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Government Corruption

DOJ reaches settlement with ex-FBI 'lovebirds' caught in anti-Trump text scandal

2024-05-31

[FOXNEWS] Former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have settled with the Justice Department over alleged privacy rights violations after the release of their disparaging text messages leveraged by former President Trump to challenge the Russia investigation during his presidency.

The settlement is still pending finalization and approval from a judge.

A tentative agreement was filed Tuesday resolving Page's 5-year-old lawsuit against the FBI for releasing text messages with Strzok — with whom she had an affair — that were critical of the former president. Strzok's lawsuit seeking back pay and reinstatement remains unsettled.

Page sought $1,000 in compensation following the leak of her text messages to the media. Additional details about the settlement were not immediately available.

In 2019, Strzok argued in a court filing in Washington, D.C., federal district court that his politically charged anti-Trump messages were protected by the First Amendment even though he sent them on bureau-issued phones while playing leading roles in the probes into both Crooked Hillary Clinton
<q>Crooked Hillary</q> Clinton

...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
and 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......
Strzok, once the FBI's head of counterintelligence, said he was entitled to "develop a full factual record through discovery," and that it would be premature to dismiss the case at this early stage. He went on to argue that the DOJ's position would "leave thousands of career federal ~~babus~~ government employees without protections from discipline over the content of their political speech."

Page also filed suit against the FBI and Department of Justice, alleging the government's publication of her salacious text messages with Strzok constituted a breach of the Federal Privacy Act.

Page's complaint also sought reimbursement for "the cost of childcare during and transportation to multiple investigative reviews and appearances before Congress," the "cost of paying a data-privacy service to protect her personal information" and attorney's fees.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's foundation can't raise money after California AG finds charity is ‘delinquent'

2024-05-14

[Page Six] Grifters will as grifters do. But hey? She's already declared Nigerian genes
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s charity foundation has been declared delinquent and ordered to stop raising or spending money, Page Six can reveal.

The royal duo have let the official registration fees for their charity, Archewell, lapse since at least the beginning of May, according to an official letter from California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta.

The document states that Archewell has been listed as “delinquent” with the registry of charities and fundraisers for failing to submit its annual report and its registration fees.

Archewell now has to submit records to show why its payment is late, and pay late fees.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Why isn't this front page news? UN (!) revises Gaza women and children death tolls down by 50%

2024-05-13

[HT Insty] Like every time the original news affirms the favored (or dictated) narrative of the presstitutes and mediatamites, the original story is trumpeted (or tromboned? ;)) far and wide on Page A1 , even when absurd and/or libelous on its face — then the correction or rectification gets printed on the new media equivalent of Page B39.

In this case, they have been loudly and uncritically repeating the 30,000+ civilian deaths figure put out by HamaSS. (Some right-leaning papers hedge by pointing out the source and saying this cannot be verified independently.) The United Nebbich too has been taking these figures at face value (at least in public). Useful idiots of radical Islam, judeophobes, and deluded fools keep citing the 30,000+ figure in support of absolutely baseless claims of (a lawyer pointed this out to me) the one crime that they hope they can drag things into the International Clownshow Criminal Court.

Marc Lawrence on Quora mentioned this in passing, so I looked around for a source. Yes, none other than the UN (!) has walked back and revised the statistics downward by 50%:

The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revised its child fatality figure from the Gaza war sharply downward, reporting more than 14,500 deaths on May 6 but then 7,797 on May 8. OCHA also revised downward its figure for women fatalities from more than 9,500 deaths to 4,959 deaths. The Jerusalem Post first reported the changes on May 11.

The UN attributed its original, higher figures to the Hamas-controlled Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza, whose figures OCHA has cited continually for the past two months. The UN gave no source for the lower figures in its May 8 update, but the figures precisely match those in a May 2 report from a different Hamas-controlled organization, the Gaza Ministry of Health.

[…]

In early April, the Gaza Ministry of Health admitted it had “incomplete data” to document more than 10,000 of the deaths it had previously reported. Subsequently, the ministry indicated that it did not have names for more than 10,000 of the individuals it claimed to be deceased. As of April 1, the ministry also stopped repeating the claim it made since the first weeks of the war that 70 percent of the dead were women and children, even suggesting the media invented this number. Meanwhile, the GMO continues to promote the 70 percent figure while revising its own numbers upwards, to remain consistent with that claim.

Read the whole thing. The revised numbers are roughly in the same ballpark as unofficial Israeli estimates, by the way. Which in fact, given that some 9,000+ HamaSS Einsatzkommandos “combatants” have been killed, implies an impressively low civilian:combatant kill ratio for asymmetric warfare[*] in dense urban environments.

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Fifth Column

'Violent' Columbia protester is heir to ad empire, has mansion, model babymama — and long rap sheet

2024-05-05

[NYPOST] One of the most ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful leaders of the Columbia University riots is allegedly a professional agitator and limousine liberal — the scion of millionaire ad execs who lives in a $3.4 million Brooklyn brownstone, has a model babymama and a stepmom dating John Cougar Mellencamp.

James Carlson, aka Cody Carlson, aka Cody Tarlow, is "a longtime anarchist," a high-ranking police source said.

He bought his 2,893-square-foot, three-story brownstone with four wood-burning fireplaces and a carriage house in Park Slope in 2019 for $2.3 million, according to property records and online listings.

The provocateur, who has arrests dating back to 2005, is one of three children of prominent advertising execs Richard "Dick" Tarlow and his wife, Sandy Carlson Tarlow.

Dick Tarlow, died in 2022 at age 81 with an estate worth at least $20 million, court papers show.

The Shelter Island resident was known for his work with Revlon, Ralph Lauren, Cuisinart and Pottery Barn.

He was a loyal supporter of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and helped underwrite the school’s John Jay Justice Awards.

Sandy Carlson Tarlow, who died in 2003 at age 59, was known for defining the "public face of Ralph Lauren," according to her obituary.

By the time she and her husband sold her namesake firm, Carlson & Partners, to DDB in 2001 for an undisclosed amount, the company had more than 100 employees and was doing $165 million in business.

Dick Tarlow and his second wife — Carlson’s stepmom, Kristin Kehrberg — lived together in a $15 million Fifth Avenue mansion.

The widow is now dating John Cougar Mellencamp, Page Six reported last summer.

Carlson, 40, appears to have two children, including one with a model, blonde bombshell Kim Heyrman.

The four-bedroom, four-bath townhouse Carlson owns is currently being renovated, workers told The Post Friday. The property boasts a large garden with a deck and skylights.

Estranged relatives of Carlson refused to discuss him.

"We don’t talk to him. Leave us alone. He is out of our lives for so many years," a woman who answered the phone at his sister’s home said Friday.

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Economy

JP Morgan CEO slammed for saying consumers are in 'pretty good shape'

2024-05-03

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon claimed consumers are 'in pretty good shape'

He was branded 'out of touch' over comments to the Wall Street Journal

Inflation rose to 3.5 percent in March, well above the Fed's 2 percent target

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Biden administration stabbing Israel in the back?

2024-05-02

Yes.

[American Thinker] From Front Page Magazine:

The Israeli journalist Amit Segal published a Hebrew-language story in the popular Israeli news outlet Mako that reveals an American betrayal of Israel of stupefying magnitude. ’Very senior officials associated with the International Criminal Court in The Hague,’ wrote Segal, ’have spoken about Israel’s fear of arrest warrants for senior officials in the context of the war in Gaza. The officials told N12 [Mako’s broadcast channel] that the intention to issue such orders would not have been possible without American consent.’

If this recent report should prove accurate, this would constitute one of the most egregious betrayals of one supposed ally by another...in recorded history. With friends like the Biden administration, who needs enemies? And, sadly, Israel has lots of those.

Should these allegations prove true, it would mean that Biden and his puppet masters are not content with attempting to incarcerate political opponents here at home, but also actively seek to have those they dislike abroad arrested—with the aid of an international body! To my knowledge, even Hitler and his minions didn’t do that.

Apparently not content with the Afghanistan debacle/disaster (and accidentally donating billions of dollars in crack military equipment to the likes of the Taliban after hastily bugging out), nor with promulgating an endless war in Eastern Europe, Biden and Crew have now pivoted to stabbing a long-time ally—and the only democracy in the Middle east—in the back.

Again, should the report be born out, it would clearly illustrate that the Biden administration itself is an illegitimate, protofascist regime bent on destabilizing other nations, including historically friendly ones.

How does one say "FJB" in Hebrew?

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Down Under

First-time mother, 38, stabbed to death in Sydney shopping centre knife rampage as her nine-month-old baby daughter fights for life: Victim's tragic final posts are revealed as witnesses describe how she tried to throw her daughter to safety

2024-04-14

Based on updates in comments below that reveal the homeless killer, Joel Cauchi, has suffered from mental illness since childhood, this is moved to Page 3: Non-Wot.

— trailing wife at 12:55 p.m. ET

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A new mother stabbed to death in the Sydney shopping centre knife rampage has been pictured for the first time.

Ash Good, 38, was among the six shoppers at Sydney's Bondi Junction Westfield who were killed today, when a man, 40, dressed in a rugby league jersey, went on a stabbing rampage about 3.20pm before a female police officer shot him dead.

A total of nine people, including Ms Good's nine-month-old baby Harriet, suffered knife wounds. The infant is fighting for her life after being rushed to hospital for emergency surgery.

Just hours before the horror unfolded, Ms Good posted a photo to Instagram with her daughter in her arms.

'Only because I was walking past and happened to be wearing the same thing 9 months out vs 9 months in etc etc,' the caption read.

The knifeman, who killed five women and one man during a rampage in Sydney today, was 'known to police'.

Six people were killed and three more stabbed during the horrific attack in that left multiple people critically injured.

But one man was hailed a hero for rushing to aid Ms Good and her baby as he told how he desperately worked to keep the infant alive using store clothes.

A witness interrupted a Nine News reporter at the scene in Bondi Junction and pointed to his brother, saying: 'He's a hero - he saved the baby'.

The clearly shaken man said he used clothes from a store to try and stem the baby's bleeding.

'The baby got stabbed and, yeah, the mum got stabbed,' he said.

'The mum came over with the baby and threw it at me. I just helped by holding the baby... and trying to compress the baby('s wounds).'

The brothers stayed with the mother and called emergency services.

Four women and one man died at the scene and another woman died in hospital.

New South Wales police commissioner Karen Webb told a press conference: 'Later this evening we became aware of who we believe the offender is and we believe that he is a 40-year-old man.

'However, we are waiting to formally identify him and we cannot speculate yet on his identification.

'But let me assure you that we are confident that there is no ongoing risk and we are dealing with one person who is now deceased.'

She added: 'If in fact it is the person that we believe it is, then we don't have fears for that person holding an ideation - in other words, that it's not a terrorism incident.

'He is known to law enforcement but we are waiting to identify him formally.'

Anthony Cooke, assistant commissioner of New South Wales Police, said: 'A man walked into Westfield at Bondi Junction, he left the centre very shortly after and returned... as he moved through the centre he engaged with about nine people.

'It is clear that during that engagement he caused harm to those people, we believe by stabbing them with a weapon he was carrying.

'Very clearly a range of reports were made on the incident, police attended promptly - a single unit officer, inspector of police, was nearby, attended, [and] went into the centre directed by a range of people.

'She confronted the offender who had moved, by this stage, to level five.

'As she continued to walk quickly behind to catch up with him he turned to face her, raised a knife, she discharged a firearm and that person is now deceased.'

He added: 'I'm advised that there are five victims who are now deceased as a result of the actions of this offender.

'There are more than several other people who have been conveyed to hospital - a number of those are in serious and or critical conditions at this stage and I do not have further information in relation to descriptions of those people.

'I know one of them is a small child.'

It was later confirmed that six people died in the attack.

Mr Cooke said: 'I am content that there is no continuing threat; our police, as I said, have commenced investigations into the matter which will continue through the evening.

'I do not have details of victims who have been killed by this individual, nor those who have been conveyed to hospital for treatment - so I cannot provide you further information into relation to them, only to say very clearly our hearts go out to all of them, as they do (to) anyone touched by this incident this afternoon.

'I do not have information in relation to the offender - I do not know, at this stage, who he is, you would understand this is quite raw.

'Inquiries are very new and we continue to make attempts to identify the offender in this matter.

'That is it for the moment, in terms of information that I have for you.'

Security camera footage broadcast by local media showed a man running around the shopping centre with a large knife and injured people lying on the floor.

Witnesses said the dark-haired man, wearing a Kangaroos NRL jersey, slashed at least eight shoppers before he was shot by a female police officer. No-one else is being sought by police.

Pictures and videos from the incident have been uploaded on X including one photo showing the alleged attacker casually riding an escalator while holding a large knife.

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-Great Cultural Revolution

ATF Final Rule Redefines Word ‘Sale' So that ‘Bartering' for a Neighbor's Gun Requires a NICS Check

2024-04-14

[Breitbart] The ATF’s background check rule redefines the word “sale” so that private sellers who receive services or barter in exchange for a gun are required to use the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

Breitbart News reported the ATF’s announcement of the proposed rule on August 31, 2023. The rule redefines what it means to be “engaged in the business of selling guns,” thereby expanding the instances in which an unlicensed seller — i.e., a private citizen — must use the NICS to sell/transfer a gun.

Much of the rule focuses on guns being sold for “profit,” using degree of profit and frequency of sales to categorize private sellers as persons who must go through NICS to sell/transfer guns.

However, pages 26-27 of the rule equates “pecuniary gain” with “profit,” opening the door for the ATF to redefine the word “sale” so as to require a NICS check when a private seller is “bartering” over a gun.

Beginning with the last paragraph on Page 26 and reading into the first paragraph of page 27, the reader sees clearly that the ATF is defining the terms: “Defining these terms to include any method of payment for a firearm would clarify that persons cannot avoid the licensing requirement by, for instance, bartering or providing or receiving services in exchange for firearms with the predominant intent to earn pecuniary gain even where no money is exchanged.”

Second Amendment Foundation founder and executive vice president Alan Gottlieb commented on the ATF rule, saying, “This is a continuation of the Biden war on guns. It is another attempt to get around Congress to make new laws without congressional approval.”

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Former Atlanta BLM activist accused of stealing from donors to fund lavish lifestyle goes to trial

2024-04-06

[WSB-TV2 Atanta] ATLANTA — A former Atlanta-based activist, Sir Maejor Page, who is accused of creating a bogus Black Lives Matter group to steal $500,000 from donors to fund his lavish lifestyle, is now on trial in federal court.

An investigation by the FBI concluded that Sir Maejor, also known as Tyree Conyers-Page, had created a Facebook page called Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta and had been soliciting money through the page through a GoFundMe account.

Page is facing charges of money laundering and wire fraud in Ohio after he allegedly used money through his Black Lives Matter nonprofit for personal purchases.

The FBI also said Page responded to several messages through the Facebook account in telling people that their "funds had been donated to be used to fight for George Floyd and that none of ’the funds have been used for personal items. All movement related.’"

Page was arrested in Toledo, Ohio in 2020 as authorities raided the home that he bought there.

In the federal complaint against him, it said Page bought the home under the name of Hi Frequency Ohio, an organization for which he was listed as treasurer and general counsel for.

The complaint outlined several purchases, including a security system which cost $1,310, tailored suits and accessories totaling $2,065, furniture purchases totaling more than $12,000, Walmart purchases totaling more than $4,000, and Home Depot charges of $2,125.67.

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Science & Technology

Actor's "Friend" Rushed to Hospital with Heart Attack Symptoms – Things Get Strange When He Begins Having the Same Issues

2024-04-02

[Gateway] Earlier this year, BBC broadcaster Gordon Smart recalled a creepy and frightening incident involving his friend, actor Jamie Dornan.

On the Jan. 12 episode of BBC Radio Scotland’s "The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected" podcast, Smart revealed that on a March 2023 golfing trip to Portugal, he began to feel heart attack symptoms, which he attributed to too many espresso martinis, according to People magazine.

Oddly, however, when he returned from the hospital, the 43-year-old broadcaster learned that Dornan, 41, had experienced the same symptoms.

A native of Northern Ireland, Dornan starred in the "Fifty Shades" trilogy of erotic romance films.

Smart, meanwhile, described himself as having kept in decent physical shape.

"Now, I’m a fairly healthy guy but once you start thinking, you’re having a heart attack, you’re pretty sure that you’re convincing yourself that you are having one," the broadcaster said according to Page Six.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Florida man calls American Airlines passengers 'blue-eyed white devils,' threatens to 'take this plane down'

2024-03-23

[FoxNews] Shail Patel, 29, was arrested on two counts of battery and one count of disorderly intoxication.

Moslem, Hindu/other, illegal alien? In other words: Page1: WoT or Page 3: Non-WoT and Lurid Crimes? How long has Mr. Patel been a Florida Man?

A Florida man on an American Airlines flight was put in a headlock, removed from the aircraft and arrested after he called fellow passengers "blue-eyed white devils" and threatened to "take this plane down with all you motherf---ers on it."

Shail Patel, 29, was drunk when he boarded the flight from Tampa to Philadelphia on Tuesday and began "antagonizing passengers, calling flight attendants names, threatening passengers and aggressively moving through the aircraft," court documents show, according to WFLA.

The report stated he was acting hostile after he boarded and "began acting erratically, yelling and cursing at the passengers."

Patel called passengers "blue-eyed white devils" and threatened to "take this plane down with all you motherf------ on it," according to court documents. He is also accused of slapping a passenger on the hand and face and spitting on them.

Video footage of the incident showed Patel yelling an antisemitic slur at a flight attendant before he was put in a headlock by a fellow passenger and removed from the aircraft.

"I'm trying to get to my home country and you people made it harder for me to get to my home country," he was heard yelling at one point in the video.

A flight attendant used the aircraft's public address system to ask if any off-duty police officers were on board who could help restrain Patel. Police said six off-duty law enforcement officers stepped in and took him off the plane.

"Prior to departure of American Airlines flight 2506 with service from Tampa (TPA) to Philadelphia (PHL), law enforcement was requested to the aircraft due to a disturbance in the cabin involving a disruptive customer," American Airlines said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "We thank our team for their professionalism and apologize to our customers for the inconvenience."

The flight had a 30-minute delay because of the incident.

Patel was arrested on two counts of battery and one count of disorderly intoxication. He is being held at the Hillsborough County Jail on a $2,150 bond.

Update at 12:15 p.m. ET: The NY Post has video. He sounds plain vanilla, educated American to me.
Click Orlando adds that he’s a self-employed IT worker living in Tampa.
URMI gets factual: Mr. Patel is 6’0” and 230 lb, and:

Shail Patel was born on 7 April 1994 in Florida, United States, of Indian heritage. His parents moved to the United States in the early 1980s and settled in Tampa, where Shell was raised.

Records show Patel currently lives in Tampa with his family. However, there is limited information about his family background. Despite efforts, his social media profiles could not be found on platforms like Facebook or Instagram.

Moved to Page 3 at 12:25 p.m. ET.
And finally, WTSP:

Detectives spoke with Patel's father who told them his son was taking medication and drinking at the bar before the flight. He "stated Patel thought he overheard a passenger make racial remarks which caused him to become upset and yell," the arrest report says.

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-Short Attention Span Theater-

Pentagon says new high altitude balloon intercepted over US 'likely hobby' craft year after China controversy

2024-02-26

"These are not the balloons you are looking for."
[FoxNews] NORAD says it 'monitored the likely hobby balloon via ground radars until it left US airspace'.

The Pentagon said the latest high altitude balloon detected over the United States is a "likely hobby" craft, about a year after a Chinese spy balloon traversed the continental U.S., sparking controversy.

Moved to Page 3: Non-WoT at 4:45 p.m. ET.

"After yesterday's fighter intercepts, and in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration, the North American Aerospace Defense Command monitored the likely hobby balloon via ground radars until it left US airspace overnight," the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said Saturday in a statement, reported by ABC News and other outlets. No further information was immediately available.

Two defense officials told Fox News that the balloon detected flying over the U.S. has been identified as the property of an amateur balloonist and is not from China. The balloon was spotted over Utah and was heading east.

NORAD first announced the high altitude balloon on Friday, noting that it was observed at between roughly 43,000 and 45,000 feet.

"The balloon was intercepted by NORAD fighters over Utah, who determined it was not maneuverable and did not present a threat to national security. NORAD will continue to track and monitor the balloon," NORAD said. "The FAA also determined the balloon posed no hazard to flight safety. NORAD remains in close coordination with the FAA to ensure flight safety."

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