Last week, I wrote a story about the extraordinary, weaselly language Mike Pence used on January 6, as President of the Senate, to avoid counting the alternate slates of Trump electors from seven states.

The story was based on the findings of Politico reporter Kyle Cheney, who, in a tweet around 3 am on January 7, compared what Pence had said to introduce electors with what his vice presidential predecessors had said in the same role in 2005, 2009, 2013, and 2017.

Conservate HQ published the piece here.

Until today, I had no coroboration of the information in Cheney's tweet. Given the blanket censorship enforced by the media of all news relating to the stolen 2020 re-election of Donald Trump, this did not unduly concern...

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Radio Pacifica may not be my ordinary beat but I would listen to Rosa Koire anywhere.

This extremely well-done one-hour interview by "Guns and Butter" is an excellent primer as to who Rosa Koire is and how she came to be a critic, pre-eminent de-mystifier and Paul Revere of "Agenda 21" the plan for our global servitude drawn up at the United Nations under the "green mask," as Rosa calls it, of environmentalism.

Agenda 21 is also executed against us in the guise of "The Great Reset," the globalist highway to subjugated humanity on which President Donald J. Trump was a roadblock and thus had to be thrown to the curb by the coup of November 3 to January 6. It is overwhelming to imagine the black-hole-immensity of the conspiracy that was required to nullify Trump's landlslide re-election of 2020.

This has all been a long time coming but the past year of government/media-manufactured...

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To hear the eminent counter intelligence professional Jack Dziak, author of the classic work Chekisty, lecture on the eminent counter intelligence scholar Natalie Grant, author of the new book Disinformation, is a unique opportunity to be guided through the lightless depths of disinformation and provocation. These widely misunderstood, ignored or lied about weapons have created the force field, which, more than anything else, paralyzes...

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True story. Yesterday, as stories disparaging Sidney Powell's motion to dismiss Dominion's $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit began mounting up, all of them seizing on a few words from her lawyers' brief to the  point that "no reasonable person" would conclude that her publicly discussed findings against Dominion were "statements of fact," I knew something was wrong with this narrative, obviously. The idea that Sidney Powell would put forward a Dumb Blonde argument to discredit herself in defense of herself was and is ludicrous.

I wasted a few minutes yesterday looking for a piece of journalism that colored outside these crudely drawn party lines and found not a one. Not a one! No surprise but the absence of basic expository journalism clarifies one of the crises we face as a post-democratic society. There is no functioning Fourth Estate, there are only propaganda organs...

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From the Twitter account of Politico's Congress reporter, Kyle Cheney, January 7, 2021:

It's 2:55 a.m. and I just figured out how Pence massaged the rules of the Electoral College counting session to avoid introducing the "rival" slates of Trump electors.

These are the instructions VPs have given out at the start in each of the last 5. Note the difference? 

Cheney's tweet included the following screenshot:



Cheney follows up in more tweets: 

TLDR:...

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From Military.com:

"Some Troops See Capitol Riot, BLM Protests as Similar Threats, Top Enlisted Leader Says"

Some troops have drawn equivalencies between the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and last year's protests for racial justice during recent stand-downs to address extremism, worrying the military's top enlisted leader.

"Equivalencies" strikes me as an odd reach of a word to describe what are better understood comparisons. In any case, the Pentagon is upset about them.  

In a Thursday briefing with reporters at the Pentagon, Ramón "CZ" Colón-López, the senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that some troops have asked, when the Jan. 6 riot is...

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Saw an amazing report, the next best thing to man bites dog: Federal judge raps sloppy, run-amuck US attorneys. Even according to Politico of the precious Left, this was a "setback" to the Justice Department's "widest ranging conspiracy case" related to the January 6 Capitol protest.

What happened is this: Judge Amit Mehta ordered the pre-trial release of Lt. Commander (USN, ret.) Thomas Caldwell (above), 66, to home confinement pending trial on numerous charges spun out of the DOJ fever dream that a handful of Oath Keepers militia (of which Caldwell is not even a member) conspired to lead a pre-planned attack on the Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the fraudulent 2020 election.

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I just recorded a new Patreon discussion on "Grovelling" -- when, why, how did society decide grovelling was "normal"? -- and was put in mind of two men who did NOT grovel. Who said no. Who said you can  take your Party line ... or words to that effect.

As a result of my earliest signed op-eds in 1999, the first about Elia Kazan, the second discussing Edward Dmytryk, I received an invitation to tea with Kazan in New York City and had a terribly nice phone conversation with Dmytryk, who even claimed to have remembered my actress-mother's unsuccessful audtion for him and producer Adrian Scott circa late 1940s -- and maybe he did because how many struggling...

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After a couple of days in Trump Tower, President Trump departed for Mar-a-Lago today.

The coup d'etat continues. 

Over at my Patreon channel, I am featuring an occasional series looking into questions of inevitablity and "what might have been" had the Powers That Be paid attention, or, probably more pertinent, stopped sabotaging the Good and been strung up as befits Evil.

This weekend's focus is Sir Jimmy Goldsmith (1933-1997), whom I had the fascinating occasion to interview in the mid 1980s when I was a cub reporter in the early years of The Washington Times.

Sir Jimmy belongs in such a restrospective for many reasons, but what drew my eye recently was his 1993 book The Trap, an eloquent and crystal-prescient warning against the global nightmare then  intensifying with the entrance in "the market" of billions of people from impoverished regions...

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... with the indomitable Audrey Russo here.

Audrey's full show here.

“Forty-two days into the administration and still no solo press conference from Joe Biden. That is the longest stretch of silence from any new president in at least a century.”

--Tucker Carlson, March 3, 2021

Some called this a "blistering" attack; a "brutal" message. I call it complicity, and I will have no part of it. By comparing Joe Biden to "any new president," Tucker Carlson is normalizing the fraudulent elections across the contested states and elsewhere, and thus perpetuating the Big Lie that Biden is legitimate. 

But it gets worse:

So by refusing to speak directly to the media, Joe Biden is attacking our most cherished democratic norms. Even CNN is complaining about it.

Let me get this straight. Biden's failure to speak to the media that enabled the Biden-Harris gang's usurpation of power is "attacking" "our most cherished democratic...

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When you were a kid (or a mom) and saw "Lady and the Tramp," did you ever dream you would wake up and read this in the paper?

From the Daily Mail:

The Walt Disney Company holds monthly meetings with advocates from women and minority groups who comb through hundreds of hours of Disney-streamed content looking for potentially offensive material to flag.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the monthly zoom meetings are held between Disney officials and a so-called ‘third-party advisory council.’

The council includes representatives from the African American Film Critics Association; CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment); Define American; the Geena Davis Institute on Gender...

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More discussion of Trump's speech at my Patreon channel here.

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On the matter of whether President Trump's speech at CPAC uplifted or depressed:

I could not have been more depressed while listening to Part 1. It was a stump speech without a stump. Every reference to the terrible things "the Biden administration" is doing to our country without first and foremost establishing the regime's illegitimacy has the effect of normalizing that regime. It wasn't enough for Trump to flick at maybe having to win the presidency for a "third" time, either. I felt as though we were watching the debut of Trump's capitulation to the Narrative. C-PAC, after all, has a long tradition of enforcing capitulations when it comes to the existential threats of the moment, including immigration,...

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As the President of the United States finished his speech at CPAC tonight, poof, a new movement was born.

Save America.

Came the dawn: But how?

Trying to explain what went wrong in these United States to friends in the UK via American Betrayal, Islam, deception, subversion, November 3 and January 6 .... 

YouTube

Rumble

BitChute

This investigation is a continuation of the greatest political Witch Hunt in the history of our Country, whether it was the never ending $32 million Mueller hoax, which already investigated everything that could possibly be investigated, “Russia Russia Russia,” where there was a finding of “No Collusion,” or two ridiculous “Crazy Nancy” inspired impeachment attempts where I was found NOT GUILTY. It just never ends!

So now, for more than two years, New York City has been looking at almost every transaction I’ve ever done, including seeking tax returns which were done by among the biggest and most prestigious law and accounting firms in the U.S. The Tea Party was treated far better by the IRS than Donald Trump. The Supreme Court never should have let this “fishing expedition” happen, but they did. This is something which has never happened to a President before, it is all...

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Perfidy. Justice Thomas should resign. This is not a legitimate court. 

Story here.

I just heard the wrenching news we knew was coming.

Mourning Rush, mourning America -- now the two go together. Such an emptiness, no matter how prepared we were for his release from earthly pain.

That voice. That optimism. Never to be forgotten. RIP, great patriot. 

Taking my title from that of Ivan Bunin's Cursed Days, an anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution's aftermath (take that, John Reed!), I have posted a new discussion of our own post-Revolution "cursed days" at my Patreon channel, available to subscribers.

Do consider joining. The monthly fee is up to the subscriber, starting at $1 (of course, the sky's the limit). 

Liberation! Follow me on Gab at @realDianaWest

Update, February 10: Watch this via Bitchute (above). Vimeo (below) canceled it.

Now that I am locked out of Twitter, I pop back in from time to time to search for odds and ends on news and commentary from remnant accounts of interest. This morning, I decided to see if Rosa Koire, author of Behind the Green Mask: U.N.Agenda 21,  was still there, and, if so, what, she was thinking about.

I find that last month, Koire participated in an online conference, The Greater Reset, which looks well worth viewing across the board. Quite handily, though, Rosa has posted a transcript of her speech at...

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If America had a free press, this story would be front-page-news across the fruited plain:

"Newly Discovered Video Shows Late Night Deliveries of Tens of Thousands of Illegal Ballots to Michigan Arena" 

At least we have Gateway Pundit. Kudos to Cassandra Fairbanks and Jim Hoft, who have found video-proof of The Big Steal in Michigan, confirming the sworn affidavits of at least three witnesses.

Read and watch it all here, if you can bear to. It is sickening to behold -- the improbable white van driving our country into dictatorship, and the failure of any persons endowed with authority to take action to stop it. 

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But, of course, America...

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This case, details here, is utterly sickening. 

Here's the latest, as regime apparatchiks grind America into constitutional dust. 

40/29 News in Arkanasa reports

A federal grand jury has indicted an Arkansas man implicated in the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Richard Morris Barnett of Gravette was photographed with his feet up on a desk in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. He also took an envelope from her office. 

The grand jury indicted Barnett on eight charges:

1. Obstruction of an official proceeding

2. Aiding and abetting

3. Entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon

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From The National File:

Capitol Riot Investigators Struggling to Find Homicide Evidence in Death of Officer Brian Sicknick 

The circumstances of Brian Sicknick’s death are unclear.

The Capitol Police officer who died following the raucous protest on January 6th may ultimately have died as the result of a preexisting medical condition, as opposed to a homicide.

CNN reported that federal investigators probing for evidence of a homicide in the death of Officer Brian Sicknick have “struggled” to find camera or photography evidence suggesting that Sicknick died as a result of his interactions with raucous protestors at the Capitol that day. Sicknick is reported to have collapsed at a Capitol Police facility following the repulsion of riotous protestors from the scene.

Read the rest here. More...

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This engraving depicts the 1793 trial of Citizen Louis Capet. He had been stripped of his title, King Louis XVI, by those who presumed to judge him. The image, the event, seems relevant on contemplating the looming impeachment trial of Citizen Trump. After the failure of Congress to pause the counting of Electoral votes to permit due process in the contested states, we may see that President Trump was also stripped of his title by those who now presume to judge him.

Louis' trial ended infamously in regicide by guillotine. However much baying there is for Trump's head, such a remedy lies beyond Senate recourse. On conviction of impeachment, the sentence is removal from office. Donald Trump may have won re-election, but he has no office. Such a sentence, then, would seem to be an exercise in futility, only revolutionaries don't have time for futlity. 

There...

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"Crashing the White House," Chapter 3 in Patrick Byrne's account "How DJT Lost the White House," describes what may well have been the most extraordinary, frustrating, elating and heart-breaking night of the Trump presidency.

... After a few minutes, through a private door on the far side, Donald Trump walked into the Oval Office. He was dressed in a sharply creased blue suit and tie, still, at 7:30 PM. He came through and glanced out the doorway to where Sidney Powell and I were already walking towards him, greeting him like he should be expecting us. President Trump’s eyebrows knitted in puzzlement but his face showed he recognized us, and after a moment he beckoned us in.

Within seconds General Flynn, Sydney Powell, and I were all sitting in the Oval Office with President Donald J. Trump,...

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1. Investigators have made a preliminary determination that the still-unnamed police officer (above) who shot and killed unarmed Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol  shouldn’t be charged with any crimes in connection with her death. 

2. Federal Judge James E. Boasberg, who also presides over the secret Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC), sentenced former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith to probation instead of prison as he had [been] requested at his sentencing hearing this morning. ... The government requested three-to-six month prison sentence.

Instead, the judge who also presides over the secret Foreign Surveillance...

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No, Richard Barnett took an empty envelope, but more on that later.

For now, the following excerpt from the charging documents has caught my eye and fancy both. It describes the scene of the federal crimes Barnett has been charged with --   

Video surveillance from a camera positioned outside of the Speaker’s main office door captures individuals entering and exiting the office. At approximately 2:30 p.m., several unidentified individuals appear to try the door to the office however the door is locked.

At approximately 2:33 p.m. an unidentified individual pushes in the door to the office.

Got that? At around 2:30 p.m., several people tried the door to the Speaker's main office and it was locked, according to the complaint. At 2:33 p.m., someone...

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Join me at my Patreon channel for a new series of conversations: "Postcards from Post-America" 

 

The New York Times informs:

At least one National Guard soldier is under investigation for standing in front of a sign on Monday morning bearing the name of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, with both of his middle fingers extended and posing for photographs taken by about a half-dozen other soldiers, officials said.

The behavior, reported by a person who witnessed it, was confirmed by the National Guard Bureau, which said it was “aware of the incident.”

The soldiers were moving through the Speaker’s Rotunda, an area on the second floor of the Capitol, just before 11 a.m. when the incident occurred. A Capitol Police officer approached...

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Today's title is taken from "The OGPU," a chapter in one of the history books I've lately dusted off: Walter Krivitsky's In Stalin's Secret Service.

An early, senior defector from same, Krivitsky uses the phrase to sum up what Yezhov, Stalin's new leader of the OGPU, told a gathering of OGPU leaders in the "club room" of the annex to the Lubianka, as Stalin's old leader, Yagoda, was himself being purged.

It is March, 1937 and Stalin's blood purges -- purges, purges and more purges -- are intensifying in order to eliminate political opposition and all thoughts of political opposition.

Some quotations from the chapter. 

As the Soviet State became progressively more totalitarian, as the Bolshevik Party itself became the victim of what it had created in 1917, the Secret Police gained greater and greater power, terror became an end in itself, and...

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He posted this picture.

He posted this statement.

(Replying to some Texans)

Everyone talks about being a patriot until its time to do patriot shit.

Texas is part of the US. Secession should only be considered after

the fight has been lost.

I went to DC. I helped take the Hill.

I helped other patriots prevent antifa from damaging anything.

I exercised my 1st amendment right to take grievances to our

representatives. It was a (mostly peaceful) political protest

Where were you on 06JAN21?

Where is the crime?

Ask the Stasi.



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When I happened on the Jeffrey Clark story as it was breaking days ago, it seemed clear this was the leading edge of a new assault in national pysops against clean elections, rule of law, free speech and the rest of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights -- oh, and breathing if you happen to be a supporter of any of the above and voted for Donald Trump, which turn out to go together. 

Here is a close reading of the agit prop in Part Two of the new psyop assault. Part One targets Jeffrey Clark, also discussed here. Part Two targets House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, thereby framing normal, lawful, ordinary (if you operate at the highest level of national politics) behavior as illegal, just as it would be in a totalitarian state.   

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Brandon Straka criminal complaint here. 

The regime has The People on the run -- and that's a priority. 

 

The following is excerpted from the criminal complaint lodged against 23 y/o Andrew Ericson of Oklahoma, another very small fry caught up in the DOJ's Investigations into Violence at the Capitol. Nothing about Ashli Babbitt's killer here, however, even though Babbitt is the only individual to have been slain during the protest and by a Capitol Hill policeman. There's "violence" and there's "violence," and apparently killing at the Capitol isn't "violence." But beer-snatching fits the DOJ rubric. Details below.

I find something viciously North Korean and social-media-pointless in what follows, including in the evidence: Snapchat photos of a victimless prank as...

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We are today into the third installment of the latest alchemy by the New York Times to keep the truth bottled up, thus producing explosive "news" to drive the next witch-hunt/purge. Indeed, before I could get my analysis posted today (see below), those three installments had already hit the jackpot: both a DOJ IG investigation and a Senate Judiciary inquiry in Trump/DOJ conversations about what to do about the election fraud that stole the presidency (see NYT reporter tweet above.)

These conversations pertain to what may have been Donald Trump's final thoughts and discussions as President of the United States on ways he might have broken through the Deep State phalanx blocking political and legal investigations into the voluminious,...

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Andrew Wrigley is an artist and shoemaker from Pennsylvania. Here is a video of Wrigley talking about his painting; here is a series of videos in which Wrigley talks about making shoes by hand.

On January 8, 2021,a special agent with the Capitol Hill Police Investigations Division Threat Assessment Section received a set of images from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Washington Field Office Intelligence Operations Center. The images were screenshots of photos and videos from Wrigley's Facebook account which Wrigley posted after attending "the protest in DC at the Capitol #stopthesteal." 

Wrigley also updated his page to the effect that he had also entered the building: "At the protest in DC I went inside the capitol building and got tear-gassed," he told his Facebook friends (and the FBI). 

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No, the cartoon above is not from your local newspaper, or any online US media site. It is the Chinese Communist Party gloss on the seizure of power in Washington by forces fronted by the China Joe Biden Gang as published in the People's Daily tabloid Global Times.

But it could have been home grown.





The call and echo between Chicom mouthpieces and Deep State mouthpieces have never been louder or more in unison. That goes for more than caricatures,...

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The hunt is on. We are all quarry now. Jackal media and hyena politicians, tasting first blood in their next victim, and their next, and their next, are in full cry, tearing to pieces all opponents of the Coup that installed the Biden-Harris gang through clanging, high decibel Big Lies, one after another after another.

I woke up this morning with a set of yesterday's victims in mind to write about today; before I could get to them, I found a brand new one, unearthed by the New York Times, and run to ground by the bloodthirsty, regime-approved voices of Twitter. I had to take note.

His name is Jeffrey Clark, Justice Department civil division chief. His crime? The New York Times inversion of events (by no stretch a "news"...

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Disappointment Update, Jan 20, 7:14am.

I don't understand why Trump didn't pardon political prisoner and Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. Tucker Carlson relayed from a source that McConnell threatened Trump with a conviction in the Senate if he did. Having had the greatest election landslide in history stolen from, what's a conviction from a court of gangsters? Be that as it may, no "deal" Trump could make with them is a "deal." Could there have been something else on someone else's table? We'll probably never know.

1. "Why are you letting this happen? Why haven't you called for back-up?" here

2. "So I had the FBI waiting for me when I got home" here. 

3. "FBI's Newest Prerogative: Shooting Subway Passengers" by James Bovard here.

4. "Duped: National Guard & media stake out state capitols, but ‘pro-Trump armed uprisings’ never materialize" by Jordan Schactel here.

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The reason things seem to be happening so fast is because our Cultural Revolution was so far advanced when they pulled the cord on January 6.

The latest Party line seems to be to drive the focus away from Big Tech/Media censorship of the political opposition, including the President of the United States, to high-octane fury against the BIg Tech/Media censors for their incompetence in not censoring sooner and more widely, thus saving lives, democracy, etc. (Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez may have been first out of the box on this.)

1) On Morning Josef Stalin, Mikhail Brzezinski raged against Big Tech for not banning President Trump sooner. The transcript does not do it justice; suffice to say, it was a display worthy of...

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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. 

-- attributed to George Orwell

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By rights, by laws, by elections, by facts, by courts, by states, by both houses of Congress, we should on this Sunday before Inauguration Day be practically tired of winning. We should be almost past the initial waves of giddiness and relief that should have carried us through the shank of 2020 as we congratulated ourselves and our neighbors on the glorious fact that on November 3, American voted themselves "Trump country," re-electing the president in a historic landslide.

This was not just a landslide for Donald Trump and the American people; it was an even greater landslide against the criminal gangs leading the Deep State from the depths of the Swamp; the same anti-democratic forces that waged...

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