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Former Asst FBI Director: Comey has 'lost his mind ... who are crooked Clapper and Brennan to threaten POTUS?'

Jim Kallstrom excoriates James Comey

Former FBI official Jim Kallstrom excoriates James Comey
Former Assistant Director of the FBI Jim Kallstrom had this to say to Maria Bartiromo:
I think he's lost his mind, Jim Comey. I don't understand what his act is... This conversation with the President of the United States is automatically classified. At least it was when I was in the government. Unless they've changed rules like that. But Maria we're in a three act play and it's not a comedy. It's a tragedy... Who are they (Clapper and Brennan) to be threatening the President of the United States?... And I have no doubt that they've conspired with others including Jim Comey, and others unnamed at this point.

Briefcase

'Full support' from Trump for term limits push in Congress

Trump term limits
© Evan Vucci/Associated Press
Trump endorsed term limits as a candidate in 2016, but the issue has not received significant attention since he took office.
President Trump on Monday offered his "full support and endorsement" to a bipartisan legislative effort to establish term limits for members of Congress.

"I recently had a terrific meeting with a bipartisan group of freshman lawmakers who feel very strongly in favor of Congressional term limits. I gave them my full support and endorsement for their efforts. #DrainTheSwamp," Trump tweeted.

Trump endorsed term limits as a candidate in 2016, but the issue has not received significant attention since he took office. A White House spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on meeting details.

In an afternoon statement, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., said that he organized a group including four other lawmakers to meet with Trump.

Comment: Proposed constitutional amendment limits time Congress members can hold office, except for those in office now


Pirates

Slick Willy and the Hillbot are back with hands out for more cash

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"I'm 'broke' again."
The family is hosting a gala to support the Clinton Foundation and is asking for big money to attend.

Despite the fact that the Clinton Foundation's business practices were used as a cudgel against her during the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton is joining her husband Bill and daughter Chelsea for a gala to benefit the organization later next month.

According to Axios, which published an image of the invitation, Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea are hosting guests on May 24 in New York for the event. Here are the details:

Comment: When will people stop falling for the Clinton Graft MachineTM?


Magic Wand

Mad Maxine Waters sez Republicans will have to 'prove their patriotism' by impeaching Trump

maxine waters
Aging Congresswoman Maxine Waters is insisting Republicans will soon have to "prove their patriotism" when "the facts are revealed" about allegations of the Trump campaign colluding with Russians to steal the 2016 election.

Waters told MSNBC host Joy Reid the recent House Intelligence Committee report dismissing claims of collusion between Trump and Russia is worthless, and she's relying on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in the Justice Department to fulfill her promise to "Impeach 45!"


Cow Skull

(Despite all appearances to the contrary) Netanyahu claims Israel doesn't seek war with Iran

bibi
© REUTERS / Amir Cohen
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday defended his dramatic "revelation" regarding Iran's "lies," dubbed "old news" by former CIA Director Michael Hayden, while asserting that he does not seek a military confrontation with the Islamic Republic.

In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Netanyahu reiterated his claim that Iran was "brazenly lying" about its nuclear ambitions prior to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement.

But when pressed on Israel's own nuclear capability, the prime minister repeatedly refused to directly answer the question and only said that he did not seek war with Iran.

"I'll tell you one thing, we've never called for the annihilation of any country," Netanyahu told CNN's "New Day" host Chris Cuomo. "Nobody is seeking that kind of development."


Comment: Israel doesn't call for "annihilation of any country" no. It just uses all of it's political machinations, intelligence and military into motion for actually doing it in Syria and Gaza and the West Bank.


Comment: Technically speaking, Bibi is telling the truth here. He doesn't want war with Iran because he know Israel would lose big. Rather, he would have the US fight its battle.


Star of David

Israel desperate to escalate Syrian conflict - retaining US presence maintains its own advantage

israel Syria flags war
After seven years of utter devastation and bloodletting, a consensus has emerged among all the belligerents of the Syrian war to de-escalate the conflict, except Israel which wants to further escalate the conflict because it has been the only beneficiary of the carnage in Syria.

Over the years, Israel has not only provided medical aid and material support to the militant groups battling the Syrian government - particularly to various factions of the Free Syria Army (FSA) and al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate al-Nusra Front in Daraa and Quneitra bordering the Israel-occupied Golan Heights - but Israel's air force has virtually played the role of the air force of the Syrian jihadists and has conducted more than 100 airstrikes in Syria and Lebanon during the seven-year conflict.

Washington's interest in the Syrian proxy war is mainly about ensuring Israel's regional security. The United States Defense Intelligence Agency's declassified report of 2012 clearly spelled out the imminent rise of a Salafist principality in northeastern Syria (Raqqa and Deir al-Zor) in the event of an outbreak of a civil war in Syria.

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Star of David

'Once a Holocaust denier, always a Holocaust denier': Netanyahu slams Abbas for anti-Semitism

Benjamin Netanyahu
© Gali Tibbon / Reuters
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken to Twitter to slam Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas who, during a Monday speech, suggested that through their "social role" Jews brought persecution upon themselves.

Netanyahu accused the Palestinian leader of both Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. "Apparently the Holocaust denier is still a Holocaust denier. I call on the international community to condemn his severe anti-Semitism; the time has come for it to pass from the world," he wrote.

Comment: Abbas didn't deny the Holocaust happened; he said it 'takes two to tango'.

From Theodore Herzl's - the founder of Zionism - own pen:
"When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; and at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse."



Jet5

Report: Syrian base storing Iranian anti-aircraft missiles hit by Israeli F-15s

Israeli Jet
© AFP 2018 / JACK GUEZ
Arms depots in the vicinity of the Syrian cities of Hama and Aleppo were attacked in the early hours of Monday with "hostile rockets," a Syrian military source told Sputnik. The Israeli military has declined to comment on the strikes.

Three US officials told NBC News on condition of anonymity that Israeli F-15 jets attacked the military facilities after Iran had transported its weapons there. According to them, Tehran had been delivering weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, small arms and anti-aircraft missiles for two weeks.

Two officials alleged that the weapons were delivered to Syria for Iranian ground forces for a subsequent attack against Israel.

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Question

Israel postpones US-based test of its Arrow-3 missile defense system indefinitely - previous tests cancelled over 'data transfer' and 'safety' problems

Irael Arrow II missile interceptor
© Reuters
Arrow II missile interceptor
A planned test of the Israeli Arrow-3 long-range ballistic missile interceptor has been postponed indefinitely, to ensure that the system is indeed fully ready for the test, the Israeli Defense Ministry has announced.

"Following consultation between the American Missile Defense Agency and the Israeli Defense Ministry, it was decided to postpone the test of the Arrow-3 system in Alaska - this is in order to reach maximum preparedness ahead of the test in the American [airfield]," the ministry said in a statement. The ministry then said that it was working with its US partners to set another date for the test but did not reveal any details about a future schedule.

The military emphasized that the test delay would by no means affect the Arrow-2 and Arrow-3 missile defense systems that are already operational and are currently used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Developed jointly by Israeli Aerospace Industries and Boeing, the Arrow-3 system passed its first test over the Mediterranean Sea in 2015 and has been in service in Israel since 2017.

Chess

'Special relationship most likely': The CIA got Macron elected - It looks like they wrote his big US speech too

Saudi crown prince and French president Macron

He does what he's told
A study in the illegal intervention in US political life by our intelligence services

In this essay, I offer a detailed textual analysis of the speech which French President Emmanuel Macron delivered before the Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C. on 25 April 2018, in line with the kind of textual analysis which I performed on major political documents signed by heroic East European freedom fighters in 2007 and 2009, which were in fact authored by US intelligence operatives.

I maintain here that a substantial part of Macron's speech was either written by or coordinated closely with these same intelligence services for the purpose of exerting maximum influence on domestic US politics by reinforcement of centrist American predispositions from respected foreign actors. It is also essential to explain how M. Macron became president of France in 2017 with the connivance of these same intelligence services. I will attempt to do that in the second part of the essay.

I freely admit that my argumentation is circumstantial and relies heavily on hunches that today are sagely phrased as "most likely" scenarios. But whereas the "most likely" reasoning of Theresa May is used to justify unprecedented verbal attacks on Russia and military attacks on the sovereign state of Syria, my reasoning, if unpersuasive, has no other consequence than to lose a reader here or there.

Comment: See also: Behind the Headlines: Western Order Break-Up? New Middle East? New Korea?