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The DAILY WIRE, by Joseph Curl — December 15, 2019

Excerpt:

“Saturday Night Live” usually targets only conservatives, but the hyper liberal show has been taking aim at liberals lately, too.

In its latest show on Saturday, SNL slapped around climate alarmist Greta Thunberg, played by Kate McKinnon.

“The elves will drown,” a dour Greta declares at one point, referencing a melting North Pole.

The cold open began with Aidy Bryant, dressed as Sam the Snowman from the “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer” cartoon, saying families in America are more divided politically than ever. “But if we listen in to some dinner conversations tonight, I bet we’d find out we have more in common than we realize,” the snowman says. “And now we can listen because I hacked into three Nest home cams.”

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https://www.dailywire.com/news/merry-maybe-our-last-christmas-to-all-snl-mocks-greta-thunberg-in-hilarious-skit

ZeroHedge, by Tyler Durden — December 13, 2019

Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,

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What in the world has happened to us? Once upon a time, America was made up of tightly-knit communities that were united by family, faith and patriotism, but now we are more isolated than ever before. Of course one of the biggest reasons for this is the fact that we are all spending countless hours staring at screens instead of interacting with real people, and this is something that I covered in a previous article. However, our fundamental beliefs are also significantly shaping how we behave. For the past couple of generations, we have de-emphasized family, faith and patriotism as a nation, and instead we have become an extremely “me-centered” society that is primarily focused on doing whatever makes ourselves happy in the moment. But this single-minded pursuit of individual happiness has resulted in much of the country being perpetually mired in loneliness, depression and/or addiction.

When you look at the numbers, they truly are startling. For example, a recent survey that was conducted by Cigna found that almost half of all Americans feel lonely…

Nearly half of Americans are lonely, according to a survey of 20,000 people across America by Cigna, which used the well-regarded UCLA Loneliness Scale to measure responses. Indeed 46% said they sometimes or always feel alone and 47% say they sometimes or always feel left out.

And other surveys have produced numbers that are even more alarming. A Harris Poll that was conducted a few years ago actually discovered that 72 percent of all Americans “experience loneliness”…

The survey of more than 2,000 Americans conducted by the Harris Poll last month on behalf of the American Osteopathic Association, showed that almost three-quarters (72 percent) of Americans experience loneliness. And for many, it’s not just a once-in-a-while occurrence — one-third said they feel lonely at least once a week.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/health/americans-are-lonely-miserable-depressed-legacy-society-has-rejected-family-faith-patriotism

SHARYL ATTKISSON, by Sharyl Attkisson — December 11, 2019

Excerpt:

The following is an excerpt of my latest article in The Epoch Times.

William Barr has suddenly become chatty— and he’s provided quite an information dump.

In video appearances on NBC News and at Wall Street Journal’s “CEO Council,” Attorney General Barr provided the same basic information and views about the U.S. intelligence community’s actions against the Trump campaign in 2016 and 2017. A criminal investigation is underway and being led by U.S. Attorney John Durham.

Barr was motivated to make the public statements, he explained, by misreporting and confusion surrounding Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report issued on Monday. It found serious government surveillance abuses but no evidence of political bias on the part of the offending FBI officials and agents.

Below are 24 points Barr felt the need to make after the release of the Horowitz reprot. (All of the information is attributed to Barr.)

1. Don’t expect Durham’s findings to be announced before late Spring or Summer 2020.

2. The FBI did spy on the Trump campaign. That’s what electronic surveillance is.

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https://sharylattkisson.com/2019/12/ag-barrs-information-dump-about-probe-into-fbi-in-24-concise-numbered-points/

AND Magazine, Opinion, by Charles “Sam” Faddis — December 11, 2019

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The essence of a coup, which some might refer to as covert action, is the hidden hand.  One does not announce that a foreign power is overthrowing the government and installing a new government.  One pulls strings as if from behind a curtain, making events that are all part of a carefully orchestrated plan appear disconnected, spontaneous and serendipitous.

As I read through the recently released IG report for the second time, as someone with a great deal of experience in military and intelligence matters, I see that hand everywhere.

Per the IG report, a single report is delivered to the FBI in the summer of 2016.  It concerns a meeting between a cooperative contact of a foreign intelligence service and a junior level employee of the Trump campaign, George Papadopoulos.  The report relates what are frankly very amorphous comments by Papadopoulos concerning the Russian government and its alleged possession of information on Hillary Clinton.

On any other day this report would command no attention whatsoever.  The source in question has no track record of any kind with the FBI. Papadopoulos has been employed by the Trump campaign for perhaps 90 days at this point, and there is no reason to believe he has contacts of significance in the Kremlin.

Not on this occasion.  This one report from a foreign intelligence service goes directly to the top of the FBI.  The Director himself, James Comey is briefed.  A full investigation is launched.  Multiple confidential human sources are tasked.  Wiretaps are ordered.  A task force is organized. Crossfire Hurricane is born.

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The FBI did not conduct an investigation of Donald Trump and his associates that ultimately proved to be based on false information and continue that investigation long past the time it should have been shut down simply because some people made some errors in judgment or some procedures need to be changed.  That investigation was simply the most visible piece of a deliberate, covert attempt to overthrow the democratic process.  The perpetrators of that crime have yet to be brought to justice and identified.  Let’s hope that happens soon.

Time for the hidden hand to be revealed.

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http://andmagazine.com/talk/2019/12/11/the-hidden-hand/

BREITBART, by Amy Furr — December 10, 2019

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The original artwork, titled “Comedian” by artist Maurizio Cattelan, was presented last week at Art Basel Miami Beach. The banana duct-taped to a white wall sold two editions, with the latest reportedly going for $150,000.

Saturday, Miami Beach Police Department spokesman, Ernesto Rodriguez, tweeted a photo of himself with the expensive banana.

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https://www.breitbart.com/local/2019/12/10/florida-police-department-asks-200k-donut-taped-wall/

JEWISH WORLD REVIEW, by Mark Steyn — December 9, 2019

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The attack on London Bridge – no, not the 2017 attack, the new one – broke just as I was heading off to guest-host Tucker Carlson’s show at Fox News. There is a small and rather sad “Christmas market” of pop-up stalls at the corner of Sixth Avenue and 44th Street – surrounded, of course, by large concrete blocks placed there in case any radicalized SUV or extremist mid-size rental car were minded to drive up on the sidewalk and mow down shoppers.

In more sophisticated societies such as Angela Merkel’s Germany, the so-called “Merkel Lego” barricading Christmas fairs is painted to look like giant, ill-proportioned candy canes or huge misshapen holly leaves, to add a festive gaiety to security measures.

But in New York the concrete blocks are unadorned except for the stark blue lettering of “NYPD”. I passed them almost every day, and reflected each time on how we’ve agreed to let everything get so bloody ugly in order to avoid addressing what we once used to fret over as the “root causes”.

Mid-town Manhattan traditionally looks beautiful and magical at Yuletide, but that was before it was agreed that, as a young German lady put it to me three years ago, “Christmas will be a target.”

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http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1219/steyn120919.php3

Pelosi's initial draft of Articles of Impeachment. #ImpeachmentBackfire pic.twitter.com/EFmu8fbLnv

— Charlie Harris (@CEdisonHarris) December 10, 2019