[JustTheNews] In the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, there is $1 million earmarked for KidsPeace, a Pennsylvania nonprofit.
Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Susan Wild
...represents Lehigh Valley, started out as a military brat, since September acting chair of the House Ethics Committee...
is set to secure in the pending $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill roughly $1 million that will be directed to a children's mental health asylum she defended in a molestation case in 2005.
The funding bill passed in the Senate on Thursday and is expected to pass in the House on Friday to avert a partial government shutdown at midnight.
The $1 million earmarked for KidsPeace, a Pennsylvania nonprofit Wild represented in a lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed by a former patient who was raped by a counselor, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
Wild, an attorney, defended KidsPeace and has been on record saying that the nonprofit did not "crystal ball" to prevent the counselor's "malfeasance." However, the counselor had been charged years earlier in the suffocation death of a 12-year-old patient.
In a letter, Wild selected KidsPeace out of multiple applications submitted to her office for congressional spending.
During WIld's 2022 election, a Republican PAC attacked her actions in an ad, stating that "Wild is pushing for a million dollars in taxpayer money for the hospital, the same hospital that paid her."
Wild responded to that ad saying "Oh shut up. I represented a medical organization in connection with its claim against its own insurance company that was refusing to pay the claim. I had nothing to do with the underlying claim."
[Breitbart] Hunter Biden hired former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment attorney Abbe Lowell this week to combat the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the Biden family business.
Abbe Lowell, who engages with clients engulfed in political scandals, is one of the establishment’s top attorneys. He has represented many high-profile clients, including Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), former Sen. John Edwards, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Bill Clinton, and Jared Kushner. Lowell is a Brox native and a 1977 Columbia Law School graduate. In 1982, he ran for the Maryland House of Delegates on the Democrat ticket.
Lowell will now join Hunter’s legal defense with Kevin Morris, the lead attorney, Chris Clark, and Joshua A. Levy. Lowell will defend Hunter from the congressional probe, while Clark and Levy’s work has focused on preventing Hunter from being charged by the DOJ for tax and gun violations.
[Breitbart] Hunter Biden’s legal defense against both the Justice Department and congressional probes could cost more than $100,000 per month, legal experts told Breitbart News, as the scandal-scarred first son faces mounting scrutiny for his mysterious business practices.
According to Hunter’s previous statements, he is not cash-rich. Hunter was nearly penniless while Joe Biden was vice president, living paycheck to paycheck after out-of-control spending, according to Hunter’s ex-wife. From 2018-2019, Joe Biden even committed to wiring Hunter $100,000.
Kevin Morris, the attorney who is leading Hunter’s legal proceedings, reportedly paid a $2 million delinquency Hunter owed to the IRS in 2022. Hunter is awaiting the results of a Delaware grand jury’s investigation into potential tax and gun violations.
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[RedState] Sam Bankman-Fried, the man at the center of the FTX scandal, is back on US soil after having been extradited from the Bahamas to face federal charges. Naturally, because our justice system is about as coherent as a two-year-old quoting Shakespeare, the notorious fraudster was immediately granted bail and is now spending the holidays with his family. The American oligarchy is alive and well.
But I digress, there’s a lot more to the FTX scandal than just Bankman-Fried’s fate, and one of the more interesting aspects of the entire ordeal is just how close many Democrats were to him. In fact, according to Politico, a Democrat operative and close advisor to Bankman-Fried named Sean McElwee had a direct backchannel setup with the White House.
That slack channel, which reportedly contained ongoing conversations between McElwee and administration officials (as well as “well-known reporters”) was promptly shut down when Bankman-Fried resigned as CEO. Moreover, McElwee is also a co-founder of Data for Progress and only began negotiating his exit from the organization after FTX collapsed in on itself. If everything was above board, then why would Data for Progress feel the need to cut ties so quickly?
To say there are a lot of red flags with this situation is to understate things dramatically, and the questions surrounding the administration’s involvement become obvious with this news. What exactly was McElwee, operating as an advisor to Bankman-Fried, passing along to the White House? What exactly was the White House telling McElwee? Were they coordinating donations? Discussing messaging? Trading favors and influence? Or was there something even more sinister going on?
So far, Democrats have done their best to distance themselves from the man who was their second-largest donor in 2022, but these relationships aren’t going away just because the mainstream press ignores them. Having a secret backchannel with the White House is a big deal, and people deserve to know what their government was doing coordinating with a scam artist like Bankman-Fried.
Imagine for a moment that a Republican president had a secret backchannel set up with a major donor that is now being charged with fraud, among other crimes. Does anyone doubt it’d lead every newscast for weeks on end? Heck, I’m pretty sure there’d be a special counsel.
Bankman-Fried was influencing Democrats at the highest levels of government, using his cash to purchase access. Worse, the Biden administration was happily giving it to him. How deep does Joe Biden’s involvement go? Was he aware of the slack channel? What promises did he make in exchange for Bankman-Fried throwing his cash around?
There needs to be a serious investigation done into all this. The DOJ isn’t going to look into it given it is beholden to Biden. But with the GOP about to take over the House in January, they do have the means to form a select committee. They should do so and then they should dig deep into the relationships and connections between Bankman-Fried and Democrat politicians. This has the potential to be the biggest scandal in decades. Keep the pressure on.
#4
All this blatant corruption does make me sick to my stomach.
But even worse is that no one seems to care.
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But even worse is that no one seems to care.
Oh, lots of us care. But care is like wish. Care in one hand and sh*t in the other. See which fills up first...
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#1 We don't even rate the Kabuki anymore. These criminals openly mince about, slapping us all in the face with their soiled loincloths as they move on to their next outrage without a scintilla of accountability.
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12/25/2022 8:37 Comments ||
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Every other person you meet on the street voted for it.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/25/2022 8:38 Comments ||
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#8
You’re pretty shady when you are back channel while Epstein comes through the front door and Podesta had an office.
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[ZeroHedge] After writing quite the pre-Christmas reflection Friday, night, Journalist Matt Taibbi has decided to grace us with a Christmas Eve edition of The Twitter Files - which he says details "Twitter's relationship to other government agencies - including some that don't like to see their name in print much."
2. It didn’t refute allegations. Instead, it decried “conspiracy theorists” publishing “misinformation,” whose “sole aim” is to “discredit the agency.”
3.They must think us unambitious, if our “sole aim” is to discredit the FBI. After all, a whole range of government agencies discredit themselves in the #TwitterFiles. Why stop with one?
4.The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.
5.The operation is far bigger than the reported 80 members of the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), which also facilitates requests from a wide array of smaller actors - from local cops to media to state governments. Embedded current employees assigned by long established project offices.....just a guess.
6.Twitter had so much contact with so many agencies that executives lost track. Is today the DOD, and tomorrow the FBI? Is it the weekly call, or the monthly meeting? It was dizzying.
And so forth for 56 items with screenshots of tweets and emails at the link.
[Breitbart] The State of Arizona agreed to remove miles of shipping containers placed along the border with Mexico. The agreement came as part of an ongoing lawsuit filed by the Biden Administration after Governor Doug Ducey ordered the makeshift barriers along the border.
Earlier this year, Governor Ducey ordered the construction of border barriers utilizing shipping containers, Breitbart Texas reported. The state provided funding for the project with a $564 million spending bill signed in June. The bill dedicated funds to pay for physical barriers, additional public safety staffing, and more technology and public safety equipment in response to the border crisis created by the federal government.
In October, the U.S. Department of the Interior ordered Governor Ducey to remove the containers placed on federal land.
“The unauthorized placement of those containers constitutes a violation of federal law and is a trespass against the United States,” the letter stated. “That trespass is harming federal lands and resources and impeding [the Bureau of] Reclamation’s ability to perform its mission.”
The governor’s office responded that they were “weighing their options.”
“It took the feds since August to write a letter? If this is any indication of their sense of urgency, then perhaps that explains the problem we’re having,” Arizona Governor’s Communication Director C.J. Karamargin told the Washington Examiner.
As recently as this month, Ducey’s construction project continued.
As part of the lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice last week, the State of Arizona agreed in part to “maintain its cessation of activity on National Forest Systems lands within the Coronado National Forest.”
The State also agreed to remove all previously installed shipping containers placed in the Yuma Sector and the Coronado National Forest, the court document reviewed by Breitbart Texas states.
Also included in the agreement is a statement by the federal government that it will commence with a plan to build an “engineered barrier” near the Morelos Dam area.
Talks leading to the barrier removal project are to begin next week, the court document states.
[FoxNews] Substack writer and journalist Matt Taibbi responded to Rep. Ted Lieu ...ostentatiously pro=abortion Dem representative-for-life from California who thinks the Catholic Church is a democracy... , D-Calif., after he accused the Twitter Files author of "gaslighting" Americans by tweeting emails detailing the Federal Bureau of Investigation's communication with the social media giant.
".@elonmusk @mtaibbi @ShellenbergerMD are gaslighting you with their misleading "Twitter Files" posts. Here’s the truth: 1. FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... ’s Foreign Influence Task Force does threat indicator sharing with companies. That’s a good thing. 2. Companies decide what to do with that information," Lieu said on Wednesday.
"Congressman, why is a 'Foreign Influence' task force sending Excel spreadsheets full of joke tweets from low-follower accounts in Maryland, Kentucky, and Ohio? Why does the FITF spend so much time reviewing domestic speech?" Taibbi said on Saturday.
Taibbi's response comes after he released a new version of the Twitter Files, outlining Twitter's previous communication with "other government agencies."
"Other government agencies" can stand for the Central Intellegence Agency, according to Taibbi.
"The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government — from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA," Taibbi said in a tweet.
Previously, Taibbi tweeted multiple internal files between Twitter workers and FBI employees as part of the sixth installment of the Twitter Files.
"Hello Twitter contacts, FBI the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... is notifying you of the below accounts which may potentially constitute violations of Twitter's Terms of Service for any action or inaction deemed appropriate within Twitter policy," one email FBI employee wrote in an email on Nov. 10.
In the email, an FBI employee listed several Twitter accounts which might violate the social media company's terms of service.
#4
Ted Lieu is a sub-moron and has no business arguing with anyone smarter than Mazie Hirono (/low bar).
Taibbi, while a lib, has seemed to be honest in his bias and still written truthfully. What more can you ask for?
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[An Nahar] A massive final report released by the House Jan. 6 committee late Thursday places the blame for the 2021 Capitol insurrection on one person: former President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... The dense, 814-page document details the findings of the panel's 18-month investigation, drawing on more than 1,000 witness interviews and more than a million pages of source material. The committee found a "multi-part conspiracy" orchestrated by Trump and his closest allies, all with the aim of overturning his 2020 election defeat.
By laying out the extraordinary details — his pressure on states, federal officials and Vice President Mike Pence — the committee of seven Democrats and two Republicans says it is trying to prevent anything similar from ever happening again.
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They probably could have written this without holding the kangaroo court hearings.
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Poor Pelosi hid in da congressional basement. A moment of joy!
#3
"these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Ah'm reminded of the Chicago 7 handful of rowdies.
The public judicial review of their antics forced a national conversation which resulted in a number of positive changes.
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There would be no committee and no report if Trump would only have promised them he wouldn't run in 2024. But they're afraid of him and so they will do anything, anything, to keep him from getting elected again. The fact that they're that badly scared tells me all I need to know.
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[Liberty Daily] Congressman Chip Roy from Texas laid out the case for why Democrats are destroying this nation. But he also went after RINOs for helping. Here’s the short clip:
An average of roughly 77% of infant formula was in stock in December across major U.S. retailers, up from 51% in June, according to e-commerce analytics firm Dataweave.
An executive from Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc (RKT.L), which makes Enfamil, recently told Reuters he expects the formula shortage will persist until the spring.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] Hunter Biden’s legal defense against both the Justice Department and congressional probes could cost more than $100,000 per month, legal experts told Breitbart News, as the scandal-scarred first son faces mounting scrutiny for his mysterious business practices.
[RedState] Sam Bankman-Fried, the man at the center of the FTX scandal, is back on US soil after having been extradited from the Bahamas to face federal charges. Naturally, because our justice system is about as coherent as a two-year-old quoting Shakespeare, the notorious fraudster was immediately granted bail and is now spending the holidays with his family. The American oligarchy is alive and well.
...ostentatiously pro=abortion Dem representative-for-life from California who thinks the Catholic Church is a democracy...
