[Daily Caller] The three most prolific members of the so-called "squad" of freshman Democratic congresswoman face allegations of violating campaign finance laws and House ethics rules for their personal or political benefit 10 months into their terms.
Below are the Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaints and House ethics inquiries that have been filed against Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan since they took Washington, D.C., by storm in January with the promise of bringing about a more equitable and just world.
OCASIO-CORTEZ COULD FACE ’JAIL TIME’ OVER UNREPORTED AFFILIATION WITH OUTSIDE PAC
Ocasio-Cortez’s political rise in 2018 was made possible in large part to Justice Democrats PAC, an outside political action committee that recruited her to enter politics in 2017 and provided much of her campaign’s staffing and overhead needs in the lead-up to her June 2018 primary victory over former Rep. Joe Crowley.
Ocasio-Cortez’s relationship with Justice Democrats became the subject of intense scrutiny in 2019, resulting in two complaints submitted to the FEC.
Then there is Ilhan Omar diverting funds to her boyfriend and Rashida Tlaib paying herself out of campaign funds. This isn't the Third World, ladies.
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The establishment is fully compromised to looking the other way for Democrats. Otherwise I'm sure if they dug deeper they'd find some Somali Shaboob connection too with Omar.
We found that the FBI’s vetting process for CHSs, known as validation, did not comply with the Attorney General Guidelines. We also found deficiencies in the FBI’s long-term CHS validation reports which are relied upon by FBI and DoJ officials in determining the continued use of a CHS. Further, the FBI inadequately staffed and trained personnel conducting long-term validations and lacked an automated process to monitor its long-term CHSs. The joint DoJ-FBI committee tasked with oversight of the FBI’s CHS program did not meet its composition requirements placing an undue burden on just a few members. The committee also had a backlog of CHSs awaiting continued use determinations, potentially allowing them to operate when they should not have. The FBI also missed an opportunity to identify its non-compliance with established CHS validation requirements because it did not follow its own directives for incorporating new procedures into policy. Further, we identified issues related to the FBI’s current validation process with characteristics the FBI considers significant and its lack of policy for communicating with CHSs. Lastly, a newly proposed system designed to align its CHS base with its highest priorities will rely on ingesting data from at least one FBI system with known data quality issues.
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Why is it so important to establish "political bias"? If the process was abused, then a crime was committed. The motivation is secondary to the act itself.
This is the surreal nature of the Shitshow: Trump is presumed to have corrupt and nefarious motivations, even though he hasn't committed any crimes. His enemies across the DS, the Dems and the media are breaking all sorts of laws-- and we're told this doesn't matter because their motives are supposedly untainted.
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Why is it so important to establish "political bias"? If the process was abused, then a crime was committed. The motivation is secondary to the act itself.
In the case of Hillary Clinton and her home brew email server, James Comey would disagree with you.
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[TheHill] Senate Republicans are cautioning Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) against the prospect of bringing former Vice President Joe Biden before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify about Ukrainian corruption, saying such a move could backfire.
Graham initially ruled out the possibility of having Biden or his son Hunter testify before the Judiciary panel about their actions related to Ukraine, but he is now open to the idea, which is being pushed by President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Senate GOP leader, on Wednesday said it's ultimately up to Graham whether to request the Bidens answer questions about whether they played any role in shielding a Ukrainian gas company from a corruption investigation.
But Thune warned that Graham needs to be careful about following Giuliani's lead on investigating Biden.
"If you're Lindsey, I'm not sure I'd be taking recommendations from Rudy Giuliani on who I bring" in front of the committee, Thune said.
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So let's see.. in spite of all the evidence of bribery and corruption by the Biden Family, Pater Familias may not be investigated because it might be politically inconvenient? OK. Got it.
I would just suggest that the GOP keep its powder dry for now and wait to question Biden and Ensign Cokeblower during the Senate trial, which would/will actually follow due process and rules of evidence.
That would finish Biden off for good, boost Bloomberg as a 3rd party candidate and let Trump face Trotsky or Fauxcahontas in the general.
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..thus she is making the last years of her life as miserable as possible.
"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee." A white whale or the Constitution?
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Fixin to die. Trump should nominate a replacement the moment she starts to cool. Let the left freak hair burning the f*ck out.
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The Supreme Court released a statement that after receiving a bandaid and some chicken soup, Justice Ginsburg promptly did 10,000 push ups and free-climbed the Washington Monument before writing her next 200 opinions. Later that day, she had tea.
[TheRegister] The sale of one of the internet’s most popular registries to a private equity firm has revived concerns over how the domain name system is governed.
At the end of last week, the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that it has sold the rights to the .org registry for an undisclosed sum to a private equity company called Ethos Capital. The deal is set to complete in the first quarter of next year.
The decision shocked the internet industry, not least because the .org registry has always been operated on a non-profit basis and has actively marketed itself as such. The suffix “org” on an internet address – and there are over 10 million of them – has become synonymous with non-profit organizations.
However, overnight and without warning that situation changed when the registry was sold to a for-profit company. The organization that operates the .org registry, PIR – which stands for Public Interest Registry – has confirmed it will discard the non-profit status it has held since 2003 as a result of the sale.
Adding to a sense of betrayal, the organization that decided on the sale – the Internet Society – has always been viewed as a supporter and protector of the engineer culture that devised and developed the networking technology that made the modern internet possible. That culture has always sought to provide a counterbalance to growing commercialism of the internet.
That decision to sell was made by the boards and management teams at both ISOC and PIR, according to a statement provided to The Register: “In terms of decision-making, the Boards – and executive management teams – of both the Internet Society and PIR were closely involved and voted to proceed.”
But that’s only part of the controversy: there is also the matter of who the registry was sold to.
Despite ISOC calling the purchaser Ethos Capital “a strong strategic partner that understands the intricacies of the domain industry,” no one in the internet industry had ever heard of the company when the sale was announced. Which wasn’t a surprise since it was established a few months earlier.
WHO'S BEHIND ETHOS?
Despite stating that Ethos Capital “understands the intricacies of the domain industry” its founder and CEO Erik Brooks has no experience within that industry. The firm’s website lists only Brooks and one Nora Abusitta-Ouri – who joined the outfit last month as its “chief purpose officer” – as employees.
But there is a common thread between those two and it is Fadi Chehade, a former CEO of ICANN, the organization that oversees the domain-name system and awards the contracts to run internet registries.
It was under Chehade that ICANN radically changed its approach to internet registries, including a massive expansion of the internet namespace and a move toward a free market approach to internet addresses. Chehade’s actions as CEO led directly to the Ethos Capital buyout of .org but he is not listed as a part of Ethos Capital and the company has so far failed to respond to our questions about his connection to the firm.
More recent decisions by ICANN also had a significant bearing on the decision to sell the .org registry. At the end of June this year, in a controversial decision made despite significant and vocal opposition, ICANN decided to lift price caps on .org domains for the next 10 years, paving the way for unlimited price increases on the 10 million .org domain names. That decision massively increased the value of the .org registry from millions to potentially billions of dollars.
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You are surprised after the globalist forced the ruling caste in America to give up the internet (we built it).
[MSN] Chicago water bill payments are down $20 million this year, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration said months after the mayor announced the city would stop shutting off households’ water because of unpaid bills.
The administration provided the data after far South Side Ald. Anthony Beale hammered the mayor’s budget team this week for what he said was a misguided policy at a time the city desperately needs new sources of revenue.
While Beale charged during a Tuesday hearing on the mayor’s 2020 budget plan that water payments were down $165 million in 2019, Finance Department spokeswoman Kristen Cabanban said the shortfall is actually $20 million.
And the city has billed about $18 million less this year in water and sewer fees than in 2018, according to month-by-month amounts provided by the administration. Cabanban said that’s due to lower water usage in the city and in suburbs that purchase water from Chicago, possibly tied to conservation efforts.
Before she was even sworn in this May, Lightfoot said she would direct the city’s water department not to shut off water for people who aren’t paying their bills. "Water is a basic, basic human right," Lightfoot said then.
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Water is free when it comes raining down from the sky. Otherwise, it must be treated for contaminants, pumped through miles and miles of pipes, etc. None of that is free and I resent paying for those who choose not to pay.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Michael Bloomberg will not accept political donations if he runs for president and he will not take a salary if he wins, according to senior aides who offered new details on Saturday about the New York billionaire’s plans to navigate his wealth as he marches toward a formal 2020 announcement.
“He has never taken a political contribution in his life. He is not about to start,” Bloomberg chief adviser Howard Wolfson said in an interview. “He cannot be bought.” Neither could Didius Julianus.
One of the richest men in the world, Bloomberg is sending every indication he has decided to enter the crowded Democratic presidential primary election.
In recent days, he has created a presidential campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission and qualified for the primary ballot in at least three states. Bloomberg’s team has reserved more than $30 million in television ads set to begin running on Sunday in several primary states.
The moves, just 10 weeks before primary voting begins in Iowa, reflects his concern that the current Democratic field is not well-positioned to defeat President Donald Trump next fall.
Bloomberg’s wealth has already emerged as a central issue as the political world awaits his formal announcement. He is estimated to be one of the 10 richest people in the world.
His Democratic rivals pounced on news of Bloomberg’s massive television ad buy, in addition to his decision to bypass the first four states on the presidential primary calendar - Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina - in favor of focusing on the many states that hold primary contests in March.
[NYPOST] "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America" is the title of a 1960s book by historian and librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin. Pseudo-events, he wrote, are staged solely to generate news media coverage. Real events involve independent actors and have unpredictable outcomes. Pseudo-events are shows.
It’s not difficult to say which category the House Democrats’ impeachment hearings belong in. It’s a classic pseudo-event stage-managed to prod sympathetic media into running predictable stories. Inconvenient questions from Republican members are blocked, and the name of the original "whistleblower" is concealed.
Yet on the front pages and cable news’ breaking-news bulletins, this pseudo-event is crowding out two genuine events of potentially world-shaking importance and uncertain outcome. President Trump is going to be impeached by the House and will not be removed from office by the Senate. But the potential for regime change ‐ or regime rigidification ‐ resulting from the prolonged rioting in Hong Kong and recent protests in Iran
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[NYPOST] An explosive whistleblower complaint sent to three city councilmen claims the agency charged with investigating wrongdoing in city schools has blocked probes of Mayor Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly... , Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza and their allies, The Post has learned.
The Special Commissioner of Investigation (SCI) for city schools is sitting on nine cases of waste, fraud and corruption involving the upper echelons of City Hall and the Department of Education, according to a type-written, four-page letter that catalogues the wrongdoing in detail.
One of cases cited involves first lady Chirlane McCray’s embattled $850 million mental health program, Thrive, which has a large school component.
The insider document blames Special Commissioner Anastasia Coleman, who was appointed in February 2018, after prevailing in a power struggle with former Department of Investigations Commissioner Mark Peters, an aggressive prober of the mayor’s administration and city agencies.
"Under Coleman, SCI is continuing to hold or redirect investigations into City Hall, Chancellor Richard Carranza and de Blasio allies with business or that are connected to the DOE to protect de Blasio’s image while he runs for president," says the anonymous Aug. 20 letter signed by "SCI Investigative Staff."
De Blasio dropped out of the presidential campaign on Sept. 20.
Other mothballed cases included a probe of possible mayoral interference in an investigation of Orthodox Jewish yeshivas that get city funds but skimp on required secular education; contract spending on de Blasio’s aborted "Renewal" program for failing schools; and allegations about Carranza and his top aides.
"SCI Sherlocks assigned to investigations involving executives at the DOE and City Hall, including the Mayor, have been directed to instead focus on matters not related to the mayoral administration, his allies, etc," the letter says.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani compared Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...The 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... ’s defense of his conduct toward Ukraine when he was vice president to that of a mob boss.
Giuliani has alleged Biden bribed Ukraine to lay off investigating a natural gas firm that employed his son Hunter Biden.
Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham ...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems... , a Trump ally, has requested phone transcripts between Biden and Ukraine’s leader before a top prosecutor was fired, who was alleged to have investigated the natural case company that employed the younger Biden.
"Trump is now essentially holding power over him that even the Ukrainians wouldn’t yield to. Lindsey is about to go down in a way I think he’s going to regret his whole life," Biden said in a recent interview.
Giuliani said Biden’s comments "sounds like a poor imitation of The Godfather."
"This is the guy who sent out a decree that they should keep me off television," Giuliani told Fox News on Saturday.
"Every other week, he wants to get into a fistfight with the president. When he’s asked about all of these conflicts and all of this money made by his family selling his office, he says I don’t know my family’s business. He says it so often, he’s starting to sound like ... Corleone in The Godfather."
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] It looks like Senate Minority Leader and President Trump critic, Senator Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 43.966552880257055 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... , just outed one of Schifty Schiff’s whistleblowers. In a tweet this morning the Senator may have outed Schiff’s witness "LTC Alexander Vindman" as one of the whistleblowers!
In a tweet Chuck Schumer just referred to "Alexander Vindman and whistleblowers like him". What a dummy.
Would Cryin’ Chuck refer to Vindman "and whistleblowers like him" if Vindman wasn’t a whistleblower?
How does Cryin’ Chuck know this? We were told by Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... 's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation... that the whistleblower’s identity was unknown?
[SummitNews] A New York Times writer who praised Hillary Clinton for wearing a white pantsuit called Tulsi Gabbard a “cult leader” for wearing exactly the same thing.
Style writer Vanessa Friedman had drooled over Hillary’s clothing back in 2016, calling her white pantsuit “presidential.”
However, when Gabbard, a fierce critic of Clinton, wore virtually the exact same outfit, Friedman said it made her look like a “cult leader” full of “combative righteousness” and that the white fabric has “connotations of the fringe, rather than the center” and even undermines “community building.”
Journalist Glenn Greenwald highlighted the fact that it’s normally considered sexist to judge women on their clothing, but that an exception had been made for Gabbard.
Yes, usually it’s misogynistic to attack a female politician for the clothes she wears but an exception will be made (for obvious reasons) in this case.
Another Twitter user pointed out that Friedman had also previously praised Democratic Congresswomen at Trump’s State of the Union for wearing white but lambasted Melania Trump for wearing the same color.
“Imagine choosing something as patently stupid as white pantsuits to expose your rank hypocrisy and blind hatred over,” remarked the Twitter user.
“Only neoliberals and war hawks can wear white suites apparently,” added another.
Apparently, wearing white is a brave expression of purity and leadership, unless you challenge the Democratic establishment or the deep state, at which point it suddenly makes you a “cult leader.”
And people wonder why mainstream journalism is dying.
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If they didn’t have double standards they wouldn’t have any at all.
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Tubby Flabbard is beloved by people who have no idea what they are talking about.
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Tulsi Gabbard may have good points on foreign policy, but let's not forget she's right up there with Bernie Sanders on everything else.
Besides, if I hear her mention "brothers and sisters" again I think I will barf.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[Daily Caller] The three most prolific members of the so-called "squad" of freshman Democratic congresswoman face allegations of violating campaign finance laws and House ethics rules for their personal or political benefit 10 months into their terms.
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly...
...The 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...
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that 
