[MAIL] Among the boldest and eye-brow raising political moves by embattled Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev within the past days that grabbed international headlines was his ordering the arrest of Kazakhstan's powerful former intelligence chief, Karim Massimov, on the charge of high treason.
Indicating that amid widespread fuel price unrest which quickly became aimed squarely at toppling Tokayav's rule there's a simultaneous power struggle within the government, Massimov had headed the National Security Committee (KNB) up until his Thursday sudden removal and detention. Massimov had served as the prior longtime strongman ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev's prime minister and has long been considered his "right hand man". Shortly after, a photo has resurfaced, currently subject of widespread speculation which shows Joe Biden and Hunter Biden posing with the now detained Kazakh security chief Karim Massimov, along with well-connected oligarch Kenes Rakishev.
Further an email and communications have surfaced, previously subject of extensive reporting in The Daily Mail, and related to prior extensive commentary and questions concerning Hunter's 'laptop from hell' - that appears to confirm that Hunter Biden and Massimov were "close friends". Reporting at the time indicated that "when Biden was vice president, Hunter worked as a go-between between for Rakishev from 2012 until 2014. And further the emails were from "anti-corruption campaigners" in Kazakhstan showing that Hunter made contact with Rakishev. And more: "Per the report, Hunter successfully got a $1million investment from Rakishev to a politically-connected filmmaker."
According to a 2020 article in The New York Post written when the photo first began gaining attention among Western pundits, "The snap, first published by a Kazakhstani anti-corruption website in 2019, follows last week’s bombshell Post exposés detailing Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings and a report claiming Rakishev paid the Biden scion as a go-between to broker US investments." Concerning his relationship with Kazakh oligarchs and power-brokers, the NYPost story had detailed further:
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Meh. Given Massimov's former job, it's likely Tokayev is ALSO a close friend of the Bidens.
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The Putinistas take advantage of this to arrest all the cutouts they used to pay off Biden and then pretend Biden's awake enough to have planned all of this...
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] On Friday, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced the convictions of two men found guilty in the shooting death of a 21-year-old pregnant woman inside her Portland ...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others... , Oregon, apartment in August of 2014.
27-year-old De'Anthony Simmons and 29-year-old Kelani Brown pleaded guilty to charges of Manslaughter in the Second Degree with a Firearm and Burglary First Degree stemming from the homicide of Ervaeua Ronchelle Herring, according to a blurb from the Multnomah County District Attorney's office.
Simmons received a 10-year prison sentence, while Brown was senteced to 7.5 years in prison for the separate convictions announced Friday.
According to the district attorney's office, the shooting of Herring came as a retaliation to an earlier fight in downtown Portland. Simmons and Brown were reportedly present during the fight when an associate of theirs was shot.
Two black men involved in shooting dead a pregnant 21-year-old Portland, Ore. woman when they broke into her home were sentenced today to only 10 years & 7.5 years in prison, respectively. The convicts & their armed accomplices fired 30 rounds into her apartment.
"In retaliation, Brown, Simmons, and others drove to Herring's apartment complex looking for DeAndrae Stevens, who was associated with individuals that participated in the fight. Herring and Stevens shared a child," the DA's office wrote. Six armed gunmen reportedly entered the wrong apartment while looking for Stevens' apartment threatening the resident and her small children with guns.
"Realizing their mistake, the gunmen knocked on Herring's back door and fired approximately 30 shots into the apartment when she came to the door, killing Herring," the district attorney's office wrote. Investigations revealed that gang activity was a "common thread" between Stevens and the defendants.
The trail was scheduled to begin Monday, but the prosecution was "hampered by multiple critical witnesses' reluctance to testify due to safety concerns."
Stevens was also fatally shot two weeks ago in Portland, contributing further to "safety concerns" and "lack of cooperation" among critical witnesses.
Four other defendants have previously pled guilty in connection to the case.
Jeffrey Lamont Sims Jr. pled guilty to second-degree manslaughter, Latasha Lynn Davis pled guilty to conspiracy to commit murder, Tony Lamar Brown pled guilty to murder, first-degree burglary and unlawful use of a weapon, and Geontae Brauchard Jones plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter with a firearm, according to The Oregonian.
Another defendant, Demetruis Ray Brown, had charges dropped after it was determined that he was unfit to stand trial.
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The trail was scheduled to begin Monday, but the prosecution was "hampered by multiple critical witnesses' reluctance to testify due to safety concerns."
You reap what you sow. Yeah, defund the police. Feel safe?
Herring, who was pregnant at the time of her death, was killed by a barrage of bullets fired from at least six guns through the sliding back door of her Eastwood Village Apartment on Southeast Powell Boulevard, according to police and prosecutors.
The Aug. 17, 2014, shooting stemmed from a feud between the Woodlawn Park Bloods and Hoover gang — and came hours after two Hoover gang members were pistol-whipped and one was shot in downtown Portland, according to court papers.
After the downtown violence, Hoover gang members are accused of shooting up Herring’s apartment in retaliation while looking for DeAndrae Stephens, who was associated with the people who participated in the earlier fight downtown, according to police.
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The 'De' on the right is rather dashing. Pencil moustache a la Bryan Ferry, with that subtle hint of a potential hair part, jauntily angled, in his shaven head.
[NYPOST] Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said Sunday that Manhattan’s new district attorney Alvin Bragg is "handcuffing the police" and blamed his election on George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... , claiming the billionaire has "effectively destroyed the criminal justice system in America."Bratton, speaking on John Catsimatidis’ Sunday radio show, said the new DA is a "recipe for disaster."
"He’s well-intended in the sense that he’s trying to find a way to address some of the issues of the past," Bratton said. "You don’t address the issues of the past by effectively decriminalizing just about everything in New York City."
Bragg, a Democratic, kept to his campaign promise during his first week in office and told his staff to only seek prison time for those who commit the most severe crimes.
"Reserving incarceration for matters involving significant harm will make us safer," Bragg wrote in a Jan. 3 memo to staff, outlining his "key principles" that include investing in "diversion and alternatives to incarceration," reducing pre-trial jail-time, a focus on "accountability not sentence length," and limiting youth being tried as adults.
"The DA is effectively handcuffing the police," Bratton said of Bragg’s progressive vision, "basically saying they don’t have any confidence in the police force. They don’t trust them. They are effectively removing so many tools out of the toolbox ... that we know kept New York safe for the last 30 years."
[CBS] Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has tested positive for COVID-19, her office said in a statement on Sunday.
"She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home," the statement said. "The Congresswoman received her booster this fall and encourages everyone to get their booster and follow CDC guidelines."
The CDC recommends that Americans who test positive for COVID-19 and develop symptoms isolate for at least five full days. After those five days, the CDC says that people can stop isolating if they are "fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication and your other symptoms have improved." Give her a Donkey De-Wormer?
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"Booster" = boosts your chances of getting the disease
What a complete and utter shitshow. A perfect ending to this black farce will be when every one of these sinister clowns gets omicron - Brandon Magoo, Kackles the Clown, Flying Walensky, Da Ferret, Wide Latina and of course St Anthony the Small Himself.
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Re-post ... these are authentic notes from a call a couple days ago with Edward Ryan MD, Director of International Infectious Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital:
AUTHOR: boriqua gato, on substack
TITLE: Yes, omicron is mild. The WHO are lying yet again when they claim otherwise
Dr. Edward Ryan of Mass General:
1 Close to 100% of the positive cases in MA are Omicron. Delta is almost completely gone from New England.
2 This surge will peak sometime between 1/10 and 1/21 and then begin a quick downhill journey of two to four weeks.
3 We will end up with a 20-50% positivity rate.
4 February will be clean up mode, March will begin to return to "normal"
5 Omicron lives in your nose and upper respiratory area which is what makes it so contagious. It isn't able to bond with your lungs like the other variants.
6 The increased hospitalizations should be taken with a grain of salt as most of them are secondary admissions (i.e. people coming in for surgery, broken bones, etc. who are tested for COVID)
7 We won't need a booster for omicron because they wouldn't be able to develop one before it's completely gone and we're all going to get it which will give us the immunity we need to get through it.
8 COVID will join the 4 other coronaviruses we deal with that cause the common cold, upper respiratory infections, RSV, etc. It will become a pediatric disease mainly affecting young children with no immunity.
9 40% of those infected will be asymptomatic
10 Rapid tests are 50-80% sensitive to those with symptoms, only 30-60% sensitive to those without symptoms
11 Contact tracing is worthless because we're all going to get it and there's no way we could keep up with it.
12 We are fighting the last war with COVID and should be pivoting back to normal life, but society isn't quite ready for it yet.
13 There is no need to stay home from work or to be a hermit unless you're immunocompromised or 85 or older, but he does recommend staying away from large gatherings for the next six weeks.
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^ Ha! Only way I could've smiled more reading that is if I'd been reading it aloud to me sainted mither (who always had a soft spot for MGH). Ditto the IVIG thread a while back. Thanks.
Thereby erasing any difference between cititzen and non-citizen.
[APNEWS] More than 800,000 noncitizens and "Dreamers" in New York City will have access to the ballot box — and could vote in municipal elections as early as next year — after Mayor Eric Adams ...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black... allowed legislation to automatically become law Sunday.Opponents have vowed to challenge the new law, which the City Council approved a month ago. Unless a judge halts its implementation, New York City is the first major U.S. city to grant widespread municipal voting rights to noncitizens.
More than a dozen communities across the U.S. already allow noncitizens to cast ballots in local elections, including 11 towns in Maryland and two in Vermont.
Noncitizens still wouldn’t be able to vote for president or members of Congress in federal races, or in the state elections that pick the governor, judges and politicians.
The Board of Elections must now begin drawing an implementation plan by July, including voter registration rules and provisions that would create separate ballots for municipal races to prevent noncitizens from casting ballots in federal and state contests.
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Noncitizens still wouldn’t be able to vote for president or members of Congress in federal races, or in the state elections that pick the governor, judges and politicians.
Sure they won't.
Mike
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Day is coming where a lot of electoral votes will be disqualified because of this nonsense. It will be fun to watch.
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At the state level it should be straightforward to invalidate entire precincts & cities (like NYC just volunteered to do), unless Dem. state legislatures okay the electors. The real problem becomes when a state sends an entire slate of electors with tainted votes from their largest city / cities.
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If the Supremes vote on it we can be sure either the country is doomed, or that Voter ID will be a thing across the nation to ensure citizenship (country saved).
[FOXNEWS] Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appeared with civil rights hustler Al Sharpton ...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor... Saturday at the National Action Network Rally in New York to talk about his plans to reduce incarceration through lowered prison sentences and fewer arrests.
"We said we were going to marry fairness and safety, and we laid out a specific plan," Bragg declared. "We put it on the website. We put it in print. And this week, after Jan. 1, we got down to work, and we are doing what we said we would do."
"We know that our first civil right is the right to walk safely to our corner store. But we also know that that safety has got to be based in our community and fairness. It cannot be driven solely by incarceration," Bragg told the audience.
The new district attorney has made lowering incarceration and shortening prison sentences a key component of his political campaign.
"We need investment in our neighborhoods, and we do need to address our significant safety concerns," Bragg added, claiming that there has been miscommunication about his position. "So that's what we set out to do. That's what we started to do this week. And I thank Rev. Sharpton for his invitation because there have been, let me just say, some misunderstandings."
Bragg has announced that he will not seek jail time for a variety of offenses, following a path of other progressive prosecutors in Los Angeles, the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... and Philadelphia, among others.
On his third day in office, Bragg sent a memo stressing "diversion and alternatives to incarceration," such as crisis intervention programs, instead of sending some criminals to jail.
Bragg acknowledged in his speech to Sharpton's audience that crime — including violent mostly peaceful crime — is skyrocketing in the city.
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"I don't understand! Everyone at my cocktail parties tell me I'm doing fine!"
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^ Probably true. And they all have one thing in common: they hate all other white people more than they hate themselves.
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45% of this country's voters voted for Hillary, and 45% of them voted for Biden. We've got to start confronting the "white church-lady" crowd and let them know they're going to be the death of this country if they don't wake the hell up.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The CDC is setting the record straight after Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... Justice Sonia Sotomayor claimed that the Omicron variant has placed 100,000 US children in the hospital, with CDC Director Rochelle Walensky stating that just a mere fraction of that number of kids has been hospitalized.In an interview with "Fox News Sunday," Walensky confirmed to host Bret Baier that fewer than 3,500 children are in the hospital with COVID-19.
While the number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 remains low, the CDC chief stressed the importance of getting vaccinated against the virus, stating that those children that were hospitalized generally were not vaccinated.
"Yeah, but, you know, here's what I can tell you about our pediatric hospitalizations now," Walkensky said. "First of all, the vast majority of children who are in the hospital are unvaccinated, and for those children who are not eligible for vaccination we do know they are most likely to get sick with COVID if their family members aren't vaccinated."
As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case involving the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the gang of subgeniuses trying to pass themselves off as the adults in charge of the series of calamities characteristic of the administration of a mentally challenged geriatric case... 's vaccine mandate on Friday, Sotomayor claimed that "We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, at death's door and many on ventilators." The justice was later lambasted for using the alarmist language Friday and overstating the number of child hospitalizations.
Walensky also noted that the number of those in the hospital that have COVID-19 generally include patients who go to hospitals for other reasons and happen to test positive while they are there, as opposed to those who go to the hospital because they are sick with COVID-19.
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Liberals aren't bothered by facts, so don't expect any statement corrections from her.
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Well. They are both wrong, just in different ways for different reasons.
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^ Is that a Photoshop?
Putting on my geek hat, reviewing courts including the Supremes are supposed to work with the record developed by the trial court. The Supremes aren't supposed to investigate the facts, conduct discovery, or get "facts" from the NYT. And Sotomayor's numbers show why that rule is a really good one.
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Considering she supposidly had dinner that Evening with the DNC 'leadership' - I think you can guess where her numbers came from.
Clear case of conflict of interest. Do you think she'll recluse herself?
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CrazyFoll- I wondered exactly that too. I reflects she has been compromised intellectually or in some other manner. Never thought affirmative action would hurt this much.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] McCarthy is preparing for a slew of probes into the Biden administration if Republicans win back the majority in the November elections, he said
He also hinted at continuing the Capitol riot investigation and using subpoenas
Democrats have been grappling with low polls for months, Biden included
If the GOP takes Congress McCarthy promised to pass a 'parents' bill of rights'
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I suspect... The great exodus... has little to do with the demise of Socialist Democract party.
I feel the old SD"s are seen as NOT FAR LEFT enough for the nutjob Left. Hence opening the doors for greater, stranger far Left immorallity ideas and practices. IN SHORT just a relaunch of greater weridness.
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Yes, and the GOPe is working 24/7 to find candidates that make Kinzinger and Cheney look like Barry Goldwater, and a few Roy Moore types to toss safe Republican seats to the dems.
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[TOWNHALL] Most people look at the choice of Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge for Vice President and scratch their head. "Why would anyone pick a person so wildly devoid of political talent or even the basics of likability?" they wonder. The conventional wisdom is that she checked the right number of boxes to fulfill left-wing interest group demands, which is partially true, of course. Overlooked, however, is how there is one more, rather good and important reason Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan... , or really any politician, would pick someone like Harris: because by comparison, you’ll always look better.
Harris is such a singularly grating personality that she polls lower than lemon juice on an open wound. Death by wood chipper is less likely to incur the wrath of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... activists for torture than forcing someone to listen to Kamala’s speeches. If you’re an incompetent politician, partnering with someone possessing all the public charm and warmth of explosive diarrhea means you will always come off better than you otherwise would because the alternative is so horrible.
That’s what, and all, Kamala Harris brought to the ticket.
If anyone needed another example of how awful she is, her speech on Thursday provided it.
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A harridan of the highest order,
a tramp, from the ghettos of Mordor.
Let loose on middle earth by no less
than a man with a brown willy, oh yes!
A mouth that once serviced the orcs
shall soon give presidential order.
[MYNORTHWEST] Gov. Jay Inslee ...Governor of Washington state and failed candidate for the 2020 Dem presidential campaign, mainly because nobody outside the state and some inside had ever heard of him. He complained, complained, complained that the Trump administration wasn't doing enough to help the state, then returned an Army field hospital and 400 ventilators that didn't get used... proposed new legislation on Thursday, which would make it a misdemeanor for elected leaders or candidates to spread unfounded allegations of voter fraud.Election fraud narrative becomes common thread among state’s Republican candidate
Speaking on the one-year anniversary of the now-infamous U.S. Capitol riot, Inslee opined that "the threat to our democracy is just as dangerous on January 6, 2022, as it was a year ago."
"I think we do need to do much more than commemorate this day of infamy," he said as part of the News Agency that Dare Not be Named’ 2022 legislative preview. "I think we need to realize that this is a continuing effort to continue the ’big lie,’ to cast doubt on the fundamental workings of our democracy — we simply have to realize the nature of this challenge."
That has Inslee pushing for a bill in the state Legislature that would "make it a gross misdemeanor to lie about these election results without any basis."
"I think we need to do more than speak," he proposed. "It should not be legal in the state of Washington for elected officials or candidates for office to willfully lie about these election results. This needs to be made illegal."
Inslee highlighted three Republican state politicians — Representatives Brad Klippert, Robert Sutherland, and Vicki Kraft — who used taxpayer dollars to attend MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s cyber-symposium on election fraud, and who have continued to support claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
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In order for it to be a lie - wouldn't you have to prove its a lie - with an audit?
Besides in Washington State they have had forced mail in balloting for a long time. I have no confidence my vote is counted correctly.
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Criminalization of politics. Goes nicely with their politicization if the criminal justice system. ... Put them together and you have the cornerstone for Anarcho-Tyranny
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nslee centered his campaign around climate change and other environmental issues.[5] His policy positions included transitioning the United States completely to zero-emission renewable energy by 2035, and investing in the creation of a clean energy economy and additional jobs. Inslee's campaign was officially suspended on August 21, 2019, when he announced his withdrawal from the race on The Rachel Maddow Show.[6]
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The Wheel? I always enjoyed the Ancient Greek practice of sealing people alive in a cave -- "If the Gods (Global Warming?) wills it they will be spared!"
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In the Philippines during the secvond WW the Japanese used to place prisoners in grated pits in the ground and let the tide come in and drown them.
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.
...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others...
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
...the gang of subgeniuses trying to pass themselves off as the 
[TOWNHALL] Most people look at the choice of 
...Governor of Washington state and failed candidate for the 2020 Dem presidential campaign, mainly because nobody outside the state and some inside had ever heard of him. He complained, complained, complained that the Trump administration wasn't doing enough to help the state, then returned an Army field hospital and 400 ventilators that didn't get used...
