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Military drone strike accidentally kills 85 civilians celebrating a Muslim festival in Nigeria
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
John Kerry is accused of farting during climate speech where he asked for coal power plants to be eliminated
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate John Kerry is facing accusations that he broke wind during one of his patented climate change rants that he delivered in Dubai after traveling to the Emirate via a gas guzzling jet.

Kerry, 79, was in the process of telling the audience that 'the climate crisis and the health crisis are one and the same' on Sunday while bringing up a study that states coal 'doubles the numbers of deaths' compared to other types of pollutions, when a squeak could be heard.

'There shouldn’t be any more coal-fired power plants permitted anywhere in the world,' Kerry added while saying that he's become more-and-more 'militant' over the issue in his old-age.

His remarks were met by a round of applause from the crowd, which apparently muffled the fart sound however it was picked up by the microphones and could be heard clearly during the broadcast.

Kerry was speaking in his role as the Biden administration's climate envoy at the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai. There has been no comment from the 2004 presidential candidate on the scandal.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "There has been no comment from the FAILED 2004 presidential candidate on the scandal. "
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/06/2023 8:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Even his internal workings couldn't stand the competition of the crap he was saying. Left him in the lurch as it was....
Posted by: Warthog || 12/06/2023 9:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Did his fart smell like caviar and elder Barry?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/06/2023 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Most intelligent sound from Lurch in 6 decades
Posted by: airandee || 12/06/2023 11:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Was it in our general direction?
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/06/2023 12:24 Comments || Top||

#6  elder Barry
Nice.

Bet his breath is just as bad.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/06/2023 13:09 Comments || Top||


Not a SINGLE electric vehicle charging station has been constructed in the two years since Biden demanded $7.5 BILLION be spent on a nationwide network
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • President Joe Biden urged Congress to spend $7.5 billion to build a national network as part of his infrastructure bill

  • Just two states have broken ground on the stations, with industry insiders blaming the law's contracting and performance requirements

  • The lack of built stations could hurt the president during his 2024 reelection bid
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats



#3  Those dollars were earmarked for DNC voter stations, not automobiles.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/06/2023 1:46 Comments || Top||

#4  When the gummint "picks winners," the taxpayer loses.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/06/2023 7:08 Comments || Top||

#5  And where is the US IG and GAO on this $7.5 billion dollar question?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/06/2023 7:11 Comments || Top||

#6  And where is the US IG and GAO on this $7.5 billion dollar question?

Preparing for the next Bidet cash grab for 'woke' causes.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/06/2023 8:52 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ That will be how you know Bidet is going to lose next year. The $$$ floodgates will open wide to get while the getting is good.

Not that GOPe pubs would do anything to shut it down.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/06/2023 8:55 Comments || Top||

#8  So all the money should still be there, right?
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/06/2023 12:26 Comments || Top||

#9  ^^
You sarritt, Bwana!
Posted by: Cured Romantic || 12/06/2023 16:05 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Hunter Biden received $4.9m from his bong-smoking 'sugar-brother' lawyer Kevin Morris over a three year period reveals IRS whistleblower: Paid First Son's $2m tax debts and bought his art
[DM]
  • The amount was much more than the previously reported $2.8 million

  • IRS agent Joseph Ziegler revealed the shocking figure at a House Committee hearing on Tuesday

  • It comes as Republicans near a vote on an impeachment inquiry into President Biden's role in his son's foreign dealings
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/06/2023 09:03 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: badanov || 12/06/2023 11:16 Comments || Top||

#2  The cash flow indicates a unique client to lawyer relationship that requires the installation of a back flow preventer.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/06/2023 12:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Guess he wants to name names.

Comer, Jordan threaten to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress after he rejects subpoena for deposition
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/06/2023 14:25 Comments || Top||


Tucker Carlson: How can U.S. send tens of billions to sleazy oligarchs? (video)
[X] How could Washington possibly send tens of billions more to sleazy oligarchs in Ukraine now that the whole enterprise has been revealed as a fruitless, corrupt and incredibly destructive disaster? Because that’s what they always do.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/06/2023 05:45 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Point 16:01 of particular interest.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/06/2023 6:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Cause we don't have enough sleazy oligarchs to buy off here with the willingness to launder kickbacks?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/06/2023 6:36 Comments || Top||

#3  So that, you expect them to admit they were wrong?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/06/2023 12:52 Comments || Top||

#4  How?
Western Union.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/06/2023 23:17 Comments || Top||


Biden was in direct contact with Hunter's business partners using email alias as VP
[FoxNews] Biden used alias email accounts to correspond with Hunter and business associate Eric Schwerin 327 times over 9 years.

As vice president, Joe Biden used email aliases and private email addresses to communicate with son Hunter Biden and Hunter's business associates hundreds of times, new records released by the House Ways & Means Committee revealed.

The committee obtained metadata from IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler that reveals Joe Biden used alias email accounts 327 times during a nine-year period — 2010 to 2019 — to correspond with his son, Hunter, and one of Hunter's key business associates, Eric Schwerin, among others.

The majority of the email traffic took place while Biden was vice president.

The committee says 54 of the emails were "exclusively" between Joe Biden and Schwerin, who the committee describes as "the architect of the Biden family’s shell companies."

The email aliases used were "robinware456," "JRBware" and "RobertLPeters."

Earlier this year, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., revealed the existence of Biden's email aliases.

After Comer's release of those aliases, Fox News Digital learned the whistleblowers, who are still employed as IRS investigators, ran a search in their existing files for the Biden email aliases in email exchanges with Hunter Biden and Eric Schwerin. That search led to the revelation of the 327 exchanges.

A source told Fox News Digital the whistleblowers could only access metadata for these exchanges. The source said accessing the content of the emails would require a search warrant.

The whistleblowers turned over the results of the search to the committee after a closed-door meeting Tuesday, and the committee released the information Tuesday.

Schwerin, who was the former president of Hunter’s Rosemont Seneca Advisors, served as then-Vice President Biden’s "bookkeeper" from 2009 to 2017.

Schwerin, during a March 2023 meeting with the House Oversight Committee staff, explained that "he was not aware of any transactions into or out of the then-Vice President’s bank account related to business conducted by any Biden family member," a spokesperson for the Democrats on the committee told Fox News Digital.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/06/2023 01:13 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:



#3  I will predict that somewhere among Hunter Biden's financial affairs will be found representatives of the US Government.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/06/2023 1:44 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/06/2023 8:31 Comments || Top||

#5  It seems like Joe was lying to us. That’s dishonest.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/06/2023 12:20 Comments || Top||





Home Front: Politix
Biden unsure of his reelection bid without Donald Trump in arena
[GEO.TV] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
said that he did not know if he would seek reelection in 2024 if former President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
wasn't also running for a second term.

Speaking at a fundraiser in Massachusetts, Biden admitted, "If Trump wasn't running, I'm not sure I'd be running. But we cannot let him win."

Amid growing concerns, Biden highlighted warnings from former Republican Liz Cheney about the risks of Donald Trump's second term with the presidency.

Biden said that these concerns were reiterated by prominent media outlets like the Atlantic, Washington Post, and New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

, echoing apprehensions about the implications of a return to power by Trump.

In a subsequent fundraiser in Boston, Biden slammed Trump's aggressive language on the campaign trail, drawing parallels to historical events in Germany during the 1930s. He underscored Trump's unabashed declarations, stating, "He's making no bones about it."

While positioning himself as the guardian of American democracy, Biden faces hurdles as Trump maintains a narrow lead in certain polls, despite legal challenges including one related to election subversion.

Internal deliberations within the Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
regarding Biden's age further complicate the upcoming election landscape. Trump's response on Truth Social branded Biden as the "real dictator."

Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well when you stack the deck like the Florida Democrats did and declare Biden will be the only one on the primary ballot you know the fix is in.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/06/2023 11:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Joe will run until his puppeteer has him crawl.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/06/2023 12:23 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2023-12-06
  Military drone strike accidentally kills 85 civilians celebrating a Muslim festival in Nigeria
Tue 2023-12-05
  All telecom services in Gaza Strip have been lost
Mon 2023-12-04
  Al-Nujaba Movement Five members of the movement killed as a result of an American air strike in Kirkuk
Sun 2023-12-03
  Pentagon: US warship and several commercial ships under attack in Red Sea
Sat 2023-12-02
  Heavy fighting reported in southern Gaza overnight after truce breakdown
Fri 2023-12-01
  IDF pounds Gaza as ceasefire crumbles
Thu 2023-11-30
  Hamas supporters, one carrying swastika, swarm Midtown in bid to derail Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting
Wed 2023-11-29
  Heavy Rain in the Gaza Strip Brings Threat of Overwhelmed Sewage System
Tue 2023-11-28
  Pro-Palestine supporters have taken over downtown Seattle's annual Christmas tree lighting
Mon 2023-11-27
  Saturday: Tens of thousands march in pro-Palestinian London rally calling for Gaza ceasefire
Sun 2023-11-26
  200 trucks of humanitarian aid enter Gaza, over 50 of them for the northern Strip
Sat 2023-11-25
  Around 2K pro-Palestinian protesters demand 'permanent end to occupation' of Gaza
Fri 2023-11-24
  Son of a Lebanese parliament member was killed in an Israeli attack
Thu 2023-11-23
  Nasrallah meets senior Hamas official as Iranian FM visits Beirut
Wed 2023-11-22
  Israel, Hamas agree to temporary cease-fire, hostage release deal including freeing 3 Americans


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