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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Clinton Foundation Takes $2 Million From Chinese Company Suspected of Helping NORKS
[The Weekly Standard] One donor - Rilin Enterprises - pledged $2 million in 2013 to the Clinton Foundation's endowment. The company is a privately-held Chinese construction and trade conglomerate and run by billionaire Wang Wenliang, who is also a delegate to the Chinese parliament. Public records show the firm has spent $1.4 million since 2012, lobbying Congress and the State Department. The firm owns a strategic port along the border with North Korea and was also one of the contractors that built the Chinese embassy in Washington.

That contract is a direct tie to the Chinese government, according to Jim Mann, who has written several books on China's relationship with the U.S. With "embassy construction, one of the most important tasks is making sure that there are no bugs there," he said. "So you want to have the closest security and intelligence connections with and approval of the person or company that's going to build your embassy."
As Krauthammer says, "It's not over, it's got legs, long legs."

Muckerty map, double klik on individual icons to prompt various connections
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2015 04:18 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "At the Clinton Foundation, we're judgement free on donation sources. Got any Nazi war gold?"
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/17/2015 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Imagine the hesitation of Chinese intelligence foreign source recruiters. They had to suspect the poultry sum of $2 million USD was a trap.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2015 8:40 Comments || Top||

#3  How's the "Cash Cow" doing today?

Posted by: JohnQC || 03/17/2015 9:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Ahem, I meant the Clinton Foundation.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/17/2015 9:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Imagine the hesitation of Chinese intelligence foreign source recruiters. They had to suspect the poultry sum of $2 million USD was a trap.

They were a little chicken, were they...
Posted by: Steve White || 03/17/2015 11:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Just be amused as all the usual Lefty agitators who tar anyone who accepts Koch brothers money as 'bought' argue that all this foreign money hasn't bought the Hildabeast.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/17/2015 11:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Her Mandarin masters must be well please with her.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/17/2015 11:59 Comments || Top||

#8  At #2&5. Paltry sum then.... Siwwy nit pecker !
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2015 15:11 Comments || Top||

#9  When I toured China in 2008,our group was amazed at the number of pictures on display of the Crintons [Mandarin spelling] and local dignitaries. In Xian, The Peking Duck place, Shanghai... You would have thought he used the same tour company or something.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 03/17/2015 16:45 Comments || Top||

#10  Clinton's... Damn spell check;-)
Posted by: Capsu78 || 03/17/2015 16:47 Comments || Top||

#11  I looked at the Clinton Foundation site. There are foundations giving to foundations. Sounds like a money laundering operation to me.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/17/2015 17:21 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
In Wash. state, a 10-person team toils for the government - selling pot
[WASHINGTONPOST] Deep in the Columbia River Gorge, a short drive from the Bridge of the Gods, the nation’s only government-run marijuana shop was running low on weed.
Gotta keep the gammas happy...
The store had been open for just a few days. Inside, manager Robyn Legun was frantically trying to restock. Outside, five customers stood waiting for the doors to open. Someone cracked a joke about this being a typical government operation, always running late.

But, of course, it’s not. This government store, bearing the cozy name Cannabis Corner, sells dozens of strains of marijuana and in several different forms, from pungent buds to infused cookies and coffee. It sells glass bongs and rolling papers. And it does it all at the direction of the North Bonneville Public Development Authority, making the local government uniquely dependent on this once-illicit drug.
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2015 11:37 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Former State Department Official Refuses to Testify About Hillary's Emails
[Weekly Standard] Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, a former State Department official, sidestepped questions about Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of a private email address in testimony today on Capitol Hill:

Lew does admit, however, that he emailed with Mrs. Clinton when she was secretary of state. But he refuses to answer more detailed questions.

"This is how bad it gets when an Obama official is publicly asked about Hillary Clinton's private email," writes America Rising, who found the video.

"Congressman Sean Duffy pressed U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew about his emails with Hillary Clinton's private email account. Lew essentially claimed he couldn't remember if he knew that Clinton's email was private.
Perhaps a bit of sodium thiopental would provide some relief from the memory loss issue.
"The only thing that Jack Lew makes clear in this exchange is how uncomfortable he is talking about Hillary Clinton's private email account."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2015 13:47 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jackie Treehorn Presents:
**Log-on Jammin'**

"Hello, I'm here to fix the server"

Lord, you can imagine where it goes from here."

He fixes the server?

Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/17/2015 15:03 Comments || Top||

#2  He doesn't want to end up in Ft. Marcy Park after committing suicide by shooting himself three times in the back of the head.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/17/2015 15:09 Comments || Top||

#3  With kudo's to American Thinker, this article has the most insightful analysis of what is going on concerning the Hildabeest at Bubba Vs Champ. It makes so much sense about now and the future and the positioning post administration for who controls the money and the Left and its enormous opportunities for theft, corruption and the destruction of America as it was once not long ago!
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/of_course_obama_wants_to_take_hillary_down.html
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/17/2015 18:24 Comments || Top||

#4  "Big Hilly sez to remind youse dat youse don't remember nuttin'!"
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2015 21:38 Comments || Top||


Champ now blaming Bush for rise of ISIS.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2015 04:06 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Obama should have thought of the unintended consequences before pulling out the troops.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/17/2015 7:06 Comments || Top||

#2  “Two things: one is, ISIL is a direct outgrowth of al Qaeda in Iraq that grew out of our invasion,”

Scanned the article a couple of times but could not find #2 to which Obammer referred. He must have spent too much time in the Choom Gang--STM loss.

AQ got active around 2004 in Iraq as I recall. They were not particularly religious as ISIS claims to be. When Obama pulled the troops out, Jordanian Zawqawi was dead and AQ-in-Iraq was destroyed. General McChrystal was largely responsible for creating the on-the-ground intelligence and running the spec ops that allowed this.

C-in-C Obumble ran off McChrystal. O's ego couldn't handle McChrystal and is a dick for lying about the history. He cannot come to grips with the fact that he is a huge failure of a CIC.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/17/2015 7:09 Comments || Top||

#3  "History is (re-)written by the victors choom-disabled megalomaniacs." - Winston Churchill (updated)
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 03/17/2015 8:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Progressives will always seek to fix blame, not develop solutions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2015 8:20 Comments || Top||

#5  What part of "Substantial penalties for early withdraw" did you not understand?

It's down there in the small print. Now the usual - It's not my fault.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/17/2015 9:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Everybody knows the bad guys are like a hydra - cut off one head and two more grow in its place.

That's why we hafta stop killin' 'em and start giving them jobs. Then they can pay taxes and support the rest of the drones.

Harf! Harf!
Posted by: Bobby || 03/17/2015 13:08 Comments || Top||

#7  “We should be thinking about making investments there that ultimately save us from having to send our young men and women to fight or having folks come here and doing great harm.”

Harf, Harf, Harf, Champ.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/17/2015 13:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Continue to flail, little man.

The faster you do, the faster you drown.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/17/2015 13:37 Comments || Top||

#9  Continue to flail, little man. The faster you do, the faster you drown.
Posted by DarthVader


The Hildebeest will not be buggered without eating cheese on this evil, half-wit bastid. Interesting times just ahead.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2015 15:01 Comments || Top||

#10  Obama should have thought of the unintended consequences before pulling out the troops.

I'm not so sure those consequences were unintended myself.

Remember Obama supports the Muslim Brotherhood and other terrorist organization and hates Israel and the west.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/17/2015 15:56 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2015-03-17
  Baghdad seeks airstrikes to rid Tikrit of IS; Saddam tomb leveled
Mon 2015-03-16
  Iraqi forces poised for final Tikrit assault
Sun 2015-03-15
  Suicide bombers kill 14 people outside Pakistani churches
Sat 2015-03-14
  Iraqi offensive on Tikrit appears to stall
Fri 2015-03-13
  Clashes between Assad and Nusra forces kill 50
Thu 2015-03-12
  Iraqi army targets ISIS in Tikrit, regains major areas
Wed 2015-03-11
  Chad and Niger launch offensive against Boko Haram
Tue 2015-03-10
  Retreating ISIS blows up bridge in south Kirkuk
Mon 2015-03-09
  Yemen defense minister flees Sanaa to join president in Aden
Sun 2015-03-08
  Boko Haram leader pledges allegiance to IS
Sat 2015-03-07
  Advancing Iraq troops enter al-Dour
Fri 2015-03-06
  Blast hits Nusra Front in Syria, kills commander
Thu 2015-03-05
  Pakistani man found guilty in al-Qaeda plot to attack NYC subway
Wed 2015-03-04
  Turkish ISIL agent charged with running underage Syrian prostitution ring
Tue 2015-03-03
  Bibi Netanyahu’s Speech: Liveblog
Mon 2015-03-02
  Iraq Launches Offensive on ISIS North of Baghdad


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