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Four killed in Thursday's Israeli strikes on south, east Lebanon
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
OMG undercover: Leftist Nonprofit Head Spills Beans About Secret ‘Notification System’ To Help Illegals Evade ICE Arrest
[ZERO] The Department of Justice has been tightening the noose around the Vera Institute of Justice, a leftist, billionaire-backed nonprofit that has long acted as a shield for illegal aliens. The DOJ has slashed millions in taxpayer funding to the rogue nonprofit, which is reportedly operating a real-time alert system designed to track ICE raids and warn criminal illegal aliens to avoid certain areas and evade arrest.

By now, the DOJ has likely seen, or at least we can hope, the latest undercover investigation by James O'Keefe's team, which features a secretly recorded interview with Santiago Mueckay, associate director of Vera's Advancing Universal Representation initiative.

In the footage, Mueckay openly admits to the undercover reporter that leftist billionaires are bankrolling Vera's operations.

"It's usually like foundations, like the Gates Foundation, or Jeff Bezos, or some of these huge philanthropists, who have millions of dollars," Mueckay said in the video.






Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2025 02:58 || Comments || Link || [185 views] Top|| File under: Malevolent NGO

#1  Vera Institute of Justice website.

You decide.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2025 3:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Could this system (smartphone application) be used to track illegals?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/02/2025 4:50 Comments || Top||

#3  The whole nonprofit scam needs serious fixing.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/02/2025 6:44 Comments || Top||

#4 
18 U.S.C. § 118 & 18 U.S. Code § 115.

These laws prohibit the willful obstruction, resistance, interference, threats or violence against federal law enforcement officials.

Which includes ICE Agents.

The Federal sentences, will depend on the nature of the crime committed.
Fines and/or Imprisonment can range from 1 to 20 years and fines of $1,000 to $20,000 ++.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/02/2025 6:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes, 20 years and $20,000 sounds just about right to me.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2025 7:11 Comments || Top||

#6  NGOs use our money to destroy us.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/02/2025 10:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Could this system (smartphone application)
Or maybe those Israeli pagers?
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/02/2025 12:02 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Biden delivers slur-filled speech hours after aide testifies on his fitness for office
[Yahoo]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/02/2025 00:07 || Comments || Link || [79 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  Everyone knew. If someone was fooled, they are truly stupid.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/02/2025 10:27 Comments || Top||

#2  'Was the president up for the job?' Steve Ricchetti defends Biden’s fitness as GOP seeks answers

"The diminished capacity plea is based on the belief that certain people, because of mental impairment or disease, are simply incapable of reaching the mental state required to commit a particular crime."
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/02/2025 12:29 Comments || Top||

#3  If a Mentally Incompetent Person Enters Into a Contract: Legal Implications and Protections

Fraud, Coercion, and Undue Influence in Contracts with Mentally Incompetent Individuals
In some cases, individuals with diminished mental capacity are manipulated into signing contracts. If fraud, coercion, or undue influence is present, courts may declare the contract void. Common scenarios include:

Undue Influence: A caregiver or close relative exerts excessive pressure to persuade the person to sign a contract.
Fraudulent Misrepresentation: Providing false information to deceive a mentally incapacitated individual into agreeing to a contract.
Coercion: Forcing or threatening an individual into signing an agreement against their will.
If any of these factors are present, legal intervention may be necessary to invalidate the contract and protect the vulnerable party.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/02/2025 12:38 Comments || Top||

#4  At some point we are going to discover that Jill had power of attorney and the Left will claim that her actions as president were binding.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/02/2025 13:40 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Fuel Theft Raid in Mexico Linked to Ruling Party's Top Political Operators
[Breitbart] Mexican authorities are working to protect top political operators within the country’s ruling party to keep them from being named or prosecuted in connection with a cartel-connected fuel theft ring that operates in the northern part of the country.

As Breitbart Texas reported, cartel-connected money from various fuel theft operations has been funneled in the past to pay for political campaigns in Mexico to keep the current ruling party in power.

The raid took place recently in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, where agents from Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) raided a truck railyard, seizing 1.8 million liters of fuel products, nine trucks, 39 trailer tanks, 12 pumps, and various other pieces of industrial equipment.

Mexican authorities issued a press release on the raid, and various public officials spoke about the enforcement action as part of a public relations strategy coordinated by the country’s top security official, Omar Garcia Harfuch. The official has been trying to appease the U.S. government over its complaints that they have not done enough to stop drug cartels. The fuel seizure in Reynosa is believed to be linked to the Cartel Jalisco New Generation and the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel, which operates in Reynosa.

As Breitbart Texas reported, Garcia Harfuch has been manufacturing raids, exaggerating seizures, and announcing large-scale deployments to appease the U.S. government. In reality, drug cartels continue to operate with almost complete impunity throughout the nation.

In the aftermath of the FGR announcement, various local journalists and political opponents to the ruling party, MORENA, revealed that the property where the fuel theft raid took place was owned by a company that is partly owned by Mexican Senator Jose Ramon “JR” Gomez Leal, a top political operator within MORENA.

As Breitbart Texas reported, various MORENA politicians allegedly funneled funds from fuel theft into their campaigns through an organization led by the late Sergio Carmona. Gunmen shot and killed Carmona in 2021 at an upscale barbershop in the state of Nuevo Leon. Since then, more information has been leaked about the intricate connections between Mexico’s political elite and cartel campaign financing.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/02/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [86 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Pemex is Mexico's USAID.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/02/2025 6:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Could a similar 'protection' also be operating here ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2025 7:09 Comments || Top||

#3  manufacturing raids, exaggerating seizures, and announcing large-scale deployments to appease the U.S. government. In reality, drug cartels continue to operate with almost complete impunity throughout the nation.

^ Yep.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/02/2025 12:16 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Lawfare Lawyer Approved $2 Million Sweetheart Deal at DOJ for Peter Strzok & Lisa Page
[Breitbart] Two million dollars in taxpayer money used to pay off two disgraced FBI participants in the Trump Russian collusion narrative was approved by a former Department of Justice (DOJ) official who has gone on to help lead the current “legal resistance” against President Donald Trump.

That’s the conclusion of a report in the Federalist based on new records reviewed exclusively by the publication and obtained by the Center to Advance Security in America under a Freedom of Information Request.

The $2 million settlement in 2024 to FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa Page followed their lawsuits against the DOJ over the release of text messages related to their role in pushing what the Federalist called “the Clinton campaign’s Russian collusion hoax.”

Critics said the payments were a “sweetheart deal” since the pair never would have prevailed if the case had gone to trial.

According to the Federalist, Brian Netter, a former DOJ deputy attorney general under President Joe Biden’s DOJ from 2021 until early 2025, approved the settlement agreements.

He has since moved on from the DOJ, with the Federalist reporting:

Netter currently serves as the legal director at Democracy Forward, a Democrat Party-affiliated group launched in 2017 to fight President Trump with lawfare. The group brags that it took Trump to court more than 100 times in his first term in office. It has continued its use of the courts to win political battles into his second term in office. “Liberal Legal Group Positions Itself as a Top Trump Administration Foe,” touted the New York Times last November.

As Breitbart News reported in May of 2024, the “FBI lovebirds” Strzok and Page claimed their right to privacy was violated with the release of their disparaging text messages about former President Donald Trump and his supporters during the Russian collusion investigation.

Trump and others blasted the pair for the texts, which included Strzok citing the “smell” of Trump supporters in a Virginia Walmart store and talk of an “insurance policy” to keep the New York developer from becoming president in the 2016 election.

In the settlement, Strozk received $1.2 million. Page received $800,00. The FBI fired Strzok in 2018 and Page resigned that same year.

Democracy Forward, Netter’s new legal home, is chaired by Marc Elias, “the attorney known for his work damaging the integrity of the 2016 land 2020 elections,” the Federalist also reported.

It noted Elias’s role in weaponizing the unverified and widely debunked Steele dossier that linked Trump with Russia.

“Elias, as the Clinton campaign general counsel, signed the checks for her campaign’s Russia collusion hoax,” the Federalist stated. “To hide the Russia collusion hoax’s origins, the funding was fraudulently run through Elias’s law firm as ‘legal services.’”

Posted by: Skidmark || 08/02/2025 00:43 || Comments || Link || [121 views] Top|| File under: Lawfare

#1  CLAW IT BACK!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 08/02/2025 5:49 Comments || Top||

#2  First time I saw those two rascals on TV I had them pegged for crooks.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2025 6:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Those two will be skipping town soon.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/02/2025 6:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Their legal bills will exceed the payout that they likely already spent.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/02/2025 10:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Along with NGO's, settlements have become a method of funneling public money to the favored few.
Posted by: Matt || 08/02/2025 11:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Along with NGO's, settlements have become a method of funneling public money to the favored few.

Someone should write a book about this. I bet you could get a huge advance!
Posted by: SteveS || 08/02/2025 11:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Betcha they're still open to RICO conspiracy violations.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/02/2025 13:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Here's the Tweet That Captures What These Obama Bros *Really* Said About Israel
[Townhall] The Democratic Party will soon become so anti-Israel, you’d think Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
has achieved an unprecedented foothold in American political circles. That’s where we’re heading, and it’s not just conservatives who are seeing this. Antisemitism has ingrained itself into liberal America. It’s nasty stuff to see, which we all did when college campuses en masse surrendered their campuses to Hamas-loving students.

On Pod Save America, a liberal podcast hosted by former Obama aides, co-hosts Jon Lovette, Tommy Vietor, and Jon Favreau went full terrorist, saying they need to own up to their past support of the Jewish State—Obama inked an extended military aid package— and hope future Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
follow what could only be described as a watered-down version of what the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement aims to achieve, and I’m probably being too generous. We all know it won’t stop there. Democrats truly think that cutting off all military aid to Israel is a winning political move. There’s a reason why Democrats aren’t trusted to keep you safe. It’s because they’re kowtowing to terrorist sympathizers:



Brianna Wu, a transgender progressive, is simply aghast and appalled at the rampant antisemitism and anti-Israel rhetoric coming from her side. Her tweet is the perfect response to what was just said on Pod Save America:




Posted by: trailing wife || 08/02/2025 2025-08-02 02:46 || Comments || Link || [93 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  To me the Pro-Orc folks are mostly stupid people being herded by some truly evil folks. Nobody in the Dem apparatus is naive to what Hamas is. Only Fetterman is decent s as t this point.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/02/2025 10:22 Comments || Top||

#2  ^"Say that you want about that fellow Hitler, but he knows how to deal with the Jews"

It's the previous 80 years that were abnormal.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/02/2025 10:28 Comments || Top||


‘No One Can Be That Wrong’ - Trump Fires Labor Statistics Boss After ‘RIGGED’ Jobs Data
[ZeroHedge]


… then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/02/2025 00:48 || Comments || Link || [100 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just use ADP and other Payroll Company stats plus actual payroll from Fed/State/Local GIVERnments….. you only need to capture the trend over time to make decisions.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/02/2025 6:28 Comments || Top||

#2  He needs to have a weekly segment devoted exclusively to firings. They could jazz it up a little. This press conference stuff is too off the cuff. He honed his celebrity on the whetstone of firing people.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/02/2025 10:25 Comments || Top||

#3  He honed his celebrity on the whetstone of firing people.

CLASSIC
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/02/2025 12:13 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2025-08-02
  Four killed in Thursday's Israeli strikes on south, east Lebanon
Fri 2025-08-01
  Islamic State in Sahel raided Burkina Faso Army Base in Oudakan
Thu 2025-07-31
  Strategic Town Lost as SNA Troops Flee: Al-Shabaab Gains Ground Amid Crumbling Defenses
Wed 2025-07-30
  In 1st, entire Arab League condemns Oct. 7, urges Hamas to disarm
Tue 2025-07-29
  PM said to propose Israel begin annexing parts of Gaza if Hamas again rejects truce deal
Mon 2025-07-28
  Up to 43 dead after attacks on church and homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out by Islamic State linked group
Sun 2025-07-27
  The June 19th near battle between USS Reagan and ChiComs
Sat 2025-07-26
  Hamas reports 122 Palestinians, including 83 children killed by starvation in Gaza
Fri 2025-07-25
  Houthis Hijack Israel-Linked Ship In The Red Sea
Thu 2025-07-24
  Shin Bet detained a woman accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Netanyahu using an improvised explosive device
Wed 2025-07-23
  Illegal immigrants are now 'going on strike' to protest ICE raids
Tue 2025-07-22
  Syria starts evacuating Bedouin families from Sweida in bid to restore calm after more than 1260 killed
Mon 2025-07-21
  Mali: FAMa announced that over 70 terrorists were neutralized
Sun 2025-07-20
  Clashes end in Suwayda after govt forces deployment, 940 dead
Sat 2025-07-19
  Hezbollah Leader Naim Qassem: We're ready to fight — no to disarming, no to surrender.


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