#barr

2026-01-07
Pine 3/3

Roof shingles are often made from pine, especially up north. These trusty old workers cover the roof of the bone mill outside of Sorsele, Sweden. --- No, I never knew what a bone mill was, either, until just last year. Before chemical fertilizers were invented, you'd use crushed animal bones, so there used to be thousands of bone mills way back when. I mean, everyone was farming, so everyone needed a bone mill. Today, there is a total of five (5) left in the whole of Sweden. Of course, we had to see them all. The northernmost one, in Sorsele, is by far the best kept one.

I find a great way of traveling is setting some rather quaint goals, because you never know what you'll get to see on your way there. You'll meet people, you'll learn things and see sights you never even knew about. A trip to the Louvre won't surprise you but journeys like these will.

#pinetree #tall #roofshingles #takspån #needles #barr #nature #bonemill #benstamp #sorsele #details #closeup #trio #triptych #sweden #pixelfedsweden
2026-01-07
Pine 1/3

Starting from the ground up, here are some pine tree roots. They often curl on the surface like this, as by sheer joy of decorating the ground, but the tree also always has a center root that goes straight and deep down. (Yes you _can_ have it all.) These beauties I encountered walking the Åsarna trail in Arjeplog, a very narrow, 5 km path straight out in lake Hornavan (Sweden's deepest lake). The trail passes by several bronze age settlements, and no wonder people always wanted to live here -- go check it out, and you'll get it. On the whole, I kinda fell for Arjeplog this time. Longing to go back.

#pinetree #tall #roots #rötter #needles #barr #nature #åsarna #hiking #arjeplog #vandring #details #closeup #trio #triptych #sweden #pixelfedsweden
2025-12-25

Wisst ihr noch, dass die Kanzlei des früheren Justizministers von #Trump (Bill #Barr) #Epstein anwaltlich vertreten hatte und sein Vater Epstein einen Job als Mathematiklehrer besorgt hatte? Und Barr leitete Untersuchungen im Epstein-Fall. Zufälle gibt es. nymag.com/intelligence...

Jeffrey Epstein’s Rolodex: A G...

Werner Keilwernerkeil
2025-12-24

: Regierung bezeichnet belastenden Brief als Fälschung. Der Brief ist wohl echt und schickte ihn, weil er ahnte, dass und ihn ermordeten lassen. | DIE ZEIT
Epstein-Akten: US-Regierung bezeichnet belastenden Brief als Fälschung | DIE ZEIT share.google/r2Wjc8WzTl6Fh3Lof

2025-10-06

Maison à #Barr (#BasRhin) Construction 1ère moitié XVIIIe siècle. Façade principale : inscription par arrêté du 25 avril 1935.
Suite 👉 monumentum.fr/monument-histori
#Patrimoine #MonumentHistorique
Photo CC-BY-SA 4.0 : Kuhn Anne-Thérèse

Maison à #Barr (#BasRhin) Construction 1ère moitié XVIIIe siècle. Façade principale : inscription par arrêté du 25 avril 1935.
Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00084601/barr-maison
#Patrimoine #MonumentHistorique
Photo CC-BY-SA 4.0 : Kuhn Anne-Thérèse

Odd to you that when former AG Bill #Barr speaks about #Epstein, no one cites that Barr's dad, Donald Barr, was
1. OSS during WW2
2. Wrote Schoolbooks for Jr High
3. Headmaster at Dalton School when Epstein taught there
4. Published a SciFi book involving child sex slavery
?

OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-07-24

If the report is that #Maxwell refused to offer additional info . . . wait for it. She'll do 1 more year and then get that pardon. Unless, of course, she hits the #Barr zone and decides to commit suicide.

No matter how it goes with this meeting today, IT IS A COVER-UP and a new COVER for the moron, fascist President.

#epstein #Ghislainemaxwell #BillBarr #DOJ #PamBondi

Birds of all feathers:  Photo:  Donald Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell pals together.
rexirexi
2025-07-24

newsweek.com/william-barr-says

(is fueled mega-law-firm using secrets to feather its own corporate bed?, ICYMI, Trump 1.0's main AG )

"Senator, I have to recuse myself from Kirkland & Ellis matters, I am told, and I think Kirkland & Ellis was maybe involved in that case…if I'm confirmed I'll make sure your questions are answered on this case."

's headmaster dad Donald hired Epstein to teach at , where he taught calculus/physics '73-75.

Yonhap Infomax Newsinfomaxkorea
2025-06-25

Fed proposes lowering SLR ratio, with Board members Barr and Kugler voicing opposition as markets assess potential regulatory impact.



en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV

Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.MugsysRapSheet
2024-12-01

BILL -FREAKING- (who whitewashed the Mueller Report) had *this* to say about the possibility of appointing *Deputy* Director during the first T**** Administration: 😵

2024-10-17

Me thinking about the #ACT #election: the “it’s time factor” alone will probably swing the #Barr #Labor #government out of power, but it’s okay, our #Liberals are sensible centrists and at least we don’t have that #insane #extremist faction in our politics (like in the States) that attacks the #media

The Leader of the ACT #Liberal Party:

Flipping out: ACT Liberal leader apologises for giving journalist middle finger on eve of election

theguardian.com/australia-news

#StaySane #VoteLabor #ACTPol #ACTElection #ACTVotes #Canberra #CBR #AusPol

2024-10-02

"For #Barr, she felt there was a need to show that families with differing political opinions, as stark as they may be, can still get along."

First of all, #RoseanneBarr is a truly sick and deranged person. She embodies all of the worst, most extreme characteristics of the #MAGAcult.

Second, countless families have been literally destroyed by the #MAGAvirus. Nobody is getting along. So her entire premise, like the rest of her beliefs, is utter bullshit.

#ItsACult

theblaze.com/align/roseanne-ba

JeremyJupiterJones :tinoflag:jeremy_pm@mastodon.nz
2024-10-01

Julian #Assange makes his first statement since his prison release.

I pled guilty to journalism.

#USPol #Obama #Trump #Barr #CIA

youtu.be/Ai34Uxnv_4s?si=jAP-FK

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2024-10-01

Father Arne set up another initiative called the #Leonine #Forum,
a program for top graduates designed to provide them with “intellectual and spiritual seriousness.”

It, too, brought in generous donations from wealthy Catholics keen to steep the leaders of tomorrow in Church teachings.

As ever, the Opus Dei name was kept out of any promotional material
— but, even so, such events deepened the organization’s presence among America’s most influential Catholics.

For Father Arne, the ultimate goal of this outreach was transforming the political sphere,
almost every aspect of which had grown more and more secular over the years.

He believed that policy simply couldn’t be made by people who weren’t versed in the universal truths of the Church.

His mission was to reverse this creeping secularism
— and put Opus Dei at the heart of a spiritual awakening.

Around the same time, #Luis #Tellez, a celibate member of Opus Dei at Princeton, organized a conference at the Vatican that was billed as
“an interreligious colloquium on the complementarity of man and woman.”

While the initiative was officially the idea of the Princeton academic #Robby #George, Tellez and his Opus Dei colleagues in Rome oversaw the organization of the conference.

The "Witherspoon Institute", an organization set up by Tellez and George, made a large donation to the Opus Dei university in Rome around the same time.

“Oftentimes, Robby will open the door, you know,” Tellez explained.
“I’m a nobody.”

The Humanum conference created some additional cachet for Opus Dei operatives in the United States,
who used this important gathering of religious leaders as an enticement to woo big-name Catholic conservatives.

Leonard Leo was one of those invited to participate.

The invitation dovetailed with a wider effort at the Catholic Information Center to entice Leo into the Opus Dei orbit.

At around the same time as the Humanum conference, Leo was invited onto the CIC board.

Their two worlds were already entwined.

Leo’s children went to the two Opus Dei schools
— The Heights for the boys and Oakcrest for the girls
— and he and his wife played an active part in school life,
donating thousands of dollars a year in addition to the many thousands they were paying in tuition for their various children.

The Leos were also regulars at a deeply conservative church in McLean,
not far from their home,
that was popular with many of the city’s Opus Dei members.

Both parties were also becoming ever more aggressive politically.

In 2011, Leo teamed up with Clarence Thomas’s wife #Ginni to co-found another nonprofit that successfully opposed an Islamic center being built near the site of the 9 ⁄11 attacks in New York,
denigrated as the “Ground Zero Mosque.”

A year later, he joined the board of the Catholic Association, another non-profit linked to the Corkerys, that funded campaigns to oppose same-sex marriage.

For its part, the Catholic Information Center
— despite in theory being apolitical
— had also joined a suit against the Obama administration,
challenging the requirement that employers provide and pay for contraception,
sterilization, and abortion-causing drugs as part of employee health insurance plans.

The appointment of Leo came despite misgivings among the Opus Dei national leadership,
and illustrated a transactional attitude toward this increasingly influential figure with deep connections to dark money.

“He’s a figure in Washington, and he may have had kids in the school down there,” explained Father Tom Bohlin,
who headed Opus Dei in the United States at the time
— and who met Leo at the Humanum conference in Rome.

“I’m not sure he even understands Opus Dei, but at a certain level, he likes what we do
— certain things
— and wants to support that.”

The appointment of Leo marked a shift in the CIC board.

For years, it had been run by Father Arne, another priest, and a smattering of volunteers drawn from the congregation.

The makeup of the board was decidedly unpolitical
— a mix of academics, lawyers, and volunteers who helped run the bookshop.

#Pat #Cipollone, a lawyer who had been an assistant to Attorney General Bill Barr in the early nineties
but who had since returned to the private sector,
was the only board member who was remotely connected to the Washington political scene.

But in 2014, all that changed.

Alongside Leo, #Bill #Barr, the former attorney general, was also appointed.

Zhi Zhu 🕸️ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-09-03

"In early 2019, as #Mueller was preparing to deliver his report on #Russian interference... his team obtained records from #Egyptian banking officials... a cash withdrawal of nearly $10 million — an amount almost identical to what the #intelligence indicated...

The case ground to a halt by the fall of 2019 as Trump’s then-attorney general, William P. #Barr, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probe."
washingtonpost.com/investigati

#Trump #Corruption #Crime #News

Text from article:
In early 2019, as Mueller was preparing to deliver his report on Russian interference and close his office, his team obtained records from Egyptian banking officials. The records revealed a cash withdrawal of nearly $10 million — an amount almost identical to what the intelligence indicated — from an account tied to the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, The Post reported. The withdrawal occurred in January 2017, five days before Trump took office.

The discovery intensified the probe. Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. who took over the case from Mueller proposed subpoenaing Trump’s bank records from a period that included Trump’s first months in the White House to see if any of the money from Cairo could be seen landing in Trump’s accounts, The Post reported.

But months after the handoff, The Post’s investigation found, prosecutors and FBI agents were blocked by top Justice Department officials from obtaining those records. The case ground to a halt by the fall of 2019 as Trump’s then-attorney general, William P. Barr, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probe. Michael Sherwin, the then-acting U.S. attorney who closed the case, told The Post he did so for lack of evidence.
Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2024-08-13

According to an August 2 report in The Washington Post,
the U.S. Department of Justice #previously #investigated whether
💥Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi had illegally donated $10 million to then-candidate Trump prior to his 2016 election. 💥

The probe was eventually ♦️shut down by Trump’s political appointees, ♦️who “rejected efforts to search for additional evidence investigators believed might provide answers.”

The criminal investigation had begun after intelligence indicated that ⭐️Sisi “sought to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 presidential campaign,”
and ramped up when federal investigators learned of ⭐️a $10 million withdrawal from a Cairo bank that occurred just days prior to Trump’s inauguration. ⭐️

Ultimately, according to The Post, the case was #shut #down by then-acting U.S. attorney #Michael #Sherwin (who had been appointed to the position by Trump Attorney General #William #Barr). 

👉Despite the seriousness of the allegations, ABC, NBC, and CBS all seemingly failed to cover the reporting on their evening, morning, and Sunday broadcast news shows.👈

Among five of the top U.S. newspapers, the probe into potential bribery was referenced in just 3 online articles and 3 print articles, for a total of 4 unique articles
(2 print articles were also published online).

Of the 5 papers we reviewed, it appears only The Washington Post and The New York Times published articles referencing the #potential #bribe.
The Post published 2 print articles and 2 online articles that mentioned the probe (3 unique articles in total), including the original reporting that brought the investigation to light,
while The Times published 1 print article and 1 online article (1 unique article in total).

The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal seemingly did not publish ANY articles referencing the probe into whether or not 🔥Trump illegally accepted money from Egypt.🔥

⚠️This lack of coverage from broadcast and print outlets is just the latest example of national news outlets failing to cover Trump's suspicious ties to foreign countries.⚠️

mediamatters.org/donald-trump/

Magpieblogsarahc@mas.to
2024-08-05

' Do not let the matter of Trump, Egypt and the $10 million disappear. Although it’s tragic that the criminal statute of limitations expired, any alleged bribe can still be pursued as a civil case. More importantly, Congress ... needs to open a full-blown investigation, with efforts to subpoena Barr and other Justice Department higher-ups to explain in public why the case was dropped.'

#Trump #Barr #bribery #corruption #Egypt #USElections2016

inquirer.com/opinion/commentar

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2024-08-03

The Egyptian government may have given $10 million to Donald Trump in 2017,
♦️violating U.S. law
—but the investigation into the payment was
💥squashed by Attorney General William Barr.

The Washington Post reports, citing unnamed sources, that
an investigation began in 2017 that #Egyptian #President Abdel Fattah El Sisi ⭐️was seeking to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 election campaign.

Federal investigators discovered in 2019 that, only five days before Trump was sworn into office,
⭐️nearly $10 million in cash was withdrawn on behalf of an organization linked to Egyptian intelligence.

In the U.S., receiving funds from overseas is a federal crime. Federal investigators were trying to prove if any money actually moved from Egypt to Trump,
and 🔷if that had anything to do with Trump’s decision to boost his campaign in its final days with $10 million of his own money.

But the investigation was 🔥halted by Trump’s Justice Department,
which blocked FBI agents and prosecutors from accessing bank records that could provide the evidence.

In the fall of 2019, #Barr questioned whether there were sufficient grounds for the investigation to continue.

Barr directed the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in D.C., Jessie #Liu, to examine the intelligence herself,
and instructed FBI Director Christopher #Wray to provide “adult supervision” on FBI agents Barr said were “hell-bent” on pursuing Trump’s records.

Whether Wray (also appointed by Trump) did anything in response isn’t known,
but in June 2020, the prosecutor Barr chose to oversee the investigation, Michael #Sherwin, closed it down, citing insufficient evidence.

👉 “Every American should be concerned about how this case ended,” said one of the Post’s sources.
“The Justice Department is supposed to follow evidence wherever it leads
—it does so all the time to determine if a crime occurred or not.”

newrepublic.com/post/184514/bi

Zhi Zhu 🕸️ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-03

"In June 2020, the prosecutor #Barr appointed to take over the office leading the case closed the probe, citing “a lack of sufficient evidence to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt.”

That conclusion belied the months of internal disagreements over whether investigators had been allowed to go far enough in seeking that evidence.

“Every American should be concerned about how this case ended,”"
washingtonpost.com/investigati

#Trump #Corruption #Crime #Egypt #Money #Politics #USPol #USA #News

Text from article:
In June 2020, the prosecutor Barr appointed to take over the office leading the case closed the probe, citing “a lack of sufficient evidence to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt.”

That conclusion belied the months of internal disagreements over whether investigators had been allowed to go far enough in seeking that evidence.

“Every American should be concerned about how this case ended,” said one of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the internal dissension. “The Justice Department is supposed to follow evidence wherever it leads — it does so all the time to determine if a crime occurred or not.”

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