Was Senator Lindsey Graham assassinated?

They say nothing much happens in North America on summer weekens. [Other than mass shootings at ethnic festivals and street parties. Ed.] This weekend, however, was different.

On Saturday evening, United States Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died suddenly at the age of 71 after experiencing cardiac arrest at his Washington DC home. RIP, Senator.

The FBI is "assisting local authorities" with their investigation. DC's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's preliminary finding determined the cause of death to be an aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Such things happen. But... although there's a family history of heart disease, the late senator is not known to have had any serious episodes before. He appeared hale and hearty during and immediately after his trip to Kyiv, where he met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and pushed for increased sanctions against Russia.

Senator Graham's sudden death raises suspicions and speculation about foul play, which the lickspittle media hasten to call "unfounded" and "conspiracy theories". Further microscopic and toxicological testing is pending to finalize his death certificate.

While we are still free to speculate without being dismissed as tin-hat fascists, let us ask who might have wanted Senator Graham killed. 

* Corrupt Ukrainian officials, afraid that their skimming off Western aid will be exposed?

* Vladimir Putin, as a warning to the US of A to stop interfering in his failing attempt to conquer Ukraine?

* The Iranians, as revenge for the killing of their penultimate Supreme Leader?

* Deep State, which still exists, working hard behind the scenes to put their puppets back in power? Would an FBI investigation reveal a Deep State connection? Ha!

* The Democrats, especially the "Social Democrats" now in control of the Party?

* All of the above?!

Walt, for one, is not ready to be told, "Nothing to see here, folks. Go back to your summer sleep." We call for a thorough investigation by a disinterested agency. Walt suggests the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency, responsible for foreign espionage, covert operations, and counter-terrorism. Well, why not? Those who have done nothing wrong have nothing to fear!

UPDATED: Who allowed this jihadi wannabe into the USA?

Further to "'Allahu akbar!' in Austin TX" (WWW 1/3/26), we now have a photo (scraped from the New York Post) and more information on 53-year old Ndiaga Diagne, the black follower of the Prophet who shot up a bar in Austin TX on Sunday, killing two people and wounding 14 others.

The authorities are still "investigating" Mr Diagne's motives for the shooting -- apparently the slogan on his T-shirt isn't conclusive -- but haven't been able to suppress the truth about his identity and background.

The murderer is a former resident of the Big Apple. He arrived in the US of A on a tourist visa on 13 March 2000, during the Clinton administration, and became a lawful permanent resident when he married an American citizen [possibly white? named Karen? Ed.] in June 2006. 

In spite of several arrests over the next 6+ years, Mr Diagne became a naturalized US citizen on 5 April 2013, around the start of former President Barack Hussein Obama's second term. Before yesterday's bloody massacre, he was known to authorities in both New York and Texas as an emotionally disturbed person. We await information about licences he may have had for the firearms with which he killed.

Yes indeed. But it seems half of Americans haven't realized that yet.

UPDATE ADDED at 1250 FMT: Breitbart News reports these details, passed to CBS news by "an undisclosed source".

"On Sunday, investigators executed a search warrant on the Pflugerville, Texas home of Ndiaga Diagne, the deceased gunman responsible for the deadly Austin shooting that occurred earlier in the day. According to a source familiar with the investigation, law enforcement officials found an Iranian flag and photos of leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran during a search of the home."

Walt asks: Is that enough now? Can we now say that the massacre was an act of Islamic terrorism?

VIDEO: "Allahu akbar!" in Austin TX

Earlier today, on NBC’s Meet the Press, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the American military strikes on Iran mean "the mothership of terrorism is sinking." Maybe so, and the sooner the better, but what the powers that be must recognize is that a lot of the crew were safely ashore in the US of A and other Western countries (Hello, Canada!) years ago! 

1000s of Islamic terrorists -- jihadi wannabes -- have crossed our countries' porous borders as "asylum-seekers" or "refugees" fleeing the murderous Muslim regimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran and other states of the Middle East and northern Africa. 

We welcome them as victims of oppression and treat them to housing, food, medical care and other benefits that our citizens have to work for and taxpayers pay for. Hell, we even give them money for "learing centers" where students learn to shout "Death to America!" and (of course) "Allahu akbar!"

One such is 53-year old Ndiaga Diagne, the black(ish) follower of the Prophet who shot up a bar in Austin TX early this morning, killing two people and wounding 14 others. Check out this video, and after that we'll tell you what the lickspittle media didn't. 

What went unreported is that the murderer was wearing a sweatshirt that said "Property of Allah" and another shirt with an Iranian flag design. That's according to an unnamed law enforcement official and "another person familiar with the case", both of whom spoke to AP "on background" because they weren't authorized to tell the whole truth to the American people.

Ndiaga Diagne is originally from Senegal, according to multiple people briefed on the investigation. He is said to have come to the US of A in 2006 -- a winner in the Green Card Lottery perhaps -- and was a naturalized American citizen.

The FBI -- the same folks who said traditional Catholics are potential revolutionaries -- said its joint terrorism task force team members, as well as other specialty teams, were investigating, and that there were "indicators of terrorism" related to the shooting. No shit, Sherlock!

UPDATED: Kirk killer looks normal, for a loonie leftist

"We've got him!", said President Trump first thing this morning. And here he is --Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old from Utah. That's all we know about him... so far.

This is what we know about what led up to his arrest, at 2200 MDT yesterday, for the brutal public assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Federal investigators and state officials released a series of photos and a video of the person they believe is responsible. They also released new and enhanced photos of a person in a hat, sunglasses, a long-sleeve black shirt and a backpack. 

A Mauser .30-06, bolt-action rifle was found in a towel in the woods. A spent cartridge was recovered from the chamber, and three other rounds were loaded in the magazine, according to information circulated among law enforcement and described to The Associated Press. 

Unlike the Wall Street Journal (see yesterday's post on WWW) AP, a charter member of the lickspittle media pack, said nothing about any strange markings on the bullets, only that the weapon and ammunition were being analyzed at a federal lab. 

Without even hinting that Charlie Kirk is the latest victim of the culture wars, AP says his assassination "offers the latest example of how ordinary security measures can be defeated in an era of escalating political violence, when anyone associated with the political process is a potential target. Security experts interviewed by AP questioned whether the event was sufficiently staffed but also acknowledged the limitations of both campus police forces and outdoor venues."

Are we going to be told any more about the alleged assassination, such as his political and/or sexual preferences? Depends on whether or not that information fits the liberal woke orthodoxy. Stay tuned... but don't hold your breath.

UPDATE added @ 1310 FMT: Surprise, surprise! We're actually hearing more about what was going on inside Mr Robinson's alleged mind. 

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) revealed today that bullet casings in the rifle allegedly used by Tyler Robinson to assassinate Charlie Kirk were etched with a variety of messages. He said that investigators noted inscriptions that had been engraved on casing found with the rifle. 

Insriptions on a fired casing read: "Notice bulges OwO What’s this?" Inscriptions on the three unfired casings read: "Hey fascist! Catch!” [and then] Up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols. A second unfired casing read, "O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao," and a third unfired casing read, "If you read this, you are gay, LMAO."

The arrow symbols may have been a video game reference. The phrase “bella ciao” is reportedly associated with left-wing songs, loosely linked to 20th century Italian opponents of fascism. The "Notices bulges" message, according to Know Your Meme, is a reference to gay sexuality associated with the "furry" phenomenon, which refers to attraction to cartoon animals. 

Walt sez: Aha! There's the queer element, right there! Stay tuned for more....

Further reading (for our followers in Canuckistan): "Charlie Kirk's blunt assessment of life in Canada goes viral after shooting death", by Mark Daniell, Toronto Sun, 12/9/25.

UPDATE on the NOLA massacre, from the Babylon Bee

Further to our report on an unpleasant incident in New Orleans, in which a former soldier, who may or may not have been a Muslim, and may or may not have been a member of ISIS, and may or may not have been a jihadi wanna bet, took out 15 innocent bystanders, we are pass on the news, gleaned from the Babylon Bee (where else!) that the "FBI Assures Nation It Will Put Its Most Diverse Agents On Terror Case".

Makes you feel safe and secure, doesn't it?

VIDEO: Why the weaponized FBI is targeting traditional Catholics

Last November, Most Rev. Joseph Strickland was "fired" by "Pope" Francis from his position as Bishop of Tyler (Texas). His crime? Opposing globalism, wokeism, and the leader of the New Church of the World Order. 

Following an apostolic visitation (a word with some interesting meanins) in September, several of Francis' cronies in the Vatican advised him Francis to pressure "Bishop Joe" to resign. But the good bishop refused to bend the knee! In October he penned an open letter to the faithful saying "[resigning] would be me abandoning the flock that I was given charge of by Pope Benedict XVI." 

On 31 October 2023, at the Rome Life Forum of LifeSiteNews, Bishop Strickland read out a letter (attributed to a "friend") which included the question: "Would you now allow this one [Francis] who has pushed aside the true Pope [Benedict XVI] and has attempted to sit on a chair that is not his define what the church is to be?" The letter also described Francis as an "usurper of Peter's chair" and "an expert at producing cowards". 

Bishop Strickland did not dispute these accusations, and described the letter as "challenging". He then made his own comment that Pope Francis backed the Vatican's "attack on the sacred". He was asked to resign on 9 November, and, after refusing again, was deposed on 11 November 2023.

But the prelate has not been silenced. He continues to stand up and speak up for the True Faith, whenever and wherever he can. Last week he spoke at CPAC at National Harbor Maryland. His subject was the FBI's investigation of traditional Catholics, revealed in hearings before the House Judiciary Committee last fall. See "New Report Details the Extent of the FBI's Weaponization of Law Enforcement Against Traditional Catholics".

Bishop Strickland was interviewed on this and related topics by Breitbart News' Matthew Perdie. Listen carefully as he gives a clear and concise explanation of why the liberals, wokesters, and Deep State have a hate-on for traditional Catholics and other Christians.

Key takeaway (at about the 5th minute):  “The Catholic Church is, and should be, totally opposed to this woke agenda … The Catholic Church should reject [the woke agenda] because it’s a rejection of God. It’s a rejection of who we are: created in the image and likeness of God... [Tyrannical leaders] are threatened by those who stand for the truth and won’t budge."

VIDEO: Deep State persecution of Babylon Bee begins in earnest

The Democrats, the Deep State, the gliberals, the wokesters, the secular humanists and the lickspittle media all dislike The Babylon Bee - your trusted source of Christian satire. In some cases, it's more than dislike, more like HATE, although we know that only conservatives and right-wingers can be "haters".

It's noto hard to figure out why. The Bee is now one of the leading publishers of articles goring sacred cows and uncovering steaming piles of bullshit. For example: "God Sends Giant Waves To Wash Away California Sidewalk Poop" (30/12/23) and "The Biden Administration's Top 10 Accomplishments Of 2023" (30/12/23) -- the latter a must-read. 

And that's just part of yesterday's output. It's all Walt can do to manage one really good article (as opposed to videos and filler) every week. Of course the Bee's staff is considerably larger than ours. [Glad you understand. Ed.]

Anyway, it's no wonder that contributors to the Bee are walking around with targets on their backs. And now that the re-election of President Trump is less 11 months away, the gloves (or the left globe at least) are coming off. 

The Bee's Siaka Massaquoi was recently separated by the FBI from his pregnant wife, who arrested him at an airport over charges related to January 6th. In this video he tells what really happened on January 6th and what he was doing at the Capitol Building on that fateful day. . 

 

If  you agree that Mr Massaquoi is being unjustly persecuted by the weaponized FBI, and would like to help, click here to contribute to his legal defence fund. And keep reading the Bee!

VIDEO: Now they're coming for the Catholics... sez who? WHO?!

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— 

Because I was not a socialist. 

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— 

Because I was not a trade unionist. 

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— 

Because I was not a Jew. 

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

(German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller, from a 1946 post-war confessional speech) 

In this video, our old friend Dr Taylor Marshall looks at the testimony of Attorney-General Merrick Garland, when he was questioned by Senator Josh Hawley in the hearings into the weaponization of the FBI. 

Brandon's A-G tried to distance himself from "the Richmond product", a report from the FBI's office in the capital of the Confederacy (and there were others) into the "dangerously extremist views" being expressed in Catholic churches, particularly those traditional Catholic churches which resist secular humanism and the Soros/Francis/Biden New World Order.

Dr Taylor shows and discusses clips from the speech given by President Trump last Saturday in Montgomery AL, at the Alabama GOP Summer Dinner. What the Donald said, very plainly, was that "they" are coming for Catholics, particularly "Rad Trads" like yr obdt servant. . 

 

You don't need to be told who "they" are... right? If you're in any doubt, click on the link above to hear Mr Trump's speech in full starting at the 43-minute mark), before it gets pulled down.

As Dr Marshall (and Fr Edward Meeks, Michael Matt, Anthony Stine, and many others) say, you should take heed and join the resistance, even if you're not Catholic. Because if you believe in the values that built western (i.e. Christian) civilization, you're next!

Let us keep praying to Saint Michael the Archangel: 

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

Footnote: A few hours ago Merrick Garland -- yes, the one mentioned above -- appointed David Weiss as special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe. David Weiss is the federal prosecutor who cut the plea deal with the Boy Hunter which was rejected by the judge as being a sweetheart deal that would never have been given to anyone else. Click here to watch commentary by constitutional lawyer and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley.

Oh noooo! Another dumb American kids VIDEO!

Ever heard the saying that things happen in threes? Jamel_AKA_Jamal is closing on a MILLION YouTube subscribers with his vids of himself reacting to the incredible stupidity of young Americans, interviewed at the Los Angeles County fair, who can't answer simple questions like "What country is the Great Wall of China in?" 

We've reposted two of these. Here's the third. If you don't know whether to laugh or cry, try laughing. Crying won't do any good.

   

For more stupid answers to simple questions, hunt up yesterday's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee of FBI Director Christopher Wray. See if you can figure out what he means by "the Richmond product", and which religious group has every right in the world to be both afraid and offended by it.

UPDATED: DOJ attack foiled by Cannonade

Yesterday Walt opined that, if anything at all has come out of the FBI invasion of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home,  it's that the Donald, like most of us, doesn't stay on top of his filing! 

That, and only that. You would think that if Biden's Department of Injustice had anything more -- a smoking gun, a "threat to national ssecurity", anything at all -- to prove that they were right to violate the Fourth Amendment, they would be happy to show us. Right? 

Errr, no. They have fought every step of the way to keep everything -- the search warrant, the affidavit on which it was bassed, the details of what was seized -- under wraps.

Today, the DOJ lost another round. Judge Aileen Cannon granted President Trump's request that a Special Master -- an officer of the court -- review the documents to weed out from the rest of the investigation any that might be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.

Judge Cannon's order came despite the strenuous objections of the Justice Department, which said an outside legal expert was not necessary in part because officials had already completed their review of potentially privileged documents! In other words, "We've already looked at them, so you can't make us forget what we've seen."

In a clear win for President Trump's legal team, the judge said (in effect) "Oh yes, I can!" She temporarily halted the DOJ's use of the records for "investigative" (read: frame-up) purposes. Some of those records may ultimately be returned to Mr Trump, but Judge Cannon put off ruling on that question.

Meanwhile, we get closer and closer to the 2022 mid-term elections. When the Jan 6 Circus failed to sink the Trump Republicans in the polls, the Dumbocrats resported to the police state-style raid on Mar-a-Lago, hoping the FBI could do what the Congressional committee couldn't. As Nelson Muntz sez, HA-ha!

Further reading: "FBI Says The Documents In Trump’s Possession Were So Classified They Were Printed With Invisible Ink On Invisible Paper", Babylon Bee (natch!), 4/9/22. 

UPDATE ADDED 8/9/22: In desperate damage control mode, the DOJ first tried planting a "leak" in WAPO (where else?) saying that amongst the seized documents there was one (1) detailing sensitive information about "an ally's" military capabilities.

That didn't work, so today the DOJ filed an appeal of Judge Cannon's ruling, asking her to let them continue fishing in the same pond -- about 100 classified documents -- because, they say, Mr Trump’s team "may not have returned all the classified records removed from the White House at the end of his presidency." 

The prosecutors also asked the judge not to allow the Special Master to review the classified materials seized from the Trump home. Walt wonders, wasn't the whole purpose of the middle-of-the-night raid on Mar-a-Lago to recover the documents that allegedly were not returned? Does this appeal mean the DOJ admits that they might have missed some? Or does it mean that they didn't succeed in planting anything incriminating in the dozens of boxes they took away? 

President Trump, in a posting on his Truth Social platform, described the request as a waste of money. Taxpayers, that's your money he's talking about! Keep that in mind in November.

Remember the opening of Al Capone's safe?

A non-news event on Friday reminded me of the big foofaraw on 21 April 1986 when Al Capone's vault, walled off for decades in the old Lexington Hotel in Chicago, was opened live on national TV. Remember that?

Millions of viewers watched as Geraldo Rivera (who else?) pioneered the "no-news news" format. Instead of reporting on news, he devoted entire programs to possible and hypothetical news. News channels like CNN (who else?) speculated on what would be found inside the safe. When the big day came, it turned out to be empty except for debris.

The Friday non-news event which reminded me of Geraldo's spectacular misfire was the FBI's forced disclosure of what they seized in their midnight raid on Mar-a-Lago, the Florida residence of President Donald Trump.

American presidents are required, on leaving office, to transfer all of their documents and emails to the National Archives. In an effort to keep the Dumbocrats from getting thrased in the 2022 mid-term elections, the Department of Justice is searching desperately for evidence that Mr Trump improperly handled records by taking them from the White House to Mar-a-Lago. 

As nearly as we can infer -- the document was so heavily reacted that we can only guess -- the affidavit on the basis of which the raid was authorized by an Obama-appointed judge alleged that Mr Trump and his lawyers failed to provide relevant documents voluntarily, and "likely concealed or removed" records as part of an effort to obstruct the investigation.

On Friday, the FBI filed a list of what they found in the 33 boxes of papers etc -- note the "etc" -- they took away. They seized more than 11,000 government documents in total, including:

* 3 (count `em, three) documents marked "confidential"

* 17 documents marked "secret"

* 7 documents marked "top secret"

* 43 empty folders with "classified" banners

* 28 empty folders labelled "Return to staff secretary/military aide" 

The court filing also confirms previous reports that many records were mixed with personal effects, including clothes -- Melania's underwear? -- books and newspapers. 

A spokesman for President Trump, said the unsealed document showed the government's actions were "not some surgical, confined search and retrieval" but "a smash and grab." IMHO, if anything has been proven, it's just that the Donald, like most of us, doesn't stay on top of his filing!

Further reading: "After Using FBI To Suppress Son’s Crimes And Raid Political Rival’s Home, Biden Warns Democracy In Danger", in the Babylon Bee (where else?), 3/9/22. I can't resist sharing this excerpt:

President Biden went on to call for the expulsion from democratic society anyone who questioned the integrity of an American election. "If you question an election's fairness because our intel communities told media companies to bury damaging stories about me, or because COVID was used as an excuse to illegally change voting practices without legislative input, or because the FBI spied on Trump's campaign after Democrats gave them a bogus dossier - then you have no place in civil society," said Biden. "In fact, while we are at it, if you don't support abortion through nine months, or the genital mutilation of children, you are an enemy of the state. And we will foment violent protests and assassination attempts to intimidate you - to save democracy."

"You think because you're a celebrity you're above the law?!"

I was not a hundred miles from Bismark yesterday afternoon when the Department of Injustice released the founding affidavit which a Florida magistrate -- an Obama appointee and donor to the "Democratic" Party -- found sufficient to justify the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's Florida home. 

So I haven't had a chance to digest the steaming pile of horseshit shovelled out by the lamestream media. Nor have I been able to read the affidavit, since it appears that about 95% of it has been "redacted" -- read: censored -- since the judge and the DOJ don't want us to see "information" that was so shocking, so scandalous, so disturbing that it must be kept from the public. And from President Brandon, apparently, since his diversity hire spokesthingy says that all Sleep Joe knows is what's in the papers.

To me, it all comes to this. Some months ago, in response to a request from the Deep State, President Trump handed over to "the authorities", some 14 boxes of documents and files which had taken home from the White House over the course of his four years in office. After months of sifting through those documents, trying to find something incriminating and coming up with nothing, the President's Police decided to go back to the well. 

"There's gotta be more than that!" is what they said in the affidavit, That's what the lickspittle media tell us was the gist of it. There might be something in there, they said, amongst the photos and comic books, which would endanger the Republic (read: Republicans) and it's our duty to find it. OK, said the judge, the Fourth Amendment doesn't protect ex-presidents any more than ordinary citizens. Not these days.

The whole fiasco reminds me of the famous Seinfeld episode in which Jerry is visited by Mr Bookman, the library copy, who is searching for a book Jerry borrowed during his high school years. 

Mr Trump wasn't at home when the President's Police knocked at the door in the middle of the night. Had he been there, I imagine the conversation might have unfolded along these same lines. "You think because you're the ex-president you're above the law?! We'll give you all the rights that we'd give anyone else!"

The FIB came away with another 20 or so boxes of materiall which they will now pour through -- like lawyers picking through flyspecks while wearing boxing gloves -- look for something, anything they can use to convince a court (the public will never believe it) that the Orange Man is truly evil and should allowed to run for any office, anywhere, at any time. And yeah, his library card should be revoked too!

UPDATED: Raid on Mar-a-Lago: VIDEO + Latest from Breitbart News

This is turning into a really weird week. But Walt is ready with his weirdness waders and his BS meter, so let's have at it. We're talking about the FBI raid -- the lickspittle press are calling it a mere "search" now, even though it happened in the dead of night -- on Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's Floriday home.

There are lots of questions about this unprecedented use of the federal police powers against a private citizen. Who ordered the raid? Who authorized it? What were they looking for? What did they seize? What was the point of it all, if not to harrass the man the Deep State fears most?

Lots of questions, but a dire dearth of answers. When questions were asked at the White House, President Brandon's natural-haired press secretary said the Big Guy knew nothing. She hastened to add, "...about that. He heard about it on the TV, like everyone else."

Do you believe that neither Brandon nor anybody else in the White House knew that the FBI was about to stage a raid on the residence of a former occupant of the Oval Office? Here's what Liz Wheeler has to

say.

  

On Wednesday, the lickspittle media were pointing fingers at Christopher Wray, the Director of the FBI. If the Big Guy and his Attorney General, Merrick Garland, didn't know about it (they said), Mr Wray must have "gone rogue", ordering the search off his own bat. Why someone appointed by President Trump (!) would do that was not explained.

Walt thinks that, sometime Wednesday night, Mr Wray reached out to Mr Garland or one of his minions and promised that if he (Wray) was going to go down, others would go down with him. No surprise then that on Thursday morning it was announced that Mr Garland would make an Official Statement in the afternoon.

And so he did, taking responsibility for "authorizing" the search -- a word not totally synonymous with "ordering". In fact, as Dr Taylor Marshall pointed out, it was a Florida magistrate -- an Obama appointee and donor with connections to Jeffrey Epstein -- who actually signed the warrant.

Walt hesitates [but not for long! Ed.] to impute motive to anyone, but, as Liz Wheeler says, President Trump put the kibosh on the appointment of Mr Garland to SCOTUS, so revenge could be his reason for "authorizing" the raid. But he said there was a differentreason, which would be understood once the warrant was unsealed, as requested yesterday by the Department of Justice.

Mr Garland said he didn't make the decision lightly, and filed the motion to unseal was "given the substantial public interest in this matter." Hell yes! We really would like to know! And we don't want to wait for the reveal of what will surely be a highly redacted version of the document. Won't someone please tell us more?

Step forward the Washington Post -- who else -- who reported last night that the G-men were looking for "documents relating to nuclear weapons. Cazart! So that's it? The Orange Man is building an atomic bomb in his basement, for use in the impending insurrection! 

Walt can hardly wait to find out exactly what documents were recovered. Could they include Nuclear Fission for Dummies or the August 1945 issue of Popular Science, which included an article headed "How to make your own A-bomb for fun and profit"? Seems to me there'd better be more than that... a lot more!

UPDATE ADDED at 1130: Breitbart News complete report on the warrant and list of what was seized. (Spoiler alert: Most of the listed are items are simply called "documents".) We now have even more questions than clear answers.

VIDEO: Dr Taylor Marshall reveals reason for FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago

Dr Taylor Marshall's videos have been featured on WWW many times. Usually he talks about the crisis in the Roman Catholic Church. This time it's different. For the first time anywhere (as nearly as Ed. can tell), Dr Marshall makes the connection between the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's Floriday residence, and the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal! 

The connection is this. The judge who approved the unprecedented raid has been named (by left-learning Politico, no less!) as Bruce Reinhart, who worked as a federal prosecutor until 1 January 2008. A day later he became a defence attorney representing employees and clients of Jeffrey "Pedo" Epstein, the convicted pimp and pervert.

  

It comes down to this. President Trump said he would drain the swamp -- the Deep State which controls the real US government. He didn't swing the axe fast enough or deep enough. They are still there, giving a pass to those they like (Hello, Hunter Biden!) and doing their damndest to cancel those they don't, like President Trump.

Christians! You are the light of the world and the salt of the earth. As Dr Marshall says, "Go out there and be salty!"

Further viewing: "Trump search warrant was subterfuge to take him down", Fox News, 9/8/22. 

Further reading: "After raid heard `round the world, the choice is between Constitutionalism and de facto Communism", by Steven Mosher, LifeSite News, 9/8/22.

DOJ/FBI declares war on President Trump

If there was any doubt that the most vindictive president in the history of the Paranoid States of America -- worse, even, than Nixon or Johnson, is out to destroy President Trump, his malice is surely obvious now.

Last night, dozens of FBI agents raided the Donald's Mar-a-Lago home, ransacking the place and even breaking into his safe. No official statement has been made, but sources speaking "on background" say they were searching for "classified records" which Mr Trump might have taken with him when he was evicted from the White House.

The raid represents a dramatic and unprecedented escalation of law enforcement scrutiny of President Trump, which could only have been authorized at the highest levels, by which I mean Brandon himself. 

In a lengthy statement, President Trump described the breal-and-enter operation, carried out when he was not at home, as an "unannounced raid> which he likened to "prosecutorial misconduct". Can you say "unreasonable search and seizure", boys and girls I know you can... but you don't dare! Right?

Thanks for Agent 17 for forwarding the editorial cartoon.

Further reading: "Ambassador Ken Blackwell: Biden is turning America 'into a police state'", Breitbart News exclusive, 8/8/22. 

UPDATED: Rogers outage caused by a cyber attack?

For hapless Canucks, Friday the 8th turned out to be even more distressing than Friday the 13th. The "Please stand by" graphic Ed. posted on the 7th turned out to be oddly premonitory, as Canadians struggled to cope with a massive disruption of mobile and internet "service" provided by Rogers (aka "Robbers") Communications.

Canada's telecoms market is dominated by just three "service providers". [You understand why Walt is using quote marks, right? Ed.] -- Bell, Rogers and Telus. Knocking out their networks disrupts not just mobile phone calls, but money transfers (Interac, using debit cards), data exchange (problems for airlines, pharmacies, banks, etc), wi-fi (disastrous for those working from home) and even 9-1-1 service. 

But that's what happened yesterday, as Robbers customers  found themselves unconnected for most of the day. Last night, the company said it had restored mobile and internet service for the "vast majority: of its customers. However, it added, some customers may experience delays in regaining full service as its network comes back online and traffic volumes return to normal. 

In a statement posted to the company's social media channels (which customers of other telecoms companies could read, one presumes), Rogers apologized for the disruption the outage has caused to its customers and said it "will be proactively crediting" all customers. Which means: don't call us asking for a refund, we're already doing it. 

Tony Staffieri, CEO of Rogers, said in an open letter that the company apologizes for the service interruption but offered no explanation for the outage or how many customers were affected. Staffieri says Rogers "is committed to understanding the cause and would make changes to meet and exceed expectations in the future."

As of this morning, Rogers still hasn't said what caused their service to go down. Mr Staffieri said they would investigate "the root cause of this outage." Walt humbly suggests they read "FBI director calls China 'biggest' US threat; authorities warn of North Korean cyber attacks", posted on ABC News on July 6th.

The story quotes FBI Director Christopher Wray as saying the Chinese government (not those nice Chinese people, especially immigrants) is set on stealing our technology. Speaking alongside his British counterpart in London on Wednesday, Mr Wray called China the "biggest long-term threat" to both the US and the UK. (He didn't mention Canada because, no matter what Justin Trudeau says, Canada's not important.) 

"The Chinese government is set on stealing your technology -- whatever it is that makes your industry tick -- and using it to undercut your business and dominate your market," said Mr Wray, adding, "They're set on using every tool at their disposal to do it." 

Canada's telecoms, including Rogers, already use Huawei equipment, although M Trudeau (a great admirer of the ChiComms' ability "to get things done") now says they won't be allowing any new Huawei 5-G technology to be used in Canadian networks. Is it possible the Chinese (or North Koreans) hacked the Rogers network as a test, to see how easy it would be to throw a country into confusion and chaos? Just askin'....

UPDATE ADDED 10/7/22: Rogers Communications Inc. says it believes the massive system outage it suffered on Friday occurred after a maintenance update to its core network, but critics are unimpressed with the explanation after the telecom’s second major service interruption in two years.

This critic -- yr obdt svt -- wonders if Rogers would say anything different, if the massive outage had indeed been caused by hackers working for a hostile foreign government, which they (Rogers) did  not expect and could not control. Given the panic that would likely have ensured had they admitted such a huge security breach, would they not have said, "Oopsy. Our problem. We fixed it. Nothing to see here." Just askin'....

Want to see the smoking gun? Look here!

This is the to part of the first page of the summons in Constantino and McCall v. City of Detroit and Detroit Election Commission et al. Click here to read the entire document, particularly the affidavits (don't worry, it's black on white, not reversed as you see it in the scan), and tell me if you don't think there was "widespread fraud" in the counting of ballots in Michigan. You be the judge.

Breitbart News reports that Attorney General William Barr yesterday authorized the Justice Department (DOJ) to look into voting irregularities in the 2020 presidential election. Mr Barr's memo (which you can read in the Breitbart article) was addressed to US Attorneys, the assistant attorneys general for the DOJ's criminal division, civil rights division, the national security division, and Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI.

"Now that the voting has concluded," the memo said (in part), "it is imperative that the American people can trust that our elections were conducted in such a way that the outcomes accurately reflect the will of the voters."

Mr Barr's action comes after 39 House Republicans pressed him in a letter on Friday to allow available DOJ resources to look into allegations of voting irregularities across the country in several key battleground states. The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits in some of those states. Constantino and McCall v. City of Detroit and Detroit Election Commission et al is one of those suits. Stay tuned.

Further reading: 

"It's possible that 2020's election fraud is way bigger than we thought", by Andrea Widburg, in American Thinker, 9/11/20.

"Ronna McDaniel Presents 131 Affidavits, 2800 Incident Reports of Alleged Voter Fraud in MI: Media Still Demands 'Evidence'", by Megan Fox in PJ Media, 9/11/20.

Pensacola shooter was an Islamic terrorist! No kidding??!!

Nearly a year after "a man" opened fire inside a classroom at the US Naval Air Station at Pensacola FL, killing three people and wouding another seven, Attorney General William Barr told a presser yesterday that in the months leading up to the attack, "the man" (aka Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani) communicated with al-Qaeda operatives about planning and tactics. Imagine that!!!

Why do you think the authorities, who had at first refused to utter the words "terrorism" or "Islamic" (even though they knew Mr Alshamrani was a Saudi air force officer), were until now not able to make the connection which occurred to Walt that very day?

According to Mr Barr, it was Apple's fault, for failing to help the lawmen open the shooter's phones so they could access key evidence. When they did, they discovered contacts between the Mohammedan [aka Muslim. Ed.] and operatives of al-Qaeda. Again, imagine that!!!

Said Mr Barr, “We now have a clearer understanding of Alshamrani's associations and activities in the years, months and days leading up to his attack." The phones revealed contact between Mr Alshamrani and "dangerous" operatives from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Pensinsula, or AQAP, that continued until shortly before the shooting. They also revealed that he had been radicalized since at least 2015, before he arrived in the USA, and had meticulously planned the attack.

According to FBI Director Chris Wray, the attack was "the brutal culmination of years of planning and preparation." Mr Alshamrani created minicam videos as he cased a military school building, and saved on his phone a will that purported to explain himself. AQAP released that document soon after the shooting, when it claimed responsibility for it, but at that time, US officials said they were still "investigating".

Asked whether al-Qaeda had directed or inspired the attacks, Mr Wray said it was "certainly more than just inspired." Law enforcement officials had previously left no doubt that Alshamrani was motivated by jihadist ideology, saying he visited a New York City memorial to the attacks of 9/11 over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and posted anti-American and anti-Israeli messages on social media just hours before the shooting. Yet throughout the presser, neither Mr Barr nor Mr Wray actually used the words "Islamic" or "Islamist" or "Muslim". Strange, isn't it?

Further reading: "Obama Continues To Caution Against Labeling 9/11 Attacks 'Terrorism' Too Quickly", Babylon Bee, 20/9/16. [Just in case... you know that the Babylon Bee is satire... right? Ed.]

"Allahu akbar!" in Canada - cops arrest Syrian "refugees" in bomb plot

Cries of "Allahu akbar!" were not heard in Kington ON, because the Mounties, "assisted by the FBI", nipped in the bud a plot by followers of the Prophet Mohammed to "deliver, place, discharge or detonate an explosive or other lethal device...against a place of public use with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury." That's one of the charges laid today against a "young person" who cannot be named or otherwise identified under the provisions of Canada's ultra-lax Youth Justice Act.

Police also charged the "young person" with knowingly facilitating a terrorist activity. Along with the lad (or ladette), Inspector Knacker also arrested an adult male whom CBC News, disregarding M-103, identifies as... wait for it... Hussam Eddin Alzahabi, a friend of the "young person".

Mr Alzahabi also happens to be a "refugee" whose family, originally from Syria, came to Canada in 2017, during Canuck Prime Minister Just In Trudeau's frantic campaign to bring more than 50,000 Syrian refugees to Canada through government and private sponsorships. (The Alzahabi family had actually been in Kuwait for 10 years, but that's not important.)

According to a bulletin posted to the website of a Kingston-area Catholic church detailing the journey of the Alzahabi family, the family's sponsorship application was approved in the spring of 2016, but the family was still awaiting its final security and health checks that fall due to the "overwhelming number of applicants." It appears that those checks may, errr, never have been completed.

Mr Alzahabi's father, Amin, told the meeja today that his son had been arrested but not charged. "I want to know where he is," the father said at his Kingston home. Professing astonishment at the arrest of his son, he went on to tell a CBC News interviewer, "They tell me they search about him about terrorists. I know my son, he didn't think about that. He like Canada. He like the safety in Canada. How could he think about that? It's fake news about my son. I trust my son. I know he cannot do anything against any human, humanity. They inspected everything from my house. They didn't find anything. I think this is not good."

"Not good" indeed! Looks bad at a time when immigration and border security are emerging as the ballot questions for this fall's general election. And don't think the Prime Minister's Office hasn't noticed. Speaking at a "town hall" meeting in Miramachi NB yesterday, Mr Socks warned voters to "be wary of fear-mongering about immigration". A young Syrian "refugee" then thanked him for allowing her family to come to Canada. Any suggestion that the PM was informed in advance of the pending arrest and that the Miramichi event was a lame attempt to get in front of the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim backlash is of course nonsense, and deserving of prosecution. M-103!

Meanwhile, the Gliberal propaganda machine, in concert with the CBC and Canada's tame media [$650 million does a lot of taming! Ed.] are already working hard on damage control. At a presser this afternoon, Inspector Knacker of the RCMP said the investigation is still ongoing, and refused to comment on the ideological motivations of the people apprehended or say if they had any ties to foreign elements.

Elsewhere, Islamic community groups, mental health workers and police officers are meeting even as we speak to "calm fears and discuss ways to prevent an anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant backlash". See? Those are the CBC's words, not just Walt's! Bronek Korczynski, who led the Alzahabi family's sponsorship through Our Lady of Lourdes church, said the community groups that met today will attempt to head off rumours and spread the message that the alleged offences have nothing to do with Islam. Yeah. Right.

Further reading:
"Arrests in Terror Plot Raise Questions About Canada’s Refugee Embrace", in (gasp!!) the New York Times, 25/1/19.
"Undefended border with Canada threatens both countries", WWW 21/1/19. Includes video.

VIDEO: Why Ron Paul voted against Martin Luther King Day

Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day, a national holiday in the USA, although not widely celebrated everywhere, including in my corner of the woods. The law proclaiming the holiday was passed by Congress in 1983. Dr Ron Paul was a member of the House of Representatives then. In this 21-minute video he explains why.