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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Forget about Impeachment, Here's a Legal Case that Actually Matters
[AmericanThinker] President Trump’s acquittal on impeachment charges is welcome, but hardly the best news of the week. For, unnoticed until recently, another court proceeding advances, and win or lose, this matter can shake the globalist, deep state swamp off its here-to-now protected foundation.

The case in question is Lawrence W. Doyle and John F. Moynihan (Petitioners) v Internal Revenue Service (Respondents), a case where allegedly corrupt actions of the Internal Revenue Service itself may fall under the microscope. It likely involves as yet unprosecuted crimes by "charities" that are still corruptly directed by household names. For history of this case, and some tantalizing details, see here.

The names of Petitioners in the U.S. tax court case are familiar to many -- Doyle and Moynihan are self-described "financial bounty hunters" who are determined to police the waste, fraud and abuse that has grown exponentially of late, especially because the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service seem loath to go after the biggest of fish -- dynastic political families, billionaire donors, and all who enrich themselves at taxpayer expense.
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Posted by: 746 || 02/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  An old trick. Educational "charities" are commonly used for tax evasion and money laundering in Arab and South Asian circles. Billary simply repurposed an old scam to launder illicit campaign contributions. And then Hillary became Secy-State: overdrive.

Corruption, hidden in plain view.

Most corrupt era since the days of the Robber Barons.
Posted by: Lex || 02/10/2020 6:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Now, now, Lex - robber barons, at least, build things.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/10/2020 6:41 Comments || Top||

#3  But... but... we have Twitter! Facebook! Instagram!
Posted by: Lex || 02/10/2020 6:43 Comments || Top||

#4  All based on physical devices made in China - see my opinion post Wuhan and the World.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/10/2020 6:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Nice piece. Let's hope this scenario comes to pass:
"...assuming we’re looking at a month or two of disruptions to the PRC manufacturing sector, this is going to be a quick hit and a major incentive for every manufacturer in the rest of the world to second source components from somewhere [other than the PRC]...."
Posted by: Lex || 02/10/2020 7:21 Comments || Top||



Man, 25, is arrested outside the White House with a knife
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Roger Hedgpeth, 25, was arrested outside White House on Saturday, police said

  • Hedgpeth allegedly told a Secret Service agent that he was there to kill Trump

  • He was arrested and cops confiscated 3 1/2 inch knife from sheath on his left hip

  • The man was taken to a local hospital for a mental health evaluation, police said

Hedgpeth, of Brandon, Florida, also had an empty pistol holster on his right hip, authorities said.

Authorities described Hedgpeth in the report as a 'critically missing/endangered person as well as a mental health consumer'.
He is the right age for schizophrenia to bloom.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Man accused of driving through Republican voter registration tent arrested
[NEWS4JAX] Hours after a van plowed through a Republican Party tent where volunteers were registering voters, Jacksonville police arrested a 27-year-year man on two counts of aggravated assault on a person over 65 years old, criminal mischief and driving without a license.

Gregory William Loel Timm was identified as the person behind the wheel of the van that struck the tent set up the parking lot of a Walmart Superstore at the corner of Atlantic and Kernan boulevards about 3:50 p.m. Saturday.

Timm is accused of pulling up, driving through the tent and striking their tables.

"It happened so quickly," said Nina Williams, a volunteer. "I just barely got out of the way."

According to Lt. Larry Gayle said after driving through the tent, the driver, now identified as Timm, stopped, took a video and "flipped off" the people who were inside the tent before driving away. Investigators are monitoring social media to see if the video shows up.

No injuries were reported. One of the volunteers provided photos of the older brown Chevrolet driving away.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In a world where the best and the brightest
Are fighting the might of the rightists,
One brave cub reporter
Sneaks over the border,
Inflicting concussions
On elderly RUSSIANS.
Convinced that he's nutty,
They hold him for study;
Committed, he is: Timmtimmitis!

Posted by: Enver Cravimp7844 || 02/10/2020 4:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like a f*cking Hitlers Youth.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/10/2020 5:24 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 Tintin! Milou! "Au Pays Sovietiques"?
Posted by: Lex || 02/10/2020 6:21 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 you don't say. Hmm....socialist as well they were.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/10/2020 7:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Remember when Rep Giffords was attacked and the MSM made a big deal about Palin using a target graphic as if she had pulled the trigger herself?

At some point someone needs to look at the media this guy and folks like him are consuming and hold someone accountable for the lies and distortions.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/10/2020 9:55 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Buttigieg father that was the head of the International Gramsci (Marxist) Society
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 02/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Just brainstorming...
1) "Because," not "despite"
2) "Well, he's obviously intelligent, so..."
3) Our CI people are frickin' geniuses who plan generations ahead.

Twenty years ago, I'd have taken 3 seriously, ten years ago, 1. Today? Everything on 2, please.
Posted by: Enver Cravimp7844 || 02/10/2020 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  How?

Obama.
Posted by: Clyde Whesing6325 || 02/10/2020 2:20 Comments || Top||

#3  I nearly have the key lines memorized. How many times must we sit through this movie ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/10/2020 4:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Obama’s true character is seen emerging on his post presidential endeavors: from last nights Oscar reviews
By Fox: Even socialist revolutionary Karl Marx was mentioned in a speech by Julia Reichert, the co-director of the Barack and Michelle Obama-produced Best Documentary winner "American Factory."

Reichert concluded her speech with a paraphrase of the "Communist Manifesto," written by Marx and Frederich Engels, stating "[W]e believe that things will get better when workers of the world unite."
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/10/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Karl Marx gets shoutout during Barack Obama-produced film’s 2020 Oscars speech

“The Communist Manifesto” got a shoutout during the 2020 Oscars.

Julia Reichert, the co-director of best documentary winner “American Factory,” which was produced by former President Barack Obama’s new film company, apparently quoted from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ infamous book during her acceptance speech on Sunday night.

“Working people have it harder and harder these days — and we believe that things will get better when workers of the world unite,” Reichert said.

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/10/2020 13:02 Comments || Top||

#6  So, yeah, anyone who wondered what would be the result of Obama's deal with Netflix, see above for the answer.

I saw bits and pieces of the Oscars last night because Mrs. Uluque just had to watch it. But I spent most of the time in another room watching another TV that was tuned in to another channel. What I did see of it was a bunch of freaks like the bald headed pair above. The denizens of Tinsletown are all off their rockers and ripe for exploitation by communists like Obama.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/10/2020 13:08 Comments || Top||

#7  So Zero's strange career trajectory ends in total farce. A stoner, a lazy and feckless lawyer, a Chauncey Gardiner president-from-nowhere surrounded by corruption and incompetence, and now a "producer" of shitty Marxist "documentaries."

What a disgrace.
Posted by: Lex || 02/10/2020 13:10 Comments || Top||

#8  A disgrace, yes, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave him an Oscar. So I think that means that Hollywood is also a disgrace, a collection of Communist kooks.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/10/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#9  A stoner, a lazy and feckless lawyer, a Chauncey Gardiner president-from-nowhere surrounded by corruption and incompetence, and now a "producer" of shitty Marxist "documentaries."

This is a great idea for a TV show. Think "Idiocracy" meets "Being There". Pity we can't get Alex Karras to play Michelle Obama.
Have your people call my people!
Posted by: SteveS || 02/10/2020 13:34 Comments || Top||

#10  "Face In The Crowd" redux
Posted by: Lex || 02/10/2020 13:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Death of a Media Narrative: Barr Confirms DOJ Taking Ukraine Info From Giuliani
[RedState] On Sunday, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told CBS “Face The Nation” that Attorney General William Barr said he had set up a legal process by which Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani could share information he’s gathered about Ukraine with the Department of Justice.

On Monday, Barr confirmed that information at a Washington press conference, but stipulated federal officials would need to exercise caution with the information they receive, and that the intent was to verify the information.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/10/2020 16:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oooops!
the URL is https://www.redstate.com/slee/2020/02/10/781061/
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/10/2020 16:33 Comments || Top||


Karl Marx gets shoutout during Barack Obama-produced film's 2020 Oscars speech
[NYP] “The Communist Manifesto” got a shoutout during the 2020 Oscars.

Julia Reichert, the co-director of best documentary winner “American Factory,” which was produced by former President Barack Obama’s new film company, apparently quoted from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ infamous book during her acceptance speech on Sunday night.

“Working people have it harder and harder these days — and we believe that things will get better when workers of the world unite,” Reichert said.

The quote appeared to be a riff on the last lines of the 1848 political document, which are frequently translated from German as “Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains!”

Netflix’s “American Factory” comes from Higher Ground, the production company of the former president and his wife Michelle Obama. It tells the story of a Chinese company occupying a shuttered General Motors plant in Moraine, Ohio.

“Congrats to Julia and Steven [Bognar], the filmmakers behind American Factory for telling such a complex, moving story about the very human consequences of wrenching economic change,” Barack Obama tweeted following the win.

“Glad to see two talented and downright good people take home the Oscar for Higher Ground’s first release.”
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/10/2020 12:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Sorry about the way this post turned out. I accidentally hit the submit button when I meant to hit the preview button, even after my second cup of coffee. My apologies.
No apologies necessary.
Repairs made and thanks for your posting.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/10/2020 13:12 Comments || Top||


#3  Churchill wrote history, Obama bankrolls agitprop that conceals his own role in the state of things.
Posted by: charger || 02/10/2020 17:32 Comments || Top||

#4  True to form, Zero still cannot manage to write the book for which he was paid a yet another sweetheart-style 7-figure advance. Seems Ayers isn't available this time.

Complete fraud. A stoner in a well-cut suit.
Posted by: Lex || 02/10/2020 17:41 Comments || Top||


Biden jokingly calls voter who asked about Iowa a ‘lying dog-faced pony soldier'
Video at link.
My take is that the WaPo editior forgot to put quotes around the word "joke" in the headline.


My take is that Joe opened his mouth and let the first words in line come out, whether they made any sense at all or not, which they didn't.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A curious turn of phrase in this day and age. Perhaps Joe was channeling his boyhood, back when he rode with Custer against the Lakota.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/10/2020 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  When you can't remember what happened 5 minutes ago, you fall back to 50 year old memories.
Posted by: Clyde Whesing6325 || 02/10/2020 2:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Did buffalo buffalo Joe?
I feel we can safely say no.
"So rude. Don't abide 'em.
I slide up beside 'em
To sniff 'em and bite 'em,
And, if I can't ride 'em,
At least get a whiff as they go!"
Posted by: Enver Cravimp7844 || 02/10/2020 2:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Peeling the Biden onion does not appear to be working out very well. My sorrow for him has now turned to simple anger. Imagine it if you will, Joe Biden was only a breath away from being POTUS for eight very long years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/10/2020 4:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Look, we all know that Obama kept Biden around as assassination insurance - nobody, no matter how fanatical, would try to assassinate Obama if it meant POTUS Joe. How the hell, Dems would select him as a contender, I'll never know.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/10/2020 5:21 Comments || Top||

#6  [sings] And the Shitshow... keeps rolling... along
Posted by: Lex || 02/10/2020 6:11 Comments || Top||

#7  'Peeling the Biden onion...', now THAT is seriously funny.
Posted by: Cesare || 02/10/2020 7:21 Comments || Top||

#8  If you leave an onion in the "right" environment for long enough it rots from the inside out and when you cut it.....let's not go there.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/10/2020 8:09 Comments || Top||

#9  It's pathetic, actually. Like that senile Senate character's rant from "The Seduction of Joe Tynan"...

except Plugz don't speak no French and never hoid o' no Stendhal
Posted by: Lex || 02/10/2020 8:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Brings a tear to my eye..
Posted by: Kim Jong-il || 02/10/2020 8:47 Comments || Top||

#11  Stressed at losing and hoping snark will make him seem more of a 'regular guy'?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/10/2020 9:59 Comments || Top||

#12  I slide up beside 'em
To sniff 'em and bite 'em,


That's just fall out of your chair funny!
Posted by: SteveS || 02/10/2020 10:07 Comments || Top||

#13  Joe, you're a lying, thieving, corrupt, dog-faced horse's a$$.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/10/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#14  I had no idea what he was talking about. Even a look-up mostly failed. But it did not feel like a compliment.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/10/2020 14:32 Comments || Top||

#15  Use the "If Trump had said this" formula...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/10/2020 15:37 Comments || Top||

#16  Biden pere: Le Grand Sniffeur
Biden fils: Le Grand Snorteur
Posted by: Lex || 02/10/2020 16:46 Comments || Top||


'We have been winning': DNC chairman says he won't resign and blames 'angst' among Democrats on 'dangerous' Trump
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, brushed off calls for his resignation following a debacle at the Iowa caucuses that left no clear winner in the state for three days.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Giggle.
Posted by: Lex || 02/10/2020 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  You might enjoy the video and spoof by Bryan Lewis titled "Maybe I'll Vote Democrat Again."

https://youtu.be/yrvHviEC98o

If socialism is voted in, you will have to fight your way out of socialism later.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/10/2020 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Baghdad Bob Tomas.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/10/2020 12:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Perez is hard core, probably imagines himself as chairman of the politburo selected not by the electorate but by members of the Inner Party.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/10/2020 13:22 Comments || Top||

#5  He's a small-time hack. His own people are laughing at him.
Posted by: Lex || 02/10/2020 13:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Charlie Sheen type winning, perhaps...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/10/2020 15:38 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2020-02-10
  Ehsanullah Ehsan sends greetings from Turkey, thumbs nose
Sun 2020-02-09
  Multiple US troops killed during shootout in eastern Afghanistan
Sat 2020-02-08
  Khalid Haqqani and Qari Saifullah banged in Kabul
Fri 2020-02-07
  Syria says its troops enter the strategic city of Saraqib in Idlib and begins ‘combing’ its neighborhoods
Thu 2020-02-06
  Hazim Al-Halafi, a senior commander of Saraya Al-Salam dead
Wed 2020-02-05
  Trump acquitted by Senate on articles of impeachment for abuse of power
Tue 2020-02-04
  8 Turkish personnel, 13 #Syrian troops killed in north Syria festivities
Mon 2020-02-03
  Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula claims December shooting at Florida naval base
Sun 2020-02-02
  Iraq’s President Barham Saleh assigns Mouhammed Tawfiq Allawi with forming a new government
Sat 2020-02-01
  Qassim al-Rimi, the head of al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen tits up.
Fri 2020-01-31
  Senate Votes 51-49 Against Witnesses and Documents
Thu 2020-01-30
  #Hamas rejects ‘conspiracies’ as #Trump unveils Mideast plan
Wed 2020-01-29
  Turkish tanks and troops have just arrived at the port of Tripoli. In violation of the arms embargo
Tue 2020-01-28
  Iran foreign minister calls Trump peace plan for Middle East 'delusional'
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  USAF E-11A down in Taliban area.

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