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Spanish prime minister's wife charged with corruption
[Yahoo] Socialists have a pattern
The wife of Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, has been charged with corruption.

Begoña Gómez is accused of bribery, embezzlement of public funds and misappropriation following a two-year investigation into multiple aspects of her professional life.

Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, who closed the probe on Monday, concluded that she influenced public sector institutions by leveraging her status as wife of Mr Sánchez, who has been in power since 2018.

Spain’s Left-wing government has dismissed the investigation as a politically motivated "fishing expedition".

Ms Gómez has denied any wrongdoing and can appeal to have the accusations dropped.

The charges come at an embarrassing time for the prime minister. A week ago, his former transport minister went on trial, also for corruption.

José Luis Ábalos is accused of receiving kickbacks on sales of PPE to government departments during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1776 views] Top|| File under: Commies


#2  Socialists moralize quite a bit, but they always seem to be getting richer than capitalists while in office.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/14/2026 11:40 Comments || Top||

#3  At it's core, socialism is pretty much the same as robbery and so it attracts people with larcenous dispositions.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/14/2026 11:52 Comments || Top||

#4  At it's core, socialism is pretty much the same as robbery and so it attracts people with larcenous dispositions.

See Congress.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2026 11:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Poor girl could use a sandwich.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 04/14/2026 12:28 Comments || Top||


#7  After the Prime Minster's recent comments regarding the Persian Gulf, this story made me laugh
Posted by: Chantry || 04/14/2026 13:36 Comments || Top||

#8  How do you fairly redistribute the stuff you stole?

No one ever has enough of someone else's free stuff, so of course they will believe they are owed more. Why not. What is to stop you from believing it is all yours.

When I read about corruption in socialists states, it is always one aggrieved party who is upset that they didnt get more of the loot pie. And now that they have someone to champion them in power, they want more of the loot. Our people didnt get the kick backs so of course she is corrupt because look at all her people getting kick backs.

Meanwhile the tax serf is voiceless with no agency.
Posted by: mossomo || 04/14/2026 14:13 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Biden FDA Knew About COVID Vaccine Stroke Risk And Kept Americans In The Dark
[ZERO] Senate investigators spent months reviewing roughly 2,000 pages of federal records. What they found is damning. FDA and CDC officials under the Biden administration identified a significant stroke risk tied to Pfizer's COVID-19 bivalent booster in seniors - and never breathed a word to the public.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a formal letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. laying out the evidence. He wasn't speculating. He was citing the government's own files.

"HHS records show that as early as October 2022, federal health officials identified a potential connection between the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent booster and ischemic stroke for individuals over the age of 65," Johnson wrote.

An ischemic stroke means a blockage of blood to the brain. Between November 2022 and March 2023, seven separate analyses of incoming data flagged the same stroke signal — specifically in adults over 65. CDC data cited by Johnson shows 226 stroke cases reported between August 2022 and February 2023, with additional cases surfacing throughout 2023 and 2024.

Despite the risk, the Biden administration issued no formal warnings. No Health Alert Network message. No changes to booster recommendations for seniors. Nothing.

Instead, in February 2023, HHS quietly hired a private contractor, Lukos LLC, to conduct a deeper internal investigation, dubbed "The Stroke Project." Publicly, officials kept insisting the vaccines were safe.

"From the initial detection of the safety signal in late 2022 ... health officials continued to say the vaccine was safe while simultaneously searching for evidence to support that assertion," Johnson said.

It gets worse. Federal officials drafted a communications plan about the stroke risk that included a "Tough Questions and Answers" section prepared for President-ish Biden and his White House team. During final edits, the description of the stroke signal was quietly changed from "moderately elevated" to "slightly elevated." Who made that change? Nobody knows. The language softened, the edit went unattributed, and the public remained in the dark.

The pattern is consistent. Senate investigators previously established that Biden officials also downplayed the risk of vaccine-induced myocarditis and kept that from the public. This wasn't a one-time failure. It was a system.

Here's what makes this cover-up even more infuriating. The Biden administration showed it was more than willing to pull the plug on a vaccine when it wanted to.

In April 2021, officials paused the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) vaccine due to blood clot concerns. The controversial move was pitched as proof of the administration’s commitment to safety. At the time of the pause, six cases of severe blood clots had been reported out of nearly 7 million doses administered. So when 226 stroke cases surfaced tied to Pfizer's bivalent booster in the most vulnerable seniors, the same administration did nothing. That double standard wasn't accidental; it was deliberate.

The fallout from that kind of institutional betrayal is hard to overstate. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, fewer than half of all Americans now trust the CDC and FDA to operate free from political or special-interest influence.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2026 00:12 || Comments || Link || [1759 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Everyday we read more and more how the Biden/Democrat coup delibertly screwed over Anerica.

When will those that waged war against us, the citizens, face justice?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/14/2026 4:02 Comments || Top||

#2  When

Waiting for Biden to die.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2026 7:07 Comments || Top||

#3  If the FDA had released its own data it would have had to arrest itself for contributing to vaccine hesitancy.
Posted by: Megabyses || 04/14/2026 8:57 Comments || Top||

#4  I had an ischemic stroke it September 2023 at age75. Now I wonder if it was related to the COVID jabs I got.
Posted by: Rambler || 04/14/2026 10:59 Comments || Top||

#5  All the published studies that tie the vaccines to bad health outcomes are rescinded soon after that. That may be a pathway to spontaneous personal wealth.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/14/2026 11:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Rambler, maybe you can sue them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/14/2026 11:54 Comments || Top||

#7  All that my 5 vaccinations proved was that I could count.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2026 11:56 Comments || Top||


Federalist - 6 Things To Know About 2019 Impeachment Coup Against Trump, As New Docs Confirm Federalist Reporting
[Federalist] It’s been a long six and a half years since the first sham impeachment of Trump, but the story isn’t over.

From the beginning, the 2019 impeachment coup against President Donald Trump was a hoax riddled with Democrat collusion and deep state deception. Newly released transcripts of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s closed-door interviews of then-Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG) Michael Atkinson give even more details about how intelligence officials and anti-Trump politicians worked together in an attempt to charge the sitting president with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

The testimonies, recorded in September and October 2019 respectively, show Atkinson and his office bypassed normal credibility and bias assessments of a firsthand witness in favor of hearsay from the whistleblower who submitted the original complaint alleging corruption.

As Federalist Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland noted in her breaking news column on Monday, “the transcripts released Monday also highlight the politicization of the FBI that continued under Trump 1.0 after Director James Comey’s firing.” Atkinson testified that an FBI division, which he refused to name, tried to reopen the investigation into Trump even after the Department of Justice “concluded the matter.”

It’s been a long six and a half years since Democrats and the deep state managed to pull their first sham impeachment of Trump together, but the story isn’t over. Here are six key facts that you need to know about the coup, as reported by The Federalist.
The six, expanded at the link:
  • Complaint Laden With Lies and Gossip

  • IG Likely Assisted Whistleblower

  • IG Took Whistleblower’s Word for It

  • Adam Schiff Colluded With Whistleblower

  • Whistleblower Revealed as Anti-Trump

  • Alex Vindman Was the Real Culprit

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/14/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1801 views] Top|| File under: Lawfare


#2 
To knowingly bring false criminal charges against any person in the USA is a Felony.

Politicians are not exempted from being charged for Perjury or malicious prosecution either.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/14/2026 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  So what is AG Willy Barr doing now a days? The FBI's favorite arse cover boy.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/14/2026 11:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Accountability would be nice.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/14/2026 11:37 Comments || Top||

#5  John Solomon reveals government officials' warning of 'incredible political dirty trick' against Trump

Hannity previewed Tuesday’s episode during his Fox News program Monday night, asking whether those involved would be held accountable.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2026 12:05 Comments || Top||

#6  @4 Accountability would be very nice. I just hope it doesn't cost us in the mid term elections. Far too many people believe the wrong people in the MSM
Posted by: Chantry || 04/14/2026 13:38 Comments || Top||

#7  I posit that the winners make the rules, and it remains to be seen if they will be charged with felonies, or at all. And if not charged, it is a good reminder that we are not winning but are rather losing, Trump is just a speed bump to them, and serves as a good reminder that US civilians, indeed, do not have strong control over its govt.
Posted by: mossomo || 04/14/2026 14:04 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Georgia lawmaker wants Fani Willis to answer questions about $2 million grant from Biden DOJ
[JustTheNews] In February, Just the News reported that Fani Willis, who vowed from the earliest days of her term to pursue an investigation into President Trump for his efforts to challenge the 2020 election results in the state, was "invited" by the Justice Department to apply for a lucrative sole-source grant in 2022.

Willis’ office ultimately received $2,000,000 to implement programs under the Justice Department’s 2022 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative grant.

Biden allegedly said: “We're going to ensure, by any means possible [...] that Donald Trump will not take office"

“We have a lot of questions about that,” said Georgia State Senator Greg Dolezal, a Republican. Dolezal is one of the lawmakers who led the state-level investigation in Fani Willis’ prosecution of President Trump.

“That's really going to be the next phase of what we're looking into is the tie to what could have been a carrot from the time that Joe Biden put up the bat signal on November 13. I think it was where he said, “We're going to ensure, by any means possible, that we demonstrate that Donald Trump will not take office,” Dolezal told the Just the News, No Noise TV show last week.

“On that very same day, Nathan Wade spent eight hours on the phone with the White House. Now, of course, he can't remember what that eight-hour conversation was about, but we've got our guesses as to what it was about,” he added.

Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2026 07:45 || Comments || Link || [1753 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She’s not answering questions and she’s not providing documents.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/14/2026 11:49 Comments || Top||


DOJ FACE Act Weaponization Report: Biden Admin Targeted Pro-Lifers at Demand of Abortion Groups, Mocked Christian Views as ‘Culty'
[Breitbart] The nearly 900-page report constitutes a review of approximately 700,000 internal DOJ records showing the Biden administration weaponizing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act against pro-life Americans by engaging in biased enforcement, demanding harsher sentencing, authorizing aggressive arrest tactics, collaborating with pro-abortion groups for surveillance, and making inappropriate comments about religion.

“This Department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice,” Acting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement. “No Department should conduct selective prosecution based on beliefs. The weaponization that happened under the Biden Administration will not happen again, as we restore integrity to our prosecutorial system.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2026 06:23 || Comments || Link || [1760 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Again and again we have read, heard and see how the O'Biden Coup/Regime violated the US Law, Civil Rights, promoted perversion, and sold out the United States of America.

When will these Subversives be brought to justice for the crimes that we have dump truck loads of evidence to establish their guilt?

Or am I just posing the Epstein question, about the same people for just a different list of crimes?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/14/2026 7:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Culty?

BTW what year is it? Why is it called a Gregorian calendar?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/14/2026 7:41 Comments || Top||

#3  If we are looking for accountability, Blanche is not the guy.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/14/2026 11:48 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2026-04-14
  The US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln approached the Strait of Hormuz as US CENTCOM defined blockade boundaries
Mon 2026-04-13
  Trump declares US Navy to begin blockading Strait of Hormuz ‘effective immediately’
Mon 2026-04-13
  Trump declares US Navy to begin blockading Strait of Hormuz ‘effective immediately’
Sun 2026-04-12
  United States has begun establishing a new safe passage for commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz
Sat 2026-04-11
  FSB has detained three participants in attacks on Russian military personnel in 1999–2000
Fri 2026-04-10
  Israel attacks Lebanon again despite Netanyahu's talks, strikes Hezbollah rocket launch sites, encircles Bint Jbeil, continues Thursday overnight as Hezbollah shot missile at Ashdod
Thu 2026-04-09
  Israeli army said it struck Hezbollah commander in Beirut among 800 casualties, Trump points out Iran truce doesn’t cover Lebanon
Wed 2026-04-08
  Iran has agreed to 12 of the US conditions, with the remaining three conditions under negotiation
Tue 2026-04-07
  IDF Strikes Tehran Airports, Dozens Of Iranian Aircraft Destroyed
Mon 2026-04-06
  IRGC deployed Afghan militia in Tehran Saturday
Sun 2026-04-05
  Follow up: Pentagon Deploys Special Forces for Downed F-15E Pilot Search
Sat 2026-04-04
  U.S. Air Force CSAR team in Iran to rescue downed F-15E crew after Iran used ‘advanced’ passive infrared detection to shoot it down; then Warthog crashed in Strait of Hormuz, pilot rescued
Fri 2026-04-03
  ISIS calls on Muslims to 'set fire to churches and synagogues' around the world at Easter
Thu 2026-04-02
  President Trump: War Objectives Have Been Achieved, Iran ‘No Longer A Threat'
Thu 2026-04-02
  Donald Trump: Pam Bondi already fired as attorney general, Cabinet official teed up as replacement: sources
Wed 2026-04-01
  President Trump will address the nation tonight at 9p ET
Wed 2026-04-01
  US dropped a HIGH VOLUME of 2,000-pound bunker-busters on Isfahan.. directly on top of 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium
Tue 2026-03-31
  Hezbollah's entire leadership has been annihilated in Beirut


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