Anonymous ID: 5ad2d1 Feb. 27, 2021, 7:04 a.m. No.13060755   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0786 >>0862 >>1030 >>1223

Federal prosecutors on Friday said they are dropping an effort to seize three properties belonging to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort after he was pardoned by former President Trump.

 

Prosecutors revealed in a court filing that they are discarding a 2019 preliminary forfeiture order they filed against Manafort seeking his mansion in Bridgehampton, Long Island, as well as an apartment in New York City's Chinatown and a townhouse in Brooklyn.

 

"These three real properties will not be under restraint in connection with the prosecution and conviction," the prosecutors wrote, arguing that Trump's pardon has "relieved the Defendant of any further obligation to make payments to satisfy the $11 million monetary judgment of forfeiture."

 

The prosecutors will also not move forward with seizing assets in one of Manafort's accounts at Federal Savings Bank.

 

"The department has determined that due to President Trump's full and unconditional pardon of Paul Manafort, it is necessary to dismiss the criminal forfeiture proceedings involving the four assets which were the subject of the on-going forfeiture ancillary proceedings," a Justice Department spokesperson told The Hill.

 

Shortly after the prosecutors' filing, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson dismissed the forfeiture litigation.

 

Friday's filing does not cover properties and other assets that prosecutors had already seized and sold. Manafort has already lost an apartment in Trump Tower in New York City and a life insurance policy

 

Manafort was ensnared in former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race, during which Manafort briefly served as then-candidate Trump's campaign chairman.

 

Manafort was convicted in 2018 on bank fraud and tax charges and sentenced to more than seven years in prison. He was released to home confinement in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic before winning a December pardon from Trump.

 

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/540792-prosecutors-drop-effort-to-seize-three-manafort-properties-after?amp

Anonymous ID: 5ad2d1 Feb. 27, 2021, 7:15 a.m. No.13060838   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The email, released via WikiLeaks, came amidst the escalation of the Syrian Civil War when Jake Sullivan was Director of Policy Planning in the Obama White House.

 

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/biden-natsec-advisor-al-qaeda/

Anonymous ID: 5ad2d1 Feb. 27, 2021, 7:18 a.m. No.13060856   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0862 >>1030 >>1223

North Dakota Officials Block Wind Power In Effort To Save Coal

 

North Dakota has lots of coal. It also has strong and consistent winds. It might be the perfect spot to showcase the long-awaited "energy transition" from climate-warming fossil fuels to climate-saving renewables.

 

Yet that transition has hit a snag. Two counties in the state have enacted drastic restrictions on new wind projects in an attempt to save coal mining jobs, despite protests from landowners who'd like to rent their land to wind energy companies. It's a sign of how difficult that transition can be for communities that depend on coal for jobs and tax revenue. The economic benefits of wind power, even though substantial, often flow to different people.

 

The dispute erupted last year when Great River Energy, a rural electric cooperative based in Minnesota, announced that it planned to sell its Coal Creek Station, north of Bismarck, ND. If no buyer showed up, the company said it would shut the plant down in 2022. A coal mine that supplies the plant with fuel also would have to close. Roughly a thousand jobs would disappear.

 

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/25/965775584/north-dakota-officials-block-wind-power-in-effort-to-save-coal

Anonymous ID: 5ad2d1 Feb. 27, 2021, 7:28 a.m. No.13060918   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0922 >>1030 >>1223

No joke: Illinois’s state school board and legislature also deleted requirements that teachers prove they have learned any traditional curricular content or subject-matter knowledge. Social agitation uber alles.

 

“What’s more,” notes Stanley Kurtz, “the Illinois experience is about to go national.” A coalition of leftists is working together to make rules like Illinois’s operate in every state under the guise of “civics,” as Kurtz documents in depth. They intend to co-opt and subvert the grassroots recognition in America that education institutions use public resources to teach the next generation to hate the country that gives them more than every other country in the world does.

 

The goal is to use the label “civics” to make people think the plan is teaching children to be more patriotic and literate about history, while accomplishing precisely the opposite: doubling down on young Americans’ well-documented anti-American animus undergirded by their historical ignorance.

 

Obviously this transformation is occurring as majorities of American children have endured frequently disrupted and lower-quality education than usual nearly an entire school year, with half completely online and another quarter partially online now. It is clear that school “as normal” will not soon return even though many schools’ “safety” rules are contrary to evidence and the seasonal flu is truly a higher risk to children than COVID.

 

If your child is one of the three-quarters “doing school online,” you can do it better yourself. If your child is being taught lies instead of truth in school, you can definitely do it better yourself. Just read good books and talk about them.

 

Schools’ increasingly open function as indoctrination factories and massive ineptitude at effective and reliable instruction — which long predates COVID — mean it is past time for parents to stop with the wishful thinking and get their kids something better before it’s too late. Community organizations, primarily churches, must come to their aid.

 

State-sponsored instruction that makes your child a dogmatic, racist relativist is not worth any benefit you feel schools give in return. Not a single one. Being Mowgli raised by wolves and bears would be better for your child than this. Thankfully, unlike the therians or human pups your children could meet under instruction like this, you realize you are not a wolf or bear, so you can do a lot better than raising Mowgli.

 

Moar

 

https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/25/your-kids-would-be-better-off-feral-than-going-to-schools-that-make-them-anti-american-racists/

Anonymous ID: 5ad2d1 Feb. 27, 2021, 7:35 a.m. No.13060961   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0965 >>0995 >>1035

“Wind was operating almost as well as expected”… A Texas-sized Energy Lie

 

Guest “fact checking the fact checkers” by David Middleton

 

Note to fact checking trolls: The featured image is a meme. Look up the word meme before you prattle on about the frozen wind turbine not being in Texas. Also, I have been referring to the freakishly cold weather, snow and ice of the past couple of weeks as Winter Storm Younger Dryas. It is my unofficial pet name for the the Texas weather from February 9-18, 2021. Fact checkers who say this storm name doesn’t exist will very likely be ridiculed.

 

Some good data charts up in here, tough to SC.

 

Moar

 

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/02/25/wind-was-operating-almost-as-well-as-expected-a-texas-sized-energy-lie/