Hattip Merrick Ferret in comments just before the rollover last night, who commented, “BLM finished 2020 with $60 million in the bank. They're in turmoil. They fired Cullors, the founder, for corruption & embezzlement. All the BLM leaders have run off. Where did the $60 million go?”
[WashingtonExaminer] No one appears to have been in charge at Black Lives Matter for months. The address it lists on tax forms is wrong, and the charity's two board members won't say who controls its $60 million bankroll, a Washington Examiner investigation has found.
BLM's shocking lack of transparency surrounding its finances and operations raises major legal and ethical red flags, multiple charity experts told the Washington Examiner.
"Like a giant ghost ship full of treasure drifting in the night with no captain, no discernible crew, and no clear direction," CharityWatch Executive Director Laurie Styron said of BLM.
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BLM's shocking lack of transparency surrounding its finances and operations raises major legal and ethical red flags, multiple charity experts told the Washington Examiner.
Totally escaped the all knowing eye of the Federal Financial Crimes Enforcement sleuths, the IRS, and the FBI. Foking amazing, no ?
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If the GOP does take over both branches this fall, they should rename RICO to bring the ethnic reference up to date for the BLM / CRT racketeering era. Maybe "D'WON"?
It was always a money-making racket Merrick, never really about a cause. Took their cues from the old 'Rainbow Push' and other similar organizational playbooks with attention paid to to 'contributions' for protection.
See 'Global Warming' and 'Al Gore'.
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I'm gonna have to rethink my understanding of what it means to be a Marxist.
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Animal Farm will give you a good definition Matt
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why worry about it? Nothing will ever be done about it, that would be rayciss.
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It would be very easy to safely launder the $60 million through the magic hall of mirrors structure of dark money political entities like "Arabella."
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This kind of thing happens routinely in my neck of the woods, but on a much smaller and more local scale, something like this: An alleged leader of the Albanian community forms a new outreach organization for the benefit underprivileged Albanians, the Southern Coalition of Albanian Men ("SCAM"). $500,000 in private and public funds are donated to SCAM. Lots of fanfare, big check presented. The next day the president of SCAM is seen tooling around in a top of the line Mercedes with tricked-out chrome wheels. A couple of years go by, and someone thinks to ask what happened to the $500,000. Regrettably, all of SCAM's books and records have been destroyed by an errant North Korean missile. Some recriminations ensue, but after a bit everyone decides that no good can come from an investigation. Life goes back to normal, until the formation of SCAM-2....
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Good. That is $60 million that won't fund Democrats in the midterms.
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...what makes you sure some didn't get their cut?
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Wondering out loud... has anybody check OPENSECRETS.ORG to see how much the retiring (SD's) had in their campaign coffers and which SIG's are collecting BIG $$$$ in 2021 - 2022?
[Breitbart] Humanitarian activists and U.N. officials are calling for sanctions against the Taliban to be eased so aid can be rendered to the sick, starving, and soon-to-be freezing Afghan people — but Radio Free Europe (RFE) on Tuesday documented how the Taliban is looting aid programs to pay its officials, and even withholding food to force Afghan civilians into slavery.
RFE interviewed a Kabul day laborer named Omaruddin who explained the Taliban set up a "food-for-work" program in October that "requires recipients to do manual labor on public-works projects to receive humanitarian aid." Even that atrocious bargain is only available to people who have good connections to the Taliban.
"Nobody hires us. The Taliban only take people that they know. You cannot find a job unless you know someone. They will not give you anything even if you work hard. There is no way that they are going to give out something for free," said Omaruddin, who lacks such connections himself, so his twenty appeals to enter the "food-for-work" program have been ignored.
Several other laborers told similar stories of being denied humanitarian aid by the Taliban, even when they offered to work for it.
"There is no business at all. The aid is only given to those who have links or relationships with the Taliban. It does not go to the poor," agreed another day laborer named Ghazni Gul.
"Now, in what the Taliban claims is an expansion of its ’food for work’ program, the cash-strapped regime has begun to use foreign wheat aid to pay the salaries of public sector workers," RFE added, explaining how the Taliban has weaponized shipments of grain donated by first India, and then Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.
These arrangements are unsurprisingly harsh on Afghan women, especially widows lacking a man to provide for them, since the Taliban does not even allow women to work as indentured servants in its foreign-aid-fueled slavery program.
[Khaama] Could get interesting
People in the bordering Sistan-Balochistan province of Iran took to the streets on Friday, January 28, 2022, and demanded their rights to water that flows from Afghanistan, Iranian State media Irna reported.
Security forces in the port interfered after the protestors started attacking trucks that belonged to the Afghan people.
Eyewitnesses say that Iranian protestors broke the windows of trucks and inflicted financial loss to the drivers.
Meanwhile, another group of Iranian protestors rallied at the Afghan consulate in Zahedan city and demanded the flow of Helmand water to the country.
After the demonstration of Iranian nationals, the Afghan drivers rallied on Afghanistan soil and asked for their losses to be refunded.
The demonstration comes a year after former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani inaugurated hydroelectric dam-Kamal Khan Dam- on Helmand River and said that they will no longer give water to Iran for free but in exchange for oil.
The flow of the Helmand River to Iran has been a matter of conflict for years between Afghanistan and Iran which has not been fully resolved after the war erupted in Afghanistan
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[IsraelTimes] The Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels are continuing to violate a UN-imposed arms embargo in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... and to recruit children to fight in the seven-year war, according to a report provided to the Security Council and published today.
In an annual report, a panel of UN experts says it has concluded that "all military and paramilitary forces loyal to the Sanaa-based authorities fall under this definition" of having violated the arms embargo. The rebels control the capital Sanaa.
The 300-page report says the Houthis have continued "to source critical components for their weapon systems from companies in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and Asia, using a complex network of intermediaries to obscure the chain of custody."
It says that "most types of uncrewed aerial vehicles, waterborne improvised bombs and short-range rockets are assembled in Houthi-controlled areas."
Components such as engines and electronics, the report says, "are sourced from abroad using a complex network of intermediaries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia."
The report doesn’t confirm frequent US and Saudi allegations that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... is directly involved in the violations.
Tehran admits it supports the Houthis politically but denies it has helped them obtain arms.
The experts say evidence shows that weapons components and other military equipment "continue to be supplied overland to the Houthi forces by individuals and entities based in Oman."
Oman, which shares a border with Yemen, is the only country in the region other than Iran to maintain official links with the Houthi.
The report also said waterborne improvised bombs were being launched from Houthi-controlled areas with increasing frequency over the past year.
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish justice minister Abdulhamit Gul said early Saturday that he has resigned from his position without revealing why he has stepped down.
"With the approval of our honourable President, I have resigned from my duty as justice minister which I have been serving since July 19, 2017," Gul said in a tweet, thanking Erdogan "for accepting my request for relief."
Gul also wished success for his successor Bekir Bozdag who was appointed by Erdogan in the same presidential decree that approved Gul’s resignation.
Bozdag has served as justice minister and deputy prime minister in the past and currently serves as a politician for Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
In another presidential decree, Erdogan also replaced the head of the statistics institute (TUIK).
Ali Babacan, a former foreign minister and the head of the newly-established Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), slammed Erdogan for the replacements.
"A country governed by decisions made at night with the signature of a single person can only do this much," he said in a tweet, adding that no one know why such changes are made.
He also said that the AKP’s alliance with the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) continues to harm the country.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... ’s foreign minister headed to Kuwait today to deliver answers to a list of policy suggestions made to the country by Persian Gulf nations in an attempt to end an impasse between both sides.
Ahead of his departure, Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib made it clear that Lebanon will not disarm the Iran-funded Hezbollah terror group, one of 10 confidence-building measures requested from Beirut.
Relations between impoverished Lebanon and the wealthy Gulf states are at their lowest levels in decades, a crisis triggered late last year when a Lebanese politician spoke critically of the Saudi-led war against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... Following Information Minister George Kordahi’s comments, Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... recalled its ambassador from Beirut and banned all Lebanese imports, affecting hundreds of businesses and cutting off hundreds of millions in foreign currency flows to Lebanon. Several Arab countries followed Saudi Arabia’s step.
Bouhabib will attend an Arab foreign ministers’ meeting in Kuwait tomorrow, during which he will hand his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Ahmed Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah official responses to the Gulf nations’ suggestions. al-Sabah had delivered them personally to Beirut earlier this month.
"I am not going to hand over Hezbollah’s weapons nor end Hezbollah’s existence. This is out of the question in Lebanon," Bouhabib told satellite broadcaster al-Jazeera, calling the group a "Lebanese party par excellence" that is active in the government but does not dominate politics in Lebanon.
"We hope to have excellent relations as in the past" with Gulf nations, Bouhabib said, adding that Lebanon had suggestions for solving problems between the two sides, but without elaborating.
The list handed over by Kuwait’s foreign minister and circulated in Lebanese media included calls for implementing US Security Council resolution 1559, which calls for the disarmament of all militias in Lebanon; major anti-corruption reforms; and the cessation of all verbal or real attacks on Gulf nations.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Breitbart] Humanitarian activists and U.N. officials are calling for sanctions against the Taliban to be eased so aid can be rendered to the sick, starving, and soon-to-be freezing Afghan people — but Radio Free Europe (RFE) on Tuesday documented how the Taliban is looting aid programs to pay its officials, and even withholding food to force Afghan civilians into slavery.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
