[NBC] Former Trump attorney Sidney Powell pleaded guilty Thursday morning in the Georgia election interference case just a day before jury selection in her trial alongside co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro was set to begin.
Powell pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit election interference in Fulton County Superior Court as part of a deal reached with prosecutors.
Powell agreed to serve six years of probation and pay a $6,000 fine and $2,700 in restitution to the state of Georgia. She also agreed to submit an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia and to testify at related court proceedings.
Powell was one of 19 defendants named in District Attorney Fani Willis' indictment, which also charged former President Donald Trump.
Powell, who acted as one of Trump’s lawyers after his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, was charged with racketeering, conspiracy to commit election fraud, conspiracy to commit computer theft, trespassing and invasion of privacy, and conspiracy to defraud the state.
She had originally pleaded not guilty in the case and had agreed to a $100,000 bond.
Reached for comment Thursday, an attorney for Chesebro, who like Powell had served as a lawyer for Trump during the effort to overturn the election, said he had no immediate reaction.
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Ugh. Not a very high price to pay to be reaccepted by her social circle, even if it is a lie.
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That’s really upsetting, Captain Bumble1717. There was a time when one of the late night comedians would have played this kind of thing for laughs — you know, “See how stupid the people of St. Louis/Los Angeles/Phoenix/Atlanta are. They’ll sign anything!” — but these people think it’s a good idea. Do you know where he’s doing it?
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Can't remember his name, but there was an NFL coach a bunch of years who lost a game. A reporter asked him about the execution of his offensive line (i.e, their poor play that day). He answered - 'I'm in favor of it.' That's how I feel here.
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#2 Can't remember his name, but there was an NFL coach a bunch of years who lost a game. A reporter asked him about the execution of his offensive line (i.e, their poor play that day). He answered - 'I'm in favor of it.' That's how I feel here.
[FoxNews] Over 230,000 troops receive the overseas allowance set to be cut
Service members at some of the most expensive duty assignments are set to receive a cut in a monthly allowance designed to offset high costs of living.
The Defense Department will make a second round of cuts to troops' overseas cost-of-living allowances (OCOLA) next month, with the final cut coming on Nov. 15 and effecting members' Dec. 1 paychecks, according to a report from Military.com
The final cuts come after nearly a year of delay, with lawmakers passing a restriction into last year's National Defense Authorization Act that limited decreases in the allowance to once every six months. The Defense Department announced the first cut to the OCOLA rates in May, with the final cuts now set to come next month.
The cuts will also impact troops stationed in areas outside the contiguous U.S. such as Alaska and Hawaii, two duty locations with notoriously high costs of living.
According to the report, an E-4 with one dependent stationed in Alaska can expect to lose out on about $129 a month, while a major with four dependents will see a decrease of about $464.68 per month. Over 230,000 troops receive the OCOLA allowance.
The report notes that the cuts come as inflation has continued to drive prices higher in the continental U.S., a situation that has diminished the gap between the cost of living for troops in typically expensive locations and their counterparts serving in the contiguous 48 states. That shrinking gap as well as currency fluctuations necessitated the cut to the allowance, which is calculated by comparing the costs of goods and services overseas to U.S. prices.
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Social Sec. just sent us retirees and Email. "The 3.2 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits payable to more than 66 million Social Security beneficiaries in January 2024. Increased payments to approximately 7.5 million SSI recipients will begin on December 29, 2023. (Note: some people receive both Social Security and SSI benefits)"
So we are getting a 3.2% COLA (if we qualify) in a economy that has seen 4.43% AVG., so far in 2023, or even more than that since the last SSA COLA.
All while Congress T&E and Staff budgets have dramatically increased many times beyond that percentage since 2020.
[ZEROHEDGE...so Nervousness Alert] by Tyler Durden
A panicking Joe Biden has realized that his best friends, now that oil prices are soaring again and the SPR remains largely drained, are tinpot banana-republic "dictators" (in the White House's own words) like Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, and on Wednesday the White House suspended sanctions on Venezuelan oil, gas and gold production. But since it would be too corrupt even for Biden to drop sanctions on Maduro in exchange for just a few barrels oil and nothing else, the White House pretended that the deal was in exchange for "promoting democracy", and In return the Nicolas Maduro government promised a deal with the opposition that could see elections held next year. Which likely means 100% mail-in ballots and Dominion machines to "count" them.
"The United States welcomes the signing of an electoral roadmap agreement between the Unitary Platform and Maduro representatives," Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian Nelson said in a news release.
"Consistent with U.S. sanctions policy, in response to these democratic developments, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has issued General Licenses authorizing transactions involving Venezuela’s oil and gas sector and gold sector, as well as removing the ban on secondary trading," he added.
The statement cautioned that the Treasury reserves the right to revoke any or all of the newly issued licenses in case the "Maduro representatives" fail to stick to their word regarding a new electoral map for Venezuela. Of course, the Biden admin won't revoke the deal as long as it gets some oil; then once Biden loses the 2024 elections all bets are off. All bets are off even now, unfortunately.
Reports about the deal emerged earlier this month, following a string of signals from Washington it was ready to ease the sanction regime in return for commitments from the Venezuelan government to hold new elections.
The U.S. made the biggest move in that direction last year, when it granted Chevron a license to return to Venezuela, and that was without asking for commitments from the Maduro regime because imports of Russian heavy crude had to be replaced urgently with Venezuelan heavy.
Now, the new license regime would allow financial transactions involving PDVSA, which could boost Venezuelan oil exports significantly.
Crude oil exports from Venezuela last month topped 800,000 barrels daily, which was the second-highest monthly export rate since the start of the year. Most of the exports went to China, Reuters reported in early October.
So how much oil is Biden's deal unlocking? According to Bloomberg, Venezuela could be able to raise its crude oil production by 25% from current levels if the temporary U.S. easing of the oil sanctions becomes permanent. Why?
Venezuela's oil production currently stands at a paltry 800,000 barrels per day (bpd), according to various estimates. The eased sanctions would allow the South American country holding the world's largest crude oil reserves to boost production by 200,000 bpd, analysts say, although the timing of achieving this increase remains uncertain.
Oil stocks will be in focus Thursday as crude slid on the confirmation of the sanctions being lifted. Oh, that's why.
Occidental Petroleum, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and Schlumberger are all lower by about 1% in premarket trading.
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And Biden's tacit support of terrorist states continue. I only wonder which Biden family member is getting offsets for this decision. BTW the oil out of Venezuela is the dirtiest oil on the planet. refining it is a environmental nightmare. Most first world nations pass on it due to refining costs.
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The refineries equipped to handle it are in Corpus Christi.
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The Venezuelan oil refining works on the same premise as Zimbabwe farming. Running off all competent personnel and replacing them with uncles and cousins does not result in an environmentally safe endeavor. Happily they did not seem to have a nuclear power sector.
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We do need those gas prices to come down in advance of next year's election. Otherwise people might be unhappy with Joe.
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The one encouraging thing here is that whoever is running the current administration appears to have begun grasping the concept of supply and demand.
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...commies don't. They believe they set the demand by fiat.
Australia has overwhelmingly rejected Labor’s proposal for an ’Indigenous Voice to Parliament’. Like the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
Had the referendum been successful, it would have given the government a mandate to amend the constitution and create a body exclusively for Aboriginal Australians to advise parliament. After a long and divisive campaign, 60 per cent of Australians voted No to the initiative.
The emotional response displayed by the cultural elites on social media came from a deep place. The Yes supporters’ image of themselves was suddenly at stake. These are people who pride themselves on having the judgement and wisdom to diagnose social ills and prescribe solutions. The No result was as much a rejection of them and their worldview as it was of the Voice proposal itself. ...
Their answer came as a rude shock to the Australians living in the coastal, metropolitan Tesla zone. Their narrow circle of acquaintances had lulled them into thinking that only a handful of dimwits or right-wing nut jobs thought any differently to them. For people who have led such sheltered lives, the referendum result left them lost for words.
[The question they *should* be asking themselves is how they got so out of touch with people to think that this was a good idea. That’s a problem elites have anyway; we sometimes call it the Pauline Kael Syndrome here. Rather than accept that they erred, though, the elites always fall back on blaming everyone else for having the arrogance to have a different opinion.
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Now they'll punish you for actually believing in democracy.
[FoxNews] Senate Republicans are expressing frustration with the Biden administration over its decision to add Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su — whose nomination to the role was never confirmed — to the presidential line of succession.
In a Tuesday letter to President Biden, Alabama GOP Sen. Katie Britt and 29 of her Republican Senate colleagues expressed "grave concerns" and requested clarification from the administration for its "apparent belief" that Su is "eligible to assume the office of President of the United States pursuant to the presidential line of succession as established by Congress in the Presidential Succession Act of 1947."
"As you are well aware, since March 14, 2023, the United States Senate has declined to confirm Ms. Su’s nomination as Secretary of Labor, and she continues to lack adequate support from both Republican and Democratic members of the Senate to be confirmed to that position," the senators wrote. "Despite that reality and Ms. Su becoming the longest-ever Cabinet nominee to await confirmation in a time when the same party controls the White House and the Senate, the White House has chosen to keep her in place as Acting Secretary of Labor on an indefinite basis and has also listed her on the White House website as a member of the Cabinet ‘[i]n order of succession to the Presidency.’"
[NYPOST] Far-left Reps. Rashida Tlaib ...the very first ever Paleostinian-American ever sworn into Congress in 2019. She is a member of The Squad and consistently votes against the U.S. national interest. She's a Dem, naturally, from a safe district you wouldn't want to live in (Michigan's 12th congressional district). She wants the country to be kinda like Gaza only without any Jews for neighbors... (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu... (D-Minn.) have stood by social media posts blaming Israel for a deadly explosion at a Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... hospital, even after President Biden and other US officials stated that evidence showed Paleostinian terror groups were responsible.
"Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital killing 500 Paleostinians (doctors, children, patients) just like that," Tlaib posted on X at roughly 2 p.m. Tuesday, before blaming the president for not helping "to facilitate a ceasefire."
"Your war and destruction only approach has opened my eyes and many Paleostinian Americans and Moslems Americans like me," she added. "We will remember where you stood."
An hour later, Omar also held Biden responsible for not pushing "an immediate ceasefire to end this slaughter."
"Bombing a hospital is among the gravest of war crimes," she said on X. "The IDF reportedly blowing up one of the few places the injured and maimed can seek medical treatment and shelter during a war is horrific."
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What about the other two bitches honorable congresswomen?
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I am not sure how you kill 500 by rocketing a parking lot. Do the Palestinians have tailgaters in that location? Is it like the Muni lot in Cleveland?
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All too easy to imagine grieving or searching families with nowhere better to go camping out for days... or decades. Hope... water and perhaps food... paid or unpaid employment as extras. It's where I'd be, in their shoes.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the very first ever Paleostinian-
