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-Lurid Crime Tales-
James Comey and Robert Mueller have Massive Clinton Foundation Problems
[American Thinker] James Comey is not an effective liar. He fooled only the gullible last week with his evasive testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Previously, Robert Mueller was also not effective deterring the Trump Administration from uncovering significant, far-reaching crimes that the former F.B.I. Director "missed" from September 2001 through September 2013.

For almost 18 years, Comey and Mueller have been covering for powerful Republicans and Democrats, letting serious crimes go unpunished. Many of these involved fake charities that operate internationally, including the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

These are perfect conduits to trade donations for influence, especially for foreign governments who, in theory, are barred from investing in U.S. politicians.
Emphasis added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/06/2020 05:47 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sometimes there's simply not enough time to use the 'old school' conduit of clandestine money transfers through cover foundations. Note the absences of congressional investigation and follow-up. Another bridge to nowhwere.

LA Times - $1.7-billion payment to Iran was all in cash due to effectiveness of sanctions, White House says

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/06/2020 6:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Evidently John "Tokyo Rose" McCain was working on his own "foundation" before his [welcome] demise.
Posted by: Clem || 10/06/2020 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  payment to Iran was all in cash

Which weighs more 10 lbs of linen or 10 lbs of gold?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/06/2020 9:33 Comments || Top||

#4  So Iran owes us $55.6 bil for terrorism claims and we ended paying them $1.7 bil? Trump was right, it was one of the worst deals ever made. Moreover, the deal did essentially nothing to limit their weapons grade uranium. The LA Times made little sense in trying spin this up try to put lipstick on a pig.
Posted by: Chuckles Noodleman4088 || 10/06/2020 16:43 Comments || Top||

#5  The same guy (Patrick Soon-Shiong) that bought the LA Times, also bought the San Diego Union Trib. It sucks now. Republishing NYT, WaPo and Ay-Pee opinion news
Posted by: Frank G || 10/06/2020 17:08 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Dangerous Talk From Stupid People
Kurt
[Townhall] Understand that when someone tells you he wants you dead, he wants you dead.

And that’s a very dangerous thing to want, because the intended victim gets a say, and he may start saying the same thing about you. I could talk about walking through the wrecked villages of Kosovo — villages that had mostly belonged to the Serbs who started the civil war then lost it — but that is probably going to be lost on the pampered and parochial left. History, be it modern Balkans or ancient, such as the cautionary tale that was the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, is something they are too smart to bother studying. They know what they think and what they want and they can’t be bothered with pests nagging them about how their paucity of wisdom could very well set into motion events they cannot control and that are unlikely to turn out in the way they hope.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: 746 || 10/06/2020 02:32 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They been talking this way since Bush II - so what's new?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/06/2020 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  They've been talking that way since Reagan.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/06/2020 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  "so what's new?"


They now own the State(Governemnt) at almost every level. And a good part of Capitalists.
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 || 10/06/2020 9:55 Comments || Top||

#4  They didn't like Nixon very much either.
Posted by: magpie || 10/06/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#5  What's new is 100 days, and counting, of organized, concerted, relentless insurrection across the nation in the form of 1,000s of targeted hits on police, federal buildings, elected GOP officials and ordinary citizens.

The only precedent is the 1,500 bombings of public buildings in 1971 by the Weather Underground and the various precursors of BLM (BLA, Black Panthers etc).

These violent radical groups did kill people - dozens of murders or attempted murders of policemen, security guards, judges and military officers - between 1970 and 1982, but during that time we actually had a functioning FBI that took seriously their oath to defend the Constitution from enemies domestic and foreign.

So, yeah, this is new, and deeply disturbing
Posted by: Muggsy Phaling2818 || 10/06/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#6  I suspect before mid-November, we'll be in a shooting war with these people.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/06/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Imagine the Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army with the full backing of the state.

That's what we have now.

And that’s a very dangerous thing to want, because the intended victim gets a say, and he may start saying the same thing about you.

First, we'll need to defenestrate the that-is-not-we-are types.

A basic rule of statecraft and war is to deal with the traitors in your own ranks first.

It can never be done perfectly or completely, but no serious effort can proceed without effective action in that area.
Posted by: charger || 10/06/2020 13:00 Comments || Top||


And a plague shall cover the land of Trump
[Spiked]
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/06/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I expect the left will have a hissy fit when it blows up in their faces and Trump turns out to be correct all along!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 10/06/2020 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Hissy fit? Hardly. They will ignore it and "MoveOn" to their next case of Feigned Outrage Theater™.
Posted by: magpie || 10/06/2020 0:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Last I heard it was not just in the land of Trump. It has actually covered the whole face of the Earth.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 10/06/2020 1:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Also, for six months treatment, potential vaccines etc etc has been subject to Trump's aggressive over watch.

So it is only fitting that Trump has just benefited from his own hard work.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 10/06/2020 1:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Just goes to show how dumb the Left are. Consider the following.
Trump "Covid is nothing to worry about".
The Left "Nothing to worry about if one has your medical access advantages, Mr President. More than a million people worldwide - 1/5 of them Americans - didn't have these advantages."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/06/2020 5:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Virtually all with comorbidities. You left that part out, as usual
Posted by: Frank G || 10/06/2020 7:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Was I talking for myself, oh Sage?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/06/2020 7:27 Comments || Top||


#9  So the best new treatments get to Walter Reed first. It may take a while for them to get to all of the other hospitals all over the world. But if America and its president hadn't led the way these new treatments would have never been developed. Try that with socialized medicine.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/06/2020 11:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Try that with Obama or Biden at the helm or any of the other pessimists who look for reasons why it can't be done instead of ways that it can be done.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/06/2020 11:59 Comments || Top||

#11  But the plague first fell upon Albion. What is the significance of that, your Dowdness?
Posted by: Bobbys Phone || 10/06/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||

#12  So the best new treatments get to Walter Reed first.

The Washington Post's Token "Republican" Jennifer Rubin suddenly wants to close Walter Reed. Only you can prevent TDS.
Posted by: Chesing Slavinter3713 || 10/06/2020 13:34 Comments || Top||

#13  Lot of people getting de-pants over the last five days.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/06/2020 15:17 Comments || Top||

#14  Stealing from Eli

"Cursed be the Dowd and her Times for our sake. Both thorns and thistles they hath brought forth for us. For out of the hell they were taken, for the pestilence they are...and to hell they shall return"

#8 ISWYDT
Posted by: JHH || 10/06/2020 22:40 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Governor Cuomo Generously Offers To Admit Trump To New York Nursing Home
[Babylon Bee] ALBANY, NY—Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York has extended a generous offer to house Trump at one of his state's finest nursing homes.

Cuomo says he is making the gesture out of the goodness of his heart and that nothing bad will happen to the president, as nursing homes in New York have a great track record of taking care of COVID patients.

"We've got ample space, and it's really quiet around here -- honestly, it's to die for," Governor Cuomo said. "We have plenty of beds, and rest assured, you'll be well taken care of, Mr. President."

"Many people are using Trump's illness to divide, but it's time to unite and come together as Americans, and this is just my small way to do just that."

At publishing time, Cuomo had offered instead to just send COVID patients directly to the White House to cough on everybody if that better suited the president's busy schedule.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/06/2020 07:39 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The headline was the giveaway. Cuomo is not generous.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/06/2020 8:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, I hope this gets 'fact checked'.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/06/2020 11:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Obviously Bee™, do NYC "Nursing Homes" have barbed wire fences yet?
Posted by: magpie || 10/06/2020 12:41 Comments || Top||


Steve Bannon, architect of Trump's 2016 campaign, has a stunning prediction for this election (video)
[Not the Bee] Bannon, who was the CEO of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and was appointed Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to the President following Trump's win, thinks we will reach January with no president.

Watch the vid for his prediction. Whatever else Bannon may be, he's certainly a political veteran who's been through a million bloody battles.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/06/2020 07:37 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Dems want to inject uncertainty and chaos into the voting system. I don't believe they can win an honest election against Trump.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/06/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||

#2  That's quite possible, but it would get you President Pelosi, so think again.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/06/2020 12:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Welcome to the New Dark Ages if Crazy Lady Pelosi ever gets into the Oval Office.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/06/2020 14:03 Comments || Top||

#4  ...or Rome after Tiberius
Posted by: Grunter || 10/06/2020 19:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Pelosi would trigger a genuine civil war - and probably assassination attempts.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 10/06/2020 22:50 Comments || Top||

#6  On her.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/06/2020 23:17 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Pope Francis Declares That The Catholic Church Will No Longer Accept Donations Earned Via Capitalism
[BabylonBee] The declaration takes effect immediately. Catholic parishes are asked to monitor donations given during the offertory. Parishioners are to fill out a form stating where they got the money. If it did not come from the government, but rather, an evil, capitalist job, the money is to be given back to the church member.

"We don't want your dirty capitalist pig dollars," said Pope Francis. "Keep your money earned by oppressing workers and minorities. Only money earned via equitable redistribution of wealth, in model Christian countries like China and North Korea, will be acceptable."
Posted by: Matt || 10/06/2020 11:57 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ha! Called it, BEE!!!

There is no way the Marxist will turn down your money.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/06/2020 12:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah. Too easy, that one. Hell will freeze over first.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/06/2020 12:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Too easy, Bee™ for sure.
Posted by: magpie || 10/06/2020 12:42 Comments || Top||

#4  I was on the fence for a minute there
Posted by: Andy Clart7056 || 10/06/2020 13:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Way to convert His Holiness into the late Judge Elihu Smales, 'Uhhhh, let's not get ahead of ourselves'.
Posted by: Cesare || 10/06/2020 13:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Francis might have said this. It's not difficult to believe that he has gone full-blown communist. I think I'm about even with this one.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/06/2020 13:54 Comments || Top||

#7 

My Guess...
The Pope will soon come down with a serious illness and will need to be replaced.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/06/2020 17:09 Comments || Top||

#8  Well got this one so I'm even for the day.

Does the Vatican go in for lead poisoning?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/06/2020 17:19 Comments || Top||

#9  The Pope will soon come down with a serious illness and will need to be replaced.

Moar Marxism? I'm Catholic and this asshole PROVES that infallibility of The Pope is a lie. He's an embarrassment
Posted by: Frank G || 10/06/2020 17:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Bee this year. Truth next year.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/06/2020 19:03 Comments || Top||

#11  Of course its the Bee. But I know I should not wish ill on anyone, I still would not grieve if the Pope were to abdicate, even if it is feet first.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 10/06/2020 22:48 Comments || Top||

#12  And we have a built-in spare, with Benedict XVI to be the short reliever until there's a new one.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 10/06/2020 22:49 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US policy toward Iran could take a turn for the worse from the perspective of Israel's government and Washington’s Gulf allies if Biden is elected president
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  "could take a turn for the worse"

yes and if you get hit by a car going 80 mph you 'could' be injured
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/06/2020 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought Iran was already bought off?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/06/2020 9:34 Comments || Top||

#3  With Biden, in the next world you are on your own.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/06/2020 19:46 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2020-10-06
  Baku demands apology from France after Macron claims Syrian jihadists deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh
Mon 2020-10-05
  DC Antifa ‘Ringleader’ Jason Charter Arrested Again at WalkAway Rally
Sun 2020-10-04
  8 charged in French cryptocurrency scheme to finance jihadis
Sat 2020-10-03
  Iraqi Air Force bombed ISIS terrorist hideouts on the border between Diyala and Salah al-Din
Fri 2020-10-02
  Trump confirms he and Melania test Positive for Covid-Virus
Thu 2020-10-01
  France arrests 29 in anti-terror Syria financing sting
Wed 2020-09-30
  First debate shambles, Chris Wallace loses bigly
Tue 2020-09-29
  US moves its embassy from Baghdad to Erbil
Mon 2020-09-28
  U.S. Plans 'Full Withdrawal' From Iraqi Embassy
Sun 2020-09-27
  Azerbaijan launched a missile and aerial attack against Artsakh and Stepanakert Armenia
Sat 2020-09-26
  BLM protester in Los Angeles who shut down the road with a large mob got hit by a truck
Fri 2020-09-25
  LNA Kills ISIS 'Emir' in Southern Libya
Thu 2020-09-24
  Louisville: Two police officers shot
Wed 2020-09-23
  Canadian woman charged for sending ricin to President Trump & law enforcement agencies in Texas was previously deported
Tue 2020-09-22
  Twenty-Five Afghan policemen dead after attempt to break Taliban siege in Uruzgan


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