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Netanyahu maintains innocence as Israeli police edge closer to indicting PM for corruption


RT
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:39 UTC
Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu
© Baz Ratner / ReutersA protest sign reading "go home" calls for the resignation of Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu
As Israeli authorities prepare to indict Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, the Prime Minister has addressed his supporters to reassure them of his innocence and his readiness to battle the charges in court.

Netanyahu has been under investigation for allegedly taking bribes from campaign contributors in exchange for political favors since August. The Prime Minister is also suspected of seeking to strike a deal with a major Israeli newspaper in exchange for favorable political coverage.

On Wednesday Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh met with other top brass Israeli police chiefs to discuss Netanyahu's cases as they near consensus to formally indict the Prime Minister. Investigators believe they've gathered enough evidence to prove Netanyahu is guilty of receiving bribes. However, before an official indictment recommendation is made to the State Attorney's Office, the police team will examine the remaining "holes" in the case, Israeli media report.

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Dominoes

Turkey's Syria op will move to Idlib after mission completed in Afrin - Erdogan


RT
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:21 UTC
Turkish army tanks gather close to the Syrian border
© Bulent Kilic / AFPTurkish army tanks gather close to the Syrian border on January 21, 2018 at Hassa, in Hatay province
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to take Ankara's Syria operation to Idlib after completing the current mission in Afrin, where they are targeting Kurdish militants.

"We want our Syrian brothers and sisters to return to their land, and now we want to do the same in Idlib what we have done in Afrin," Erdogan said.

It's not the first time the Turkish leader has stated that the campaign against Kurdish militia in Syria could actually spread beyond Afrin.

Comment: See also: Russia-Turkey-Iran talks: Ankara finally openly voices its readiness to work with Assad

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Bullseye

German lawmaker blasts anti-Russian sanctions as 'counterproductive,' urges Ukraine to accept will of Crimean people


RT
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 18:11 UTC
Alternative for Germany party
© Alexey Malgavko / SputnikMembers of the Alternative for Germany party on a guided tour of Massandra Winery during their official visit to Crimea
A regional lawmaker from Germany has called Western sanctions against Russia "counterproductive," and said accepting the choice that the Crimean people made in 2014 could bring peace to Ukraine.

"I think that the sanctions introduced after Crimea held its referendum and was reunited with Russia are counterproductive. This is a way of escalation," said Helmut Seifen, a member of parliament in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, according to RIA Novosti.

"Some political forces must come to power in Ukraine that would accept the will of the Crimean people. This would bring peace between the nations and ordinary people could resume their travels from Ukraine to Crimea and back. All ties would be restored," added the German politician.
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Chess

'Non-negotiable right to act in self-defense': US-led coalition conducts 'defensive' airstrikes against Syrian forces - UPDATE


RT
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 08:33 UTC
A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter jet
© Ina Fassbender / ReutersA U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter jet
The US-led coalition has carried out several "defensive" airstrikes on Syrian forces in retaliation for what they called an "unprovoked" attack on the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and foreign military "advisers."

"In defense of Coalition and partner forces, the Coalition conducted strikes against attacking forces to repel the act of aggression against partners engaged in the Global Coalition's defeat-Daesh (Islamic State, IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) mission," the Central Command said in a press release.


The retaliatory attack was carried out after Syrian "pro-regime forces initiated an unprovoked attack against well-established Syrian Democratic Forces headquarters," the coalition claimed.

Comment: Some 'interesting developments' after Russian Su-25 was shot down in Idlib: Update: A strike by the US-led coalition on Syrian pro-government forces is an unprecedented act of aggression, Russian Senator Franz Klintsevich said.
"The actions of the US coalition do not comply with legal norms. Beyond all doubt, it is aggression," Klintsevich, the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council's Committee for Defense and Security, told Interfax on Thursday.

"The Americans have never acted so openly before in Syria - this is unprecedented."


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Hourglass

Pelosi breaks record in longest House filibuster in demand for 'dreamer' protections

Lauretta Brown
Townhall
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 18:02 UTC
UPDATE: Pelosi has ended her speech at 8 hours and 7 minutes, making it the longest-continuous speech in House history. The previous record was held by Rep. Champ Clark (D-MO) back in 1909.


***Original Post***

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) launched her own sort of filibuster on the House floor Wednesday morning to insist on a vote in the House on protections for Dreamers.
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Arrow Up

Winning bigly: Trump's approval rating tops Obama's at same point during his term as president

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:14 UTC
Trump Obama
© Win McNamee/Nicholas Kamm/Agence France-Press/Getty
Since his electoral landslide in November 2016 Donald Trump has had to deal with spying by the Obama administration, a corrupt deep state special counsel on Russian collusion, a lackluster economy, a foreign policy disaster, and a radical far left mainstream media that reported negative hit pieces on the new president 90% of the time.

Despite all of this bad news President Trump holds a 48% approval rating today in the Rasmussen daily tracking.
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Dollars

Was Fusion GPS trying to buy access to DOJ with payments to Bruce Ohr's wife?

Luke Rosiak
The Daily Caller
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:07 UTC
Bruce Nellie Ohr Fusion GPS Trump dossier
© Fox NewsBruce and Nellie Ohr
Under a contract from the Clinton campaign, the Fusion GPS research firm was paying the wife of a senior Department of Justice official as part of its efforts to gather opposition research on Trump, and the same official then brought that research to the FBI.

Knowledge of the relationship has raised questions about the extent to which the firm may have paid for heightened access to the criminal justice system, and whether they would have hired Nellie Ohr absent her spousal connection to the DoJ.

A declassified memo said Bruce "Ohr's wife was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife's opposition research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs' relationship with Steele and Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the" court when it was used to obtain a surveillance warrant.

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Bad Guys

Rep. Louie Gohmert: Democrats FISA deception will ruin them


Truthfeed News
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 16:55 UTC
schiff Gohmert
Adam Schiff (L) Louie Gohmert(R)
Recently, Republicans in the House released a damning memo, outlining shocking examples of abuse of federal surveillance processes under the Obama administration, as well as clear collusion between the FBI, DOJ, DNC, and Clinton campaign to "rig" the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

The implications of the memo threaten to rock the foundation of not only the FBI and the DOJ, but the Democratic Party itself, and has both Democrats and "Deep State" elitists in a panic.

To put it simply, the left-wing Obama administration politicized the FBI and DOJ, who worked hand-in-hand with Hillary Clinton's campaign to trick secret FISA courts into obtaining surveillance abilities to spy on a private U.S. citizen: then-candidate Donald Trump.

This egregious abuse of power not only goes against everything America stands for, it's highly illegal, and if Democrats and (politicized) powerful federal law enforcement agencies are able to "go after" private citizens, it means that any one of us could be the next victim.

Comment: If the whole of the swamp is exposed, both Democrats and Republicans would be ruined. One of the fears in establishment Washington is that Trump has no loyalty to either side.

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Eye 2

This should scare everyone: Flynn never lied - was railroaded into guilty plea anyway

S.Noble
The Independent Sentinel
Sat, 03 Feb 2018 16:37 UTC
Michael Flynn
© Department of DefenseMichael Flynn
Republicans and Democrats alike should be scared about one overriding fact in the Flynn case. The FBI said Ret. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn never lied, yet he had to plead guilty to lying in order to avoid a protracted fight he could no longer afford.

Ret. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's son, also Michael, wants justice for his father. He reacted to the release of the FISA abuse memo with hope but he might be underestimating the level and extent of corruption in both the media and the administration of our intelligence agencies. He went on fire on Twitter with several tweets. Here are two.
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Whistle

FBI undercover informant on Uranium One breaks silence

Sara Carter
saraacarter.com
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:56 UTC
Uranium One
An informant who spent years gathering information on the Russian energy and uranium market industry for the FBI, met staff members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, House Oversight, and House Intelligence Committees on Wednesday. He gave explosive testimony on his years as an undercover informant providing information to the FBI on Russian criminal networks operating in the United States. He also contends in his testimony, and written briefs, to the FBI that Russia attempted to hide its ongoing aid to help sustain Iran's nuclear industry, at the time the Obama administration approved the sale of 20 percent of U.S. uranium mining rights to Russia.

William D. Campbell, an American businessman, provided extensive information on other counterintelligence issues to the FBI for decades and he had also provided information to the CIA on various issues during his time overseas.

"For several years my relationship with the CIA consisted of being debriefed after foreign travel," Campbell noted in his testimony, which was obtained by this reporter. "Gradually, the relationship evolved into the CIA tasking me to travel to specific countries to obtain specific information. In the 1990's I developed a working relationship with Kazakhstan and Russia in their nuclear energy industries. When I told the CIA of this development, I was turned over to FBI counterintelligence agents."

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