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-Great Cultural Revolution
Chicago's woke new mayor Brandon Johnson scolds reporters for using phrase 'mob action' to describe rabble of '400' youngsters who trashed 7-Eleven in Windy City
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A huge crowd stormed the convenience store in the South Loop just after 9pm on Sunday and wreaked havoc with some looting items and others vandalizing it

  • The large gathering resulted in the arrest of at least 40 people, aged 12 to 20, as police tried to get the situation under control

  • Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson disagreed with a reporter's use of phrase 'mob action' to describe the behavior of the large group although it is a legal term
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2023 09:43 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  How about rabble?
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/04/2023 11:33 Comments || Top||

#2  "Feral Youts" and "Trash" work for me as well
Posted by: Frank G || 08/04/2023 12:04 Comments || Top||

#3  A murder of crow?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/04/2023 13:06 Comments || Top||

#4  'A Riot Of Thieves'

'A Force Of Freebooters'

'A Glut Of Gangsters'

'An Influx Of Insurgents'

'A Mass Of Mutineers'
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/04/2023 16:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Al Capone says "Mob? That's trademarked, son..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/04/2023 16:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Kampfgruppe of kiddos
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/04/2023 18:12 Comments || Top||

#7  "A mob in Chicago loves dancin'
(not Branson or Marilyn Manson!),
Is deadly as chemo
To those who would be mo',
And goes by 'the demos,'" sez Hanson.
Posted by: Those Clunk2464 || 08/04/2023 20:06 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Energy Sec Granholm secretly consulted top CCP energy official before SPR releases
[FoxNews] Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm engaged in multiple conversations with the Chinese government's top energy official days before the Biden administration announced it would tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to combat high gas prices in 2021.

Granholm's previously-undisclosed talks with China National Energy Administration Chairman Zhang Jianhua — revealed in internal Energy Department calendars obtained by Americans for Public Trust (APT) and shared with Fox News Digital — reveal that the Biden administration likely discussed its plans to release oil from the SPR with China before its public announcement.

According to the calendars, Granholm spoke in one-on-one conversations with Jianhua, who is a longstanding senior member of the Chinese Communist Party, on Nov. 19, 2021, and two days later on Nov. 21, 2021. Then, on Nov. 23, 2021, the White House announced a release of 50 million barrels of oil from the SPR, the largest release of its kind in U.S. history at the time.

"Secretary Granholm's multiple closed-door meetings with a CCP-connected energy official raise serious questions about the level of Chinese influence on the Biden administration’s energy agenda," APT Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland told Fox News Digital.

"Instead of focusing on creating real energy independence for America, Granholm has been too busy parroting Chinese energy propaganda and insisting ‘we can all learn from what China is doing,’" Sutherland continued. "The public deserves to know the extent to which Chinese officials are attempting to infiltrate U.S. energy policy and security."
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2023 08:37 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Bidenomics is really just a ploy to destroy American energy
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2023 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Not secretly enough, evidently.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/04/2023 11:30 Comments || Top||

#3  So - it was basically a sale of our strategic oil reserves to China. Some would call that treason.
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas || 08/04/2023 12:45 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Biden Admin Planning to Evade Congress with Secret New Nuclear Deal with Iran
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/04/2023 10:17 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Let’s have some hearings on a potential deal with our most favorite nation. Any hostage alumni want to testify?
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/04/2023 11:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Although Biden officials have repeatedly denied holding talks with Iran to reach a new nuclear deal, they also have criticized Israel for leaking details of the talks to the press.

Maybe the Big Guy gets more than 20% on this deal.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/04/2023 12:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Mitch will get right on this in 30...29...28...27...
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/04/2023 12:41 Comments || Top||

#4  ValJar delivers: A secret, verbal deal that cannot be subpoenaed by Congress but by which "Iran will receive over $20 billion in sanctions relief, which would come from the U.S. dropping its opposition to Iran accessing its frozen assets held in foreign banks. The U.S. also reportedly has agreed not to impose new sanctions on Iran."

This is taking the Imperial Presidency to a whole new level, making it able to simply use the treasury as a personal checking account!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/04/2023 13:05 Comments || Top||


Here's your step-by-step guide to Biden family influence peddling, as revealed by Hunter's business partner... and even Democrats can't deny it happened
[Mail] Evidence of Biden Family corruption is now so blatantly obvious that even Democrats have stopped trying to cover it up.

Like a zit on their foreheads, they're just hoping no one notices.

'Is it fair to say that Hunter Biden was selling the illusion of access to his father?' Congressman Dan Goldman asked Devon Archer, Hunter's former business partner, in a closed-door interview this week.

'Yes,' said Archer.

Thanks, Congressman Dan.

He was our helpful guide walking us all through a veritable step-by-step of Biden Family international influence peddling.

Hunter joined Archer at the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma in 2014.

They helped the embattled company, dogged by constant investigations, navigate the world of Washington.

Burisma's execs, by Archer's admission, pushed Hunter to use his familial connections to pull the levers of power. But, he claims, Hunter had enough brain cells left to avoid blatantly crossing that line.

'Hunter [was trying to] prove value to a company that expected him to do things that he was uncomfortable doing?' pressed Goldman.

'Right,' agreed Archer.

So, Hunter tricked them?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2023 8:47 Comments || Top||


#3  As was accentuated in the Tucker interview with Devon Archer the influence peddling in DC is rampant and inherent. Many politicians and staffers move in to lobbying after they leave government. Bureaucrats routinely swap between employment in government agencies and lobbying those same agencies.

The Biden stuff is different because we have cash flow through family members and through shell companies to the politician while Joe was in office for a specific and dramatic policy that had no other explanation than the Quid Pro Quo. By difference, I mean that cash payment is different than policy for a campaign donation or some other swap common to DC influence game. The Moscow Mayor payment is also blatant.

The other outrageous portion of Joe Biden’s sudden wealth is that he has absolutely no business ability. You could question how Mitch McConnell or Nancy Pelosi could be so good at business that they would be raking in cash, but any rational person can see that Joe Biden has no business skills whatsoever. Not only is he now a senile idiot, but he has never made, traded or invested in anything. It goes further, though, as Joe has repeatedly claimed both through his own statements and through the White House spokes people not to be in business with any family members. If that is the case, how does he explain the millions on his W2? If he is not in business with family, with whom is he in business?
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/04/2023 10:36 Comments || Top||


Illegal Chinese biolab was subsidized by Gavin Newsom
[HotAir] Last week I wrote about the discovery of a secret China-linked biolab in an ostensibly empty warehouse outside Fresno California.

It was, needless to say, a disturbing story. We aren’t talking about some sterile, well-controlled biological research facility that hadn’t kept up with all its paperwork.

No, this was a hidden lab piled with chemicals, boxes, refrigerators with chemicals and 20 deadly viruses, and genetically engineered mice that had been bred to catch and spread human viruses like COVID-19. It was in an ostensibly abandoned warehouse, and when the inspectors showed up the lab equipment had been hastily turned off before whoever was working there disappeared.

The power was off, but the freezers were still cold. People disappeared quickly, leaving behind a lot of documents in Chinese and a "President" who is available only by email from China. The president claimed the lab was merely storing defunct equipment, but there were live genetically engineered mice and the viruses stored in freezers.

It’s all very sketchy, to say the least. Not to sound paranoid or anything, but a Chinese biolab hidden in an abandoned warehouse with deadly viruses and genetically engineered mice discovered after a major pandemic that killed millions might lead one to wonder what exactly is going on.

At least if you aren’t obsessed with indicting Donald Trump every 3 days or so.



Gov't funding as predicted recently here on the Burg.
CDC conducted found more than 800 chemicals at the site and over 20 infectious agents.
more at the link.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Punch line:

"Prestige Biotech, was named Universal Meditech, and Universal Meditech was subsidized by Gavin Newsom’s Office of Business and Economic Development."
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2023 9:24 Comments || Top||


#3  Bus Journal 8 Feb 2019 - MEDICAL DEVICE MAKER RELOCATES TO FRESNO
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/04/2023 10:09 Comments || Top||


#5  At what point does corruption rise to the level of treason?
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/04/2023 19:20 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Barr: D.C. Might Not Be a Fair Venue for Trump, Venue Change Should Be Considered
[Breitbart] During an interview with PBS aired on Thursday’s broadcast of "PBS NewsHour," former Attorney General Bill Barr said that D.C. might not be a fair jurisdiction for 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump to stand trial on the charges over January 6 and the Department of Justice should consider moving the venue like they did in the documents case.
Obviously a poll watcher. Pole sitter? Never happen.
Co-host Geoff Bennett asked, "Can Mr. Trump get a fair trial in Washington, D.C.? Because his legal team is asking for a change of venue — or at least they say they’re going to ask for a change of venue — because they say that D.C. isn’t politically favorable."

Barr responded, "To be honest, I feel strongly that the most important thing in any of these, whether you like the defendant, whether you’re rooting for him or not, is fairness to the individual. And, to be honest, I think that this may not be the — a fair jurisdiction for him, given the heat of political sentiment these days. So, I think that motion is worthy of consideration."
Mind like a steel trap, that Bill Barr.
He added, "I would just point out that, in the other case, I thought the Justice Department sought venue in Florida, rather than D.C., and then it was moved to an even more favorable jurisdiction, Fort Pierce. So, that favors the President — President Trump. I think it would be good to consider that here."
Been at least 48 hours since this onerous rascal was in the D.C. news. I was beginning to become concerned as to his health.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/04/2023 02:11 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pickens County Courthouse dockets are seldom crowded and generally quite flexible.

I recommend the Mule House for lunch or dinner. It's less than a 5 min walk.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/04/2023 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  If it’s not fair for Trump it’s not fair for the J6’res.
Posted by: Itsoktobewhite || 08/04/2023 4:32 Comments || Top||

#3  ...I have a serious (I know, I know; it does happen from time to time) question.

One of the charges is "conspiracy against the rights of citizens", i.e.; trying to nullify their votes.

With that in mind...how could anyone who voted in 2020 be a juror?

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 08/04/2023 7:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Should the trial be moved?
YES


But Where?
Given LSD's & their Media have already pre-positioned a Anti-Trump narrative in a every US LSD run Metro area, and we see a clearly tainted Justice System.

But, I don't see a fair trial venue, or a untainted jury pool anywhere either.

The LSD's & their controlled media have actively been selling a false narrative. Falsely portraying Trump as a racist and megalomaniac.

All this despite Trump having a well proven racial unifying record and agenda. Where even his administration staff was far, far better than any (D) admin or LSD Coup in the last 150 years.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/04/2023 7:15 Comments || Top||

#5  I believe that Barr comprehends that he has become so despicable he has begun to try to walk back his anti-Trump bias. Too late, fat man. Too late.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355 || 08/04/2023 7:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Perhaps Barr is moving toward the fact that Trump can't get a fair trial anywhere there is a courthouse.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/04/2023 9:47 Comments || Top||

#7  How could American voters have standing against Trump, but not have standing in any other election case?
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/04/2023 11:20 Comments || Top||



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  ISIS leader confirmed dead - 4th Number 1 toes up, 5th Number 1 tees up
Thu 2023-08-03
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Wed 2023-08-02
  385 Pakistanis freed from traffickers’ warehouse in Libya
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  Clashes intensify in Ain al-Helweh as death toll climbs to 9 11
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  Suspect in infamous ISIS massacre arrested in Sulaimani
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  Judge rejects Hunter Biden plea deal
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  Iraqi Court Hands Life Sentence to Former ISIS 'Military Police' Member
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