Monday, October 23, 2017
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #53
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Terrorism-Related Cases In Germany Quadruple In One Year
Prosecutors have opened more than 900 cases so far this year, compared to 240 throughout 2016. Just 80 cases related to terrorism reached the courts in 2013.
The federal prosecutors office can’t keep up with the increase and nearly 300 cases have been transferred to the state level. Not all cases involve plans to carry out attacks. Migrants from Syran, Iraq and Afghanistan have been tried over alleged membership in terror groups without being suspected of planning attacks on European soil.
Germany’s federal police (BKA) estimates 705 Islamist extremists are willing to carry out terror attacks, up from 600 during an estimate in February. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) recently said around 24,400 Islamists are active in the country but most of them don’t pose an immediate terror threat.
BKA chief Holger Münch told daily newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau in July that the danger from the far-right and far-left is minor compared to threats posed by...
Fired Venezuela Prosecutor Leaks Video Implicating Maduro In Taking $35M Bribe
Venezuela’s ousted chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega published on her blog a video last week that showed an executive of the scandal-hit Brazilian firm Odebrecht claiming he had paid a huge bribe to the nation’s president.
Euzenando Prazeres de Azevedo was filmed speaking with Brazilian prosecutors in December 2016. He appears to confess that Nicolas Maduro’s middleman solicited a large contribution from Brazilian business to his 2013 presidential campaign.
“HE ASKED FOR US$50 MILLION, BUT I AGREED TO PAY US$35 MILLION,” THE EXECUTIVE SAID IN A TESTIMONY. AZEVEDO ADDED HE HAD RECEIVED ASSURANCES THAT MADURO WOULD PRIORITIZE ODEBRECHT PROJECTS IF HE WERE TO WIN THE VENEZUELAN PRESIDENCY.
The recording was said to have been made by Brazilian prosecutors last December.
The president’s office made no immediate comment Thursday about the accusation, and state television did not mention it.
Vladimir Aras, a senior Brazilian prosecutor who until recently led the attorney general’s international cooperation office, said that the recording was authentic. According to Mr. Aras, it was among the pieces of evidence that the Brazilian authorities shared with Ms. Ortega earlier this year after they grew convinced that she was intent on holding people suspected of being complicit in the bribes in Venezuela accountable.
The investigation into Odebrecht, a construction giant, has become the biggest corruption scandal in Latin America. The company is accused of paying millions in bribes to...
A top investigator at Judicial Watch is warning…
Chris Farrell, Director of Investigations and Research at the watchdog group, addressed the explosive developments and revelations pouring forth regarding the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton’s State Department and Eric Holder’s Department of Justice and their deep collaboration with the Russian government and business entities.
“People said, ‘Hey, where’s the Department of Justice investigation? Where’s the FBI?’ Half of the time, they’re complicit.”
Farrell addressed the dangerous nature of the on-going ‘Russian collusion’ witch hunt targeting the Trump administration, as it is essentially an inversion of justice that should have been exacted upon Obama administration officials, who have been embroiled in a scandal of epic proportions via the sale of 20% of US uranium to Russia in a deal involving mass-scale bribery and money laundering – and likely more serious crimes such as espionage and treason, which the Sessions DOJ is now reportedly investigating.
“This is evidence that we are becoming a failed state, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that,” Farrell said. “We have a paralyzed Justice Department and FBI, we have key leaders either unwilling to do anything or they themselves are personally compromised – these are all symptoms or evidence of a failed state. That’s where we’re going, and we’re doing it fast.”
“This level of corruption… this is not an exaggeration – we are at the edge of becoming a...
University teacher brags about policy to always call on white men last … and only if she has to
The open “war on white men” in post-Obama America is personified in the classroom of Stephanie McKellop, a graduate instructor at the University of Pennsylvania.
McKellop, a self-described “queer disabled feminist,” took to social media recently to say that she actively discriminates by calling on white male students last in her class room, if at all.
“I will always call on my Black women students first,” the teacher tweeted. “Other POC get second tier priority. WW come next. And, if I have to, white men.”
Not having the courage of her convictions, McKellop would delete the tweet when she faced heavy criticism, but it’s well known by now that the internet is forever:
This open discrimination — see racism — is called “progressive stacking,” which the left calls “revolutionary.”
Of course, if you are familiar with the failed Occupy Wall Street movement, the use of “progressive stack” was the norm during general assemblies where anyone could speak, with white males relegated to the back of the line, speaking after women and other minority groups.
McKellogs, a poster-child for eschewing a college education, clarified in a follow up tweet that only “white nationalists and Nazis” would be upset about this practice — she has since..
Mueller team criticized by fellow attorneys for history of questionable tactics
As the investigation heats up and key players like former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and press secretary Sean Spicer are interviewed by investigators, several attorneys with experience in federal cases spoke out with their concerns this week.
Harvey Silverglate, a criminal defense attorney in Massachusetts, wrote an opinion piece accusing Mueller of once trying to entrap him when Mueller was acting U.S. attorney in Boston.
“I have known Mueller during key moments of his career as a federal prosecutor,” Silverglate wrote for WGBH News. “My experience has taught me to approach whatever he does in the Trump investigation with a requisite degree of skepticism or, at the very least, extreme caution.”
According to Silverglate, Mueller once sent someone into Silverglate's office offering to give false testimony for a client. Silverglate said he turned the offer down and noticed the man was wearing a wire.
“Years later I ran into Mueller, and I told him of my disappointment in being the target of a sting where there was no reason to think that I would knowingly present perjured evidence to a court,” Silverglate wrote. “Mueller, half-apologetically, told me that he never really thought that I would suborn perjury, but that he had a duty to pursue the lead given to him.”
A spokesman for the special counsel’s office declined to comment.
Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor, also took aim at Andrew Weissmann, the prosecutor tapped by Mueller to help lead the investigation, in a piece this week titled, “Judging by Mueller's staffing choices, he may not be very interested in justice.”
Powell accused Weissmann, once the director of the Enron Task Force, of “prosecutorial overreach” in past cases and said it could signal what’s to come for President Trump and his associates in the Russia probe.
“What was supposed to have been a search for Russia’s cyberspace intrusions into our electoral politics has morphed into a malevolent mission targeting friends, family and colleagues of the president,” Powell wrote in The Hill. “The Mueller investigation has become an all-out assault to find crimes to pin on...
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