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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Workers at Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco told to work from home due to crime
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/16/2023 12:43 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "... California is leading the nation in ways to embolden and protect criminals and innocent civilians, AND police are paying the price. How much more can we take of this insanity?"

"A Deputy Sheriff in Southern California, whose identity RedState is not publishing due to the nature of their job, said: We took a vote, just the patrol guys, and we agreed that we wouldn't do any more t-stops unless we absolutely have to, like a deuce (drunk driver) or stolen car. If we do, we're requesting a unit backup and a sergeant. We won't roll to a call without a partner anymore or a sergeant. We basically just want to shut it down. We're more afraid of our own department trying to fire us than we are of getting hurt or killed. It's just not worth it anymore."

https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2023/08/15/california-democrats-eliminating-basic-policing-tool-to-aid-criminals-n2162685
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/16/2023 13:12 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/16/2023 13:15 Comments || Top||

#3  It's very real there. (Police body cam footage of Paul Pelosi being attacked by his bearded boyfriend.)

Posted by: Enver Dingle4916 || 08/16/2023 13:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Good rule for SF living: don’t let go of the hammer.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/16/2023 15:33 Comments || Top||



COVID victims' families sue EcoHealth Alliance for 'creating" the virus and 'releasing it'
[FoxNews] Jenny Golden, Monique Adams, Traci Osuna, Melissa Carr, and Paul Rinker allege EcoHealth Alliance was aware of the virus' dangers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  COVID is bag. One local NH has 23 confirmed cases. Grandson and wife delivered twins and mother had DX of COVID. In last two weeks. Customers in store oncoming in with masks. Doctor appointment Friday afternoon and all safety protocols in place even air bacteria and virus purifiers in each room.
Posted by: Dale || 08/16/2023 4:06 Comments || Top||

#2  /////////COVID is back. Oops.
Posted by: Dale || 08/16/2023 4:07 Comments || Top||


#4  Other than bringing some facts OFFICIALLY to light.
I don't expect to see massive "collected $$$$$$ wind falls, nor criminal prison sentences handed down

EcoHealth Alliance Value is a 501c-3 Non-Profit
Its "reported" net value is about $14M.
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ALSO REPORTED
Science.org & other sources: "That grant had actually gone not to China, but to EcoHealth. NIH had just renewed the award, which provided $3.7 million over 5 years to find and study bat coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV, which causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the disease that nearly triggered a pandemic back in 2003. During the first 5 years of the grant, EcoHealth had sent roughly 16% of the funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). One week after the press conference, NIH followed Trump’s orders and canceled the grant. ......... The six 1-year projects had received $3.75 million in funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health agency. .... plus the $37.9M semi-reported funneled thru the EcoHealth Alliance by the DOD

Gates foundation also donated $1,499,414 back in 2020.

BTW: This is a NOT BB.... look at page 2 of their FY2018 Annual Report
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/16/2023 4:44 Comments || Top||

#5  It will be interesting to see how the other side comes at this effort.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/16/2023 5:27 Comments || Top||

#6  "There's an election coming. We need a new variant!"
Posted by: Frank G || 08/16/2023 7:20 Comments || Top||

#7  It will be found that people who died from the virus don't have "standing."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/16/2023 7:25 Comments || Top||

#8  This entire COVID matter is currently under investigation by the FBI. Consequently, no further information can be released. Further media discussion on the topic, either public or private, could result in investigation and detention.

[sarc tag added, but unnecessary]
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2023 7:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Gates foundation also donated $1,499,414 back in 2020.

That's where the deep pockets are.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/16/2023 11:26 Comments || Top||



Fifth Column
‘Clockwork': Four Trump Indictments Drop After Four Damning Biden Business Revelations
[Breitbart] Four damning news cycles about the Biden family business bombshell revelations were each immediately followed by four indictments of former President Donald Trump, causing conservatives to question if the synchronization was just a coincidence.

On Monday night, a grand jury in Georgia indicted Trump for a fourth time. Trump’s first indictment was in New York State, and two more federal indictments followed in Florida and Washington, D.C.

Each indictment immediately changed the news cycle focused on Hunter Biden and the Biden family business revelations. The indictments enabled the establishment media to ignore growing allegations of impropriety of President Joe Biden and to focus on “getting” Trump.

Below is the timeline:

First:
March 16: Hunter Biden admits the “Laptop from Hell” was his after years of denial

March 18: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office leaks the news of the first indictment

Second:
June 8: House Oversight Committee Republicans confirm an FBI FD-1023 file in which an FBI informant claimed to possess two pieces of evidence that show President Joe Biden received $5 million after threatening to withhold aid to Ukraine until a prosecutor probing the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings was fired

June 9: Special Counsel Jack Smith releases grand jury indictment of Trump in the documents case

Third:
July 31: Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s best friend in business, testifies before the House Oversight Committee that then-Vice President Joe Biden participated in more than 20 business phone calls to sell the Biden “brand” to associates.

August 1: Special Counsel Jack Smith releases Trump’s January 6 indictment

Fourth:
August 11: Attorney General Merrick Garland designates a special counsel in the Hunter Biden case

August 14: A Georgia grand Jury indicts Trump for questioning the 2020 election

Conservatives told Breitbart News the timeline seems very suspicious and suggested Democrats are trying to keep the spotlight off the Biden family.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:


#2  And yet he continues to come at them like the coo in Terminator II.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/16/2023 5:17 Comments || Top||

#3 

Simply Put
Nothing happens incidentally in DC Politics.
Asked Epstein, Seth Rich, JFK, RFK, GW, Reagan, Truman, MLK, Congressional baseball shooting victims and too many others.

Looking at the LSD's position they must act to take him out of the running.

Say Trump is allowed to run.

* There is no Covid-19 A-Z strain to use as cover to skew the voting process.

* Despite the numerous LSD court challenges. we now have tighter Voter ID Laws and monitoring.

* Trump gets elected and is able to actually set foot in the White House.

* He appoints a sequestered independent, closely guarded and monitored investigative team.

* The 2020 Coup members & Rouge Media members are named and indicted.

* The LSD party is exposed as a Treasonous group and is Re-Branded .
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/16/2023 5:29 Comments || Top||

#4  A mistrial in the making.

Georgia court offers new explanation for 'fictitious' indictment posted before Trump charges
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/16/2023 13:06 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Consoler in chief? Lounge chair Biden revealing his true self on the beach
[NYPOST] President Biden lounged Sunday on Rehoboth Beach while the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui was still smoking, with photos of the once-idyllic paradise showing a charred wasteland.

The grim images, the unfathomable loss of life, the haunting, sickening knowledge the news would only worsen as the days passed: It would have brought any stoic to tears.

But not beach bum Biden.

Ol’ Joe was busy relaxing in his lounge chair for hours getting some vitamin D and living out one of those cheesy "Beach life" mottos you see painted on driftwood.

When asked about the mounting corpse count from the country’s deadliest wildfire in a century, he gave a cold, "No comment," reported Bloomberg White House correspondent Justin Sink, who tweeted a picture of Biden relaxing on the sandy shore, looking like Chris Christie in his infamous 2017 Beachgate scandal.
Posted by: Fred || 08/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:


#2  For a long time, his handlers were trying to keep up the image of him doing athletic activities and interacting with people on his vacations. He still bikes occasionally, but mostly he is just done..
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/16/2023 5:23 Comments || Top||

#3  I never thought he would last this long.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2023 7:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Me neither, B.

Actually lost money on a bet to that effect.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/16/2023 8:09 Comments || Top||

#5  The extreme measures taken to medically sustain this imposter may one day be labeled diabolical.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2023 8:18 Comments || Top||

#6  We'll soon be viewing Biden 2.0 brought to you by AI. "Gosh - he seems to be more with it...those vacations must be helping"

They'll start slowly and with small improvements. Most of the nation will be like the frog in boiling water example. Eventually the AI version will be playing tennis and saving a bay from drowning.

We at the Burg will have the correct situational awareness as usual.
Posted by: Warthog || 08/16/2023 9:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Gavin Newsom will be the next president and Gretchen Whitmer will be VP.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/16/2023 10:48 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 We'll soon be viewing Biden 2.0 brought to you by AI. "Gosh - he seems to be more with it...those vacations must be helping"

"M-M-M-Max Headroom"
Posted by: Frank G || 08/16/2023 11:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Deacon Blues is frightening me. I'm afraid he might be right.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/16/2023 11:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Hard to get rid of roaches Besoeker.
Posted by: Chris || 08/16/2023 12:23 Comments || Top||

#11  /\ Certainly appears to be the case Chris.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2023 12:47 Comments || Top||

#12  The bureaucracy will fight tooth and nail to keep Joe. He doesn't even know what they're doing and so will never, ever interfere with all their empire buliding and waste. He is as perfect a president as they are ever likely to get.

Other candidates, D or R, might have their own ideas and so interfere.
Posted by: Tom || 08/16/2023 13:37 Comments || Top||

#13  His handlers took 5 days to figure out what his response is to be. Until then he knows to make no comment. He is NOT in charge.
Posted by: Enver Dingle4916 || 08/16/2023 17:48 Comments || Top||


Fulton County Sheriff's Promise for Donald Trump: ‘We'll Have a Mugshot Ready for You'
[Breitbart] Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat promised that former President Donald Trump would have a mugshot if indicted in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s investigation — a development that occurred in the late hours of the night into the morning.
Very unprofessional, but not at all surprising for Zimbabwe on the Chattahoochee.
The 98-page, 41-count indictment, released late Monday night into Tuesday morning, reveals that Trump and 18 other co-defendants have been indicted. But nearly two weeks ago, when an indictment still remained uncertain, Sheriff Labat promised that Trump would find himself with a formal mugshot should he be accused of committing a crime in that investigation.

“Unless somebody tells me differently, we are following our normal practices, and so it doesn’t matter your status, we’ll have a mugshot ready for you,” Sheriff Labat said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Skidmark || 08/15/2023 14:13 Comments || Top||

#2  At some point "Prosecutorial Immunity" becomes Barratry ...if the so-called 'servants of Justice' can never be punished for their malicious works.
Posted by: magpie || 08/16/2023 0:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Does this sound like an Impartial system of justice to anyone?

It's clear they want to play it for all they can get.

BTW: Whatever happen to the Stacy Abrams campaign worker who left 4,000++ illegally printed ballots in boxes in his rental car at the Atlanta Airport, when he returned to NYC.

The same Police dept and the GBI were called, came, and collected the box ? But nothing was done? WHY NOT?

A quick Google shows leaving Ballots in cars has happened several times in the past for LSD candidates in other states also. eg.. Fort Lauderdale Airport 2018



Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/16/2023 5:02 Comments || Top||

#4  It amazes me to watch so many ignorant and arrogant people attack Trump and fail. The Avenatti curse be upon them, every last one of them.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/16/2023 5:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Fulton County, Georgia:

Posted by: Jeremiah Jomosing7109 || 08/16/2023 7:25 Comments || Top||

#6  I don't believe this slate of charges originated in Fulton County, Ga.

'Swing State' kak throwing likely in play here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2023 7:31 Comments || Top||

#7  https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2021/title-16/chapter-10/article-5/section-16-10-95/

Barratry law in Georgia
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 || 08/16/2023 9:16 Comments || Top||


#9  Is Inverse Apartheid emerging in urban cities, just hard to realize it might actually be happening because of how ugly it will be to put a stop to it.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/16/2023 13:40 Comments || Top||

#10  In LA there is often war between Latin and African American gangs over territory. I think apartheid is optimistic.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/16/2023 14:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Eager underachiever...

Georgia court clerk admits 'mishap' behind 'fictitious' Trump indictment: 'I am human'
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/16/2023 15:54 Comments || Top||



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  Hundreds of migrants arrive on Italian island of Lampedusa
Tue 2023-08-15
   Philadelphia teen charged with plotting potentially 'catastrophic terrorist attack'
Mon 2023-08-14
  DR Congo kills 14 in militant attack
Sun 2023-08-13
  Al-Shabaab bases destroyed in central Somalia
Sat 2023-08-12
   IS attack on bus kills 23 Syrian soldiers
Fri 2023-08-11
  Molotov cocktail thrown at Swedish embassy in Beirut amid Quran-burning tensions
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  6 dead in passenger bus kaboom in Lower Shabelle
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  Two policemen among four martyred in North Waziristan, Peshawar attacks Dawn Report
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  ISIS leader confirmed dead - 4th Number 1 toes up, 5th Number 1 tees up
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  Renewed clashes in Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon on Wednesday
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