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Democrats who raged against the release of a GOP memo alleging misconduct at the FBI on Friday tempered their concern with a dash of relief and some greeted the document as an outright bust.

Drafted to portray the Department of Justices investigation into Russian election meddling as tainted by bias against President Donald Trump, the memo ultimately bolstered Democrats defense of the probe by confirming that it did not begin based on the contents of an unverified anti-Trump dossier.

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And the memo offered little new evidence to undercut Special Counsel Robert Muellers inquiry into Russias disruption campaign, despite Trumps reported interest in the document as grounds to provoke further public uncertainty about the impartiality of the investigation.

Republicans have overplayed their hand, and they have created a frenzy about this memo" against the urging of intelligence and law enforcement officials, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) a member of the House intelligence committee, said in an interview.

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Because the person who is a person of interest here is the president of the United States," Speier added, "and in his mind this was going to derail the investigation. Its not going to derail the investigation.

Still, any reassurance Democrats derived from the substance of the memo was counterbalanced by apprehension about Trump and congressional Republicans continuing to seize on it. The intense media coverage of the GOP memo, fueled in part by the fierceness of Democratic pushback, has raised its profile to an extent that Trump may be more inclined to use it to further up the pressure on DOJ.

It's pretty clear that the memo wasn't worth the paper it's printed on, one Senate Democratic leadership aide said. But we know that the president will use anything at his disposal to try to undermine the investigation, no matter how thin it is.

Democrats remain incensed by the process House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) used to release the previously classified memo with a green light from Trump, while keeping them from issuing their response. The minority members said theirs would have provided context lacking in Nunes' document.

Nonetheless, the substance of the GOP memo left Democrats unimpressed.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) slammed it as garbage evidence assembled by House Intelligence Committee Republicans to provide cover for the president to strangle Muellers probe.

This memo seems to do more to confirm the legitimacy of the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign than to undermine it, Murphy said in a statement.

The document revealed that the FBI's probe began not with the controversial dossier financed by Democrats and commissioned by former British intelligence official Christopher Steele but with a tip from Australian officials who had received intelligence from Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos during a random April 2016 encounter. It also indicated that no surveillance warrants were issued for Page until after he left the Trump campaign. And it left unchallenged much of the substance of the Steele Dossier.

Some Republicans and FBI allies bolstered the Democrats' critique.

"This is it?" former FBI director James Comey asked after the memo emerged.

"I doubt this was the intent, but the House GOP and the Trump admin just blew up the rights favorite conspiracy theory," argued National Review conservative commentator David French. "The Russia investigation isnt the fruit of the poisonous dossier; it existed before. The decks are now cleared for Mueller."

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who has joined fellow Republicans in calling for a second special counsel at DOJ to investigate internal misconduct in probes of the Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns, also said plainly Friday that "nothing in the memo released today undercuts Mr. Muellers investigation."

House Republicans were left as the most vocal proponents of the memo's contents, arguing that it revealed abuses of the FBI's spying authority to target an American citizen. They defended their ability to conduct oversight of the intelligence community and said laying the facts out despite Democratic protests that their competing memo had not yet been cleared for release was a show of transparency.

Whether the memo moves public opinion on the DOJ investigation remains to be seen. A Quinnipiac University poll conducted last month found that 55 percent of independent voters view the probe of potential collusion between Russia and Trump's campaign as legitimate, versus 41 percent deeming it a "witch hunt."

As for the long-term effects of the memo, Speier surmised that the attack on law enforcement's credibility has "Vladimir Putin ... grinning ear to ear."

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Socialism vs Communism

Socialism is commonly regarded as an economic system that seeks to achieve equality among members of society. Communism, on the other hand, is both an economic system that seeks equality among members of society and a political ideology that advocates a classless and stateless society and rejects religion. It is regarded as a more extreme form of socialism.

Socialism and communism both adhere to the principle that the resources of the economy should be collectively owned by the public and controlled by a central organization. They differ, however, in the management and control of the economy. In socialism, the people themselves decide through communes or popularly elected councils on how the economy should work. This makes socialism a liberal system because majority of the people have a say on how the economy should be run. Communism, on the other hand, controls its economy through a single authoritarian party. It is thus characterized as conservative because the economy functions based on the decisions of a few.

The views of socialism and communism also differ in the distribution of wealth produced by the economy. Socialism supports the view that the goods and services produced should be dispensed based on the productivity of an individual. In contrast, communism believes that the wealth should be shared by the masses based on the needs of the individual.

There are two kinds of properties in socialism: (1) personal property that an individual can own and enjoy; and (2) industrial property that is dedicated for the use of producing societys goods. Individuals, for example, can keep their digital cameras but cannot retain a factory that produces digital cameras. While personal properties can be kept, socialists make sure, however, that no private property will be used as an instrument for oppression and exploitation. In comparison, communism treats all goods and services as public property to be used and enjoyed by the entire populace.

Finally, socialism and communism differ in their views on capitalism. Socialists regard capitalism as a threat to equality and public interest. They believe, however, that there is no need to eliminate the capitalist class because it can be used as a good instrument in the transition to socialism as long as it is properly controlled. Socialists also believe that capitalism can exist in a socialist state and vice versa. From the point of view of the communists, capitalism must to be destroyed totally in order to give way to a classless society.

Summary:

1. Socialism is an economic system while communism is both an economic and political system.2. In socialism, the resources of the economy are managed and controlled by the people themselves through communes or councils while in communism, management and control rest on a few people in a single authoritarian party.3. Socialists distribute wealth to the people based on an individuals productive efforts while communists farm out wealth based on an individuals needs.4. Socialists can own personal properties while communists can not.5. Socialism allows capitalism to exist in its midst while communism seeks to get rid of capitalism.

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A military parade in the nations capital?The last military parade in Washington was in 1991, after our victory in the first Iraq War.

Though the martial image of high-stepping soldiers is not one I tend to associate with our nations Founders distrust of a standing Army, Im not against a victory celebration. So I propose we declare victory in Afghanistan, bring home our 14,000 troops and hold a victory parade.

We defeated the enemy in Afghanistan. We killed or captured the terrorists who planned, plotted, or aided in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. We killed the ringleader, Usama bin Laden. We disrupted the terrorists camps where they plotted and trained. We dislodged the Taliban government that aided and abetted bin Laden.

We just dont know how to appreciate a good thing. A big part of our foreign policy failures is not knowing when and how to declare victory. So, why not a parade? Bring the troops home and declare the victory that should have been declared years ago.

The only reason victory is elusive in Afghanistan is that presidents continue to have an impossible definition of victory. If victory is creating a nation where no real nation has ever existed, then no victory will ever occur.

If victory requires the disparate tribes and regional factions of Afghanistan to have more allegiance to a regime in Kabul than to their local tribal leaders, then victory will never come.

We spend about $50 billion a year in Afghanistan. When quizzed in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently, undersecretaries of Defense and State could not answer the most rudimentary of questions concerning the war.

How many Taliban fighters do we face?Blank faces for an answer. What percentage of the Taliban are unrepentant terrorists unwilling to negotiate?Blank faces again.

The Taliban now control a significant amount of Afghanistans real estate. Are the Taliban open to negotiating, considering that they appear to be winning? Blank faces again, but with perhaps a touch of remorse, knowing that there really is no possible military solution in Afghanistan.

The neocons are unaccustomed to nuance in victory. They seem to have learned some lesson about unconditional and total surrender when America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II with the surrender of Japan, and they seem unwilling or unable to accept any other form of victory.

So, by all means, a parade yes! As long as it is a victory parade heralding an end to Americas longest war.

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In December 1773, patriots tossed tea in Boston harbor to protest high taxes and intrusive government. But the men and women of 1773 would not have believed how highly taxed and regulated weve become. Its time for a modern tea party!

Across the nation, tea parties will be held on Wednesday, April 15.Please join us in Austin at 11:30 a.m., or participate in one of these local events! (If yours isnt listed, please let us know!)

Also, Michael Sullivan will be speaking at both the Austin and Dallas tea parties!

Amarillo / Texas Panhandle12 NoonPotter County Courthouse

6 p.m.Post Office on Ross St. ARLINGTON4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.River Legacy Park701 Northwest Green Oaks Boulevard at CooperAUSTIN11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.Austin City Hall (Lavaca and Cesar Chavez)Featuring: Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams, State Rep. Wayne Christian, TFRs Michael Quinn Sullivan, AFPs Peggy Venable, and many others.Our theme is "Dont Mess With Texas!" 5:00 p.m.South Steps of the CapitolFeaturing: State Sen. Dan Patrick and others. Will include a walk to Town Lake and ceremonial tea dumping. BEEVILLE10 a.m.Bee County Courthouse BELTON4 p.m. 7 p.m. Confederate Park Belton, TX BOERNE5:00 p.m. 7 p.m.Boerne Main Plaza (corner of Main and Blanco Streets)E-mail: [emailprotected]BRENHAMApril 14th, 11:30 a.m.Washington Co. CourthouseBROWNSVILLE6:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m.Across from the Federal Courthouse600 E. HarrisonBRYAN 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.Tanglewood Park3900 Carter Creek, Bryan, TXCARROLLTON /FARMERS BRANCH / COPPELL11:30 am 1:30 pmIntersection of Josey Lane and Trinity Mills (President George Bush Freeway) in Carrollton, Texas. CLEAR LAKE6 pmClear Lake Park5001 Nasa ParkwaySeabrook, TX

COLLEGE STATION4 p.m. to 7 p.m.Veterans Park CORSICANA5 p.m.City Hall 200 N. 12th Street DALLAS5:00 p.m. to 8 p.m.Dallas City Halldallasteaparty.org DENTON6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.Denton Courthouse-on-the-Square EL PASO4 to 6 pmState Line Restaurant1222 Sunland Park Drive FLORESVILLE7 p.m.County Courthouse FORT WORTH6:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.LaGrave Field301 NE 6th StreetFort Worth, TX FRISCO5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.Intersection of Gaylord & Preston/ 3100 Preston Rd.andIntersection of Lebanon & Preston/ 5049 Preston Rd. GONZALES11:45 a.m.Texas Heros Square (corner of St. Louis and St. Joseph) GREENVILE11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.Intersection of Wesley Street and Kari Lane HOUSTON4pmJones Plaza KAUFMAN12 noonKaufman County Courthouse KERRVILLE11 a.m. 1 p.m.Kerr County Courthouse LONGVIEW12 NoonGregg Courthouse lawn LOCKHART4:00 to 7:00 P.M.Caldwell County Courthouse Lawn LUBBOCK5 p.m.County Courthouse Gazebo PLANO5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.Intersection of Park & Preston/2201 Preston Rd.andIntersection of Parker & Preston/3301 Preston Rd. ROBSTOWNNoonCity Hall ROWLETT4 p.m. to 7 p.m.Square on Main Street3809 Main Street, Rowlett TX, 75088

SAN ANGELO5:30 p.m.Tom Green County Courthouse112 W. Beauregard SAN ANTONIO6:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.Raymond Russell Park SAN MARCOS11 a.m. 1 p.m.San Marcos Plaza Park206 North CM Allen Pkwy SUGAR LAND6 pm to 8 pmTown Square, in front of City Hall WEATHERFORDMarch and Rally4:00 March time5:00-7:00 RallyFirst Monday Trade Grounds THE WOODLANDS5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.Rob Fleming Park

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Ill cut right to the chase:

Pepe the Frog isnt a white nationalist symbol.

Pepe the Frog isnt a harmless meme propagated by teenagers on the internet.

Pepe the Frog is, in fact, the modern-day avatar ofan ancient Egyptian deity accidentallyresurrectedby online imageboard culture.

Does that sound like the most b@tsh#t crazy thing youve ever heard?

Strap in, friendo. Youre in for one hell of a ride.

(UPDATE 11/9/16: Well memed, America, well memed. A post-election follow-up to this article has been added here.)

The precise origins of Pepe the Frog are, like all imageboards memes, obscure and unimportant.

All you really need to know is that sometime around 2010, a sad-looking cartoon frog began to trend among posters on 4chan.org and similar underground imageboards.

Shortly after, the age-old piece of online vernacular used to express laughterLOLfell out of favor on these sites.

In its place a new slang term of synonymous meaning rose to common use: KEK.

The origins of this trend are much more important. It comes froman odd technicality involving the Korean language and the popular video game World of Warcraft.

Keep that in mind for later.

And so, just like that, twoseemingly unrelatedelements that would later give life to a deity were arranged in piecemeal fashion. But they remained dormant for several years, up until

By this time, Pepe the Frog had become the unofficial mascot for 4chans political discussion board (a highly despised corner of the Internet fittingly entitled Politically Incorrect).

/Pol/ is a place where the unspoken outsiders of Millennial culture gather en masse. Here youll find the lonely and depressed, the socially inept, the generational dropouts, and all shades of disenfranchised youthevery one of them united with an unshakable underdog mentality that pervades the forums every kilobyte.

To call this place a white nationalist or alt-right message board is categorically incorrect. /Pol/, above all else, is place where our societys status quo is mercilessly challenged. Its a melting pot for well-meaning free thinkers and misguided mad men alike.

It isa place of chaos.

So when Donald J. Trump strolled onto the political scene in 2015, it was a match made in heaven. He immediately became /pol/s candidate of choice.

And it wasnt long before Trump was mated with /pol/s beloved mascot, in typical imageboard fashion:

And then, something very strange began to happen

One last thing you need to understand about imageboard culture: dubs.

Every post on 4chan and similar venues comes with an 8-digit numerical stamp. This number represents that posts entry position in the entire posting lineage of the imageboard.

With the amount of traffic these sites get, the last couple digits of this number are essentially a random roll. When a poster gets repeated digits, its called dubs, trips, quads, and so on.

Since a poster cant know their post number until after theyve submitted the post, its common for people to bet the contents of their message on the occurrence of repeating digits, like so:

When that endeavor proves a successful, a GET has been made and the stroke of luck is celebrated.

Out ofthis practice, a strange phenomenon began to take place on /pol/:discussion threads associatedwithTrump displayed noticeably frequent GETs.

It wasnt long before all of these seemingly random elements discussed so far became irreparably tied together within imageboard culture:

and a god was born.

Soon, it became all the rage on /pol/ to hail Trump as nothing less than gods chosen candidate.

Butwhichgods chosen candidate exactly?

The answer is obvious: Kek.

Remember how we learned that kek the meme came about from an obscure Korean languageonomatopoeia, completely independently from Pepe the Frog?

Well, it turns out Kek is alsoand always has beenan ancient Egyptian deity

A frog-headed one.

Quite the coincidence, wouldnt you say? A little, perhaps you reply.

A little indeed, but thats just the verytip of the synchronicityiceberg. Thats just where this unfathomable string of coincidences begins. And where it ends? We just dont know. Day by day this all getting stranger

The second major (little) coincidence can be foundwhen one looks into whatKek stood for among the ancient Egyptian pantheon:

Kuk(also spelled asKekorKeku) is the deification of the primordial concept of darkness in ancient Egyptian religion

Like all four dualistic concepts in the Ogdoad, Kuks male form was depicted as a frog, or as a frog-headed man, and the female form as a snake, or a snake-headed woman. As a symbol of darkness, Kuk also represented obscurity and the unknown, and thus chaos. Also, Kuk was seen as that which occurred before light, thus was known as thebringer-in of light.

And who else, at this point, had been declared a bringer of light into the world by enthusiastic supporters (mainstream and imageboard alike)?

It gets even weirder.

The pot really started to boil when this bizarre misprint statuette was dug up from a mysterious vendor called Ancient Treasures on Amazon. For years the product had been coincidentally mislabeled a KEK statue,despite actually bearing the hieroglyphics for the frog goddess HEQET.

And ya know, the thing about this ONEunique arrangement of hieroglyphicsthey bear an undeniable resemblance to a certain special something:

Do you see it?

A person sitting down. In front of a computer.

Like say, to post on an imageboard?

And whats that on the other side of the computer?

With this holy talismans discovery, The Cult of Kek suddenly took on a concrete form. This new digital faith is summed up neatly in this image passed around on all the major imageboards of the day:

It Gets Weirder: Pepe/Keke Emerges in Plain Sight on September 11th, 2016

Soon, /pol/s users werequite ironically, at firstattributing all strokes of luck for the Trump campaign (and likewise, all strokes of misfortune for the Hillary campaign) to their benevolent frog-headed deity that spoke to them in dubs.

But all of that came to a head on September 11th, 2016, when three major, mind-blowing events transpired within 48 hours of each other. Three events that would change the face of Kek worship forever:

(Note this persons post number)

Heres the short version: Pepe is a cartoon frog who began his internet life as an innocent meme enjoyed by teenagers and pop stars alike.

But in recent months, Pepes been almost entirely co-opted by the white supremacists who call themselves the alt-right. Theyve decided to take back Pepe by adding swastikas and other symbols of anti-semitism and white supremacy.

What can I or anyone else hope to add here? How bizarre does reality get? How deep does the rabbit hole go?

Oh, I see how deep

Now get a load of this one.

While all of this was happening, one or a few anonymous 4chan contributors discovered an old track from the 80s on YouTube. A track stamped all over with a very familiar face:

Thats right folks. A B-side vinyl by performer P. E. P. E., sporting a frog with a magic wand.

A frog.

And whats P. E. P. E. stand for?

Probably. What are sweet repeating digit GETs all about? Probability.

What is this gist of Kekism on /pol/? He speaks to them through dubs. Their ancient egyptian god of obscurity and chaos emerges/enters at points of probability.

Feel like thats a stretch? Check out what the full-length vocal versions album artwork is adorned with:

Dont see the significance? Let 4chan help you:

(Again, note the posts number)

Andheywhos that fair-haired man pointed towards Trump Towers clock in the artwork?

Gee, I wonder who.

Most likely?Chaos Magick.

You see, one of the core tenets of Chaos Magick practice (the only mainstay, really) is the creation of magic sigils (also called glyphs) to codify and project ones Will into the Universe.

Basically, you make an image that represents your will (desire fueled by powerful emotions or altered states) and the universe will take care of the rest.

When a lot of people pool their united willpower towards a single sigil, its called a Hypersigil, and its exponentially more potent.

Pepe/Kek is 4chans hypersigil.

Millions of the little people that browse 4chan have embedded the image of Pepe with their hatred for Hillarys alleged corruption, and their hope for Trumps victory over her in November. Whether they did this consciously or not, its exactly what has happened.

And so far, their hypersigil seems to be working.

Absolutely I am. But you must understand, magic probably isnt what you think it is. Its not about wand-waving or pentagrams or sacrificing babies.

Magick is actually much less involved than that. As a matter of fact, youre casting magick right now. You pretty much always are, whether you like it or not.

Thats because the REAL magic comes from plain and simple human attention. How you look at reality shapes it in ways that were only now beginning to fully understand. Ironically, the science of quantum physics is rapidly bringing the reality of magick to light (shadilay).

In my bookYoure Imagining Things, Ill tell you how it worksand WHY it worksin plain-spoken English. Ill also explain how you can use your attentionto alter your own little pocket of reality in extraordinary ways. Click here to check outYoure Imagining Thingson Amazon.

Most likely? Kek will continue to grow in power and continue to oppose Hillary Clinton and the corrupt political establishment. Will the Lord of Light win out over the powers that be? We shall find out very soon. (UPDATE 11/9/16: We found out what happened, didnt we?)

Yes.

Meme.

(And spread this around on social media.)

(And keep an eye on TheCultofKek.com for big things on the horizon.)

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