Posts on Thursday, December 10, 2020
The United States said Monday that the legislative elections held in Venezuela on Sunday in which President Nicolas Maduro's socialist political alliance is set to gain control of the National Assembly were a sham.
"The United States, along with numerous other democracies around the world, condemns this charade, which failed to meet any minimum standard of credibility," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.
NM Coronavirus Restrictions Elderly Man Had
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The stringent coronavirus restrictions across New Mexico continue to take a toll on residents, particularly the elderly, as Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s (D) orders continue to create what has been dubbed “modern breadlines.”
“Suggested act of kindness- I received a heartbreaking report of an elderly man waiting in line to buy food. He waited so long, he had to publicly relieve himself. If you are able, consider allowing our senior citizens in front of you in line,” New Mexico State Rep. Rebecca Dow (R) said on Thursday. Her update prompted a response from former GOP Senate candidate Elisa Martinez, who has remained a sharp critic of the governor throughout the lockdowns.
Andrew Cuomo Says He Learned ‘Humanity’
from Ted Kennedy, Who Left Woman to Die
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from Ted Kennedy, Who Left Woman to Die
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said he learned “humanity” from the deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), who pleaded guilty in 1969 after he left the scene of an accident that resulted in a woman drowning.
Cuomo received the Edward M. Kennedy Institute Aware for Inspired Leadership, he announced Wednesday: [Tweet]
I learned about humanity, leadership, and putting people first from the great Senator Ted Kennedy,” Cuomo wrote on Twitter.
In 1969, Kennedy was driving a car and Mary Jo Kopechne, a staffer for Robert F. Kennedy, was riding as his passenger.
Kennedy drove off a bridge near Chappaquiddick on Martha’s Vineyard. Kennedy swam to safety, leaving Kopechne to die.
An elections supervisor in Coffee County, Georgia, demonstrated in recent videos posted online how Dominion Voting Systems voting software allows votes to be changed through an “adjudication” process. The process allows the operator to add vote marks to a scanned ballot as well as invalidate vote marks already on the ballot.
Adjudication should only serve to resolve issues of voters marking ballots incorrectly, such as filling the bubbles in a way that doesn’t clearly show who he or she voted for. Yet it appears a substantial number of ballots went through that process, at least in some Georgia counties.(Snip) system can be set to allow adjudication of all scanned ballots, even
Here’s some good news. The first at-home test for the coronavirus that does not require a prescription has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). LapCorp’s Pixel COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit is intended for people 18 years of age and older. The test kit allows the user to collect a nasal swab sample at home and send it to LabCorp for testing. The method of transmittal of the test’s result is determined on the urgency of the need for action or not. The customer will receive a phone call from a health care provider for a positive result or a result deemed invalid.
An ambulance team was allegedly ambushed and robbed at gunpoint Monday about 11 p.m. in Brooklyn, New York.
An ambulatory team consisting of “a 45-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman” arrived at an address given on a 911 call only to go to the 11th floor of the building and allegedly get robbed at gunpoint, ABC 7 reported.
The suspect(s) allegedly “took their supply bag” and sent them back to their ambulance. The bag was later recovered “with the radio and tablet missing.”
The ambulatory team was part of the FDNY and neither team member was injured, FOX 5 said.
It is not clear how many suspects were involved in the incident.
Politics live updates: Progressives
criticize Biden nominated Fudge
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criticize Biden nominated Fudge
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A progressive climate group issued a blistering statement against President-elect Joe Biden for selecting Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development rather than the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Sunrise Movement Executive Director Varshini Prakash said in a statement Thursday that it is “frustrating” that Fudge was “sidestepped to head the USDA” in favor of former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. (Snip) “If Biden appoints Vilsack to lead the USDA, it would be a slap in the face to Black Americans who delivered the election to Joe Biden,” she said. “Vilsack failed Black farmers before
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that the 2020 presidential election was “not close” and concluded there is “no evidence of fraud,” while chastising the Republicans backing President Trump’s efforts to ensure election integrity.
“The election was not close. There was no evidence of fraud. The states have certified the results. Yet Trump continues to try to overturn the election at the expense of our democracy,” the failed Trump challenger said.
“The emperor has no clothes. Republican electeds who continue to humor him have no spines,” she concluded: [Tweet]
Clinton’s remarks follow weeks of lawsuits, sworn affidavits, and testimonies from individuals
'Don't let a man in a dress rule
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A message board entering the Erie County town of Waterford prompted a social-media stir this week by mocking Dr. Rachel Levine, Pennsylvania’s secretary of health. The sign along U.S. Highway 19 read “don’t let a man in a dress rule us Waterford!” on Wednesday. Dr. Levine, who has been the public face of Pennsylvania’s controversial COVID-related lockdowns, was born Richard Levine and fathered two children, but transitioned to female in 2011. Liberals in Pennsylvania had demanded the removal of the sign as transphobic, especially after a video of the sign began being shared on social media.
Hunter Biden, son of presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden, capitalized on a steady influx of suspicious multimillion dollar foreign bank transfers before the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation in 2018 into whether he dodged federal taxes. Senate Republicans laid out his network of shady beneficiaries, from oligarchs in Moscow and Ukraine to a tycoon linked to the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, between 2014 and 2017. Their Sept. 18 report was based on suspicious activity reports that are filed with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network by lending institutions who suspect money laundering and/or tax evasion.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff did not respond to The Federalist’s questions about Intelligence Committee member and California Rep. Eric Swalwell’s position on the committee in light of recent news revealing Swalwell’s connections with a suspected Chinese spy.(Snip)Schiff’s office also did not respond when asked if he previously knew about Swalwell’s involvement with Fang or if he was briefed about Swalwell’s relationship with Fang.(Snip)federal officials were so concerned about the romantic relationship between a U.S. congressman and a suspected Chinese spy that they even investigated whether Swalwell may have tipped Fang off about the counterintelligence investigation after he was given a defensive briefing on the matter shortly before Fang
It is the stuff of a James Bond blockbuster: a young, attractive woman lures a rising political star into a romantic web, all the while collecting critical information to trickle back to her handler or big bosses back home.
Axios revealed this week that more than six years ago Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., began a relationship with a woman suspected of being a Chinese espionage operative. He was alerted by federal investigators in 2015 and given a "defense briefing," which resulted in him breaking off ties to the suspect.
Osama bin Laden's spin doctor is walking the streets of Britain again today after being released from a US prison because he is too fat to be locked up safely amid the pandemic. Adel Abdel Bary, 60, was jailed over the devastating 1998 attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people. But the terror propagandist won early 'mercy' release because his morbid obesity and asthma puts him at risk of Covid. He walked free from a customs enforcement detention facility in New Jersey on Tuesday and flew back to London yesterday. The Egyptian national, whose son is an ISIS jihadi rapper,
For months, former Vice President Joe Biden has vehemently denied that any evidence exists that his son, Hunter, was involved in criminal activity or wrongdoing. These denials now look like dishonesty after the Biden-Harris transition team released a statement Wednesday acknowledging that Hunter is indeed under investigation by the Department of Justice for potential tax crimes.
“I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs,” Hunter wrote in the statement. This news, as Federalist Editor Mollie Hemingway pointed out, is not actually new and was reported before the election, but was purposefully suppressed
While Eric Swalwell Was Sleeping
With a Chinese Spy Adam Schiff
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With a Chinese Spy Adam Schiff
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When newly elected California representative Eric Swalwell arrived in Washington, DC, in January 2013, he brought three things with him: a reputation as someone to watch, having bumped off ossified 20-term Democrat incumbent Pete Stark in the primary; a crap ton of ambition; and a Chinese spy he was banging. According to media reports, the spy, Fang “Christine” Fang, latched onto Swalwell around 2011 when he was a new city councilor for Dublin, California. She became a bundler for his campaign in addition to other services performed. Swalwell let her place at least one intern in his congressional office
Good old fashioned gridlock will be making a comeback in Washington, D.C., this January, as House Democrats are going to be working with their smallest majority in over one hundred years.Democrats will be facing a 220 seat majority, just five seats more than Republicans, which is the Democratic Party’s smallest majority since 1893, according to Politico.The last time there was a 220 seat majority was in 2001, with Republicans at the helm.Regardless, this is a historic moment that undoubtedly irritates Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other party leaders.
Governor Abbott announced Wednesday that he is deploying resources from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to Houston. This move is to support the Houston Police Department as it deals with a sharp rise in road rage shootings and other violent crimes. The announcement from the governor’s office followed a news conference held the previous day by Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo. Acevedo spoke about the new task force put in place to help combat road rage incidents on Houston’s streets and roadways. The situation has gotten out of control
President Trump is right – he’s actually understating it. All across this great country, people are talking about the 2020 election being stolen by senile Joe Biden and his gang of corrupt Anti-American goons.This morning President Trump tweeted: People are upset, and they have a right to be.” (Tweet) We’ve reported how Americans across the country, Republicans and Democrats, young and old are talking about how the 2020 election is being stolen by Joe Biden. Americans are rising up.
Country star and Fox Nation host John Rich put his money where mouth is and bet $10,000 that the U.S. Supreme Court will intervene and overturn the 2020 election results by taking up the Texas lawsuit.On Wednesday, Rolling Stone writer Adam Gold called Rich “Nostradumbass” in response to SCOTUS rejecting Pennsylvania Republicans’ appeal to block the state’s election certification.“Still feeling good about your SCOTUS prediction, Nostradumbass?” tweeted Gold.Rich doubled-down that he was “very confident” that President Trump would win a second term and bet $10k on it.
Just a few weeks ago, Dr. Michael Osterholm, an adviser to Democratic Nominee Joe Biden, falsely predicted that hospitals would be “collapsing” by early December.
“We need somebody to say this is what’s happening,” Osterholm said on MSNBC in mid-November. “This is how bad it is, we’re going to see hospitals collapsing in the next two to three weeks, and this is what we’ve got to do to address that.”
“Just remember one thing for the next three weeks,” he continued. “The cases are already in the pipeline, but people who are infected this morning, will be the cases of next week in the hospital, and few days after
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell doesn’t recover well
after Mike Pompeo suggests she do some
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after Mike Pompeo suggests she do some
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested NBC’s Andrea Mitchell should “do some reporting” after she criticized him over a speech he delivered in Georgia.Mitchell called out Pompeo this week after he invoked the names of former secretaries of state when he tried to defend himself amid criticism over his travel to Georgia. She implied America’s top diplomat was being a hypocrite for speaking at Georgia Institute of Technology on Wednesday as heated Senate races there head into runoff elections.In a tweet on Tuesday, Mitchell quoted Pompeo’s comments about former Secretary of State John Kerry traveling to Massachusetts and Hillary Clinton traveling to New York when she served
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Attorney General Dave Yost on Thursday filed a legal brief with the U.S. Supreme Court opposing a Texas lawsuit’s goal to effectively delay the Electoral College from voting Joe Biden the next U.S. president. Yost, a Columbus Republican, stated in the brief that the Supreme Court lacks authority to order state legislatures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to appoint presidential electors.(Snip)However, while Yost disagreed with Texas’ call to hold up the Electoral College vote on Dec. 14, he encouraged the Supreme Court to rule on whether the election changes made by the states are unconstitutional.
There is no “happy ending” to this story for the Biden family. Joe Biden has wanted to be President for 45 years — maybe more(Snip)
The revelation yesterday by Hunter Biden that his attorney has been advised by the US Attorney’s Office in Delaware that he is under investigation offers little in the way of specifics, but an informed view of this acknowledgment reveals some practical issues that are of profound significance — in ways that are not good for Joe Biden. Such notification likely came by way of a “Target Letter”, which is the kind of “overt step” that would have been against DOJ Policy during the self-imposed
President Donald Trump attended a Hanukkah celebration at the White House on Wednesday, where he said he would still win the 2020 election. “Let me just wish everybody a happy Hanukkah, and to about three of you here a merry Christmas,” the president joked to laughter from the crowd of around 100 mostly yarmulke-wearing Jewish leaders.He then went on to address the election.With the help of “certain very important people, if they have wisdom and if they have courage, we are going to win this election,” he said, in an apparent reference to the Supreme Court justices. (Tweet/Video)
Federal authorities conducting criminal
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probe into hospital business tied to Biden’s
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Federal authorities are reportedly conducting a criminal investigation into a hospital business that has ties to President-elect Joe Biden's younger brother.
According to a report by Politico, the FBI has asked questions about James Biden's role in a healthcare business that was raided earlier this year by federal authorities, though details on the investigation remain unclear.
The FBI seized boxes of documents from Americore Health hospital in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, but there was no indication the raid was due to any actions related to James Biden, who hasn't been accused of criminal wrongdoing. Americore's owner has battled its own legal problems and allegations of mismanagement.
The federal investigation into President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter has been more extensive than a statement from Hunter Biden indicates, according to a person with firsthand knowledge of the investigation.
On Wednesday, Hunter Biden said he had been contacted about a tax investigation out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware. In addition to Delaware, the securities fraud unit in the Southern District of New York also scrutinized Hunter Biden’s finances, according to the person with direct knowledge of the investigation. The person said that, as of early last year, investigators in Delaware and Washington were also probing potential money laundering and Hunter Biden’s foreign ties.
We think of Joe Biden as a Democrat wretch whose main focus is on thwarting President Trump.
But have you gotten a load of the war he's having with the far left of his party? Those guys seems to be circling in for some kind of kill.
Three things leap out offhand.
First, socialist Bernie Sanders let the cat out of the bag about why there's been no stimulus checks for ordinary Americans bearing the burden of the COVID shutdowns, which is extremely bad public relations for Joe Biden's Democrats.(Snip) Democrats on the far left are also giving Biden grief on his cabinet picks.
(Snip)say they don't like Biden's color-chosen defense
Washington—An assistant FBI director retired after he was accused of drunkenly groping a female subordinate in a stairwell. Another senior FBI official left after he was found to have sexually harassed eight employees. Yet another high-ranking FBI agent retired after he was accused of blackmailing a young employee into sexual encounters. An Associated Press investigation has identified at least six sexual misconduct allegations involving senior FBI officials over the past five years, including two new claims brought this week by women who say they were sexually assaulted by ranking agents. Each of the accused FBI officials appears to have avoided discipline,
Gen. Michael Flynn's three-year odyssey in the criminal justice system finally came to an end this week with the long-delayed dismissal of his case in federal court. Ultimately, it took a presidential pardon to compel Judge Emmet Sullivan to release Flynn from the seemingly inescapable vortex of his docket. Yet Sullivan still decided to effectively declare Flynn guilty to the whole world — a final gratuitous act from a court long criticized for using Flynn to criticize President Trump and his administration.
The Usefulness of COVID-19 Fear
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There is a COVID-19 virus; however, COVID is not more dangerous than all other flu-like viruses that impact the respiratory system. COVID-19 is very manageable and doesn’t carry a higher fatality rate. [Usefulness As A Narrative]
Why is COVID-19 being disproportionately hyped as such a dangerous threat, when the reality of the statistical danger is much less than the intense level of hype?… (Snip)The answer is… social changes under the guise of COVID-19 mitigation, are the entry point for the goals and aspirations of the political left on a national and global scale. COVID-19 is a virus, but also a very important political weapon, and we are about
For more than a decade now, major research institutions like Harvard University and others have published surveys showing large numbers of non-citizen immigrants in America claim to have registered and voted in U.S. elections despite a legal prohibition. Now some Republicans are questioning whether such illegal voting could have impacted the outcome of the still-disputed November elections.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who this week filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the election results in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia, said illegal ballots cast by non-citizen immigrants could have played a role in Joe Biden's wins in many states.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday advanced the nomination of Thomas L. Kirsch II for a seat on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to the floor in a party-line vote, moving the Senate one step closer to filling the vacancy created by the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
President Trump had named Kirsch as his replacement for Barrett before she was even confirmed and the Judiciary Committee took a little over a month after her confirmation to report Kirsch favorably to the Senate floor.
Late Wednesday afternoon, Hunter Biden announced that he is under investigation by the U.S. Attorney in Delaware. "They are investigating my tax affairs," Biden wrote, adding that he is confident a "professional and objective" investigation will clear him. For his part, Biden's father, President-elect Joe Biden, released a statement through his transition office decrying the "vicious personal attacks" on his son in recent years.
Several hours later, Politico reported that the investigation "has been more extensive than a statement from Hunter Biden indicates," to include "potential money laundering and Hunter Biden's foreign ties." The New York Times reported that the money laundering part "failed to gain traction
Though Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has said he does not support continuing investigations into President Donald Trump and his administration if he actually becomes the White House occupant, it appears as though members of his party have a different idea.
Because today’s Democratic Party is replete with vindictive, unhinged, and perpetually angry lunatics, Nancy Pelosi’s House is reportedly going to continue probing the president and members of his administration if they are forced out next month, despite the fact that he has been under investigation since before he took office.
At the withered old age of 87, Dianne Feinstein has evidently served her purpose to an increasingly ruthless Democratic-activist complex in search of younger and shinier new toys. Just two years after Feinstein's office likely served as the source of the explosive leak responsible for the Left's Hail Mary attempt to destroy Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, Jane Mayer has decided that the California senator is expired goods.
Just two years ago, Feinstein's office was widely seen as the source of the letter to Rep. Anna Eshoo's office from Christine Blasey Ford that was leaked without the latter's consent. Although the culprit of the leak was pinpointed
Behind the current controversy surrounding the integrity of results from the Nov. 3 presidential election in Georgia are years of court battles over an outdated voting system and the controversial $107 million purchase of new touchscreen machines from Dominion Voting Systems in July 2019.
A review of court documents and sworn expert testimonies raise troubling questions about the Dominion voting system and its rushed implementation by the State of Georgia.
Among the many issues raised was the inability to accurately audit Dominion’s systems in order to verify that votes were cast as intended. Audit and cybersecurity experts also demonstrated to the court how the Dominion system inherently prevented the successful use
President-elect Joe Biden announced Thursday that he has tapped Susan Rice, the former national security adviser during the Obama administration, to head the White House Domestic Policy Council.
Rice, who also served as Obama’s UN ambassador, had been in the running to be Biden’s vice president over the summer before Kamala Harris was selected for the role.
The position does not require Senate confirmation. If Biden had nominated Rice for a different role, she could have faced opposition from Senate Republicans for her part in foreign policy under Obama.
Rice has come under fire for characterizing the 2012 deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, as part of a spontaneous protest
The United States flew a pair of B-52 strategic bombers from a base in Louisiana to the Middle East on Thursday as a show of force against Iran, underscoring the U.S. military’s ability to defend itself and its allies in the region as tensions between Tehran and Washington escalate during the final days of the Trump administration. The B-52H “Stratofortresses,” long-range heavy bombers that can carry nuclear warheads or perform conventional missions, left Barksdale Air Force Base on a short-notice nonstop mission.
U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, said the mission was designed to demonstrate the U.S. military’s commitment to its regional partners
WASHINGTON - An effort to stop President Donald Trump’s high-tech weapons deals with the United Arab Emirates fell short on Wednesday in the U.S. Senate as Trump’s fellow Republicans opposed resolutions of disapproval seeking to block the sale of drones and advanced F-35 fighter jets. The Senate voted 50-46 and 49-47, mostly along party lines, to stop consideration of the resolutions, killing them at least until President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20.
Biden, a Democrat, is expected to review the sales.
Morocco will normalize relations with Israel, making it the fourth Middle Eastern country to do so this year under a U.S.-brokered deal. In return, the U.S. has recognized Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region. President Trump announced Thurday that the two nations would restore diplomatic relations, which means the countries would reopen liaison offices in Tel Aviv and Rabat and eventually would open embassies. CORRECTION*
Column: California's next U.S. senator should
be Black, not Latino. But let's try this first replies
be Black, not Latino. But let's try this first replies
When the leader of California's Legislative Black Caucus talks about why it should be a Black woman who replaces Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate, she often comes back to the old adage about political power. "If you don't have a seat at the table," Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego) told me, "then you're on the menu." And Black people in California clearly have no intention of being on the menu. For the second time this week, an amalgam of Black leaders sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday, urging him to pick Rep. Karen Bass of
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has reportedly been forced to have several “serious and painful talks” with 87-year-old colleague Diane Feinstein, over alleged mental decline. Ms Feinstein, who has represented California since 1992 and who previously served as mayor of San Francisco, was seen to repeat a question to Twitter boss Jack Dorsey during a November 17 hearing on Capitol Hill, something he chose to ignore, but which social media did not. She had also angered some progressives during the recent confirmation hearting for justice Amy Coney Barrett, for the way she seen to be too deferential and excessively friendly with Republicans
Yesterday, we told you about how Michigan State Rep Cynthia Johnson declared open season on Trump supporters during a dark, threatening rant. “So this is just a warning to you Trumpers. Be careful, walk lightly, we ain’t playing with you. Enough of the shenanigans. Enough is enough. And for those of you who are soldiers, you know how to do it. Do it right, be in order, make them pay,” Johnson said on Tuesday night.That call to violence eventually led her to being removed from the committee she sat on, which is good news. However, she wasn't done "making her voice heard".Now, in a brand new video,
Minneapolis City Council on Thursday approved a controversial budget which is set to move $8million of funding from the police—despite record crime rates since the May death of George Floyd. Mayor Jacob Frey, who had threatened to veto the entire budget if the council went ahead with a plan to cap police staffing, said the vote was a defining moment for the city which was the first to be hit by anti-police protests following the death of Floyd. The city has been plagued by soaring violent crime since then—with homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, theft and arson all up on last year's figures.
Police have charged 32 men in West Yorkshire with more than 150 child sex offences against eight teenage girls. The allegations against the defendants, all largely from the Kirklees area, are from 1999 to 2012 and involve offences allegedly committed against the female victims, who were aged between 13 and 16 years old at the time. Some of the victims were also subjected to offences when they were young adults.
Locations in which the alleged offending took place include parts of Kirklees, Bradford and Wakefield.
Imagine for a moment that Donald Trump had won the US election last month?I don't mean won it in the increasingly absurd way HE thinks he won it – i.e. that Joe Biden's entirely legitimate victory was invalid because uncorroborated 'mass voter fraud' made it a 'rigged' and 'stolen' election.Only a bonkers conspiracy theorist actually thinks that, someone like the President himself whose pathetic elongated temper tantrum is turning into the most unedifying episode of The Biggest Loser ever aired.No, I mean imagine if Trump had actually won fair and square and was now preparing to be inaugurated for his second term of office?
A grand jury investigation into Hunter Biden's taxes is the "least damaging" allegation against President-elect Joe Biden's son, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Thursday, pointing out a "far-reaching" probe into Biden's son's foreign business dealings, including with China. "The Biden campaign released details of a tax fraud investigation in Wilmington. I think that was just to show maybe the least damaging part of the investigation. There are allegations of securities fraud, money laundering related to Hunter Biden's Chinese businesses, a crooked hospital deal with Jim Biden, Joe Biden's brother out in western Pennsylvania. These investigations span multiple jurisdictions," Cotton said
The Media Are Suddenly Interested in
Hunter Biden, but the Shot and Chasers
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Hunter Biden, but the Shot and Chasers
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You may have noticed a shift yesterday after news that Hunter Biden was under federal investigation broke. Suddenly, as if the memo had gone out, the media were interested. Multiple mainstream media outlets, including CNN and Politico, put out reports actually saying that Hunter Biden’s issues were worse than his father’s transition team statement let on. That may be all well and good, but no one should forget how these “journalistic” outfits treated the very same story when it could have cost Joe Biden the election. We know about the censorship of the New York Post, but it wasn’t just that. News outlets also actively tried to discredit
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The story of the Chinese Mata Hari who embedded herself in Rep. Eric Swalwell’s world — emphasis on bed — is impacting, as Drudge used to put it. The New York Post reports, for example: “Swalwell mum on sex with China spy, but family remains Facebook friends with honeytrap.”
Swalwell was of course a prime retailer of the Russia hoax and the impeachment farce over the past four years. The regnant cliché about Democrats and projection applies in spades to this vile lout. Indeed, Swalwell is proof positive of its veracity.
Swalwell appeared yesterday with his buddy Jim Sciutto at CNN to unleash these howlers
Initial jobless claims soared to 853,000 last week, as the surge in coronavirus cases pushed more businesses to implement stricter measures on social distancing, forcing more people out of their job.
More than 3,000 Covid-related deaths were recorded across the country Wednesday, according to an NBC News tally.
Economists had predicted the latest weekly jobless claims total would be around 730,000, higher than the prior week's newly revised tally of 716,000, but still more than four times the pre-pandemic average of 200,000.
"This week’s report brings a substantial round of movement in the wrong direction,"
We think of Joe Biden as a Democrat wretch whose main focus is on thwarting President Trump.
But have you gotten a load of the war he's having with the far left of his party? Those guys seems to be circling in for some kind of kill.
Three things leap out offhand.
First, socialist Bernie Sanders let the cat out of the bag about why there's been no stimulus checks for ordinary Americans bearing the burden of the COVID shutdowns, which is extremely bad public relations for Joe Biden's Democrats.
According to the New York Post: Sen. Bernie Sanders admitted that fellow Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, were responsible for delaying
Police have charged 32 men in West Yorkshire with more than 150 child sex offences against eight teenage girls. The allegations against the defendants, all largely from the Kirklees area, are from 1999 to 2012 and involve offences allegedly committed against the female victims, who were aged between 13 and 16 years old at the time. Some of the victims were also subjected to offences when they were young adults. Locations in which the alleged offending took place include parts of Kirklees, Bradford and Wakefield. Those charged are: Asif Ali (50) of Batley charged with rape offences (x12), inciting sexual activity with a child
Evidence released by the Senate this month reveals that longtime Hillary Clinton associate Cody Shearer received anti-Trump dirt in 2016 from a Russian intelligence source and got it into the hands of the FBI through the ex-British spy Christopher Steele. Shearer’s claim that his information came from a Russian FSB source, experts say, should have alerted senior US officials that the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties Russia was compromised by its sources, Clinton surrogates and alleged Russian spies.
Rep. Eric Swalwell cut off contact with a young woman allegedly spying for China as soon as the FBI gave him a defensive briefing alerting him to the situation. Why didn’t the FBI give Team Trump the same option — instead of spying on it?Fang Fang, a k a Christine Fang, got close to several politicians, especially in the Bay Area, from 2011 to 2015, only to abruptly leave the country as the FBI was closing in. US officials believe China’s Ministry of State Security, its main civilian spy agency, sent her here to collect intelligence and gain influence with up-and-coming politicians.Since Democrats dominate Bay Area politics,
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday that income tax increases in the state were inevitable even if the government did dole out more coronavirus-related aid.
“You probably will see tax increases in any event,” Cuomo said during his press conference.
Cuomo had previously indicated tax hikes on the wealthy were on the table if the government failed to approve more funding for state and local governments.
The three-term Democratic governor said on Wednesday that the consequences would be “devastating” if Congress does not agree to provide aid, involving several thousand layoffs, increased fares and tolls and government borrowing.
“People who cannot be reasoned with can only be fought.” It’s an age-old truth, one good people ignore at their own peril. It too often is ignored, though, since good people are mostly reasonable and, in accordance with man’s nature, engage in projection. They thus assume that others are as reasonable as they are.
It’s reasonable to assume that mentioning right now the futility of reasoning with the Left is motivated by the election. It’s also, in my case, untrue. I’ve for decades recognized that devout leftists, emotion-driven and vice-ridden, operate by occultist Aleister Crowley’s “principle”
On Wednesday, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (D-Tx), speaking in the House of Representatives, unloaded on Nancy Pelosi, whom he “unequivocally condemn[ed] in the strongest possible terms.” It’s a speech all Americans should hear because it so perfectly captures both Pelosi’s personal corruption and the horrors that the Democrats’ scientifically unsupported lockdowns have unleashed on Americans. (snip) I decided that the smartest thing would be to present Crenshaw’s words unadulterated but to augment them with annotations to drive home the points he so powerfully makes
Parsing Out Pennsylvania
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If you want to see how a U.S. Supreme Court, packed to 13 or 15 with Joe Biden appointees, would act, then look at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which is dominated by five elected Democrats. (snip) In September 2020, the Court rewrote Pennsylvania election law to allow ballots received three days after Election Day, even without a postmark, to be counted. Further, it kicked off the ballot the Green Party candidate, who normally takes away votes from the Democratic candidate. The Court rewrote the clear language of the statute
Texas claims that the presidential elections as held (and as directed by government officials outside the legislature) in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan all flagrantly violated their own election laws by materially weakening or doing away with security measures. Further, according to the U.S. Constitution, the legislature (representing the citizens) of each state has absolute authority and responsibility for how presidential electors are chosen; the will of legislature being expressed through state law.
Texas claims that the violations of election law in these states created an environment where ballot fraud was enabled and likely to occur.
The most shocking thing about the recent news story that flatulent Russiagate hoaxer and American-nuking enthusiast Rep. Eric Swalwell was caught intertwined with a Chinese honey pot is...well, actually nothing about it is shocking. This is totally on-brand for the Dems and especially this particular clown. It’s not clear how far he got with this Democrat-diddling doxie, but the best case for Swalwell is that he was a fool who ...c
The antifa occupiers at the autonomous zone that sprung up in Portland this week appear to be preparing for a siege. As PJ Media’s Victoria Taft reported, antifa squatters took over a house in Portland and when the government rightly evicted them, they set up an autonomous zone. On Wednesday, Portland’s police chief reported that antifa has fortified barricades, stockpiled weapons, set up armed guards, and threatened to kill police officers. Both the police chief and the mayor have urged the rebels to lay down their arms, but it appears they are refusing to do so.
“We want a peaceful & safe resolution to the occupation
A trio of Republican state lawmakers is calling for a review of the massive expansion of vote-by-mail amid the coronavirus pandemic — and the head of the state GOP is cheering them on.
State Sen. (Snip ) all members of the Joint Committee on Election Laws, sent a letter to Secretary of State William Galvin on Wednesday with a series of questions about the cost, efficacy and safety of the mail-in balloting program.
The revelation Wednesday that Hunter Biden is under investigation for tax violations relating to his foreign business affairs confirms that the media/Big Tech censorship of stories during the election about his laptop and emails was entirely without merit.When the New York Post reported on October 14 that Hunter Biden had introduced an official from the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma to then-Vice President Joe Biden — contrary to the latter’s denials that he had ever spoken to his family about their businesses — Facebook announced that it would be suppressing the story, and Twitter prevented people from sharing it.
The current wave of cultural Marxism and postmodernism (amounting virtually to the same thing) that is prominent at our universities now threatens to bleed full-bore into our mainstream culture. This has caused more than one observer to liken the current American scene to something akin to George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Published in 1947, the book introduced several new concepts into the English language, the most recognizable being the reference to “Big Brother.” Without attempting to summarize a finely filigreed novel, one cannot help but point out some features which possess a certain resonance in the current American scene.
There may be a shortage of cookies on the shelves this holiday season, one of the biggest commercial producers of confections is warning.Campbell’s Soup Company, which makes cookies under the Pepperidge Farms brand, warned that it is facing a shortage ahead of its busiest season — including of popular varieties like Milano and Chessman.In an earnings call with investors, Campbell’s CEO Mark Clouse blamed the shortage on an increase in demand and a labor shortage, both of which are results of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
James Biden, brother and alleged business partner of Democrat presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden, is under federal investigation, according to a report by Politico published late Wednesday night.
The investigation into Joe Biden’s brother was included in an article about the extent of the federal investigation into Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. The Politico report claims Joe Biden does not appear to be under investigation.
Excerpt:
The federal investigation into President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter has been more extensive than a statement from Hunter Biden indicates, according to a person with firsthand knowledge of the investigation.
“It was all suspicious.”
Elizabeth Forlini was a Republican Poll Challenger in Detroit the day after election day. She helped process the military ballots. She was present when the City of Detroit decided to cover the windows of the TCF Center in order to prevent the Republicans from seeing inside. When she was finally let inside, five hours after arriving, she saw that there was a huge partisan imbalance.
She was made to wait, but she was going to make sure she fought for the integrity of Detroit elections.
“There was not a Republican at every table. That place was loaded with hate. When we’d walk by, they’d turn the envelopes over.”
Radical Son, Then and Now
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Of all the books I have written—and there have been many—Radical Son is the one that has touched the most people, and touched them the most deeply. I think the reason for this is that it describes a personal odyssey through the political labyrinths of our times. Its narrative addresses the psychological and religious dimensions of what it means to be a radical and to harbor utopian dreams of re-creating the world and making it just. Secular radicals have variously called these dreams of a heaven on earth, “socialism,” “communism,” or “social justice.” These fantasies are consolations for the flawed world in which we actually find ourselves, and cannot escape.