Eye roll.
It's EVERY DAY!
Why don't we ask WHY it's still being posted here, and WHY they have the stupid Capcha's from HELL trying to report them.
Why do they continue making it easy to post, and difficult to delete?
Just seems there's something more spoopy going on. It's in the algorithm or something.
Just not buying that it's "organic" and an "individual" doing it. Not any more.
Guess we're at the Pay for Play part of the Hunger Games movies.
A Senator’s New Wife and Her Old Friends Draw Prosecutors’ Attention
In early 2019, Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his new girlfriend, Nadine Arslanian, were riding high.
He had avoided a federal bribery conviction after his trial ended with a hung jury, and the couple had begun traveling the world.
Menendez proposed to Arslanian that October in India with a grand gesture, singing “Never Enough” from “The Greatest Showman” outside the Taj Mahal. They married a year later in a small ceremony in the Queens borough of New York City and were showered with gifts from a dozen influential friends, including the head of one of New Jersey’s largest health care systems and a lawyer who would later become the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.
The senator moved into his wife’s modest split-level house in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and they have since attended two state dinners at the White House, dining with the president of France and the prime minister of India.
But their whirlwind romance has taken a sudden dark turn.
Menendez, the 69-year-old Democratic chair of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, is under investigation by the Justice Department for the second time in less than a decade. And this time, his wife is also in prosecutors’ crosshairs.
The new inquiry, led by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, appears to be focused at least in part on the possibility that either the senator or his wife received undisclosed gifts from a company run by a friend of Nadine Menendez, and that those gifts might have been given in exchange for political favors, according to two people with knowledge of the matter and subpoenas issued in the case.
Unlike her husband, who took a seat on a New Jersey school board as a 20-year-old and rose to prominence in Hudson County’s famously sharp-elbowed political scrum, Nadine Menendez, 56, has lived a mainly private life.
She holds a master’s degree in French language and civilization from New York University, but did not work outside the home while raising her two children in Bergen County, New Jersey, according to court records and longtime friends. She is described by friends, acquaintances and two former lawyers in much the same way: social, smart and highly fashion-conscious.
She struggled financially after a 2005 divorce and even faced foreclosure. But by 2020, the year she and Bob Menendez were married, she had formed an international consulting company, and her assets included bars of gold bullion then valued at as much as $250,000.
Nadine Menendez, who is represented by a Washington-based lawyer, now finds herself at the center of an investigation that carries the risk of steep criminal penalties and could alter the political playing field in New Jersey and in Washington as her husband prepares to run for a fourth term next year.
The senator’s campaign finance reports underscore the gravity of the new federal inquiry. He has spent roughly $290,000 since January in connection with the investigation, federal election records show, and last month he created a new defense fund to avoid further draining his political accounts.
The senator has said that he expected the inquiry would be “successfully closed.” His office did not respond to requests for additional comment.
A Halal Monopoly
The full scope of the federal inquiry, including Nadine Menendez’s role, remains unknown. But the investigation appears to focus at least in part on the couple’s connection to a 40-year-old New Jersey businessperson, Wael Hana, who has known Nadine Menendez since before she started dating the senator.
She and Hana were part of a group of friends who frequently socialized at restaurants in northern New Jersey; some of them shared an affinity for Cuban cigars. Several members of the network have received subpoenas, according to a friend who was interviewed by prosecutors and lawyers representing other people in the case.
Hana began operating a startup company, IS EG Halal, in New Jersey in 2019, and it soon became the sole entity authorized to certify that any halal food product imported into Egypt from anywhere in the world had been prepared according to Islamic law.
It was an unlikely development, given that Hana, a U.S. citizen born in Egypt, has said in court papers that he had no prior experience in the halal industry.
Before 2019, four companies in the United States had divvied up the work of ensuring that meat exported to Egypt was free from ingredients prohibited by Islamic law and met strict processing standards, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
moar
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senator-wife-her-old-friends-122734372.html
Think there's more to this ALABAMA slamma then just a little dinner…
Recent Alabama snews, is that Biden over-road Trumps request to move Space Force Command Center to Alabama and keep it where it where it is.
Who is from Alabama?
FULL MOON
Did you never realize what the UN stood for in the first place?
UN-ited
Were we ever free?
ermergerd…
Bitten by Demons. Cartman-esque. Whatever, I do what I want… whoops, where's muh soul?
"We went there to have a whale of a time – a sex holiday, really. But it got out of hand": Billy Idol on the Thailand vacation that ended with a visit from the army
By 1989, Billy Idol was out-of-control. 1983's Rebel Yell had turned the former Generation X man into a star, and 1986's Whiplash Smile, while being greeted less warmly by the critics, was still a commercial success.
His personal life however, was in turmoil. Perri Lister, he mother of his son, had flown back to England the previous year after catching the singer cheating, and while the two tried to patch things up, Idol was caught in a cycle of indiscretion and depression, his bad behaviour matched only by the despair he felt about his inability to maintain the relationship.
He also fell victim to the rock'n'roll lifestyle, and all that entails. He desperately needed a break, one that would sever the supply lines. And a friend, Harry Johnson, had the answer: a trip to Thailand.
"We went there to have a whale of a time – a sex holiday, really," Idol told Classic Rock. "But it got out of hand. Bad things started to happen."
It had started perfectly innocently.
"We were just going to drink and not take any drugs," Idol remembered. "After about a week, drinking all the time was getting really heavy so we asked this cab driver if he could get us some blow. He went off and came back with this thin vial. It was six or seven inches long. We looked at each other, like, 'What do you think this is?' Because cocaine doesn’t usually come in a long thing like that. My friend put his finger in it and had a taste [mimes gingerly dabbing a sample on to his tongue]. It wasn’t blow."
You can probably guess what happened next. It was heroin. And it was some of the strongest heroin around.
"You only needed a pinprick and you were out of your mind," said Idol. "Then we had to work out, well, how are we going to take this? We needed some tin foil [to smoke it off], so we went around all the supermarkets in Bangkok looking for that but they don’t have it there. We ended up using the foil from the chocolate bars at the hotel.
"This stuff was so strong and severely addictive that we then had to get off it before we could fly back home. It’s a fourteen-hour flight, and there’s no way you could do that while coming off heroin [laughs]. You had to get semi-well so you weren’t shitting yourself. We went to a pharmacy and got all these downers to knock ourselves out until we were kind of normal again."
The process took a couple of weeks, and it did not go smoothly.
Idol: "The only trouble was that we’d got a lot of Valiums and heavy tranquillisers. I don’t do well on tranquillisers at all. It just made me change personalities completely. I would become violent and start smashing things; I’d been lifting weights so I was massively powerful. I think we went through a few hotels like that before the Thai army escorted me out of the country on a gurney [laughs]."
According to legend, the army were forced to shoot Idol with a tranquilliser dart, although a more believable version of the story has him being injected with a sedative by a nurse. Either way, Idol almost certainly got off lightly, with Thai authorities able to enforce long prison sentences in the country's notorious prison system for those caught in possession of narcotics.
The following year, Idol's leg was almost ripped off in a horrifying motorcycle crash in Los Angeles, and it was the beginning of a turnaround. As he was rushed to the emergency room, screaming in agony, his thoughts flickered back to Thailand, and being escorted from the country, lashed to a stretcher. Something had to change.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/went-whale-time-sex-holiday-112509951.html
Ye, is not clean. He's just as dirty as the rest. His fake Yesus religion and groupies are no more than another Cult. You don't walk unwittingly into the Kardashian Cult.
Follow his Mentor. JayZ down the rabbit hole. One BIG Club.
Bahahahahaha OMG!
Like he's even a LEADER of anything more than KAYFAB Productions?
KEKEKEKEKEK
Pretty sure Ukraine is cleaned out. All BIO labs gone. All Children Removed. The rest is smoke and mirror fake snews stories. No more Hype. It's not working.
You'll fair much better in the mindwar if you detatch your belief that anyone at this point, at face value.
Elon is an actor. Elon is not running twat. The scrip is saying it. Elon is nothing more than a face, like Zuckerbucks, and @ jackass. CIA pickleclowns.
Everyone had a choice presented to them. Some get to die as "heros" which this anon doesn't agree with, but whateves. Deals HAD TO BE CUT. Mistake. History repeating AGAIN!!
I digress… Elon is also an Actor. He is dirty. If anyone is "After them" that's also part of the script.
They sued the City. The PEOPLE, end up paying ALL THEIR FINES and Suits. TAXES.
Every. Time.