A Private Bank That Survived the Nazis May Be Broken by German Tax Scandal

M.M. Warburg & Co.’s headquarters exudes the aura of a fortress that has withstood the tumultuous twists of German history for centuries.

The ornate sandstone structure survived the bombs that rained down on Hamburg starting in 1941. One shell hit the roof but bounced off a metal beam, limiting the damage. Even the firestorm that wiped out much of the neighborhood in a 1943 raid couldn’t harm the building. The Jewish family that owned and ran the bank was expelled by the Nazis and went into exile, only to return after the war and rebuild the institution into one of the country’s largest and best-regarded private lenders.

Now another crisis is enveloping the storied institution and has forced its longtime chairman, Christian Olearius, as well as co-owner Max Warburg – a direct descendant of the founding family – from the supervisory board. Authorities have raided Warburg three times as well as the private homes of Olearius. Among the seized documents were the chairman’s personal diaries containing meticulous records of his business life.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-25/a-private-bank-that-survived-the-nazis-may-be-broken-by-cum-ex

Expert Witness Who Testified Against Harvey Weinstein in His Criminal Trial is Hit by Car

A forensic pathologist who gave critical testimony during the criminal case of Hollywood sex pervert Harvey Weinstein was hit by a car in recent days, LawandCrime.com has discovered.

Dr. Barbara Ziv is currently in the hospital following the attack with no other details about the situation currently known. She talked about “rape myths” during her testimony at the trial on behalf of the prosecution, blowing many holes through Weinstein’s defense

“Many individuals who are sexually assaulted will tell somebody: a friend. Not everybody, but many,” Ziv testified at the trial in January. “Very few people then will report to a doctor or a counselor or a spiritual advisor, and then the next level is to law enforcement — and even fewer report to law enforcement.”

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/expert-witness-who-testified-against-harvey-weinstein-in-his-criminal-trial-is-hit-by-car/

Last marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Yazov dies

MOSCOW: The last marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Yazov, who participated in a coup against then USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, has died, news agencies reported.

Russia's defence ministry said in a statement carried by agencies that Yazov had died in Moscow at the age of 95 following a "serious and prolonged illness".

Defence minister between 1987 and 1991, Yazov participated in a coup attempt against Gorbachev in August 1991, a year after being awarded the rank of marshal.

The coup failed and its leaders were arrested three days later, but the attempted overthrow heralded the collapse of the Soviet Union, which was finally dissolved in December 1991.

Yazov was released from prison in 1993 and granted amnesty for his role in the failed coup in 1994

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/last-marshal-of-the-soviet-union-dmitry-yazov-dies/articleshow/74297610.cms

Oklahoma House Moves Stand-Your-Ground Law Forward, Strikes Down Constitutional Carry Repeal

Last Thursday, February 20, 2020, the Oklahoma State House’s Public Safety Committee approved a bill that would expand protections under the state’s stand-your-ground gun law while rejecting another effort to repeal Constitutional Carry, which was passed last year.

Stand-your-ground laws buttress the right to self-defense. They permit the use of force against perceived threats.

House Bill 3165, which State Representative Kevin West sponsored, shifts the burden for proving immunity from the defendant to the prosecution in cases where force is used. Traditionally, the burden of proof is on the defendant. Put simply, defendants wouldn’t have to demonstrate they were reacting to threats. Instead, the prosecution would have to prove they weren’t responding to a threat.

https://libertyconservativenews.com/oklahoma-house-moves-stand-your-ground-law-forward-strikes-down-constitutional-carry-repeal/

Iran's deputy health minister tests positive for coronavirus – local media

Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi has tested positive for coronavirus, Iranian state media has reported. Harirchi has been at the forefront of the country's response to the outbreak.

A spokesperson for Iran's health ministry confirmed in a television interview on Tuesday that Harirchi has been infected and is under quarantine.

ILNA reported Monday that officials from the city of Qom had said there had been 50 coronavirus deaths there. "We prefer not to censor what concerns the coronavirus because people’s lives are in danger,” the outlet said.

Harirchi rejected that report, however, saying he would resign if even half of that number had died.

Tehran confirmed its first two cases of the novel virus COVID-19 last Wednesday, with the health ministry saying that two patients had been put into isolation.

https://www.rt.com/news/481638-iran-deputy-health-minister-coronavirus/

Nolte: Poll Shows Trump Eating into Democrat Black Vote

A poll of registered black voters shows support for President Trump has increased by 50 percent, and a large number are unhappy with the Democrat Party.

The far-left Politico does its best to play down how potentially important this result is, but as former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer perfectly put it: “[T]he real headline should have been: ‘Trump Triples McCain Vote and Doubles Romney Vote Among Black Voters.'”

Referring to his former boss, George W. Bush, Fleischer adds, “[Trump] even runs ahead of Bush. Small inroads among overwhelmingly D[emocrat] black voters can go a long way.”

In 2016, Trump earned eight percent of the black vote (and 29 percent of the Hispanic vote).

In 2012, serial loser Mitt Romney only got six percent of the black vote and 28 percent of the Hispanic vote.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/25/nolte-poll-shows-trump-eating-into-democrat-black-vote/

US Develops Cryptocurrency Intelligence Program Targeting P2P Sites, Forums, Darknet Markets

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has revealed a cryptocurrency intelligence program aimed at identifying unlicensed crypto businesses using P2P sites, online forums, and darknet markets. These areas have consistently presented “a significant challenge to law enforcement” and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

Cryptocurrency Intelligence Program

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its budget overview for the fiscal year 2021 last week. The department has several programs that monitor crypto activities, including the Bulk Cash Smuggling Center (BCSC), which provides operational support in the enforcement and prohibition of bulk cash smuggling or transfer of illicit proceeds.

In the budget document, the DHS revealed that the BCSC has developed Cryptocurrency Intelligence Program (CIP), elaborating:

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/02/us-develops-cryptocurrency-intelligence-program-targeting-p2p-sites-forums-darknet-markets.html

Bernie’s so-called “rape fantasy” essay will not damage him

At PJ Media, the always-excellent Matt Margolis writes that it’s time to ask “hard questions” about Bernie Sanders’ infamous rape fantasy essay. I’d like to suggest that Bernie won’t mind those questions because he’ll have a good answer: His ugly opening paragraph wasn’t intended to promote sick sex but to protest it and to demand emotional equality between men and women

If you can make yourself read through the entire muddled thing, which veers between philosophy and cheap literature, you’ll realize that Bernie’s making a point and, much as I hate to say it, a good one. The point is that human history had created an unhealthy dynamic between men and women which needed to be corrected, but that feminism was turning into man-hatred, which destroys relationships.

Here’s the essay in its entirety. It is execrably written, in part because Marxists are always bad writers and in part because Bernie specifically was a horrible writer.

https://www.watcherofweasels.org/bernies-so-called-rape-fantasy-essay-will-not-damage-him/

Jihadist defenses collapse in southern Idlib as Syrian Army advances across Jabal Al-Zawiya

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 P.M.) – It is going to be a long night for the jihadist rebels in southern Idlib, as they continue to lose several sites to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the Jabal Al-Zawiya region of the governorate.

According to the latest report from the Idlib front, the Syrian Arab Army has captured more towns and villages near Kafr Sijnah amid the complete collapse of the jihadist defenses in the southern part of this governorate.

Among the areas captured by the Syrian Arab Army this evening was the town of Ma’ar Taseen, which was seized by the military approximately two hours ago

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/jihadist-defenses-collapse-in-southern-idlib-as-syrian-army-advances-across-jabal-al-zawiya/

Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division, Richard A. Powers Delivers Remarks at the Global Competition Review Live Ninth Annual Antitrust Law Leaders Forum

Remarks as Prepared for Delivery

Good morning. It’s great to be in Miami and among so many leaders in the antitrust community. I’d like to thank Margaret [Sanderson] and Jason [Gudofsky] for hosting this event and the opportunity to be here and provide an update on criminal antitrust enforcement.

Whenever we prepare an update on our program, it is a great opportunity for us to step back and think about our mission and consider how what we are doing works towards accomplishing it. For the criminal program, our mission is to deter, detect, and prosecute criminal violations of the antitrust laws. As we have considered how best to apply our limited resources, we have made it a point to address all aspects of our mission. In the last year, many of Assistant Attorney General Delrahim’s and my remarks have centered around our efforts to deter and detect antitrust crimes by incentivizing corporate compliance and launching an interagency partnership to combat collusion affecting public procurement, in the form of the Procurement Collusion Strike Force.[1]

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/deputy-assistant-attorney-general-antitrust-division-richard-powers-delivers-remarks

Welfare Usage Nosedives Under Trump Admin – for immigrants too

The number of people on the dole, particularly illegal immigrants, is taking a nosedive since the Trump administration cracked down on the abuse of the social welfare programs. Welfare is supposed to serve as temporary relief and must be reserved for needy citizens and legal residents.

This nosedive began before the new Supreme Court ruling that has recently become a ‘scandal.’ The new crisis manufactured by Justice Sotomayor and her Democrat allies is over the Supreme Court ruling that the President can add a reasonable public charge rule limiting green cards for immigrants who are believed to be likely dependents on welfare and social service programs.

The public charge rule bans any immigrant “unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge.” The rule has been on the books for almost 140 years according to Acting DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli.

https://www.independentsentinel.com/welfare-usage-nosedives-under-trump-admin-for-immigrants-too/

Things are starting to change….Let the Arrests begin…kek

9th Circuit has flipped right & babies just won a case

President Trump has flipped the Ninth Circuit, a court once known as the Ninth Circus for their predictable left-wing rulings. Ninth Circuit rulings that made it to the Supreme Court were often overturned.

Trump has filled the once leftist court with so many originalist/conservative judges that it’s flipped to the right. The Ninth Circuit covers a huge area, including California and eight other states.

The President named ten judges to the 9th Circuit, more than a third of its active judges, in three years. Obama only appointed seven in eight years, the LA Times reports,

We are starting to see the results in some key rulings. One of them today left a lot of abortionists distressed in its wake.

A divided en banc 9th Circuit panel on Monday dissolved three previously stayed injunctions — in Washington state, Oregon, and California — against a Trump administration rule that strips federal funding from health clinics that provide abortion referrals to women, among other restrictions, Courthouse News reports.

https://www.independentsentinel.com/9th-circuit-has-flipped-right-babies-just-won-a-case/

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People didn't stop buying…The Government just stopped paying for it with our tax dollars

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True now now they'll choose moar wisely on how they spent their money not ours kek

Every bureaucrat involved in destroying the public's trust in these institutions should be kicked out of government and banned from ever holding a government position again

Unelected and Unprincipled Socialist Bureaucrats Destroyed the Credibility of the U.S. Intelligence Apparatus

Time, the magazine for communists on the go

According to Time, the magazine for communists on the go, the CIA, National Security Agency, and the FBI got together and agreed that “Russian hackers aren’t just meddling in this year’s U.S. elections, they’re trying to help Trump win re-election.” Earlier this month, FBI director, Christopher Wray, went before the House Judiciary Committee and testified that Russia is still meddling in our elections.

Democrats are resurrecting the Russia hoax just in time for the next election, and the FBI director is on the hoax band wagon, along with his comrades from Spooksville. Wray knows the Russians are meddling in U.S. elections by supporting the President on socials media, but he can’t do anything about it because of the Constitution. The FBI’s hands are tied because the people supporting the President on social media are U.S. citizens, and they have a right to free speech.

However, the FBI and intelligence agencies classify anyone who supports the President as a Russian agent, even if they are a U.S citizen. As a matter of fact, I doubt any Russians want President Trump reelected. It more likely that spooks, from within our own intelligence community, went on social media and pretended to be Russians supporting the President to give credibility to the hoax. The intelligence community has a reputation for dishonesty.

The Intelligence community can’t be trusted to tell the truth

https://canadafreepress.com/article/unelected-and-unprincipled-socialist-bureaucrats-destroyed-the-credibility#.XlVVOu2wh6w.twitter