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'Dumb as a rock' and 'lazy as hell': Trump destroys Rex Tillerson in tweet praising Pompeo


RT
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 15:36 UTC
Donald Trump (L) Rex Tillerson (R)
© Reuters /Jonathan Ernst ; Reuters / Leah Millis
US President Donald Trump lashed out at his first secretary of state, calling Rex Tillerson dumb and lazy after an interview in which Tillerson complained about his time at the State Department.

"Mike Pompeo is doing a great job, I am very proud of him," Trump tweeted on Friday. "His predecessor, Rex Tillerson, didn't have the mental capacity needed. He was dumb as a rock and I couldn't get rid of him fast enough. He was lazy as hell."
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Mueller and FBI versus Trump: Who will win?

Jim Dean
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 15:02 UTC
Robert Mueller
It is time for the reclusive Mr. Mueller to begin revealing where the focus of his investigation is going. This week, sentencing hearings begin for those who have cooperated with the government in the hopes of a lighter sentence.

The FBI has to provide sentencing recommendations and the reasons supporting them, which will give us some clues as to not only what it has, but also any potential exposure for President Trump.

The sentencing process will be complicated due to several of the defendants having broken their plea agreements by lying to the FBI or withholding information which kills their original plea deals. A good defense attorney will always explain this carefully to a client so he does not expose himself to more charges, perjury and/or obstruction of justice.

Also keep in mind that, with Trump savaging those making pleas, claiming they are lying to get a lighter sentence, Mueller will not be using their contributions without being in possession of supporting evidence like emails, phone call intercepts or corroborating testimony from others in the case. Someone with Mueller's stature does not go into court on a wish and a prayer.
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Snakes in Suits

'I know where all the bodies are buried': Clinton Foundation CFO spills beans to investigators while 3 more whistleblowers come forward

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:39 UTC
Hillary and Bill Clinton
Hillary and Bill Clinton
The CFO of the Clinton Foundation, thinking he was "meeting an old professional acquaintance," admitted to investigators that the charity had widespread problems with governance, accounting and conflicts of interest, and that Bill Clinton has been commingling business and personal expenses for a long time, reports The Hill's John Solomon.

Clinton Foundation CFO Andrew Kessel made the admissions to investigators from MDA Analytics LLC - a firm run by "accomplished ex-federal criminal investigators," who have been probing the Clinton Foundation for some time.

Kessel told MDA "There is no controlling Bill Clinton. He does whatever he wants and runs up incredible expenses with foundation funds, according to MDA's account of the interview. "Bill Clinton mixes and matches his personal business with that of the foundation. Many people within the foundation have tried to caution him about this but he does not listen, and there really is no talking to him."

Comment: More from Fox News: Clinton Foundation whistleblowers have come forward with hundreds of pages of evidence, Meadows says
Three people have come forward with hundreds of pages of evidence of potential wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation, including misappropriation of funds and allegations of quid-pro-quo promises made to donors during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., told Fox News on Thursday.

Meadows, the leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, is also the chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations. The panel is set to hold an investigative hearing next week on the status of the Foundation case.

U.S. Attorney John Huber was tasked to investigate the foundation last year by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The Clinton Foundation consistently has maintained that it is a charity, and never traded on Hillary Clinton's position as America's top diplomat, which she held from 2009-2013. The organization has a four-star rating from the watchdog site Charity Navigator and has touted its mission "to create economic opportunity, improve public health, and inspire civic engagement and service."

Last week, Fox News reported that newly filed tax documents showed donations to the Clinton Foundation plunged in the wake of Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The filings showed that the foundation took in $26.6 million in 2017, a 58 percent drop from the $62.9 million it received the previous year.

A spokesman for the foundation told The New York Post the drop was "largely attributable to the absence of sponsorship and membership contributions for [the Clinton Global Initiative]", which wrapped up in 2016. However, Meadows said that the donation drop "raises grave concerns their operations were not above board as the American people have been led to believe.

"Whenever we look at the possibility of 'pay to play' by government officials, current or former, it demands answers," Meadows added, "and anyone who uses public office to sell access for their own financial benefit must be held accountable."


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Russian MoD says US aims to suppress OPCW probe with claim of 'staged' Aleppo chlorine attack


RT
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 14:21 UTC
A woman lies on a stretcher after a toxic gas attack in Aleppo, Syria November 24, 2018. Picture taken November 24, 2018
© Reuters / SANAA woman lies on a stretcher after a toxic gas attack in Aleppo, Syria November 24, 2018. Picture taken November 24, 2018.
The Russian military says it has "irrefutable evidence" incriminating the rebels in the November gas attack on government-controlled Aleppo. Earlier, the US alleged it was a false-flag operation staged by Syria and Russia.

The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has decried the allegations by the US State Department which said on Friday that Moscow and Damascus were behind the shelling of civilians in Aleppo with a toxic substance on November 24.

The MoD called the statement "an attempt to whitewash terrorists in Idlib... who pulled the rug out from under their Western patrons with this provocation."
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Snakes in Suits

Mueller accuses Manafort of 'multiple discernible lies' and plea violation


RT
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 14:12 UTC
Paul Manafort
© Reuters / James Lawler Duggan
Special counsel Robert Mueller has accused former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort of making false statements in the "Russiagate" investigation, including about a man Mueller insinuated might be a Russian spy.

In a heavily redacted court filing on Friday, Mueller's prosecutors argue that Manafort breached his plea agreement by making false statements, which were "not instances of mere memory lapses."

One of the issues Manafort allegedly lied about were his contacts with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian-Ukrainian citizen living in Kiev. In June, Mueller named Kilimnik as a co-conspirator in Manafort's alleged attempts to tamper with two unnamed witnesses in the probe. Those charges of witness tampering led to a judge ordering Manafort be held in jail.

Comment: Still a big nothing burger from Mueller: Limbaugh lays it all out: Mueller's intricate coverup of deep state spying on Trump is the real scandal

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NATO is 'completely vulnerable' to Russian electronic warfare

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 12:32 UTC
Russian Krasukha-2 electronic warfare system
Russian Krasukha-2 electronic warfare system
NATO experts acknowledged the vulnerability of their communications and digital infrastructure to Russian electronic warfare systems and therefore plan to develop a concept of protection against such systems by 2019.

"The recent exercises on the eastern border of NATO, the presence in the Baltic States and the war in Ukraine have demonstrated the success of the Russian strategy of electronic warfare (EW). Both the potential of electronic attacks (for example, suppression) and electronic support (for example, target detection) show that the existing NATO tactical communications infrastructure is vulnerable to EW and will face serious threats," the document for research of the NATO Scientific and Technical Organization says.

Comment: Also see:

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China prepares retaliatory measures for arrest of Huawei CFO

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 12:32 UTC
Huawei CFO
According to a separate report, Huawei has made a $2 billion "commitment" to address "security concerns" raised by the British government earlier this year.

Asked whether he thinks the arrest will spill over into the trade talks, Larry Kudlow said during a post-jobs-report interview on CNBC that he "rather doubts it," adding that China has agreed to talk about the security concerns (ie China's pervasive cyberespionage) raised during last weekend's meeting. He also hinted that Trump might be willing to extend that 90-day period set for negotiations, while he believes car tariffs "will come down rapidly."
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Limbaugh lays it all out: Mueller's intricate coverup of deep state spying on Trump is the real scandal


The Rush Limbaugh Show
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
Mueller
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RUSH: Michael Cohen has begged a federal judge for mercy after his guilty plea. I should tell you, Paul Sperry, who writes for the New York Post and Real Clear Politics, took a look. He did a deep dive into Cohen's plea that has been publicized by Mueller. We'll link to it at RushLimbaugh.com. I'd have to read the whole thing to you, basically get in the weeds, but his conclusion is that this plea deal actually exonerates Trump, but that that's not the way Mueller is gonna end up reporting this.

Now, Rudy Giuliani is out joining the criticism of Mueller because it's apparent from Jerome Corsi and Manafort that what Mueller is doing, which we discussed last week, is trying to force people to say what Mueller wants them to say. He's trying to force people to lie in order to make the case that Mueller wants to make. And Giuliani is now calling Mueller out on this as well. So Cohen apparently has done this. Cohen has apparently told Mueller what he wants to hear about some things, particularly his Trump Tower meeting.

And again, folks, I can't stress enough here, this is so crucial and so important to illustrate how actually literally bogus all of this is. The original Russian collusion story that the media and the deep state reported for now two years is that the Russians and Trump got together and conspired - they really want to use conspiracy instead of collusion, but they don't dare. And they haven't needed to. Collusion people are interpreting it to meet conspiracy anyway. See, conspiracy is a crime. Collusion isn't. And that's why they have to be very careful in not using the word "conspiracy" 'cause there isn't any crime here.

They have literally created the impression in nearly half this country's population that the Russians tampered with votes and that Trump was aware of it and agreed to let them do it in order to benefit from it, i.e., being elected president, Hillary losing. This is what they made the American people think the Mueller investigation is.

Comment: An impressive connecting of the dots. Accuracy? Very likely close to it.

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Snakes in Suits

Judges now openly treating illegal immigration as if it is a civil rights movement - it isn't

Daniel Horowitz
Conservative Review
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
Fence illegal migration
© John Moore | Getty ImagesIllegal Immigration: Caravan member jumps the fence.
What does it really mean to have a government shutdown? It means that the federal government does not perform its first duty of securing our nation. Our government shutdown continues as the unelected federal judiciary continues its bloodless coup against our national sovereignty, history, and tradition, and the legislative and executive branches do nothing to stop it.

Any federal court can now declare that freedom of speech and religion don't exist for Americans, yet there is a First Amendment right to immigrate and to help other people illegally violate our sovereignty. Any federal court can say that states and even the federal government can't ban sanctuary cities, but they are free to clamp down on gun rights of Americans. Our Constitution is twisted beyond recognition, yet we are told this is the law of the land. How much longer can we survive under the Orwellian legal profession? Moreover, if we keep agreeing to such a system, then even a border wall won't help, because judges are erasing the recognition of the border altogether.

Because illegals are now considered a special protected class, courts are violating settled law by granting them citizen constitutional rights and even super-rights that citizens don't have. Here's the latest example:

Comment: Sovereignty, what defines a nation, is being torn away, challenged, persecuted - undermining physical, social and governmental boundaries. Judges have become part of the facilitation as legal precepts are shredded without warning or evaluation. New rules.

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Lavrov: The US is preparing to sink Obama-signed nuke control treaty citing complaints about Russian missile


RT
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 13:18 UTC
ObamaMedvedev
© Reuters/Jason ReedBarack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START treaty in Prague.
The US may be preparing to torpedo the New START deal with Russia, which limits the number of nuclear weapons each country can have, in its latest escalation over a Russian missile "violating" the INF arms treaty, Moscow says.

The suspicion was voiced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in response to remarks by US Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, who said the New START treaty may be affected by the current quarrel, between the two countries, over another key agreement, the INF Treaty.

New START was signed in 2010 by then-presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama. It set limits on how many nuclear warheads, and means for their delivery, each country can possess. It replaced an earlier agreement signed by US and USSR and is due to expire in 2021, with an option of a five-year extension.

The INF in turn was agreed in late years of the Cold War and banned a certain class of weapons - land-based ballistic and cruise missiles if intermediate range - to reduce tension in Europe. The mass deployment of such missiles by NATO nations and the Warsaw Pact Organization on the continent was deemed too risky, since it made the possibility of a nuclear war by mistake too likely.

"I have seen the statement that if the INF no longer exists, then the New START will be put in question," Lavrov told journalists on Friday. It seems that the ground is being laid to eventually scrap this document too.

Comment: The INF should be amended to include other signatories that have the same missile capabilities.
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