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Three days after it convened for its last public meeting, the House of Representatives select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has released its long-awaited final report.
The dense 814-page document, accompanied by interview transcripts and video summaries, was published online on Thursday local time.
Read the final report from the select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack here.
Its 100-plus-page executive summary gives an overview of what's inside, presenting 17 specific findings.
The report mirrors the nine public hearings in which the January 6 committee presented evidence of what it labelled a "multi-part plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election".
At the centre of the plan, the panel argued, was Donald Trump.
That "overriding and straightforward conclusion" also forms the basis of its report, according to the summary.
"[The] central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed," the committee wrote.
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A criminal conviction in itself, though, would not block Trump from returning to the White House. There are good reasons that this is so: one can only imagine the mischief local prosecutors would get up to otherwise. In 1920, Eugene V. Debs, a Socialist, ran for President from a prison cell in Atlanta, after being convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917, for speaking against military recruitment efforts. He got nearly a million votes.
Some Democrats and legal scholars have seized on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment as a possible route to disqualifying Trump from taking office again. This provision, originally aimed at keeping Confederates who had been public officials before the Civil War from holding certain offices after it, refers rather broadly to engaging in “insurrection or rebellion.” The problems with applying it now are manifold. There are disputes about whether the Presidency counts as one of the offices in question; whether an 1872 amnesty law negates the clause; and how it all might be executed and adjudicated. (Trump’s acquittal in his second impeachment trial, when he was charged with incitement of insurrection, might also be a factor.) The modern limits of the clause have been only partly tested, in lower courts, in suits brought by advocacy groups against Republican candidates who played some role in the events of January 6th. It is hard to imagine that the current Supreme Court would disqualify Trump from running.
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WHETHER WE LOATH TRUMP OR NOT, THE JANUARY 6TH COMMISSION IS LIKE A CARTOON OF USUAL AMERICAN PROPAGANDA — HENCE THE MISCHIEF BY GUS AT TOP..... THE MORE THE ESTABLISHMENT (AND THE MEDIA AND HIS SON IN LAW) DUMP ON THE DONALD, THE MORE HE FEELS THE DUTY TO STOP PLAYING GOLF (BADLY) AND BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE ONCE MORE. THE US/WORLD MEDIOCRE MEDIA MAY DISAGREE, BUT WE THINK THAT THE DONALD IS LESS DANGEROUS THAN OLD DITHERING WARMONGERING JOE BIDEN.
THE ONLY THING/PERSON THAT MAY STOP TRUMP IN HIS HOLY GRAIL QUEST IS UNCLE RUPE — TO WHOM TRUMP OWES THE 2016 VICTORY, BUT HAS DECIDED TO DUMP THE TRUMP FOR 2024. BUT TRUMP ISN'T "FINISHED". HE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN SUPPORT WITH TWITTER REOPENING HIS PLATFORM. WE SHALL SEE.
- By Gus Leonisky at 26 Dec 2022 - 5:02am
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colonial mindset......
Western media including our own shows no interest in peace in Ukraine.
A repost from October 17, 2022
Most political colonies have come to an end. But a colonial mind set continues in the media. That media mind set in turn promotes a ‘colonisation of the mind’. It accepts the Washington consensus.
There are recent examples of the way the White Man’s Media (WMM) slavishly follows the Washington consensus on the war in Ukraine. The Washington/Kiev propaganda is recycled with little question. Zelensky’s non stop propaganda is not seriously examined.
The first example of the Washington consensus at work is its lack of interest in the high probability that US/Poland were responsible for the sabotage of Nord Stream. WMM initially was full of stories that the Russians were responsible. When that became less and less plausible the WMM changed tack and suggested that trying to pin the US was really a Russian dis information campaign. The likely responsibility of the US was well and truly run off the rails by the WMM.
The second example is that the WMM has avoided almost any mention that Russia has indicated that it is interested in peace talks. There was scarcely a mention. Even when Donald Trump on October 8 called for peace talks the WMM was silent. WMM can’t usually get enough of Trump but peace talks offends the Washington mind set!
The Washington Club sees Ukrainians as cannon fodder to weaken Russia. So don’t talk about peace.
The WWM view of the world as framed by Washington is accepted as true and right. Australian media, including the ABC and The Guardian slavishly follow. Our journalists have been on the Washington drip feed for so long they are incapable of seeing the world differently.
US legacy media – CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, Fox News and Western news agencies- in association with drivers of US power and privilege, the military, business, think-tanks and security agencies exert dangerous and destructive influence that has contributed to the killing of millions of people. Add to that the way legacy media has helped excuse the way in which the US has attempted to overthrow, and often successfully overthrown, numerous governments around the world. The ‘indispensable state’ regards it as quite natural that US hegemony should be enforced everywhere, with WMM support.
Just as the British East India Company effectively ran Britain and its empire, so the US military and business complex, along with its elite supporters particularly in the media supports Western hegemony. No US president, and certainly no Australian prime minister or Leader of the Opposition is prepared to challenge the US Imperium.
A person from Mars who reads and listens to Australian media would conclude that we are an island parked off New York or London. The ABC is no exception. It has a Planet America program as if we are a state of the US!
Many of our journalists who attack China relentlessly have little or no experience of China let alone any Chinese language skills. On overseas assignments they seldom go beyond the Australian Embassy and the Foreign Correspondents Club. They are more like Cold War warriors than professional journalists. Or maybe just stenographers!
The ‘world view’ we get in Australia from these ‘journalists’ is a derivative view of the world as seen from London, New York and Washington.
Most of the news we get in Australia about China, Indonesia, India and Vietnam is via Western news agencies. These media snapshots are usually about the exotic and dangerous- a coup here, a flood there. Not surprisingly we remain ignorant and fearful of Asia.
Our ‘colonial’ media structure was laid down long ago. It remains today.
We talk glibly about our future in Asia, but we are stuck in a US and UK media cul de sac.
With the active encouragement of our media, we have been drawn into countless US military invasions. Then we had the war on terror. Now we have the vilification of China, perhaps even a war. The US never runs out of opportunities for war.
It is not that Chinese behaviour and its human rights record has worsened or is beyond criticism. What has changed and what is feared is the growing power and influence of China. It is successful. That is seen as a threat to US hegemony. That fear of China is reflected in our legacy media in the US and the UK spewing out an endless daily campaign of anti-China stories. And our media follow.
Led by the US, our media showed no interest in ‘democracy’ in Hong Kong throughout over a century of British rule. But now that Hong Kong is properly recognised as part of China, the US government, supported by its media, suddenly became concerned about democracy and independence for Hong Kong. They encouraged the 2019 insurrection.
The US has rained death, destruction and displacement on tens of millions of Muslims in the Middle East over the past 20 years. Now the US media shows a remarkable and belated concern about the persecution of Muslims in China. The US record, like Australia’s treatment of Indigenous people, is a blemish for all time. But who seems to care? Certainly not our own media, which wastes no opportunity to attack China.
The association of legacy media with the powerful is everywhere. As Alex Lo wrote in August ‘It has long been known that the Department of Defence in the US and other government agencies such as the CIA, not only support film and cable production in Hollywood but also actively intervene and manipulate their content.’
And in June, Lo described how a long list of former US security chiefs e.g. John Brennan and James Clapper, joined US media — NBC, MSNBC and CNN.
Australian security heads have been leading the demonisation of China with help from the Five Eyes. But we get a double whammy when our derivative media draws heavily on US legacy media that in turn is heavily influenced by former US security chiefs with their ‘expert opinions’ and a track record of undermining and overthrowing overseas governments.
But Australian media does not have a problem just being dominated by legacy US and UK media. We have a particular problem. Its name is Rupert Murdoch, an American citizen who owns two-thirds of Australia’s metropolitan dailies and more.
News Corp was a key supporter of the Iraq War — the Murdoch War. Of the 173 Murdoch papers worldwide only one, The Hobart Mercury opposed the war. Murdoch told us in 2003: ‘I think Bush acted very morally, very correctly. US troops will soon be welcomed as liberators’. His foreign editor on The Australian, Greg Sheridan, could not contain himself. ‘The bold eagle of American power is aloft, high above the humble earth. For as it soars and sweeps it sees victory, power and opportunity’. He is still in his job. Murdoch prefers loyalty to competence in all those around him, including his family.
Even some of the legacy media apologised for their support of the illegal war in Iraq. But never Murdoch nor for that matter John Howard.
News Corp in Australia for over a decade has also led the campaign of denial on climate change.
The US military/business/security complex exercises destructive and pervasive power. Legacy media supplies a favourable frame for that complex.
Our derivative media ties us to the white legacy media of the North Atlantic. It frames our view of the world.
This article was first posted on 23 August, 2021 and is part of a series on White Man’s Media.
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fighting the propaganda of the american empire.....https://johnmenadue.com/best-of-2022-our-dangerous-ally-could-drag-us-into-war-with-china/
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reading the glass bowl....
Donald Trump, the 45th US President, has wished a merry Christmas to his detractors, apparently calling his successor, Joe Biden, “mentally disabled” and claiming psychic powers for himself.
Trump has a long-standing tradition of sending public Christmas and New Year congratulations to those he calls “enemies” and “haters,” though over the four years of his presidency those messages became more targeted. The latest semi-attack was published on Christmas Eve on his social media platform Truth Social.
“Merry Christmas to EVERYONE, including the Radical Left Marxists that are trying to destroy our Country, the Federal Bureau of Investigation that is illegally coercing & paying Social and LameStream Media to push for a mentally disabled Democrat over the Brilliant, Clairvoyant, and USA LOVING Donald J. Trump, and, of course, The Department of Injustice, which appointed a Special ‘Prosecutor’ who, together with his wife and family, HATES ‘Trump’ more than any other person on earth. LOVE TO ALL!” he wrote.
The former president was apparently referring to some recent political news in the US. It included new revelations from so-called Twitter files reporting on the FBI’s role in policing speech on Twitter. Among other things, the bureau reimbursed millions of dollars that the platform spent to process requests from the US government to consider suppression of tweets and accounts that federal agencies considered problematic.
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subpoena dropped.....
The January 6th House Select Committee has withdrawn its two-month-old subpoena ordering former US President Donald Trump to testify and provide documents related to the Capitol riot and 2020 election. In a letter to Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday, committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) explained that the ex-president’s participation was no longer needed as the investigation was over.
Trump, who had sued the committee to block the subpoena last month, gloated over its withdrawal in a post to his Truth Social platform, hinting that there was more to his being let off the hook than met the eye.
“The Unselect Committee of political Thugs” withdrew “the Subpoena of me concerning the January 6th Protest of the CROOKED 2020 Presidential Election…because they knew I did nothing wrong, or they were about to lose in Court,” Trump speculated, adding, “Perhaps the FBI’s involvement in RIGGING the Election played into their decision.”
The latter comment appeared to reference recent revelations of FBI involvement in suppressing social media coverage of then-candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s laptop story in the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election.
Trump attorney Harmeet Dhillon credited his firm’s separation of powers lawsuit against the committee’s “illegitimate subpoena” with convincing them to “wave the white flag” in a tweet on Wednesday. The investigation had “wasted millions for a purely political witch-hunt,” Dhillon argued, accusing members of “total abuse of process and power serving no legitimate legislative purpose.”
According to CNN, however, Trump’s was not the only subpoena dropped for lack of time. Republicans made it clear that they would not continue the probe once they take control of the House of Representatives next week.
The committee released its final report last week, accusing Trump of participating in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the 2020 election and deeming him the “central cause” of the riot at the Capitol.
The panel also referred Trump to the Justice Department for prosecution on grounds of inciting or assisting an insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to make false statements to investigators, and conspiracy to defraud the US government. If convicted on the insurrection charge, he could be barred from returning to federal office.
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nothing to give.....
Former US President Donald Trump boasted on Friday that his tax returns show how successful he was as a real estate developer. Democrats, who had been calling on Trump to release the records since he first ran for office, published a trove of documents on his finances earlier that day.
Released by the House Ways and Means Committee, the returns cover the years from 2015 to 2020, amount to nearly 6,000 pages, and promise to shed light on the finances of the Trump family and the complex web of companies and entities under their control.
The information that has emerged from the returns thus far is mundane. The New York Times discovered in the documents that Trump made no charitable contributions in 2020 – breaking with his policy of donating his presidential salary in the years beforehand.
The newspaper also discovered that Trump refused a tax refund of $13.5 million in 2020. Although the former president reported no taxable income that year, he took only $5.5 million from the refund, carrying the remainder over to 2021.
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no russians......
A study published Monday by researchers at New York University eviscerated liberal Democrats’ assertion that the Russian government’s disinformation campaign on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election had any meaningful impact on the contest’s outcome.
The study, which was led by NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics and published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, is based on a survey of nearly 1,500 U.S. respondents’ Twitter activity. The researchers—who also include scholars from the University of Copenhagen, Trinity College Dublin, and Technical University of Munich—concluded that while “the online push by Russian foreign influence accounts didn’t change attitudes or voting behavior in the 2016 U.S. election,” the disinformation campaign “may still have had consequences.”
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BLAH BALHAHABLAHA......
AS WE HAVE MENTIONED ON THIS SITE A MILLION TIMES, RUPERT MURDOCH HAD A MILLION TIMES MORE INFLUENCE ON THE RESULT OF THE ELECTIONS IN 2016 THAN ANY RUSKIES ON A PENSION. IN 2020, THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK POST (MURDOCH'S) SHOULD HAVE SUNK BIDEN'S HOPE, BUT THE MEDIOCRE MASS MEDIA DE MIERDA AND THE SOCIAL MEDIA, ALL UNDER THE THUMB OF THE FBI AND THE CIA, MADE SURE THE STORY DID NOT GET ANY LEGS....
BY JANUARY, AFTER JOE-THE-DITHERER'S VICTORY, MURDOCH DROPPED TRUMP LIKE A SMELLY SOCK. MEANWHILE MUSK REVIVED THE CONTROVERSY THAT THE FBI AND THE CIA MADE SURE NOTHING AGAINST BIDEN GOT PUBLISHED. THE CIA AND THE FBI — AND THE MILITARY AND MOST OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE IN THE USA — ALL HATE TRUMP...
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