Margin Of Fraud
California DA Dropped Bombshell Election Data Case Because It Might Help Trump
L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon improperly — and for political reasons — dismissed the criminal charges against the CEO of election software services company Konnech, a governmental tort complaint filed Wednesday by the lead prosecutor on the case claims. That eight-page complaint against Gascon with the county Board of Supervisors further alleges the DA retaliated against his lead prosecutor for opposing the dismissal of the charges — and reveals many more previously unknown and troubling details about the entire case.
On Oct. 4, 2022, the L.A. County district attorney’s office announced Eugene Yu, the CEO of the Michigan-based Konnech, had been arrested in conjunction with criminal charges pending in California. In announcing Yu’s arrest, the DA’s office stated that “under its $2.9 million, five-year contract with the county, Konnech was supposed to securely maintain the data and that only United States citizens and permanent residents have access to it.” However, in violation of the contract, “information was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China,” according to the press release.
Yu was later arrested and extradited to California, where the far-left Gascon eventually dismissed the criminal charges against Yu. L.A. County later also approved a $5 million payout to Yu to settle a civil lawsuit the Konnech CEO had filed against the government.
From a legal perspective, the dismissal of the criminal charges was baffling, as the criminal complaint filed against Yu stated that during the execution of a search warrant at Konnech, the government recovered evidence that employees had “sent personal identifying information of Los Angeles County election workers to third-party software developers who assisted with the creating and fixing [of] Konnech’s internal ‘PollChief’ software.” The criminal complaint further stated that a project manager for Konnech’s contract with L.A. County “confirmed via the messaging app DingTalk that any employee for Chinese contractors working on PollChief software had
‘superadministrative’ privileges for all PollChief clients.”
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One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest
The publisher of Science magazine and other journals, who is close to Dr. Anthony Fauci, said on April 16 that he should not have dismissed the theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory.
Holden Thorp, who holds a doctorate in chemistry, apologized for a 2023 Twitter post in which he wrote that supporters of the natural origin theory have “scientific evidence” on their side, while the only thing Republicans and the witnesses they called—including former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield, a virologist—have in favor of the lab leak theory is “a mediocre episode of Homeland.” […]
Mr. Thorp later, under questioning from Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.), acknowledged that there is no certainty in the scientific and intelligence communities when it comes to where COVID-19 came from.
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
I’ll bet those big bank head honchos thought that compelled speech was only for those dirty transphobes.
RFK Jr. Didn’t Kill Himself
He’s on the Michigan ballot.
The news was confirmed by the Michigan Secretary of State’s office. The Natural Law Party has filed its documents with the Bureau of Elections. Kennedy will appear on the ballot in November.
Friday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: Cancelling Mozart. Transforming the Black Panther Party.
Blackie’s Canada: Keffiyeh voted down. Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel to B.C. with his loyal media. Justin’s dental scam.
Today In Islam: A horrifying new video. The hijab crackdown in Iran. The Boston Marathon murderer.
Your morning meme.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including a bath-time peekaboo; custom cars for rats; the logic of fake bus stops; leftist commune job suggestions; and a lesson in how quickly the day can turn to shit.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Via John Conrad: I was skeptical of Biden’s Gaza Pier plan but wasn’t expecting it to go this bad
And The Budget Will Balance Itself
Moe, Smith — exactly what are we waiting for?
Unwilling to live within the tax revenues produced by the national economy, this government has borrowed more money in 8 years than all other Canadian governments combined since the nation was founded in 1867. This recklessness has doubled the national debt and created interest payments that are breaking all records – last year over $46 billion dollars and this coming year over $54 billion dollars. That is more than the federal government spends on the military, or healthcare. All of it taken from taxpayers to pay bondholders instead of being spent on public services.
Now, the centrepiece of their new budget is a capital gains tax targeting the few Canadian individuals and firms who invest in Canadian ventures or assets. This investment is what creates the new businesses and jobs and productivity the nation so badly needs.
It is bizarre to watch a morbidly obese and fiscally incompetent government propose – in the name of ‘fairness’ – to justify taking productive capital away from Canada’s small but critical investor class and hand it to the same bureaucracy that has for almost a decade shown they will only waste it.
Ten years of Harper’s fiscal restoration was laid waste by the Trudeau Liberals in the span of months. God Bless Poilievre, but he’s going to inherit a toxic stew of public debt and social entitlement that no amount of “common sense” can resolve. Extricating the economies of Saskatchewan and Alberta from this mess would be painful (of that there is no doubt) – but not doing so will be fatal.
April 19, 2024: Reader Tips
This evening we travel back to 1954, to enjoy Black Tuesday.
Your best recent tips are appreciated!
Israel Begins Retaliatory Strikes
Happy Birthday, Ayatollah.
Israel reportedly struck a site in Iran early Friday in retaliation for Tehran firing a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel late Saturday.
Fox News Digital has confirmed there have been explosions in Isfahan province where Natanz is located though it is not clear whether it has been hit. Natanz is the site of one of Iran’s nuclear facilities. […]
The semiofficial Fars news agency reported on the sound of explosions over Isfahan near its international airport. It offered no explanation for the blast. However, Isfahan is home to a major airbase for the Iranian military, as well as sites associated with its nuclear program.
Unconfirmed: Iraqi sources report that airstrikes in the capital city of Baghdad have targeted a building where a high-level meeting was being held with the presence of several groups supported by Iran and members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
IRAN DENIES: NO JEW DOG MISSILES HAVE HIT IRAN
May be: Maybe we just don’t open the Stock Market tomorrow
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Magic Money Trees
With talk of Universal Basic Income appearing to gain steam these days, one of the main objections is the sheer cost of the program. But one advocate of UBI claims to have the answer, and it lies in marrying UBI with its obvious philosophical twin: Modern Monetary Theory. In doing so, he manages to lay bare the utter nihilism behind both theories.
Okay, so you want to start your own country and create your own currency? Congratulations! What’s step one? …. Step one therefore is to create money out of nothing. Choose whatever you want. Want to use shells? Okay. Want to carve notches on rocks or sticks? Okay. Want to use dollar bills? Okay. Want to use ones and zeroes? Okay. Whatever you do, get that stuff to your people. After your people have money, tax some of it back. Don’t tax all of it back. That would leave nothing for them to use on goods and services in the private sector. Tax some percentage of it back. Congrats! You just ran a “deficit”, began your “national debt”, and gave your money value by requiring that people pay their taxes in your currency.
Truinnerashuvaduprezure!
From the always perceptive Associated Press: Biden is off on details of his uncle’s WWII death as he calls Trump unfit to lead the military
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
I, Napoleon: Squatterloo
A Royal Military College chaplain who was hailed by the Canadian military as an LGBTQ champion on Transgender Day of Visibility has been suspended following an alleged groping request.
The Department of National Defence confirmed to True North that Capt. Beatrice Gale had her chaplaincy revoked and was found to have violated military rules in a summary hearing because of “an inappropriate comment or request to another individual.” Gale was born a biological man but identifies as a woman.
“This incident stems from an inappropriate comment or request to another individual. Neither member was in a position of authority over the other,” DND spokesperson Andrée-Anne Poulin told True North. […]
One source familiar with the incident who chose to remain anonymous over fears of personal and professional retaliation alleged that Gale had become intoxicated during a dinner in the mess hall and asked to grope a male lieutenant’s buttocks.
*I presume he now pisses in the sitting position.
Prediction Time
Jordan Peterson- The Liberals will be turfed out temporarily…
Truinnerashuvaduprezure!
“I made it clear to the Israelis — don’t move on Haifa!“
You Will Eat Bugs, Live In A Pod, Own Nothing And Vote Liberal
“We are putting into action a plan to build nearly 4 million homes by 2031…”
More –Mayor Jyoti Gondek thinks not owning a home – being a renter is liberating and that homeownership is so outdated
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Quotations from Chairman Maher;
Katherine Maher has a golden résumé, with stints and affiliations at UNICEF, the Atlantic Council, the World Economic Forum, the State Department, Stanford University, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She was chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. And, as of last month, she is CEO of National Public Radio. […]
What you notice first about Maher’s public speech are the buzzwords and phrases: “structural privilege,” “epistemic emergency,” “transit justice,” “non-binary people,” “late-stage capitalism,” “cis white mobility privilege,” “the politics of representation,” “folx.” She supported Black Lives Matter from its earliest days. She compares driving cars with smoking cigarettes. She is very concerned about “toxic masculinity.”
On every topic, Maher adopts the fashionable language of left-wing academic theory and uses it as social currency, even when her efforts veer into self-parody. She never explains, never provides new interpretation—she just repeats the phrases, in search of affirmation and, when the time is right, a promotion.
Maher understands the game: America’s elite institutions reward loyalty to the narrative. Those who repeat the words move up; those who don’t move out.
Let her explain more clearly: “Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.”