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our national holidays, Memorial Day, I want to remind you that the National
Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force will have a very special event, “Flags
for the Fallen: 26,000 Flags – One Mission,” beginning Thursday, May 27 with
a flyover of a B-52 bomber at 10 a.m., through Memorial Day, May 31.
The June Chapter Dinner will feature Dr. Vivian Rogers-Price, the Director of
the Museum’s Research Center. Vivian will discuss the new Clayton Knight art
exhibit.
We will continue with limited mitigation procedures. We ask that you use exact
cash or check and credit cards will now be accepted. Masks are recommended
but not required when entering the museum. Please reserve your spot by calling
Carolyn Steigmeier.
Chapter Dinner: Tuesday, June 15
Guest Speaker: Dr. Vivian Rogers-Price
Location: Mighty 8th Museum
Cash Bar: 5:30 pm
Dinner: 6:30 pm
Cost: $15
RSVP: Carolyn Steigmeier
914-787-9542
Great times ahead,
Andy
Andy Steigmeier
Creative Director, Contrails
Board Member, The Birthplace Chapter
The 8th Air Force Historical Society
914-787-9543
The trouble with today is the following dictates:.
I wanted to find out what he learned about the origins of the Steele dossier. Mr. Meier, a retired New York Times
reporter, does not blow any lids off but he makes it harder not to see that the vital and indispensable element of
Christopher Steele’s method—and Glenn Simpson’s method—was flagrant, out-and-out pretense about who Mr.
Steele’s sources were.
He didn’t have any meaningful sources; the implication that he was tapping a network from his years as a British
operative or was actively developing and assessing new sources appears to be entirely misleading. It’s time to say
that just asking anybody with a Russian surname to say something bad about Donald Trump and Russia is not the
same as developing “intelligence.” Mr. Steele would be better off today reputation-wise if he could claim he was a
victim of Kremlin disinformation. At least he could say it took a large and capable national intelligence service to
make a fool or worse out of him.
Mr. Meier thinks the story here is the nefarious corporate intelligence sector that Mr. Simpson represents; I thought
from day one it was about the kind of grifters and wannabes who are always approaching journalists claiming secret
knowledge and top-level contacts.
Whatever his former employment a decade earlier, that’s what Mr. Steele had become.
Messrs. Steele and Simpson didn’t find the press idiots they were looking for before the 2016 election; it took Buzz
Feed publishing the dossier weeks later for professional skepticism to go out the window. Nor does anybody need
to be surprised that the press isn’t in a rage now to expose the Steele charade. Mr. Simpson and his media toadies
can still be heard saying that, even if Mr. Steele’s “raw intelligence” was wrong, he was right about the big thing,
Russian election meddling on Mr. Trump’s behalf. It’s hard to exaggerate how disingenuous this is. I’ve previously
quoted my own email to colleagues just weeks after Mr. Trump’s escalator ride in 2015 saying it looked like Putin’s
trolls were getting on-board. The Putin regime likes using the internet to make trouble—this was already well
understood. Mr. Steele’s own fables wouldn’t have been briefly saleable otherwise.
Another slim reed of media self-respect is the false alternative: If you question Mr. Steele, you are a Trump
supporter. Cable networks tell you they don’t operate on so flimsy an intellectual basis. Don’t believe them.
In Mr. Meier’s book, Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer who worked with Mr. Simpson and later visited
Trump Tower, chortles quite properly over the thought of the “talented” Mr. Steele, without relevant contacts,
uncovering a Trump-Putin conspiracy that eluded all of Western intelligence. When U.S. resources were
eventually engaged, Mr. Steele’s claims were found by the Justice Department’s inspector general to be mostly
false, unverifiable or drawn from publicly available information. The FBI’s Peter Strzok, on tracking down Mr.
Steele’s key “sub source,” recognized that Mr. Steele was “not in a position to judge the reliability” of the hearsay
he was passing along.
I could go on. If Mr. Steele had real contacts, he wouldn’t have relied on an itinerant junior Washington analyst
and émigré (who Mr. Steele falsely claimed was Russia-based), whose sources were drinking buddies and a
girlfriend in Cyprus; Mr. Simpson wouldn’t have desperately outed and inflated the role of Sergei Millian, a U.S.-
real estate broker with modest ties to Mr. Trump, in what Mr. Meier portrays as an attempt to intimate to media
friends that Mr. Steele had real sources.
The real story emerges in Mr. Meier’s book. Mr. Steele was selling a shopworn image of himself as a former
intelligence agent. He did no real work. Mr. Simpson was not drawing on his experience as an investigative
reporter. They were two empty husks selling a lazily packaged collection of lazy lies to intellectually lazy
journalists. Now Messrs. Steele and Simpson will spend the rest of their lives lying to themselves about the
work they didn’t do, how they sold the last shreds of their reputations for a check whose size would not wow
any reader of this newspaper.
On this point, Mr. Meier describes a crucial epilogue—Mr. Simpson’s formation, immediately after the dossier
became public in early 2017, of a dark-money operation, the Democracy Integrity Project, reportedly funded by
Rob Reiner, George Soros and various liberal groups to funnel millions to Messrs. Steele and Simpson over the
next year. The likely purpose, I submit, was to keep them on the reservation. The sum they received from the
Hillary campaign and Democratic Party for creating the dossier was a pittance against the personal stakes for
both men now that it had blown up in their faces. They couldn’t be allowed to be tempted by the big payday that
might be dangled by some conservative outlet or publisher for telling the tawdry truth about the Steele dossier, a
sellout that would have been entirely in character for either man.
And:
More truth but , again, TNLM's
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HOOVER DAILY REPRT:
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley has just published Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, the
definitive account of the life of Hoover senior fellow Thomas Sowell. In this wide-ranging interview, Peter
Robinson and Riley discuss the events and people that helped Sowell become one of the most important
American voices on cultural, economic, and racial matters of the last 50 years.
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I am currently reading a book about how China intends to dominate the world and make all nations
submissive and subservient to them. I will give a brief review when I finish. Technical and over my head
but I do understand the essence. Recommend it to those who want a different perspective on what China
is doing, how they have planned and now are executing.
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DUH! Liberals are even dumber than I thought.
Liberal
Cities “Defund The Police” – Try Not To Laugh At The Results
BY Crystal
Liberals in big cities are finally starting to figure out what the police are for. Violent crime in several of their
cities has risen in the last year.
What’s the reason for this rise? Well, those are the cities that bought into the “Defund the Police” idea. The
left apparently had no idea that having a well-funded police force puts a stop to crime. They live in a fantasy
world where people will just be nicer if you
ask them to do so.
“The violence needs to stop, its unacceptable. People deserve to feel safe in their neighborhood,
they deserve to be able to send their kids out to the sidewalk to play and to recreate without bullets
flying by. That’s unacceptable. We should be holding these perpetrators accountable,” Minneapolis
Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, said at a May 7 news conference addressing a spate of violence that
ripped through the
city.
Frey put much of the blame of rising crime rates on activists’ calls to defund the police in the wake
of George Floyd’s death. Floyd’s death last year kicked off massive riots and calls to redirect police
funding toward social programs. Violent crime surged 21% in Minneapolis last year, and the trend is
threatening to continue through
2021.
We told them this is exactly what would happen! They wanted to take their little experiment to the entire
country, but Thankfully Republicans wouldn’t move aside. If they did, the woke machine would have let
criminals run wild on all of us.
Portland has been having a heck of a time too, if recent videos are any indication. After officials decided to
defund the police, Los Angeles’ crime rate has shot up 36%. You have to wonder how their politicians didn’t
know this would happen. They were
probably trying so hard to “keep an open mind” that their brains fell out.
When it comes right down to it, though, Democrats will still make sure they get police protection for
themselves. They just would rather your families didn’t. More criminals being allow to get away with crimes
means more left-wing votes!
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