[Breitbart] Former Democratic congressman Mel Reynolds says that he has "given up on America" and will move to Africa after he serves his latest prison sentence.
But Mel Reynolds was not the only one with things to say about this latest conviction for failing to file tax returns on more than $400,000 he received in consultant fees. "It’s a tragedy that you squandered the opportunities you had and the type of person you could have become," federal Judge Robert Gettleman scolded him in court.
Reynolds represented Illinois’ 2nd Congressional District from January 1993 to October 1995. That is when he was convicted of the statutory rape of a 16-year-old worker in his campaign. Later, he was also convicted of funneling money for voter registration drives into his campaign and concealing various debts.
The former congressman acted as his own defense and argued that his prior convictions should not be counted against him in the sentencing. "The question is," Reynolds asked, "how long does a person have to pay for mistakes?" He also attempted to contrast his misdeeds with his time in the military and fathering three children.
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Black guy games his people and becomes a congressman, games the system, gets caught, and blames America? I bet he did not pay a dime for his education as well. Go to Africa or where ever you want. We in America want honest law abiding citizens, not crooks like you.
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Whilst I weep at the prospect of losing such a fine public servant, he'll kick ass as Zimbabwe's next president.
[themarketswork] This post owes a debt to three sources:
@MsTrial and her March 18, 2018 Thread.
A March 25, 2018 article by the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross.
@JohnWHuber for details added in his excellent May 8, 2018 Thread.
Note: For a detailed sequencing of events see, Ties That Bind ‐ Stefan Halper, Joseph Mifsud & Alexander Downer (& Papadopoulos). Posts are complimentary.
We’ve been postulating that foreign intelligence ‐ primarily from the UK ‐ was used by CIA Director Brennan to initiate the FBI’s July 2016 Counterintelligence Investigation and push the Russia Narrative.
Thanks to the work cited above, some details regarding a very private UK Intelligence firm have surfaced.
Hakluyt is British strategic intelligence and advisory firm. It was founded by former MI6 members and retains close ties to UK Intelligence services.
In the small circular world of professional spooks, Hakluyt has ties with three unexpected individuals:
Australian diplomat Alexander Downer. Stefan Halper, a former policy advisor to Nixon, Ford and Reagan.
George Papadopoulos Alexander Downer famously met with George Papadopoulos at a London Bar in May 2016. This meeting would be used by the FBI as their excuse behind opening the July 2016 Counterintelligence Investigation.
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Brennan, the communist Muslim and the Farsi ferret ValJar, who lives with Champ in DC behind security and cyber protections of the Secret Service. This is the source of the sedition to unseat a duly elected President. YCMTSU!
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So there's no longer any point in the FBI or DOJ refusing to let Nunez and his colleagues have those documents about Halper. The cat's outta the bag.
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I suspect Mr. Halper will be pulling a Christopher Steele any day now. No one will know when he left or where he's at.
Halper may not have been the only 'source' employed by Brennan and his colleagues in the London SIS Building.
I'm still curious about Mr. Carter Page. Was he a witting, Deep State collaborator, or an unwitting target drone ?
[Townhall] I recently traveled to Texas to speak about South Africa, at the Free Speech Forum of the Texas A & M University.
To travel from the Pacific Northwest all the way to College Station, Texas, without experiencing more of the "Lone Star State" was not an option.
So, after driving from Austin eastward to College Station (where I was hosted by two exceptional young, Southern gentlemen), I headed south-west to San Antonio. There I lingered long enough to conclude:
The Republic of Texas is a civilization apart.
Ordinary Texans‐from my brief travels‐tend to be sunny, kind and warmhearted. Not once did I encounter rude on my Texas junket.
On the Pacific Coast, however, kindness and congeniality don't come naturally. Washington-State statists are generally aloof, opprobrious, insular. And, frankly, dour.
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Speaking as a fourth generation local, I can say that "a$$hole" is available if you really want some. The attitude is mostly "that wasn't called for".
It's kinda like concealed carry; keep it covered, loaded , and handy.
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Raj has it right. Boston has rude covered for the whole damn country. And there's plenty of reinforcement down to DC.
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Texans have a "code of conduct" that is not understood or by many outside the region. Actually that code is demonized by outside the region. Love your neighbor is one of them. Includes love your enemy. Words like honor, work - not only being strong enough to provide for yourself but to provide for others in need. Accountability for your wrongs is paramount. Texans know all the above bare the most fruit so like Ed in Texas alluded to, Don't mess with Texas if you don't care for it. Take 35 North back to New York.
While in San Antone enjoy the River Walk, College Station is a small town with a big University. Outside of both places deer graze right up to the edge of the road after dark. This afternoon in Austin a lot of UT students will rent a canoe for $10 and spend Sunday afternoon on Lady Bird Lake and at sunset watch millions of Mexican bats fly out from underneath Congress Avenue bridge. Lots of great Southwestern food.
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I lived in Boston for 2 years and most people were not rude, just not very open to non-Bostonians. After a few months there the people I lived near and the people I worked with were actually quite nice.
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[Ynet] Analysis: The Iranian aerial defense system created to mimic the Russian S-300 was destroyed before even being unpacked, and the Iranian officers killed in the T-4 Airbase strike were merely collateral damage; Quds Force's commander Qasem Soleimani sought to avenge the 3rd Khordad system's destruction by firing at Israeli bases near the border, prompting the large-scale Israeli retaliatory attack earlier this week.
A little over a month ago, on April 9, Israel bombed the T-4 Airbase in Syria. seven Iranians were killed in the attack, including a senior officer, but now it appears they were never the target.
The target of the strike was, in fact, the "3rd Khordad" (Khordad is the third month of the Iranian calendar‐ed) aerial defense system, an Iranian stand-in for the S-300 system Russia stalled on providing the Islamic republic.
The 3d Khordad is one of four variants of the Raad aerial defense system, equipped with Taer-2B missiles and a phased array radar.
Once the system was unloaded off of an Iranian transport plane on the Syrian T-4 base, it was destroyed before even being unpacked.
The 3rd Khordad system, developed and manufactured by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)'s military industries, was seemingly a copy of the aforementioned Russian S-300‐a system capable of intercepting not only planes but also missiles, rockets, cruise missiles and drones deep within Israeli territory.
Israel could not independently verify the new system's efficacy, but Iran's own publications spoke volumes. It was first publicized in 2014 by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iranians believed it was a tie-breaking system. Another matter attesting to its importance was the fact that senior IRGC officials stood by as it was being unpacked. Its destruction, and the subsequent deaths of Iranian officers, most likely led commander of the IRGC's elite Quds Force unit Qasem Soleimani to the decision to exact vengeance on Israel.
The aerial defense system seems to have been brought to the region by the Iranians after a different failure of theirs‐the Israeli interception of an explosive drone in early February.
The drone was sent out, in fact, as an operational test for a device created using reverse engineering‐imitating an American stealth drone that was downed in Iranian territory.
After that interception, Israel destroyed the control trailer in the T-4 base from which the drone was launched. This, in turn, made the Iranians realize their dire need of an aerial defense system of their own to protect them from both the aircraft and missiles Israel was using to bombard their Syria installations.
Israel thus decided to take the 3rd Khordad system off the table before the Iranians ever had a chance of testing it, just as they failed in their stealth drone test earlier this year.
According to an Iranian publication from 2014, the system was developed over the course of 18 months and could track any aerial target at a range of up to 50 kilometers.
It could also monitor and intercept fighter jets, they claimed, as well as bombers and cruise missiles at an altitude of up to 25 kilometers. IRGC said the system was comparable to the Russian S-300, and added its effective range will be increased to 100km and then to 200km.
It was not the only weapons system destroyed recently, however, going back to before Iran's shooting at the Israeli border and Israel's harsh response.
The Uragan system‐a launch vessels bearing 16 especially massive Katyusha missiles with a 220 millimeter diameter‐was targeted Monday night. That system had a range of 40km with a warhead of 70 to 100 kilograms.
A similar system was destroyed in Syria's al-Kiswah the following night, along with its launcher and missiles. That particular system was the one Soleimani planned to use to avenge the destruction of the Khordad system's destruction, making the Israeli strike preemptory.
Another launch vehicle was destroyed Wednesday evening, but only after firing either a Fajr of Grad rocket at IDF bases near the border.
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Are the Iranians really able to just 'copy' an advanced Russian system?
Or is "3rd Khordad" just a disguise of the Russian system that enables the Russians to deliver their weapons to various nefarious actors while maintaining more or less plausible deniability?
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Or is "3rd Khordad" just a disguise of the Russian system that enables the Russians to deliver their weapons to various nefarious actors while maintaining more or less plausible deniability?
You gotta admit, that sounds very Russian.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
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Cyrillic Farsi instructions?
Posted by: Frank G ||
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(1) Russians would like to keep Iranian oil off the market to keep the price high. (2) Helps Russian sales to have deniability that this was not an actual Russian product but a cheap Persian knock-off. I wouldn't put it past them to have helped Israel a bit.
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
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[Breitbart] Former Democratic congressman Mel Reynolds says that he has "given up on America" and will move to Africa after he serves his latest prison sentence.
