Former Obama White House counsel, Greg Craig, was indicted Thursday on two charges of lying to federal investigators about consulting work his former firm did on behalf of Russia-backed ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.
Craig was accused of lying to the Department of Justice for allegedly making false statements and concealing “material facts,” which were revealed in a settlement announced Thursday. Craig’s former firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, was hit with a $4.6 billion fine for working with Paul Manafort in 2012 on behalf of Ukraine.
Federal $30,000 scholarships granted to zero self-described conservatives in 2018 | The College Fix "Program is billed as nonpartisan but stats show otherwise None of the nearly 60 recipients of a prestigious $30,000 federal scholarship granted in 2018 reported that they had ever worked for a Republican political candidate or conservative organization, according to an analysis by The College Fix. The lucrative Truman Scholar awards are given to college juniors, who receive $30,000 to attend graduate school and pledge to serve three of their first seven years after graduation in public service.
...The research found that 21 of the scholars – or 36 percent – had worked for Democrat candidates (Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, etc.) or Democrat-aligned organizations (Tom Steyer’s NextGen America, Planned Parenthood, etc.)
Another 17 scholars – or 29 percent – listed their primary interest as solidly progressive (intersectionality, climate change, expanded government-provided health insurance, LGBT issues, food insecurity, minimizing “rape culture.”)
Another eight scholars – or 14 percent – said they were primarily interested in issues moderately associated with the left, such as environmental “sustainability” and rights for immigrants and refugees.
Stealing your money and giving it to their supporters!
DA knew Jeffrey Epstein was a dangerous pedophile when arguing for leniency
"The Manhattan DA’s office had graphic and detailed evidence of pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s depravity when a prosecutor inexplicably argued for leniency during his 2011 sex offender registry hearing, The Post has learned.
In advance of the hearing, then-deputy chief of Sex Crimes, Jennifer Gaffney, had been given a confidential state assessment that deemed Epstein to be highly dangerous and likely to keep preying on young girls, the DA’s office admitted in its own appellate brief eight months after the hearing.
...It describes a state assessment’s findings that Epstein should be monitored in New York as a level three offender — reserved for the most dangerous.
...Nevertheless, Gaffney argued that he should be labeled a level one offender, the least restrictive, which would keep him off the online database..." Read on. SICK!!
AG Barr’s Testimony Reignites ‘Spygate’ Debate | The Daily Caller:
Attorney General William Barr’s Senate testimony Wednesday has revived a partisan debate over “Spygate,” the term President Donald Trump coined to describe revelations that the FBI used informants in an investigation during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Barr said during an appearance before the Senate Appropriations Committee that he believed “spying did occur” against the Trump campaign.
Boston Globe’s phony sanctimony sounds a bit fishy – Howie Carr Show "Think back on all the journalistic grifters whose bylines and totally made-up crap have disgraced the dismal pages of the Boston Globe – Mike Barnicle, Kevin Cullen, Patricia Smith and Jayson Blair, among others. But even those recidivist frauds must be shaking their pampered, protected-class heads over this latest embarrassment to befall the failing broadsheet – a column by a “journalist from Massachusetts” named Luke O’Neil. So far, at least three versions of his piece have appeared on the Globe website. Let’s go over the first sentences – the lede, as they say – in order of their appearance. “One of the biggest regrets of my life is not pissing in Bill Kristol’s salmon.”... Much muck here, read all.
World Faces "Uphill Battle" With Average IQ Of Just 82! | Zero Hedge "David Becker has released a new version of the World’s IQ. Each country has a score showing the cognitive abilities of their citizens, this being a blend of genetics and the environment of each country, particularly as regards education and health. The world’s global score is 82. This is 12th percentile rank on the Greenwich Mean Intelligence benchmark of IQ 100. As school teachers used to say in end of year reports: “Could do better”.
What does IQ 82 mean in practical terms?..."
A country's aggregate IQ matters!
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"The results for individual countries vary somewhat according to the method used, but these are probably the very best estimates..."
Amazon employees are listening and recording conversations spoken after waking Alexa in the homes of thousands of people worldwide, reports say.
Amazon’s Alexa needs more human assistance than the public may be aware of. Full-time Amazon workers spend their days “parsing as many as 1,000 audio clips per shift,” reports from Bloomburg reveal. These clips may merely be innocent phrases intended to help Alexa cope with slang and understand human speech patterns, but they also catch snippets of personal life through Alexa, such as clips workers discussed wherein they heard a woman singing off-key in the shower and a child crying for help.
College Wouldn’t Cost So Much If Students and Faculty Worked Harder - WSJ: "I assign far less reading, demand less writing, and give higher grades than I did two generations ago.
One reason college is so costly and so little real learning occurs is that collegiate resources are vastly underused. Students don’t study much, professors teach little, few people read most of the obscure papers the professors write, and even the buildings are empty most of the time.
...Surveys of student work habits find that the average amount of time spent in class and otherwise studying is about 27 hours a week.
The typical student takes classes only 32 weeks a year, so he spends fewer than 900 hours annually on academics—less time than a typical eighth-grader...
It wasn’t always this way.
...Learning takes time, so the diminution of effort surely means students are learning less..." Read all.
Fans of Best of the Web Today-Michael Smith
"One important aspect we should clearly understand is that progressivism is a skinwalker. Navajo legend tells us that skinwalkers were medicine men who achieved the heights of power such that they could transform into animal forms to do evil. Progressive skinwalkers are racists, sexists and bigots who transform themselves into innocent, pure doves in order to call others racists, sexists and bigots. Skinwalkers are vulnerable to one thing - the truth. Those who do track a skinwalker and learn of their true identity must pronounce the name of the evil one in full.
Once this happens, the skinwalker will get sick or die for the wrongs they have inflicted against others."
"Parents all over Instagram are going crazy sharing all kinds of funny pacifiers shoved in their kid’s mouth. Since they are only few dollars on Amazon, it’s a cheap way to get easy laughs."
Every House Democrat but one has co-sponsored a bill requiring schools to allow male athletes who identify as transgender girls to compete on female sports teams.
Democrats’ Equality Act would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law. Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls.
History for April 13 - On-This-Day.com Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 3rd U.S. President, Frank W. Woolworth 1852 - Merchant, created the five and ten cent store, head of F.W. Woolworth & Co., Alfred Butts 1899 - Architect, game inventor (Scrabble) Paul Sorvino 1939 - Actor ("Law and Order", "Dick Tracy"), Tony Dow 1945 - Actor ("Leave it to Beaver"), Rick Schroder 1970 - Actor ("Silver Spoons", "NYPD Blue") 1981 - Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke received a Pulitzer Prize for her feature about an 8-year-old heroin addict named "Jimmy." Cooke relinquished the prize two days later after admitting she had fabricated the story. 1997 - Tiger Woods became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament at the age of 21. He also set a record when he finished at 18 under par.
The New York Post’s front cover Thursday gave a blunt response to Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s characterization of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as “some people” who “did something.”
The headline in large white font reads, “Here’s Your Something,” coupled with an image of the World Trade Center being hit by a plane in the background.
WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging Gregory B. Craig... for willfully falsifying and concealing material facts from the FARA Unit, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001(a)(1), and for making false and misleading statements to the FARA Unit, in violation Title 22, United States Code, Section 618(a)(2). (more)
OK, so he lied to federal investigators, right?
But what’s missing from the DOJ release, that can only been caught if you actually read the indictment, is that his lies were to Robert Mueller and the special counsel. Now, take a look at the dates:
Mr. Craig was caught lying on October 19th, 2017. Why wasn’t Greg Craig charged by the special counsel at the same time Mueller, Rosenstein and Weissmann were prosecuting Manafort or Flynn?
Why the delay?
Even more interesting…. why hand it off?
The Section 1001(a)(1) charge is the same exact charge applied to Michael Flynn a month later.
Why did Mueller, Rosenstein and Weissmann chose to avoid Greg Craig, pass off his case, then turn around and charge Michael Flynn with the exact same violation? What we see here is a transparent political effort to enhance the Section 1001(a)(1) charge against Flynn (Team Trump), by hiding the Section 1001(a)(1) against Craig (Team Obama). How long did Mueller, Rosenstein and Weissmann sit on the Craig evidence before turning it over to the DC prosecutors? ...Unsealed today, April 11, 2019. Why? Politics. That’s why..." Read all!
Former Obama White House counsel, Greg Craig, was indicted Thursday on two charges of lying to federal investigators about consulting work his former firm did on behalf of Russia-backed ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.
None of the nearly 60 recipients of a prestigious $30,000 federal scholarship granted in 2018 reported that they had ever worked for a Republican political candidate or conservative organization, according to an analysis by The College Fix.
"Think back on all the journalistic grifters whose bylines and totally made-up crap have disgraced the dismal pages of the Boston Globe – Mike Barnicle, Kevin Cullen, Patricia Smith and Jayson Blair, among others.
Amazon employees are listening and recording conversations spoken after waking Alexa in the homes of thousands of people worldwide, reports say.
"I assign far less reading, demand less writing, and give higher grades than I did two generations ago.
"I assign far less reading, demand less writing, and give higher grades than I did two generations ago.
Every House Democrat but one has co-sponsored a bill requiring schools to allow male athletes who identify as transgender girls to compete on female sports teams.
New York Post Fires Back At Omar’s Trivialization Of 9/11: ‘Here’s Your Something’ | The Daily Caller:
