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Tehran’s hell-hole Evin jail is on fire
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Creepy Joe strikes again! Biden sneaks up behind girl, grabs her shoulders and tells her 'no serious guys until you're 30' - as the uncomfortable teen tries to laugh it off
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • President Joe Biden was speaking at a community college in California on Friday when he was seen grabbing a girl by the shoulder as he gave dating advice

  • After posing for a photo, he told the girl to not have serious boyfriends until 30

  • The girl appeared disturbed at both the comment and actions but laughed it off

  • Biden has a history of making eyebrow-raising remarks about girls and women

  • He has been photographed kissing girls on the head and seemingly sniffing hair

  • In 2019, Biden released a statement saying he 'does not believe' he ever acted inappropriately

  • He added it has never been his intention to make anyone uncomfortable
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like Biden needs a cold shower, and hopefully not with his daughter.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/16/2022 2:30 Comments || Top||

#2 
PRESIDENT BIDEN TRIES RECRUITING TEEN FOR WHOREDOM!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/16/2022 4:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Is his name Joe or "John"?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/16/2022 4:53 Comments || Top||

#4  One day a brave father or mother will make an 'on the spot correction' in response to these depraved acts. I am surprised it has not happened before now.

When will be rid of these loathsome varmints ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/16/2022 7:09 Comments || Top||

#5  When will be rid of these loathsome varmints ?

When WE decide to do something and take matters into our own hands.
Posted by: Blossom Speaking for Boskone8361 || 10/16/2022 10:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Midterm GOTV strategy: Plugs is appealing to his base. (In case you missed it, ped0philia’s been normalized for the Wokesters —
soon to be legalized in San Francisco, then across California, then…)
Posted by: Palermo || 10/16/2022 11:30 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Biden Tweaks Venezuela Policies to Aid Maduro Family, Hurt Everybody Else
[Breitbart] The Biden administration announced Wednesday evening a policy change meant to limit the influx of Venezuelans illegally crossing the border into the United States, currently at an unprecedented level.

The sudden attempt to limit the number of Venezuelan refugees — many of whom had earlier fled the horrors of socialism under dictator Nicolás Maduro for other South American countries — comes at a time when the Biden Administration has granted Maduro and his family several concessions, including the liberation of his drug-trafficking nephews. The White House has also repeatedly hinted that it has an interest in importing Venezuelan oil, which would be of great financial benefit to the socialist dictatorship.

These acts also go against what Venezuelan Biden supporters were told to espouse during the 2020 presidential campaign. At the time, they tried to convince Venezuelan-Americans and other Hispanics to support Biden claiming that that a prospective Biden presidency — that Maduro “would be afraid” of — would not negotiate with Maduro and instead promote and increase sanctions against the socialist dictator and his regime.

The new immigration measures, which will be handled by the Department of Homeland Security, seek to grant 24,000 Venezuelan migrants a legal pathway into the United States while expelling any Venezuelan illegally entering through U.S. borders. Less than a month ago, leftist President Joe Biden expressed that it was “not rational” to deport migrants fleeing from the authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

The prospective 24,000 beneficiaries heavily contrast with the large influx of Venezuelan migrants illegally crossing the border during 2022. As noted by Venezuelan opposition leader Julio Borges, 33,000 Venezuelan migrants were reported to have illegally crossed the border during September 2022 alone. The announcement further states that effective immediately, any Venezuelan that illegally enters the United States will be returned to Mexico and will not be eligible to be among the 24,000 potential beneficiaries of the new program.

The recently implemented measure is a derivative of the Uniting for Ukraine (U4U) program beginning in April that allows a pathway into the United States for 100,000 Ukrainian citizens fleeing from Russia’s invasion of their country.

The Venezuelan migrant crisis is considered the worst migrant crisis in the region by far, and second only to Ukraine’s migrant crisis resulting from Russia’s ongoing invasion of the European country.

As of September 2022, over 7.1 million migrants (out of the nation’s estimated 30 million inhabitants) have fled Venezuela according to the R4V platform, a joint effort between the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The platform notes that their records only represent “the sum of Venezuelan refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers reported by host governments,” and, as such, their total does not represent the complete number of Venezuelan migrants spread across all countries, which could be higher.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
China runs election interference ops ahead of midterms
[JustTheNews] The Chinese accounts, Recorded Future asserts, have made posts of divisive political content across popular social media platforms.

Intelligence firm Recorded Future, in a recent report, asserted that the Chinese Communist Party aims to further polarize the United States by spreading disinformation and partisan rhetoric in the digital sphere before Americans head to the polls.

The efforts appear to target both English-speaking and Chinese-speaking Americans.

"China’s state-sponsored influencers, such as 'wolf warrior' diplomats, state media journalists, political pundits, and inauthentic accounts, are actively conducting malign influence operations targeting English and Chinese-speaking US audiences with divisive political content on social media," the report reads. "The content is derived from authentic news and interviews, but amplifies divisive political themes that are sensitive to US voters."

The Chinese accounts, Recorded Future asserts, have made posts of divisive political content across popular social media platforms and created a bevy of polarizing responses to each using other fake accounts.

"Videos, memes, images, news stories, interviews, and multimedia montages are being shared by influencers across platforms using hashtags and English and Chinese language closed captions. Many of the videos are also accompanied by questions that prompt audiences to participate in discussion and post responses," it reads.

"Recorded Future found that the majority of the comments and responses to the videos are populated by likely inauthentic accounts sharing anti-US and anti-West sentiment, criticism of US politicians, and debate over highly divisive political topics," the firm concluded. "Many of these appear to criticize both the Republican and Democrat parties and promote extreme views on both sides."

The report further delved into comparable Russian operations, asserting that "[t]he Russian government likely views electoral interference and voter influence ahead of the US midterm elections as an appropriate response to the US’s defensive military support to Ukraine and to US participation in unprecedented international sanctions that have isolated Russia and heavily damaged its economy."

Lawmakers have long pointed to Moscow as a source of pivotal election interference, most notably in 2016 when claiming that the Trump campaign actively colluded with Russia to influence the outcome of the election. Recorded Future specifically highlighted false accounts advocating against U.S. involvement in the Ukraine War and deriding President Joe Biden.

While Russia remains the world's focus amid the conflict in Europe, China has maintained its own aggressive stance toward Taiwan, potentially setting it on course to clash with the island, and by extension, the United States.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/16/2022 10:52 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  ...and Chinese-speaking Americans

I'm sure the community is inclined to support the party allowing feral creatures to beat them down in public and 'liberate' their stores. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/16/2022 13:36 Comments || Top||



Pelosi on Jan. 6 to Her Staged Camera Crew:
[Gateway] On Thursday, CNN released never-before-seen footage of Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 — the two people who refused to call in the National Guard prior to that day and during the rioting.

The exclusive footage was filmed by Nancy’s daughter Alexandra. Nancy’s son-in-law was outside filming the insurrection.

It was all staged.

To this day, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has refused to release all 14,000 hours of tape from January 6 to the public, because doing so would compromise their authority to prosecute innocent J6 political prisoners.

Julie Kelly tweeted, "they’ve had this footage for almost 2 years. Release the 14,000 hours of surveillance video now."

The video included a clip of Nancy Pelosi threatening physical violence against an outgoing President of the United States.

"I hope [Trump] comes. I’m going to punch him out! This is my moment. I’ve been waiting for this—for trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I’m going to punch him out, and I’m going to go to jail and I’m going to be happy."

Julie Kelly tweeted, "Pelosi’s anger and contempt here for Trump says it all. And how did her chief of staff know before Trump did that the Secret Service wouldn’t take the president to Capitol Hill? None of this adds up. And GOP better get real answers about this staged coup."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/16/2022 07:17 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Released by the Deep State's approved purveyors of disinformation and propaganda, CNN.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/16/2022 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Then she ran away.
Posted by: Airandee || 10/16/2022 8:52 Comments || Top||


#4  “I’m not a badass, but I play one on TV”
Posted by: Palermo || 10/16/2022 11:41 Comments || Top||

#5  My favorite part's when, after endless posturing and blustering and primly grimacing about all the defecation and devastation and all, she's told on speaker that they should able to reconvene in... about an hour.
Posted by: Mad Eye Snoth6981 || 10/16/2022 23:08 Comments || Top||


Election Software Firm Used by LA County - and by Counties in Swing States - Gave 'Superadministrator' Privileges to Contractors in China
[RedState] As we reported on October 4, Eugene Yu, a Chinese immigrant and CEO of Konnech, an election software company, was arrested “as part of an investigation into the possible theft of personal identifying information of [Los Angeles County election] workers,” which officials believed “was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China.”

The other shocking part of the story was that LA County District Attorney George Gascon, who’s not known as being tough on crime, announced the arrest and extradition and that investigators from his office had been working on the case.

One of Konnech’s software offerings is a program called PollChief, which schedules election workers and assists elections officials with supply and logistics procedures. In 2019 LA County entered into a contract with Konnech, and a sole-source contract worth more than $2 million was finalized in 2020. As part of the contract, Konnech was to abide by state and federal law, and to various information security procedures, which an LA County District Attorney’s office investigator described in a complaint supporting the request for a warrant for Yu’s arrest:

  • “[C]ontractor shall screen and conduct background checks on all Contractor personnel contacting County’s Confidential Information, including Personally Identifiable Information, for potential security risks and require all employees and contractors to sign an appropriate written confidentiality non-disclosure agreement.

  • Personally Identifiable Information, and County’s Confidential Information: (i) may only be made available and accessible to those parties explicitly authorized under the Contract or otherwise expressly approved by County in writing.

  • Only Contractor’s staff who are based in the United States and are citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States shall have access to any County data, including personally identifiable information, hosted in County’s instance of the System Software.

This complaint, which is dated October 13, 2022, contains additional information about what investigators have found – information that does not lead to any type of confidence in the security of our election information.

Despite Eugene Yu’s insistence in a verified court pleading that “all of Konnech’s U.S. customer data is secured and stored exclusively on protected computers located within the United States,” the Los Angeles County DA’s office found that:

“On or about October 10, 2019, through October 4, 2022, Eugene Yu and other employees at Konnech, Inc. were providing these services to Los Angeles County using third-party contractors based in China.

“…Konnech employees known and unknown sent personal identifying information of Los Angeles County election workers to third-party software developers who assisted with creating and fixing Konnech’s internal ‘PollChief’ software.”

So, the personal identifying information of US election workers was intentionally sent not just out of the country, but to China. And to third-party contractors, which is potentially in complete violation of the state’s anti-independent contracting AB5 law.

And, just as many have suspected, Chinese “contractors” (code for CCP operatives; don’t kid yourself) have had full access to not just the personal identifying information of Los Angeles County election workers (emphasis mine):

“On or about August 18, 2022, Luis Nabergoi, project manager for Konnech’s contract with the County of Los Angeles, confirmed via the messaging app DingTalk that any employee for Chinese contractors working on PollChief software had ‘superadministration’ privileges for all PollChief clients. Mr. Nabergoi described the situation as a ‘huge security issue.'”

It’s more than just a “huge security issue.” Even if nothing nefarious has been done with that access, a possibility which requires the suspension of disbelief, this revelation validates every concern that has been expressed in the security of our elections since, well, long before 2020. But we know it was happening through August, 2022, at a minimum. And while the City of Minneapolis initially defended its contract with Konnech, saying there was no information that the personal identifying information of their poll workers was compromised, officials might want to revisit that statement in light of the above.

In addition, one function PollChief software provides is management of “election workers and voting locations (including Vote Centers, drop boxes and check-in centers),” meaning that election officials can use the software to assign employees to retrieve ballots from drop boxes and deliver them to the elections office, and uses GPS and location data from the app on the employee’s phone to determine which employee is located closest to the drop box and continues to track their location for chain-of-custody purposes. However, as some have pointed out, it’s certainly possible that this app could be repurposed for ballot harvesting and delivery purposes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  more
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/16/2022 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Then there's the local effort
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/16/2022 8:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Re. the LA City Council Mestiza’s delightful rants against Iaxacans, Anglos, Koreans, [red-dot] Indians and Wakandans: the new Black Panther film is about to open and its plot concerns a war between the Wakandans and Aztec Atlantians.
Posted by: Maggie Ulusoper7194 || 10/16/2022 22:51 Comments || Top||



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