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MSNBC cream puff suggests Nunes is 'Russian agent' because FISA memo hurts his feelings


RT
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 21:00 UTC
Devin Nunes
© Australian American Leadership DialogueRepresentative and Chairman of House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes
As his memo criticizing the FBI nears publication, Democrats and the mainstream media are stepping up attacks on Devin Nunes (R-California), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, even suggesting he's a "Russian agent."

On Monday, the committee voted along party lines to make public the currently classified four-page memorandum commissioned by Nunes. The actual contents of the memo are unknown, though media have speculated it accuses the FBI of obtaining a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign on the basis of a dossier paid for by the Clinton camp.

Democrats have denounced the decision as "cynical and destructive," in the words of Representative Adam Schiff (D-California), the committee's ranking member. Some media commentators have gone even further, insinuating that Nunes might be an agent of the Kremlin.


Comment: Democrats already tried to take Nunes out of the picture with allegations of leaking classified material in April of last year. The House Ethics Committee cleared him of these phony charges in December, and he resumed his role leading the Intelligence Committee. Now that Nunes is on a roll and about to embarrass the Democratic Party and FBI with the FISA memo, he's suddenly a 'Russian agent'.

Mainstream liberals are becoming accustomed to call anyone with whom they disagree 'Russian agents', 'racists', 'supremacists', whatever. Heck, they're even labeling the NYT's as Nazis for reporting on some dynamics they don't like. Oh, and in case you missed it, BDS activists are 'enemy Nazi soldiers' too. Liberals are exposing themselves as insufferable juveniles with no grasp on reality and no ability to address challenges, including their own wrongdoing. The chasm between even minimal rationality and uncontrolled subjectivity is growing by the day.

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New heights of insanity: The real reasons behind Washington's 'Kremlin Report'

Paul Craig Roberts
Foreign Policy Journal
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:33 UTC
putin
© KremlinRussian President Vladimir Putin
In an act of insane escalation of provocations against Russia, Washington has produced a list of 210 top Russian government officials and important business executives who are "gangsters," "members of Putin's gang," "threats," "people deserving to be sanctioned," or however the Western presstitutes care to explain the list.

The absurd list includes the Prime Minister of Russia, the Foreign Minister, the Defense Minister, and executives of Gazprom, Rosneft, and Bank Rossiya. In other words, the suggestion is that the entirety of Russian political and business leadership is corrupt.

The Russians do not seem to understand the purpose of the list. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the government sees the list as an attempt to interfere in the Russian presidential election. There is no doubt that Washington would like to reduce Putin's public support so that Washington can use the Western-funded NGOs operating in Russia to present American stooges as Russia's true voices. However, it is unlikely that the Russian people are stupid enough to fall for such a trick.

Comment: More on the copy-and-paste job known as the Kremlin report:

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Dollars

Mapping the swamp: The size, scope and resistance of the US administrative state

Adam Andrzejewski
Forbes
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 22:05 UTC
Mapping the swamp
© Open The Books/American Transparency
"It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp." - President Ronald Reagan (1983)

"What we have to do is drain the swamp in Washington, D.C." - Rep. Nancy Pelosi (2006)
The Republican Congress and president argue it's time to "drain the swamp" and cut spending. It's not a new fight, but here's why it's so difficult: Our OpenTheBooks Oversight Report - Mapping the Swamp, A Study of the Administrative State describes the size, scope, and power of the federal bureaucracy.

Today's federal bureaucrats are paid $1.1 million a minute, $66 million an hour, and over $524 million a day - and that's just the cash compensation cost. Taxpayers also pay for lucrative perks like weeks of paid time-off, performance bonuses and padded retirement pensions.

Using our interactive mapping tool, quickly review the 2 million federal employee salaries and bonuses by ZIP code across America. Just click a pin and scroll down to see the results rendered in the chart beneath the map. See your local piece of the swamp: how much are the federal employees in your backyard earning? Which agency employs them, and what is their job title?

Here are a few of our key findings:

Comment: Information about the compensation of public servants even in the loosest sense, (interior designers for the VA??) receive should be available to their employers, the US taxpayer.

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Top House Dem reveals that House Intel Committee is formally investigating FBI, DOJ

Chris Enloe
The Blaze
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:27 UTC
schiff
© Win McNamee/Getty Images
The House Intelligence Committee is officially investigating the Department of Justice and FBI, the committee's ranking Democrat confirmed during a news conference Tuesday.

What did he say?

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told reporters at a lengthy press conference that Monday was the first time the committee's Republican majority informed the Democratic minority of the investigation.

Schiff's comments came shortly after the House Intelligence Committee voted to release the controversial "FISA memo," which allegedly details government surveillance abuses. Schiff explained:
It was disclosed to the minority today for the first time that the majority has evidently opened an investigation of the FBI and an investigation of the Department of Justice. Under our committee rules, of course, that has to be the product of consultation with the minority.

Now it has been publicly reported from time to time that there was a subset of the majority working on some kind of an investigation or inquiry into the Department of Justice and FBI. But apparently the chairman [Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) made it formal today.

According to [Republicans], the FBI is under investigation and so is the Department of Justice.
Schiff later called the investigations a "wholesale broadside" against the DOJ and FBI, according to the Washington Examiner, but he didn't specify why the committee is investigating.

Comment: See also:

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Family

Descendants of top Soviet officials are freaks, why?

Anatoly Karlin
The Unz Review
Sat, 27 Jan 2018 22:15 UTC
Nina L. Khrushcheva,
Stalin's granddaughter, Chrese Evans, is a tatted up freak girl living in Portlandia, as "American as apple pie" in the words of her mother.
david axelrod
Trotsky's great-grandson, David Axelrod, is a Jewish ultranationalist who emigrated to Israel and has served three jail terms for terrorizing Palestinians.
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Bad Guys

But wait, look over here! A second Trump-Russia dossier being assessed by FBI

Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Nick Hopkins
The Guardian
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:29 UTC
Cody Shearer
© The Real News/YoutubeCody Shearer

Comment: Here is The Guardian is making an attempt at upholding the Trump dossier's wafer-thin credibility because the British government is rightly embarrassed at their part in the farce. Could there be any more desperate grabbing at straws than the following?


Exclusive: memo written by former journalist Cody Shearer independently sets out some of the allegations made by ex-spy Christopher Steele

The FBI inquiry into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 US presidential election has been given a second memo that independently set out some of the same allegations made in a dossier by Christopher Steele, the British former spy.

The second memo was written by Cody Shearer, a controversial political activist and former journalist who was close to the Clinton White House in the 1990s.

Unlike Steele, Shearer does not have a background in espionage, and his memo was initially viewed with scepticism, not least because he had shared it with select media organisations before the election.

However, the Guardian has been told the FBI investigation is still assessing details in the "Shearer memo" and is pursuing intriguing leads.
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USA

SOTT Focus: How The US Empire Has Colluded With al-Qaeda For 30 Years To Bring Terror To The World

Kit Klarenberg
Sputnik
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 21:33 UTC
twin towers burning
© AP
Those familiar with Tom Secker know him to be a preeminent deep state researcher. Resolutely averse to going further than evidence allows, committed to demolishing harebrained conspiracy theories along the way, his efforts shine candid light on the nefarious activities of Western intelligence agencies.

His work has never been mentioned, or featured, by the corporate media, but mainstream journalists could surely learn a thing or two from Mr. Secker, in particular his aptitude for unearthing compromising internal documents. The determined Brit is quite so skilled at Freedom of Information requests he's even uncovered UK Foreign Office memos complaining about his activities - obviously flustered officials refer to Mr. Secker as a "repeat offender" on a "fishing expedition."
Tom Secker FOIA request
© Tom SeckerThe UK Foreign Office doesn't like Freedom of Information requests
As of 2018, his primary areas of interest have included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Operation Gladio, the 7/7 attacks in London, and Pentagon and CIA meddling in the US entertainment industry. Along the way, he's produced a steady stream of articles, books, documentaries and podcasts.
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Dollar

Amazon's Jeff Bezos buys all he can: Grocery chains, newspapers - now venturing into health care

Terence Cullen
Daily News
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:35 UTC
Jeff Bezos Amazon
© David Ryder/Getty ImagesBezos and Amazon have been buying up other major companies in the last few years.


One-click shopping seems to apply to companies, too.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Tuesday he's dipping his toe into health care, and partnering with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase in the venture.

Health care is the latest field for Bezos, who's spent the last year ascending to become the world's richest man.

In the last five years, the e-commerce power player has also scooped up a number of high-profile companies, from grocery chains to newspapers.

And with Tuesday's news, the question begs what Bezos and Amazon will buy next.
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'Ghost texts' retrieved by forensic experts, since apparently the FBI is incompetent


Sara A. Carter
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:01 UTC
text messaging
Text Messages Discovered
The Inspector General has recovered the Samsung 5 cellphones of two embattled FBI agents at the center of ongoing Department of Justice and Congressional investigations. The two agents are under scrutiny for their involvement in the Special Counsel's investigation into President Trump and alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 election. The DOJ's Inspector general is now retrieving some of the missing five months of crucial text messages exchanged between the pair of FBI agents using forensic experts to track 'ghost texts,' left behind even after they are deleted from the devices, former and current law enforcement officials told this reporter.

The DOJ informed the Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson on Jan. 19, that a "technical glitch" failed to retain the text messages between FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his colleague FBI attorney Lisa Page from December 2016 and May 2017. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz was also informed by the FBI that the text messages could not be retrieved because of the technical problems that occurred when the bureau switched from the Samsung 5 phones to the Samsung 7 phones. But Horowitz's investigation last week into the missing text messages led to the request for the cellphones, which allowed the Inspector General's team the ability to begin retrieving texts.

Comment: It is painfully obvious that the FBI/DOJ is nothing but bumbling in their attempt to hide evidence of the gross bias and attempt to take down the President. Every move they make does nothing but undermine any speck of confidence left in their institution: either they're incompetent, or they're hiding something.

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Gold Coins

Venezuela president Maduro announces date for pre-sale of new 'petro' cryptocurrency


RT
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:12 UTC
maduro
© Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters
Oil-rich Venezuela is officially joining the cryptocurrency craze. President Nicolas Maduro has announced the date for the pre-sale of a new "petro" cryptocurrency.

The pre-sale date is February 20, and the country plans to replenish its depleted budget.

"This is the moment to accelerate the entry of the petro, to have faith in what we've created and in the technological and intellectual capacity of our country," Maduro said on state TV, as quoted by Bloomberg.

"The petro will have a great impact, in how we access foreign currencies for the country and in how we obtain goods and services that we need from around the world."
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