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What the prosecutors are saying is that the leaders of the riot incited and conspired to attack the capitol, and that ought to be a gimme.

"Tactical pause" was just announced by Wagner PMC around Bakhmut. Mild shock Turkey suddenly blocked the shipments of sanctioned goods to and from Russia. Many Russian companies are now forced to find alternative sources or routes.

Man convicted in credit card 'skimming' scheme alleges George Santos was the one 'in charge' During his two months in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. George Santos (R-New York) has been inundated with bad publicity. Much of it has surrounded all the lies he told during his 2022 campaign, including false claims that his grandparents were Holocaust survivors and that his mother, Fatima Devolder, was in the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (which, according to the New York Times, would have been impossible because records show that Devolder was in Brazil at the time). But there have been other Santos-related controversies as well. In Brazil, prosecutors are investigating the Queens/Long Island congressman for possible fraud and are looking into allegations that he used a stolen checkbook in Rio de Janeiro in the late 2000s. Meanwhile, in a separate fraud cause in the United States, a Brazilian man, Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha, is alleging that Santos (who has also gone by Anthony Devolder) coordinated a credit card skimming scheme in Seattle. According to Politico reporter Jacqueline Sweet, Trelha told federal U.S. officials, in a sworn statement, "I am coming forward today to declare that the person in charge of the crime of credit card fraud when I was arrested was George Santos/Anthony Devolder." Sweet, in an article published by Politico on March 9, reports, "Trelha decided to contact law enforcement officials after seeing the newly minted congressman on television, he said in the declaration…. He was previously questioned about the Seattle scheme by investigators for the U.S. Secret Service, CBS News has reported. He was never charged, but the investigation remains open. Santos also told an attorney friend he was 'an informant' in the fraud case. Trelha insists he was its mastermind." Trelha, who served seven months in jail in the U.S. before being deported back to Brazil in early 2018, alleges that Santos trained him to commit credit card fraud. In a statement to the FBI and federal prosecutors dated March 7, 2023, Trelha alleged, "Santos taught me how to skim card information and how to clone cards. He gave me all the materials and taught me how to put skimming devices and cameras on ATM machines." https://www.alternet.org/george-santos-2659569789/

CFL reaches agreement on sale of Montreal Alouettes: report By 3Down Staff -March 9, 2023 The Montreal Alouettes have finally been sold, according to a new report from Richard Dufour of LaPresse. The deal is expected to be announced during a press conference at Olympic Stadium on Friday morning. CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie will be in attendance. The CFL took over interim control of the Alouettes franchise last month in the hopes of finding a new owner. The team’s future was placed in jeopardy after the estate of the late Sid Spiegel elected to stop funding operations. The Alouettes were originally purchased by S and S Sportsco, a corporate entity owned by Spiegel and his son-in-law Gary Stern, in January 2020. However, Spiegel passed away in July of 2021 having never seen his team play, leaving his 75 percent stake in the franchise under the control of two anonymous lawyers. The team had previously endured a year-long period of league ownership after long-time owner Robert Wetenhall surrender the franchise in May of 2019. The league recently entered into exclusive negotiations with Quebecor Inc. about the sale of the team. The Montreal-based media and telecommunications company operates assets such as Videotron, Groupe TVA, Le Journal de Montreal and Le Journal de Quebec. Their sports and entertainment division currently owns and operates the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada and Quebec Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. The company is controlled by president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau, a prominent businessman and former politician who briefly served as the leader of the separatist Parti Québécois. The 61-year-old Montreal native has an estimated net worth of $1.9 billion USD. Either Quebecor or Peladeau himself is expected to be announced as the team’s new owner, with clarity around the structure of ownership coming on Friday morning. Interim team president Mario Cecchini, who helped oversee the search for new owners alongside the league’s investment banking partner Park Lane, was announced as the new commissioner of the QMJHL on Tuesday and will not be returning to the franchise.

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Manhattan Prosecutors Signal to Trump That Indictment Is Coming: Report -Reuters The Manhattan district attorney’s office recently gave Donald Trump’s lawyers the clearest signal yet that it plans to file criminal charges against the former president, The New York Times reported Thursday. This hint came in the form of an offer for Trump to go before a grand jury currently hearing evidence about his alleged role in a hush-money arrangement with a porn star, four people familiar with the matter told the Times. He could give his testimony, if he wishes, as soon as next week. Such offers, according to the newspaper, “almost always” signify an impending indictment. The Manhattan inquiry has involved the questioning of at least six other people before the grand jury, including most recently Hope Hicks, a onetime senior aide to Trump. If District Attorney Alvin Bragg ultimately chooses to indict Trump, it will be the first criminal charges the former president has ever faced, and could throw a wrench in the gears of his campaign to get back into the White House in 2024.

Lauren Boebert trashes sex-ed — then announces teen son is making her a “36-year-old grandmother” “He said, ‘well didn’t you make granny a 36-year-old granny,’” she said. “I said, ‘yes I did'" By IGOR DERYSH Senior News Editor PUBLISHED MARCH 9, 2023 12:30PM (EST) Rep. Lauren Boebert speaks at CPAC at Gaylord National Harbor Resort & Convention on March 4, 2023. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) Facebook 3.8K Twitter Reddit 305 Email 6 save Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., announced that her 17-year-old son will be making her a "36-year-old grandmother" in April. Boebert, who called to cut funding to schools that teach students comprehensive sex education at last week's CPAC, announced at a Moms for America event that her son Tyler and his girlfriend are expecting a baby boy. Boebert during the announcement took at dig at LGBTQ Americans, saying that she and her husband are raising their four boys "to be men before liberals teach them to be women." Boebert then revealed that "come April, I will be a Gigi to a brand new grandson." "Now, any of you who have young children who are giving life, there's some questions that pop up. There's some fear that arises," Boebert said in a video posted by Patriot Takes. Boebert said that when she approached her son and told him that he is making her a "36-year-old grandmother," he reminded her that she was a teen mother herself.

To add hypocrisy to Bure's resume, he extols Russia and Putin at every turn, yet has lived in Miami since retiring and has never returned to Russia, even to visit.

Cameron-Bure is married to Pavel Bure who is a public supporter of Putin and the war on Ukraine has been crusading as a Trump-loving right wing Jesus freak.

And then, right after the court hearing: Jenna Ellis @JennaEllisEsq The politically-motivated Left failed miserably in their attempt to destroy me. They’re now trying to falsely discredit me by saying I admitted I lied. That is FALSE. I would NEVER lie. Lying requires INTENTIONALLY making a false statement. I never did that, nor did I stipulate to or admit that. As has become sadly typical, the opposition-controlled media is intentionally twisting the truth, conflating the full RPC standard with the actual stipulation. The standard reads, “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, OR misrepresentation.” The Colorado bar counsel and my counsel concluded that it was best to resolve the bar complaints by agreeing to a public censure.

Bill To Ban Child Marriage In West Virginia Defeated By Republicans CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would have prohibited minors from getting married in West Virginia was defeated Wednesday night in a legislative committee. The Republican-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the bill on a 9-8 vote, a week after it passed the House of Delegates. The vote came shortly after the bill’s main sponsor, Democratic Del. Kayla Young of Kanawha County, testified briefly before the committee. She said that since 2000 there have been more than 3,600 marriages in the state involving one or more children. Currently, children can marry as young as 16 in West Virginia with parental consent. Anyone younger than that also must get a judge’s waiver. “For now, there will be no floor for the age of marriage in WV, endangering our kids,” Young wrote on Twitter after the vote. In a rebuke, Cabell County Democratic Sen. Mike Woelfel reminded the committee after the vote that Wednesday was International Women’s Day. Some of the bill’s opponents have argued that teenage marriages are a part of life in West Virginia. Kanawha County Republican Sen. Mike Stuart, a former federal prosecutor who sided with the majority, said his vote “wasn’t a vote against women.” He said his mother was married when she was 16, and “six months later, I came along. I’m the luckiest guy in the world.” (And a good argument for contraception)

Ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis admits to lying 10 times while pushing election fraud lies Jenna Ellis, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, admitted in court that she “misrepresented” the truth at least 10 times on major TV news interviews and on social media while pushing Trump’s “Big Lie” about fraud “stealing” the 2020 presidential election from Trump/ Ellis made this admission by signing a legal document stating that she “violated professional ethics rules barring reckless, knowing or intentional misrepresentations by attorneys,” by pushing these lies despite having zero evidence to back them up, CNN reported. For example, on the November 20, 2020 installment on Maria Bartiromo’s show on Fox Business, Ellis claimed, “We have affidavits from witnesses, we have voter intimidation, we have the ballots that were manipulated, we have all kinds of statistics that show that this was a coordinated effort in all of these states to transfer votes either from Trump to Biden, to manipulate the ballots, to count them in secret.” Following the November 2020 election, Ellis repeatedly said that the election had been “stolen.” In her recently signed document, Ellis agreed that she, “through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public,” Colorado News Wire reported. Responding to Ellis’ admission, Bryon M. Large, a disciplinary presiding judge in Colorado, censured Ellis, saying, “The parties agree that Respondent [Ellis], through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public.” When asked in December 2020 about the criticism she received for pushing Trump’s “Big Lie,” Ellis told Fox Business anchorperson Charles Payne, “My life is in service and honor to the Lord Jesus Christ and so whatever anybody else says really doesn’t bother me. Ultimately at the end of the day, as long as I know that I’m pursuing truth and I’m doing the right thing for God and my country,. That’s all that matters. So that’s what gives me my optimism and my hope.”

Businesses are legally required to turn a profit, and it is up to government to assure that they conduct themselves in an ethical manner and pay their fair share of taxes. If you are right-wing minded, the government has no business "meddling" in the workings of the "free market". Private businesses are in business to generate the largest possible profits in the shortest possible time and seek to influence governments to allow that to happen with the fewest restrictions. In an ideal society there is a dynamic balance between the welfare of the citizenry and private enterprise. The problem arise because , obviously, businesses have more money to influence government through direct financial donations and through media of one sort or another, tipping the scales. A good government, be they federal, provincial or civic mediates that balance. Its an imperfect situation but no better one has presented itself.

Ivanka Trump Rats Our Her Dad And Brothers In Fraud Case Ivanka Trump went with the tried and true defense when people start trying to save themselves. She blamed her father and brothers for the fraud. The Independent reported: In court documents, Ms Trump’s attorneys argue that the fraud complaint filed last year against her and her co-defendants by New York Attorney General Letitia James “does not contain a single allegation that Ms. Trump directly or indirectly created, prepared, reviewed, or certified any of her father’s financial statements”. “Other individuals were responsible for those tasks,” her lawyers wrote. The New York Attorney General has a much different view of the case that has Ivanka Trump just as involved in the fraud at the Trump Organization as the other family members. Ivanka Trump clearly is not going to take any legal bullets for her family. Just like her father, She found someone else to blame, and that person is her dad.

Please give an example of any NDP administration event(s) that mirrors the Stefansson incident.

Fox News Edits Out Trump Saying He Would Let Russia ‘Take Over’ Parts of Ukraine -REUTERS Donald Trump has long insisted that the Ukraine war would have never happened if he were still president, going so far as to blame the “rigged election” on Russia’s unprovoked invasion while claiming he had the magic words to stop the fighting “immediately.” During a radio interview with Fox News host (and longtime confidant) Sean Hannity on Monday, the twice-impeached ex-president finally revealed how he personally would have prevented the war. According to Trump, all he needed to do was let Russia “take over” parts of Ukraine.

Putin’s Troops Filmed Threatening to Turn Weapons on Bosses OFF THE RAILS “You can jail us all! How many years is it, 5, 7, 10? We don’t give a ****!” Allison Quinn News Editor Updated Mar. 08, 2023 12:17PM ET / Published Mar. 08, 2023 12:11PM ET REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko Listen to article3 minutes A group of Russian troops sent to Ukraine to fight for the Kremlin’s “new” territory is threatening to raise absolute hell over what they describe as pointless suicide missions—and they’ve made clear they’re willing to turn their weapons on members of their own team if necessary. The draftees from Kaliningrad have already appealed directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin to complain of ancient weapons, lack of training, and people dying “for nothing.” In a video released publicly earlier this week, they shamed top military brass by saying there appears to be no battlefield strategy whatsoever and declaring that “this is no way to fight a war.” Now, a video has leaked capturing the aftermath of their complaints. In a five-minute clip released by the independent outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti, the men can be seen surrounding a commander sent out from Kaliningrad and warning him they will put up a fight if they are not heard. “You can jail us all! How many years is it, 5, 7, 10? We don’t give a ****!,” one soldier yells after the commander tries but fails to convince them to obey orders and storm Ukrainian positions.

Jim Jordan, MTG, And Lauren Boebert Refuse To Sign Letter Condemning White Supremacy Republican on the House Oversight Committee like Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert refused to sign a letter condemning white supremacy. Via: The Independent: Democratic members on the House Oversight Committee asked their Republican colleagues to sign a two-sentence statement that plainly rejects white supremacy, white nationalism, and a far-right conspiracy theory that suggests politicians are intentionally seeking to displace white Americans by loosening immigration. All 26 Republicans on the GOP-led committee have signaled that they will not sign the statement, which a committee spokesperson characterized in a statement to The Independent as a distraction.

Louisville Police Department ‘Unlawfully Discriminates Against Black People’: DOJ A new report by the Department of Justice determined that the Kentucky police department responsible for the 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor “unlawfully discriminates against Black people,” among other findings. The report, released Wednesday, found that the Louisville Police Department uses excessive force, uses invalid warrants to conduct searches, unlawfully stops people and “violates the rights of people engaged in protected free speech critical of policing.” The DOJ’s two-year investigation began following the killing of 26-year-old Taylor by Louisville police officers, who knocked her door down while executing a drug search warrant. Taylor was fatally shot by police after her boyfriend fired a shot at the officers as they came through the door. Last year, a Louisville officer pleaded guilty to falsifying the warrant that led to the deadly shooting. The scathing report details widespread abuses of power within the department and a lack of accountability. “Failures of leadership and accountability have allowed unlawful conduct to continue unchecked,” the report says. “Even when city and police leaders announced solutions, they failed to follow through. In LMPD, officer misconduct too often goes unnoticed and unaddressed. At times, LMPD leaders have endorsed and defended unlawful conduct. A street enforcement unit that violated LMPD policy and federal law has been repeatedly rebranded, but never disbanded.” The report also notes that the city of Louisville has paid out more than $40 million in the past to resolve claims of police misconduct.

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