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-Lurid Crime Tales-
TRUMP: ‘Barr's Weakness Helped Facilitate the Cover Up of the Crime of the Century'
[Raw Conservative Opinions] "RINO former Attorney General Bill Barr failed to investigate election fraud, and really let down the American people. Even the scam that took place in Georgia of ballot stuffing on camera, he couldn’t see what was wrong with it. Just like he failed to understand the Horowitz report and let everyone down with respect to getting a timely investigation (where’s Durham?) on all of the corruption of the Obama-Biden Administration," Trump wrote. "It’s people in authority like Bill Barr that allow the crazed Radical Left to succeed. He and other RINOs in the Republican Party are being used in order to try to convince people that the election was legitimate when so many incredible facts have now come out to show conclusively that it wasn’t."

Trump continued on to say, "he came in with a semi-bang and went out with a whimper. Earlier in his term Bill Barr went ballistic on CNN with Wolf Blitzer warning Democrats were changing election rules to flood the system with mail-in ballots that ’as a matter of logic’ are ’very open to fraud.’ They are, and Bill Barr did nothing about it."

"If there was no fraud, why are Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and other States spending so much time and effort on exposing the fraud? We already know that:

101,789 ’obsolete’ voters on the rolls in Georgia, including 18,486 dead people Ballot batches off by up to 17.5 percent in Maricopa County, Arizona ’Massive’ chain of custody problems with drop boxes in Georgia, missing hundreds of thousands of records for months after the election Thousands of ballots "wheeled in through the back door" in Fulton County days after the election ’Double feeding’ ballots in Fulton County, Georgia Nearly 200,000 illegal "indefinitely confined" votes in Wisconsin that violated Voter ID law ’Cash for votes’ scheme in Nevada Illegal alien votes Election law changes were not authorized by the State Legislatures, which is mandated by the U.S. Constitution

And much more!"
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2021 04:49 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Deep State control of the AG is essential. Garland is no exception.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2021 5:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Besoeker, there is no conspiracy - people just doing that comes natural.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2021 5:16 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Exactly, we're well beyond conspiracy theory beta testing. We're now in fully operational corruption.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2021 5:19 Comments || Top||

#4  ^It's not the corruption per se - governments are always corrupt, it's the stupidity.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2021 5:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Conspiracies have always relied on people doing what comes naturally.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/29/2021 8:09 Comments || Top||

#6  I rather enjoy a good conspiracy theory now and then. It's a clear indication that someone is at least thinking.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2021 8:15 Comments || Top||



#9  Election stolen right under Barr's nose. How did that happen?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 06/29/2021 10:27 Comments || Top||

#10  The walls are closing in
Posted by: KBK || 06/29/2021 22:11 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Eli Steele: De Blasio's shameful racial profiling of Asian students
[FoxNews] I was setting up my camera to film a rally on the steps of Tweed Courthouse in lower Manhattan when a disheveled middle-aged man clutching an odd assortment of papers to his chest stopped and stared at the gathering of parents and community leaders. They were there to protest Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
’s ongoing attack on the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT), the sole gateway to one of New York’s nine specialized high schools. Their hand-drawn signs read, "Stop picking on Asian kids!" "Fix failing schools!" and "Keep the test!" The disheveled man began to yell aggressively and I turned, to lipread him: "You Asians take all the spots at these schools! Only eight blacks got into Stuyvesant High, only eight! You gotta give us blacks a chance, that’s all we’re asking for, man!" I turned my camera to capture him but he saw me and fled.

Later, as I reflected on this incident, I thought of that frosty November morning in 2013 when I waited outside a Brooklyn voting center for the de Blasio family to arrive and cast the votes that helped elect the father mayor of New York City. I was filming my documentary on multiracial Americans, "How Jack Became Black." There was an excitement in the air as people around me praised de Blasio’s multiracial family. They believed such a man was a harbinger of better racial relations and they loved his campaign stance against racial profiling. They could not have predicted that de Blasio would leave office eight years later as one of America’s most egregious racial profilers.
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Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Harrison Bergeron.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2021 4:05 Comments || Top||

#2  If 54 percent of the 4,262 eighth graders that passed the SHSAT had been black instead of Asian,

4,262 single mothers would be surprised out of their wits.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/29/2021 4:22 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ sorry, 2301 single others. [Snark ruined]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/29/2021 4:24 Comments || Top||

#4  * mothers... sheesh
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/29/2021 4:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Looks like that secret keyboard logger is acting up.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2021 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Private Christian schools are now quietly taking in Asian children as a safe place for them to learn rather than public schools and Asian families in massive numbers are enrolling their children in those private Christian schools.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 06/29/2021 12:24 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Will Saif Al-Islam Run For President?
[LIBYAREVIEW] Saif al-Islam Qadaffy, son of the late Libyan leader Muammer Qadaffy, has not been seen in public since he was released from house arrest in 2017. But now he is allegedly considering a race for the presidency, in the war-torn North African country, where the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
and several countries are pressing for elections in December, according to a report published by the voanews.com

The prospect of Saif coming to the polls is troubling Western diplomats and international democracy advisers, who say Libya’s turbulent grinding of the peace processor is big enough to get away without the involvement of Qadaffy’s son, a highly polarizing figure.

"What I’ve heard is that it’s more vindictive than reconciliation," says Mary Fitzgerald, a researcher and associate fellow at King’s College London’s International Center for the Study of Radicalization. Fitzgerald, a former Irish Times newspaper news hound covered the 2011 Libyan civil war that ended the rule of Muammer Qadaffy.

Saif, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on war-crime charges, is allegedly negotiating through intermediaries with the Western media. The middlemen say a major US newspaper has conducted a formal interview with them, which is to be published next month.

"It is still unclear whether he is actually putting himself out there as a candidate. I will believe it only when I actually hear him or see him make the pitch in the video," Claudia Gazzini of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank, told VOA.

Hafed al-Ghawel, a Libyan-American and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Paul H. Neitz School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, says he doesn’t think Saif has made up his mind. "But if he does, I think he’ll have significant support," he said.

Observers say Saif’s candidacy will prove popular in the country’s south, and among Qadaffy’s former loyalists — and he may be able to persuade many ordinary Libyans, tired of a decade of conflict, that he is the best bet for a stable future, observers say.
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Prior to the Arab Spring, with his father's approval Saif was involved in a series of negotiations with Libyan Islamist elements, many of whom were resident in Egypt. He was then considered the heir apparent and the sentient answer to Libya's political problems. Today, he would be the Islamists formidable foe (if he is still alive).
Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 || 06/29/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Miss me yet?

File:Muammar al-Gaddafi at the AU summit.jpg - Wikipedia
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2021 10:18 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Boris Johnson Defies Vladimir Putin's Claim to Crimea
Pat Buchanan at TownHall
About that clash between a British destroyer and Russian warplanes and warships in the Black Sea last week: there are conflicting versions.

...London's version: Defender sailed through waters off Crimea that belong to Ukraine. Russian gunfire was far off and unthreatening. No dropped bombs impeded the destroyer's passage.

Yet, according to The New York Times, BBC correspondent Jonathan Beale, who was on board Defender, has "published video footage showing as many as 20 Russian warplanes buzzing the ship and a Russian Coast Guard vessel drawing close alongside."
Brian Williams concurs - he was there And in the studio in NYC
In brief, this naval encounter was serious business.

Defender's captain, Commander Vince Owen, made it clear his ship sailed close by Crimea deliberately "to assert the position that Crimea and the waters around it legally belong to Ukraine."

...This is not an unserious matter.

If the Brits repeat this exercise, which they see as a right, a duty and a mission, we could witness a Russian attack on a British warship.

This would trigger Article 5 of the NATO treaty that requires all member nations to treat an attack on one as an attack on all.

Britain's challenge to Russia, a few kilometers off Crimea, could have resulted in a shooting incident that could have forced a U.S. response against Russia. And that raises some serious questions:

Did Johnson inform us he was about to issue this direct challenge to Moscow? Or were the Americans left in the dark?

Did President Joe Biden or the Pentagon tell Johnson that if Defender were attacked, U.S. forces would have their back?

With this clash off Crimea, a peninsula Russia regards as vital and we have never regarded as vital, we could have been drawn into a conflict by our ally, Britain, which could not prevail against Vladimir Putin's Russia without the military assistance of the United States.
China would love a war between USA and Russia
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2021 06:21 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Part of how Vlad does his slow grind-down of Ukraine is by tempting them with the possibility of getting Crimea and Dumbass back.

And The West cooperates with Vlad in this.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/29/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  The Charge of the Light Brigade 2021 remake?
Posted by: magpie || 06/29/2021 12:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Going to guess Boris, his cabinet and the MoD are much more concerned about mask compliance on the ship than about Russians.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/29/2021 13:34 Comments || Top||


Hitler's tracks: Concentration camp at the Kommunar state farm, Novgorod region
Direct translation of the article. Edited.
IA REGNUM continues to investigate the traces of Hitler's aggression and genocide on the territory of modern Russia. Our new step on this path is a series of essays on concentration, labor, transfer camps on the territory of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation within its current borders.

The project is being implemented jointly with the Alexander Pechersky Foundation

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Posted by: badanov || 06/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  for decades, the Wehrmacht veterans have claimed that they were the "clean Germans" in contrast with the SS. As is clear from these discussions the last few days, the military were just as dirty as the SS.

It is notable that all the extermination activities in these camps took place without any participation by the SS. In addition this did not include any "special minorities". Instead they killed Russian civilians and POWs protected by the Geneva Convention.
Posted by: Jack Whomotch5643 || 06/29/2021 12:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
"...While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition."
Posted by: magpie || 06/29/2021 12:47 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
US 1st Cavalry Division in Korea
Posted by: badanov || 06/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
COVID Vaccine: Clear Lack of Benefit By The Numbers
[911] A new study by several scientists and doctors published in Vaccines 2021, 9, 693, pub 6/24/21 has found both the risks and benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine to be of the same magnitude, and that "this lack of clear benefit should cause governments to rethink their vaccination policy."

The study was conducted using data from one million people. It found that the number needed to vaccinate (NNTV) is between 200 and 700 people to prevent one case of COVID-19 for the Pfizer vaccine. The NNTV to prevent one death is between 9,000 and 50,000.

The number of people experiencing adverse reactions is 700 per 100,000 vaccinations. Currently, there are 16 serious side effects and 4.11 fatal side effects for every 100,000 vaccinations.

Thus, for every three deaths that are prevented by vaccination, there are two deaths caused by vaccination.

The authors came to the conclusion that "we have to accept 4 fatal & 16 serious side effects per 100K vaccinations to save the lives of 2—11 individuals per 100K vaccinations, placing risks & benefits on the same order of magnitude."

These numbers were calculated using absolute risk reduction instead of relative risk reduction.

According to the vaccine manufacturers, the relative risk reduction is 95% for Pfizer, 94% for Moderna, 67% for J&J. The relative risk reduction is a ratio comparing the risk of infection in vaccinated people versus unvaccinated people (the control group).

The absolute risk reduction is the difference in risk for someone in the treatment group versus someone in the control group.

For example, if you have 100 people who don’t get the vaccine, and 10 get sick, the risk of getting sick is 10%. If you have 100 people who do get the vaccine, and only one gets sick, their risk of getting sick is 1%. The relative risk reduction is 90%, but the absolute risk reduction is just 9% then (10% minus 1%), as the risk of getting sick was already low.

There have been complaints by many scientists about outcome reporting biases in the COVID-19 trials, as the vaccine manufacturers only reported the relative risk reduction.

The absolute risk reduction of the Pfizer vaccine is 0.7% and the absolute risk reduction of the Moderna vaccine is 1.1%
Posted by: Ebback Shavith4684 || 06/29/2021 00:16 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hopefully, the authors will forbear vaccinating themselves - or their families.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2021 4:04 Comments || Top||


#3  #1 The opposite will prove true as it is day by day. I realize information is unbalanced but deaths and side affects will become much harder to hide. I see it in my community as do my coworkers. Normal healthy individuals overwhelmed after stick. AP had a front page article about only current deaths were people not vaccinated. Just so much garbage. Germophobia is now rampant. I have no desire to live as the boy in the bubble. Time will tell. I base my opinions upon survivors of the Spanish Flu. I had the good fortune to know a few. It is sad to see medical professionals recommend an unapproved FDA product when for years they were subjected to the fear of losing their medical license recommending an unapproved FDA medical treatment. Currently several Doctors in my area are more conservative and advise not to receive shot. Then patients insist and a few have died in two to three days. My concern is for the long term (Gates effect). Yes, this game has just begun.
Posted by: Dale || 06/29/2021 15:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Interesting subject to review; Pathogenic priming.
Posted by: Dale || 06/29/2021 15:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Listen to Dr. Falsey, he is the sage!
Posted by: Butch and Company4945 || 06/29/2021 19:42 Comments || Top||

#6  I am 75, my resting heart beat (RHB) went from an average of 65 to 40 right after the first shot, it started to go back up and after the second shot went back to 40. This was started by China to interfere with our elections and it worked. listen to DR. Falsey!
Posted by: Butch and Company4945 || 06/29/2021 19:46 Comments || Top||

#7  #2 India's Covid dead emerge from their graves beside holy river

Congratulations, everyone who had Zombies on their card for 2021!
All you people with Space Aliens, don't give up hope. The year ain't over!
Posted by: SteveS || 06/29/2021 20:12 Comments || Top||


Electric Cars Will Eventually Get Us Nowhere
[The Washington Gazette] One of the most hyped innovations of our life time is today’s electric vehicle. While our federal government and the state of California think the internal combustion engine will soon end in the dustbin of history, it just ain’t so. It will never happen for many obvious reasons that governments are blind to.

The most obvious one is that their expense will not allow the average American to own one. The alternative will always be significantly cheaper and will transport you much farther.

EVs can never be produced in the numbers the government wants because of a lack of necessary rare earth minerals held hostage in China.
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Posted by: Grolulet Wholing7902 || 06/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How much damage would "total" an EV...pigeon droppings?
Posted by: magpie || 06/29/2021 12:51 Comments || Top||

#2  electric bikes on the other hand..... fat lazy Americans have a hard time on a bike......just sayin'
Posted by: 746 || 06/29/2021 14:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember back in World War 2 they had bicycle driven generators to power remote radios. Just add a BG (Bicycle Generator) on the back of the EV. That could work!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/29/2021 16:12 Comments || Top||

#4  California is asking electric car owners to not charge their cars to help avoid rolling blackouts. Interesting to see how that sort of thing effects sales or do the virtue signa brigade not care.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/29/2021 16:17 Comments || Top||

#5  It's just awful to see someone's beautiful theory murdered by a brutal gang of facts.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/29/2021 17:07 Comments || Top||

#6  I kinda think that this was the plan from the word go. Gotta cut down on people's mobility.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/29/2021 18:55 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2021-06-29
  Unidentified persons killed two Syrian IDP sisters in al-Hole
Mon 2021-06-28
  Somalia's Puntland region executes 21 al-Shabab fighters
Sun 2021-06-27
  Massive Manhunt Ends Up at Black Nationalist Encampment
Sat 2021-06-26
  Car-bomb attack wounds 15 UN peacekeepers in north Mali
Fri 2021-06-25
  Somali army bombs Al-Shabaab hideouts, 17 confirmed dead
Thu 2021-06-24
  Attack on Iranian nuclear site damaged centrifuge production facility
Wed 2021-06-23
  Taliban capture Afghanistan's main Tajikistan border crossing
Tue 2021-06-22
  Suicide car bomber has attacked French troops patrolling in central Mali, wounding six soldiers
Mon 2021-06-21
  Clashes Reach Gates of Faryab's Capital in Northern Afghanistan
Sun 2021-06-20
  Two Districts Fall to Taliban in North as Clashes Continue
Sat 2021-06-19
  Kabul arrests dozens of Afghan tribal chiefs over troop surrenders to Taliban
Fri 2021-06-18
  All officers of Portland Police riot response team resign
Thu 2021-06-17
  Expelled Jordanian MP Osama Al-Ajarmeh arrested
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  IDF hits Gaza terror targets after arson attacks, in first raids since ceasefire
Tue 2021-06-15
  Egypt upholds death penalty for 12 Muslim Brotherhood members


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