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Lipstick on a pig: Hillary says she spent 600 hours on makeup because ... Americans are sexist

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Hillary Clinton claims, in her new book, What Happened, that she was forced to spend hundreds of hours getting her hair and makeup done because Americans are super duper sexist.

"I'm not jealous of my male colleagues often, but I am when it comes to how they can just shower, shave, put on a suit and be ready to go. The few times I've gone out in public without makeup, it's made the news," she wrote, according to Newsweek magazine. She says she was "shocked" to discover how much time and money it took to get her "television ready."

Apparently, in the time since she was First Lady, the nation's Patriarchy has expanded exponentially, driving women to spend hours and hours fixing their hair and putting on their face, lest their husbands and other male members of society see them in their natural state, and immediately ramp up their oppression.

Clinton was particularly jealous, she says, of Bernie Sanders, who often looks like he spent the last week sleeping under a bridge in a cold climate. The sweater-vest-and-mad-scientist-hair was Bernie's signature look, and progressive journalists took to mainstream media sites to defend his scatterbrained couture.

Clinton, however, was "forced" to prep for hours in advance of any media appearance, and spend thousands of dollars on ill-fitting coats and terribly tailored pantsuits, just so she could be "taken seriously" by a media that was booking hotel rooms for her coronation back in August of 2015.


Comment: Ms. Zanotti, you are a treasure.


It takes a lot of effort, Clinton writes, "just to be a woman in the public eye."

Comment: Keep on digging that hole, Hillary. 600 hours obviously wasn't enough to cover the grime that is your shrivelled, rot-infested soul.


Cloud Grey

Like father like son: Prince Charles lauds Harry for adopting globalist consensus on climate change

Prince Charles and Prince Harry
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Prince Charles, heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has praised his younger son Prince Harry for endorsing the received wisdom on climate change.

Charles has often received scornful condemnation from the liberal elite when he has campaigned for less fashionable causes, such as the preservation of Britain's architectural heritage and the promotion of traditional town planning, but gained a measure of acceptance for his wholehearted embrace of the globalist consensus on carbon emissions - winning plaudits for a 2008 speech to the European Parliament in which he described a climate change "Doomsday Clock" ticking "ever closer to midnight".

In an interview with Harry on a special edition of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, the king-in-waiting confirmed that climate change was now his signature cause when asked what single issue he would be focusing on most in the coming year.

Comment: Chuck is a moron. Diana is likely spinning in her grave to see the Deep State corruption of her son. See also:


Boat

"Bad China!" U.S. produces satellite images of Chinese ships illegally selling oil to North Korea

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United States reconnaissance satellites have allegedly caught Chinese ships violating UN sanctions by engaging in illegal oil trades with North Korean vessels nearly 30 times in October.

The images were captured in the West Sea on October 19, prior to the most recent round of sanctions on the DPRK, which caps oil product shipments at 500K barrels per year, going into effect.

The satellite footage reveals a North Korean ship, named Ryesonggang 1, connected with a Chinese ship in what was deemed a ship-to-ship oil transfer, which is prohibited and deemed illegal by U.S. authorities.

According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury's official report on the incident:
"North Korea is known to employ deceptive shipping practices, including ship-to-ship transfers, a practice prohibited by United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2375 of September 11, 2017."
The Treasury report goes on to note that the ship-to-ship transfer captured in the images was possibly oil, and likely undertaken to bypass international sanctions on North Korea.

Comment: The U.S. can produce crystal-clear satellite images when it wants to. Makes you wonder about all those times they haven't provided any satellite images to back up their claims. Answer: because they didn't have any evidence, because they just made up the claims.

In this case, at least, they've at least made the evidence public. Unleash the Trump:




Stormtrooper

Newsweek reveals anti-Trump bias in fake story about Melania removing tree from White House grounds

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Newsweek published an incredibly misleading article about first lady Melania Trump on Tuesday, stating in the headline that she ordered the removal of a tree that Andrew Jackson planted on White House grounds in 1835.

"Melania Trump orders removal of the near-200-year-old tree from the White House," Newsweek tweeted.

While it's true the first lady did order partial removal of the tree, it was only after specialists determined it was a huge safety risk.
Specialists at the United States National Arboretum were brought in by the White House to assess the Magnolia grandiflora, as it is specifically termed. According to documents obtained exclusively by CNN, the tree must be removed, and quickly, despite efforts to preserve it over several decades. The documents read in part:

"The overall architecture and structure of the tree is greatly compromised and the tree is completely dependent on the artificial support," stated documents obtained by CNN. "Without the extensive cabling system, the tree would have fallen years ago. Presently, and very concerning, the cabling system is failing on the east trunk, as a cable has pulled through the very thin layer of wood that remains. It is difficult to predict when and how many more will fail." (CNN)
"Mrs. Trump personally reviewed the reports from the United States National Arboretum and spoke at length with her staff about exploring every option before making the decision to remove a portion of the magnolia tree," Stephanie Grisham, a spokeswoman for the first lady, told CNN. "After reviewing the reports, she trusted that every effort had been made to preserve the historic tree and was concerned about the safety of visitors and members of the press, who are often standing right in front of the tree during Marine One lifts."

Folder

Extradition confidentiality: UK tribunal refuses to release Assange files

Julian Assange at the Ecuador Embassy in London
© RTWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in May, 2017.
A UK tribunal has refused to release key details on communications between British and Swedish authorities over Julian Assange, in an effort to protect the Crown Prosecution Service's relationship with foreign authorities.

An Italian investigative journalist's attempt to pull back the shroud covering the long-running Assange case, which involves four nations and at least two government prosecution agencies, ended in failure earlier this month.

Stefania Maurizi, of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, had her appeal to the UK First-tier Tribunal to obtain documents held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in London dismissed on December 12. Maurizi had sought access to the full correspondence between the UK's CPS and the Swedish Prosecution Authority (SPA). The reporter has been trying to get a hold of the documents for two years.

Cult

Prosecutor who assists Mueller investigations openly brags about 'legal resistance' to Trump

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© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesNew York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
Openly anti-Trump New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman bragged in a Medium post on Tuesday about his "legal resistance" to Trump. He just so happens to reportedly be assisting special counsel Robert Mueller with the probe into Russian interference during the 2016 election, aka alleged Trump/Kremlin collusion.

"Tuesday's Medium post accompanied a profile of Schneiderman in The New York Times, which noted that the AG lodged 100 legal or administrative challenges to administration policies during Trump's first year in office. Such challenges include lawsuits contesting the travel ban and rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama-era amnesty policy that grants temporary status to illegal immigrants who entered the country as children," reports The Daily Caller.

Moreover, as noted by Politico, "Schneiderman has a contentious history with Trump." Last November, the AG won a $25 million settlement regarding alleged fraud at Trump University.

Comment: Schneiderman apparently has a long-standing ax to grind against Trump. Joining Mueller's team lets him continue. How it works out in the long run is another matter. Mueller's investigation is looking more untenable every day.


Russian Flag

President Putin calls for conditions to bring underground economy 'out of the shadows'

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Vladimir Putin has urged to create attractive conditions for business

It is essential to reduce the underground economy not only by clamping down on it, but by creating attractive conditions for legal business, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.

According to President Putin, the data presented by business ombudsman Boris Titov on the share of the shadow economy, which accounts for 39% of Russia's GDP is not surprising, as in a number of European countries, this figure reaches 40%. "This means that the situation is not unique for Russia, but still not good. We need to do better, to surpass them and get rid of those grey areas," he said.

Comment: See also:


Briefcase

Top execs ditching Clinton-linked company Laureate Education

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Former World Bank President Robert Zoellick resigns from board of Clinton company
The most prestigious board member of Laureate Education has announced his departure from the firm, continuing a rapid exodus of top-level executives at the Clinton-connected company.

Robert Zoellick, a former World Bank president, will leave the company at the end of December, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. His resignation follows on the heels of a number of unexpected departures since the company went public last February, as previously reported by TheDCNF. Those departures include the company's founder and CEO, Douglas Becker, as well as its chief operating officer, chief legal officer, and its chief human resources officer.

The for-profit education company is best known for paying former President Bill Clinton nearly $18 million to serve as the "Honorary Chairman" at Laureate International Universities (LIU), the company's main corporate entity. LIU also donated up to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to the Clinton Foundation's website.

Comment: More rats abandoning the sinking Killary ship?


Attention

Yemen's wholly man-made humanitarian catastrophe: The most important story in the world

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Starving Yemeni child

The New York Times
calls on the Trump administration to pressure the Saudis and their allies to lift their blockade and support a cease-fire:
For starters, the Saudis could fully lift the blockade and challenge the Houthis and the Iranians to join in an immediate unconditional cease-fire. This is just the sort of opening Mr. Trump could be urging; if he has the kind of relationship with the Saudis that he boasts about, he might get them to listen - and save countless Yemini lives in the bargain.
Western governments have been making more noise about the blockade lately, but there is no hint that any of them intends to reduce support for the war on Yemen in the meantime. That support continues to enable indiscriminate coalition attacks that kill civilians. Just this week, dozens more civilians were killed by coalition bombing. Earlier this month, another ten women and girls in wedding procession were killed when they were hit by a coalition air strike. These attacks are part of a pattern of striking civilian targets, and they are just some of the war crimes that the Saudi-led coalition has committed over the last two and a half years.

Comment: The Saudi war in Yemen: A Western-sponsored genocide


Briefcase

Doubts on the veracity of the 'Steele dossier' on Trump are still emerging

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© Jonathan Ernst / ReutersUS President Donald Trump
There is a parallel but lesser-publicized narrative running alongside the dominant media-favored Trump-Russia collusion story.

It centers not on Trump and his alleged collusion with Moscow, but on Fusion GPS, the shady firm behind the infamous Steele dossier.

Stories about the 35-page 'intelligence report' written by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele very often do not make so much as a passing mention of Fusion GPS or its co-founder, former journalist Glenn Simpson, but both are crucial players in what could potentially be a scandal of massive proportions.

A recent investigation by online magazine Tablet using public sources to "trace the evolution" of the dossier has pieced together information which suggests central elements of the Russiagate story emerged "not from the British ex-spy Christopher Steele's top-secret "sources" in the Russian government" but from a series of stories co-written by Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby, which were published in the Wall Street Journal before Fusion GPS ever existed.