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I’m going to do another roundup, which sometimes seems to be the best way to handle a whole bunch of news stories at once. I may return in the evening with another post.

(1) A person who wrote a story for the NY Times on all the destruction from the August 2020 Kenosha riots says that her story was held by the paper till after the 2020 election. Most likely it was for political reasons; I’d expect no less of them.

[Reporter] Bowles admitted earlier this month that when she started at the paper in 2017 that she was a raging liberal with an agenda to push, but said somewhere along the way she woke up and started pushing back, which was not appreciated by her colleagues.

A changer is usually persona non grata among his or her former circle, having stepped outside the circle dance.

Here’s the story as it finally ran, shortly after the election.

(2) The FBI continues to do the administration’s dirty work. The latest:

…[T]he FBI on Tuesday raided the homes of a Republican election official and several of her associates in Mesa County, Colo., in connection with a dispute about efforts to preserve 2020 election files.

In collaboration with state and county law enforcement, the FBI raided the homes of Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert’s former campaign manager Sherronna Bishop, and two others.

The FBI operations targeting skeptics of the 2020 election results follow the bureau’s raids earlier this month on the homes of conservative guerrilla journalist James O’Keefe and several of his associates with Project Veritas.

(3) In Waukesha, more news has come out about the car attack on the Christmas parade. Now it’s said that five people have been killed and over 40 injured.

The suspect is a 39-year-old black man who has a long rap sheet and had been released two days earlier on $1000 bail. Compare and contrast to Kyle Rittenhouse, whose bail was set at two million dollars.

There is a rumor – and I have no idea whether it’s true – that the suspect was fleeing a knife fight when he plowed into the crowd.

(4) The NY Times tries to deal with the fallout from the Durham indictments, and what they mean regarding its past reporting on Russiagate, which was a pack of lies.

The media are also stung because of not only adhering to this source for years of coverage, but they were behind entrenching it as a valid document. Many of the largest newsgroups confirmed that Millinian was the name behind the dossier, and now they have been shown to be either willfully corrupt or painfully inept during this coverage. The Post has significantly altered two primary articles on the matter to the extent it has made the rarely-seen decision to republish them. Along with that, at least twelve other articles from its coverage have been changed.

The Times appears less forthcoming. In one piece taking on this new development, Bill Grueskin looks into how the media managed to play this entire story in so wrong of a fashion, but the level of introspection is lacking. The Times had been at the forefront of the reporting, and two of the reporters from that piece — Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo — were part of the team of journalists from the Times and the Post who were granted the Pulitzer Prize for coverage on the dossier and the ensuing fabricated scandal.

They should publish a banner headline mea culpa on the front page, but of course they never will do anything even remotely appropriate to make up for their malfeasance, because they have every intention of continuing along the same lines in the future on any topic of opportunity that might present itself.

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Roundup time again! — 52 Comments

  1. we live in an authoritarian society in which the FBI is the State Police, aka Stasi, used to investigate so-called enemies of the State. Our DOJ is grossly unjust and unchecked. We’re fixing to have a former Russian, an educated communist party leader, as Comptroller of the Currency, with massive power over our banks. But thank goodness McConnell refused a hearing on Garland’s SCOTUS nomination.
    Conservatives will have to imitate their Democratic counterparts and become a stern collective force if America is to survive as semi-free.

  2. Has AG Sulzberger ever crossed State lines?

    Former Rhode Island resident now hiding somewhere in New York.

  3. The two Democrat county attorney candidates for Omaha and Lincoln are big on bail “reform.” Of course, I take a case like the one in WI and post it right under their tweets. And I’m relentless about this. My other mantra is that they would turn Omaha and Lincoln into Chicago.

  4. Small typo (but the name is essential to this outrageous story):

    Millinian should be Millian (i.e., Sergei Millian, the guy who was framed by Danchenko/Steele and was sent through the grinder by the utterly corrupt media machine.)

  5. The story about the fight in the park, maybe with knives, is from the Waukesha police scanners, I believe. So here’s a possible scenario. In this theory, Brooks goes to the park in Waukesha, which is nowhere near his home, for some reason. Drug deal? He gets in a fight. Police are called. He gets in the car to get away; if he’s picked up for knifing somebody, or trying too, there goes his bail. He gets lost in downtown Waukesha. (Easy to do; been there, done that.) He drives through barricades and finds himself in a parade. Already enraged, which seems to be his ordinary state of being, he decides to make his fantasies come true and mow down the white people in the road. Result: At least five charges of deliberate homicide and forty more of attempted homicide.

  6. I suspect that the car murderer’s (can I call him that?) bail was set low so that he could get out; while Rittenhouse’s was set so high because they believed that he wouldn’t come up with the money.

    Better to let more black men out so the number of blacks locked up is lower and keep white (especially working-class whites which is what Rittenhouse is) locked up to “even” out the numbers.

    On a note about the Rittenhouse bail money, I saw a post trial interview by the defense attorney and when asked about the bail money he said that he believes there will be a “fight” about who gets the money or how much each party gets. And, he added that was a good thing because it meant that Kyle was free! Boy, if I ever need a defense attorney (and I hope that I never do) he is exactly the kind of attorney I will want!

  7. Cicero “Conservatives will have to imitate their Democratic counterparts and become a stern collective force if America is to survive as semi-free.”

    Too late: Last March, the leftist London newspaper headline in The Guardian reads “US Freedom Rankings Fall to Lowest Ever.”

    More to look forward to.

  8. I may be proven wrong, but I’m a bit skeptical of the notion that the parade killer was simply fleeing police at the time. It seems to me that even the most hardened criminal that was desperate to get away would balk at plowing straight through a parade rather than seeking some other path of least (or less) resistence down some other sidestreet.

    But then again I seem to remember reading that he was blaring his horn the whole time indicating that he may have been trying to encourage people to clear the way?

  10. At Fox News, a report that the Milwaukee authorities are reviewing Brooks’s low bond. Ya think? Also at Fox, he’s been charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide, plus other charges. Two children are still in critical condition. The crime he was fleeing, in the park, was a domestic violence incident, police say.

  11. At Barry Meislin’s link, (2:32 p.m.), Brooks was charged on Nov. 5 with trying to run a woman down after a fight. For this, he was out on $1000 bond, even though he has a record.

  13. Didn’t I read there were shots fired during the car rampage, from the car? Were there two passengers in the car being sought by police? This from ‘Gateway Pundit’ – Parade Killer Darrell Brooks Was Recently Arrested after RUNNING OVER WOMAN at a Gas Station Earlier This Month! — And Was Bailed Out for Only $1000 Last Week …Update: It Was Mother of His Child

  15. cb, early reports of shots fired from the car into the crowd proved unfounded, according to police. Also the story about two other people in the car appears to be false. Police issued a “shelter in place” order for the half-mile surrounding the scene primarily to prevent people from wandering around and getting in the way of emergency services.

  19. What the Waukesha massacre ultimately comes down to is this:
    “Biden” in conjunction with the utterly corrupt media, by “virtue” of their non-stop lies and incitement, instigated a mass killing of innocent people.

    Nothing less.

    Hope against hope that it’s the last time.

  20. I wouldn’t have thought Heavy.com would be a good source for breaking stories, but I have found it so. Here’s its roundup on Mr. Brooks:

    https://heavy.com/news/darrell-brooks-jr/

    From the rap video, Brooks seems to be a reasonable talent in that genre. Why rap isn’t staring down the barrels of the cancel culture is a complete mystery.

  21. “…a complete mystery.”

    Surely you’ve heard of “Dispensation”!

    (It plays a very special role in Liberal congregations and especially in the Church of Woke…where it’s being doled out by the ton…but only to deserving “victims”.)

  22. huxley:

    Heavy is often the first source to go to for information on the perp when mass killings occur. I’ve noticed that for a few years, I think.

  23. FBI revisited…
    It sounds like a tale out of some bizarro whodunnit, but it turns out that being an FBI informer can be pretty lucrative.
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/11/18/fbi-and-other-agencies-paid-informants-548-million-in-recent-years-with-many-committing-authorized-crimes/?sh=20bdb8bcf4dd

    Key grafs:
    “…Federal agencies paid out at least $548 million to informants working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), in recent years, according to government audits.
    “A few informants became millionaires, with some Amtrak and “parcel” delivery workers making nearly $1 million or more.
    “Many informants were authorized to commit “crimes” with the permission of their federal handlers….”

    Gosh, who knew?
    (Maybe they should unionize…)

    In any event, given the Whitmer kidnapping performance and the January 6, obscenity all this should raise some eyebrows…and some serious questions…

  24. A person who wrote a story for the NY Times on all the destruction from the August 2020 Kenosha riots says that her story was held by the paper till after the 2020 election. Most likely it was for political reasons; I’d expect no less of them.
    ———————-
    Wow, what a coincidence. Just like it was a coincidence covid vaccines got announced right after the “election”. Nothing to see here, move along.

  25. The person who wrote that delayed NYT story is Nellie Bowles, who is married to Bari Weiss (on whose substack this article appears). She seems to be just a few steps behind Bari in the ingestion of the red pill.

  26. To those of you who are talking about knife fights and extenuating circumstances:

    Enjoy doing so in this forum, if you must. Aristotle, Aquinas, and Lord Peter Wimsey would be proud of you. Gold stars all round.

    For the love of God stop doing this kind of thing out loud in public though! This is why Conservatives keep losing. Do not concede a millimeter to the enemy. Now you are in a Rhetorical War, not a high school debate with Perry Mason. Soon enough it will be a shooting war. And then you want to have gotten sufficient fellow Whites lined up to be in your foxholes. You’re not going to get them by arguing motives and enjoying these IQ125+ abstruse mind games. You get Normie onside by waving the bloody flag and talking about pancaked innocent White Kids. That’s what you do.

  27. @Bryan Lovely:

    If those two are less awful than other Leftists, well and good.

    However, women cannot be married to women. So one is not the other’s wife.

    Use of Enemy Constructs and modes of thought designed to chip away at the foundations of Western Civ ought be guarded against.

  28. A witness to the Waukesha slaughter stated that the SUV sped up as it approached the children in the parade. Reportedly, the murderer posted frequent rants against whites.

    “What the Waukesha massacre ultimately comes down to is this:
    “Biden” in conjunction with the utterly corrupt media, by “virtue” of their non-stop lies and incitement, instigated a mass killing of innocent people. Nothing less.”     Barry Meislin

    But something more. Direct responsibility is shared with those who implemented the reduced bail ‘policies’. Given the murderer’s long history and recent actions, no bail whatsoever should have been set. Those who set that ‘policy’ have those dead children and adult’s blood on their hands. They are accomplices to murder. Nothing less.

    One way or another, those who enable murder must be held accountable.

  29. Zaphod,

    “women cannot be married to women”

    Are you asserting that same-sex marriage is illegitimate?

    An oxymoron? An offense against nature?

  30. “…now they have been shown to be either willfully corrupt or painfully inept during this coverage.”

    I think both is the likeliest answer.

  31. Zaphod:

    Your mission here seems to be to get everyone to be just as up-front racist as you are by haranguing them and demonstrating your own reductionist “race is everything” philosophy. And if you want to indulge in your pseudo-scientific phrenology-like theories of criminality (as you have several times in other comments on this blog) go elsewhere.

    And by the way, you write “To those of you who are talking about knife fights and extenuating circumstances…” – I don’t see anyone here talking about extenuating circumstances. There are none. Since when is mention of a possible report of a possible knife fight an extenuating circumstance? If anything, it’s an exacerbating circumstance, although the crime of killing five people and wounding 40-plus others is already exacerbated enough.

    As for charging with a hate crime, that’s rare for people of any race in the US, because it’s usually not necessary, if a state’s penalty for murder is execution or life without parole. So there’s ordinarily no need for it. Hate crimes are federal cases rather than state cases, for the most part, and the feds ordinarily don’t get involved unless a state fails to convict.

    My own original theory had to do with these Waukesha killings being somehow linked to Kenosha, and that the Waukesha killer was a criminal psychopath motivated in some way by Rittenhouse’s “not guilty” verdicts.

    The MSM would like a race war to occur, and is doing its level best to foment one.

    Consider this a warning: do not continue to try to dominate threads with your “you must all become racists” garbage, or you’ll be put in moderation – again.

  33. I don’t believe women can in reality be married to women or men to men. Men cannot have husbands, women cannot have wives. In reality. But I live in a country where the legal definition of marriage has been changed such that those things exist as far as the law is concerned.

    How to deal with that in general discourse is a big problem. I’m not sure how I’d handle it if I were to meet Bari Weiss. Avoid the subject, for starters. That would not be a problem for me because mainly I would want to say “God bless you for the wonderful work you’re doing.” I subscribed to her Substack–i.e., actually pay a bit of money for it–because I think the value of that work far outweighs my disagreement with her about the nature of marriage.

    I’m one of those conservatives who isn’t willing yet to give up on classical liberalism. As I’ve been saying for a while, you’re gonna miss your classical liberalism when it’s gone. If it goes. If it doesn’t, liberals like Bari Weiss will have been of real assistance.

  34. It’s reasonable to live and let live with folks who don’t rub their trashing of civilization norms in our faces. My rule in meatspace daily life is to be tolerant and neutral up to the point where folks start deliberately transgressing to get a raise or to humiliate and demoralize one through one’s silent consent.

    The Weiss Ménage likely doesn’t over-egg the pudding and therefore good luck to them.

    But calling it marriage or one of the participants a ‘wife’ is giving ground. Language matters. We (broad church) here are ring-fenced by proscriptive and prescriptive language rules. It matters.

    A few years back everybody was falling all over Jordan Peterson in an paroxysm of messiah worship because he spoke up for the sanctity of calling a spade a spade. Let’s not stop.

    The Law of the Land says one thing. But who imposed that law? I don’t think a single CivNat here could claim that it was imposed in proper constitutional manner.

  35. Geoffrey @10:38 pm,
    Yes, you’re right.
    Another Soros-ian DA, no doubt.
    They all sing from the same perverse songbook and wherever they exercise their foul follies the law-abiding suffer and the criminals smile.
    Instapundit links to two related articles:
    https://freebeacon.com/democrats/meet-progressive-da-behind-waukesha-bail-catastrophe/
    Key grafs:
    ‘When we pay too little attention to the underlying causes and characteristics of individuals in the criminal justice system, we make significant errors, which can lead to greater problems,” Milwaukee County district attorney John Chisholm wrote in a 2019 paper about criminal justice reform.
    ‘That was before Chisholm conceded Monday that he had set an “inappropriately low” bail amount earlier this month when Darrell Edward Brooks Jr., the lead suspect in Sunday’s deadly car rampage in Waukesha, Wis., was arrested for domestic abuse and eluding police. Chisholm has been a leading figure among “progressive prosecutors,” leftwing lawmen who favor diversionary programs and community-building to locking up criminal defendants. His handling of the Brooks case is already sparking blowback to their growing influence over the justice system, much of which has been boosted by financial contributions from the leftwing billionaire George Soros.
    ‘Chisholm, who was elected in 2007, supports deferrals for some misdemeanors and “low-level” felonies in order to cut down on incarcerations. And he’s taken credit for inspiring a new wave of prosecutors in cities like San Francisco, St. Louis, and Philadelphia who have enacted similar reforms. Chisholm congratulated San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin following his election in 2019, and the pair spoke at a forum earlier this year on the status of the progressive prosecutor movement….’

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/the_worst_kind_of_domestic_terrorism.html
    Key grafs:
    ‘…There is only one reason why crime is so high in America today, only one reason why so many known criminals are on the streets, free to rob, rape, brutalize, and murder.
    ‘It is that leftist politicians — elected by their constituents to keep the streets safe; that’s their primary responsibility — have sided with the criminal element, time and again, against the law-abiding citizenry…’

  36. If you try to kill people and their children, and they are strangers. If the only thing common to them is their race, which you hate. Then the term for that is not racism. No, it is genocide.

  37. Chisom is a piece of work. See his “John Doe Raids”, well-covered at Legal Insurrection. Pre-dawn raids including battering rams on supporters of conservative Scott Walker.
    I have no doubt whatsoever that his only concern here is the public relations issue.
    Given half a chance, he’d do it again.
    The “investigation” is likely trying to convince a lower level employee not to say he was told to do it, or the procedures manual told him to do it, and cop to an “error” and keep his fool mouth shut.
    Wisconsin needs better voters.

  38. Chisom from 2007, speaking about the eggs to be broken for his glorious omelet.

    ” ‘Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into [a] treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody?’ he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2007. ‘You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach.’ ”

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/487092/

  39. “…You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen…”

    Sounds like an accessory to five counts of pre-meditated murder to me. (If not more.)

    He is perfectly alright with the possibility that something like this could happen.
    Like all the Sorosians.
    Could even say they want things like this to happen, encourage these things—how else will humanity be able to achieve the brave new world?

    Yep, an accessory to murder. (Maybe Binger can prosecute the case—point a gun at the judge this time? For effect. To illustrate a point.)

    Anyway, lock this character up.
    For a long time.
    Don’t think he can be rehabilitated. (He’s too far gone, ideologically….)

  40. I would say Milwaukee County is reaping what it has sown in electing Chisholm, except that it’s Waukesha County which has been served its bitter harvest.

    I will be looking to see why the killer was in a park in Waukesha, and what the disturbance was there.

  41. Barry; “this character” being Chisom?
    Pretty bold to guarantee the murder of innocents to the guaranteed victims and expect to be re-elected by said guaranteed victims.
    Wisconsin needs better voters.

  43. ‘When we pay too little attention to the underlying causes and characteristics of individuals in the criminal justice system, we make significant errors, which can lead to greater problems,” Milwaukee County district attorney John Chisholm wrote in a 2019 paper about criminal justice reform.

    The irony is literally biblical. Chisholm is absolutely correct; “When we pay too little attention to the underlying causes and characteristics of individuals”; which is that, though mitigating factors may be relevant, we are all responsible for our actions, regardless of our circumstances. And that a certain percentage of every generation is simply no damn good… “we make significant errors, which can lead to greater problems” ‘errors’ that result in the unnecessary suffering and deaths of innocents.

    When voters and prosecutors and judges are willfully blind to the results of the policies they support, then they share in the guilt because they are enabling those who impose the suffering of innocents.

  44. Here’s a policy I support;

    A fair trial, as constitutionally prescribed, in every case.

    Only violent crimes count in this policy, where use* of a weapon is used. 3 strikes and you’re out… permanently.

    Having established that the perpetrator is a confirmed and committed barbarian… mandatory death penalty, third strike no appeals, immediate execution.

    Recidivism: solved.

    Over crowded prisons: solved.

    Greatly reduced crime: solved.

    No criminal convicted of three violent crimes should be alive a day after their third conviction.

    Prisons should only house those yet to be proven to be a violent criminal who cannot be dissuaded from their barbarism.

    * Mere possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime is ‘use’ of that weapon.

  45. Richard, yes Chisolm…leaving a trail of murdered people as his legacy….
    A man of constant Soros, a vale of bitter tears.

  46. It’s been confirmed, no pursuit.

    On Monday, Waukesha police chief Daniel Thompson, responding to rumors that police were pursuing the suspect in the horrific incident on Sunday in Waukesha, Wisconsin, before he plowed into a Christmas parade and killed at least five people and injured more than 40 people others, stated firmly, “I want to dispel some rumors: there was no pursuit that led up to this incident.”

  47. Related (and orchestrated by “Biden” and the gaggle of Sorosian-cultivated/inspired DAs)…:

    AKA a sign of things to come? (IOW the War against Retailing)—
    ‘Best Buy Crashes As Margins Slide Due To “Organized Retail Theft” ‘
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/best-buy-crashes-margins-slide-due-organized-retail-theft
    Key graf:
    “Liberal socialist utopias such as California are a blessing for deadbeat klepto hobos from around the world thanks to the state’s lack of prosecution of shoplifting, but the same policies are becoming a major headache for nationwide retailers…”

    (It’s certainly a great way to force stores to close—along with all the job losses entailed by such closures—AND to encourage on-line shopping…which would ultimately/potentially give the government control over what IS for sale, what CAN be bought and, more personally, what YOU WILL BE ALLOWED to buy…if anything! So I guess one could say that with this here policy, “Biden” is on a real tear—a real totalitarian tear….)

  48. “FBI is the State Police, aka Stasi, used to investigate so-called enemies of the State. Our DOJ is grossly unjust and unchecked.”

    This should be shouted daily by every responsible American. It should become an issue in every election at every level. This is more than just a federal issue. The Stasi and their legal eagles insert themselves in all kinds of local matters. They even have a special PR unit that descends on the scene (see Trayvon, Ferguson, etc. to instruct the news media how to cover it and to incite the usual suspects). The overreach of the Feds is a huge matter for state and local elections. See the corruption of the CDC, NIH, FDA, etc. Or the IRS, Commerce, et al. Or the federal courts. We desperately need more fighters at the state and local level like DeSantis who understands the duty of states to fight back.

    And we need to make Soros a national issue in every election. Because of his purchase of prosecutors and Secretaries of State, and his funding of Antifa and other terrorist/revolutionary/community organizer groups.

  49. “which would ultimately/potentially give the government control over what IS for sale, what CAN be bought and, more personally, what YOU WILL BE ALLOWED to buy…if anything!”

    The greater and deeper the government’s control of people’s lives, the more certain the rebellion.

  50. 1) Barry — thanks for a number of nuggets provided on this thread. Much appreciate.

    2) We need to shout out that the blame is on Democrats for what happened in Kenosha and with Kyle. Just as we to point out that they are to blame for what just happened in Waukesha.

    3) Neo wrote: “The MSM would like a race war to occur, and is doing its level best to foment one.” Indeed.

    This was the goal of the Weather Underground for inciting the Days of Rage in Chicago in 1968. Their leaders, Ayers and Dohrn, were Obama’s most important advisors. Ayers made BO rich by writing his book for him. Ayers got him the gig as Annenberg Challenge chair. Ayers and Dohrn hosted his first political fundraiser and guided his political career. Dohrn hired Michelle to work at her law firm.

    Remember, Ayers, the Weather Underground and other friends on the left were responsible for 4000 to 5000 terror bombings in the USA from 1970 to 1972. How many remember that? (“just a guy in the neighborhood” my ass.)

  51. stan:

    That was also the goal of Charles Manson. He instructed his gang to commit the Tate and LaBianca murders in hopes of starting a race war. Part of their m o was to attempt to indicate the murders were committed by white-hating black people, start a race war (“Helter Skelter”), hide out on the ranch and be the survivors.

    I’m doing that from memory, but I think it’s correct.

  52. @ Geoffrey > I might support your policy about recidivist killers, but this has become very problematic, as the Rittenhouse case showed.
    “A fair trial, as constitutionally prescribed, in every case.”

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