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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Former senior policy advisor to Obama White House charged with child sex offences
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Rahamim 'Rami' Shy, 46, who co-ordinated the US government's strategy to combat turbans from Al Qaeda and the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...,
is accused of arranging the commission of a child sex offence, court documents reveal.

He is also charged with possession of two category C indecent images of children and possessing a prohibited image of a child.

Shy, a US citizen, who lives in New Jersey, worked for the White House under president Barack Obama
That’s just how white folks will do you....
and secretary of state Crooked Hillary 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...,
was arrested in late February by Bedfordshire Police. He was charged the following day and appeared at Luton Crown Court via video-link from HMP Bedford on Friday wearing a grey prison-issue tracksuit.
Not certain I'd want to be this guy.
He was not asked to enter a plea to any of the charges and was remanded in jug ahead of a hearing in June.
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [214 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anybody really surprised?
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/22/2024 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  The Martha's Vineyard paddleboarder who got away ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/22/2024 4:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Anybody really surprised?

I'm: I'd assume that a member of American Globalist elites (even a Jew) enjoys - at least as much - privileges in UK as Muslims (google grooming gangs).
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/22/2024 4:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Somebody ought to do a FOIA request for copies of all his expense reports. Maybe he was the guy arranging the entertainment for WH parties.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/22/2024 10:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Rahamim 'Rami' Shy, how long does anyone expect him to live ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/22/2024 10:43 Comments || Top||

#6  "You can't arrest me! Everybody does it!"
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/22/2024 10:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Working in DC separates the men from the boys, but you'll need a crow bar.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/22/2024 18:42 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Denver migrant advocates say six months of free rent, food not enough: 'A slap in the face' and 'offensive'
[FoxNews] Mayor Johnston announced budget cuts so city can better deal with its migrant crisis.

Migrants and an advocacy group in Denver decried the city's new Asylum Seekers Program that offers six months of free housing, calling it "insufficient" and "offensive" despite the mayor cutting the city's emergency budget to accommodate the migrant surge.

The sanctuary city has been struggling to stretch its limited resources to support the growing number of migrants making their way to Denver. More than 40,000 migrants have found their way to the city since December 2022, more per capita than any other U.S. city – at a total cost of around $68 million, the New York Post reported.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/22/2024 10:06 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [147 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  And when it stops there's gonna be some hungry peeps.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 04/22/2024 13:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Free everything for life.

Riiiiiiight...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/22/2024 13:26 Comments || Top||

#3  I guess the police protection will be sort of shoddy as well.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/22/2024 14:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Downtown Denver is already a shithole thanks to the homeless and crime. This is just gonna make it worse.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/22/2024 15:37 Comments || Top||

#5  May they all drown in the cesspool of their own creation.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/22/2024 18:41 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Wow Gaslighting – SSCI Chairman Mark Warner Lies About FISA-702 Fundamentals
[Last Refuge] This statement by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner is so fraudulent in narrative construct it’s almost ridiculous. "SEN. WARNER: Let’s remember what 702 is. It is the ability for the United States government to surveil, listen in, on non-Americans foreigners who are abroad."

Absolutely nothing about this statement is accurate. Foreigners do not have U.S constitutional protection. All foreign communications can be intercepted without issue, without FISA.

FISA-702 authority only pertains to Americans. The term "702" is specifically referencing private communication with/by an American. WATCH Warner lie:
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/22/2024 06:51 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [138 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It can only be gaslighting IF he actually knows the content of the bill.

Is there anything whatsoever in his public history that would even suggest such a thing?
Posted by: Cesare || 04/22/2024 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Willful ignorance and reliant complicity are key elements of both HPSCI and SSCI membership.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/22/2024 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  'Willful ignorance and reliant complicity'? Maybe. But I continue to believe you're still shooting way over the target. He says what he's told to say.

You got ya two poles on this chart. One is Tallyrand and the other end is Ron Burgundy.
Posted by: Cesare || 04/22/2024 10:10 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ He says what he's told to say.

You mean like Joe Biden and Harris? No argument there. No argument at all.

Posted by: Besoeker || 04/22/2024 10:47 Comments || Top||


Trump Trial Rocked by New $100M Bombshell – Donald's Ally Makes Shock Claim About Judge
[Patriot Journal] This week saw the start of the "hush money" trial against Donald Trump. Democrat prosecutors in New York are trying to convict him of a laundry list of charges. Many Americans believe this—like all the other cases—is a poorly veiled attempt by Democrats to derail Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.

Those suspicions were only strengthened when a known liberal judge was appointed to the case. Judge Juna Merchan refused to recuse himself from this case, even though he has donated to Joe Biden.

What’s more, he has shown a bias against Trump—by ordering him to be in court instead of on the campaign trail. Now, a Trump ally has revealed another bombshell that could implicate this judge and his family. Few Americans will consider this trial legitimate after learning this.

From The Post Millennial:
Trump ally Mike Davis revealed on War Room Wednesday that the daughter of the judge overseeing the trial "has raised nearly $100 million for this criminal trial."

He added, "This Loren Merchan, the judge’s daughter, has raised nearly $100 million for this criminal trial. She’s profiting from this thing. And CNN doesn’t want its viewers to hear this."...

Loren Merchan is the head of a Chicago consulting firm and was paid around $4 million to help spread the word of Rep Adam Schiff’s effort in 2019 to impeach Trump.
It is known that Judge Merchan’s daughter is Loren Merchan, a Democratic operative working out of Chicago. Trump ally Mike Davis claims that Loren has raised nearly $100 million, using Trump’s criminal trial as motivation.

Merchan was paid by Democrats to spread the word against Trump during the 2019 impeachment. This family appears to have deep ties to the Democrats, which will convince most Americans that the judge can’t be impartial.

As the primary season heated up last year, Democrats launched these lawsuits against Trump. They timed it so the trials would begin as we near the general election. Democrats seem intent on using the legal system to drain Trump of resources, discourage voters from supporting him, and even put him in jail.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/22/2024 01:19 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [285 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Might be a bombshell, but the msm won’t carry the story.
Posted by: Xyz || 04/22/2024 4:59 Comments || Top||

#2 

The Liberals, Far Left and DC Swamp accusations of the Trump Admin being Fascist & Racist, clearly match their own deeds and practices time and time again.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/22/2024 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Gummint is just bidness for people who couldn't make it in bidness without fambly connections.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/22/2024 8:48 Comments || Top||



Home Front: Politix
Chicago is the DNC's Kind of Town?
[AMERICANTHINKER] I’m old enough to remember the 1968 DNC (If you're white you ain't right!)
...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate...
convention in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
, and smart enough to see that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
<...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of Boodlng Commissioners from 2018 to 2023...
is no Richard J. Daley. So, as food prices rise with no end in sight, I advise you to stock up on popcorn before the August 19 convention in Chicago this year. As for the Democrats, I cannot imagine a scenario where there is anything but downsides for picking this site, this year.
Brandon really needs to lose the GI issue "birth control glasses" to be taken seriously.
In case you forgot, the 1968 convention began with ominous foreboding. True, the mayor had done everything he could to prettify the city, including screening the stockyards with redwood fences, but he knew the anti-Vietnam protestors would target the convention and mobilized the National Guard with orders to shoot if necessary.

What followed was worse than even the direst pessimist could have envisioned. Written in 2008, this author described the scene and aftermath:

The 1968 Chicago convention became a lacerating event, a distillation of a year of heartbreak, liquidations, riots and a breakdown in law and order that made it seem as if the country were coming apart. In its psychic impact, and its long-term political consequences, it eclipsed any other such convention in American history, destroying faith in politicians, in the political system, in the country and in its institutions. No one who was there, or who watched it on television, could escape the memory of what took place before their eyes.

Include me in that group, for I was an eyewitness to those scenes: inside the convention hall, with daily shouting matches between red-faced delegates and party leaders often lasting until 3 o'clock in the morning; outside in the violence that descended after Chicago coppers
took off their badges and waded into the chanting crowds of protesters to club them to the ground. I can still recall the choking feeling from the tear gas hurled by police amid throngs of protesters gathering in parks and hotel lobbies.

For Democrats in particular, Chicago was a disaster. It left the party with scars that last to this day, when they meet in a national convention amid evidence of internal divisions unmatched since 1968. [snip]

The violence that rent the convention throughout that week, much of it captured live on television, confirmed both the Democrats' pessimism and the country's judgment of a political party torn by dissension and disunity. In November the party would lose the White House to Nixon's law-and-order campaign. In the nine presidential elections since, Democrats have won only three, and only once -- in 1976, after the Watergate scandal forced Nixon to resign in disgrace -- did they take, barely, more than 50 percent of the votes.
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [214 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Even within the convention, the Climatistas and Hamasniks will be presenting platform amendments that won't look good to rational people.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 04/22/2024 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Always has been. JFK was looking close back in the day and he called up the Chicago Chief of police. The cop asked him how many ballots he needed.

'Nuff said.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/22/2024 0:28 Comments || Top||

#3  "Some people may find these images disturbing. Apparently an entire black clad and masked mob of MAGA infiltrators..."
Posted by: Frank G || 04/22/2024 5:04 Comments || Top||

#4  the 1968 convention

My first tear-gassing
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/22/2024 6:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Strangely, the mostly peaceful demonstrations riots broke out around TV cameras. The technology in '68 wasn't mobile. Cameras had to be set up with large supports. It took time.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/22/2024 7:16 Comments || Top||


#7  When even a Murkowski event devolves into a cage match, how can the DNC not end in tear gas?
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/22/2024 10:31 Comments || Top||

#8  I would love to see a full riot outside the DNC convention.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/22/2024 16:42 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Barbara Skolaut may still have the popcorn concession. Be sure to check before you compete
Posted by: Frank G || 04/22/2024 17:38 Comments || Top||


NY Dem congressional hopeful slammed for 'die MAGA die' message after Ukraine aid vote
[NYPOST] A New York Democratic congressional candidate celebrated the House passing a $60 billion bill to fund Ukraine while hoping for the death of the MAGA movement, a message posted to X shows.

"Slava Ukraine," New York congressional candidate Nate McMurray posted to X Saturday afternoon.

"Die MAGA die. You lose," he added of former President Trump’s supporters and those who agree with the "Make America Great Again" platform.

McMurray’s tweet followed the US House passing a bill Saturday that provides $60 billion to Ukraine amid the nation’s ongoing war against Russia. The aid package passed 311 to 112, with more Republicans voting against the bill, at 112, than Republicans who voted for it, at 101.

McMurray is running to represent New York’s 26th Congressional District, which includes parts of Erie and Niagara counties in the western area of the state, after previously serving as the town supervisor of the Town of Grand Island and as an attorney.

Some conservatives have railed against continuing to fund Ukraine while the US is coping with a border crisis, and some voted against the bill for its failure to include funding to secure the US border.
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [126 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: badanov || 04/22/2024 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Just substitute the 'N' word and it shows that Donk hate and intolerance hasn't changed in 100 years. It's just their particular target evolves.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/22/2024 7:19 Comments || Top||

#3  That type of spittle is not what I usually associate with upstate NY.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/22/2024 10:27 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
'I'm not angry at him, he's just stupid'
[FOXNEWS] A Catholic bishop in Michigan weighed in on the discrepancy between President Biden's policies and his professed Catholic faith earlier this month, suggesting "forgiveness" for the president's "stupidity."

Bishop Robert Gruss of the Diocese of Saginaw mentioned Biden during "Forgiveness as the Heart of Christianity," a lecture given on Apr. 5 at the Cathedral of Mary of the Assumption.

In the discussion, Gruss urged congregants to let go of unproductive anger and resentment towards others — citing his own experience growing up with an alcoholic father and a letter he wrote in adulthood forgiving him for the trauma of his youth.

Asking the faithful to interrogate their own hatreds and resentments, the bishop pointed out that destructive lack of forgiveness does not apply only to individuals they know, but also public figures and institutions.

"If you're harboring bad, negative, resentful feelings towards our president, you're not free," Gruss said. "Otherwise, you're letting him control you and your thoughts and your words and your actions. And I guarantee that if he is a problem for you, then those thoughts, words, and actions are negative — they're gonna come out and then we commit sin. That's what sin is."

The bishop urged the faithful to note such destructive resentments when seeking the Sacrament of Reconciliation, the practice through which Catholics believe God forgives the sins they confess.

"How many times have you confessed your anger towards the president?" the bishop asked, provoking unintended laughter from the audience. But the bishop continued, "I'm serious, I'm not kidding. If you have it, you should be confessing it. Otherwise, you're not free."
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [244 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: badanov || 04/22/2024 2:04 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: badanov || 04/22/2024 2:06 Comments || Top||

#3  I was always taught that before forgiveness there had to be repentance. Not so much anymore I guess.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/22/2024 8:23 Comments || Top||

#4  I don’t think that many people are angry with Biden. He evokes embarrassment, disgust and sometimes pity, but there is also an obligation to work to stop him. Would anyone let a drunken beggar grope and rob them? There are people that need to be hung at the end of all this. Hanging Biden makes little sense. There should be some accountability for him, but I can’t see him being able to participate in his own defense. Probably, GITMO is fine.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/22/2024 10:47 Comments || Top||

#5  There's an old saying: Most of the harm in the world isn't done by evil people. It's done by stupid people."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/22/2024 10:59 Comments || Top||

#6  OOH! Badanov's hatred of the Ukrainian people and their leaders for resisting the brutal mass destruction of the Ukrainian people by the Armed Forces of Russia. Слава Україні! ;)
Posted by: Beldar+Uneter3543 || 04/22/2024 11:20 Comments || Top||

#7  ^Oi vey, oi vey, oi vey.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/22/2024 12:40 Comments || Top||



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