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Obama's what, £65 million advance for a book that won't (and was likely never intended to) be written.... Vox wrestling with arithmetic :-)
- in Clarky world they're all A-OK enterprises as is the ongoing farce of Judge Sullivan and other politically bent members of the Federal judicial system .... could be a case of live by the sword?
tomo
Obama's what, £65 million advance for a book
As the Vox piece says ... the advance was for two books, one by Barack, the other by Michelle. While it is true that Obama has repeatedly postponed publication of his memoir, Michelle has delivered on her part of the deal, and Becoming was the biggest selling book of 2018 and had racked up 10 million sales by March of last year. I don't imagine the publishers are feeling particularly ripped off.
Phil Clarke
https://www.bookforum.com/papertrail/aaron-robertson-on-the-people-s-townhall-on-the-future-of-publishing-when-will-obama-s-next-memoir-come-out-24090
Phil Clarke
When will Barry's next memoir come out? - ho-ho
Even if he splits the loot with the missus $32.500,000 buys a lot of ghostwriting - although he's likely twitchy about who's going to do the job as biographers regularly fall out with their still breathing subjects ..... I'd wager he's engaged different teams for different time periods.
tomo
Whatever. Baseless smears, comme toujours.
Phil Clarke
Aug 24, 2020 at 3:46 PM Phil Clarke
With all the conspiring, faked evidence, lying lawyers etc out to frame Trump and any associates by Democrats, can it be assumed that the Trial and Guilt of innocent Carbon Dioxide was carried out by corrupt scientists aswell?
golf charlie
smears?
he's not going to write it himself - and there is plenty of evidence that live biography is a minefield.
Elsewhere:
- no sympathetic victims
tomo
There have been several election scandals in the United States which have impacted events to different degrees – take the birther movement of 2008, the Florida recount of 2000, or the Watergate scandal of 1972. One took place in the 19th century, but it resonates well with this year’s debate over the safety of presidential elections.The fate of the 1864 presidential election in the United States – and that of the entire nation – could have turned out differently due to a conspiracy that used voting by mail to sway the poll in favour of Democrats.
For much of that year, Abraham Lincoln had grim chances for winning a second term as the Civil War raged on and the North began to lose confidence in a president who refused to compromise with the Confederacy.
It was at that time that a plot materialised to bring down Lincoln’s National Union Party and assist his opponent, General George B. McClellan.
Soldiers of the Union Army were able to cast absentee votes from military camps. To do so, troops had to assign their power of attorney on ballots that contained four signatures: that of the voter, the person authorised to receive the ballot, the witness to the voter’s signature, and a fellow officer. These papers were then mailed to soldiers’ counties to be tallied in the final vote.
A group of conspirators in Washington and Baltimore were forging the papers and the signatures to rig the vote in favour of McClellan, according to The New York Times’ reporting from 1864.
tomo
he's not going to write it himself
Baseless. He says otherwise and circulated a draft back in January. Who to believe? Tough one.
Besides, handing your homework in late is not a crime. Unlike persuading mugs to send you cheques under false pretences.
Phil Clarke
Aug 24, 2020 at 3:46 PM Phil Clarke
With all the conspiring, faked evidence, lying lawyers etc out to frame Trump and any associates by Democrats, can it be assumed that the Trial and Guilt of innocent Carbon Dioxide was carried out by corrupt scientists aswell?
Aug 24, 2020 at 5:43 PM golf charlie
Climate Scientists have no proof that manmade CO2 is harmful and Phil Clarke knows it.
Framing Trump with lies, smears, and corrupted false evidence is all Climate Science has ever been fit for, as Cook's 97% Consensus keeps proving, as endorsed by Obama
golf charlie
Who's the total mug Clarky?
Seems like SDNY goons can't find a dissatisfied contributor (quite the opposite actually) - so they're characteristically winging it... but then again actual context or evidenced legal detail isn't your strong suit - is it?
Obama book draft in January ... oh my... - and he hasn't sold the film rights yet? - and the TV shows.... - supporting Joe Biden and working on his golf seems more important maybe?
tomo
Who's the total mug
An excellent question. Kolfage, a Iraq War veteran and triple amputee came up with the idea of a wall-building GoFundMe page that proved very popular amongst the MAGA moron tendency, raising $20 million. When GoFundMe wanted assurances that the money would be spent as promised Kolfage roped in Bannon and he pretty much took over, "its finances, messaging, donor outreach, and general operations.”
In the period in question Kolfage engaged in some pretty serious self-care, splurging around $350K on "home renovations, payments toward a boat, a luxury SUV, a golf cart, jewelry, cosmetic surgery, personal tax payments, and credit card debt"
Who knew the US veteran's pension was so generous?
as far as the public knows, no one is getting paid
Who's the total mug
Who indeed?
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/20/21377209/bannon-arrested-indicted-build-border-wall-gofundme
https://fortune.com/2020/08/20/steve-bannon-arrested-indictment-fraud-details-charges-us-postal-inspection-service-usps-we-build-the-wall/
Phil Clarke
Watch the video .. I suspect you'd be quite distressed at which organisations and individuals will also be exposed if Bannon case goes to court. As Barnes says - the SDNY office is renowned for misconduct and prosecutorial overreach.
- I've already seen the Vox and Salon pieces.
I've not seen so much spittle since 1978 punk rock events.
elsewhere
Mrs Pelosi looks close to blowing out her dentures - I suspect that superglue or that Chinese UV stuff they're advertising all over YouTube might work in a drooling scenario.
tomo
Yeah, Watch the Video
Phil Clarke
heh - seen it - which, pfff .... is more than you have.
The SDNY prosecutors .... who've *not* chased a raft of financial Wall St. crooks (their patch) go out of state (and occasionally overseas) for political grandstanding and dodgy lawfare.
tomo
and...
Letitia James the New York AG is going after Trumps (carefully on the first day of the RNC convention) in - wait for it... Chicago and LA
- and yet they won't go after rioters, looters, corruption and administrative manslaughter in their own effing back yard...
Tammany Hall had their people appointed judges in criminal courts, determined who sat for juries and choosing which cases came to trial - seems like old habits die hard.
tomo
The WeBuildtheWall investigation began in Florida in January 2019 after the AG received a series of complaints.. The case was built by Florida’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services under Republican AG Ashley Moody. Indeed the allegations are not new and Kolfage would seem to have form.
The detailed text messages and financial transactions included in the indictment show a framework of shell companies and sham invoices designed to conceal payments to the four indicted, contra their own fundraising claims and bylaws. The evidence forms a prima facie case of wire fraud and money laundering. Popcorn :-)
Phil Clarke
https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1298085831333347329
Phil Clarke
You still haven't watched Robert Barnes have you?
- as you quaintly put it - he has form.....
Don't know much about fundraisers do you? (studied understatement)
- according to Barnes - who expressed some surprise the outfit in question contacted the contributors about transferring funds when the GoFundMe missed its target and got what's claimed was most everybody signed up and has reduced by a considerable margin the usual/customary peculation that pervades / infests the charity / PAC world.
As Barnes says it's more likely ineptness than deliberate peculation - I mean.... look at say, Prince Harry's African experience - when the "charities crew" pillage communal funds they generally leave a smoking ruin, rinsed bank accounts and audit chaos - which doesn't seem to be the case in this matter.
Kinda weird that Florida's got complainants that haven't been picked up by SDNY as victims are top value prosecutorial fodder.
Don't get me wrong - I'm all up for nailing sticky fingered charity / appeal swines - in this case the main perp seems to have a finger deficit and has given a lot more than the "norm" to the designated recipient deed.... - as Barnes tells it anyway.
From direct personal experience I'd concur with Barnes' estimate of 20% rake-off by average fundraisers - what's GoFundMe's commission? - does it get applied to any/all funds handled ?
tomo
according to Barnes - who expressed some surprise the outfit in question contacted the contributors about transferring funds when the GoFundMe missed its target and got what's claimed was most everybody signed up
Well, I haven't watched the nearly hour-long YouTube - I have a life - but the $1 billion target was always fairly ridiculous, as was the idea of donating the cash to the Government. Also the GFM campaign page stated clearly
If we don't reach our goal or come significantly close we will refund every single penny
So when they came up short I am not sure it is 'surprising' that GFM insisted on a refund unless the donor opted in to have their money funnelled into the new non-profit. 262,000 out of 337,000 gave their approval. I am not sure 78% counts as 'most everybody'.
I hope Barnes has a better grasp of detail in his law practice…. ;-)
Phil Clarke
Mr Barnes has a collection of taxidermist trophy foes on his office wall.
- which is what makes him worth listening to in some detail - he's in it to litigate actual crimnal cases and civil disputes in court - not simply turn the fee handle with letters and bluster and draft contracts etcetera.
Since you've figured a percentage there, care to give us a breakdown of funds disbursed and optionally compare to some other prominent "not for profits" - The Clinton Foundation is the obvious one - but I've seen some grizzling about The Obama Library recently too.
The $1 billion was just a silly piece of hyperbole - as was the 100% claim.... Dy'a reckon GFM trousers are bulging to the tune of ca. $400k?
Charities and "Not For Profits" can turn out to be remarkably lucrative enterprises for some folk..... wherein I cannot resist offering up Trudeau and chums ... WE is still lurching precariously around in Canada.
tomo
"Charities and "Not For Profits" can turn out to be remarkably lucrative enterprises for some folk..... wherein I cannot resist offering up Trudeau and chums ... WE is still lurching precariously around in Canada."
Aug 25, 2020 at 3:11 PM tomo
If illegal, unlawful, dodgy, dubious, criminal, fraudulent etc donations dry up, Democrat and Climate Science liars can depend on Soros to bail them out. Some sources are saying he has been bailing out sympathisers, agitators, thugs and vandals already, but I am not sure whether there is much difference.
golf charlie
tomo
Either Rosenstein or Mueller lied under oath ....
Someone has been collating statements from the pair - and guess what - they can't get their story straight....
see this thread and note the timing
Will Judge Sullivan preside?
tomo
- Donald Trump (Senior)
- Donald Trump (Junior)
…. expressing his admiration for the We Build the Wall project, a private sector initiative run on a voluntary basis by Brian Kolfage and Steve Bannon and two others, after the Mexican contribution mysteriously failed to materialise.
- Audrey Strauss, NY Southern District Attorney General's office.
Bannon is fighting the charges, however it looks like Dishonest Don might be getting his Pardoning Pen out one last time….
PS Poodle Bill Barr's extraordinary personal intervention to have the previous prosecutor removed has nothing to do with this case. None whatsoever. Drain that swamp!
PPS Hardly any new wall has actually been built. Another broken promise.