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-Lurid Crime Tales-
With U.S. Senate Runoffs Near, Georgia's Not Prosecuting Its Unprecedented Number of Double Voters
[Real Clear Politics] More than 1,700 Georgians were singled out for illegally casting two ballots in 2020 elections — including last month’s hotly contested presidential race -- but their fraudulent votes weren't canceled out, according to state election officials. And so far, none of the cheaters has been prosecuted, raising concerns about continued fraud as Georgia prepares to vote again in twin U.S. Senate runoff elections next month.

The majority of double voters were Democrats who cast an absentee ballot either by mail or drop box and also voted in person on Election Day, officials said, which is a felony under state law.

The highest share of offenders were from Fulton County, which includes Atlanta -- many of whom were allowed to cast a second ballot by poll workers, officials said.

Hundreds of workers assigned to county poll sites were recruited and trained by the Democrat-run Georgia chapter of the ACLU and a minority-owned temp agency run by Democrat donors, according to documents obtained by RealClearInvestigations. Most of them were young and inexperienced.

Before the election, the ACLU urged anyone "threatened with prosecution" over double-voting allegations to contact the chapter for legal assistance. It is now signing up poll workers for the Jan. 5 runoff races. And the temp agency, Happy Faces Personnel Group, remains under contract with the county to supply workers for that critical election, despite complaints from poll managers and poll watchers that its recruits were "poorly trained" and "highly partisan." The Georgia runoffs will determine control of the Senate.

Though the number of suspected double-voting felons is the largest in state history, RealClearInvestigations has learned that no cases have been referred to the state attorney general for criminal investigation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 07:20 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's too late to prosecute, the election has already been decided. Besides, Georgia's double voters would not have changed the outcome.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Golly, I wonder what happens when people repeatedly do illegal things without judicial consequence?
Posted by: Cesare || 12/15/2020 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  While it might not have changed the election, we should prosecute and make examples of them.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/15/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Election Fraud sanctuary state?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/15/2020 12:23 Comments || Top||


Dominion Voting Machines Is Part Owned By Joe Biden’s Brother-In Law
Posted by: 3dc || 12/15/2020 06:21 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  Well, no wonder they don't work!

Oh, wait. They do work, for those in the know...
Posted by: Bobby || 12/15/2020 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh gee whiz... let me break out my surprise face...

Except I'm not surprised. Nevermind.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/15/2020 10:15 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Clem || 12/15/2020 10:45 Comments || Top||

#4  "This really is a big fu**ing deal."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Hey. next elections you just pay Hunter Biden, and he'll vote for you.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 11:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Republicans have to learn to cheat if they ever want to win another election.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/15/2020 12:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Does the hack of Solar Wind play into this ... mess?
Posted by: Bobby || 12/15/2020 13:02 Comments || Top||

#8  From what I've seen from LEO and the vendor, it doesn't seem like it so far. It is still very early in the forensic investigation and I wouldn't be surprised if they are fully compromised.

But the demoncrats are working within the interests of foreign governments anyway.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/15/2020 13:08 Comments || Top||

#9  As suspicious as "Made In China" label on most MAGA hats.
Posted by: Pliny Glise9715 || 12/15/2020 14:24 Comments || Top||


SolarWinds ORION Software interfaces with SENTINEL, the FBI system developed by Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister and her company
Posted by: 3dc || 12/15/2020 06:19 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  This might be fake.
Posted by: 3dc || 12/15/2020 8:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Appears someone or some agency is flooding the zone with disinformation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 8:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Creating fog to diminish the impact of what? I suspect if Trump leaves office he might open floodgates on the deep state she anigans at State and the three and four letter agencies.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/15/2020 12:44 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
‘BIAS, SPITE & ILL-WILL': Trump administration official sues CNN in $50m defamation lawsuit
More on this story from yesterday.
[Greg Jarrett] It is no secret that the left-wing media fiends to idolize the left while scrutinizing the right. We heard it directly from the horse’s mouth in the CNN morning editorial call tapes, released by Project Veritas.

But, how much longer will they get away with it?

Kash Patel, the chief of staff to acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, has filed a whopping defamation lawsuit against CNN, alleging the network published "unfounded left-wing political narratives" in efforts to paint him as a Biden smearing conspiracy theorist.

The complaint, which seeks $50 million in damages for Patel, specifically named network and five of its top reporters as defendants, according to Fox News. The reporters include Barbara Starr, Zachary Cohen, Ryan Browne, Alex Marquardt and Nicole Gaouette.

It claims CNN "deliberately or recklessly conveyed a false message" to sensationalize the "news" and humiliate Patel.

Explicitly, the suit brings to question several examples of the defamatory statements, including: "Trump loyalist connected to Biden conspiracy theories is leading Pentagon transition;" "Kash Patel, a Trump loyalist,...was connected to efforts to spread conspiracy theories about Joe Biden;" Patel "has also worked to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 201 presidential election;" and "Defense Department transition office...is led by a Trump loyalist connected to efforts to spread conspiracy theories about the President-elect."

The complaint alleges the network "attacked" Patel because "CNN was deeply invested in promoting the Russia collision hoax and the fraudulent ’dossier’ manufactured by Fusion GPS."

"The Defendants fabricated the Defamatory Statements and knew, therefore, that the statements were false. They knew that Kash was not the source of a single conspiracy theory and had no connection to any conspiracy theory about Biden," Patel’s attorney, Steven Biss, argued. "Defendants provide no evidence or example of any stories spread by Kash about Biden because there are none. CNN reported on the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry and read the Democrats’ report, and knew, therefore, that no evidence was uncovered connecting Kash."

Biss also argued that CNN "harbored extreme professional and personal animus, bias, spite, and ill-will towards Kash as a result of Kash’s revelations of CNN’s corrupt business practices and deceitful misreporting."

Patel is seeking presumed damages, actual damages, special damages and punitive damages, Fox News reports. He also wants a permanent injunction prohibiting CNN reporters from repeating the defamatory speech.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 10:51 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We wish him the best.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/15/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#2  There are no "conspiracy theories" about Biden's and his son's and brother's corruption. He actually did know about his son's business dealings with an actually CCP front organization because he actually flew with that son to Beijing on Air Force Two.

Biden actually did participate in the JV they set up because the American man they actually hired to run it attests to a meeting they actually tried to set up with him in Beverly Hills on 5/2/2017 when Biden actually was at the Milken Conference.

His son actually did propose to kick back "10%" to Biden. Their partners actually are convicted money launderers and embezzlers and fraudsters. His brother actually is an Iraq War profiteer.

Unlike the ridiculous bullshit "dossier" that was pulled out of the ass of a paid political operative, the evidence of Biden's corruption is material and out in the open.
Posted by: Ulaimp and Company6267 || 12/15/2020 11:47 Comments || Top||


FLASHBACK: Media "Experts" Mocked Trump for Promising Vaccine this Year
[Bongino Report] President Donald Trump launched Operation Warp Speed on May 15th 2020 to catalyze the creation of a vaccine to stop the coronavirus, and in record time they’re now being distributed nationwide. President Trump promised a vaccine by the end of the year even before the creation of Operation Warp Speed, and now we have just that.

It cannot be understated just how serious an accomplishment this is. Prior to this vaccine, the fastest vaccine ever brought to market was the mumps vaccine — which took four years.

With the introduction of the vaccine the coronavirus will go from something the world simply has to live with, to an eradicable disease. Millions to tens of millions of lives globally will be saved over the course of future decades thanks to Operation Warp Speed — and you can expect the media to grant Trump credit for none of it.

And while Operation Warp Speed was hard at work, the entirety of the media pushed the same narrative: what Trump promised simply wasn’t possible.

Here’s just a sampling.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/15/2020 10:16 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  we no longer have a media. We have a propaganda arm that rivals Pravda.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/15/2020 10:23 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
New York City restaurant workers fear for livelihoods as indoor dining banned
[PRESSTV] Restaurant owners and workers across New York City are fearing for their livelihoods after indoor dining was again banned across the city on Monday, as the mayor, Comrade 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. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
, warned of the possibility of a "full shutdown".In a significant setback for the city’s struggling restaurant industry, eating inside will be suspended for at least two weeks amid soaring Covid-19 cases and hospitalisation rates.

300,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. This is the tragic story in numbers
Read more

"We have to make heartbreaking phone calls to 16 employees, and they’re going to be in limbo," John Winterman, co-owner of Francie, a brasserie in Brooklyn, told the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

. "Which, in professional terms, sucks."

It also comes as the city prepares for its biggest snowstorm in five years, expected to arrive on Wednesday.
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New York’s governor, Andrew Sonny Cuomo, announced on Friday that he was reversing the decision to allow 25% capacity indoor dining — which has been in place since 30 September, following a six-month shutdown — saying it was "one of the few areas that we think we can actually make a difference".

Takeaway, delivery and outdoor dining is still permitted.

According to city data, released on Monday, New York had 185 new hospitalisations, 2,137 new cases and a seven-day average positivity rate of 5.5%. New York state recorded 10,194 new cases and 116 new deaths, the Johns Hopkins university tracker showed.

Speaking on Monday — when Queens ICU nurse Sandra Lindsay became the first American to get vaccinated — De Blasio said there could be more restrictions to come.

"There’s the potential of having to do a full pause, a full shutdown, in the coming weeks, because we can’t let this kind of momentum go," he told CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
.

"We’re seeing the kind of level of infection with the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
we haven’t seen since May and we have got to stop that momentum — or else our hospital system will be threatened."



Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What's the problem? They say The French Laundry's doing a brisk business
Posted by: Spese Splat1664 || 12/15/2020 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  And Grandma Killer is cooking up a storm.
Posted by: Clem || 12/15/2020 0:48 Comments || Top||

#3  New wrinkle.Scarlet fever has been diagnosed in my area. Doctor said he hadn't seen a case in seventeen years. Bacterial opposite of con virus. Highly contagious of course.
Posted by: Dale || 12/15/2020 4:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Restaurant workers need to accept reality and retrain for alternative employment like rioting, assault and arson in support of fascist party objectives. Added benefit, everyone looks slimming in black.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/15/2020 7:08 Comments || Top||

#5  You vote blue. You pay mafia union dues. You get what you deserve.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Anybody still clinging onto hope that NYC restaurants (at a bare minimum) are gonna come back is a freakin' moron.
Posted by: Raj || 12/15/2020 7:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Collapse of the restaurant industry has been "baked in" since the first lockdown. It is all over but the layoffs, the closures and the bankruptcies. Ditto for the airlines.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/15/2020 19:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Keep closing off avenues for self-sufficiency and small independent businesses.

Continue until everyone is either a swamp creature, a Woke hustler, a butler or maid for the oligarchs, or a prole on the dole.
Posted by: Omatle Sluque1353 || 12/15/2020 20:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
BREAKING: Biden Picks Buttigieg as Transportation Secretary
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 15:47 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Bend over. Pete will drive..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/15/2020 16:09 Comments || Top||

#2  a political dead end
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/15/2020 19:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Lies and in-u-end-o
Posted by: Fat Bob the Obscure8431 || 12/15/2020 21:00 Comments || Top||


Putin congratulates Joe Biden on US election victory - Kremlin
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 10:54 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lil Beetch McConnell is kissing liberal ass too this morning.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/15/2020 13:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Sniff this, China-Bitch
Posted by: Fester Elmeter2385 || 12/15/2020 14:27 Comments || Top||

#3  China Joe (apologies aux Freres Doubies)

We're talkin' 'bout our China Joe
That Ho: China Joe

Every day there's a new grift comin'
If you're an Oriental's bitch
The Party, PLA
And the golden hordes ...
You can even hear the money in the till
[ clink clinkety, clinkety clink-clink ]

And though we're still called the U.S.A.
Swampies don't seem to care
They just keep on spreadin'' for the East
Talkin' 'bout our China Joe
And his Craaaaaack Ho... China Joe!
Posted by: Alistaire Greager7476 || 12/15/2020 14:53 Comments || Top||


Biden Coughs Up a Storm During His Speech, Sets Tongues Wagging
BLUF:
[RedState] To cap the day, Joe Biden came out to talk to the nation, to say that now was the time to "heal," that voting for him was battling for the "soul of the nation." And just as it was throughout the whole year, he spent more time attacking President Donald Trump than he did actually saying anything about what he would do or doing any actual "healing." The whole speech was actually pretty nauseating.

Maybe it was the end of the day, maybe at the end of a very long year, but sufficed to say, Biden was struggling and squinting to read the teleprompter for what should have been an easy speech.

But what people noticed first after the discombobulation of the speech, was the fact that he kept coughing and clearing his throat throughout the address.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 06:54 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Following speech, Kamala wipes teleprompter for blood check.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 7:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Acting President Harris will monitor the situation closely.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/15/2020 7:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Any pool dates for when the contents of a feather pillow is pulled out of Joe's throat?
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/15/2020 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm sure it can be made to look like Scalia's "natural death..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/15/2020 7:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Inauguration question: Drive-up, or gurney with drip ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 8:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Biden is just a slogan in a suit. He will be discarded like so much trash when his expiration date comes up.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/15/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Kamala has done well for herself. For this dame to bail early from the Dem primaries with little support in her own state to became a future president...not bad. Of course, the fix was in.
Posted by: Clem || 12/15/2020 12:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Biden is nervous as hell. Hoarse, dry mouth, coughing as a result, saying "I'm sorry" when he keeps trying to clear his throat. Bastard is starting to feel the heat. Keep pouring it on the left. What you don't see in many negotiations is the behind the scenes panicking when the road unexpectedly gets the least bit rough than what they imagined it would be.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/15/2020 13:38 Comments || Top||

#9  I have struggled with how to impact-fully begin some non-violent action for every American that feels disenfranchised and violated by this election fraud. Consider the impact of 50 million envelopes mailed to the Office of the President Elect with just a picture of a teabag inside. No words, no threatening image, just a symbol of disbelief and refusal to accept the greatest political theft in our history. How do we create such a groundswell of refusal, making them know they cannot think we accept their efforts to legitimize their criminal act.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/15/2020 15:46 Comments || Top||

#10  Further, someone smarter than me might know, but as I recall, every news outlet that uses the public airwaves, both television and radio, has a license from the federal government. As a condition of that license I seem to remember they have certain public service duties, amongst which is a requirement to provide news. In years past that was considered a duty, not a corporate profit center as it has become on cable. Can we not use this licensure regulation at the FCC to threaten their ability to broadcast for their failure to tell the truth and provide honest, factual, complete information to the public. The editorialized, omission-filled partial truths and outright lies of the "fake news" has become pure propaganda for one political side. Short of buying NBC, only the threat to their licenses seems to offer remedy for their in-kind political contributions to our national news landscape.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/15/2020 15:56 Comments || Top||

#11  Punish the advertisers.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/15/2020 16:30 Comments || Top||

#12  Biden is just a slogan in a suit. He will be discarded like so much trash when his expiration date comes up.

AP nails it at #6. Useful idiot for Soetoro. Useful idiot for Miss Kam. He'll be gone in six months, or less. Who she or her Deep State handlers pull in as her VP will be very interesting.

The same cut of moron voted for FDR four different times. As Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) was quoted as saying:

"History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes."

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 16:43 Comments || Top||

#13  And Leo Tolstoy said:

"History would be a wonderful thing if it were but only true."
Posted by: Clem || 12/15/2020 17:09 Comments || Top||

#14  saying "I'm sorry" when he keeps trying to clear his throat. It's the Resident Evil inside him trying to come out and strangle him. "Sorry" won't cut it now, Joe!
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/15/2020 19:28 Comments || Top||


Michigan congressman quits GOP over Trump's election fights
[Politico] Rep. Paul Mitchell is leaving the Republican Party, the Michigan congressman announced Monday, citing his dismay with President Donald Trump and the party’s efforts to delegitimize the 2020 presidential election.

Mitchell revealed his decision during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, in which he said he’d asked the clerk of the House to change his party affiliation to "Independent." Mitchell plans to retire from Congress next month, at the end of this term.
"It became clear to me I could no longer be associated with a Republican Party that the leadership does not stand up and say the process, the election is over. It’s over today," Mitchell said. "This party has to stand up for democracy first, for our Constitution first and not political considerations. It’s not about a candidate. It’s not simply for raw political power and that’s what I feel is going on, and I’ve had enough."

In a letter to GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, he called the election process this year "traumatic," and expressed concern for "the stability and strength of our democracy." He added that he would continue to raise money for individual candidates who are in line with his conservative values.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 06:48 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Getting in the box car quietly isn't in our books.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2020 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  This party has to stand up for democracy first

The first of which is honest elections. If Rep. Mitchell can't see that, then he should be running for office in places like Cuba or Venezuela.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/15/2020 7:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Mitchell plans to retire from Congress next month, at the end of this term.

Looking for an appointment in the Kamala administration.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/15/2020 8:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Bye RINO.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/15/2020 9:59 Comments || Top||


US Attorney-General Barr steps down as Trump election defeat confirmed
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 02:31 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lets see stepping down on 12-23 thus avoiding Trump being able to take further legal actions.

Some would say
Well played Traitor Barr, well played...
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/15/2020 9:19 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Yes, well played indeed. The new AG is a lame duck who won't take any action, leaving it for the Dem incomer who will do, that's right, nothing. Do we need a Barr-Plugs graphic with this comment ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 10:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Dem incomer who will do, that's right, nothing.

That's the best case scenario.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 10:41 Comments || Top||

#4  I have to, "Visitor":

Posted by: Clem || 12/15/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Barr was more of a disappointment than Sessions. And that's saying a lot.
Posted by: jpal || 12/15/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#6  "I'm not allowing you to delay this action. YOU'RE FIRED."
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/15/2020 19:25 Comments || Top||


Two Sets of Electors in PA, GA, NV, AZ
[Epoch Times] Republican electors in four states said on Dec. 14 that they would cast their procedural votes for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, the latest update contesting the results of the 2020 election.

Republican electors in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona all said they voted for Trump. It comes as their states formally appointed Democratic electors who voted for Democrat Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).

"Sending more than one slate of electors is not unheard of," said Meshawn Maddock, Michigan Republican at-large national elector in an emailed release. "It's our duty to the people of Michigan and to the U.S. Constitution to send another slate of electors if the election is in controversy or dispute‐and clearly it is."
So if somebody is convince the Dominion machines are evil, the Pub electors get "standing"?
The Pennsylvania GOP said in a news release that electors met in Harrisburg to "cast a conditional vote" for Trump and Pence "at the request of the Trump campaign." Their vote comes as Democratic electors cast their Electoral College votes for Biden and Harris.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now I'm really confused.
Posted by: Large Phetch6637 || 12/15/2020 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  As they say... Soap box --> Ballot Box --> Ammo Box.

Soap box: well Twitter, Fercebook, and the mmedia took that away.

Ballot box: The last election took that away and a precedent is now set.

Ammo box: Still to come?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/15/2020 0:46 Comments || Top||

#3  I want to see a comment by Kurt Schlichter
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Just posted, in Opinion, G(r)om.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/15/2020 13:29 Comments || Top||

#5  ^😊
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 13:47 Comments || Top||


Electors meeting to formally choose Biden as next president
[Al Ahram] Monday was the day set by law for the meeting of the Electoral College. In reality, electors were meeting in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to cast their ballots.
Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Ex-Israeli consul general to Boston tapped for J Street senior post
I’d been wondering where all Israel’s Labour Socialists had disappeared to — there was a long period when they controlled everything, then suddenly their electorate evaporated... and they could not possibly all have died of old age. So here is one of them, moved to America to cause trouble.
[IsraelTimes] A former Israeli consul general to New England and Boston will be the next executive director of J Street Israel.

Nadav Tamir, a longtime diplomat who most recently served as director of international affairs at the Peres Center for Peace, will lead the liberal lobby’s operations in Israel.

"I’m excited to be joining J Street at the dawn of a new era for American diplomacy," Tamir says. "I’ve been a fan of the organization since it was first founded during my time as consul in Boston, and I’m so impressed with its growth since then.

"I’m looking forward to working with the team in Israel and in the US to advance policies that truly help secure Israel’s future as a democratic homeland for the Jewish people, living in peace and security alongside an independent Paleostinian state."
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nadav Tamir@rntamir Nov 21
Contrary to popular belief in our region, bilateral relations with the US are in a severe crisis. I propose below a number of steps that can be taken to resolve the crisis with the US...
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#2  According to Wikipedia, he blamed the crisis of relations with the Obama administration on Israel mishandling the relationship. Fortunately, Soros-funded J Street is too far left and too anti-Israel to be heeded by even liberal-oriented Jewish organizations in the U.S.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2020 9:28 Comments || Top||

#3  How can you have any kind of solid relations with the US when they can do a 180 degree shift every four years?
Posted by: jpal || 12/15/2020 9:51 Comments || Top||


Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona Republican Electors Cast Votes for Trump
[EpochTimes] Republican electors in four states said on Dec. 14 that they would cast their procedural votes for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, the latest update contesting the results of the 2020 election.

"Had we not met today and cast our votes, the President’s pending election contest would have been effectively mooted. Our action today preserves his rights under Georgia law."
Republican electors in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona all said they voted for Trump. It comes as their states formally appointed Democratic electors who voted for Democrat Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
and Sen. Kámala Harris
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#1 

NOTE:

Already read that the Socialist-Democrats are threatening, bribing and/or Blackmailing GOP House elected members to switch parties.

Have read of 1 already doing so.... using the lame excuse he was upset with Trump... Kinda wonder what they had on him?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/15/2020 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  When you have unlimited Chinese money through covert sources and you are in the exploitation phase of a breakthrough you pursue every possible option to expand the successes. In the face of crushing power neophyte politicians will fold like cheap suits unless deeply principled.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/15/2020 12:52 Comments || Top||

#3  As an aside, how long before ValJar appears in the West Wing paving the way for a full time office in the EOB for Champ?
Harris will need a mentor for the 2024 campaign of lies and racism for power.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/15/2020 12:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Thou calledst me Commie-dog before I had a name
But since I am a Commie-dog, beware my
Fang Fang
Posted by: Bugs Sloluse5433 || 12/15/2020 14:26 Comments || Top||


Sidney Powell Updates The Mass Voter Fraud Investigation
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Most will say the Socialist-Democrats took office by cheating.

STOLEN
NOT
WON


For the most part I would agree .

But given the total LACK of DOJ/SCOTUS Intervention despite mountains of Fraud, Election Tampering and proven Rigged Voting system evidence.

It would also seem clear the real winners are the DC Deep State/Global Elite, since they retook control from US the voters.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/15/2020 9:17 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ That's my read on it. In a few weeks we'll learn that Ossoff and the Warnock both won in the Ga. runoff by a 12.7m - 13.2m vote margins respectively.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 9:57 Comments || Top||

#3  If you can't prove it was stolen, you don't deserve to win.
Posted by: Pliny Glise9715 || 12/15/2020 14:25 Comments || Top||

#4  we'll learn that Ossoff and the Warnock both won in the Ga. runoff by a 12.7m - 13.2m vote margins respectively

... and with 12,125,871.3 votes and 13,622,439.6votes
Posted by: Fat Bob Jones5645 || 12/15/2020 14:57 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Thanks Bob :-)

Fractions matter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 15:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Whoa, who, who! Fractions do matter.

There's 0.1 votes missing! .6 + .3 = .9.

Where's the 0.1 remainder?
Posted by: Bobby || 12/15/2020 16:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Saving it for next time, Bobby.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/15/2020 16:46 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ A minor system glitch which occurs roughly one in every 106,903 votes. Feel free to blame a broken water pipe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 16:56 Comments || Top||



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