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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Dick Morris: Hillary Will Be Indicted
Political analyst Dick Morris is convinced Hillary Clinton's email scandal will lead to her being indicted and forced out of the race for president.

During an interview with Newsmax TV's "Newsmax Now," Morris tells host Miranda Khan Clinton's actions -- using a private email address and server during her time as Secretary of State, which presumably allowed classified material to be passed over the non-government server -- will lead to "overwhelming" evidence that she broke the law.
High crimes and misdemeanors in advance of office taking ?
We can pin it on her time as Secretary of State...
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 08/16/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dick forgets that there is one set of laws foe thee.... another set of laws for me! in DC.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/16/2015 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Hillary can't be indicted for crimes she allegedly committed while she was in office as SoS. She must first be impeached, removed and then charged.
Posted by: badanov || 08/16/2015 1:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Dick Morris has never been all that accurate when it comes to Hillary. I think he loathes her too much to be impartial.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/16/2015 1:50 Comments || Top||

#4  I think he loathes her too much...... Posted by rjschwarz


I'm not certain that is possible.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2015 3:55 Comments || Top||

#5  WHO precisely is going to charge Madame Hillary with anything? The Democrats run the US govt. Do you think there is Justice in the Democratic Party or that there is any objective concern for Justice in the DOJ? The DOJ is OWNED.

You think this is a Republic of Laws? You think there is equal Justice under the Law ? You think there is even such a thing AS Justice....even in the United States? The United States govt. is NOT your friend. Go do the their Laundry and shut up.
Go walk their dog.
Posted by: Thusons Fleng6601 || 08/16/2015 7:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Thank you for that bit Thusons. I have finally found someone more cynical of the government than I, if only slightly.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2015 8:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Cynicism, exactly the reason Trump has traction and is leading in the polls. People are fed up with Washington and the Beltway Party.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/16/2015 10:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Sad that prosecution depends on how much the current regieme does or doesnt favor you, instead of things like... facts, truth, justice.

Obama and the top of the political caste are simply corrupt. It will fall. the only question is the degree of violence needed to accomplish the fall.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/16/2015 13:17 Comments || Top||

#9  I wonder what deal Slick Willie and Obumbles agreed to while playing golf yesterday. The Soros funded Black Lives Matter idjits are staying away from Hillary. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Obumbles joins the Clinton Foundation as a highly paid "Consultant" when Hillary is coronated.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/16/2015 19:01 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Trump: Drudge Is '€˜Fantastic' [VIDEO]
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2015 03:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


The Grand Turk
Erdogan makes next grab for total power after Kurdish crackdown
[RUDAW.NET] In a move toward greater power that has included a deadly crackdown on the Kurdish opposition, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
said Friday the time had come to change the constitution.

"There is a president with de facto power in the country, not a symbolic one," Erdogan said in the Black Sea province of Rize.

"The president should conduct his duties for the nation directly, but within his authority. Whether one accepts it or not, Turkey's administrative system has changed," he said. "Now, what should be done is to update this de facto situation in the legal framework of the constitution," the Hurriyet Daily reported him as saying.

Erdogan, 61, has been clawing his way to greater power ever since becoming president in 2014, after 11 years as prime minister.

After a setback in June, when the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) that stands behind him failed to win the number of parliament seats that would allow it to railroad constitutional changes, Erdogan warned he was springing back -- and getting his way.

"From now on, I'll be there," he said. "You won't be able to cut my ties with my nation," he added, explaining he will be on the political scene like never before.

Erdogan's many critics, including the Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) that rose against him -- and won -- in the elections, have warned that Erdogan is a dangerous man who is bent on dragging this NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
country down a dangerous path, away from democracy and toward authoritarian rule.

Erdogan's latest move is part of a deadly political chess game in which the president wants for himself the powers of a king: the Ak Saray, or White Palace, he built for himself, has 1,000 rooms and was built at a reported cost of $350 million.

The election setback was a major blow to Erdogan's oversized ambitions. But he brought them back on track by declaring a war on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the outlawed group that had been in two years of peace talks with the government.

After an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) bombing in the city of Suruc in which 32 people were killed and after the PKK grabbed credit for killing two Turkish officers, Erdogan declared a war on terror -- but went mainly after the Kurds.

Turkish warplanes have carried out bombing raids against the PKK in the Qandil Mountains of northern Iraq in Turkey's Kurdish southeast, after nationwide sweeps in which hundreds were tossed in the clink
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
. Turkish officials reportedly said early this week that 390 PKK members had been killed and 400 maimed
Posted by: Fred || 08/16/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You always have to attack an 'external' enemy before you use it as an excuse to suppress internal dissent.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/16/2015 9:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Erdogan is simply the Moselm Brotherhood eastern chapter - and they wear Brownshirts, racism included.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/16/2015 14:26 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
How Iran Plans to Destroy Israel
The Islamic Republic's quest for nuclear weapons offers yet more evidence of its intention to take on Israel at some future date, but not necessarily evidence that it will use these weapons to attack Israel directly. It may be that Tehran seeks a nuclear deterrent to Israeli nuclear weapons, so that the "spider web" can be dispatched without danger to the Iranian homeland. Thus from the Iranian perspective, a nuclear weaponization program is not essential to a final confrontation with Israel. Iranian military strategists seem to think they can eventually destroy the Israeli state without using nuclear weapons.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 08/16/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Terror Networks
Rhys-Davies aka dwarf Gimli: Christianity in the Middle East and in Africa is being wiped out
[MAIL] Lord of the Rings star John Rhys-Davies has spoken out about the 'extraordinary silence in the West' over the threat of Islamic extremism.

The actor, 71, also talked about the pressure of political correctness - claiming people were too afraid to speak out on the actions of other groups for fear of being seen judgmental.

Mr Rhys-Davies, who played the dwarf Gimli in the blockbuster trilogy, made his comments on The Adam Carolla Show, while promoting his new film Return To The Hiding Place, about the persecution of Jews in Holland during World War II.
Caution: Hyperlink goes directly to vid trailer.
The conversation quickly switched to modern-day atrocities, including the ISIS beheadings in the Middle East.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2015 07:15 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not being covered in the MSM or college protest, ergo it must not exist. /sarc off

If a tree falls in the middle of the most congested intersection of the city stalling traffic for hours, and the MSM doesn't cover it, did it really happen? Hey, it just Christians, you know the type that won't back cakes or make floral arrangements for a particularly favored community, therefore they are 'evil' and unworthy of 'victim' status and attention. Never mind what their oppressors will do to the same favored community if they ever get their hands on them. Urban Bubble Culture.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/16/2015 9:12 Comments || Top||

#2  This is the problem I have been harping on for years: Democracy requires an informed electorate. That is the vital function of the free press. How can a democracy sustain itself in the face of a mis-informed, and a mal-informed (deliberate) voting populace? We have accountability that can be imposed on various parts of our society - but what about big media? How do we make them pay the rpice for their malfesance of deliberately ignoring some stories, and deliberately playing up others to slant and distort situations to the favor of thier desired politics?

How do we hold them accountable so that it doesn't need to come time to start taking them out with deadly force? How do we act so as to avoid "the revolution" and its car bombs and assassins bullets?
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/16/2015 13:25 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Heriberto Henbane5351 || 08/16/2015 14:37 Comments || Top||

#4  How do we hold them accountable so that it doesn't need to come time to start taking them out with deadly force?

You play the game they play via the Commerce Act. You make papers independent of any other revenue sources. You require News Divisions to be separate accounting entities and profit listings. No mergers, no conglomerates. Further you write the audit standards. Copies dropped off at hotels and schools do not fall into the subscription column of distribution.

Suddenly, they don't get hidden in the prospectus by being buried by owners and managers to hide the loses of their personal hobby and political bias.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/16/2015 16:10 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2015-08-16
  God strikes Hamid Gul dead
Sat 2015-08-15
  Infighting Kills 15 Taliban In Herat
Fri 2015-08-14
  Zawahiri pledges allegiance to new Taliban leader
Thu 2015-08-13
  Caucasus Islamist Leader Killed in Russian Raid
Wed 2015-08-12
  Nabbed Hamas man reveals new Gaza war plans
Tue 2015-08-11
  Egypt govt takes over 16 hospitals linked to banned Brotherhood
Mon 2015-08-10
  Yemen Loyalists Retake Southern Provincial Capital
Sun 2015-08-09
  Yemen pro-govt forces launch offensive
Sat 2015-08-08
  Prominent Bangladeshi secular blogger murdered
Fri 2015-08-07
  'Father of Taliban' Sami ul-Haq pledge allegiance to Mullah Mansoor
Thu 2015-08-06
  66 Taliban and Daesh Insurgents Killed in Nangarhar Drone Strike
Wed 2015-08-05
  Head of Taliban's Qatar-based political office Tayeb Agha quits as leadership rift deepens
Tue 2015-08-04
  Mullah Omar's Son Yaqub Reportedly Killed: Official
Mon 2015-08-03
  Clash between Afghan Taliban fighters leaves nine dead
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  Official: Nearly 800 ISIS militants killed in Mosul last month


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