Not the Babylon Bee: UNRWA nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

If they called it the Nobel Pieces Prize it would have made more sense nominating UNRWA for the Nobel Peace Prize. But like the time Yasser Arafat's group Black September massacred 6 Israeli coaches, 5 Israeli athletes and a German police officer at the Munich Olympics in 1972 and later went on to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, many of us have stopped taking this award seriously.

There is clear evidence showing that UNRWA workers not only support the terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but that they actually took part in the October 7, 2023 massacre of over 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians.

Anyway, in Oslo, Norway a politician bragged on Thursday that he nominated UNRWA for the Nobel Peace Prize. Labour MP [aren't they always the ones] Asmund Aukrust told the Dagbladet newspaper that he nominated UNRWA “for its long-term work to provide vital support to Palestine and the region in general,” and for dealing with the "Jewish problem," if you get my drift.

“This work has been crucial for over 70 years, and even more vital in the last three months,” said the Jew hating politician who is vice-chairman of Norway’s parliament’s foreign affairs committee.

More than a dozen countries have suspended giving UNRWA money for bread and bullets, including the USA, Germany, Britain, and Sweden over proof that 12 staff members of the organization directly participated in the slaughters, rapes, and myriad atrocities that killed over 1,200 people, and kidnapped 253 others, some, if not many of whom have died.

Israel refused to do nothing. They launched an all-out offensive aimed at destroying Hamas and the return of the hostages.

According to the Hamas-run health ministry, at least 26,900 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive, an unverified figure that does not differentiate between terror operatives and noncombatants. But the Israel Defense Forces says the military has killed some 10,000 fighters in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000 terrorists killed in Israel on October 7.

It's a good start.

Of course, just being nominated for the Peace Prize does not represent recognition by the Nobel Committee, which receives hundreds of nominations every year. But if they can give it to Arafat, they could give it to these clowns.

I have hope that they won't.

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Former CIA engineer who gave Wikileaks "Vault 7" secrets, sentenced to 40 years

Courtroom sketch by Joshua Schulte at March 4, 2020 jury deliberations in NYC

Note that some of what is written here is meant as sarcasm, snark, and my opinion about the guy. It should be easily recognizable to those of you who read Brain Flushings.

Joshua Schulte, 35, is a former CIA software engineer who provided Wikileaks with a treasure trove of stolen CIA secrets that was released to the public in 2017. It is described as the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history. 

He was sentenced in Manhattan federal court on Thursday and will serve only 40 years in prison.

But along with the classified information, Schulte was also found to be in possession of child sexual abuse images and videos, making him not only a traitor, but a pile of human garbage. 

"We will likely never know the full extent of the damage, but I have no doubt it was massive," Judge Jesse M. Furman said as he announced the sentence.

The so-called Vault 7 leak exposed how the CIA hacked Apple and Android smartphones in overseas spying operations, and efforts to turn internet-connected televisions into listening devices. 

Prior to his arrest, Schulte had helped create the hacking tools as a coder at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. So he learned to code but perhaps should have been a coal miner and would have avoided the incarceration. Oh wait, he still would have been busted for the child porn.

In requesting a life sentence, Assistant U.S. Attorney David William Denton Jr. asked for a life sentence. He said Schulte was responsible for "the most damaging disclosures of classified information in American history."

Given a chance to speak, Schulte complained mostly about harsh conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, calling his cell, "my torture cage." 

Boo-freaking-hoo.

The traitor also claimed that prosecutors had once offered him a plea deal that would have called for a 10-year prison sentence and that it was unfair of them to now seek a life term. He said he objected to the deal because he would have been required to relinquish his right to appeal. It looks as if he chose the wrong door and won the booby prize.

"This is not justice the government seeks, but vengeance," the piece of human excrement whined.

Immediately after sentencing, the judge criticized some of Schulte's half-hour of remarks, saying he was "blown away" by Schulte's "complete lack of remorse and acceptance of responsibility."

The judge said Schulte was "not driven by any sense of altruism," but instead was "motivated by anger, spite and perceived grievance" against others at the agency who he believed had ignored his complaints about the work environment and lack of child porn access.

Furman said Schulte continued committing crimes from behind bars by trying to leak more classified materials and by creating a hidden file on his computer that contained 2,400 images of child sexual abuse that he continued to view from jail. 

I don't know about you, but I'm all in for the death sentence for people who commit and support child sexual abuse if it can be clearly proven.

During a two-hour proceeding, Furman noted a one-page letter the government had forwarded from CIA Deputy Director David S. Cohen, who described Schulte's crimes as causing "exceptionally grave harm to U.S. national security and the CIA."

Cohen added: "His actions cost the Agency hundreds of millions of dollars; degraded its ability to collect foreign intelligence against America's adversaries; placed directly at risk CIA personnel, programs, and assets; and jeopardized U.S. national security by degrading the CIA's ability to conduct its mission. In short, Mr. Schulte's actions inflicted heavy costs on the United States."

A mistrial was declared in 2020 at Schulte's original trial after the jury was deadlocked on the most serious counts, including illegal gathering and transmission of national defense information. 

He was convicted at a July 2022 trial of charges in connection with the classified leak.

Last fall, he was convicted in the case over the child sexual abuse images, which originated when a computer that Schulte possessed after he left the CIA and moved to New York from Virginia was found to contain the images and videos that he had downloaded from the internet from 2009 to March 2017.

Of the 40-year sentence, Furman said the bulk of it was for the CIA theft while six years and eight months of it were for the convictions over the child sexual abuse materials.

In a statement afterward, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Schulte "betrayed his country by committing some of the most brazen, heinous crimes of espionage in American history. When the FBI caught him, Schulte doubled down and tried to cause even more harm to this nation by waging what he describe as an 'information' war' of publishing top secret information from behind bars."

Meanwhile, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange remains in Britain, where he has battled the courts for years to avoid being sent to the U.S., where he faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse.

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Biden leaks strike plans and IRGC Commanders go into hiding

"I'm mahaman hum beh dee dah man"

It looks as if our alleged President leaks in more ways than one. He and his administration have been repeatedly leaking plans of alleged retaliatory strikes against those who were behind the murders of three U.S. soldiers and wounding about 40 other personnel. Predictably, those responsible, the commanders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have gone into hiding to avoid being "Qasem Solemeinied."

Thanks Joe--we knew we could count on you for f*****g things up.

CBS News reported that Biden officials confirmed  “that plans have been approved for a series of strikes over a number of days against targets — including Iranian personnel and facilities — inside Iraq and Syria.”

[H/T The Daily Wire.]

He might as well have gotten on top of the White House with a megaphone and mumbled his plans out to the public to forewarn the terrorists that we're coming for them with plans to blow them to smithereens.

Jennifer Griffin of Fox News, responded to the CBS report by noting that “all of those IRGC commanders have already left Syria and gone into hiding leaving those bases.”

“The Pentagon usually does not telegraph so much if it wants the element of surprise,” she added, implying that Biden wanted them to leave so he could put on a show for the public that he's finally do something.

The Biden administration tried to diminish Iran’s involvement in the over 160 Iranian-backed terrorist attacks against U.S. forces in the region over the last few months, telling Politico that they don’t believe Tehran has full control of the terrorist groups that it funds. 

Why the administration is trying to take the heat off the world's biggest sponsor of global terrorism can possibly be explained by former Obama adviser Susan Rice, whose heart is in Iran.

Politico said that the “disclosure” by the Biden administration, “could lower the chance of the U.S. getting pulled into a direct confrontation with Iran,” as long as no terrorism commander gets hurt.

The Biden administration blames Israel for Iranian-backed terrorist groups attacking U.S. forces, saying that if Israel stopped trying to kill Hamas terrorists inside Gaza who carried out the October 7 terrorist attack, “there would at least be a tactical pause in the region by all Iran-backed groups,” Politico reported.

So all Israel had to do was to allow Hamas to do their thing and leave with no retaliation and those brave Americans would not have been killed.

The Biden administration is not only weak, it' cowardly and clearly anti-Semitic, because anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.

Useless Secretary of State Lloyd Austin was asked on Thursday about IRGC commanders running for cover back to Iran to avoid being killed by U.S. forces.

“Has there been too much telegraphing, or is the point not to kill any Iranian commanders?” a reporter asked.

“In terms of telegraphing about strikes and whether or not people leave or would have left, you know, I won’t speculate on any of that,” Austin said, proving he's a 'good company man' who's should know the answer to that question. “I will just tell you that, you know, we will have a multi-tiered response, and again, we have the ability to respond in a number of times depending on what the situation is.” 

Blah, blah, de blah.

Tom Cotton (R-AR) blasted the Biden boobs on Thursday for tipping off the terrorists saying that it's a reflection of  “Biden’s policy of fear and appeasement and conciliation.”

“Just like with Ukraine and before that with Afghanistan, he’s scared of his own shadow,” Cotton said. “He keeps worrying about escalation. What we saw over the weekend was a massive escalation by Iran. The only way to solve that threat is to directly target Iran’s terrorist forces throughout the region and in Iran itself, to make it clear that we will never tolerate the deaths of our fellow Americans.”

And for G_d's sale. quit blaming the victim, Israel.

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The Harvard Piggy Bank is Getting Lighter

It's beginning to look a lot less like Christmas for Harvard University's coffers. The Harvard Crimson reported on Tuesday that billionaire hedge fund manager and huge donor Kenneth C. Griffin would be pausing his donations to the institution of woke learning.

Griffin threw $300,000,000 to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the past. He said during his keynote address to the Managed Funds Association in Miami on Tuesday that he is putting a pause on his purse due to the DEI woke policies of the university.

 

“I’d like that to change and I have made that clear to members of the corporate board,” he said, referring to the garbage policies Harvard has implemented. “But until Harvard makes it very clear that they’re going to resume their role as educating young American men and women to be leaders, to be problem solvers, to take on difficult issues, I’m not interested in supporting the institution.”

Griffin, 55, said he was tired of  "whiny snowflakes" promoting their far-left, progressive yet backward ideas like Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs.

“Will America’s elite university get back to their roots of educating American children – young adults – to be the future leaders of our country or are they going to maintain being lost in the wilderness of microaggressions, a DEI agenda that seems to have no real endgame, and just being loss in the wilderness?” he asked.

Griffin, who is the owner and CEO of Citadel, is also not a fan of Jew hatred. He confirmed that he will follow the lead of Bill Ackman and refuse to hire those anti-Semites who signed an open letter calling for the boycott of Israel after Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and civilian Gazans butchered, tortured, burned and beheaded people of Israel last October 7.

The hedge fund manager, who graduated from the university in 1988, has donated, to date, a staggering $500 million to the university.

His generosity was acknowledged by the Crimson, which explained:

Griffin is arguably one of the most generous Harvard donors in the University’s modern history. The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is named after him as well as Harvard College’s financial aid office. His decision to stop donating could have major financial implications for the University, which is already struggling to contain a wave of donor backlash.

Griffin is the second billionaire donor to suspend contributions to the university in recent months. Billionaire philanthropist Leonard V. Blavatnik, who gave $200 million to Harvard Medical School in 2018, similarly announced late last year that he would be suspending his donations to the institution.

In October, after the attack in Israel, shipping and chemicals magnate Idan Ofer and his wife Batia -- worth an estimated $14 billion -- resigned from the executive board of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government due to their anger about the anti-Semitic student groups on campus that supported the Hamassholes. 

Griffin's announcement comes several weeks after the university's far-left Erkel-look-alike president, Claudine Gay, reluctantly announced her resignation after giving Congressional testimony in which she refused to condemn calls by Harvard students for genocide as well as a growing body of evidence that she was a serial plagiarizer.

Despite her obvious failures, Gay repeatedly refused to resign and reportedly threatened to sue Harvard University if she were removed. She now just teaches wokeness and earns over $900,000 annually.

Eventually, she succumbed to the pressure and handed in her resignation, although somewhat predictably blamed it on "personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus" rather than her personal failures.

When in doubt, shout racism!

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Fox News host calls MSNBC'sJoy Reid's "F Bomb" example of her 'fraudulent' views being exposed

Who knew that MSNBC's far-left racist and homophobic host, Joy Reid, was also a closet Biden basher?

Reid was caught on a hot mic dropping an "F-bomb" and was cursing and apparently targeting a senile and demented old man who lives in a White House and still claims his son Beau died in Iraq, is buried in Normandy, and was a war hero.

Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany and now a Fox News host, explained her frustration with Reid's "lack of journalistic integrity" on "Jesse Watters Primetime," saying her views appear to be "completely different" from what she broadcasts to her audience.

Well, that's true for sure at least when considering her homophobic remarks she made on her now deleted blog, and what she claims to believe today.

But McEnany went further and blasted Reid for her lack of journalistic integrity and the fact that she talks out of both sides of her mouth:

Completely different, fraudulent. This is the network that pumps Biden over and over and over. It's the preferred network of the administration, I would argue. They send their surrogates out there all the time. And here's what she's saying behind the scenes? This guy's going to start another war, and this is who she's peddling? It is so beneath any line of journalistic integrity. Joy Reid, we know she's never been anywhere close to that, and then you get to Scarborough, saying 'Joe Biden's engaged, full of energy.' Who has ever said that? No one, except the drunk guy at the bar.

But the same Joe Scarborough says Donald Trump wants to execute his generals. Donald Trump wants to use Seal Team Six to execute his opponents. No, that was something a judge put forward as a hypothetical, nothing that Trump said. But they don't play Trump, so you'd never know if he said it or not.

On Monday's installment of MSNBCs "The ReidOut," Reid dropped an F-bomb during a monologue attacking the Republicans that she had accused of "taking credit" for bills they voted against but were passed by Democrats and signed into law by the president. She blasted the GOP obstruction of an immigration bill being mulled behind the scenes "for the sake of Donald Trump."

"Over the weekend, President Biden said he's ready to take action if Congress is serious about solving the border issue," the far left Reid told her handful of viewers.

MSNBC then cut to Biden's remarks, which were abruptly interrupted by Reid's voice on a hot mic.

"Starting another f---in' war," Reid could be heard saying with a chuckle before her audio was immediately cut.

Perhaps she'll claim her microphone was hacked by undercover conservatives.

Cutting back to Reid mid-sentence, she then appeared to accuse Trump of "still trying to kill the deal" before carrying on with the rest of her bull crap.

Towards the end of the show, Reid once again gave an apology to viewers for the "'behind the scenes' chatter" they heard. 

It was "chatter." It was uncensored thoughts of Joy Reid and any intelligent person would know that; so I suspect her audience won't catch on. 

This is a network that is too far left to even allow former President Trump's speeches to be heard, save for the pieces they often cut out of context.

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U.S.N. shoots down anti-ship ballistic missile sent as a gift from Yemen, along with 3 Iranian UAVs

USS Carney

The USS Carney successfully shot down a ballistic missile fired from Yemen, destroyed three Iranian drones  that were too close for comfort for the warship. Also destroyed were a Houthi ground control station and Houthi UAVs in several incidents lasting several hours, as per US Central Command (CENTCOM).

The strikes took place at around 01:30 Sanaa time.

The Iranian-backed Houthi militants fired one anti-ship ballistic missile on Wednesday at approximately 20:30 Sanaa time. The missile exited Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and traveled toward the Gulf of Aden when it was successfully shot down by the USS Carney, CENTCOM said.

Then, at approximately 21:10, the USS Carney shot down three Iranian UAVs in close proximity to the ship. There were no injuries or damage in either incident, possibly due to the crappy aim of the Houthis.

So far, the US has shown the terrorists that every time they throw a "punch" at us, we will swat it away, but we will not really punch back with any authority because that might cause bad feelings and you might call us racists.

CENTCOM agrees the Houthi targets "presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and the U.S. Navy ships in the region," but there doesn't seem to be a plan with the Biden administration to do anything more than defensive tactics. But in times of armed conflict, a good defense does not equate to a good offense--this isn't the NFL, dammit.

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CO Trans teen sentenced to 6 years for his plan to shoot up school and church

He now goes by the name Lilly but he was born William. I'm not sure if he went ahead and had his penis and testicles surgically mutilated and shaped to look somewhat like the genitals of a female, but he "identifies" as a female and dresses like one.

The transgender Colorado teenager, Lilly Whitworth, who admitted to plotting mass shootings targeting at least three schools — and who had penned a chilling manifesto praising infamous killers — has been sentenced to six years in prison, as reported by The New York Post.

Whitworth planned to carry out a mass shooting at Timberview Middle School, which he had previously attended. He was arrested after his family made a collective decision to hold him “accountable for her actions,” the boy’s mother, Melissa Whitworth-Mathes, told The Post last year.

Other potential targets mentioned in his notebooks or in text messages included Prairie Hills Elementary and Pine Creek High School, along with churches and government buildings.

Also recovered was a four-page manifesto which contained words of praise for serial killer Ed Kemper and Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza.

When asked how close Whitworth was to carrying out a mass shooting, he was quoted as telling police that he was “about a third of the way from doing it.”

Whitworth’s sister had called the police on March 31, telling a dispatcher that the teen was punching holes in the wall and had threatened to shoot up a school.

Police found journals written by Whitworth, which included a list of firearms and instructions for how to 3D print them, information on bomb-making and a list of people to be killed, according to an affidavit obtained by the outlet.

Whitworth admitted to an officer that he planned to carry out a mass shooting for “no specific reason.”

Whitworth heard the sentence in an Elbert County courtroom on Tuesday and was given credit for 306 days for time already served since his March 2023 arrest.

Given Whitworth’s mental disorder of gender dysphoria, it was not immediately clear whether he would be sent to a men’s facility or a women's facility where he could dominate the cell block and shower with his female colleagues. 

A spokesperson for the 18th Judicial District’s Attorney’s Office, which prosecuted the case, told The Post Wednesday that it is not involved in determining a defendant’s place of incarceration.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Whitworth wasn't listed as a DOC prisoner in the online database.

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This is Wild! New information might save Trump $83.3 million in Carroll case

Okay, a jury awarded E. Jean Carroll a whopping $83.3 million in damages for alleged defamation by former President Trump that she claimed that he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. If you get a gander of Carroll, picture her and Trump some 30 years younger, it seems highly doubtful that this ever happened. She is now, and was then, not the hottest chick by the coop's heater.

Although Trump's courtroom antics didn't help the case, the judge's bizarre orders to hamstring Trump's defense by not allowing him to present exculpatory evidence or defend himself, was disgusting.

But why did the judge do this? Why? Why oh why?

Because the judge, Lewis A. Kaplan, who presided over the case, has a major conflict of interest. [H/T The New York Post.]

Kaplan, the Judge, was once a "mentor" to Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan. While they aren't related, they worked together in the early 1990s at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton &Garrison in Midtown Manhattan.

Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, filed a letter on Monday:

If Your Honor truly worked with Ms. Kaplan in any capacity—especially if there was a mentor/mentee relationship—that fact should have been disclosed before any case involving these parties was permitted to proceed forward. This issue is particularly concerning since Plaintiff’s other lead counsel, Shawn Crowley, served as Your Honor’s law clerk, and we were previously advised that Your Honor co-officiated her wedding. 28 U.S.C. Section 455(a) states that “[a]ny… judge … of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”

Additionally, Habba pointed out that Canon 3 of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges is quite clear: a judge is required to "disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including" when the judge served as "a lawyer with whom the judge previously practiced law served."

It seems clear that Judge Lewis A. Kaplan worked with Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan and even officiated at her wedding. That sounds like a conflict of interests if there ever was one.

Furthermore, Carroll’s other lawyer was also a law clerk for Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. 

The fact that Judge Lewis Kaplan didn’t reveal these conflicts of interest is enough for him to face major consequences, but there is no doubt that he should have recused himself from the case.

Habba is putting him to task and calling on him to confirm or deny the associations. But as we know, lawyers shouldn't ask questions to which they don't already know the answers.

Here, without knowing more information (or having a specific factual denial by Your Honor that you had a mentor-mentee relationship with Ms. Kaplan), we are unable to flesh out our position concerning what specific relief should be requested, including, but not limited to, moving for new trials on the issues of liability and damages. Surely, however, this Court should provide defense counsel with all of the relevant facts. At a minimum, this information could certainly prove relevant to President Trump’s forthcoming Rule 59 motion.

Habba had been planning to appeal the decision due to Judge Kaplan being "overly hostile." Now it's looking even better for Trump because it seems obvious that something here stinks.

“We believe, and will argue on appeal, that the Court was overtly hostile towards defense counsel and President Trump, and displayed preferential treatment towards Plaintiff’s counsel,” Habba said. “Indeed, the rulings, tone, and demeanor of the bench raised significant concerns even before the New York Post’s investigative journalism unearthed these new facts."

At this point, it should be obvious that the legal system is weaponized against him and what this also should tell us is that this will ensure his supporters are going to get themselves to the polls on Election Day.

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