Argentine bishop accused of sexual misconduct returns to work at Vatican central bank

When will it ever end?

ROSARIO, Argentina – As the Vatican resumed its activities after the two-month COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown, Crux has confirmed an Argentinian bishop suspended over allegations of sexual misconduct with seminarians quietly went back to work.

Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta was appointed by Francis to the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), which functions as the Vatican’s central bank, in 2017, where he works as an “assessor,” a position created for the Argentine.

Habemus papam (We have a pope), the white smoke announces.

We do? Not a political strings-puller?

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Scoop: Trump’s loyalty cop clashes with agency heads, which has Axios on the alert

For some reason, POTUS does not trust people within his administration, and Axios is concerned about that.

Why it matters: This campaign — helmed by Trump’s loyalty enforcer, a 30-year-old former body man [?] who now runs hiring for the government — is part of the systematic purging or reassigning of those deemed insufficiently supportive of Trump.

The effort’s pace has alarmed top officials, according to 11 current and former [unnamed] officials with direct knowledge of the situation.

Oh boy, call the media cops. As if POTUS had any reason to himself being concerned, his underlings have been so good to him. Unless you consider cooperators and instigators of the recently completed impeachment procedures and the like.

(By the way, would have been nice to read an assessment of Obama’s appointing habits back in the day. Axios could have run a comparison of an Obama story with the equally conscientious stories they ran then. If they did so, of course.

I Binged (Microsoft’s Google) this to check my implications here. My phrase, “trump’s history of being screwed by his staff,” did not recognize the problem, giving me dozens of cases of his screwing, not one of being screwed. “Trump’s history” meant one thing to the search machine, his bad history. Bad, bad, bad.

I tried a hit-over-the-head “deep state betrays trump,” came up with https://deepstatejournal.com/. which I will have to look at. It goes after this kind of betrayal 100%, a quick perusal tells me. It’s a sleek operation, but with no staffers named, nor anyone else responsible.

Stories are red meat to Trumpsters, would be best used and understood as tips and maybe good ones at that. But main stream? Forget about it, unless the ed pages of Wall St. Journal, NY Post, Instapundit and the like, at which I almost never swear, on which I do so often.

via  Axios

Al Sharpton remembered . . .

An oldie but baddie . . .

Chicago Newspapers

“Reverend Al” — still around, still unrepentant.

America should never forget their names: Garnette Ramantar, Kareem Brunner, Olga Garcia, Angeline Marrero, Cynthia Martinez, Luz Ramos, and Mayra Rentas. These seven innocent people were murdered on Dec. 8, 1995, when a deranged supporter of Al Sharpton burst into Freddie’s Fashion Mart, shot four people and set fire to the Jewish-owned business on Harlem’s 125th Street.

Everyone who knows the story of how Sharpton’s shakedown protests against “white interlopers” incited the Freddie’s Fashion Mart massacre must consider Sharpton permanently tainted as a murderous hatemonger.

Don’t matter. He got flair, says what people wanna hear.

. . .  there he was on every TV network this week, preaching the eulogy for George Floyd. That his sermon was a species of blasphemy should surprise no one, for Sharpton is a liar and, as Jesus told the scribes and Pharisees, the devil is the…

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Your Silence Isn’t Enough, say progressives. Say what we want you to say . . .

. . . or else:

If you’ve followed the news in recent weeks, you’ll have noticed that the Left’s social-justice brigades have not cooled in their passion for banishing speech with which they disagree. But these days have also revealed a more dangerous tactic: conscripting speech by means of social pressure. Instead of enforcing strict silence, progressives aim to craft a public square in which we are all obliged to echo their views.

Zombies themselves, they want to make the rest of us zombies too. Robots, parrots mouthing slogans.

It is abundantly clear that social-justice activists — and, increasingly, mainstream left-wing Americans — do not intend to relent in wielding the cultural power of rage mobs to erase all trace of contrary opinions.

In support of which the writer cites (1) NYT self-reversal in re: publishing Sen. Cotton op-ed favoring use of troops to quell insurrections in several cities, (2) ditto Saints’ future hall of fame qb in re: dissing the flag, and (3)

. . .the progressive writer at Vox . . . bullied by his peers on the Left into deleting tweets that acknowledged he had been wrong to think campus silencing tactics would stay confined to the campus. The irony was breathtaking to behold.

Campus silencing tactics? How can you say that. Delete those tweets, you fool, or be socially deleted. He did so, of course. So did another Vox writer, “shamed into apologizing for having uttered the heretical view that perhaps rushing to defund or abolish the police — as activists are now demanding — might not be the most prudent course of action.”

Watch the Buffalo video and ask yourself, What is the 75-year-old doing with his phone, which he is placing over the police communication equipment?

Wondered what Martin Gugino, 75, was doing  when he walked up to the Buffalo police, who pushed him away. With them advancing, why did he in effect try to stop them? Well it seems there was method in his madness. 

During his effort Gugino was attempting to capture the radio communications signature of Buffalo police officers. CTH [Conservative Tree House, this blog] noted what he was attempting on Thursday night as soon as the now viral video was being used by media to sell a police brutality narrative. [Thread Here] Today, a more clear video has emerged that shows exactly what he was attempting

In this slow motion video, you see Gugino using a phone as a capture scanner.  You might have heard the term “skimming”; it’s essentially the same.  Watch him use his right hand first to scan the mic of officer one (top left of chest).  Then Gugino moves his hand to the communications belt of the second officer. [emphasis added]

What was he up to?

This capture of communications signals [explained in detail here] is a method of police tracking [that is, the tracking of police] used by Antifa to monitor the location of police. In some cases the more high tech capture software can even decipher communication encryption allowing the professional agitators to block (black-out), jam, or interfere with police communication. In addition, many police body-cams are bluetooth-enabled which allows syncing.

Watching the video, you see a 3rd policeman charging up to Gugino, apparently once he saw what he was doing — basically an act of terrorism — and joined in pushing him away. It was comparable to his grabbing for a policeman’s gun, and the cops had to stop him.

Trump caught this, assessed it shrewdly, and tweeted his assessment, to the horror of his enemies in the media.

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