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RUSSIA Collusion: 'Morning Joe' Suggests Russia Behind Epstein Suicide
[PJ] Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex criminal recently re-arrested on charges of sex trafficking, was reportedly found dead in his cell on Saturday. Official claims that he had committed suicide were met with skepticism, considering Epstein's connections to many powerful men and women who have been implicated in the sex crimes charges. Given Epstein's connection to Bill Clinton, many suggested Clinton orchestrated his death. But at least one prominent Trump critic went for the Trump-Russia collusion angle.

"A guy who had information that would have destroyed rich and powerful men’s lives ends up dead in his jail cell. How predictably...Russian," Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, tweeted Saturday morning.

Scarborough added, "He reportedly tried to kill himself two weeks ago. And is allowed to finish the job now? Bulls**t."

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/11/2019 03:58 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Morning Joe' dutifully hits Clinton Re-Set button.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/11/2019 4:13 Comments || Top||

#2  How moronic, Trump gains nothing by Epstein dead, only the clintons do. Joe's good at murder, maybe he did it.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/11/2019 4:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Morning Joe is like a broken Magic 8-Ball™ that only answers "U R Stoopid!" (...and he and Mika are partisan shills, but that's another issue)
Posted by: magpie || 08/11/2019 4:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Is there nothing Russia can’t do?
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 08/11/2019 6:26 Comments || Top||

#5  So Russia is now a synonym for Clinton? Makes sense to me.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/11/2019 8:06 Comments || Top||

#6  You would not hear anything negative about Russia from the left if the Soviet Union was still alive and kicking. And not because they were afraid of the USSR either...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/11/2019 10:29 Comments || Top||

#7  The Deep State needs a distraction.

School will be starting soon.

I hope security is ramped up, because you know some heavily medicated young people are about to be activated.
Posted by: charger || 08/11/2019 11:03 Comments || Top||

#8  The Loon in the Morning sings.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/11/2019 14:13 Comments || Top||

#9  The Loon in the Morning = Morning Joe
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/11/2019 14:14 Comments || Top||

#10  That's not Russian collusion, it's Morning Joe delusion.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/11/2019 14:55 Comments || Top||

#11  Every time the Clintons do something vicious, nasty or illegal they try to blame it on the Russians.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/11/2019 16:21 Comments || Top||


Pres. Trump retweets conspiracy theory that Bill Clinton killed Jeffrey Epstein
[Washington Examiner] President Trump promoted a conspiracy theory on Twitter that former President Bill Clinton had convicted sex predator Jeffrey Epstein killed following the billionaire's apparent suicide earlier in the day.

"Died of SUICIDE on 24/7 SUICIDE WATCH ? Yeah right! How does that happen#JefferyEpstein had information on Bill Clinton & now he’s dead," Terrence Williams, an actor and commentator, said Saturday on Twitter. "I see #TrumpBodyCount trending but we know who did this! RT if you’re not Surprised#EpsteinSuicide #ClintonBodyCount #ClintonCrimeFamily."

Trump retweeted the conspiracy Saturday evening from his personal account.

Related: New York Times - Jeffrey Epstein Dead in Suicide at Jail, Spurring Inquiries

Related: Wash Times memory hole 28 Nov 2016 - Andrew Breitbart tweet before death adds fuel to online speculation of D.C. sex-trafficking ring
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/11/2019 03:03 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How many tweeted and retweeted the Russian conspiracy(tm)? If your witnesses can have rumors, my witnesses can have rumors!

Stay tuned tonight for tonight's episode of "The Touchables"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/11/2019 10:01 Comments || Top||

#2  A lot of things had to fall in place just right for a suicide or murder to occur. Psychologists had to recommend that Epstein be taken off suicide watch, the DOJ protocols had to not be followed, lapses in monitoring had to occur, surveillance tapes has to not be recorded for one reason or another, the cell must not have been suicide-resistance. Just playing the odds, a lot of things had to fall into place. What are the chances all these things all fell in place? Fairly slim. Many would benefit from Epstein's death one way or another. Transparency would be very useful to restoring trust in an honest DOJ. It got very corrupted by Obama and the Clintons.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/11/2019 11:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump is the master troll.

It is not surprising that Trump might retweet such a tweet. The Gateway Pundit has published a list of deaths around the Clintons. The fact so many people have died around the Clintons by violent means seems unusual. How many other President/first ladies have so many coincidental deaths around them?

Posted by: JohnQC || 08/11/2019 14:11 Comments || Top||

#4  I am surprised that he didn't mention how the lady who started the Hillary list was a suicide a week or two ago....
Posted by: 3dc || 08/11/2019 15:25 Comments || Top||

#5  So somebody, somewhere in the system dropped the ball, made a mistake, might even lose his job for it. But no worries. He'll never have to work again.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/11/2019 15:44 Comments || Top||

#6  He's dead Bill don't gloat.

Posted by: jpal || 08/11/2019 18:18 Comments || Top||


WAPO's Carol Leonnig: ‘People Close to Epstein Fear He Was Murdered'
[Breitbart] Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig said Saturday that individuals "close" to Jeffrey Epstein ‐ the accused child sex-trafficker and millionaire investor found dead in his New York City jail cell Saturday morning ‐ have fears that he was murdered.

"People close to Epstein fear he was murdered...as Epstein told authorities someone tried to kill him in a previous incident weeks earlier. He was described as being in good spirits in recent days," Leonnig tweeted Saturday.
Related: Legal Insurrection - #ClintonBodyCount versus #TrumpBodyCount

Related: Miami Herald - Huge cache of records details how Jeffrey Epstein and madam (Ghislaine Maxwell) lured girls into depraved world
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/11/2019 02:54 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  this is a federal prison

they surely have cameras
Posted by: lord garth || 08/11/2019 3:25 Comments || Top||

#2  If I were Ghislaine Maxwell, I'd be putting my affairs in order.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/11/2019 3:49 Comments || Top||

#3  People on the other side of the sodding planet fear he was murdered, too.
Posted by: Grunter || 08/11/2019 4:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Of course he was. Too many powerful people (including Bill and Hillary) had too much to lose
Posted by: Frank G || 08/11/2019 6:59 Comments || Top||

#5 
At the root of the situation...
Posted by: 3dc || 08/11/2019 10:30 Comments || Top||

#6  How many times have we seen a black body bag removed from prison only to have it's occupant hop out in the ME van?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/11/2019 10:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Ghislaine Maxwell has already been found to be a liar in the 2005 lawsuit against her. Maybe some things in her thousands of letters are true but since many things are provably false, how do you know which are true.
Posted by: lord garth || 08/11/2019 11:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Skidmark, that's... not improbable.

For all we know, a heavily bearded, bald Jeffrey might be living it up in Argentina a few months from now.

The body double patsy theory.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/11/2019 11:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Her father was a piece of work too: Robert Maxwell
Posted by: 3dc || 08/11/2019 17:57 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: 3dc || 08/11/2019 22:39 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
A robust response that’s viable too
[DAWN] INDIA’S callous annexation of the disputed territory of Kashmire and the repression that it came amidst filled my heart with enormous ache as not just the millions of faceless, nameless Kashmiris were in my thoughts but also half a dozen wonderful human beings from the valley who happen to be personal friends.

Access to the occupied valley has been restricted in the best of times but unlike so many around the world who seem to have bought into Delhi’s demonisation of the Kashmiri as a bad boy, obscurantist monolith that has no place in the 21st century, my friendship with the amazing individuals I have referred to makes me see clearly the absurdity of the Indian position.

By revoking Article 370 of the Indian constitution, the BJP government has furnished evidence of its fascism
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Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  The greatest achievement, apart from empowering the voiceless hordes, of Socialism not the woke, graft powered gravy-train, but genuine socio-economic justice for have-nots of history has been the mass 'existential amelioration bribe'.

The government of India seeks to bring employment, ease of doing business and economic opportunities to the entire mass of people living in this long tainted region. Right now, no one will employ a Kashmiri in India, people chase them out of establishments and institutions, they can get admissions, but the students themselves will not let them attend classes. It's terrible, and they really aren't a wicked people. Constant conflict has fashioned them into walking cacti.

There has to be a gradated inclusion into the Indian mainstream. Contrary to what people say, we want Kashmir along with Kashmiris of course we could do without 'em, but that won't be righteous. Kashmir was once one of the only regions in the subcontinent where a true sufi ethic could be seen in daily life. A bonding of hindu and muslim the likes of which no muslim or hindu nation can boast. Now, that time is long gone. Islam itself has changed, and we cannot hope to achieve unity with murderous bastiches forever susceptible to that dogma.

So, they shall have to be domesticated. And the only way to do it is take away the existential angst, and fill the void with work. Deny them the means to commit legal islamism through mandates, but give them a semblance of empowerment through self-earned money, improved lifestyle... bollywood that great weapon of reform or runaway havoc and private investment by the richest concerns in Kashmiri infrastructure and institutions.

These Pakistain writers and ideologues... they can't bare to see the dung green islamic flag go down, but they can see the Kashmiri family starve, commit suicide by cop, rent out their souls to jihad for a mere ration. To them, they are just the means to occupying real estate by proxy until China fulfills their promise of "Sure. We'll raid India together, soon... now just keep digging, Mehboob."

The 'special status' of Kashmir denied it all the socialist sops and opportunities enjoyed by the millions of beneficiaries. That changes now, bringing every Kashmiri family under several the umbrella of subsidized rations, household gas and tax-free entrepreneurship schemes. Also, education-rights, employment and property rights for women the earlier applicable shariah based laws facilitated cutting off women from property rights, easy divorce and polygamy and child marriage. The gradual gains to local farming, businesses, skilled labor and freedom to travel unquestioned as an Indian across the world will be considerable to the common man. The people will soon realize the undeniable benefits of this.

But of course, we'll kill every last f↺cker if he stands in the way of our bettering his life.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/11/2019 5:19 Comments || Top||



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  Southern Transitional Council stages an attempted coup, says Yemeni government
Sat 2019-08-10
  Jeffrey Epstein dead in Arkancide
Fri 2019-08-09
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