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Missiles fired from Iran fall near US consulate in Erbil, Iraq
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Whatever became of the guy who handed Hunter Biden's laptop to the FBI?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Computer repair shop owner who handed Hunter Biden's laptop to the FBI says he's lost his business and is on verge of bankruptcy after liberal intimidation campaign which resulted in death threats
  • John Paul Mac Isaac says he's since lost his store and now faces bankruptcy, after being victimized in an intimidation campaign once his findings went public

  • 'I was getting a lot of death threats,' John Paul Mac Isaac, owner of The Mac Shop in Wilmington, said Saturday

  • 'I had to have a Wilmington trooper parked in front of my shop all the time,' he revealed to the New York Post, who first reported on the contents of the laptop

  • Files found in Biden's personal computer included emails showing shady business dealings by the current US president's son with foreign officials

  • After weeks of being approached and harassed by multiple mysterious figures, Mac Isaac was forced to close down the shop and flee the state in Nov. 2020
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 03/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Blame Putin.
Posted by: Hunter Bidens Laptop || 03/13/2022 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Just for the heck of it, Google "Seth Rich Photo" on Google and see how many articles in include the words in the leading paras "conspiracy theory."

Lawfog 9 Dec 2020 - FBI changes story, finally admits it has thousands of pages of documents about Seth Rich

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2022 1:07 Comments || Top||

#3 
But, now the flip side of the coin this is not being addressed.

When we hand over a broken computer to a Repair shop we are "trusting" them with our lives contents. READING & releasing that data is a breech of that trust.

If he wasn't in it for the fame and/or wrongfully trusting the BIDEN DOJ/FBI. Then he should have quietly passed the data to a Q-Anon type source for release.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/13/2022 8:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Breach of trust? Hunter Biden abandoned his laptop. The owner went through it after it became his property.

Moreover there are lots of anti-cheese pizza laws on the books. Repair shops are doing a disservice if they don't scan your hard drive for CP. Lots of pedos got busted this way.
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 03/13/2022 8:27 Comments || Top||

#5 
1st of all to clarify I am NOT defending HUNTER.

I am addressing only the issue of proper handling of customer assets and the part why the guy's customer dumped him.


I myself, having been "invited" to do "legal" ITSEC/TCSM since 1988. The one thing I learned is to Guard and Control your customer's data.

The "Abandoned Laptop" is still the property of the Owner UNTIL they are contacted, or there is a legal notice run in the Legal Section of the local Newspaper.

The name Hunter Biden alone surely allowed alternative avenues of contact.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/13/2022 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  You'd have thought this guy could have made a lot of money selling his copy of the hard drive.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/13/2022 21:40 Comments || Top||

#7  The "Abandoned Laptop" is still the property of the Owner UNTIL they are contacted, or there is a legal notice run in the Legal Section of the local Newspaper.

I have a vague recollection that the laptop's owner was contacted, but said owner never actually did anything about it. I am too lazy to go and check, though.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/13/2022 22:18 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Proud Boys Leader Charged With J6 Crimes
[PJMedia] The former leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, has been hit with seven charges in relation to Jan. 6, 2021, including conspiracy. Tarrio wasn’t in Washington, D.C., that day, but that’s irrelevant when it comes to a conspiracy charge. He was arrested Tuesday in Miami.

The indictment included six other Proud Boys from around the nation.

Conspiracy to commit what, exactly? The FBI
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Posted by: trailing wife || 03/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Prosecutors believe" ...and therefore it's true. No need for evidence. Meanwhile, an Antifa murderer walks Scot free
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/13/2022 12:43 Comments || Top||


Two Colorado County Clerks Sue Deceitful Secretary of State Jena Griswold
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Two Colorado County Clerks have the data that could end crooked Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s career.

The two Republican County Clerks — Elbert County Clerk Dallas Schroeder and Douglas County Clerk Merlin Klotz asked the court on Friday to allow them to compare the data they saved from the 2020 elections to the servers after Secretary of State Griswold altered the machines.

Griswold does not want anyone to examine the voting machines after she had them worked on for some reason?

It is interesting how Democrats have fought EVERY SINGLE audit into the 2020 election?

Posted by: Fred || 03/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Normally a 2020 Election type situation would have a big * beside it in the history books.

But it is now 99.99% electronic media and history is history only for a nanosecond.

Book Burning is no longer needed by the National Socialists or the Liberal Democrats. They have control of Social Media.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/13/2022 8:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Ukraine Worked with Democrats Against Trump in 2016 to Stop Putin. The Bet Backfired Badly.
[Gateway] Six years ago, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, the Ukrainians bet that a Hillary Clinton presidency would offer better protection from Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though he had invaded Crimea during the Obama-Biden administration, whose Russian policies Clinton vowed to continue.
Good afternoon. We're here at the behest of the US Government and we've come to help.
Working with both the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, Ukrainian government officials intervened in the 2016 race to help Clinton and hurt Donald Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation that’s been largely ignored by the press. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, where officials worked hand-in-glove with a Ukrainian-American activist and Clinton campaign operative to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on — and even investigate — their political rival.

Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers — including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2022 08:14 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ciaramella was a CIA detailee to the White House occupying the NSC’s Ukraine desk in 2015 and 2016. In that role, Ciaramella met face-to-face with top Ukrainian officials and provided policy advice to Biden through the then-vice president’s security adviser Michael Carpenter. He also worked with Nuland and Chalupa.Ciaramella was carried over to the Trump White House.

The scales appear to be falling from my eyes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2022 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers

So obvious. The one US president of the last 30 years to resist NATO expansion has to be undermined by the Ukrainian-Democrat cabal. Trump PREVENTED Russian invasions. The Ukrainian-Democrat cabal PROVOKED Russian invasion.

Fuck these people, every last one of them - Hillary, Vindman, Nuland, Sally Painter. Damn them to hell for the mischief and damage these conniving idiots have caused us. And the world.
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/13/2022 10:23 Comments || Top||

#3  If America had an independent journalist community maybe someone would question how the Ukraine war relates to years of Biden Family corruption in Ukraine.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/13/2022 10:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Also Hillary's people. We've been focused on Christopher Steele, Marc Elias, Perkins Coie law firm, "GPS" shit-stirrers et al.

But no one's following up on the Ukrainian embassy and their unregistered foreign agents, Hillary's little girls at "Blue Star": Painter and Tramontano. Painter intervened with Blinken on behalf of Hunter Biden.

Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/13/2022 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  I thought this interesting:

In effect, Obama officials greased a revolution. Within months, Yanukovych was exiled and replaced by Petro Poroshenko, who would later do Biden’s bidding – including firing a prosecutor investigating his son Hunter.

It wasn’t Zelensky who was president of the Ukraine at the time, it was the man he replaced. Part of losing that bet was that Mr. Poroshenko was president no more. And President Trump was just providing support for President Zelensky to do what he fully intended to do anyway — shut down the mess his predecessor had made with all the Democrats.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/13/2022 11:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Everyone in the US with a MAGA hat is deemed a "literal Nazi" who you're supposed to punch and/or imprison, but liberals see actual, real-life Nazis in Ukraine and either swoon with admiration, arm them, or call you a Kremlin agent for wondering if this might work out poorly.

- Glenn Greenwald
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/13/2022 11:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Rod Dreher in The American Conservative:
Ukraine is This Year's BLM
...it’s a branding opportunity. It’s just like how all the corporations sought to sign on to Black Lives Matter, to show that We Care™ about the cause du jour.
Posted by: Porthos || 03/13/2022 11:50 Comments || Top||


Michael Flynn appears before Jan. 6 panel, invokes Fifth Amendment rights
[JustTheNews] Former Trump national security advisor attempted last December to quash subpoenas committee issued him.

Former Trump National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. (Ret) Michael Flynn appeared Thursday before the Democrat-controlled House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and exercised his Fifth Amendment rights in response to the panel's questions, his attorney says.

Flynn was subpoenaed to appear before the committee in November, 2021 and was also asked to produce documents and testimony in reference to a Dec. 18, 2020 meeting in the Oval Office, during which the seizure of voting machines was allegedly discussed.

In the letter sent to Flynn by the committee in December, members wrote that he and others discussed declaring a national emergency as part of a plan to promote the message that the presidential election has been "tainted by widespread fraud."

He was also allegedly involved in efforts to draft memos to seize voting machines that Trump ultimately did not sign.

Flynn was not Trump's national security advisor at the time, having resigned in February 2017 over a matter related to the Russia collusion ordeal.

In December, Flynn filed suit against House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
and members of the select committee seeking "declaratory and injunctive relief" from the subpoena going after his records and testimony. Flynn's legal efforts to quash the committee's subpoenas were thwarted.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Having full knowledge that anything you say can and will be twisted and mischaracterized, be courteous and polite but tell the SOB's little as legally possible.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2022 1:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Everyone of those targeted should plead the 5th.
Posted by: Dale || 03/13/2022 8:14 Comments || Top||

#3  No one ever got in trouble by shutting the f*ck up.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 03/13/2022 9:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Looks like he actually learned from talking to the FBI.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/13/2022 13:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Who's his lawyer now?
Posted by: Porthos || 03/13/2022 14:14 Comments || Top||


Video: Kamala Harris Says Democrats Have To Remind Voters They're Getting What They Voted For…
[WeaselZippers] KAMALA HARRIS: 'Our task is to show people that in many ways they got what they ordered. Right? They said this is what they wanted...so let's get out there as we do and remind them of that.'

Vid @ link
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 03/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  By all means
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/13/2022 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Is that Lt Col Vindman in the photo?
Posted by: Hunter Bidens Laptop || 03/13/2022 0:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Her sarcastic statement reveals a more important truth. The 'reminder' admonition is superfluous.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2022 1:39 Comments || Top||

#4 

May I recommend anyone voting for BIDEN based on their record, be taken to NYC Elmhurst Hospital for 72 month mental hold and evaluation?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/13/2022 7:55 Comments || Top||

#5  ^"At least 5 people have been bold enough to approach me on the subject. It seems very important to them that I know that my president biden is not of his right mind and should not be president.
They have all been Trump lovers too." This currently in Vietnam. My friend married a Vietnamese woman and because of Covid government restrictions hasn't been able to see his wife for two years. This information was posted this week. I played my small part by telling him Thailand lifted restrictions and Vietnam quickly followed. My friend was in security during the Vietnam war. Spook stuff I believe. I must add Vietnamese prefer Americans to Chinese. Seems Americans are truly welcomed.
Posted by: Dale || 03/13/2022 8:41 Comments || Top||

#6  The old American adage - Don't buy a pig in a poke.

Should have been a warning when they kept him away from public view.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/13/2022 9:04 Comments || Top||

#7  ..By all means.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/13/2022 12:48 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2022-03-13
  Missiles fired from Iran fall near US consulate in Erbil, Iraq
Sat 2022-03-12
  Mosque of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent shelled by Russians in Mariupol. Turkish citizens hiding inside.
Fri 2022-03-11
  Putin Places Spies Under House Arrest - CEPA
Thu 2022-03-10
  Russia’s FM said they will no longer participate in the Council of Europe
Wed 2022-03-09
  Ukraine says no longer insisting on NATO membership
Tue 2022-03-08
  Is this a Russian ‘Barguzin’ nuke weapons train in the Ukraine?
Mon 2022-03-07
  Ukraine's Government Opens Website To Recruit Foreigners To 'International Legion'
Sun 2022-03-06
  5 Members of Family Beheaded in Herat, 2 Girls Killed in Balkh
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  Bombing at Shiite Mosque in Pakistan Kills at Least 56 Worshippers
Fri 2022-03-04
  Russian Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky Tango Uniform
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  Russia threatens Finland and Sweden
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  Libyan Army Kills 26 Chadian Mercenaries
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  Mexican drug cartel pull mourners from a wake, shoot them
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  Putin throws MORE ground forces at Kyiv
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  Day 4: Operational information on the Russian invasion


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