An investigation by The Age and 60 Minutes has unearthed dozens of phone and video recordings captured over 12 months that provide an unprecedented insight into Somyurek's operation. Beneath the bravado and deal-making of a chronically ambitious politician is a self-described "stackathon" that has funnelled hundreds of fake members into local ALP branches, to seize control of large sections of the Victorian Labor Party and become a powerbroker with unrivalled influence.
[American Thinker] Amid the chaos and anarchy across blue-city America that exclusively possessed public attention for the last couple of weeks, it was not hard to miss any other bit of news — especially if that news has not appeared or been even briefly mentioned by any major mainstream media outlet. Take for example the news of Hillary Clinton, who lost her appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on June 2, where she tried to avoid testifying under oath about her emails and the Benghazi case.
The hearing in the D.C. Circuit came in the case Judicial Watch v. Clinton, a public records case involving a request for State Department documents and communication about the 2012 terror attack at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack.
The case also involves Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state. Judicial Watch, a conservative activist watchdog group that files Freedom of Information Act lawsuits to investigate claimed misconduct by government officials, uncovered another 756 pages of emails the FBI was able to retrieve that were part of Hillary Clinton's unsecured server revealing communications between some prominent Washington figures and classified emails sent by former prime minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair. The emails were part of the batch "Clinton tried to delete or destroy," Judicial Watch stated in its press release. It showed that Clinton had asked Blair to continue using her private email after her confirmation and also revealed that Blair was sending classified information on her unsecured server. Clinton had been "extremely careless" in her handling of classified information, as ex—FBI director James Comey carefully and rather mildly concluded in July 2016, announcing there would be no charges against her. Judicial Watch did not drop the case.
On June 2, Clinton's lawyers challenged a March 2 order from U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who ordered Clinton to testify:
#1
The head of Judicial Watch had better double his security, and that of his family. Stay off aircraft, always travel in a t least 2 vehicles, and stay the hell awa from Forty Marcy Park.
#8
Ask her the questions that you already have the answers. And then catch her in lie after lie.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
06/15/2020 11:50 Comments ||
Top||
#9
She lost her appeal 40 years ago
I'd call that snark of the day but then I must ask, when did she ever have any?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/15/2020 12:26 Comments ||
Top||
#10
Any guess into how many times she will have to say that she has no clear recollection? Given that Cheryl Mills also has to testify under oath, this has the making of a world class Alzheimer’s convention.
That would be an interesting experiment. I guess he isn't interested in being reelected.
[New York Daily News] Stir-crazy party animals may ruin the city’s planned reopening for the rest of us.
Areas including Manhattan and the Hamptons where businesses have been widely reported for violating social distancing rules could see their reopening plans “reversed,” Gov. Cuomo threatened Sunday, even as Saturday marked the lowest number of new COVID-19 deaths in the state since the peak of the nightmare in April.
The state has received a whopping 25,000 complaints about establishments that are serving customers and allowing drinking on the streets, he said, noting Manhattan and the Hamptons are “leading areas in the state with violations.”
“I am warning today in a nice way: consequences of your actions,” Cuomo said at an Albany press conference, noting businesses can lose their liquor licenses for breaking social-distancing rules. “We have 25,000 complaints statewide. I’m not going to turn a blind eye to them
Mayor de Blasio has given vague answers when asked about social-distancing violations at bars and restaurants.
Asked about crowds outside establishments in Hell’s Kitchen as protests roiled the city, Hizzoner told a reporter on June 2, "I’m a little confused [about] what you think was happening Saturday night in New York City.
“We will go back to enforcing on bars and restaurants as we were many times, very effectively," he added. "We’ll go back to that.”
Asked for comment on the governor’s admonition, a City Hall spokeswoman suggested the city has things under control.
“We had social distancing ambassadors out all weekend distributing masks and encouraging people to disperse after making their purchases," she said in a statement. "These businesses are allowed to be open per the governor’s guidelines and we don’t believe imprisoning people or taking away their livelihood is the answer.”
#5
Airandee, those were peaceful protesters. Everyone knows that the virus does not spread at protests. Churches, bars,synagogues, etc. - yes. But not at protests.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
06/15/2020 11:52 Comments ||
Top||
[Spectator] Are you ready for the second blame wave? As the country braces itself for an inevitable repeat surge in COVID-19 infections, we’re told red-state governors ’opened too soon’. The next outbreak, we can be sure, will be something to do with the fact the President decided to resume his political rallies, approximately two weeks from now.
What nobody says is that individual or social behavior is the cause. It can’t possibly be the thousands of people closely together marching down city streets yelling and chanting, some with masks, some not. The guidelines fell completely by the wayside for the Democrats and much of network cable news.
In the middle of May, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser extended her lockdown order through to the June 8. Two days prior to her own lockdown order was to be reviewed, on June 6, she encouraged mass gatherings of protests, in a tweet saying ’Let’s all meet here soon #BlackLivesMatter’, with a photo showing off her big block yellow letters painted down a DC street. In a press release about a possible spike in coronavirus cases in her city, after two weeks of protests she encouraged herself, Bowser announced that ’DC Health has confirmed that a new peak was detected in the data, resetting the Districts Phase One count to nine days of sustained decrease.’
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Chris ||
06/15/2020 0:31 Comments ||
Top||
#3
I'll say again - you need a massive amount of prolonged unfairness and harassment of the anti-nationalists in America. That means KGBing those Dem bastards, framing, incarcerating, humiliating and offing some of them. If tyranny is going to be the normal, better a tyranny of the majority leadership.
Being ruled by a guerilla government of thugs and unions is not acceptable.
#7
If the virus really is that deadly why wouldn't they want big Trump rallies (with lots of old people) - lots of Trump voters would get sick and die and switch to being Biden voters.
#8
It's always the same with the Left: their violence is free speech - our free speech is violence.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
06/15/2020 10:53 Comments ||
Top||
#9
#4 -- The power of a bullet is indisputable.
#8 -- As long as we do nothing, they'll continue. That's why the only solution is to break as many heads as necessary, and pour in some intelligence. It probably won't take, but it's worth a try.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
06/15/2020 18:56 Comments ||
Top||
#10
OP: yep, unfortunately. I am not optimistic.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
06/15/2020 21:44 Comments ||
Top||
[FoxNews] Ukrainian officials on Saturday announced they intercepted a $6 million bribe attempt to stop a criminal investigation into the president of Burisma, the natural-gas company at the center of President Trump’s impeachment investigation.
At a news conference, the officials displayed large bags of seized U.S. currency.
Ukraine's anti-corruption prosecutor Nazar Kholodnitsky said former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter, who once held a board seat, was not complicit in the bribe attempt.
Kholodnitsky and the head of the national anti-corruption bureau, Artem Sytnik, said the bribe was intended to encourage their offices to halt a probe of Mykola Zlochevsky, the head of Burisma and a former minister of ecology. Zlochevsky was accused of using his ministerial position for personal enrichment.
Three people, including a high-ranking tax service official, have been detained in connection with the attempted bribe, officials said Saturday.
In a statement, Burisma claimed the company had nothing to do with any bribe attempt.
“Neither Burisma Group President Mykola Zlochevsky nor other employees of the company have any relationship to the voiced events,” the company said. “Mykola Zlochevsky didn’t ask for anyone to commit wrong actions and never contributed to such actions.”
If people actually cared about slavery they would be holding demonstrations out the front of their local Chinese Embassy demanding that the Falun Gong and Uyghurs be set free
#5
#3 A little revolutionary document written says.. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
#6
If people really care about slavery they would be burning mosques to the ground intsead of etting alone the cult of a slave holder and slave trader.
#7
Thet would alos be burning Arab embassies sice MMauretania and Sudan still have slavery while other Arab countries support them. Sudan was even elected to the Human Rights Commission inthe uN.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Minnesota Representative 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... claimed Sunday that American communities will still be 'safe' without cops
She failed to provide an alternative for organized law enforcement in the face of calls to defund police departments
'No one is saying that the community is not going to be kept safe,' Omar asserted to CNN in an interview Sunday morning
'What we are saying is, the current infrastructure that exists as policing in our city should not exist anymore,' she continued
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.
[American Thinker] Amid the chaos and anarchy across blue-city America that exclusively possessed public attention for the last couple of weeks, it was not hard to miss any other bit of news — especially if that news has not appeared or been even briefly mentioned by any major mainstream media outlet. Take for example the news of Hillary Clinton, who lost her appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on June 2, where she tried to avoid testifying under oath about her emails and the Benghazi case.
...Somali-
