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Key evidence in House hacking probe has mysteriously vanished

Jasper Fakkert
The Epoch Times
Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:03 UTC
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Trump says server connected 'to much of the corruption we see today'

A server belonging to the House Democratic Caucus went missing in early 2017 after it had been identified by the inspector general as a key piece of evidence in a hacking probe.

The Office of Inspector General had found months earlier that a group of House IT workers had logged in to the server 5,735 times during the surveyed period between October 2015 and April 2016.

The IT workers, most of whom were members of the Awan family, were working at that time for dozens of House Democrats, earning an estimated $7 million since 2004.

Comment: Get out the popcorn!

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Chess

Nordstream 2 pipeline project reveals the extent of US weakness

Tom Luongo
TomLuongo.me
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Nord Stream 2
The latest twist of the Nordstream 2 Saga is the U.S. is now threatening to sanction the European companies acting as Gazprom's financier's for the pipeline. This threat has been there since President Trump signed sanctions bill spearheaded by a dying John McCain last summer.

But, don't let appearances fool you. Trump wasn't reluctant about signing that bill. He welcomed it. He went to the Three Seas Summit with "European Energy Security" on his lips and trade tariffs/barriers in his heart.

He knew where this would lead. And so did we. The recent report from RT linked above reveals just how desperate the U.S. is to stopping Nordstream 2, and, frankly, it's pathetic.

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Health

Virulent neocon, Zionist and russophobe Charles Krauthammer sends farewell letter as he loses battle with cancer

Guy Benson
Townhall
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 13:27 UTC
Charles Krauthammer
The Washington Post has published a statement written by Dr. Charles Krauthammer, a public intellectual and titan of conservative thought whose absence from the national conversation over the last ten months has been felt deeply by his readers and Fox News viewers. One of the questions I regularly field as I travel across the country is, "do you know when Charles is coming back?" Despite hearing occasional whispers or updates around Fox's DC bureau, my answer to that question has always been honest; it's gone something like, I don't know, but I'm praying he recovers and returns soon. Aside from one optimistic missive late last year, Krauthammer himself has remained silent on his status as he's fought through some daunting health challenges in private. Until today. This is nothing short of heartbreaking:

Comment: We do not wish to minimize anybody's suffering with cancer, but to call Krauthammer an "exceptional writer and thinker", a "titan of conservative thought" and a "giant" is to hold his mind on a grossly higher regard than deserved. During NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia, Krauthammer published on the NYT the following:
"Finally they are hitting targets - power plants, fuel depots, bridges, airports, television transmitters - that may indeed kill the enemy and civilians nearby.
Cheering for civilian deaths - seriously?

He has also called Vladimir Putin "a killer" without evidence (he wouldn't be the first nor the last).

Krauthammer also cheered the American invasion of Iraq from the very start and blamed the blood-bath on the Iraqis themselves:
America comes and liberates them from the tyrant who kept everyone living in fear, and the ancient animosities and more recent resentments begin to play themselves out to deadly effect.

Much of their killing -- the murder of innocent Shiites in their mosques and markets -- is bereft of politics.

Iraqis were given their freedom, and yet many have chosen civil war. Among all these religious prejudices, ancient wounds, social resentments and tribal antagonisms, who gets the blame for the rivers of blood? You can always count on some to find the blame in America.

Of all the accounts of the current situation, this is by far the most stupid. And the most pernicious ... We gave them a civil war? Why? Because we failed to prevent it? Do the police in America have on their hands the blood of the 16,000 murders they failed to prevent last year?
Except that the neocons in the US - included Charles Krauthammer for his part in selling the crime - do have the blood of a million Iraqis on their hands.

He is also an unconditional supporter of Israel. From Wikipedia:
Krauthammer strongly opposed the Oslo accords and asserted that Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat would use the foothold it gave him in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to continue the war against Israel that he had ostensibly renounced in the Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization letters of recognition. In a July 2006 essay in Time, Krauthammer asserted that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was fundamentally defined by the Palestinians' unwillingness to accept compromise.[38]

During the 2006 Lebanon War, Krauthammer wrote a column, "Let Israel Win the War": "What other country, when attacked in an unprovoked aggression across a recognized international frontier, is then put on a countdown clock by the world, given a limited time window in which to fight back, regardless of whether it has restored its own security?"[39] He later criticized Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's conduct, arguing that Olmert "has provided unsteady and uncertain leadership. Foolishly relying on air power alone, he denied his generals the ground offensive they wanted, only to reverse himself later."[40]

Krauthammer supports a two-state solution to the conflict. Unlike many conservatives, he supported Israel's Gaza withdrawal as a step toward rationalizing the frontiers between Israel and a future Palestinian state. He believes a security barrier between the two states' final borders will be an important element of any lasting peace.[41]

When Richard Goldstone retracted the claim in the UN report on the 2008 Gaza war that Israel intentionally killed Palestinian civilians,[42] including children, Krauthammer strongly criticized Goldstone, saying that "this weasel-y excuse-laden retraction is too little and too late" and called "the original report a blood libel ranking with the libels of the 19th century in which Jews were accused of ritually slaughtering children in order to use the blood in rituals." Krauthammer thought that Goldstone "should spend the rest of his life undoing the damage and changing and retracting that report."[43]
So think what you may about his illness, the intellectual world will not lose much without his ideas if he checks out in the near future.

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Chart Pie

Orban: "We don't want to be mixed with others, fine the way we are"


Voice of Europe
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 13:51 UTC
Viktor Orban
© Sputnik/Sergei Guneev
Viktor Orban
Population transfer is under way in Europe, partly to help speculators like US financier George Soros make money by "destroying" the continent, Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, said on Friday.

It is necessary to openly fight Soros and his "army" and to establish that they want immigration and their ideological motivation is a multicultural Europe, Orban told Kossuth Radio.

"They do not like the traditions of Christian Europe and they believe that if they mix us with other peoples, then Europe will be more liveable. They want to destroy Europe because they expect large profits; that's just the nature of financial speculators," he said. However, "we do not want to be mixed with others," Orban added.

"We are fine the way we are now", as regards to Christianity, the language, culture and way of life, as well as the freedom of religion and the approach to family and relations between men and women, Orban said. Next year's European Parliamentary elections will concern these issues and the conflict of values, he added.

Commenting on a planned constitutional amendment submitted to parliament, he said that considering the required two-thirds majority support is granted, there is no room for hesitation "at times like this". All forces must be mobilised to protect the country which is why the amendment prohibits the forced settlement of foreign nationals to Hungary. Additionally, in line with a planned amendment proposal to the criminal code, organising illegal migration will be a criminal act, Orban said.

He welcomed recent developments in European politics, saying that "some tough boys have appeared in European politics." "We are gentle and mild mannered compared to the new leaders who have now opened their mouths," he said, citing Austria and Italy as examples.
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Magic Wand

Feminist ideologue Justin Trudeau accused of groping reporter in 2000

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:44 UTC
trudeau
© STEEVE DUGUAY/AFP/Getty Images
In a recently resurfaced editorial, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau appears to apologize for "inappropriately handling" a young journalist nearly 18 years ago.


According to the Creston Valley Advance, Trudeau told the young woman: "I'm sorry. If I had known you were reporting for a national paper, I would never have been so forward."


Comment: Perhaps Trudeau's feminism is only skin deep. But that wouldn't be surprising - there isn't anything about Trudeau that isn't only skin-deep. He just mouths the politically correct words and ideology for the sake of public relations. In other words, he's a coward.

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Bell

Trump likely to support ending federal ban on marijuana

Evan Halper
Liberty Headlines
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC
marijuana dispensary
© Chris Wattie / Reuters

Trump could face opposition from within his administration, especially from Attorney General Jeff Sessions...

President Donald Trump said he likely will support a congressional effort to end the federal ban on marijuana, a major step that would reshape the pot industry and end the threat of a Justice Department crackdown.

Trump's remarks put him sharply at odds with Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the issue. The bill in question, pushed by a bipartisan coalition, would allow states to go forward with legalization unencumbered by threats of federal prosecution.

Trump made his comments to a gaggle of reporters Friday morning just before he boarded a helicopter on his way to the G-7 summit in Canada. His remarks came the day after the bipartisan group of lawmakers proposed their measure.

Comment: Legalization, across the nation. It's a global trend that has the conspiratorially-minded scratching their heads. Is there an ulterior motive at play?

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Megaphone

Veteran of Senate Intel Committee charged with lying to investigators in ongoing leak investigation

Laura Jarrett, Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb
CNN
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 10:43 UTC
James A. Wolfe
© Mark Makela/Getty Images
James A. Wolfe appeared in federal court Friday.
A longtime US Senate staffer was arrested late Thursday on charges of lying to federal agents as part of an investigation related to the unauthorized disclosure of non-public information, according to a federal indictment.

Federal prosecutors accuse James Wolfe, the former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee, of lying to FBI agents in December 2017 about his contacts with three reporters, including through his use of encrypted messaging applications. According to the indictment, Wolfe made false statements to the FBI about providing two reporters with non-public information related to the matters occurring before the committee.

The indictment provides a detailed account of Wolfe's interactions with one specific unnamed reporter. Prosecutors say Wolfe eventually admitted to being in a personal relationship with that reporter, dating back to 2014.

Comment: See also:

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Chess

DOJ outs Senate Intel Committee's security chief as 'deep state leaker'

Ian Mason
Breitbart
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:48 UTC
Trump Jeff Sessions
© The Associated Press
Senior Justice Department officials announced late Thursday criminal charges against Senate Intelligence Committee's long-time director of security James Wolfe.

The indictment charges Wolfe with making false statements to the FBI and details how Wolfe passed classified information, including presumably information related to one-time Trump campaign aide Carter Page, to a series of media outlets, confirming long-standing suspicions of the career intelligence community's complicity in leaks. The three-count indictment charges Wolfe with separate instances of making false statements to the FBI, not directly charging him for leaking classified information, but appearing to detail how he did allegedly leaked classified information to reporters and then allegedly lied about it to the FBI.

The 11-page indictment does not name the reporters and does not name the person about whom classified information was leaked, but labels them as "Reporter #1," "Reporter #2," "Reporter #3," and "Reporter #4" as well as "MALE-1" respectively. It is presumed that "MALE-1" is Page, the ex-Trump aide, and "Reporter #2" is then-Buzzfeed News now New York Times reporter Ali Watkins.
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USA

Leaked Boris Johnson tape: Trump negotiating Brexit 'would be a fantastic idea'


RT
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:48 UTC
Boris Johnson and Donald Trump
© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and US President Donald Trump
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has praised Donald Trump's ham-fisted approach to deal-making, suggesting the UK would be better off if the US leader took over the Brexit talks. "There is method in his madness," he said.

Ardent Brexiteer Johnson made his remarks during a closed-doors Conservative dinner party on Wednesday evening. A recording of his speech, released by BuzzFeed News, shows the UK top diplomat being his usual flamboyant self as he confessed of his growing admiration for the US leader.

Trump's toughness in negotiating better terms for his country at all costs is what the UK might borrow from the author of the "Art of the Deal," Johnson suggested. Even if his no-nonsense approach might seem like pure craziness at first, it might work out in the end, he said.
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Question

German gov still 'no evidence' from UK's £7.5 million investigation that Russia was behind Skripal poisoning


RT
Thu, 07 Jun 2018 16:23 UTC
Skripal
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
The German government has zero evidence from the British authorities that could back London's claims that Moscow was behind the poisoning of the Skripals, German media reports.

More than three months since the start of the probe into the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, the UK is still conspicuously tight-lipped when it comes to any real evidence that could prove its accusations against Russia.

On Wednesday, the German government informed a parliamentary oversight committee during a closed hearing that it still has not received any evidence suggesting that Russia might well be behind the incident that took place in early March, German TV station RBB reports.

Comment: The UK will never have any genuine evidence because Russia didn't do it. It's also interesting to note that a few countries openly questioned the UK's baseless allegations, and in recent weeks, have been quite open in their desire for better relations with Russia: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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