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Former FBI Official At Field Office That Allegedly Leaked Clinton Email Info Arrested For Ties To Russian Oligarch In 2016 the FBI’s New York field office allegedly leaked Hillary Clinton email info. The man who ran counterintelligence in that office has been arrested for ties to a Russian oligarch. ABC News reported: Charles McGonigal, who was the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, is under arrest over his ties to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who has been sanctioned by the United States and criminally charged last year with violating those sanctions. McGonigal and Shestakov, who worked for the FBI investigating oligarchs, allegedly agreed in 2021 to investigate a rival Russian oligarch in return for payments from Deripaska, according to the Justice Department. McGonigal and Shestakov are accused of receiving payments through shell companies and forging signatures in order to keep it a secret that Deripaska was paying them.

How a Kansas mayor pulled off a 'coup' using Trump-like tactics: report In the Wichita, Kansas suburb of Goddard, Democrats accuse Mayor Hunter Larkin, a far-right MAGA Republican, of using the “Stop the Steal” tactics that Donald Trump employed after the 2020 presidential election. But the difference between Trump in 2020/early 2021 and Larkin in 2023, according to his critics, is the fact that Larkin’s “coup” succeeded. Journalist Justin Rohrlich, in an article published by the Daily Beast on January 23, explains, “A small Kansas town is reeling after a baby-faced 23-year-old manipulated procedural technicalities to reinstall himself as mayor in one night, seemingly taking a page from the playbook used by former President Donald Trump after he was voted out of office. Only, this time, it worked.” “Larkin’s improbable ascent to office can be traced back to August 2020, when the then-mayor of Goddard stepped down amid a fraud charge for counterfeiting tickets to the local zoo’s ‘Zoobilee’ charity fundraiser,” Rohrlich reports. “Then-21-year-old City Council President Hunter Larkin was appointed to the job. In November 2021, Larkin, who by day works as an accounting manager for a fiberglass oil field pipe manufacturer owned by a wealthy local family that has helped fund his political aspirations, was busted for DUI. He later pleaded guilty, receiving a sentence of probation and staying on as mayor until May 2022, when he resigned in the wake of a news report calling his ethics into question…. Vice-Mayor Larry Zimmerman was then appointed Goddard’s mayor, and has filled the position since — until last Tuesday night.” Larkin became a member of the Goddard City Council. And during a Council meeting, according to Rohrlich, Larkin “swiftly proposed removing Zimmerman as mayor, a motion which was approved by all except Zimmerman himself.” Larkin’s power grab worked, and one of his critics is Wichita Assistant District Attorney Brady Burge. Burge told the Beast, “It is definitely troubling. The local level is where it all starts, and you definitely don’t like to see things like that happening in your own community…. (Larkin) has had trouble in the past building trust with our community, and it looks like it happened again.” https://www.alternet.org/kansas-mayor-trump-like-coup/

American copaganda at its finest.

Have been at R&R's- mediocre food.

And Dougie #97 as well.

Classic Donald Trump. I am surprised he didn't segue into discussing how poorly toilets flush.

Russia lost 188,000 people in the war with Ukraine, according to US intelligence

New Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Allegations Revealed in Secret Sundance Doc -Getty Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 confirmation to the Supreme Court was embroiled in controversy when multiple women accused him of sexual assault. One of them, Christine Blasey Ford, testified before Congress about the alleged rape she suffered at his hands in high school. Justice is a horrifying and infuriating inquiry into those claims, told in large part by friends of Ford, lawyers and medical experts, and another of Kavanaugh’s alleged victims: Deborah Ramirez, a classmate of his at Yale. Most damning of all, it features a never-heard-before audio recording made by one of Kavanaugh’s Yale colleagues—Partnership for Public Service president and CEO Max Stier—that not only corroborates Ramirez’s charges, but suggests that Kavanaugh violated another unnamed woman as well. A last-minute addition to this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Justice is the first feature documentary helmed by Doug Liman, a director best known for Hollywood hits like Swingers, Go, The Bourne Identity, and Edge of Tomorrow. His latest is far removed from those fictional mainstream efforts, caustically censuring Kavanaugh and the political process that elevated him to the nation’s highest judicial bench, and casting a sympathetic eye on Ford, Ramirez ,and their fellow accusers. Liman’s film may not deliver many new bombshells, but he and writer/producer Amy Herdy makes up for a relative dearth of explosive revelations by lucidly recounting this ugly chapter in recent American history, as well as by giving voice to women whose allegations were picked apart, mocked and, ultimately, ignored. https://www.thedailybeast.com

Kansas man says God told him to threaten GOP lawmaker for ignoring dangers of wizards and sorcery A Kansas man on trial for a death threat to a U.S. representative has said he was inspired by God for his actions and that the charges need to be dismissed. According to FOX News, Chase Neill from Lawrence, Kansas became obsessed with State Rep. Jake LaTurner and was angered that he ignored his pleas to fight against the dangers posed by alien life forms, sorcery and wizards. After disclosing to the jury that he sees his official job as combatting "high sorcery," Neill attempted to put his faith on display. "I am really trying to explain how I interact with God, and it is a difficult explanation," he told the jury. "I apologize. I am held to an obligation by our Creator." That obligation included Neill leaving a voicemail in June for LaTurner at his Topeka office after office hours that included him saying, "I will kill you." Neill, who is representing himself in court as his own lawyer, said his actions were responses to hearing God's "trumpet." Neill has described himself solely as a messenger and told LaTurner that he and other politicians are facing death by an act of God as a punishment for their actions. "I am not going to try to pursue him for some sort of violent crime," Neill said during trial testimony. https://www.alternet.org/kansas-man-wizards-and-sorcery/

Alberta premier's office contacted Crown prosecution about Coutts cases: sources Social Sharing Facebook Twitter Email Reddit LinkedIn Smith hasn't contacted Crown prosecutors and has no knowledge of staff doing so, premier's office says Meghan Grant, Elise von Scheel · CBC News · Posted: Jan 19, 2023 4:52 PM CST | Last Updated: January 19 Anti-COVID-19 vaccine mandate demonstrators created a blockade at the U.S. border crossing in Coutts, Alta., last January. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP) 3712 comments A staffer in Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office sent a series of emails to the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service, challenging prosecutors' assessment and direction on cases stemming from the Coutts border blockades and protests, CBC News has learned. The emails were sent last fall, according to sources whom CBC has agreed not to identify because they fear they could lose their jobs. CBC has not seen the emails. Soon after Smith was elected leader of the United Conservative Party and sworn in as premier, her office asked for a briefing on the cases. Subsequent emails critiqued the prosecutors' assessment of the charges and pushed back on the characterizations of the protest. "This is so improper on so many levels — it's pure interference with Crown independence," said one source with knowledge of the correspondence. Alberta premier says she was 'imprecise' when saying she contacted prosecutors The revelation comes just days after Smith herself backtracked from comments about two instances when she said she had contacted Crown prosecutors, subsequently clarifying that "at no time" had she communicated directly with prosecutors. In a statement provided to CBC Thursday evening, the premier's office said Smith has not been in contact with Crown prosecutors and has no knowledge of anyone on her staff doing so. "This is a serious allegation," reads the statement. "If a staff member has been in touch with a Crown Prosecutor, appropriate action will be taken."

Putin’s Henchmen Threaten ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Dead U.S. Troops Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, delivered a sermon marking Orthodox Epiphany in Moscow this week. He spoke to those who wish “to defeat Russia,” using the occasion to deliver a threat to the West: “We pray that the Lord admonish those madmen and help them to understand that any desire to destroy Russia will mean the end of the world.” Russia’s top propagandists, from former President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev to state TV host Vladimir Solovyov, have been spreading the same not-so subtle nuclear threat far and wide—and yet, Putin’s mouthpieces are now worried that the “boy who cried wolf” routine is no longer being taken seriously by their target audience in the West. The dilemma manifested during a live broadcast of The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov. After the lineup of talking heads took turns reiterating that Russia’s defeat would mean the end of the world, their agitprop was suddenly deflated by Yevgeny Satanovsky, President of the Institute of the Middle East. “First of all, our main enemy is certainly the United States. What does the U.S. react to? They react to two things: the threat of physical annihilation and the liquidation of a certain number of military personnel. What we know based on wars in Vietnam and Korea is that several tens of thousands of annihilated American servicemen will cause the public opinion in the U.S. to be severely strained. I will repeat: not several thousand, like in Afghanistan or Iraq, but a certain number of tens of thousands. Who will liquidate them, where they will be liquidated and in what way is completely irrelevant, but this is one of the objectives if we want to influence the American leadership. We have absolutely nothing to lose.”

But you can't hit what you cannot see. Hence, the logic in conceal and contain.

That's what she said she wanted but obviously you have not mastered the art of mind-reading.

A kitchen appliance for Christmas gift and you are still alive to tell the tale?

Pizza wasted? OMG its further evidence of the decline of civilization as we know it.

Disagree. Fox does not pretend to know more than anyone- they just echo and amplify anything their Neanderthal viewers might believe.

2 States Introduce Radical Bills To Prosecute Women For Abortions Republicans in Arkansas and Oklahoma introduced bills this week that would allow authorities to criminally prosecute pregnant people for seeking abortion care. The legislation offers a terrifying preview of what’s to come in a country that no longer has federal abortion protections. Oklahoma Senate Bill 287 and Arkansas House Bill 1174 were proposed with the specific intent to criminalize anyone who gets an abortion. The Oklahoma legislation aims to amend the state’s near-total abortion ban to eliminate language that protects pregnant people from prosecution. The Arkansas legislation would let the state’s homicide laws apply to aborted fetuses and give them due process protections, while also repealing protections for people who “solicit, advise, encourage, or coerce a pregnant woman” to get an abortion. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/states-introduce-radical-bills-to-prosecute-pregnant-people-for-abortions_n_63cad58be4b0c2b49ad52898

CBC, BBC, Al-Jazeera and various websites which have a proven history of accurate reporting and predicting.

This tactic is predicated on the belief that the Russian army has more disposable bodies than the Ukrainian army has bullets. It worked for the Russians in WW2 but has not taken into account the advances in weaponry. The tactic reminds me of "skirmish lies" which were popular in Europe before the advent of automatic weapons where opposing forces would line up in two parallel lines several hundred yards apart dressed in bright uniforms and march slowly towards each other while shooting or stand in lines and fire at each other. One of the reasons the Brits lost the American Revolutionary War was their generals' insistence on marching thus towards the American rebels while the rebels hid behind anything they could find and fired away. Some American commanders tried the British tactics and got a lot of their soldiers killed until they smartened up.

An absolutely insane Russian suicide attack. This time not around Bakhmut, but somewhere in the Zaporizhzhia region in the south. Russian troops, without any armor support, running in the open field. For Ukrainian snipers and infantrymen, they are just a training target.

Not all "faith" dogma is helpful or even benign. Sometimes intolerance and despotism is disguised as articles of faith- recent case in point is the recent Flyer captain's refusal to wear an LGBT symbol during the morning skate because his Russian Orthodox church calls being gay a mortal sin with a death penalty. The Southern Baptist churches in the US supported white supremacy and religious intolerance for decades and many still do. In South Africa, the Dutch Reformed Church (Calvinist) openly supported de facto slavery and white supremacy. And there is no need to bring up Wahabist Islam.