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Rand Paul blocks Senate bill, slams 'Trump derangement syndrome'

Senator Rand Paul
© YouTubeSenator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blasted a bill meant to condemn Russia for the meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voted Thursday to block a bill to condemn Russia for their meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, and said that it was motivated by "Trump motivation syndrome."

Here's what the legislation did

The bill was sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who asked for a unanimous consent decree from the Senate, which could be blocked by just one member.

That member was Rand Paul.

"The Congress must make it clear that we accept the assessment of our intelligence community with regard to Russian election interfering in our country and in other democracies," Sanders said in a floor speech in the Senate.

The bill would have also implemented sanctions that had been approved by Congress but stuck in limbo, and also taken measures to protect the election system.

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A warm welcome in Senegal: China's President Xi pledges stronger Africa ties

Xi Jinping talks with Senegal's President Macky Sall
© REUTERS/Mikal McAllisterChinese President Xi Jinping talks with Senegal's President Macky Sall at the Presidential Palace during his visit to Dakar, Senegal July 21, 2018.
China's President Xi Jinping pledged during a visit to Senegal on Saturday to strengthen economic ties with Africa, a continent already awash with cheap Chinese loans in exchange for minerals and huge construction projects.

Xi arrived in Senegal on Saturday for a two-day visit to sign bilateral deals, the first leg of an Africa tour that will also take him to Rwanda and South Africa, the latter for a summit of BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

China now does more trade with Africa than any other nation does, and its consistent overtures to the continent contrast sharply with the United States, whose President Donald Trump has shown little interest in it.

The visit was Xi's first trip to West Africa as president, but his fourth to Africa, he told a joint press conference with Senegalese President Macky Sall after their third ever meeting.

"Every time I come to Africa, I have seen the dynamism of the continent and the aspirations of its people for development," Xi said. "I am very confident in the future of Sino-African relations."

Radar

China state media says must speed up development of nukes to deter US aggression

Chinese nuclear-capable missiles
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China should reconsider the "sufficient" size of their nuclear weapons stockpile to scare off potential attackers, China's Global Times said, pointing at the US' "aggressive attitude" in the South China Sea and the Taiwan issue.

One of the lessons China has to learn from the Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin summit is that Washington respects military power in the first place and vast stockpile of nuclear weapons, in particular, the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated paper said in an editorial on Friday. The article suggests that Russia's nuclear arsenal is behind the US leader's "respect for the country and probably the only reason that had earlier deterred NATO from engaging "in open conflict in Ukraine and Syria with Russia."

"Just by looking at the US' aggressive attitude in the South China Sea and the Taiwan question, we know that China's nuclear strength is 'far from sufficient.' Part of the US' strategic arrogance may come from its absolute nuclear advantage," the editorial warned. It added that one day Washington may "turn this arrogance into military provocation" involving China.

Bad Guys

People in power are held to a 'different set of standards' - especially the Clintons

Hillary Clinton
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There is a "different set of standards" for the Clintons and those associated with them that drives Americans mad, Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer said Thursday night on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle."

"This is what drives people crazy about criminal justice in America. There's a different set of standards for people in power - particularly those politically connected by the Clintons - and those same rules do not apply to ordinary Americans," Schweizer lamented.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson broke the news Thursday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that special counsel Robert Mueller offered Tony Podesta - brother of John Podesta, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman - immunity in exchange for testifying against Paul Manafort.

Manafort, who was briefly President Donald Trump's campaign chairman, is awaiting trial on charges pertaining to bank fraud and his failure to register as a foreign agent, among others.

"In other words, for a near-identical crime, Bill and Hillary's friend could escape and emerge completely unscathed, while Paul Manafort may rot in jail," Carlson said. "Only one of them made the mistake of chairing Donald Trump's presidential campaign."

Comment: Hillary and her crooked friends have practically gotten away with murder, and the double standards that the FBI is taking in the matter show clearly that the only 'justice' dealt out by them is protecting their own. See also:


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Giuliani hints at possible presidential pardon for Manafort, facing federal trial

Paul Manafort
© Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma Press/TNSPaul Manafort on July 19, 2016, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
When Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, goes on trial Wednesday in Virginia on charges of money laundering, tax fraud and other crimes, he may have reason to hope he can avoid prison if he is convicted.

Last month, Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, suggested that Trump may pardon Manafort.

Trump has already pardoned several high-profile supporters.

Giuliani's framing of terms for pardoning Manafort sparked instant political and legal controversy. Critics said Manafort could see Giuliani's comments as a signal that Trump will continue to resist cooperation with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who brought the charges.

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Sheeple

Michael Cohen privately questions Donald Trump's fitness to be president, say friends

Michael Cohen
© Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesMichael Cohen arrives with his lawyers at the United States District Court Southern District of New York.
Friends of Michael Cohen have noticed that since Trump's Helsinki press conference with Vladimir Putin he's been more openly questioning Trump's fitness to be president. "It's one thing for him [Cohen] to be concerned about his suitability to be president," a knowledgeable source told me. "It's quite another thing to be concerned about his [Trump's] loyalty to his country."

The source added that Cohen was sending a public signal to this effect when he tweeted, on Monday after Trump's Helsinki press conference: "As I said to @ABC @GStephanopoulos, "I respect our nation's intelligence agencies who determined that Russia, had in fact, interfered or meddled in our democratic process. I repudiate Russia's effort...and call on all Americans to do the same."


Comment: NYT reveals Michael Cohen secretly taped Trump


Attention

The coup against Trump - his JFK moment, and America's

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As a Communist revolutionary fighting the class war, and fighting in the Donbass
, I never liked Donald Trump, but I must admit, I admire his courage and his wisdom, his defiance of the genuinely Fascist clique that owns the US government, and his willingness to put his life on the line for what is truly the most important issue in the USA and in the world today, the de-escalation of the conflict between Russia and the criminal warmongers who control US foreign policy today.

Understand, his life is under threat as of right now. Dangerous criminals, psychopaths, mass murderers, are plotting his demise, even as you read these words. It is difficult for me to equate Trump with John F. Kennedy, but it is obvious that their enemies are the same. The CIA that brought German Nazis to the USA after WW 2, then placed them in positions of power in the US military, political and secret services, the oligarchs and billionaires who truly own the US government, and who truly want to rule the world, the "Military-Industrial Complex" that Dwight Eisenhower spoke of in his farewell speech. The same ones who killed Kennedy.

And now the same scum and their ideological progeny are saying the same things and making the same threats against Trump that they made against Kennedy little more than half a century ago. To the same end. They are plotting a coup, and even speak openly of it already. Trump is now in the same danger that Kennedy was in 1963 - a corrupt Vice-President, the criminal secret services, including, but not only, the CIA and FBI, and the billionaires who have committed murder to gain their wealth and power, and are willing to do so again to retain it. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and these enemies of Trump, of America, of the whole Human Race, have absolute power behind the scenes, and they are absolutely corrupt.

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Arrow Down

Jeff Sessions must investigate Clinton & Obama or go down in history as modern-day Benedict Arnold

Jeff Sessions Benedict Arnold
We published this post in November of 2017 - each day it becomes more and more apparent that Jeff Sessions is failing America and his duties as Attorney General. We feel it is time to post this again ->>>

Benedict Arnold is the name that goes down in US history as the greatest traitor to the nation. According to biography.com -
Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on January 14, 1741. A member of the Sons of Liberty, Arnold rose to the rank of general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Frustrated by the lack of recognition, he subsequently switched sides to the British and plotted the surrender of West Point. When his traitorous plans came to light, Arnold escaped capture and eventually made his way to England. He died in London on June 14, 1801.

Quenelle

Angela Merkel speaks out, defends Trump's plan to have Putin at White House

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday defended President Trump's decision to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House, and said meetings between the two nations must become "normal" again.

"I think it must once again become normal for Russian and American presidents to meet," Merkel said in a press conference, according to the Associated Press.

Trump and Putin met Monday in Helsinki for their first bilateral summit.

Comment: Further reading: Trump extends Putin an invitation to Washington this autumn


Document

Judicial Watch obtains Carter Page FISA court documents via FOIA

Carter Page
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding today's release of 412 pages of documents about FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrants targeting Carter Page, who had been a Trump campaign adviser:
These documents are heavily redacted but seem to confirm the FBI and DOJ misled the courts in withholding the material information that Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC were behind the "intelligence" used to persuade the courts to approve the FISA warrants that targeted the Trump team. Given this corruption, President Trump should intervene and declassify the heavily redacted material.
The documents were due to Judicial Watch yesterday but were emailed around 5:30 pm today.

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