending $25 Million on dishonest TV Ads to lie to the American People. We can’t let him get away with it!

>>65890 PDJT: Is there anyone on the Planet that doesn’t know what I look like? And yet, for some reason, the Communist Democrats in Atlanta made a Mug Shot of me!

>>65891, >>65895 Trump waives arraignment & his atty files not guilty plea in Fulton Co

>>65876 Insurers don't have to pay Chicago Trump Tower's pollution fines

>>65877 Fulton County DA Fudges Case Law in the Trump RICO prosecution

>>65878 Judge McAfee says there will be a live YouTube stream — operated by the court — of all Fulton County hearings & trials related to the Trump indictment, in addition to pool media coverage

>>65896 PDJT: We owe our children GREAT schools that lead to incredible jobs, so that they can have a wonderful life. I want them to be more successful than “TRUMP!”

>>65897 PDJT: REALLY BAD POLLING FOR RON DESANCTIMONIOUS!

>>65899, >>65901, >>65902, >>65903, >>65904 John Solomon: PDJT on LIVE right now

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468803 (312335ZAUG23) Notable: New York Police to Use Drones to Monitor Backyard Labor Day Parties

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New York Police to Use Drones to Monitor Backyard Labor Day Parties

Here we go.

New York police will use drones to monitor backyard Labor Day parties this weekend.

Kaz Daughtry, the assistant NYPD Commissioner made the announcement during a security briefing on J’ouvert, an annual Caribbean festival.

Daughtry’s plan to use police drones to monitor backyard barbecues got immediate backlash from civil liberties groups.

“It’s a troubling announcement and it flies in the face of the POST Act,” said Daniel Schwarz, a privacy and technology strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union, referring to a 2020 city law that requires the NYPD to disclose its surveillance tactics, according to AP. “Deploying drones in this way is a sci-fi inspired scenario.”

AP reported:

Those attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may notice an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police surveillance drone.

The New York City police department plans to pilot the unmanned aircrafts in response to complaints about large gatherings, including private events, over Labor Day weekend, officials announced Thursday.

“If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our assets to go up and go check on the party,” Kaz Daughtry, the assistant NYPD Commissioner, said at a press conference.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/new-york-police-use-drones-monitor-backyard-labor/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468821 (312338ZAUG23) Notable: Disney Slapped with Lawsuit After Allegedly Misleading Investors About Billion Dollar Losses

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Disney Slapped with Lawsuit After Allegedly Misleading Investors About Billion Dollar Losses

As Disney stock hovers at its lowest levels in nearly a decade, the company was hit with another lawsuit alleging it misled investors about the success of Disney+ by concealing the true costs of operating the platform.

Disney is being accused of lying about the extent of its losses to hit lofty subscriber growth targets and claiming that the streaming service was on track to achieve profitability by the end of 2024. Investors detail a scheme to “inappropriately shift costs” by debuting content created for Disney+ on legacy platforms to move marketing and production costs.

The complaint filed on Aug. 23 in California federal court is at least the third taking issue with the company’s efforts to boost subscriptions for its streaming platform. It faces an identical investor suit over an alleged “cost-shifting scheme” in its streaming division and claims that it obstructed a deal between TSG Entertainment Finance and 20th Century Studios, which Disney owns, to “prop up” Disney+ and inflate its stock price.

The suit claims that company executives hid the expense and difficulty of maintaining subscriber growth as it suffered “staggering costs” to create content. In an effort to hide losses, the complaint claims, former chief executive Bob Chapek, his lieutenant Kareem Daniel and former CFO Christine McCarthy aired The Mysterious Benedict Society and Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. — which were supposed to be Disney+ originals — on the Disney Channel to make the streaming service appear more successful than it actually was.

Investors take issue with statements from the executives touting gains. For example, in December 2020 Chapek said, “Disney+ has exceeded our wildest expectations with 86.8 million subscribers as of December 2” and that the “success” of the platform has “bolstered our confidence in our continued acceleration towards a DTC-first business model.” He repeatedly stated that it would be profitable by the end of 2024. This forecast represented an “astounding three-fold increase from prior estimates without any degradation in expected profitability for the segment,” the suit says.

After acknowledging that subscriber growth had slowed in 2021, Disney reported last year that it missed analyst estimates by wide margins on revenue, sales and earnings. In Q4 2022, the company’s direct-to-consumer arm, which includes Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu and Hotstar, reported an operating loss of $1.47 billion — up from a $630 million loss in the same quarter the year prior. Disney’s stock plummeted by more than 13 percent at the time.

“The Company also reported a decline in its average revenue per Disney+ subscriber, as more customers subscribed through a discounted bundle with the Company’s other services,” the complaint states. “Notably, the bundled offering made up about 40% of domestic subscribers, confirming that Disney was relying on short-term promotional efforts to boost subscriber growth while impairing the platform’s long-term profitability.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/investors-sue-disney-streaming-losses-1235577249/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468822 (312338ZAUG23) Notable: OBAMA - IT HELPS WHEN DEMOCRATS ARE IN CHARGE OF THE MACHINES

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OBAMA - IT HELPS WHEN DEMOCRATS ARE IN CHARGE OF THE MACHINES

https://www.bitchute.com/video/DRJ6TUftq5yf/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19468974 (010015ZSEP23) Notable: Two former leaders of the Proud Boys organization were sentenced today for seditious conspiracy and other charges

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Court Concludes Conduct of Biggs and Rehl was Terrorism

Two former leaders of the Proud Boys organization were sentenced today for seditious conspiracy and other charges related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Their actions disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes necessary to certify the 2020 presidential election.

Joseph R. Biggs, 39, of Ormond Beach, Florida, was sentenced to 17 years in prison and 36 months of supervised release.

Zachary Rehl, 38, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and 36 months of supervised release.

A jury convicted Biggs and Rehl and three other co-defendants of multiple felonies, including seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding on May 4, 2023, for their actions before and during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

According to court documents and evidence presented during the trial, the Proud Boys organization played a significant and often violent role in Washington, D.C., rallies in November and December 2020. In the aftermath of that violent conduct, Biggs and Rehl served as members of a special chapter of the Proud Boys known as the “Ministry of Self Defense.”

Beginning after Dec. 19, 2020, Biggs and Rehl, all of whom were leaders or members of the Ministry of Self-Defense, conspired to prevent, hinder, and delay the certification of the Electoral College vote and to oppose by force the authority of the government of the United States.

In the days leading to Jan. 6, Biggs, Rehl, and co-defendants Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and Ethan Nordean hand-selected co-defendant Dominic Pezzola and others known as “rally boys” to participate in the attack on the Capitol that day. This group established a chain of command, chose a time and place for their attack, and intentionally recruited others who would follow their top-down leadership and who were prepared to engage in physical violence if necessary.

On Jan. 6, the group and the men they recruited and led participated in every consequential breach at the Capitol on Jan. 6. The group began their assault that day at 10:00 a.m. when Biggs, Rehl, and others marched an assembled group of nearly 200 individuals away from speeches at the Ellipse and directly toward the Capitol. They arrived at the First Street gate at 12:50 p.m., and Biggs led the crowd in chants of “Whose Capitol? Our Capitol!” and “Whose house? Our house!” Within minutes, Biggs, Rehl, and others led their recruits up the first street walkway, breaching multiple barricades and tearing down fencing. Biggs then declared, “we’ve gone through every barricade thus far.”

At about 1:30 p.m., when law enforcement appeared to have successfully controlled the crowd by pushing them back, the men again pushed forward with Biggs and other co-defendants leading the charge. Biggs and other co-defendants then gathered at the base of the concrete stairs that led to the doors and windows of the Capitol. The group again surged toward the Capitol and overwhelmed officers who had been battling the crowd for nearly an hour. Rehl sprayed an officer in the face. One co-defendant, Dominic Pezzola, smashed open a window, allowing the first rioters to enter the Capitol at 2:11 p.m., and Biggs entered close behind him with some of his men.

During the attack, Biggs posed with other Proud Boys on the west lawn of the Capitol for a celebratory video in which Biggs stated that “January 6 will be a day in infamy.” Rehl made social media posts calling Jan. 6 a “historical day,” and told his mother that he was “so fucking proud” of the Proud Boys’ “raid of the capitol.”

Later, Biggs and Rehl made statements regarding their attack on the Capitol. On Jan. 7, Rehl told members of the Ministry of Self-Defense that he was “proud as fuck what we accomplished. Likewise, Biggs recorded a podcast-style interview in which he called Jan. 6 a “warning shot” to the government that showed them “how weak they truly are” after being “bitch-slapped . . . on their own home turf.” Biggs explained that “January 7th was warning shot to the government –look, we started this country this way and we’ll fuckin’ save it this way.”

During the hearing, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly applied the enhancement for a federal crime of terrorism to the defendant’s final sentence.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-leaders-proud-boys-sentenced-17-and-15-years-prison-seditious-conspiracy-and-other

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19469021 (010024ZSEP23) Notable: #23908-B

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19469157 (010053ZSEP23) Notable: What’s Behind the Right’s ‘Obama Is Gay’ Conspiracy

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>>65962

Citing a remark by Fox News host Greg Gutfeld that “Obama is now out of the closet” after the president announced his support for gay marriage, former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum blogged at the Daily Beast, “You cannot ‘get’ Gutfeld’s joke unless you ‘get’ that a large part of his audience ardently believes that Obama is in fact gay, that his marriage is a sham, and that Mrs. Obama leads a life of Marie Antoinette–like extravagance to compensate for her husband’s neglect while he disports himself with his personal aides.”

But as much as the most extreme tales of the president’s supposed homosexuality have been confined to the crannies of the Internet, mainstream Republicans routinely invoke the idea that Obama is, if not exactly gay, then less of a man. When a loud noise was heard during Mike Huckabee’s address to the National Rifle Association, the former Arkansas governor quipped that it was Barack Obama diving for the floor after someone pointed a gun at him (because, presumably, the president is a sissy). Similarly, when John Edwards endorsed Obama in 2008, conservative columnist Kathleen Parker joked, “Well, at least they didn’t kiss.” And after the death of the American ambassador to Libya, Sarah Palin weighed in with: “If [Obama] doesn’t have a ‘big stick’ to carry, maybe it’s time for him to grow one.”

Of course, there’s nothing unusual about the wing-nuttery fabricating stories to rally their fellow nuts, and nothing unusual about the homophobes among them, especially on the religious right, attacking Obama as gay. But the persistent charges of his unmanliness—as if all gay men are unmanly and all women fainthearted—are part of a skein of Republican accusations and innuendoes against Democrats that goes back decades. It isn’t always that Democrats are gay, exactly. Gay becomes a proxy for effeminacy so that Republicans, in their antediluvian view of the world, can present themselves as tough he-men, and Democrats as weak girls. Or, in conservative commentator Jude Wanniski’s terms, Republicans are the “Daddy Party,” while Democrats are the “Mommy Party.” That is not intended as a compliment to the latter. Indeed, “feminized” is one of the dirtiest words in the Republican lexicon.

Long ago, the GOP apparently calculated that this was a great way to appeal to male voters, especially white male voters, who, until recently, made up roughly 40 percent of the electorate. The GOP aimed at a tradition of machismo, bluster, saber-rattling and muscle-flexing. It assumed that white males revere warriors, prefer action to talk, love the idea of shooting first and asking questions later; their movie heroes are John Wayne and GOP poster boy Clint Eastwood. These assumptions may have been based on stereotypes, but they seem to have worked. The Democratic Party has won the white male vote only twice since 1944—in 1960, when John Kennedy beat Nixon by just 0.2 percent among that group, and in Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 landslide, the only time since Roosevelt that Democrats won more than 50 percent of that demographic cohort. In short, if only white men voted, there would have been just two Democratic presidents since 1944. Not only that: every election save 1976, when Jimmy Carter eked out 47 percent of those voters, would have been a Republican landslide.

But even that may understate the extent to which Republicans have increasingly become the party of white men and the extent to which they seem to have sacrificed the female vote, especially the votes of single and minority women. According to a recent Pew Center survey, the GOP lead among white male voters has doubled, from 11 percent in 2008 to 22 percent in 2012. Men now constitute 52 percent of Republican voters according to the Pew survey, virtually all of them white, even though men make up less than 50 percent of the general population. By contrast, women constitute 57 percent of the Democratic vote, according to Pew. One might conclude that whatever other divisions there are between the parties, there is a gaping pink (Democrat) and blue (Republican) one or, to account for the racial component among those Republican voters, “pink and azure,” azure being a lighter, milkier shade of blue like the sky.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19469168 (010056ZSEP23) Notable: What’s Behind the Right’s ‘Obama Is Gay’ Conspiracy

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>>65963

It is impossible to say whether the Republican feminization of Democrats is a cause of this chasm or a result of it. There are obviously many factors at play. But it is certainly true that even as the white male vote as a percentage of the electorate has declined precipitously, the Republican proportion of that vote has steadily grown, from the upper fortieth percentile for Dewey in 1948 to the upper fiftieth percentile for Eisenhower to a consistent sixtieth percentile since 1980. The only disruptions in that trend are Carter’s 1976 election when Ford ceded some of those white Southern male votes, and the two Clinton elections, in which the tough-talking bantam billionaire Ross Perot siphoned off a large chunk of those voters.

The originator of the tactic to characterize Democrats as pansies and sissies may have been Wisconsin’s infamous junior senator, Joseph McCarthy. Though McCarthy’s stock in trade was wild accusations against alleged communists in the Democratic administrations of Roosevelt and Truman, he also brandished another, less remembered weapon: homosexual baiting, on the pretext that communists were often gay. This conflation of “treasonous” with “Democrats” and “gay” has proven to be a powerful one that seems to have had more legs than anti-communism by itself. As David Johnson documents in his history of political gay bashing, The Lavender Scare, once McCarthy publicized the accusations, his fellow Republicans and their allies in the right-wing press joyously leapt in. “Information is accumulating which shows that perversion has been so kindly regarded in the New Deal cult as to amount to a characteristic of that administration,” wrote the rabidly reactionary columnist Westbrook Pegler in June 1950. Along the same lines, Republican Senator William Jenner described the Truman administration as the “Fairy Deal.”

But the subtler message wasn’t that Democrats were gay. Again, it was that Democrats were like gays—that is, in the bizarre Republican equation, they were womanly, incapable of standing up to communists. Describing how McCarthy would deal with Stalin versus how the Democrats dealt with him, one of the senator’s aides said, “The two would talk man to man, not like a lot of pansy diplomats.”

The “pansy” in 1952 was Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic presidential candidate, and a former State Department official—one of those Ivy League–educated boys in striped pants that McCarthyite Republicans so reviled. Stevenson was divorced and had a reputation as a womanizer, but that didn’t stop Republicans from hurling innuendo. According to Stevenson biographer Porter McKeever, an Eisenhower supporter actively spread the rumor that Stevenson was gay, and someone even sent out an FBI impersonator to interview a friend of a Stevenson staff member about the governor’s alleged homosexuality. When Stevenson challenged Eisenhower again in 1956, gossip columnist Walter Winchell, who had traveled with Eisenhower during the campaign, compared Stevenson to transsexual Christine Jorgenson on his election night broadcast and said the election of Stevenson would put a “woman in the White House.” In four years, Stevenson had gone from being gay to being a woman.

It was much harder to stigmatize Kennedy, a war hero, or Johnson, a Texan, as effeminate, though their fear of being branded as such forced them into contortions. Johnson privately fretted that if he were to abandon Vietnam, the Republicans would question his manhood. But even as Republicans whispered about the Democrats’ lack of manliness, they managed to turn it into a loud metaphor—one in which government was, in Reagan’s words, “our national nanny” and diplomacy was another form of feminine surrender. In effect, the conservative message was not just that government was bad and that a less than bellicose foreign policy was feckless, but that government and diplomacy were emasculating. As Wall Street Journal columnist John Mihalic said of Jimmy Carter, he “didn’t like to threaten or rebuke. He wore sweaters and avoided the trappings of power. He even kissed Brezhnev!” All of which, he wrote, revealed Carter’s “true feminine spirit.”

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19469176 (010057ZSEP23) Notable: What’s Behind the Right’s ‘Obama Is Gay’ Conspiracy

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>>65964

And so it has been ever since. Michael Dukakis was featured in a right-wing comic book titled Magical Mike in which Dukakis starred as “Sheriff Pansy,” who pranced around in a dress. George H.W. Bush beat Dukakis among men by thirteen points, and among white men by nearly thirty. Even President Reagan joined in; after Dukakis endorsed several of his military policies, Reagan quipped, “We haven’t seen such a radical transformation since Dustin Hoffman played Tootsie.” Given his womanizing, Clinton couldn’t be tarred as either gay or feminine, so the Republicans used another tactic: he was portrayed as having been emasculated by Hillary, “the Lady Macbeth of Little Rock,” as The American Spectator called her during the 1992 campaign. Clinton lost the male vote by nearly the same margin as Dukakis and received only 36 percent of the white male vote.

What makes this feminization even more effective is the way the media—and not only the conservative media—pick it up, perhaps because it gives them a neat dialectic that turns every campaign into a movie, strong against weak, which is what the media are always trying to do. No one has latched on to this more tenaciously than the cop’s daughter, Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, even as she has deplored the “nasty Republican habit of portraying opponents as less than fully masculine.” So, in Dowd’s words, Al Gore is “so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct, he’s practically lactating”; John Edwards is a “Breck Girl”; Obama is “Obambi,” who preens like a “46-year-old virgin” and is “hung up on being seen as thoughtful,” even as he fears “being seen as a ‘dumb blond’”—which isn’t all that different from Ann Coulter calling Gore a “total fag” on Hardball or Edwards a “faggot” at a conservative conclave. As for John Kerry, the war hero, the Republicans, and the mainstream media quickly managed to make him seem French and effete against a swaggering cowboy Bush. And it was no surprise when a Newsweek cover story cast the 2008 election as a contest between beer (McCain) and arugula (Obama).

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The problem for Republicans is that while their sixty years of macho posturing and Democrat-baiting may have paid huge electoral dividends in the past, the demographics are now running strongly against them. The proportion of white voters in the electorate is falling rapidly—it shrank from 91 percent in 1948 to 70 percent in 2004—and the proportion of white male voters is plummeting even more rapidly. Pretty soon there’s not going to be much azure for the Republicans to capture.

But the dirty little secret of political feminization that borders on misogyny may be that it was never entirely about politics; it was about fear. No one would accuse the Republican Party or its white male supporters of having a massive case of sexual repression, but the passion with which the party has prosecuted its feminizing agenda, as well as the ardor with which married blue-collar white males have embraced the party, even against their own economic self-interest, does prompt one to wonder if it might be a case of “Methinks the party doth protest too much.”

The point is that even though machismo and feminization may no longer be good politics, the tactic isn’t likely to disappear, either electorally or as a way of governing, because the Republicans can’t help themselves. They have been playing this game so long that it’s now in their DNA, which is why every conservative crackpot can’t wait to tell you that Barack Obama is gay.

Our fag blogger Ben Adler has the downlowdown on “Where Crazy Conservative Memes Are Invented” (September 25).

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19469198 (010101ZSEP23) Notable: Disney Channels, Including ABC and ESPN, Go Dark on Charter Spectrum In Major Carriage Dispute

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Disney Channels, Including ABC and ESPN, Go Dark on Charter Spectrum In Major Carriage Dispute

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19469239 (010109ZSEP23) Notable: #23910

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