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Taylor Swift terror plot suspect's lawyer downplays plan to carry out ISIS-inspired suicide attack: 'Playing with ideas'
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Police Audio Corroborates Claims Biden Had A Medical Emergency In Vegas
[ZeroHedge] Police audio has been released revealing that law enforcement in Las Vegas were engaged in a snap operation to secure a route for Joe Biden to get to University Medical hospital, a trauma center, corroborating previous reports that there was some sort of medical emergency involving Biden before he stepped down as the Democratic nominee.

As we highlighted at the time, police sources claimed that US Secret Service informed local law enforcement that there was an emergency situation involving Biden on July 17, and to close necessary streets so that he could be transported immediately to the hospital.

According to the sources, hundreds of officers and employees heard the broadcast live and set in motion emergency response procedures, with radio dispatchers asking for a “surge” of police resources to secure the area and the emergency room on standby.

The plan then abruptly changed and Biden was flown back to Delaware at high speed.

Speculation was that Biden was displaying stroke like symptoms, and that he could have experienced a transient ischaemic attack, also called a “mini stroke”, a serious condition where the blood supply to the brain is temporarily disrupted.

While it is difficult to determine exact details from the audio, it is clear evidence that something significant happened to Biden. Something that the American people and the world is still not privy to.

Posted by: Skidmark || 08/12/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So he had a TIA
Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/12/2024 3:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Blood tests at the hospital would have shown cocaine in his system.
Posted by: Glavinter Peacock7962 || 08/12/2024 5:41 Comments || Top||

#3  They certainly don't dare let people see how "juiced" and medicated the geriatric patient actually has been. Jilly made the decision I'm sure to take him back across the country to more "secure" medical support systems who were part of the ongoing support and thus implicated in the fraud.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/12/2024 13:56 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Audit Finds NYC Overpaid Upstate Hotels By Millions For Sheltering Illegal Immigrants
[ZH] Politically connected, I'd suggest
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/12/2024 06:57 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Old folks home and COVID, hotels and illegals. Gee, I'm sensing a pattern.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/12/2024 10:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Politically connected, I'd suggest

Mobbed-up
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/12/2024 14:40 Comments || Top||


#4  Hey Newsom...got homeless?

One of America's richest cities sinks in massive hotel debt - as tourists stop choosing it
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/12/2024 15:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
House investigating whether foreign money flowing into Democrat coffers
[JustTheNews] Rep. Bryan Steil says he has identified two loopholes use by ActBlue donations and “my concern is that individuals are outside the jurisdiction in the United States who may be engaged in this.

The chairman of the powerful House Administration Committee says his investigation into one of the Democrats' most successful political action committees has pivoted to whether foreigners may be laundering money into the 2024 election.

Rep. Bryan Steil, W-Wis., said his committee has identified individuals who claim they did not make the donations attributed to them in Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports filed by ActBlue. His committee, which oversees election integrity issues, has “activated a full investigation.”

“My concern is that individuals are outside the jurisdiction in the United States who may be engaged in this,” Steil told the "Just the News, No Noise" television show.

“We need to make sure that we're avoiding, in particular, foreign interference in American elections in a period of time when the Biden administration and radical Democrats are happy to do the opposite,” he added.

The Democratic Party has a long history of scandal when it comes to illegal foreign donations. During Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign, the Democrats were caught accepting hundreds of thousands of donations from suspect or “straw donors” who were reimbursed by foreigners tied to China, prompting one of the biggest scandals of the last half century.

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign got a black eye for similar problems when an Indian-American fund-raiser pleaded guilty to funneling straw donations to her 2008 campaign.

Fast forward to 2024, and Congress and the attorneys general of Texas, Missouri and Virginia have opened investigations into ActBlue after multiple reports of people claiming they did not make contributions attributed to them.

ActBlue is one of the Democrats’ most prolific digital fundraising platforms, reporting a total of $493 million in donations raised in July alone. It focuses on small-dollar donors and did not respond to a request from Just the News for comment. However, it has long called allegations against it "dubious" and vowed to cooperate with various investigations to clear its name.

"This investigation is nothing more than a partisan political attack and scare tactic to undermine the power of Democratic and progressive small-dollar donors. We welcome the opportunity to respond to these frivolous claims," ActBlue wrote in a statement after Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced an inquiry this month.

Rep. Steil wrote to the Federal Election Commission last week asking it to impose emergency rules that would bolster donor verification and prevent cheating by anonymous donors who place their cash in the names of others.

“Following widespread allegations of fraudulent donations being reported to the FEC by ActBlue, one of the largest fundraising platforms in the country, this emergency rule-making is necessary to reassure the American people that ActBlue is taking the necessary steps to protect its donors,” Steil told the FEC.

Steil told Just the News that he wants two “loopholes” closed that could explain the concerns his committee has identified: the use of anonymous gift cards to make political contributions and the failure of PACs like ActBlue to require Card Verification Value (CVV) numbers when processing donations.

“We continue to get evidence that individuals have come forward and are noting that there are donations in their name that they did not make,” he said. “I'm of the belief that these loopholes that we've identified might be the culprit.

“The easy answer here is for the FEC to take emergency action and ban the use of anonymous gift cards in any online donation to any politician across the board, and it's the concern that we have with ActBlue, with their weak protocols, as relates to not using a CVV number and allowing these anonymous gift cards.”

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has also pressed election regulators to require the CVV number in all transactions, saying he had learned that “alarming reports emerged of fraudulent donations being reported to the FEC by ActBlue.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/12/2024 06:28 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/12/2024 14:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Technically it is domestic taxpayers dollars (and borrowed money on USA taxpayers credit) that flow to foreign countries and then back to DNC.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/12/2024 21:06 Comments || Top||


Kamala Harris and her long history of faith-based bigotry
[NYPOST] Kamala Harris
What can be, unburdened by what has been
is a bigot.

Forgive the blunt delivery, but there isn't really any nuance to offer: The Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
' presidential nominee has long since stripped it away with her blatant discrimination against people of faith, particularly Catholics.

Witness her stunning attack on the venerable Knights of Columbus in 2018, during Brian Buescher's nomination hearing for a federal judgeship.

Then-Sen. Harris subtly criticized the charitable and fraternal organization for being an ''all-male society comprised primarily of Catholic men,'' then not-so-subtly slammed it for adhering to his faith's core — or ''extremist,'' to use her word — beliefs about life and family.

She implied that Buescher's membership in the group basically made him unfit for the bench, setting up Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii to ask if the nominee would, if confirmed, ''end [his] membership with this organization to avoid any appearance of bias.''

That's what they call a religious test for office, and it's illegal. See the US Constitution, Article VI, for more on that.
Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Attack the church, attack the family, turn the kids against the parents. Its the liberal, progressive mantra.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/12/2024 14:56 Comments || Top||


Biden admits he was pushed out of presidential race, name-drops Nancy Pelosi in first interview since exit
[NYPOST] President Biden admitted he was pushed out of the presidential race by Democratic Party elites and specifically name-dropped former House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
as one of the perpetrators in his first TV interview since the tectonic news last month.

Biden said that Dems in the House and Senate were worried that he'd drag down their chances of being reelected. He said he believed his reelection bid would face too many distractions if he carried on.

''A number of my fellow wardheelers in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic — you'd be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say [something] — and I thought it'd be a real distraction,'' he told ''CBS News Sunday Morning.''
Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Word is Biden is at his Delaware home now. We do not have a sitting President at the Whitehouse.
Posted by: Glavinter Peacock7962 || 08/12/2024 5:24 Comments || Top||


#3  "Biden fingers Pelosi" should never be printed or spoken. *Urp*
Posted by: Frank G || 08/12/2024 7:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Looks like she did take down a sitting President after all.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/12/2024 7:37 Comments || Top||


JD Vance on the moment he realized Tim Walz is the 'weird' one after watching Dem VP pick with his wife
[NYPOST] Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance fired back at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz
...Kamala's running mate, governor of Minnesota. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness....
over the ''weird'' attack line against him — saying that it's the Democrat VP pick who has proved he's the odd one.

Sen. Vance (R-Ohio), 40, recounted seeing footage of Walz, 60, greeting his wife with a ''Midwestern handshake'' in an awkward moment on stage at the rally where Kamala Harris
launched her campaign on the “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
introduced him as her running mate.

''I remember when I had just been announced as the VP nominee, I gave my big speech and I saw my wife and I gave her a big hug and a kiss because I love my wife,'' Vance told CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
's ''State of the Union'' in an interview that aired Sunday. ''And I think that's what a normal person does.''

"Tim Walz gave his wife a nice, firm Midwestern handshake and then tried to sort of awkwardly correct for it," he added.

He said he believes the "weirdness" is because Walz and Harris "aren’t comfortable in their own skin because they’re uncomfortable with their policy positions."

Vance further contended that Walz and Harris’ "name calling instead of telling the American people how they’re going to make their lives better" is what’s actually "weird."

Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
Jr., who has long been friendly with Vance, highlighted a video of the handshake after Vance’s CNN interview dropped Sunday.
Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:



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Mon 2024-08-12
  Taylor Swift terror plot suspect's lawyer downplays plan to carry out ISIS-inspired suicide attack: 'Playing with ideas'
Sun 2024-08-11
  Lebanon proposes additional LAF troops in south to restore calm
Sat 2024-08-10
  Israeli airstrike targeted the security chief of Hamas in the Ain al-Hilweh camp while he was in his car in the city of Sidon
Fri 2024-08-09
  The director of public prosecutions of England and Wales warns that sharing online material of riots could be an offence
Thu 2024-08-08
  Taylor Swift concerts canceled after ISIS plot narrowly foiled by police
Wed 2024-08-07
  Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran arrested in political assassination plots including Trump
Tue 2024-08-06
  Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as chief
Mon 2024-08-05
  US, France call for 'utmost restraint' in Middle East. Utmost.
Sun 2024-08-04
  Hamas commander, eight other gunmen killed in two IDF drone strikes near Tulkarem
Sat 2024-08-03
  Oil giant Chevron fleeing to Texas from California
Fri 2024-08-02
  Anjem Choudary gets 28 years
Thu 2024-08-01
  9/11 mastermind KSM and two other terrorists awaiting trial on Guantanamo Bay strike plea deals
Wed 2024-07-31
  Haniyeh rubbed out in Iran
Tue 2024-07-30
  Lebanese officials now confirm that US envoy and NSC official Amos Hochstein passed information on Israeli strikes
Mon 2024-07-29
  Israel launches devastating raids on Lebanon's south


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