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Russia's offensive along a broad front in Ukraine’s east has been stalling
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Report: Biden Labor Secretary Covered for Police Union that Enabled Convicted Child Rapist
[Breitbart] U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh protected records that showed the Boston Police union knew about a top official’s history of child sexual abuse during his tenure as Boston mayor.

Patrick Rose, former president of Boston’s police union, pled guilty to 21 child rape and sexual assault counts on Monday. Walsh’s successor as mayor released records that showed the police conducted an internal investigation into Rose after he allegedly sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy.

After the Boston Globe requested records of a 1995 police department investigation into sexual assault allegations against Rose following his 2020 arrest for child rape, Walsh cited the victim’s identity as a reason for not releasing the records.

However, the records ultimately released by Walsh’s successor redacted the victim’s identity. The records showed the police department’s internal investigation concluded Rose likely sexually assaulted the young boy. The documents also revealed that the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association and the Boston police union advocated for Rose to be taken off desk duty following the 1995 investigation into his sexual assault.

Despite the investigation’s conclusion, Rose continued to work as an officer until his retirement in 2018. Rose even served as president of the police union from 2014 to 2017.

After Rose’s conviction, he was sentenced to 10-13 years in prison and ten years on probation.

In addition to Rose, Walsh also withheld information about domestic abuse allegations against former police commissioner Dennis White. The Washington Free Beacon reported that a Boston police officer swore in an affidavit that Walsh knew about the domestic abuse allegations against White when he appointed White to be the city’s police commissioner.

Walsh ultimately suspended White after the Boston Globe reported on the accusations against him. After suspending White, Walsh claimed to be unaware of the allegations against him.

Again, Walsh refused to release White’s alleged abuse records after the Boston Globe requested them. Walsh also reportedly delayed an investigation into White while the U.S. Senate considered his confirmation as Labor Secretary.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pedocrat Party.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/02/2022 11:08 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine sparks fury by claiming ALL pediatricians agree on 'gender-affirming care' - despite doctors warning against 'chemical castration' puberty blockers that have been linked to infertility
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine told NPR in a recent interview that 'there is no argument among medical professionals' about gender-affirming care

  • According to the Department of Health and Human Services, gender-affirming care includes puberty blockers and hormone therapy

  • Several European countries, though, have moved to ban the use of puberty blockers for children and adolescents

  • In Sweden, a television investigation found that 13 adolescents who were given puberty blockers started having adverse reactions

  • American doctors have also spoken out against the use of the medication
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Transgender is a mental, NOT a physical, illness and should be treated as such.

Parents imposing such a life changing medical procedure on a child are committing nothing short of criminal child abuse.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/02/2022 4:37 Comments || Top||


#3  You can't drink or smoke until 21, but you are "mature" enough to opt for permanent life-changing surgery at 6 !?!
Posted by: magpie || 05/02/2022 9:15 Comments || Top||

#4  And vote too, at least according to demoncrats
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/02/2022 10:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Shortly doctor's licenses will be dependent on them following the official narrative. We already saw it in the wuflu, where some were deemed 'unqualified' because they colored outside the lines, had the wrong opinions, and said the wrong things.
It will shortly be an official offense. Watch for it.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/02/2022 11:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Looking for the inevitable trials for crimes against humanity. Lots of "trans" activists will be following Danny Deever.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/02/2022 11:41 Comments || Top||

#7  so now we can compete with the moslems in the genital mutilation olympics
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/02/2022 12:17 Comments || Top||

#8  I don't think the muzzies would go for this shit
Posted by: Chris || 05/02/2022 14:56 Comments || Top||

#9  They want boys to stay boys.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/02/2022 23:48 Comments || Top||


Republicans Slam Biden Plan to Divert VA Resources to Deal with Self-Inflicted Border Crisis
[LI] During congressional hearings focused on the Biden border disaster, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas indicated that the Biden administration was considering diverting resources from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help illegal immigrants if and when the Title 42 controls ended.

Title 42 expulsions are removals by the U.S. government of persons who have recently been in a country where a communicable disease was present. Biden has slated to end them on May 23.

Republicans are slamming the administration for this proposal.

...{S]everal representatives have sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas about the ’mishandling’ of the border and called the possible usage of VA personnel at the border ’deeply troubling’ as it is already hard for veterans to see doctors.

’Moving VA medical staff away from our veteran’s healthcare needs to examine illegal immigrants is a recipe for disaster,’ the letter, written by Georgia Representative Jody Hice, said. ’Wait times for a veteran to see their doctor can average 22 days and reach as high as 42 days. This is unacceptable mismanagement of federal government resources by the Biden administration.

’Biden’s failed open border policies are no excuse to funnel resources away from our veterans. Our men and women who put their lives on the line to protect our liberties and our country’s sovereignty deserve the best resources for their health care needs.

’The Biden Administration must provide the American people answers. Even the thought of abandoning our veterans’ care for the needs of illegal aliens is disgraceful.’

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says he still hasn’t received an answer from Biden on these plans.

In his letter, Cruz urged the president "to secure our Southern border and immediately renew Title 42," a public health authority that’s allowed federal agents to quickly expel illegal immigrants during a public health emergency. The Biden administration announced it was ending it May 23. Unless halted by the courts, border officials say ending Title 42 will result in roughly 18,000 people rushing the southern border a day, overwhelming Border Patrol agents and local law enforcement as a result.

"[T]he Department of Homeland Security has been considering potential strategies for dealing with the anticipated influx of migrants when CBP’s Title 42 authority is revoked," Cruz said in a statement. "Reportedly, one such strategy, according to a source from within CBP, includes diverting VA medical personnel and deploying them to the border. The CBP source went on to say ’[w]e’re going to take medical services away from people ... [w]ho went to combat ... to give free medical attention to illegal migrants.’"

This "is completely unacceptable," Cruz said.

Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-IL) sent a letter yo Biden’s Veterans Affairs Secretary asking if any resources from the VA will be diverted from serving our nation’s veterans to deal with the crisis Biden has created on our southern border.

"We need to ensure that no money that was set aside to help our veterans is being diverted to the southern border," Miller said. "VA resources should be used for our veterans, not to manage President Biden’s self-created crisis at the southern border. Instead of depriving our nation’s heroes of resources, the Biden administration should reinstate the effective border security policies of the Trump administration and complete construction of the border wall."
Posted by: Frank G || 05/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  I commented this earlier, My wifes tax return was mostly taken to pay back VA bills that we never got a bill for. Yet these assholes are sending the Va resources to help these cockroaches. I hope everyone of the cocksuckers in Washington D.C. die a horrible death.
Posted by: Chris || 05/02/2022 12:14 Comments || Top||

#2  The Puppet Show is acting like an Imperial state, all the parts of government are available for re-driection by Imperial Edict (Executive Order). The flaw is that the very agency that should be stopping these actions as unconstitutional is the most infested with the Magic Kenyans followers, the risible Department of Justice. And since no one has gone to jail for the theft or diversion of public monies to purposes for which they were not appropriated since the beginning of Obama 1.0, the pattern of acceptance is set even for the weak-kneed GOP leadership. Veterans could literally be dying for lack of treatment earned by their service, while illegal aliens are treated for free . YJCMTSU!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/02/2022 15:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Seems like only yesterday transferring assets from the military to deal with the border made a person Worse than Hitler!.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/02/2022 20:04 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Jill Biden Follows Nancy Pelosi on Solo Diplomatic Mission to Eastern Europe
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/02/2022 11:08 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While Joe gets a comedy plug:

Trevor Noah at WHCA Dinner–Under Joe Biden Everything Is Looking Up: Gas, Food, and Rent
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/02/2022 11:14 Comments || Top||


#3  /\ Trevor 'Wise arse kaffir' Noah. How about going back to Johannesburg and the Cape and helping those poor foks out of their misery. Langa would be a great place to start.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/02/2022 11:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Jill probably hopes to get the Ukranians to buy her book in exchange for help from the big guy.
Posted by: ruprecht || 05/02/2022 11:47 Comments || Top||

#5  "Run serpentine!"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/02/2022 12:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Does the Ukraine have enough boxed wine to support the wino Pelosi for this?
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/02/2022 13:26 Comments || Top||

#7  I remember how in 2006 Pelosi did everything possible to crap all over al-Maliki** and help scuttle any future agreements with the government of Iraq. (**not that al-Maliki is a saint but the Speaker playing in US foreign politics with a manure spreader was petty ...and blatantly partisan at the time.)
Posted by: magpie || 05/02/2022 13:32 Comments || Top||

#8  I guess this leaves the Easter Bunny to be Brandon's care taker.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/02/2022 15:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Wasn't that about the same time she wanted personal military transport?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/02/2022 19:41 Comments || Top||

#10  Pelosi wanted a military jet that could fly non-stop from Washington DC to Sacramento nonstop -- like the POTUS and VP. Having a jet that had to stop and refuel was "harshing her mellow" and besides she couldn't carry as my flunkies and hangers-on with her. What. A. Pretentious. Twat.
Posted by: magpie || 05/02/2022 21:32 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Mayorkas admits he ‘could have done a better job' explaining mission of ‘disinformation' board
[FoxNews] DHS secretary says the board tackles 'disinformation that presents a security threat to the homeland'.
We’re the government, and we’re here to help.
Mayorkas announced that DHS created a Disinformation Governance Board to combat online disinformation during his testimony Wednesday before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.

"The goal is to bring the resources of [DHS] together to address this threat," he said during the hearing, adding that the department is focused on the spread of disinformation in minority communities ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
So not just totalitarian, but racist as well? Goody.
Mayorkas explained Sunday that the board specifically addresses "disinformation that presents a security threat to the homeland."

"Disinformation from Russia, from China, from Iran, from the cartels," he said.
Right. Either only minorities care about that stuff, or only minorities are stupid enough to not be able to distinguish fact from fiction on those subjects. Do you choose the devil, Secretary Mayorkas, or the deep blue sea?
"This is a working group that takes best practices to make sure that, in addressing disinformation that presents a threat to the homeland, our work does not infringe on free speech, does not infringe on civil rights, civil liberties," he continued. "It's not about speech, it's about the connectivity to violence. That is what we need to address. You know, an individual has the free speech right to spew anti-Semitic rhetoric. What they don't have the right to do is take hostages in a synagogue, and that's where we get involved."
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/02/2022 11:02 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cyber police: Over 10,000 terror incitement posts removed in April
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/02/2022 11:03 Comments || Top||



#4  Res Ipsa Locutur. How can in not immediately break the 1st Amendment?
Posted by: magpie || 05/02/2022 16:50 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Ex-Senior Biden Aide Visited Obama White House After Joining CCP-Tied Firm Linked to Hunter Biden
[Breitbart] Former Obama-Biden administration aide Francis “Fran” Person visited the Obama White House at least seven times after leaving the administration and joining a Chinese Communist Party-linked firm, according to a report.

Person, according to the report from Fox News Digital, served in the Obama-Biden administration from 2009 through 2014 and was close to the Biden family, traveling with Biden on 49 of 50 trips during his time there.

Then-Vice President Joe Biden called Person his “go to” guy, and First Lady Jill Biden called him “like a son to me” and said he would “always be a part of our family,” according to a Politico piece on Person leaving the White House in 2014.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  “like a son to me”
Hunter?
That doesn't bode well.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/02/2022 9:08 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2022-05-02
  Russia's offensive along a broad front in Ukraine’s east has been stalling
Sun 2022-05-01
  Russia will quit the International Space Station due to economic sanctions over war in Ukraine
Sat 2022-04-30
  Nigerian Troops Killed ISWAP Commander, Dan-Buduma, Over 100 Other Terrorists
Fri 2022-04-29
  Russian Military Attacks Ukrainian Capital During UN Secretary-General's Visit
Thu 2022-04-28
  Antifa Riot in France Following Macron Victory
Wed 2022-04-27
  Putin meets UN Secretary-General in Moscow, denies hostilities in Mariupol, atrocities in Bucha
Tue 2022-04-26
  Vice President Kamala Harris tests positive for COVID-19
Mon 2022-04-25
  IDF fires dozens of shells at targets in Lebanon after rocket attack on Israel
Sun 2022-04-24
  Explosion at Nigerian illegal oil refinery kills more than 100
Sat 2022-04-23
  Russian General: Plan to Seize Ukraine's Entire Coastline
Fri 2022-04-22
  CNN: Russia replenishes forces on the front line.
Thu 2022-04-21
  Kiev reacts to proposal for ‘Easter truce’
Wed 2022-04-20
  Republican governors deploy 'strike force' to secure border amid surge in migrants
Tue 2022-04-19
  Ukraine:It's on again!
Mon 2022-04-18
  Joint military force from Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon says it has killed more than 100 insurgents


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