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'We are in crisis': Ad to impeach Trump gains boost


Sputnik
Mon, 06 Nov 2017 00:19 UTC
Trump/Steyer
© E&E NewsPresident Donald Trump • Tom Steyer
A well-heeled Democrat has initiated a big-ticket nationwide ad campaign to bring about the impeachment of US President Donald Trump, and lawmakers on both sides of the fence are taking note.

With the high-profile launch of an 'eight-figure' country-wide ad campaign buy, former hedge fund manager turned activist Tom Steyer has asked that lawmakers in Washington DC "take a stand" to remove Trump - a strikingly polarizing figure - from the US presidency.

"Waiting is a mistake," Steyer said, noting the urgency of removing Trump who, he observes, is a "clear and present danger" as long as he occupies the seat of the highest office in the land.

"We believe [Trump] is dangerous to the American people now," Steyer said in an interview with the Guardian. "People in Congress and his own administration know that [Trump] is a clear and present danger who's mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons," added Steyer.

Noting that the 45th US president has engaged in a heated war of words with nuclear-capable North Korea and its excitable leader Kim Jong-un; engaged in obstruction of justice in firing FBI director James Comey; freely taken money from foreign governments in a clear violation of the emoluments clause laid out in the US Constitution, and threatened to shutter voices in the media - and even the voting public - if he doesn't like their message, Steyer is calling for Capitol Hill to step up its impeachment game.

Comment: How to buy an impeachment via influence, opinion and innuendo.

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Saudi Arabia set to fill its dwindling coffers by confiscating $33bn from four of its richest people

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:33 UTC
Alwaleed bin Talal
© ReutersMogul no more? Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Earlier today, when discussing the Saudi bank account and asset freeze (and confiscation) of dozens of princes and ministers, we said that just the haul of billionaire prince Alwaleed's $19 billion in various holdings, including nearly a billion dollars in jewelry, planes, yachts, furniture and cash...
alwaleed assets Saudi arabia
© Bloomberg
... would be an efficient way of refilling Saudi's rapidly declining foreign reserves. And refilling they need: as shown in the chart below, Saudi reserves have declined from their peak in 2014 by over a quarter trillion dollars as a result of the roughly 50% drop in gas prices in the past 3 years.
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Pirates

US tries to push Russia out of EU gas market...by buying Russian gas and reselling it to EU


RT
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 19:03 UTC
US tanker
© navigatorgas.com
Tankers run by US energy corporations are delivering liquefied natural gas (LNG) bought in Russia to the Antwerp Gas Terminal in Belgium, reports Belgian daily Le Soir, as part of an investigation based on the 'Paradise Papers' leak.

On Sunday, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), reportedly financed through George Soros funds, released over 13 million documents from the world's leading offshore law companies. The documents revealed that four cargo ships owned by Navigator Holdings bought gas produced by Russian petrochemical company Sibur.

The LNG was reportedly loaded at the Russian Baltic port of Ust Luga. The financial papers also revealed that US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has a 35 percent stake in Navigator Holdings, which is registered in the Marshall Islands.

Comment: The United States clearly isn't the hegemonic mastermind it thinks it is.

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'Just another manic Monday': Killary desperately needs Mueller to prove Russian collusion

Liz Peek
Fox News
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 19:48 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Monday was not a good day for President Trump, but it was an even worse day for Hillary Clinton.

Indictments handed down by Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged Trump's former campaign chair Paul Manafort and close associate Rick Gates with a slew of white collar crimes, including failure to register as a foreign agent, tax evasion and money laundering, an embarrassment to the president. But, some have described the indictments as weak, since they focus on Manafort making false FARA filings, or not registering as a foreign agent, a charge brought by the government only six times since 1966, and which resulted in only one conviction. Enforcement of the FARA law is generally not rigorous.

More important, there was no mention of Russia, or of collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. Hillary needs Mueller to connect those dots.

Also released Monday was news that a Trump campaign volunteer, George Papadopoulos pled guilty Oct. 5 to lying to federal agents. Papadopoulos was brought aboard the campaign as an expert on Greece, but promoted various unsuccessful attempts to set up a meeting between Donald Trump and Putin. None of his efforts bore fruit; emails suggest he was rebuffed by senior members of the campaign on several occasions.
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Media collusion & Fusion GPS: Were US journalists paid to peddle 'Russiagate'?


RT.com
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:33 UTC
US Media
From lurid reports of Trumpian 'golden showers' in Moscow to unverified claims of Russia 'hacking' Hillary Clinton's email, a high-ranking US lawmaker is on a mission to determine if journalists were paid to push an anti-Russian document.

Even before Donald Trump ascended to the White House, the US media had been relentlessly driving the narrative that Trump, WikiLeaks and the Russians colluded to hack the Democratic National Committee (DNC) computers before dumping the damaged goodies into the public realm. This elaborate bit of sabotage, as the story goes, deprived the Democrats of the White House.

Despite the effectiveness of the story to deflect attention away from the real crimes of the Democratic Party, while at the same time splashing the increasingly irate Russians with mud, the narrative is beginning to show considerable wear and tear.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-California), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, dropped a veritable bomb in the Beltway when he signed a subpoena to seize the financial records of Fusion GPS, the 'opposition research' group behind the so-called 'Trump dossier.' The 35-page document hatched by former British spy Christopher Steele is loaded with sex, lies and - alas - not a single videotape.
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Take 2

Carter Page denies accusations of working with Russians in House Intel interview transcript

Chuck Ross
The Daily Caller
Mon, 06 Nov 2017 18:13 UTC
carter page
The House Intelligence Committee released a lengthy transcript of an interview former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page gave last week.

Page, an energy consultant, has been at the center of the multiple investigations into possible campaign collusion with Russia because of his appearance in the infamous dossier of research written by former British spy Christopher Steele.

According to the House committee's transcript, Page pleaded the Fifth to avoid providing documents sought by the panel. He was subpoenaed on Oct. 4 to appear before the committee.

According to the transcript, Page reiterated that he has "never, never" met or spoken to President Trump.
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Chess

Crimean deputy speaker backs repeal of Soviet decree making region part of Ukraine


RT
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:45 UTC
Crimea
© Vladimir Astapkovich / SputnikView of the Monument to Sunken Ships in Sevastopol
The deputy speaker of the Crimean parliament has backed the idea of repealing the 1954 decree that made the peninsula part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, but noted that this would be unlikely to end "political games" over the issue.

"This idea has the right to live and probably we should implement it, simply for moral satisfaction, but Western nations would not see such a step on our part as a reason to stop their political games and rhetoric around Crimea," Remzi Ilyasov told RIA Novosti.

The lawmaker noted, however, that in his view the fact that Crimea is now a part of the Russian Federation did not need to be proven to anybody. "This is a reality that cannot be discussed," he said, adding that he saw the most important current objective as overcoming economic sanctions imposed on Crimean companies and officials by Western nations.
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Cheeseburger

Paradise Papers show Wilbur Ross tied to Russian company - big deal!


RT
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:23 UTC
trump ross
© ReutersWilbur Ross with Trump
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross rejected claims that he acted improperly following reports of business ties with Russia, based on the Paradise Papers leak. The Russian company involved said media interpretations of the report were "politically charged."

According to financial papers released on Sunday, detailing the dealings of a number of wealthy individuals and institutions, Ross, a billionaire investor and member of the Trump administration, has a stake in Navigator Holdings - a transportation partner of Russian petrochemical company Sibur.

"US Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross Jr. has a stake in a shipping firm that receives millions of dollars a year in revenue from a company whose key owners include Russian President Vladimir Putin's son-in-law and a Russian tycoon sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department as a member of Putin's inner circle," says the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the main publisher of the Paradise Papers. After the report was published, some US lawmakers accused Ross of misleading Congress during his confirmation hearings.

Comment: The hysteria just won't end. Do you know, or have you ever known a Russian? If so, then you're probably guilty ... of something. What exactly? Nobody really knows. But it's bad. Really bad. The fact that this news about Ross is even news at all is ridiculous. But for Russophobes, it's all part of a pattern: one bit of nothing added on top of another bit of nothing, plus that other bit of nothing. Don't you see it yet? If you look really hard, you just might see how Russia is literally Hitler. And if you don't, you must be working for Putin himself.

Just look at Senator Richard Blumenthal's comments on the Ross "scandal":
Ross "misled me, the Senate Commerce Committee and the American people," ...

"Only after a thorough investigation can the American people be sure that Secretary Ross really has their best interests at heart - and that he hasn't prioritized his own personal profits or those of Vladimir Putin or his Russian business partners," he said in a statement.
You need help, Mr. Blumenthal. Fast.

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Another Neocon: State Department's new Victoria Nuland... is just like the old Victoria Nuland!

Daniel McAdams
Antiwar.com
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 17:54 UTC
Wess Mitchell
Yesterday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson swore into office a new Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. Dr. A. Wess Mitchell became the Trump Administration's top diplomat for Europe, "responsible for diplomatic relations with 50 countries in Europe and Eurasia, and with NATO, the EU and the OSCE."

Readers will recall that the position was most recently held during the Obama Administration by Kagan family neocon, Victoria Nuland, who was key catalyst and cookie provider for the US-backed coup overthrowing the elected government in Ukraine. Victoria Nuland's virulently anti-Russia position was a trademark of the neocon persuasion and she put ideology into action by "midwifing," in her own words, an illegal change of government in Ukraine.

Comment: We would be hard pressed to find someone worse to replace Victoria Nuland, yet Wess Mitchell has the credentials, history and writing to make that a possibility. The US State Department is once again coming under Neocon influence and control and they know only one thing. Russia must be stopped at any cost, using any lies and means to do it.

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Witnesses say U.S. helicopters transferred ISIS commanders out of Mayadin, Syria


Sputnik
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 17:50 UTC
isis signs
© AFP 2017/ STRINGER
Several sources have told RIA Novosti about the alleged transfer of Daesh commanders by "US military aviation" from a Syrian town in an unknown direction.

US helicopters have transferred Daesh commanders from the town of al-Mayadin before the launch of the Syrian army's operation, eyewitnesses told RIA Novosti.

"American military aviation first made a maneuver in the area [...] near a Mayadin farm. Then [the aviation] launched an airstrike, we tried to hide and saw several US helicopters. There were foreign Daesh commanders on the ground, who were waiting for them next to their headquarters... The helicopters took them outside of Mayadin," a local shepherd, Muhammad Awad Hussein, told RIA Novosti.

He further said that he allegedly saw "US aviation... first a sound from it, then a massive strike that was followed by the US helicopters' flight and transportation of Daesh leaders after which the airstrikes ceased."

Comment: The not-so-mysterious helicopters are back: Can't have their valuable intelligence assets go down with the ship, now can they?

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