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New evidence may prove Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson lied to Congress

Matt Palumbo
bongino.com
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC

What exactly was it that sparked the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign to investigate potential collusion with Russia?

In December of 2017, the New York Times told us that it was interactions involving former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos that sparked their investigation - which is in direct contradiction to statements made by former CIA Director John Brennan, who claims that it was he who did so by relaying British intelligence to the FBI.

"I was aware," Brennan said in May, "of intelligence and information about contacts between Russian officials and U.S. persons that raised concerns in my mind about whether or not those individuals were cooperating with the Russians, either in a witting or unwitting fashion, and it served as the basis for the FBI investigation to determine whether such collusion-cooperation occurred."

The "finding" was based on DNS logs - and spread by Hillary Clinton herself.

The fact that there are conflicting narratives as to how the FBI's investigation started proves that launching an investigation which could derail the Trump campaign was priority #1 - while coming up with a specific reason to justify it was secondary. All they were certain of (or at least pretended to be certain of) was that Trump colluded with the Russians.

Comment: Yet another aspect to untangle and put straight in the record. Not only did the Russiagaters create a complicated, multi-layered and overarching false scenario, they banked on phony testimony and 'save oneself' tendencies to further confuse and conflict the search for the truth.

More from The Daily Caller 10/11/2018:

The co-founder of the opposition research firm behind the Steele dossier, Glenn Simpson, will invoke his First and Fifth Amendment privileges to avoid testifying before Congress next week, his lawyer has told Congress.

According to The Hill, Simpson's attorney, Joshua Levy, told House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte that Simpson will not appear for a deposition because the congressional investigation "is not designed to discover the truth."

The Virginia Republican subpoenaed Simpson on Sept. 29 after Levy said his client would not appear voluntarily for an interview before members of the House Judiciary and House Oversight & Government Reform committees. ...

In addition to investigating Trump and his associates, Fusion GPS has helped plant anti-Trump news stories with numerous news outlets. Simpson helped arrange meetings between Steele and journalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker and Yahoo! News. ...

Ohr's congressional testimony has cast doubt on what Simpson told the House Intelligence panel last November.

Ohr testified on Aug. 28 that he met Simpson twice in 2016, before and after the election. The first meeting took place in August 2016 after Simpson emailed Ohr. Ohr's notes show that he took notes related to the Trump investigation during his encounter with Simpson.

But Simpson testified that he met Ohr only after the election, and at Ohr's request. And though Simpson acknowledged meeting Ohr, he did not tell congressional investigators that Ohr's wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS while the firm was investigating Trump.

Past presidents kowtowed to Saudi Arabia - Trump is just honest about it

RT
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:52 UTC

Donald Trump set off a backlash by saying US will not stop supplying Riyadh with weapons over the alleged murder of an opposition journalist. But ignoring Saudi sins to preserve the alliance is a feature of American presidencies.

When asked this week about potential sanctions over the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, an exiled Saudi journalist and US resident, who walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week, and hasn't been seen since, Trump played the realpolitik card - suggesting that Russia and China would step in and replace American economic partners, if Washington pulled out.

"We don't like [the Khashoggi situation] even a little bit," Trump told journalists in the White House. "But as to whether or not we should stop $110 billion dollars from being spent in this country, knowing Saudi Arabia have four or five alternatives, two very good alternatives, that would not be acceptable to me."

As RT's Caleb Maupin says, Trump is merely removing the "smoke and mirrors" from the US relationship with the Gulf, which has always been about money and retaining a strategic ally in the region.

Now it has become personal: WaPo editor takes on 'Saudi murderers' over missing columnist Khashoggi

RT
Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:07 UTC

The Washington Post has taken out a full-page ad in protest of the disappearance and alleged murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey. "We're not going to let this go," said editor Karen Attiah in an interview.

"On Tuesday, October 2 at 1:14 p.m. Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. He has not been seen since," the Friday ad reads, along with the text "Demand Answers."

Comment: See also:

Delusional: Washington believes Syria will invite it to 'rebuild', but won't release funding unless "Iran expelled'

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ News
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 18:03 UTC

'Not the Onion'

Washington DC appears to be engaging in a standard attempt to 'flip the script', making a bizarre announcement which seems to beg a number of questions.

The United States will only qualify Syria for provisions of any additional assistance to the reconstruction of Syria if Iranian forces are expelled from the country, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.

The statement was made on Wednesday during Pompeo's strange speech at the Washington-based Jewish Institute for National Security (JINSA).

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking to a pro-Israel group, vowed an aggressive push to counter Iran across the Middle East and said that Syria was a decisive battleground.

Comment: Syria is well aware of who its true friends are. They will not give a single financial opportunity to the cabal of countries that wanted to see Syria destroyed on behalf of Israel.

About time: State Dept confirms Hillary Clinton's security clearance 'administratively withdrawn'

RT
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 11:41 UTC

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton no longer has a security clearance. Five of her former aides also lost theirs, following a scandal over her use of a private email server while running the State Department.

Clinton's security clearance "has been withdrawn at her request," the Senate Judiciary Committee revealed on Friday, citing a State Department note dated September 21 .

The State Department document, doesn't say anything about Clinton's request, however, only that her clearance was "administratively withdrawn" on August 30, 2018, as part of the ongoing review of how Clinton and her staff handled classified documents using a private email server during her tenure.

"Clearances for five other individuals whom Clinton designated as researchers have also been withdrawn, including close aide Cheryl Mills," the committee said. The State Department letter shows that this happened on September 20. The names of four other aides were redacted without explanation.

Comment: Hillary should next be prosecuted for her crimes (almost too numerous to mention), but we're not holding our breath.

With UN peacekeepers in place, Syria and Israel agree to reopen key crossing in disputed Golan Heights

Sputnik
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 17:40 UTC

In late September, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman signaled his country's readiness to resume normal activity at the Quneitra border crossing point, adding that "now the ball is in the Syrian court."

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said that Israel and Syria had agreed to open the Quneitra checkpoint in the Golan Heights on Monday to help UN peacekeepers "prevent hostilities" in the area.

"We look to both Israel and Syria to provide UN peacekeepers the access they need as well as assurances of their safety. We also call on Syria to take the necessary steps so UNDOF [the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force] can safely and effectively deploy and patrol without interference," Haley pointed out.

Comment: It appears that, step by step, Russia is is helping Syria regain its territory, eventually perhaps,even what was taken by thieving Israel.

Israel has no compunction about using its own people as pawns in the game:

Israel plans to populate Syria's Golan Heights further and develop it more amid 'security danger'

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Trump's willingness to antagonize the world strengthens China-India rapprochement

Dr. Sreeram Chaulia
RT
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 17:19 UTC

An old Chinese proverb states "crisis is opportunity riding a dangerous wind." Trump's trade war with China and accusations of political meddling against Beijing are dangerous winds & have hurt relations between the great powers.

But given that Trump has also been targeting other countries over trade, defense and energy security, China has company in a lot of disgruntled nations that are perplexed and disappointed by the US leader's diplomatic unpredictability, unilateralism and meanness.

Trump's populist willingness to upset and antagonize the whole world in the name of protecting and promoting US jobs and American manufacturers offers Beijing a unique opportunity to reset ties with several affected nations and strengthen its claim to global leadership based on peaceful intentions.

Comment: Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows.India and China's relationship has been fraught with ups and downs, but China's patience may finally result in an arrangement both countries can be satisfied with.

Trump Anxiety Disorder and the Washington Establishment's Agenda

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 19:00 UTC

As examples of egregious abuse of power and general immoral behavior in high places, how does Donald Trump's common or garden variety sexism (there's no evidence he's a racist - calling someone 'dumb' doesn't count) compare to the CIA funding, training arming and generally facilitating the existence of al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists? It's an important question that everyone should consider as a means to getting their priorities straight. It's also important to consider to achieve a more objective understanding of what has been happening since Trump was elected, and why he was elected.

Trump campaigned on an isolationist platform and he explicitly rejected globalism. That appealed to a majority of American people because it promised to 'put America first', but it sounded alarm bells in the all-powerful Washington political establishment that has long before embraced an expansionist ideology to ensure American global hegemony and 'exceptionalism'. These are the people that gave us the catastrophic wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Patriot Act, mass surveillance, officially sanctioned torture, and plots to destroy and subvert numerous other countries.

Whether anti-Trumpers like it or not, the fact is that their antipathy towards the current POTUS is not only irrational, it is not even really theirs. It is instead largely the result of manipulative tactics by members of the Washington establishment and the mainstream media who have very different (and inherently selfish) reasons to want to hamstring the Trump presidency.

Oil could spike to $100 per barrel as Iranian exports shrink & Venezuelan economy collapses, analysts tell RT

RT
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 12:06 UTC

The crude rally is likely to continue this year as OPEC countries are losing their exports, analysts told RT. The key reason is US sanctions against major producers Iran and Venezuela.

"The reduction of oil exports by Iran amid the expected increase in demand for crude brings in bullish mood to the market,"says financial institute FinIst analyst Denis Lisitsyn.

"There is another important fact that makes oil prices grow. The economic collapse in Venezuela has resulted in 1.3 million bpd drop in production, which continues to shrink. It can cause a shortage of heavy oil in the US, supplied from Venezuela, which will need to be replenished somewhere," the analyst added.

These factors could result in a surge in oil prices to $100 per barrel by year-end. The spike in prices comes to the chagrin of the White House, which has triggered the price spike, Lisitsyn says.

Italy declares economic war on EU's austerity regime

Tom Luongo
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:30 UTC

If there were ever any doubts that the leaders of the Euroskeptic coalition that now runs Italy has a plan to defy the European Union, its proposed budget should quell them. Both Deputy Prime Ministers, Luigi Di Maio of Five Star Movement and Matteo Salvini of The League, were adamant about locking horns with European Union leadership over all issues of sovereignty between now and May's European Parliamentary elections.

Their budget proposal, which included both tax cuts and universal income, blew past the EU budget limit of 2.0% of GDP, coming in at 2.4%. It has put their Finance Minister, Giovanni Tria, in a difficult position because Tria doesn't want to negotiate this budget with Brussels, preferring a less confrontational - read: more pro-EU - approach.

Salvini and Di Maio, however, have other plans. And since I began covering this story last year on my blog, I've said that it was imperative that Salvini force the issue of the Troika's demands - the EU, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - back down their throats on debt restructuring/forgiveness.

US politics is as complex as the money supply issue One big scam hidden under layers of deception Tbh..I could care less if she drops down dead...

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New Lt. Governor of Virginia Winsome Sears: "We're going to have safer neighborhoods, safer communities, and our children are going to get a good...

parzival

Bill Gates is going to be the one with the uncertain future,,, * New Lt. Governor of Virginia Winsome Sears: "We're going to have safer...

parzival

The more we hear about adverse affects the more we will merely shrug. It's a catch 22. Is that an asteroid trail in the photo?

sass

Welcome to the new normal. The more sensory exposure we have about such things, the less it is an issue.

sass

Puppet Masters

New evidence may prove Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson lied to Congress

Past presidents kowtowed to Saudi Arabia - Trump is just honest about it

Now it has become personal: WaPo editor takes on 'Saudi murderers' over missing columnist Khashoggi

Delusional: Washington believes Syria will invite it to 'rebuild', but won't release funding unless "Iran expelled'

About time: State Dept confirms Hillary Clinton's security clearance 'administratively withdrawn'

With UN peacekeepers in place, Syria and Israel agree to reopen key crossing in disputed Golan Heights

Trump's willingness to antagonize the world strengthens China-India rapprochement

Trump Anxiety Disorder and the Washington Establishment's Agenda

Oil could spike to $100 per barrel as Iranian exports shrink & Venezuelan economy collapses, analysts tell RT

Italy declares economic war on EU's austerity regime

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