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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Keep an eye on slippery Ghislaine Maxwell
[NYPOST] Lock her in a glass cage.

Put a camera in the cell, hook it up to the internet, livestream it to the world.

Double the guard. Double their pay. Make sure they can’t be bribed, don’t sleep on the job, aren’t watching television.

Better yet, put her in the middle of Times Square where the Elmos can keep an eye on her.

Whatever you do, don’t leave Ghislaine Maxwell alone — or hidden. Don’t you dare let her commit "suicide" like the depraved boss she served, Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein
...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whores sex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened...
For the sake of justice, do it right this time.
Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Got fifty bucks down in my local dead pool.
Posted by: charger || 07/03/2020 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  she'll last a week at best
Posted by: Chris || 07/03/2020 2:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Even if she does commit Clintoncide, isn't that a sort of justice too ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/03/2020 2:05 Comments || Top||

#4  slippery Ghislaine Maxwell

Phrasing!
Posted by: SteveS || 07/03/2020 2:06 Comments || Top||

#5  There are too many high and mighty threatened by things she might reveal, including the Clintons, and the British Royal family. For the sake of her family, I hope her insurance & will are current.

Anyone have the Vegas over/under date for an "accident" or "suicide"? The WiseGuys surely know.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 07/03/2020 2:55 Comments || Top||

#6  "Slippery?" No, actually a classic survivalist. Arrested during routine sojourn to rural NY? Yes, but "arrested" sounds so harsh.

She's tucked away in a very safe, albeit unnamed location (think Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's sister-in-law if you must). We will now control who she talks to, or discusses these very delicate issues. We will approve all visitor. No tell-all, books or revealing articles. Obviously the legal issues could drag on for years, possibly decades. She and her legal team are said to be "cooperating" (as no doubt) agreed upon in pre-detention discussions.

Having now come in from the cold, alles ist in ordnung.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/03/2020 5:39 Comments || Top||

#7  My bet is on the other players like L-Brands having accidents first..
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/03/2020 6:24 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ Yes, a very safe bet. She'll certainly be talking to someone about.... someone.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/03/2020 6:30 Comments || Top||


#10  Hmm, tragic weight lifting accident, nah. used that. Uh, hanging in jail cell, no way too obvious. Plane crash with numerous dignitaries, little late for that. Maybe an unfortunate duck hunting, er, incident?
Posted by: Cesare || 07/03/2020 8:26 Comments || Top||

#11  AG Barr sacks a deep-state prosecutor...

very few days later Ghislaine arrested.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/03/2020 8:46 Comments || Top||

#12  ...yep.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/03/2020 9:06 Comments || Top||

#13  @#11 - I thought Barr was Deep State.
Posted by: Clem || 07/03/2020 9:08 Comments || Top||

#14  Only "will be naming names" after she got apprehended. Well, we'll see, it all may be a moot point. Meanwhile, the guards are double-checking CCTV operations and going over their break-time schedules.
Posted by: Clem || 07/03/2020 10:35 Comments || Top||

#15  after she got apprehended

Am I the only one that thinks this was a carefully negotiated surrender?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/03/2020 11:09 Comments || Top||

#16  /\ No, you are certainly not the 'only one.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/03/2020 11:11 Comments || Top||

#17  Even if she does commit Clintoncide, isn't that a sort of justice too ?

Not until we find out where the videos are.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/03/2020 11:59 Comments || Top||

#18  Lock her in a glass cage.

This just screams 'pay per view'.
Posted by: Raj || 07/03/2020 12:16 Comments || Top||

#19  Cesare, how getting her limo stalled at a busy train crossing at night?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/03/2020 13:14 Comments || Top||

#20  Perhaps she didn't want to share in Steve Bing's fate.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 07/03/2020 15:46 Comments || Top||

#21  Who now remembers that only a year ago, when Mr. Epstein was going to be the key to OrangeManBad’s destruction, New York Magazine did a story on his little black book.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/03/2020 15:57 Comments || Top||

#22 
Posted by: Clem || 07/03/2020 16:40 Comments || Top||

#23  #s 11 and 12. Seems like the prosecutor was a roadblock to allowing sensitive cases to see daylight in anybody's lifetime. He was also appointed by a group of judges as I understand. Wouldn't this prosecutor ordinarily be appointed by POTUS?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/03/2020 16:58 Comments || Top||

#24  She will have information hidden away for this day. Barr's move has caused action.
Posted by: Dale || 07/03/2020 17:02 Comments || Top||

#25  She ought to have a nice video collection.
Posted by: Clem || 07/03/2020 19:25 Comments || Top||

#26  Looks like Alan Dershowitz "recused" himself this evening on Fox.
Posted by: Clem || 07/03/2020 21:49 Comments || Top||


Europe
French government resigns as Macron vows 'new course'
[France24] The French government resigned Friday ahead of a cabinet reshuffle that President Emmanuel Macron says will set out a "new course" as the country grapples with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

A government source confirmed to AFP that Prime Minister Edouard Philippe would be leaving his job after serving Macron since the president came to power in 2017 elections.

However, there was still no firm clue over who a successor might be, with the replacement also facing the task of rescuing the fortunes of the ruling party following a stinging defeat in local elections at the weekend.

Macron, who has pursued ambitious economic reforms since coming to office in 2017, has already admitted that the recession caused by the health crisis would require the government to shift tack.

In an interview with regional newspapers published late Thursday, Macron said France must prepare for a "very difficult" economic crisis, "so we have to chart a new course."

"I see this based on an economic, social, environmental and cultural reconstruction," he said. "Behind this, there will be a new team."

An Elysee Palace official told AFP that a new prime minister would be named "in the coming hours," and possibly the new cabinet cast as well.

Sources later confirmed that Philippe would not be re-nominated for the post he has held for the past three years, pushing through a series of controversial overhauls that sparked massive strikes as well as the fierce "yellow vest" anti-government revolt.

Speculation that Philippe was on the way out mounted this week after Macron's centrist party was routed in municipal elections last Sunday and Greens took control of several major cities.

Philippe, a right-wing politician who never joined Macron's Republic on the Move party, easily won his bid to become mayor of Le Havre.

But while Philippe's approval ratings have surged over his handling of the coronavirus crisis, Macron was widely expected to try to burnish his social justice credentials with a more centrist or leftwing premier.

"A new phase is opening, with new talents and new methods for governing," the Elysee official said Friday.

- HEAVY TURNOVER -
At a meeting Thursday, Macron and Philippe "agreed on the need for a new government to embody a new phase for this term," the source said.

Press reports have suggested that possible replacements could include defence minister Florence Parly or foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, both Socialists before joining Macron's team.

Other names being floated are those of Valerie Pecresse, president of the Ile-de-France region encompassing Paris, or Jean Castex, who is piloting the government's cautious lifting of its coronavirus restrictions.

But analysts say Macron has a thin bench of potential replacements, not least because his young party has failed to produce any standouts from its parliamentary ranks -- meaning he could tap someone relatively unknown to the public.

Among other officials who could be replaced is interior minister Christophe Castaner, who has been assailed by critics over the failure to contain the rioting and looting that marred the "yellow vest" protests of 2018-2019.

Already since the start of Macron's presidency, a total of 17 ministers have quit the government, most recently Agnes Buzyn, who stepped down as health minister in a doomed bid to wrest the Paris mayor job from Socialist Anne Hidalgo.
Posted by: Clem || 07/03/2020 08:52 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More Surrender! More Bankruptcy! More Political Correctness! All very new!
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 07/03/2020 21:30 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Secret Service Records Show Hunter Biden Did Not Travel to Ukraine Before Burisma Appointment
[BREITBART] Recently made public Secret Service records indicate that Hunter Biden, the youngest son of former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
, did not travel to Ukraine prior to his appointment to the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, one of the country’s top energy conglomerates.

The documents, which were received through a Freedom of Information Act request by the conservative-leaning group Judicial Watch, show the younger Biden took 411 domestic and international flights between 2009 and 2014. The secret service provided protection for Biden on each of those flights and potentially more, as the records only cover the period from June 2009 to May 2014.

Listed among the destinations were 29 foreign countries, including five visits to China alone, as well as trips to Russia and 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...
. The records, however, indicate Biden did not travel to Ukraine, at least not with secret service protection, before his appointment to Burisma’s board in April 2014.

It is unclear if Biden went to Ukraine without secret service protection prior to his appointment. It is unlikely, though, as he frequently utilized the federal agency for security when traveling to potentially dangerous locales for business.

This was exhibited when Biden had an entourage of secret service agents accompany him to the Philippines in December 2013, while serving as chairman of the World Food Program, USA. As the Washington Free Beacon reported in March, Biden’s travel and the Secret Service protection required cost United States taxpayers nearly $200,000 throughout his father’s tenure in the vice presidency.

Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wow. Hunter must be really good at whatever the heck it is he is doing.
Posted by: gorb || 07/03/2020 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  he learned from a life long crook, why wouldn't he be good?
Posted by: Chris || 07/03/2020 2:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Ukraina's version of overseas employment?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/03/2020 5:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Who knew the Ukraine had their own H1B program?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/03/2020 7:33 Comments || Top||


‘Anti-Colin Kaepernick’ Burgess Owens Wins Utah Fourth District GOP Primary
[BREITBART] Former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl champion safety Burgess Owens won the Utah Fourth Congressional GOP primary on Tuesday night and will now face off against Rep. Ben McAdams (D-UT).Owens decisively won the Fourth Congressional District’s primary by roughly 20 points. Owens’ victory means he will now face off against freshman swing district Democrat McAdams in the general election.

McAdams unseated former Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) during the 2018 midterm elections. The Cook Political Report rates the race as a "lean Democrat," but Owens’ potential victory over McAdams could help the GOP retake the House majority.

Republicans need to gain a net 17 seats during the 2020 elections to regain the House majority. Utah’s Fourth Congressional District was one of the 30 congressional districts that President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
won during the 2016 presidential election but that House Democrats managed to flip during the 2018 midterm elections.

Breitbart News’s Matthew Boyle profiled Owens, noting that he has pushed a cultural renaissance in the country to better advocate for God, country, and families in Congress.
Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mia Love. Haven't even thought about that name for a while. Another "future of the Republican Party" flop.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/03/2020 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, had promise but no idea how to capitalize on a win.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/03/2020 9:47 Comments || Top||


Supreme Court blocks Democrats from cache of Robert Mueller's investigation records until full hearing on their release making it almost impossible before the November election
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not to worry, all the material will be leaked by the middle of next week.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/03/2020 7:43 Comments || Top||

#2  I think they are counting on it murcek. That way they can leak the stuff that fits their narrative and hold back the rest.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/03/2020 8:52 Comments || Top||


Schiff Learned Of Russian ‘Bounty' Intelligence In February, Withheld Information From Congress, And Took No Action
Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway doing Reporter's Work for Them
[Federalist] Top committee staff for Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, were briefed in February on intelligence about Russia offering the Taliban bounties in Afghanistan, but he took no action in response to the briefing, multiple intelligence sources familiar with the briefing told The Federalist. The intelligence was briefed to Schiff's staff during a congressional delegation, or CODEL, trip to Afghanistan in February.

Schiff, who has acknowledged President Donald Trump was never briefed on the so-called intelligence, has thus far refused to disclose that his staff was personally briefed. The revelation raises serious questions that Schiff is once again politicizing, and perhaps even deliberately misrepresenting, key data for partisan gain.

Asked by a reporter Tuesday if he had any knowledge of the Russia story prior to the New York Times report, Schiff said "I can't comment on specifics."

Schiff's recent complaints that Trump took no action against Russia in response to rumors of Russian bounties are curious given that Schiff himself took no action after his top staff were briefed by intelligence officials. As chairman of the intelligence committee, Schiff had the authority to immediately brief the full committee and convene hearings on the matter. Schiff, however, did nothing. He did not brief his committee on the matter, nor did he brief the gang of 8, which consists of top congressional leadership in both chambers.

Schiff is demanding that the Trump administration brief all of Congress about the unverified allegations, yet he himself did not ask for a briefing of the Intelligence Committee following the February briefing of his own staff.

Patrick Boland, a spokesman for Schiff on the intelligence committee, did not respond to a request for comment on Schiff's inaction and declined to say why Schiff withheld the information from Congress for months. Boland also did not explain why travel records regarding the Congressional staff delegation trip to Afghanistan had not yet been disclosed in the Congressional Record as required by law.

Schiff, who was the key driver behind failed Democrat attempts to impeach and remove President Donald Trump from office earlier this year about the president's interactions with foreign leaders, also lied about his staff's interaction with the so-called whistleblower, identified by Real Clear Investigations as Eric Ciaramella, prior to the so-called whistleblower filing his complaint against Trump.

The California Democrat was also a main proponent of the Russia collusion hoax, falsely stating for years that he held "ample evidence of collusion" between President Trump and Russia. A lengthy investigation of the theory by Special Counsel Robert Mueller ostensibly set up to find that evidence was unable to find any evidence of any collusion between any American and Russia.

Just as Schiff falsely claimed that he and his staff had no interaction with the anti-Trump leaker behind the impeachment push and falsely claimed he was privy to secret evidence of collusion with Russia, Schiff attacked Trump for not taking action in response to the Russian bounty rumors while refusing to disclose that his own office was briefed in February and did nothing in response.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Impeach the m0therfkker!
Posted by: gorb || 07/03/2020 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  yall know Nancy is mad as shit about this
Posted by: Chris || 07/03/2020 2:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Nancy...? Back in the 1800's Nadler and Schiff would be having a dawn meeting with duelling pistols.
Posted by: magpie || 07/03/2020 9:48 Comments || Top||

#4  she's got to big of a headnot to be butthurt
Posted by: Chris || 07/03/2020 12:48 Comments || Top||

#5  How much did the Chinese pay Schiff?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/03/2020 13:52 Comments || Top||


The Horror of being Joe Biden's Sign Language Lady
Caleb Hull put this on twitter calling it

"Please lift Joe Biden's sign language lady up in your prayers today"

but twitter removed it

it is on youtube at least for now at the source


Posted by: lord garth || 07/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  damn, that's the best candidate they could come up with?
Posted by: Chris || 07/03/2020 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  What is ASL for "lying, dog-faced pony soldier"?
Posted by: SteveS || 07/03/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||

#3  For as long as she had to stand between signs, she deserved overtime.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/03/2020 13:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe they should nominate the sign language lady instead. Would be a vast improvment.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/03/2020 13:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Keep repeating "Bull...", *ahem*, "Bovine Urine" in ASL (Youtube video)
Posted by: magpie || 07/03/2020 15:27 Comments || Top||

#6  I really needed this today. TY TY TY
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/03/2020 16:04 Comments || Top||



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