[Fox via WND] The FBI has arrested the founder of a Black Lives Matter group in Atlanta on fraud and money laundering charges.
That’ll be the result of those investigations into the financial side of the network that Attorney General Barr has been promising, methinks.
Sir Maejor Page, 32, was accused Friday of misappropriating $200,000 in donations he solicited through Facebook on behalf of Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta, Fox 5 Atlanta reported Friday. Tangro
Tangro?
Page was arrested in Toledo and released on bond after appearing before a judge via video. He did not immediately return messages Saturday from Fox News.
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More from the Fox News article to warm our sentimental hearts:
The Toledo FBI office opened an investigation last year after a cooperating witness submitted a fraud complaint against Page, whose real name is Tyree Conyers-Page, FBI agent Matthew Desorbo said in the complaint.
Page founded Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta in 2016 and this year took in more than $466,000 in donations in June, July and August, Desorbo said.
Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta could not solicit donations after losing its tax-exempt status as a charity in 2019 for failing to submit to the IRS 990 tax returns listing donations and expenditures.
Page had been arrested several times for impersonating a police officer, the station reported..
According to the station, months earlier Page had parted ways with the Black Lives Matter of Atlanta movement before forming Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta.
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Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta could not solicit donations after losing its tax-exempt status as a charity in 2019 for failing to submit to the IRS 990 tax returns listing donations and expenditures.
There are two reasons those returns did not get filed; sheer incompetence or (most likely) submitting them would reveal the fraud or the return would had to have been falsified in such a manner in order to hide this stuff, which itself is fraud. Since these tax returns are a matter of public record, apparently that wasn't an option, either; he's fucked no matter what.
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I think everybody is missing the real story here. The salient tale is not about tax returns or fraud. No, the proverbial takeaway is that this imbecile changed his name TO Sir Maejor and this country is so safe and abundant that he was actually walking around without a keeper.
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According to the station, months earlier Page had parted ways with the Black Lives Matter of Atlanta movement before forming Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta.
SPLITTER!
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But others who claim to carry the Black Lives Matter mantle denounce him as a fraud, a violent homophobe and a con-artist who started his own group Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta after he was bounced out of the city’s official chapter.
“Who is he and why does he keep showing up at protests?” asked Dawn O’Neal a leader in the Black Lives Matter and in Rise Up Georgia, a group that does a lot of work around mental health. “How is he in a meeting with the mayor when the people who set it up were not allowed in? He is a dangerous person with violent tendencies, who seeks out the press and follows the work that we have been doing and gets in front of the camera. Enough is enough.”
[Free Beacon] Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D., Calif.) husband, San Francisco financier Richard C. Blum, admitted to using his position as a University of California regent to boost under-qualified students' admissions chances after a state audit named him in the UC Berkeley scandal.
The audit, released Thursday, accused Blum of writing letters on behalf of applicants on multiple occasions—a practice that regents banned in 1996. The audit also found that over six years, UC Berkeley admitted 55 under-qualified students with family connections to the school.
Blum, who joined the Board of Regents in 2002, admitted to the San Francisco Chronicle that he had written many applicant recommendation letters—typically for his friends’ children. He said he didn’t know the practice was banned.
"No one ever told me it was wrong," Blum told the Chronicle. "I did it a bunch of times. Wherever they were applying. Wherever they wanted to get in." George Costanza Defense: "Was that wrong? Nobody told me"
The audit’s release comes after last year's "Varsity Blues" federal sting operation, which found that many wealthy parents, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, had paid college officials millions in bribes to boost their children's admissions chances.
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Blum, who joined the Board of Regents in 2002, admitted to the San Francisco Chronicle that he had written many applicant recommendation letters—typically for his friends’ children.
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One rule for thee, another rule for me and my cronies' spawn.
What an arrogant prick this character is. He's blatantly violating the law. Everyone knows the UC system does not even permit letters of recommendation in its application process, and this asshole literally calls his illegal behavior "much ado about nothing."
No better example of what Derbyshire calls "above the law / below the law" principle. Our permanent political class and their underachieving brats - including Chinese Communist Party whelps - are above the law. Ordinary California families whose brilliant, hardworking kids have perfect scores and grades are below the law.
For reference here's m the University of California's "Applying for Admission" page's rules and recommendations for Freshman Applicants:
LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION:
You should not submit letters of recommendation for the UC application.
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"No one ever told me it was wrong," Blum told the Chronicle. "I did it a bunch of times. Wherever they were applying. Wherever they wanted to get in."
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[Inside Sources] Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, has grown extremely rich. One could be suspicious of the $25 billion deal the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation struck with the senator’s husband’s real estate company during the housing crash of 2009. It raises an eyebrow that as chair of the Military Appropriations Subcommittee, Feinstein approved millions in contracts benefiting her husband’s firm. One may question how Blum acquired a lucrative $108 million contract to sell post offices in California.
It’s not what you know, it’s whom [sic] you know.
[NYPOST] Two Amish brothers in Missouri admitted having sex with their 12-year-old sister and getting her pregnant — but managed to avoid jail time because a prosecutor feared they’d "be eaten alive" in prison, according to a report. perhaps that would be a "learning moment"?
The abuse came to light after a doctor alerted authorities that the girl was pregnant just after she turned 13 — and she said that four of her brothers, two of them also minors, had been having sex with her, according to the Webster County Citizen.
The eldest two — Aaron Schwartz, 22, and 18-year-old brother Petie — admitted to police that they had sex with her at least half a dozen times each at home in Seymour, starting when she was only 12, officials told the paper.
The sister ended up giving birth just two weeks ago — and "one of the brothers is the father of this child," Webster County Prosecutor Ben Berkstresser told the paper.
The brothers were initially both charged with six counts of statutory rape and one count of incest. But those charges were reduced to third-degree child molestation, a Class C felony, the paper said.
They then reached a plea deal last week for 15 years in prison — but suspended to keep them out of jail, the paper said.
The prosecutor insisted it was a "different relationship" than if a "parent in a position of authority sexually abused or exploited their child," and said the convicts were "very immature."
"These two young men would’ve been eaten alive in the state prison system," Berkstresser told the paper in defending his decision.
He also told the paper that the Amish community "had punished all four of the boys" and "made it clear that this punishment was very severe."
"All of them had sexual relations with their sister," the prosecutor said of the four brothers. "There is no question this occurred," he said. It was not immediately clear if any action was taken against the two brothers who are minors, and it was not clear how old they are.
The convicted brothers must complete the Missouri Sex Offender Treatment Program as well as 100 hours of community service — and write a letter as part of their punishment, the report said.
"Both young men must write a letter to me, explaining how they are going to protect their children from this happening to them," Berkstresser said. "They have 30 days to get this letter to me."
The prosecutor accepted that his decision would likely receive harsh backlash. "Previously, I’ve been very harsh on the Amish when they’ve been charged with crimes of this nature," he insisted to the paper.
He said the brothers "will go to prison" if they do not complete a sex offender treatment program within a year.
"This won’t be easy for either of them to do, but I’ll assure you they will face the consequences if the program isn’t completed," the prosecutor said. "And that consequence will be prison."
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As a child, Sadie* was carefully shielded from outside influences, never allowed to watch TV or listen to pop music or get her learner’s permit. Instead, she attended a one-room Amish schoolhouse and rode a horse and buggy to church—a life designed to be humble and disciplined and godly.
KEY FINDINGS
In Amish communities across the US, Amish church leaders have covered-up child sexual abuse, discouraging and intimidating victims from going to the authorities in favor of dealing with abuse internally.
When abuse is exposed, Amish church leaders often “sentence” an abuser up to six weeks of shunning. After the church disciplines the abuser, he makes a confession and everyone, including the victims, are compelled to forgive and forget the “sin” ever happened.
We identified 52 cases of Amish child sexual assault in 7 states over the past two decades, but this is likely the tip of the iceberg.
By age 9, she says, she’d been raped by one of her older brothers. By 12, she’d been abused by her father, Abner*, a chiropractor who penetrated her with his fingers on the same table where he saw patients, telling her he was “flipping her uterus” to ensure her fertility. By 14, she says, three more brothers had raped her and she was being attacked in the hayloft or in her own bed multiple times a week. She would roll over afterward, ashamed and confused. The sisters who shared Sadie’s room (and even her bed) never woke up—or if they did, never said anything, although some later confided that they were being raped too.
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This kind of thing is a problem for small, insular communities of all sorts. With no escape, people put up with and paper over all sorts of dreadful behaviours.
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The inclination when you see nasty stories like this is to demand tougher penalties and less judicial discretion. Which is fine. But keep in mind the alternatives have their downsides as well. Minimum sentences give prosecutors a huge amount of leverage to force plea bargains in weak cases. See Slivergate's book, Three Felonies a Day.
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Some people just have more time on their hands. BTW, you disarm the populous and remove any doubts in the perps minds about their safety in ripping people off. Not to mention not even bothering to arrest and jail people who only steal below a certain dollar level.
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Junkies gotta get money for drugs somehow and they can't hold a job so this is the way they do it. Take note all of you who advocate legalizing it. This is how California's experiment with legalization is going.
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[Simpson] 7.5x55; 95% blue, very good bore, very good stock, 25.65'' barrel, Manufactured in 1954. It has a muzzle cap. The barrel receiver bolt all have matching numbers. The magazine is a mismatch. The front sight is a drift adjustable winged blade and the rear is a tangent-leaf graduated to 1500 meters. The metal finish is very good with slight edge wear on the front sights wings. The top of the chamber has a SWISS CROSS inside of a shield, and the S/N 227405 on the left side of the receiver. The walnut stock is in very good condition with an average number of handling marks. It has a SWISS CROSS inside of a shield on the right side of the buttstock. It has a brown leather sling. Import marked., s/n 2274xx
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Stories describing purchasers contacting former Swiss soldiers who were issued this rifle are legendary. Removing the butt plate oftentimes reveals a small slip of paper with the soldier's name and village of residence.
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Piers Corbyn, brother of former Labour leader Jeremy, and conspiracy theorist David Icke are in attendance
David Vaughan Icke (/ˈdeɪvɪd vɔːn aɪk/; born 29 April 1952) is an English conspiracy theorist,[1][3][4][5] and a former footballer and sports broadcaster.[6] Icke has written more than 20 books and has lectured in over 25 countries.[7]:75[8]:121
In 1990, while spokesman for the Green Party, he visited a psychic who he said told him he had been placed on earth for a purpose and would begin to receive messages from the spirit world
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Piers Corbyn - Conspiracy theorist or conspiracy analyst? Although apples & oranges vis-a-vis COVID-19, he's also a top-notch astrophysicist and opponent of the climate change/global warming rubbish.
Sooooo typical he's labelled as a conspiracy theorist.
[Spiegel (from Nov-2019)] The story of Sergei Magnitsky has come to symbolize the brutal persecution of whistleblowers in Russia. Ten years after his death, inconsistencies in Magnitsky's story suggest he may not have been the hero many people -- and Western governments -- believed him to be.
There's a tombstone in northeastern Moscow that bears the portrait of a man with a friendly yet somewhat uneasy smile. His name is Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky. He was born in April 1972 in Odessa, Ukraine, and died in November 2009 in Moscow. To this day, 10 years after the fact, the circumstances of his death in a Russian pretrial detention facility remain unclear.
There are two versions of what happened to Magnitsky. The more well-known version has all the makings of a conspiracy thriller. It's been repeated in thousands of articles, TV interviews and in parliamentary hearings. In this version of the story, the man from the Moscow cemetery fought nobly against a corrupt system and was murdered for it.
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There are also some accounts of involvement with Browder (a buddy of John Mccain, naturally) by Robert Maxwell (RIP), Ghislaine's papa, and Edmund Safra (RIP).
[Korea Times] A reservoir dam near North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex has been breached, a U.S. think tank has said, citing recent satellite imagery.
The reduced water level has left the two pump houses servicing the reactors "high and dry," with the water level above the dam down significantly and the intake cisterns exposed, said 38 North, which specializes in North Korea.
"The inability to maintain a stable reservoir level ... poses a potential problem for continuous reactor operations" if the 5-megawatt nuclear reactor is restarted or the Experimental Light Water Reactor is brought online, 38 North said, citing satellite imagery of Yongbyon complex on Sept. 21.
The complex is home to the 5-megawatt nuclear reactor that was the source of weapons-grade plutonium for North Korea. Pyongyang can harvest one nuclear bomb worth of plutonium by reprocessing spent fuel rods from the reactor.
The U.S. website said there are no observable indications that the 5-megawatt nuclear reactor is operating or that the Experimental Light Water Reactor has been started. (Yonhap)
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Global warming? Chinese virus (bio or virtual)? NORK maintanence (akin to Mohammedan maintainence?)
Today, it was my great honor to nominate one of our nation’s most brilliant and gifted legal minds to the Supreme Court. She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials, and unyielding loyalty to the Constitution: Judge Amy Coney Barrett... pic.twitter.com/l2yezt2UOi
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A solid pick. Unusually remarkable, even by SCT standards. It's also refreshing to see a nominee who did not attend Yale or Harvard law. I'm most excited about the potential impact on 2A jurisprudence.
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If she is in the same vein as her mentor, Scalia, then it is a superb nomination.
I have to almost up-chuck when I read that, if she is confirmed, that the SCOTUS will be "6-3" for "conservatives". That the turncoat Roberts is included as part of the six is an absolute joke.
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I have to almost up-chuck when I read that, if she is confirmed, that the SCOTUS will be "6-3" for "conservatives". That the turncoat Roberts is included as part of the six is an absolute joke.
I think this will be a positive change for Roberts. No one wants to marginalize themselves. Voting with the losing liberal block would do this. So when his vote can no longer swing an outcome, he'll come back to the fold. That at least has him writing majority opinions instead of dissents.
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There's long been suspicion that the left "has something" on Roberts. Should Trump win re-election and the GOP holds the Senate, look for somebody to need that alleged bargaining chip for an entirely different reason, like staying out of jail or worse...
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In assuming the role of swing vote / power broker, Roberts has abandoned any kind of leadership role. He’ll never regain that. He’s just another vote. It’s a lost opportunity for him. He won’t leave much of a mark. Just a handful of bad decisions. Others will lead intellectually. In the end he’ll be bitter and broken. Probably retire early during a Democratic administration. And good riddance too.
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Interesting thought about the Left "having something" on Roberts. That sounds quite plausible. But he is such a turd, I hope the Trump Administration can dig this up and force him out/make him "resign". I can't remember, but I sure do not remember his confirmation hearings being contentious (despite the fact no matter how bad it may have been, it would never compare to today's madness).
[PJ] On Saturday, in the throes of America’s turbulent 2020 election, thousands of Christians gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for the inaugural National Day of Prayer and Return, a calling to repentance and prayer for healing.
Dueling rallies and worship services on either side of the Washington Monument attracted crowds of thousands. Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham held one rally with Vice President Mike Pence in front of the Lincoln Memorial Saturday afternoon, while Jonathan Chan and Kevin Jessup held "The Return" rally starting Friday night and continuing throughout Saturday in front of the U.S. Capitol building.
The rallies focused on a theme of repentance and prayer, rejecting sin and returning to God in turbulent times. Pence paraphrased 2 Chronicles 7:14, in which God promised King Solomon, "If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land."
[ScienceAlert] Passengers alighting at Helsinki Airport in Finland starting from earlier this week will have a speedier - and much fuzzier - way of getting tested for COVID-19.
A team of dogs has been deployed to fill their snoots with eau d'arriving passenger to sniff out those infected with the virus behind the current global pandemic.
If successful, the pilot scheme could help provide a more efficient method of detection that could be used in a range of scenarios.
"We are among the pioneers," said airport director Ulla Lettijeff of aviation company Finavia.
"As far as we know no other airport has attempted to use canine scent detection on such a large scale against COVID-19. We are pleased with the city of Vantaa's initiative. This might be an additional step forward on the way to beating COVID-19."
For people with allergies, or fear of dogs, there's no reason to worry. The passengers will have no direct contact with the canine COVID-19 detectives.
The test is performed from a wipe that is swiped on the passenger's skin, and placed in a cup. In a separate booth, the dog will sniff the sample. If the dog detects COVID-19, they will make a physical sign.
Why the dogs can detect the virus is not entirely clear. However, a recent French study found that dogs trained to smell the difference between armpit sweat from healthy people and those with COVID-19 could do so with 95 percent certainty.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Enhanced footage shows the Hindenburg Disaster in vivid color and high quality 80 years after 65 people died when it caught fire mid-air and crashed in New Jersey.
If it distracts them a bit from their usual plotting to take over the world in the name of the Shiite Allah...
[AlAhram] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... on Saturday authorised the country’s provinces to impose lockdowns wherever necessary to stem a rapid rise in coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... cases.
"We are forced to intensify regulations and supervisions, starting in the capital Tehran," Rouhani said in televised remarks.
He said government-run coronavirus task-force offices around the country would make recommendations on restrictions and whether to impose one-week lockdowns.
Measures could include "restrictions or shutdowns" of schools, universities, seminaries, mosques, cafeterias, sports and cultural venues, hair salons.
"If provincial governors deem it necessary, these centers will have to close for a week," Rouhani said.
Iran’s corpse count from the coronavirus rose by 172 on Saturday to 25,394, and identified cases by 3,204 to 443,086, health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told state TV.
Iran’s health officials have expressed alarm over a surge in infections, urging the country to respect health protocols to control the spread of the disease.
Iran’s health officials have expressed alarm over a surge in infections, urging the country to respect health protocols to control the spread of the disease.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Fox via WND] The FBI has arrested the founder of a Black Lives Matter group in Atlanta on fraud and money laundering charges.
A bridge to nowhere. Nothing will come of it, you'll see. 
[NYPOST] Two Amish brothers in Missouri admitted having sex with their 12-year-old sister and getting her pregnant — but managed to avoid jail time because a prosecutor feared they’d "be eaten alive" in prison, according to a report.
[Simpson] 7.5x55; 95% blue, very good bore, very good stock, 25.65'' barrel, Manufactured in 1954. It has a muzzle cap. The barrel receiver bolt all have matching numbers. The magazine is a mismatch. The front sight is a drift adjustable winged blade and the rear is a tangent-leaf graduated to 1500 meters. The metal finish is very good with slight edge wear on the front sights wings. The top of the chamber has a SWISS CROSS inside of a shield, and the S/N 227405 on the left side of the receiver. The walnut stock is in very good condition with an average number of handling marks. It has a SWISS CROSS inside of a shield on the right side of the buttstock. It has a brown leather sling. Import marked., s/n 2274xx
[PJ] On Saturday, in the throes of America’s turbulent 2020 election, thousands of Christians gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for the inaugural National Day of Prayer and Return, a calling to repentance and prayer for healing.
[ScienceAlert] Passengers alighting at Helsinki Airport in Finland starting from earlier this week will have a speedier - and much fuzzier - way of getting tested for COVID-19.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Enhanced footage shows the Hindenburg Disaster in vivid color and high quality 80 years after 65 people died when it caught fire mid-air and crashed in New Jersey.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
