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Biden officially RESTARTS Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' policy
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
CIA Docs Reveal Multiple Employees and Contractors Were Never Prosecuted for Child Sex Crimes
[Breitbart] Documents reveal that multiple Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) staffers were involved in child sex crimes but never prosecuted.

Obtained by BuzzFeed News via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits going all the way back to 2012, the documents reveal that the CIA "amassed credible evidence" of staffers involved in child sex crimes over a 14-year period and pursued no criminal prosecution in an effort to protect sensitive and classified materials.

"Though most of these cases were referred to US attorneys for prosecution, only one of the individuals was ever charged with a crime," noted Buzzfeed News. "Prosecutors sent the rest of the cases back to the CIA to handle internally, meaning few faced any consequences beyond the possible loss of their jobs and security clearances."

"CIA insiders say the agency resists prosecution of its staff for fear the cases will reveal state secrets," the report added.

Often, the employees were fired or had their contracts revoked, as opposed to criminal prosecution for sex crimes that involved children as young as two.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2021 05:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Please file under gun running, dope smuggling, money laundering, and 'Gain of Function' research.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2021 5:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Starting to look like ... a pattern.

What did Joe Groper-Sniffer know, and when did he know it?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/03/2021 11:24 Comments || Top||

#3  From the article:

The over 3,000 pages of documents obtained by Buzzfeed News covered a range of internal investigations at the CIA, all of which had names redacted for privacy purposes. Of the 10 cases discovered, five of the alleged perps were fired or resigned, four were referred to a personnel board or the Office of Security, and one was prosecuted in tandem with mishandling classified material.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/03/2021 11:27 Comments || Top||

#4  So... is this Buzzfeed going off reservation by saying child sex crimes are bad, or ammunition for normalization?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/03/2021 12:33 Comments || Top||


Jussie Smollett trial witness says actor staged attack, wanted to be 'fake beat up'
[NYPOST] The man Jussie Smollett
...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country! while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom...
allegedly paid to help him stage a hate crime took the stand in the actor’s criminal trial Wednesday, describing how he took part in the hoax because he thought the ’"Empire" star could help push his own acting career.

Abimbola Osundairo, 28, told jurors in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
’s criminal court on day three of the trial how Smollett directed nearly every aspect of the alleged fake attack, from the racial and homophobic slurs he and his brother, Olabinjo, were to use down to who should throw the punches.

"He explained that he wanted me to fake beat him up," Osundairo testified.

"I agreed to do it because most importantly, I felt indebted to him, to Jussie," Osundairo said "He also got me a stand-in role on ’Empire’ and I also believed that he could help further my acting career."
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So Just-ye-Smellit's also a director.

Perhaps he'll write direct and star in a reimagined, cross-racial biopic of JoJo Rosenbaum, with a Nigerian-Transgendered Tawana Brawley, called Shoot Me Now, N----!
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/03/2021 1:13 Comments || Top||


Man made anti-Asian remarks after hitting woman in Manhattan subway station: NYPD
[PIX11] A man made anti-Asian remarks after striking a woman with his bicycle’s handlebars Saturday, police said Wednesday.The incident happened about 6:30 p.m. inside the 116th Street Station in Manhattan, police said. The victim — a 53-year-old woman — was walking on the platform when the man hit her from behind. When the victim asked him why he struck her, the man responded by making anti-Asian slurs, police said.

The suspect then fled to the other end of the station.

Police said the victim was treated privately for lower back injuries. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident.

The man was last seen wearing a black jacket, black gloves and a black du-rag.



Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


-Great Cultural Revolution
[Who needs backseats?] Chicago Public Schools eliminating sex-specific restrooms to 'increase gender equity'
[FoxNews] The gender neutral requirement took effect on Wednesday.

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is requiring all schools in the district to adopt new signage in an effort to make restrooms gender-neutral.

The initiative, which CPS is referring to as a "big step forward for gender equity," requires the schools to display language outside of restrooms informing students, whether they are male or female, that they may use the restroom that aligns with their gender identity.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So what do you think will give a better shot Holding the phone over the stall wall or under? I think a lot of hormone-overcharged teenagers are going to find out!

This is *so* damn stupid.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/03/2021 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: 3dc || 12/03/2021 20:18 Comments || Top||


Armed man surrenders to NYPD after 3-hour standoff where he held shotgun to his throat outside UN
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A middle aged white man has surrendered to NYPD after a 3-hour standoff outside the United Nations Building where he held a shotgun to his throat

  • He reportedly drove from Florida to deliver ‘medical documents’ to the UN; police reported so far the documents investigated have been 'nothing that told a story'

  • NYPD officers were engaged in a standoff with the armed man who reportedly had one shot in his weapon
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  where he held a shotgun to his throat

We seen dis movie. Blazing Saddles.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/03/2021 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  "Y'all back off toute de suite or Omar gets it right in the, um, throat! Oh, indeed. [whistles]
Posted by: Ulereth the Slender3849 || 12/03/2021 1:56 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't understand why they didn't let him go ahead and shoot.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/03/2021 20:15 Comments || Top||


New York Times Complains That Cat Videos Are Being Used to Spread Misinformation
Posted by: badanov || 12/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You had Bee, didn't you? I certainly did.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/03/2021 0:12 Comments || Top||

#2  If it was the Bee I'd would have posted it as Opinion.
Posted by: badanov || 12/03/2021 0:50 Comments || Top||

#3  All misinformation to be distributed by the NYT.
Look! A squirrel!
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/03/2021 14:16 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
[Let'em rot] New York confirms 5 cases of the omicron coronavirus variant
[FoxNews] New York is the fourth state to confirm the virus.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  South Africa has had a major increase in infections, from below 10/day in early Nov. to 10k yesterday. I think over 90% of these are the Omicron.

However, fatalities have remained low for now, averaging about 15/day in past week.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/03/2021 13:11 Comments || Top||


Nigeria boat disaster kills 29, mostly children
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Lagos Pastor Kidnaps Catholic Priest In Imo, Gets N1.5million Ransom
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Banditti

#1  Competion in action!
5.1m niara comes to about $12452. So it was probably worth it.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/03/2021 13:47 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope Biden (the Big Guy) got his 10%. Otherwise heads will roll.
Posted by: jpal || 12/03/2021 16:52 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Blinken meets Russia's Lavrov on Ukraine, warns of 'severe costs'
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] "You're referring to rhetorical costs, right?"
"Those are still costs!"
"We can take the scarring."
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We've got rainbow flags -- and aren't afraid to use them"
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/03/2021 0:04 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
FBI Warns California Genetics Company Likely Shares Americans' Health Data With China
[FreeBeacon] The FBI says a genetics testing company with tens of millions of dollars in federal contracts is most likely providing Americans' health data to China.

The agency told Los Angeles County officials last week it had obtained "very concerning information" about Fulgent Genetics, a California-based firm founded by Chinese-American billionaire Ming Hsieh. Los Angeles County sheriff Alex Villanueva said the FBI warned him and other county officials that Fulgent likely shares the health data it collects with the Chinese government.

U.S. officials have expressed concerns over state-sponsored harvesting of genetic data. China has collected DNA samples of Uyghurs, a repressed Muslim minority group, for surveillance purposes. The authoritarian regime is also building massive databases of genetic data from across the globe, which would give China an advantage in developing treatments for future pandemics.

Villanueva called for the county to cancel contracts with Fulgent to test county employees for COVID-19 and to keep track of their vaccination records. He did not say whether the FBI suspects Fulgent of proactively providing the data to China, or whether the company turns it over to comply with Chinese law.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2021 05:35 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  .....genetic data from across the globe, which would give China an advantage in developing treatments bio-warfare 'Gain of Function' targeting data for future pandemics.

Minor correction inserted above.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2021 5:41 Comments || Top||

#2  I doubt that this is the only company or university playing this game, which makes me wonder why the FBI outed this particular one. Someone's check bounced?
Posted by: SteveS || 12/03/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember when people who thought the ancestry companies were really fronts for genetic harvesting were The Weirdos?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/03/2021 14:44 Comments || Top||

#4 
Yeah, and Covid is only the 1st Run @ Bioweapons against the world, the shots sealed the fate of BILLIONS already..... Understand Now People ?
Posted by: Flomorong Ebbatle1022 || 12/03/2021 22:15 Comments || Top||

#5 
Thanks swksvolFF You get it.
Posted by: Flomorong Ebbatle1022 || 12/03/2021 22:17 Comments || Top||

#6 
Thanks swksvolFF SteveS Besoeker You guys ALL get it.

Me I'm a former CBRN Analyst, from the COLD WAR came to DC under Reagan, was invited by Bush -- use to drink with his son, and warned him to be careful in 1975, so my CV would scare most people to death. I've been posting on the Burg for years.
Put you on the map with the Dark State... They still view y'all.... Later
Posted by: Flomorong Ebbatle1022 || 12/03/2021 22:23 Comments || Top||

#7 
Musical Rendition (Involved in that, too) - for your entertainment.
Posted by: Flomorong Ebbatle1022 || 12/03/2021 22:55 Comments || Top||


China protested Indonesian drilling, military exercises
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] China told Indonesia to stop drilling for oil and natural gas in maritime territory that both countries regard as their own during a months-long standoff in the South China Sea earlier this year, four people familiar with the matter told Rooters.The unprecedented demand, which has not previously been reported, elevated tensions over natural resources between the two countries in a volatile area of global strategic and economic importance.

One letter from Chinese diplomats to Indonesia’s foreign ministry clearly told Indonesia to halt drilling at a temporary offshore rig because it was taking place in Chinese territory, according to Muhammad Farhan, an Indonesian politician on parliament’s national security committee, which was briefed on the letter.

"Our reply was very firm, that we are not going to stop the drilling because it is our sovereign right," Farhan told Rooters.

A front man for Indonesia’s foreign ministry said: "Any diplomatic communication between states is private in nature and its content cannot be shared." He declined further comment.

China’s embassy in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta did not respond to a request for comment.

Three other people, who said they were briefed on the matter, confirmed the existence of the letter. Two of those people said China made repeated demands that Indonesia stop drilling.

Southeast Asia’s biggest nation says the southern end of the South China Sea is its exclusive economic zone under the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
Convention on the Law of the Sea and named the area as the North Natuna Sea in 2017.

China objected to the name change and insists the waterway is within its expansive territorial claim in the South China Sea that it marks with a U-shaped "nine-dash line," a boundary found to have no legal basis by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague in 2016.

"It (the letter) was a bit threatening because it was the first effort of China’s diplomats to push their nine-dash line agenda against our rights under the Law of the Sea," Farhan told Rooters.

China is Indonesia’s biggest trade partner and second-largest source of investment, making it a key part of Indonesia’s ambition to become a top-tier economy. Indonesian leaders kept quiet about the matter in order to avoid conflict or a diplomatic spat with China, Farhan and two of the other people who spoke to Rooters said.

Farhan said that China, in a separate letter, also protested against the predominantly land-based Garuda Shield military exercises in August, which took place during the standoff.

The exercises, involving 4,500 troops from the United States and Indonesia, have been a regular event since 2009. This was China’s first protest against them, according to Farhan. "In their formal letter, the Chinese government was expressing their concern about the security stability in the area," he said.



Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Cyber
Facebook removes 500 accounts used by China to spread fake 'Swiss biologist' Covid claims and anti-US propaganda
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Operation started in July when China created 'Swiss Biologist' Wilson EdwardsAccount said US was pressuring scientists to back a renewed Covid origin probe

  • Within hours, hundreds of other, many new, accounts started liking, linking post

Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2021 05:32 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Check didn't clear?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/03/2021 6:42 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
AstraZeneca uncovers what's triggering blood clots after its jab: Vaccine acts like a magnet and attracts platelets which body mistakes for a threat and attacks
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2021 05:24 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe they should have figured that out before they started giving it out.
Posted by: Chris || 12/03/2021 9:13 Comments || Top||

#2  But remember, all cancer drugs must be tested for 20+ years and be 100% effective to gain approval.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/03/2021 9:15 Comments || Top||


#4  Impeach Fauci

Who TF elected this dwarf?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/03/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#5  I wonder if contracting the Omicron variant and surviving (which is almost assured) gives you natural immunity to the other 'flavors' of the CCP flu?

That's probably why they (Pfizer, Moderna, One World Government, etc.) don't want you to catch it.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/03/2021 12:17 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2021-12-03
  Biden officially RESTARTS Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' policy
Thu 2021-12-02
  Record of Waukesha massacre suspect's $1,000 bail hearing missing
Wed 2021-12-01
  Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell Brooks faces new charge for death of 8-year-old boy
Tue 2021-11-30
  Turkish lira skids again after Erdogan orders manipulation probe
Mon 2021-11-29
  Iranian arrested in Kenya for planning attacks against Israeli targets
Sun 2021-11-28
  Police fire tear gas at anti-government protesters in Burkina
Sat 2021-11-27
  Hamas banned in the UK
Fri 2021-11-26
  Egypt sentences 22 terror convicts to death by hanging
Thu 2021-11-25
  Lebanese Currency Sinks to New Low
Wed 2021-11-24
  Libya: 98 Presidential candidates have officially been registered
Tue 2021-11-23
  Ethiopia's PM heads to front to lead soldiers battling Tigray rebels
Mon 2021-11-22
  'Multiple people dead' and 23 injured after SUV plows into Wisconsin Christmas parade: Person of Interest in custody
Sun 2021-11-21
  Several Injured After Car Plows Through Waukesha Christmas Parade
Sat 2021-11-20
  Uganda's Kampala bombings: Muslim cleric accused of jihadist links shot dead
Fri 2021-11-19
  Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges

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