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US House passes legislation allowing Congress to reverse Obama 'midnight rules'

Neil W. McCabe
Breitbart
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
Obama midnight regulations
The House of Representatives passed legislation, 240-to-179, allowing Congress to undo any last-minute rules and regulations put on the books in the waning days of President Barack Obama.

"This bipartisan bill is about reviving the separation of powers to ensure our laws are written by the representatives we actually vote for - not unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats who are on their way out the door," said the bill's sponsor Rep. Darrell Issa R-CA, a former chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the current chairman of the House's Intellectual Property Subcommittee.

"Presidents of both parties have made habit of enacting scores of last-minute regulations, with little oversight, to sneak in as much of their agenda as possible before the clock runs out on their time in office," Issa said.

"The bill helps ensure this President, and any future president, will be held in check and that their policies have the proper level of scrutiny by both Congress and the American people. I'm pleased to see the House pass this important measure and look forward to its quick passage by our colleagues in the Senate," he said.
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What's not being said about the Trump adviser who cited Japanese internment for Muslim policy

Alice Sallas
Anti Media
Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
internment camps
Former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie just learned what backlash means — even if what he's defending is something President Barack Obama has been doing throughout his presidency.

During a conversation with Fox News' Megyn Kelly, the spokesman for the Great America PAC, a pro-President-elect Donald Trump organization, cited Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt's internment of Japanese Americans as a precedent for a possible registry of Muslim immigrants.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told Reuters that Trump's policy advisors discussed the ongoing George W. Bush-era "national registry" of immigrants from "terror-prone" countries where the majority of the population is Muslim. But while defending the idea on Fox News, Higbie failed to discuss the registry in detail. Instead, the Great America PAC spokesperson argued that in spite of that criticism, the registry is constitutional.

"I know the ACLU is gonna challenge it," Higbie told Kelly, "but I think it'll pass, and we've done it with Iran back — back a while ago. We did it during World War II with [the] Japanese."

Kelly interrupted:

"Come on. You're not—you're not proposing we go back to the days of internment camps, I hope."

Comment: Why is this news story only now "relevant"? Because it feeds into the ramped-up fears and false perceptions created about Trump that the manipulated and manipulating media are endlessly foisting upon the public: It's all about fomenting a color revolution.

Why then, one might ask, would Trump be bringing into his administration such types as Carl Higbie, John Bolton, James Woolsey, etc. - all neocon-fascist types? Perhaps it would be giving Trump too much credit so early in the game, but since there's nothing to indicate that Trump is a neocon himself (politically incorrect statements notwithstanding) maybe his surrounding himself with these people is designed as something of a camouflage for a more pragmatic less suicidal foreign policy. We'll know soon enough in any case.

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Putin discusses Trump, Brexit, TTIP at APEC summit Q&A session


RT
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:22 UTC
Putin APEC summit
© Mikhail Klementiev / Sputnik
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he hopes both the EU and the UK use common sense in the Brexit process so that it doesn't have negative consequences. Putin also explained his position on US President-elect Donald Trump and the TTIP deal.

Putin held a brief Q&A with the media in Lima on Sunday as the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit was coming to its end. The president was asked a wide range of questions, on subjects as varied as Brexit and the oil production cap to Russia's relations with US and Japan.
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Silicon Valley making nice with Trump

Ali Breland
The Hill
Sun, 20 Nov 2016 23:59 UTC
Trump and Silicon Valley execs
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The two sides battled during the campaign, with prominent tech leaders backing Hillary Clinton and Trump struggling to raise money from the industry.

"Trump would destroy much of what is great about America," Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wrote during the campaign.

Trump took his own shots at the industry, floating a boycott of Apple for refusing to crack its encryption for the FBI and accusing Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos of using his paper as a political weapon against him.

Now with Trump's victory, many tech leaders in Silicon Valley are extending an olive branch.

"I for one give him my most open mind and wish him great success in his service to the country," Bezos tweeted, two days after the election.
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The new arbiter of acceptable thought: Facebook's chilling plan to censor 'fake news'

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 20 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
facebook thought police, facebook censorship
Until corporate media and the neoliberal establishment refused to acknowledge their direct role in the election of Donald Trump and threw a temper-tantrum about misinformation on social media to scapegoat blame, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg balked at the notion faulty reports circulating on social media had anything at all to do with the November 8th shocker.

"Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99 percent of what people see is authentic. Only a very small amount is fake news and hoaxes," Zuckerberg wrote in a post to his platform last Saturday. "The hoaxes that do exist are not limited to one partisan view, or even to politics. Overall, this makes it extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other."

Now, rather than stand by that original assertion, Zuckerberg instead cast all logic aside and unleashed a Machiavellian seven-point plan to eradicate the "very small amount" of false information — read: all opinion not in lock step with the establishment narrative — from the newsfeeds of Facebook's billion-plus users.

Because, apparently, we can't be trusted to think for ourselves.

Comment: Facebook has been determining what information it deems acceptable for public consumption for quite some time and the war on 'fake news' is providing the perfect opportunity for the media giant to help the PTB suppress any perspectives they deem threatening.

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Clinton ignored security protocols, was so contemptuous that senior diplomatic security agents refused to work with her

Jack Murphy
SOFREP
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 23:30 UTC
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Newly released documents from the FBI's investigation into the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal reveal the Presidential candidate's flagrant disregard for physical and information security, as well as how senior Diplomatic Security staff quit her detail and otherwise avoided it like the plague. One member of the detail, "explained that Clinton's treatment of DS [Diplomatic Security] agents on her protective detail was so contemptuous that many of them sought reassignment elsewhere." Being assigned to the Secretary of State's detail was previously seen as an honor reserved for senior DS agents but by the end of Clinton's time as Secretary, "it was staffed largely with new agents because it was difficult to find senior agents willing to work for her."

The FBI interview continues, the DS agent laying out Huma Abedin's special relationship with Hillary Clinton saying that she had "much more power" over Clinton's staff and schedule than previous chiefs of staff for the Secretary of State.

Also described in the interview is how Hillary Clinton blew off security protocols, both in terms of her physical security as well as information security, taking a lackadaisical approach to safeguarding classified information. Examples include bringing her civilian cell phone into the SCIF, against regulation. The relevant pages of the interview can be found below:

Comment: The American people dodged a bullet, to say the least. This woman is a menace to society.

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Is Trump promoting NSA director Rogers to DNI because he leaked the Clinton emails?


Moon of Alabama
Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:14 UTC
nsa director michael rogers
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If some investigative journos start digging into the issue this story could develop into a really interesting scandal:

Pentagon and intelligence community chiefs have urged Obama to remove the head of the NSA
The heads of the Pentagon and the nation's intelligence community have recommended to President Obama that the director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Michael S. Rogers, be removed.

The recommendation, delivered to the White House last month, was made by Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., according to several U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
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The news comes as Rogers is being considered by President-Elect Donald Trump to be his nominee for DNI, replacing Clapper as the official who oversees all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies. In a move apparently unprecedented for a military officer, Rogers, without notifying superiors, traveled to New York to meet with Trump on Thursday at Trump Tower.

Comment: More likely a Clinton insider leaked the Podesta and DNC emails, though the Soros leaks are an open question.

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Dugin: 'Trump victory is a window of opportunity'

Alexander Dugin
Katehon
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 22:14 UTC
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These days it is hardly possible to discusses anything serious other than the astonishing victory of Donald Trump and the crushing defeat of the protege of globalism, Hillary Clinton, in the American elections. This event is so important for the entire world order, than it can be analyzed from different sides. Everything is so saturated with different meanings that you don't know what to start with...

Trump's ascent first and foremost puts a decisive end to the unipolar world. Trump has directly rejected US hegemony in both its mild form, which the CFR insists on, and in its harsh form, as the neocons call for. In these elections, the two main American globalist think thanks rallied around the candidacy of Clinton and collapsed. This means that the unipolar world is liquidated not only under the pressure of other countries, but from within America itself. The peoples and states of the world can finally take a deep breath. The expansion of globalism has been stopped at its very center. The new multipolar world means that the US will henceforth become one of several poles of world order, a powerful and important one, but not the only one, and more importantly one that has no claims to being exceptional.

Putin, standing in the vanguard of the struggle for multipolarity, led up to this. November 8th, 2016 was a most important victory for Russia and him personally. There is no alternative to the multipolar order, and now we can finally create the architecture of this new world order - not through war, but through peace. Trump has brought this with him.
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Economic extortionist Wolfgang Schauble: We're not letting EU go - warns Britain could still be paying into Brussels coffers in 2030

James Tapsfield
Daily Mail
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 04:01 UTC
Wolfgang Schauble
Economic hitman extraordinaire Wolfgang Schauble
Britain could be forced to write cheques to Brussels until 2030 despite leaving the EU, the German finance minister has warned.

Wolfgang Schauble delivered his blustering warning as Theresa May flew into Berlin for talks with Angela Merkel and other world leaders.

Mr Schauble said post-Brexit Britain would be bound by tax rules restricting it from granting incentives to keep investors in the country.

He also insisted there will be no special deal to curb freedom of movement if the UK wants to remain part of the common market.

Signalling that the bloc is determined to take a tough line in looming negotiations, Mr Shauble - a key ally of Mrs Merkel - said: 'Until the UK's exit is complete, Britain will certainly have to fulfil its commitments.

'Possibly there will be some commitments that last beyond the exit... even, in part, to 2030.'

Comment: In other words, if the British government intends to follow through with the will of its country - to Brexit - there'll be hell to pay.

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Avoiding the viper den: Melania and Barron will not move into White House

Isabel Vincent
New York Post
Sun, 20 Nov 2016 21:44 UTC
barron melania
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Future First Lady Melania Trump and son Barron will not be moving to the White House after Donald Trump's inauguration in January, The Post has learned.

The president-elect's 46-year-old wife and their 10-year-old son are staying put at the family's glitzy Trump Tower penthouse so that Barron can continue attending his Upper West Side private school, sources told The Post.

"Melania is extremely close to Barron, and they have become closer during the campaign," said a source close to Trump's transition team. "The campaign has been difficult for Barron, and she is really hoping to keep disruption to a minimum."

Another source said Melania Trump will travel to the White House as needed, but that her primary focus is on Barron.

"Melania is very supportive of her husband and is fully on board of doing everything that's needed as first lady," said the second source familiar with the Trump transition.

Comment: DC is no place for a child. Trump has expressed hesitations about moving to the White House, too. But aside from the surreal image of the President of the United States ruling the country from Trump Tower, you've gotta wonder: despite its security, just how compromised is the White House? We wouldn't be surprised if every room in the house is bugged and otherwise surveilled, just to make sure the POTUS stays in line...

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