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Russian vice defense minister detained on corruption charges; Russia to attack (new) (western) stockpiles After the senate came also to grips with Ukraine funding Russia is eager to combat those (new) stacks of supplies to prevent the supplies from...
by ccoaler1
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on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 10:03 PM PDT
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DA Alvin Bragg had to be able to prove Class E, First Degree felonies to get Donald Trump remanded to custody on conviction. That’s based in part on Trump being a flight risk: $8 million banked in China plus a Boeing 757 at hand. That’s the law in the...
by BewareInfiltration
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on Wed Mar 13, 2024 at 02:13 PM PDT
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On HBO’s Last Week Tonight show this evening, the corruption of SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas was the main story; and at the end John Oliver, having established that actually bribing members of SCOTUS seems to be perfectly acceptable in this day and...
by Irontortoise
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on Sun Feb 18, 2024 at 09:44 PM PST
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MiddleEastEye War on Gaza: Charity says Egypt intelligence-linked firm charging $5,000 [per truck] to get aid over border January 30, 2024 Speaking on condition of anonymity, to avoid obstruction to relief effort, an...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 03:07 PM PST
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Dems on the Oversight and Accountability Committee document How 'Trump Profited from the Presidency' — — This story deserves to be repeated and repeated, until everyone gets it. Donald Trump took millions from foreign interests while in Office. Trump took millions from foreign interests while his Administration, and even he himself, promoted their...
by jamess
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on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 06:35 PM PST
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Donald Trump and his fellow rightwing billionaires have a plan for America. They want to turn the United States from a prosperous, middle-class nation into a country of paupers, where bribery is common and the wealthy can get away with anything. The...
by thomhartmann
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 08:21 AM PST
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Congress is letting the Supreme Court steal their thunder. Here’s some “originalism”:� a simple majority in House and Senate and an agreeable president can do almost anything (see 2021 — 2022)
by Bob Waterstripe
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” — Frédéric Bastiat (French economist) Virtually every crisis...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 08:16 AM PST
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Going to keep this short because it’s probably a lot of preaching to our own choir, but needs to be stressed more with recent announcements of Justice Department action against Democrats (Menendez and Adams). Yes, if wrongdoing occurred there then it...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 10:57 AM PST
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According to Talkers Magazine, the “Bible of the Talk Radio Industry,” I talk with around 6 million people every week on my nationally syndicated call-in radio/TV show. What I’m hearing, increasingly (I’ve been doing this program for 20 years now), is...
by thomhartmann
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on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 09:34 AM PDT
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“The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy…Under current law, campaign contributions are illegal if there is an explicit quid pro quo, and legal if there isn’t. But legal campaign contributions can be as bad as bribes...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 03:39 PM PDT
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The federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201, makes it a crime for a public official to “receive or accept anything of value” in exchange for being “influenced in the performance of any official act.” There is no question Menendez received things of...
by MichaelDonner
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on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 07:46 AM PDT
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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was indicted for corruption and bribery this morning. It took all of a few hours for New Jersey’s top Democrats to call on him to resign from the Senate. Starting with the governor: New Jersey governor calls on Sen. Menendez, a...
by Dan K
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on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 04:55 PM PDT
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U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife were indicted Friday on charges that they took bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car for a range of corrupt acts, including having the Democrat use his influence over foreign affairs to benefit the...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 06:47 AM PDT
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Trump supporters. Pretty much what you’d expect. Loud and crazed. Here we have the usual “Two-Tiered” Justice system arguments. It’s actually quite amazing how well-disinformed these people are. They know every detail of the Trump case — except they...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Fri Jun 16, 2023 at 07:34 AM PDT
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Ok, so the story is that Chuck Grassley claims that a foreign national connected to Burisma has 17 recordings of Joe and Hunter Biden involved in a $5 Million (each) Bribery scandal. This is connected to the mysterious FD10-23 form that we haven’t seen...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Thu Jun 15, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Some of America’s more talked-about social problems in recent years include: gun crime, health care costs, climate change, limited opportunities for the working class, rising hate crimes, and several others. There is one issue that must be addressed...
by Perlinator
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on Fri Jun 02, 2023 at 07:32 PM PDT
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After weeks of news organizations gradually revealing the enormous scope of the gifts that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has received, Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have stopped expecting Thomas to ever come clean on the...
by Mark Sumner
159 comments
on Tue May 09, 2023 at 07:51 AM PDT
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The Guardian is just out this morning with a report by Ed Pilkington about Justice Thomas being proved once again to be an inveterate liar and conman sitting on the bench with a lifetime appointment and no shame. www.theguardian.com/… Just a short...
by kellyb2
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on Thu Apr 20, 2023 at 09:57 AM PDT
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Former state House Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio Republican Party Chair Matt Borges were convicted Thursday in a $60 million bribery scheme that federal prosecutors have called the largest corruption case in state history. A jury in...
by Associated Press
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on Thu Mar 09, 2023 at 01:20 PM PST
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