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Tim Kaine's son receives probation for Trump rally incident

Mandy Mayfield
Washington Examiner
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 02:41 UTC
Linwood Kaine
© Whyte House Report
Sen. Tim Kaine's, D-Va., son was sentenced on Thursday to serve a year of probation and pay $236 in fines for his role during a counterprotest at one of President Trump's rallies earlier this year.

Linwood Kaine received 90 days in jail, but 86 days of the sentence were stayed and the other four Kaine had already served, The Richmond Times reported citing online court records.

The incident occurred at a Trump rally in March at the Minnesota state Capitol in St. Paul. Linwood Kaine, 25, known as "Woody" to his peers, was arrested outside the Capitol and later charged with concealing his identity in a public space, fleeing on foot, and obstructing the legal process by interfering with a peace officer.

The St. Paul City Attorney's Office told the Times that Kaine fled when an officer attempted to arrest him. After police pulled him to the ground, "the defendant continued to fight the officers on the ground, bucking and flaring his arms and legs."

"While some were charged for disruptive activity at the rally, Woody behaved peacefully there and faced no such charges," Miryam Lipper, a spokeswoman for Sen. Kaine, told the publication via email. "He has pled guilty to a misdemeanor in connection with actions during an arrest after leaving the rally."

Kaine's father was the Democratic vice presidential nominee in the 2016 election.

Comment: See also: Tim Kaine's son arrested while protesting Trump rally at Minnesota capitol

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Flashback Delusional top US commander: Trump's Afghanistan plan a 'game changer'

Jamie McIntyre
Washington Examiner
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:20 UTC
General John Nicholson
© AP Photo/Alex Brandon, PoolThe Trump policy "is really fundamentally different," Nicholson told Pentagon reporters in a video briefing piped in from Afghanistan.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan delivered an upbeat assessment of the war effort Tuesday, calling President Trump's new strategy a "game changer" that has put the Afghan government forces "on a path to a win."

Army Gen. John Nicholson cited the end of any set withdrawal date, the unleashing of American airpower, the increasing capabilities of the Afghan military and the decreasing popularity of the Taliban as reasons for his optimism after 16 years of fighting.

The Trump policy "is really fundamentally different," Nicholson told Pentagon reporters in a video briefing piped in from Afghanistan. "That's why I express confidence that we are on our way to win."

Under new authorities granted by Trump, Nicholson has been able to triple the number of bombs dropped on Taliban, al Qaeda, and Islamic State targets: 3,554 in the first 10 months of this year, compared to 1,337 in all of 2016, according to figures released by the U.S. Air Forces Central Command.

Comment: Yep, the 16 year long exporting of Democracy to Afghanistan is going just fine!:

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UK parliamentary group fears Trump policies may jeopardize UK-US intel sharing


RT
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 14:03 UTC
water torture
© The Stuff of Life
Strains in US-UK intelligence sharing relationship since Donald Trump's inauguration have been officially acknowledged by the UK's Intelligence and Security Committee.

The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) dedicated two pages of its 116-page annual report to the potential risk of US and UK intelligence relations being compromised by policies floated by Trump during his election campaign.

All of Britain's security services, including domestic intelligence agency MI5, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), also known as MI6, and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), all expressed their view on the potential threat.

"Certain views that the President has expressed - particularly prior to his election - have the potential, if they were to become official policy, to pose difficulties for the UK-USA intelligence relationship," the report reads.

The document singles out Trump's condoning of "torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" to extract confessions from inmates as one of his stances which would likely compromise intelligence sharing if implemented as policy.

According to the report, MI5 said: "If something happened which caused us fundamentally to revisit our presumption of legality [of the US agencies' actions], which we have got now, hard won after many years after all the problems we have discussed [on detainee treatment and rendition], then that would be really difficult."


Comment: The UK's 'point is rich' considering the millions of completely innocent people killed, maimed, tortured, displaced at the hands of, or traced back to the US and the UK. Despite the kerfuffle of objections, the UK would not be overly persnickety if the intel was deemed viable.

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State Dept. to release 2,800 of Abedin's work docs and emails from Anthony Weiner's laptop

David Martosko, Nikki Schwab
Daily Mail
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:57 UTC
Abedin
© Getty ImagesClinton aide Huma Abedin
The State Department is set to release portions of 2,800 of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin's work-related emails and other documents, all recovered last year by the FBI on a laptop belonging to her estranged husband Anthony Weiner.

Tom Fitton, president of the center-right government transparency group Judicial Watch, tweeted on Thursday afternoon that State would publish 'releasable portions' of the documents on Friday. Fitton asked whether President Donald Trump's Justice Department would 'finally take action on Clinton/Abedin misdeeds.'

Weiner handed his computer over to federal investigators as the FBI probed allegations that he had been sexting with an underage girl, a story first broken by DailyMail.com. Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in prison in September over the sexting case, and reported to a federal correctional facility early last month to begin service his time.

Judicial Watch has pressed in court for the public release of emails and other materials from Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. The Freedom Of Information Act lawsuit that resulted in Friday's coming document-dump was filed in May 2015.

Comment: The FBI frames patsies for terrorist activities and sentences them to 20 years in jail. National-level espionage, disdain for protocol, leaking classified information is 'looked the other way' and the case is summarily closed. Justice for all...on different levels. Makes you wonder what 'dirt' Killary has on the FBI.

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Nikki Haley: Most likely a de facto Israeli agent of influence

Philip Giraldi
American Herald Tribune
Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
HaleyNeti
© YouTubeNikki Haley • Benjamin Netanyahu
The most recent claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "running" Donald Trump as if the U.S. president is a Russian intelligence asset comes from former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper. "[Putin] knows how to handle an asset, and that's what he's doing with the president," Clapper told CNN last Monday.

Clapper, who served as DNI under President Barack Obama, and who has repeatedly disparaged Trump both before and since the 2016 election, called the Russian president a "great case officer," which might be the only nice thing said about Putin by a former senior U.S. official in quite some time.

Clapper was asked by CNN's Jim Sciutto, "You're saying that Russia is handling President Trump as an asset?" He responded "That seems to be... that's the appearance to me." Later in the conversation, Clapper backtracked slightly, clarifying his remarks by adding "I'm saying this figuratively."

Comment: Is she an Israeli agent of influence or just a gullible fool? There seems to be a strong case for both! Try not to puke when you watch this:



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Palestinians 'overreacted' says US ambassador to Israel


RT
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 21:11 UTC
Friedman
© BreitbartUS Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman
America's ambassador to Israel has claimed the reaction to Washington's move recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital is irrational and "needlessly provocative."

The massive anti-Israeli and anti-American protests that erupted across the Muslim world following Donald Trump's announcement have been dubbed as "ugly, needlessly provocative and antisemitic" by David Friedman. Palestinians have been acting "largely emotional," and "unfortunately overreacted," the US ambassador, known as an outspoken advocate for Israel's claim to the Holy City told the Jerusalem Post. Washington is "not taking a position on any final status issues," he said.

"There is no path around the United States" being involved in the peace process. "Israel has made it clear that they will not engage under the sponsorship of any other nation," he said.

America's 45th president will make it to history books as "one of Israel's greatest friends," the Orthodox Jewish ambassador suggested, adding, that Trump's "courage" in making the decision "against the wishes of so many other nations" must be applauded.

Comment: It seems that Ambassador Friedman is also capable of being outspoken and 'overreacting.'

State Dept rejects proposal to cease calling West Bank 'occupied':
Friedman, an Orthodox Jew and former bankruptcy lawyer who worked for Trump's real estate empire, has been an outspoken advocate for Israel's claim to Jerusalem. Although lacking a formal background in diplomacy, he was a top adviser to Trump's presidential campaign, vowing that a Trump White House would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and relocate the US embassy in Tel Aviv to the contested holy city.

Friedman has previously accused Barack Obama of "anti-Semitism" and likened one liberal Israeli anti-occupation group, J Street, to Kapos - Jewish "collaborators" who were appointed to supervise forced labor in Nazi concentration camps.


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Israel passes disputed police muzzle law for high-profile probes


Middle East Monitor
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 05:30 UTC
Nuttyahoo
© AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner
Israel's parliament ratified on Thursday a law barring police investigators from going public with their findings, in what opposition lawmakers saw as a bid to soften scrutiny of corruption probes against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Reuters reports.

The so-called Recommendations Bill, approved in the final reading by a vote of 59-to-54, prevents police from announcing whether they have found enough evidence for an indictment before prosecutors decide whether or not to press such charges.

Netanyahu is a suspect in two cases. In one, he is alleged to have meddled in the media industry. The other concerns gifts he received from wealthy businessmen. He denies any wrongdoing.

Opposition lawmakers have said that the bill, tabled by Netanyahu's rightist Likud party, was designed to dampen public anger over the investigations, which has fueled weekly demonstrations in Tel Aviv and calls for the premier's ouster.

Netanyahu defended the bill on 3 December as "intended to prevent publication of police recommendations which would leave a cloud over innocent people, something that happens every day". In 60 percent of cases where police recommend criminal charges, prosecutors decided not to indict, Netanyahu noted.

Comment: Self-preservation: Neti is only worried about 'the cloud' over himself.

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Exhibition organizer arrested for involvement in Russian Ambassador Karlov's assassination


Sputnik
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 03:32 UTC
Mustafa Timur Özkan
© CNN TürkMustafa Timur Özkan, event organizer
Mustafa Timur Ozkan, the organizer of the photo exhibition where Russian Ambassador in Ankara Andrey Karlov was killed in 2016, was arrested in Ankara on charges of involvement in the murder, local media reported on Thursday.

Mustafa Timur Ozkan was brought to the Ankara Prosecutor's Office, which accused him of involvement in the preparation of a premeditated murder, after which a court in Ankara decided to arrest him, the Yeni Safak newspaper reported, citing a source in law enforcement agencies.

On December 19, 2016, Karlov was shot by an off-duty Turkish police officer named Mevlut Mert Altintas at the opening of an art gallery exhibition "Russia from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka through the eyes of a traveler" in Ankara. Three others were injured in the shooting, and the gunman was killed at the scene by the police. The Russian Foreign Ministry said it considered the attack a terrorist act.

Following the incident, four people were detained on charges of involvement in Karlov's murder, including three former policemen and the head of the publishing group Guru Medya, Hayreddin Aydinbas.
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Trump interview: Russia probe makes US 'look very bad'


RT
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 18:56 UTC
Trump golf
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Rejecting all claims that he somehow colluded with Russia in the 2016 election, President Donald Trump said the probe led by special counsel Robert Mueller makes the country "look very bad" and hoped it would end soon.

According to the New York Times' Michael Schmidt, who sat down with Trump for a half-hour impromptu interview at the president's golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said 16 times that there was "no collusion" between his campaign and Russia during last year's election.

Democrats invented the Russia allegations "as a hoax, as a ruse, as an excuse for losing an election," Trump said, adding that "everybody knows" his associates did not collude with the Russians. The Mueller investigation "makes the country look very bad, and it puts the country in a very bad position," Trump said. "So the sooner it's worked out, the better it is for the country."

Even though he does not know when the investigation will be completed, Trump said he is not bothered because he has nothing to hide, the Times reported. "There's been no collusion. But I think he's going to be fair," Trump said about Mueller.
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Who said Russia left Syria? Russian air force strikes terrorist positions hard near Idlib

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ
Tue, 26 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
Syria bombing
With rumors that Russia was leaving Syria, rather than just downgrading to a limited extent, the Russian air force has been busy today pulverizing terrorist positions in Syria's jihadist-held Idlib province. A full detail of the Syrian Army's progress today against Al-Qaeda affiliates, the al-Nusra Front, can be read here.

Footage has been captured of the Russian air force smashing an Al-Nusra ammunition depot in northern Hama countryside on the border of Idlib province in northwest Syria.

Comment: Perhaps Russia's "mission accomplished" moment was also intended to make the head-choppers feel more at ease, drop their guard, and serve to further help Russia and Syria flush out remaining forces...

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