Moved to P.6: Seedy Politics and Lurid Crime Tales to fit with the rest of the stories we've had about Mr. Rich. For futu reference, if you are not sure where your article goes, please post it on P. 3: Non-WoT and Short Attention Span Theater, unless it is clearly War on Terror (bombs, bullets, arrests and sentences involving jihadis), War on Terror Background/Politics (anything else involving jihadis), Opinion (op-ed pieces or blog posts not involving seedy politics), or Seedy Politics (anything anti-Trump or aimed at undermining our political system, including egregious politicians). Thank you.
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It shouldn't be too difficult for LEO's to obtain Rich's ER records. It shouldn't be difficult to determine the authenticity of this Anon ER doc by checking duty records on the date of the murder. Do HIPPAA laws come into play for someone who has expired? Also there should have been an EMS ambulance report also.
#3
John, HIPPAA laws stay in effect even if the person is dead. If you want to find out if your sleazy cousin died from herpes complex, you won't be able to pull the medical records.
[Disobedient Media] Last week, Fox 5 DC’s report incited a storm of controversy after former D.C. police homicide detective Rod Wheeler stated that there was tangible evidence on murdered Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich’s laptop suggesting that he was communicating with Wikileaks prior to his death. The story generated a large amount of outrage, with outlets like the Washington Post and Vice labelling it a "conspiracy theory" and claiming that it had no basis in fact. But details regarding the political affiliation of spokespeople and representatives of the Rich family appear to indicate that the DNC may be prioritizing its own interests, minimizing alleged political elements to the tragedy.
I. Legal Representatives And Spokespeople For Rich Family Have Ties To DNC, Crime Connected Unions
Since Fox 5 DC’s report, a number of individuals speaking on behalf of the Rich family have blasted Fox News and Rod Wheeler for speaking out on the case. Rich family spokesman Brad Bauman insisted that anyone who continued to push the story either had a "transparent political agenda," or were a sociopath. But an August 2016 tweet from Wikileaks revealed that Bauman is a crisis public relations consultant working with the Pastorum Group. A media release from the Pastorum Group reveals that Bauman previously worked for the DNC and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
The SEIU has previously been reported by the Wall Street Journal as a "top spender" for the Democrats, openly endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and actively assisted in her campaign. It has been widely criticized by some groups for the involvement of union members in crimes including embezzlement, criminal conspiracy, perjury and identity theft. The SEIU is also a client of the Strategic Consulting Group, which was founded by the Democratic operative Robert Creamer. In 2016, Creamer was implicated in footage obtained by journalist James O’Keefe which revealed that Creamer was engaging in voting fraud and violent disruption of political events, sometimes using his connections to unions who were as clients of his.
Bauman’s past professional ties to the DNC and the SEIU raise questions about the vehemence with which he has attacked journalists reporting on the circumstances of Seth Rich’s murder.
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Rich family spokesman Brad Bauman insisted that anyone who continued to push the story either had a "transparent political agenda," or were a sociopath.
Gosh, you mean like that conspiracy theory about Trump and the Russians?
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[Daily Caller] Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich regurgitated a baseless claim on Sunday that former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was assassinated after giving thousands of Democratic party emails to WikiLeaks.
Who debunked it, when, and where was this infornation published? I am agnostic about the truth of this, but assertion is not proof.
Gingrich suggested police and the FBI have covered up Rich’s July 10 death in an effort to pin the DNC hack on the Russian government.
"We have this very strange story now, this young man who worked for the Democratic National Committee who apparently was assassinated at 4 in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 23,000 -- I’m sorry, 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments, nobody’s investigating that," Gingrich said in an interview on "Fox & Friends."
The conspiracy theory that Rich stole DNC emails has been floating around ever since he was killed in what police say is a robbery gone wrong. But nobody has been arrested in the case, a fact which has stoked speculation that Rich, a data analyst at the DNC, had something to do with the email dump.
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"It was a robbery, I tell you! A robbery!"
"What? Can't be robbery - no valuables were taken."
"Than it must be a suicide!"
"What? Two bullets in the back!"
"You are racist, sexist, and a Russian spy!"
h/t Instapundit
Russian President Vladimir Putin's offer to provide a transcript of a controversial private Oval Office meeting between President Trump and two Russian diplomats has further fueled allegations that the White House has had improper dealings with Moscow, a U.S. adversary.
Putin said allegations that Trump had disclosed top-secret intelligence to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Sergey Kislyak, Moscow’s ambassador to the U.S., proved that the U.S. was "developing political schizophrenia," according to the Russian state-controlled news agency Tass, which quoted comments Putin made at a Wednesday news conference in Sochi, Russia. Never new you could translate "dolboeobi" as "political schizophrenia".
"If the U.S. administration considers it possible, we are ready to submit a transcript of Lavrov’s talk with Trump to the U.S. Senate and Congress, if, of course, the U.S. administration would want this," Putin said.
[Wash Times] A friend of James B. Comey says the former FBI director was "disgusted" by President Trump’s attempt to hug him during a White House visit earlier this year. I am a 'deep state' gawd. You do not embrace me.
Benjamin Wittes told PBS on Wednesday, "If you watch the video, he extends his hand, and Comey’s arms are really long, and he extends his hand kinda preemptively, and Trump kind of grabs the hand and pulls him into a hug. But the hug is entirely one-sided. So one guy in the hug is shaking hands."
"Comey was just completely disgusted by the episode. He thought it was an intentional attempt to compromise him in public," Mr. Wittes said.
Mr. Wittes is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a noted critic of Mr. Trump. He wrote an essay of his conversations with Mr. Comey on Lawfare earlier this week. Mr. Wittes said the conversations give an insight into the type of cozy relationship Mr. Trump wanted with Mr. Comey. I fear this 'senior fellow' Wittes, reaches a bit too far.
During his interview with PBS, Mr. Wittes also made it clear he drew his own conclusions on Mr. Comey’s state of mind, and that his insight was only based on these conversations.
In which the Washington Times "reports" as useful fact what is actually unconfirmed, single source hearsay from a party known to be biased.
[Conservative Tribune] Former FBI Director James Comey’s alleged memo on President Donald Trump and Michael Flynn is all the talk in Washington right now. However, a major GOP legislator just requested another batch of Comey’s memos -- and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch isn’t going to be happy. Sorry, no can do. Executive privilege, national security, on-going investigations...u pik. Once you hand them over, it just never stops.
According to The Daily Caller, Texas. Rep. Pete Sessions said that in addition to the alleged memo involving the president’s request to drop the investigation against former National Security Advisor Flynn, he also wants Comey to turn over all memos relating to Lynch’s infamous tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton last summer.
"If The New York Times has (Comey’s memo) that means we’re going to be able to see it and I would assume that would be fair. I assume that Mr. Comey also kept, if he’s disturbed by the same memos, that he gave to or about when Mrs. Clinton’s husband appeared in the jet with the attorney general," Sessions said Tuesday.
[Wash Times] Satire publication Mad magazine mocked Time for its latest cover design, which mashes up an image of the White House with the iconic St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, saying the news publication was guilty of “stealing our material!”
“Honestly, we’re flattered, but we would have appreciated a credit — something like, ‘Idea stolen from MAD, which in 1952 we called a short lived satirical pulp!’ the humor publication said in an online post Thursday that showed the cover images side by side.
Mad’s cover from Dec. 12, 2016, bore the caption “Putin’s Influence Over Trump Continues to Grow,” and showed the onion domes of St. Basil’s topping the White House. Time magazine’s May 18, 2017, cover, which lacks any caption, is shown for comparison, depicting the White House seemingly morphing into St. Basil’s.
Once a functioning Russian Orthodox Church and formally named The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat, the building is popularly called St. Basil’s for a venerated “fool for Christ,” Blessed Basil of Moscow.
St. Basil’s was seized by the Soviet government in 1923 and remains to this day part of the Russian government’s State Historical Museum. Contrary to popular conception, however, it is not part of the Kremlin complex.
#1
Most of these people don't remember what they drank for lunch, and the last thing they actually read was that "Attend J-School on the Gummint Dime" matchbook cover. That happened while they were waiting to see if the dry heaves had actually stopped for a bit...
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According to definitions: "Parody--an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. Satire--the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues."
The Time mag is neither paradoxical or satirical. It is basically a "Hit" on Trump.
#4
The idea is not all that creative, those domes are really the main recognizable architectural feature of Russia to most people. Might have been better to have had Trump as an engineer installing Putin onto Mt Rushmore or something like that.
[Conservative Tribune] On Tuesday, The New York Times fired a shot heard round the world when it claimed President Donald Trump had asked former FBI Director James Comey "to shut down the federal investigation" into former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s contacts with the Russian and Turkish governments.
According to the writer of the story, Michael Schmidt, the exchange was all written down in a memo by Comey after a meeting with Trump.
I mean, allegedly. And the memo was read off to him over the phone. Oh, wait, no -- not quite read off. His source saw it and vouchsafed for its authenticity. But he didn’t remember the exact wording.
Do you perhaps begin to see the problem here?
Schmidt revealed this during an interview on MSNBC with Brian Williams -- a man not exactly known for veracious rigor -- when The Times reporter was asked about his sources.
"We’d been working -- I’d been working on a story for the past few days about the fact that Comey had written these," Schmidt said. "We thought that was pretty significant in and of (itself)."
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It is easy to quickly get lost in ambiguation, dissembling, propaganda, lies, and weasel-wording when reading stories involving WAPO, the NYTs, and other left MSM publications. It is kind of like the symbolic logic problem where a traveler comes to a fork in the road. There are two people there who provide directions; one always tells the truth and the other always lies--what single question can one ask to get the correct direction? One path leads to death and the other to riches. (Perhaps, the traveler should find another road).
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As I recall, the question is: Where would the other man tell me these roads go? Or, if the questioner knows the possible destinations: Which road would the other man tell me goes to X?
#3
NYT reporter's source does not remember the exact wording. I'm guessing Comey doesn't remember Trump's exact wording either. We got nothing.
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If I were a politician I'd write crazy memos (Obama put a gun to my head and demanded this and that! Hillary admitted to killing this person, etc) so that if they ever leaked folks would look foolish. At that point you claim they were notes for a satirical novel you were writing. It's a memo, it's proof of nothing.
[PJ] A few days ago, a New York Times headline informed readers that the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade held in New York City would honor Oscar Lopez Rivera, a person they described as a "long-jailed militant" and a "nationalist" -- certainly a misleading description of the self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist and terrorist.
If you’re wondering how this could have happened, you should thank President Barack Obama, who paid off any debts he had to the far left by granting Lopez Rivera clemency in the last few days of his administration.
Rivera was a leader of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, or FALN, whose members pledged to wage war against the United States until Puerto Rico gained full independence. The group carried out more than 100 bombings, the most famous being the deadly 1975 one in Wall Street that targeted Fraunces Tavern, which served as George Washington’s headquarters during the Revolution. In 1991, Lopez Rivera was sentenced to 55 years in prison; after a botched escape attempt, the sentence was increased to 70 years.
Actually, when Bill Clinton left office and freed other Puerto Rican terrorists who were FALN members, he also offered amnesty to Lopez Rivera. The terrorist would not accept Clinton’s offer, however, unless all other FALN members still in prison were also freed. Those freed had pledged not to use violence, a pledge Lopez Rivera would not make at the time. Both the House and Senate passed resolutions condemning the pardons. Clinton ignored them.
California would have to find an additional $200 billion per year, including in new tax revenues, to create a so-called "single-payer" system, the analysis by the Senate Appropriations committee found. The estimate assumes the state would retain the existing $200 billion in local, state and federal funding it currently receives to offset the total $400 billion price tag.
The cost analysis is seen as the biggest hurdle to create a universal system, proposed by Sens. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, and Toni Atkins, D-San Diego.
Steep projected costs have derailed efforts over the past two decades to establish a publicly funded, universal health care system in California. The cost is higher than the $180 billion in proposed general fund and special fund spending for the budget year beginning July 1.
Californians already pay some of the highest tax rates in the nation, which have all but driven out the state’s formerly robust middle class.
Single payer -- and the taxes required to pay for all that paying -- would be the final nail in California’s coffin.
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Imagine the illegal rush if this passed. Also budget estimates on costs of things always, ALWAYS comes in low. I would expect to see this roar to 600-800 billion a year.
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Imagine the waiting lists and waiting times as private medical practices are driven out of business and/or leave the state rather than submit to being lorded over by government bureaucrats when it comes to determining treatments and fees.
#1
The mask comes off again.....this is who they are, and how they behave, its pure power and tribalism, not unity but a coalition of groups banded together for gain, at the expense of others and with no thought for the health of the nation.
In 2008, Burton settled a $10 million sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Kathleen Driscoll, then the executive director of his charitable foundation for homeless children. She claimed Burton sexually harassed her by making unwanted advances, using suggestive language and commenting on her body.
At a 2008 news conference in her attorney's office, Driscoll said, "I had a dream of helping homeless children through a job I loved. John Burton turned that dream into a sexual harassment nightmare and quite frankly a living hell." [5]
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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
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[Wash Times] Satire publication Mad magazine mocked Time for its latest cover design, which mashes up an image of the White House with the iconic St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, saying the news publication was guilty of “stealing our material!”
[PJ] A few days ago, a New York Times headline informed readers that the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade held in New York City would honor Oscar Lopez Rivera, a person they described as a "long-jailed militant" and a "nationalist" -- certainly a misleading description of the self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist and terrorist.
California would have to find an additional $200 billion per year, including in new tax revenues, to create a so-called "single-payer" system, the analysis by the Senate Appropriations committee found. The estimate assumes the state would retain the existing $200 billion in local, state and federal funding it currently receives to offset the total $400 billion price tag.
