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.@MCoSheriff has the same problem x10.

Run by a crooked Deputy turned Sheriff in 2015, @SheriffBernal should be deported. 😂 https://t.co/WxnRl6otrB

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"The state Fair Political Practices Commission this month agreed to open investigations into two complaints filed by Schneider. One accuses the Monterey County Counsel’s Office of improper partisanship. We’ll get to that one in a bit."

https://t.co/nTD9VwDRaK
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"Over the past year, his research has revealed an apparent pattern of campaign law violations throughout Monterey County and an unwillingness by local authorities to take action"

https://t.co/d8aZupmwBP
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'They liked it best when the resulting stories could be labeled with a headline or voiceover declaring something simple like “Charges Fly in Sheriff’s Race.”'

https://t.co/WBQQ1T648d
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"Caldwell denies he had a still but acknowledges that a SWAT team sergeant passed out after drinking too much of something and had to be taken away by ambulance."

https://t.co/Ekh8y2lQq8
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'“A threat that a suspect may die if he does not cooperate is a clear due process violation . . . ,” Ed Hazel, who was then Monterey County’s managing deputy district attorney, wrote at the time'

https://t.co/vJyphnQY79
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"Pickens approached prosecutor Rick Storms and asked how he might be able to arrange for an unnamed informant to avoid jail time."

https://t.co/0eqUD5wn5i
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Some deputies miss seeing what's up and how bad it was but I wonder how candid the commentary is when I think - you had to be living in a box.
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"One deputy who worked a couple of shifts as a driver says his supervisor told him to turn in his time as overtime on the jail budget though he didn’t work in the jail."

https://t.co/msSN0bQ5fK
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"Apparently in response to a Voices article last month, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office has been questioning Sheriff’s Department employees about overtime payments to several sheriff’s deputies"

https://t.co/FrGG7icSFD
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[The rape case that turned into a federal @FBI corruption probe]

'“I don’t want anyone doing a Google search and finding Fickas and me in the same article,” one of the officials said to explain why he declined to be identified.'

https://t.co/mtAiccshSw
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"The members of the Deputy Sheriffs’ Association have No-Confidence in Sheriff Miller’s ability to effectively lead the Sheriff’s Office. We are in dire need of a leader."

https://t.co/vdLq0YdbKd
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"Brandon Gesicki used every trick in the scoundrel playbook to convince voters that Miller was a bad guy and that the terribly unqualified Bernal was the better choice."

https://t.co/yJZ6Hon7v0
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A master work of fantastic #journalism by former @MontereyHerald editor @Calkins_Royal ... hard to ignore.

Unless you are the Monterey County District Attorney or any one of the MoCo Board of Supervisors.

Like:

@PhillipsForSup

@SupervisorAlejo

@SupervisorLopez
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.@WendyRootAskew

and

@AdamsSupervisor

Something stinks. And it smells like money and civil rights violations.

#ICE #salinas #montereycounty #lovingsalinas #basta

@KTVU @DarwinBondGraha @OakMorr @mercnews @OaklandInsider @SFGate @cmarinucci @mcgreevy99 @latimes
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Phillip Vito DiGirolamo
N. D. Cal. 1984

Conspiracy to import #marijuana, 21 U.S.C. § 963; willfully subscribing to a false tax return, 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1)
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And this wasn't some dime bag weed dealer. Phil and a guy named Bruce Perlowin (Google it) ran $985,000,000 through


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a money laundering entity called First Cabin LLC - located at? #CanneryRow

Isn't that right @MontereyPolice? <~ proud moment for MPD. All under their nose 😉

A bunch of cops wives worked for First Cabin LLC - which is odd.

These people ran boats Phil and his homeboys

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purchased for $11,000,000.00

They named their boats various versions of 'Taylor Day'

THE Taylor Day was seized by the Nicaraguan government.

What exactly were we doing in Nicaragua in the 1980s❓

Running dope, guns and money for an illegal war

Strange that Leon Panetta's

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buddies would be involved with dope and Nicaragua / Central America and not that long after @BillClinton made Leon his COS - then Leon Panetta becomes the CIA Director? With his background?

Strange.

Now tie in Cannery Row, the bizarre history of the Cannery Row partners

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and their very bizarre relationship with Leon Panetta and where are we?

Back to a silver spooner like @RepJimmyPanetta talking about @realDonaldTrump's pardon being "beneath the dignity of the office of the President".

The statement is true but coming from Jimmy -
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* 2003

#DefundThePolice

A @MCoSheriff Sgt. Mike Richards asks newly elected Sheriff Mike Kanalakis for permission to fraternize with a convicted drug trafficker. #Sheriff Kanalakis gave it to him.


* 2010

A group of #corrupt local officials attached letters to the court during a "Certificate of Rehabilitation" effort which is the first step in a #Pardon process.

It was scandalous and partly caused Mike Kanalakis' loss to Scott Miller in 2010.

Fmr. @SalinasPD cop Joe


* 2010

Gunter was on board. So was two term sheriff Mike Kanalakis and soon to be fired Commander Mike Richards of the @MCoSheriff Department.

As was Supervisor John Phillips (a former DA and Judge) along with another @SalinasPD copper Gary "the grey fox" Edwards.

#Salinas


* 2010

and Mayor Dennis Donohue (who abruptly retired in 2012) - the fix was in.

But this #Pardon was not at all straight forward.

Dave Drew was a multiple time convicted felon with a huge rap sheet for narco and gun trafficking. He would need not only a willing Governor but

the Chief Justice of the #California State Supreme Court. This took planning, coordination and timing. It also took a handful of public relations consultants and @RepJimmyPanetta's dad's hand on all of this. This was big stuff.

In 2018 all that work paid off and a corrupt gov.
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Asst Chief Filice (@rfSalinasPD),

I'd like to report crimes in your jurisdiction:

1. Louie Alejo (@SupervisorAlejo) took bribes from Mike Hackett of Casa Sorrento fame. (cocaine dealer and @maryrduan's soft spot) - it's on recording.

2. Dave Drew was involved in a fraud

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scheme involving Frankie Lane, Anthony Lane (Cotroneo boys from Montreal), Jimmy Gilbert (deceased Monterey wharf biz owner) and McGilloway (accountant with an office in Unicool's W. Market office complex) and the Fox Theater in Oldtown Salinas.

The fraud was documented in

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a civil suit laid out by Monterey attorney Hugo Gerstl (smart man) in 2016 - two years before @JerryBrownGov pardoned Drew.

3. The Bankers Casino boys are involved with narco-trackers and money launderers. They also have ties to organized crime figures.

Please let me know

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how you wish to proceed?

Also, @Kelly_McMillin has a troubling connection to all of these issues.

I'm also concerned about reports a @SalinasPD officer has received financial assistance to buy a house on the border with Mexico 🇲🇽 with the help of Rolando Cabrera who is a

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member of the Cabrera crime family.

Would you please enlighten the public on this relationship between the Cabrera's and one of Salinas' "finest"?

Thank you for your immediate attention.

Exhibits to follow:
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The man on the left is David Armanasco. He has been doing free public relations for @MCoSheriff Steve Bernal. 🤔

He is best buds with Leon Panetta.

The @mcweekly met with Armanasco as Steve Bernal was poised to enter office (from deputy to sheriff) and agreed to go easy.
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You have to be one locked in, arrogant Representative to be seen in a photo with Mike Bitar - and all the @FBI baggage he brings.

District 1: @SupervisorAlejo
District 2: @PhillipsForSupe
District 3: @SupervisorLopez
District 4: @WendyRootAskew
District 5: @MaryLAdams https://t.co/PbrHnXPTGY
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GOOD MORNING PATRIOTS

THE ARRESTS ALREADY HAPPENED

Q34 Yes, it happened while you were sleeping the Veterans Day weekend of November 9th 2018

Q856 On 11.11.18 Trump was parading at the cemetery with our fallen military patriots at American Cemetery of Suresnes France.


Yeah I know. I know!

SAUCE! lol

Learn that it isn’t your eyes that lie to you, it’s in your mind. (Maybe Q’s word games)


And “during this time” the “Initiating” of the President’s Emergency Broadcast System began.

(Q you are a wordsmith)


And yeah, Mr Podesta (Tony) was in secret proceedings with the New York prosecutors and arrested on 11.3.18
(Hasn’t been seen since)

Okay okay, I don’t have sauce because it was secret but listen to Tucker use a fake news trick called “sources” on 11.4.18


Read Q 34. Nice and slow. Think multiple meanings.
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Richard Murphy
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I am bemused by those who demand that we repay the UK government’s debt. It makes me wonder, do they know what it is? And how do they think it can be repaid? And do they appreciate the consequences? A thread is coming on......bear with me, because I think you need to know this.

First, what is the UK government’s debt? I’ve immersed myself in this issue and can confidently say the Office for National Statistics’s figures are wrong, most especially because they claim that the UK government is in debt by owing money to itself. That’s not possible.

Whatever the Office for National Statistics like to claim, money you owe yourself is not debt, and so quantitative easing cancels about £800 billion of UK national debt right now. There are other mistakes in their numbers, but I’ll just stick with this one for the moment.

So, if the ONS claim the national debt is around £2.1 trillion at present, it isn’t. Allowing for the UK government owning around £800 billion of its own debt the figure reduces to maybe £1.3 trillion, give or take a bit. But that, I hasten to add, is not the end of the story.

It’s important to understand that the ONS includes some things few would think of as debt in their figures. For example, around £200 billion (£0.2 trillion) of National Savings balances are included in the national debt. Whoever knew Premium Bond holders were such a burden?
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Dr Duncan Robertson
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The Government is making the same mistakes as it did in the first wave. Except with knowledge.

A thread.


The Government's strategy at the beginning of the pandemic was to 'cocoon' the vulnerable (e.g. those in care homes). This was a 'herd immunity' strategy. This interview is from


This strategy failed. It is impossible to 'cocoon' the vulnerable, as Covid is passed from younger people to older, more vulnerable people.

We can see this playing out through heatmaps. e.g. these heatmaps from the second


The Government then decided to change its strategy to 'preventing a second wave that overwhelms the NHS'. This was announced on 8 June in Parliament.

This is not the same as 'preventing a second wave'.

https://t.co/DPWiJbCKRm


The Academy of Medical Scientists published a report on 14 July 'Preparing for a Challenging Winter' commissioned by the Chief Scientific Adviser that set out what needed to be done in order to prevent a catastrophe over the winter
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stephen fowler
stephen fowler
@stphnfwlr
NEW: the Georgia House Special Committee on Election Integrity is meeting at 3 this afternoon and just added HB 531 - a 48 page omnibus elections bill that proposes a *lot* of changes. #gapol

Here's the text:

First, it would ban county elections offices from receiving outside funding to run elections.

This, after CTCL and Schwarzenegger gave money to both D and R counties in 2020 to help with pandemic.

(although I wonder if the county gov't could take the grant, then disburse?)


Next, it outlines ways that poll workers can serve adjacent counties (currently, you can only work in your county of residence)


This section mirrors an SOS-backed bill from 2020 that would require more machines, more poll workers or splitting up precincts if a 2,000+ person precinct has lines of more than an hour.

More on that proposal: https://t.co/7BfIcrI81q


This is an anti-Fulton County mobile voting bus section

(although I still believe that it's using the wrong code section since the busses are for *early* voting and fall under 21-2-382)
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DCPetterson
DCPetterson
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Schoen is pretending courtroom "due process" must be followed--after meeting with some of the jurors to plan strategy last night.

Schoen accuses Democrats of editing videos and taking comments out of contexts, after showing edited videos of Democrats and taking their comments out of context. I guess he wanted us to know he knows what he's talking about.

Schoen is showing longer clips of Trump speeches. The additional footage doesn't help Trump's case, unless you're a racist insurrectionist.

Yeah? Well what about YOUR whataboutism?

Schoen REALLY doesn't like Senator Warren.

It's because Trumpists love attacking Senator Warren.

Gee, it's almost like he thinks Senator Warren is being impeached.
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2/ Starting from the first replicating molecule which co-operated with an outer layer to form first proto-cell, evolutionary and cultural history is full of examples where two entities come together to survive and progress a lot more than they would have done individually.

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The best way to know if people like your product is NOT:

- Have a lot of emails in the waiting list
- Become #1 on PH
- Become #1 of HN or Reddit
- Have people that saing "I'll pay"
- Have a lot of free users

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200+ This has a high potential.
100+: This has a potential.
50+: Some people need it.
10+: People almost don't need it.
0+: People don't need it.

This is for a single time payment product. For a subscription probably it should be less because people hate subscription.

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I've always appreciated his outspokenness.

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Neo-nazi group #PatriotFront held a photo op in #Chicago last weekend & is currently marching around #DC so it's as good time as any to compile a list of their identified members for folks to watch for

Who are these chuds?

Patriot Front broke away from white nationalist org Vanguard America following #unitetheright in #charlottesville after James Alex Fields was seen with a VA shield before driving his car into a crowd, murdering Heather Heyer & injuring dozens of others

Syed Robbie Javid a.k.a. Sayed Robbie Javid or Robbie Javid of Alexandria,


Antoine Bernard Renard (a.k.a. “Charlemagne MD” on Discord) from Rockville, MD.

https://t.co/ykEjdZFDi6


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