The attempt by House Democrats to declare the President mentally incapacitated

This is not "NiceNews"; it's "TruNews".

This report covers all the ironies and contradictions of a political system and country that is in a state of collapse and very vulnerable to actions by its enemies.

It is true that Trump is increasingly erratic and unstable for whatever reason.  At the same time the ongoing attempted coup by the Democrats and the Deep State is very real. We also have a president who has been thoroughly emasculated by the constant attacks against him and whose only outlet is to tweet furiously.  He does not have the power to use the very damaging information that has come out in recent weeks and make arrests; nobody will carry out his wishes.

I commend this report for its balance and attempt to unpack very fast-moving and confusing events.

 NUCLEAR NANCY! SPEAKER PELOSI HINTS PLOT TO REMOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP

Today on TruNews we discuss the attempt by House Democrats to declare the President mentally incapacitated in order to remove him from office through Section 4 of the 25th Amendment. 

We detail the case being made by the communists, including President Trump’s statements about a Biden-Obama coup and coronavirus being a blessing from God, while regular Americans prepare for Civil War. 

Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart, Edward Szall. Airdate 10/08/2020

Watch the broadcast HERE

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/another-coup-trump-slams-crazy-nancy-after-speaker-unveils-25th-amendment-panel

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Maryland Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin announced on Thursday they would be introducing legislation to establish a commission charged with evaluating the president's mental and physical capacity to hold office.

Pelosi and Raskin said they would hold a press conference on Friday announcing introduction of the Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge the Powers and Duties of Office Act.

A press notice announcing the conference noted the commission and process are "called for in the 25th amendment to the US Constitution to enable Congress to help ensure effective and uninterrupted leadership in the highest office in the Executive Branch of government."

​The 25th amendment was ratified in 1967 in the wake of the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy to establish an orderly path of succession in the event the president perishes or becomes unable to perform the duties of office, such as when suffering from an illness.

Section 4 of the amendment describes the process in which other politicians may together determine the president is unfit to perform the duties of office and go about removing them from office, which is set in motion by the "Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide."

The question of US President Donald Trump's fitness to hold office has once again come under scrutiny in the aftermath of his contraction of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus last week, which caused him to spend several days at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and to receive a slew of drugs and even supplemental oxygen for a brief period of time. Trump did not pass executive authority to Vice President Mike Pence during that time, but the symptoms of the illness and potential side-effects of the drugs he was taking caused many to question his ability to do his job.

Earlier on Thursday, Pelosi noted that on Friday "We're going to be talking about the 25th Amendment.” Trump replied to the news in furious Tweet.

​"Crazy Nancy is the one who should be under observation," Trump said. "They don’t call her Crazy for nothing!"

Last year, former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe revealed on CBS' "60 Minutes" that in May 2017, after Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey, he and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein briefly explored using the 25th amendment to remove Trump from office. After Trump appointed Robert Mueller to head the FBI's Russiagate investigation eight days later, their concern was somewhat assuaged.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202010081080711762-us-lawmakers-to-introduce-legislation-on-commission-to-evaluate-presidents-mental-capacity/

Trump’s antibody treatment 

was tested using cells 

originally derived from an 

abortion

The Trump administration has looked to curtail research with fetal cells. But when it was life or death for the president, no one objected.

by Antonio Regalado

MIT Technology Review,

7 October, 2020

This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as “miracles coming down from God.” If that’s true, then God employs cell lines derived from human fetal tissue.

The emergency antibody that Trump received last week was developed with the use of a cell line originally derived from abortion tissue, according to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed the experimental drug.

The Trump administration has taken an increasingly firm line against medical research using fetal tissue from abortions. For example, when it moved in 2019 to curtail the ability of the National Institutes of Health to fund such research, supporters hailed a “major pro-life victory” and thanked Trump personally for taking decisive action against what they called the “outrageous and disgusting” practice of “experimentation using baby body parts.”

But when the president faced a deadly encounter with covid-19, his administration raised no objections over the fact that the new drugs also relied on fetal cells, and anti-abortion campaigners were silent too. Most likely, their hypocrisy was unwitting. Many types of medical and vaccine research employ supplies of cells originally acquired from abortion tissue. It would have taken an expert to realize that was the case with Trump’s treatment.

Last Friday, as Trump developed worrisome symptoms of covid-19, the president received an emergency cocktail of anti-coronavirus antibodies made by Regeneron. These molecules are manufactured in cells from a hamster’s ovary, so-called “CHO” cells, according to the company—not in human cells.

But cells originally derived from a fetus were used in another way. According to Regeneron, laboratory tests used to assess the potency of its antibodies employed a standardized supply of cells called HEK 293T, whose origin was kidney tissue from an abortion in the Netherlands in the 1970s.

Since then, the 293T cells have been “immortalized,” meaning they keep dividing in the lab, somewhat like a cancer, and have undergone other genetic changes and additions.

According to Regeneron, it and many other labs employ 293T cells to manufacture virus “pseudoparticles,” which are virus-like structures that contain the “spike” protein of the deadly coronavirus. It needs those to test how well different antibodies will neutralize the virus.

The two antibodies Regeneron eventually put forward as an experimental treatment, which may have saved Trump’s life, would have been selected using exactly such tests. Because the 293T cells were acquired so long ago, and have lived so long in the laboratory, they are no longer thought of as involving abortion politics.

The rejections centered on research seeking fresh supplies of abortion tissue, rather than ongoing research involving older, well-established cell lines in use for many years, like the type Regeneron employed. However, one reason some scientists want to study abortion tissue is so they can create new and valuable cell lines.

Update: An earlier version of this story was headlined "Trump’s antibody treatment was tested using cells from an abortion." The words "originally derived" were added to clarify that the cells are not from a recent abortion

New Zealand: PM preparing for movement way from democracy

This is the prime minister saying that a National-controlled parliament can ride roughshod over the country’s constitutional arrangement.

He may be talking about one specific issue but what he means is more general than that and he has the TPPA and recolonisation by the corporations in mind

Key: Parliament's wishes 'supreme' over Treaty

Newshub,

21 March, 2016

The Government is caught up in a legal battle over the proposed removal of Maori fishing rights in the Kermadecs, 1000km northeast of New Zealand.

A new sanctuary in the area would see all fishing banned, despite a 1992 Treaty of Waitangi settlement giving all Maori customary and commercial fishing rights.

Just two iwi were consulted on the plans, and Labour MP for Te Tai Tonga, Rino Tirikatene, is appalled.

"These rights are ongoing and evolving. The Crown knows that, they've been caught out, they thought they could pull a swifty on Maori, and they clearly haven't done their homework and they haven't fulfilled their obligations as a good Treaty partner."

The Government's previously said Maori can fish elsewhere because the fish in the sanctuary are migratory species and will move to other parts of the ocean.

Appearing on the Paul Henry programme this morning, Prime Minister John Key said Parliament is "supreme" and can "pass whatever laws it wants".

"This is the single largest gift New Zealand's ever given, if you like, in environmental terms in the ocean. It's massive," he says.

"The argument always seems to me from Maori that they want to preserve the environment for their mokopuna, and here we are doing this thing which is enormous on a world scale."

Papers were filed in the High Court by the Maori Fisheries Trust late last week.

"These are customary rights based on the Treaty," says Mr Tirikatene. "Maori have a reasonable expectation to ensure that these rights exist and will be there for future generations."

Mr Key rejects criticism he should have consulted with more than just two iwi before making the proposal.

"We made the call on what we believe is, I think, a widespread view of New Zealanders that this is the right thing to do. Every single political party in Parliament voted for it. But look, people have the right to test things in court."

The plan covers 620,000 square kilometres in the northeastern corner of New Zealand's exclusive economic zone.

Newshub

PM pays cameraman out in defamation case

http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/03/21/pm-pays-cameraman-out-in-defamation-case/

Bradley Ambrose joins Jon Stephenson and Nicky Hager as journalists who have had to be paid out by the Government or employ legal measures after Key has slandered and denigrated them.

Bradley Ambrose joins Jon Stephenson and Nicky Hager as journalists who have had to be paid out by the Government or employ legal measures after Key has slandered and denigrated them.

This attack on the media should lead the news and give insight to the very cold heart of John Key and the ramifications to our democracy but it won’t because the Batchelor has a double elimination coming up and the context of these actions must be put to one side and never explored

As you can see this is not the only area where Maori are not being consulted.

Professor Jane Kelsey confronts John Key's claim that Maori were consulted widely and engaged with actively prior to and during the TPP negotiations

Professor Jane Kelsey confronts John Key's claim that Maori were consulted widely and engaged with actively prior to and during the TPP negotiations
Posted by Gerard Otto on Saturday, 19 March 2016

Obama tells his secret court to ignore the law he just signed

Obama Goes Full Stalin: Tells Secret Court To Ignore Law He Signed 4 Hours Earlier, Extend Illegal NSA Surveillance

Zero Hedge,

9 June, 2015

Just when we thought the absurdity that marks every single day of Obama's reign could not possibly be surpassed, we learned that 4 hours (3 hours and 47 minutes to be precise) after the US president vowed to sign a new law banning bulk data collection by the NSA (named, for purely grotesque reasons, the "USA Freedom Act"), the Obama administrationasked the secret Fisa surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months.

Or, as the Guardian's Spencer Ackerman, who spotted this glaring page out of Josef Stalin's playbook, summarized it:

June 2, 6:03pm: Obama says he'll sign law banning bulk collection.
June 2 9:50pm: DOJ asks secret court for 180 more days of bulk collection

— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) June 8, 2015

According to Ackerman, this latest travesty by the administration "suggests that the administration may not necessarily comply with any potential court order demanding that the collection top."

Or, in other words, the administration "may" give orders that openly flaunt US laws. From the Guardian:

US officials confirmed last week that they would ask the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court – better known as the Fisa court, a panel that meets in secret as a step in the surveillance process and thus far has only ever had the government argue before it – to turn the domestic bulk collection spigot back on.

This is a problem because Justice Department national security chief John A Carlin cited a six-month transition period provided in the USA Freedom Act – passed by the Senate last week to ban the bulk collection – as a reason to permit an “orderly transition” of the NSA’s domestic dragnet. However, Carlin "did not address whether the transition clause of the Freedom Act still applies now that a congressional deadlock meant the program shut down on 31 May."

So after the second circuit court of appeals already ruled NSA surveillance illegal, and after Congress officially shut down NSA's bulk data collection in its current form, Obama's DOJ decided to singlehandedly order that NSA spying on Americans be extended for at least another 6 months.

Follow the details of how the US Department of "Justice" crushes every semblance thereof:

Carlin asked the Fisa court to set aside a landmark declaration by the second circuit court of appeals. Decided on 7 May, the appeals court ruled that the government had erroneously interpreted the Patriot Act’s authorization of data collection as “relevant” to an ongoing investigation to permit bulk collection.

Carlin, in his filing, wrote that the Patriot Act provision remained “in effect” during the transition period.

“This court may certainly consider ACLU v Clapper as part of its evaluation of the government’s application,but second circuit rulings do not constitute controlling precedent for this court,” Carlin wrote in the 2 June application. Instead, the government asked the court to rely on its own body of once-secret precedent stretching back to 2006, which Carlin called “the better interpretation of the statute”.

The punchline:

The second circuit court of appeals is supposed to bind only the circuit’s lower courts. But the unique nature of the Fisa court – whose rulings practically never became public before whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations – has left ambiguous which public court precedents it is obliged to follow.

Said otherwise, the NSA's espionage activity is above the law, any law.

Amusingly, some still harbor hope that "justice" is still a viable concept in the United States, such as the FreedomWorks conservative group, which is asking the Fisa court to essentially disband itself:

On Friday, the conservative group FreedomWorks filed a rare motion before the Fisa court, asking it to reject the government’s surveillance request as a violation of the fourth amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. Fisa court judge Michael Moseman gave the justice department until this coming Friday to respond – and explicitly barred the government from arguing that FreedomWorks lacks the standing to petition the secret court.

Which, incidentally, is like asking Wall Street to police itself. A quick reminder of what happened there: after gross market manipulation was taking place for years involving trillions of interest-rate products, the person who witnessed it every single day called it, don't laugh, a "conspiracy theory."

Incidentally, "conspiracy theorists" is precisely what all those who accused the NSA of engaging in mass illegal surveillance even before the Snowden revelations, were branded as. And, we are confident, before all is said and done, the "conspiracy theorists" who dare speak the truth against the surreal Orwellian state that the US finds itself in, will be crushed by the administration, both the current and the one that will replace it, whose every day modus operandi is taken straight out of the Stalin memoirs.

Justice Dept: US to Resume NSA Bulk Surveillance

Issued Memo Just an Hour After Law Was Signed

http://news.antiwar.com/2015/06/08/justice-dept-us-to-resume-nsa-bulk-surveillance/

After being obliged under law to stop the illegal NSA bulk surveillance over the last weekend in May, President Obama signed the USA Freedom Act into law Tuesday, setting the stage for the resumption of the bulk surveillance, something the Justice Department is suggesting won’t take long.

Indeed, it took the Justice Department less than an hour after the president’s signature was made to release a memo announcing its intentions to seek a new court order for the “bulk production of tangible things under the law.”

The memo noted that courts had signed off on bulk collection of telephone metadata in the past, and predicted they would do so again under the new law under “a new mechanism” which includes increased cooperation from phone companies.

Though officials have assured us they did so, we really only have their word for it that the NSA surveillance program actually stopped for those 36 hours between expiry and the Obama signature on the USA Freedom Act.

There are plenty of reasons to doubt that, as the FBI kept its own telephone surveillance program going through that period without any legal basis. The NSA program was conducted for years in total secrecy, and it’s not hard to imagine it continued on through last Monday, irrespective of a brief change in the law.

Japan to dump renunciation of war

Cabinet Decision On Collective Defense May Effectively End Ban On Use Of Force

A Cabinet decision to reinterpret war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense could open the way to a complete end to the ban on the use of force.

Mainichi,

28 June, 2014

The government presented the draft of a Cabinet decision to change its interpretation of the Constitution to a June 27 session of the ruling coalition's consultative body on the reconstruction of the legal framework for national security. Junior ruling coalition partner New Komeito's executive board intends to reach an official agreement on the Cabinet decision with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) at the coalition's consultative body on July 1, after New Komeito legislators agree on June 30 to leave a decision on the issue up to the party leadership.

The draft states that the use of force "could be based on the right to collective self-defense provided for by international law." As self-defensive measures, the draft leaves open the possibility that Japan will use force not only in exercising the right to collective self-defense but also under U.N.-led collective security arrangements.

LDP Vice President Masahiko Komura said, "We haven't decided on the matter (of collective security arrangements). It's still a blank page." New Komeito accepted Komura's explanation.

Therefore, the new interpretation would largely deviate from the government's longstanding interpretation of Article 9, which allows Japan to use force only for individual self-defense.

Nevertheless, Komura denied that the reinterpretation would pull the teeth from the pacifist principles of the supreme law, saying, "We'll completely retain the doctrine of the Constitution."

Kazuo Kitagawa, deputy leader of New Komeito, echoed Komura's view. "The basic principles of the Constitution will be perfectly maintained," he said.

The draft of the Cabinet decision sets three conditions under which Japan could use force, including cases of armed attack on another country that clearly threatens Japanese citizens' fundamental rights, and threats to Japan's existence.

The draft underscores the need to distinguish the interpretation of the war-renouncing Constitution from international law's provision for the right to self-defense. It then mentions "self-defensive measures" the Constitution would be reinterpreted to allow Japan to take, bearing in mind the right to individual self-defense and collective self-defense as well as collective security arrangements.

The legal framework that has permitted Japan's participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations only in zones already at peace would be eliminated. The draft of the Cabinet decision states that the government would seek to enact or amend legislation to allow the Self-Defense Forces to provide logistical support to armed forces of other nations in peacekeeping operations in areas at peace but with an imminent risk of armed conflict.

The preamble of the draft underscores the need for the creation of legislation and diplomatic efforts to prevent armed conflict out of consideration for New Komeito, which has been reluctant to accede to allowing the exercise of the right to collective self-defense. It also states that Japan must abide by the U.N. Charter and steadily follow the path of a peaceful country.

Read Further For Background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Ground_Self-Defense_Force

Obama's dictatorship

Celente: ‘Maniacs In Charge’ – Obama’s Dictatorship & Takeover

Trends forecaster Gerald Celente of Trends Journal speaks with Die MetallWoche and throws out some real zingers as he discusses the historical comparisons of today’s world to the World War I era and declares that “destruction” is being put in place by “maniacs in charge.”

He points out that Barack Obama is running a “dictatorship,” and a “takeover,” on behalf of those pulling his puppet strings by shredding our bill of rights and constitution.

That and so much more packed into the discussion you will hear below in the video embedded.

http://newsle.com/article/0/124902494/

Japanese militarism

Japan to rethink pacifist constitution by 2020 amid rising tensions

Japan will revise its constitution, which limits its military activities to self-defense by 2020, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, as tensions in the region build, caused by long-standing territorial disputes.

RT,

1 January, 2014

The comments were published in conservative daily Sankei Shimbun on Wednesday, and said the constitution will have been revised after Tokyo hosts the Olympic Games in 2020. Article 9 of the Japanese constitution forbids the use of war to settle international disputes and calls for peace to be found using justice and order. The article was added to the Japanese constitution following WWII

“Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes,” states the article. Prime Minister Abe said that the constitution needs to be rethought to deal with the changing times, given that it was laid down over six decades ago.

In addition, Abe spoke of the importance of defending Japanese territory from the growing assertiveness of the Chinese in the region. China raised tensions in the area in November when it created an air defense zone that encroached on the territories of neighboring countries.

Japanese lawmakers reacted angrily and accused the Chinese government of being “reckless and risky” and attempting to alter the “status quo” in the region. China, for its part, has called on Japan to desist from provocative actions and repair diplomatic ties between the Asian nations.

The two countries have been trading diplomatic blows over the last year over a group of islets in the East China Sea. Although Japan administers the Senkaku Islands, China maintains it has a historic claim on what it calls the Diaoyu Islands.

Tensions bubbled to the service when Abe visited a shrine last week that is widely regarded as a symbol of Japan’s wartime aggression.

"The Chinese people and people of other Asian nations will not allow Japan to drive history in reverse. We solemnly urge Japan to reflect upon history and change course," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement posted on the ministry's website.

The Yasukuni shrine honors Japanese leaders who were convicted war criminals for their actions in WWII.

When conservative Prime Minister Abe was elected in December 2012 he pledged to mend ties with China, but a year into his presidency there has been no lessening of diplomatic tensions between the two countries.

Human rights in America

Just about says it all.

Arrested for upholding the US constitution

Via Facebook

A man who is a participant of the Solidarity Sing Along at the Wisconsin State Capitol was holding a sign on the 1st floor of the Capitol today, as another group was holding a permitted sing along in another area of the 1st floor.

Police officers approached him and said he would be arrested for disorderly conduct if he didn't put his sign down, although he was in no way interrupting the permitted event.

He complied and put his sign down, but another man, whom we don't know, approached him and asked what had happened. This man then offered to hold the sign and risk arrest. Police ultimately arrested this man for disorderly conduct. As far as we know, he could have been there with those who had taken out the permit.

The sign that was held says "Article 1, Section 4", which is a part of the Wisconsin Constitution and reads: "The right of the people peaceably to assemble, to consult for the common good, and to petition the government, or any department thereof, shall never be abridged." 

Protests throughout North America

#Restorethe4th: Anti-NSA protest

RT,

4 July, 2013

An anti-NSA surveillance nationwide protest and online campaign is launching on Thursday. It aims to restore the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights, which protects US citizens from "unreasonable searches and seizures."

The ‘Restore the Fourth’ campaign was born on Reddit last month and is being supported by Mozilla, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and other US and international press freedom organizations.

"The purpose of the rallies is to spread awareness of and spur political action against unconstitutional spying by the U.S. government," the campaign stated on its official website.

There will also be live protests in dozens of US major cities, which are expected to draw up to 20,000 people in the nation’s larger cities.

Press freedom advocates say the protests are crucial because the mainstream media is not adequately covering the NSA leaks and their importance to everyday citizens. Demonstrations are also planned in Canada and the UK.   

RT are doing live updates, available HERE