• Is it possible that the militia story [about planning to kidnap the governor of Michigan] is another contrived, anti-Trump, smear job by elements within the FBI?
• Current FBI Director Christopher Wray hardly engenders confidence as a strong leader bent on cleaning house and reforming a corrupt agency that attempted a soft coup against the presidency. Wray is all about damage control and institutional preservation. When it comes to honesty, Wray does not have a tough act to follow.
• The FBI’s reputation has been destroyed through blatant politicization. Here are the corrupt political police: Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Clinesmith, Pientka, Brower, Baker, et al. That is a collection of various dirty cops, oath-breakers, coup-plotters, and persons “lacking candor” in FBI parlance.
• Of course, the presumption of innocence is foundational to our system of justice. Comey’s living legacy, and the permanent institutional stain on the FBI more generally, is that we cannot take the Bureau’s claims as truthful. We used to give due credence to sworn Special Agents of the FBI. No more.

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The evidence of Covid-19 Micro-clusters in NYC may indicate not only the “lack of compliance” and the “need for reinforcement” but most importantly the hypothetical connection with some factors at play in certain local areas, like the greater rates of the rodent infestations. This has to be looked into, and the research of this issue should be performed. We do not know much about this “Disease X-19” yet, and we cannot really control “this virus” or any other causative factors yet. We have to keep the open mind and study them objectively, relying on our own experiences. I hope, as the good Governor and the intelligent person, you understand the potential significance of these unknown aspects and the need to study them. I think, we need the NY based internet publication to discuss openly all the issues related to Covid-19, for both the scientists and the general public. Please, see my blogs. 
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NEW YORK (WABC) — As the temperatures begin to drop during the fall season, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York should expect to see a rise in cases due to more people being indoors.

That is why the state is employing a “micro-cluster” strategy to target the spread as opposed to its statewide or regional approach.

“So rather than looking at it on a state level, or regional level, or even a county level, or even neighborhood level, we are now going to analyze it on the block-by-block,” Cuomo said. “But we actually have data that is so specific that we can’t show it, because it would violate privacy conditions. But we know exactly where the cases are coming from.”

This means more targeted testing and mitigation measures that reflect why the virus is spreading in those specific areas, with increased enforcement as well.

“It requires more testing, more targeted testing, and then you have to be responsive to the situations in that specific locality with mitigation measures for that specific locality,” Cuomo said.” But it has the advantage of causing less disruption.”

Cuomo said if there’s a problem in Kew Gardens, Queens, then that’s their issue.

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“Why affect activity in the rest of points,” he said. “Let alone Brooklyn, Bronx, etc., right? So it’s much smarter, it’s more effective. It’s also less disruptive.”

Cuomo explained the keys to the strategy include:

– Refined detection

– Specific mitigation

– Enforcement

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“You have to have refined detection, which is more targeted testing,” he said. “You have to have mitigation measures for those areas that that reflects why the virus is spreading in those areas. And then you have to do enforcement.”

He added the existence of a micro-cluster means a lack of compliance.

The strategy will be essential in

hot spots

 like those in Brooklyn, Queens, Rockland, Orange, Nassau and Broome counties, which are already under restrictions as part of Cuomo’s new cluster action initiative.

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In the past few days, news reports have alerted us to an FBI claim that a militia group was planning to kidnap the governor of Michigan. The Detroit Free Press wrote:

Thirteen members of an anti-government group bent on igniting a civil war are charged in a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who the group targeted in a possible commando raid on the state capitol, according to newly unsealed court records.
Authorities said Thursday that the Wolverine Watchmen group planned on storming either the capitol or Whitmers vacation home as part of a broader mission to instigate a civil war.

Half of the country does not believe the FBI. Is it possible that the militia story is another contrived, anti-Trump, smear job by elements within the FBI? If the FBI headquarters can run a coup against the president, can Michigan FBI agents phony-up some charges against fringe characters with sketchy criminal information?
It would not be the first time. Back on March 29, 2010, the Department of Justice announced the following:

Michigan residents, along with two residents of Ohio and a resident of Indiana, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit on charges of seditious conspiracy, attempted use of weapons of mass destruction, teaching the use of explosive materials, and possessing a firearm during a crime of violence, Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara L. McQuade and FBI Special Agent in Charge Andrew Arena announced today.

The 2010 Michigan militia group called themselves the Hutarees. The case did not end well for the FBI. Charges were dropped. Others from the Hutarees faced lesser charges. Some of the Hutarees ended up suing the government over the investigation and prosecution. It seems the FBI went too far on too little.
Militia is a news media certified code-word for Trump-supporter. FBI-doubters know the bureau launched a sophisticated operation against the Trump campaign, Trump transition, and finally the Trump administration. Even the New York Times admits it. It was a soft coup. The entire criminal conspiracy is being documented now in movies.
The FBIs reputation has been destroyed through blatant politicization. Here are the corrupt political police: Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Clinesmith, Pientka, Brower, Baker, et al. That is a collection of various dirty cops, oath-breakers, coup-plotters, and persons lacking candor in FBI parlance. Those are just some of the FBI headliners no Justice Department names on that list.
Current FBI Director Christopher Wray hardly engenders confidence as a strong leader bent on cleaning house and reforming a corrupt agency that attempted a soft coup against the presidency. Wray is all about damage control and institutional preservation. When it comes to honesty, Wray does not have a tough act to follow. That is why he is comfortable making the demonstrably false claim that Antifa is more of an ideology than a group.
Now we are dealing with reports of the Wolverine Watchmen. Here is the interesting part of one of the news reports where we should pay close attention. (It is also the operational part of the FBIs activities wherein things have a tendency to legally fall apart):

Members of the group bought weapons, conducted surveillance and held training and planning meetings, but they were foiled in part because the FBI infiltrated the group with informants, according to a criminal complaint. Six were charged with federal kidnapping offenses, and at least seven others face state charges. [Emphasis added]

Also pay attention to this excerpt from the news report:

The FBI used confidential informants as part of the investigation and has paid one of them more than $14,000 and paid $8,600 to another, according to the affidavit.

While the anti-Trump media codeword militia is used to describe the alleged plotters video evidence from Twitter and YouTube reveals that one of the leaders is an anarchist, certainly not a right wing Trumpster.
Likewise, more questions are raised about the plotters, their affiliations, and motives with this news report:

One of alleged plotters, 23-year-old Daniel Harris, attended a Black Lives Matter protest in June, telling the Oakland County Times he was upset about the killing of George Floyd and police violence.

Perhaps the FBIs case is 100% true? Perhaps the kidnapping story is legitimate? Perhaps this is not a piece of agitation propaganda? Would a governor cooperate or be complicit in the phony smear? Would the news media blow the anti-Trump dog whistle and blame the president for a kidnapping that never actually happened?
Of course, the presumption of innocence is foundational to our system of justice. Comeys living legacy, and the permanent institutional stain on the FBI more generally, is that we cannot take the Bureaus claims as truthful. We used to give due credence to sworn Special Agents of the FBI. No more.
(Chris Farrell is a former counterintelligence case officer. For the past 20 years, he has served as the Director of Investigations & Research for Judicial Watch)
*The views expressed are the authors alone

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PARIS Nine people have been arrested in connection with the beheading of a French school teacher who had shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils, police said on Saturday.

Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old secondary school history and geography teacher, was killed by a knifeman in the street on Friday afternoon.

French prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said the suspected attacker was an 18-year-old born in Moscow of Chechen origin who was not known to the countrys intelligence services.

He lived with his family in Evreux, Normandy, about 100 kilometers northwest of Paris.

Nine people, including the suspects friends, parents, grandfather and younger brother, have been arrested in connection with the attack.

The father of one of the victims students and another man have also been detained on suspicion of launching a campaign against the teacher after he showed the satirical cartoons to his students.

Ricard explained that Paty had shown the drawings to his class during a lesson on freedom of expression and civil education.

The father of a Muslim student complained on social media, posting several videos in the following days in which he identified the teacher, gave his telephone number and the address of the school where he worked.

He and the other man, who was being monitored by anti-terrorist police, also complained to the school demanding Paty be fired.

Paty was murdered near the College du Bois dAulne where he taught in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, about 30 kilometers from Paris, shortly before 5:00 pm Friday.

A photograph of the beheaded teacher was posted on Twitter moments later.

Police apprehended his suspected killer in the neighboring town of Eragny and he was shot dead after allegedly refusing to comply with instructions and behaving in a threatening manner.

Witnesses reportedly heard the attacker shout Allahu Akbar (God is great in Arabic) during the incident.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen condemned the attack on Saturday, expressing her condolences to those affected and saying her thoughts were with teachers in France and Europe.

Without them, there are no citizens. Without them, there is no democracy, she said in a statement.

French President Emmanuel Macron has described the killing as an Islamist terrorist attack and said the killer wanted to strike down the republic and its values.

French authorities have been on alert since last months start of the trial of 14 people accused of involvement in the January 2015 attacks on the offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket, which left 17 dead.

Charlie Hebdo marked the trial by republishing the Prophet Muhammad caricatures that sparked the 2015 bloodbath and al-Qaeda responded with death threats against the newspapers staff.

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The European Union blacklisted six people in Russia allied to President Vladimir Putin as punishment for the attempted murder of opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
The targets of the EU asset freezes and travel bans imposed on Thursday include Aleksandr Bortnikov, leader of Russias domestic spy agency; Sergei Kiriyenko, first deputy chief of staff in the presidential administration; and Andrei Yarin, head of the presidential administrations domestic policy directorate.

Navalny blames Putin for poisoning, Kremlin calls him CIA asset

The 27-nation bloc also froze the assets of one entity: the State Scientific Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology.
The penalties come nine days after the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed that a military-grade Novichok nerve agent was used to poison Navalny in Russia on Aug. 20. He was then flown to Germany for treatment.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that the government in Moscow would retaliate against the EU with reciprocal sanctions.