Former mayor of Moscow Luzhkov, once one of Russia’s most powerful officials, dies aged 83

The once-powerful mayor of the Russian capital, Yury Luzhkov, has passed away, leaving a legacy of monumental development projects, allegations of corruption and a failed bid for the presidency.

Luzhkov held the top office in one of the world’s most important cities for almost two decades. Best known for his passion for reshaping the cityscape in the most dramatic ways, he is credited with some of the highest-profile construction projects in Moscow

There was also his alleged corruption. His wife, Elena Baturina, who owned a construction business, became one of Russia’s wealthiest people and its wealthiest woman while Luzhkov was in office. His critics have said that graft must have been involved.

The meddler

The other target for Luzhkov’s energy was Crimea. The peninsula became part of Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR, but remained the base for the Black Sea fleet of the Russian Navy. Kiev used the threat of expulsion of Moscow’s warships as a bargaining chip in its negotiations with Russia.

Luzhkov was among the Russian politicians who considered this situation unfair to the predominantly Russian region. He spent plenty of Moscow’s budget to support sailors and officers serving in Crimea with stipends and housing, vocally criticizing Ukrainian officials who would object to his program. In 1999 he even advocated building a bridge connecting Crimea with mainland Russia – two decades before the project was actually implemented.

https://www.rt.com/russia/475468-moscow-mayor-luzhkov-dies/

Wisconsin National Guard Leader Resigns in Wake of Sex Assault Review

MADISON, Wis. — The commander of the Wisconsin National Guard agreed to resign at Gov. Tony Evers' request Monday, following the release of a scathing federal report that found the Guard defied federal law, regulations and policies for years over the handling of soldiers' sexual assault and harassment complaints.

The report from the National Guard Bureau in Washington, D.C., found the Guard allowed internal investigations in defiance of federal law as well as Department of Defense and bureau policy; investigators falsely presented themselves as working for the federal bureau; case records were mismanaged; and Guard sexual assault response policies were not in compliance with federal regulations for more than five years.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/12/10/wisconsin-national-guard-leader-resigns-wake-sex-assault-review.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Seems they might be testing a new plague

Flock of over 50 native birds die after falling from sky bleeding from eyes

A large flock of native birds has died after a mysterious illness caused them to fall from the sky, bleeding from their eyes and beaks. WARNING: Graphic

Dozens of native corella birds have died overnight after they fell from the sky in an Adelaide outer suburb.

Bleeding from their eyes and beaks, more than 50 gravely ill birds began falling from the sky at a soccer oval in One Tree Hill, a suburb on the outskirts of Adelaide, about 2.30pm yesterday.

Volunteers from Casper’s Bird Rescue, founded by Sarah King, desperately tried to help the long-billed corellas, running to the oval and calling out for extra help on Facebook.

Ms King originally received a tip the birds had been shot, but vets working on the birds suspect they may have been poisoned.

https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/flock-of-over-50-native-birds-die-after-falling-from-sky-bleeding-from-eyes/news-story/28c0dd88171b5e2feb074dd4c198ee77#.65kg9

2020 Draining the Swamp Part 2.. clear Vision

Thanks Pelosi! The Tide Turns – Trump Now Beating ALL Democrat Candidates in Swing State Polling and TROUNCING Democrats in Wisconsin

As Democrats and their media continue to push their impeachment scam on the American public they continue to lose the trust of American voters.

President Trump is now leading ALL Democratic candidates in the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/thanks-pelosi-the-tide-turns-trump-now-beating-all-democrat-candidates-in-swing-state-polling-and-trouncing-democrats-in-wisconsin/

Ted Malloch: Jeff “Mother” Zucker Comes Under the Hot Lights

Unfathomably handsome and articulate, Jeff “Mother” Zucker is actually the President of CNN.

And you might not know, but CNN is now owned by telecom giant, AT&T.

Zucker has transformed what was once a “news” organization into a narrowly left slanted ideological network that has just one goal: defeat and impeach Trump — at all costs.

And it doesn’t matter how you do it.

Lie, fabricate, indoctrinate, lecture, abuse the listening public but always, and all the time, preach Trump hate.

CNN, also known as Clinton News Network, is so bad that it has lost much of its small and dwindling audience and many of its paying advertisers.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/ted-malloch-jeff-mother-zucker-comes-under-the-hot-lights/

VIDEO: Aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy christened

The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy was christened Saturday at Newport News Shipbuilding with a salute to a hero of America’s greatest generation and a look ahead to a new frontier in warship construction.

With the crash of a bottle against its hull, sponsor Caroline Kennedy revisited the role she played as a 9-year-old in 1967, when she launched the first aircraft carrier in her father’s name.

The first JFK served from Vietnam through the post-911 era, and many of those retired sailors were in attendance Saturday. The new JFK, the second ship of the Gerald R. Ford class, is packed with new technology and will patrol the seas for the next 50 years.

As a bottle breaker, Kennedy proved a model of consistency. She took two swings back in 1967 and did so again Saturday. This time, her second try was a home-run wallop that sent sparkling wine spraying in all directions.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/12/video-aircraft-carrier-uss-john-f-kennedy-christened/

CA man arrested on gun charges over videos showing apparent mass shooting practice

Authorities arrested a 30-year-old Spring Valley man Thursday after receiving a tip about Youtube videos he allegedly posted in which he appears to practice carrying out a mass shooting from a downtown San Diego hotel room.

Steve Homoki remained jailed Friday on $20,000 bail after being booked into San Diego County Jail on suspicion of three felony counts of possession of an assault weapon and misdemeanor counts of possession of a high capacity magazine and child endangerment.

Homoki is scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning, though his arraignment would likely be pushed back if he were to post bail.

It was not clear Friday evening if Homoki had an attorney.

Authorities identified Homoki during an investigation that began Monday when the San Diego Joint Terrorism Task Force received a tip “concerning very distressing Youtube videos threatening firearm violence linked to San Diego,” Lt. Shawn Takeuchi of the San Diego Police Department said in a statement.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/12/ca-man-arrested-on-gun-charges-over-videos-showing-apparent-mass-shooting-practice/

Pelosi Announces Democrats Will FINALLY Vote on Trump’s Historic USMCA Trade Deal After Stalling for Over a Year!

Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally announced she will move President Trump’s historic USMCA agreement through Congress.

President Trump ran on promised to renegotiate the failed Clinton NAFTA deal.

He did it.

Pelosi is trying desperately to take credit for the historic Trump trade agreement.

Pelosi stalled for over a year to pass the agreement!

Democrats had the votes for passage but sat on the deal for over 400 days.

President Trump signed the agreement on November 28, 2018!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/pelosi-announces-democrats-will-finally-vote-on-trumps-historic-usmca-trade-deal-after-stalling-for-over-a-year/

“Undeniable Evidence”: Explosive Classified Docs Reveal Afghan War Mass Deception

In what’s already being hailed as a defining and explosive “Pentagon papers” moment, a cache of previously classified documents obtained by The Washington Post show top Pentagon leaders continuously lied to the public about the “progress” of the now eighteen-year long Afghan war.

The some 2,000 pages of notes from interviews of senior officials who have shaped US strategy in Afghanistan confirm that “senior US officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false… hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable,” according to the bombshell Post report.

The internal interviews and statements were unearthed via Freedom of Information Act request and span the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations. The trove further confirms that US leaders knew vast amounts of money was being wasted in a futile attempt to “Westernize the nation”.

Watchdog groups commonly estimate total US spending on the war has hit $1 trillion by end of 2019. More importantly, America’s ‘endless war’ has cost at least 2,351 American lives and over 20,000 wounded.

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/12/undeniable-evidence-explosive-classified-docs-reveal-afghan-war-mass-deception.html

>>7472556

And what did you expect the whole system is corrupt …As Trump said this is not just another 4 year election.. WAKE UP

>>7472727

Dude how many kids rescues since Trump was elected… stop crying about indictment they will come ..what the time is right

QMAP

Human Trafficking Arrests

https://qmap.pub/kids

Human Trafficking Arrests Surge Under Trump

The 2016 Global Slavery Index estimated that including U.S. citizens and immigrants 57,700 people are victims of human trafficking, and the Justice Department estimates that roughly 15,000 children are trafficked into the country every year.

Despite the scale of the problem, and the sinister reality that it’s mainly children affected, the federal government has done little to crack down on the problem. After President Donald Trump took office and began enacting pro-law enforcement policies to “make America safe again,” arrests of human traffickers began to take off like a rocket.

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/human-trafficking-arrests-surge/

Crime Of The Century

California Bringing Back Debtors Prisons for Homeless

Homelessness has been on the rise in California, and has skyrocketed since the Camp and Carr fires devastated the state.

Officials throughout California have grappled with various ways to deal with the ongoing crisis, however, in the Northern California city of Redding, Mayor Julie Winter has sent a state-of-emergency request to Gov. Gavin Newsom, approved by the Redding City Council last week, that requests the right to involuntarily detain people into homeless shelters.

In the drafted letter, Mayor Winter ask the governor for aid in forcing the homeless to adhere to her regulations, but includes “conservatorship until such time as the individual has demonstrated the ability to care for themselves including managing their finances.”

So, if these people are homeless due to the recent devastation, then they could also be forced to any type of makeshift prison, and have their finances taken over by the state. This is called Asset Forfeiture.

Seizure and forfeiture of assets currently represent the proceeds of crimes. However, if this request is approved, the State of California will either be redefining the laws on Asset forfeiture, or they will actually be making homelessness a crime.

It has also been likened to Debtors Prisons or forced workhouses.

In the United States, debtors’ prisons were banned under federal law in 1833. A century and a half later, in 1983, the Supreme Court affirmed that incarcerating indigent debtors was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection clause.

However, if Mayor Winter has her way, these people that were displaced and trying to get back on their feet will be incarcerated and their few remaining assets will be turned over to the government until the government decides to give it back.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/75676/california-bringing-back-debtors-prisons-for.html

>>7472836

So True… they put that bullshit on a wall and call it art…KEK