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Pakistan Starts ’Last Phase’ of anti-Militants Offensive
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Kerry Sez He Had '€˜No Idea What Kind Of Email' Clinton Used At DoS When He Was Emailing Her
[Daily Caller] Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday said he had "no knowledge what kind of email" Hillary Clinton used when she was at the State Department even though he exchanged messages with her when he was in the U.S. Senate.

The nation’s top diplomat, who testified on the State Department’s budget in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also asserted that the American people "are really getting bored with" questions about the Clinton email scandal.

"You’re fixated on this," Kerry told California Rep. Darrell Issa after a tough line of questioning about Clinton’s email arrangement and his knowledge of it.

Issa, a Republican, pressed Kerry over emails revealed last month that show he sent emails from his personal address to Clinton’s personal address discussing government business. Information in one of those emails has been retroactively classified as "Secret," the second-highest classification level.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2016 03:07 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kerry Sez He Had '€˜No Idea What Kind Of Email' Clinton Used At DoS When He Was Emailing Her

fify
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 02/26/2016 9:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Kerry's friends in the Lubyanka know.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/26/2016 11:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 02/26/2016 12:40 Comments || Top||

#4  He had to know her email address, right? Well maybe JFnK aka Lurch, might not know.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/26/2016 14:34 Comments || Top||

#5  It wasn't on their Outlook .gov server, so it had to be put in manually. He's lying, even more than usual
Posted by: Frank G || 02/26/2016 20:49 Comments || Top||


End of an era error: Yes, Charlie Rangel will retire
[HotAir] And now it's ending. As Moe Lane so elegantly put it, Charlie Rangel has won in the ultimate meaning of the word. He gamed the system for more than four decades, enriching himself at the expense of those he was supposedly representing, dodging the law and living the high life. And he never paid any serious price for his actions the entire time.



Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 02/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  shovel out the stables
Posted by: Frank G || 02/26/2016 9:19 Comments || Top||

#2  What did he do, cut a deal to stay out of jail for tax evasion?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/26/2016 14:12 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Al Sharpton might 'get out of here' if Trump wins
Please oh please oh please . . . .
Rev. Al Sharpton told attendees at a Center for American Progress Action Fund event Thursday he would flee the country if Donald Trump won the election, in order to avoid being deported by Trump.

Sharpton, a Democrat, had positive feedback for many of the Republican presidential candidates until he got to Trump.

"If Donald Trump is the nominee, I'm open to support anyone [else], while I'm also reserving my ticket to get out of here if he wins, only because he'd probably have me deported anyway," Sharpton told attendees, who responded in laughter.

Sharpton, who has participated in various national protests condemning police brutality, did not explain why he thinks Trump would deport him, though both New Yorkers have publicly shared their differences of opinion on various issues.
Posted by: gorb || 02/26/2016 01:47 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I am no longer undecided.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2016 1:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Whoopie also!!!
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 02/26/2016 11:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Never make such a "threat" when huge crowds would turn out to sing "Na na, na na na na, hey heeeey, GOOOODBYE!"

We get this sort of crap every four years. IIRC, Alec Baldwin said he'd leave if Bush got elected. Did he? Nooooooo...
Posted by: PBMcL || 02/26/2016 12:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Bill Whittle on Trump -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBG6Xds7ifA
Posted by: Iblis || 02/26/2016 13:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Nah, I don't see Sharpton leaving but we can hope. These lefties never do come through on their promises.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/26/2016 14:15 Comments || Top||

#6  With his endorsement of bennie, he must certainly leave to a non-extradite country with a Hillary! win...may want to anyways just in case she has a tantrum with a loss.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/26/2016 18:24 Comments || Top||

#7  There is no power in the universe sufficient to pry Mr. Sharpton off his racket.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 02/26/2016 21:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Ditto as per former COSBY KID RAVEN-SYMONE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/26/2016 22:33 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Former Mexican president: 'I'm not going to pay for that 'expletive' wall'
How fortunate that as the former president he will never be required to do so.
How wealthy is he and is he sending any money by wire?
[Washington Examiner] Just 48 hours after Trump told Nevada voters that Mexico is "going to be thrilled to be paying" for the wall he's proposed along the Southern border, Mexico's former president offered a very different take.

"I'm not going to pay for that f--king wall," Vicente Fox told Fusion's Jorge Ramos during an interview Thursday.

"He should pay for it. He's got the money," Fox said of Trump, the billionaire-turned-Republican presidential front-runner.

Upon being asked if he fears Trump will succeed in his bid for the White House and what that would mean for Mexico, Fox said "democracy can not take that."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mexico can be made to pay via a special "Vicente's wall building" tax levied at source against beneficiaries of all cash remittances from USA to Mexico - whether it is immigrants trying to remit money back to Mexico, or US companies seeking to pay for goods imported from Mexico.
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 02/26/2016 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Kinda strange that he doesn't like this wall. He must have something invested in it not being there.
Posted by: gorb || 02/26/2016 1:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Wonder if his homes and estates have walls?

Given that kidnapping and ransom are conducted at a business level in Mexico, I'd bet on 'yes'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/26/2016 8:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Foxy is using the same language that he typically uses around his Cartel amigos.
Posted by: regular joe || 02/26/2016 9:20 Comments || Top||

#5  It won't be built. I'd like to say that means nobody will pay for it, but I'm pretty sure the US taxpayer will.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/26/2016 9:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Takes me back to the Mariel Boatlift. Castro got rid of a lot of 'undesirables' back then.

Mehican government playing the same game with their open-border needs? The 'greedy' ones move north and don't disturb the status-quo of the other peons in DF or Jalisco.

Perhaps too, if there was a wall, the dirty-dollars wouldn't 'flow south' to a select few quite as easily?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/26/2016 9:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Former Mexican president: 'I'm not going to pay for that 'expletive' wall'

Trump's Response:

"The wall just got 10 feet taller."
Posted by: Phavising Ebbeanter3226 || 02/26/2016 12:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Politicians never do.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/26/2016 13:09 Comments || Top||

#9  I've said for decades that a wall will force political reform on Mexico. The Oligarchs don't want that so naturally they wouldn't be happy.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/26/2016 14:22 Comments || Top||

#10  Political reform or true revolution...
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/26/2016 14:22 Comments || Top||

#11  So how does Mexico pay for it? (1) Just charge every person entering the USA twenty dollars a day entry fee. If you have ever seen the entry lines at the various crossings you know that Donald can collect a lot of money. And suppose Mexico counters? So what? (2) Charge a 5% fee on the total that Mexican citizens workking in the USA remit to Mexico. That should equal about $500 million annually. And if a Mexican is found sending money illegally, sequester the whole amount.
Posted by: Bugs Unaviper5548 || 02/26/2016 15:36 Comments || Top||

#12  "Expletive" walls don't weather well considering their assumed construction materials.

Mr. Trump will use concrete and steel.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 02/26/2016 21:39 Comments || Top||

#13  SW USA = Tex-Mex borders, etc. or the one separating OWN NAU Member-State Mexico from the Lower Americas + future OWG SOUTH AMERICAN UNION???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/26/2016 22:37 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China Warns U.S. After Trump Wins Nevada Caucus
China warned the United States on Wednesday not to adopt punitive currency policies that could disrupt U.S.-China relations after Donald Trump's win in the Nevada caucus.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters in Beijing that "we are following with interest the U.S. presidential election."

Hua was asked about China's response to a possible Trump presidency and his announced plan to punish China for currency manipulation with a tax on Chinese goods.

"Since it belongs to the domestic affair of the U.S., I am not going to make comments on specific remarks by the relevant candidate," she said.

"But I want to stress that China and the U.S., as world's largest developing and developed countries, shoulder major responsibilities in safeguarding world peace, stability and security and driving world development," the spokeswoman added.
You must admit he is pissing off all the right people.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  China Warns U.S. After Trump Wins Nevada Caucus

I look at this as an endorsement of Trump.
Posted by: gorb || 02/26/2016 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  gorb, my thought exactly. Seems like the "former" president of Mexico railing against the wall.

Are all the foreigners trying reverse psychology? If so, why?
Posted by: AlanC || 02/26/2016 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Why give Trump a Nobel Peace Prize? I mean, if they want his head to explode.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/26/2016 7:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Why not give...
Posted by: Bobby || 02/26/2016 7:49 Comments || Top||

#5  IS China trying to get Trump elected? Don't they understand the dynamic that's propelling him?
Posted by: Iblis || 02/26/2016 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  ...why should they understand it better than the GOPe or MSM (which they probably read/watch)?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/26/2016 9:47 Comments || Top||

#7  China no longer fears or respects the U.S. The spratly islands are a great example of China's lack of concern for the U.S. policies or power Trump frightens them because the Chinese pacs can't control him.
Posted by: 49 pan || 02/26/2016 9:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Jeebus, everyone endorsing Trump.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/26/2016 12:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Eh, fuck off China.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/26/2016 13:39 Comments || Top||

#10  Dunno. The "domestic affair" bite seems to be a dog whistle endorsement of The Clintons TM?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 02/26/2016 15:18 Comments || Top||

#11  And Putin says "Da, I can work with that guy!" And he will.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 02/26/2016 21:32 Comments || Top||

#12  China hates Trump because he openly talks about their monetary manipulations and will stop it, thus tanking the Chinese economy and sending the world into a deep depression.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/26/2016 22:51 Comments || Top||


Government
Cyberattack total is more than twice previously disclosed: IRS
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/26/2016 15:23 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But don't worry, all your data and medical information is safe!

Posted by: DarthVader || 02/26/2016 15:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Information Security and unemployment - Paper.
Solves two problems with one. Actually a third, the sheer volume which inhibits retrieval establishes an natural limit on further growth in bureaucracy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/26/2016 16:27 Comments || Top||

#3  FBI gets hacked. Demands backdoor to everyone's phone. To emphasize the point DHS, IRS and the Office of Personnel Management all get hacked.

Now you trust us, right?
Posted by: Iblis || 02/26/2016 19:38 Comments || Top||


Hildebeest attends Paki Waki fund raiser in Beaumont, TX (VIDEO)
Evidently a somewhat clandestine campaign fund raising stop. After landing she was greeted by 6 people and then whisked off to a private fundraiser in West Beaumont, where she was greeted by around 150-200 Muslims, most of whom were of Pakistani origin. The event was held by Pakistani businessman Tahir Javed and Hillary raised approximately $500,000 by pandering to Muslims, making it "one of the top five private fundraiser's Clinton has had in this country." Sheila Jackson Lee was reportedly there as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2016 09:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sheila Jackson Lee was reportedly there as well

that dropped the collective IQ by 15 points
Posted by: Frank G || 02/26/2016 9:21 Comments || Top||

#2  IQ can't go negative, Frank.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/26/2016 10:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump is going around saying things that piss off the Mexicans, Chinese and Paks while the Beest is taking money from them. What else do you need to know?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/26/2016 11:26 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 IQ can't go negative, Frank.

This is Sheila Jackson we're talking about. The woman is so dense she probably warps space-time.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/26/2016 11:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Same aisle of people proposing negative interest rates, so yeah, it can.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/26/2016 13:22 Comments || Top||

#6  ..and don't forget all those people who voted for her, time and time again cause she's the smart one from the district. Don't worry Trump loves you too.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/26/2016 13:34 Comments || Top||

#7  So Shrillary has become a bag man womyn for her campaign now? She doesn't discriminate, she will take anyone's money with impartiality. Another friggin snake oil salesman comes to town.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/26/2016 14:38 Comments || Top||


Clinton Ad Highlights Her Work for Children, Omits Her Work for Child Rapist
[Free Beacon] Hillary Clinton touted her legal work on behalf of children in the 1970s in a new South Carolina campaign ad, but neglected to mention her successful legal defense of a child rapist in 1975.

As a young lawyer in Arkansas, one of Clinton’s first legal victories was when she secured a lenient plea deal for a 40-year-old man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl. In a bold legal maneuver, Clinton traveled to New York where she persuaded a prominent forensics expert to raise questions about the admissibility of the prosecution’s DNA evidence.

Although Clinton later expressed doubts about her client’s innocence, she managed to plead down the charges and got him off with just a few months in jail.

The Clinton campaign ad highlights her work for the Children’s Defense Fund in South Carolina in the early 1970s, when she helped end policies that allowed incarcerated minors to be held in adult prisons.

"I first met Hillary in the early 1970s when she was here fighting for the rights of children in South Carolina," said one attorney in the video. "She could have gotten a job anywhere out of law school with her credentials, but she has taken the route of public service."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2016 02:38 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm sure of one opposition candidate who won't have a problem pointing that out in a general campaign.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/26/2016 9:49 Comments || Top||

#2  I wish he, or any of the other Pub candidates had known of her Paki fund raising stop in Beaumont before last night's debate. Credit where credit is due. Certainly nice media 'cover for action' exploitation on her part.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2016 10:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Hildebeest is going to package herself for the election as Saint Hillary? She's going to go with that? Not going to fly unless some of her voters are really dimwits.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/26/2016 14:32 Comments || Top||

#4  It's not that they are dim... It's just that they would vote for a turd sandwich if it had a -D after its name.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/26/2016 15:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh, I thought it was about leaving Bill out of commercials.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/26/2016 18:33 Comments || Top||


Champ Opposes New Pro-IS Measures, Will Not Follow Provisions to Help Jewish State
[Free Beacon] President Barack Obama has announced in a rare statement that he will not follow newly passed measures aimed at boosting the Israeli economy and strengthening ties between the United States and the Jewish state, according to a statement issued by the president.

Obama stated that while he would sign the new trade resolution, portions of which focus on combatting economic boycotts of Israel, he would not enforce certain pro-Israel provisions that order the United States to stop partnering with countries that support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS, which aims to isolate Israel.

The president's rejection of these provisions comes two weeks after the White House issued a separate statement expressing support for every provision of the trade bill except for those focusing on strengthening the U.S.-Israel relationship.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2016 02:21 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So 0bama is anti-Semitic; who knew?~
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/26/2016 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  everyone?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/26/2016 9:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Clearly not the jews who voted for him; twice. Yeah, except them.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/26/2016 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  0bean has been making up his own laws so much that he probably only has to follow the parts of the laws he agrees with.

So much for his oath of office . . . .
Posted by: gorb || 02/26/2016 15:51 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2016-02-25
  ISIS Fighters Claim Pakistan Funded Them
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  Iraqi koppers round up 35 in Babylon
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