Failing Forward: Recalled San Francisco DA Lands At Berkeley Law, While Lori Lightfoot Brings 'Big D*ck' To Harvard

After failing so hard as San Francisco district attorney that a Democrat-led coalition of residents led a recall effort, Chesa Boudin, the soft-on-crime former 'Soros DA' has landed on his feet at UC Berkeley, where he'll lead the college's new Criminal Law & Justice Center.

"A lifetime of visiting my biological parents in prison and my work as a public defender and district attorney have made clear that our system fails to keep communities safe and fails to treat them equitably," Boudin - the child of two cop-killing communists, said regarding the announcement.

Boudin's adopted father, Bill Ayers, is an Obama family friend and an admitted terrorist who only regretted 'not planting enough bombs.' Ayers' Weather Underground group took credit for 25 bombings - including at the US Capitol, the Pentagon, the US State Department, the CA Attorney General's office and a NYC police station, in an attempt to overthrow the US government.

Boudin has also been accused of botching a response to hate crimes against Asians.

And in today's second case of failing forward - disgraced Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D), who once bragged about having the "biggest dick" in the city, has landed a teaching gig at Harvard less than a month after leaving office.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/failing-forward-recalled-san-francisco-da-lands-berkeley-law-while-lori-lightfoot-brings

https://twitter.com/LooneyTunes/status/1664319278773063680

The Criminalization of Truth in the Western World

Time is running out on truth, the telling of which is being criminalized.

In his Introduction to the 1946 edition of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley noted that the greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by dong something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects, by lowering what Mr. Churchill calls an ‘iron curtain’ between the masses and such facts or arguments as the political bosses regard as undesirable, totalitarian propagandists influence thought more effectively than by lying.

Churchill was speaking of the Iron Curtain being lowered over the Soviet Empire by Stalin. Today the Iron Curtin is being lowered over the “free” Western peoples by their “democratic” governments, their “democratic” media, and their “democratic” universities and school systems. If you are not permitted to know the truth, you cannot speak it.

Elon Musk spent a large part of his fortune to free Twitter from censorship only to find that the EU will ban Twitter from EU member states unless Musk accepts EU censorship of truths unwelcome to the EU’s agendas.

The EU’s French censor, euphemistically titled “French Digital Transition and Telecommunications Ministry,” stated that “disinformation,” the ministry’s main function, “is one of the gravest threats weighing on our democracies.” If Musk doesn’t accept the EU’s censorship, Twitter “will be banned from the EU.” https://www.rt.com/news/577112-eu-threatens-twitter-ban/

To be clear, the Western values of free speech and open discussion have been redefined as “fonts of misinformation” and “threats to democracy.” But of course, they are the basis of democracy. When free speech is suppressed, we have not democracy but tyranny.

Getting at the truth is difficult and always has been. Truth can upset and make angry as many or more people as it enlightens. An existing belief is tenacious. Most people want their beliefs confirmed, not challenged. This makes indoctrinated beliefs stable. Historians cover up truth for career reasons, as do politicians. Prosecutors cover up truth in order to obtain convictions. Media cover up truth for advertising revenues and in exchange for “sourced” leaks from CIA, FBI, politicians, and prosecutors that establish official narratives that serve the various agendas.

I have spent my life in service to the truth. This is not a claim that I always get it right, but that my agenda is truth whether I get there or not. Occasionally I receive recognition for my service to truth (see, for example, https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/rescue-from-the-matrix/ and https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/05/26/this-is-my-best-or-one-of-my-best-interviews-i-recommend-it-to-you/).

Generally speaking, favorable comments about me and my writings immediately bring out trolls to demonize and libel me with the goal of scaring readers away from my website. The ruling establishment works hard to boost the reputations of those who repeat official narratives as truth, even giving them Pulitzer Prizes, and to destroy the reputations of those who speak the truth. The attacks on truth tellers are helping the ruling establishment criminalize truth. Truth tellers are being turned into criminals on an ex post facto basis. Exercising free speech is being associated with harming official explanations with truth, and is in the process of becoming a criminal act. Fox News, in settling gratuitously a civil law suit from Dominion voting machines, paid close to $1 billion to create the precedent that reporting news that is harmful to any party is libel even if the reported news is true and had no malicious intent.

In other words, Fox News just paid almost one billion dollars to establish that reporting the truth is libel. That is the end of free speech and accountability.

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/06/01/the-criminalization-of-truth-in-the-western-world/

Judge Considers Tossing Clinton Foundation Whistleblower Case After Durham Report Revelations

A federal judge is weighing whether to throw out a case against the IRS that alleges the Clinton Foundation violated federal law and should have its tax-exempt status revoked.

U.S. Tax Court Judge David Gustafson on May 30 asked the government and experts who brought a whistleblower claim to the IRS based on a years-long investigation of the foundation to submit additional filings in light of recent developments in other cases.

Rulings in those cases “may affect the parties’ positions as to the pending motions,” Gustafson wrote in a brief order (pdf), which was first reported by Just the News. “We will order further filings so that the parties may address those recent opinions,” he added.

Those opinions include an appeals court ruling (pdf) in favor of the government in a case brought by a whistleblower who offered what he said was evidence a company was not paying enough taxes.

John Moynihan, a former federal agent, and Lawrence Doyle, a tax expert, brought evidence to the IRS in 2017 that they say shows the Clinton Foundation violated U.S. law by acting as a foreign agent without registering as one.

The IRS denied the claims after interviewing one of the people cited and determining the evidence “was not credible” due to the person’s denials. An appeal of the determination was turned down, prompting Moynihan and Doyle to take the matter to U.S. Tax Court.

The government tried convincing Gustafson to toss the case, but in a 2020 ruling, he rejected the bid, finding that the IRS’s whistleblower’s office had “abused its discretion” by making unsupported statements in its determination.

A new motion to dismiss the case for lack of jurisdiction was lodged in 2022 and is currently under consideration. The motion and an opposition filing from Moynihan and Doyle were not available on the court docket.

In addition to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit opinion in Villa-Arce v. Commissioner, Gustafson referenced two other rulings:

A ruling (pdf) by the same court found that the tax court had jurisdiction to consider a whistleblower claim but that the court correctly threw out a case brought by a whistleblower.

A ruling (pdf) by the tax court found that the IRS appeared to correctly deny a whistleblower award to a man who was interviewed during an investigation.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judge-considers-tossing-clinton-foundation-whistleblower-case-after-durham-report

>>18942433

DisNotable

Judge blasts 'evil' murderer during sentencing: 'Try to commit suicide … so you don’t kill people and try to rape 5-year-olds'

A judge in Michigan did not hold back when issuing a sentence to a man who had recently pled no contest to several brutal crimes, including murder and assault. The judge told the man he should have committed suicide rather than harm others the way he did.

The details of the man's crimes are truly horrific. At around 4 a.m. on September 23, 2022, Arthur Williamson, 55, went to the home that his acquaintance Nicole Guertin shared with her longtime boyfriend, Jim Nicolai, and their two young children. Nicolai was an overnight news anchor on WWJ 950, an AM news and talk radio station for metro-Detroit, and while on air he was known as Jim Matthews.

Guertin later testified that she allowed Williamson, whom she referred to as "Smokey," to come over to her home in Chesterfield Township, about 35 miles north of Detroit, so that they could smoke crack and use heroin together. Nicolai was not yet home from work.

At some point in the evening, Williamson asked Guertin to engage in "role play," but Guertin refused. Her refusal reportedly enraged Williamson. He suddenly pulled out a knife and began slashing at her. He managed to restrain her physically before tying her up with zip ties.

Nicolai returned from work around 6 a.m. As soon as he entered the home, he greeted Williamson and then began screaming as Williamson bludgeoned him repeatedly with a hammer, Guertin said. In addition to the hammer, Williamson also attacked Nicolai with the knife, eventually slitting the man's throat and killing him.

After the attack on Nicolai, Guertin, whose wrists and ankles were still tied, remained helpless as she saw Williamson go after her children, who had been asleep. Williamson bound her 10-year-old son with duct tape and began striking him with a hammer, repeatedly yelling at the boy who was whimpering and begging Williamson to stop.

Then, to her horror, Guertin overheard Williamson lubricate himself before grabbing her 5-year-old daughter, who had been awakened by the noise, and then raping her. The little girl also noticed her father's lifeless body. "Is that my dad?" the girl reportedly asked Williamson. "Did you kill my dad?"

At some point, Guertin managed to free herself from her bonds. She grabbed hold of her daughter and ran out of the home and called for help. When police arrived, they discovered Williamson in the basement. He had suffered self-inflicted injuries and had also attempted to kill himself by overdosing on heroin. However, he was administered Narcan and taken to the hospital for treatment. He was later arrested.

Guertin had stab wounds all over her body, and her son was found in a closet "left for dead," though he survived as well.

About a month ago, Williamson pled no contest to one count of first-degree premeditated murder, two counts of assault with intent to commit murder, and three counts of unlawful imprisonment.

At a sentencing hearing on Thursday, Macomb County Circuit Court Judge James Biernat excoriated Williamson for his vicious crimes and his indifference to human life. "You’re a pedophile, you’re a murderer, and you’re the embodiment of evil," Judge Biernat began. "The only thing that’s amazing is you didn’t kill all of them."

But Biernat still had more to say. "Try to commit suicide before you do any of this," the judge added, according to reports. "Take yourself out so you don’t kill people and try to rape 5-year-olds."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/judge-blasts-evil-murderer-during-sentencing-try-to-commit-suicide-so-you-dont-kill-people-and-try-to-rape-5-year-olds

Trump demands judge's recusal in DA Bragg case

"This case before this Court is historic and it is important that the People of the State of New York and this nation have confidence that the jurist who presides over it is impartial," Trump's attorneys wrote.

Former President Donald Trump on Friday demanded that the judge handling Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against him recuse himself from the matter, asserting that he is not an impartial figure.

Trump's attorneys submitted a filing to the court pointing to Judge Juan Merchan's past role in a previous case in which he encouraged former Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg to cooperate against the former president, before noting the political and financial interest of the judge's daughter in the case's outcome.

Merchan's daughter works for Authentic Strategies, a left-wing advertising group that Trump's attorneys say stands to make money on the case, according to The Hill. The attorneys noted that the case's outcome will likely affect political messaging during the 2024 electoral cycle and shape the ways Authentic works with its clients.

They further asked Merchan to explain "what appear to be certain political contributions made by [Merchan] to candidate Joe Biden’s Presidential campaign and other political causes so that the defense can assess whether these donations separately warrant [the judge's] recusal."

Federal Election Commission records show that someone named Juan Merchan, an employee of the New York court system, gave $35 in political contributions in 2020, $15 of which went to President Joe Biden's campaign.

"This case before this Court is historic and it is important that the People of the State of New York and this nation have confidence that the jurist who presides over it is impartial. Most respectfully, the foregoing facts compel the conclusion that Your Honor is not and thus should recuse," the former president's legal team insisted.

Trump is facing 34 criminal counts stemming from a 2016 payment his then-personal attorney, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels. Trump has pleaded not guilty.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/trump-demands-judges-recusal-da-bragg-case

Train collision in eastern India kills more than 200, injures hundreds more

At least 207 people have been killed and 850 injured in a collision between two passenger trains in the Indian state of Odisha, according to government officials.

Key points:

The collision if the worst train train crash the country has seen in recent years

Many passengers are believed to be trapped under rail cars at the scene

The cause of the accident is under investigation

In one of India's worst rail accidents in years, more than 120 bodies were recovered so far, Sudhanshu Sarangi, the director-general of the fire department in Odisha, told Reuters, adding that the death toll "might go up" as rescue teams continued to search.

About 850 people had been taken to local hospitals with injuries, with more than 200 ambulances mobilised, state Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena said in a tweet.

The Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata to Chennai, collided with another passenger train, the Howrah Superfast Express, railway officials said.

The Howrah Superfast Express derailed and became entangled with the Coromandel Express, South Eastern Railway authorities said in a statement.

The cause of the accident is under investigation.

Many passengers were believed to be trapped under rail cars at the scene.

Images from the scene show rescuers climbing up the mangled wreck of one of the trains to find survivors.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said authorities' priority was "removing the living to the hospitals, that's our first concern, to look after the living".

Hundreds of young people lined up outside a government hospital in Odisha's Soro to donate blood.

"I was there at the site and I can see bloods, broken limbs and people dying around me," an eyewitness told Reuters.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet "all possible assistance" was being given to those affected.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-03/train-collision-in-india-kills-hundreds/102436504

>>18942509

>Should we not welcome this 2A challenge?

Have at it I say if it's good for this treasonous crackhead it sets a wonderful precedent

More Russian civilians killed by Ukrainian strikes - governor

Belgorod Region head Gladkov said two people were killed and an 11-year-old injured by shrapnel

At least two people were killed and several more injured in the latest Ukrainian shelling of Russia’s Belgorod Region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Friday.

Two residents of the village of Sobolevka were killed outside their homes, Gladkov wrote on his Telegram channel. He added that at least six people were injured, including children. An 11-year-old girl was hospitalized with “a shrapnel injury to the left eye.”

Two more civilians were injured in the city of Shebekino, when a projectile exploded next to their car, the governor said. Both victims were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds, and one of them had sustained a concussion.

The constant shelling prompted the Gladkov this week to announce the evacuation of children from the areas closest to the border with Ukraine.

On Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry said its troops had repelled an armed incursion from Ukraine into Belgorod Region.

Units made up of Russian volunteers fighting for Kiev have previously claimed responsibility for similar cross-border raids on Belgorod Region in mid-May, and Bryansk Region in early March.

https://www.rt.com/russia/577392-new-belgorod-shelling-victims/

Tom Fitton Reveals Shocking Story of FBI Agents Targeting Him at His Home For Defending Trump After Mar-a-Lago Raid!

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton revealed FBI agents knocked on his door and served him with a federal grand jury subpoena.

Fitton said he was at home on his couch recovering from “significant skin cancer surgery” when two FBI agents knocked on his door.

“Two FBI agents are at the door with a subpoena for me to testify to the grand jury presumably about this Mar-a-Lago issue,” Fitton told Fox News host Jesse Watters Thursday evening.

Tom Fitton said he was called in to the grand jury which he noted was “highly unusual.”

“And just before I go in to the grand jury the day before, they said ‘oh by the way, we want to ask you a little bit about this January 6 stuff, too,'” Fitton said.

Three prosecutors all ‘tag teamed’ Tom Fitton.

Fitton described his experience: “It was a four-hour MSNBC-style struggle session where they were arguing with me over tweets and electors and the Clinton sock drawer case and what I had for lunch at the White House.”

No actual crimes were presented to the grand jury, Fitton told Jesse Watters.

Fitton said he was targeted by the federal government because he defended Trump for taking presidential records to Mar-a-Lago.

“They wanted to know what I said to Trump at one lunch and what was his reaction,” Fitton said.

Fitton continued, “This is abuse of power! A fishing expedition and it was as political as anything you would see at a DNC convention!”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/tom-fitton-reveals-shocking-story-fbi-agents-targeting/

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>>18942738

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