[ZERO] "The now-52-year-old began listing the Wilmington home as his address following his 2017 divorce from ex-wife Kathleen Buhle — even falsely claiming he owned the property on a July 2018 background check form as part of a rental application," the Post reported.
Of note, this is the same house where classified documents were found.
Yet, upon closer inspection, Hunter lists the "Monthly Rent" as $49,910 - or roughly $550,000 for the 11 months he indicated he lived there? Nothing yet on the classified document's subject matter, originators, or publication dates I take it ?
#4
/\ Hunter already had the expensive oils laundering scheme in process. Besides, Joe could have never handled easels or palettes. The home lease option was about all that remained.
#11
You'd think Hunter and Joe would put more effort into getting their stories straight but then, you have a crack head on the one hand and an old fool suffering from dementia on the other. The cracks in the wall are getting bigger.
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Realistically, Hunter should consider buying a property instead of paying that level of rent. That will give him better cash flow for tax payment, child support, art supplies and miscellaneous pharmaceuticals. He could also have one heck of party when Joe returns his security deposit.
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[GenesiusTimes] Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will become a professor at Columbia University focusing on how to break the law and get away with it.
“Hillary Clinton has had an amazingly successful criminal career,” Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger said in a statement. “Given her extraordinary talents and capacities in violating our nation’s laws and avoiding arrest and punishment, Hillary Clinton is unique, and, most importantly, exceptional in what she can bring to the University’s core mission of showing how to be a career criminal and successful at the same time.”
Posted by: Super Hose ||
01/16/2023 12:44 Comments ||
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#8
^ Gag me with a frickin' spoon, Super Hose. No. You really don't want that.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Sans Souci
"My professor is feeling some stress,
But I [dodges an ashtray] confess
That I couldn't care less --
[ducks a glass] what a mess! --
I'll keep coming to class in this dress!"
#12
We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge
A few key paragraphs to give a sense of the essay. Go to the link to read the whole thing.
[MiddleEastEye] Ever since signing a peace deal with the US in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... in 2020, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... hoped for formal recognition. But not a single country has recognised them. In July last year, this mistrust reached new heights. The Taliban received their first major blow when al-Qaeda’s top leader, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri ...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... , a criminal mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was killed in a US dronezap in Kabul’s high-security zone. He lived with top Taliban leaders as a "state guest" [love toy?]
in a "safe house".
Zawahiri’s death raised many questions. Who gave on-the-ground intelligence for the US attack? Is Kabul safe anymore? Reportedly, even top Taliban leaders left the capital city for fear of more attacks.
Another side of the Taliban’s challenge is existential. Zawahiri’s death has confirmed the rumours that there are widening gaps in its ranks.
From the start, the militia was divided into two main groups: one led by its deputy prime minister, Abdul Ghani Baradar, called the Kandahari group, which is entrenched in Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second city, near Pakistain’s southern border; the other led by its hardline interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... , with links to the Pakistain military.
The Haqqani group controls Kabul and the provinces leading to Pakistain’s northwestern border and beyond, a strategic advantage it availed during fighting against the US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces.
This division seems dormant, but the mutual tensions from time to time weaken the Taliban's grip over the country. The barometer of this division is their rival krazed killer group, the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Khorasan (IS-K). The IS-K’s numbers doubled in 2022, spreading its operations to all of the country’s 34 provinces, targeting with precision the Taliban's interests, including attacks on Chinese, Russian and Pak missions in Kabul.
Without admitting the presence of the IS-K, the Taliban, however, understands that this challenge could not arise without defections in its own ranks. This rising threat can make the IS-K a site of convergence for anti-Taliban groups, including resistance in the country’s northern parts, and especially the Panjshir Valley.
Unleashing the current oppression against women, therefore, also reveals the Taliban leaders’ efforts to make their foot soldiers realise that their ideology of implementing their own violent mostly peaceful brand of sharia is intact, a system in which women are forced to stay at home.
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Desperate to keep their more hardline gunnies within the fold instead of running off to join ISIS-K, Super Hose. According to the article, ISIS-K numbers doubled last year, though whether that means on the order of from 500 to 1,000 or from 5,000 to 10,000, I don’t know.
[CaitlinJohnstone] The US empire’s proxy war in Ukraine has had many jaw-dropping instances of imperialist sociopathy, propagandistic audacity and brazen journalistic malpractice that we’ve discussed in this space many times, but one of the most cringeworthy and degrading aspects of the globe-spanning narrative control campaign surrounding this war has been the way the nation’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has been turned into an ever-present corporate mascot for the most aggressive ad campaign ever devised. The way the most powerful institutions in the western world have been throwing their puppet in everyone’s face to sell the empire’s proxy warfare puts Ronald McDonald to shame.
Here are 20 of the cringiest moments of establishment PR using Zelensky to market the McProxy War to the western world, in no particular order. Click through for links and evidence for every one of these insults to your intelligence. Remember kids, the deep state is a hostile entity that doesn't have your interests at heart - except regarding Ukraine. Then everyone cheers along like the crowds in George Orwell's "1984" during Hate Week.
1. A House Republican introducing a bill to place a bust of Zelensky in the US Capitol building
2. The fake Hollywood action hero-sounding "I need ammunition, not a ride" quote
3. The Vogue cover shoot
5. Time Magazine Person of the Year
6. Star Wars: Attack of the Drones
7. Zelensky giving a speech at the Golden Globes
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1613126818823012352
8. Zelensky giving a speech for the Grammys
9. Zelensky getting an Academy Award from actor Sean Penn
10. Zelensky addressing the World Economic Forum Gosh, if there's anyone who isn't totally evil and in bed with the deep state, it's the WEF.
11. Zelensky giving a speech and ringing the bell for the New York Stock Exchange Likewise Wall Street.
12. Zelensky giving a speech at the secretive Bilderberg Group (probably) Ditto.
That probably sounds like the lady is making stuff up to pad her list.
13. Zelensky giving a speech at the Cannes Film Festival
14. Zelensky giving a speech at the Glastonbury Festival
15. Weird Hologram Zelensky at the Founders Forum in the UK
16. Zelensky meeting with Ben Stiller
17. The Ukrainian flag performance in the US congress
18. The bizarre Biden-Zelensky slow motion action-heroes-walking-away-from-an-explosion video clip
19. Guest on David Letterman’s show
20. The obligatory Bono psyop
Honorable mention: Zelensky meeting with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink to help "rebuild" (read: buy up) Ukraine If the corporation forcing Americans out of their homes and into rentals isn't someone you should cheer for, who is?
Honorable mention: DC party at the Ukrainian embassy openly hosted by the US military-industrial complex Ditto.
Are people not tired of having their intelligence insulted yet?
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Zelensky on tour.
Does he have a cover band?
Are there groupies?
#2
It's shocking how many people who otherwise think and are skeptical have went along with this deep state operation 100%.
Cheering for the same people who cheated Trump out of the White House. The same people who weaponized the FBI and raided Trump's estate. The same people who slandered General Flynn. The same people who came up with the Russia collusion hoax.
But just say "Ukraine" and suddenly anyone who disagrees is clearly a Russian employee of the Internet Research Agency, a Russian bot, a Traitor, or better yet all three at once and is to be dismissed out of hand. And banned. All posts removed. Just to be sure the heresy does not infect the deep state's holy scripture.
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#3
/\ "War is our business, and business is good."
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#10
Come along now. I think all he really needs to perfect his image is a cigar.
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RE: #9 - I thought I should share.
Trichotillomania, also known as hair-pulling disorder or compulsive hair pulling, is a mental disorder characterized by a long-term urge that results in the pulling out of one's own hair. A brief positive feeling may occur as hair is removed. Efforts to stop pulling hair typically fail.
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^ And so you now understand why Besoeker says it is no longer an option. :(
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[Gatestone] Chinese law requires all Chinese companies to turn over information to the Communist Party upon request -- and ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, reportedly employs more than 130 Party members to ensure compliance. In December, it was revealed that ByteDance had used TikTok to surveil several journalists to track down the journalists' sources.
The United States recently banned TikTok from all federal government devices over growing security concerns. That is a good start.
TikTok, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned at the beginning of December, is controlled by the Chinese government, which is a national security concern.
TikTok, a video-sharing app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has, according to TikTok's own estimates, 1 billion users worldwide. In 2021, TikTok had approximately 87 million users in the US, according to Statista. Disturbingly, a recent study found that 10% of US adults get their news from the Chinese app, up from 3% in 2020.
Wray said that China's government can control the app's recommendation algorithm, "which allows them to manipulate content, and if they want to, to use it for influence operations."
"All of these things are in the hands of a government that doesn't share our values, and that has a mission that's very much at odds with what's in the best interests of the United States. That should concern us," Wray said in a speech at the University of Michigan.
Wray's comments echoed those he made at the "Worldwide Threats to the Homeland" hearing held at the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee on November 15.
[YouTube] A state-owned mining company in Sweden has just stumbled upon a million metric tons of rare earth metals...but what does that mean? Any addition to the rare-earths supply is great, but I don't see this moving the needle much.
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[Gatestone] Over the last few years, there has been much written about the destruction of American democracy. Frequently the threat has been of alleged interference in U.S. elections by Russia, China or other state actors. Government agencies, the name of election integrity, were assigned to identify and disrupt these foreign intrusions. As more and more information is revealed about these agencies, it seems that America's Intelligence Community participated in these activities domestically, and in a way that poses a grave threat to both election integrity and American democracy.
Just last week it was revealed that the FBI again withheld pertinent information from the American public, for past two months, until after the November 8, 2022 federal election. As with the Bureau's reported cover-up of evidence influence-peddling reportedly found on Hunter Biden's laptop, agents knew, since November 2, 2022, about at least some of the three sets of classified material that illegally found their way into the garage and library of President Joe Biden and into the Penn Biden Center think tank at the University of Pennsylvania -- to which anonymous members of the Chinese Communist Party have donated $54.6 million.
Their existence only became known this week, after the newly elected Republican-majority House of Representatives announced that it would hold hearings on "how the [Justice] department handled investigations into classified materials found at former President Donald Trump's Florida home and those found at President Joe Biden's office in a Washington think tank bearing his name and his Delaware home..."
In addition, the recent release of the "Twitter Files" has raised at least two major concerns regarding actions by the Intelligence Community. The first is that the wall of separation between the Intelligence Community and the U.S. media has not only sprung a leak, it has totally collapsed. The report that officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) met weekly with Twitter executives to coordinate information is totally inappropriate. Would officials from the ODNI review, affirm or label certain sets of information as false? When ODNI was created, no one intended its officials to have a role in these types of discussions.
It also appears that intelligence officials in recent years have politically weaponized intelligence. The combination of a politically weaponized Intelligence Community, operating hand-in-hand with organizations that are the main gateways for information to millions of Americans, poses a serious threat to American democracy and the integrity of our elections.
Let us just briefly look at the steep slope of lying, deceit and corruption that has seeped into the leadership of the U.S. Intelligence Community.
[IsraelTimes] In an unprecedented series of animated videos, drawn from interviews carried out by the NY-based Center for Peace Communications, ordinary Gazooks tell heartwrenching stories.
This article, the first in a series of three, presents eight short, animated interviews with residents of the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
Produced by the Center for Peace Communications, a New York nonprofit, they are being published by The Times of Israel because they represent a rare opportunity for ordinary, courageous Gazooks to tell the world what life is like under the rule of Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,.
The Times of Israel’s French site is carrying a French edition of the clips. An Arabic-language edition is being presented on alarabiya.net, a Persian edition via the newspaper Kayhan, a Spanish edition on Infobae, and a Portuguese edition on RecordTV.
The short clips — none of them longer than two and a half minutes — offer poignant insights into day-to-day life in the Strip, an area that most outsiders cannot reach and whose residents directly suffer from the consequent lack of understanding.
We meet ordinary people telling authentic stories about common problems that are drastically exacerbated by Hamas’s control, ordinary people with expectations and aspirations and dreams — from running a pharmacy to working as a journalist to simply dancing — that they are forbidden from realizing.
All names have been changed, and CPC employed animation and voice-altering technology to protect speakers’ identity.
The participants consented to be interviewed for the sake of relaying their ideas and experiences to an international audience, noted CPC president Joseph Braude, adding, "They want these stories to be heard."
You can watch the entire first week’s playlist of eight videos here:
Click on the headline at the top of the post to go to the article, dear Reader, where all the videos are posted.
[IsraelTimes] The US-based Center for Peace Communications reached out to residents of the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-run Strip who have personal stories they want the world to hear
"I want Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... to be liberated from the government of Hamas," says "Maryam," a lifelong resident of the coastal strip that Hamas has ruled since 2007. "Then, Gaza will develop. We’ll have tourists and theater."
Maryam is telling her story — a tale of growing up singing and dancing, until Hamas seized power — in a short, animated clip. It is part of "Whispered in Gaza," a series of 25 videos produced by the Center for Peace Communications, a New York nonprofit.
The series is being presented in three parts, in English and French, by The Times of Israel in partnership with CPC, alongside an Arabic-language edition of the clips presented on alarabiya.net, a Persian edition via the newspaper Kayhan, a Spanish edition on Infobae, and a Portuguese edition on RecordTV.
All interviews were conducted over the course of 2022.
The Paleostinian speakers, all of whom currently reside in Gaza, describe arbitrary arrests, extortion, and violence by Hamas authorities. Some express longing for the time before Hamas seized power in a coup against the Paleostinian Authority in 2007, when they were freer to express themselves and pursue a life path they chose. (The PA held partial authority in Gaza from 1994 under the Oslo Accords. Israel maintained overall control of the Strip until 2005, when it dismantled its 21 settlements there, evicted their 9,000 Israeli Jewish residents, and withdrew unilaterally to pre-1967 lines.)
According to CPC president Joseph Braude, the series "challenges those who justify Hamas violence to choose between supporting Hamas and supporting the Paleostinians it oppresses. At the same time, it challenges those opposing Hamas to recognize that countless Gazooks want a brighter and more peaceful future, and ask what can be done to empower them."
"Do I believe in peace with Hamas?" asks "Basma," another Gazook woman, in a second clip in response to a question. "No. There can’t be peace with them."
The CPC interviewer laughs and clarifies that she was asking about peace with Israel, a possibility to which the woman proves more open.
"Much has been said about the impact of Israeli policies and actions on the civilian population in Gaza, and rightly so," observed Ghaith al-Omari, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "Yet the conduct of Hamas, the de facto rulers of the Strip — who have created an oppressive, stifling reality for the majority of Gazooks — has received much less attention. ’Whispered in Gaza’ is a commendable effort to provide ordinary people in Gaza a platform to communicate with an international audience."
CPC promotes Arab-Israeli engagement to foster development in the Middle East, according to senior US diplomat Dennis Ross, who chairs its board.
In 2021, over 300 Iraqis from across the country gathered at a CPC conference in the northern city of Erbil, where speakers called for Iraq to join the Abraham Accords. The CPC-backed Arab Council for Regional Integration has held public conferences in which Arab thinkers advocate relations with the Israeli people. Other CPC projects protect peace activist muppets from retribution and seed Arab-Israeli partnerships.
CPC found Gazooks eager to tell the world about their suffering under Hamas. Many already express themselves on social media, Braude noted, but face Hamas pressure to remove their posts.
One interviewee says he filmed Hamas police beating women and a child with Down syndrome for protesting the cut-off of their electricity. Hours after he uploaded the video, thousands of frustrated Gazooks had reached out to him. He was on the run from Hamas for days until he was arrested and forced to take down the video.
"I now understand that their jails are full of honorable people," he says. "Anyone who tries to think for himself winds up there."
CPC employed animation and voice-altering technology to protect speakers’ identity. The participants consented to be interviewed for the sake of relaying their ideas and experiences to an international audience, Braude said, adding, "They want these stories to be heard."
The Times of Israel viewed the original footage as used in the animated clips, confirming the speakers’ identity and that their testimony has been accurately translated. Said Braude: "An artistic depiction of the story a voice tells can provide a visceral experience of someone’s life that is hard to forget."
Attempts to gauge Gazook public opinion through polling tend to yield inconsistent results. Regarding Israel, a 2022 survey by The Washington Institute found most Gazooks simultaneously favoring "a permanent two-state solution" based on pre-1967 borders and "reclaiming all of Paleostine, from the river to the sea." Part of the challenge relates to the 2021 finding by Paleostinian pollsters that 62 percent of Gazooks say they cannot criticize Hamas without fear. (A speaker in one clip observes, "If you say, ’I don’t want war,’ you’re branded a traitor.")
In 2019, approximately 1,000 Gazooks waged anti-Hamas street demonstrations under the banner "We Want to Live," braving gunfire and prison.
Clips in which interviewees describe their aspirations include calls for international support for Hamas’s opponents as well as dialogue with Israelis. Braude said the series aims not to advance a particular policy but, rather, to help Gazooks join the global conversation.
Jawad Anani, a former Jordanian foreign minister and Jordan-Israel peace negotiator, viewed the material before its release. In an accompanying monograph published Monday, he dubs it a step toward "peace and prosperity" in Gaza: "Our shared hope for such a future is why it was right and proper for this effort to turn the spotlight on the tragic situation of parents and their children in Gaza. It can help catalyze a new dynamic, moving beyond the present dismal, dead-end reality by fostering constructive dialogue."
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.
[ZERO] "The now-52-year-old began listing the Wilmington home as his address following his 2017 divorce from ex-wife Kathleen Buhle — even falsely claiming he owned the property on a July 2018 background check form as part of a rental application," the Post reported.
[GenesiusTimes] Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will become a professor at Columbia University focusing on how to break the law and get away with it.
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
[Gatestone] Over the last few years, there has been much written about the destruction of American democracy. Frequently the threat has been of alleged interference in U.S. elections by Russia, China or other state actors. Government agencies, the name of election integrity, were assigned to identify and disrupt these foreign intrusions. As more and more information is revealed about these agencies, it seems that America's Intelligence Community participated in these activities domestically, and in a way that poses a grave threat to both election integrity and American democracy.
