[PJMedia] Letitia James famously campaigned for the office of New York Attorney General on a platform of sticking it to Orange Man Bad. New York being what it is these days, the TDS attack dog won the election and became the Historic™ first black female NY AG, if you care about such things. And now, it looks like she may also have the distinction of becoming the first black female NY AG to earn herself fraud charges.
As you may recall, James filed a civil lawsuit against Donald Trump in 2023, when he was between presidencies. She accused Trump and his family business of engaging in financial fraud to secure favorable loans and insurance terms. She claimed they did this by inflating the value of their real estate assets (as if lending institutions don't send their own assessors to check on the collateral before handing out massive loans, but I digress). James won a ludicrous ruling against Trump to the tune of approximately $455 million.
This judgment is currently under appeal and widely expected to be overturned by the court. But wouldn't it be funny if Tish James were the one who committed real estate fraud to obtain better loan terms?
A word about my source for what you are about to read: Sam E. Antar was one of the biggest fraudsters of the 1980s. In his role as CFO of the ubiquitous Brooklyn, N.Y.-based electronics chain Crazy Eddie, Antar was convicted of multiple federal fraud-based felonies in 1991, although he scored a plea deal that kept him out of prison.
Antar now describes himself as "a former certified public accountant whose career trajectory took a remarkable turn from perpetrator to investigator of financial fraud." According to his website, White Collar Fraud, "Following his criminal conviction, Antar redirected his expertise toward forensic accounting, leveraging his firsthand knowledge of financial fraud to help combat white-collar crime."
Antar has unearthed an interesting document bearing the signature of the heroine of our story, Tish James. It's a Specific Power of Attorney she signed for her relative, Shamice Thompson-Hairston, to be able to complete a real estate purchase on her behalf. The property in question is a modest residence in Norfolk, Va., which the two women purchased jointly. But the potential legal problem for James is a claim she made on the POA she signed on Aug. 17, 2023:
"I intend to occupy this property as my principal residence," swore James. But did she? Since she went on to conduct her infamous fraud suit against Donald Trump two months later, it seems highly unlikely. But if she didn't move to Virginia, that would mean she fraudulently signed the document.
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Interesting the frequency of (LSD's) accusing others of doing bad things. Only to later find out they are the ones that need to get their own house in legal order.
ONCE AGAIN - The Same Old Question heard a 100x's a week. Will we ever see them brought to trial?
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Somewhere in that convoluted story of very wealthy,influential,political heavy-weight clients, and their private appetites and choices, there is a thread that leads back into blackmail and an allied intelligence agency whose name might begin with "M".
[ZeroHedge] Two states and the largest cities within them had nearly opposite reactions after President Trump reiterated his plans to withhold all federal funds from areas in the country that have policies limiting local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Illinois went on offense, while California opted to tread lightly.
Trump, who has repeatedly promised to conduct the largest mass deportation of illegal immigrants in U.S. history, on Thursday pledged to put an end to these states’ and localities’ “sanctuary policies.”
“No more Sanctuary Cities! They protect the Criminals, not the Victims. They are disgracing our Country, and are being mocked all over the World,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
“Working on papers to withhold all Federal Funding for any City or State that allows these Death Traps to exist!!!” he added.
That same day, the GOP-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee called on Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to testify on Capitol Hill about the state’s sanctuary policies, along with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
“Harboring aliens is a federal crime. Sanctuary policies championed by these governors jeopardize the safety of Americans and defy U.S. immigration laws,” Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican who chairs the panel, said in an X.com post.
Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson immediately pushed back. In 2021, Pritzker signed a bill into law that expanded the state’s existing sanctuary law, known as the TRUST Act.
“Let’s call this what this is: another partisan dog and pony show,” a Pritzker spokesman said. “Illinois’ Trust Act – which was signed into law by a Republican – is fully compliant with federal law and ensures law enforcement can focus on doing their actual jobs while empowering all members of the public – regardless of immigration status – to feel comfortable calling law enforcement to seek help, report crimes, and cooperate in investigations.”
The spokesman said the governor is evaluating whether he should take the time to “educate the House GOP on these matters.”
A spokesman for Johnson pledged that the mayor’s administration would “vigorously defend Chicagoans from any unconstitutional or unlawful attempts to strip residents of the funding they are entitled to.”
The city is set to receive $3.5 billion in federal grants this year, as well as $1.97 billion to subsidize the CTA’s Red Line Extension Project bus and subway project.
“The Department of Law will continue to assess any correspondence from the Trump administration that may impact Chicagoans in any way,” the spokesman added.
Trump has leveraged federal dollars for universities and law firms to produce policy changes, but it’s unclear whether he’ll prevail over state and local governments on immigration policy. A similar attempt to use an executive order to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities was blocked in court during Trump’s first term.
While city and state attorneys general across the country ready their legal challenges, Trump’s Justice Department has already asked a federal judge to strike down sanctuary policies in Chicago.
More than 1,700 miles away, California leaders reacted to Trump’s latest shot across the bow with silence. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who is facing a recall over her mishandling of the most deadly and destructive wildfires in the city’s history, on Thursday remained focused on wildfire rebuilding. She spent the day announcing a new partnership to rebuild a Palisades Recreation Center alongside Lakers Coach JJ Redick and her onetime political foe, Rick Caruso.
As Bass struggles to maintain her hold on power, the city is also facing budget woes. The deadly wildfires that ripped through Los Angeles erupted as city officials were struggling to close a $600 million budget gap. This month, the deficit was updated to nearly $1 billion.
Bass’ silence was particularly notable after her vocal support for sanctuary policies following Trump’s victory last fall. In November, Bass pushed for a City Council vote that formally designated Los Angeles as a sanctuary city even though the state already had the sanctuary protections in place for illegal immigrants charged with crimes.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom also remained mum on the topic Thursday. His office didn’t respond to RealClearPolitics’ request for comment on Trump’s threat to withhold federal funds, and his California governor X.com account reminded LA residents about an April 15 deadline for a free debris removal program and touted a “Cutting Green-Tape program” aimed at expediting environmental restoration programs.
Meanwhile, Trump installed California Assemblyman Bill Essayli earlier this month as the new U.S. attorney for the Central District of California. The office is the largest U.S. attorney’s office outside the nation’s capital, with 250 attorneys at his disposal covering a wide swath of Southern and Central California.
Within days of assuming the post, Essayli, 39, launched an investigation into fraud and corruption in Los Angeles’ homeless programs after an audit found $2 billion unaccounted for in the county. He also pledged that one of his top priorities will be “prosecuting violent criminal illegal immigrants and those that aid and support them.”
“The days of sanctuary protections for criminals are over in California,” he pledged.
[JTN] Trump's first attempt at declassifying Crossfire Hurricane documents in January 2021 was thwarted. But now, the FBI records have been released, revealing in part new details on the FBI's problematic Trump-Russia probe.
Newly-declassified FBI documents shine new light on the FBI’s mishandling of its relationship with anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, on the FBI’s double standards on defensive briefings given to Trump and Hillary Clinton, and other key elements of the debunked collusion saga.
Just the News already revealed on Thursday that declassified documents show that Stefan Halper, a key FBI informant in the widely-debunked Russia collusion case, was paid nearly $1.2 million over three decades and was motivated in part by "monetary compensation" — and that he continued snitching for the bureau even after agents concluded he told them an inaccurate story about future Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn.
And Just the News also revealed on Friday that the newly-released documents showed that then-NSA director Mike Rogers shot down a Pultizer Prize award-winning Washington Post article about the baseless Russian collusion investigation.
And a new review of hundreds of pages of declassified documents provides new information about the politicized Russiagate scandal — although significant redactions still remain.
This week, FBI Director Kash Patel transmitted to Congress hundreds of pages of declassified documents from the bureau’s "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation related to false claims about Trump-Russia collusion, following a declassification executive order from President Donald Trump last month. Just the News made all 700 pages from the declassified binder available to the public on Thursday.
An investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller “did not establish” any criminal Trump-Russia collusion. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz found huge flaws with the FBI’s investigation, criticizing the“central and essential” role of the dossier in the FBI’s politicized surveillance of former Trump campaign associate Carter Page. Special counsel John Durham’s report concluded that “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
ADMIRAL MIKE ROGERS AND THE STEELE DOSSIER
Admiral Mike Rogers, who retired in 2018 after four years as National Security Agency chief and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, previously expressed a certain level of skepticism about the U.S. intelligence community’s 2017 assessment of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election — and a newly declassified interview Rogers gave to the FBI later in 2017 shines light on the dim view Rogers had of British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier.
“ADM Rogers decided that he would make the final analytic call on the NSA’s input to the ICA as he knew there would be a lot of pressure and attention on the final draft and he felt strongly his career analysts shouldn’t have to be responsible for something under such political pressure. In one draft of the ICA, ADM Rogers noted the contents of the ‘Steele dossier’ in the body of the product, which he did not recall seeing in previous drafts,” FBI notes dated June 17, 2017 state.
“In early January, the four principals met and ADM Rogers told the group he was unclear why the ICA needed to focus on the dossier as it was considered largely uncorroborated. Comey responded that the information was relevant and ADM Rogers suggested the information be included in an annex or appendix rather than prominently in the nearly one-page summary he had seen.”
Rogers and Comey, along with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan, briefed President-elect Trump about their election meddling findings at Trump Tower in January 2017. Comey stayed behind to tell Trump about some of the dossier’s more salacious allegations.
Steele told the FBI in October 2017 that he was “frustrated” by his dossier’s inclusion in an annex to the ICA. The FBI agent who recounted the interview with Steele wrote, “They brought up the inclusion of their material in the ICA annex multiple times – almost to the point that it felt like fishing for information about how the ICA was constructed. In the end, I made the point that I wasn’t going to get into how the ICA was put together, how the annex came about, etc.”
The Steele dossier annexed to the ICA was largely declassified in 2020, and it relayed some of Steele’s baseless collusion claims: “The most politically-sensitive claims by the FBI source [Steele] alleged a close relationship between the President-elect and the Kremlin. The source also claimed that the President-elect and his top campaign advisers knowingly worked with Russian officials to bolster his chances of beating Secretary Clinton; were fully knowledgeable of Russia’s direction of leaked Democratic emails; and were offered financial compensation from Moscow.”
VARYING ASSESSMENTS FROM INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
The 2017 intelligence assessment concluded with “high confidence” that Russia worked to “undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate former Secretary of State Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency” and “developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.” The NSA diverged on one aspect, expressing only “moderate confidence” that Putin actively tried to help Trump’s election chances and harm those of Clinton.
“I wouldn’t call it a discrepancy. I’d call it an honest difference of opinion between three different organizations,” Rogers told the Senate in 2017. “It didn’t have the same level of sourcing and the same level of multiple sources.”
A 2018 report from the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee concluded that “the majority of the Intelligence Community Assessment judgments on Russia’s election activities employed proper analytic tradecraft” but found the “judgments on Putin’s strategic intentions did not.”
[PJMedia] FBI whistleblower Steve Friend, who exposed the corruption and bias in the agency’s Jan. 6 investigation, spoke out on the promotion of one of the officials responsible for that corruption in exclusive comments to PJ Media.
Many Jan. 6 protestors were not only arrested and tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! but subject to rigged trials, long periods of solitary confinement, months or years of prison without trial, let alone conviction, and even physical abuse. The FBI was a major part of that persecution, and yet Steven Jensen, its self-described J6 architect, was just promoted to head the Washington Field Office.
Jensen even bragged to Congress about his key role in orchestrating what we now know was a politically charged and highly biased campaign against Jan. 6 protestors, most of whom were peaceful and all of whom were treated as guilty even if proven innocent. Jensen also reportedly oversaw the FBI spying upon parents who attended school board meetings and traditional Catholics.
Friend explained, "Steven Jensen described himself to Congress as the architect of the FBI’s weaponized response to January 6th. His promotion to lead the Washington Field Office is like putting a fox in charge of the henhouse." He added, "If personnel is policy, the FBI is on a troubling path."
Friend, who is now a podcaster and best-selling author, lost his FBI job and found himself the target of outrageous federal persecution after he respectfully challenged his superiors on the unconstitutional, illegal, rigged campaign against Jan. 6-ers. Thus, he saw from the inside how disturbing Jensen and co.’s actions were. Friend’s fellow FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin noted that Jensen was exposed as a "2021 January 6th hysteric" in congressional testimony. "Jensen was the Section Chief of the Domestic Terrorism Operations Section which fixated on J6 and ran 2x DAILY calls about J6 to cops across the country," Seraphin declared. This is a major personnel failure for FBI Director Kash Patel.
Miranda Devine at the New York Post reported:
George Hill, a former FBI supervisory intelligence analyst, says Jensen was “the most ardent and supercharged person when it came to rounding up” J6 defendants and a true believer in Joe Biden’s domestic terrorism narrative that the riot was the worst attack on democracy since Pearl Harbor and that every Trump supporter in and around the Capitol that day was an insurrectionist, a white supremacist and probably violent.
He testified to the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government in 2023 about a conference call in which he allegedly heard Jensen berating agents in Philadelphia who were “pushing back” on demands to “round up” J6 suspects...
"In a phone interview with The Post this week, Hill said he testified against Jensen because 'I was just horrified at the breathless manner at which he was doing this J6 roundup of so-called domestic terrorists.'"
Friend told PJ Media after Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of all J6 prisoners, “Blanket pardons are the correct decision. Regardless of the fact pattern for any particular J6 case, the federal government made a deliberate decision to depart from its obligation to follow due process. When that happens, the justice system in a free country has no alternative but to consider cases irrevocably tainted and every defendant must go free.”
[NYPOST] New York's Parole Board is a patronage mill stuffed with leftist ideologues and political has-beens who each rake in an astounding $190,000 yearly — including at least one member who married a cold-blooded killer.
A Post examination of the 16 members — whose salaries have skyrocketed 87% since 2019, even as they freed 43 cop killers in the past eight years — is almost as disturbing as their pro-criminal decisions.
Heading the list is Tana Agostini.
She used her clout as a staffer of the state Assembly committee overseeing prisons in 2013 to engineer the parole of Thomas O'Sullivan — whose three-decade prison stint for the hired 1982 murder of a Queens drug pusher included an escape and biting off part of an inmate's nose.
Agostini fell in love with and married O'Sullivan while he was in prison and successfully pressed the Parole Board to free her husband.
In 2017, then-Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo tapped Agostini to serve on the board.
She’s among 11 Democratic cronies the NYC mayoral frontrunner appointed or re-appointed to the panel.
All are still serving as holdovers — some under terms that expired more than five years ago.
The current board is also filled with former lefty state legislators, Legal Aid Society lawyers, public defenders and other longtime prisoner-rights advocates.
A handful of ex-parole and probation officers and former prosecutors round out the group.
Cuomo “stacked the parole board with his leftist friends who have no appreciation for the sacrifice our police make, and it is just horrific and inexcusable that his board has released 43 convicted cop killers,” former Gov. George Pataki told The Post.
The Republican called Cuomo’s appointees another example of his “abject failure as governor to understand the impact of violent crime,” which also includes Cuomo signing controversial bail reform into law in 2019 widely blamed for New York’s rising recidivism rates.
“It’s hard for me to believe that anyone who cares about public safety or protecting the police who risk their lives for our safety could have allowed this to happen — but Andrew Cuomo certainly did,” Pataki said.
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This is another iteration of "Water is wet". Its New York. Of course its corrupt. The people who live there keep voting for this.
32 steps from now, Trump or Vance should decree that no Federal funding will be provided to states that don't meet certain "truth in funding" standards.
[Breitbart] In the latest act of immigration-related lawfare against the Trump administration, a federal judge blocked the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants with temporary protected status (TPS) after it was revoked.
As Breitbart News reported in March, the Trump administration removed the legal status of more than 500,000 migrants who entered the U.S. through a Biden administration parole program, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warning impacted migrants that they will have 30 days to self-deport before law enforcement authorities go searching for them.
“DHS has determined that a 30-day wind-down period provides affected parties sufficient notice while also preserving DHS’s ability to enforce the law promptly against those CHNV parolees lacking a lawful basis to remain in the United States,” the notice reads. “Accordingly, DHS is opting not to increase the wind-down period to more than 30 days.”
Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of the District of Massachusetts ruled Thursday that she would issue a stay on the order, which was set to cancel the TPS for approximately 532,000 migrants on April 24, the Associated Press reported.
“The nub of the problem here is that the secretary, in cutting short the parole period afforded to these individuals, has to have a reasoned decision,” Talwani said, arguing that the justification for ending the parole program was “based on an incorrect reading of the law.”
“There was a deal and now that deal has been undercut,” she added later in the hearing.
While the ruling is “significant,” the AP noted that it could be just a “temporary setback” for the Trump administration as they work to undo former President Joe Biden’s open-border policies.
The judge just stops the administration from enforcing it, not the illegals from choosing to quietly leave.
In a not-so-shocking twist, Talwani also happens to be the judge who ruled in June 2023 that a 12-year-old Massachusetts boy could not wear a shirt stating “THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS” to school, concluding that it infringed on other students’ “rights to be ‘secure and to be let alone’ during the school day.”
[JustTheNews] Construction began without fanfare on a massive New York offshore wind project that will consist of nearly 150 turbines spanning 80,000 acres of ocean, each standing more than 1,000 feet tall. Opponents hope the Trump administration will take a closer look at this and other projects under construction.
Upon taking office, President Donald Trump issued a temporary withdrawal of all areas of the nation’s coasts for offshore wind leasing. Dozens of community groups had formed in opposition to offshore wind development during the Biden-Harris administration, concerned about the impacts on marine wildlife, the view shed and electricity rates, among other things. Though many of the activists were located in blue states and not Trump supporters, they were hopeful the Trump administration would be more responsive to their concerns.
Amy DiSibio, board member for Nantucket-based ACK For Whales, told Just the News that not everyone grasped the executive order’s limitations. "It was pretty clear what it could and couldn't do. And I think a lot of the public got all excited that it's all over,” DiSibio said.
The limitations of Trump’s moratorium became apparent recently when construction began on Empire Wind. The first phase will erect 54 turbines, each nearly 1,000-feet high, 30 miles off the south coast of Long Island, New York. When both phases are complete, the project will have nearly 150 turbines spanning across 80,000 acres of the Atlantic Ocean.
QUIET OPERATION
The developer, Norway-based Equinor, didn’t hold any ribbon-cutting ceremonies with photo opportunities for politicians from New York and New Jersey holding shovels, nor was there even a press release announcing that construction on Empire Wind was beginning.
When Vineyard Wind off the coast of Nantucket began construction and when it began delivering power, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey issued a press release, and the legacy media provided favorable coverage. The public only became aware that the initial stages of Empire’s construction had started because of an email sent over a mariner group list on March 24 stating that rock installation was beginning on the Empire Wind 1 lease area.
Trump’s moratorium orders a review of “the ecological, economic, and environmental necessity of terminating or amending any existing wind energy leases, identifying any legal bases for such removal, and submit a report with recommendations to the President.” The order does not impact existing leases in the withdrawn areas, meaning that projects that have been permitted will not be paused. Besides Empire, that includes Vineyard Wind off the coast of Nantucket and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia — both of which are still under construction.
UNDERWATER NOISE
Writing in The New York Post, Bonnie Brady, executive director of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association, explains that Equinor is dumping thousands of tons of rock, which protects the installation from ocean currents. This will be followed, Brady explained, by the driving of 180-foot monopiles into the seabed floor.
“The tremendous underwater noise and vibration will harm all marine life, especially endangered species like the North Atlantic right whale,” Brady warns. The commercial fishing industry is also among the opponents of offshore wind development. The Texas Public Policy Foundation is suing the Department of Interior on behalf of six commercial fishing companies that say their livelihoods will be decimated by Vineyard Wind.
Their lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2021, argues in 33 separate claims under various laws that the approval of the project violated federal law by ignoring multiple legal protections for impacted stakeholders, including conducting environmental assessments and allowing for timely public comment.
The district court deferred to the Biden administration’s interpretation of federal law in permitting the project, and the companies filed a petition with the Supreme Court. The petition argues that following the ruling in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, which overturned the doctrine of "Chevron deference," and said the lower court shouldn’t have deferred to the federal agency’s interpretation of the law.
[PJMedia] Former Jan. 6 prisoner Jake Lang, having survived years in jail without trial and much of it in solitary confinement, is now running for Senate in Florida.
Lang declared in exclusive comments to PJ Media that his Senate run is part of "the beginning of a new era of politics that Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... started," as he was also an "outlier, being the one who broke through the political mold as a political outsider, and paving the way for the next generation of American patriots, and not your typical political candidates, to run."
Such candidates, Lang emphasized, "have been through persecution like myself and President Trump, that have had our own government turn against us to try to destroy us, the Deep State apparatchiks." The American people, Lang said, are tired of the "establishment, Uniparty hacks that the GOP has put forth for decades and decades that have worked hand in hand with the 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... to nearly destroy our country. And people want to see ... drastic, revolutionary change, which is what the MAGA movement is about."
The Jan. 6 protestors originally meant their protest at the Capitol, which was not intended to be violent mostly peaceful, as "a cry out for change." Lang believes his four years in abusive prison conditions prepared him to run for office, and "poignantly marks that change in America, and I can't wait to be a part of this new golden era that Donald Trump had proclaimed during the State of the Union address." He hopes other Jan. 6ers will "answer the call to public service and to change this country."
Lang and I also discussed parallels between "the weaponization of our government" under the Biden administration that threatened our constitutional republic and the sentencing of popular right-leaning leader Marine Le Pen in La Belle France. Donald Trump narrowly escaped being "incarcerated for the rest of his life, along with myself and many of his supporters, not just Jan. 6ers, but other people they would have dragged into [it], including" Trump’s co-defendants. This "political persecution that almost marred America and made us like the third world banana republics," nearly turned us into "the despotic regimes that we see all across the world that try to silence and persecute political adversaries," Lang argued.
Lang reflected on his time in "prison for four years and six days, two and a half years, of solitary confinement, just five miles away from the United States Capitol in the DC jail. That was a blemish ... on the American way of life and our justice system." Thus, his campaign promise is "to end the era of political persecution, to re-establish the rule of law that is non-selective, non-prejudicial, non-biased, but even and equally applied and fairly applied across the board."
He slammed RINOs such as Mitch McConnell and John Thune, who have spent too long collecting a paycheck while not fulfilling their promises to voters. Some Republican senators have even at different points promoted "woke nonsense that villainizes Donald Trump and his supporters," while weaseling out on condemning "violent mostly peacefulgunnies on the Black Lives Matter and the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... and the Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... movements."
Strong senators are needed, Lang told me, to fight the "Marxist cultural shifts that they've tried to push upon us, including the [Covid] vaccine, the transgenderism, the increas[ing] prostrating before the raci[st] elements of our country," which occasionally infects even the Republican Party. He vows "to back President Trump's agenda 100% and to stand by him loyally and to show fidelity and strength," unlike some senators, "as a firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... , as the new era of MAGA Republicans."
Lang sees his duty as representing the American people against the Deep State, with "patriotism and conservatism in the halls of Senate and all of Congress." In the past, the Senate has had even more RINOs than the House, unfortunately.
The arrest of Le Pen in La Belle France is "a warning" to Americans, Lang said, "if you follow along this path, this is where you will end up with the despotic government bringing down its power upon your ability to even control and pick who are your leaders. And we almost saw that in America." Fortunately, in America, the "will of the people superseded the worst contortions of the Deep State and of the demonic entities that would like to see our country destroyed," but for a while under Biden and Harris our fate hung on "a very thin thread."
[NYPOST] Kamala Harris So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong is trying to figure out her next chapter — and it might start with a think tank.
The former vice president, who lost to President Trump last fall, is weighing whether to launch an ''institute for policy and ideas,'' with longtime adviser Brian Nelson quietly reaching out to universities — including Stanford and Howard — about hosting the venture, according to multiple reports.
Harris, 60, ''jokes to friends that she is unemployed for the first time,'' the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported. But time is ticking. Aside from public service pensions, former vice presidents don't receive the same post-office funding as ex-presidents, and Harris may soon need to line up new income sources—especially after burning through campaign cash during her failed 2024 run.
The idea of starting a policy institute — a common move for former politicians — has raised eyebrows even within her own camp. Allies warn that fundraising for such a center could expose her to political headaches down the line, especially if she chooses to run for Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, governor in 2026 or take another shot at the White House in 2028. Harris has told people she sees those two paths as mutually exclusive — and must decide soon.
While she's stayed largely out of the spotlight since November, she's made a few public remarks — including a speech earlier this month warning against ''capitulating'' to Trump's use of executive power. She also addressed Democratic activists in Wisconsin by Zoom ahead of that state's Supreme Court election, but local operatives declined her offer to visit in person, fearing it could become a distraction.
[NYPOST] Smartphones, computers and other electronics will be exempt from President Trump's sweeping reciprocal tariffs, the administration announced.
In a break for consumers, the United States will not collect the new duties on about 20 products listed in guidance issued by Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency tasked with collecting tariff revenues.
This list, published late Friday night, also includes routers and semiconductor chips. Since we no longer produce such things locally and we rely on them so heavily. Expect to see production re-start here too, and in the meantime reliance switch to Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and other "ASEAN Tigers."
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...A huge number of toy and hobby items also come out of China - for instance, I build plastic models and several major manufacturers (Trumpeter, Hobby Boss, ModelCollect, VeryFire)come out of there. Their stuff is expensive to begin with and this is going to put a serious crimp in things.
As it turns out, there's not much coming out of there now that I really want, and I get almost everything from IPMS shows anyways. On the other hand, there's only one major manufacturer left here in the states (Atlantis Models) and they specialize in repops of older kits. Will be interesting to see if somebody picks up the opportunity.
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It will take a while for old factories to restart. China will leverage Belt and road to cross dock their products. Investors will will be making bets on how long the China tariffs will be in place.
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Unfortunately I only play regular chess, not 5D.
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.A huge number of toy and hobby items also come out of China
I have great regard for Tamiya Models, though they seem to stick mainly to aviation with some navy, Philippines product. Now, how they get their ingredients, I don't know.
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] In the latest act of immigration-related lawfare against the Trump administration, a federal 
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
[NYPOST] Smartphones, computers and other electronics will be exempt from President Trump's sweeping reciprocal tariffs, the administration announced.
