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© C-SPANAdam Schiff
The DNC servers have yet to be inspected by federal investigators and the FBI has not questioned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Let that sink in.
At a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday, Rep Schiff told reporters the panel has "non-public" evidence of Trump-Russia collusion and obstruction.
After rattling off his usual talking points of Russian collusion 'evidence' which is already public knowledge, Schiff pivoted to the issue of 'obstruction'.
© Thibault Camus / ReutersFrench President Emmanuel Macron
According to Macron, the plan, similar in ambition to Austria's Islam Law, is aimed at seeking to "better integrate" Islam in France in order to "place it in a more peaceful relationship with the state."
A key priority is to reduce outside interference by restricting foreign funding for mosques, imams and Muslim organizations in France. The plan's overall objective is to ensure that French law takes precedence over Islamic law for Muslims living in the country.
Comment: A minority of French imams agree with Macron. It's important they exercise the influence they have and find a workable solution. France is becoming one of several European powder kegs. Austria provides an example:
Austria's 2015 reforms to their 1912 Islam Law: No foreign meddling, one legal system for all Austrians
© Tiksa Negeri/ReutersHailemariam said he will stay on as prime minister in a caretaker capacity
Hailemariam's announcement comes amid a political crisis and lingering unrest in the Horn of Africa country, which has been releasing thousands of political prisoners to ease tensions.
"Unrest and a political crisis have led to the loss of lives and displacement of many," Hailemariam said in a televised address on Thursday.
"I see my resignation as vital in the bid to carry out reforms that would lead to sustainable peace and democracy," he said.
© FNAThe US has deployed troops at the border between Iraq and Syria in a bid to cut off the link between the two Mideast nations, an Iraqi source said
He said the US has deployed at the border with Syria and established the al-Tanf base in a move to gain control over the highly sensitive border, saying that military equipment has been deployed at al-Tanf to cut the land route between Damascus-Baghdad to Beirut.
Comment: Doing a favor to Israel?
In relevant remarks on Wednesday, Syria's Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari voiced concern about the US military deployment in his country.
He stressed that the Syrian people are the only ones to determine the future of their country, reaffirming Syria's commitment to the final statement of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Sochi.
Comment: The easiest way to supply Syrian Kurds with military equipment is through establishing full control over Iraqi-Syrian Border.
Best of the Web: Reports about 'hundreds of Russians killed in US airstrikes in Syria' are fake news
Fake news
So, what is going on?
On February 8, the US-led coalition released a statement saying that on February 7th it had struck "pro-regime forces" attacking "Syrian Democratic Forces headquarters" in the Euphrates Valley. According to local sources, the US strikes hit the positions of pro-government forces near the village of Khasham. The CONICO gas facility and the nearby Jafar oil field were reportedly the targets of the alleged attack.
Comment: Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova had this to say about it at her weekly press conference:
"The reports on the deaths of dozens, hundreds, of Russians is classic disinformation. Preliminary data shows the armed confrontation, the reasons of which are currently being investigated, could have resulted in the deaths of five people, presumably Russian citizens," adding that their citizenship still needs to be confirmed.This Haaretz report provides further clues to what motivated this global spasm of fake news about US forces killing Russian ones:
The spur for this is likely Israeli rage at Syria shooting down its F-16.
© Screen ShotCody Shearer
There is no known evidence that any such anti-Trump "kompromat," or compromising material, actually exists. Much of the report focused on attempts to secure an alleged video of Trump engaged in sordid sexual acts with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room in 2013 even though there has never been credible evidence presented to substantiate the existence of such a video.
National Review previously dubbed Shearer a "Creepy Clinton Confidante" and "The Strangest Character in Hillary's Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy."
The New York Times reported on Friday:
Cody Shearer, an American political operative with ties to the Democratic Party, has been crisscrossing Eastern Europe for more than six months to secure the purported kompromat from a different Russian, said people familiar with the efforts, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid damaging their relationship with him.
Reached by phone late last year, Mr. Shearer would say only that his work was "a big deal - you know what it is, and you shouldn't be asking about it." He then hung up.
Mr. Shearer's efforts grew out of work he first began during the 2016 campaign, when he compiled a pair of reports that, like the dossier, also included talk of a video and Russian payoffs to Trump associates. It is not clear what, if anything, Mr. Shearer has been able to purchase.
Comment: Shearer has tinkled all over Europe to flush out corroborating information on the fake Steele dossier, but alas the tank is empty. Time to zip it up and drop the lid.
See also:
- Clinton operative personally created second Trump-Russia dossier and flogged it to FBI
- Clinton operatives Cody 'Mr. Fixer' Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal emerge on list of Russia collusion figures
© usdefensewatch.com
James Burnham saw it coming. The American philosopher and political theorist (1905-87), first a Trotskyist, then a leading conservative intellectual, wrote in 1941 that the great political development of the age was not the battle between communism and capitalism. Rather, it was the rise of a new "managerial" class gaining dominance in business, finance, organized labor and government. This gathering managerial revolution, as he called it, would be resisted, but it would be impervious to adversarial counteractions. As the managerial elites gained more and more power, exercised often in subtle and stealthy ways, they would exercise that power to embed themselves further into the folds of American society and to protect themselves from those who might want to bust them up.
Nowhere is this managerial elite more entrenched, more powerful and more shrouded in secrecy than in what Dwight Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex, augmented by intelligence and law-enforcement agencies. That's where America's relentless drive for global hegemony meshes with defense manufacturers only too willing to provide the tools of dominance.
© The Daily Telegraph
NBC News reports that the man synonymous with breaking the bank of England is now "defending his right to donate hundreds of thousands of pounds to a pro-European Union campaign aimed at stopping the U.K. leaving the political and economic bloc."
In 2016, the people of England spoke loudly and clearly, voting to leave the European Union, and yet, George Soros has no respect for that. Instead, the champagne socialist donated a (small) portion of his wealth ($550,000) to the anti-Brexit Best for Britain campaign.
At least two U.K. newspapers have publicly called out George Soros as a foreign interloper with a "secret plot to thwart Brexit."
"Butt out, Mr Soros. You can keep your tainted money," said the Daily Mail.
Comment: Apparently for Soros, money can't buy him love. A master player and global orchestrator, Soros has become a financial mover, shaker and shaper of societal frameworks all over the world through his own actions and those of his fake humanitarian NGOs. If you can find his fingerprint, there is a certainty of manipulation and deceit. See also:
- George Soros' NGOs exposed manipulating EU elections in 2,500 document hack from DC Leaks
- 'Stop Operation Soros' movement begins in Macedonia
- Leaked memo shows George Soros worked to push Greece to support Ukraine coup and paint Russia as an enemy
- Leaked memo shows how George Soros planned to overthrow Vladimir Putin and destabilize Russia
- Hungary introduces legislation to ban "national security risk" NGOslike those of George Soros
- Enough is Enough: Central European governments move against Soros NGOs
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