Saturday, April 29, 2023

The Democrats Plan to Steal Another Election

 



Paul Craig Roberts

Joe Biden with a dismal approval rating of 37% has announced that he is running for a second term.  How can he possibly win?  By again stealing the election.

Democrats control the large cities in swing states.  In the past two elections, they have proven that they can easily steal the election.  It is now impermissible to even report evidence of election theft.  Experts who provided evidence were threatened with prosecution, and Fox News management rushed to pay more than three-quarters of a billion dollars of shareholders’ money in order to create the precedent that reporting evidence of stolen elections constitutes defamation.  As Democrats control election procedures and vote counting in large cities, they, and not the voters, determine election outcomes.  The last two American national elections prove the truth of Stalin’s dictum:  It matters not how people vote; it matters who counts the votes. 

The All-America Economic Survey found that 70% of Americans disfavor a Biden second term. This indicates that a large percentage of Democrats themselves do not want Biden.  In America today, elections are nothing more than a veil behind which the elite rule.

The Democrats have a good candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  But RFK opposes Big Pharma’s control of US medicine and the agencies–FDA, NIH, CDC–that serve as Big Pharma’s protectors and marketing agents, and he opposes other aspects of the oligarchic system protected by official narratives upheld by the media.  RFK will not be permitted to be president.  

Republican Trump has by far the largest number of voters, but the Democrats have weaponized law in an effort to stop him from running.  Other possible and strong Republican candidates–Ron DeSantis and Tucker Carlson–are unacceptable to the ruling elite and to the Republican establishment.  If DeSantis makes himself acceptable to the establishment, he will lose his luster with voters.

The long-term ongoing collapse of US education has produced a population many of whom are comfortable with censoring and suppressing information that they are programmed to regard as “offensive” or “misinformation.”  These two categories of unwelcome information refer to truths that are inconvenient for the elite and their official narratives.  The regard of truth as hurtful has gained a foothold and exercises peer pressure on parts of the population, which makes it difficult for the people to act in their own interest.

Essentially, democracy has ceased to exist in the US.  Increasingly, “elected” representatives are appointees of the ruling elite, who control the selection of candidates by their allocations of campaign funds.  Trump was the last elected  President (twice).  It is unlikely the ruling elite will allow Trump to again enter the White House.

When agendas prevail over truth, tyranny is the consequence. When facts can’t matter, there is no science.  Remember how easy it was for a crank to destroy Soviet genetics.  Already in the US we have reached the point where mathematics is said to be a tool of white supremacy.  Americans might think this is laughable, but the Soviet geneticists who were executed and imprisoned didn’t find it laughable.

In America today there is no remaining foundation for democracy.  The media has been captured and turned into a propaganda ministry for the ruling elites.  Truth is discredited as hurtful, offensive, and a danger to national security–remember Julian Assange has been in effect incarcerated for a decade without due process of law simply because he reported leaked facts inconvenient for the US government.  Tucker Carlson has just been fired from Fox News for telling truths inconvenient for the ruling elite.

Formerly, the Democrats represented the working class, and Republicans represented the business class.  Today both parties represent the ruling oligarchy.  No party represents the people.  



The Real Reason Why Fox Fired Tucker Carlson

This is not about dumbing people down, it's about economic development, don't you know

Cannabis infuser opens on Near West Side: ‘It’s surreal. I’m dealing with stuff I would’ve gone to jail for’ Baked Buds produces three varieties of cannabis-infused gummies in its Near West Side plant.
By Michael Loria
Apr 28, 2023, 7:13pm CDT




Casey Moyer (left) and Kydric Estes inspect the infused-gummy producing machine inside Baked Buds production facility on the Near West Side. The company is the first in Chicago to obtain a social equity license to manufacture cannabis products.

Nowadays, Kydric Estes gets paid an honest wage to produce the same kind of products that once got

Friday, April 28, 2023

I always thought that the Chicago Urban League was a sincere organization

Pfizer Silently Funded 'Nonprofit' Chicago Urban League to Promote Citywide Vaxx Mandate

BY BEN BARTEE 1:41 PM ON APRIL 28, 2023




Technocrats like Justin Trudeau apparently expect the public to believe that because they did not personally, literally raid houses door-to-door Iraq occupation-style, kicking in doors and shooting up screaming women and children with their mRNA therapies, they cannot be said to have “forced” anyone to get vaxxed.

To anyone willing to honestly assess the situation, this is shysterly sophistry – the worst kind of revisionist history to excuse state despotism, a disgusting lie.

What did Kamala just say?

Thursday, April 27, 2023

She was having a bad day. This is not reflective of who she really is. .

Everyone gets an A and Everyone will be an honor student

Chicago drops public school ratings in favor of a less punitive system for assessing schools
Chicago Public Schools board members say the new policy focuses on improving teaching and learning and creating an optimal educational experience.
By Sarah Karp | WBEZ
Apr 26, 2023, 7:39pm CDT




Chicago Public Schools on Wednesday did away with its policy of rating schools from a high of 1-plus to a low of 3.

The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday voted to replace its school rating policy with one that’s intended to provide information about a range of school characteristics, from how students perform on state tests, to whether instruction is rigorous and student centered, to whether a school environment is healing.

Miranda Devine: This might be the breakthrough Biden story

A modern day Rembrandt destroyed. How could they let this happen?


Juice WRLD, DJ Frankie Knuckles murals, on private property, mysteriously erased in West Loop. WTF
The city Department of Streets and Sanitation says it didn’t paint over the murals. The man overseeing the murals says City Hall should have protected them.
By David Struett
Apr 26, 2023, 6:36pm CDT


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The Juice WRLD mural in the West Loop that became a shrine for the late Chicago rapper was mysteriously painted over last week.

No one has claimed responsibility for erasing the Juice WRLD mural and another mural that depicted the late Chicago DJ Frankie Knuckles.

Why We Stand With Tucker Carlson








BY BRIAN MAHER
POSTED
APRIL 26, 2023


Why was Tucker Carlson evicted from his anchoring at Fox?

Was it due to his involvement in past litigation — and potentially future litigation — against Fox Corp.? That is, had he become too great a legal liability to shoulder?

Was it due to the obligatory and cancel-cultured allegations of “racism,” “sexism” and “anti-Semitism” that often hound controversial Caucasian men of conservative leanings?

Or was it simply due to his mighty capacity to step on toes?

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

DISTURBING! Mayor Adams is a "paid for" idiot

Tucker Goes SCORCHED EARTH as Fox News Loses BILLIONS!!!

Best news I heard all day

saw discrimination everywhere, prevented her from doing her job

Kim Foxx won’t seek third term
Chosen twice by voters to be the county’s top prosecutor by wide margins, Foxx also faced near-constant criticism for her office’s progressive policy choices and their perceived impact on crime in Chicago.
By Matthew Hendrickson, Fran Spielman and Andy Grimm
Apr 25, 2023, 1:06pm CDT


Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced Tuesday she will not seek re-election.

“I leave now with my held held high and my heart full,” Foxx said in concluding a speech to the City

They Use Your Tax Money for This?!

No More Truth from Fox News

 VENGEANCE HAS BEEN SERVED

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Paul Craig Roberts

As I have reported over and over, truth-tellers are being eliminated.  Now it is the most popular TV host with the largest following that has been jettisoned.

It is highly unusual, indeed extraordinary, for a media company to suddenly cancel its star primetime host, especially when the show is booming while other TV news loses credibility and viewers.  Here is the report just released by The Epoch Times:

This is going to get ugly

Accused of bilking Vallas campaign out of $680,000, consultant says allegations are ‘shameful and unfounded’

“In the end, the voters were right,” consultant Chimaobi Enyia said Monday. “Paul Vallas did not deserve to be the mayor of the city of Chicago.”

By Tom Schuba and Fran Spielman
Apr 24, 2023, 4:52pm CDT





Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas campaign buttons and signs sit on a table at Vallas’ election night party at Recess, 838 W. Kinzie St. Feb. 28.

A political consultant who was sued last week for allegedly defrauding Paul Vallas’ mayoral campaign out of hundreds of thousands of dollars threatened Monday to file a defamation lawsuit against the failed candidate he once counted as a close associate.

Monday, April 24, 2023

Who are the Irish?

Tucker Carlson is out!

 VENGEANCE HAS BEEN SERVED

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the left wanted him gone

NEW YORK — April 24, 2023 — FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.

Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21stFox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.

FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio, FOX News Books, the direct-to-consumer streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News International and the free ad-supported television service FOX Weather. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has also been the most watched television news channel for more than 21 consecutive years, while FBN ranks among the top business channels on cable. Owned by Fox Corporation, FOX News Media reaches nearly 200 million people each month.

 



Sunday, April 23, 2023

Donald Trump: Our country is in the most dangerous place it's ever been

Interesting Book Review

 

The Empire of Lies

Dear Readers,  Soren Korsgaard has collected and published some of my columns bearing on our plight as we are attacked by Satanic forces of evil.  My regular readers will have read most of these columns, but having this selection in one cover makes clear our desperate situation.  Also, as Korsgaard points out, having a full picture provides training for recognizing and rejecting the disinformation conveyed by official narratives.

“Dr. Roberts is one of the few remaining voices of truth in the West. His essays expose the systematic lies of Western mainstream media, which now provide propaganda rather than news. He explains these false narratives are designed

Exorcist Fr. Malachi Martin - Satan ‘enthroned’ at the Vatican in the ea...

Parents step up

Hundreds march in the Loop to reach out to teens who caused chaos last weekend: ‘People do care about them’
Local leaders lauded Brandon Johnson’s plan to revamp the city’s summer jobs programs and said their message was one of caring for young people they said the city had left behind.
By Violet Miller
Apr 22, 2023, 9:00pm CDT





Hundreds gathered in the Loop Saturday to march in response to the “chaos” caused by groups of youths downtown last weekend.


Nearly 400 people, led by local clergy on Saturday, took to the streets of the Loop to offer their response to last weekend’s chaos when hundreds of young people gathered downtown — with some engaging in violent acts and harassment of people on the street.

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Shocking......WTF happened behind the scenes of this campaign?

Vallas sues consultant who allegedly defrauded campaign out of $680,000
Chimaobi Enyia, hired to get out the vote in Black communities, is accused of being paid for work he refused to give an accounting of or return the money when confronted by mayoral candidate Paul Vallas.
By Tom Schuba and Fran Spielman




Former mayoral candidate Paul Vallas, pictured at a March 3 news conference, sued a consultant for allegedly bilking his campaign out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Former mayoral candidate Paul Vallas filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing a consultant of defrauding his campaign out of hundreds of thousands of dollars that he allegedly falsely claimed was spent on get-out-the-vote efforts in Black communities which the former public schools chief ultimately lost.

Have the Bidens been bribed by China? Is it treason?

 
why is this being allowed to occur?

An excellent discussion in favor of firearm ownership by responsible people

It’s Inevitable: American Patriots Need Guns Because a War Is Coming
BY BRANDON SMITH
April 22, 2023
 



Should the actions of a handful of criminals be used as an excuse to take away the rights of millions of innocent people? Any reasonable person would say no, but when it comes to gun related violence the standards of logic tend to go out the window. There are many government officials that view each major shooting as a gift – They believe that tragedies are political capital, a tool for leveraging away our freedoms.

In many cases of mass murder in the US the first inclination of the corporate media and the political left has been to rush to conclusions. They immediately blame conservative political motivations for the attacks, while also blaming our 2nd Amendment rights in general. If the shooter turns out to be anti-conservative or doesn’t fit the racial mold, they simply stop reporting the story. The agenda is obvious – To paint conservative men as a dangerous monolith plaguing the rest of society.

China building cyberweapons to hijack enemy satellites while US preoccupied with being woke


Document assesses Beijing’s ambitions to disrupt communications during wartime.



Enlarge / The Dragon SpaceX satellite. China’s ambitious cyber attacks aim to mimic the signals that satellites receive from their operators, tricking them into being taken over or to malfunction.
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China is building sophisticated cyber weapons to “seize control” of enemy satellites, rendering them useless for data signals or surveillance during wartime, according to a leaked US intelligence report.

The US assesses that China’s push to develop capabilities to “deny, exploit or hijack” enemy satellites is a core part of its goal to control information, which Beijing considers to be a key “war-fighting domain.”

The CIA-marked document, which was issued this year and has been reviewed by the Financial Times, was one of dozens allegedly shared by a 21-year-old US Air Guardsman in the most significant

Friday, April 21, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. SURGES As Biden's Democrat Support Remains In Free Fall

Hunter Biden involved with something ‘very bad, very troubling, very ill...

A failure on many levels




The old Washington Federal Bank for Savings, 2869 S. Archer Ave., which was shut down in December 2017 for “unsafe or unsound practices” days after John F. Gembara, its president and chief executive officer, was found dead at a bank customer’s home. A federal audit uncovered massive fraud at the bank.


Bridgeport bank failure cost millions more than feds have said: Where did all the money go?
Authorities say they’ve recovered $59 million toward the money lost when they shut down Washington Federal Bank for Savings, but they’re still out another $81 million, records show.
By Tim Novak
Apr 21, 2023, 4:45am CDT

It’s been more than five years since federal regulators shut down a tiny bank in Chicago, in the process exposing deep connections to the Daley family and its political army.

The place is a real mess and probably wont survive

Woke DePaul University faces a $56,000,000 budget deficit, huge cuts
MATT LAMB - ASSOCIATE EDITOR •APRIL 21, 2023 Reddit Share on Email

The university is not really Catholic so the fewer people that go there, the better

Yet another woke Catholic university is going down in flames as DePaul University faces a $56 million budget deficit. This follows the enrollment drop and corresponding revenue decrease at the University of Portland, a leftist, pro-LGBT university that is only nominally Catholic.

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Mexico's president, saying the U.S. is suffering from moral decay, offers some advice


PATRICK J. MCDONNELL
Updated April 20, 2023 at 12:00 PM




Then-President Trump and Mexican President Andrรฉs Manuel Lรณpez Obrador, left, attend an event at the White House Rose Garden in July 2020. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)

Mexico’s leader has some advice for the United States.

Take better care of your kids. Try more hugs.

A woman is dead and nobody is accountable?

Alec Baldwin Criminal Charges To Be Dropped In Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting


By Dominic Patten, Anthony D'AlessandroApril 20, 2023 12:03pm

 

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EXCLUSIVE, updated with Baldwin lawyer statement: Less than two weeks before a mini-trial is scheduled to begin in New Mexico over the October 2021 killing of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, all charges are going to be dropped against Alec Baldwin, for now.

Mayor Elect Johnson is buying this house







9333 S Oakley Ave,
Chicago, IL 60643


$799,999

Est. $5,443/mo

5Beds

3.5 Baths

3,404Sq Ft




Thanks to Washington’s Abuse of the Reserve Currency Role, the Dollar Is on Its Way Out







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Paul Craig Roberts


As the dollar declines, so does Washington’s power.

The De-Dollarization discussion suffers from holdover thinking that a reserve currency is needed. No reserve currency is needed. Countries can settle their trade balances in their own currencies or contracts can specify the currencies of trade transactions. Countries with low inflation and low debt will have stronger currencies than countries with high inflation and debt.

A reserve currency sets up a special country with the power to pay its own bills with endless debt. At World War II’s end, John Maynard Keynes had a better solution than the dollar as reserve currency, but Washington wanted the power of the reserve currency.

Inevitable De-Dollarization: Which Countries Are Moving Away From Greenback?

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230417/inevitable-de-dollarization-which-countries-are-moving-away-from-greenback-1109592646.html

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. formally announces run for president in Boston

Typical Beetlejuice Management Technique....Nobody is in charge



doesn't want to do anything that could affect her appointment to the 7th circuit

Chicago aldermen blast police leaders’ ‘flat-footed’ response to violent street takeovers
“Nobody knew who was in charge,” 2nd Ward Ald. Brian Hopkins said, as groups of teens jumped on cars and set fires in the Loop over three nights of mayhem.
By Tom Schuba, Fran Spielman and Emmanuel Camarillo




Chicago police on Washington Street on Saturday night were overwhelmed by groups of teens who responded to calls on social media postings to gather downtown. Officers were punched, kicked and pelted with bottles. Two teens were wounded in a shooting. Fifteen people were arrested.

Ex-Cardinal McCarrick Charged

Why would any parent take their child to Disney?

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Disney doubles down! California park launches its first ever 'Pride Nite' where Mickey and Minnie Mouse will be dressed in rainbow costumes - amid Bob Iger's ongoing war with Ron DeSantis in FloridaPride Night will coincide with global LGBTQ celebrations in June

The announcement was made amid Disney CEO's ongoing battle with Florida Governor dating back to the 'Don't Say Gay' bill.

DeSantis on Monday threatened to build a state prison next to Disney World.

Disneyland unveiled an LGBT-friendly 'Pride Nite' event in June after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis escalated his battle against the progressive entertainment giant.

The $119-a-ticket party announced on Twitter Monday afternoon, just moments after a press conference in which DeSantis threatened to build a state prison next to Walt Disney World and Reedy Creek.

That move was in retaliation after the entertainment giant attempted to circumvent the authority of his oversight board. Disney found itself in DeSantis' sights last year after ousted CEO Bob Chapek slammed Florida's Parental Rights in Education Bill - better known as the 'Don't Say Gay' law.

Disney executives have a different agenda.

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Cardinal Cupich Just Came Out Against Eucharistic Adoration

 
Cupich employs double-talk to disguise his contempt for Catholic beliefs

He is not good for the faith

You have to read between the lines

On witness stand, former ComEd CEO denies knowing contractors were tied to Madigan: ‘I didn’t know who they were’
Anne Pramaggiore testifies in her defense that she was unaware that the contractors hired by the utility through Jay Doherty’s company had connections to the ex- speaker.
By Jon Seidel and Tina Sfondeles




Former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore spent a full day Monday testifying in her defense, confronting recordings presented by prosecutors in her bribery case.

A month after he began to cooperate with the FBI, then-ComEd executive Fidel Marquez helped the feds secretly record a phone call that would become key to their case against rising-star energy

Monday, April 17, 2023

CVS has gone woke!






It’s just been revealed that CVS has gone full WOKE when it comes to supporting so-called “transgender” employees.

Fox Business has obtained a ‘gender transition guide’ that reveals how the company goes out of their way to encourage ‘transgenderism’ among their employees, including how ‘transgender’ employees may use whichever bathroom and locker room they like:

CVS Health’s “gender transition guidelines” for employees requires workers to address people by their preferred pronouns and names and that they may use whichever restroom or locker room they wish regardless of whether the individual identifies as transgender.

Brawl at White Sox vs Orioles game

 
it's a South Side thing

Statement of Mayor Elect Johnson

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"In no way do I condone the destructive activity we saw in the Loop and lakefront this weekend," Johnson said in a statement. "It is unacceptable and has no place in our city. However, it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities."

Johnson said there needs to be a comprehensive approach to these sorts of problems.

"Our city must work together to create spaces for youth to gather safely and responsibly, under adult guidance and supervision, to ensure that every part of our city remains welcome for both residents and visitors. This is one aspect of my comprehensive approach to improve public safety and make Chicago livable for everyone."


Sunday, April 16, 2023

Experts Warn – War with CHINA will be on US SOIL



'Literally become a joke': Reporters left wanting answers from President...

Exorcism proves Catholicism

500 plus teenagers flood into downtown Chicago, smashing car windows, prompting police response


KEEP OUT OF DOWNTOWN CHICAGO UNTIL BEETLEJUICE IS GONE! It's not safe


By FOX 32 Digital Team

Hundreds of teenagers flooded into Downtown Chicago on Saturday night, smashing car windows, trying to get into Millennium Park, and prompting a major police response. A woman whose car was smashed by people jumping on the windshield said her husband was beaten as he sat in the driver's seat. Police were escorting tourists and others back to their cars in the Millennium Park garage.

CHICAGO - Hundreds of teenagers flooded into Downtown Chicago on Saturday night, smashing car windows, trying to get into Millennium Park, and prompting a major police response. At least one person in a car was attacked.

Shots were fired near the corner of Madison and Michigan, and FOX 32 Chicago decided that it was unsafe to keep our news crew on the scene.

Call of Duty

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Glenn Greenwald: The government is lying about the war in Ukraine

The World’s About to Change “Big-Time”



BY BYRON KING

By now you’re certainly aware of the recent intelligence leaks of secret and top-secret U.S. military assessments of the ongoing Russian military operation in Ukraine.

If we blow through the puffery, the bottom line is that military experts in Washington all but predict that Russia is set to prevail, and Ukraine is set to lose.

And what does it mean to you? Well, the world is about to change, and I mean big-time. In a minute I’ll explain why. First, let’s get to the documents.

Per the Pentagon’s own documents, Ukraine’s conflict with Russia is a lost cause.

This case does not make sense

Guardsman Is Charged Over Leaked Documents
Investigators identified accused leaker, Jack Teixeira, with the help of billing records from a social media platform

Guardsman Arrested Over Leaked Classified Documents Is Charged



Prosecutors charged a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman on Friday with unlawfully taking and sharing a trove of highly classified intelligence documents in a security breachthat has exposed significant vulnerabilities in the way the U.S. retains some of its most closely held secrets.

The Justice Department, in a brief hearing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, charged Airman First Class Jack Teixeira, 21, with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material.


The federal public defender’s office in Boston didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Airman Teixeira’s family members couldn’t be reached for comment.

The criminal case against Airman Teixeira is the latest chapter in a fast-moving probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Pentagon and other agencies after the apparent classified documents were discovered in digital posts on Discord, a social-media platformpopular with gamers, and other online forums.

No way no how, did this guy gain access to the information.
Something else is going on.


Friday, April 14, 2023

Let go because he hadn't done anything for them real lately, there use to be a 19th ward politician who loved saying that

Jonathan Toews ready to see ‘where life takes’ him as he moves on from Blackhawks
Even before his conversation with Kyle Davidson, Toews felt in his heart that the time had come to move on, he admitted after his sendoff Thursday night. But what he’s moving on to remains undetermined.
By Ben Pope




Jonathan Toews was embarrassed by but appreciative of his raucous Blackhawks sendoff Thursday.

WATCH LIVE | Funeral services for fallen Chicago Fire Department firefighter

Your Offer is Rejected

Turkey?

Despite cache of secret FBI recordings, ex-ComEd CEO tells jurors in bribery trial she didn’t view Madigan as an ally of utility
Anne Pramaggiore will face more questions when the ComEd bribery trial resumes Monday, when she will surely face vigorous cross-examination by prosecutors in the high-stakes case.
By Jon Seidel
Apr 13, 2023, 8:20pm CDT





Former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore walks into the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in the Loop.


Pat Nabong/Sun-Times



Federal jurors have spent five weeks listening to the voice of former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, caught in a cache of secret FBI recordings in which prosecutors say she conspired with her colleagues to bribe then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

But late Thursday, the polished former energy executive and theater major finally got the chance to speak directly to the people who will help decide her fate.

Pramaggiore took the witness stand in the ComEd bribery trial and told the jury she never viewed Madigan as an ally of the utility she led. She also denied that a longtime Madigan friend on trial beside her, Michael McClain, ever claimed that Madigan owed ComEd a favor.

Alternating her gaze between the jury and her defense attorney, Pramaggiore explained how she began to grow her “professional” relationship with Madigan on a trip to Turkey sponsored by a nonprofit. She called Madigan a “very quiet person” who “doesn’t say a lot.”

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Foreman "was just minding his business" is full of it. Was he is an agitator who was trying to use his position to boss the police around?

Chicago cop faces 90-day suspension, accused of striking Police Board president during George Floyd protest
Police Board President Ghian Foreman filed a complaint with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability saying an officer struck him five times during the May 31, 2020, protest, leaving him with swelling in both legs and unable to walk home.
By Sophie Sherry
Apr 13, 2023, 3:11pm CDT





After a peaceful protest through Hyde Park, demonstrators and police officers square off on May 31, 2020, at Lake Park and 53rd Street.

A Chicago police officer faces a possible three-month suspension for allegedly striking the president of the Chicago Police Board with a baton during a protest sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.

Wake for Firefighter Jermaine Pelt at Blake-Lamb on 103rd St. this evening

Chicago firefighter dies after being injured while fighting fire on city's South Side

A Chicago firefighter died Tuesday after he and two other firefighters were injured battling a predawn house fire on the citys South Side, authorities said.

CHICAGO - A Chicago firefighter died and two other firefighters were injured while battling a multi-alarm fire Tuesday morning at a house in the West Pullman neighborhood, authorities said.

Firefighter Jermaine Pelt had served with Chicago Fire Department since 2005 and celebrated his 49th birthday in March, Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt said.

Pelt leaves behind two children, a 6-year-old and adult daughter he recently walked down the aisle for her wedding. She was alerted to her father's death while she was on her honeymoon, the commissioner said.

Firefighters responded to the blaze around 3:15 a.m. in the 12000 block of South Wallace Street, according to fire officials. Pelt was working a hose line when conditions worsened, and firefighters were ordered out of the building, Holt said.

 

Firefighter Jermaine Pelt 

'Joe Biden is a criminal': Obama-era staffer blows whistle on Biden's bu...

Thousands of US Marines and Armored Vehicles Arrive......Staging

Visitation held for CFD lieutenant who died battling Lake Shore Drive high-rise blaze

Lt. Jan Tchoryk, 55, was an outdoorsman and a Navy veteran who served in Desert Storm, fire officials said.
By Emmanuel Camarillo




A group of Chicago firefighters walk toward a firetruck after attending the wake for CFD Lt. Jan Tchoryk at Cumberland Chapels on Wednesday.

"Rich White Guys Need To Be Prosecuted More" ....from a bar exam flunkie

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

This could work on so many levels


Is Trump-Kennedy the Dream Ticket for 2024?



With authoritative polls showing that only 37% of Democrats want President Joe Biden to seek reelection, the potential candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is both intriguing and potentially substantially impactful on the 2024 presidential race.

Kennedy - who is the scion of the Kennedy political legacy, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, and the son of former U.S. Senator and U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy - has a long record of environmental activism and support for other progressive policies - but it is his longtime criticism of the safety and effectiveness of vaccinations for which he is best known.

Commies vs. Catholics Explained

Bud Light Sales PLUMMET as Anheuser Busch Loses BILLIONS!!!

They call it "shrinkage"

Walmart plan to shut 4 stores by Sunday leaves customers perplexed: ‘You came in and filled a void — now you’re taking it away’
The Walmart Supercenter in Chatham is one of four stores in Chicago — along with supermarkets in Kenwood, Little Village and Lake View — that the company announced Tuesday will close. The supermarket chain called the sites “unprofitable.”




The Chatham Supercenter, Walmart Health center, and Walmart Academy, at 8431 S. Stewart Ave., is one of four Walmart locations that’ll be closing down by Sunday.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Regina Dickey went for an appointment at a new primary care clinic in Chatham on Tuesday. The clinic is newly furnished and close to home, and she thought she’d come again but was disappointed to learn she’d never get the chance.

Dickey, 38, is in fine health, but the clinic where she went and the store it’s attached to — a Walmart Supercenter on the South Side — is not, according to its owners.

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Time to write NATO off

France’s Macron signals move away from US dominance as China humiliates the EU
The faction directing the United States is no longer in charge of the world, and its former allies are making plans for a future beyond the horizon of its fading dominance.
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(LifeSiteNews) — With the return from China of Emmanuel Macron from a lavish state visit, the latest Chinese diplomatic offensive becomes clear.

Following the three day visit, the French leader made a surprise statement to journalists on the plane home, in which he said that Europe should not follow the U.S. over Taiwan – and may abandon the dollar.
Rubio responds



Former Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio took to Twitter to explain the implications of this new position. Namely, why should the U.S. continue to bankroll NATO? Why, indeed, should it even concern itself with “European security” at all?


But, if our allies’ position—if, in fact, Macron speaks for all of Europe, and their position now is they’re not gonna pick sides between the U.S. and China over Taiwan—maybe we shouldn’t be picking sides either. Maybe we should basically say we’re gonna focus on Taiwan and the threats China poses, and you guys handle Ukraine and Europe.

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Chicago to host 2024 Democratic National Convention
The Democratic convention, to run from Aug. 19-22, 2024, is expected to draw up to 50,000 visitors to Chicago. Chicago last hosted a convention in 1996.
By Lynn Sweet




The 2024 Democratic convention will be in Chicago Aug. 19-22, with delegates meeting each evening in the United Center.

WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee selected Chicago to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention, the Sun-Times has learned, with the city beating bids from Atlanta and New York.


The convention will take place Aug. 19-22 next year. It is expected to draw between 5,000 and 7,000 delegates and alternates and attract up to 50,000 visitors to Chicago.

Evening events will be at the United Center — the main site of the 1996 Democratic convention in Chicago — with daytime business to be conducted at the McCormick Place Convention Center, the location of the 2012 NATO Summit.

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 Kennedy on the topic of Biden

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Macron: Europe Should Reduce Reliance on U.S. Dollar, Avoid ‘Following America’ into Conflict with China

French President Emmanuel Macron has argued that Europe needs its own “strategic autonomy” from the United States, potentially including its reliance on the dollar

A housing project in the middle of the Loop. Probably not the best idea

 

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The largest affordable housing investment in the history of Chicago's downtown and one of the largest office-to-res conversions in the US took a huge step forward as Mayor Lori E. Beetljuice joined by Deputy Mayor Samir Mayekar, Chicago Department of Planning and Development Commissioner Maurice Cox, Chicago Department of Housing Commissioner Marisa Novara, World Business Chicago President and CEO Michael Fassnacht, and Chicago Loop Alliance President and CEO Michael Edwards, announced three finalists for the next phase of #LaSalleReimagined, a re-adaptive project bringing 1,059 apartments to Chicago's iconic LaSalle street corridor, 30% or 317 of which will be affordable housing units. Chicago is the only city in the county fashioning such a conversion effort with equitable, mixed-income housing leading the concept.

"LaSalle Street is a substantive corridor for initial transformation. The rich stock of 1920s and 1930s era buildings have features that are key for conversion to residential, including operable windows and footprints that terrace back towards the crown to allow for experiential outdoor space,” said Sheryl Schulze, Principal at Gensler Chicago and the firm’s Global Repositioning and Landlord Services Leader. “Chicagoans are passionate about historic architecture and the adaptability of their next chapters. The dynamic stories these buildings offer, their architectural craftsmanship, and the sustainable principles needed to evolve them will catalyze the district’s evolution into a thriving equitable ecosystem for work, live, and play."
 
World Business Chicago is thrilled to congratulate all three finalists: Prime/Capri Interests, Riverside Investment & Development Company and AmTrustRE, and The Prime Group! Follow us as we keep you updated on the progress of LaSalle Reimagined.