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Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for her role in killing of at least 1,400 protesters
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Trump would-be assassin in Butler had massive 'digital footprint,' alleges columnist
[FoxNews] "We were sort of led to believe that Thomas Crooks was really a ghost, that there was no motive that could be ascertained from his online accounts," Devine discussed. "And yet a source has provided us with a lot of information from 17 different online accounts that Thomas Crook had."
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2025 09:04 || Comments || Link || [1769 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They say Cook made contact with a known Activist Democrat and after that initial contact, his online footprint changed.
Posted by: mossomo || 11/18/2025 12:25 Comments || Top||

#2  The stink that keeps on stinking.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/18/2025 14:22 Comments || Top||

#3 
Still waiting for an offical explaination of how the 21? y/o Butler shooter managed to have off-shore accounts, which were initially stated at around $120k+ in them. But then any further media mention sure dissppeared quickly during the remaining Biden admin coup.
Posted by: Blossom Omuth2192 || 11/18/2025 14:54 Comments || Top||


Looks like we have been Bill Barred again.
SDNY US Attorney Jay Clayton Has Ties to Epstein Clients — Is He the Right Guy to Lead Epstein Investigation?
November 17, 2025
by Joe Hoft

Jay Clayton is the US Attorney overseeing the Southern District of New York. His prior relationships with individuals associated with Jeffrey Epstein are real conflicts that should prevent him from overseeing the investigation and case.

Attorney Robert Barnes shared that the SDNY US Attorney worked with clients associated with Epstein. He previously represented frequent Epstein Island visitor Reid Hoffman, the large man who was behind the E Jean Carroll lies against President Trump.






When "pay me the Epstein Kash" Patel joined Boonerless Dan on Fox and declared Epstein killed himself. We all knew in was a full on Bill Barr move and nothing was going to happen.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1782 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1 

Call Ken 👈
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/18/2025 0:51 Comments || Top||


#3  ^ #2

Given the peaceful LEFT's documented history.
I am sure many would have done the same for close Friends and Family.

Given the MSM & Social Media spreading around those names. The Media has to know such coverage will eventually find its way to the next Liberal-Leftest Democrat or DC Swamp funded NUT JOB.

So is the MSM & Social Media trying to generate future shooter headlines?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/18/2025 6:52 Comments || Top||

#4  When Boebert gets summoned to the Situation Room for her “shut up talk”, you can pretty much be assured that Jeff was not a lone pervert.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/18/2025 7:08 Comments || Top||

#5  House to vote Tuesday [TODAY] on releasing the Epstein files, with Trump's support


CSPAN will be busy.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2025 7:51 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Mamdani staffer apologizes for old inflammatory social media posts against Israel, Jews
Personnel is policy.
[IsraelTimes] A staffer for New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani apologizes for old social media posts demonizing Israel and sharing other inflammatory statements.

“There is a barbaric nation who’s killing indigents and innocent Palestinians called ISRAEL,” Hassaan Chaudhary, a Muslim outreach director for Mamdani, wrote in 2012, according to a report by The New York Post.

In other posts, Chaudhary called Israel a “bloody country,” indicated that gay rights “doesn’t make sense,” and used a derogatory Urdu slur that translates literally as “Jew will be your father.”

He supported former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying Ahmadinejad “has declared Israel as cancer which will be eliminated very soon.”

The posts all date to around 2012. Chaudhary is now 31.

He also retweeted a post last year that suggested the Jewish Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, supported killing children in Gaza, the report says.

Chaudhary apologizes for the comments, telling The New York Post: “I apologize for my tweets, as they do not reflect my current views, or represent who I am today.”

“Those comments from over a decade ago are not in line with how I see the world, and I look back at that rhetoric and mindset with deep regret,” he says.

A Mamdani spokesperson says: “These comments from over a decade ago are reprehensible and in no way reflect the views of the Mayor-elect or this transition. The mayor-elect has made this clear internally and consistently during the campaign and transition.”

Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1811 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  I probably have some pro-John Bolton posts from previous decades that I’ld like to walk back if this is some kind of general amnesty. If the get-out-of-jail card only applies to this bozo then screw him.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/18/2025 7:04 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm surprised he apologized. These people seem like they're so brazen that they would own the post with pride.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/18/2025 13:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Mamdani did not apologize for anything himself!

A staffer for New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani apologizes for old social media posts demonizing Israel and sharing other inflammatory statements.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/18/2025 18:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Clicked submit too soon..

What I meant to say is that a taffer did the apologizing which is not the same thing.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/18/2025 18:15 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Larry Summers Goes Into Hiding; Messages Sought Epstein's Advice On Cheating With Daughter Of CCP Official
[ZeroHedge]
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2025 08:40 || Comments || Link || [1751 views] Top|| File under:



Britain
UK Health Watchdog Reportedly Refuses To Release Data On Vaccine Deaths
[ZeroHedge]
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2025 08:53 || Comments || Link || [1760 views] Top|| File under:



Government Corruption
DOJ obstruction charge on Comey relates to denying knowing about Clinton Plan on Trump and Russia
[JustTheNews] Comey's allegedly false denial that he did not remember being briefed about the Clinton Plan intelligence will still be central to the DOJ's prosecution.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2025 07:54 || Comments || Link || [1763 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Illinois House Democrats push first-in-the-world wealth tax, streaming, concert taxes
[Illinois Policy] State lawmakers are rushing a first-in-the-world wealth tax on billionaires. They also want taxes on streaming services such as Netflix and Spotify and steep surcharges on concerts and ticketed events.

Illinois House Democrats introduced a $1.5 billion transit funding plan with a wealth tax on hypothetical income that doesn’t exist anywhere in the world. Taxes on streaming services and ticketed events are also a part of the plan.

  • A 4.95% tax on unrealized capital gains for individuals with more than $1 billion in assets.

  • A 7% amusement tax on streaming services such as Netflix and Spotify.

  • Increasing the sales tax in Cook County on certain food items by 0.25 percentage points.

  • A $5 surcharge on tickets for large concerts and performances.

  • Expanded speed camera enforcement in suburban areas to generate additional transit funding.

  • Illinois would be the first in the world to tax wealth based on unrealized capital gains. Billionaires can leave the state far more easily than others can. When they leave, Illinois loses out on their income, property and sales tax dollars. As the tax base shrinks, the state would need to make up for that lost revenue, and less wealthy Illinoisans will be the only ones left to tax.

    There’s no stopping lawmakers from lowering the threshold at which it kicks in in the future. What starts with billionaires opens the door to taxing others next. Even Gov. J.B. Pritzker doesn’t support the proposal.
    Other states considering 'wealth tax' are Hawaii, Maryland, California, New York, Connecticut, Washington, and Minnesota.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2025 10:13 || Comments || Link || [1780 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  And if an unrealized capital gain turns into an unrealized capital loss, does the taxpayer get a rebate?
    Posted by: Matt || 11/18/2025 10:40 Comments || Top||

    #2  ^ Funny guy! The ratchet only goes in one direction
    Posted by: Frank G || 11/18/2025 10:47 Comments || Top||

    #3  And if an unrealized capital gain turns into an unrealized capital loss, does the taxpayer get a rebate?

    No, you get a fine for filing an incorrect tax form.
    Posted by: SteveS || 11/18/2025 11:17 Comments || Top||

    #4  A 7% amusement tax on streaming services such as Netflix and Spotify

    That is interstate. That is solely federal authority. Another axe at the Constitution.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2025 11:44 Comments || Top||

    #5  LOL, guys.
    Posted by: Matt || 11/18/2025 11:45 Comments || Top||

    #6  A 4.95% tax on unrealized capital gains for individuals with more than $1 billion in assets.

    If tax history is any indicator, the "4.95%" will be subject to annual upward adjustment. The $1 billion in top end assets adjusted downward.

    Stand-by for the second hammer to drop, the homeowner/property equity aka "unrealized gains."

    No rocket science needed to see where this is headed.


    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2025 12:01 Comments || Top||

    #7  “Since wealth is the only thing that can cure poverty, you might think that the left would be as obsessed with the creation of wealth as they are with the redistribution of wealth. But you would be wrong.”

    — Thomas Sowell
    Posted by: Matt || 11/18/2025 13:32 Comments || Top||

    #8  A 4.95% tax on unrealized capital gains for individuals with more than $1 billion in assets.

    Ah'm safe.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2025 14:16 Comments || Top||

    #9  Progressives also claimed that the income tax would only hit the top 1% too over 100 years ago.

    Hold on to your wallet... but you won't and you will elect these fucktards again. Get it good and hard and don't come to our states assholes.
    Posted by: DarthVader || 11/18/2025 16:37 Comments || Top||


    Trump plans to meet Mamdani, says he and NYC mayor-elect will ‘work something out’
    [IsraelTimes] No immediate Mamdani response to president’s remarks, but he said last week he planned to reach out ‘because this is a relationship that will be critical to the success of the city’.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2025 2025-11-18 01:19 || Comments || Link || [1757 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  As long as my money is not funding his stupidity, work out what you want.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 11/18/2025 7:17 Comments || Top||

    #2  Trump says he is willing to conduct strikes in Mexico to thwart drug smuggling operations

    How about the Russian, Serbian, Albanian, ..., criminal networks in NYC?
    Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2025 8:05 Comments || Top||


    Trump says Americans will receive their two thousand tariff stimulus checks by the middle of 2026
    [PUBLISH.TWITTER]
    Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1843 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  That's nice to know, I'm sure if Ukraine needs a billion or so or a shit ton of weapons that can be hurried up though.
    Posted by: chris || 11/18/2025 2:32 Comments || Top||

    #2  Oh, say, a couple months just before mid-terms.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2025 6:37 Comments || Top||

    #3  I would like my payment to be in the form of charcuterie. With the delay there should be plenty of time to work that out.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 11/18/2025 7:00 Comments || Top||

    #4  I make my own charcuterie. I’d like it in the form of brass and lead!
    Posted by: no mo uro || 11/18/2025 7:45 Comments || Top||

    #5  Wonder what the income tax on that will be?
    Or is it a gift?
    Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2025 7:49 Comments || Top||

    #6  Timed to remind you who to vote for in November
    Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/18/2025 10:22 Comments || Top||

    #7  Just pay down the debt.

    Won't be all of it, but a fair amount.
    Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/18/2025 11:07 Comments || Top||

    #8  ...the debt is 37 trillion. Estimates to date on the tariff is 277 billion. Drop of water in a ocean.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2025 11:53 Comments || Top||

    #9  It’s still a lot of meat snacks, crackers and cheese products.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 11/18/2025 12:09 Comments || Top||

    #10  Tariff dividend of $2000. AND my food stamps ?
    Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2025 12:09 Comments || Top||

    #11 


    Why are the TAXPAYERS that created this $$$$$ the last to get some of our own $$$$ back?

    We wait, while $100's of BILLIONS in our TAX Dollars are sent to various NGO groups and nations around the world.
    Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/18/2025 18:13 Comments || Top||

    #12  BTW: A correction to an earlier post I made recently.

    IF the US Gov. holds the Tons of Gold that it claims.
    The Federal Gov Gold Claim stated.


    As of Oct, 31, 2025 the Federal Gov "Claims" it holds about 261,423,103.42 Tory OZ's and today per oz price is $4072.88.

    So the US Dollar is only backed by: $1,064,744,929,457.25 worth of Gold. We owe roughly 34.75 times more to the world than our dollar is worth.

    Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/18/2025 18:36 Comments || Top||

    #13  I read that the concern now is no longer inflation, but rather deflation. If I understand correctly, then the inflationary impact of the $2000/taxpayer is a good thing, whether used to pay down debt (returning the funds to circulate in the economy), spent (returning the funds to circulate, etc), or put into savings (enabling the bank to put the funds into circulation).
    Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2025 22:20 Comments || Top||



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