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Watch: CNN Cuts Tulsi Gabbard Off as She Lays Out the Inconvenient Facts of the Russia Hoax
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We know...."All citizens are equal, but some are more equal than others." It was easier in the Russiagate collusion for them to just pretend to be American citizens on social media. A lot of that going around, um?
By April 19, 2019, The New York Times had documented that "Donald J. Trump and 18 of his associates had at least 140 contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition."[27]
The Moscow Project – an initiative of the Center for American Progress Action Fund – had, by June 3, 2019, documented "272 contacts between Trump's team and Russia-linked operatives ... including at least 38 meetings.... None of these contacts were ever reported to the proper authorities. Instead, the Trump team tried to cover up every single one of them."[28]
In late 2015, the British eavesdropping agency GCHQ, during the course of routine surveillance of "known Kremlin operatives already on the grid", used "electronic intelligence" to collect information from these Russian targets. They found that "Russians were talking to people associated with Trump...According to sources in the US and the UK, [the conversations] formed a suspicious pattern."[6] The British passed this information about "suspicious 'interactions'" between "members of Donald Trump's campaign team" and "known or suspected Russian agents" to US intelligence agencies.[6][5]
Over the next six months, European and Australian allies began to "pass along information about people close to Mr. Trump meeting with Russians in the Netherlands, Britain and other countries."[7] Reports of these "contacts between Trump's inner circle and Russians" were shared by seven allied foreign intelligence agencies (reportedly those of the United Kingdom, Germany, Estonia, Poland, Australia, France, and the Netherlands).[6][5] The New York Times also reported that British and Dutch agencies had evidence of meetings between "Russian officials – and others close to Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin – and associates of President-elect Trump".[7]
James Clapper confirmed that the following information was "accurate" and "also quite sensitive": "Over the spring of 2016, multiple European allies passed on additional information to the United States about contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians."[29]
Later, U.S. intelligence overheard Russians, some of them within the Kremlin, discussing contacts with Trump associates,[6][5] with some Russian officials arguing about how much to interfere in the election.[7]
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Eight Trump underlings were convicted because of their contacts with Russian agents. Two Russian intelligence officers were recorded by the CIA, congratulating themselves on their success in making Trump president. The Russians certainly thought the collusion was effective.
Number of contacts by Trump associates with Russians
By April 19, 2019, The New York Times had documented that "Donald J. Trump and 18 of his associates had at least 140 contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition."[27]
The Moscow Project – an initiative of the Center for American Progress Action Fund – had, by June 3, 2019, documented "272 contacts between Trump's team and Russia-linked operatives ... including at least 38 meetings.... None of these contacts were ever reported to the proper authorities. Instead, the Trump team tried to cover up every single one of them."[28]
2015–2016 foreign surveillance of Russian targets
In late 2015, the British eavesdropping agency GCHQ, during the course of routine surveillance of "known Kremlin operatives already on the grid", used "electronic intelligence" to collect information from these Russian targets. They found that "Russians were talking to people associated with Trump...According to sources in the US and the UK, [the conversations] formed a suspicious pattern."[6] The British passed this information about "suspicious 'interactions'" between "members of Donald Trump's campaign team" and "known or suspected Russian agents" to US intelligence agencies.[6][5]
Over the next six months, European and Australian allies began to "pass along information about people close to Mr. Trump meeting with Russians in the Netherlands, Britain and other countries."[7] Reports of these "contacts between Trump's inner circle and Russians" were shared by seven allied foreign intelligence agencies (reportedly those of the United Kingdom, Germany, Estonia, Poland, Australia, France, and the Netherlands).[6][5] The New York Times also reported that British and Dutch agencies had evidence of meetings between "Russian officials – and others close to Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin – and associates of President-elect Trump".[7]
James Clapper confirmed that the following information was "accurate" and "also quite sensitive": "Over the spring of 2016, multiple European allies passed on additional information to the United States about contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians."[29]
Later, U.S. intelligence overheard Russians, some of them within the Kremlin, discussing contacts with Trump associates,[6][5] with some Russian officials arguing about how much to interfere in the election.[7]
Links between Trump associates and Russian officials - Wikipedia
Eight Trump underlings were convicted because of their contacts with Russian agents. Two Russian intelligence officers were recorded by the CIA, congratulating themselves on their success in making Trump president. The Russians certainly thought the collusion was effective.
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Look who's side God is no now.
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Whoa. Thats quite a response. I will give it proper attention later when I have the time, even if I continue to check in and make quick comments on other things.You misunderstand. The law, all of it is meant to be guide us to the understanding we cannot be good enough and to provide guidance and lessons. The law is broken down into three parts. Moral, ceremonial and judgements. All meant to show how we are not able to be righteous and how we are under judgement and what judgements we deserve. That a sacrifice was required in order for us to be able to have any kind of relationship with a holy God.
When Christ came he provided the sacrifice once for all and became the new high priest. And a new covenant was created through him. Those in HIM have received the new covenant. This does not apply to unbelievers.
Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God. And inasmuch as it is not without the taking of an oath (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him that saith of him,The Lord sware and will not repent himself,Thou art a priest for ever); by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
Bible Gateway passage: Hebrews 7:11, Hebrews 7:12, Hebrews 7:18, Hebrews 7:19, Hebrews 7:20, Hebrews 7:21, Hebrews 7:22 - American Standard Version
Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?www.biblegateway.com
And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly: that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Bible Gateway passage: Romans 5:20, Romans 5:21 - American Standard Version
And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet: but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead. And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died; and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death: for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me. So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;—that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
Bible Gateway passage: Romans 7:5, Romans 7:6, Romans 7:7, Romans 7:8, Romans 7:9, Romans 7:10, Romans 7:11, Romans 7:12, Romans 7:13 - American Standard Version
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh. Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance made of sins year by year. For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith,Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not,But a body didst thou prepare for me; In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hadst no pleasure: Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is written of me)To do thy will, O God. Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law), then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Bible Gateway passage: Hebrews 10:1, Hebrews 10:2, Hebrews 10:3, Hebrews 10:4, Hebrews 10:5, Hebrews 10:6, Hebrews 10:7, Hebrews 10:8, Hebrews 10:9, Hebrews 10:10 - American Standard Version
For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
For all have sinned and fallen short. Jesus said the world is condemned already. How do we know that. Apart from the law there is no judgement. It is is only by Christ that we are set free. In Christ we are set free from the first and established into the new.
Because I have accepted Christ as my sacrifice I am under the new covenant established by him and am no longer under the old law. It is as I said simply before. He is my righteousness now. Not myself.
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Look who's side God is no now.
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You misunderstand. The law, all of it is meant to be guide us to the understanding we cannot be good enough and to provide guidance and lessons. The law is broken down into three parts. Moral, ceremonial and judgements. All meant to show how we are not able to be righteous and how we are under judgement and what judgements we deserve. That a sacrifice was required in order for us to be able to have any kind of relationship with a holy God.
When Christ came he provided the sacrifice once for all and became the new high priest. And a new covenant was created through him. Those in HIM have received the new covenant. This does not apply to unbelievers.
Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God. And inasmuch as it is not without the taking of an oath (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him that saith of him,The Lord sware and will not repent himself,Thou art a priest for ever); by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
Bible Gateway passage: Hebrews 7:11, Hebrews 7:12, Hebrews 7:18, Hebrews 7:19, Hebrews 7:20, Hebrews 7:21, Hebrews 7:22 - American Standard Version
Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?
And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly: that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Bible Gateway passage: Romans 5:20, Romans 5:21 - American Standard Version
And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet: but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead. And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died; and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death: for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me. So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;—that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
Bible Gateway passage: Romans 7:5, Romans 7:6, Romans 7:7, Romans 7:8, Romans 7:9, Romans 7:10, Romans 7:11, Romans 7:12, Romans 7:13 - American Standard Version
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh. Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance made of sins year by year. For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith,Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not,But a body didst thou prepare for me; In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hadst no pleasure: Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is written of me)To do thy will, O God. Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law), then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Bible Gateway passage: Hebrews 10:1, Hebrews 10:2, Hebrews 10:3, Hebrews 10:4, Hebrews 10:5, Hebrews 10:6, Hebrews 10:7, Hebrews 10:8, Hebrews 10:9, Hebrews 10:10 - American Standard Version
For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
For all have sinned and fallen short. Jesus said the world is condemned already. How do we know that. Apart from the law there is no judgement. It is is only by Christ that we are set free. In Christ we are set free from the first and established into the new.
Because I have accepted Christ as my sacrifice I am under the new covenant established by him and am no longer under the old law. It is as I said simply before. He is my righteousness now. Not myself.
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Hegseth to Return Memorial Biden Tore Down in Arlington National Cemetery
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As for what the monument meant to the UDC that erected it, the History of the Arlington Confederate Monument, published by the UDC shortly after it was put in place, should be considered definitive.
[In 1898, President McKinley suggested in a speech that Confederate soldiers be interred in Arlington. [A few UDC objected to having their ancestors' remains planted alongside Yankees, but ultimately this was done.]
After the Confederate section had been completed, with a mound in the center for a monument, the monument be- came a certainty.
[Speech at the laying of the cornerstone]
"It is to these soldiers that we are to erect this monument
the rank and file of the Confederate armies—the men whose
courage and devotion lifted Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney
Johnston, Joseph E. Johnston and Stonewall Jackson higher
and higher till they wrote their names among the stars.
"The memorial is being constructed on his own design at Rome,Italy,bythegreatartist.SirMosesEzekiel. Thechief figure is that of a woman, representing the South; her ex- tended left hand holds a wreath of laurel with which to crown the Confederate dead
The 'reconciliation' is that Arlington allowed the Confederates in. The monument itself is one to the Southern dead alone. However, it came with a side order of revisionist history and racial caricature, which is why it was decided it should be removed.
[In 1898, President McKinley suggested in a speech that Confederate soldiers be interred in Arlington. [A few UDC objected to having their ancestors' remains planted alongside Yankees, but ultimately this was done.]
After the Confederate section had been completed, with a mound in the center for a monument, the monument be- came a certainty.
[Speech at the laying of the cornerstone]
"It is to these soldiers that we are to erect this monument
the rank and file of the Confederate armies—the men whose
courage and devotion lifted Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney
Johnston, Joseph E. Johnston and Stonewall Jackson higher
and higher till they wrote their names among the stars.
"The memorial is being constructed on his own design at Rome,Italy,bythegreatartist.SirMosesEzekiel. Thechief figure is that of a woman, representing the South; her ex- tended left hand holds a wreath of laurel with which to crown the Confederate dead
The 'reconciliation' is that Arlington allowed the Confederates in. The monument itself is one to the Southern dead alone. However, it came with a side order of revisionist history and racial caricature, which is why it was decided it should be removed.
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