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“Swollen Asian Eyes” – Campaign 2020 Reporter Has History of Racist Tweets

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In a pattern all too familiar, the person calling out others has her own offense Tweets. Alexi McCammond, a reporter covering the presidential race for Axios, called out Charles Barkley for a vulgar and offensive remark. Barkley apologized.

Ms. McCammond has her own history of racist tweets that she should apologize for as well.

(Update: After publication Ms. McCammond deleted her tweets.)

 

In one Tweet McCammond said she wanted to learn how to avoid “swollen Asian eyes.”

https://twitter.com/alexi/status/109895921164234752

Now I don’t find these Tweets offensive, although they are racist and rely on racial stereotypes.

https://twitter.com/alexi/status/133951437653807104

Being upset as a TA isn’t anything newsworthy, although referencing his Asian ethnicity seems problematic.

https://twitter.com/alexi/status/125403195617984512

Ms. McCammond has apologized for her history of racist Tweets.

 

“Chow Thief” – Rangers Wanted Alexander Vindman Removed from Ranger School

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Alexander Vindman was a “chow thief,” and “lazy,” a classmate of his at Ranger School told me. The Ranger (Scroll and Tab with multiple deployments) went on, “We tried peering him out in Mountains.” Mountains refers to the Mountain Phase of Ranger School.

Chow thieves steal MREs from other Rangers and are notorious in Ranger School, where students are subjected to near-starvation conditions. It’s not uncommon for students to lose up to 40 pounds, and most students lose 20 pounds.

During Ranger School, the people who don’t use team work and screw others over are often voted out of Ranger School in a process known as peer evaluations.

Despite not having the respect of his peers, Vindman was pushed through due to his language proficiency.

Where is Vindman’s Bronze Star? 

A field grade special operations soldier asked me why Vindman didn’t have a Bronze Star. Officers who serve in a command position are usually given a Bronze Star for meritorious service.

The process of awarding officers a Bronze Star has recently become a controversial one, with many enlisted men viewing the practice as unfair, especially when awarded to officers who weren’t under active enemy fire.

At the time of VIndman’s command, the practice was still common, and Vindman should have a Bronze Star.

This is seen as a red flag to senior officers.

Rank checking civilians.

During his testimony at the House Intelligence Committee, Vindman ranked checked a member of Congress. “Rank checking” is when an officer demands you call them by their title, much like someone in a PhD. in English insists you refer to them as Doctor.

Special Forces veteran Tim Kennedy found this Vindman’s checking to be a bad look, as did nearly every other veteran who wrote into me expressing their embarrassment over Vindman.

 

I was initially reluctant to report these details out.

Vindman has a CIB (Combat Infantry Man’s Badge) and Ranger tab. I’m reluctant to criticize anyone’s service, let alone someone with a CIB and Tab.

Several members of Ranger battalion felt he was giving all Rangers a bad name.

“The Rangers in the private groups are all calling him the fat officer or fat colonel,” one source told me, “You need to get this story out.”

Mike Cernovich is a journalist, author, and filmmaker. You can support his work here.

2017 Cernovich Article – Meet Eric Ciaramella — H.R. McMaster Appoints Susan Rice Ally to be his Personal Aide

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In the Summer 2017 I published this article about Eric Ciaramella on another platform. Has it aged well? Read it and then let me know. (You can fund honest journalism here.)

Meet Eric Ciaramella — H.R. McMaster Appoints Susan Rice Ally to be his Personal Aide

West Wing officials confirmed to Cernovich Media that Eric Ciaramella, who worked closely with Susan Rice while at NSC, was recently promoted to be H.R. McMaster’s personal aide. Ciaramella will have unfettered access to McMaster’s conversations with foreign leaders.

Ciaramella’s ascension is surprising considering pro-Trump sources within the Obama administration disclosed to me in December, 2016 that Ciaramella’s helped draft Susan Rice’s anti-Trump talking points before the Inauguration.

In fall of 2016 as Obama’s director for Ukraine on the NSC, Ciaramella was the main force pushing Trump-Russia conspiracy theories.

Some suspect Ciaramella was one of the original leakers who told the media about classified conversations Trump had with Russian diplomat Sergei Lavrov. While it’s unproven that Ciaramella leaked that conversation, it is now a fact of life that he will have access to every conversation Trump has with foreign officials, as part of his official duties for McMaster.

When this story first came to me, my question was, “This is a huge personnel move. Why hasn’t Politico run it?”

My sources told me other outlets passed on the story, because, “This isn’t the type of information the mainstream media wants out there.”

Staunchly pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia, Ciaramella is the media’s dream, which explains why this high-profile personnel move hasn’t been covered in any mainstream media outlets.

The only result for Ciaramella in Google News is a 2015 article about a meeting of religious leaders from the Ukraine meeting with Barack Obama.

As a student at Yale, Ciaramella was a social justice activist.

Students convened outside Silliman at 9 a.m., all dressed in white to symbolize their future goal of bridging the gap between the United States and the Middle East through the use of the Arab language, said Eric Ciaramella ’08, one of the students who led the protest.

Nothing in his resume indicates that Ciaramella will put America First, and his entire life arc indicates he will sabotage Trump and leak information to the press whenever possible.

McMaster has been stacking the NSC with anti-Trump Republicans, Susan Rice allies, and Obama holdovers. President Trump’s America First foreign policy has been called “naive” by McMaster, who wants to make the NSC Democrat again — an obvious joke among staffers as the NSC is overwhelming left wing.

McMaster recently hired a Hamas sympathizer Kris Bauman, who earlier said that, “The Obama Administration must find creative (but legal) ways to include Hamas in a solution.”

McMaster tried hiring Benghazi liar Linda Weissgold to work for him at the NSC.

Weissgold apparently had a good interview with McMaster, as she was overheard saying as she left the White House she would next have to “talk to Pompeo” — as in Mike Pompeo, the director of the CIA. But Weissgold was never offered the job; days later, Trump himself overruled the effort to move Cohen-Watnick out of his senior director role.

During the Obama administration Weissgold served as director of the CIA’s Office of Terrorism Analysis. She was among those who briefed Congress following the Benghazi terrorist attack in 2012, a team of intelligence and military experts who reportedly earned the nickname “the dream team” within the administration.

In addition to stacking the NSC with pro-Susan Rice, anti-Trump figures, McMaster has also tried purging anyone loyal to Trump.

McMaster had the security clearance of Adam Lovinger revoked after Lovinger attended a bar mitzvah in Israel.

Pro-Trump Robin Townley also had his security clearance revoked without any good reason.

A senior administration official tells ABC News that Robin Townley had his request for special security clearance denied by the CIA. The move will prevent Townley from being able to serve in the NSC post. Townley currently maintains an active top secret security clearance, but it was his request was for “Sensitive Compartmented Information” clearance that was rejected, the source says.

McMaster killed the pro-Trump “war room.”

The White House is about to set up a ‘war room’ to battle the emerging challenges. ‘Since the firing of [FBI Director James] Comey, that really exposed the fact that the White House in its current structure … is not prepared for really a one-front war, let alone a two-front war,’ a source told Reuters. ‘They need to have a structure in place that allows them to stay focused’ while ‘also truly fighting back on these attacks and these leaks.’ ‘Obviously you want it [unity] under different circumstances but it’s really united this team and helped bring clarity to their focus,’ the source added.

Trump officials planned to set up a “war room” devoted to rapid response media messaging.

McMaster personally intervened to torpedo the war room. McMaster has also been orchestrating leaks about Trump to the press through David Petraeus’s firm KKR.

The Pentagon stalled Trump’s plan to pin a fourth star on McMaster, as the Army views him as unfit for command.

Mike Cernovich is a journalist, author, and filmmaker. You can support his work here.

Vaxxed 2 – Dangerous Misinformation or a Call for Conversation?

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One shouldn’t have to preface a film review with disclaimers, but I’ve noticed that anyone who even reviews a film about vaccines is called anti-vaxx. I am pro-vaccines. I am also someone who reports on controversial movements, and while censorship of conservatives gets headlines, vaccine skeptics (or if you prefer “anti-vaxxers”) have been banned far more aggressively than Ben Shapiro.

Vaxxed 2 was a compelling movie that focused on the stories of families of what they call “vaccine-injured children.”

What I’ve learned covering this movement is that almost no one is “anti-vaxx.” They are “ex-vaxx.”

They took perfectly healthy children in for their shots, and suddenly noticed horrific reactions. Some of these reactions have led to lifelong conditions. Are all of these mothers lying, or are they mistaken?

“Correlation isn’t causation,” is what every mid-wit says when discussing vaccine-related issues. But in fact almost every scientific study you rely upon is correlational.

When patterns emerge, you investigate further. Could be a false correlation. You keep searching for the truth.

People find patterns in life that don’t match. Mass hysteria is real. It could be that these mothers claiming to have vaccine-injured children are mistaken about what happened to their children.

Are the moms lying?

Yet rather than talk to these moms – and yes they are always almost moms, which is why the dehumanizing label of anti-vaxxer is rooted in hatred of women – the media dismisses them.

One famous example was when Oliver Darcy of CNN targeted Bill Shine, a White House official, about his wife Darla Shine’s views on vaccines.

Darcy refused to talk to Darla but instead kept asking Bill for comment. How is that not totally sexist and dismissive of women? Is Bill supposed to control his wife or something?

“They would take us seriously if we were men,” is what these women keep repeating, and it’s hard to not believe them.

Vaxxed 2 focuses on the families.

There isn’t much scientific discussion in Vaxxed 2, and as a filmmaker I understand that approach.

Vaxxed 2 instead focuses on families of claimed vaccine-injured children.

I heard sobbing throughout the film, and even I had to turn away once or twice.

Yes, some of these parents lost children. In the case of Christina Tarsell, a court found that Gardasil was linked to the death of a young woman:

The evidence included testimony and reports by experts, reams of studies and medical records. The court determined that we had met our burden of proof according to the law and “Ms. Tarsell is entitled to compensation.” All of the court documents are available on the Court of Federal Claims’ website and on my website at www.gardasil-and-unexplained-deaths.com.

It was determined that Christina died from an arrhythmia induced by cross-reactivity between Gardasil and the calcium channel in her heart. The court paid particular attention as to whether the arrhythmia existed before inoculation with Gardasil. An extensive review of Christina’s 20-year medical history, including 30 specific medical appointments showed no arrhythmia before HPV vaccination (tabulated on page 22 of the judge’s report).

Vaxxed 2 is a moving film, and despite my pro-vaccine views, it left me wondering why the media completely dismisses and silences these mothers.

The mothers could be lying for attention, although I don’t think that, and doubt you will too.

https://twitter.com/RobSchneider/status/1191069914930372608

The mothers could be mistaken.

But it’s a moral travesty that these mothers are ignored.

You can watch the trailer for Vaxxed II here.

https://youtu.be/vH6qQWnnWF0

 

“I’ve gotten clearances for guys who had child p-rn issues,” Whistle Blower’s Lawyer Claims

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The lawyer for the so-called whistleblower posted this shocking admission on Twitter about the nature of some members of the intelligence community:

Many doubted the authenticity of the Tweet when sent a screen shot. As of press time, the Tweet remains up:

The post by Mark S. Zaid is troubling for a number of reasons, including that Zaid thought it worth bragging about.

Despite the obvious criminality of accessing such images, a proclivity for pedophilia also makes someone an easy blackmail target. No one who is attracted to minors should hold a job for both moral and national security reasons.

Yet Zaid admitted that members of the intelligence community are interested in s-xual relations with minors, and that these proclivities are no bar to obtaining access to classified information.

One member of Congress, when alerted to this Tweet, responded to this reporter, “We are sending this to the Boss, and we will be looking into it.”

It will be possible to identify these members of the intelligence community by cross-referencing their names with their lawyers. In that regard, Zaid’s brag may have breached duties owed to clients. He gave enough information to for an internal team to identify how it’s possible for people with “child p-rn issues” to obtain access to state secrets.