Posts on Sunday, August 11, 2019
Hillary Clinton operatives fed the FBI false information on President Trump and his aides in the months following his election, according to an analysis of an FBI agent’s interview with a key conduit. The agent’s interview notes (known as 302s) of Bruce Ohr, then an associate deputy attorney general in the Department of Justice, were obtained by the conservative investigative group Judicial Watch. “These new Bruce Ohr FBI 302s show an unprecedented and irregular effort by the FBI, DOJ, and State Department to dig up dirt on President Trump using the conflicted Bruce Ohr, his wife, and the Clinton/DNC spies at Fusion GPS,”
Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has issued a stunning rebuke to actor Richard Gere who criticised the country's refusal to let in more than 100 migrants stranded at sea. Golden Globe winner Richard Gere visited a boat with 121 migrants on board in international waters near the Italian island of Lampedusa.(Snip) The right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini, whose party topped the polls in the recent European elections, hit back and urged Gere to 'support them in his villas'. Salvini said: 'Given this generous millionaire is voicing concern for the fate of the Open Arms migrants, we thank him: he can take back
Noel Gallagher has revealed he's leaving London after a man was recently stabbed on his street. The former Oasis rocker, opened up on his relocation plans after declaring the city is too dangerous to raise his family in. The musician, 52, who is married to Sara MacDonald, 47, has three children—Anaïs, 19, Donovan, 11, and eight-year-old Sonny. Speaking about the events leading to his big decision, Noel told the Irish Independent: 'We didn’t want the kids growing up in London. We’ve had two stabbings outside our house in the last while. 'I live, as you can imagine, in quite an affluent area.
Joe Biden still leads the Iowa State Fair’s WHO-HD’s "Cast Your Kernel" poll. The unscientific survey of fair attendees allows Republicans and Democrats to cast a kernel toward their favored candidate.According to WHOTV, 49% of Democrats have voted in the poll compared to 51% percent of Republicans for their respective party candidates.With 25%, the former vice president leads his closest competitor, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, by 9 points, as of 2 p.m. local time. Over 19,450 kernels had been dropped into candidate jars. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is tied with Warren at 16%. Meanwhile, California Sen. Kamala Harris has 11%.
Mass murder is not a gun control problem.
In 2003, Kim Dae-han, a middle-aged taxi driver, killed 192 people and left 151 others wounded, by setting a South Korean subway train on fire using paint cans filled with gasoline. In 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Muslim terrorist, killed 86 people and wounded 458 others by ramming a truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in France. In 2001, Muslim terrorists killed 2,977 people and injured 6,000 more, by using box cutters to hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings.
Guns are a tool. There are a whole lot of other devastating ways to kill lots of people.
American mass killers often use guns
A new survey has found that Native Americans are more likely to be proud than offended by the name of the Washington Redskins. The survey, as reported by the Washington Post, asked 500 people who identify as Native American to pick from a list of words which one best described their feelings about the Redskins name. The word most picked was “proud.” Following “proud” came “indifferent,” “annoyed,” “content,” “satisfied” and “disappointed.”
Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson fired back at Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren over a tweet memorializing the 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.Brown’s death on August 9, 2014, at the hands of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, sparked nationwide protests as the public seized on later-debunked claims that Brown had thrown up his hands in surrender prior to Wilson shooting him. “Hands up, don’t shoot!” became the rallying cry that persisted in spite of a local investigation and a follow-up
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) avoided opining on whether or not he believes that the Americans who decide to vote for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election are themselves racist."I think it’s really hard," O’Rourke responded to CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday when confronted with the question.The presidential hopeful quickly pivoted to argue why he believes President Trump is racist, an assertion that he has repeatedly made since launching his bid for the presidency, but ramped up in the wake of back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
The Babylon Bee is an excellent satire site, but this one–Biden Clarifies: ‘I Like All Races, Even The Bad Ones’ is hilarious:
"Joe Biden has apologized for his recent seemingly racist comment, where he said that poor kids are sometimes as smart as white kids.
“Everyone who knows me knows I’m not a racist,” said Biden. “I even have a black friend, Barry. Smart, articulate guy.”
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Aides were then seen signaling him to stop talking, but Biden pushed on.
“Rest assured,” Biden said. “I like all races, even the bad ones.”
And the Bee’s conclusion couldn’t be truer:
Media immediately jumped all over Biden’s comments,
The two prison guards at Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan jail who reportedly failed to follow procedure and check on prisoners every 30 minutes were both working long overtime shifts the night the pedophile took his own life, a source has revealed.The former financier, 66, was found hanging in his prison cell shortly before 7am and was rushed to nearby New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan hospital where he was pronounced dead. A prison official told The New York Times one of the guards was working his fifth straight day of overtime
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Michael Goodwin of the New York Post today explained why the media continues to churn out the same anti-Trump propaganda long after its expiration date. The propaganda is "comfort food for the committed." [Snip] His is a good take on Chicago Evening Post columnist Finley Peter Dunne's observation in 1914 that the job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. [Snip] Goodwin calls this group the committed, but given the lunacy of their beliefs, I would call them the people who should be committed, or at least medicated for our protection.
Comfort food just makes them fat, lazy, and stupid.
Raising the minimum wage to $15
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More than doubling the federal minimum wage is quite the controversial proposal currently sitting in Congress, but there’s no debate about one facet of the concept: doing so would boost Americans’ retirement savings. The House of Representatives recently passed the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the minimum wage across the country from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2025. The bill still needs to get approved in the Senate and then by the president, but if it were to pass as is — or somewhat similar to its current form — it could mean adding thousands of dollars
Mina (Saudi Arabia) - Almost 2.5 million Muslim pilgrims took part Sunday in the "stoning of the devil", the last major ritual of the annual hajj pilgrimage that in previous years led to deadly stampedes. Carrying pebbles in the scorching heat, worshippers made their way across Mina Valley near Mecca in western Saudi Arabia to symbolically "humiliate" the devil. Under the watchful eyes of security forces, waves of pilgrims clad in white threw seven stones each at a pillar symbolising Satan. "It is hot, I drink a lot of water and I am still hidden under my umbrella," said Jaker Akjar
Knives, Rifles, and a Suicide
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Another bad week for Democrats. (Snip) In any event, this very weak field of candidates seems to encourage them to further madness. This week it was to blame mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso on the President and to demand gun control measures, some of which are already in place. For the most part the arguments are demonstrably specious and opportunistic. Perhaps to hang on to the votes of upper-class white women who are for it.
And firearm ownership is increasing among minorities, who are unlikely to find efforts to deprive them of defensive weaponry appealing.
Mayor Bill de Blasio pitched his presidential dreams to a crowd of about 15 likely Democratic voters at an event Sunday morning in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. With more than enough empty space to accommodate his 6-foot-5 frame, the quixotic candidate took the floor at Parlor City Pub to a smattering of applause from the sleepy brunch set. “Everything should be about our families, our lives, what everyday people are going through, what working people are going through,” de Blasio told the crowd, which numbered around 15—not counting the press corps, campaign staff and Iowa State Sen. Rob Hogg, the event organizer.
President Trump’s Hamptons supporters have gone underground.
While Trump attended two big-money fundraisers for the Republican Party and his 2020 re-election campaign at mansions in Southampton and Bridgehampton on Friday, many of his East End supporters are eschewing the spotlight—specially after last week’s calls for boycotts of billionaire Stephen Ross’ gyms because he hosted the president.(Snip) “People have really strong opinions here and if you go around wearing a MAGA hat, you really need to fear physical violence,” he said, adding the anti-Trump aggression comes mostly from summer residents.
Trump won 51.5 percent of the vote among year-round residents
Lima, Peru—Two Americans used their medal-winning moments at the Pan American Games to draw attention to social issues back home that they feel are spiraling out of control. During their medals ceremonies at the sports festival in Lima, fencer Race Imboden took a knee and hammer thrower Gwen Berry raised her fist. Both athletes could represent the U.S. less than a year from now at the Tokyo Olympics, where similar protests would be seen by a much wider audience. “Racism, gun control, mistreatment of immigrants, and a president who spreads hate are at the top of a long list” of America’s problems, Imboden said
Is Jeffrey Epstein’s death suicide by Clinton Coincidence? Since the Whitewater Investigation into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation, the Clinton Body Count began. A number of Bill and Hillary Clinton associates are alleged to have died under mysterious circumstances. This conspiracy theory continued to resurrect itself during Hillary Clinton’s 2008 and 2016 presidential bids. Now add Jeffrey Epstein to the list.
orget about the Rooskies, plastic straws and gender-based pronouns. The latest boogieman/boogie-womyn/boogie-etc for the Democrats is the Electoral College.
That’s of course the system where each state gets electoral votes in rough proportion to its population. The electoral votes are then cast in accordance with state law for presidential candidates. A candidate needs 270 to win the presidency.
In almost all states, it’s winner-take-all. Whichever candidate wins the most votes in a state gets all that state’s electoral votes.
The Meaning of Jeffrey Epstein
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Let’s apply Occam’s razor to Jeffrey Epstein’s untimely death. Which of these scenarios makes more sense: that a powerful billionaire who knew all about a global elite sex ring was murdered in jail by the same unaccountable forces that allowed him to evade justice for years, or that he suddenly killed himself while on suicide watch?
Oh, he wasn’t on suicide watch? Well, that’s normal. It’s all very simple: Epstein must have killed himself after, very sensibly, being left alone to his own devices, despite being the most high-profile defendant in the country. What are you, a conspiracy theorist?
Almost no one expected Donald Trump to win the 2016 presidential election, but his campaign’s strategy to focus on disaffected Midwest voters long abandoned by the Democratic Party leadership paid off in a big way. A majority of voters in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and, perhaps most surprisingly, Wisconsin, all pulled the lever in favor of Trump.
To win a second term, Trump is going to need a similar level of success in the Midwest, and it looks as though Minnesota, which has long been thought of as an iron-clad Democratic stronghold, could be a big part of his 2020 strategy — and for good reason.
On Saturday multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, the highest profile prisoner in US custody, was found dead in his prison cell in Manhattan.This occurred the day after two thousand previously sealed court documents involving the Jeffrey Epstein child sex abuse case were released to the public.The documents described how Bill Clinton held a private party on Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile island.Clinton made at least 27 times trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane. Most of those flights were with underage girls.
Since the world has not heard enough about “white supremacy” lately, I thought I would say a few words about this neglected subject.
Please don’t turn up your nose and say “but ‘white supremacy’ is just a malignant fiction, a fantasy conjured up by the Left in order to beat up on conservatives, Trump supporters, etc.”
This is true. “White supremacy” is in this respect like “climate change”: a bugbear, a horror tale utterly without substance but scary—Oooo so scary!—nonetheless. In Through the Looking Glass, Alice scoffs when the White Queen tells her that she is more than 100 years old. “I can’t believe that!” says Alice.
Joe Biden is on a roll. A gafftastic roll. The near-octogenarian, former vice president and front runner for the Democratic Party nomination for president, is causing his supporters and Democrats across the country to pull their hair out in worry and trepidation.The whispering campaign has become a dull roar; is Joe Biden too old to be president? Bloomberg: The statement was the latest in a string of gaffes that have plagued Biden on the campaign trail. On Thursday, Biden, 76, told a group of Asian and Hispanic voters that "poor kids are just as bright" as white children.
So much for winnowing the field. With two pairs of whirlwind debates — 20 candidates per outing, 10 onstage per night — now past, those vying for the Democratic presidential nomination must cross higher polling and fundraising thresholds to return for the next two rounds. Ostensibly, the Democratic National Committee’s more stringent requirements would result in fewer candidates behind the podiums.The next debate will be Sept. 12 — and Sept. 13, if needed — in Houston, and will air on ABC and Univision.
The Clinton dead pool just swallowed another victim (or was he a criminal accomplice?) into its gaping maw. Arrested in early July on charges of sex-trafficking, registered pedophile Jeffrey Epstein conveniently and successfully committed suicide Saturday, allegedly by hanging himself while in prison custody.
This past July 23, Epstein allegedly attempted but failed to kill himself. NBC News reported that prison officials had “not ruled out the possibility that he was attacked by a fellow inmate…” Don’t you find it odd that a high-profile prisoner thought to have previously attempted suicide was not on suicide watch? Oh, wait, he was. That is, until a few days ago.
I have this strong suspicion that the airlines are lying to us every time they say, “We have some weather ahead.”
“Some weather ahead” means…a rainstorm.
There’s no need to turn back.
Didn’t America invent the airplane? Haven’t we had 116 years to figure out how to fly through a rainstorm? Don’t they have guys at Boeing running weather algorithms on the aerodynamics of pushing through a Category 5 hurricane with military cargo planes because the fate of the Western world might depend on it? (Snip
I would say about a third of those flights have been delayed, canceled (meaning I was supposed to take a previous
Mass Killings vs. Mass Shootings
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In trying to measure the effects of guns on society -- not just the Americans -- it pays to be careful about what we are describing. The Washington Post explains that there is no direct relation between the number of firearms in circulation and the number of ordinary gun-related murders. (Snip) Ordinary murder is apparently driven by more than the weapon. An observed reduction in the propensity of Americans to shoot each other offset the greater availability of weapons. The federal assault weapons ban and its subsequent removal without detectable effect showed how weak a factor it was by itself.
The Guardian reported, "Schoolchildren in China work overnight to produce Amazon Alexa devices."
They are as young as 16 and are listed as interns. The newspaper cited interviews with workers and leaked documents from Amazon’s supplier Foxconn.
The Guardian reported, "According to the documents, the teenagers – drafted in from schools and technical colleges in and around the central southern city of Hengyang – are classified as interns, and their teachers are paid by the factory to accompany them. Teachers are asked to encourage uncooperative pupils to accept overtime work on top of regular shifts.
On Thursday, as Matt Drudge and the Washington Post tried to create a split between President Donald John Trump and the NRA, I told readers "Don't go Ann Coulter over a Washington Post story."
The Post, a toy owned by the richest man in the world, wrote, "Trump warned by NRA over background checks."
In response, I calmly wrote, "The important thing to remember is President Trump is taking the NRA's calls. They are in on the negotiations. I would rather not add a law and maybe President Trump is making the liberals an offer they cannot accept. He did that with the DREAMers."
‘Shocking: Jeff Epstein Found Dead By Suicide In Prison Cell’ is the mainstream and social media headline of the day. The contemporary media excels at burying a real conspiracy under its accusations of everyone else being a conspiracy theorist. But on the Epstein convenient suicide, this time the media has stolen the whole narrative and run away with it. Throw enough hogwash on a headline and you’ve got yourself a long-lasting
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker has missed more congressional votes than any other lawmaker running for president in 2020.
The New Jersey Democrat missed 45 percent of the votes brought before the Senate in the 116th Congress, which began Jan. 3, according to an analysis by NJ Advance Media of data from govtrack.us.
Fellow Sen. Kamala Harris of California was second with an absentee rate of 44 percent, missing one fewer vote than Booker. (Snip)
Both U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Bernie Sanders of Vermont missed 40 percent of their votes. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts missed 28 percent of her votes.
During the 2016 effort to weaponize the institutions of government against the outside candidacy of Donald Trump, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) was headed by Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein. After the 2016 election Senator Feinstein abdicated her vice-chair position to Senator Mark Warner in January 2017.
While the SSCI was engaged in their part of the 2016 effort Vice-Chair Feinstein’s lead staffer was a man named Daniel Jones. Dan Jones was the contact point between the SSCI and Fusion-GPS.
After the election, and after Feinstein abdicated, Dan Jones left the committee to continue paying Fusion-GPS (Glenn Simpson) for ongoing efforts toward the impeachment
In the first part of this research into the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) we outlined how the committee was engaged in the 2017 effort –with specific evidence of communication– to support Robert Mueller and the ‘soft coup‘ team. [See Here] When you understand what the group was doing in early 2017, you understand why the FBI had to use DOJ official Bruce Ohr as a go-between to contact with Chris Steele. Now we move on to overlay several data-points that happened throughout 2018 that are connected to a much more troubling part of the overall issues. In 2018 the DOJ and FBI covered-up
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) doubled down Thursday, telling NBC News that President Trump is, unequivocally, a white supremacist and used debunked narratives – including the “very fine people” hoax – to back up her egregious claims.
Warren told the New York Times that Trump is a white supremacist and proudly repeated her answer on Twitter later in the day.
“Today I was asked whether the president is a white supremacist,” she wrote. “I said yes”: (tweet) She doubled down, defending her answer by listing a series of debunked fake news narratives, including what has been dubbed the “very fine people” hoax.
“I gave an honest answer,” Warren said of her previous decision
An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking scheme named two prominent Democrats as part of a group of men with whom she was forced to have sex, unsealed documents revealed Friday.
The more than 2,000 papers released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York allege that Virginia Roberts Giuffre, 33, claimed in May 2016 that she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with and give erotic massages to several politicians, foreign leaders, and businessmen, Fox News reported.
“There’s a whole bunch of them — it’s just hard for me to remember,” Giuffre said, according to the documents. “My whole life revolved around just pleasing
Twins who died decades ago aboard the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor were buried in Nebraska Saturday with full military honors in separate ceremonies.The American flags that covered the caskets of Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class Leo Blitz and Fireman 1st Class Rudolph Blitz were presented to their surviving 93-year-old sister Betty Pitsch at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Lincoln.“This is a huge relief for grandma,” Pitsch’s grandson Ed McLaughlin told the Lincoln Journal Star. “For her to finally know that the twins can rest their souls and have their remains brought home, I know that’s really big for her.”
The Queen sat next to her son on their way to church on the grounds of Balmoral this morning, as Prince Andrew faces renewed scrutiny over his friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein who was found dead in his jail cell yesterday. The Prince shared a car with his mother and daughter, Princess Beatrice, to Kirk on the Scottish estate this morning, while Charles and Camilla drove themselves. Epstein was accused of arranging to have sex with dozens of underage girls at his residences in New York and Florida, but had denied two counts of sex trafficking.
A prescient president
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Ronald Reagan was widely viewed as a visionary. His deep and abiding faith in the goodness of the American people and our unlimited potential, coupled with his unmatched skills as a speaker, enabled him to communicate a clear and compelling idea of what our country could and should be. Sometimes, he was even predictive.He was never more so than in August 1984, a very important month in Reagan’s Presidency – one that was choreographed as carefully as any during his eight years in the White House. Everything was designed to be a build-up to the Republican National Convention at the end of the month in Dallas where Reagan
Modesto, Calif.—A Northern California city has denied a request to hold a so-called Straight Pride rally at a park. Modesto city officials on Friday denied an application by the National Straight Pride Coalition for an Aug. 24 event at Graceada Park. Organizer Don Grundmann had estimated 500 people would attend. The group says it supports heterosexuality, Christianity and white contributions to Western civilization. Opponents argued the rally would promote hatred of LGBTQ people and minorities. City spokesman Thomas Reeves says the permit request was denied over safety concerns, because the group lost its liability insurance and the parks department determined the event
Knives, Rifles, and a Suicide
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Another bad week for Democrats. After the latest debates “No candidate received a polling bump,” according to Morning Consult analyst Anthony Patterson, and the inestimable Michael Barone analyzes the various constituencies -- often conflicting -- that make up the present Democratic party. (Snip) [T]his very weak field of candidates seems to encourage them to further madness. This week it was to blame mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso on the President and to demand gun control measures, some of which are already in place. For the most part the arguments are demonstrably specious and opportunistic.
Not so long ago, The New York Times was the most trusted newspaper in America, maybe even the world.
People bought it and read it because they believed it was a straight shooter.
The quaint Page 1 motto, “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” promised superior judgment and taste. The paper was often boring because it presented the news in a dispassionate fashion and didn’t take sides, but that restraint was the source of its credibility. (Snip) Welcome to the new New York Times, where only the news that fits the mission is fit to print.
So who are the Democrats'
'faves' who might be breathing
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'faves' who might be breathing
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Now that Jeffrey Epstein's dead in the strangest of circumstances - the accused child sex trafficker reportedly said someone tried to murder him three weeks ago, the guy got taken off suicide watch by some psychiatrist who said he wasn't suicidal, the guy turns up dead (snip) Which inevitably draws attention back to remarks by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's daughter Christine, who said on July 7 that a lot of Democratic 'faves' might be going down with this bust of Jeffrey Epstein.
Joe Biden’s mental state has so seriously deteriorated that he cannot separate fantasy and reality. (snip) “...those kids in Parkland came up to see me when I was vice president.” But when they visited Capitol Hill to talk with members of Congress, lawmakers were “basically cowering, not wanting to see them. They did not want to face it on camera.”
The kids could not have seen him in the Vice President’s Capitol office – since Biden was no longer the occupant of that office. Biden fantasied this meeting and presented it as fact in public.
A favorite question that the anti-gun crowd likes to ask is "Why does anyone need an AR-15?" Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has a very practical answer to that, which he offered to reporters on Friday. (Snip) That's a very sound point. No matter where you live, you can come up with a legitimate argument for owning an AR-15 for self-defense. Of course, no one ever wants to be in a situation where they have to, but the peace of mind is a gift.
Although he can occasionally be a firebrand, Graham is still a United States senator and was flying with the president on Air Force One when asked
Our thinking this week, amid all the carnage and grief and finger-pointing, has been in part on Beto O’Rourke, the presidential candidate from El Paso, where 22 people were killed last Saturday. Our sympathy is devoted to the dead and their families, of course — but Beto has been on our minds, too.
We keep coming back to a moment last Sunday when, for a few seconds, all the pretenses that are part of running for president in our age of constant exposure were peeled back, if only briefly.
There are times, it seems, in most presidential campaigns when the facades get stripped away like so many layers of paint.
Guards at the New York City jail where millionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein was found dead Saturday did not conduct required checks on prisoners the previous night, according to a report.
Epstein died of a suspected suicide after being found unresponsive in his Manhattan Correctional Center cell where he was being held on sex trafficking charges. At approximately 6:30 a.m., Epstein was “found unresponsive in his cell in the Special Housing Unit from an apparent suicide,” the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a news release.
Staff conducted life-saving measures and Epstein was transported by ambulance to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Much has been written and will be written on the death of Jeffery Epstein. Was it suicide? Was it murder? The only thing certain is that the man did not die of natural causes.
The official finding will most likely be suicide. Even if this is actually the case, it still will fuel "conspiracy" theories. Rightfully so. (snip) Trust in government and the agencies of government is already at an all time low. The Department of Justice, the CIA, and the FBI have already discredited themselves by their participation in the coup against President Trump.
Tommy Lee is the new voice of the American Left. The drummer for Mötley Crüe and convicted wife-beater laid out in florid terms his plans for what the Left will do in a few years to the 47% of America that voted for President Trump.
Lee’s essay, posted on Twitter Friday morning, began “You Trumpsters better pray that liberals never gain control of the WH again because we are going to pay you back so f*****g hard for all of this sh*t." Lee’s proposals, including taxing churches out of business and throwing condoms out of planes at noncoastal Americans, were creative, and his language was colorful. But the basic notion —
Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite on Jeffrey Epstein’s arm, was, for many years, the financier’s right-hand woman and best friend. She was also, allegedly, his lure, go-between, and fellow abuser of young women, as newly unsealed documents allege. With Epstein’s death, by suicide, in a Manhattan jail cell this weekend, thousands of questions may never have satisfactory answers and focus is likely to intensify on his collaborators, co-conspirators, enablers, and friends. Where is Ghislaine?
Maxwell, 57, has barely been seen in New York since she sold her townhouse in 2016.
Seoul, South Korea - There’s no question that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in full control of his nation. But a recent change to the way he’s being formally described in the North Korean Constitution may allow him even more diplomatic leverage as he steps with increasing confidence onto the world stage (Snip) President Donald Trump on Saturday said that Kim wrote him a “beautiful” three-page letter in which he expressed desire to meet once again to “start negotiations” after U.S.-South Korea military exercises end, and also apologized for the flurry of short-range missile tests.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is once again saying on the campaign trail and in interviews that the US spends twice as much on health care, per capita, as any other country in the world.
It's a claim he has been making since at least 2009, when PolitiFact noted that it was false. He made it again in 2015, when PolitiFact noted that it was still false.
Facts First: It's still false now. The US does spend the highest amount on health care per capita of any Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development country, but not double every single one.
The claim has been a staple of Sanders' rhetoric during his campaign
GUATEMALA CITY — About 45 minutes before descent, the guards went up and down the aisle unshackling the passengers, and the mood in the cabin began to lighten. A mother with a boy near the front was still crying, but they were the only family aboard the flight. Nearly all the other 93 deportees were men, and they began joking and talking excitedly.
Soon Guatemalan territory appeared below, misty and green. A cheer rose.
“You see? They’re smiling!” said Matt Albence, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who spends a great deal of time defending his agency’s core functions, including this: a one-way trip
August 10, 1969: SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.—President Nixon accused his predecessor Lyndon Baines Johnson of complicity in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Speaking with reporters on the first day of a 10-day stay at his Pacific Ocean vacation home ….
Of course, that never happened. Obviously. How could it, how dare it? But had it happened, such an accusation—by a president, against a former president—would have convulsed the United States and the world. Today, President Trump accused his predecessor, Bill Clinton—or possibly his 2016 campaign opponent, former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—of complicity in the death of the accused sex-trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has unveiled a comprehensive plan to reduce gun violence by enacting a suite of new restrictions on buyers, cracking down on sellers and breaking "the (National Rifle Association's) stranglehold on Congress" with anti-corruption legislation.
The proposal arrives as more than 15 Democratic primary candidates prepare to take turns speaking at a gun safety forum in Des Moines, Iowa, and a week after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.
"The next President has a moral obligation to use whatever executive authority she has to address the gun crisis," Warren writes in a Medium post. "But it is obvious that executive action is not enough.
Twilight Zone Nation
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A few years ago my husband and I (having left our GPS charger at home) got lost in Montana -- which is a thing not to do. The miles are much longer there and the spaces between towns take hours to cross. We knew we’d gone wrong somewhere because the Rockies, which should have been on our left, were straight ahead, looming ever closer and closer. The first town we came to was a ghost town, which provided a Twilight Zone flavor to the whole adventure. Eventually we found a real town with real people who could tell us where we were –- our map had left us clueless.
BERLIN - Germany's reluctance to spend more on defence and its continued reliance on U.S. troops for protection is offensive, Richard Grenell, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany said on Friday.
Grenell's comments signal U.S. President Donald Trump's impatience with Germany's failure to raise defence spending to 2% of economic output as mandated by the NATO military alliance.
"It is offensive to assume that the U.S. taxpayers continue to pay for more than 50,000 Americans in Germany but the Germans get to spend their (budget) surplus on domestic programmes," Grenell told the dpa news agency.
The Meaning of Jeffrey Epstein
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Let’s apply Occam’s razor to Jeffrey Epstein’s untimely death. Which of these scenarios makes more sense: that a powerful billionaire who knew all about a global elite sex ring was murdered in jail by the same unaccountable forces that allowed him to evade justice for years, or that he suddenly killed himself while on suicide watch?
Oh, he wasn’t on suicide watch? Well, that’s normal. It’s all very simple: Epstein must have killed himself after, very sensibly, being left alone to his own devices, despite being the most high-profile defendant in the country. What are you, a conspiracy theorist?
Elijah Cummings sits on a powerful committee in Congress. He is considering every way he can to destroy the president and his family. The president told him in a tweet to get his district under control, and all hell broke loose because Cummings is a black man and Trump is white.
Donald Trump has been called a racist for telling a black congressman to pay attention to his own district. Quickly, all of Trump’s supporters have been called racists and are defined by the media and opinion-makers as somewhat less than human.
Everyone knows that Twitter is a sewer. It’s also a terrible newspaper editor and a lousy campaign manager.
Paul Begala knows something about the last of those. Begala has had his highs and lows as a campaign strategist — he once lost a student-government election at the University of Texas to an imaginary cartoon figure called Hank the Hallucination, but he went on to lead Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992, so he’s got that going for him — and he worries that Twitter is pushing Democratic candidates far to the left of where the party is.
He complains that the Democrats’ social-media universe is dominated by “over-caffeinated, over-opinionated,
In 1972, Pope Paul VI famously wrote that the “smoke of Satan” entered the Church, wafting through the very windows he and his liberal confreres had thrown open to the world. It was an admission that the Church around the time of Vatican II had succumbed to the secularism and hedonism of post-1960s Western culture. The Church had once led the West in moral standards. Now she slavishly followed the West’s lowest ones, becoming in the process as sick and dysfunctional as its shabbiest pagan institutions. All the scandals that defined a crumbling secular society hit the Church, culminating in a pederasty scandal of epic proportions.
Now that Jeffrey Epstein has apparently succeeded in killing himself, some of his victims are speaking up. They’re not happy that he has short-circuited a trial where he would need to face his accusers. Jennifer Araoz who came forward last month and accused Epstein of raping her when she was just 15-years-old released a statement. From NBC News: “I am angry Jeffrey Epstein won’t have to face his survivors of his abuse in court,” she said in a statement. “We have to live with the scars of his actions for the rest of our lives, while he will never face the consequences of the crimes
‘The Hunt’ cancelation is welcome
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Responding to overwhelming criticism, Universal Pictures announced Saturday it has canceled the planned September release of the film “The Hunt” about liberals hunting conservative “Deplorables” who fit the description of supporters of President Trump.
In a statement, a Universal Pictures spokesperson said “the studio has decided to cancel our plans to release the film … we understand that now is not the right time to release this film.”
The cancelation is a victory for common sense and decency. The film – called “a satirical social thriller” by the studio – sounded thoroughly disgusting.
Accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s death this morning — reportedly a suicide, according to federal officials — is an inexplicable end to a bizarre, tragic case that only got more disturbing the more we learned about it.
The fact that one of the country’s highest-profile federal prisoners could even commit suicide defies all logic and belief.
His death raises doubts about officials’ actions. The FBI says it will investigate; Attorney General William Barr says he is “appalled” by what happened; members of Congress such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are demanding answers. Indeed we all need answers, before we lose all faith in our justice system.