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Gunmen Hijack 33 Tons of Gold, Silver Concentrate in Truck on Mexican Highway
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Former Biden doctor asks House panel to delay his testimony, citing doctor-patient privilege
[JTN]
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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2025 00:27 || Comments || Link || [53 views] Top|| File under:



Government Corruption
Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey are under criminal investigation
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] The process is the punishment.




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Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [93 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FBI launches criminal investigations of John Brennan, James Comey: DOJ sources

That should dilute the Epstein conspiracy.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2025 0:49 Comments || Top||


#3  ^At least she doesn't blame the Jews - yet!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/09/2025 3:00 Comments || Top||

#4  GREGG JARRETT: CIA report makes it clear Trump was framed

FOX - In a blockbuster report, the CIA has belatedly exposed the rank corruption among top intelligence officials who connived to frame President Donald Trump and drive him from office during his first term.

Their pernicious lie was that Trump colluded with Russia to rig the 2016 presidential election in his favor. The principal piece of so-called evidence was a document known infamously as the dossier.

It was secretly financed by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and Democrats, conceived by a foreign agent with a checkered past in espionage, and then brokered to solicitous collaborators at the FBI, CIA, the Department of Justice and the Trump-hating media.

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2025 7:20 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ And we'll all go on pretending it's OK because they tried to frame a Republican. If the RNC doesn't care, why should I?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/09/2025 10:31 Comments || Top||


Fired State Dept bureaucrats reportedly using their regime change skills to sabotage Trump
[FOXNEWS] Current and former USAID and State Department officials are using their expertise in undermining authoritarian regimes abroad against President Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
and his agenda at home, according to a new report Monday.

The Trump administration is still in the process of terminating thousands of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) workers by September as the agency restructures to fall in line with the president's "America First" policy.
John Brennan must be in the throws of an apoplectic fit.
NOTUS news hound Jose Pagliery reported, however, that "Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump’s power."

One anonymous current federal official warned to NOTUS, "Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We’ve become one." He added, "They were so quick to disband AID, the group that supposedly instigates color revolutions. But they’ve done a very foolish thing. You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population. If you kept our offices going and had us play solitaire in the office, it might have been safer to keep your regime."
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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [115 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They weren't playing solitaire in the office.
They were overthrowing foreign governments and wasting our money on far left social engineering.

They're just confirming they were traitors the whole time.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 07/09/2025 0:17 Comments || Top||


#3  Supreme Court issues 'wrecking ball' decision that sends Washington D.C. into panic mode and could decimate the Deep State

By late April, about 100 days into the effort, the government overhaul had resulted in the firing, resignations and early retirements of 260,000 civil servants, according to a Reuters tally.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2025 8:02 Comments || Top||

#4  I've observed no impact on gov't services. What am I missing ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2025 8:11 Comments || Top||

#5  I haven't seen Federal employment drop by 260,000 either.
Posted by: Ed || 07/09/2025 9:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Senate GOP focuses on law enforcement to stop Mexican cartels, Democrats blame U.S. gun industry
[JustTheNews] As firearms become increasingly hard to purchase in Mexico, Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
say the cartels are using guns originating in the United States to carry out violence and drug trafficking in America.

Senate Democrats and Republicans are taking a widely different view of the issue of Mexican cartels' smuggling and gun violence and how to stop it — with Democrats appearing to continue to focus on the U.S. firearms industry while Republicans focus on investigative efforts and the dangers that cartel members pose to law enforcement and other Americans.

The largely disparate views were recently highlighted during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled "The Thin Blue Line Protecting America from the Cartels."

"Today’s hearing focuses on the very real threat of Mexican narco mobs and the lengths law enforcement goes to defend Americans," Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassly, the committee's top Republican, said at the June hearing.

"These are the folks who enforce the law at great personal cost. As of late, they’ve been pelted with rocks, assaulted with homemade explosives ... . And yet, they continue to hold the line against one of the greatest national security threats to America — Mexican narco mobs."

Among the three federal law enforcement officials to testify at the June 17 hearing was the Drug Enforcement Administration's Matthew Allen.

"In my 22 years-plus in the DEA ... . I’ve experienced several instances of cartels and criminal organizations surveilling our people, both in Mexico and the United States," said Allen the special agent in charge of the agency's Los Angeles Field Division. "I’ve personally lost several friends on this job — two of them, very close friends of mine. It’s a dangerous job."

Grassley also warned about the dangers of cartel members infiltrating the United States, citing the son-in-law of Ruben Oseguera Cervantes — known as "El Mencho" and the leader of Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, a major drug-trafficking organization in Mexico — living in Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, under a fake name until his arrest last year.

Prosecutors say the son-in-law, Cristian Fernando Gutierrez Ocho, faked his own death and fled to the U.S. to avoid Mexican authorities after kidnapping two members of the Mexican Navy in 2021. He is also accused of conspiring to import thousands of kilograms of methamphetamine and cocaine into the U.S.

Allen said agents working on a tip arrested him in a gated community, "just down the street from the chief of police."

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin
...Senator-for-Life from Illinois and Democratic Party Whip. In April 2006, Time magazine identified Durbin as one of America's 10 Best Senators, so what's that tell you? He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois...>
, the committee's top Democrat, said the cartels are "being armed by one country primarily — the United States."

"Firearms dealers in this country are selling guns into Mexico to the cartels, and those guns are being used for their evil plans across the United States," he also said. "We must acknowledge the role the United States has played in arming these cartels to the teeth."

Durbin also said the Mexican government estimated that roughly 200,000 U.S.-sourced firearms are smuggled each year into the country.

He spoke just days after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a lawsuit by the Mexican government against U.S. gun makers could not go forward.

The justices held in the case — Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos — that Mexico’s efforts to hold the makers responsible for narco mob violence with U.S.-made weapons are barred by a federal law to shield the gun industry from lawsuits in U.S. courts for the misuse of guns by others.

About 70% of firearms recovered from scene of the crimes in Mexico that were submitted for tracing originated from the U.S., according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — while the direct sale of firearms by U.S. companies to Mexican cartels is illegal and considered arms trafficking.

Firearms are extremely difficult to purchase legally in Mexico. There is only one gun store in Mexico run by the Mexican military (SEDENA) in Mexico City. Many firearms banned in Mexico, such as semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, can be legally purchased in the U.S.

The majority of traced firearms recovered in Mexico came from Texas, Arizona and California, according to a 2023 Justice Department report.

Jose Perez, the assistant director of the FBI's criminal investigative division, who testified at the hearing, says that in the past six months, through cartel and gang investigations, the agency has seized roughly 4,000 guns in the U.S. including 2,200 along the border.

"As we investigate more aggressively the cartels and the gangs, we will encounter illicit firearms and encounter how those firearms have landed in the hands of these criminals," he said.

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [30 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Schumer warns of bitter funding fight over GOP cuts plan
[FOXNEWS] 'Bait and switch': Top Democrat warns of 'grave implications' as Senate Republicans consider Trump-backed $9.4B rescissions package

Senate Republicans are set to consider a multibillion-dollar package of cuts from the White House, but the top Senate Democrat warned that doing so could have consequences for a later government funding showdown.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., warned on Tuesday that the Senate GOP’s plan to move forward with a $9.4 billion rescissions package would have "grave implications" on Congress, particularly the forthcoming government funding fight in September.

"Republicans’ passage of this purely partisan proposal would be an affront to the bipartisan appropriations process," Schumer wrote in a letter to fellow Senate Democrats.

"That’s why a number of Senate Republicans know it is absurd for them to expect Democrats to act as business as usual and engage in a bipartisan appropriations process to fund the government, while they concurrently plot to pass a purely partisan rescissions bill to defund those same programs negotiated on a bipartisan basis behind the scenes," he continued.

The rescissions package, proposed by the Impoundment Control Act, allows the White House to request that Congress roll back congressionally appropriated funding. Such proposed cuts must be approved by both chambers within 45 days.

This package in particular, which narrowly squeaked through the House by a two-vote margin last month, would claw back $8.3 billion in funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and over $1 billion in cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the government-backed funding arm for NPR and PBS.

The package, informed heavily by the cuts proposed by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, formerly helmed by tech billionaire Elon Musk, would only need to pass a simple majority in the upper chamber to pass.
Pass the cuts first. What happens later is a later problem — that’s how the Democrats do things.
Musk and DOGE made USAID a primary target of their hunt for waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government, dismantling much of the long-standing organization ahead of the rescission request.

The impending deadline to fund the government in September will either require the passage of a dozen appropriations bills – something Congress has not done in years – or the need to work with Democrats to crest the 60-vote threshold in the Senate.
I vote for the former. Do what it takes to get as much to the president for signature — making each piece real rather than a pious hope — as possible as quickly as possible
And the rescissions package is not wildly popular among Republicans.

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, said during a hearing on the package late last month that she was concerned about proposed cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the CPB, and warned that cuts to the AIDS and HIV prevention program would be "extraordinarily ill-advised and shortsighted."

Schumer is no stranger to trying to leverage government funding fights to his advantage. Earlier this year, he withheld support for the House GOP-authored government funding extension before ultimately agreeing to the deal

That same scenario could play out once more come September.

"This is beyond a bait-and-switch – it is a bait-and-poison-to-kill," Schumer said. "Senate Republicans must reject this partisan path and instead work with Democrats on a bipartisan appropriations process."

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [38 views] Top|| File under:


South Carolina GOP leaders tell Gov Gavin Newsom to 'sell Crazy California somewhere else'
*Snicker*
[FOXNEWS] South Carolina Republicans say they’re ready to give Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democratic Gov. Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
"a HUGE Southern welcome" when he arrives in the key presidential primary state on Tuesday.

Newsom is teaming up with the South Carolina Democratic Party for two days of meetings with voters in the state that officially held the first primary in the Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
' 2024 calendar.

The trip by the term-limited governor with a large national profile is sure to spark plenty of 2028 speculation, since Newsom is considered a potential contender for the next Democratic presidential nomination.

Republicans in the GOP-dominated state are taking notice.

"Gavin Newsom is bringing his Crazy California agenda to Trump Country. It’s up to us to show him what real leadership looks like," the South Carolina GOP said in an email to supporters.

The email included Newsom's itinerary during his Tuesday-Wednesday swing, which is full of stops at cafes, coffee shops, community centers and churches.

"The dates, times, and locations are listed below," the South Carolina GOP said. "Show up loud, proud, and decked out in your Trump gear and flags."

State GOP chair Drew McKissick, in a separate statement, argued that "Gavin Newsom should go sell Crazy California somewhere else. He won't find many takers here."
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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [75 views] Top|| File under:

#1  GOP congressman calls for Newsom to count illegal migrants getting state health benefits

Audit should be ALL states.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2025 11:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Why are people always hating on Gavin Newsom for being an EXPLETIVE-DELETED? He has such nice hair!
Posted by: SteveS || 07/09/2025 9:22 Comments || Top||



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