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Post by Qanon on Apr 2, 2019 4:40:03 GMT -6
He should have grabbed her by the pussy instead. That seems to be ok with the hypocritical right. Has your mom's clap cleared up yet? 50 cent nuts are hard to find. Trump is a piece of shit human being and so are the dumb fucking rednecks who still support him.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2019 6:47:14 GMT -6
So, she might have used campaign funds to pay for her divorce from her brother.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2019 7:07:31 GMT -6
Joe Biden gives another gift: www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/01/solomon-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived/John Solomon writes in The Hill that last year Joe Biden bragged about the time as vice president he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor. What he neglected to mention was that the prosecutor he got fired was probing a firm for which his son Hunter Biden worked. thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revivedTwo years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor. In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. … But Ukrainian officials tell me there was one crucial piece of information that Biden must have known but didn’t mention to his audience: The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member. ........ Looks like Obstruction of Justice, etc to me.
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Post by redrex on Apr 2, 2019 8:20:22 GMT -6
Has your mom's clap cleared up yet? 50 cent nuts are hard to find. Trump is a piece of shit human being and so are the dumb fucking rednecks who still support him. Looks like the fool ICKY is back------Ever pass that GED ICK ?
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2019 9:55:32 GMT -6
thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revivedJoe Biden's 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived BY JOHN SOLOMON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor. In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. “I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden recalled telling Poroshenko. Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,” Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations event, insisting that President Obama was in on the threat. Interviews with a half-dozen senior Ukrainian officials confirm Biden’s account, though they claim the pressure was applied over several months in late 2015 and early 2016, not just six hours of one dramatic day. Whatever the case, Poroshenko and Ukraine’s parliament obliged by ending Shokin’s tenure as prosecutor. Shokin was facing steep criticism in Ukraine, and among some U.S. officials, for not bringing enough corruption prosecutions when he was fired. But Ukrainian officials tell me there was one crucial piece of information that Biden must have known but didn’t mention to his audience: The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member. U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden’s American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its accounts — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia. The general prosecutor’s official file for the Burisma probe — shared with me by senior Ukrainian officials — shows prosecutors identified Hunter Biden, business partner Devon Archer and their firm, Rosemont Seneca, as potential recipients of money. Shokin told me in written answers to questions that, before he was fired as general prosecutor, he had made “specific plans” for the investigation that “included interrogations and other crime-investigation procedures into all members of the executive board, including Hunter Biden.” He added: “I would like to emphasize the fact that presumption of innocence is a principle in Ukraine” and that he couldn’t describe the evidence further. William Russo, a spokesman for Joe Biden, and Hunter Biden did not respond to email messages Monday seeking comment. The phone number at Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC in Washington was no longer in service on Monday. The timing of Hunter Biden’s and Archer’s appointment to Burisma’s board has been highlighted in the past, by The New York Times in December 2015 and in a 2016 book by conservative author Peter Schweizer. Although Biden made no mention of his son in his 2018 speech, U.S. and Ukrainian authorities both told me Biden and his office clearly had to know about the general prosecutor's probe of Burisma and his son's role. They noted that: Hunter Biden's appointment to the board was widely reported in American media; The U.S. Embassy in Kiev that coordinated Biden's work in the country repeatedly and publicly discussed the general prosecutor's case against Burisma; Great Britain took very public action against Burisma while Joe Biden was working with that government on Ukraine issues; Biden's office was quoted, on the record, acknowledging Hunter Biden's role in Burisma in a New York Times article about the general prosecutor's Burisma case that appeared four months before Biden forced the firing of Shokin. The vice president's office suggested in that article that Hunter Biden was a lawyer free to pursue his own private business deals. President Obama named Biden the administration’s point man on Ukraine in February 2014, after a popular revolution ousted Russia-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych and as Moscow sent military forces into Ukraine’s Crimea territory. According to Schweizer’s book, Vice President Biden met with Archer in April 2014 right as Archer was named to the board at Burisma. A month later, Hunter Biden was named to the board, to oversee Burisma’s legal team. But the Ukrainian investigation and Joe Biden’s effort to fire the prosecutor overseeing it has escaped without much public debate. Most of the general prosecutor’s investigative work on Burisma focused on three separate cases, and most stopped abruptly once Shokin was fired. The most prominent of the Burisma cases was transferred to a different Ukrainian agency, closely aligned with the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, known as the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), according to the case file and current General Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko. NABU closed that case, and a second case involving alleged improper money transfers in London was dropped when Ukrainian officials failed to file the necessary documents by the required deadline. The general prosecutor’s office successfully secured a multimillion-dollar judgment in a tax evasion case, Lutsenko said. He did not say who was the actual defendant in that case. As a result, the Biden family appeared to have escaped the potential for an embarrassing inquiry overseas in the final days of the Obama administration and during an election in which Democrat Hillary Clinton was running for president in 2016. But then, as Biden’s 2020 campaign ramped up over the past year, Lutsenko — the Ukrainian prosecutor that Biden once hailed as a “solid” replacement for Shokin — began looking into what happened with the Burisma case that had been shut down. Lutsenko told me that, while reviewing the Burisma investigative files, he discovered “members of the Board obtained funds as well as another U.S.-based legal entity, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, for consulting services.” Lutsenko said some of the evidence he knows about in the Burisma case may interest U.S. authorities and he’d like to present that information to new U.S. Attorney General William Barr, particularly the vice president’s intervention. “Unfortunately, Mr. Biden had correlated and connected this aid with some of the HR (personnel) issues and changes in the prosecutor’s office,” Lutsenko said. Nazar Kholodnytskyi, the lead anti-corruption prosecutor in Lutsenko’s office, confirmed to me in an interview that part of the Burisma investigation was reopened in 2018, after Joe Biden made his remarks. “We were able to start this case again,” Kholodnytskyi said. But he said the separate Ukrainian police agency that investigates corruption has dragged its feet in gathering evidence. “We don’t see any result from this case one year after the reopening because of some external influence,” he said, declining to be more specific. Ukraine is in the middle of a hard-fought presidential election, is a frequent target of intelligence operations by neighboring Russia and suffers from rampant political corruption nationwide. Thus, many Americans might take the restart of the Burisma case with a grain of salt, and rightfully so. But what makes Lutsenko’s account compelling is that federal authorities in America, in an entirely different case, uncovered financial records showing just how much Hunter Biden’s and Archer’s company received from Burisma while Joe Biden acted as Obama’s point man on Ukraine. Between April 2014 and October 2015, more than $3 million was paid out of Burisma accounts to an account linked to Biden’s and Archer’s Rosemont Seneca firm, according to the financial records placed in a federal court file in Manhattan in an unrelated case against Archer. The bank records show that, on most months when Burisma money flowed, two wire transfers of $83,333.33 each were sent to the Rosemont Seneca–connected account on the same day. The same Rosemont Seneca–linked account typically then would pay Hunter Biden one or more payments ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 each. Prosecutors reviewed internal company documents and wanted to interview Hunter Biden and Archer about why they had received such payments, according to interviews. Lutsenko said Ukrainian company board members legally can pay themselves for work they do if it benefits the company’s bottom line, but prosecutors never got to determine the merits of the payments to Rosemont because of the way the investigation was shut down. As for Joe Biden’s intervention in getting Lutsenko’s predecessor fired in the midst of the Burisma investigation, Lutsenko suggested that was a matter to discuss with Attorney General Barr: “Of course, I would be happy to have a conversation with him about this issue.” As the now-completed Russia collusion investigation showed us, every American deserves the right to be presumed innocent until evidence is made public or a conviction is secured, especially when some matters of a case involve foreigners. The same presumption should be afforded to Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Devon Archer and Burisma in the Ukraine case. Nonetheless, some hard questions should be answered by Biden as he prepares, potentially, to run for president in 2020: Was it appropriate for your son and his firm to cash in on Ukraine while you served as point man for Ukraine policy? What work was performed for the money Hunter Biden’s firm received? Did you know about the Burisma probe? And when it was publicly announced that your son worked for Burisma, should you have recused yourself from leveraging a U.S. policy to pressure the prosecutor who very publicly pursued Burisma? John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal scientists’ misuse of foster children and veterans in drug experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption. He serves as an investigative columnist and executive vice president for video at The Hill. ....... Liberal/MSM reaction:
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2019 9:58:19 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2019 13:55:40 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/45442/beto-orourke-electoral-college-basically-just-emily-zanottiFormer Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke is feeling the crush of other candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidiential nomination, and the once self-described moderate has moved far leftward in recent days, including on the issue of upending the American electoral process by eliminating the Electoral College. The idea — which would take some effort to pass — is, of couse, a reaction to Hillary Clinton's dramatic Electoral College loss in 2016, which came despite Clinton winning the popular vote. Since then, the complaint has been that the Electoral College over-represents inconsequential (read as "Republican") states, while larger (and, coincidentally more Democratic) states are under-represented. Most Democrats have used the line that eliminating the Electoral College would move Americans closer to a direct Democracy — a "one person, one vote" standard — but O'Rourke took the measure a step further, comparing the system to "slavery," according to The Washington Free Beacon. “This is one of those bad compromises we made at day one in this country,”O'Rourke told the audience. “There are many others we can think of and they are all connected, including the value of some people based on the color of their skin. There is a legacy and a series of consequences that have persisted and remain with us to this day.” He went on to suggest that eliminating the Electoral College could be akin to a reparations-style apology for the institution of forced labor. conversation about how we repair the damage, how we make things right, and how we keep from committing the same injustice going forward is squarely connected to the reason that we are all convened here today and that is fixing our democracy,” he continued. “So yes, if we get rid of the Electoral College, we get a little bit closer to one person, one vote in the United States of America.” O'Rourke's explanation seems to rely on the mistaken notion that the Electoral College was part of a package of compromises created to appease slave states, akin to the 3/5th compromise, which allowed states with slave populations to count each slave as 3/5 of a person when calculating their representation. The Electoral College, however, was a compromse to small states, not slave states, giving weight to less-populated areas to prevent the presidency from being decided only by, at the time, Virginia and New York. Electoral College and replacing it with a popular vote is unlikely, but O'Rourke has to distinguish himself in a crowded field, and particularly at an event that caters to hardened "Resistance" progressives. The We the People Membership Summitt attracts largely far-left activists and high-value Democratic donors. According to Open Secrets, which questioned why nearly all of the potential 2020 Democratic candidates are showing up at the summit mostly for "grassroots organizers" organized by groups in Phoenix, Arizona, the backers — all of whom had a presence at the summit — together "contributed roughly $65 million to Democratic candidates and liberal groups in the 2018 election cycle." Backers include the George Soros-funded Service Employees International Union, Planned Parenthood, MoveOn Political Action, and the League of Conservation Voters. To gain attention, O'Rourke has to be far left. The summit kicked off with a tribute to convicted cop killer, Assata Shakur.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2019 13:59:49 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/45449/kirsten-gillibrand-wants-abolish-electoral-college-ashe-schowMaybe it was an April Fool’s Day joke, because that would be the kindest explanation for presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-NY) tweet on Monday claiming we need to “abolish the Electoral College” in order to “restore” the principle of “one person, one vote.” She put out the tweet and included a link to a Daily Beast article about Democrat senators introducing a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College (because their supporters live in big, populous cities and a popular vote will ensure they’re elected). “Our democracy is built on the principle of one person, one vote. It can't function until we restore that principle. It's time to abolish the Electoral College,” Gillibrand tweeted. The problem with the tweet, as Mark Hemingway and others pointed out, is that there is no “principle” to “restore” by eliminating the Electoral College. It’s in the constitution. It is a principle on which our “democracy” (constitutional republic) was built. The Electoral College is described in Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution: www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A2Sec1.htmlEach State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. In 1804, the states ratified the Twelfth Amendment, which supersedes the paragraph after the one quoted above. Originally, the person with the most electoral votes would be president, and the person with the second highest would be vice-president. The Twelfth Amendment changed that by making president and vice-president two separate elections. The national popular vote was never an American principle, or at least not the way Democrats want it to be now. The Electoral College results from a popular vote – in each state and the District of Columbia. It is 51 separate popular votes, although two states award proportional electoral votes. Democrats don’t like the way elections are currently done because their party lost in 2016 and 2000 due to electoral votes when they won the popular vote. So, naturally, because the system didn’t work for them, they want to abolish it. Republicans run using the Electoral College. Then-candidate Donald Trump visited states he thought he could win to increase his electoral votes. Hillary Clinton visited some states she knew she wouldn’t win in order to increase her vote totals so she would not only be the first female president, but also the president with the most votes ever. This strategy, of course, did not work out in her favor. She ignored states she assumed would give her their electoral votes (like Wisconsin), assuming the Electoral College was a lock for her. She was wrong. Now Democrats are upset that their strategy to win the election didn’t work, and they think that because Clinton won the national popular votes, that a national popular vote would result in total Democrat control. Republicans don’t run on the national popular vote. If they did, maybe they would win it. It’s a chance Democrats seem willing to take.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 3, 2019 5:20:34 GMT -6
Interesting idea, go with it as it is already established practice to use the IRS to investigate such groups/organizations :
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 3, 2019 6:00:44 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/02/house-democrats-want-oversight-over-fox-news-editorial-decisions/House Democrats Want ‘Oversight’ over Fox News’ Editorial Decisions Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are demanding to know why Fox News did not publish a story prior to the 2016 election about an alleged affair years before between porn star Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump. House Committee on Oversight and Reform chair Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) wrote to former Fox News reporter Diana Falzone last month demanding that she turn over any documents relating to Trump’s alleged extramarital affairs. An article in the New Yorker last month alleged that Fox News executive Ken LaCorte spiked the story to protect Trump — a claim LaCorte has vehemently denied, saying the story lacked corroborating evidence and that the network was merely practicing responsible journalism, as were other outlets who declined the story. That article seems to have motivated Cummings’s letter — a letter that not only seeks personal dirt on the president, but seeks information that might be used to review Fox News’ editorial decisions. The committee’s letter suggests that Fox News may have violated campaign finance rules if it tried to help Trump by suppressing the Daniels story. Falzone has said she will cooperate with the committee, despite an agreement with Fox that prevents her from speaking about the story. In an op-ed at Mediaite, LaCorte says he supports Falzone’s desire to talk about the story publicly, but that he will refuse to cooperate with the committee’s effort to exercise oversight over the free press. LaCorte writes (original link): Falzone’s lawyer announced that she would comply with the committee. I won’t. If House Oversight can launch an investigation based on the ridiculous notion that publishing, or even more bizarrely not publishing, a story can be construed as an in-kind campaign contribution, then no journalist in America is safe from government intimidation. It’s a vast overreach of power, and I won’t have any part of it. To be clear, I fully support Fox News lifting Falzone’s non-disclosure agreement so that she can make her case publicly, without leaks or lawyers. But neither editorial decisions nor joke writing should be a subject of government approval.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 3, 2019 10:19:08 GMT -6
Has your mom's clap cleared up yet? 50 cent nuts are hard to find. Trump is a piece of shit human being and so are the dumb fucking rednecks who still support him.
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Post by bk2x on Apr 3, 2019 10:30:32 GMT -6
Trump is a piece of shit human being and so are the dumb fucking rednecks who still support him.
This is also the reason behind the recent racist vandalism cases. Lefties are taking their frustrations out by trying to get conservatives blamed.
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Post by Cooter Brown on Apr 3, 2019 11:10:03 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 3, 2019 11:16:36 GMT -6
The dark horse candidate spoke about “freedom,” specifically as it relates to abortion.
“You’re not free if your reproductive choices are being dictated by male politicians in Washington,” he stated.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 3, 2019 11:19:59 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/04/03/beto-orourke-sharpton-hard-look-reparations/NEW YORK CITY — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke helped kick off the National Action Network Convention on Wednesday by telling Rev. Al Sharpton he would sign off on a commission to study reparations for descendants of black slaves in the U.S. “I had a chance to speak with and just listen to and learn from Brian Stevenson in Montgomery, Alabama and learn from his work on working with the community to build a memorial to justice and to peace and he said ‘foundational to reparations is the word repair. Foundational to repair is the truth,'” O’Rourke said when asked by Sharpton about the proposal put forth by Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson. And until all Americans understand that civil rights are not just those victories I began with the outset of my comments but the injustices that have been visited and continue to be visited and will never get the change that we need to live up to the promise of this country,” the former congressman continued. “So absolutely I would sign that into law.” O’Rourke also agreed that as president, he would bring back Department of Justice consent decrees the Obama administration used often to punish and regulate police departments as a vehicle to abide by the administration’s policies. (
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 3, 2019 17:18:45 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/04/03/beto-orourke-sharpton-hard-look-reparations/NEW YORK CITY — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke helped kick off the National Action Network Convention on Wednesday by telling Rev. Al Sharpton he would sign off on a commission to study reparations for descendants of black slaves in the U.S. “I had a chance to speak with and just listen to and learn from Brian Stevenson in Montgomery, Alabama and learn from his work on working with the community to build a memorial to justice and to peace and he said ‘foundational to reparations is the word repair. Foundational to repair is the truth,'” O’Rourke said when asked by Sharpton about the proposal put forth by Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson. And until all Americans understand that civil rights are not just those victories I began with the outset of my comments but the injustices that have been visited and continue to be visited and will never get the change that we need to live up to the promise of this country,” the former congressman continued. “So absolutely I would sign that into law.” O’Rourke also agreed that as president, he would bring back Department of Justice consent decrees the Obama administration used often to punish and regulate police departments as a vehicle to abide by the administration’s policies. ( And now they want people to be able to tap into SS early despite that pile of cash being looted long ago.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 4, 2019 5:30:40 GMT -6
Another Democrat playing with their campaign cash: dailycaller.com/2019/04/03/beto-orourke-wife-company/Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke paid roughly $110,000 in campaign funds to a web development company while either he or his wife owned it, public records show. Beto for Texas paid Stanton Street Technology Group $58,544 during the 2011-12 election cycle, $39,060 during the 2013-14 cycle, $9,290 in the 2015-16 cycle and $32,778 during the 2017-18 cycle, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Either O’Rourke or his wife owned Stanton Street — a small web development firm that O’Rourke founded in 1998 — during the vast majority of those payments. Such payments are legal, so long as the campaign is charged for the actual cost of the services, but ethics watchdogs have criticized the practice as a form of self-dealing. O’Rourke’s wife, Amy Sanders O’Rourke, took over Stanton Street as the Texas Democrat entered Congress in January 2013. She controlled it until early 2017.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 4, 2019 5:37:52 GMT -6
CNN edits a contributor's bio to eliminate their ties to Qatar Regime. Pictures of before and after at link: dailycaller.com/2019/04/03/cnn-juliette-kayyem-qatar/CNN quietly edited a national security analyst’s biography Wednesday after a report revealed she was a board member of a Qatari-funded organization. The Conservative Review’s Jordan Schachtel reported Tuesday that several CNN contributors and guests have undisclosed ties to the Qatari government, which could influence their on-air coverage of Middle Eastern affairs. Juliette Kayemm, a national security analyst who is on contract with CNN, was listed by the network as of Wednesday as a board member of the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS). (REPORT: National Security Experts On CNN Have Ties To Qatar) ICSS president Mohammed Hanzab said in 2016 that the group is “70% funded by the Qatar government,” a regime that is accused of funding terror and violating basic human rights. Despite the fact that CNN’s biography for Kayyem on its website called her a “board member of … the International Centre for Sport Security,” a CNN source reached out to The Daily Caller to dispute that characterization. .......... www.conservativereview.com/news/many-cnns-national-security-analysts-undisclosed-ties-oppressive-qatari-regime/Also, this:
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 4, 2019 6:22:56 GMT -6
Ted Koppel letting the cat out of the bag: www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ted-koppel-new-york-times-washington-post-decided-as-organizations-that-trump-is-bad-for-united-statesJournalism legend Ted Koppel feels that the New York Times and Washington Post have both “decided as organizations” that President Trump is bad for America. “I’m terribly concerned that when you talk about the New York Times these days, when you talk about the Washington Post these days, we’re not talking about the New York Times of 50 years ago. We are not talking about the Washington Post of 50 years ago,” Koppel said on March 7 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in a clip that was originally reported by Washington-based journalist Nicholas Ballasy and resurfaced on Monday by NewsBusters. nickballasy.com/?p=1239www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2019/03/18/ted-koppel-trump-not-mistaken-about-biased-liberal-mediaWe’re talking about organizations that I believe have, in fact, decided as organizations that Donald J. Trump is bad for the United States,” Koppel said. “We have things appearing on the front page of the New York Times right now that never would have appeared 50 years ago.” Koppel explained that analysis and commentary didn’t use to appear on the front page, but times have changed since Trump entered the world of politics. "I remember sitting at the breakfast table with my wife during the campaign after the Access Hollywood tape came out and the New York Times, and I will not offend any of you here by using the language but you know exactly what words were used, and they were spelled out on the front page of the New York Times,” he said. “I turned to my wife and I said, ‘The Times is absolutely committed to making sure that this guy does not get elected.’” Koppel said Trump’s perception that “the establishment press is out to get him” is indeed accurate. "He’s not mistaken when so many of the liberal media, for example, described themselves as belonging to the Resistance. What does that mean? That’s not said by people who consider themselves reporters, objective reporters of facts,” Koppel said. “That’s the kind of language that’s used by people who genuinely believe, and I rather suspect with some justification, that Donald Trump is bad for the United States.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 4, 2019 9:05:03 GMT -6
Good question:
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 4, 2019 9:13:26 GMT -6
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams questioned the legitimacy of her 2018 loss during an event in New York City on Wednesday, saying she refuses to concede the race to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, while accusing the GOP of stealing the election.
“Despite the final tally and the inauguration [of Gov. Brian Kemp] and the situation we find ourselves in, I do have a very affirmative statement to make: We won,” she told the crowd at the annual convention of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.
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Post by sooner98 on Apr 4, 2019 13:54:17 GMT -6
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Post by sooner98 on Apr 4, 2019 13:55:17 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 4, 2019 15:29:17 GMT -6
Trouble in liberal paradise? Say it's not so. www.city-journal.org/seattle-residents-rebelling-homelessnessA Brewing Rebellion in the Emerald City Seattle residents are losing patience with the city’s out-of-control homelessness problem. Christopher F. Rufo April 2, 2019 For the past five years, like many of its West Coast counterparts, Seattle has endured a steady expansion of homelessness, addiction, mental illness, crime, and street disorder. But the activist class—a political and cultural elite comprising leaders in government, nonprofits, philanthropy, and media—has enforced a strict taboo on declaring the obvious: something is terribly wrong in the Emerald City. Last month, veteran Seattle reporter Eric Johnson of KOMO violated that taboo with a shocking, hour-long documentary called Seattle is Dying, which revealed how the city has allowed a small subset of the homeless population—drug-addicted and mentally-ill criminals—to wreak havoc. Johnson’s portrait is backed up by evidence from King County homelessness data, by city attorney candidate Scott Lindsay’s “prolific offender” report on 100 homeless individuals responsible for more than 3,500 criminal cases, and by my own reporting on the homelessness crisis. In the past two weeks, Seattle Is Dying has garnered 38,000 shares on Facebook and nearly 2 million views on YouTube. The report has clearly resonated with anxious, fearful, and increasingly angry Seattle residents. Exhausted by a decade of rising disorder and property crime—now two-and-a-half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s—Seattle voters may have reached the point of “compassion fatigue.” According to the Seattle Times, 53 percent of Seattle voters now support a “zero-tolerance policy” on homeless encampments; 62 percent believe that the problem is getting worse because the city “wastes money by being inefficient” and “is not accountable for how the money is spent,” and that “too many resources are spent on the wrong approaches to the problem.” The city council insists that new tax revenues are necessary, including a head tax on large employers, but only 7 percent of Seattle voters think that the city is “not spending enough to really solve the problem.” For a famously progressive city, this is a remarkable shift in public opinion. Despite this growing consensus, the activist class is pushing back. According to leaked documents, the City of Seattle and its allies have retained a crisis-communications firm to discredit Johnson and insist, notwithstanding all evidence to the contrary, that “Seattle is making progress to end homelessness, and proven solutions are working.” It’s quite a strategy: Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan is using taxpayer resources to attack a respected local journalist and convince taxpayers that they shouldn’t trust their own experience. The city’s nonprofit and academic partners—mainstays of the homeless-industrial complex—have also launched coordinated attacks against the critics. Timothy Harris, director of Real Change News, has argued that grassroots neighborhood groups like Speak Out Seattle and labor unions like the Iron Workers Local 86 who opposed the city’s head tax are “alt-right” white supremacists, bigots, and fascists. Catherine Hinrichsen, director of the Project on Family Homelessness at Seattle University, accused Johnson of “hate-mongering” and spreading “fear.” After dictating homelessness policy for a generation, the activist class is losing the narrative—and this accounts for its increasingly desperate counterattacks. As their support among voters erodes and principled journalists like Johnson break the silence about homelessness, they fall back on branding their concerned neighbors “bigots,” “fascists,” and “white supremacists.” It’s not working the way it used to. In Seattle, a reckoning on homelessness may not be far off. Christopher F. Rufo is a filmmaker, writer, and policy researcher. He’s the executive director of the Documentary Foundation and a research fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Wealth & Poverty. ...... Links: www.scribd.com/document/400523100/System-Failure-Report-on-prolific-offenders-in-Seattle-s-criminal-justice-systemcity-journal.org/seattle-homelessnesswww.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/homeless-poll-results/docs.google.com/document/d/1RWlOlidSBqw7aqfzz82aux3QHph0ZLDhYKcc2e8h-Lk/mobilebasicwww.realchangenews.org/2019/03/20/komo-asserts-seattle-dying-misery-porn?fbclid=IwAR0LyN4-OGVjCS2S11jF6zCvI0Vjed4FIux28zOmCns74Fv4heeTh9lqsSgcrosscut.com/2019/03/6-reasons-why-komos-take-homelessness-wrong-one
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 4, 2019 17:30:15 GMT -6
Trouble in liberal paradise? Say it's not so. www.city-journal.org/seattle-residents-rebelling-homelessnessA Brewing Rebellion in the Emerald City Seattle residents are losing patience with the city’s out-of-control homelessness problem. Christopher F. Rufo April 2, 2019 For the past five years, like many of its West Coast counterparts, Seattle has endured a steady expansion of homelessness, addiction, mental illness, crime, and street disorder. But the activist class—a political and cultural elite comprising leaders in government, nonprofits, philanthropy, and media—has enforced a strict taboo on declaring the obvious: something is terribly wrong in the Emerald City. Last month, veteran Seattle reporter Eric Johnson of KOMO violated that taboo with a shocking, hour-long documentary called Seattle is Dying, which revealed how the city has allowed a small subset of the homeless population—drug-addicted and mentally-ill criminals—to wreak havoc. Johnson’s portrait is backed up by evidence from King County homelessness data, by city attorney candidate Scott Lindsay’s “prolific offender” report on 100 homeless individuals responsible for more than 3,500 criminal cases, and by my own reporting on the homelessness crisis. In the past two weeks, Seattle Is Dying has garnered 38,000 shares on Facebook and nearly 2 million views on YouTube. The report has clearly resonated with anxious, fearful, and increasingly angry Seattle residents. Exhausted by a decade of rising disorder and property crime—now two-and-a-half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s—Seattle voters may have reached the point of “compassion fatigue.” According to the Seattle Times, 53 percent of Seattle voters now support a “zero-tolerance policy” on homeless encampments; 62 percent believe that the problem is getting worse because the city “wastes money by being inefficient” and “is not accountable for how the money is spent,” and that “too many resources are spent on the wrong approaches to the problem.” The city council insists that new tax revenues are necessary, including a head tax on large employers, but only 7 percent of Seattle voters think that the city is “not spending enough to really solve the problem.” For a famously progressive city, this is a remarkable shift in public opinion. Despite this growing consensus, the activist class is pushing back. According to leaked documents, the City of Seattle and its allies have retained a crisis-communications firm to discredit Johnson and insist, notwithstanding all evidence to the contrary, that “Seattle is making progress to end homelessness, and proven solutions are working.” It’s quite a strategy: Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan is using taxpayer resources to attack a respected local journalist and convince taxpayers that they shouldn’t trust their own experience. The city’s nonprofit and academic partners—mainstays of the homeless-industrial complex—have also launched coordinated attacks against the critics. Timothy Harris, director of Real Change News, has argued that grassroots neighborhood groups like Speak Out Seattle and labor unions like the Iron Workers Local 86 who opposed the city’s head tax are “alt-right” white supremacists, bigots, and fascists. Catherine Hinrichsen, director of the Project on Family Homelessness at Seattle University, accused Johnson of “hate-mongering” and spreading “fear.” After dictating homelessness policy for a generation, the activist class is losing the narrative—and this accounts for its increasingly desperate counterattacks. As their support among voters erodes and principled journalists like Johnson break the silence about homelessness, they fall back on branding their concerned neighbors “bigots,” “fascists,” and “white supremacists.” It’s not working the way it used to. In Seattle, a reckoning on homelessness may not be far off. Christopher F. Rufo is a filmmaker, writer, and policy researcher. He’s the executive director of the Documentary Foundation and a research fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Wealth & Poverty. ...... Links: www.scribd.com/document/400523100/System-Failure-Report-on-prolific-offenders-in-Seattle-s-criminal-justice-systemcity-journal.org/seattle-homelessnesswww.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/homeless-poll-results/docs.google.com/document/d/1RWlOlidSBqw7aqfzz82aux3QHph0ZLDhYKcc2e8h-Lk/mobilebasicwww.realchangenews.org/2019/03/20/komo-asserts-seattle-dying-misery-porn?fbclid=IwAR0LyN4-OGVjCS2S11jF6zCvI0Vjed4FIux28zOmCns74Fv4heeTh9lqsSgcrosscut.com/2019/03/6-reasons-why-komos-take-homelessness-wrong-oneI watched this and couldn't believe it. Sadly Seattle isn't alone.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 4, 2019 20:59:38 GMT -6
So, Seattle raised taxes for big businesses & Amazon is moving out: www.geekwire.com/2019/exclusive-amazon-moving-thousands-employees-seattle-relocating-key-division-nearby-city/Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to Bellevue, Wash., by 2023, adding thousands of employees to its new campus just across Lake Washington, according to an internal email obtained by GeekWire. Moving a large and critical team away from Amazon’s Seattle headquarters is a significant relocation of employees on its own, but it’s also a weighty symbolic gesture — the clearest sign yet that the tech giant is cooling on its hometown while doubling down on a neighboring city. Sources familiar with the plans said several thousand employees will be moving to Bellevue in the years ahead. Amazon confirmed the authenticity of the email obtained by GeekWire. Worldwide operations is one of the most critical teams at Amazon, the arm responsible for getting packages to customers’ doors. It oversees more than 175 operating fulfillment centers around the world and the 250,000 employees who work there. The team also manages Amazon’s thousands of delivery truck trailers and its fleet of 40 airplanes. New logistics initiatives, like Amazon’s “Delivery Service Partners” program, also fall under the worldwide operations purview. Amazon will start moving employees to Bellevue this month and will finish the migration by 2023. The company currently has 700 employees in Bellevue and more than 45,000 at its Seattle headquarters. It would take some time for Amazon’s Bellevue team to grow to a size that rivals Seattle, but moving the worldwide operations team is a big step in that direction. The migration adds weight to the theory that Amazon is shifting its focus to Bellevue and other cities across the country amid ongoing tensions between the tech giant and its longtime hometown. Why would Amazon move one of its most essential teams out of the company’s Seattle headquarters? Amazon hasn’t yet commented publicly, but there are a few possible reasons. The move allows Amazon to continue tapping the Seattle region’s deep talent pool but lets the company escape some of the friction it is experiencing in its hometown. Bellevue was Amazon’s original birthplace, but CEO Jeff Bezos moved the company’s headquarters to Seattle’s urban core early on. He said the goal was to provide the type of urban environment that young, dynamic tech workers thrive in. But fast-forward to 2019 and the tech industry’s rapid growth has fomented frustration among longtime Seattleites who have whiplash from how quickly the city is changing. That animosity came to a head last year, when Seattle officials passed a tax on big businesses, like Amazon, to fund affordable housing, a pressing issue in the region. The business community balked at the tax, leading the city to repeal it less than a month later. The fight over the so-called “head tax” became emblematic of Amazon’s strained relationship with Seattle.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 5, 2019 9:13:40 GMT -6
He compares his actions to those of Malcolm X :
“I mean, people are always going to bring down the negative side of people speaking up and doing something,” he said. “Just like Malcolm X. Some people consider that man a very violent person, but in a way, I do believe he did something right.”
“Just got done buying some balloons at Dollar Tree because we’re gonna throw some water balloons at some Donald Trump supporters,’’ he says in the 6-½ minute video. “Like you can’t be coming to my block supporting some Donald Trump s—. So you about to get hit.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 5, 2019 11:57:07 GMT -6
Biden again:
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 5, 2019 13:01:48 GMT -6
Biden refuses to apologize to the seven accusers, etc.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 5, 2019 13:08:41 GMT -6
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