Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Jesse Watters spins facts beyond recognition with claims that Hillary Clinton paid to hack and frame Trump

 https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/jesse-watters-spins-facts-beyond-recognition-with-claims-that-hillary-clinton-paid-to-hack-and-frame-trump/

Watters said, “Durham’s documents show that Hillary Clinton hired people who hacked into Trump’s home and office computers before and during his presidency, and planted evidence that he colluded with Russia … fabricated evidence connecting Trump to Russia.”

None of that is backed up by Durham’s filing, a motion over a conflict-of-interest matter in the case against an attorney linked to the Clinton campaign who was charged for lying to the FBI.

We rate Watters’ claim False.

In filing, Durham appears to distance himself from far-right theories

 https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/filing-durham-appears-distance-far-right-theories-rcna16784

What’s more, while the details get a little complicated, one of the key elements that’s emerged this week is that Trump and other GOP conspiracy theorists had a calendar problem: The relevant White House network data appeared to come from the Obama era, before Trump even took office. Durham’s filing from last week didn’t acknowledge this timeline, which led Republicans and conservative media to make assumptions that were wrong.

According to the special counsel’s new filing, Durham was exploring Mr. Sussmann’s potential conflicts of interest, one of which involved a lawyer who worked for the White House “during the relevant events that involved” the White House.

That lawyer worked in Barack Obama’s White House, not Trump’s.

Former top Trump Russia adviser details the sharp contrast between the former President and Biden

 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/20/politics/fiona-hill-donald-trump-joe-biden/index.html

Fiona Hill doesn't know whether President Joe Biden can lead Western allies to ward off Russia's threat to Ukraine. But unlike his predecessor, he's trying.

At home, Trump softened Republicans' once-hawkish approach to Russia. Today, the leading Fox News hosts and other conservative voices -- "the ultimate stooges," as Hill calls them -- buttress Russian arguments as armed conflict looms.

GOP plays Ukraine blame game as pundits criticise ‘tyranny’ in Canada

 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-news-today-truth-social-jan-6-latest-b2020155.html

With Vladimir Putin taking his most concrete steps yet towards a full-on invasion of Ukraine, many Republicans are seeking to blame the crisis on Joe Biden, arguing that Russia did not invade any countries while Donald Trump was president – despite the fact that Mr Trump repeatedly sided with Mr Putin over the US’s military and intelligence agencies, disdained Nato, and attempted to extort the Ukrainian government into investigating the Biden family.

Meanwhile, many right-wing pundits are increasingly incensed by the march of “tyranny” in another country: Canada, where prime minister Justin Trudeau is cracking down harshly on truckers his protesting Covid-19 policies. Far-right agitators like Candace Owens have gone so far as to call for American intervention, while a similar trucker convoy is reportedly planned to descend on Washington in time for Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.

The Post says: Putin must be stopped NOW

 https://nypost.com/2022/02/21/the-post-says-putin-must-be-stopped-now/

If a chance for peace was possible with Vladimir Putin, it vanished Monday with his recognition of two “breakaway” states in eastern Ukraine and his sending of “peacekeepers” — read: Russian troops — into the region.

There are no niceties here: He’s invading Ukraine.

President Biden sanctioned any investment or trade with the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, but he should pull the trigger on that “mother of all sanctions” he has promised before. There is no leverage with a madman. Punishment is now the only way.

Canadian parliament approves Trudeau's emergency powers

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/322681

Lawmakers voted 185 to 151 in favor of Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, with Trudeau’s Liberal Party gaining a majority with the support of the New Democrats.

Trudeau invoked the 1988 Emergencies Act last week, claiming authorities required it to empower them to forcibly end the Freedom Convoy protests which had shut down parts of downtown Ottawa for three weeks, and blocked land crossings to the US – including some primary trade routes – for six days.

Ahead of the parliament vote, Trudeau told reporters he still needed the emergency powers, citing “real concerns” over threats in the coming days.

"This state of emergency is not over. There continue to be real concerns about the coming days.”

A presidential loathing for Ukraine is at the heart of the impeachment inquiry

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/a-presidential-loathing-for-ukraine-is-at-the-heart-of-the-impeachment-inquiry/2019/11/02/8280ee60-fcc5-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

Trump then peppered Volker with his negative views of Ukraine, suggesting that it wasn’t a “real country,” that it had always been a part of Russia, and that it was “totally corrupt.”

Inside the administration, Trump’s top advisers debated the origins of his ill-feeling. Some argued that Trump saw Ukraine as an impediment to better U.S. relations with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin, who was angry about U.S. sanctions imposed on Moscow for its annexation of Crimea and for the Kremlin’s ongoing support of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

“There is no Ukraine”: Fact-Checking the Kremlin’s Version of Ukrainian History

 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/2020/07/01/there-is-no-ukraine-fact-checking-the-kremlins-version-of-ukrainian-history/

The frontlines of the frozen conflict between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists are criss-crossing the plains of the Donets Basin, but they are also running right through the region’s past. Russia’s incursions into Ukraine have enjoyed tremendous support at home and, in some quarters, abroad. Many have been slow to denounce them – or quick to embrace them – out of a conviction that the Kremlin has history on its side; that Ukraine has never been a ‘real’ country in its own right and that its south-eastern territories in particular are primordial Russian lands. Russia’s political top brass, including Vladimir Putin himself, appear to subscribe to this belief as well, and by all appearances it has directly informed their policy towards Ukraine. But as much as these assumptions may resonate with ordinary Russians, as well as some foreign leaders, a glance into Ukrainian history reveals that they are based on a dangerously distorted reading of the past. Ultimately, by redrawing borders and rewriting history the Kremlin is unlikely to have done itself a favour. Through its intervention in Ukraine it has galvanised most Ukrainians in their aversion to Russia and has thereby done a great deal to demarcate the perceived differences between Ukrainians and Russians more clearly than ever before.

Man hallucinates and 'hears God' while on antibiotics. What happened?

 https://www.livescience.com/antibiotics-give-man-mania

Doctors diagnosed the man with antibiomania, a rare side effect of treatment with antibiotics, according to the case report, published in the journal BMC Psychiatry in August 2021. The term "antibiomania" was coined in a 2002 review published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology that examined case studies involving antibiotic-related mania.

Lindsey Graham Calls Vladimir Putin a 'Thug,' Says 'Enough is Enough'

 https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-calls-vladimir-putin-thug-says-enough-enough-1681191

"Putin's decision to declare eastern Donetsk and Luhansk as independent regions within Ukraine is both a violation of the Minsk Agreements and a declaration of war against the people of Ukraine," the senator continued, although an official war declaration has yet to be made by either country. "His decision should immediately be met with forceful sanctions to destroy the ruble and crush the Russian oil and gas sector."

The sanctions that Graham is asking for might be coming soon. According to a new statement from White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, the White House is expected to announce a new Executive Order that blocks "new investment, trade, and financing by U.S. persons" into Donetsk and Luhansk.

"To be clear: these measures are separate from and would be in addition to the swift and severe economic measures we have been preparing in coordination with Allies and partners should Russia further invade Ukraine," she wrote.

In eastern Ukraine's Donbas, Putin draws on an old playbook

 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/21/europe/russia-donbas-putin-playbook-hodge-hnk-intl/index.html

Professional historians will have their hands full for a long time deconstructing and debunking some of Putin's historical generalizations. But if you'll pardon the distillation, it runs like this: Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks created the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; Joseph Stalin expanded it after World War II by annexing territory that previously belonged to Poland, Romania and Hungary; and then Nikita Khrushchev (who led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War), for some unknown reason, took away the Crimean Peninsula from Russia and gifted it to Ukraine. Et voila! Modern Ukraine is merely a fiction.
It's easy enough to disagree, and thousands of Ukrainians have fought and died for a country that Putin dismisses as some kind of administrative and territorial concoction of Soviet administrators. So what does that have to do with Donbas? Putin's tendentious historical lecture on Monday seemed to barely touch on the current crisis. But the ghosts of history, it seems, still haunt the Russian president.

US, UK, EU set to impose sanctions after Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-uk-eu-set-to-impose-sanctions-after-putin-orders-troops-into-eastern-ukraine/

The United States, Britain and the European Union are expected to impose sanctions on Russia on Tuesday after President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into two Moscow-backed rebel regions of Ukraine.

Moscow’s gambit triggered international condemnation, with a broader package of economic punishment to come in the event of further incursion into Ukraine’s territory.

The White House issued an executive order to prohibit US investment and trade in the separatist regions on Monday, and additional measures — likely sanctions — were to be announced Tuesday. Those sanctions are independent of what Washington has prepared in the event of a Russian invasion, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called Putin’s move “a flagrant violation of the sovereignty and integrity of the Ukraine.”

UK Foreign Minister Liz Truss promised new sanctions on Russia “in response to their breach of international law and attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

Monday, February 21, 2022

Far-right Jewish extremist discovers her biological parents are Muslim

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-jewish-extremist-discovers-her-biological-parents-are-muslim/

A prominent far-right Jewish activist has been forced to reexamine her beliefs after finding out her biological parents were Muslim, she acknowledged in an Israeli television report broadcast on Sunday. Or Leibler, 22, has become a well-known figure among both Muslims and Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Nothing could have prepared her for the next meeting she had with her social worker, who told her that her biological father was Muslim and her biological mother was born Jewish but had recently converted to Islam.

Avoda Zara - does it have power?

 Emes l'yakov (Devarim 4:19) . And lest you lift up your eyes to the skies, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the skies, should you be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has allotted to all nations under the whole sky. Look at the Commentaries to the Torah. There are two different approaches in explaining this verse. There are commentaries that say that the Sun and Moon were given to all nations to provide illumination and so the Torah warns us not to bow down to them. However the Ibn Ezra and Ramban explain it to mean that every nation has a unique star and mazel and each city has its own mazel and they influence them. Ramban (Bereishis 1:18) also states this.. It seems that there is a fundamental dispute here concerning the nature of Avoda Zara. The view of the Rambam in various places is that Avoda Zara is nonexistent and has no actual power. Therefore those who pray to it and worship it not only transgress a severe prohibition of the Torah they are wasting the time for nothing. In contrast the view of Ramban is that G-d imbued Nature so that every nation has its own influence from the Heavenly World and it has an actual power to influence its designated nation as long as it is not something relevant to Jews [because Jews have no Mazel]. Nevertheless the nations are prohibited from worshipping these intermediaries. That is because in fact all power comes from G-d and therefore prayer and worship must be to G-d i.e. to the Supreme Divinity  and not to the intermediaries. However if these are worshipped or prayed to they can be of help and they have the capability to help. This is the explanation of the verse “which G-d has distributed to all the nations under the Heavens” In other words G-d has distributed a lord to every nation that influences the nation. Look at Shoftim (11:24) the words of Yiftach to the King of Ammon, “Will not you possess that which Kemosh your god gives to you to possess? So whoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.” The Ralbag said it was said in a sarcastic manner. However according to the view of Ramban regarding Avoda Zara it was meant literally and not sarcastically. That is because Ramban holds that Kemosh has the power as the lord of that nation to give them what he want to and consequently you can have no complaints against the Jews regarding what G-d gives them.

The above is a strange statement - unsupported by any other sources

In fact the Ramban himself does not assert this concerning avoda zara but only in regard to magic

Ramban (Bamidbar 21:29)WOE TO THEE, MOAB! THOU ART PERISHED, O PEOPLE OF CHEMOSH. The meaning of this is that [the people of] Moab used to worship Chemosh their deity, and build high places [i.e., altars, to him] and trust in him more than every other people, and in the time of their trouble they would say to him: ‘Arise, and save us.’ Similarly Scripture refers to [this worship of theirs] in all places, as it is written, And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab hath wearied himself upon the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail; and it is further stated [of Moab], and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together with him; Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the Eternal, him that offereth in the high place, and him that offereth to his gods. Therefore those who spoke in parables said by way of mockery, that Chemosh hath given ‘his sons’ as fugitives, refugees who flee [to safety] because of the sword; and ‘his daughters’ into captivity; [these terms, “sons” and “daughters” are used] because those who believe in him are called “his sons” and “his daughters,” in the same way that they are [here] called “his people” [people of Chemosh]. Similarly [we find the expression], the daughter of a strange god. The [correct explanation is thus] not like the words of Rashi, who interpreted [the verse as follows]: “He the Giver [i.e., G-d] gave his sons [i.e., those of Moab] as fugitives from the sword.”Chemosh was also worshipped by the children of Ammon, as Jephthah said [to the king of Ammon], that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess that you will possess. They also had in their country Milcom the detestation of the Ammonites. Or [it may be that] Jephthah mentioned Chemosh to the king of Ammon because of [the land] which Israel had captured from Moab, just as he [Jephthah] mentioned to them [i.e., to the Ammonites]: Balak king of Moab, meaning to say that neither Chemosh their god nor Balak their king had saved their land [Moab] from the hand of Israel. It is very fitting that we say, as our Rabbis explained, that [the reference in the term] ‘hamoshlim’ (they that speak in parables) is to Balaam and those like him, the diviners who spoke in parables about future events.

Avoda Zara (55a) Rav Yehuda said to Rava bar Rav Yitzḥak: Now, were I dead I would not have been able to tell you the explanation of this matter. It is therefore good that you reminded me of this matter while I am alive. The explanation is as Rav says: What is the meaning of that which is written: “And lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heavens, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has allotted [ḥalak] to all the nations under the whole heaven” (Deuteronomy 4:19). The verse teaches that God allowed the nations to be misled [sheheḥelikan] by matters that seemingly indicate that idol worship is effective in order to expel the nations from the world due to their decision to engage in idol worship.

Megila (9b) Instead of Moses’ assertion: “I have not taken one donkey [ḥamor] from them” (Numbers 16:15), they wrote in more general terms: “I have not taken one item of value [ḥemed] from them,” to prevent the impression that Moses took other items. To the verse that discusses the worship of the sun and the moon, about which it is written: “Which the Lord your God has allotted to all the nations” (Deuteronomy 4:19), they added a word to make it read: “Which the Lord your God has allotted to give light to all the nations,” to prevent the potential misinterpretation that the heavenly bodies were given to the gentiles so that they may worship them.

Yerushalmi Megila (1:9) Thirteen things they changed for King Ptolemy. They wrote for him, “God created the beginning.” “I shall make man in stature and form.” “Male and his openings He created them.” “He finished on the Sixth and rested on the Seventh” “Now I shall descend.” “Sarah laughed in her surroundings, saying.” “For in their rage they slew a bull and in their will uprooted a trough.” “Moses took his wife and his sons and let them ride on people-carriers.” “The dwelling of the Children of Israel, which they dwelled in Egypt and other lands, was 430 years.” And the hare, “and the young of foot.” King Ptolemy’s mother was called “hare”. “Not one precious thing I took from them” “Which the Eternal, your God, distributed them to give light to all peoples under all the heavens.” “Which I did not command peoples to worship them.”

Sifri (Devarim 148:10) R. Yossi Haglili says: Because it is written (Ibid. 4:19) ("the sun and the moon, etc.) which the L-rd your G-d bequeathed to all the peoples," I might think that He bequeathed them to the nations (to serve them), it is, therefore written (Ibid. 29:25) "gods which they did not know and which He did not bequeath to them (to serve them)."

Rabbeinu Bachye (Devarim 4:19) "which the Lord your God allocated to all the peoples under the whole sky." According to the plain meaning of the text the word חלק means: "He gave it to them as their share." [They have the choice of serving the Lord directly or by means of these astrological manifestations]. The word is not to be understood to mean that these people have been "assigned" these phenomena in the sky. If the latter meaning were correct then these people would have an ironclad argument accusing God of preventing them from worshipping Him directly or indirectly, seeing He had made their fates dependent on the correlation of these stars to one another. Idolatry would then have been decreed upon them. Seeing that the word חלק lends itself to misunderstandings, the seventy sages who had been assigned by King Talmai to translate the Torah into Greek, were forced to translate this as "which the Lord allocated to them to provide light for them" (Megillah 9).A Midrashic approach: the word חלק is connected to the word חלקות, something smooth, slippery. God flattered the nations with words in order to eventually drive them out of the world (Pessikta Zutrata ). Our sages had interpreted the words משגיא לגוים ויאבדם in Job 12,23 as meaning precisely this (according to Shemot Rabbah 15,11). They suggested that the letter sin in the word משגיא in that verse be read as a shin to mean "mislead," instead of "exalts". [The end-effect of the verse, i.e. that God destroys the Gentiles is the same; the difference is only the immediate cause. Ed.].

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Tourists allowed into Israel from March 1, regardless of vaccination status

 https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-697043

Tourists of all ages will be allowed into Israel regardless of vaccination status starting on March 1, subject to a negative PCR test before takeoff and after landing, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday.

The decision was announced following a meeting between Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, with the participation of Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov and others, in which they finalized an outline for the easing of coronavirus restrictions.
The new plan also will end isolation policies for unvaccinated Israelis entering the country, subject to a negative PCR test upon arrival.

Furthermore, Israelis entering the country will no longer be required to perform an antigen or PCR test ahead of boarding a flight and will instead only be required to take a PCR test upon arrival.

Ignore the conspiracy theories and get vaccinated

 https://www.timesnews.net/opinion/editorials/editorial-ignore-the-conspiracy-theories-and-get-vaccinated/article_7fae8cac-5c2b-11ec-9aa1-7bf340463674.html

The conspiracy theories about COVID and its vaccines run the gamut of what sounds possible but isn’t, and fantasy. They include that the disease is being manipulated by the deep state, is a plot by Big Pharma or doesn’t even exist. The naysayers “believe” the vaccines can alter your DNA, cause infertility or kill or damage cells, or contain 5G tracking chips.

If you believe any of these things, it would be a waste of your time to continue reading. Have a nice day.

The rational among us know that vaccines won’t prevent you from getting any of the current COVID variations, and the same is likely true for new variations. But vaccines will prevent the vast majority from getting serious disease and dying, because at some point you’re almost assuredly going to be exposed to COVID.

Canadian COVID-19 vaccine study seized on by anti-vaxxers — highlighting dangers of early research in pandemic

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-vaccine-study-omicron-anti-vaxxers-1.6315890

A Canadian study that vastly underestimated the protection COVID-19 vaccines provide against the Omicron variant has been revised — but not before it spread widely on social media by anti-vaxxers, academics and even the creators of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine.

Dr. Vinay Prasad, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of California-San Francisco, also shared it on Twitter, asking why the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) would advise a booster for Omicron at all.

Judge errs because of bad mazel of litigant

 Rashi Sanhedrin (33a)פטור מלשלם - אלמא מה שעשה עשוי ומיהו פטור מלשלם דכיון דמומחא הוא מזלא בישא דההוא גברא גרם ליה למיטעי:

An expert dayan who errs is exempt from paying because the error was caused by the bad mazel of the litigant

למה המשגיח המליץ לתלמידו ללמוד פסיכולוגיה?

 https://www.kikar.co.il/412754.html

הוראת המשגיח הגה"צ הגרא"א דסלר לתלמידו בקשר ללימודים אקדמאים: "ראוי שתבחר בפסיכולוגיה" והסיבה לכך; והתבטאות הסבא מקלם על המושג 'חכמה בגויים' (היסטוריה)

New study finds Ivermectin ineffective in treating COVID-19

 https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-697027

Ivermectin is ineffective in preventing severe illness in COVID-19 patients, according to a new peer-reviewed study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on Friday.

The open-label study examined 490 high-risk patients with COVID-19 at 20 public hospitals and a quarantine center in Malaysia. The patients were 50 years and older with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections, comorbidities and mild-to-moderate disease. The patients were split into a control group that received standard of care without Ivermectin and a group that received standard of care plus Ivermectin.

Charlie Munger on journalism: 'We have suffered a huge loss here'

 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/munger-newspapers-crazies-161659824.html

"I have my favorite crazies, and you have your favorite crazies, and we get together and all become crazier as we hire people to tell us what we want to hear," the billionaire said. "This is no substitute for Walter Cronkite and all those great newspapers of yesteryear. We have suffered a huge loss here. It’s nobody’s fault. It’s the creative destruction of capitalism, but it’s a terrible thing that’s happened to our country."

Hydroxychloroquine: A Morality Tale

 https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/hydroxychloroquine-morality-tale

Raoult is a fascinating, eccentric, theatrical figure. He couldn’t be more colorful—a maverick who delights in opposing conventional thinking, his peers, and followership in science. He has hair to his shoulders, a long, pointed beard, and looks like a medieval knight in a lab coat. He loves a fight. At 68 years of age, he rides a Harley to work. He still treats patients. He sees himself as more like a philosopher or anthropologist than a typical French scientist, and teaches epistemology, the study of how we know that we know things, to his lab scientists, He believes an ever-increasing homogeneity is ruining scientific thought. He told Paris Match:

Saturday, February 19, 2022

French scientist who promoted one of Trump’s favorite coronavirus cures set to be replaced

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/didier-raoult-hydroxychloroquine/2021/09/17/a56c5bd4-1574-11ec-a019-cb193b28aa73_story.html

Many of Raoult’s colleagues disagree with his assertion that he is detached from politics. In an open letter last month, several leading French doctors condemned Raoult after he shared a conspiratorial text that implicitly called for the execution of doctors considered to be in line with government views. It followed a string of attacks by anti-vaccine activists on French vaccination centers and coronavirus testing tents over the past months.

At least 100 arrested in police crackdown on Ottawa truck blockade

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-least-100-arrested-in-police-crackdown-on-ottawa-truck-blockade/

Police arrested scores of demonstrators and towed away vehicles Friday in Canada’s besieged capital, and a stream of trucks started leaving under the pressure, raising authorities’ hopes for an end to the three-week protest against the country’s COVID-19 restrictions.

By evening, at least 100 people had been arrested, mostly on mischief charges, and nearly two dozen vehicles had been towed, including all of those blocking one of the city’s major streets, authorities said. One officer had a minor injury, but no protesters were hurt, interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell said.

Police “continue to push forward to take control of our streets,” he said, adding: “We will work day and night until this is completed.”

Those arrested included four protest leaders. One received bail, while the others remained jailed.

Fact check: Trucker prayer circle photo from Honduras in 2020, not recent Canada protests

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/02/18/fact-check-trucker-prayer-circle-image-honduras-2020/6843347001/

The claim: An image shows a trucker prayer circle

Amid anti-vaccine mandate protests in Canada, an image purporting to show truckers praying and holding hands has surfaced on social media.

“Truckers gather to pray for guidance and protection,” reads text in a Feb. 16 Facebook post featuring the photo, which accumulated more than 1,900 shares in two days.

“I can’t recall (Black Lives Matter) doing this during any of their protests," the post's caption reads.

COVID reinfections far higher for recovered patients who shun vaccine: Israeli study

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/covid-reinfections-far-higher-for-recovered-patients-who-shun-vaccine-israeli-study/

Israelis who recovered from COVID-19 and were vaccinated with a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are far better protected against reinfection than those who only have natural immunity, a large-scale Israeli study found.

The study, published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine, reported those who were vaccinated after infection were 82 percent less likely to contract the virus following their initial bout.

The study also found people who received a vaccine shot after recovering from COVID-19 were 76% less likely to have a symptomatic case of coronavirus than those who were unvaccinated.

Friday, February 18, 2022

Report accuses Reform movement youth director of sexual misconduct

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/322503

The report also found that the movement had knowingly hired clergy who had been fired from congregations for sexual misconduct, but not out of a desire to shield rabbis from accountability. “Rather, these employment decisions resulted from sincerely held beliefs in redemption and the process of teshuvah,” the report says, referring to a Jewish concept akin to restorative justice.

'I Work With Love Bombing and Gaslighting Victims—Here Are My Top 5 Red Flags'

 https://www.newsweek.com/i-see-love-bombing-gaslighting-relationships-1679479

Love bombing, gaslighting, and trauma bonding are all aspects in the same continuum of an abusive relationship. I now work with clients using a combination of psychotherapy and clinical hypnotherapy, typically women involved in high conflict divorces. In my experiences treating clients in abusive relationships, whether it's physical, sexual or emotional abuse, at the bottom of it, you are going to find these tactics.

The Canadian trucker convoy is an unpopular uprising

 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22926134/canada-trucker-freedom-convoy-protest-ottawa

But while the protests are generating a lot of noise and attention, the eruption actually points up a counterintuitive fact: The Canadian far right is weak and ineffectual, especially when it comes to pandemic restrictions.

Canada’s provinces have generally employed strict Covid-19 measures such as school mask mandates and vaccine passports, including during the recent omicron surge. They have enjoyed broad public support in doing so; even the strictest restrictions are less controversial in Canada than in the US. The current demonstration is quite unpopular with the general public, divisive even inside the center-right Conservative party.

This doesn’t mean the movement will accomplish nothing. It has already contributed to a revolt against the Conservative party’s leader and is serving as an important organizing node for far-rightists. The border crossing blockage is putting more stress on the US-Canada supply chain, costing (by one estimation) $300 million a day in economic damage. Internationall

Trump Must Testify in New York Investigation, Judge Rules

 https://hamodia.com/2022/02/17/trump-must-testify-in-new-york-investigation-judge-rules/

Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in New York state’s civil investigation into his business practices, a judge ruled Thursday.

Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., to comply with subpoenas issued in December by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Trump and his two children must sit for a deposition within 21 days, Engoron said.

Anti-vaxxer nonsense

SITUATION UPDATE, 02/17/22 - CANADIAN BANK RUNS BEGIN

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Karen Kingston warns the Health Ranger about nanotech in mRNA vaccines and oppression of whistleblowers

SEE BLOOD SAMPLE OF UNVACCINATED VS BLOOD SAMPLE OF DOUBLE VACCINATED.

BBC ADMITS HIV USED TO MAKE THE "VACCINE"

THE PATENT ITSELF PROVES C19 SHOTS GIVE YOU AIDS BY DESIGN

CEVICAS INTERNATIONAL GROUP HAS FOUND RADIOACTIVE METAL TECHNETIUM IN PCR TEST SWABS?....?

DID AN ARIZONA HOSPITAL INTEND TO KILL THIS MAN & HARVEST HIS ORGANS?

UPDATE: HOSPITAL THAT VENTED & NEARLY KILLED HIM, REDACTS MEDICAL RECORDS!

5G KILL CITIES: INNOVATING DEPOPULATION - DEBORAH TAVARES (WIFI CAN KILL)
EVERYBODY SPEAKS ABOUT THE DANGERS OF THE 5G TOWERS! BUT ITS ALSO THROUGH YOUR PERSONAL DEVICES LISTEN

TYRANTS & DEATH MERCHANTS -- DR. ZEV ZELENKO

DR. ZELENKO: "[VACCINATED PEOPLE] HAVE AIDS." THERE'S A HUGE SPIKE IN: -CANCERS -AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASE

Karen Kingston PHD : SHOCKING NEWS 02/17/22 - MEDICAL KILLING FIELDS......... 'HEALTH PROVIDERS NEED TO GET THEMSELVES ATTORNEYS ' ....'THE TIDE HAS TURNED EVERY PERSON (Mosad)(OR NEWSPAPER)THAT PUSHED THESE VACCINES WILL BE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE ', Dr.s beware you are in trouble If followed along with the poison agenda, Watch:

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Thursday, February 17, 2022

Haredi MK: 'Liberman spat in the citizens' faces'

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/322304

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) on Tuesday will present a new economic plan for the haredi community, which will eliminate discounts on property tax, afternoon programs, and daycares for parents who do not work.

Under the new plan, the number of hours a parent can be studying instead of working and still receive discounts will be cut from 40 hours a week to 20 hours a week, and there will be financial incentives for haredi educational institutions which integrate the core curriculum.

MK Michael Malkieli, of the Sephardic-haredi Shas party, told 103 FM Radio, "If I would discover Liberman's economic policy - fine. But he chose specifically to hit the haredi sector."

Rabbinical Court allows divorcee to marry Cohen

 https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4262277,00.html

Now the couple sought to end their marriage and define themselves as divorcees – without the husband giving her a 'Get' (Jewish divorce document). The woman testified that she has been in a relationship with a Cohen for over a year and that she wishes to marry him according to Jewish tradition. The husband also stated that if he were to marry in the future he would choose to marry according to Jewish tradition.

In light of the circumstances, the court decided to respond to the couple's request. The Dayanim ruled that the woman's request to marry a Cohen meant that she was in the halachic state of 'Shaat Dachak' (time of distress) where it is possible to facilitate their request and enact a divorce without a 'Get.'
Attorney Maggy Halperin who represented the sides said: "We have been witnessing a growing trend of couples who marry in civil ceremonies without being aware of the fact that the marriage is valid (from a Jewish perspective) with all that implies, and when this involves Jewish Israeli residents – the authority (in charge of) divorce is the Rabbinical Court alone….

"We are very happy with the court's worthy decision which allows the woman to marry the man she wishes to raise a family with and this in spite of it being a case of divorcee and Cohen."

Clinton Dismisses Durham's 'Fake Scandal' as Trump Doubles Down With New Ad

 https://www.newsweek.com/clinton-dismisses-durhams-fake-scandal-trump-doubles-down-new-ad-1680067

The ad, created by Trump's Save America political action committee and embedded on the website of Fox News host Sean Hannity, accuses Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign of spying on Trump.

"Clinton campaign lawyers paid a tech company to infiltrate Trump servers to fabricate a connection between Trump and Russia," the ad states.

"The media won't cover the story," the ad continues while showing footage from Fox News, the right-wing media outlet Newsmax and others covering the claim.

"Justice is coming for Hillary," the ad declares at its end.

However, the 13-page Durham filing does not accuse the Clinton campaign of wrongdoing.

The filing claims that Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer working on behalf of the Clinton campaign and a tech executive, told the CIA that web data suggested someone may have used a Russian-made smartphone to connect to networks at Trump Tower, the White House and other places.

Jerusalem – Israeli Rabbinate Grants Rare Permission For Divorced Woman To Marry Cohen

 https://kerendanielle.org/article/jerusalem-israeli-rabbinate-grants-rare-permission-divorced-woman-marry-cohen/

In an unusual ruling, the Tel Aviv rabbinical court allowed a divorced woman to remarry to a man who is a Cohen.

The special permission granted earlier this year by Rabbi Zvadya Cohen, the head of the Rabbinical Court of Tel Aviv, which is run by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, is rare because in Orthodox Jewish law, Cohens – descendants of Judaism’s priestly sect – are forbidden to marry divorced woman.

Divorcee Permitted By Tel Aviv Beis Din To Marry Cohen After Former Husband Declares He Is LGBTQ

 https://vinnews.com/2022/02/15/divorcee-permitted-by-tel-aviv-beis-din-to-marry-cohen-after-former-husband-declares-he-is-lgbtq/

The Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court accepted the woman’s claim that if she had known of her husband’s homosexual inclination, she would never have married him – and ruled that her agreement to marriage was meaningless and the marriage was a “Mekach Taus”, a mistaken transaction. Dayan Cohen said in his ruling that he would not have accepted such a claim in order to permit a married woman to marry someone else but since the woman had already received her divorce, the concept of Mekach Taus can be used to enable her to marry a Kohen.

A senior Austrian judge, Konstanze Thau, a friend of the father’s family

 “A senior Austrian judge, Konstanze Thau, a friend of the father’s family, sought to influence the judge hearing the case on behalf of the father”

MP Ivan Lewis representations to the British parliament, 14 January 2014

Konstanze Thau

In February 2010, Michael Schlesinger was evicted from the family apartment by police after being deemed a danger to Beth and the children. He immediately approached his close family friend, high Court Judge, Konstanze Thau to initiate custody proceedings on his behalf. 

“Since the mother repeatedly accused the judge of bias as part of her custody appeal, Ms Gottlicher saw it as necessary to include a transcript from 12.9.2011 (ON 263) to document that Ms Thau had called her and explained that there was a father who wanted to file an immediate application in a custody process and that she (Thau) requested whether an urgent meeting with Judge Gottlicher would be possible, which she (Gottlicher) agreed to.” (Susanne Göttlicher, 25.3.2013, rejection of application to recuse her)

A copy of such a transcript was never sent to Beth’s lawyer nor recorded on the court file.

“the matter is explained as follows – the father did not yet have legal representation and therefore appealed to Ms Thau to arrange an appointment for him – bearing in mind the effort she was making.” (Schlesinger's reply to the custody appeal)

In any democtratic system in the world, such an intervention would be considered an attempt to pervert the course of justice.  However, Judge Gottlicher determined  - in deciding on the application to have her removed - that Thau’s intervention on the father’s behalf was not proof of bias:

“The fact that one who has no legal involvement in the case is friends with a party in the proceedings does not automatically mean that the judge can successfully be recused because of bias, otherwise it would be possible to recuse any unwanted judge on the claims of friendships or relationships.”  Susanne Gottlicher, 25.3. 2013. 

Yet on learning of the allegations, a local Viennese journalist decided to investigate. Her findings were reported in a news story (Heute) printed on 7 January 2013: 

 "This newspaper can now reveal the findings of our research: For months a high court judge (name known) has intervened on the side of the father (the high court judge is a good friend of the ex-husband)."

Beth’s lawyer further discovered:  

“(the journalist) is also a member of the Jewish Community of Vienna and regularly meets Ms Thau there (Synagogue).  As already mentioned, since this case is the  number one topic of the Jewish community, (the journalist) became interested in it and carried out research. She also personally overheard Ms. Konstanz Thau boasting that she (Konstanze Thau) influenced the psychological report (Willinger Report) and also had regular contact with the judge on the case.” (application to recuse Judge Gottlicher).

 How could it be possible that Thau may also have been instrumental in the psychologist report on which the custody decision was based?

Judge Gottlicher commissioned psychologist Dr Ulrike Willinger to carry out the assessment and provide the Court with a recommendation for custody. The 80-page report was wholly one-sided in favour of Mr Schlesinger and recommended him for sole custody, omitting all reference to the alleged history of violence.

The author of the report was a colleague of Kenneth Thau; they worked together in the AKH hospital. In fact, Kenneth Thau, was Willinger’s line manager. Kenneth Thau is married to Konstanze Thau, which would explain Thau's alleged bragging that she was able to influence the Willinger report.

 


                                                      Kenneth Thau

 Not only did Konstanze Thau make representations to Judge Göttlicher on Schlesinger's behalf, it was later documented that she also contacted a Dr Vavrik, the superior of the twins’ psychologist who had written several reports in Beth’s favour .

“…Ms Thau was advised … to contact Dr Vavrik… to request him to examine the childen.  After which, senior expert Dr Vavrik…refused to undertake (the request) in what was for him and his clinic a very delicate matter.  [Reply to custody appeal, 22.8.2011].

Beth’s lawyer wrote to Dr Vavrik to ask if Thau had indeed contacted him which he confirmed.

The Thaus are prominent members of the IKG. Konstanze Thau was converted by former Chief Rabbi Paul Eisenberg. The conversions themselves have been the subject of much controversy with some Rabbis in Israel refusing to recognise the legitimacy of Viennese conversions:



Joining the dots in this tangled web of deceit and the final nail in the coffin for Beth, Sammy and Benji is the link between Konstanze Thau & Rabbi Biderman, head of the Lauder Chabad school who is reported to have covered up the abuse.

Below, evidence of Jacob Biderman forwarding Beth's private emails on to Konstanze Thau


Joining the dots - Schesinger twins

 Joining the dots in this tangled web of deceit and the final nail in the coffin for Beth, Sammy and Benji is the link between Konstanze Thau & Rabbi Biderman, head of the Lauder Chabad school who is reported to have covered up the abuse.

Below, evidence of Jacob Biderman forwarding Beth's private emails on to Konstanze Thau.



Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Is John Durham Deliberately Stoking Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories?

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/is-john-durham-deliberately-stoking-right-wing-conspiracy-theories/

Special counsel John Durham’s investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia scandal has turned into a conspiracy-theory-generating machine for feverish right-wingers. And his latest filing raises the question of whether that is by design.
Putting together all the allegations and suggestions—a tech exec possibly tied to the Clinton campaign “exploiting” data related to the White House and Trump Tower—right-wing journalists reached a dramatic conclusion: The Clintonites hacked Trump at his home (or office) and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and spied on him. But this leap was based on cyber ignorance and possibly misinformation presented by Durham.
Prosecutors have much discretion when it comes to telling the stories of their cases. They can stick to the narrow specifics of the allegations. They can elaborate. Through his tenure as special consul, Durham has chosen to use narrow indictments to disseminate information that suggests wider conspiracies. That ought to place a weighty burden on him to be fair and accurate—and to not feed any partisan conspiracy fever. Yet Durham’s latest filing falls short of that standard and fuels the suspicion that he might be more conspirator than investigator.

Fox News Goes Hog-Wild With Exaggerations About the Durham Probe

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-goes-hog-wild-with-exaggerations-about-the-john-durham-filing

Fox News and the conservative media ecosystem have been absolutely on fire this week over Special Counsel John Durham’s latest court filing, claiming his Friday night pretrial motion explicitly shows that former President Donald Trump was right all along that he was spied upon by Democrats.
Since Fox News published a widely misleading article about the Durham filing, which suggests the special counsel’s filing says that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign “infiltrated” Trump’s White House servers, the network has run wall-to-wall coverage declaring the “bombshell” story “bigger than Watergate” while chastising other media outlets for ignoring it.

Needless to say, Fox News’ own coverage of what it describes as a “massive scandal” has not only been largely exaggerated but has run the gamut from disingenuous to entirely false.

Federal judge orders John Eastman to detail legal work for Trump

 https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/14/john-eastman-jan-6-investigation-00008560

Eastman has tried to withhold the emails, held by his former employer Chapman University, by citing attorney-client and attorney work-product privileges.

Eastman became a central player in developing Trump’s legal strategy to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally overturn the 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021. Pence, who presided over a joint session of Congress that day required to finalize Joe Biden’s victory, ultimately refused to go along, despite pressure from Trump and his allies. But his decision inflamed a pro-Trump mob that had encircled the Capitol and preceded a violent breach that threatened the transfer of power.

Letter noted that Eastman has publicly described himself as Trump’s lawyer but has not specified whether the relationship was ever formalized by a retainer agreement or whether Eastman represented Trump himself, the presidency or the Trump campaign — or some combination. The answer could bear on which documents could be construed as legitimately privileged.

Israel to provide free couples counseling - but only for LGBTs

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/322389

The "Lanetzach Nisha'eir" association is now offering free couples counseling to LGBT couples - paid for by Israel's Welfare Ministry.

Couples counseling is not available for free, or funded by the government, for heterosexual couples, other than those who have open files with CPS.

An announcement sent to members of Israel's LGBT community read: "LGBT couples face unique challenges and difficulties, stemming from the cultural, social, and legal context in Israel and from life in a reality where there is widespread stigma, discrimination, and ignorance against LGBTs."

"The Clinic for the Gay Family in honor of Amir Fryszer Guttman and in cooperation with the Welfare Ministry, is offering a package of professional, available, and reliable support and advice to arrange life as a couple and a family, on the emotional level, on the relationship or parenting level, and on the legal level. We invite you to couples counseling at no cost, which will be provided for the purpose of providing support and professional and personal accompaniment."

Israeli government moves to get haredi men out of the kollel, into the office

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-696557

The future may hold less mandatory study time for Torah scholars, following a statement from Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman to the Knesset Economics Committee on Tuesday in which he addressed the issue of employment for haredi (ultra-Orthodox) men in the labor force.

The Finance Ministry intends to reduce the number of study hours required to receive a scholarship from the government, Liberman said, adding that the reduction in required daily learning time could be as drastic as 50%.

“That is, for about 20 hours they will get the same as if they studied for 40 hours,” he said. “This will allow them to go out to work.”

Anti-vaxxer nonsense

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DR. BEN MARBLE: THEY HAVE ALREADY DOSED HALF THE PLANET WITH SLOW ACTING LETHAL INJECTIONS!

ATHLETE'S HEARTS FAILING - DOCUMENTED TIMELINE MARCH 2021 - JANUARY 2022

DR. JANE RUBY SHOW: CANCER EXPLODING IN THE BOOSTED AND HIV IN THE JABS!

‘Contact Your Doctor…No Time to Wait’: Pfizer Issues Urgent Warning about Pulmonary Embolisms Caused by Blood Clots
Pfizer has issued an ominous public warning about “deep vein thrombosis,” in what appears to confirm another so-called conspiracy theory that has been circulating for months.

Pfizer posted the warning on Twitter about deep vein thrombosis, the medical term for a blood clot in a deep vein, traveling to the lungs and causing a pulmonary embolism. They said if any individuals are having trouble breathing or experiencing chest pain, they should call a medical professional immediately.

“Contact your doctor if experiencing symptoms—this is no time to wait,” Pfizer stated.
Big League Politics has reported on how official propaganda organs like the CDC are trying to get ahead of the issue of blood clots being potentially caused by experimental COVID-19 vaccines:

“The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made an online post last Thursday announcing that anybody can get a blood clot, even if they are healthy and in peak physical condition. The post advised all Americans to watch out and defend themselves against “life-threatening blood clots.”

“#DYK that anyone can develop a blood clot?” wrote the CDC on Twitter. “Whether you’re an athlete or a fan, don’t let a blood clot ruin the big game this weekend. Learn how to protect your health.”

A small text entry featured on the CDC’s post image claims that “everyone is at a risk for blood clots,” and that “even the healthiest athletes get blood clots.”

SPIKE PROTEIN WILL KILL BILLIONS - SAYS DOCTOR WHO HAS TREATED OVER 6000 COVID PATIENTS
DR SHANKARA CHETTY

FAUCI TELLING THE TRUTH HERE -GLOBALISTS ARE DESPERATE TO PURGE THIS VIDEO FROM THE INTERNET AND HISTORY
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BREAKING:ANNA FOSTER EMBALMER - 93% OF CASES HAVE DEADLY CLOTS CAUSED BY THE COVID GENE SHOT

Anna Foster is an embalmer with 11 years of experience in Carrollton, MO. She speaks out for the first time in this exclusive interview. The big news is that she found the unusual clots in 93% of the last 30 people who she embalmed. The clots are only associated with people who have been vaccinated. They were only observed after the vaccines rolled out.

This is a massive health issue since it is killing a huge number of people. All her embalmer friends have noticed it and have never seen it before in their careers.

The clots are life threatening and are almost certainly the root cause of death in these people.

The doctors and coroners in her area are completely unaware of the problem.

When 93% of people who die are killed by a single cause, this merits immediate investigation.

However, I am certain that the CDC and all legacy media will continue to ignore this story.

Therefore, I will continue to interview more and more embalmers who will relate the same story as you will learn in this video.

I am hopeful that after 100 embalmers say similar things, someone in Congress will take action on what is likely the most serious preventable health problem in our nation's history.

See my Substack article on this at: 
108 SOCCER PLAYERS (DEAD FROM HEART FAILURE) SINCE VAX ROLLOUT

SO WHAT IF YOU WERE TO SCAN FOR BLUE TOOTH DEVICES ON A PLANE IN FLIGHT ? WOW !!

CANADA CONFISCATED! TRUDEAU TAKES PUSH FROM JOE & APPOINTS HIMSELF DICTATOR RIGHT AFTER THIS HAPPENS (THIS IS A FULL SOVIET LIKE TAKEOVER!)

DR. HODKINSON IN CANADA

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Is the Durham Filing the Smoking Gun That Undoes Hillary Clinton?

 https://www.newsweek.com/durham-filing-smoking-gun-that-undoes-hillary-clinton-1679518

Donald Trump and right-wing figures are pointing to a new court filing from Special Counsel John Durham as proof that Hillary Clinton spied on the former president.

"If there really was something that was proprietary that was stolen, they would have indicted this person under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. They didn't. And so you've got to ask yourself, 'What the heck is this?'"

So far, Durham has not charged anyone with spying on Trump. The filing also did not state that any content from White House communications were read or compromised, or that the tech company Joffe worked for was on Clinton's payroll.

Durham also noted in the filing that the DNS lookups started as early as 2014, when Barack Obama was in office, and continued until early 2017.

Still, Trump said the filing is "indisputable evidence" of wrongdoing by Clinton and suggested that "in a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death."

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Jury Rejects Sarah Palin’s Lawsuit Against New York Times

 https://hamodia.com/2022/02/15/jury-rejects-sarah-palins-lawsuit-against-new-york-times/

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lost her libel lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday when a jury rejected her claim that the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation by erroneously linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting.

A judge had already declared that if the jury sided with Palin, he would set aside its verdict on the grounds that she hadn’t proven the paper acted maliciously, something required in libel suits involving public figures.

Schools cancel visit of rabbi accused of making homophobic statements

 https://www.thejc.com/family-and-education/all/schools-cancel-visit-of-rabbi-accused-of-making-homophobic-statements-45aPyebqKLhmkwVvFulKXu

At least two Jewish schools have cancelled a visit by a Chasidic rabbi from Jerusalem who has been accused of making homophobic statements.

In 2015, the Israeli news site Ynet reported that Rabbi Horowitz, when asked about equal rights for same-sex couples, had suggested it would be as inconceivable as granting rights for murderers.

"There is a community which wants to murder other people," he told the newspaper. "It's their nature and they must murder – so we should give them equality? Why give them equality, because they are murderers?”

Religious gay men had the option of either suppressing their desire or marrying a woman.”Some women want sons, and they don't care how they do it," he was quoting as saying. "Some women don't really want a relationship with a man, so it's possible.”

Donald Trump Would Have Been Executed Over Server Access Claims, Son Says

 https://www.newsweek.com/eric-trump-capital-punishment-servers-durham-clinton-1679290

Fox News had reported the claims as Clinton's presidential campaign paying a technology company to "infiltrate" servers tied to Trump, despite the word "infiltrate" not appearing in the motion.

In a statement to The Washington Post, a spokesman for Joffe said: "Contrary to the allegations in this recent filing, Mr. Joffe is an apolitical Internet security expert with decades of service to the U.S. Government who has never worked for a political party, and who legally provided access to DNS data obtained from a private client that separately was providing DNS services to the Executive Office of the President (EOP)."

The statement added that Joffe's contract meant he had lawful access to analyze DNS data in order to identify and analyze security breaches or threats.