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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Rudy Giuliani goes OFF and issues CHALLENGE: ‘Prove me nuts! Prove me wrong! Let me have access to those machines.'
[Right Scoop] On his radio show this morning Rudy Giuliani issued a challenge on voting machines. "Prove me wrong! Prove me nuts!" He also went OFF on the media and Democrats, and especially on "turncoat" Republicans.

His challenge is just plain logical. Prove him wrong, he says, by letting him go ahead and take a look! I mean y’all that’s dang obvious stuff right there.

"Let me have access to those machines. If I’m wrong, I make a fool out of myself."

I’d take that challenge in a Texas second if I were a Democrat who actually believed the whole thing worked how it was supposed to and I was innocent of any wrongdoing.

Of course, if you AREN’T innocent of wrongdoing...

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2020 08:48 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Board of electors in my own state refused transparency. They are criminals, every one of them.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/21/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

#2  The thing is, they will prove him wrong. Not with facts, mind you but with narrative. He does not think in the appropriate manner, therefore he is wrong. Hell, he may even be prosecuted.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/21/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||

#3  there needs to be an objective, truly objective, group to decide this mess, and sooner than later, but who?
Posted by: 746 || 12/21/2020 10:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Jimmy Carter?
The OSCE?
Hans Blix?
Posted by: Caesar Dribble8536 || 12/21/2020 10:54 Comments || Top||

#5  an Israeli military court?
Posted by: 746 || 12/21/2020 11:37 Comments || Top||

#6  The machines could be seized for forensic audit. Trump will have to deal with the optics. Half or more of the country would probably in favor of this.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/21/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||

#7  a U.S. military court?
Posted by: 746 || 12/21/2020 15:48 Comments || Top||


Schweizer: Joe Biden ‘a Direct Beneficiary' of Hunter Biden's Foreign Deals
[Breitbart] During an appearance on this week’s "Sunday Morning Futures" on Fox News Channel, Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer discussed the controversy involving President-elect Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and his foreign business dealings.

Schweizer advised that the elder Biden is a "direct beneficiary" of Hunter Biden’s dealings. He noted Hunter Biden had no "expertise" or "connections" to the deals he made overseas other than the fact that his father was serving as vice president at the time.

"[T]his is not just a Hunter Biden story ... because of what Hunter Biden himself has communicated," Schweizer told host Maria Bartiromo. "In the emails that have come out as well, Hunter Biden is quite explicit. In one particular communication with his daughter, he’s basically complaining that he pays half of the entire family’s bills. And he includes his mother and father in that and makes reference to pops. So, the point is, is that all this enrichment that has been taking place is also flowing to Joe Biden indirectly through his son, but the fact of the matter is, he’s still a beneficiary, a direct beneficiary, of these foreign deals."

Bartiromo brought up an email from Hunter Biden about wanting a set of keys to have an office in Washington, D.C. to be shared among the Biden family and Gongwen Dong. Schweizer explained this shows how "cozy the Bidens have been with the Chinese."

"That is a great example, symbolic example, of how the Bidens basically have blurred their political activities and their commercial activities, and how close and chummy they are," he argued. "Let’s keep in mind, CEFC and Chairman Ye, who is the head of that company, is linked directly to the PLA. The chairman was brought up on corruption charges. There was sort of an internal purge, as it were, in China. Some of the directors of that company have direct ties to President Xi. So this is not some random Chinese company on the fringes of Chinese political life. It’s at the center of it."

Schweizer continued, "And this is the same entity upon which Joe Biden, the so-called big guy, was going to get 10 percent. They were literally going to share office space. They were going to House the Biden Foundation and a CEFC office in the exact same office space. So, it’s very troubling. And it speaks to the fact of how cozy the Bidens have been with the Chinese."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2020 07:11 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Pressley: Prison Inmates Should Receive First Coronavirus Vaccines
[Free Beacon] Massachusetts congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D.) said Sunday that incarcerated men and women should be prioritized alongside health care workers in the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine.

"I'm going to continue to fight for our most vulnerable communities who have been disproportionately impacted by the virus, for our health care workers, for our essential workers, for incarcerated men and women to be prioritized in the distribution of the vaccine," Pressley told CNN.

Pressley's statement is in line with her state's vaccination plan but clashes with other leaders' approaches. Massachusetts is prioritizing prison inmates and homeless individuals over senior citizens and at-risk individuals in its vaccination plan. The state's inmates will receive vaccines after frontline workers and residents of nursing homes.

Washington, D.C., mayor Muriel Bowser (D.) has said her city's inmates and homeless will be prioritized in vaccinations to create an "equitable distribution" of the vaccine.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2020 07:42 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How about they serve as the control group?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/21/2020 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Her constituents.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/21/2020 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Can our next constitution specifically say in clause one that angry people are ineligible for any and all elective offices and bureaucratic appointments? Just hopin...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/21/2020 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Two hundred years ago when there wasn't wealth to be taken by the state to assuage the ruling class' moral superiority, we didn't warehouse hundreds of thousands of sociopaths. Felons were executed.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/21/2020 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Not such a bad idea, really. You get to find out what the side effects are without throwing it out on the productive part of the population. Whatever else, it beats releasing them wholesale. I say vaccinate 'em good and hard, then let them get back to work on the rest of that 'Life' situation.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/21/2020 9:27 Comments || Top||

#6  I can think of a better group of people to serve as guinea pigs for the rest of us.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/21/2020 11:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Abu, if you meant can instead of can't I agree with you.

My preferred group would be all Democrats.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/21/2020 11:46 Comments || Top||

#8  I meant can't. No excuses. I'd had my breakfast and was on my second cup of coffee. I make no claim of perfection.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/21/2020 17:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
China Joe spokeswoman says AG candidates won't be asked about Hunter Biden
[NYP] President-elect Joe Biden will not discuss with attorney general candidates a federal investigation into his son Hunter Biden, incoming White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday.

"He will not be discussing an investigation of his son with any attorney general candidates. ... he will not be discussing it with anyone he is considering for the role and he will not be discussing it with a future attorney general," Psaki told host Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday."

Wallace asked Psaki about the US attorney for Delaware’s investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax affairs and whether the former vice president would allow it to run its course.

"It will be up to the purview of an attorney general in his administration to determine how to handle any investigation," she said. "As you know, U.S. attorneys, that’s a personnel decision, we’re far from there at this point in the process."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2020 07:48 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Other blacklisted topics may include; Dominion voting machines, Benghazi, mail-in ballots, COV-19 origins, Operation Warp Speed, Chicago crime, Border Wall success stories, the Chinese trade deficit, the murder of Seth Rich, the Jeffrey Epstein suicide, the Obama Iran Deal, reparations, and college loan forgiveness.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2020 8:03 Comments || Top||

#2  No need to ask when the answer is already known.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/21/2020 8:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Tbey will be TOLD!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/21/2020 9:10 Comments || Top||

#4  AKA "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/21/2020 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ #! Another forgotten topic will be those who travelled to Little St. Jame's Island for trysts with underaged girls.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/21/2020 13:20 Comments || Top||


Obama's Latest Autobiography Rewrites Israeli History to Make You Hate the Jewish State
[PJ] Whatever the merits or lack thereof of Barack Obama’s presidency, he certainly leads all other presidents in the number of autobiographies he has written, with three compared to a number of his peers who are tied at one. However, his latest one, A Promised Land, is more than just an update on the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of the Most Undeservedly Celebrated Man on the Planet; it’s a full-on apologia for his policies as president, and a program for his impending third term, aka the Biden administration.

The weighty 768-page tome not only tells you more about His Wonderfulness than you ever thought you wanted to know; it also provides a potted Leftist history of Israel that abundantly illustrates how Leftists see our most reliable ally in the Middle East, and why they hate it with such focused laser-beam intensity.

Obama portrays Britain and then Israel as occupying powers in Palestine, without ever explaining who actually owned the land they were and are supposedly occupying. He makes no mention of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. As The Palestinian Delusion explains in detail, the Mandate directed the British to encourage "close settlement by Jews on the land" for "the establishment of the Jewish national home." What gave the League the right to do such a thing? The dying Ottoman Empire had ceded Palestine to the League in 1918. Jews had lived in that land from time immemorial, and it was otherwise sparsely populated. It was a perfect place for the Jews who faced discrimination, harassment and worse in Europe and elsewhere to settle.

Thus the common assumption, which Obama fosters, that the Israelis are illegitimate occupiers of a land that belongs rightly to the Palestinians, founders on the facts. There never was a Palestinian state. No Palestinian king, or emperor, or president. There never was a Palestinian nationality or ethnicity distinct from the nationality and ethnicity of the Arabs of the region. Palestine, like Staten Island or Georgetown, was always the name of a region, not a nation-state or ethnonational home.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2020 06:58 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  BHO has got to be one of the most despicable people on the planet. Why isn't this meddlesome, under-handed, hateful, treacherous anti-Semite in jail at Gitmo?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/21/2020 13:17 Comments || Top||

#2  He certainly leads all other presidents in the number of autobiographies he has written, with three compared to a number of his peers who are tied at one.

Ratio of achievement to self-regard:
US Grant 99:1
Lincoln 99:1
Eisenhower, Churchill, FDR 50:1
Reagan: 10:1
Gen. MacArthur 2:1
Obama 0:100
Posted by: Herb Grumble1891 || 12/21/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Hey, Bill Ayers's gotta make a buck too!
Posted by: Frank G || 12/21/2020 13:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Ayers must be the most underpaid ghost writer in history. Third time around. Ayers must know lots of secrets about the Curious Career of El Bathhouse
Posted by: Slort Fleasing5267 || 12/21/2020 14:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Beulah Land ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2020 14:19 Comments || Top||

#6  "Your check, Mister Charlie. For... workin'."
The puppet sits silently smirkin'.
"Those big bucks he banks?
He don't even say thanks..."
"But, oh boy, what a bargain is Bergen!"
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Glomp3810 || 12/21/2020 19:10 Comments || Top||


Chris Christie says Michael Flynn ‘never belongs anywhere near the White House'
[Pehal News] Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie joined a Sunday version of The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer, the place he responded to experiences that President Trump floated the idea of imposing martial law and overturning the election at a White House assembly on Friday. Trump’s embattled former nationwide safety adviser Michael Flynn, who was reportedly at the assembly alongside together with his lawyer Sidney Powell, has been touting the imposition of martial law for weeks.

"This is why someone like Michael Flynn never belongs anywhere near the White House, let alone inside the Oval Office," Christie stated. "And his lawyer Sidney Powell."

Christie has been warning Trump about Flynn for years, and he reiterated that time on Sunday.

"I’ve been talking about this since the transition in 2016, how dangerous I thought General Flynn was," Christie stated. "I sat with him in security briefings with the then-candidate Donald Trump, and then with President Donald Trump, and I will tell you that he is not fit to be giving advice to anyone."

Trump denied elevating the thought of imposing martial regulation, calling it "Fake News" in a tweet. Christie suggested the president that to keep away from comparable reporting in the future, he ought to not welcome Flynn or Powell to the White House.

"I think the best advice I could give the president is, keep Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell out of the Oval Office," Christie stated. "And then those really bad ideas will stay out of the Oval Office as well."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2020 06:42 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Christie's so fat he's near the White House wherever he goes on the planet.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/21/2020 7:04 Comments || Top||

#2  That slob Christie...a walking solar eclipse...and RINO-ish
Posted by: Clem || 12/21/2020 7:14 Comments || Top||

#3  F*ck that pig
Posted by: Mad Eye Angonter1301 || 12/21/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Biden won't give you a job, Christie, no matter how much you offer your tongue.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/21/2020 7:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Christie's tongue is so fat it won't fit up the crack of Biden's a$$...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/21/2020 8:00 Comments || Top||

#6  I wanna know what's Flynn got on Christie?
Posted by: Bobby || 12/21/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Iran deal payola?
Posted by: Varmint Phenter7955 || 12/21/2020 10:56 Comments || Top||

#8  What's Christie's angle?
What's Barr's angle, who is going to work for?
What's Pompeo's angle, who is going to work for?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 12/21/2020 12:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Martial Law Flynn?
Posted by: Maggie Uleregum1042 || 12/21/2020 12:37 Comments || Top||

#10  Christie never belongs anywhere near the WH. He's the one who recommended Christopher Wray to Trump. Swamprats look after each other. Dems are predictable and consistent. Its all about party and power. RINOs require some time to know them by their acts.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/21/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||

#11  Christy and Romney are the same. They both belong at the bottom of a cesspit so they can have what they spew out, rained on them.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/21/2020 15:15 Comments || Top||

#12  US Treasury Pirates. Both deep state and politicians who are paid extraordinary salaries.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/21/2020 16:39 Comments || Top||

#13  Patriots send him all the saturated fat munchies you can afford.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/21/2020 20:46 Comments || Top||

#14  I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
Posted by: Clem || 12/21/2020 21:07 Comments || Top||


Trump campaign take election battle to Supreme Court, seeking Pennsylvania rulings to be overturned
[RT] President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s legal team filed an appeal to the US Supreme Court on Sunday, requesting multiple rulings out of Pennsylvania be overturned in their latest attempt to overturn election results over alleged voter fraud.
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani announced the last ditch effort in a public statement, claiming a trio of Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases "illegally changed Pennsylvania’s mail balloting law immediately before and after the 2020 presidential election."

The appeal follows numerous legal battles in key swing states like Pennsylvania and Georgia. Trump and his team have alleged massive voter fraud in these and other states led to Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
’s victory, which was certified by the Electoral College earlier this month.

Pennsylvania’s changing of the law, Giuliani claims, was "in violation of Article II of the U.S. Constitution."

These decisions "eviscerated the Pennsylvania’s Legislature’s protection against mail ballot fraud," the release continues.
Posted by: Fred || 12/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not the final step. The show or war is not over.
Posted by: Dale || 12/21/2020 3:51 Comments || Top||

#2  This feels like December 1860.

When & where will our own Sumter be?

Will it come after 3 more months of lockdown and assaults on law, order, our institutions and our heritage?
Posted by: Albert Whoger6266 || 12/21/2020 4:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Rumor has it that Trump is going to deputize military MP's as Federal Marshalls and send them out to arrest people . One network is supposed to be shut down. I know, just jabber on the internet but it does make me drool thinking about it.
Posted by: Phinetch Wherese4624 || 12/21/2020 5:33 Comments || Top||

#4  You missed Gettysburg 2.0 already but Sherman's March 2.0 is coming to GA on Jan 6th.
Posted by: Maggie Uleregum1042 || 12/21/2020 8:49 Comments || Top||

#5  If there was ever a time in America for divine intervention, its now...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/21/2020 9:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Be careful what you wish for, Pan. A South Park episode proved to the world that Heaven is run by Mormons.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/21/2020 9:32 Comments || Top||

#7  #3 The time to deputize military MP's as Federal Marshalls and send them out to arrest people was when BLAmtifa had their first violent "demonstration".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/21/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||

#8  A perfectly objective news article. No opinion, no hyperbole, no breathless talk about bombshells or wild right-wing conspiracy theories. Just the facts, ma'am. From RT. Gosh, why can't CBS do that?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/21/2020 11:43 Comments || Top||


Mitt reminds everyone he's a RINO Squish
Losers gonna lose
[Daily Wire] Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) criticized President Donald Trump on Sunday for not yet conceding the election and entertaining what he described as "nutty and loopy" conspiracy theories about it.
The poor man understands hard work and making sacrifices, but hs no concept of fighting for something. At this point President Trump may or may not win through to reelection, but he is fighting to make future elections possible.
Speaking with CNN host Jake Tapper on "State of the Union," Romney maintained that not only are Trump's attempts to overturn the election doomed to failure, but that they are tarnishing the last days of his presidency.

"It's really sad in a lot of respects and embarrassing because the president could, right now, be writing the last chapter of this administration with a victory lap with regards to the vaccine," said Romney. "After all, he pushed aggressively to get the vaccine developed and distributed. That's happening on a quick time frame."

"He could be going out championing this extraordinary success, and instead, he's leaving Washington with a whole series of conspiracy theories and things that are so nutty and loopy that people are shaking their head wondering what in the world has gotten into this man? I think that's unfortunate because he has more accomplishments than this last chapter suggests he's gonna be known for," Romney added.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When has Romney ever worked hard for anything? He wins elections on the basis of his religion, and his wealth almost certainly comes from taking part in the corruption he swims in.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/21/2020 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Why does that slob have an "R"? In fact, he's more of an "I" than Bernie Sanders, who is a down-right "S".
Posted by: Clem || 12/21/2020 1:05 Comments || Top||

#3  "G" - Grifter
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Speaking for Boskone4678 || 12/21/2020 1:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Hubbell Gardiner
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/21/2020 5:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Or you, Mitt, could be championing his extraordinary success, instead of (further) tarnishing your reputation by bashing the man with the accomplishments.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/21/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Yeah, so everyone should cave like Romney did in the 2012 debates? Romney is in the tradition of John McCain, Jeff Flake, Ben Sasse and other RINOS.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/21/2020 13:01 Comments || Top||

#7  No need to remind us, actually.
Posted by: Raj || 12/21/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||

#8  When has Romney ever worked hard for anything?

He was at Harvard working on both a law degree and an MBA at the same time, during which time his wife had the first two or three of their large brood.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/21/2020 22:42 Comments || Top||

#9  He's a bright guy. Private equity's not an easy path.

But he made his money by manipulating the tax cide'a preferential treatment of debt and giveaways for @carried interest."

In the same way, he's made his political career by manipulating the Republican party's favorable treatment of RINOs and NeverTrumpers.

It's not his work ethic that's in question but his moral ethos.
Posted by: Lionel Protector of the Pixies2025 || 12/21/2020 23:42 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Chris Krebs takes blame for massive hack: ‘It happened on my watch'
Remember when he was the most honest and competent man in DC a couple weeks ago?
[NY Post] ​The former head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security accepted the blame for the hack that infiltrated the computer systems of a number of federal agencies, including the Pentagon, and scores of companies in the private sector.

In a Sunday interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was asked by host Jake Tapper who was at fault for the breach.

"So, the way I look at it is, yes, it happened on my watch at CISA. And we missed it. A bunch of other folks missed it," he responded.

Krebs, who was fired by President Trump last month for contradicting him over whether there was fraud during the 2020 election, said he didn't become aware of the hack that was launched in March until it became public last week.

"This came out in the public after I was terminated," he said.

But Trump has not blamed Krebs for the attack.

During the interview, Krebs said he trusts the "intelligence community" that Russia was behind the hack, a stand contrary to the president, who has claimed it was China.

"Everything I have heard, whether it's from private sector cybersecurity threat intelligence experts, things I have heard out of Congress and the intelligence community, it's Russia," Krebs said.

"I mean, they're exceptionally good at this, particularly the foreign intelligence service, the SVR. They're good. They're quiet. They're deliberate. They're patient and they're careful," he continued.
see also

It's ‘pretty clear' Russia did it, Pompeo says of massive US government hack attack

Cybersecurity firm FireEye revealed the breach last week, and CISA ordered federal agencies to scour their systems for bad actors.

The perpetrator was able to access the computer systems of the government agencies ‐ including the Treasury, Energy, Commerce and Homeland Security departments, the Pentagon and private companies Cisco Systems and Cox Communications and others ‐ by slipping malware into SolarWinds server software.

Krebs on Sunday called for caution and international cooperation in weighing retaliation for the breach.

"I'd be very careful with escalating this. I think there needs to be a conversation globally, internationally, across like-minded countries about, what is acceptable?" he said.

"This is espionage. I think that's, in part, how it's being characterized. The thing that really concerns me about this particular campaign by the Russians was the indiscriminate nature of the supply chain targeting, the fact that they have potentially compromised 18,000 companies," he continued.

"That, to me, is outside of the bounds of at least what we have seen recently of espionage activities."
Posted by: Frank G || 12/21/2020 11:25 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/21/2020 11:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Still shilling for the powers that be. Too stupid to just go away.
Posted by: Clese Sneart7857 || 12/21/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember when he was the most honest and competent man in DC a couple weeks ago?

Everything is politicized. Everything.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Glomoter3421 || 12/21/2020 13:07 Comments || Top||

#4  So Krebs, why did you get blind-sided so badly? Can't really bitch about getting fired for cause.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/21/2020 13:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Look, we *know* it was the Russians. In the root of the hacked server, we found a file "russians_were_here.txt".
On printing it out, we found words in that weird-ass alphabet: Привет, сучки!
Totally the Russians, man. Who else could it be?
Posted by: SteveS || 12/21/2020 14:02 Comments || Top||

#6  wascally wusskies wonce maw
Posted by: Cherese Hupusoting7281 || 12/21/2020 14:05 Comments || Top||

#7  "I mean, they're exceptionally good at this, particularly the foreign intelligence service, the SVR. They're good. They're quiet. They're deliberate. They're patient and they're careful," he continued.

Substitute the CCP's folks for SVR and whaddaya got?
Posted by: Bobby || 12/21/2020 16:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Here's your sword, Krebs. Now get to it.
Posted by: Thavising Mussolini1323 || 12/21/2020 18:37 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2020-12-21
  North Carolina police officer recovering after latest shooting in Charlotte area
Sun 2020-12-20
  Turkey rejects Belgium’s Nagorno-Karabakh resolution; upset that Belgian parliament referred to a genocide as a genocide
Sat 2020-12-19
  Erdogan tells Merkel Turkey wants to turn over new leaf with EU
Fri 2020-12-18
  21 facing federal charges in 'large-scale' drug ring involving UNC fraternities
Thu 2020-12-17
  Far-Left Anarchist Extremists Indicted Over Terror Plot To Kill Police
Wed 2020-12-16
  Sudan officially removed from U.S. terrorism list: embassy
Tue 2020-12-15
  Senior Jemaah Islamiyah Figure in Indonesian Custody
Mon 2020-12-14
  Bill Barr Resigns
Sun 2020-12-13
  Armenians Storm Capital Demanding PM Resign After Azerbaijan Victory Parade
Sat 2020-12-12
  Killer of Lebanon's Hariri sentenced to life in prison, remains at large: UN court
Fri 2020-12-11
  Trump hails Israel & Morocco establishing relations as 'massive breakthrough' — and recognizes Moroccan sovereignty over W. Sahara
Thu 2020-12-10
  Yet Another Muslim Country Joins Abraham Accords With Israel
Wed 2020-12-09
  Hooray! We're back!
Tue 2020-12-08
  Antifa super spreader in Portland.
Mon 2020-12-07
  Italian police round up migrant-smuggling ring, arrest 19


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