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-Lurid Crime Tales-
NY county considers next steps after judge rules against emergency order amid measles outbreak
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2019 11:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Nunes files $150M lawsuit against McClatchy, alleging conspiracy to derail Clinton, Russia probes
[FoxNews] House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes filed a $150 million lawsuit in Virginia state court against The McClatchy Company and others on Monday, alleging that one of the news agency's reporters conspired with a political operative to derail Nunes' oversight work into the Hillary Clinton campaign and Russian election interference.

The filing, obtained by Fox News, came a day after Nunes, R-Calif., revealed he would send eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department this week concerning purported surveillance abuses by federal authorities during the Russia probe, false statements to Congress and other matters.


In March, Nunes filed a similar $250 million lawsuit alleging defamation against Twitter and one of its users, Republican consultant Liz Mair. In Monday's complaint, Nunes again named Mair as a co-defendant, charging this time that she conspired with McClatchy reporter MacKenzie Mays to spread a variety of untruthful and misleading smears -- including that Nunes "was involved with cocaine and underage prostitutes" -- online and in print.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/09/2019 05:47 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Getting desperate, Mr. Nunes? You worthless fucking hack.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/09/2019 9:01 Comments || Top||

#2  A spokesperson for McClatchy told Fox News late Monday: "We have no comment and stand behind the strong reporting of The Fresno Bee," the McClatchy-owned publication cited throughout Nunes' lawsuit.
Nunes is from the Fresno region, and McClatchy led a hit-job to ruin his re-election bid.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 || 04/09/2019 10:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Perchance the worm is turning on defamation and slander by the media and people can get some cure for the horrid things those clowns say about people with until now no consequences.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 04/09/2019 14:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Worthless hack DV?
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/09/2019 14:04 Comments || Top||

#5  I thought Nunes was instrumental in uncovering the past admin.s cover ups re: the FBI,CIA etc.....

DV, you sure about that?
Posted by: Thomosh Flereter6344 || 04/09/2019 14:20 Comments || Top||

#6  746 said that last one........DV
Posted by: 746 || 04/09/2019 14:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Aaahh!! My apologies. I got Nunes mixed up with another leftist congressional hack I was reading about on another tab.

Don't read and comment before drinking... coffee.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/09/2019 15:27 Comments || Top||

#8  DV must have been thinking about Schifferbrains.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/09/2019 17:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Nunes != Schiff
Posted by: Cretle Big Foot4791 || 04/09/2019 17:31 Comments || Top||

#10  It’s okay DV. They all smell pretty much the same. I thought Nunes stank a little less than Sh....f et al.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/09/2019 22:36 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Hillary Contractor Described ‘Cover-up Operation Work Ticket' in Newly Uncovered Email
[EpochTimes] A newly obtained internal message from the Denver-based Platte River Networks firm that serviced the personal email system used by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for official diplomatic business referenced a “Hillary cover up operation work ticket archive cleanup,” the non-profit government watchdog Judicial Watch said Monday.

The email with the cover-up reference is contained in FBI notes on a February 2016 interview of an unidentified Platte River Networks official.

Judicial Watch obtained the notes as part of more than 400 previously unreleased FBI documents a federal district court ordered turned over to the non-profit as a result of its Freedom of Information Act suit.

In the Dec. 11, 2014, email, an unidentified Platte River Network official told another that “I’m kind of freaking about Gresham. Thoughts on what to do with [name redacted].”

The official responded that “Its all part of the Hillary coverup operation. I’ll have to tell you about it at the party.” A smiling emoji was inserted by the responder between the two sentences.

The “Gresham” reference appears to be to the Chicago-based Gresham Partners LLC. It’s not clear what if any connection there is between that firm, which describes itself as “an independent investment and wealth management firm that has been serving select families, family offices and endowments since 1997,” and the “Hillary coverup operation.”

In another of the newly released documents, an unidentified individual working with an Intelligence Community Inspector (ICIG) General inspector told a Department of State official in a June 27, 2015, email that “I have personally reviewed hundreds of documents in the HRC collection. I can now say, without reservation, that there are literally hundreds of classified emails in this collection; maybe more.”
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Ministry of Truth is on the job!
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/09/2019 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  They had to have had a trail. Talk about smug.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/09/2019 8:42 Comments || Top||


Europe
Euro Countries must seek ECB approval to manage gold reserves: Draghi
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/09/2019 09:35 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


French PM Calls for Quick Tax Cuts to Appease Protesters
PARIS (AP) ‐ France’s prime minister has called for quick tax cuts to respond to the anger expressed through the yellow vests protests across the country.

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Monday unveiled the results of a three-month "grand debate" launched by President Emmanuel Macron in response to the protests so ordinary people could express their views on France’s economy and democracy.

Philippe says "the debate clearly indicates the direction: we must cut taxes and cut them more quickly." At the same time, however, he said the government must cut public spending.

Macron is expected to unveil a series of economic measures next week.

The yellow vest movement, prompted by a fuel tax hike in November, has expanded into a broader revolt against Macron’s policies, which protesters see as favoring the rich and big businesses.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


The Grand Turk
What idiot let Turkey make 7 percent of the parts in an F-35?
[CNBC] Lockheed Martin and Raytheon prepare big production changes to adjust to America's dispute with Turkey over a Russian missile deal.

Navy Vice Adm. Mat Winter said,.. that Turkey produces approximately 7 percent of the jet's parts.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  The same idiots who have adversaries make our life-saving drugs maybe?
Posted by: gorb || 04/09/2019 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Here, you manufacture these F-35 brake assemblies and we'll keep our man Fethullah Gulen. Now please just STFU.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2019 7:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Evidently Mike Flynn's Fethullah Gulen plan fell flat. Difficult to imagine what might have happened.

MAIL 25 Mar 2017 - Michael Flynn 'discussed plan to snatch exiled dissident Turkish cleric suspected of being behind attempted coup from his rural US home and return him to the Mid East'
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2019 7:39 Comments || Top||

#4  "What idiot let Turkey make 7 percent of the parts in an F-35"

First guess: a Mister O. Bumble?
Posted by: Wheans Bluetooth3500 || 04/09/2019 8:16 Comments || Top||

#5  From what I understand of the military procurement process, bribing Congressmen getting stakeholder buy-in by having some of the production done in their jurisdiction is a common practice.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/09/2019 8:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Starting with the F-104 this has been a well established bribe, *ahem*, inducement to get other countries to adopt our plane. The F-16 Program was also sold in the same manner.
Posted by: magpie || 04/09/2019 10:16 Comments || Top||

#7  F-35 partners bid on contracts. The lowest cost qualified bidder wins the contract.
Posted by: Cretle Big Foot4791 || 04/09/2019 12:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Defense contractors really need to consider copying SpaceX and go for vertical integration of development.
Even to go so far as one instance of counterfeit screws and start manufacturing your own screws.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/09/2019 13:22 Comments || Top||

#9  We were told, at Fort Rucker, that a Huey was 500,000 parts made by the low bidder looking for a place to crash.

Do you suppose we should apply that to all of our flying iPhone Fifth Generation fighter aircraft?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 04/09/2019 14:01 Comments || Top||

#10  "What idiot let Turkey make 7 percent of the parts in an F-35"

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has been strategically supporting the F-35 Program since 2008.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2019 14:32 Comments || Top||

#11  SPoD I heard that line almost 50 years ago attributed to Gus Grissom who when asked what it felt like waiting for lift off said to the reporter something like "How would you like to be sitting on a large bomb where all of the 100,000 parts had been let to the lowest bidder?
Posted by: AlanC || 04/09/2019 17:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Prosecutor in Foxx's office speaks out: Criticism "is not an attack on Ms Foxx's race, it is an attack on her ethics and her efficacy as State's Attorney" - Full Essay
[CWBChicago] On Saturday, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx appeared at Rainbow PUSH headquarters where she found some friendly faces after being derided for nearly two weeks over her office’s handling of the Jussie Smollett hoax hate crime case.

Yesterday, an assistant state’s attorney in Foxx’s office sent the following essay to CWBChicago to express a view from inside the prosecutor's office. We are publishing the piece in its entirety with permission. The author asked to remain anonymous because they are not permitted to speak publicly about department business.

Chicago has long been considered one of the most segregated cities in the United States. Freed African-Americans made their way to this transportation and industry hub to find great success in the early 20th century. Some of the most moneyed, respected and land-owning Chicagoans were African-Americans who had fled the south.
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Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's always dangerous to hold minorities in positions of responsibility/power accountable for their execution of their duties.

Which is why we need to seriously ponder whether it's a good idea to ever put them in those positions in the first place.
Posted by: charger || 04/09/2019 10:20 Comments || Top||

#2  If all are held to the same high standard, accidents of birth will not impact anyone’s ability to get the job done. Poor Ms Foxx is now suffering the consequences of double standards, probably from the day she showed some ability in school.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/09/2019 10:45 Comments || Top||

#3  probably from the day she showed some ability in school

Equally likely, someone that helped fast-track her career called in a marker she never expected to pay.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2019 10:59 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 If all are held to the same high standard, accidents of birth will not impact anyone’s ability to get the job done.

But that isn't what happens.

Which is why we need to re-examine how feasible it is to keep doing this.
Posted by: charger || 04/09/2019 11:42 Comments || Top||


Beto O'Rourke slams ‘racist’ Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections
[PRESSTV] Democratic US presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "racist" and obstacle to establishing peace in the Middle East.

"The US-Israel relationship is one of the most important relationships that we have on the planet," O’Rourke said on a campaign stop at the University of Iowa on Sunday.

"And that relationship, if it is to be successful, must transcend partisanship in the United States, and it must be able to transcend a prime minister who is racist as he warns about Arabs coming to the polls (and) who wants to defy any prospects for peace as he threatens to annex the West Bank," he added.

The Texas Democrat condemned Netanyahu for siding with a "far-right racist party in order to maintain his hold on power."

"I don't think that Benjamin Netanyahu represents the true will of the Israeli people or the best interests of the US-Israel relationship, or any path to peace" for Israelis and Paleostinians, added O'Rourke.

Posted by: Fred || 04/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Speaking of racist parties . . . .
Posted by: gorb || 04/09/2019 2:10 Comments || Top||

#2  The National Review in 2013: Arabs Are Prominent in Israel’s Government

Bibi Netanyahu was prime minister then. Arabs have become more integrated into Israeli society since then, not less.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/09/2019 3:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Man of Irish descent running as a 'Hispanic' calling others racist. They just don't get Freudian Project. Same party that supported slavery and segregation that now wants all of America to pay for their sins.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/09/2019 6:36 Comments || Top||

#4  "I don't think that Benjamin Netanyahu represents the true will of the Israeli people

And I should care what a lying (Hispanic) Irish Drunk driver thinks, why?

His density probably makes him eligible for Black Hole status by now.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/09/2019 7:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Waitaminute! Is he conspiring to influence the election in another country?
Posted by: Bobby || 04/09/2019 9:38 Comments || Top||

#6  One of my more cynical friends refers to him as teh Micksican
Posted by: Frank G || 04/09/2019 9:40 Comments || Top||

#7  You have more cynical friends, Frank G? Truly,
I have led a sheltered life.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/09/2019 10:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Micksican, that is fantastic.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/09/2019 10:40 Comments || Top||

#9  O'Rourke is a muslim, who knew.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/09/2019 14:03 Comments || Top||

#10  netanyahu has won reelection
Posted by: 3dc || 04/09/2019 22:54 Comments || Top||

#11  And apparently he’s been at work putting together a coalition much of the day, so we’ll see.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/09/2019 23:24 Comments || Top||


Government
Obesity Is Not a Service-Connected Disability: VA
[Mil.com] Obesity cannot be considered a service-connected disability, according to a new ruling by the Department of Veterans Affairs General Counsel expected to be published in the April 8, 2019, edition of the Federal Register. The new ruling, among several precedent opinions set to be included, reinforces the VA's long-standing opinion that obesity isn't a disease or injury according to the law for wartime or peacetime compensation and can't be considered directly related to military service for compensation purposes. While the VA treats obesity as a disease for which treatment is warranted, the distinction is in the words "service-connected." The VA simply does not see it as a condition that was a result of military service, and therefore for which compensation is payable. Read more about the decision on Military.com.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Agents for Sgt Snorkle (Ret) could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/09/2019 6:40 Comments || Top||

#2  My fork is my enemy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2019 6:40 Comments || Top||

#3  ...Collusion!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/09/2019 7:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Nice shingles in the photo.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/09/2019 7:32 Comments || Top||


#6  Comfort food
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 04/09/2019 13:59 Comments || Top||

#7  ...well they outlawed boozing and whoring which was the staple for 4,000 years.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/09/2019 14:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Comfort food

Internalized Metals a Long-term Health Hazard for Military Veterans
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2019 14:44 Comments || Top||

#9  But alcoholism sure as heck should be.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/09/2019 15:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Court Docs Confirm: Kirsten Gillibrand's Father Worked For The NXIVM Sex Cult
[BigLeaguePolitics] Kirsten Gillibrand’s
D-NY and one of 90 million Democratic presidential candidates...
lobbyist father Doug Rutnik was employed by the NXIVM sex cult, according to court documents.

An eyewitness describes how Gillibrand sat at the NXIVM table at a Hillary Clinton fundraiser.

“The very first time I ever met Gillibrand she was at an event for Hillary Clinton in the Hall of Springs in the State Park. This was in 2006. I was at a table with a Russian friend and Mike Roohan and his wife. I was on the Democratic committee at the time and was given two comp tickets. Gillibrand came up to me introduced herself and said she was running against John Sweeney. This was before all the stories of his drunken behavior came out. He was still congressman kickass at that time. I promised my support and wished her well. i than commented to Mike that with her baby voice and demeanor that she was a lightweight. Boy was I wrong. But the kicker was when the mixing was over and Clinton went to speak. Gillibrand sat with one of the front tables. Yeah the three front VIP tables were all brought by NXIVM and she was sitting with Nancy Salzman. You can quote me on that,” said witness John Tighe.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh ve. This is going to take a while to unpack.
Posted by: gorb || 04/09/2019 2:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah the three front VIP tables were all brought by NXIVM and she was sitting with Nancy Salzman. You can quote me on that,” said witness John Tighe.

Did they all fly down on the Epstein's plane ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2019 7:04 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't EVER wanna read about Chubby and Hillary in the same article with "sex cult". EVER
Posted by: Frank G || 04/09/2019 8:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Pattern of behavior fits with the Rumors they set up an under age sex den for Bill and his friends.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/09/2019 9:00 Comments || Top||

#5  A splatter, but not enough to knock her out of the race.
Posted by: Oscar Slaising2824 || 04/09/2019 15:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Since she's sitting comfortably in the lead at <1%, you could be right.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/09/2019 18:50 Comments || Top||



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  Maryland man accused of stealing U-Haul truck in 'ISIS-inspired attack'
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  Major showdown brewing in Tripoli as rival Libyan forces clash near capital city
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