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Fresh airstrike kills 40 Al-Shabaab members in central Somalia – official
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-Great Cultural Revolution
California educator slams 'privileged white voices' speaking out on ethnic studies curriculum
[NYPOST] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, district administrator involved in overseeing curriculum, Samia Shoman, called for "privileged White voices" to be removed from influencing against a far-left ethnic studies curriculum.

Shoman oversees curriculum in the San Mateo Union High School district as manager of English Learners and Academic Support Programs. The email was dated March 2021 and was obtained via public record request by Zachor Legal.

Shoman contacted the California State superintendent, Tony Thurmond, in March 2021. Shoman blasted "white voices" and said they should have no part in influencing the curriculum.

"We urge the [state board of education] not to give in to the pressures and influences of political lobbyists, racist & privileged white voices, and individuals," she said.

Another issue Shoman took up with the proposed ethnic studies curriculum was the idea of "multiple perspectives."

"The proposed revisions privileges terms like ’multiple perspectives’, ’diversity’, ’all students’ and ’broad range of groups’ undermining the primary focus on the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) communities that compose over 80 percent of California’s student population."

Shoman went on to call for a more extreme version of the proposed Black Lives Matter curriculum lesson.
Posted by: Fred || 01/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Is fugly a race? Otherwise she (a big assumption) is another Elizabeth Warren.
Posted by: Thruter Gloluger6393 || 01/24/2023 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Taxpayers ought to speak out about the use of their taxes or have to option to withhold them.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 5:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Whites have the privilege of paying the vast bulk of the taxes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/24/2023 7:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Do away with wel fare and go back to segregation. The vast majority of blacks would starve to death or be homeless in 3 months.
Posted by: Chris || 01/24/2023 7:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Again with San Mateo. They're having quite the week.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/24/2023 10:13 Comments || Top||

#6  I hope Peter Theil sees this, he want to San Mateo High. I'd love to see him donate cash to get these fools out of power.
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/24/2023 15:56 Comments || Top||


George Soros and his empire of woke DAs: How billionaire has spent $40m helping to elect liberal officials in thrall to loose bail laws and sentencing
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • At least 75 prosecutors backed by billionaire George Soros have been elected

  • Soros has donated at least $40million to electing woke DAs over the years

  • The billionaire's DAs have stripped bail and theft laws, leading to crime spikes

Over the years Soros has thrown millions behind liberal DAs - either with outright donations or funneled through political action committees - effectively buying elections and leading to the installment of at least 75 prosecutors who support his leftist agenda.

Soros has spent at least $40million on the project, wrote Matt Palumbo, author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros, in the New York Post - a minuscule sum for a man worth at least $32billion.

The billionaire's DAs have stripped away bail laws and opted to forgo prosecuting crimes like theft and reckless driving, effectively giving criminals a free pass and leading to the breakdown of law and order across the United States.

As a direct result, crime has skyrocketed in major cities overseen by Soros's DAs. In 2021 under Kim Foxx's reign, Chicago had the most murders it's seen since 1994. And in Philadelphia, drug use and violent crime has seen a surge since Larry Krasner took office.

Soros, a Hungarian-born businessman, has long backed liberal politics. In the 2000s he was an outspoken opponent of President George W. Bush and donated millions to hinder his reelection, and later donated heavily to the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton.

THE MOST NOTORIOUS DAs:
  • Kim Foxx: Lenient on gun violent and shoplifting in Chicago/Cooks County, IL

  • Larry Krasner: Lax arrests despite hundreds of murders in Philly

  • Alvin Bragg: Reduced armed robbery penalties in NYC

  • Kim Gardner: Murders reach 50-year high in St. Louis

  • George Gascón: Los Angeles' woke DA

  • Joe Gonzales: Homicides spike 50 percent in Bexar County, Texas,

  • José Garza: Vowed to stop 'over-prosecution' in Travis County, Texas

  • John Creuzot: Allows robbery 'for necessity' in Dallas County, Texas

  • Steve Descano: Rescinded cash bails for crimes in Fairfax County, Virginia


Anger as woke Manhattan DA lets three teen suspects walk free without charges after battering Fox News weatherman on Subway - leaving him with bruised rib and two black eyes

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Teenagers who battered Fox News weatherman are released without charges

  • Twitter users left furious, with one asking 'how can anyone feel safe in the city?'

  • Handling of the case adds to criticism of 'woke' Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg


Klotz was left with a black eye and bruised ribs because he intercepted a group of teenagers on the subway at around 1.15am on Sunday after they were reportedly trying to set an older man's hair on fire.

A Twitter user added: 'Fox News weatherman Adam Klotz was badly beaten & stomped by 7 or 8 juveniles on an NYC subway train.

'3 of the suspects were arrested but were released with NO CHARGES because they were juveniles. NY is not safe & nothing is being done about it.'

It comes after Bragg came under fire just last week for offering a plea deal to a man accused of an anti-Semitic attack who said he 'would do it again'.

Bragg was elected as Manhattan's DA in November 2021 and led with the soft-on-crime approach of using prison as a last resort.

He campaigned on the promise of criminal justice reform and issued a controversial 'Day One' memo after assuming office that said he would only seek prison time in the most severe cases.

That same month Bragg took office, career criminal William Rolon, who faced only misdemeanor charges for threatening a store worker with a knife, was told by a judge that he should 'feel lucky' because of Bragg's new policies.

The DA's sweeping changes called on prosecutors to ditch felony armed robbery charges and instead charge suspects with petty larceny - a misdemeanor which carries a maximum of one year in prison - even when a weapon is involved if the firearm did not 'create a genuine risk of physical harm.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  The price to counteract Soros DA campaign is equivalent to a yearly contract for an All-Star shortstop or pitcher. Based on the condition of our law schools, I don’t know that the right number of competent candidates could be found to challenge George’s slate of city destructors. I am also not sure that Dem machine’s won’t still get the George candidates across the finish line in many cities.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 5:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Prosecutors are the only lawyers (besides judges) who are not on a billable hour basis. How could they not love any scheme to reduce their workload?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/24/2023 7:26 Comments || Top||

#3  How has evil corruptocrat Soros' plan worked out for America? Soros seems to be a protected man.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/24/2023 12:19 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Supreme Court asks Biden admin to weigh in on Florida, Texas social media laws
[FoxNews]
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Posted by: Chris || 01/24/2023 7:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like the plaintiffs are asking to restrict anyone they like in the name of their own 'free speech'. IOW, 'free speech' lets me restrict anyone else's free speech.

What does Elon Musk say about that?
Posted by: Bobby || 01/24/2023 15:22 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
All in the family: Joe Biden is named in 2017 email discussing multi-million dollar gas deal with CHINA, with Louisiana lawyer writing to brother Jim that he 'arranged a call' with the former VP and his son Hunter 'to discuss the purchase'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • October 2017, Hunter and his uncle, Joe's brother Jim Biden, were brokering a multi-million dollar deal to supply gas from Louisiana to China

  • Louisiana-based lawyer Robert Fenet was on the US-side of the deal

  • Fenet wrote in an email he arranged 'a call from Joe Biden and Hunter Biden on Monday morning to discuss the purchase of the 5 million tons of gas'
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  If the info is accurate, arrivals of impeachment ought to be prepared. The Senate will likely not take him out but there is enough evidence coming in to support a monthly remove Joe vote in the Senate from now until the 2024 election.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 5:09 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Four more Oath Keepers convicted of seditious conspiracy for Capitol riot
[IsraelTimes] Oath Keepers ”forces of Evil” face up to 20 years in prison in latest major victory for Justice Department as it seeks to punish those behind January 6 sacking of Congress.

The verdict against Joseph Hackett of Sarasota, Florida; Roberto Minuta of Prosper, Texas; David Moerschel of Punta Gorda, Florida; and Edward Vallejo of Phoenix comes weeks after after a different jury convicted the group’s leader, Stewart Rhodes.
Four members of the Oath Keepers were convicted Monday of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack in the second major trial of far-right forces of Evil accused of plotting to forcibly keep President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
in power.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/24/2023 11:08 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Curious, no Feds involved in Atlanta.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/24/2023 12:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Convicted by a DC jury of their "peers"?

The 'Chicago Way'.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/24/2023 15:18 Comments || Top||


Did Hunter Biden Receive Classified Information on Ukraine From Joe Biden – Then Email the Top-Secret Info to Business Partner Devon Archer?
[Gateway] The documents discovered at Biden’s private office and home are related to Ukraine, Iran, China and the United Kingdom.

According to emails uncovered from the "Laptop from Hell," Hunter Biden sent his business partner Devon Archer a very detailed email on Ukraine on April 13, 2014 — just one week before Joe Biden visited Ukraine to meet with then-Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

It appears Hunter Biden was emailing Devon Archer information he received from a briefing from his father Joe Biden or directly from top-secret documents.

"A curiously well-informed email about Ukraine, Russia and the UK on Hunter Biden’s laptop is a thread that links the President’s classified documents scandal to the Delaware federal investigation into his son’s foreign business dealings." — the New York Post’s Miranda Devine wrote.

Via Miranda Devine at the New York Post:
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/24/2023 00:31 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:


#2  It’s totally illegal for Hunter to engage in this kind of espionage. He is not a government official.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 5:26 Comments || Top||


#4  I enjoy watching the Bidens squirm as this scandal unfolds but, here again, I'm extremely skeptical about the reasons for these documents being classified. I have this nagging suspicion that it's all a load of kompromat that really should be exposed for the whole world to see.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/24/2023 12:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Biteone is waiting for his son to goto trial, he will pardon the son and then resign.
Posted by: Thogum Sproing6437 || 01/24/2023 16:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Via Newsweak: "Archer and the younger Biden were managing partners at Rosemont Seneca Partners. Archer was also co-founder of private-equity firm Rosemont Capital with Christopher Heinz, his college roommate at Yale University. He had served as senior adviser to Heinz's stepfather, Democratic Senator John Kerry Kerry, during his 2004 presidential bid."

The saying: "Thick as thieves" comes to mind.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/24/2023 16:34 Comments || Top||

#7  They've got former VP Pence now w/docs found at his home.
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 || 01/24/2023 16:35 Comments || Top||

#8  SCIF, SCIF, SCIF....forget the foking SCIF.

My guess is he (big guy) had someone or ....a cell of someones at State, Langley, or DoD specifically detailed to provide him (big guy) any document even remotely associated with Hunter's foreign dealings.

I suspect the document transfers were couriered to the Delaware residence. A weekly 'drop' at the residence is very likely. WTF....It's what I would do.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/24/2023 17:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Biden rode the train home nearly every foking weekend......WHY ?

Servicing the drop.



Posted by: Besoeker || 01/24/2023 17:45 Comments || Top||

#10  Hildabeest had staff strip and/or transcriber classification markings so the document could be claimed as UNCLASS by her. My guess, is Jojo et al used burner phones and JPEG files, as well as surreptitious stand-alone copiers for their crimes. So the Docs are copies, and the SCIF Classified Doc Custodian had clean accountability/destruction records, thus no end-or-term searches. What I found shocking was Hunter had apparently been given total, unmonitored access to the Oval Office, thus being able to see even the PDB if Daddy kept in on the desk!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/24/2023 18:38 Comments || Top||

#11  /\ Yes, copies for sure. Printed from a thumb drive possibly. I suspect there are a number of other people involved in this matter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/24/2023 18:46 Comments || Top||


DOJ weighs expanding Biden document search to other locations
[NYPOST] The Justice Department is considering additional searches for classified documents at other locations connected to President Biden — as the commander-in-chief escaped to his Rehoboth Beach house over the weekend, according to a report.

On Friday, federal agents found more classified materials stashed away at the 80-year-old president’s Wilmington, Del. home — including some dating back to his time as a senator.

Now, DOJ officials are considering extending the search for the sensitive documents to other places, CBS reported on Saturday, citing a source familiar with the investigation.

One of those sites would likely include the president’s home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., which is roughly 90 miles away from the Wilmington residence.
Posted by: Fred || 01/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Check the ice cream shops.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 5:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Sure sounds like more of a heads up S&D notice to the Bidens.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/24/2023 10:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Kyiv and Beijing out of bounds?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/24/2023 11:38 Comments || Top||

#4  I like the last item (LOL)! "Yet Another Stash Of Classified Documents Discovered During Biden’s Colonoscopy." The Bee strikes again.

Why were the Bidet homes and other locations not raided by the FBI in the wee hours?
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/24/2023 12:30 Comments || Top||


#6  I doubt this will matter to the three people who want Pence to run for president.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/24/2023 14:35 Comments || Top||



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  Fresh airstrike kills 40 Al-Shabaab members in central Somalia – official
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  Burkina Faso says 66 women, children freed from extremists
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   Iran Guards warn EU terror label would be 'mistake'
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  Terrorists Storm Church In Katsina, Northwest Nigeria, Kidnap 25 Worshippers
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