Suspicious packages sent to Soros, Clinton, Obama and a CNN newsroom
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I have been thinking the same thing Joe. It is almost anthrax letters lite. Some people on the Right have been pointing to the Democrats being the culprits (ie the attack yourself gambit), and the people on the Left saying the culprits are people Trump instigates with his behavior, but makes much more sense for shadowing players trying to influence and inflame the situation to new heights to be behind it.
angelburst29
The Living Force
Local news channels in my area are plastered with one report after another about "this bomb scare" - they even got Joe Biden on the list and it all started with a suspicious package delivered to Soro's, who is probably the ringleader that dream up this silly nonsense? A large majority of the public are just not buying into this scheme. Read any article and check out the comments. The word "Hillary" doesn't hold water, anymore - people are just plain sick of hearing "about her problems". Many are bringing up the subject of the suspicious fire in the Clinton residence (a few months back) which is only a short distance from the Soro's property. At this point, it looks like their little scheme is back-firing on them. Trump supporters are still out numbering the Democrats in the polls, for this coming election.
As for Soro's, he can't move back to Hungry - they finally threw him out! Now, they are trying to get rid of his influence. Trump should do what Russia did - ban Soro's from the Country and dismantle his influence within the United States.
October 25, 2018 - Soros University says it being forced out of Hungry, mulls move
Soros university says it being forced out of Hungary, mulls move | Reuters
People are seen in front of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, October 25, 2018. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
Hungary's Central European University, a graduate school founded by U.S. financier George Soros, said it was being forced out of the country by the nationalist government and would switch to enrolling new students in Vienna if it did not get guarantees of academic freedom by Dec. 1.
The U.S. billionaire, who promotes liberal causes through his charities, has been the subject of a campaign by the right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Earlier this year, his charitable Open Society Foundations was forced to leave Hungary.
Thursday’s move by CEU, which was quickly dismissed as a “political ploy” by the government, could deepen a rift between Orban and the European Commission, which has challenged his higher education reforms in the European Court of Justice.
A change last year to national law on education which withdrew the right to operate from foreign-registered universities that did not also offer courses in their home country was widely seen as explicitly targeting CEU.
The CEU offers graduate-level courses taught in English and is frequently ranked as the top university in Hungary. The prospect last year that it might be driven from Hungary drew street protests and international criticism.
The university’s statement on Thursday said the Orban government had kept it in legal limbo for more than a year by failing to reach a formal agreement on its status.
“We cannot operate legally in Hungary as a free, U.S. accredited institution. We are being forced out of a country that has been our home for 26 years,” CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff told a news conference.
Orban regularly accuses the Hungarian-born Soros of plotting to destroy European civilization by flooding the continent with immigrants. Soros says his support for refugees is one part of a wider humanitarian mission to back open societies around the globe.
The government said Thursday’s announcement by the CEU to relocate operations in Vienna was “a Soros-style political ploy” and it does not concern itself with such matters.
U.S. Ambassador to Budapest David B. Cornstein said in a statement that the CEU remained a priority for the U.S. government and had overwhelming bipartisan support in the United States.
“There is a small window to resolve this, but it needs to happen fast,” he said.
The government accuses the CEU of operating without full legal compliance. CEU says it has taken all steps required to comply.
The statement by the university said it would enroll new students in U.S. degrees at its Vienna campus in 2019 if its legal status in Hungary was not resolved by Dec. 1, though it would try to maintain as much research and educational activity in Budapest as possible.
Ignatieff said CEU’s board of trustees set the December deadline to give a chance for Cornstein to make a final effort to work out a compromise.
angelburst29
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26/10/2018 - Man taken into custody in Florida for questioning as part of bomb packages investigation
Man taken into custody in Florida for questioning as part of bomb packages investigation
Federal authorities arrested a person on Friday in connection with at least a dozen parcel bombs sent this week to Democratic politicians and high-profile critics of U.S. President Donald Trump, the U.S. Justice Department said.
The person was taken into custody in the Miami area, according to a U.S. law enforcement official.
The investigation into this week's wave of suspicious packages focused on southern Florida and a mail sorting facility in the area.
The U.S. Justice Department will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT. (2030 CEST), a department spokeswoman said.
Authorities found two more suspicious packages on Friday addressed to U.S. Senator Cory Booker and James Clapper, the former national intelligence chief.
The discoveries come during a manhunt for the person who sent bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of US President Donald Trump.
The 11th package was found at a mail sorting facility in Opa-Locka, near Miami, and was addressed to Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, the FBI said on Twitter. A 12th package was addressed to James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, and sent to CNN, the cable network reported.
Police have been on the scene in midtown Manhattan.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that news coverage of the suspicious packages targeting high-profile Democratic politicians and critics of the president had slowed momentum for Republican candidates ahead of congressional elections.
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1055826295337172993
Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this “Bomb” stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows - news not talking politics. Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!
10:19 AM - Oct 26, 2018
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that Florida appeared to be the starting point for at least some of the bomb shipments.
Man taken into custody in Florida for questioning as part of bomb packages investigation
Federal authorities arrested a person on Friday in connection with at least a dozen parcel bombs sent this week to Democratic politicians and high-profile critics of U.S. President Donald Trump, the U.S. Justice Department said.
The person was taken into custody in the Miami area, according to a U.S. law enforcement official.
The investigation into this week's wave of suspicious packages focused on southern Florida and a mail sorting facility in the area.
The U.S. Justice Department will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT. (2030 CEST), a department spokeswoman said.
Authorities found two more suspicious packages on Friday addressed to U.S. Senator Cory Booker and James Clapper, the former national intelligence chief.
The discoveries come during a manhunt for the person who sent bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of US President Donald Trump.
The 11th package was found at a mail sorting facility in Opa-Locka, near Miami, and was addressed to Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, the FBI said on Twitter. A 12th package was addressed to James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, and sent to CNN, the cable network reported.
Police have been on the scene in midtown Manhattan.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that news coverage of the suspicious packages targeting high-profile Democratic politicians and critics of the president had slowed momentum for Republican candidates ahead of congressional elections.
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1055826295337172993
Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this “Bomb” stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows - news not talking politics. Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!
10:19 AM - Oct 26, 2018
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that Florida appeared to be the starting point for at least some of the bomb shipments.
Leelee
Jedi
Seriously. The ptb must roll on the floor with laughter at how easy it all is to manipulate the lemmings who are running with this on cue already. People don't think for a second that maybe there is just something a little over the top about this, maybe just a little? I think the ptb amuse themselves over and over again at just how obvious they can be and still get the reaction they want from those already programmed to give it. SMH. I want to jump off the planet.
munaychasumaq
Dagobah Resident
I think is more of the same game.Hate and division.It is the best way to conquer us.One more time "the packages isue" are very convenient in the following elections in November.
Hard to believe that Russia hasn't been accused yet!
Yep, the crazy has gone off the charts and into the stratosphere.
George Webb Published on Oct 26, 2018
Fri, 10/26/2018 - 18:45 by Tyler Durden
David Cypkin, 'Cocaine Cowboys' Producer, Photographed Cesar Sayoc's Van Last Year
Last Updated: October 26, 2018 @ 3:32 PM
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"He Was Crazed": What We Know About Suspected Mail Bomber Cesar Sayoc
Fri, 10/26/2018 - 18:45 by Tyler Durden
David Cypkin, 'Cocaine Cowboys' Producer, Photographed Cesar Sayoc's Van Last Year
Last Updated: October 26, 2018 @ 3:32 PM
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angelburst29
The Living Force
Ca, I'm glad you brought up George Webb - I have almost forgotten about him! Webb was touching upon some really sensitive subjects and gathering a large following on the Internet ... when Q-anon came onto the scene and made it's debut. It has often crossed my mind - if A-anon in it's essence - at it's root - is counter intelligence - to draw attention away from George Webb and his investigations? I have my suspicions that there might be "a Mossad/Israeli" element behind some of the cryptic messages that A-anon delivers? When you take into consideration, every branch of our Government, from White House personnel, to Congress and much of the Senate have been compromised by the Israeli Lobby - actually, anything to do with Politics and financial institutions in general - who better to point a finger to - for "timely and sensitive insider information"?
One of the things - the Israeli Lobby detests the most - is George Soro's. Some of that resentment might be what's behind this article?
Sun. Oct. 28, 2018 - Soro's, the far right's boogeyman, is again a target
Soros, the far right's boogeyman, is again a target
FILE - In this Thursday, April 27, 2017 file photom, George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundation, waits for the start of a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels. (Olivier Hoslet/Pool Photo via AP)
When pipe bombs turned up in the mail of Hillary Clinton and other prominent Democrats this week, the first recipient — billionaire investor and liberal philanthropist George Soros — quickly fell out of the headlines.
But there's no chance his many critics and enemies have forgotten him.
White nationalists and others on the political fringes have long cast Soros as the supposed leader of a globalist Jewish plot to undermine white Christian civilization. Now, President Donald Trump, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and other political leaders have brought the vilification of Soros into the mainstream.
This year, Soros has been accused by critics including Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, of purportedly funding a caravan of Central American migrants marching toward the U.S. Others have charged him with hijacking a campaign by Florida high school students demanding gun control. Trump tweeted recently that women who confronted Republican senators about Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court were actually professional protesters, paid by Soros.
For many on the far right, Soros is "like the Jew behind the curtain, from their perspective, not just in the U.S., but all over the world. He's the number one enemy of folks on the radical right," said Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks U.S. hate groups. "The demonization of sorts has been going for a while, but it has really hit sort of a fever pitch in the last three to four years."
On Friday, investigators arrested a south Florida man, charging him with carrying out the mail bomb scare, in which no one was hurt. The suspect, Cesar Sayoc, 56, maintained social media accounts promoting conspiracy theories about Soros.
The fact that Soros was a target seemed less a surprise than a logical progression, Beirich said.
In an analysis of millions of anti-Semitic Twitter posts over the year that ended in January, the Anti-Defamation League found that Soros was among the most frequent targets.
Trump has tapped into those sentiments, and several Republican politicians have followed his lead.
"For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind," Trump said in the final ad of his 2016 campaign, featuring video of Soros and others.
In an interview last year with Vice News, Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Arizona, suggested that Soros had backed activists behind the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that turned deadly.
"Who is he? I think he's from Hungary. I think he was Jewish and I think he turned in his own people to the Nazis. We better be careful about where we go with those," Gosar said, repeating another right-wing myth about Soros' past that has been debunked.
The 88-year-old Soros has given more than $32 billion to his Open Society Foundations to fund causes including free debate and government accountability. That spending has fueled countless conspiracy theories. Some of the depictions of Soros draw on bits of truth, while contradicting much of his life story.
"My father acknowledges that his philanthropic work, while nonpartisan, is "political" in a broad sense: It seeks to support those who promote societies where everyone has a voice," the investor's son, Alexander Soros, wrote this week in an opinion piece published in The New York Times.
"There is a long list of people who find that proposition unacceptable."
Soros was born in Budapest in 1930. His family changed their last name from Schwartz to hide their religion from the Nazis, who slaughtered more than 500,000 Hungarian Jews. After World War II, a penniless, 17-year-old Soros left for England and eventually enrolled at the London School of Economics. He embraced the teachings of philosopher Karl Popper, whose ideas about how people interact in open societies helped shape Soros' beliefs about the need for democracy, as well as the behavior of investors and financial markets.
Soros' investment strategies and his aggressiveness in acting on them made him one of the world's most successful traders.
"It wasn't that he was right more often about which way the dollar was going to go or which way the stock market index is going to go... but when he was right and he had conviction, he put on these enormous bets," said Sebastian Mallaby, author of "More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite."
Soros became known as the "Man Who Broke the Bank of England," for wagering heavily against the British pound in 1992, betting that it was overvalued. When the pound fell sharply, as Soros predicted it would, he made an estimated $1 billion.
Soros moved to the U.S. in 1956 to take a job at a small New York brokerage. He got U.S. citizenship and in 1969 helped launch the Quantum Fund, which delivered stellar returns over more than three decades. In 2011, he announced he was closing the fund to all but family members.
By then, he had become very active in philanthropy, dating to the 1970s when he paid to help black students attend college in apartheid-era South Africa.
In 2014, Forbes estimated Soros's fortune at $23 billion. But transfers to his foundation have reduced the money he now holds to $8 billion, making him the 190th richest person in the world, the magazine estimates.
"The three parts of George Soros are the philosopher, the speculator and the philanthropist/politician," Mallaby said, "And they're all animated by the same belief that you can trigger a cascading change if you are willing to bet enough money to kind of shock the system and start the change."
In recent years, right-wing populist leaders in Eastern Europe have accused Soros of using his money to force liberal values and refugees on their societies.
While Soros has funded left-wing causes, many of his donations have also gone to causes like improving public health and transportation. Hungary's Orban was among those who benefited. He received scholarships from Soros in the 1990s to study in the West or conduct research.
During a parliamentary campaign last spring, Orban's government plastered anti-Soros ads across the country accusing the philanthropist of seeking to transform Europe from a place that is predominantly white and Christian to one dominated by Africans and Muslims. One campaign poster showed a photo of a smiling Soros with the words "Let's not let Soros have the last laugh."
Soros has also been denounced in Macedonia and Poland, as well as in Israel, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused him of funding opposition to a government plan to deport refugees.
The repeated attacks on Soros carry the risk that some people might act on that demonization, said Aryeh Tuchman, associate director of the ADL's Center on Extremism.
Tuchman pointed to a 2010 shootout between police and a California gunman who set out to kill people at a foundation partially funded by Soros because he thought the billionaire was responsible for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. That gunman pointed to a conservative television commentator's diatribe against Soros.
"There are crazy people out there, for lack of a better word, people inclined toward extremism, inclined to act out based on the ideas that they hear," Tuchman said. "And to the extent that there is this drumbeat of anti-Soros conspiracy mongering and demonization, it is not shocking that once in a while that someone takes that one step further."
One of the things - the Israeli Lobby detests the most - is George Soro's. Some of that resentment might be what's behind this article?
Sun. Oct. 28, 2018 - Soro's, the far right's boogeyman, is again a target
Soros, the far right's boogeyman, is again a target
FILE - In this Thursday, April 27, 2017 file photom, George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundation, waits for the start of a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels. (Olivier Hoslet/Pool Photo via AP)
When pipe bombs turned up in the mail of Hillary Clinton and other prominent Democrats this week, the first recipient — billionaire investor and liberal philanthropist George Soros — quickly fell out of the headlines.
But there's no chance his many critics and enemies have forgotten him.
White nationalists and others on the political fringes have long cast Soros as the supposed leader of a globalist Jewish plot to undermine white Christian civilization. Now, President Donald Trump, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and other political leaders have brought the vilification of Soros into the mainstream.
This year, Soros has been accused by critics including Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, of purportedly funding a caravan of Central American migrants marching toward the U.S. Others have charged him with hijacking a campaign by Florida high school students demanding gun control. Trump tweeted recently that women who confronted Republican senators about Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court were actually professional protesters, paid by Soros.
For many on the far right, Soros is "like the Jew behind the curtain, from their perspective, not just in the U.S., but all over the world. He's the number one enemy of folks on the radical right," said Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks U.S. hate groups. "The demonization of sorts has been going for a while, but it has really hit sort of a fever pitch in the last three to four years."
On Friday, investigators arrested a south Florida man, charging him with carrying out the mail bomb scare, in which no one was hurt. The suspect, Cesar Sayoc, 56, maintained social media accounts promoting conspiracy theories about Soros.
The fact that Soros was a target seemed less a surprise than a logical progression, Beirich said.
In an analysis of millions of anti-Semitic Twitter posts over the year that ended in January, the Anti-Defamation League found that Soros was among the most frequent targets.
Trump has tapped into those sentiments, and several Republican politicians have followed his lead.
"For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind," Trump said in the final ad of his 2016 campaign, featuring video of Soros and others.
In an interview last year with Vice News, Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Arizona, suggested that Soros had backed activists behind the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that turned deadly.
"Who is he? I think he's from Hungary. I think he was Jewish and I think he turned in his own people to the Nazis. We better be careful about where we go with those," Gosar said, repeating another right-wing myth about Soros' past that has been debunked.
The 88-year-old Soros has given more than $32 billion to his Open Society Foundations to fund causes including free debate and government accountability. That spending has fueled countless conspiracy theories. Some of the depictions of Soros draw on bits of truth, while contradicting much of his life story.
"My father acknowledges that his philanthropic work, while nonpartisan, is "political" in a broad sense: It seeks to support those who promote societies where everyone has a voice," the investor's son, Alexander Soros, wrote this week in an opinion piece published in The New York Times.
"There is a long list of people who find that proposition unacceptable."
Soros was born in Budapest in 1930. His family changed their last name from Schwartz to hide their religion from the Nazis, who slaughtered more than 500,000 Hungarian Jews. After World War II, a penniless, 17-year-old Soros left for England and eventually enrolled at the London School of Economics. He embraced the teachings of philosopher Karl Popper, whose ideas about how people interact in open societies helped shape Soros' beliefs about the need for democracy, as well as the behavior of investors and financial markets.
Soros' investment strategies and his aggressiveness in acting on them made him one of the world's most successful traders.
"It wasn't that he was right more often about which way the dollar was going to go or which way the stock market index is going to go... but when he was right and he had conviction, he put on these enormous bets," said Sebastian Mallaby, author of "More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite."
Soros became known as the "Man Who Broke the Bank of England," for wagering heavily against the British pound in 1992, betting that it was overvalued. When the pound fell sharply, as Soros predicted it would, he made an estimated $1 billion.
Soros moved to the U.S. in 1956 to take a job at a small New York brokerage. He got U.S. citizenship and in 1969 helped launch the Quantum Fund, which delivered stellar returns over more than three decades. In 2011, he announced he was closing the fund to all but family members.
By then, he had become very active in philanthropy, dating to the 1970s when he paid to help black students attend college in apartheid-era South Africa.
In 2014, Forbes estimated Soros's fortune at $23 billion. But transfers to his foundation have reduced the money he now holds to $8 billion, making him the 190th richest person in the world, the magazine estimates.
"The three parts of George Soros are the philosopher, the speculator and the philanthropist/politician," Mallaby said, "And they're all animated by the same belief that you can trigger a cascading change if you are willing to bet enough money to kind of shock the system and start the change."
In recent years, right-wing populist leaders in Eastern Europe have accused Soros of using his money to force liberal values and refugees on their societies.
While Soros has funded left-wing causes, many of his donations have also gone to causes like improving public health and transportation. Hungary's Orban was among those who benefited. He received scholarships from Soros in the 1990s to study in the West or conduct research.
During a parliamentary campaign last spring, Orban's government plastered anti-Soros ads across the country accusing the philanthropist of seeking to transform Europe from a place that is predominantly white and Christian to one dominated by Africans and Muslims. One campaign poster showed a photo of a smiling Soros with the words "Let's not let Soros have the last laugh."
Soros has also been denounced in Macedonia and Poland, as well as in Israel, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused him of funding opposition to a government plan to deport refugees.
The repeated attacks on Soros carry the risk that some people might act on that demonization, said Aryeh Tuchman, associate director of the ADL's Center on Extremism.
Tuchman pointed to a 2010 shootout between police and a California gunman who set out to kill people at a foundation partially funded by Soros because he thought the billionaire was responsible for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. That gunman pointed to a conservative television commentator's diatribe against Soros.
"There are crazy people out there, for lack of a better word, people inclined toward extremism, inclined to act out based on the ideas that they hear," Tuchman said. "And to the extent that there is this drumbeat of anti-Soros conspiracy mongering and demonization, it is not shocking that once in a while that someone takes that one step further."
angelburst29
The Living Force
I don't know if anyone noticed this little detail about the white van, itself, other than the distracting stuff all over the windows?
This type of slim line model van - is basic standard - issued to Homeland Security. There were parking lots full of them around the time, Katrina hit New Orleans?
Check out the other photos that C.a. Posted. This van isn't your typical family model for dropping the kids off to school. Swat teams also use this same type of white van. Coincidence?
Evan
The Living Force
Nice spot AB! My first reaction to the events was: “Somebody heard Hillary’s “time for civility” remark and decided that what’s good for the goose... But it’s rapidly becoming more apparent that this is theater. I mean, who sends this many dysfunctional “bombs”? Only their own. When blatant false flags and obvious fakeries don’t elicit a peep from the masses, why bother even trying to be convincing? Their laziness is a product of the people’s own gullibility.
LOL, Oh the desperation of Liberal left Hollywood, and the Deep State. Staged, me thinks.
Michael Moore Reveals Video of Bomb Suspect Amid Angry Crowd at Trump Rally
3:28 PM PDT 10/28/2018
The 'Fahrenheit 11/9' director compares Cesar Sayoc to "a lost dog with no direction home."
Snip:
Despite "a Hulk-like exterior," Cesar Sayoc, the Florida man charged with sending 14 bombs to President Trump’s political opponents, was “a lost dog with no direction home,” Michael Moore wrote in an Instagram post Sunday in which he revealed footage his crew shot of a February 2017 rally that Trump held in Melbourne, Fla., in which Sayoc can been seen as part of an angry crowd chanting "CNN sucks!"
Although the three-minute-38-seconds of raw footage did not make it into Moore’s current film, Fahrenheit 11/9, Moore — who himself was pictured, with a rifle’s cross hair superimposed on his image, on Sayoc’s van — released the video on YouTube Sunday "if only to give you a momentary glimpse of him in action."
In his Instagram post, Moore explained he sent a crew that included producer Basel Hamden and longtime collaborator Eric Weinrib to the rally, which took place in the month following Trump's inauguration, not to film Trump himself but to capture footage of the crowds he attracts in order to understand "our fellow Americans, lost souls full of anger and possible violence, easily fed a pile of lies so large and toxic that we wondered if there would ever be a chance that we could bring them back from the Dark Side.”
Getty Images; Screenshot courtesy of Michael Moore
Michael Moore Reveals Video of Bomb Suspect Amid Angry Crowd at Trump Rally
3:28 PM PDT 10/28/2018
The 'Fahrenheit 11/9' director compares Cesar Sayoc to "a lost dog with no direction home."
Snip:
Despite "a Hulk-like exterior," Cesar Sayoc, the Florida man charged with sending 14 bombs to President Trump’s political opponents, was “a lost dog with no direction home,” Michael Moore wrote in an Instagram post Sunday in which he revealed footage his crew shot of a February 2017 rally that Trump held in Melbourne, Fla., in which Sayoc can been seen as part of an angry crowd chanting "CNN sucks!"
Although the three-minute-38-seconds of raw footage did not make it into Moore’s current film, Fahrenheit 11/9, Moore — who himself was pictured, with a rifle’s cross hair superimposed on his image, on Sayoc’s van — released the video on YouTube Sunday "if only to give you a momentary glimpse of him in action."
In his Instagram post, Moore explained he sent a crew that included producer Basel Hamden and longtime collaborator Eric Weinrib to the rally, which took place in the month following Trump's inauguration, not to film Trump himself but to capture footage of the crowds he attracts in order to understand "our fellow Americans, lost souls full of anger and possible violence, easily fed a pile of lies so large and toxic that we wondered if there would ever be a chance that we could bring them back from the Dark Side.”
Getty Images; Screenshot courtesy of Michael Moore
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angelburst29
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29/10/2018 - Pipe bomb suspect built devices in his van, sources say
Pipe bomb suspect built devices in his van, sources say
Multiple senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation into the pipe bombs allegedly built by Cesar Sayoc tell NBC News they believe the devices were constructed in his van.
As NBC News reported Friday, the Florida man lived in his vehicle — it appears to be a 1990s Dodge Ram Van — which was covered in pro-Trump images and right-wing propaganda.
Law enforcement officials continue to believe that Sayoc, 56, acted alone, but the investigation is ongoing. On Friday, the FBI said they had him in custody.
Sayoc is accused of sending 14 bombs through the U.S. Mail to President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ex-Vice President Biden, Democratic Party backer George Soros, actor Robert De Niro and others.
Most of the targets, including CNN, are also frequent targets of presidential tongue lashings on twitter and at political rallies.
The packages turned up between Monday and Friday in New York, California and Washington. A fingerprint from a package sent to U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) led authorities to Sayoc, FBI Director Christopher Wray said at a press conference on Friday.
Multiple senior law enforcement sources told NBC News that Sayoc denies being behind the package bomb campaign.
Sayoc, described by relative as a former strip club dancer and bouncer, has a record of past run-ins with the law, including over issues such as domestic violence, possession of steroids, battery and theft, according to court documents.
Sayoc faces multiple federal allegations, including making "threats against former presidents," in connection with the package bomb campaign. If convicted, the counts could bring 48 years behind bars.
Sayoc's first appearance in federal court was scheduled for Monday in Miami.
29/10/2018 - Forensic advances led to speedy arrest in bombing case
Forensic advances led to speedy arrest in bombing case
Liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros received the first of 14 bombs on Monday at his home in Katonah, New York, that a man with right-wing extremist views allegedly sent to prominent Trump critics. In mere days, multiple law enforcement agencies worked together and apprehended the suspected culprit in Plantation, Florida.
Authorities rushed to find the man, identified as Cesar Sayoc, 56, allegedly behind what FBI Director Chris Wray characterized as a series of improvised explosive devices made of "roughly six inches of PVC pipe, a small clock, a battery, some wiring and what is known as energetic material" that were sent to sitting senators and former presidents.
Though stakes were high, all it took was for a team of law enforcement agencies to work together and find a single fingerprint and a small amount of DNA to track down Sayoc, an Aventura, Florida, man who boasted a long arrest history and is now being held at a federal detention center in downtown Miami.
"This is phenomenal work with the greatest pressure under an incredibly tight time frame," FBI Director Chris Wray said on Friday. "We see unbelievable work like this on TV and in Hollywood, but to see it up close in reality is something to behold, and we are so proud for our team at the lab for their work in keeping people safe and helping to find the individual responsible."
Experts say the size of DNA and fingerprint databases and the ability of these different agencies to get over old rivalries and work together made the speed of the investigation move much faster.
Sayoc was most recently fingerprinted in 2015 in Palm Beach County for stealing a hard rolling briefcase and garment bag from a local Walmart — items valued at $58. It's that fingerprint that acted as the major break in the case, which greatly differed with investigations in the past.
"In the old days you pulled fingerprint cards, and you had to eyeball the comparison print," said Frank Figliuzzi, who served as assistant FBI director until 2012. "You had to look for loops and whorls and arches. Now it moves at the speed of pressing a key on your keyboard. Your computer spits it out and says, 'Here's your guy.'"
And they had a wealth of material to work with, Figliuzzi added.
"If you have 10 or more intact devices, that's a laboratory scientist's nirvana," he said.
A suspected explosive device received at the CNN bureau in New York.NBC News
While this case came to a speedy conclusion, past famed mail-based investigations took years to solve. It took authorities nearly 20 years to track down the Unabomber — as Ted Kaczynski was known — an individual who killed three people and injured 23 with mail or hand-delivered bombs. The FBI closed its investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five and injured 17 in 2010, but no arrest was ever made as the main suspect died of suicide.
But the fingerprint found on the envelope of a bomb intended for Rep. Maxine Waters, D- Calif., and a small amount of DNA discovered on two of the other packages were key in breaking the case, authorities said.
Mail explosives
It's helped that agencies nationally, regionally and locally now share their fingerprint and DNA databases, Dr. Peter Stout, the president of the Houston Forensic Science Center, said. It means that the scale of fingerprint and DNA databases are now immense, and there's a much larger pool of individuals to pull from. On top of that, investigator and laboratory scientists' forensic understanding of DNA material has advanced, requiring much smaller samples.
"Not that many years ago we needed a lot more DNA to develop a profile, but the chemistry has gotten so much more sensitive that we can work with a lot less DNA," Stout said. "Ten years ago, it required a spot of blood the size of a quarter, but now we can do it with a head of a pin. That's made touch DNA a lot more positive."
But experts don't just credit advances in DNA and fingerprinting as being the sole reason for the swift resolution to the case.
Bill Bratton, the former New York Police Department commissioner, noted that none of the agencies in Friday's news conference fought to take credit for the arrest and that representatives of multiple law enforcement agencies could be seen at the scene of the arrest working together, proving that "this was a joint effort."
Figliuzzi, the former FBI assistant director, agreed with that assessment, especially on how the relationship between the FBI and NYPD have progressed.
"It's more proof to the public that the turf battles and tensions and warfare that existed between the NYPD and the FBI are gone. There's not a hint of that in this case, but quite the opposite, all we're hearing is it was a seamless operation," said Figliuzzi, who also highlighted the United States Postal Inspection Service as unsung heroes of the case. "A few years ago there'd be some battles, but none of that is here and that's because of the tremendous respect that has been earned on all sides."
Pipe bomb suspect built devices in his van, sources say
Multiple senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation into the pipe bombs allegedly built by Cesar Sayoc tell NBC News they believe the devices were constructed in his van.
As NBC News reported Friday, the Florida man lived in his vehicle — it appears to be a 1990s Dodge Ram Van — which was covered in pro-Trump images and right-wing propaganda.
Law enforcement officials continue to believe that Sayoc, 56, acted alone, but the investigation is ongoing. On Friday, the FBI said they had him in custody.
Sayoc is accused of sending 14 bombs through the U.S. Mail to President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ex-Vice President Biden, Democratic Party backer George Soros, actor Robert De Niro and others.
Most of the targets, including CNN, are also frequent targets of presidential tongue lashings on twitter and at political rallies.
The packages turned up between Monday and Friday in New York, California and Washington. A fingerprint from a package sent to U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) led authorities to Sayoc, FBI Director Christopher Wray said at a press conference on Friday.
Multiple senior law enforcement sources told NBC News that Sayoc denies being behind the package bomb campaign.
Sayoc, described by relative as a former strip club dancer and bouncer, has a record of past run-ins with the law, including over issues such as domestic violence, possession of steroids, battery and theft, according to court documents.
Sayoc faces multiple federal allegations, including making "threats against former presidents," in connection with the package bomb campaign. If convicted, the counts could bring 48 years behind bars.
Sayoc's first appearance in federal court was scheduled for Monday in Miami.
29/10/2018 - Forensic advances led to speedy arrest in bombing case
Forensic advances led to speedy arrest in bombing case
Liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros received the first of 14 bombs on Monday at his home in Katonah, New York, that a man with right-wing extremist views allegedly sent to prominent Trump critics. In mere days, multiple law enforcement agencies worked together and apprehended the suspected culprit in Plantation, Florida.
Authorities rushed to find the man, identified as Cesar Sayoc, 56, allegedly behind what FBI Director Chris Wray characterized as a series of improvised explosive devices made of "roughly six inches of PVC pipe, a small clock, a battery, some wiring and what is known as energetic material" that were sent to sitting senators and former presidents.
Though stakes were high, all it took was for a team of law enforcement agencies to work together and find a single fingerprint and a small amount of DNA to track down Sayoc, an Aventura, Florida, man who boasted a long arrest history and is now being held at a federal detention center in downtown Miami.
"This is phenomenal work with the greatest pressure under an incredibly tight time frame," FBI Director Chris Wray said on Friday. "We see unbelievable work like this on TV and in Hollywood, but to see it up close in reality is something to behold, and we are so proud for our team at the lab for their work in keeping people safe and helping to find the individual responsible."
Experts say the size of DNA and fingerprint databases and the ability of these different agencies to get over old rivalries and work together made the speed of the investigation move much faster.
Sayoc was most recently fingerprinted in 2015 in Palm Beach County for stealing a hard rolling briefcase and garment bag from a local Walmart — items valued at $58. It's that fingerprint that acted as the major break in the case, which greatly differed with investigations in the past.
"In the old days you pulled fingerprint cards, and you had to eyeball the comparison print," said Frank Figliuzzi, who served as assistant FBI director until 2012. "You had to look for loops and whorls and arches. Now it moves at the speed of pressing a key on your keyboard. Your computer spits it out and says, 'Here's your guy.'"
And they had a wealth of material to work with, Figliuzzi added.
"If you have 10 or more intact devices, that's a laboratory scientist's nirvana," he said.
A suspected explosive device received at the CNN bureau in New York.NBC News
While this case came to a speedy conclusion, past famed mail-based investigations took years to solve. It took authorities nearly 20 years to track down the Unabomber — as Ted Kaczynski was known — an individual who killed three people and injured 23 with mail or hand-delivered bombs. The FBI closed its investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five and injured 17 in 2010, but no arrest was ever made as the main suspect died of suicide.
But the fingerprint found on the envelope of a bomb intended for Rep. Maxine Waters, D- Calif., and a small amount of DNA discovered on two of the other packages were key in breaking the case, authorities said.
Mail explosives
It's helped that agencies nationally, regionally and locally now share their fingerprint and DNA databases, Dr. Peter Stout, the president of the Houston Forensic Science Center, said. It means that the scale of fingerprint and DNA databases are now immense, and there's a much larger pool of individuals to pull from. On top of that, investigator and laboratory scientists' forensic understanding of DNA material has advanced, requiring much smaller samples.
"Not that many years ago we needed a lot more DNA to develop a profile, but the chemistry has gotten so much more sensitive that we can work with a lot less DNA," Stout said. "Ten years ago, it required a spot of blood the size of a quarter, but now we can do it with a head of a pin. That's made touch DNA a lot more positive."
But experts don't just credit advances in DNA and fingerprinting as being the sole reason for the swift resolution to the case.
Bill Bratton, the former New York Police Department commissioner, noted that none of the agencies in Friday's news conference fought to take credit for the arrest and that representatives of multiple law enforcement agencies could be seen at the scene of the arrest working together, proving that "this was a joint effort."
Figliuzzi, the former FBI assistant director, agreed with that assessment, especially on how the relationship between the FBI and NYPD have progressed.
"It's more proof to the public that the turf battles and tensions and warfare that existed between the NYPD and the FBI are gone. There's not a hint of that in this case, but quite the opposite, all we're hearing is it was a seamless operation," said Figliuzzi, who also highlighted the United States Postal Inspection Service as unsung heroes of the case. "A few years ago there'd be some battles, but none of that is here and that's because of the tremendous respect that has been earned on all sides."
