Posted on 03/15/2023 4:57:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
You can't make up stories of incompetence worse than this.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, son of the infamous anti-Semitic playwright and poet Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones), evidently does not sweat the details when it comes to official duties. His city finally fessed up a few days ago to having been scammed by a notorious international fugitive conman into signing a sister city agreement with a fake nation, complete with a nice ceremony last January 12. (Why a sister city agreement with any nation, fake or real, was seen as appropriate is a subordinate but interesting question.)
Barstool Sports explains:
The scam was created by Nithyananda, a swami that is a fugitive from India, where he is on the run from rape charges. Nithyananda, a well-known scam artist, created the website for Kailasa in 2019 while attempting to apply for asylum in Sri Lanka. In January, Newark held a ceremony at City Hall honoring the fake country while signing a cultural trade agreement.
During the ceremony on January 12th, Mayor Ras Baraka and the Newark City Counsel invited officials from the phony nation and signed an agreement on cultural trade. The mayor made a statement that he hoped the deal would help political development and improve the lives of everyone in Newark and the fake nation of Kailasa. Newark would take six days to realize that the country did not exist, as the deal was voided on January 18th.

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I wonder if Joe Biden could be convinced to nuke a fake country?
How about establishing relations with Fredonia?
Leutonia? Homeland of Yosh and Stan Schmenge?
You know what else doesn’t exist? A decent city in New Jersey. Especially Newark.

It difficult to not feel like a white supremacist.
btt
A typical leftist operation. Fake pandemics, fake climate change. Fake genders. Fake elections.
And now signing agreements with fake nations.
And people will keep voting for this, over and over.
Too rich ! Never let facts get in the way of a chance to show how inclusive you can be!
...a keg tapped at both ends...B. Franklin
It’s REAL. I saw it on the map. /s
What would one expect from a city that once had Cory Booker as its mayor?
Can someone please nudge me to awaken me from this embarrassing nightmare? SMDH
For someone supreme to exist, there must be someone inferior
I love pranks like this - a tip of the Hatlo hat to those behind this beclowning of Newark.
Wakanda Forever!
I suspect this is a case of the emperor’s new clothes.
No one in the city government wanted to admit they didn’t know anything about Kailasa.
You forgot about the fake votes. :) .
A city run by a bunch of room temp. IQ buffoons.
It’s a pretend world, why not?
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