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Brett Kimberlin Re-Surfaces in Connection With ‘Fake News’ Anti-Trump Forgery

Posted on | March 15, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

John Hoge noticed that the pipsqueak pro se perjuring pipe-bomber Brett Kimberlin has made news again, and I’ve got $20 here that says Neal Rauhauser is also involved. Seems there were some Italian criminals peddling forged documents that claimed to show a billion-dollar conspiracy involving Exxon, Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson. Somehow, a former Israeli diplomat and a Democrat activist got wind of these documents and, believing them to be authentic, were willing to pay money for them. This is where the diminutive felon enters the story:

Ariel recalled that he contacted Kimberlin, who then arranged for him to travel to Washington. Ariel had been sounding alarm bells about Russia’s meddling in the presidential campaign so, he said, Kimberlin wanted him to meet people on Capitol Hill. Kimberlin covered the cost of the trip, according to Ariel.
Ariel had not yet seen the documents at that time, but what he did know about them seemed like exactly the sort of thing Kimberlin was interested in digging up. When told about them, Kimberlin quickly agreed to finance Ariel’s efforts to acquire them, according to Ariel and two people with knowledge of the arrangement.
Kimberlin ultimately covered the costs for Ariel to travel to Rome three times, Ariel said. On the first trip, just before Christmas, Pasetti showed him portions of the documents; on the second trip, a price was negotiated; and on the last one Ariel actually purchased the documents. The $9,000 payment was also covered by Kimberlin, according to Ariel and the two people familiar with the arrangement.
Reached Sunday evening at his home in Maryland, Kimberlin declined to discuss the documents or his relationship with Ariel.
“I don’t want to be part of this story. It has nothing to do with me. I have nothing to say,” Kimberlin said.
On January 22, a political activist who works closely with Kimberlin reached out to a BuzzFeed News reporter, offering up what seemed like a lead on an important scoop.
“This isn’t some internet rumor, person has been to Rome to examine bank documents, copies of passports, etc,” an encrypted email read. “Let me know if you want to take a closer look.”
A subsequent email said that the Department of Justice and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations had been informed about the alleged wire transfers earlier in the month. . . .
Ariel and a person close to Kimberlin originally said that reporters from Bloomberg News had also been given the documents and allegedly thought they looked good; to date, the news organization has not published anything. Subsequently, they said that the Washington Post had been shown the documents as well, but decided by mid-February that they were forgeries.

My $20 says that “person close to Kimberlin” is the notorious sociopath Neal Rauhauser and, while I’m not sure that anything described here constitutes a crime, I’d also bet that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is going to have some of his guys take a look-see, just in case.

 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Violence Against Women: FBI Investigating Georgia Sex-Slavery Case

Posted on | March 15, 2017 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women: FBI Investigating Georgia Sex-Slavery Case

 

Police say Kenndric Roberts used so-called “sugar daddy” websites and an Instagram page to lure eight women to the million-dollar mansion north of Atlanta where he operated a sexual slavery ring:

A man in Sandy Springs was arrested after police said he held eight women against their will in a nearly $1 million home.
Just before 8 a.m.[March 7], officers responded to a 911 call from a woman who asked for help leaving a residence in the 100 block of Strauss Lane, Sgt. Sam Worsham said . . .
When they got to the 6,806-square-foot home, officers assisted the women in leaving the residence, Worsham said. It was not immediately clear how long they had been in the house.
“I’m in a very bad situation, and I need to get help,” the caller told the police dispatcher.
The FBI and Sandy Springs investigators arrested 33-year-old Kenndric Roberts on Wednesday on charges of false imprisonment and trafficking of persons for labor, Worsham said. . . .
The woman who called police said she met Roberts through the website seekingarrangement.com. , , ,
According to Fulton County property records, the $976,300 residence has five bedrooms and five-and-a-half bathrooms.
The house was rented, according to Mark Feinberg, president of the homeowners association.

Police say the eight women, ages 19 to 22, were forced to work as strippers and give all their earnings to Roberts. Warrants in the case say Roberts boasted of his affiliation with the notorious Gangster Disciples. He promoted himself through an Instagram page called “Live Star Nation” where the motto was “Loyalty Over Pride.” This was encoded as a tattoo on the arms of the women who called him “boss.”

 

“L.O.P” (Loyalty Over Pride) and the numerical equivalents: 12 for L, 15 for O, 16 for P and 14 for N, the last letter standing for “Nation.” Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA-TV reported that the women “were sent to work at the Pink Pony, Mardi Gras, Oasis, nearby strip clubs.” At least one of the women Roberts called his “Diamond Kitties” was flown to the Dominican Republic where Roberts paid for her to get breast augmentation surgery:

Upon her return from the Dominican Republic, her phone and ID were taken and she was given a “company phone.” Her assignment was to start working at Flashers, another strip club located in Sandy Springs.
She and the other women, she recounted, were not allowed to speak to any black men at the clubs, and that Roberts had people staked out, watching them at the clubs while they worked. She said that she was also prohibited from talking to any of her friends from before her time at the mansion.
And threats were made often, she said.
With an AK47 on him at all times, Roberts, she said, told her that he was going to pay someone to slice open her chest, remove her implants and then chop her up. Among the many threats to her, she said, he also threatened to hurt the other women’s families.
He kept cameras rolling in the house to keep a close eye on everything that happened.
All of the women in the house were having sex with Roberts, she said. And while she didn’t feel forced to have sex, she didn’t believe that saying, “no” to him was an option.

Roberts also faces federal charges of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and the FBI believes there may be more victims.

As with other recent cases of violence against women — in Cleveland, in Houston, in Florida, etc. — feminists have not yet commented on this Atlanta case, for some reason . . .



 

Category: Crime, Violence Against Women

Rachel @Maddow’s Big Nothing Story: Fear and Loathing on MSNBC

Posted on | March 15, 2017 | Comments Off on Rachel @Maddow’s Big Nothing Story: Fear and Loathing on MSNBC

 

Tuesday afternoon, Rachel Maddow claimed a “BREAKING” exclusive: “We’ve got Trump tax returns.” And this turned out to be the biggest flop since Geraldo Rivera’s trip to Al Capone’s vault. Maddow spent an entire hour talking about a two-page summary of President Trump’s 2005 federal income tax filing, which showed he paid $38 million in taxes on $150 million income — a rate of nearly 25%. Nothing illegal, nothing scandalous, just nothing — no news value whatsoever.

 

She was reporting nothing, but she had an entire hour to report it, so she began with a sort of journalistic strip-tease, a lengthy monologue followed by — wait for it — a commercial break. After finally “reporting” the numbers, Maddow then filled the extra time with a lot of blabber — wild speculation about what sinister secrets might be hidden behind those opaque numbers. She suggested there could be debts owed to shady foreign entities (Russians, nudge, nudge, wink, wink) who could thereby influence Trump’s policies. While it is of course possible that such things could be true, speculation is not news, or else I could win a Pulitzer Prize for my seven-part series speculating that Rachel Maddow could be having a secret affair with Mika Brzezinski. Because, hey, why not?

The circular logic of Maddow’s “investigative journalism”:

  1. Donald Trump is a Republican;
  2. Republicans are evil;
    therefore
  3. Somewhere, there must be evidence of how evil Trump is.

Really, that’s all she’s got — a belief in Trump’s evil, which permits her (and every other liberal journalist) to constantly locate mountainous “scandals” where anyone with common sense sees only a molehill. Ever since Hillary lost the election, the media have been dogpiling every possible variation on the Russians-hacked-the-election conspiracy theory, because that’s what their core audience of disappointed Democrat voters want to believe. To those of us old enough to remember the early 1990s, this is much like The Clinton Chronicles, the 1994 conspiracy-theory video that suggested that during Bill Clinton’s years in Arkansas, people had been killed to protect a drug-smuggling operation based at Mena Airport.

 

Well, Vince Foster could not be reached for comment, if you get my drift — nudge, nudge, wink, wink — but whatever shadowy secrets were concealed by the allegedly massive cover-up of Clinton’s Arkansas crimes, there was no smoking-gun proof. The really big scoop that emerged from Little Rock involved something more prosaic, namely Clinton’s predatory extramarital sexual habits, which led to the Jones v. Clinton federal lawsuit, which exposed the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which resulted in Clinton’s impeachment for perjuring himself under oath.

Could there be some Big Dark Secret in Donald Trump’s past that will destroy his presidency? We cannot rule it out, but rummaging around in his old tax records isn’t likely to locate that smoking gun, which is why Rachel Maddow’s “BREAKING” story was such a big nothing.

Anyone who has spent 20 or 30 years closely following politics ought to understand why attempts to manufacture Watergate-sized scandal stories so often lead to embarrassing journalistic failure. The White House issued a statement that denounced Maddow’s story as a “desperate” bid for ratings by “the dishonest media” in pursuit of an “agenda.”

Professor William Jacobson says Maddow committed career suicide Tuesday night, but he’s wrong. Think about how Alex Jones managed to turn his own paranoid 9/11 Truther fantasies into a lucrative career. Nowadays, his InfoWars site can be a valuable source for news — they’re especially good at covering Muslim immigration issues in Europe — but the reader must have the ability to distinguish between (a) the actual facts reported, and (b) any conspiratorial interpretation which might be overlaid onto these facts. So if Rachel Maddow is the left-wing Alex Jones of network news, she could conceivably continue hyping up “fake news” for many years, and getting paid $7 million a year to do it.

Meanwhile, of course, the Pulitzer Prize committee will be eagerly awaiting my seven-part investigative series about rumors of Rachel Maddow’s affair with Mika Brzezinski, which could conceivably be true, in the same way that it could be true that Donald Trump has a secret deal with Vladimir Putin and Webb Hubbell is Chelsea Clinton’s real father.

Journalists must learn to be skeptical about any story that seems too good to be true, but Rachel Maddow has never been a journalist. She’s never done the kind of prosaic work of covering the local school board or reporting on a tornado or anything like that. She began her broadcast career doing left-wing talk radio in Massachusetts, parlayed that into a show on the now-defunct Air America network, and then turned that into a TV career. Maddow is actually the best journalist on MSNBC, but that’s like saying Heike Drechsler was the cutest member of the East German women’s track and field team in the 1984 Olympics, IYKWIMAITYD.



 

 

Category: Donald Trump, MSNBC

Convicted Sex Offender Kidnaps, Robs and Rapes Woman at Cleveland Art School

Posted on | March 14, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports:

A sex offender released from prison 10 months ago is accused of kidnapping a woman at gunpoint from the parking lot at the Cleveland Institute of Art and raping her later in the night.
Dia Cook, 34, is charged with rape, kidnapping and aggravated robbery. He is being held in the city jail on $500,000 bond after his first court appearance on Friday.
Cook about 9:20 p.m. Tuesday followed a 32-year-old woman to the art school’s parking lot on Euclid Avenue at East 117th Street in the city’s University Circle neighborhood.
He pointed to a gun in his waistband and threatened to shoot her unless she got into her car, according to court records.
He forced the woman to drive to another parking lot in an unknown location, where he forced her pants off and raped her several times, court records say.
Cook then made the woman to drive to an ATM and withdraw $200 cash for him, court records say.
He continuously threatened her at gunpoint and groped her as she drove, court records say.
The woman reported the incident and police arrested him about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Cook has three prior felony convictions and served a 10-year prison sentence, all for crimes committed against employees of a single McDonald’s on West 150th Street.

Cook robbed the McDonald’s in 2001, a crime for which served five years on probation. Four years later, he robbed the same restaurant, stole a car, kidnapped a female employee and attempted to rape her. He pleaded guilty to attempted rape, kidnapping and aggravated robbery in that case, and was released from prison in April. His latest crime involved a woman kidnapped from an art school, and this might be the “campus rape epidemic” that feminists have been talking about. So far, however, no feminist has mentioned Dia Cook, nor have feminists taken notice of the violence against women allegedly committed by Joseph Lee Sims, Bryce Scott,  Henry Jose Garcia, Neel Salil Mehta, Douglas Hus-Flores or Kishawn Holmes. It’s as if there’s a pattern or something . . .



 

Category: Crime

Homeless Man With HIV Rapes Woman

Posted on | March 14, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

The Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer reports:

A homeless man with HIV raped a woman on Feb. 3 near the Chattahoochee River at the intersection of First Avenue and 17th Street, according to testimony [Feb. 13] in Columbus Recorder’s Court.
Joseph Lee Sims, 55, pleaded not guilty to rape, sodomy, reckless conduct HIV and giving false information to police.
Columbus Police Officer Christina Lombardo said she was called to the Homeless Resource Network at 2221 Second Ave. around 9:20 a.m. Feb. 3 to investigate a sexual assault.
The victim identified Sims as the individual whom she said restrained and raped her earlier that day around 8 a.m. She couldn’t recall exactly where the incident occurred, but she stated it was near the river, Lombardo told the court.
Sims was taken into custody at Homeless Resource Network at 12:15 p.m. Saturday.
Lombardo said as Sims was being transported to the jail, he denied raping the woman. When he arrived, he allegedly made another statement to detectives about the incident.
“He stated that he ‘had the white b—- without a condom,’” Lombardo testified.
Judge Julius Hunter ordered Sims to return to the Muscogee County Jail, where he is being held without bond on the rape, sodomy and reckless conduct HIV charges. He was given a $250 bond on the false information charge.
The case was bound over to Superior Court.
“I’m going to be free one way or the other,” Sims said as he was being escorted out of the courtroom.
Detective Amanda Hogan said jail records indicate that Sims was arrested in 1996 for HIV reckless conduct.

Feminists haven’t commented on this case, for some reason . . .

 

Category: Crime, Georgia

Minnesota Has Abolished Gender

Posted on | March 14, 2017 | 1 Comment

Acknowledging the authority of Third Wave academic feminism, male and female are no longer recognized categories in higher education:

The University of Minnesota has become the latest university to do away with the traditional Homecoming King and Queen titles and replace them with the gender-neutral “Royals” term.
Taking it one step further, University of Minnesota officials also point out that the winners don’t even have to be one biological male and one biological female, stating on its website: “‘Royals’ … can be any combination of any gender identity.”
Campus officials called the change a move “toward gender inclusivity” that promotes “a spirit of inclusion at the University of Minnesota.”
“This change allows the University to select the best student representatives for the U of M based on campus and community involvement — regardless of gender,” the website states.
Indeed, the entire Homecoming Court at U-Minn. will follow the same concept.
“As in past years, the U will name 10 students to Homecoming court, only this year the mix won’t necessarily be five men and five women. Those 10 will be paired at random to compete in pre-Homecoming events, and their performance, along with a university-wide vote, will determine the two royals,” the Pioneer Press reports.
Allyson Taubenheim, the marketing manager for the university’s Student Unions & Activities, told The College Fix via email that moving forward for the October 2017 festivities, “King and Queen will not be titles — U of M students will be crowned as ‘Royals.’”

Last year the University of Minnesota football team posted a 7-6 record, placing fourth in the Big Ten West and “Perpetuating Rape Culture.” The only time gender is acknowledged on the modern university campus is when feminists are denouncing male students as rapists.

 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 03.14.17

Posted on | March 14, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.14.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Republicans Need To Suck It Up – Repeal Obamacare
Twitchy: If Roll Call Wants To Bust Rubio, They’re Going To Have To Do A Lot Better Than This
Louder With Crowder: Marine Le Pen Slays Reporter Over Fake News – “People Have No Confidence In Media”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Louise Mensch’s Humiliation Is Not Funny
American Power: Robert Utley’s The Indian Frontier Of The American West, also, CBO Cost Estimate Of The American Health Care Act
American Thinker: Take Down The Democrat 10
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Guitar News
Da Tech Guy: Christopher Harper – From China With Love
Don Surber: Trump Makes The Media Pay
Dustbury: Sugar In The Morning, Sugar In The Evening
The Geller Report: Sweden Can’t Find Contractor Willing To Build Police Station In Muslim Suburb – “It’s Too Dangerous”
Hogewash: I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Joe For America: Sarah Palin Denounces GOP’s New Healthcare Bill
Power Line: CBO Analysis Suggests GOP Replacement Plan Is Politically Unsustainable
Shark Tank: Trump’s Sanctuary City Crackdown Continues
Shot In The Dark: Priorities
STUMP: Nevada Pensions – Liability Trends And Asset Trends
The Jawa Report: Ministry Of Irony – BDS Boycott Reaps Israeli Visa Refusals
The Political Hat: Happy Pi Day!
This Ain’t Hell: Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is “Nancy”, also, The Comfort Station
War Is Boring: Russia Tried To Use Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination To Start A Race War
Weasel Zippers: Dakota Pipeline Protesters Left Mess Costing $1.1 Million Taxpayer Dollars To Clean Up, also, Trump Plans To Cut UN Funding By At Least 50%
Megan McArdle: The Anti-Pie Rebellion Of 2017
Mark Steyn: “That’s Not How We Do Things In Australia”


Today’s Digital Deals
Art Of The Pie
Three Brothers Award Winning Pecan Pie

Category: Linkagery

Germany Attacks Free Speech

Posted on | March 14, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

The Associated Press reports:

Germany’s justice minister is proposing fines of up to 50 million euros ($53 million) for social networking sites that fail to swiftly remove illegal content, such as hate speech or defamatory “fake news.”
The plan proposed Tuesday marks a further step in Germany’s attempt to impose its strict domestic laws against incitement on the free-wheeling world of online chatter.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas, a member of the center-left Social Democratic Party, said social media companies had already taken voluntary steps to crack down on hate crimes that have resulted in improvements.
“This isn’t sufficient yet,” Maas said, citing research that he said showed Twitter deletes just 1 percent of illegal content flagged by users, while Facebook deletes 39 percent.
The proposal would require companies to provide a round-the-clock service for users to flag illegal content, which would have to be removed by the site within seven days. All copies of the content would also have to be deleted and social media companies would need to publish a quarterly report detailing how they have dealt with such material.
Sites would also have to nominate a person responsible for handling complaints, who could face fines of up to 5 million euros personally if the company fails to abide by mandatory standards.

This threat of massive government fines is clearly intended to have a chilling effect, to stifle dissent against Angela Merkel’s immigration policy, and to inhibit further election success by the anti-Merkel opposition. Here in America, no one would dare propose such a thing as government policy. Instead we find social-media companies voluntarily enforcing their own censorship policies, so that last year I was banned from Twitter on the vague and unsubstantiated claim that I was “participating in targeted abuse.” Notice that it is the Left — always and only the Left — which demands this kind of censorship.

My suspension from Twitter followed two weeks after the company announced the appointment of feminist Anita Sarkeesian to a “Trust and Safety Council.” There is not even one conservative or libertarian on that Council; it is composed entirely of left-wingers.

We can predict that expressions of “Islamophobia” will be targeted as “hate speech” in Germany, to discourage reporting about crimes by Muslim “refugees.” Here in America, truth is always a defense against any claim of libel, so the Left finds other ways to inhibit free speech.

Perhaps I could give a seminar on “How to Get Banned From Twitter.”

 

Category: Germany
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