WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russia analyst who provided information for a dossier of research used during the Trump-Russia investigation has been arrested by U.S. authorities as part of an ongoing special counsel investigation, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Igor Danchenko is the third person, and second in a two-month span, to face charges in special counsel John Durham’s probe into the origins of the Russia investigation.
Danchenko functioned as a source for Christopher Steele, a former British spy who was paid by Democrats to examine ties between Russia and Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. The research was used by the FBI as it applied for and received surveillance warrants targeting a former Trump campaign aide.
Both the dossier and the Durham probe are politically charged. Trump’s Justice Department appointed Durham as Trump claimed the investigation of campaign ties to Russia was a witch hunt and pointed to the dossier, some of which remains uncorroborated or has been discredited, as evidence of an unfair probe.
But the dossier had no role in the launching of the Trump-Russia investigation and special counsel Robert Mueller ultimately found questionable ties between Trump’s campaign and Russia, but not sufficient evidence to pursue criminal charges. Democrats saw the Durham probe as politically motivated, but the Biden administration has not stopped it.
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Danchenko is a Russian national, proficient in English who has, among other creditials, a degree from the U of Louisville and publications at Brookings Institute and Georgetown U.
He was living in the US during the development of the Dossier and the identity of his sources in Russia is not fully known.
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This looney-tunes was outed long ago as a drunken fabulist who was convicted and sentenced to undergo mental health treatment. Complete absurdity.
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Hmmm....you get the feeling there is part of Deep State that fears for its existence knowing they've put Brandon in office now? If you make the whole thing look so illegitimate and incompetent you might might want a future 'get out of jail' card for landing on Go.
[Just The News] Detroiters showed out on Nov. 2 to approve a committee to pursue reparations for African Americans, decriminalize some hallucinogens, and reject a proposal to give residents more control over city spending.
PROPOSAL R AKA: "Gimme some damn money!"
More than 72,000 voters approved Proposal R to study reparations, with nearly 18,000 voting against it. Proposal R will create a city reparations committee to recommend housing and economic development programs for Black Detroiters. On June 15, 2021, the Detroit City Council unanimously passed a resolution that "establishes a reparations process to, within the next year, develop short, medium and long term recommendations to specifically address the creation of generational wealth and to boost economic mobility and opportunity in the black community." The committee will study the effect of reparations, who it would affect, how it’d be funded, and more.
PROPOSAL E
More than 53,000 people voted for Proposal E, with over 34,000 opposing it. Proposal E will decriminalize entheogenic plants’ possession and therapeutic use. Entheogenic plants include psilocybin mushrooms, peyote, and iboga. The measure’s success means that police will treat adult use and possession of entheogenic plants among the lowest law-enforcement priorities.
Some believe psychedelics hold medicinal benefits, especially for life-threatening diseases. A John Hopkins randomized, double-blind study found "Psilocybin produces substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer."
"High-dose psilocybin produced large decreases in clinician- and self-rated measures of depressed mood and anxiety, along with increases in quality of life, life meaning, and optimism, and decreases in death anxiety," the study found. "At 6-month follow-up, these changes were sustained, with about 80% of participants continuing to show clinically significant decreases in depressed mood and anxiety."
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
[National Review] Democratic New Jersey governor Phil Murphy was reelected to a second term on Tuesday, narrowly defeating Republican challenger and former assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli.
The win marks the first time in 44 years that a Democratic incumbent governor has won reelection in the Garden State. However, the close results could spell trouble for Democrats going into the 2022 midterms.
Networks called the race at about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Ninety percent of ballots were reported at that time, with Murphy at 1,210,997 votes and Ciattarelli with 1,191,703 votes, according to the New York Times.
"If you asked anybody several months ago within the state, I think anyone would have predicted a high double digit landslide for Murphy," Ashley Koning, head of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University, told the Associated Press.
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Evidently 1,210.997 NJ voters still think democratic politicians are their best hope. It would appear mounting evidence to the contrary continues to be ignored.
[TheTexan] In a 68 percent to 32 percent result, Austin voters rejected a proposition that would have set a minimum staffing level for its police department of two officers per 1,000 residents...
Had it passed, Prop A would have:
Mandate a minimum staffing level within the Austin Police Department (APD) of two officers per 1,000 residents
Establish a minimum 35 percent community response time standard
Require 40 additional hours of training
Oblige the mayor, city council, and city staff to enroll in the Citizens Police Academy
Facilitate minority officer hiring through foreign language proficiency metrics
[early theory is that voters may have thought this too expensive - also there was a lot of negative advertising sponsored by the usual lefties] They voted for it, let 'em live with it.
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[event] where shooting occurred was meant to address gun violence
I'd chalk that up to irony, but it happens at such events all too often and I think Junius missed that word on the vocabulary test. Hell, Junius missed that whole grade...
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Berkeley on the Brazos PD, those rules for the citizens academy allow for discrimination against anyone they find politically incorrect.
More proof that LE needs to be made the exclusive business of County Sheriff's, not PD. The Sheriff is elected, and had to consider the political impact of policies and performance. The Chief, is appointed by the City and holds his job at sufferance. Cui bono?
[NEWS.YAHOO] Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia blamed congressional Democrats' "purist demands" on Wednesday for contributing to former Gov. Terry McAuliffe's loss to GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin in Virginia."Democrats in Congress hurt Terry McAuliffe," Kaine told a group of news hounds at the Capitol. Kaine previously served as Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010 and was the party's vice presidential nominee in 2016.
He added that both he and Sen. Mark Warner - along with congressional Democrats from Virginia - had been warning their caucus about the need to pass either the $1 billion infrastructure bill or some version of the currently $1.75 trillion "Build Back Better" social spending bill ahead of the election.
"Instead, Democrats wanted to be purist about whatever their own particular goals were - left, right and center - and hold out, and dither, and delay," he said. "So that hurt Terry in a close race."
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Imagine Terry McAuliffe talking to suburban voters about how we're going to have affordable childcare and universal pre-K."
Affordable child rape
Universal indoctrination in racist re-education camps
Paid parental leave-the-kids in the hands of white-hating berserk pervertsand Bolsheviks
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"Universal pre-K" is to these morons as lavender oil is to the mullahs': the universal salve, always within reach, a balm for every flaming arsehole
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Frankly I don't see anything wrong with letting toddlers just run around and play all day. That's what we did in the 1950s, and most of us survived.
Once you're in school, it's a long slog for a long time. So let the little kids enjoy freedom while they have it.
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Actually Merrick I think you'll discover the data supports lavender oil results as significantly better than universal pre-k.
Some, no doubt, are — for the short term, at least. Others are not, and the longer this unnecessary nonsense goes on, the more will move into the not category.
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] The gibbering and cognitively disconnected teleprompter reader who currently occupies the White House reads from a script today prepared for him by people who know he is disposable.
That is the most logical reason why Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter, close friend of an imaginary negro named Corn Pop. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan.... could brazenly attempt to claim today that "wages have gone up faster than inflation."
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in September alone inflation:
"increased 4.4 percent from one year ago. Energy prices increased 24.9 percent while food prices increased 4.1 percent. " (link)
Meanwhile according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, wages increased 0.7% year over year. Inflation is six times higher than wage growth.
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F--king liars. Lied about gas prices, meat prices, milk prices, lumber prices, milk prices, new car prices, used car prices, beer prices, butter prices, f--king EVERYTHING.
"Temporary." Yeah, right.
God but our elites are retarded. So stupid they can't even see how few people believe their nonsense.
Most retarded and corrupt American political class in 170 years.
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The Man thinks as well as he breaths, walks & talks. which ain't too good.
Don't trust a word that comes out of his head, from this day forth, he is demented, in continent, and likely to see God before you. i.e. he has no vested interest in this community or country, he is closer to death than almost anyone reading Rantburg.
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*THEIR* Us wages (which include graft, sales of cocane-inspired-paintings-for-access, etc...). Not the U.S. Workers who's wages have fallen far below inflation.
Yep — that’s us! You’re welcome. Though the R-voting Independents and PTA Democrats deserve their share of the credit as well.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Biden blamed Donald Trump's supporters for Democrat Terry McAuliffe losing the Virginia gubernatorial race
'I'm not sure that I would be able to have changed the number of very conservative folks who turned out and the red districts who were Trump voters,' Biden said during a White House event on Wednesday
The president said that he continues to bring up Trump 'because the issues he supports are affecting their lives every day, and their negative impact on their lives'
'People are upset and uncertain about a lot of things – from COVID to school to jobs to a whole range of things, and the cost of a gallon of gasoline,' he said
Biden was speaking Wednesday about the CDC approving COVID-19 vaccines for kids 5-11
Shell-shocked Democrats were reassessing what went wrong after losing the Virginia governor's race
Lawmakers pointed to the failure to pass Biden's domestic agenda and progressives issued stark messages
Progressive said McAuliffe's campaign 'had no rebuttal to Republican race-baiting bull****'
Moderate Democrats have called for an end to the infighting that has blocked spending bill talks
Joe Manchin called the Virginia results 'unbelievable' and said it shows Dems need to focus more on issues
Youngkin beat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, while New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was clinging to narrow lead
If it was Trump voters in VA who put Youngkin over the top, and gave Rs the House of Delegates, and elected Winsome Sears as Lt. Governor...who the Hell gave you 2,413,568 votes there last year?
There's only three explanations any more:
1) You're there through fraud and you didn't get anywhere near that many votes,
2) You're just that incompetent, or
3) All of the above.
Mike
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Progressive said McAuliffe's campaign 'had no rebuttal to Republican race-baiting bull****'
LOL... Literally everything these poopy-mouths and Pres. Poopypants say is a straight-up lie.
Their own Critical Race Idiocy is not a "theory" deserving consideration or debate; it's unvarnished anti-white race-hatred filth. They pushed their moronic racism on our kids, and now they try to blame the normies for their own hornets' nest.
They created their retarded idea of 39 Flavors of gender fluidity and then unleashed their sick mofo dudes-in-dresses on our kids.
They were the ones who invited these monsters into the girls' restroom and assured the public that there's "never been a single case of assault" -- and then they try to blame us for the rapes which they abetted and knew and lied about.
And then Barry Bath House had the nerve to pretend it's all a "myth", and blame us yet again for the shitstorm which they and they alone rained down on us.
F--k these lying perverts. Good and hard, with their own sh!t-smeared pogo sticks
Finally... FINALLY
By-Dung has actually said something that is correct and I can agree with.
Could it be, this is an example of a honestly conducted election?
Where the majority is actually Conservative/ Middle of the Road minded? An chose their representatives, without massive Voter fraud and abuse this time?
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It's OK. We want #FJB to continue doubling down all the way through 2022 and then on to 2024. Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.
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Everything I had to say, JFM sums up in a good joke.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russia analyst who provided information for a dossier of research used during the Trump-Russia investigation has been arrested by U.S. authorities as part of an ongoing special counsel investigation, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Ah yes, fresh Hildebeest tracks. 
[Just The News] 
...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter, close friend of an imaginary negro named Corn Pop. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan....
