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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Why? Victoria Nuland Steps Down After Gateway Pundit FOIA Request
[GatewayPundit] Victoria Nuland, the architect of the disastrous US Ukraine policy since 2014, will be resigning "in the coming weeks" after Gateway Pundit filed a FOIA request to find out what her role was in the death of US journalist Gonzalo Lira in Ukraine, an outspoken Nuland critic who was subsequently arrested and tortured in Ukraine.
Strong argument why Vicky had to cut and run.
Gonzalo Lira had charged that Victoria Nuland "hates my guts" and was responsible for his arrest, and made a video in 2022 outlining Victoria Nuland’s role in Ukraine:



As Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs under the Obama Regime, Nuland was instrumental in plotting the violent overthrow of the Ukrainian government 2014 together with Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Joe Biden.

She was notoriously intercepted on a phone call with then-Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, discussing who the next ruler of the country should be after the $ 5 billion US-led coup.

On March 15, 2016, she was the first to demand that Ukraine fire Attorney General Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Hunter Biden’s corrupt company Burisma.

Nuland was also at the heart of the "Russiagate" conspiracy to stop President Donald Trump when she passed on the so-called "Steele Dossier" by former MI-6 Spy Christopher Steele to the FBI.

Nuland had met Steele during the Maidan coup in Ukraine in 2014.

"[Steele] passed two to four pages of short points of what he was finding, and our immediate reaction to that was, ’This is not in our purview,'" Nuland told CBS 2018. "’This needs to go to the FBI, if there is any concern here that one candidate or the election as a whole might be influenced by the Russian federation. That’s something for the FBI to investigate.'"

Gateway Pundit will still pursue our FOIA request to hold Nuland accountable for her role in the death of journalist Gonzalo Lira.
Posted by: Glith Ulinemp8614 || 03/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [37 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Maybe she approached her boss with a new, sure to succeed, plan for Ukraine once too often?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2  I recommend keeping a very close eye on Victoria. A very close eye indeed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2024 11:16 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Next head of UNWRA?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 11:50 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 Sobering warning B. You are spot on. Where she lands next will be telling.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/06/2024 11:57 Comments || Top||

#5  So, when people talk about defending democracy in Ukraine it's all bullshit. It should have been obvious to everybody when Zelensky cancelled elections. Now we learn that he had a journalist arrested and the journalist died in custody. It's every bit as bad as they say Putin is for Navalny's death in prison. Pot. Kettle. Black. What did that journalist learn that made Zelensky and Nuland fear him?

And the 2014 Maidan coup? How democratic was that? One of Mearshimer's YouTube videos had Nuland's conversation with Pyatt and it really was damning. Funny though, I can't find that video anymore. If someone can, I'd appreciate the link.

Nuland really is an ugly woman who has done many ugly things. She should be sent to some hermit's shack out in the desert where she can contemplate the evil she has wrought. Give her some peyote so she can converse with the Devil. But be sure to yank her security clearance and never let her back into any government facility. She certainly has no consideration for all the people who have either died or had their lives ruined in this little war of hers. She doesn't even mind the risk of a nuclear holocaust if it would further her dream of world domination.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/06/2024 12:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Nuland is not running from the Gateway Pundit. Darth is likely just redeploying. The only thing that would be an issue is the NYT disclosed secret bases. Just the one article and then the story dies.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/06/2024 12:40 Comments || Top||

#7  A finger in everything ailing Europe, and made a bunch of people Big Money, so yes promotion material before Ukraine brands her.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/06/2024 13:40 Comments || Top||

#8  "Nuland really is an ugly woman."

She wasnt always. But at some point, she sold her soul and morphed into her true self reflection.


Posted by: mossomo || 03/06/2024 13:59 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: mossomo || 03/06/2024 14:00 Comments || Top||

#10  The guy in the video says she was pretty when she was younger but she gained weight when she grew older. But it's more than the weight. Like Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, the ugly comes from inside her. It comes from her soul. It's the hate and the blind ambition that makes her ugly.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/06/2024 14:19 Comments || Top||

#11  From the old Murphy's Law Calendar (no longer published or I'd still be buying them): "Beauty is only skin deep. Ugly is clean down to the bone."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2024 14:23 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
NYPD is to bring back stop and search at subway stops says liberal Mayor Eric Adams in a bid to halt rampant violence - more than a decade after it was deemed 'unconstitutional'
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2024 06:01 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ole Adams gonna make the tubes safe again from red headed Marines.

Nice of DM to lighten the skin tone of the cellist attacker.

NYC ™
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/06/2024 11:46 Comments || Top||

#2  NYC is approaching Gotham levels of dystopia. Only an idiot would visit there.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/06/2024 12:42 Comments || Top||

#3  National Guard called into NYC to battle crime and urban warfare is not their specialty. Assume the cops "left town".
Posted by: Angealing B. Hayes4677 || 03/06/2024 14:06 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Super Tues MEGA Blood Bath for Nikki

She just ended her political career as a RINO.

What next a Party Swap?
Given most of her Campaign Donor $$$$$ is said to have come from LS&D sources? Is she so naive as to think the LS&D's were really supporting her, and not just using her against Trump?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/06/2024 07:03 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  She would have to change about 4 policies to fit right in.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/06/2024 12:43 Comments || Top||

#2  McStain believed he was loved too.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2024 12:47 Comments || Top||

#3  I read 85% of Haley's primary voters stated they would vote for Biden during Exit Polls.

If birdbrain quacks like a duck...
Posted by: mossomo || 03/06/2024 14:04 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Migrants waiting for “marching orders”
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 03/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [47 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Bad news pal - they're done marching.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/06/2024 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  More likely waiting for the roofing contractor’s van.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/06/2024 12:36 Comments || Top||

#3  My roofing contractor picked his workers up in the morning and paid them half with a check in the evening so they would show up and finish the next day. With the job done, the next day he called the bank and stopped the checks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2024 14:29 Comments || Top||

#4  5 Hispanic guys put my new roof on in a day and a half. Two Jamaican guys and one of the guy's Jamaican girlfriend put in my new central AC in half a day.

All hard working, pleasant and let nothing behind for me to clean up when they left.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2024 14:48 Comments || Top||

#5  We get bigger groups of them standing in front of the Home Depot every morning. I mean, a tool bag and a water jug, ready to go.
It's the ones that aren't rigged to work that concern me.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/06/2024 16:19 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Embattled ‘super mayor' Tiffany Henyard, accused misusing funds for lavish trips and $1M security detail, vetoes probe into her spending
[NY Post] Embattled ’super mayor’ Tiffany Henyard, accused misusing funds for lavish trips and $1M security detail, vetoes probe into her spending

Self-described "super mayor" Tiffany Henyard vetoed a resolution seeking to investigate her spending following allegations that she misused taxpayer money on lavish trips and her own $1 million police detail.

The Dolton, Illinois, village board unanimously voted to open a probe into Henyard, calling on her to submit the village’s financial records and inviting the FBI to conduct its own investigation.

Henyard, however, issued a veto on Monday, claiming the resolution was the result of personal attacks against her and stemmed from one-sided narratives.

"As you can see, our village, our community, myself, we are under attack," Henyard said at the village board meeting. "It’s a shame that people can come to meetings and just tell one side of the stories and not get the entire side of both stories."
She claimed that the village board was "a boys club" that doesn’t want women like her leading, with Henyard vowing to "fight back" against the alleged smear campaign against her.

"I’m going to always fight for what’s right, and I always stay the course. And I will be victorious when all the dust clears," she added.

During the village board meeting, the embattled mayor also admitted to a $2 million deficit, with Dolton owing more than $427,000 for street paving and another $400,000 for tree-trimming services, local WGN 9 reports.

Members of the village board, who vowed to override her veto during next month’s meeting, claimed that the deficit was millions more than Henyard’s estimates.

"The mayor can blame everybody for what’s going on, but she has to look at herself," former trustee Edward Steave said during Monday’s heated meeting.

Vivian Allen was among the residents who came out to criticize the mayor, echoing calls from the village board for her to step down to save Dolton’s finances.

"You lied to us as residents. You do not, you do not stand for me," she said. "And I want you to step down as mayor today and save our village from this deficit you have caused."

While the village has yet to formally invite the FBI to investigate Henyard, federal investigators are allegedly already in Dolton questioning the mayor’s alleged victims.

Last month, resident Lawrence Gardner, 57, told The Post he visited an FBI office after Henyard shuttered his trucking business because he refused to renew a $3,500 political contribution.

The FBI told Gardner it received scores of complaints against Henyard.

Henyard has been accused of spending taxpayer money on lavish and unnecessary trips and forking over $1 million for a police detail, then using its members to retaliate against her perceived enemies.

The former burger joint owner-turned-local politician also is known to attend meetings dressed as a movie gangster to intimidate her critics.

Henyard once channeled drug kingpin Nino Brown from the 1991 gangster movie "New Jack City" at a 2023 gathering.

"People look at politics like a joke, it’s like a mockery right now because of all this stuff," Village of Dolton Trustee Kiana Belcher told The Post. "She comes to board meetings dressed like Nino Brown."
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2024 10:38 || Comments || Link || [48 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Unanimous. So, do they have a mechanism for overriding a veto?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2024 11:58 Comments || Top||

#2  She can’t veto a state probe. She continues to draw inconvenient attention to her local with her persistent amateurish corruption. The pros will take her out soon.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/06/2024 12:47 Comments || Top||

#3  One crooked politician out of thousands caught. Must not have payed the FBI the going amount.
Posted by: Old Salty || 03/06/2024 16:16 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Too obnoxiously arrogant
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2024 20:53 Comments || Top||

#5  “Tiffany” is the only name specifically mentioned in the hot/crazy matrix.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 03/06/2024 23:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
One Republican [sic] Senator gets 8 earmarks in the omnibus today
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/06/2024 12:09 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Here's a hint: he [sic] is from the Palmetto State.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/06/2024 12:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Lindsey is the grand vizier of all dirt bags.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/06/2024 12:35 Comments || Top||


Nikki Haley Finally Decides to End Her Presidential Campaign
[PJM]

Courtesy of Skidmark:
Nikki Haley does NOT address her future in the White House race in vague statement after Super Tuesday annihilation by Trump: Republican hunkers down in South Carolina on another embarrassing night
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/06/2024 09:03 || Comments || Link || [46 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ran out of other people's money
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/06/2024 9:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Some of her biggest donors were Democrats.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/06/2024 9:59 Comments || Top||

#3  AMBO to India. Make it happen Orange Man.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2024 10:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Explains all the crappy meme hit jobs against Trump and Non-Brandon policies.

I've even seen the tired and limp trope of 'a caravan of only white people' crossing the prairie and the Native American on the hill making comment. What simple and boring minds. Must be why the left can't meme.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/06/2024 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Child like response. She cares little about the right and conservatives. Only cares about herself. Glad she lost.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/06/2024 10:46 Comments || Top||

#6  I just hope Trump is magnanimous.

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.
~ Sun Tzu


Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2024 11:08 Comments || Top||

#7  I guess she can stay in the race until the end, in the event Trump gets disqualified.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/06/2024 11:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Like Chris Christie she is not a dangerous enemy. She can return to plague the private sector on her previous grift.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/06/2024 12:50 Comments || Top||

#9  Raytheon Lowers Flags To Half-Staff After Nikki Haley Drops Out
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2024 13:55 Comments || Top||

#10  Haley calling herself a Republican is sort of like Anton LaVey saying he's an evangelical Christian.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2024 14:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Good. Now go away. You ruined your 'brand', all on your own.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/06/2024 16:13 Comments || Top||

#12  Anybody know how much remains in the campaign fund coffers?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/06/2024 17:54 Comments || Top||

#13  #4 Gimme a hit on that shit
Posted by: KBK || 03/06/2024 19:42 Comments || Top||



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  Houthis announce strike on two US destroyers in the Red Sea
Tue 2024-03-05
  Hundreds of Feral Youth Riot at Six Flags Over Georgia
Mon 2024-03-04
  Supremes Rule on Trump's Ballot Eligibility
Sun 2024-03-03
  IDF says troops operating in Khan Younis captured dozens of Hamas operatives hiding in a school
Sat 2024-03-02
  Ship attacked by Houthi rebels sinks in the Red Sea
Fri 2024-03-01
  Hamas leader Sinwar said to believe his forces are on road to victory against IDF
Thu 2024-02-29
  IDF carries out airstrikes against Hezbollah posts in southern Lebanon
Wed 2024-02-28
  Mitch McConnell Stepping Down From Leadership Position
Tue 2024-02-27
  Another 10 kilometer long terror tunnel in Gaza revealed by the IDF
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Sun 2024-02-25
  Hezbollah attacks Israeli headquarters in Kiryat Shmona
Sat 2024-02-24
  Gaza ceasefire talks underway in Paris as Israeli air strikes continue
Fri 2024-02-23
  Iran won't play role in south Lebanon reconstruction
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  Troops kill 3 gunmen, detain 14 terror suspects in overnight Jenin raid – IDF
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