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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Feds steer $200M in COVID-19 relief to left-wing nonprofit to aid illegal entrants
[JustTheNews] The Vera Institute of Justice reportedly received more than $10 million in funding from progressive megadonor George Soros' Open Society Foundation from 2016 to 2019.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/06/2022 02:07 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Overheard a funeral director's response to the COVID death certificate survivors stipend yesterday:

"Yes, if the certificate reads COVID as cause of death, they are eligible to receive $9,000. in gov't compensation."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/06/2022 6:29 Comments || Top||

#2  So compensation for federally funded bio-warfare work at Wuhan.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/06/2022 8:51 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Black Lives Matter drops from ActBlue following Washington Examiner exposé
[WashingtonExaminer] Black Lives Matter's fundraising pages on ActBlue were deactivated Friday, a day after the Washington Examiner exposed that BLM was still accepting donations on the Democratic platform despite claiming it had stopped amid questions about its finances.

Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and Washington state ordered BLM in January to cease soliciting contributions in their states until it discloses its finances for 2020, the year it raked in tens of millions during the nationwide unrest prompted by St. George Floyd
...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that...
's killing at the hands of police. BLM said Wednesday it had shut down online fundraising while it sorts out its compliance issues, but the group continued to accept charitable contributions through its ActBlue fundraising pages as recently as Thursday afternoon.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 02/06/2022 03:06 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  California and Washington are on their trail?? It must be really, really bad.
Posted by: Tom || 02/06/2022 7:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Memphis BLM founder Pamela Moses sentenced to 6 years for illegally voting

A wonderful start to the weekend.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/06/2022 12:04 Comments || Top||


Judge lets convicted Hunter Biden business partner freely roam globe while awaiting sentencing
[JustTheNews] Federal judge's lenient treatment for Devon Archer renews debate about a dual system of justice, as Jan. 6 and Russia defendants faced travel restrictions.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/06/2022 02:10 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  I applaud the decision. How can he pursue his destructive lifestyle while enjoying the safety of executive incarcerated ?
Posted by: Besoekee || 02/06/2022 6:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Plus, it is unlikely that he will leave Earth, so this is kinda sorta like house arrest.

OK, OK, he could get to low earth orbit pretty easy, but that is about it.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/06/2022 9:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Nb. This is Kerry's stepson. Kerry is one of the most corrupt of all our Congresscritter insider traders.

Remarkably, [Obama appointee Judge Ronnie] Abram's husband was a federal prosecutor in Robert Mueller's Russia investigation and part of the team that seized passports and restricted travel for high-profile defendants like Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates.

Archer did not face the same restrictions. As he awaited trial since summer 2016 and since his conviction in summer 2018, Archer has been allowed to travel freely across the globe.

His travel log, enumerated in the court documents, reads like the travels of an American secretary of state: Russia, Mexico, China, Spain, Italy, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Ukraine, the money laundering capital of Latvia, Hong Kong, London, Singapore and the French Antilles, to name a few.

(Maybe he is indeed traveling as a representative of the former Secretary of State i.e. as bagman for stepdad John Kerry.... Inquiring minds want to know)
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/06/2022 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  I think Chris Heinz is Kerry's stepson.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/06/2022 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ yep. Archer is Hunter's former bizness partner at investment firm Rosemont Seneca and as board member with Lil Crackpipe at Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/06/2022 10:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Right, sorry - I sit corrected. Chris Heinz, Teresa's son, actually appears to have some integrity: he reportedly parted ways w his biz partner Crackpipe over the latter's involvement w Burusma.

Chris Heinz split from business partner Hunter Biden over board seat on Ukrainian energy company
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/06/2022 11:34 Comments || Top||


#8  ^ I bet people are just dying to work on that project.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/06/2022 15:06 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Late Snark O' The Day candidate
Posted by: Frank G || 02/06/2022 18:31 Comments || Top||


Jim Bognet: Biden Turning ‘Beautiful Rural' Pennsylvania into Afghan Refugee ‘Dumping Ground'
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/06/2022 01:54 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Pennsylvania May Have a Big Tick Problem on Its Hands
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/06/2022 7:39 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
'Biden promised to restore trust, but trust is in short supply': Now AP turns on the president after State Dept spokesman Ned Price questioned the loyalty of its reporter who asked for proof of claim Putin is planning 'false flag' operation
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Biden administration appears to be becoming more hostile and wary of reporters that in the past were 'friendly' toward Democratic administration

  • There have been several confrontations in recent weeks between reporters asking questions of White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki

  • Similar abrasive responses have been experienced by AP reporter and State Department spokesman Ned Price

  • The intense press scrutiny over events including Russia/Ukraine and a drone strike against ISIS last week appear to have struck a nerve

  • President Biden's administration has refused to share evidence for consequential national security claims in recent days

  • Officials have even accused reporters of siding with foreign propaganda

  • Administration officials would not reveal how they knew that Russia was plotting a false flag operation as a pretext to invade Ukraine

  • Reporters asking 'tough questions' have been accused of being 'disloyal'


Related: White House Claims Joe Biden Opposed Coronavirus Lockdowns Despite 2020 Call for National Lockdowns. He would be a liar, but he can’t remember what he said this morning, never mind what he said two years ago.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/06/2022 01:08 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Yes, those expressing a differing opinion are of course the enemy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/06/2022 6:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Let's play guess the author -
"I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.”

Hints -
Day drinker, futures trader, and all around miserable person...
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 02/06/2022 7:46 Comments || Top||

#4  you meant horrible person, amirite?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/06/2022 7:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Soundtrack of said person, allegedly making said quote.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/06/2022 8:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Gawd, she has an annoying voice!
Posted by: SteveS || 02/06/2022 9:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Last refuge of a scoundrel
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/06/2022 10:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Thought the same thing besoeker, "loyalty" I thought journalist were supposed to be impartial.
Posted by: Chris || 02/06/2022 10:25 Comments || Top||

#9  "Journalist" are impartial but those are few and far between. Don't confuse propagandists and fableists with the term. It's about the same level as using the term 'liberal' for Bolsheviks and Socialists.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/06/2022 13:25 Comments || Top||

#10  Lying Shitfaced PonyFilly Sniffer
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/06/2022 13:29 Comments || Top||



Home Front: Politix
Schumer-Aligned Group Brought in Record $92M in Dark Money from Anonymous Donors
[Breitbart] A dark money group aligned with Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) brought in a record $92 million in dark money from anonymous donors while Schumer blasted Republicans for using dark money.

Majority Forward is a nonprofit organization affiliated with Schumer’s Senate Majority PAC. Between July 2019 and June 2020, Majority Forward hauled in $92 million, according to the organization’s most recently released tax forms.

During the 2020 election cycle, Majority Forward gave Schumer’s Senate Majority PAC $51 million in contributions, making it the largest donor to Schumer’s PAC.

While Schumer benefitted from millions of dark money dollars, he criticized Republicans for doing the same thing. Schumer also pushed the Senate to pass the For the People Act, which contains provisions requiring political nonprofits to disclose donors who contribute more than $10,000.

“Majority Forward is kind of a dark money empire that the Democrat Party really doesn’t want to talk about, especially Chuck Schumer,” said Parker Thayer, a Capital Research Center investigator.

“The Democratic Party makes a big deal in public about getting rid of dark money, getting dark money out of politics, but the reality is even the New York Times is now reporting on this,” Thayer told Fox News.

Thayer referred to a recent New York Times report that found 15 of the most active Democrat dark money organizations outspent the top 15 Republican groups by a margin of over $600 million. Those Democrat dark money groups spent $1.5 billion during the 2020 cycle, compared to $900 million for Republican organizations.

Although Democrat dark money groups spent more than Republican groups in 2020, pro-GOP super PACs outraised their Democrat counterparts in 2021. For example, the pro-GOP Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) raised double what the pro-democrat House Majority PAC did.

Last year, CLF brought in $110 million, compared to House Majority PAC’s $55 million.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/06/2022 06:45 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Activist who founded Black Lives Matter Memphis is sentenced to six years in prison for illegally voting when she was still on probation for felonies including stalking
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Pamela Moses, 44, was sentenced to six years in prison for vote fraud after she illegally register to vote, despite being on probation
    ...one year for each time she voted illegally.
  • The Black Lives Matter Memphis founder was sentenced to seven years of probation in 2015 after pleading guilty to several felonies

  • She thought her probation had ended in 2019, but was informed otherwise when she tried to run for mayor in the city
    She wanted to be a seedy politician, but was too seedy for Memphis? Ouch!
  • She went to court to check and a judge told her she was still on probation, she then went to a probation officer, who gave her a certificate saying she wasn't

  • Judge Mark Ward accused her of 'tricking the probation department to illegally obtain the right to vote

  • Moses, who has been in custody since December 10, is expected to appeal the decision
    ...no doubt arguing that it was legal for her to try to trick the officer — freedom of speech, or some such. The illegality being on the part the officer to act on it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/06/2022 06:08 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2022-02-06
  25 ISWAP Fighters Fleeing Military Airstrikes Drown In Lake Chad River
Sat 2022-02-05
  Day 3: 50 US commandos encountered baby toys, suicide bomb during lethal raid on IS leader
Fri 2022-02-04
  Gunmen Burn Nigerian Army Personnel Along With Military Vehicle In Ebonyi
Thu 2022-02-03
  ISIS Leader Killed During Raid in Syria by U.S. Special Forces
Wed 2022-02-02
  Iraqi intelligence destroys 80 ISIS IEDs in Ninevah village
Tue 2022-02-01
  The leader of the Hamza Division eliminated in Aleppo province
Mon 2022-01-31
  Cairo court sentences 10 to death over terrorism charges; including Yehia Mousa
Sun 2022-01-30
  DR Congo sentences 51 accused of killing UN staff
Sat 2022-01-29
  Russia insists ‘we don’t want wars’ as it ponders Ukraine-NATO answer
Fri 2022-01-28
  Fighting Rages on Between Libyan Army and ISIS
Thu 2022-01-27
  SDF declare victory in week-long ISIS stand off in northeast Syrian prison, 181 dead thus far
Wed 2022-01-26
  Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Announces Retirement
Tue 2022-01-25
  Over 120 Killed After ISIS Mass Prison Break In US-Occupied Northeast Syri, 140+ as of Monday
Mon 2022-01-24
  Egyptian court sentences Mufti of Al-Qaeda affiliate 'Al-Nusra Front' to life in prison
Sun 2022-01-23
  56 IS terrorists killed in northeast Syria


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