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13 UN peacekeepers, allied soldiers dead in Congo as M23 rebels make gains in key city
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Gavin Newsom's Bay Area ravaged by surging crime as LA burns: ‘It's a war zone!'
[FoxNews] Residents in California city of Vallejo started petition urging Gov. Newsom to deploy more police to combat crime.
What good would more police do if they’re not permitted to make arrests and the DA won’t prosecute?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/27/2025 09:04 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Vallejo is North of SF and has been sketchy for years.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/27/2025 11:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Does that make 2 of the 10 plagues on schedule?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/27/2025 21:26 Comments || Top||


Florida Democrat Party Treasurer Arrested On Child Porn Charges
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
A Florida Democrat Party official was arrested on charges of transporting child sex abuse material after sending child porn to an undercover police officer.

Matthew Inman, 39, who served as Orange County’s Democratic Party treasurer in Orlando, Florida, was arrested after being caught in a sting operation by undercover law enforcement officers.

Between “August and October of 2024, Inman received and saved several videos of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to his phone. These videos depicted adults sexually assaulting young children,” the Middle District of Florida’s Attorney’s Office wrote in a press release.

The release went on to reveal that in “October 2024, Inman traveled to Las Vegas and began talking online with an undercover law enforcement officer posing as the father of a 9-year-old boy. During this conversation, Inman expressed interest in meeting and sexually assaulting the purported child. He also sent CSAM videos to the undercover officer.”

Authorities revealed that as FBI agents went to execute a search warrant for Inman’s home, he attempted to delete the videos off of his phone while hiding “in the attic of his house.”

Inman also served as the president of “Rainbow Democrats” a nonprofit organization seeking to “foster goodwill between lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and allied members of the Democratic Party and the community at large.”

The initiative to arrest Inman was part of “Project Safe Childhood” which is a nationwide initiative the Department of Justice launched in 2006 aimed at combating the sexual exploitation and abuse of children.

If convicted, Inman faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
Posted by: Fred || 01/27/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

The new liberal and socialist leaning Democrat Party sure has and still is, it seems, attaching a lot of Perverts.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/27/2025 6:33 Comments || Top||

#2  He has a future at Disney.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/27/2025 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Probably the wrong state to get caught for that.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/27/2025 9:37 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/27/2025 10:58 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Ben and Jerry’s accuses Unilever of muzzling it over Trump mention, in latest tensions over social policies
[IsraelTimes] Ben & Jerry’s ratchets up its censorship lawsuit against Unilever, accusing its parent company of suppressing a social policy statement the ice cream maker wanted to release because it mentioned US President Donald Trump.
No doubt they did, because Ben and Jerry are self-righteous fools who insist on their right to display that fact for all to see.
The allegation comes in an amended complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, where Ben & Jerry’s in November accused Unilever of silencing attempts to express its pro-Palestinian stance and call for an end military aid to Israel, and threatening to dismantle its independent board.

Ben & Jerry’s wants a court order freeing the board to continue oversight of its social mission, and requiring Unilever to honor its commitment to make $25 million of payments to groups chosen by the ice cream company.

Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s do not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Both companies have been publicly at odds since 2021 when Ben & Jerry’s decided to stop selling Cherry Garcia, Chubby Hubby and other ice cream flavors in the West Bank because it was inconsistent with the company’s values.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/27/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11142 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I bought a Cherry Garcia at the local Gristedes back in the day. It was horrible - wildly over flavored. So disappointed.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 01/27/2025 3:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Unilever basically told B&J the very next time they spoke up was gonna be a stomp. Guess what, it's very next time.
Posted by: ed in texas || 01/27/2025 8:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Whoever decided B&J was a good acquisition is long gone and has dropped that bullet off their CV.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/27/2025 9:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Would not be surprised to see Unilever’s Board decide to shut down B&J. Without warning.
Refuse to buy their crap.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/27/2025 10:04 Comments || Top||

#5  B&J now known as BJ
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/27/2025 11:39 Comments || Top||

#6  When you sell the company, you sell the rights for the company's public position. These two yahoos need to leave.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/27/2025 20:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Ben & Jerry haven't died of AIDS? Huh.
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/27/2025 20:43 Comments || Top||

#8  49 Pan, the merger agreement specifies that Ben & Jerry’s board retains control of the social mission, while Unilever controls the financial side. It’s been a quarter century, and they’ve only noticed problems in the last few years.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/27/2025 20:51 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Trump to reinstate service members discharged for not getting COVID-19 vaccine
[FoxNews] Service members will receive back pay.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to reinstate service members booted from the military for declining to get COVID-19 vaccine jabs, according to the White House.

"The Executive Order directs the Secretary of Defense to reinstate all members of the military (active and reserve) who were discharged for refusing the COVID vaccine and who request to be reinstated," according to the White House fact sheet.

The service members who are reinstated will be restored to their prior rank, and will be provided back pay and benefits, according to the fact sheet.

"From 2021 to 2023, the Biden Administration and former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin discharged over 8,000 troops solely due to their COVID-19 vaccination status," the fact sheet notes. "After the vaccine mandate was repealed in 2023, only 43 of the more than the 8,000 troops dismissed elected to return to service under the Biden Administration and Secretary Austin."

During his inauguration speech, Trump pledged to make the move.

"This week I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate, with full back pay," the president declared during remarks on Jan. 20.

During a campaign speech last year, Trump promised to rehire service members who were dismissed over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, saying they would get back pay plus an apology from the government.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/27/2025 09:21 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh don't forget - they get a run through on all the promotion boards they missed as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/27/2025 12:51 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ 'Stand-by' on the next board. Date of Rank adjusted. Backpay authorized. Ask me how I know.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/27/2025 13:46 Comments || Top||


#4  Swap them out for the trannies leaving. Bigley win.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 01/27/2025 16:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Ask me how I know.

Ok, Besoeker — tell us, please.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/27/2025 16:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Or, wouldja hafta shoot us?
Posted by: Bobby || 01/27/2025 17:29 Comments || Top||

#7  ^Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/27/2025 17:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Have to shoot myself.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/27/2025 18:59 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Minnesota Board ''accidentally'' released the names and dates of birth of 257 undercover peace officers
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
The Minnesota Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) reportedly blew the cover of 257 undercover police officers putting their lives and the lives of their families at risk according to a lawsuit from The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association (MPPOA).

In the lawsuit, as reported by KARE11, the MMPOA alleges that the POST board, a body appointed by Governor Tim Walz, acting in compliance with a Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request released the names of all Minnesota Police Officers to the Invisible Institute, an Illinois non-profit organization which according to its website recognizes an urgent “need to have public and private conversations about the constellation of issues we refer to by the shorthand ‘race.’”
Posted by: Fred || 01/27/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

I guess someone needs to track donations, family getting $$$,$$$.00 jobs, and etc.

Just to see what pops up?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/27/2025 6:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems like a good state to be an ex-cop from.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/27/2025 9:38 Comments || Top||

#3  accidentally my ass.

find those responsible and when the first cop gets hit charge them as accessories before the fact.
Posted by: alanc || 01/27/2025 11:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds like a clear class action law suit to me.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/27/2025 15:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Doctors' ‘Committee' Opposing RFK Is Bill Gates-Backed Astroturf with Fake Names
[Breitbart] A “committee” widely cited in the media as opposing the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services turns out to be a Bill Gates-backed “Astroturf” organization that accepts fake signatories.

The “Committee to Protect Health Care,” cited by NBC News and others, published an open letter declaring that doctors are “appalled by Donald Trump’s reckless decision” to appoint Kennedy. Thousands are said to have signed.

However, there is no verification process for signatories. (Breitbart News was able to sign up as Dr. Donald Duck, OG, of Disney World, FL, specializing in podiatry.) The anti-Kennedy petition simply accepts any signature from anyone.

Others have tried the same experiment, including fitness influencer Jillian Michaels and provocateur Alex Jones.

The Committee to Protect Health Care is a 501(c)4 organization, meaning that it does not have to reveal its donors.

However, a related 501(c)3 charity, The Committee to Protect Health Care Fund, does have to reveal its donors. It is funded in part by the “left-of-center Sixteen Thirty Fund (1630 Fund) and Hopewell Fund.” The Hopewell Fund, in turn, has “hired Arabella Advisors, a leading national philanthropy services firm, to manage its project hosting and fiscal sponsorship services.” The Sixteen Thirty Fund is likewise managed by the Arabella Advisors organization.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/27/2025 10:47 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The fraud on the left never ends...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/27/2025 13:10 Comments || Top||


Pritzker Threatens Trump Admin ‐ Local Law Enforcement Will Stand Up for ‘Law-Abiding Undocumented People'
LOL - I don't think fatass queried "local law enforcement"
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/27/2025 10:45 || Comments || Link || [11145 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Mass arrests in nationwide US immigration crackdown
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/27/2025 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  To which the old line is - "What do you mean 'we' kemosabe."
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/27/2025 12:43 Comments || Top||

#4  "Chubby Govey" buttressing his cred for 2028.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 01/27/2025 17:21 Comments || Top||

#5  "law-abiding" Illegals... only a Democrat could get wrapped around that concept.
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/27/2025 18:29 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Depends on how they vote
Posted by: Frank G || 01/27/2025 18:51 Comments || Top||


ABC, CBS, NBC spent over 46 minutes covering Trump Jan. 6 pardons, 3 minutes on Biden pardoning his family
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/27/2025 09:05 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:


#2  46 minutes on the DNC broadcast system doesn't match a few postings on X or Truth Social. Very expensive and ever growing useless propaganda operation you got there. Your remaining audience is literally dying off.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/27/2025 12:52 Comments || Top||

#3  It is very hard to tell exactly who and how many Joe pardoned.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/27/2025 13:44 Comments || Top||


John Brennan's Latest Rant Provides Best Accidental Endorsement for Tulsi Gabbard for DNI
[Red State] One of the first executive actions that President Donald Trump took was to pull the security clearances of the 51 former intel officials who were involved in the infamous letter about the Hunter Biden laptop.

That action from Trump prompted a whining fit from former CIA Director John Brennan, who was one of the signatories of that letter.

On Sunday, Brennan was still whining on MSNBC's "The Weekend." This time, he was railing about the roles the Director of National Intelligence and Director of the CIA play in making sure people who have to make the decisions are fully informed about what the reality is. If they withhold things or "skew things," it's really going to be detrimental, he declared.

Brennan claimed it was "so, so dangerous" if they just gave Trump the information he wanted to hear.
Does he realize that the president of the United States gets information from multiple sources — and can even do his own research? Or at least an energetic, intelligent president will do so. “Trust but verify,” as President Reagan said.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/27/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There is a group of Republican Senators that McConnell usually rotates from his bullpen to support Schumer’s agenda with votes. They are compensated and allowed to make conservative votes at other times for cover. Romney, McCain, Murkowski and Collins were/are in that rotation. McConnell definitely has some loyalists lined up for the Tulsi vote. Hopefully, all those Senators got a good look at happened to Columbia over the weekend. It is a while before 2026 and Trump is transactional. He moves on. We, his voters, do not move on. Any Senators that participate in McConnell's plan will wear the mark of Cain in our eyes going forward. The Dem plan also will not work. They might stop Tulsi, but Trump surely has another capable loyalist ready to go. He is a chess master. Don’t be a pawn.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/27/2025 6:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Getting Trump loyalist in DoJ, FBI, and CIA, they'll have a trove of info that I suspect many Congresscritters would rather keep silent. Trump doesn't care about feelings after all you did to him.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/27/2025 12:56 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2025-01-27
  13 UN peacekeepers, allied soldiers dead in Congo as M23 rebels make gains in key city
Sun 2025-01-26
  4 female soldiers return to Israel after being freed by Hamas, paraded on Gaza stage
Sat 2025-01-25
  Hostages Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag handed over to the Red Cross
Fri 2025-01-24
  Trump''s ICE raids turn up pedos, gangbangers, and NY-based suspected terrorist as 538 migrants arrested
Thu 2025-01-23
  Pentagon sending additional 1,500 troops to southern border
Wed 2025-01-22
  Rojava administration warns of Tishreen Dam collapse
Tue 2025-01-21
  Trump inaugurated; Progs rush northern border
Mon 2025-01-20
  Hamas says committed to ceasefire
Sun 2025-01-19
  Sunday a.m.: Planned start time of ceasefire passes without Hamas sending names of hostages to be freed today, so IDF continues Gaza strikes
Sat 2025-01-18
  Top border lawmaker pushes to declare bloodthirsty gang a terrorist organization: 'Take the gloves off'
Fri 2025-01-17
  Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal in Gaza
Thu 2025-01-16
  Israel, Hamas ceasefire accord
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  Top Shiite cleric tells Aoun ''weapons not sacred''
Tue 2025-01-14
  Trump’s Cabinet Confirmation Hearings Begin - Hegseth in the hot seat
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  Burglary suspects dressed as firefighters arrested in L.A. fire zone


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