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-Lurid Crime Tales-
New York Democratic Activist Arrested on Child Pornography Charges
[LI] Authorities have arrested Jacob Schwartz, a New York City employee and president of the Manhattan Young Democrats, for allegedly possessing child pornography.

The NYPD Computer Crimes division began an investigation in March and Schwartz surrendered his computer. The detectives "found more than 3,000 images and 89 videos depicting girls as young as 6 months old performing sex acts on adult men."

Authorities said Schwartz downloaded the material from the internet.

Schwartz had enjoyed a rise in New York City as a Democrat activist. From The New York Post:
Jacob Schwartz is the president of the Manhattan Young Democrats and the downstate region vice president of the New York State Young Democrats.

But his name and photo were scrubbed from both groups’ Web sites after The Post broke the news of his arrest.

A statement from the Manhattan Young Democrats said the organization was "shocked" by the allegations against Schwartz, and added that he was "no longer a member of the board, and an interim president is now in place."

A photo posted last year on Twitter shows him posing with Robby Mook, then the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s disastrous presidential campaign.
He "founded the New Democratic Alliance and worked for the Obama presidential campaign in 2012 as a field organizer in Lehigh Valley, Pa." He also founded the nonprofit group Common Climate, which he served as the executive director of environmental education.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/29/2017 08:21 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More fallout from the weiner computer.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 05/29/2017 13:36 Comments || Top||

#2  But his name and photo were scrubbed from both groups’ Web sites after The Post broke the news of his arrest.

That sounds familiar.
Posted by: Nikolai Yezhov || 05/29/2017 15:15 Comments || Top||


Britain
1972 Munich Olympics massacre ceremony attended by UK Labour Leader
[Breitbart] Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has stirred condemnation and disbelief from members of his own party after it was revealed he attended a graveside wreath-laying ceremony honoring a Palestinian terrorist involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.

In a story published in the Sunday Times, a column written by the Labour leader in October 2014 for the Communist Party newspaper Morning Star was cited as evidence he attended a ceremony in Tunisia "where wreaths were laid... on the graves of [those] killed by Mossad agents in Paris in 1991". Mr Corbyn described the event as "poignant".

He wrote: "After wreaths were laid at the graves of those who died on that day and on the graves of others killed by Mossad agents in Paris in 1991, we moved to the poignant statue in the main avenue of the coastal town of Ben Arous, which was festooned with Palestinian and Tunisian flags."

There is no record of Mossad having conducted an assassination in Paris in 1991.

Among those buried at the cemetery visited by Mr Corbyn is Atef Bseiso, who was head of intelligence for the PLO and was involved in the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches as part of the infamous terrorist operation. The visit came just 12 months after Mr. Corbyn assumed leadership of the Labour Party.

During the Middle East trip, the man seeking to be prime minister also attended a conference alongside members of Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

UK-based Jewish groups were quick to respond.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/29/2017 15:30 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  UK-based Jewish groups were quick to respond

By kissing his ass?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/29/2017 15:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Well now we know the Labor party sense of outrage about the Manchester 'incident', there isn't any

Next, they will put up a memorial and honor the memory of Salman Abedi. "Little girl, what little girl?"

Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 05/29/2017 16:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Now, now, Seeking - the little girl wasn't Jewish, was she?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/29/2017 16:18 Comments || Top||

#4  The Times of Israel adds:

But spokespeople for Corbyn told Board of Deputies of British Jews President Jonathan Arkush that “Jeremy Corbyn condemns the Munich massacre and its perpetrators, and that what he was attending was not anything to do with perpetrator Atef Bseiso, but an event to commemorate the 1985 bombing of the PLO headquarters,” the board wrote in a statement Monday.

“Whilst of a different order, this would still be a matter of concern to us,” the board statement read, recalling that the 1985 bombing by Israel “was a retaliation against the PLO-inspired murders of 15 Israeli civilians in Palestinian terror attacks the previous month.”

Posted by: trailing wife || 05/29/2017 17:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Rahm Emanuel: Dreamers Are ‘Part of the Chicago Family’ -- Illegal Immigrants Are ‘Welcome Here’
[BREITBART] Sunday on CNN’s "State of the Union." reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said immigrants colonists who come here illegally and their children were "part of the Chicago family."

Emanuel said, "The kids who go to our schools, the dreamers, all the kids, we have 140 languages spoken in our schools. Those kids and their families are frightened. And it’s incumbent as a city, whether you’re from Ireland or India, Poland or Pakistain, Mexico or Moldova, where my grandfather came from, those children are part of the Chicago family. And their parents are doing working incredibly hard. They sacrifice, they struggle so their kids could not only come to a place called America but specifically, Chicago. And I think Chicago will always represent the promise of America, If you believe that tomorrow can be better than today, you are welcome here."

He added, "It not just being a sanctuary city it’s being a welcoming city."

Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course, how else can they keep the one
Party system going
Posted by: Jack Salami || 05/29/2017 4:05 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Pancho Scourge of the Slytherins4470 || 05/29/2017 4:13 Comments || Top||

#3  He added, "It not just being a sanctuary city it’s being a welcoming city."

Somebody got their polling/talking points. Cut off their funding "enabling assistance"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/29/2017 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Just another group of lawbreakers, keeping the city's traditions alive.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/29/2017 8:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Someone has to mow our lawns and watch our kids on slave wages!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/29/2017 8:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Rahm Emanuel: Dreamers Are ‘Part of the Chicago Family’ -- Illegal Immigrants Are ‘Welcome Here’

Lefty: [while walking with Donnie to meet up with other crime family members] When I introduce you, I'm gonna say, "This is a friend of mine." That means you're a connected guy. Now if I said instead, this is a friend of ours that would mean you a made guy. A Capiche?
Posted by: JHH || 05/29/2017 20:01 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Merkel warns US, Britain no longer reliable partners
[IsraelTimes] With the West divided by Brexit and Trump’s presidency, German leader urges Europe to ’take its fate into its own hands.
And so they have been, with Barack Obama's loud approval.
Europe "must take its fate into its own hands" faced with a Western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom...
said Sunday.
During the campaign season, ya gotta sell voters on the sizzle, not the steak.
"The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I’ve experienced that in the last few days," Merkel told a crowd at an election rally in Munich, southern Germany.
Translation: They insist on doing what is good for themselves, refusing to give us what we say we want.
"We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands," she added.

While Germany and Europe would strive to remain on good terms with America and Britannia, "we have to fight for our own destiny," Merkel went on.

Special emphasis was needed on warm relations between Berlin and newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron, she said.

The chancellor had just returned from a G7 summit which wound up Saturday without a deal between the US and the other six major advanced nations on upholding the 2015 Gay Paree climate accords.
This cannot possibly be a surprise.
Merkel on Saturday labeled the result of the "six against one" discussion "very difficult, not to say very unsatisfactory."

Trump offered a more positive assessment on Twitter Sunday, writing: "Just returned from Europe. Trip was a great success for America. Hard work but big results!"
Negotiating is what he does for a living. And no doubt the food was exquisite.
The US president had earlier tweeted that he would reveal whether or not the US would stick to the global emissions deal -- which he pledged to jettison on the campaign trail -- only next week.

On a previous leg of his first trip abroad as president, Trump had repeated past criticism of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
allies for failing to meet the defensive alliance’s military spending commitment of two percent of GDP.

Observers noted that he neglected to publicly endorse the pact’s Article Five, which guarantees that member countries will aid the others they are attacked. The omission was especially striking as he unveiled a memorial to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the US, the only time the mutual defense clause has been triggered.

Trump also reportedly described German trade practices as "bad, very bad," in Brussels talks last week, complaining that Europe’s largest economy sells too many cars to the US.
Betcha he doesn't actually do anything after this verbal brushback, though.
But it got everyone thinking, and changed the subject from the endless global warming yammer.
Polls show the chancellor, in power since 2005, on course to be re-elected for a fourth term.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands,"

Yea, but you still have France.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/29/2017 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  She looks more isolated as time goes by. Go it alone is her undoing. It seems the Germans love her. That they and she are the only game in town. In my opinion, as she undoes her culture Germans will pine away their loss. I see no good outcome in her efforts. She has a distinct dislike with alpha males (Putin, Trump). The new leader of France is the only type male she can tolerate.
Posted by: Dale || 05/29/2017 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Sure. Rely on Russia for your fuel
Posted by: Frank G || 05/29/2017 8:02 Comments || Top||

#4  The asylum has been very quiet since the inmates took over.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/29/2017 8:12 Comments || Top||

#5  'Americans won't do what we want them to do.' Stump, stump, stump. Happens when you want to be 'equals' but depend on adults to provide you security for generations. Time to close the Trust Fund and let them go their own way.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/29/2017 8:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Fate in your own hands. Open borders. Pick one.
Posted by: Matt || 05/29/2017 9:03 Comments || Top||

#7  The Eurines have always considered themselves superior in every way. They have not walked the walk in a long time, but man do they talk the talk. By the time they find out that a decrepit old culture using a walker can't outrun a steamroller going 5 MPH, it will be waaaaay too late...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/29/2017 10:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Weren't there some problems with that in the 20th century?
Posted by: Tom || 05/29/2017 11:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Handing Trump another card in the emergence of the new American nationalism as foreign policy. We need to rebuild more industrial base and revive agricture in California and the SouthEast. Build the wall and severely restrict immigration to those who actually add value. Guest workers with decent treatment and prepaid return tickets. Storms are fast approaching across both ponds. Wake up, we can't afford to pretend we we're are rich as we used to be before we spent it all thinking free trade works because the other guys would play fair. We need to become a Hemispheric power, a new Monroe Doctrine, backed by a military able to make it stick. Let the other guys face what they think they can contain. We can buy enough time for the results they are going to get to come off the rails.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/29/2017 11:50 Comments || Top||

#10  "They don't want to swig the kool-aid with us!"
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/29/2017 12:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Please post a website where we can tell Trump to get out of the Paris Accord. At the least present it to the Senate and demand that they vote on the "Treaty". I would prefer the first option as the Senate is filled with crooked money grabbers.
Posted by: Phineter Darling of the Danes1238 || 05/29/2017 12:55 Comments || Top||

#12  try this:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/
Posted by: Mad Eye tse Tung9773 || 05/29/2017 13:21 Comments || Top||

#13  US, Britain no longer reliable partners

Mutti Merkin spracht.
Posted by: Mad Eye tse Tung9773 || 05/29/2017 13:23 Comments || Top||

#14  Thus speaks 'Red Kasner's' daughter 'Red Angela Merkel.'

It is interesting to note that hatred for Western civilization, totalitarianism and theocracy are dominant themes in the political/philosophical biographies of three nominally Western politicians: Merkel, Obama and Erdogan.

If there was at least an informal alliance of these three committed to doing harm to the West what would be different?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 05/29/2017 15:08 Comments || Top||

#15  "No longer reliable?" From Vietnam to red lines in Syria. . . Our reliability seems to depend on who got elected last week.
Posted by: james || 05/29/2017 22:44 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2017-05-29
  52 LNA soldiers die in Tripoli fighting
Sun 2017-05-28
  Russian airstrikes smoke 120 ISIS Bad Guys in Raqqa
Sat 2017-05-27
  Student sentenced to 15 years for planting bomb on London tube
Fri 2017-05-26
  31 Maute group members killed in Marawi gunbattles
Thu 2017-05-25
  Younger brother of Manchester bomber was planning terrorist attack in Tripoli, SDF says
Wed 2017-05-24
  ISIS takes control of its first city in the Philippines
Tue 2017-05-23
  Egypt orders military trial for 48 'Islamic State' suspects over church attacks
Mon 2017-05-22
  Manchester 'explosions': Police warn people to stay away from arena after loud bangs heard at Ariana Grande concert
Sun 2017-05-21
  Police arrest knife-wielding 14-year-old girl in West Bank
Sat 2017-05-20
  Saudi Arabia confirms Yemen’s missile strike on Riyadh
Fri 2017-05-19
  ICJ orders Pakistan to stay Jadhav execution
Thu 2017-05-18
  Blasts heard inside Afghan state TV compound in Jalalabad after gunmen attack
Wed 2017-05-17
  Female Bombers Attack NE Nigeria Village, Kill Two
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  Accused bomber Rahimi seeks reduced charges in New Jersey case
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  Kurdish forces reach the northern gates of Raqqa after liberating four more villages


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