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Mueller, Comey cover ups of Hillary uranium kickbacks & email breaches unlikely to lead to indictments


True Pundit
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:51 UTC
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The Swamp wins again.

Robert Mueller, while FBI director apparently covered up financial crimes for Bill and Hillary Clinton just as Mueller's protege James Comey did six years later.

Brushing aside the story hype for a moment stoked by FOX's Sean Hannity and others, let's interject a little reality check into the matter. One thing appears sure: No one involved in the latest Mueller and Clinton-linked criminal revelations, however, is headed to federal prison any time soon.

Or ever.

Unless the tenets of the story take a drastic turn.

The statute of limitations for federal crimes is five years. The new revelations about Mueller, the Clinton's, Russia and uranium kickbacks stem from 2010.

It is now 2017, or two years past the statute of limitations. There are exceptions to the five-year federal window but they are quite rare and doubtful to be invoked in this matter.
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USA

Ron Paul: Americans are being Neo-conned into another war

Ron Paul
The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:48 UTC
Trump Iran
President Trump has been notoriously inconsistent in his foreign policy. He campaigned on and won the presidency with promises to repair relations with Russia, pull out of no-win wars like Afghanistan, and end the failed US policy of nation-building overseas. Once in office he pursued policies exactly the opposite of what he campaigned on. Unfortunately Iran is one of the few areas where the president has been very consistent. And consistently wrong.

In the president's speech last week he expressed his view that Iran was not "living up to the spirit" of the 2015 nuclear agreement and that he would turn to Congress to apply new sanctions to Iran and to, he hopes, take the US out of the deal entirely.

Nearly every assertion in the president's speech was embarrassingly incorrect. Iran is not allied with al-Qaeda, as the president stated. The money President Obama sent to Iran was their own money. Much of it was a down-payment made to the US for fighter planes that were never delivered when Iran changed from being friend to foe in 1979. The president also falsely claims that Iran targets the United States with terrorism. He claims that Iran has "fueled sectarian violence in Iraq," when it was Iranian militias who prevented Baghdad from being overtaken by ISIS in 2014. There are too many other false statements in the president's speech to mention.

Comment: Trump Middle East advisors' dream of war with Iran just inched closer to reality

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USA

The US is causing its own demise

Paul Craig Roberts
paulcraigroberts.org
Mon, 16 Oct 2017 23:39 UTC
end of the dollar
Readers at home and around the world want to know what to make of the announcement that China henceforth will conduct oil purchases and sales in gold-backed Chinese currency.

Is this an attack by Russia and China on the US dollar? Will the dollar weaken and collapse from being discarded as the currency in which oil is transacted? These and other questions are on readers' minds.

Below is my opinion:

The US dollar's value depends on whether central banks, corporations, and individuals are content to hold their assets or wealth in dollars. If they are, it does not matter what currency is used to transact oil. If they are not, it does not matter if all oil is transacted in dollars. Why?

Because if they don't want to hold dollars, they will dump the dollars as soon as the transaction is completed and move into other currencies or gold. What China is doing is creating a currency that might be a more attractive currency to hold.
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Bad Guys

Pedophilia: Hollywood's other "open secret"

Ira Madison III
The Daily Beast
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:39 UTC
'This is a place where adults have more direct and inappropriate connection with children than probably anywhere else in the world,' claimed former child actor Corey Feldman.

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© The Daily Beast
Last week, former child actor Corey Feldman (Stand by Me, The Goonies) tweeted that he'd been asked for a statement about Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and rape allegations. It makes sense, since he has spent years speaking out about sexual abuse in Hollywood-not of women, but of young men. He has long alleged that pedophilia is the worst problem in Hollywood and that it's in part responsible for his best friend Corey Haim's eventual death by drug overdose.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in 2016, Feldman said: "[Haim] had more direct abuse than I did. With me, there were some molestations, and it did come from several hands, so to speak, but with Corey, his was direct rape, whereas mine was not actual rape. And his also occurred when he was 11. My son is 11 now, and I can't even begin to fathom the idea of something like that happening to him. It would destroy his whole being. As I look at my son, a sweet, innocent, 11-year-old boy and then try to put him in Corey Haim's shoes, I go, 'Oh my God-well of course he was erratic and not well-behaved on sets and things like that.' What more could we expect of him really?"

Comment: 'An Open Secret' documentary exposes Hollywood pedophilia

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Folder

Fusion GPS co-founders refuse to comply with Congressional subpoena - BuzzFeed refuses to disclose who gave them the infamous dossier

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:42 UTC
Devin Nunes
© Australian American Leadership DialogueRepresentative and Chairman of House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes
The three co-founders of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm responsible for overseeing the creation of the infamous "Trump dossier", will refuse to comply with a subpoena ordered by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, according to a letter from their attorneys originally obtained by Business Insider.

But experts say the argument their lawyers are using to ask that they be excused relies on shaky legal grounds, and is unlikely to hold.

Attorneys from Cunningham, Levy & Muse said in a letter that, if called to testify, their clients planned to invoke their first amendment rights to exempt them from answering questions. The move - which has all the hallmarks of a stalling tactic - is the latest attempt by the firm's founders, who reportedly were aware that not all of the allegations contained in the dossier were credible before turning it over to the FBI, to forestall delivering public testimony. Glenn Simpson, a former WSJ investigative reporter and one of the firm's three founders, met privately with the Senate Judiciary Committee for ten hours over the summer. Afterwards, a group of senators, including Democrat Richard Blumenthal, pushed for Simpson's testimony to be made public, and the committee is reportedly still mulling whether to release it.

Comment: At the same time Fusion GPS is trying to avoid being put in the spotlight, BuzzFeed - who published the dodgy dossier - is invoking reporter's privilege to avoid naming their source, which was not Fusion GPS:
BuzzFeed's publication in January of the Trump Dossier - a report prepared by former British spy Christopher Steele that detailed everything from President Donald Trump's supposed romps with prostitutes to coordination with the Russians over the hacking of Democrats - has BuzzFeed facing a defamation lawsuit from Russian tech entrepreneur Aleksej Gurbarev.

... according to BuzzFeed's newest court brief, when Gurbarev's attorney asked Fusion GPS's counsel if Fusion was BuzzFeed's source, the answer was no. Now, Gurbarev is looking to compel information from BuzzFeed and its editor Ben Smith.

"The issue presented by Plaintiffs' request to compel Defendants to disclose a confidential source is serious, and stark," states a BuzzFeed memorandum regarding reporter's privilege. "Plaintiffs demand that this Court order Defendants to violate a promise of confidentiality to a source, an act that for any journalist would constitute the ultimate breach of his or her professional ethics and sense of duty. Yet Plaintiffs have made this extraordinary demand by invoking what are essentially phantom claims about their purported need for this information, and without having made even the slightest effort to explore any alternatives. Under any version of the reporter's privilege to protect confidential sources, the balance here decidedly tips in Defendants' favor."


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Blackbox

Should we take Trump's anti-Iran policy seriously?

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:03 UTC
Trump Iran nuclear deal
The State Department and President Trump have been spitting out curses against Hezbollah and Iran - this could lead us to fear a break in the 5+1 agreement. But for Thierry Meyssan, while the worst may still happen, it is far more probable that, once again, Washington is staging a phony quarrel in order to better manipulate its Israëli and Saudi allies.

The US President's speech on Iran was preceded by a Press conference at the State Department accusing Hezbollah of exporting terrorism all over the world on behalf of Teheran [1]. To show that the US was ready to put its money where its mouth is, a reward was offered for the arrest of two of its commanders. But - surprise! - not a word about Hezbollah's victories against the jihadists, nor about the 800 million dollars that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has just offered to the Lebanese Resistance [2].

President Trump then took the floor and wasted no time in loading insults on the inheritance of Imam Ruhollah Khomeini, the Revolutionary Guard, and the Supreme Leader [3].

He proffered all sorts of weary old accusations which have long been disproven, and laid the foundations for accusations that they are responsible for the resurgence of Al-Qaïda.
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Stop

Trump calls for end of Russiagate investigations, absence of evidence of collusion

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 04:44 UTC
Trump shouting
© Der Spiegel/KJN
Further proof that the Russiagate scandal is on its last legs came during a lengthy press conference at the White House on 16th October 2017 attended by both President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The subject of Russiagate came up only briefly, and the President's response was relaxed and confident
Q Thank you. If it would help you - if it would help Special Counsel Robert Mueller get to the end of the Russia investigation, would you -

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I'd like to see it end. Look, the whole Russian thing was an excuse -

Q Would you (inaudible).

THE PRESIDENT: Excuse me. Excuse me. The whole Russia thing was an excuse for the Democrats losing the election, and it turns out to be just one excuse. I mean, today Hillary blamed Nigel Farage. That one came out of nowhere. So that was just an excuse for the Democrats losing an election that, frankly, they have a big advantage in the Electoral College. They should always be able to win in the Electoral College, but they were unable to do it.

So there has been absolutely no collusion. It's been stated that they have no collusion. They ought to get to the end of it because I think the American public is sick of it.

Go ahead. Go ahead........

Q Thank you, sir. A quick follow-up on an earlier question. You discussed the special counsel and the investigation currently. Are you considering firing Robert Mueller?

THE PRESIDENT: No, not at all.

Comment: What Russiagate? There never was a Russiagate! A process in futility, maybe...a fantasy set of non-circumstances...un-colluded entities...well at least that is something, sort of.

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Snakes in Suits

New FBI documents: Comey planned Hillary's exoneration before criminal investigation completed

Katie Pavlich
Townhall
Mon, 16 Oct 2017 02:50 UTC
comey
© The Economist/APFormer FBI Director James Comey
The FBI records vault released a series of draft statements Monday afternoon authored by former FBI Director James Comey. The drafts are about the conclusion of the criminal investigation into former Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server to host and transmit top secret information.

Unfortunately the drafts are completely redacted, but take note of the date: May 2, 2016.
comey draft note
© unknown
As shown by the FBI's tweet, the final statement about the case was delivered on July 5, 2016 but was being drafted in May. This was two months before Comey made the official announcement that Clinton would not be referred to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. It was also before Comey had interviewed nearly a dozen key witnesses in the case, including Clinton herself. Clinton was interviewed on July 2, 2016 for just under four hours.

The release of the drafts backs up the assertion from Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley that Comey decided long before FBI investigators were done with the case that Clinton would not face charges.

Comment: Guilty people unaccountable, corrupt system unaddressed, dumbed down constituency clueless...this is why it is all still in place and no one dirty enough is prosecuted.

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Attention

MP to Boris Johnson: Is UK's demonization of Russia the geopolitical blunder of the generation?


RT
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:16 UTC
Boris Johnson
© independent.co.uk/KJNUK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson
Britain cannot pinpoint any specific Russian cyberattacks on the UK, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has conceded. Compounding his embarrassment, Johnson was asked whether the "demonization" of Russia is therefore the "geopolitical blunder of a generation."

Speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Johnson claimed while "the Russians have been up to all sorts of mischief" elsewhere, in the UK "we cannot yet pinpoint any Russian cyberattacks on this country. We are continually monitoring Russian activity in that sphere," he added.

In a debate about Russian relations, Conservative MP Richard Bacon questioned whether Britain is doing "everything we can to push Russia into the arms of China. May I remind the foreign secretary that 20 million Russians died during the Second World War - without them we might have lost the war," Bacon said.

"And does he agree with Sir Tony Brenton, the former British ambassador to Russia, that despite Russia being a leading nuclear power, a member of the UN Security Council, a fundamental source of hydrocarbons and other vital raw materials and a leading player in the Middle East, we are through pointless sanctions and demonization doing everything we can to push Russia into the arms of China. Does he agree with Sir Tony Brenton that this could be the geopolitical blunder of a generation?"

Johnson responded that while it is important for the UK to "engage" with Russia, it cannot have a "normal relationship."


Comment: Johnson wants to "shape their (Russian) policies and help them get onto a better path..." just the surface layer of Western delusion.

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Umbrella

Lavrov: US society is 'based on leaks' but Russiagate meddling proof never emerged


RT
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:58 UTC
Lavrov
© Nina Zotina/SputnikRussia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Almost a year has passed since the US launched a probe into Russia's alleged election meddling, but not a single piece of factual evidence has been leaked to the media, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, branding the claims part of US political infighting.

"While the majority of Democrats cannot get over their resentment over the loss of their candidate in the presidential election, and a significant part of the Republicans are annoyed with the unsystematic nature of the current administration, including the president, this anti-Russian story and hysteria unfolding in the US reflects a domestic political struggle," Lavrov said at the 14th annual Valdai Discussion Club meeting at the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday.

Comment: The US should note Russian observations...they are clearer than those from within.
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