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Firms connected to Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele, were paid $3.8M by Soros-backed group

Chuck Ross
The Daily Caller
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:40 UTC

A nonprofit group partially funded by billionaire activist George Soros paid firms tied to Fusion GPS and dossier author Christopher Steele more than $3.8 million in 2017 to provide research and analysis to "government entities," according to IRS filings.

The payments made by The Democracy Integrity Project are more than three times what the DNC and the Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS and Steele during the 2016 presidential campaign to investigate Donald Trump's possible ties to Russia.

Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the DNC and Clinton campaign, paid $1 million to Fusion GPS in 2016 to investigate Trump. Fusion GPS in turn paid Steele, a former MI6 officer, nearly $170,000 for a project that resulted in the infamous Steele dossier.

Steele's report, which alleged a "well-coordinated conspiracy" between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, has come under intense scrutiny in the wake of the special counsel's findings in the 22-month Russia probe.

Daniel J. Jones, a former staffer to California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, founded TDIP on Jan. 31, 2017, seemingly to resume Democrats' investigation of Trump's possible links to Russia.

Longtime Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns after weeks of mass protests

Aljazeera
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC

© Mohamed Messara/EPA.jpg
Bouteflika comes out from a polling booth before casting his vote at a polling station in Algiers, Algeria, 29 November 2012.

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has resigned with immediate effect, according to state media, ceding power in the face of massive street protests against his 20-year rule.

The ailing, 82-year-old leader announced he was stepping down in a letter published by APS news agency on Tuesday, just hours after the army chief demanded immediate action to remove him from office.

Bouteflika said in the letter to the president of the Constitutional Council:

"My intention ... is to contribute to calming down the souls and minds of the citizens so that they can collectively take Algeria to the better future they aspire to. I have made this decision to avoid and prevent the arguments which distort, unfortunately, the current situation, and avoid its turning into serious skirmishes, to ensure the protection of persons and property."

The announcement prompted celebrations in Algeria's capital, Algiers, with hundreds of people singing songs and waving flags in front of the city's central post office.

"This is a victory for my country," said 25-year-old Kamel, who only gave his first name. "We now want the rest of the old guard to leave, we also want the corrupt businessmen to be judged. We have won one political battle, not yet the war."

Top Army general to Congress: Russia is an 'existential threat' to the US

RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:59 UTC

A nuclear arsenal capable of destroying the US makes Russia the "only current existential threat" to Washington, US Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley told lawmakers.

"Because of Russian nuclear capabilities they are the only country on Earth that is capable to destroy the United States," Milley said on Tuesday, testifying at a budget hearing before the House Armed Services Committee. However, having that capability does not mean Russia is currently planning to use it, he added.

Moscow is likely to "threaten our interests for the next 20 years as they attempt to regain control of historic spheres of influence and shape European economic and security structures in their favor," according to the top Army general. Russia will seek to undermine NATO and challenge the US in "all regions of the world," Milley insisted.

Arguing for the Army's portion of the Pentagon's $780 billion budget request for 2020, Milley also said that "near-peer competitors" such as China and Russia are "aggressively pursuing modernization programs" to erode US military dominance.

Erdogan, Turkish intel worked "hand in glove" with ISIS in Syria, claims former emir

Nafeez Ahmed
Insurge Intelligence
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:44 UTC

In an explosive interview, a former ISIS commander has claimed that the terror group cooperated directly with Turkish state intelligence agencies for years on areas of "common interest".

The source said that senior Turkish government officials had numerous meetings with ISIS representatives to coordinate activities and that this also involved providing support and safe harbour to foreign fighters in the country. President Erdogan "was working hand in glove with ISIS" according to the US government counter-terrorism consultants who interviewed the ex-ISIS official.

The relationship raises questions about Turkey's role as a NATO ally in the Syria conflict.

The source, who served as an ISIS emir for three years, Abu Mansour al Maghrebi, was interviewed by Professor Anne Speckhard, director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) and a long-time US government counter-terrorism consultant for NATO, the CIA, FBI, State Department and Pentagon, as well as by Dr Ardian Shajkovci, the ICSVE's director of research.

Although not all of al-Maghrebi's claims can be verified, most of them are corroborated by the claims of other whistleblowers and former ISIS personnel as previously reported by INSURGE.

Lock her up! Lindsey Graham suggests Bill Barr may reopen Hillary investigation

Collin Rugg
I Love My Freedom
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 17:43 UTC

In an interview given on Sunday, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham asserted that Attorney General William Barr was not happy about how the Hillary Clinton investigation was handled. He also mentioned that he is hoping that eventually, "there's a special counsel appointed to look at DOJ corruption and political bias."

"Nobody in the Clinton e-mail investigation went to jail for lying about the process, because there was no process," Graham said in an interview on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo. "And I know Bill Barr pretty well, and he's pretty upset about the way all this was handled. I don't know if he's going to have a special prosecutor to look at the probability of criminal misbehavior. I'm going to look at what happened from an oversight role, but I hope there's a special counsel appointed to look at DOJ corruption and political bias, because Mueller did his job against Trump. Nobody's really looked at the Clinton campaign, the FISA warrant abuse or the counterintelligence investigation, criminality yet - and somebody should."

Brexit: Wales minister Nigel Adams quits over talks with Corbyn

BBC
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:42 UTC

Nigel Adams had been at the Wales Office for only five months

A junior Wales Office minister has quit over the prime minister's decision to turn to Jeremy Corbyn to try to get a Brexit deal through Parliament.

Nigel Adams said the decision was a "grave error" and the UK would now "end up in a customs union" with the EU.

Mr Adams, who was also a government whip, said he believed the UK would have coped with a "managed no-deal".

He became the fourth Wales minister to have the job within 12 months when he took up the role last November.

Bogus Trump-Russia Alfa Bank connections were created by Hillary supporter working with Fusion GPS and pushed by crooked Hillary

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:34 UTC

A review of the data pertaining to the accusations in the phony Steele dossier about a Trump-Russia Bank connection discovered the sources used is most likely the same source the FBI used to obtain a FISA warrant to investigate the Trump-Alfa Bank connection.This person also just happens to be a radical Hillary Clinton supporter!

It's been more than two years since the 2016 election and Americans still don't really know the sources for the phony Steele dossier used by the FBI and DOJ to obtain FISA warrants to spy on candidate and then President Trump.

This nightmare for President Trump all started in June, 2016. After news broke that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked, a group of prominent computer scientists went on alert. The group of individuals, led by a Hillary supporter, started snooping around the Trump Tower computers to allegedly see if these servers had also been hacked.

Pat Buchanan: Trump should close NATO membership roster for good

Pat Buchanan
Townhall
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:28 UTC

An anti-NATO protester man waves a flag in downtown Belgrade

When Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg today, the president should give him a direct message:

The roster of NATO membership is closed. For good. The United States will not hand out any more war guarantees to fight Russia to secure borders deep in Eastern Europe, when our own southern border is bleeding profusely.

And no one needs to hear this message more than Stoltenberg.

In Tblisi, Georgia, on March 25, Stoltenberg declared to the world: "The 29 allies have clearly stated that Georgia will become a member of NATO."

As for Moscow's objection to Georgia joining NATO, Stoltenberg gave Vladimir Putin the wet mitten across the face:

"We are not accepting that Russia, or any other power, can decide what (NATO) members can do."

Yet what would it mean for Georgia to be brought into NATO?

The U.S. would immediately be ensnared in a conflict with Russia that calls to mind the 1938 and 1939 clashes over the Sudetenland and Danzig that led straight to World War II.

In 2008, thinking it had U.S. backing, Georgia rashly ordered its army into South Ossetia, a tiny province that had broken away years before.

Orban to Juncker: Unveiling statue of Marx gives you no right to lecture others on xenophobia

RT
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:22 UTC

Viktor Orban has hit back at claims made by Jean-Claude Juncker that he is racist, quipping that the European Commission head's appearance at a ceremony celebrating Karl Marx gave him no right to lecture others about xenophobia.

The Hungarian prime minister was responding to comments made by Juncker to Italian television on Sunday over the ongoing feud between the pair. Juncker said that while he didn't care about being placed on billboards critical of the EU by Orban's Fidesz party ahead of EU elections in May, he was bothered by Orban's xenophobia and hostility towards foreigners. The EC president added that Orban's particular brand of nationalism and disregard for others leads to war.

Hitting back at the claims, Orban told local media: "Someone who unveiled a statue of Marx shouldn't be lecturing anyone about xenophobia," adding that the "master of xenophobia" was none other than Karl Marx.

Mueller has found no collusion: It's time for Trump to pardon Michael Flynn

H.A. Goodman
The Federalist
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:05 UTC

Michael Flynn was framed so certain unethical officials could eventually set up Trump. Now that we know there was no collusion, Trump should pardon Flynn.

According to a House Intelligence Committee report in 2018, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe stated the agents who interviewed Michael Flynn "didn't think he was lying." Like McCabe, former FBI director James Comey testified to Congress that Flynn did not lie to FBI agents.

After the Mueller report confirmed no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, in addition to no obstruction by President Trump, it's important to remember that former FBI agent Peter Strzok interviewed Flynn. Yes, the same Peter Strzok who texted he had spoken about an "insurance policy" (referring to the Russia probe) with McCabe and told FBI lawyer Lisa Page "we'll stop" Trump from winning the election.

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Puppet Masters

Firms connected to Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele, were paid $3.8M by Soros-backed group

Longtime Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns after weeks of mass protests

Top Army general to Congress: Russia is an 'existential threat' to the US

Erdogan, Turkish intel worked "hand in glove" with ISIS in Syria, claims former emir

Lock her up! Lindsey Graham suggests Bill Barr may reopen Hillary investigation

Brexit: Wales minister Nigel Adams quits over talks with Corbyn

Bogus Trump-Russia Alfa Bank connections were created by Hillary supporter working with Fusion GPS and pushed by crooked Hillary

Pat Buchanan: Trump should close NATO membership roster for good

Orban to Juncker: Unveiling statue of Marx gives you no right to lecture others on xenophobia

Mueller has found no collusion: It's time for Trump to pardon Michael Flynn

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