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Nunes says 'DOJ, FBI need to investigate themselves'


WND
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 01:53 UTC
House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is blasting the Department of Justice and the FBI for their "failure to fully produce" documents related to the so-called "anti-Trump dossier," saying, in a letter obtained by Fox News, "at this point it seems the DOJ and FBI need to be investigating themselves."

In the letter directed today to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, according to Fox News, Nunes expressed frustration that information and witnesses subpoenaed by the committee in August related to the so-called Steele dossier had not yet been turned over. The salacious dossier triggered the independent counsel probe with unverified allegations about President Trump's connections with Russia.

"Unfortunately, DOJ/FBI's intransigence with respect to the August 24 subpoenas is part of a broader pattern of behavior that can no longer be tolerated," Nunes wrote.

Comment: It sounds like Nunes means business, but it remains to be seen how all of this is going to play out. Despite its focus on Trump, the real collusion is clearly on the FBI/DOJ. But will justice actually be served? See also:

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The Rand Corporation's delusional and dangerous sense of US military superiority

smoothiex12
Reminiscence of the Future
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
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For those who are interested in what makes RAND "click" nowadays in terms of its delusions and doctrinal and operational gibberish they "research", one may try the latest from Mr. Ochmanek and Co. in terms of what they present as: U.S. Military Capabilities and Forces for a Dangerous World, Rethinking the U.S. Approach to Force Planning You can easily download PDF with their tedious report and if you have the time you may indulge yourself in about 153+ pages of an operational and strategic delusion which RAND's big brains present as a scientific research. I will not elaborate here on some overtly preposterous claims and false assumptions such as this one, among many:
To defeat ISIS, the United States has supported two major elements of the anti-Assad rebellion in Syria.
LOL, yes, by supporting and training these very same ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Or this strategic pearl unique in its hilarity:
During spring 2016, the Russian aerial campaign had some success in helping the Syrian armed forces to defeat a variety of rebel groups in and around Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city. The Russian aerial intervention has complicated U.S. and allied use of air power and SOF units to inflict damage on ISIS.

Comment: A little more on what the geniuses at Rand are occupying themselves with these days:

Psychopathic think tank: RAND Corporation lays out scenarios for US war with China

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Bad Guys

Intelligence insider told by CIA Director Pompeo that war with North Korea could begin in '12 weeks'

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
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An intelligence insider has just claimed that Director of CIA, Mike Pompeo told him to expect war with North Korea in 12 weeks, which would kick off WWIII.

The current tensions and saber rattling with North Korea could be coming to a head - which would inevitably kick off world war III-by as early as March 20, 2018, according to intelligence insider, James Rickards.

Rickards, who has worked closely with U.S. intelligence agencies over the last two decades, was once asked to simulate asymmetric economic attacks on the U.S. financial system and is an expert at escalation scenarios and end games. Rickards notes that we should expect this war in the next 12 weeks, because "the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency told me," writes Rickards.

Comment: Does Trump realize that his hard-ball rhetoric against North Korea could actually lead to a catastrophic war - or, is he so constrained by a neocon war-mongering stranglehold that his rhetoric belies the track he now seems compelled and forced to follow?

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Maria Zakharova calls US State Department's comments on Navalny rejection "meddling in the Russian elections"


TASS
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 05:14 UTC
Maria Zakharova
© Valery Sharifulin/TASSRussian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
In a recent Twitter post, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described US Department of State's comments on the rejection of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny's presidential bid as "meddling in the Russian elections."

"This statement by the US Department of State, which I'm sure will not be the only one, is a direct interference into the electoral process and the state's domestic affairs," she said.

A US Department of State spokesperson earlier told TASS that the agency was concerned by Russia's Central Electoral Commission (CEC)'s decision to bar blogger Alexei Navalny from running for president in 2018 due to his felony conviction.

"The funniest thing about it, is that this statement was made by the same people, who put the foreign agent label on RT and Sputnik, persecuted Russian media worldwide and invested vast sums in 'countering Russian propaganda,'" Zakharova said.

Comment: One can see why the US State Department was not too happy about Navalny being barred - he was their guy! But even if he did run, it's not like he had a chance anyway.

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The invisible wall or how Trump slows immigration without laying a brick

Amanda Holpuch
The Guardian
Sat, 23 Dec 2017 08:58 UTC
Agencies fence
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Donald Trump has failed to add another inch to the country's border wall between the US and Mexico, but his administration this year has quietly erected a steep, invisible wall that limits migration to the US, according to interviews with lawyers and refugee groups.

Some of these roadblocks received considerable attention, like the three versions of a travel ban on people from Muslim-majority countries and the cancellation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) - an Obama-era program that protected undocumented youth raised in the US.

But the Trump administration also appears to have orchestrated a more subtle attack on immigration that touches the most vulnerable populations, like refugees, as well as powerful business people who work in the US.

"I think that they're basically hoping that five years from now we see a significant decrease in the number of people who even want to come," Sandra Feist, an immigration lawyer in Minnesota, told the Guardian. "I think if we keep this up, that's what we'll see."

Feist, who has worked in immigration law for 16 years and is a part of the American Immigration Lawyers Association media and advocacy committee, said a slew of small administrative changes have drastically slowed the visa process.

Comment: Some presidents play harder, some play smarter. Trump shows he can inconsistently do both.

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2017 ends with Trump residing in his enemies' heads

Kurt Schlichter
Townhall
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:01 UTC
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As 2017 comes to a close, tumbleweeds roll down the empty Lido Deck while the Republican base answers the question, "What if Conservative, Inc., gave a cruise and nobody came?" The Democrats fled Washington under cover of darkness, desperate to keep their slobbering socialist wing from forcing them to commit ritual suicide by closing down the government over Christmas because the GOP Congress (for now) won't hand a couple million illegal aliens citizenship. Robert Mueller's Keystone Kop Korps started off with "unquestioned integrity" and ended the year with totally questioned integrity. The mainstream media abandoned the principle of objectivity in favor of shrill advocacy, yet it is baffled that most Americans now consider its members like just another bunch of partisan hacks.

In the White House, where everyone who was anyone told us Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit would reign, President Donald Trump finished the year by signing a tax reform bill that punished conservatives' enemies and rewarded their friends. The Democrats get to go tell their base of blue state coastal swells, "Uh, sorry about losing those state tax deductions cuz we were too busy resisting to actually negotiate and thereby get a seat at the table." Cue the Sad Trombone. Trump plays for keeps, unlike the squish-cons who play for media hugs and invitations to the kool kidz' parties.

He was supposed to lose the primary, but he didn't. He was supposed to lose the general, but he didn't. He was supposed to fall victim to the covert schemes of leftist bureaucrats and the overt obstruction of The Resistance, but he didn't. Instead, Donald Trump has prospered as the most conservative president since Ronald Reagan. And it's breaking the souls of his enemies. Deliciously.

Comment: Not the 'usual business' and certainly not 'business as usual'.

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Shopping Bag

Hillary Clinton's $84M money-laundering scheme - largest campaign finance scandal in US history

Dan Backer
Investor's Business Daily
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 04:16 UTC
Hillarymoney
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In 2014, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of my client, Alabama engineer Shaun McCutcheon, in his challenge to the Federal Election Commission's (FEC) outdated "aggregate limits," which effectively limited how many candidates any one donor could support.

Anti-speech liberals railed against McCutcheon's win, arguing it would create supersized "Joint Fundraising Committees" (JFCs). In court, they claimed these JFCs would allow a single donor to cut a multimillion-dollar check, and the JFC would then route funds through dozens of participating state parties, who would then funnel it back to the final recipient.

Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer claimed the Supreme Court's McCutcheon v. FEC ruling would lead to "the system of legalized bribery recreated that existed prior to Watergate." The Supreme Court, in ruling for us, flatly stated such a scheme would still be illegal. The Democrats' response? Hold my beer.

The Committee to Defend the President has filed an FEC complaint against Hillary Clinton's campaign, Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic state parties and Democratic mega-donors.

As Fox News reported, we documented the Democratic establishment "us[ing] state chapters as straw men to circumvent campaign donation limits and launder(ing) the money back to her campaign." The 101-page complaint focused on the Hillary Victory Fund (HVF) - the $500 million joint fundraising committee between the Clinton campaign, DNC, and dozens of state parties - which did exactly that the Supreme Court declared would still be illegal.

Comment: Campaign finance corruption comes full-circle -- starts and ends with the Clintons. See also:

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Libya: Voter registration soars as Saif al Islam Ghadafi enters presidential race

JoanneM
Libyan War The Truth
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 01:23 UTC
Saif al Islam Ghadafi
© Al ArabiyaSaif al Islam Ghadafi
Libya will have countrywide historic elections in 2018. The first election will be to elect a new House of Representatives and the second will be for President.

Until Dr. Saif al Islam Ghadafi announced his candidacy for President via a family spokesman, Basem al-Hashimi al-Soul, on Egyptian TV this month, only about 300,000 Libyans had registered to vote, showing a distinct lack of interest or trust in any so-called candidate.

After Dr. Saif's candidacy was confirmed publicly, the voter registration went from 300,000 to 1,681,818 as reported by the High National Elections Commission on December 27, 2017. This is an absolute proof of the massive support that the Libyan people and the Great Tribes of Libya have for Dr. Saif Ghadafi to be the next president of Libya. The Great tribes of Libya now openly begin their support of Dr. Saif as president of Libya as does the African Union now standing with the Great Tribes of Libya. You will see below a current photo of Sheik Ali Alahwel, Supreme leader of all the Libyan tribes, at a conference in Egypt supporting Dr. Saif.
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Comment: See also:

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Target

Back to the future: Tillerson says US to work with Russia but Assad must go


Sputnik
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 06:54 UTC
flagassad
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Writing in Wednesday's end-of-the-year article for the New York Times, Tillerson accused Russia of hostile actions against its neighbors and his nation's Western allies.

The United States has no illusions about Russia but will work together with it to promote mutual interests in Syria, US State Secretary has admitted in an op-ed for a local newspaper.

"While we are on guard against Russian aggression, we recognize the need to work with Russia where mutual interests intersect. Nowhere is that more evident than in Syria," he wrote.

He said Washington expected Russia to deliver on its commitments to create a new future for Syria, after Russian President Vladimir Putin backed the UN-led process in Geneva, Switzerland. "We are confident that the fulfillment of these talks will produce a Syria that is free of Bashar al-Assad and his family," he said, referring to Syria's embattled president.

Russia has been actively involved in the Syrian peace process, volunteering to act as a ceasefire guarantor and proposing to host a Syrian dialogue congress in Sochi next month. Moscow has demanded that President Assad's role in Syria's future be determined by its people.

Comment: Perhaps it is Assad that works with the Russians and America that has to go...

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Moscow claims Erodgan's assertion that Assad is a 'terrorist' has no legal basis


Sputnik
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:17 UTC
Erdogan
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The Russian Foreign Ministry has commented on the recent statement of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, calling his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad a "terrorist".

"Such evaluations do not have any legal basis... Such statements are groundless," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said during a briefing on Thursday, adding that the representatives of the Syrian government are members of the UN and represent the country's government in the UN Security Council.

The statement was made after on December 27, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called his Syrian counterpart "definitely a terrorist who has carried out state terrorism" during a meeting with Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi, adding that "it is impossible to continue with him", claiming that Assad had allegedly killed about a million of Syrian citizens.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry responded to these claims by saying that Erdogan was deceiving the public opinion in Turkey by claiming that Assad should not remain in power, adding that Ankara's policy "causes catastrophic consequences" for both countries. The Syrian president has repeatedly denied all allegations of targeting civilians.

Comment: The Syrian 'solution' holds a thin layer of flakey cooperative posturing but entrenched under the surface lies uncompromising determination. Assad has become the focus, the sticking point, the promotable 'win' for the West and Turkey should he be forced to leave office.

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