[Washington Examiner] Special counsel John Durham is reportedly scrutinizing British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s main source for his discredited dossier, using a subpoena to obtain documents from the Brookings Institution related to its employment of Igor Danchenko,
...finally we have his full name...
a researcher who visited Russia in 2016 as he worked for the ex-MI6 agent. "The walls are closing in!"
The New York Times reported on Monday, citing "people familiar with the investigation,"
Me, meee!!! I’m familiar with the investigation — PICK MEEE!! I can tell you anything you want to hear, I promise! (Even if I have to make stuff up...)
that Durham "has keyed in on the FBI’s handling of a notorious dossier of political opposition research both before and after the bureau started using it to obtain court permission to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser." The outlet said Durham obtained records from the left-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C., related to Danchenko, who worked for the organization from 2005 to 2010 as a Russia researcher but is best known as the main source for Steele’s discredited Trump-Russia dossier in 2016.
The new report said in February, before Merrick Garland was confirmed as attorney general, Durham "obtained old personnel files and other documents" related to Danchenko from the Brookings Institution through a subpoena.
Michael Cavadel, the general counsel at Brookings, said the subpoena was received on New Year’s Eve and the think tank took until February to produce the documents to Durham in part because of coronavirus-related delays. Cavadel told the New York Times that "Brookings provided the responsive documents, none of which contained information associated with the reports known as the Steele dossier."
The news report said Durham "has also asked questions that suggested a focus on skepticism about how the FBI approached issues that might have undermined the dossier’s credibility as a basis for wiretap applications" and that Durham has been asking why the FBI did not tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that Danchenko "had once been the subject of a counterintelligence investigation."
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Too bad that no one has thought to investigate the Brookings involvement with the Islamist rulers of Qatar and the Brookings outpost located there.
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No hurry, John. Take your time.
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Durham is thinking about permanent employment. Drag his feet and he has a job forever. Or at least until a Republican with some balls gets elected and tosses him out on his pointed head like a lawn dart.
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[Click2 Houston] VILLA RICA, Ga. — Three Georgia police officers were shot and wounded as they pursued two brothers from Alabama in a high-speed chase that ended early Monday with one brother shot and killed and the other in custody, authorities said.
A Georgia State Patrol trooper clocked a Nissan Sentra going 111 mph (179 kph) on Interstate 20 and initiated a traffic stop around 3:30 a.m., Georgia State Patrol Capt. Brandon Dawson said. The driver initially stopped but took off again as the trooper approached the back of the car.
The trooper pursued the car and bumped it to try to stop it but the driver of the car regained control, Dawson said. When the trooper tried to bump the Sentra again, a passenger used a rifle to fire at the patrol car and hit it, taking it out of action, according to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation news release.
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Instead of reparations can we just ship the Wakandans back to Wakanda?
Will $100 billion suffice? Even $500 billion would be a bargain at this point
NEW YORK (AP) — One woman carried a ruler at FBI headquarters so she could smack James Hendricks’ hands when he reached for her legs and breasts. Another went home shaken after he tugged on her ear and kissed her cheek during a closed-door meeting.
And when Hendricks went on to lead the FBI’s field office in Albany, New York, in 2018, colleagues described him as a "skilled predator" who leered at women in the workplace, touched them inappropriately and asked one to have sex in a conference room, according to a newly released federal report obtained by The Associated Press.
Hendricks quietly retired last year as a special agent in charge after the Office of Inspector General — the Justice Department’s internal watchdog — concluded he sexually harassed eight female subordinates in one of the FBI’s most egregious known cases of sexual misconduct.
Hendricks was among several senior FBI officials highlighted in an AP investigation last year that found a pattern of supervisors avoiding discipline — and retiring with full benefits — even after claims of sexual misconduct against them were substantiated.
The FBI said it could not discuss Hendricks’ case but that it "maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward sexual harassment and is committed to fostering a safe work environment where all of our employees are valued, protected and respected."
Hendricks, 50, who now writes a law enforcement blog, did not respond to messages seeking comment. He told investigators his accusers had either misinterpreted his actions or exaggerated his behavior, and that he was not sexually attracted to them.
[MIX] Susan Monica was born Steven Buchanan in 1948. Buchanan served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. After being honorably discharged, Steven Buchanan began living as a woman — Susan Monica.
"She got into an engineering career and was very successful," former Jackson County Sheriff’s Detective Eric Henderson said on "Snapped."
Monica bought a 20-acre farm in Wimer, Oregon in 1991. She raised pigs and chickens on the farm.
In 2013, she hired Robert Haney to help her out around the farm. "He was her handyman, laborer, carpenter. Whatever she asked of him, he did," said her former employee Sean Leimanis.
Jesse Haney, Robert’s son said, "My dad and Susan Monica had a deal. My dad would get part cash and be able to stay on the property. My dad agreed to build a house from the bottom up."
Jesse said that his father enjoyed the peace and quiet of living out in a rural area, but in December of 2013, his family began to get worried.
"We hadn’t seen or heard from my dad for two months. We just all started to panic," Jesse explained.
On January 1, 2014, Jesse and his siblings went to Monica’s farm to look for their father.
She claimed that he had quit four months before, and that she had not seen him since.
"Susan Monica said that my dad just basically left. She wanted us to come retrieve our dad’s stuff," Jesse recalled.
When Jesse and his siblings saw their father’s trailer, however, they knew something was wrong.
"His leather jacket was there. His dog was still running around and all his tools were there," Jesse said. "It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up."
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I saw the same movie, just can't remember the title.
No, the movie did not end well, still have 'nightmares', but I enjoy eating pork !
Bacon, Danish Ham, Smoked Pork Ribs ... Yum!
Given what I just read, maybe I should change my diet, and write to the U. N. about investigating the Danish pork industry ...wonder how many Danes have 'gone missing' recently?
More on this and this from yesterday. See more about the BLM riots here.
[Daily Mail, where America, etc. etc.]
'Holy sh*t, I shot him': Moment senior female cop killed Minneapolis black man, 20, during traffic stop as officials insist she 'accidentally drew handgun instead of Taser'
Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon on Monday described the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright as 'an accidental discharge'
Wright was shot dead on Sunday afternoon after he and his girlfriend were pulled over during a traffic stop for what his mother said was air fresheners dangling from his rear-view mirror, which is illegal in Minnesota
Not really; it was a lady cop who couldn't tell her taser from her firearm.
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From a user interface engineering viewpoint, making the taser similar to the standard firearm in use makes sense from a body mechanics/usability perpective. The downside is painfully obvious.
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Not the first time this has happened, either...
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for what his mother said was air fresheners dangling from his rear-view mirror
I have not seen the video, but excuse me if I've heard something like this before.
My question would be what led to the decision of the officer to feel the need to draw and fire in such a timeline that the difference between the two went unnoticed.
'Senior' would suggest the training and experience to not panic (yes, DM, where they make shit up to stir the beans is accounted for, rookie should be practiced and concentrated enough to know which hip to draw from).
My gut tells me preferential hiring practices and impractical training sessions. Will defer until I've come across video, if available yet.
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The suspect drove away after being shot. Odds are he would have also driven away after being tased. At that point the car is to be considered a deadly weapon in the hands of a dangerous criminal. Look at it that way and you can see that she performed a public service because this is one less bad guy running loose to commit even more crimes.
When suspects resist arrest, violence ensues. Even so, police are trained and expected to make the arrest without any injuries or deaths but that's not always a realistic expectation. Violence is chaotic, unpredictable and often results in tragedy. The moral of the story should be, Do Not Resist Arrest. But instead, journalistspropagandists and politicians blame the police so we can expect more riots and lawlessness.
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Will they stop taking money from beer brewers? They became the No Firearms League right after that former KC Chiefs guy shot himself in the parking lot. They decided guns were hurting their brand...
[CeeBeeEss Newz] Former Kansas City Chiefs coach Britt Reid has been charged with driving while intoxicated during a February crash that severely injured a 5-year-old girl, prosecutors in Jackson County, Missouri, said Monday. Officials say Reid, the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, was driving nearly 84 miles per hour just seconds before the crash.
The crash occurred on February 4 after Reid's truck hit a car that had run out of gas and then struck a second car driven by relatives of those in the first car, according to a police statement cited by CBS affiliate KCTV in February. Police said Reid smelled of alcohol and had bloodshot eyes, and told officers on the scene that he'd had "2-3" drinks, according to a search warrant obtained by the outlet. The 5-year-old was severely injured, and a 4-year-old sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
Prosecutors said Monday that Reid, 35, was driving under the influence and "acted with criminal negligence by driving at an excessive rate of speed, failing to be aware of a disabled vehicle, striking it and causing physical injury to a child in that vehicle, age 5." They also said an investigation determined Reid was driving at nearly 84 miles per hour 1.9 seconds before the crash.
Reid's blood alcohol concentration was 0.113, police said. The legal limit in Missouri, where the crash occurred, is 0.08.
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Crap like this is why DWI should be charged as premeditated murder or attempted murder. Or like here in Texas, shot by nobody that the police can find.
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0.113 is consistent with 2-3 drinks, and would not have been considered excessive or illegal when I was younger. And nobody drives less than nearly 84 mph on the state highway in front of my house. Doesn't make this any less tragic.
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Trying to think where in Jackson County one could get a vehicle going 84 with anything short of an F1 or an 8Ball.
Alcohol is the cover of a much more sinister drug and cultural problem.
And about trying to cover it up; this is the first I've heard of this here in "Chief's Nation", two months out of the incident which, apparently, happened around Stuper Bowl time.
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I guess a lot has changed since the days of Tom Landry.
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Count on the local po-lice to be of two schools when bigtime local sports people get in trouble. You got the "Yessir, I sure can kiss my own ass for you sir" crowd and then you got the leak to the press crowd. Both slimey.
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[Breitbart] The Will Smith movie Emancipation, which is backed by Apple Studios, won’t film in Georgia as originally planned in protest of the state’s recently passed voter integrity law, making it the first major Hollywood production to boycott Georgia over the new legislation.
Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua confirmed the decision in a joint statement to Deadline, which first broke the story Monday. They said they could not "in good conscience provide economic support" to the state.
"At this moment in time, the Nation is coming to terms with its history and is attempting to eliminate vestiges of institutional racism to achieve true racial justice. We cannot in good conscience provide economic support to a government that enacts regressive voting laws that are designed to restrict voter access," they said.
"The new Georgia voting laws are reminiscent of voting impediments that were passed at the end of Reconstruction to prevent many Americans from voting. Regrettably, we feel compelled to move our film production work from Georgia to another state."
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...On the other hand, given the era when the movie takes place there's not going to be one doggoned thing that you could identify as being in Georgia anyways. They could probably film it in Czechoslovakia and we wouldn't know the difference.
Virtue signaling, plain and clear.
(And now I can't get the theme from 'Fresh Prince of Prague' outta my head.)
Mike
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While I liked many of his films.
Lately he has been taking more and more Ethnically / Politically focused roles with lines that include Hate Speech and Racial divisive lines or themes.
BTW:
I see he has a new film coming out and as is the custom it needs some Free PR.
King Richards is scheduled to be released on November 19, 2021. A film about once great tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams due the their coaching from their father Richard Williams. Will plays Richard in the movie.
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/\ With a few exceptions, it would appear the celebrity crowd pretty much marches along with the tribe.
Southern oligarchs of the time needed cheep, plantation labor. Our modern-day oligarchs have switched to harder working and more reliable Latin American cheap labor.
But let me get this straight:
A movie, made to highlight racial disparages, is cancelled to protest racial disparages, so nobody sees the movie concerning racial disparages.
OK.
Guess "on location at Topanga Valley" has a better ring to it.
Anyone want to take a crack on why all the recent filming in Georgia? Including the successful The Walking Dead story?
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I read somewhere that the move will cost the producer an extra $15 million. I assume that is a combination of the costs to break the Georgia contracts and additional costs to duplicate the set-up in Louisiana.
#1
We have a little box that seems to operate on similar principles. Don't know if it is effective on pathogens but it sure does knock out the cat odor...
[Daily Mail] Grimes, who shares son X Æ A-Xii with the SpaceX CEO Musk, 49, wrote in the caption: 'Ready to die with the red dirt of Mars beneath my feet Starbase Tx.' This from the partner of the world's richest man. We live in strange times.
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That said by 2025 he will be a Trillion or more net. It's good to be king.
That will be Starlink money in the main.
ISP for the planet at $90 per person per month is huge.
While assuredly not ideal, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is the best ruler Egypt has had in a long time.
[AlAhram] The committee to legalise the status of unlicensed churches was established in 2017 by the prime minister
A cabinet committee tasked with legalising the status of unlicensed Christian places of worship approved on Monday the legalisation of 82 churches and service buildings that had been operating without a permit, the cabinet said in a statement.
This brings the total number of Christian places of worship and service buildings that have been granted legal status so far to 1,882, Cabinet Spokesman Nader Saad said.
In 2016, Egypt’s parliament approved a long-awaited law regulating the building and renovation of churches.
The committee to legalise the status of unlicensed churches was established in 2017 by the prime minister.
The 10-member committee comprises one Christian representative, six government officials from several ministries, and representatives from the national security apparatus, the intelligence apparatus, and the administrative control body.
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^ Expect the same policies from nominal Catholic Joe who is also a sock puppet. We're not entirely certain whose hand is up the puppet's butt. It could be ValJar.
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Now if the Egyptians can protect them from getting blown up or parishioners getting shot up, that would help.
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Maybe they should put faucets along the pipeline so the people can steal their oil more safely and without damage. Or they could set up distribution centers and just give it away. Can give away a lot of milk jugs of petrol for billions - or are those the Nigerian equivalent of Zimbucks?
[All Africa] THE government has been forced to reintroduce its defunct Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) after financial institutions grouped under the Bankers Association and resolved not to accept the state-issued 99-year farm leases.
Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka said his government had over the past 10 years held discussions with senior bank executives as they dangled a carrot for the bankers to finance the state issued 99-year farm leases.
The government's proposal is that the farm leases will enable resettled farmers to access financial loans and boost production.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... financial institutions have rejected the offer insisting the leases were not bankable.
Appearing before a lands parliamentary portfolio committee hearing last week, Masuka confirmed the Bankers Association had rejected government's offer insisting the 99-year-leases were not worth the paper they were written on.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the minister argued before the committee, the leases were bankable and the government had since informed the bankers association it would revive the AFC to provide finance to resettled farmers' projects.
Masuka said under the AFC loan scheme, farmers would inject 15% upfront to get requested loans.
"For 10 years now, the Bankers Association and government have been in discussions for the agricultural transformation. The missing link in agricultural sector is finance and this has been the reason to re-establish the AFC," he said.
"The 99-year lease is bankable according to government, but there is confusion in the Bankers Association. They think that bankability is transferability. When you transfer your liabilities on this lease, you can transfer the land rights. There is a difference between farming on the land and the land itself. That is our interpretation of bankability as government."
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[PJ] What is China really up to just a few miles from the U.S.-Canadian border? Two investigative reporters have uncovered something that sounds like it’s from a spy novel — a cult turned multi-level marketing operation that has apparently been co-opted by the Chinese Communist Party as a global spy network.
I spoke with one of those investigators, Canadian intelligence veteran Scott McGregor, about the incredible but all-too-real operation he and his partner, Ina Mitchell, are unearthing in our neighbor to the north.
It all begins with the mysterious and as-of-yet unsolved murder of a 41-year-old woman.
[ZERO] In what is likely to go down as one of his greatest rants yet (and longest run-on sentences), former President Trump weighed in tonight on President Biden's court-packing commission - and in the process took a jab at the Justices, the Radical Left, Mitch McConnell, and dared to exercise his free speech a little further by reminding Americans of his beliefs that the election was fraudulent.
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Will it be woke enough to kill anyone white who tries it on?
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Wasn't there a rumor several years ago that the Japanese were using something similar for their aging farmers. So not new then, more a variation on a theme.
Sixteen facts listed and discussed at length from the 40-page preface to Erin Marie Olszewski’s book Undercover Epicenter Nurse + how fraud, negligence & greed led to unnecessary deaths at Elmhurst hospital. The preface was written by J.B. Handley author of How to End the Autism Epidemic. He is also co-founder and chairman of Generation Rescue. You
can find 443 reviews at Amazon. Erin was interviewed by Dr. Dave Janda on his radio program Operation Freedom in early April 2021. You can find it at the top of his home page at davejanda.com.
Fact #1: The Infection Fatality Rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between
0.07 and 0.20 percent, in line with seasonal flu.
Fact #2: The risk of dying from COVID-19 is much higher than the average
IFR for older people and those with comorbidities, and much lower than the
average IFR for younger health people, and nearing zero for children.
Fact #3: People infected with COVID-19 who are asymptomatic (which is most
people) do NOT spread COVID-19.
Fact #4: Emerging science shows no spread of COVID-19 in the community.
Fact #5: Published science shows COVID-19 is NOT spread outdoors.
Fact #6: Science shows masks are ineffective to halt the spread of
COVID-19, and the WHO recommends they should only be worn by healthy
people if treating or living with someone with a COVID-19 infection.
Fact #7: There’s no science to support the magic of a six-foot barrier.
Fact #8: The idea of locking down an entire society had never been done
and has no supportable science, only theoretical modeling.
Fact #9: The epidemic models of COVID-19 have been disastrously wrong and
both the practice of modeling and the people behind it have terrible
history.
Fact #10: The data show that lockdowns have NOT had an impact on the
course of the disease.
Fact #11: Florida locked down late, opened early, and is doing fine,
despite predictions of doom.
Fact #12: New York’s above-average death rate appears to be driven by a
fatal policy error combined with aggressive intubations.
Fact #13: Public health officials and disease epidemiologists do NOT
consider the other negative societal social consequences of lock downs.
Fact #14: There is a predictive model for the viral arc of COVID-19, it’s
called Farr’s Law, and it was discovered over one hundred years ago.
Fact #15: The lock downs will cause more death and destruction than
COVID-19 ever did.
Fact #16: All these phased reopenings are utter nonsense with no science
to support them, but they will all be declared a success.
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"The preface was written by J.B. Handley author of How to End the Autism Epidemic. "
I don't think that's the ringing endorsement it's intended to be.
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St. Fauxi sounds like a gerbil wormist fanatic: It will cause droughts. It will cause floods. It will be the end of snow, there will be more blizzards. Of course warming will cause worse cold spells.
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When Raskolnikov was better, he remembered the dreams he had had while he was feverish and delirious. He dreamt that the whole world was condemned to a terrible strange new plague that had come to Europe from the depths of Asia. Everyone was to be destroyed except a few chosen ones.
Jeepers Mr. B, how did you get that 'shot' of my 0500 hours breakfast (?) ---- which I strengthen with my 0900 hrs intermediate 5 shot gin chaser, so that I can read and comment here on rantburg.
[WesternJournal] The military junta in Myanmar has detained an official from George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... ’ Open Society Foundations and has frozen the billionaire financier’s bank accounts in the country under the suspicion that the group funded elements opposed to the February coup in the country, according to news reports.
The coup came after the party of controversial pro-democracy campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide victory in the November elections, Rooters reported on March 16.
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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.
[Washington Examiner] Special counsel John Durham is reportedly scrutinizing British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s main source for his discredited dossier, using a subpoena to obtain documents from the Brookings Institution related to its employment of Igor Danchenko, 
NEW YORK (AP) — One woman carried a ruler at FBI headquarters so she could smack James Hendricks’ hands when he reached for her legs and breasts. Another went home shaken after he tugged on her ear and kissed her cheek during a closed-door meeting.
[MIX] Susan Monica was born Steven Buchanan in 1948. Buchanan served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. After being honorably discharged, Steven Buchanan began living as a woman — Susan Monica.
[Breitbart] The Will Smith movie Emancipation, which is backed by Apple Studios, won’t film in Georgia as originally planned in protest of the state’s recently passed voter integrity law, making it the first major Hollywood production to boycott Georgia over the new legislation.
[All Africa] THE government has been forced to reintroduce its defunct Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) after financial institutions grouped under the Bankers Association and resolved not to accept the state-issued 99-year farm leases.
[PJ] What is China really up to just a few miles from the U.S.-Canadian border? Two investigative reporters have uncovered something that sounds like it’s from a spy novel — a cult turned multi-level marketing operation that has apparently been co-opted by the Chinese Communist Party as a global spy network.
I'm still not taking any chances. 
