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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Tucker: Why Did Bill Barr Lie About Jeffrey Epstein? Hmmm… Fast clip
[WHATAFINGER] Disgraced Attorney General Bill Barr lied about Jeffrey Epstein’s death. Covering the tracks for all of his accomplices including Bill Clinton.

Bill Barr also lied to Trump about MANY things. Including the DOJ investigating voter fraud, which never took place. Just another Deep State scam.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/02/2024 04:17 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why would he not lie about Epstein? Barr seems to have lied about plenty of other stuff.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/02/2024 6:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Epstein-Barr syndrome?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/02/2024 7:26 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Nicely played, Sir
Posted by: Frank G || 01/02/2024 7:31 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Heh

But is it really a lie if you believe it? Or are trying not to get caught?
Posted by: SteveS || 01/02/2024 8:44 Comments || Top||


Tucker Carlson reigniting speculation Jeff Epstein was murdered in jail cell
[WND] Tucker Carlson started off 2024 by reigniting speculation sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was actually murdered, as opposed to the official narrative of suicide since the wealthy financier was discovered dead in his New York City jail cell in 2019.

Carlson released a brief video clip on New Year's Day showing Mark Epstein, Jeffrey's brother, attempting to see the prehospital care report, or PCR, from the city's fire department.

"The U.S. government claims Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in a federal detention facility in Manhattan four and a half years ago, just before his trial. If that's true, why are there so few records available from that night?" Carlson wondered.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/02/2024 04:04 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jeffery Epstein, a very inconvenient citizen.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/02/2024 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Given the long litany of lies issued by the government, why should anyone take the explanation at face value?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/02/2024 7:24 Comments || Top||

#3 
Are Epstein's actual jailers still alive, or have they been given DC Swamp Admin positions. ☻
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/02/2024 7:34 Comments || Top||

#4  We're the unnamed "other prisoners" who were released, actually prisoners ?

* Insert 6Jan protestor Ray Epps foto here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/02/2024 7:42 Comments || Top||


#6  with a beautiful woman on each arm'

Well, that leaves out Hillary(!). Neither woman, nor beautiful.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/02/2024 8:50 Comments || Top||

#7  jesus, why did you put that image in my head skid?
Posted by: Chris || 01/02/2024 11:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Question is: Who has taken Epstein's place as pimp to the rich, famous and powerful? Who is managing all those unaccompanied minors who illegally crossed our southern border during the Biden regime? We know there is a demand for such a service and the kind of people who are demanding it are accustomed to getting what they want by any means necessary. So how are they getting it now?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/02/2024 13:36 Comments || Top||

#9  I wonder if Hunter has that person on speed-dial?
Anyone?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/02/2024 14:25 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Do you want to know the truth about our once-great cities?
[WND] Longtime WND columnist and author Jack Cashill is a lot like me. We can reminisce about the Jersey Shore, those "Wildwood Days" growing up, or comparing Newark and Paterson for hours on end. We're kindred spirits, raised by different mothers and fathers in a not-so-different universe at approximately the same time and place.

But I think I only met him once or twice — in Kansas City.

You see, Jack and I were cut out of the same cloth, so to speak.

We were both raised New Jersey boys and never got over the experience — the good, the bad and the ugly.

I've admired Jack much over the years. I wish I had told him that more often. I think I will after just having read his latest exquisite book, "Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities." This a very serious book — in fact the first of its kind — on the subject of "white flight" written from the perspective of those forced to flee.

Yes, I suppose some white people left cities because of racism — probably a distinct minority. Others, like the Cashill family, left with regret because they loved Newark.

"By the end of the 1960s," Cashill recalls, "the state had razed many of our homes, mine included. A lethal riot had scorched the neighborhood. My friends and their families had scattered to the winds, and a twenty-foot-deep trench as wide as a tennis court forever severed the north end of Pigs (short for Pigtails Alley) from the south. To the degree anyone beyond our world noticed, it was to scold us for our own displacement."

Cashill took his title from this exchange:

"I asked one lifelong friend, a loyal Democrat, why he and his widowed mother finally left our block in the early 1970s, twenty years after the first African American families moved in. He searched for a minute for the right set of words and then simply said, 'It became untenable.' When I asked what 'untenable' meant, he answered, 'When your mother gets mugged for the second time, that's untenable.'"

What more is there to say.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/02/2024 04:06 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cities came into being for reasons. When those activities ended or moved on, the ruling cliques undermined discipline and standards for power. The west is dotted with old mining and farming ghost towns.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/02/2024 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  They remain a good place to drop off illegal immigrants.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/02/2024 8:22 Comments || Top||



#5  HollyWierd Dude swarmed by mini-Bikers
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/02/2024 9:17 Comments || Top||


#7  Notice how many of the attacks involve multi-perps and are video taped? Gang initiation rights should examined but are (for obvious reasons) seldom mentioned.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/02/2024 11:06 Comments || Top||

#8  When law and order break down so do cities.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/02/2024 13:19 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Ominous Rumblings From The Climate Change Cult
[ET via ZERO] In the past, I’ve referred to the well-funded, well-organized, but scientifically vacuous climate alarmists as a "cabal" with an explicitly socialist agenda.

Indeed, in a political context that’s exactly what they are. But in a religious context, they’re a cult fanatically pushing a rigid dogma.

The climate change dogma is roughly this:

The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has increased markedly over the past century (true);

human activities have contributed to that increase (true);

Earth has warmed by more than a degree since escaping the harsh Little Ice Age in the 19th century (also true, thank goodness!);

temperatures will continue to rise to dangerous, catastrophe-inducing levels (unproven, unknowable, and unlikely) unless human society is radically transformed by drastically curbing the human use of fossil fuels (a power-seeking agenda that would inflict widespread impoverishment and suffering on billions of human beings).

In connection with the United Nation’s recently completed annual extravaganza in climate change propaganda and hysteria—COP28—long-time alarmist Al Gore (who still wants today the "wrenching transformation" of society that he called for in his 1992 jeremiad "Earth in the Balance") lamented the fact that some people actually disagree with the wildly speculative alarmist predictions (guesses) that he and his fellow alarmists are making about the future.

He blamed social media and algorithms for spreading what he considers disinformation (in more neutral terms: differences of perception and understanding) about climate change.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/02/2024 04:12 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Scientists develop jet fuel made entirely from human POO
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/02/2024 9:42 Comments || Top||

#2  "Not Taco Bell, though. Octane is too explosive"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/02/2024 9:47 Comments || Top||

#3  When the sh*t hits the turbofan...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/02/2024 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: badanov || 01/02/2024 11:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Guess the least expensive from the following:


Gasoline?
Diesel?
Jet fuel?

If you choose Jet Fuel, you win.
Posted by: mossomo || 01/02/2024 12:31 Comments || Top||

#6  in 2024 there is a big tax rebate, about $2/gallon on sustainable jet fuel.

regulations are difficult to comprehend but generally, fuel made from human waste by various sewer and water authorities would qualify
Posted by: lord garth || 01/02/2024 16:55 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Stop taxpayer funding of the 'rights for migrants' legal scam
[FoxNews] As a record number of migrants invade the U.S., wreaking pain on New York City and other communities, one group is winning big time: the public advocacy lawyers. Their business is to constantly sue to win more so-called rights for migrants. Rights to shelter, rights to meals, rights to health care, even the right to vote in local elections.

Who pays the bills on both sides of these lawsuits? You do. Taxpayer money largely funds these legal combatants, which include the Coalition for the Homeless, Legal Aid Society and Vera Institute of Justice.

You're paying to be legally coerced into providing more for migrants, even at the cost of cutting vital city services – kind of like hiring your own assassin. It's absurd, but it's about to get worse.

On Dec. 14, the New York City Council passed Resolution 556, calling on the state legislature to guarantee, as a right, that all migrants have lawyers paid for by taxpayers when they go to immigration court. It would be a "first-in-the-nation" guarantee.

Resolution 556 would give migrants more rights than American citizens have. No one else is guaranteed a publicly funded lawyer in civil court matters such as housing court issues or divorce.

Yikes, the city council's proposal would make the Big Apple even more of a magnet for migrants than it already is.

Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths.
Ms McCaughey, 75, was George Pataki’s second in command during his first term, when she was a Republican. When he dropped her from the ticket, she ran against him, first as a Democrat, then on the Liberal Party ticket. She returned to the Republican fold in 2010, and was tapped by Donald Trump as an advisor for his 2016 campaign following careers in academia and conservative punditry.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/02/2024 09:00 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Asylum is a legal scam.

If we win 2024 and take the power back, we need to use the same laws used to nationalize russian oligarch assets, and seize all the assets from all NGOs that are involved with the Asylum Claims Cottage Industry.
Posted by: mossomo || 01/02/2024 12:25 Comments || Top||


Economy
Scott Adams: 2024 ‘Will Be Surprising on the Upside'
[Breitbart] Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams says that 2024 is going to be "surprising on the upside," rather than the grim year many observers expect.

Adams appeared on the Breitbart News New Year Special on SiriusXM Patriot 125 over the New Year’s Eve weekend.

"I know I feel like everything’s coming apart," he said. "It feels like the wheels have completely come off the country, and it’s just going to crumble any moment. ... That’s a fake feeling."

"There’s just a ton of stuff going right," he said. He mentioned advances in technology, and said that everything from "loneliness" to "climate change" would be solved through innovation.

He added that people were starting to see through the mainstream media, as well as ideological frameworks like ESG — environment, social, and governance — that are used to impose politics in the workplace.

All of that portended a good year, he said.

Adams had a dramatic 2023, after his famous comic strip was "completely canceled" worldwide, and all of his publishers dropped his projects, in the wake of comments about a poll of racial attitudes that were taken out of context. But Adams moved Dilbert to a subscription-based distribution model, including Locals.com, and continued to delight fans and to win adherents as a political voice.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/02/2024 04:40 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Meh, he skipped over the "trough" part of the equation. But yeah, sure.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/02/2024 11:21 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: badanov || 01/02/2024 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ *golf clap*
Posted by: Frank G || 01/02/2024 12:33 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
On this day in history, January 2, 1920, thousands detained by DOJ in nationwide 'Palmer Raids'
[FoxNews] Violent dragnet marked height of Red Scare, flagrant abuse of constitutional restrictions on government

The Department of Justice unleashed a shocking and often violent unconstitutional nationwide dragnet — detaining as many as 10,000 people — on this day in history, Jan. 2, 1920.

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, appointed to the office 10 months earlier by President Woodrow Wilson, led the sweep against suspected communists and anarchists, as well as their sympathizers.

The action was soon dubbed the Palmer Raids.

"The raids constituted a horrific, shameful episode in American history, one of the lowest moments for liberty since King George III quartered troops in private homes," writes the Foundation for Economic Education.

The foundation called the effort under President Wilson "America's reign of terror."

The Wilson administration also targeted political opponents.

"Even simple criticism of the government was enough to send you to jail," according to Christopher Finan, author of the 2007 book "From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America."

The Palmer Raids marked the height of the nation's first Red Scare, a response to the Bolshevik Revolution and communist takeover of Russia.

The radical ideology soon spread across Europe and the United States after the tectonic social upheaval caused by World War I.

The era of fear was further fueled by widespread postwar labor discontent and the deadly influenza pandemic of 1919, which killed about 675,000 Americans, many of them children, in just a year-and-a-half.

"The Constitution faced a major test on this day in 1920 when raids ordered by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer saw thousands of people detained without warrants merely upon general suspicion," the National Constitution Center wrote last year.

"Facilitated by a young Justice Department official, J. Edgar Hoover, what became known as the Palmer Raids peaked on the night of Jan. 2, 1920, when between 3,000 and 10,000 people in 35 cities were detained."
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/02/2024 08:52 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "between 3,000 and 10,000"
Kinda nebulous numbers. Do they know how to count?
Posted by: ed in texas || 01/02/2024 11:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Now they are the globalists commies and the American people are the target.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/02/2024 11:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Democrat pollsters.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/02/2024 15:07 Comments || Top||

#4 


Amazing How History Repeats Itself.
President Wilson Biden, suffered a mental and physical collapse in his later years that left him feeble minded. Wilson’s Biden's condition was kept largely hidden from the public, and his wife worked behind the scenes to fulfill a number of his administrative duties.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/02/2024 15:32 Comments || Top||

#5  The Feds were suppressing civil rights well before this during WWI. The Palmer Raids were just another in a long series of abuses of federal power.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 01/02/2024 15:36 Comments || Top||


VDH - The Utter Insanity of Joe Biden's Open Border
[AG] There have been more than 8 million illegal entries into the United States since Joe Biden was elected president. He appointed Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security, whose apparent prime directive was to destroy the southern border.

That task is precisely what Mayorkas has now accomplished. The result is that the border is neither "porous" nor "problematic," but nonexistent, kaput, vanished—and by design.

In one of the most surreal experiences in the history of the United States, each night Americans see video clips of thousands of foreign nationals crossing the border en masse with complete impunity—as if the entire corpus of federal immigration law has been dynamited.

But by whom? And why?

As millions of citizens watch this travesty, they hear only from Mayorkas, Biden, and his Pravda megaphone, Karin Jean-Pierre, that the border is "secure"—a Baghdad Bob narrative that they know that we know is an utter lie.

Surely, this deliberate effort to destroy an entire border, to invite in millions of unchecked illegal aliens, and to violate oaths to execute faithfully the laws of the land are impeachable offenses for both Biden and Mayorkas. If not, what are?

Stranger still, Americans have no real idea why these revolutionaries are destroying our border.

Are they nineteenth-century anarchists who want to undermine the United States itself? Are they cynical "Demography is Destiny" and "The New Democratic Majority" leftists who need new dependent Democrat constituents to find votes for agendas that most Americans reject?

Do they want to create billions of dollars in new entitlements and subsidies to grow government, hike taxes, and make the upper middle class pay, as Biden puts it, "their fair share?"

Whatever the cause of this nihilism, there are at least 10 ways their open border is insidiously destroying the United States.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/02/2024 05:54 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Almost like they had planned it. That’s why they swapped in Joe through the South Carolina shuffle.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/02/2024 6:59 Comments || Top||

#2  But by whom? And why?

Follow the money.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/02/2024 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Ummm
Catholic Charities?
Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic || 01/02/2024 10:17 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ They were there at the start. Now, they're just part of the Cast of Thousands.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/02/2024 11:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Dem NJ Mayor: We Turned Away Migrant Bus Because It’s ‘Major Security Risk’ — Don’t Know If They’re Armed

Cautious is good but most anybody that would ride a bus is armed. Check the high schools.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/02/2024 15:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Anyone on NJ public transport vehicles could be armed, too, not to mention drivers of cars & trucks. Shut them all down and confine the population to their residences. That'll do the trick, Dems!
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 01/02/2024 15:42 Comments || Top||

#7  I don't know whether or not Biden supporters have functioning brains.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 01/02/2024 15:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Don't know if they're armed?

Should thought of that before you made yourself a "Sanctuary City", Schifferbrains.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/02/2024 16:29 Comments || Top||



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  Sky News: US and Houthi ships clash in the Red Sea
Mon 2024-01-01
  Israel said set to replace all Palestinian workers with tens of thousands of foreigners
Sun 2023-12-31
  Israeli forces push deeper into central and southern Gaza amid airstrikes
Sat 2023-12-30
  Attack in Syria maybe kills 11 senior Iranian military officers, injures top advisor to Damascus
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  Khan Younis hospital operating without 80% of staff
Thu 2023-12-28
  'Impossible to walk inside the hospital without stepping over patients': WHO
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  US troops hit three Kataib Hezbollah targets in Iraq
Tue 2023-12-26
  Hamas rejects two-state solution
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  IDF has reported the first confirmed case of a Hamas suicide bomber in Gaza
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  Israel orders evacuation of UNRWA facilities
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  IDF uncovers Hamas 'nerve center' below opulent Gaza neighborhood
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  Massive explosion at Iran's aviation and space force headquarters in Tehran


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