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Jim Jordan on Trump investigation: 'When is it all gonna end?'

Carlos Garcia
The Blaze
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:35 UTC
Trey Gowdey and Jim Jordan
© YouTube screenshot compositeRep. Jim Jordan (right) (R-Ohio) responded to the statement from fellow Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy (S.C.) who said that if President Donald Trump was innocent then he should act like it.
In heated interview with MSNBC's Katy Tur, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) defended the position that the Mueller investigation should be ended, and responded to the statement from fellow Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy (S.C.) about President Donald Trump not acting guilty.

Here's part of their exchange:

"If the president is not innocent, why is he not acting like he's innocent?" Tur asked

"I think he is acting like he's innocent," Jordan responded, "but he's like so many other Americans, frustrated about what he sees that took place at the top level of the FBI. Jim Comey's been fired; Andrew McCabe's been fired; Jim Rybicky, former chief of staff, has left the FBI; Jim Baker, former chief counsel at the FBI, has been demoted, reassigned; Peter Strzok, former deputy head of counterintelligence, has been demoted, reassigned; Lisa Page has been demoted and reassigned."

"Those are the top people at the FBI," he continued, "so I think he's frustrated by that, as are the American people and what we know they did and when they started this Russia Trump investigation in 2016, namely, how they used the dossier."

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Many Americans believe the "deep state" is running the country

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:11 UTC
deep state
For the past two years, the long-running narrative, at least that promulgated by the mainstream media which continues to "explain away" Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump, is that Americans had fallen for a massive, long-running fake news scam (in part aided and abetted by the likes of Facebook), which boosted Trump's popularity at the expense of Hillary's as part of some giant "Russian collusion" conspiracy theory between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin (which Mueller was supposed to uncover, but has instead shifted to investigating obstruction, seemingly unable to find anything).

But what if that entire narrative is dead wrong: what if Americans have become so skeptical in the government process and structure, they never needed a "fake news" boost to vote for an establishment outsider?

According to a new poll, that's precisely the case because a supermajority of Americans believes the faction of unelected officials, known as the deep state, is orchestrating policy in Washington, D.C. and effectively running the nation.

Comment: As the mask slips, the actions of those 'behind the curtain' are becoming more and more evident, showing their hand in media, government and policy. See also:

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SOTT Focus: Cambridge Analytica Under The Spotlight: Christopher Wylie Looks a Bit Too Much Like Dade From 1995 Classic 'Hackers'

Brently Kopopolous
Sott.net
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:25 UTC
Christopher Wylie
Uncanny resemblance? Left: Dade from the movie Hackers (1995) Right: Chris Wiley, Cambridge Analytica 'hacker' (2018)
By now I'm sure everyone has seen The Guardian's new RUSSIA-RUSSIA-RUSSIA piece entitled 'The Cambridge Analytica Files'. In it are the sordid details of how one then-24 year old computer programmer helped Steve Bannon - the most evil man in the world besides Putin and Trump - create a process to harvest Facebook data in order to build complex psychological profiles of the voting public, then used that information to manipulate voters, not only in the US but in the UK as well.

Informational Warfare, they called it, and while Information War is not new, the oldest reference being propaganda, today the methods have evolved. Guardian journalists Graham-Harrison and Cadwalladr did an especially good job of spinning the yarn; they even credited the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie as 'a master storyteller', which is of course what they are in fact doing via their article. Whether or not the story they tell is true, however, is certainly questionable.
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Kremlin: UK will have to back its Skripal allegations with evidence or apologize


RT
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:33 UTC
skripal salisbury
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
The UK will either back up its claims of Moscow's involvement in the poisoning of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, or it will have to apologize, the Kremlin spokesman has said.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Monday that Russia is wrong to deny responsibility for the nerve agent poisoning of Skripal. "The Russian denial is increasingly absurd," Johnson told reporters in Brussels. "This is a classic Russian strategy... they're not fooling anybody anymore," he added.

Peskov pulled no punches in fighting back, accusing the UK of "incomprehensible, unreasonable slander" against Moscow.

"Sooner or later, it will have to account for these baseless allegations, either by backing them up with evidence or by offering its apologies," the Russian president's spokesman said.
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Putin gives fiery election victory speech in Moscow (Video)


Russia Insider / Youtube
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 09:06 UTC
Putin speech reelection
Sounds like he has big plans for the next 6 years.

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Cui bono? Someone wants to kill Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah

Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:01 UTC
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah
© Prime Minister Office/ApaimagesPalestinian Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah
On March 13, while on his way to the besieged Gaza Strip, two 33-pounds bombs targeted the convoy of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah.

Hamdallah was visiting Gaza, through the Israeli border checkpoint, Erez, to open a large sewage treatment plant that, if allowed to operate regularly, will make life easier for hundreds of thousands of Gazans, who have endured a perpetual Israeli siege since 2006.

The Prime Minister's visit was also seen as another important step in the reconciliation efforts between the two main Palestinian factions, Fatah - led by PA President, Mahmoud Abbas, in the Occupied West Bank - and Hamas, led by former Prime Minister, Ismael Haniyeh, in Gaza.

Although reconciliation efforts have, for years, been half-hearted at best, the latest round of talks between both groups led to a breakthrough in Cairo last October. This time, Palestinians were told that the two factions are keen on establishing unity, ending the siege on Gaza and revamping the largely dormant Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) institutions.

Hamas and the Islamic Jihad were to join the PLO at some point in the future, leading to the formulation of a unified Palestinian political program.

And, perhaps, this keenness at ending the rift has led to the attempt on Hamdallah's life.

But who is Rami Hamdallah?

Comment: The assassination attempt is threatening the reconciliation of the different Palestinian factions. Cui bono? No prizes for guessing.

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Deep State double standards: What's genius for Obama is scandal when it comes to Trump

Ben Shapiro
The Hill
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:01 UTC
Cambridge Analytical
© Bryan Bedder/Getty ImagesAlexander Nix, chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, at the Concordia Summit for public-private business partnerships in New York in September. The firm claimed to have developed psychographic profiles that could predict the political leanings of every American adult.
On Sunday, The Guardian reported on the supposedly nefarious workings of President Trump's data-gathering team at Cambridge Analytica. The report suggested that Cambridge Analytica had essentially issued questionnaires through a third party; those questionnaires, which were personality quizzes, requested that you use your Facebook login. Cambridge Analytica then compiled data regarding those who completed the quiz and cross-referenced that data with political preferences in order to target potential voters.

This isn't particularly shocking. In 2012, The Guardian reported that President Obama's reelection team was "building a vast digital data operation that for the first time combines a unified database on millions of Americans with the power of Facebook to target individual voters to a degree never achieved before."

What, exactly, would Obama be doing? According to The Guardian, Obama's new database would be gathered by asking individual volunteers to log into Obama's reelection site using their Facebook credentials. "Consciously or otherwise," The Guardian states, "the individual volunteer will be injecting all the information they store publicly on their Facebook page - home location, date of birth, interests and, crucially, network of friends - directly into the central Obama database."

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The end of the dollar: The rush to gold is here

Alex Deluce
The Gold Telegraph
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 08:53 UTC
gold bars
The US dollar has been dominant as the global reserve currency for a century. It was backed by gold, and the phrase, "good as gold," had a literal meaning. Each dollar bill was worth its equivalent in physical gold. This made the dollar the world's most respected and accepted currency.

These days, the dollar is joined by the euro and the yen as accepted currencies. No longer dominant, the dollar is losing its global position. Can it survive?

Gold-backed money vs Fiat Currency

Comment: It is only a matter of time for the US empire to collapse due to the contradictions of the global economic system it leads. If Russia and China manage to avoid the trap of a direct confrontation, eventually these reemerging powers will naturally find themselves at the top.

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Attention

Coming: The collusion bloodbath

Kevin McCullough
Townhall
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 12:01 UTC
DripBlood
© KJN/Elizabeth Mueller
The firing of Andrew McCabe, the discovery of his "private notes," the ill-tempered response by other Obama loyalists and a yet to be disclosed Inspector General's report on an investigation that began before Donald Trump had come to office are all pieces of a story that dwarfs the still absent evidence of anything Trump and company did to cooperate with Russians in changing votes in Michigan and Wisconsin.

So many Democrats and Republicans have asserted the lack of evidence in the Russian collusion issue its become comical if not annoying to endure as the uninformed continue to argue otherwise.

But few have had interest in addressing a separate issue that demands attention. For while the Russians attempted mass chaos, the more serious scandal appears to have covered up criminal behavior, illicit manipulation of the FISA process, and an attempt to undo the quite serious results of an election. Is there anything more sacred in our representative republic?

The scandal that goes mostly unmentioned began before the election had even occurred, but appears to have continued well past the final results of election night, with one candidate winning 30 of 50 states, and racking up a 304 to 227 victory in the electoral college.

A victory that looks increasingly historic in light of what increasingly appears to be the collusion of the then current administration with one campaign, and in instance after instance attempting to push their thumb on the scale of the outcome.

Comment: The Democrats - in collusion with govt agencies - who masterminded the (so far unsuccessful) manipulation of the 2016 election, have the only profile that fits election corruption: 'Demogate'

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Attention

Trump: Mueller probe has 'massive conflicts of interest'


RT
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:28 UTC
Mueller
© Newsy NewsSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller
US President Donald Trump has again used Twitter to take aim at special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into alleged collusion between his 2016 campaign and Russia. Trump tweeted Monday morning that the Mueller probe is a "total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest!"

The tweet sparked another flurry of speculation that Trump is planning to fire Mueller, despite assurances from his legal team at the weekend that the president is "not considering or discussing" firing the special counsel.

The tweet came about an hour after another in which Trump praised Fox News host Sean Hannity for his "great" performance on the channel's morning show Fox & Friends.

Hannity used his appearance on the show to claim there "never was any Trump-Russia collusion" and to lambaste the "fake news media" that Trump himself routinely criticizes. Hannity also said that Hillary Clinton and some FBI and Justice Department officials should be investigated and prosecuted for the "many crimes" they have committed. Left-wing, pro-Clinton media watchdog Media Matters said Trump's comments on Hannity's appearance shed light on the "feedback loop" between the Trump administration and Fox News.

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