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Poilievre is using the same tactics as Trump- speaking in coded but unmistakable language to court the nutball votes and, most importantly, their willingness to use intimidation and violence. Without an overt endorsement of these, but clear in his meaning, he can vaguely distance himself without offending or alienating them should violence occur. Plausible deniability.

Mar-A-Lago Is A Magnet For Spies, Warns Former FBI Official Mar-a-Lago has long been a lure for foreign operatives seeking intelligence and access to Donald Trump and other U.S. political leaders even as the former president haphazardly stored top secret information at the unsecured resort, a former FBI official warned Sunday. “Any competent foreign intelligence service, whether those belonging to China, those belonging to Iran, to Cuba, certainly including Russia are ... and were interested in gaining access to Mar-a-Lago,” Peter Strzok, former deputy assistant director of counterintelligence at the FBI, told MSNBC host Katie Phang. Even without the knowledge that Trump was storing classified documents on the grounds “of course ... the intelligence services are going to have been trying to gain access,” said Strzok. But the situation is “especially concerning” because of “information coming out right now about the absolute lack of any control or memorialization of who gets access to Mar-a-Lago at any given time,” Strzok pointed out. The FBI earlier this month confiscated several boxes of government documents from Trump’s Florida estate, including classified information with highly sensitive material. The sworn affidavit supporting the search released Friday indicated that there were “classified documents were strewn all over the facility, not just in the storage room” near the Mar-a-Lago pool, said Strzok. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mar-a-lago-spy-lure-peter-strzok-trump_n_630bdd72e4b0da54bae08f94

Donald Trump's supporters are now threatening the National Archives The National Archives is now falling under the anti-government threats that other federal agencies have experienced in the past several weeks, Axios reported Sunday. The attacks first began when the FBI conducted a search warrant at former President Donald Trump's golf club in Palm Beach to recover classified documents he'd stolen from the White House upon leaving his office. One man attacked the Cincinnati, Ohio FBI headquarters. Another man jumped the fence at the Chicago FBI offices. Due to a Republican conspiracy theory, right-wing supporters are now threatening the IRS. Part of the Inflation Reduction Act gave funds to the IRS, which has been drastically underfunded for the past decade and has been unable to do audits against the super wealthy. Those individuals typically tie up the courts and cost the IRS more resources to fight just to get millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share. Republicans claim that the funds will be all about arming IRS agents to shoot everyday Americans. Now the National Archives and Records Administration has faced an increase in threats after the Mar-a-Lago search. “NARA has received messages from the public accusing us of corruption and conspiring against the former President, or congratulating NARA for ‘bringing him down,’” acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall explained in an email to staff this week, according to the Washington Post. “Neither is accurate or welcome." Read the full report at Axios.com.

Maybe he was referring to his career?

Short of moving the capital of Canada from Ottawa to Red Deer, and probably not even then, nothing is going to satisfy these malcontents. They are just shadows of the Qanon/GOP cabal in hte US with fewer guns and less influence.

Warning ‘Troubling Number of Informants Killed or Captured’ According to the New York Times, the CIA sent a memo to every station across the globe warning that a “troubling number of informants” were being “captured or killed.” As the Times article emphasizes, when it comes to human intelligence, there are areas of the world in which the stakes couldn’t be higher. C.I.A. espionage operations inside numerous hostile countries have been compromised in recent years when the governments of those countries have arrested, jailed and even killed the agency’s sources. Last year, a top-secret memo sent to every C.I.A. station around the world warned about troubling numbers of informants being captured or killed, a stark reminder of how important human source networks are to the basic functions of the spy agency. The New York Times doesn’t say that the increased numbers of killed and captured agents are related to Trump’s handling of the human intelligence files (Hum-Int files were found at Mar-a-Lago), but it reinforces the danger of having these types of documents outside of secure facilities. One also gets an unsettling feeling in one’s stomach. Even though the FBI and CIA haven’t found a link between Trump holding the human intelligence documents and the noticeable uptick in sources lost, at least not to our knowledge, one cannot help but notice that the time periods overlap (The memo came out in October of 2021) and Trump held those documents while in the White House residence

As has been posted before in this forum, Garland is a meticulously patient, methodical prosecutor and he is at the center of a storm that will be the subject of debate for decades to come, whether Trump is indicted, convicted or given a pass. With all the potential consequences, he and his department have to have a watertight case before moving forward with prosecution so as to give the lunatic fringe as little reason as possible to declare Trump as a victim and martyr. In retrospect, perhaps it was a good thing he was not confirmed to the SCOTUS as he is probably the perfect person for this incredibly difficult task.

'We have to kill them': Russian mercenary holds up skull while bragging about slaughtering Ukrainians An alleged Russian mercenary brandished a human skull as a prop during a recent speech in which he justified his participation in genocide against Ukraine's population. The man was identified as "Igor Mangushev" by Ukrainian blogger Den Kazansky. "He is from Moscow. The Russian authorities deny that the Russian army organized the massacre in Bucha. But the Russian military openly calls for massacres and takes pride in torturing and killing Ukrainians," Kazansky tweeted early Sunday morning along with a video of Mangushev's macabre performance. "We're alive, and this guy's already dead. Let him burn in Hell. He wasn't lucky. We'll make a goblet out of his skull," Mangushev boasted. "We are not at war with people of blood and flesh. We are at war with the idea – with the idea of Ukraine as an anti-Russian state. There can be no peace. We must de-Ukrainize Ukraine. We must return our Russian lands. We are not at war with people. We are at war with the idea," he proclaimed. "This is the tragedy of Ukrainian soldiers. We don't care how many; we have to kill them," Mangushev continued. "If we were at war with people, we could make peace with them. But we are at war with the idea, so all bearers of an idea must be killed. Like this guy, probably he did not want to die near Azovstal." https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/we-have-to-kill-them/

Surely the whole Edmonton bench should be called for wandering out onto the field.

They are in so deep with Jones financially that I would bet he will get another year.

And the end of democracy in America.

Darvin, Darvin, Darvin. Shoulda had that gift-wrapped pass and now the momentum shifts to the Elks.

Agreed. A receiver won't make the reception for several different reasons, many beyond his control, but what he does after the ball is in his hands is all grit.

Pretty much nothing is going right for the Ungulates tonight.

WTF!!! The RBs near him saw that pass to Lawler coming and just......stood there watching.

OK, I take that back.

Behar can be on my team anytime.

Seem weird but RB's are actually mounting a drive, and Arbuckle looks legit.

And exactly when we needed it. One of the best things about that win is that it was in front of an almost full house plus a lot of drama. People remember that sort of thing when the home team looks dead but somehow revives enough to win in the last minutes.

Bennett #22 for the RBs has no instinct at all in following his blockers- bumped into his blockers and then just stood there.

I believe those were idealists who were swept up in the wave Rene' generated and reacted without thinking it through. Six months later, the PLQ separationist support fell back to where it has been: 15-18%. A good parallel is England's brexit referendum where voters were fed a steady stream of disinformation about how the EU was beggaring Britain and how much better life would be should Britain leave. As it turned out, a myriad of problems have occurred and are still extant and if the vote was held again today, it would be defeated 3 or 4-1. Buyers' remorse.

The Georgia criminal investigation into potential Trump election crimes has extended into a potential breach of voting equipment. The prosecutor investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking information about the alleged involvement of a Trump ally in the breach of voting equipment at a county roughly 200 miles south of her Atlanta office. The widening of the probe highlights the latest instance in which unauthorized people appear to have gained access to voting equipment since the 2020 election, primarily in battleground states lost by Mr. Trump. Election experts have raised concerns that sensitive information shared online about the equipment may have exposed vulnerabilities that could be exploited by people intent on disrupting future elections. https://www.politicususa.com/2022/08/27/trump-georgia-voting-data.html Trump Devastated As Affidavit Says He Had Information On US Spies MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell said described the information in the redacted affidavit: Here are some of the classifications that were noted by the FBI agent who was designating the reasons in the affidavit. This is in the document to justify the affidavit. HCS, which is human control system, a designation by a report from a CIA officer or possibly defense intelligence agency based on conversations with a confidential, human source overseas. That is a spy. And this could be the most alarming of any of these designations of these classifications. Another one is ORCON, originator control, the agency issuing the report controls that sees the document, no foreign, that is cannot be shared with foreign nationals indicating high sensitivity. Mitchell went on to say that Trump had documents in his possession that were related to sources and methods and were the crown jewels of US intelligence agencies. What was Trump intending to do with such sensitive national security information? He would not have kept those documents for his memoir or his own reading pleasure. These kinds of US secrets would be priceless. If Trump was trying to sell them, he could have gotten hundreds of millions or even maybe billions of dollars for them. From the information in the redacted affidavit, Trump didn’t accidentally take the documents. He stole US secrets that would have a high monetary value, and that could be why he is being investigated for violating the Espionage Act. https://www.politicususa.com/2022/08/26/trump-affidavit-spies.html

Only one problem with this- these planes have been grounded since 2016 and as such, would be slow, outdated (and vulnerable) and unreliable. Another empty threat. He has to know that if war broke out, he and his cronies would be dead within hours or on the run in Russia.

Trump has gotten his way for so long and so often through lies and threats that he appears to be now dissociated from reality, which means he sees himself as omniscient and omnipotent- beyond criticism or the laws which, in his view, apply to everyone else but not him. He appears to be sadistic and incapable of forming emotional attachments- a perfect description of a psychopath.