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As economic conditions worsen in Leb, angry Beirut residents attack Leb army vehicles; elsehwere, PM-designate Saad Hariri resigns
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Ghislaine Maxwell used Bill Clinton to 'escape' from her 'sick partnership' with Jeffrey Epstein as it's revealed the former president joined them on TWO previously undisclosed trips to India, China, Japan and Taiwan
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A new podcast reveals that Bill Clinton flew on Jeffrey Epstein's private jet in February 2005 while visiting Japan, Taiwan and China

  • Clinton also flew on a private jet owned by billionaire Ron Burkle with Ghislaine Maxwell as a passenger during a trip to India in November 2003

  • The two trips with Epstein and Maxwell have never been previously disclosed until now

  • According to journalist Vicky Ward, Maxwell was part of the official Clinton party and even stayed at the same hotel as him in 2003

  • Ward reveals the details in her new podcast 'Chasing Ghislaine', which is available from Thursday on Audible Originals

  • The podcast claims that Maxwell used Clinton for her 'escape' from Epstein in the 2000s when her relationship with the financier was cooling

  • Maxwell was considered by Clinton's personal staff to be 'just as important' as Epstein for raising money for the Clinton Foundation
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Little doubt Slick Willie tapped that shit multiple times. I might give him the benefit of the doubt for figuring out their game early on and hitting this evil broad only to make him less of a scumbag than the rest of them. If he gets a few shots off, so to speak, all the better.
Posted by: Raj || 07/16/2021 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Might be why she came back to the States. I believe they still have that little place in Chappaqua, NY. She could have gone to Muncie, Indiana or Peoria. She went to upstate NY instead. Curious, no ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/16/2021 1:03 Comments || Top||


#4  Slick is trying to clean up loose ends and him past. Ghislaine is trying to stay out of the Graybar and a Epstein fate.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/16/2021 21:10 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman Joyce Beatty is arrested in Senate office building by Capitol Police during a march demanding they pass the For the People Act
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Police arrested Congressional Black Caucus chair Joyce Beatty on Thursday afternoon after she led pro-voting rights protesters into a Senate office building.

Officers moved in as Beatty, 71, and a handful of other activists, including Women's March co-founders Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, chanted, 'Fight for justice,' and, 'End the filibuster.'

Capitol Police later said they had arrested nine people for 'demonstrating in a prohibited area on Capitol Grounds.'
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2021 00:41 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Insurrection II - the Good Riot.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/16/2021 7:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Just for show...I'm sure they were released just after they left the bldg. Not so much the folks held in Max security for Jan. 6th. Sure smells like 1930's Germany to me.

Censorship - Facebook and others virtual book burning

Conservatives the new Jews

Vax passports the new arm tattoo

Antifa/BLM the new Brown shirts

Rigged elections the new rigged elections

FBI the new Schutzstaffel

I could go on...
Posted by: Warthog || 07/16/2021 9:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Yep, a complete disinformation op. Nothing about this incident is actually based in reality. A total fabrication.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/16/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||

#4  What a joke.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/16/2021 13:58 Comments || Top||


Britain
The Guardian: Putin allegedly plotted to install ‘mentally unstable’ Trump in White House
Oops, they’re doing it again. In which a new iteration of the Steele dossier is swallowed whole and regurgitated hard by a newspaper that needs the Donald Trump boogieman to keep its readers buying papers.
[IsraelTimes] Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
plotted to ensure Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s election as US president in 2016, according to an exclusive Guardian report.

The newspaper, citing what it believes to be leaked Kremlin documents,
...which are never, ever plants by the KGB...
suggests that Putin told a January 2016 meeting of Russia’s national security council that Trump’s election would weaken the United States and strengthen Russia. Therefore, a report urged, Moscow should use "all possible force" to ensure he is elected.

A purported security assessment at the time labeled Trump as a "mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex."
The Guardian piece can be read here, if you want to give them the clicks, dear Reader.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Riigght. The Clinton's bribes were getting too expensive.
Posted by: Snomoth Whereling9836 || 07/16/2021 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Who paid for these forgeries?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/16/2021 6:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Well whomever is responsible should certainly be happy with what we now have in the WH.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/16/2021 6:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Funny how the Brits keep being the continuous aborigine in the Russian fuel supply.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/16/2021 10:07 Comments || Top||

#5  The Grauniad will pander to any Leftist cause.
Posted by: magpie || 07/16/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Translation: "We really can't sell newspapers without Orange Man Bad. Next week: A Look Back At Orange Man Bad's First Term."
Posted by: Matt || 07/16/2021 12:17 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Wow, White House Admits, 'We're flagging problematic FB posts'
[The Last Refuge] Hey Antifa, here is the fascism you have been looking for.
Imagine the apoplexy in media if President Trump’s White House was flagging content on Facebook for removal. That’s exactly what White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted today: "We are flagging problematic posts for Facebook"...

Yup, the Biden regime is monitoring social media from the White House and identifying content they do not like. Then, they flag that content and send it to Facebook, who then take action to remove it. WATCH:

On the upside — this is a direct admission the U.S. government is the determining voice on speech. That admission now makes this a FIRST AMENDMENT issue.

Previously the Democrats, leftists, media allies and the Biden administration all said Big Tech censorship, the banning of conservative voices/opinions, was a matter of private businesses making decisions on their own without government influence and therefore no ’First Amendment’ issues are in place. This admission from the White House today is exactly the opposite. Let the lawsuits commence.
Posted by: Snomoth Whereling9836 || 07/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can't be sued until they are no longer classified as a Section 230 entity. (Facebook and Twitter)
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 07/16/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  facebook been going against free speech for along time . What's new?
Posted by: Chris || 07/16/2021 0:31 Comments || Top||


#4  This doesn't matter. Haven't you gotten it through your head yet? Critical Theory rejects liberalism, rejects the idea we're all equal. Instead there are two kinds of people: oppressors and the oppressed, and obviously the oppressed are justified in using the most extreme measures to destroy oppressors.

https://newdiscourses.com/2021/05/five-ugly-truths-about-critical-race-theory/

“The defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity. If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist. … The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” From How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi (pseud. for Henry Rodgers), p. 19.

Posted by: Jiggs Trotsky5854 || 07/16/2021 0:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Wait till the Acorn "door knockers" show up along with other lefty orgs that will be funded by Joe.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 07/16/2021 0:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Wonder who got the contract for that piece of open source surveillance? Perhaps it was 'in-house' embedded gov't sources, or the people just down the hall from the office monitoring Tucker Carlson's email.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/16/2021 1:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Re #5 - apparently the Jehovax Witnesses are knocking on doors already... I think in NC. (sorry can't find link).
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/16/2021 7:58 Comments || Top||

#8  I actually like this. Fartbork and sh*tter are acting like flypaper for the gummint monitors.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/16/2021 7:59 Comments || Top||

#9  # 7 Jehovax Witnesses. I like it. Maybe make it Jehovax Witlesses, a bit of fine tuning.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/16/2021 8:00 Comments || Top||

#10  South Africa Zuma riots: Fact-checking claims about the protests
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2021 9:41 Comments || Top||


#12  ^#7 - seconded and carried
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/16/2021 16:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Arizona Chairwoman Kelli Ward Recaps Stunning Senate Hearing About Maricopa County Audit
[The Last Refuge] Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward provides an update tonight by recapping the Arizona Senate hearing today that exposed stunning election malfeasance in the Maricopa County ballot audit. There is much more yet to come from the forensic audit finding, but the results so far show a significant collapse in voter integrity in the largest county vote.

As Ms. Ward notes "this matter is far from over"..... There will be much more to come. Video Below:

The unmatched duplicated ballots (lacking a serial number) points to a similar issue discovered in Fulton County, Georgia, with double counted ballots. The fact that the total number of ballots counted does not match the certified Maricopa County election results is again another big red flag.

The 70,000 mail-in ballots received that surpass the number of mail-in ballots mailed, points to someone photocopying ballots on regular paper stock. That would also explain the lack of chain-of-custody documents for both the paper-stock and the scanned ballots. Adding to the photocopied ballot likelihood is that some ballots showed ink bleed-through on the paper from one side to the other.

There are many issues identified, and we haven’t yet got to the "ballot mule" process. Biden did not win the election, it’s all starting to come out.
Posted by: Snomoth Whereling9836 || 07/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Still waiting to find out what the end game is. This was all obvious by 11/5, just not "proven".
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/16/2021 8:04 Comments || Top||



Tracy Stone-Manning's nomination for BLM director is under increasing fire
[FOXNEWS] Republican senators are ramping up pressure on President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter......
to withdraw Tracy Stone-Manning's nomination for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director, citing her link to an eco-terrorist plot and her apparently misleading answers to senators about it.

Every Republican on the Senate Energy Committee signed a letter Wednesday urging Biden to pull Stone-Manning's nomination.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sadly, this only adds to her cred in the minds of Dens. She's in.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/16/2021 11:43 Comments || Top||

#2  She's not black.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2021 12:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Just looking at her, you can tell she's a lefty. I bet she's wearing Birkenstocks.
Posted by: warthogswife || 07/16/2021 12:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Sadly, this only adds to her cred in the minds of Dens. She's in.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/16/2021 14:43 Comments || Top||


And This is a Good Thing?
[Breitbart via Bongino] On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s "Situation Room," Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) argued that the $3.5 trillion spending bill won’t add to inflation issues because it will be paid for "significantly by higher taxes on the wealthy and large corporations."
Because taxing businesses never causes inflation
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


#2  Putting that old commie in charge of the Senate's Federal spending = fox guarding the henhouse.
Posted by: Raj || 07/16/2021 0:43 Comments || Top||

#3  In the 5 months since the Obamiden cabal seized power, inflation (.4% + .6% + .8% + .8% + .9% monthly Feb-June) has risen 3.5% or 8.7% annualized. But inflation is accelerating and in the last 3 month has risen 2.5% or 10.5% annualized.

Compare with 2019 and 2020 inflation of 2.3% and 1.4%.
Posted by: Snomoth Whereling9836 || 07/16/2021 1:03 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm sounding like a broken record, but - Corporations do not pay taxes. Their customers do.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/16/2021 7:50 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Needs to be repeated often.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/16/2021 7:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Bernie, socialist, who never really had a job except in government is making recommendations about a $3.5 trillion spending bill? And people in Congress see nothing wrong with this? We are in trouble.

The only people who get rich in a Marxist/Communist society are the ruling class, bourgeoisie. Bernie has bought into that deal.

We're heading towards Jimmie Carter double digit inflation numbers.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/16/2021 21:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Bernie: "Because....shut up!"
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/16/2021 22:27 Comments || Top||


Kamala hosts Angela Merkel for breakfast as MORE of her ex- staffers come forward with claims the 'unpredictable and demeaning' VP would 'leave interns in tears and staff paranoid that she would snap at them'
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  she's just a cunt
Posted by: Chris || 07/16/2021 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like a nice lady, no?
Posted by: Raj || 07/16/2021 0:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Of course we will never know, but it might be interesting to get Markel's comments on the breakfast and host.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/16/2021 7:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Kamala may be one of the first politicians known to literally suck up and punch down.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/16/2021 9:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Saw a clip of Biden and Merkel sitting across from each other. I was watching her facial expressions closely. She, just like Putin, had this somewhat incredulous look on her face that she was trying to hide as Biden talked slowly to make sure his speaking was not slurred. I think both Putin and Merkel were laughing inside that corruption in this once great nation finally succeeded in getting such a sick man in as POTUS.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 07/16/2021 10:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Anyone who works for Kamala deserves to be in tears.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/16/2021 11:05 Comments || Top||

#7  The girl has certainly risen to the level of her incompetence. There is a Peter Principle joke in there, but I ain't touching for it.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/16/2021 11:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Sure you want to serve breakfast to the largest serving chancellor in Germany's history?

The fake surprise of everyone 'finding out' Kamela is not much fun is an interesting tell, putting on their Shepard Smith face.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/16/2021 12:12 Comments || Top||

#9  'I’m very proud that I believe that I am the first vice president to host you at the official residence of the vice president,' Harris said

"English! Do you speak it?!"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/16/2021 12:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Well, it is coming out now that Sheppy Smiff ain't all that...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/16/2021 15:05 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2021-07-16
  As economic conditions worsen in Leb, angry Beirut residents attack Leb army vehicles; elsehwere, PM-designate Saad Hariri resigns
Thu 2021-07-15
  Taliban Control Spin Boldak Crossing in Kandahar, and beyond
Wed 2021-07-14
  '261 Taliban Killed' in Past 24 Hours: MoD
Tue 2021-07-13
  Turkmenistan deploying troops, heavy weapon on border with Afghanistan
Mon 2021-07-12
  Anti-govt protests in Cuba
Sun 2021-07-11
  Possibility of civil war in Afghanistan, sez Atta Muhammad Noor
Sat 2021-07-10
  Taliban claim to control 85 percent of Afghanistan
Fri 2021-07-09
  Heavy Fighting Around Ghazni City Reported
Thu 2021-07-08
  Ahmad Jibril, Syria-based Paleo terror group PFLP-GC #1, dead at 83; #2 Talal Naji new #1
Wed 2021-07-07
  Haitian President Jovenel Moise assassinated in his home
Tue 2021-07-06
  AI drone swarm ‘is used in combat for the first time as Israel deploy them to attack Hamas militants'
Mon 2021-07-05
  Nine Districts Fall to Taliban as Fighting Continues
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