And all P. Diddy's Hollywood friends condemn Trump because "he's crass".

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Fortunately for the Hollywood 1,000, the Epstein Rule will spare them from prosecution. Here’s just a partial list of the A-List celebrities and their lessers who frolicked at Mr. Diddy’s days-long sex fests and rape sessions. Leonardo DiCaprio was unavailable for comment.

Over at his blog Battle Swarm, Larry Person details some of the back story for those of us who, like him, haven’t been following Diddy’s career since 2008.

I Say, This “Diddy” Fellow Seems Like A Bit Of A Scoundrel

Quelle dommage

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***Original post***

The Israeli Defense Forces launched a strike on Iran's Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut Friday with a target of eliminating the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah. 

"The IDF conducted a precise strike on the Central Headquarters of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, embedded under residential buildings in the heart of the Dahieh in Beirut," IDF released in a statement. 

UPDATE: They got him.

The Harris/Biden team will weep; I will not.

to be updated

Of course, there’s another theory, being circulated by those best situated to know:

They've swapped the puppet, but their thirst for power and control remains

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David Strom:

Secret Service Is Being Weaponized Against Trump Campaign

…. I think by now it is pretty obvious that the Mayorkas Department of Homeland Security, in particular, and the Biden administration, in general, were happy to provide substandard security to Trump while knowing that Iran had active plots and hit squads in the country working to assassinate Trump. But you may think that the failures were due solely to massive incompetence. 

… It's hard to go wrong arguing that a failure is due to government incompetence, and without solid proof, accusing somebody of orchestrating the murder of a former president and perhaps future president is a judgment call. 

But there is no question that the failures of the Secret Service to protect President Trump are being used to stymie his ability to campaign. The Secret Service is not only still providing inadequate protection to Trump, but working to ensure that Kamala Harris can campaign freely while vetoing Trump campaign events. 

… On Wednesday, Senator Josh Hawley revealed that a whistleblower was accusing the Secret Service of hampering the Trump campaign by providing security to Kamala Harris sufficient to enable a campaign rally while denying Trump the security assets to do the same thing.

It's the sort of bureaucratic move that usually goes under the radar--an administration putting its thumb on the scale in order to get a result that is unfair but desirable to the powers that be.

This is both playing with the life of a marked man and the future President of the United States and blatant interference with the election campaign. 

I didn't write about this before because I wasn't sure about the quality of the evidence. "Whistleblower" can mean anything and be anybody, and while I didn't have great doubt that this was the case, I decided to wait and see if more came out. 

Well, it did. Several news outlets have confirmed the story. The Secret Service DID deny assets to Trump after having initially approved them, upending his schedule in the final weeks of the campaign. 

When every vote counts in the swing states, these sorts of things can make a big difference to the outcome of the election, and once again, the gang at Homeland Security is playing with Trump's life because they see him as a threat to their power. Biden, Harris, Mayorkas, and all the power-mad crowd do indeed see Trump as an existential threat. 

The threat isn't to democracy but to their desire for total autocratic power. Trump is on the cusp of destroying their grip on power. They want him gone. Or, as Commerce Secretary Raimundo puts it, "extinguished." 

Or perhaps squashed like a bug.

Trump's life is being threatened, and the threats on his life are being used to hamper his campaign. If the assassins don't get him, then the threat of them will still keep him less mobile and able to campaign. 

We can argue about how active the Biden/Harris team is in inviting people to kill Donald Trump, but there is no question that they are using the threats to his life to limit his ability to campaign. 

The Secret Service has been drawn into the political arena as an active participant. Mayorkas, perhaps the most malignant force in Washington, is using his power to ensure Kamala Harris gets elected. He has the power of life and death for Donald Trump, and is using it on her behalf. 

Which is just one more step down the path of weaponizing government. 

Excellent article by Stephen Green over on PJ Media

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Team Biden Can't Understand How It Blew Middle East Peace, and I Can't Stop Cry-Laughing

Excerpts:

Less than one month into his solitary, sad little term, Biden lifted former president Donald Trump’s restoration of U.N. sanctions on Iran. The White House and the State Steno Pool sold the move as something that "could help Washington move toward rejoining the 2015 nuclear agreement aimed at reining in the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program." Trump had withdrawn from Barack Obama's "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, in 2018, accusing Iran of serious violations."

"Trump had Iran broke and boxed in," I wrote. "Biden unleashed the Kraken."

In addition to that, Biden restored US funding to UNRWA (a virtual arm of Hamas) and removed the Houthis from the Foreign Terrorist Organization and Specially Designated Global Terrorist lists that Trump had finally put them on late in his term. 

But perhaps the most bone-headed move was Biden's rejection of Mike Pompeo and Jared Kushner's Abraham Accords, negotiated under Donald Trump's auspices between Israel and a growing number of Arab states. 

The genius of the Accords was twofold. The first is that the peace agreements were bilateral between Israel and each Arab nation — no U.S. security guarantees required. The Accords were meant to be self-sustaining as trade and cultural contacts grew between states that had been officially at war for decades.

The second is that the negotiations bypassed the Palestinians completely.

Every other peace effort was premised on something more impossible and only slightly less ridiculous than trying to ride a pogo stick to Mars: negotiate a settlement between Israel and the Arabs of Gaza/West Bank before negotiating a formal peace between Israel and the rest of the Arab world.

The Palestinians don't want peace. They want to murder Jews from the river to the sea — and then some. And yet every American president from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama insisted on pounding their skulls on the cement wall of Palestinian intransigence. 

The Accords roadmap was to bring one Arab nation after another on board, culminating in Trump's second term with Saudi Arabia. With Iran broke and the Arabs at peace with Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah would have withered on the vine. Then, and only then, peace might be brokered between Israel and the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank.

Instead of carrying on, White House PressSec Jen Psaki breezily denounced the Abraham Accords in May of 2021 as having failed to do "anything constructive" because, as I wrote above, the "entire administration is naifs, weaklings, idiots, and Marxists." The Biden-Harris administration let the Accords wither while they empowered Iran and pursued an old-school peace plan starting with — surprise! — an Israeli/Palestinian peace made impossible because Biden had already empowered Iran.

So now the administration has spent the last year, described in dizzying detail by Foer, scrambling around trying to figure out how to put out the fires when they're the ones who poured the gasoline and lit the match.

Brace yourself, Bridget

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This has been expected and reported on several times by Greenwich Time since early last year, so no surprise, but the deal has finally been consummated and the sale price disclosed. Whether the changes that are coming will be good — dubious — or bad, the Village as we’ve known it won’t be the same. Good-bye, local businesses; it was a good run.

Much of 'unique' Old Greenwich business district sold for $19M after 80 years owned by family trust

By Robert Marchant, Staff Writer

GREENWICH — A large section of real estate in Old Greenwich, including 17 retail storefronts, 17 office suites, 10 apartments and a large warehouse, has been sold by a family trust to new owners for $19 million.

The Nolan-Thomas family trust, owned by the descendants of a wealthy real-estate developer who built up the businesses along Sound Beach Avenue a century ago, has held the large real estate portfolio for generations.

The new owners are OG Real Estate LLC. The sale was completed in mid-September, and could bring substantial changes to the retail sector of Old Greenwich.

…. The family trust was started after the death of  George Boles in 1944. George Boles was a major property owner and early developer of the Old Greenwich business district in the early part of the 20th century. The current businesses on Sound Beach Avenue and Arcadia Road were built under his management beginning in 1920. Boles had six sisters, and a large number of nieces and nephews; members of those Nolan and Thomas families maintained ownership of the properties for decades.

The holdings include much of the retail operations in the Sound Beach Avenue corridor, known locally as "the village." 

One long strip along Sound Beach Avenue includes a butcher shop, a barber shop, a sushi restaurant, a jewelry store, an art gallery, a sewing business, a children's store, a women's clothing store and a bank. Another section on Arcadia encompasses a real estate business, an optical store, a deli, a dry cleaner and a fitness studio. A third small parcel includes two small businesses next to the Berkshire Hathaway real estate business. Also included is a 11,226-square foot, single-story warehouse.

Family members who held ownership in the trust were absentee owners, using a management company to run their holdings in Old Greenwich.

[And those family members, all elderly, were “difficult”, to put it mildly. Still, it’s doubtful things will improve with this sale.]

Sale price reported of Old Round Hill Lane, which is neither old — its a development — nor on Round Hill Road, but hey ...

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(rolls royce courtesy of P. diddy’s car loan / bail fund, llc)

5 Old Round Hill Lane, $10.5 million, $11.9 asked. Purchased new for $11.2 million in 2007 and sold to this now-former owner for $10.375 in 2013. Considering the money put into it after that purchase and the current value of 2013 dollars, there was no jackpot here.

It's about time he did; certainly the media won't do it

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Issues & Insights reports that the Trump campaign has finally answered the Democrats’s and their media flunkies’ 2025 falsehoods by posting Kampalla’s own agenda.

After being beaten over the head for months by Democrats about “Project 2025” – about which the left has mounted an unprecedented disinformation campaign – Donald Trump has finally figured out how to respond. And it’s a doozy.

Up until now, all Trump would say about Project 2025 is that he didn’t know anything about it. That left the door open for Democrats to say whatever they wanted about that effort and claim it’s a Trump plan.

Project 2025 was never a Trump plan. The book Democrats keep parading around is called “Mandate for Leadership,” which the conservative Heritage Foundation has published every four years since 1980.

It is and always has been meant as a guide for any incoming administration to policies that conservatives endorse. No one outside of policy wonks knew about it, much less read it. And in the 44 years since the first edition came out, only two presidents have used it – Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump – both of whom implemented pro-growth tax cuts, cut back the regulatory Leviathan, and spurred strong, widely shared, economic growth.

This year, with no record to run on, Democrats decided that their entire campaign had to be built around scaring voters about Trump. But since calling him a “threat to democracy” and arresting him wasn’t working, they decided to find another bogeyman. And they settled on the “Mandate.”

At 900 pages, it was big enough that they could find a few things that, taken out of context, seemed frightening, and then they just made up the rest because who’d bother to check?

The campaign worked. An NBC poll finds that American adults have a more negative view of Project 2025 than they do of socialism.

The Democrats are still at it. They even held a mock hearing last week.

The press has apparently tired a little bit of the lies the party is peddling. CNN just called out Tim Walz for claiming that Project 2025 would require parents to register their pregnancies with the federal government.

“Walz’s claims are false,” CNN states categorically.

But up until now, the Trump campaign has inexplicably been on defense.” I don’t know anything about it,” Trump would say. Some of the ideas are nutty, he’d say. “I have my own agenda.” Etc., etc.

At last, and hopefully not too late, he’s figured out how to turn the tables on Harris. And it just took one post on X.

Here it is:

If you’re interested, the left-leaning “Verify” has an almost-objective, reasonably fair explanation of Project 2025; it’s origins, it’s policy recommendations, and whether much of it could pass Congress (hint: it wouldn’t).

I don't think even the Mickster is going to fall for it this time; right, Mick?

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Twitchy: How About NO? AP Tries Touting COVID Boosters, Gets OBLITERATED Instead

The media really need to stop trying to make COVID boosters a thing. They tried earlier this summer to say a 'surge' would require a return to 2020 measures (yeah, that's never gonna happen).

We all know people -- we've seen them online -- who've had multiple boosters and still get COVID multiple times. We're all fed up and only die hards are going to continue getting boosters.

But here's the AP, doing its best to get people to get vaxxed.

They write:

Fall means it’s time for just about everybody to get up to date on their flu and COVID-19 vaccines – and a lot of older adults also need protection against another risky winter virus, RSV.

Yes, you can get your flu and COVID-19 shots at the same time. Don’t call them boosters — they’re not just another dose of last year’s protection. The coronavirus and influenza are escape artists that constantly mutate to evade your body’s immune defenses, so both vaccines are reformulated annually to target newer strains.

“Right now is the best time” to get all the recommended fall vaccinations, said Dr. Mandy Cohen, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as she got her flu shot Wednesday. She has an appointment for her COVID-19 shot, too. It’s “the single most effective thing you can do to protect yourself, your family, your community.”

After COVID, is there anyone who still trusts anything our government minders tell us? Very few, it seems:

The challenge: Getting more Americans to roll up their sleeves. Last year, just 45% of adults got a flu vaccination and even fewer, 23%, got a COVID-19 shot. A survey released Wednesday by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases shows an equally low number intend to this fall.

I actually know two older friends who boasted to me that they’d just been (voluntarily — that will probably change, for all of us) injected with both a flu “vaccine” and the latest version of the Bat Flu non-vaccine. A bit baffling, but I also know that they intend to vote for Kamalla Ding Dong, so I suppose it’s not so surprising after all.

BONUS CONTENT: Remember this one? I doubt Joe does, but he wouldn’t; he can’t.