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ABC reporter, 45, who broke story of secret tarmac meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch dies in 'apparent suicide'
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
ABC reporter, 45, who broke story of secret tarmac meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch before email probe was dropped dies in 'apparent suicide'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Christopher Sign, 45, was found dead in his home in suburb of Birmingham

  • Police said they received 911 phone call just before 8:15am on Saturday

  • Investigators found Sign's body when they arrived at his home in Hoover

  • Initial reports indicate that his death is being investigated as a suicide

  • In 2016, Sign broke story of tarmac meeting between Bill Clinton, Loretta Lynch

  • Ex-President Clinton met then-attorney general on tarmac of Phoenix airport

  • Lynch's Justice Department was investigating Clinton's wife, Hillary Clinton

  • Meeting forced Lynch to recuse herself from overseeing the investigation

  • Hillary Clinton was being investigated for use of a private email server for official communications during her tenure as secretary of stat
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2021 09:23 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think it was Hunter S. Thompson who said "Never hold a grudge any longer than necessary."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2021 9:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Arkancide, back in fashion....
Posted by: 746 || 06/13/2021 9:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Sure
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/13/2021 10:22 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder how they decide whether to go with suicide or random mugging. A through M is suicide, N through Z is random mugging? Have they given any thought to lightning strikes as an option?
Posted by: Matt || 06/13/2021 10:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Hildabeast's Deep State?

Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 06/13/2021 16:11 Comments || Top||

#6  It wasn't COVID??? They should check their notes again.
Posted by: magpie || 06/13/2021 16:48 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm waiting for spontaneous human combustion.
It's the pro touch. Worth ten points.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/13/2021 18:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Jokes aside, I'm so damned sick of this nonsense.

If I'm going to live in a country without rule of law I might as well live in one that at least respects our culture and heritage, like Russia or Orban's Hungary
Posted by: Angolumble Grains4483 || 06/13/2021 19:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Durham has nothing to worry about as long as he continues to do nothing.
Posted by: Woodrow || 06/13/2021 20:21 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Joe Biden says he will turn Pulse nightclub into national memorial on fifth anniversary of massacre at LGBT spot that killed 49
No mention of the ISIS motivation
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Biden made the announcement Saturday - the fifth anniversary of the massacre

  • He called the Pulse site 'hallowed ground'

  • The president said the 2016 massacre made Pulse a place 'of unspeakable pain and loss'

  • Omar Mateen
    ... the Afghan-"American" who decided he was a soldier of the Caliphate and shot fifty unarmed people to death in a Florida gay bar he used to frequent...
    , 29, massacred clubgoers to avenge US airstrikes on ISIS

  • Nightclub has never reopened, and will be turned into a museum in 2022
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2021 09:47 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  murderer apparently didn't realize it was a gay club

the LGBT angle is pure BS
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/13/2021 11:05 Comments || Top||

#2  After the shooting it came out that Omar Mateen had been an habitué of the Pulse as well as other gay clubs for at least a decade, Lord Garth. He’d had several liaisons therein addition to having a wife and son at home, as I recall, which fits his Afghan heritage. But he had also boasted of having jihadi connections for nearly as long as his FBI-informant father had had a radio show praising the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Given that he scouted potential killing sites that included Disney World, I agree it seems likely he chose the Pulse because he he knew it well and could easily bring in weapons, rather than objecting to the proclivities of the clientele.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/13/2021 11:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Plugs' Monument to Buggery
Posted by: Phomomble Snore7726 || 06/13/2021 11:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Will Omar's dad be on stage with Biden, like he was with Hillary?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/13/2021 14:12 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 06/13/2021 14:23 Comments || Top||

#6  So he's going to erect a memorial to the success of the shooter in mowing down so many Americans?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/13/2021 17:57 Comments || Top||


Judge halts Biden's 'unconstitutional' $4BN program to pay up to 120% of black, Hispanic, Asian or Native American farmers' debt after 12 white farmers sued
The second judicial rejection of the program’s anti-white approach.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Wisconsin Judge William Griesbach
    ...a George W. Bush appointee...
    issued a temporary restraining order Thursday blocking the loan forgiveness program

  • Griesbach said the 'race-based criteria' is a violation of equal rights

  • Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan set aside $4 billion to the USDA for loan forgiveness for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers

  • It would be used to pay up to 120% of direct or guaranteed farm loan balances for black, American Indian, Hispanic, Asian American or Pacific Islander farmers

  • It aimed to tackle longstanding inequalities for farmers of color who have long claimed they have been unfairly denied farm loans and government assistance

  • A group of 12 farmers from nine states filed a lawsuit against the USDA in April alleging it was a violation of their constitutional rights

  • The judge agreed, saying the program is too broad in its current form, and that it was trying to tackle one form of discrimination by imposing another
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2021 09:31 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest, wife have been removed from Health Sciences Park in Memphis
[COMMERCIALAPPEAL] The remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife have been removed from Health Sciences Park in Memphis and taken to a vault in an undisclosed location in West Tennessee.Shelby County Commissioner Van Turner, Lee Millar from the Sons of Confederate Veterans and Brent Taylor, current Shelby County Election Commissioner who served as the funeral director overseeing the exhumation, spoke at a presser Friday outside the park.

Work to remove the remains of the infamous Confederate general, slave trader, and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan began June 1 and was expected to take two to three weeks.

Workers discovered the remains on Monday, around 9:01 a.m., but no announcement was made until Friday, in order to allow time to confirm that the area had been properly searched for all artifacts, Taylor said. Taylor and Turner pointed out that the removal of the statue also took place at the timestamp for Memphis' area code, but in the evening, at 9:01 p.m. in December 2017.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What next? Will they dress up and try the skeleton, convict it and sentence it to be hung, drawn and quartered -- livestreamed, on TikTok?
Posted by: Caesar Schwarzeneggar9665 || 06/13/2021 6:43 Comments || Top||

#2  When woke posturing descends into hysterical superstition.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2021 7:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Nathan Bedford Forrest was an exemplary confederate general who engaged in many battles reviled fellow confederate general Bragg and survived the war. He discontinued his pre-war business. antebellum slave trading was a legitimate, though cringe-worthy occupation. africans were mostly indentured by fellow blacks or by muslims and shipped here.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 06/13/2021 8:05 Comments || Top||


Virginia school district to appeal ruling reinstating teacher who won't use kids' preferred pronouns
[NYPOST] A Virginia school district that suspended a teacher for refusing to refer to transgender students by their preferred pronouns said Friday it will appeal a judge’s decision to reinstate him, according to a report.Loudoun County Public Schools plans to take the legal battle to the state’s Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
after federal judge James Plowman ruled that Leesburg Elementary School gym teacher Byron "Tanner" Cross can go back to work.

In a statement, the district said it "disagrees with the Circuit Court’s decision to issue the injunction, and is appealing this ruling to the Supreme Court of Virginia."

"[The school] experienced — and continue to experience — significant disruption since the May 25 School Board meeting during which Cross addressed the board. Many students and parents at Leesburg Elementary have expressed fear, hurt and disappointment about coming to school," the statement continues.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Biden's Mildenhall (U.K.) Speech in Full
[Evening Standard] US President Joe Biden has addressed American service personnel and their families at the RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall beginning on Friday.

Here is his speech in full:

Hello Mildenhall.

Colonel, thank you for that introduction and your service leading this team in such a difficult time.
Skipping down to a nice part; for the whole thing, you gotta hit the link.
There's an awful lot of history at this base, a proud history for the British people – the bravery and heroism of the Royal Air Force pilots fighting to defend their nation.

I'm sure everyone here knows the history, but just six hours after Britain and France declared war on Germany in 1939, three Wellington bombers took off from Mildenhall and bombed Nazi battleships.

And over the course of World War Two, out of this base, RAF bombers dropped nearly 28,000 tons of bombs on Nazi Germany, flying more than 8,000 sorties. This base has been a significant source of British air power. A proud, proud history of a proud nation.
I skipped down thru a long speech, but it seems pretty solid, if folksy. A lot of facts and figures, not from memory, for sure! I wonder if he was still on D.C. time? I wonder what it was like, live.
That would have been the written text of the speech that he planned to give, not what he actually said. A very quick search did not reveal any videos of the thing, including on the White House website, which makes me wonder.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Telegraph has it on YT. Nearly two hours from plane on approach to Elvis leaving the building. Looks like speech itself fills third half hour, give or take.
Posted by: Jeremiah de Medici9220 || 06/13/2021 5:04 Comments || Top||

#2  the written text of the speech that he planned to give, not what he actually said


"I'm sure everyone here knows the history, so... uhh, I'll skip it."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2021 5:07 Comments || Top||

#3  The Telegraph has it on YT.

Good find, Jeremiah de Medici9220. :-)

Posted by: trailing wife || 06/13/2021 6:43 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
PA Election Report Found Five Issues
[Epoch Times] An election assessment conducted in a Pennsylvania county months ago and quietly released to the public in recent weeks uncovered five errors, including three linked to Dominion Voting Systems, whose election management system is used in the county, the assessing firm said.
Fulton County - As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,845, making it the fourth-least populous county in Pennsylvania
Fulton County, PA, which seems to have some of the same election management problem as Fulton County, GA.
Wake TSI said in its report summary that it found that the election "was well run, was conducted in a diligent and effective manner and followed the directions of Pennsylvania." No anomalies were reported during the election process and expectations were that the assessment would not show any indications of fraud, error, interference, or misconduct.
That would be at the small-county level.
However, Wake TSI said it found five "issues of note," including that Dominion failed to meet the commonwealth’s certification standards; that the election management system had Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools installed, despite the software not being part of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s certified configuration; and that changes were made to the management system just three weeks prior to the election.
The 'management system', I suppose, linked the well-run County results to the State level system.
Assessors said there is "no valid reason" for the software to be installed on the system and that the presence "allows any user with access to change and manipulate the EMS databases without logging [recording] to the Database, EMS, or [operating system] logfiles."
Making it remarkably easy to cheat. But Dominion didn't, of course.
They also said that Dominion failed to fill out a document that attests that the installed software versions conformed with certified reasons, with Dominion apparently claiming filling out the form was "optional."
Certifications are generally not "optional", except for cheaters.
Dominion Voting Systems disputed the report’s findings related to it.
Sure, and they didn't help Hugo Chavez, either.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Black Lives Matter infighting reaches a boiling point
[FOXNEWS] Amid increased scrutiny of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors
...Sticky fingered co-founder of Black Lives Matter. An avowed communist, she collects real estate like people used to collect stamps, when not checking into luxury resorts for conferences...
's lavish spending, including her reported purchases of multiple homes totaling upward of $3 million and the installation of fencing and an electric gate around one of those homes, the original ten BLM chapters are demanding more accountability and transparency from the BLM global network.

The BLM infighting comes on the heels of Cullors announcing she would step down from her role as the BLM foundation executive director as questions surrounding her finances swirled. Cullors, however, denied that her decision to resign had anything to do with that controversy, insisting she had planned to step away for more than a year.

But Cullors' move to step down is not enough to satisfy a growing number of BLM chapters' demand for change within the organization. Referring to initial calls for more transparency and accountability from the "BLM 10," the name for the ten original BLM chapters, a new group, deemed the "BLM 10 Plus" is now speaking out.

Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  I think body mass index should be a good enough first indicator of just how much somebody is enjoying themselves playing victim.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2021 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Turf war.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2021 4:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Stalin vs Trotsky

Time to invest in ice axes?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/13/2021 8:09 Comments || Top||

#4 

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

― Booker T. Washington


Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/13/2021 8:23 Comments || Top||

#5  I think body mass index should be a good enough first indicator...

For some reason, I am reminded of a bio-physics lecture that began "Consider a spherical camel..."

Personally, I think it is cute when they turn on each other, like jackals fighting over a pork chop.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/13/2021 10:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Overheard by an eavesdropping elf
At a communist conference (top shelf!),
One soldier of labour
Responds to his neighbor,
"I'm more of an arms man, myself."
Posted by: Jeremiah de Medici9220 || 06/13/2021 16:04 Comments || Top||

#7  hnmmm we see such things just after victory or just prior to defeat.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/13/2021 19:09 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Rod Rosenstein joins Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions in denying ALL knowledge of secret DOJ subpoenas sent to Microsoft and Apple for Congress members' data
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The Justice Department sent a secret subpoena to Apple on February 6, 2018 for 73 phone numbers and 36 email addresses

  • Trump and his administration were infuriated after detailed conversations between his aides and the Russian ambassador to the U.S. were leaked

  • The Justice Department began probing the sources of the embarrassing leaks

  • The subpoenas included requests for data from accounts for Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell

  • Jeff Sessions served as Attorney General at the time the administration started probing the leaks, and Rod Rosenstein served as his deputy attorney general

  • Neither Sessions nor Rosenstein knew about the subpoena, a source close to them told the Wall Street Journal on Friday

  • Sessions' successor William Barr ordered the probe continue well into 2020

  • Barr told Politico he also was 'not aware of any congressman's records being sought in a leak case' while he was attorney general
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2021 09:46 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These things have to be signed so it should be easy to track down what happened.
Posted by: Ruprecht || 06/13/2021 16:40 Comments || Top||

#2  The Justice Department sent a secret subpoena to Apple on February 6, 2018 for 73 phone numbers and 36 email addresses

By the Weissmann ünd Meuller Show Investigation. Article will be submitted for Monday.

New York Times Reports Andrew Weissmann and Robert Mueller Sought, Then Hid, Special Counsel Surveillance of Trump White House Attorney Don McGhan
Posted by: Large and Company9026 || 06/13/2021 17:40 Comments || Top||

#3  I think all testimony in front of Congress should involve sodium pentothal... and while you're at it, shoot up all the Congress Critters, too. Bet it would male for some interesting dialogue.
Posted by: CrankyOldYankee || 06/13/2021 20:09 Comments || Top||


I told you so! Trump reels off list of times liberal media said he was wrong when he was right all along, from Wuhan, to Hunter Biden's laptop and the clearing of Lafayette Square
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2021 09:45 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Letters from a D.C. Jail
[AMGREATNESS] This week, five Republican senators sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding his office’s handling of January 6 protesters. The letter revealed the senators are aware that several Capitol defendants charged with mostly nonviolent mostly peaceful crimes are being held in solitary confinement conditions in a D.C. jail used exclusively to house Capitol detainees.

Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
’s Justice Department routinely requests—and partisan Beltway federal judges routinely approve—pre-trial detention for Americans arrested for their involvement in the January 6 protest. This includes everyone from an 18-year-old high school senior from Georgia to a 70-year-old Virginia farmer with no criminal record.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Solitary Confinement and beatings.

Not to mention gunning down one unarmed protestor.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/13/2021 8:08 Comments || Top||


#3  We're not talking arson or looting or rape or murder, people.

They put their MUDDY BOOTS on Pelosi's DESK.

On.
Her.
DESK.
Posted by: Ometh Munster6193 || 06/13/2021 11:49 Comments || Top||

#4  There really is only one way to get rid of the swamp.
Posted by: Lonzo Hapsburg5562 || 06/13/2021 19:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Secret Service agents looked anxious during VP Kamala Harris' 'surprise' appearance at DC's Pride march
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Harris made history Saturday as the first sitting vice president to march in a Pride event

  • Twitter users pointed out how anxious and tense Harris' Secret Service agents were during the appearance

  • The vice president gave a speech on the importance of equal rights for members of the LGBTQ+ community

  • The Biden administration has committed to making LGBTQ+ rights a top priority

  • Harris' visit to Pride comes at the end of a rocky week as her tour to Guatemala and Mexico was panned by critics

  • Harris is still yet to visit the border to see the conditions for herself and this overshadowed much of the trip, with several testy exchanges with journalists
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2021 09:37 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  she looks like she has aged 4 years since Jan 2021
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/13/2021 11:07 Comments || Top||

#2  She is careless and dissrespectful for her safety, the safety of those trying to provide security, and bystanders in the crossfire of an assassination attempt.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 06/13/2021 11:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Actually, if the Dems off her, the could get a VP that might be actually able to take over. Paging Clinton.
Posted by: KBK || 06/13/2021 19:09 Comments || Top||


Malliotakis wants 'liability' Omar booted from congressional committee
[NYPOST] New York Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side...
as "a liability" to the country amid a Democratic civil war over the Minnesota "Squad" member likening the US and Israel to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
and Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,.

Malliotakis said the Somalia-born congresswoman should be grateful to be living in the United States but instead "badmouths" her adopted country — and as a result should at least be thrown off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

"She is a liability to that committee," Malliotakis said in a Friday afternoon appearance on Fox News.

"When I went to Israel in 2019, I spoke to citizens ... They for the first time saw the United States was wavering in its support for Israel because of members like Ilhan Omar and [New York Rep.] Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore...
. She is a liability to the committee and she’s a liability to the United States of America."

Malliotakis, who represents Staten Island and southern Brooklyn, also said that she wants Omar out of Congress altogether, but did not specify if she wanted House members or voters to accomplish that goal.

Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists



Ken Cuccinelli: Democrats' election takeover — here's what's at stake for every state
[FOXNEWS] If you listened solely to Democratic talking points, including the so-called mainstream media, you would be convinced that America is a systemically racist nation and that Republicans are somehow hell bent on disenfranchising large swaths of voters. Both of these notions are patently false.

In fact, thanks to sustained long-term efforts, in 2021 it is easier to register and vote now than at any point in American history — no matter what color your skin is. This is a measure of progress of which we should all be proud.When the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, voter registration and voter turnout by minorities — specifically Black Americans — were the measure of whether voter suppression was taking place in a state. A moment’s consideration would lead an ordinary American to conclude those are sensible metrics to gauge minority voter suppression.

But, in spite of these facts, Democrats in Congress have manufactured a myth of widespread voter suppression in order to impose a federal takeover of elections.

The instrument of their proposed federal control over election law was introduced (and never passed) in the last Congress as H.R. 4, the "John Lewis Voting Rights bill." The biggest, but not the only, major change is that H.R. 4 would reinstitute the practice of requiring federal preclearance (i.e., federal permission) for any state election change, no matter how minor.

Preclearance was previously struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
in the Shelby County v. Holder case in 2013. Thus, H.R. 4 is an attempt by the Democrats to go around the court and once again subject state election reforms to a federal veto — no matter how trivial any proposed change might be.

Under H.R. 4, the federal government could veto and block any, and potentially all, state election reforms (plus redistricting) under the guise of fighting discrimination. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
there is no requirement to actually prove that anything a state was proposing would be discriminatory. If a state sought to fight the federal government’s decision, rather than requiring the federal government to prove that a new law would result in discrimination, the burden of proof would fall on the states.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Arizona Lawmaker Responds to AG Garland: 'You Will Not Touch Arizona Ballots or Machines Unless You Want to Spend Time in Arizona Prison'
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Following the threats by the Biden regime, former fighter pilot and Arizona state Senator Wendy Rogers warned Merrick Garland to stay in his lane.
That’d be the Maricopa County audit. Or recount. At any rate, it’s been getting interesting.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Get rid of the damn voting machines.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 06/13/2021 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  If Dominion isn't outlawed, fair elections will be a thing of the past.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2021 2:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Ballots or bullets?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2021 4:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Just think, we almost has this Garland as a Supreme Circus Justice.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/13/2021 7:53 Comments || Top||

#5 

Grab a copy of the Initial GA Election Machine test report done prior to the election. When the systems were "initially" being tested.

It will open some eyes.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/13/2021 8:26 Comments || Top||

#6 

Better yet read the NYT hit piece on how Russia Hacked the voting machines to Election Trump in 2016.

Quoting older Posting
"Much to their current chagrin, in April 2018, The New York Times published a video of a University of Michigan computer scientist, J. Alex Halderman, showing a group of students how easy it is to rig a Dominion Voting Machine. The name of the video is “I Hacked an Election. So Can the Russians.” A caption next to the title read, “It’s time America’s leaders got serious about voting security.” "

The DEFCON Video


Note in the video the states and placement of these systems.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/13/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#7  This is why elections should not be federalized.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 06/13/2021 16:19 Comments || Top||


Kamala Harris Makes a Trip to an Early Childhood Education School All About Herself: 'I'm the First VP Who's a Girl, Not a Boy'
Cisgender bigot!
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Instead of visiting the US-Mexico border, Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and now Joe Biden's wing nut. She's displaying her level of competence in her hanling of the Biden Border Surge
stayed in Washington to promote the Biden Administration’s initiatives focused on "free" child care.

Kamala Harris on Friday made a trip to CentroNía, a bilingual early childhood education school in Washington and she made it all about herself.

Harris made the trip all about herself and told pre-schoolers that she’s the "first VP who’s a girl, not a boy.”
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#1  Fraudsters are going all out to claim legitimacy before the Arizona recount is released.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 06/13/2021 12:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Wait... isn't it assuming it's own gender? How SEXIST!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/13/2021 13:11 Comments || Top||

#3  In competition with Obama on how many times you can say "I" in a sentence
Posted by: magpie || 06/13/2021 16:46 Comments || Top||

#4  What else ya got?
Posted by: KBK || 06/13/2021 19:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Biden declines to mention Islamic State in Pulse massacre statement
[NYPOST] President Biden issued a statement Saturday commemorating the five-year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Fla.

The attack by gunman Omar Mateen
... the Afghan-"American" who decided he was a soldier of the Caliphate and shot fifty unarmed people to death in a Florida gay bar he used to frequent...
left 49 dead at the LGBT nightclub, marking the deadliest act of Islamic terror on US soil since 9/11. Mateen was rubbed out by police.

"In the coming days, I will sign a bill designating Pulse Nightclub as a national memorial, enshrining in law what has been true since that terrible day five years ago: Pulse Nightclub is hallowed ground," Biden wrote.

But the statement curiously omitted any references to Islamic terrorism or the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
— to which the shooter declared his allegiance shortly before carrying out his deadly rampage.

"I pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of the Islamic State," Mateen said in a 911 phone call.
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Joe Biden Goes Global with $40 Trillion 'Build Back Better for the World' Infrastructure Plan
[BREITBART] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
will announce during talks with world leaders at the G7 summit on Saturday a global $40 trillion infrastructure plan to "Build Back Better for the World."

During their meeting, World leaders at the G7 summit plan to meet about the importance of a "fair, sustainable, inclusive global economy," including a discussion about China.

The White House previewed the initiative in a call with news hounds, promoting a plan that would compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative. (A White House official branded Biden’s Build Back Better for the World proposal as "B3W" as opposed to China’s "BRI.")

"We’ve seen the Chinese government demonstrate a lack of transparency, poor environmental and labor standards, and a course of approach that’s left many countries worse off," a bigwig said.

Biden’s plan would offer a different option for the world, the official noted, competing with China by offering a plan with the "highest labor and environmental standards."

"This is about providing an affirmative, positive, alternative vision for the world than that is presented by China and, in some similar ways but also in some different ways, Russia," the official said.

The White House stated that Biden would work with Congress to increase overseas infrastructure financing and coordinate funding from other G7 nations and the private sector to help fund infrastructure for low- and middle-income countries.

They cited a needed $40 trillion investment estimation by the World Bank through 2035 for their price tag.
And WTF is the World Bank gonna get that money? Us. FOAD Biden
"[W]e’re aiming for an ambitious and credible scale," an official said.

One official noted that the G7 nations will also discuss the problems with China’s practice of forced labor in Xinjiang.

"The point is to send a wake-up call that the G7 is serious about defending human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
and that we need to work together to eradicate forced labor from our products," the official said.

Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Down $1 -- again. At this rate I'm gonna need to go out and get more ones
Posted by: Shaise Chung7410 || 06/13/2021 6:46 Comments || Top||

#2  "Never underestimate Joe's ability to f**k things up!" Let' see...who said that again? Oh yeah..his former boss.
Posted by: Warthog || 06/13/2021 9:07 Comments || Top||

#3  And WTF is the World Bank gonna get that money?

President Biden's most secretive tax is hiding in plain sight: Inflation


Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||



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