BLUF: [WND] His comment responds to allegations, made in an official FBI document submitted by a trusted confidential source, that Ukrainians paid $5 million bribes to each Hunter Biden and Joe Biden.
This was at a time when Biden was vice president for Barack Obama and in charge of Ukrainian policy for the U.S.
Also, at that time, Hunter Biden was getting a cool $1 million cash a year to be on the board of the Ukrainian gas company, Burisma, even though he had no energy industry experience.
The issue was that a prosecutor in Ukraine, Viktor Shokin, was tasked by the international community with reducing corruption, and was actively investigating and targeting Burisma.
Then Joe Biden took a trip, as VP, to Ukraine, and threatened the nation with the loss of $1 billion in American aide if officials there didn't fire the prosecutor.
He was fired and the result, in effect, was that Burisma, and Hunter Biden's massive income, were then protected.
Congressional investigators also have determined that Biden family members took in something like $20 million over those years in what apparently was an influence-peddling operation.
The bribery statements neither have been documented, nor debunked.
But Schweizer said, "Read what the law says about bribery (18 USC 201). Joe Biden may or may not have been paid. But if his family got paid for official acts, that’s still bribery: '(1)directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any public off(icial or person who has been selected to be a public official, or offers or promises any public official or any person who has been selected to be a public official to give anything of value to any other person or entity, with intent—'"
A report at Revolver News explained, "The left dismisses all of this, calling it some kind of revenge 'witch-hunt' by the right. What’s funny is how suddenly 'whistleblowers' are no longer revered as 'sacred heroes.' Strange how that changed so quickly. Meanwhile, the propaganda media is busy trying to pin all of this on Joe’s crackhead son Hunter, the lowly 'bag man' of the family. However, Peter just dropped a legal bombshell on the entire case. Despite the left’s efforts to protect Joe by portraying Hunter as the sole wrongdoer, who clumsily 'tried' but failed to sell the 'appearance' of influence with his father, Peter argues that it doesn’t matter. Because when you actually examine what the law says about bribery, Joe Biden’s goose is already cooked."
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Barry and his husband "Big Mike" can't afford to have any shade thrown their way in this. Like they didn't know... Just Biden their time until Joe's unfortunate medical condition arises. The canary in the coal mine will be Kammie resigning to take leadership of global shell org funded by Soros. All bets are off on who fills VP and eventual 2024 Pres candidate. I'm betting Cruz is right and it'll be Big Mike and Gov Hairgel on the ticket.
I have come to the conclusion that Kamala-la-la cannot be convinced/bribed/threatened to move aside. Her ego is dead-set on being the First female, black President in history! Nothing else matters to her until she achieves that historic title. That she would be a catastrophe, and overwhelmed by the pressures, doesn't matter. She is obsessed with that one objective. I suspect it is the sole reason that POTATUS is actually still in office, the Puppet Show coalition cannot initiate ejection seat procedures/bribes/pardons with Dr. Jill and the Boy-Wonder until they reach some modus vivendi with the Cackle-Jackal. Their fear is of course once Jojo ejects, all bets are off on what the unfettered loon might do.
The emergence of Hilda and the CGI-grift project hints that the Clinton-Obama bidding war for the Swamp-coalition is heating up as the Lightbringer pulls back to avoid the investigative overflow.
[Jpost] Chest binders were the first version of sports bras, which kept the silly things from bouncing around in that distracting way. The poor men, on the other hand, were doing the same activities while starkers, which must have been equally distracting for all involved.
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I am fascinated by those who are fascinated that fashion and design dates further than 50 years ago.
Watching a sci-fi show, and in it a guy is lugging a very heaving piece of equipment across an advanced space vessel, and having a hard time of it. Until he accidentally crosses a wheel cart. Actor makes a great face, "Ah, that's why the wheel and cart was invented."
[Jpost] Perhaps exacerbated by the recent influx of transplants from New York and California
New York and California are definitely much further along the hate curve. What was that game so popular with Black and Hispanic yoots a few years ago, when they went into Jewish neighbourhoods in NYC to beat up a Jew or two before fleeing back to their own turf? The Guardian Angels got involved, and then Hashomer units were set up by the residents themselves to patrol the streets. And then, of course, there’s been all the intersectional anti-Zionist nonsense at the universities...
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With regards to ADL, I default to the old investigator's rule "When you look for something hard enough, you'll find it whether it's there or not".
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^ Also clientism. Organizations never run out of clients because they can always manufacture them as needed if they are the gatekeepers of definitions.
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Mileage may vary in the inland communities but in coastal California I've never seen much antisemitism. We have plenty of other problems but we are quite cosmopolitan. Dunno about New York but my experience here in California, admittedly anecdotal, is that many of the people who come here from that state are Jewish.
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ADL once stood for something. Now it's just DNC.
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The chairman of Blackrock is literally doing the rubbing his hands meme, all the while telling us nationalism is wrong and open borders are what we absolutely require.
BLUF: It’s mostly that Hamas appears to be getting weapons from the Taliban, and may set up training camps there. ISIS-K uses Israel for propaganda, while China is moving into the vacuum left by the American withdrawal, but Israel ally India has also remained involved there.
[EurasiaReview] It’s been two years since the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... recaptured Kabul, while America and its allies completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan. The historically torn state, also known as the heart of Asia, once more faced life under the radical terrorist group.
While the world was concerned about the Taliban’s Intentions to violate human rights
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I give you a quote from Lord Melbourne:
“What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”
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[GreyDynamics] Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) is a Brazilian criminal organisation. The gang is inspired by Comando Vermelho, one of its main rivals. Both criminal organisations were formed by prisoners who organised groups to defend themselves in Brazil’s violent prison system. The PCC emerged in São Paulo during the 1990s and has waged a bloody battle for dominance throughout the country.
The PCC is considered the largest and best-organised criminal organisation in Brazil. The group is believed to have members in most of the country’s states. Furthermore, the PCC has expanded its operations abroad, both in South American countries and in Europe and Asia.
This article analyses the history and organisation of this gang, as well as its recruitment, weapons, and most relevant criminal activity.
The PCC has established pacts and feuds with the various groups depending on their area of operation (source).
[Daily KOS] Everybody knows the Western movie trope: two gunmen on either side of a dusty road with cowboy hats, tumbleweed rolling between them. Both reach for their guns at the same time, but one is faster, and the other’s dead.
On a fundamental level, warfare with guns is brutally simple: The one who shoots the fastest and most accurately wins. The other dies.
But artillery upends that trope.
Read more great Ukraine coverage by both Daily Kos staff and community members here.
War can be simply encapsulated in the theoretical concept of the "kill chain."
In its most simplistic conception, the kill chain can be reduced to just three key elements:
Identification
Tracking/Deployment
and Engagement
Identification means finding where your enemy is located. Tracking means following your enemy’s movement until force can be brought against it, while you deploy your forces into a position where they can launch an attack. Engagement is the act of attempting to destroy the enemy target.
A gunman in a Western movie has a very simple kill chain. See the villain across the street. Watch his movements. Draw and shoot. The kill chain is completed when the target is neutralized.
There are two ways to disrupt the enemy’s kill chain.
First, you can "break" the kill chain by preventing the completion of any of the steps. Avoid detection in the first place, and the enemy cannot get started. If you are found, evasion, armor protection, electronic and physical countermeasures can also break the kill chain.
Second, you can complete your own kill chain before the enemy can complete theirs—like a gunman drawing his revolver faster, and gunning down his opponent.
The kill chain concept explains why the Russian forces are at such a severe disadvantage in the artillery war with Ukraine.
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OODA Loop, where the decide component moves upward in Order of Battle, creates the delay. For tactical engagements in free-fire environments, more a comms issue than anything, but in strategic/operational targeting, especially in high visibility political context, can be significant delaying factor.
[ThePipeline] You have to hand it to the greenies. They understood if they could capture California, they could impose their nonsensical energy use restrictions countrywide.. And that’s precisely what they did and continue to do, to the detriment of the state’s citizens (Los Angeles gas prices now average over $6 a gallon, a real burden for those who must commute long distances) and the rest of the country as well.
Probably their greatest victory was leveraging California’s purchasing power to compel auto makers to comply with the state’s stringent tailpipe emissions standards for new cars. These standards exceeded those required nationwide by the Clean Air Act. California’s Advanced Clean Cars program was allowed to continue despite its departure from standards nationwide only because there was a provision in the act – the California Waiver – which permitted the state to set its own standards.
Given the huge auto market in the state, auto manufacturers adopted these expensive measures on all cars sold throughout the country, in effect, allowing the California legislature—not Congress—to set the national standard. The Trump administration rescinded the waiver but more recently President Biden directed the Environmental Protection Agency and the Highway Traffic Safety Administration to reconsider the rescission of the California waiver. Seventeen states have sued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia contesting EPA’s decision to reinstate the waiver.
[Die Weltwoche, a Swiss publication] "They’re all afraid"
Tucker Carlson is unstoppable. Since his sudden departure from Fox News he scores record viewer ratings. In an exclusive interview with Weltwoche, the political media star demolishes the mainstream media’s manipulation machine, reveals his concerns about a potential Donald Trump Restoration, he speaks about the disturbing state of the Biden family and discusses what’s next for him in a Post-Fox News Order.
When Tucker Carlson departed the Fox News Channel in April, his enemies cheered. But if they thought the happy warrior had finally been defeated, their judgment was as dismal as their approval ratings. With an assist from Elon Musk, Carlson is reaching an even larger, global audience with his new show, "Tucker Carlson on Twitter (now known as ’X’)."
The veteran newscaster has expanded his mission: to defeat the mainstream media’s suffocating bias and incuriosity not just about critical events at home but in capitals around the world.
When we reach him, Carlson has just returned from the United Arab Emirates where he met with its president, Mohamed bin Zayed. Carlson pronounces the sheikh "the most interesting, wisest leader I've ever spoken to" — a provocative assessment given that the talk show host sat across from Donald J. Trump last month. Of the Arab leader, Carlson enthuses, "I've never met a more humble leader, ever — and I believe humility is a prerequisite for wisdom."
#4
I don’t always listen to Tucker or agree with him, but I appreciate what he has done. He had every incentive to hang in Maine, fish and cash his checks.
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/\ I'll take Maine coastal fishing for $60o. Alex.
Walking around with a bullseye on my back, not the preferred solution. But that's just me.
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Oh, he's stoppable. The only question is the method.
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They stopped Drudge with money, Andrew Breitbart with a Heart Attack and Trump with a couple hundred thousand bogus ballots stuffed into key districts. Tucker is definitely stoppable
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Alternatively, the 'fly-by-wire' programming could have been stressed by the weather with reactive compensation for simultaneous 3 axes wind shears and buffeting defeating the physics of flight.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
