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READ: Former NSA technician affidavit on govt. computer intrusions against Attkisson

There can be no reasonable question that an [Advanced Persistent Threat]-style cyber-attack was carried on Attkisson’s computer systems and Internet connection. Specifically, the APT methods deployed against [Attkisson’s] computers and Internet connection…were sophisticated and of the type only available to government-type activities and operations.

Dave Scantling, Forensic Expert, Formerly NSA

In addition to other forensic evidence and sworn testimony, forensic expert Dave Scantling has provided information confirming the government sourcing of the computer intrusions into Sharyl Attkisson's computers.

A former federal agent has confessed to being part of the surveillance team that spied on Attkisson and other innocent U.S. citizens.

Click the "Download" button below to read the entire expert Affidavit by Dave Scantling in Attkisson v. Rod Rosenstein, et. al.

More on the case here.

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Affidavit from Dave Scantling, former NSA forensic expert
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Read: Sen. Johnson letter to Barr and Wray about govt. spying on journalist Attkisson

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin)

On January 8, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), head of the Homeland Security Committee, asked the Department of Justice and FBI to respond to longstanding questions about the government's intrusions into my computers.

Answers were due on January 22, but Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray have not provided a response.

This continues seven years of government stonewalling over the illegal spy operation.

To read more on my lawsuit against former Justice Department official Rod Rosenstein and other federal agents involved in surveilling me and other innocent U.S. citizens, click here.

Read Sen. Johnson's letter below.

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Ron Johnson letter to DOJ and FBI
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Kellogg's to phase out use of "Roundup" on crops

Kellogg's recently issued a statement that it is working with its suppliers to phase out the use of a herbicide commonly known as "Roundup" on crops like wheat and oat used in its cereal. That's according to a story in gmwatch.org.

Roundup, made by Monsanto, is made using a controversial chemical called glyphosate. Several large jury verdicts have been awarded in recent years to people who claimed they got cancer from Round Up exposure.

Dr. Charles Benbrook, an agricultural economist, calls the announcement a "huge development." He says the easiest and quickest way to remove the herbicide from our diet is to change government regulations that currently allow for what he characterizes as very high levels of glyphosate in crops, according to the story.

Kellogg's statement reads, in part:

We know that some consumers have questions about the use of the herbicide glyphosate (also known by its brand name Roundup as a drying agent a few weeks before harvest, particularly with wheat and oats. This practice is done by some farmers in certain circumstances – like harvesting the crop more quickly if weather is challenging.

Although this practice is not widespread in our wheat and oat supply chains, we are working with our suppliers to phase ou using glyphosate as pre-harvest drying agent in our wheat and oat supply chain in our major markets, including the U.S., by the end of 2025.

Excerpt of Kellogg's statement

Click on the link below to read the article in gmwatch.org:

https://gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/19298

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Assange is transferred out of solitary confinement in UK prison

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been transferred out of solitary confinement in a British prison, where he has been waiting for his extradition trial for over nine months. That's according to canberratimes.com.au.

Assange's contact and access to visitors was severely limited in what many saw as a punitive action, according to the story. If he is extradited to the United States, he will face charges of spying and conspiracy. Some consider it a landmark test of the protection of journalists' sources. Assange critics claim he is not a journalist.

Assange's legal team and other inmates reportedly led the effort to get him transferred out of solitary confinement, claiming that his treatment was unfair and unjust.

Assange's legal team claims that he is still being denied meaningful access to his attorneys.

Click on the link below to read the full story:

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6597815/assange-moved-out-of-solitary-in-uk-prison/

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Will Bernie get "cheated" (again)?

From: BernieSanders.com

As Iowa prepares for its caucuses, the first presidential votes of the 2020 election, it is worth harkening back to the 2016 campaign.

Below are some of the allegations related to Iowa and the 2016 election.

That is when there were allegations that the Hilly Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee (DNC) put their finger on the scale to cheat Bernie Sanders out of the nomination.

The Clinton campaign and Democrat party denied they did anything improper and said that the nomination of Clinton was fair and square.

The excerpts below are from political columnist Ted Rall July 8, 2016:

The following is from an article in The Guardian in 2016:

Iowa's caucuses begin Monday evening.

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WATCH: Brexit leader: "Once we've left, we are never coming back"

A London scenic

Nigel Farage made an impassioned, final speech to the European Parliament, getting cut off when he and others in the British delegation waved British flags.

Farage is leader of the Brexit Party and member of the European Parliament for South East England.

The Brexit Party led the British movement to exit the European Union, which passed by a popular vote in 2016 but has faced repeated delays at the hands of British and European politicians who do not want it to happen.

After numerous delays in Brexit execution, Britain's conservative, pro-Brexit Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a commanding majority last month in a vote of confidence, brushing aside Labour Party challenges. Senior European Union political officials have now formally signed onto the Brexit terms Johnson forged, sealing the deal.

In his final speech to the European Parliament, Farage called the European Union "a bad project, it isn't just undemocratic, it's antidemocratic... it gives people power without accountability."

We're going. We will be gone...We love Europe; we just hate the European Union...No more being talked down to. No more being bullied."

Brexit Party Leader Nigel Farage

Some analysts say that other countries may ultimately follow suit and break away from the European Union.

Watch Farage speaking to European Parliament:

Thank you to the thousands who are supporting the landmark case of Attkisson v. DOJ and FBI for the government computer intrusions.

The Justice Dept. cover up of its spying on me and others-- continues.

The following is an excerpt of an article in American Thinker.

By Sharyl Attkisson

There has been a lot of water under the bridge since 2013 when CBS News first publicly announced the forensic evidence proving I was victimized by a long-term, remote effort to illegally spy on me and my CBS work through my computers. (You can watch the original news story at the link below):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8jaFOy9wFo&feature=emb_logo

A half dozen independent forensics exams later, with uninvited government IP addresses definitively identified as pathways into my computers, with forensic testimony from a former NSA specialist, with a sworn statement of confirmation from a former FBI Unit chief, and with a former federal agent confessing to being part of the government’s illegal spy operation against me and many other U.S. citizens,  it is reasonable to ask: Is the Department of Justice (DOJ)  alarmed by the shocking injustices and crimes? Is DOJ interested in holding accountable the federal agents who are responsible? Is DOJ concerned with making sure the activity has stopped and does not happen to others?

Apparently not.

Going on seven years now, the DOJ remains precisely where it started: in huddle down and cover up mode. Rather than acknowledge the forensic evidence and dig deeper to identify all of the agents who touched the illegal operation and all of the victimized Americans, and rather than being incensed by the confession of a former federal agent who admitting spying on me, DOJ has used unlimited taxpayer dollars to block pursuit of the facts.

In a just or fair system, the DOJ would  not have searched for legal excuses to dismiss the lawsuit I filed to bring the abuses to light… in fact, there would be no need for me to pursue a civil court case because the DOJ would have already prosecuted the guilty parties.

Yet here we are.

Read the rest of the article by clicking the link below:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/the_department_of_justice_coverup_of_its_spying_on_me_continues.html

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WATCH: What is "Loser Think"? Dilbert creator Scott Adams explains

The following is a transcript of Lisa Fletcher's story in FullMeasure.news. Click on the link at the end of the transcript to watch the story.

Most anyone who’s worked in an office setting with cubicles and an idiot boss can relate to the comic strip Dilbert, created by Scott Adams. Now, Adams has some advice for all of us in a new book about how to get outside our bubble and become a respected thinker. Lisa Fletcher sat down with him in California to talk about his latest book called Loserthink: How Untrained Brains are Ruining America.

Lisa: Describe the meaning of the title.

Scott Adams:So loser think is a word I made up. And it refers to the fact that we all have these blank spots in our mental model. So for example, if you’d never been an economist, you might not know how they think about things or how scientists do, or psychologists, historians, artists. I’m not saying that some people are smart and some people are not smart. It’s just whether you’ve been exposed to the way people think in different domains.

Scott Adams: Some of the examples of loser think are people using analogies to predict. This is my exaggerated example. Hey, my cat has markings under its snout that looks like Hitler's mustache. So my cat's gonna invade Poland. It doesn't work that way. Now you say, okay, that's a stupid example because nobody would think that way. But then you look at the news and people are saying, Hey president Trump is criticizing the press. Who else does that? Dictators. Next thing you know he's going full dictator. But doesn't really work that way because that makes you think past the sale. The sale is, has the press reached a point where having your leader criticize them is actually what you would want? I would argue yes. We’ve reached that point where he’s got free speech, they’ve got free speech, he can say what he wants because they’ve crossed a line in so many cases. So that's an example. Don't use analogies to make predictions.

Lisa: Is loser think a new phenomenon unlocked by social media - or is this something we’ve been dealing with forever?

Scott Adams: We’ve dealt with it forever, but it seems more because of social media and technological change that changed everything. Ruined everything. Really. It was the ability for the media, social media, and the news to measure with precision who’s clicking what. Fake news will always get more clicks than real news. So the business model forces us into a state of fight or flight, you know, our bodies are all cranked up, our hair’s on fire over everything.

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Lisa: If you can pick out your favorite section or chapter of the book- what is it?

Scott Adams: I liked the part about ego, so I talk about getting out of ego jail. The mistake is to think of your ego as who you are. My ego is me. I’m going to protect it. That is pure loser think. The trick is to put yourself in a position where you do embarrass yourself - do a speech, maybe you’re not prepared, ask somebody out, get turned down, just take it all and just wake up the next morning and see if your coffee tastes the same. It does.

Lisa: You are the creator of one of the most successful comic strips of all time, beloved Dilbert. Can you tell us something that maybe you or the audience and fans don’t know about Dilbert?

Scott Adams: Here's a little trivia. Dog Burt's original name was not dog Burt. He was, he was the companion to Dilbert, and before he was syndicated, his name was dill dog. And I think, you know why I changed it. Yeah. So that's a little trivia that some people know, but not too many.

One more piece of advice from Adams to avoid loser think. Don’t try to read minds! Adams says we often make assumptions about what other people are thinking but we shouldn’t be too confident that what we assume is correct.

Click on the link below to watch the video story on FullMeasure.news:

http://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/loserthink

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