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Flashback Trump demands investigation of Clinton allies' donations to FBI official Andrew McCabe's wife

Ben Wolfgang and Seth McLaughlin
Washington Times
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:05 UTC
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Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (Left), Andrew and Jill McCabe (Right)
Donald Trump demanded an investigation Monday after revelations that Hillary Clinton's allies invested heavily in the state Senate campaign of a Democrat at a time when her husband oversaw part of the FBI's investigation into Mrs. Clinton's secret email account.

Mr. Trump said the revelations about now-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and his wife, Jill McCabe, a Democrat whose campaign collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from organizations overseen by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, are the latest example of corruption that pervades the nation's capital.

"Hillary knew this money was being paid, and she has to be held accountable for this," Mr. Trump said at a campaign rally in Florida." She has to be held accountable because she knew that money, $675,000-plus, was being paid. So how is she allowed to continue to run for president?"

Down in the polls with two weeks to go before Election Day, Mr. Trump is struggling to recapture the attention of voters who have tuned him out over the past month.

He has delved more deeply into policy, laid out an agenda for his first days in office and increased his attacks on Mrs. Clinton and the "rigged" system he says is thwarting his campaign.

Comment: McCabe is back in the news. He supervised the Uranium One investigation, along with Rosenstein. McCabe is currently under congressional and Justice Department inspector general investigation relating to the monetary transactions noted above. See also:

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Russian business ahead of many Western countries, World Bank ratings show


RT
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:56 UTC
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© Konstantin Kokoshkin / Global Look Press
Russia has made one of the biggest improvements in the World Bank's latest Doing Business rankings. It is ahead of many Western countries including Belgium and Italy, despite facing international sanctions.

According to the bank's annual report, Russia has jumped five spots to 35th place in a rating which ranks 190 national economies based on 11 areas of business regulation, such as the ease of starting a business, registering property, getting loans, paying taxes, and enforcing contracts.

In this year's rating, Russia managed to enter the top 30 in such areas as registration of enterprises and lending. It also entered the top 20 for connections to networks, the registration of property and implementation of contracts.

"The areas where additional efforts would bring major benefits for Russia's businesses include dealing with construction permits and trading across borders," said the report.

Comment: So much for sanctions by the West hurting Russia. All that the sanctions have done is make the West look petty and weak. The sanctions were supposed to cripple Russia and bring them back to the West on their knees begging for help. What actually happened is Russia has become more self-reliant, stronger and it has created stronger bonds with its regional allies. Good job US Empire, your efforts have completely backfired!

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America first: Pandering to the Jewish State has got to stop

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:49 UTC
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Most Americans have no idea of just how powerful Israeli and Jewish interests are. Two recent stories out of Kansas and Texas illustrate exactly how supporters of Israel in the United States are ready, willing and able to subvert the existing constitutional and legal protections that uphold the right to fair and impartial treatment for all American citizens.

The friends of Israel appear to believe that anyone who is unwilling to do business with Israel or even with the territories that it has illegally occupied should not be allowed to do business in any capacity with federal, state or even local governments. Constitutional guarantees of freedom of association for every American are apparently not valid if one particular highly favored foreign country is involved.

Maryland became the most recent state to jump on the Israel bandwagon last week. Currently twenty-two state legislatures have passed various laws confronting boycotts of Israel because of its human rights abuses, in many cases initiating economic penalties on those organizations and individuals or denying state funds to colleges and universities that allow boycott advocates to operate freely on campus.

When governor of South Carolina, current United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, an ardent supporter of Israel, signed the first state law attacking those who support boycotting or sanctioning the Israeli government, the country's state institutions and its businesses. Haley, who is supposed to be defending American interests, has also stated her priority focus will be opposing "the UN's...bias against our close ally Israel."

Comment: No matter how hard they try, the Israelis and their "friends" can't help but let a little bit of that totalitarian mentality pierce the veil of their PR image. The only way to enforce a lie is through coercion. And the more the truth gets out, the more heavy-handed the response from liars and war criminals like the Israelis and their backers.

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Russia assists in development of gas pipeline from Iran to India


RT
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:29 UTC
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Moscow and Tehran are about to sign a memorandum of understanding to back a new gas pipeline project, according to Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak.

The countries will build a 1,200-kilometer long pipeline from Iran to India with the Russian energy major Gazprom developing several Iranian deposits along the route of the future pipeline.

"The project will be implemented with the participation of Iranian, Pakistani and Indian firms," said Novak.

Comment: The West has a history of using oil and gas as a means of exploitation and creating division. It's quite interesting to see how Russia is using these same resources to unite countries that have long been pitted against one another.

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Mueller likely knew all about Manafort's illicit French Connections for years but never investigated him

Rachel Marsden
Townhall
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:33 UTC
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The news broke early Monday that Paul Manafort, a longtime Washington establishment figure and Republican political strategist, had been indicted by a grand jury on 12 counts as a result of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible Russian interference in last year's U.S. presidential election.

People hear "Russia collusion investigation," "grand jury indictment" and "former Trump campaign manager," and that's all it takes in this soundbite world to connect these things in people's minds, regardless of the reality.

Many of the facts outlined in the indictment stem from Manafort's involvement in Ukraine during the political tug-of-war in that country between Western and Russian interests. You have to wonder whether federal authorities would have had an issue with Manafort if he'd been lobbying on behalf of the military-industrial complex and its established anti-Russian position in Ukraine. Now THAT'S a crowded playing field: lobbyists and consultants working on behalf of U.S. establishment interests inside foreign countries. Good thing it isn't illegal, eh?

In any case, the elements in the indictment fall short of explaining how Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton with the help of the Russians. But the fact that Manafort stumbled into the Trump campaign, where he served for a couple of months before stumbling back out, is more than enough to smear Trump in the court of public opinion.
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Democratic Congressman Swalwell: Investigating the Clintons will help the Russians...or something

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 20:00 UTC
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell (Calif.)
The Clintons are said to be the penicillin-resistant syphilis of American politics. You may be able to beat them in elections, but they just linger like tapeworms, or some other parasitic infection. Like Lady Macbeth's cursed spot on her hand, they just can't be washed away, but now they're giving the Democrats agita over the Russian probe that has delivered a face full of buckshot to the Left. The crosshairs were solely squared on President Trump. Now, it's being directed at Hillary Clinton, as her campaign, along with the DNC, gave money to research firm Fusion GPS who then hired an ex-British spy to compile dirt on Donald Trump using Kremlin sources. That sounds like collusion, but we'll move one since there's another bit of news that's returned from the dead about Crooked Hillary: the Uranium One deal.


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The role of cognitive dissonance and who's afraid of conspiracy theory?

Tim Hayward
Tim Hayward Wordpress
Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
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'Conspiracy theory' is frequently used as a derogatory term, a term of disdain and implicit criticism. An effect of this is to discourage certain kinds of legitimate critical inquiry. But surely, in a world where conspiracies happen, we need good theories of what exactly is happening. The only people who really have anything to worry about from conspiracy theories are conspirators who stand to be exposed by them. For the rest of us, if someone proposes a far-fetched theory, we are instinctively sceptical; if they propose a theory that accounts for some otherwise unaccountable occurrences, they may be helping us learn something.

Comment: Casswiki cites Conspiracy Theories:
The term "conspiracy theory" is a label that is usually stamped on inconvenient allegations of dishonesty or fraud by government.

Entirely reasonable questioning can be ridiculed by labeling it a conspiracy theory. In the popular imagination the word conspiracy theory has been given a connotation of paranoid delusion. This has been done by deliberately circulating implausible allegations, giving them press and then shooting them down, by character assassination attacks against people asking inconvenient questions, by intimidation and by a host of other manipulation techniques. Nobody consequently wants to be called a conspiracy theorist. The term is almost synonymous with crank.

The term conspiracy simply means a secret agreement to cooperate on committing a crime.

Any business or government makes secret agreements all the time. This is an implicit aspect of the society and mode of existence we live in. That some of these agreements would concern criminal or unethical activity is to be expected, specially when one has little chance of ever being made accountable.

Thus it becomes all the more necessary for those who actually engage in such activity to promote the greatest conspiracy theory of them all, i.e. the fanciful imagining that there exist no conspiracies.
James Corbett posted the following article and video on this subject:


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The Kennedy assassination records: Revealing the intelligence community's uncontrollable incompetence

Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
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Imagine Harvey Weinstein wielding a "top secret" stamp to block any exposure of the uncomfortable truth and you have the FBI, CIA and NSA.

One way to interpret the intelligence community's reluctance to let all the Kennedy assassination archives become public is that the archives contain evidence of a "smoking gun": that is, evidence that the intelligence agencies of the United States of America were complicit in the assassination of the President.

I think the agencies fear something larger: exposure of their gross incompetence, their "cowboy" recklessness and their disavowal of elected-civilian control. Their fear of this exposure is based on one simple fact: nothing's changed since 1963. They were unaccountable and incompetent then, and they remain unaccountable and incompetent now. The only difference is their funding has greatly increased.

Comment: JFK files revelations: CIA mind control, assassinations, mafia, terrorism, and more

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Congress needs to grill Killary over Trump dossier - What did she know and when did she know it?

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Wed, 25 Oct 2017 13:43 UTC
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Killary has eyed another soul to swallow
The revelation that Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped pay for the notorious "Steele Dossier" of hearsay claims about Donald Trump's relations with Russia is not surprising but is noteworthy given how long the mystery about the funding was allowed to linger.

Another mild surprise is that the Clinton campaign would have had a direct hand in the financing rather than maintaining an arm's length relationship to the dossier by having some "friend of the campaign" make the payments and giving Clinton more deniability.

Instead, the campaign appears to have relied on its lawyer, Marc E. Elias of Perkins Coie, and a confidentiality agreement to provide some insulation between Clinton and the dossier's startling claims which presumably helped inform Clinton's charge in the final presidential debate that Trump was Russian President Vladimir Putin's "puppet." Indeed, how much Clinton personally knew about the dossier and its financing remains an intriguing question for investigators.

Ultimately, the facts about who commissioned the dossier were forced out by a congressional Republican subpoena seeking the bank records of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele to compile the opposition research, known as "oppo," against Trump.
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Flashback John McCain: The 'war-hero' who buried information about POWs left in Vietnam

Sydney Schanberg
Unz Review
Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00 UTC
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Eighteen months ago, TAC publisher Ron Unz discovered an astonishing account of the role the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, had played in suppressing information about what happened to American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam. Below, we present in full Sydney Schanberg's explosive story.

John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn't return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.

Almost as striking is the manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and McCain's role in it, even as the Republican Party has made McCain's military service the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn't talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.

The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small. There exists a telling mass of official documents, radio intercepts, witness depositions, satellite photos of rescue symbols that pilots were trained to use, electronic messages from the ground containing the individual code numbers given to airmen, a rescue mission by a special forces unit that was aborted twice by Washington-and even sworn testimony by two Defense secretaries that "men were left behind." This imposing body of evidence suggests that a large number-the documents indicate probably hundreds-of the U.S. prisoners held by Vietnam were not returned when the peace treaty was signed in January 1973 and Hanoi released 591 men, among them Navy combat pilot John S. McCain.
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