Inside James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas CPAC Party

ORLANDO — After a day of speeches from Republican Party stars decrying “cancel culture,” the results of the 2020 election, and the handful of lawmakers who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, hordes of young conservative activists and reporters made their way to the afterparties. The Heritage Foundation threw an early evening shindig*, a […]
— Read on www.mediaite.com/politics/inside-the-project-veritas-cpac-party-whistleblowers-a-marriage-proposal-and-james-okeefe-dancing-to-billie-jean/

Emma Coronel Aispuro went from beauty queen to the notorious El Chapo’s wife. Then came her high-profile arrest – ABC News

Two years after El Chapo was shuffled out of a New York courtroom in leg irons, 31-year-old Emma Coronel Aispuro was arrested at Dulles International Airport. US authorities allege she was not just the narco’s wife, but a player in his international drug empire.
— Read on www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-28/meet-el-chapos-wife-emma-coronel-aispuro/13188396

Israel plans to reopen gyms, malls, and hotels – but only for people who have been vaccinated

Speaking on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s economy could open up to people who have been vaccinated within the month.
— Read on www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-plans-to-reopen-gyms-malls-and-hotels-but-only-for-people-who-have-been-vaccinated/ar-BB1dHzXZ

Baby Yoda’s real name and Bill Gates’ podcast pal: Test your geek smarts with our year-end news quiz – GeekWire

It has been quite a year. But before we wave goodbye to 2020, we thought it would be fun to test your geek knowledge. Many of the quiz questions below were…
— Read on www.geekwire.com/2020/baby-yodas-real-name-bill-gates-podcast-pal-test-geek-smarts-year-end-news-quiz/

Jordan Peterson’s Daughter Blasts Author of a Book Alleging Her Father is ‘Plagiarizing Hitler’ – Sputnik International

Professor and self-styled fighter of political correctness Jordan Peterson recently returned to Canada after months-long drug detox treatment abroad following…
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Malka Leifer is due to be extradited from Israel to Australia, but how do you do do that during the COVID-19 pandemic? – ABC News

Israel signed an extradition order last week to send former Melbourne school principal Malka Leifer back to Australia to face 74 charges of sexual abuse. But there are still questions over what happens next in the process. Here’s what we know.
— Read on www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-26/malka-leifer:-how-do-you-extradite-during-a-pandemic/12999356

Anthony Fauci to Officially Replace Jesus as Key Christmas Figure – Niki´s Opinion Forum

Andrew Anglin December 24, 2020 Although she is in many ways a typical black woman, the Mayor of D.C. does more than just twerk, do drugs, have sex and threaten people. Sometimes, Muriel Bowser makes extreme declarations. This week, she declared that Christmas will no longer focus on Jesus Christ – instead, it will be about…
— Read on orwell1984366490226.wordpress.com/2020/12/26/anthony-fauci-to-officially-replace-jesus-as-key-christmas-figure/

Whistleblower Edward Snowden and wife Lindsay Mills reveal pics of their new baby | Daily Mail Online

Edward Snowden’s wife, Lindsay Mills, shared an Instagram post in which the acrobat and blogger posted an image of her holding their newborn baby boy.
— Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9088131/Whistleblower-Edward-Snowden-wife-Lindsay-Mills-reveal-pics-new-baby.html

Non-profit associated with Hasidic movement pushed for Trump pardons, report says – U.S. News – Haaretz.com

Aleph Institute advanced at least five of Trump’s pardons, including for one of the group’s donors, New York Times reports ■ NGO says almost all the people it works with are destitute
— Read on www.haaretz.com/us-news/report-non-profit-associated-with-hasidic-movement-pushed-several-trump-pardons-1.9400262

Between reality and fiction: SNOWDEN / SNOWMAN

Between reality and fiction: SNOWDEN / SNOWMAN

29Aug

by Rodolfo Meyer

The planetary repercussions of the activities of the US National Security Agency (NSA) from the revelations of Edward Snowden are well known.
It is also notorious the apparent scandal caused between various governments and personalities by the espionage to which they allegedly discovered they had been subjected.
Now: The plot of Robert Lindsey’s best seller “The falcon and the snowman” is closely related to all this. An idealistic young man joins a contracting company linked to the NSA. Discover the nature and methods of the organism, and decide to sabotage it by transmitting the secrets to a foreign country. The title refers to a hawk raised by the protagonist and his messenger: a drug addict friend named “Snowman.”
Beyond the pun between Snowden and “Snowman” – whose respective subsequent behaviors were very different – what is interesting is that the book dates back to 1979 and, above all, that the plot was based on real events. In the film version filmed by John Schlesinger in 1985, Sean Penn played Andrew Daulton Lee, and Timothy Hutton played Christian John Boyce. Both characters were arrested, tried and imprisoned. The history can be consulted on the Internet (http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/boyce).
The nature of the NSA – referred to in the novel and the film – was thus in the public eye for several decades before Edward Snowden.
Conclusion. The indignant reaction mounted by the countries and leaders affected is a farce, and the current dissemination of the issue as novel, a mockery to the whole world, beyond the ratification represented by Snowden’s brave testimony.