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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The DOJ is scrutinizing Andrew McCabe over his handling of the FBI's Clinton investigation
[Stamford Advocate] The Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General is compiling a report that will fault former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe for approving disclosures to the media about the Hillary Clinton email investigation in October 2016, according to The New York Times.

McCabe was forced out of the FBI earlier this year amid the investigation into his conduct. The Wall Street Journal article at the center of the OIG's inquiry was published on October 30, 2016, two days after then-FBI director James Comey announced in a letter to Congress that the bureau was reopening its investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server to conduct government business when she was secretary of state.

The article was a highly-detailed account of internal strife within the top ranks of the DOJ about how to proceed after FBI agents investigating former New York congressman Anthony Weiner for sexual misconduct discovered 650,000 emails on his laptop that could have been sent to or from Clinton's private email server. Many of the emails came from accounts belonging to Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, who was also Clinton's longtime aide and a senior adviser to her campaign, The Journal reported.

At the same time, DOJ anticorruption prosecutors were at odds with FBI officials over whether to continue pursuing a separate investigation into the Clinton Foundation's financial dealings. While DOJ officials believed there wasn't enough evidence to move forward with the probe and wouldn't authorize further investigatory measures, FBI officials, including McCabe, believed they had the authority to continue the investigation using whatever leads they had already acquired, the report said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To what benefit is Mr. Sessions' (and Mr. Trump's) keeping Mr. Rosenstein in his position?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 03/03/2018 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  I smell a "suicide" coming up.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/03/2018 4:23 Comments || Top||

#3  It will come to the same conclusion - while 'errors' were made, nothing prosecutable will be found. There was 'no intent'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/03/2018 9:04 Comments || Top||

#4  P2K - Federal law is pretty clear on classified doc mishandling No intent is required to make it a felony. Simply breaching handling protocol is enough to make it a criminal act.
Posted by: Warthog || 03/03/2018 9:27 Comments || Top||

#5  And yet.....we have come to a point when “ prosecutorial discretion “ has become synonymous with politically powerful, and thus the rule of law has been made yet another platitude used to calm and quiet those who are not.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/03/2018 11:55 Comments || Top||

#6  How about a little electronic 'scrutiny' ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2018 12:31 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/03/2018 15:12 Comments || Top||

#8  How about instead of "scrutiny" a criminal investigation?
Posted by: 3dc || 03/03/2018 22:55 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Jesse Jackson Jr. seeks to unload $2M house amid unemployed wife's lifestyle
[FOXNEWS] Embattled former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr
... Former Congressman-for-Life from reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown. Reelected in 2012 without having shown his face in the halls of Congress in six months, resigned less than a month later with a nice financial package to see him on his way, followed shortly enough by indictment for corruptioon...
. is asking a judge to allow the sale of the $2 million home where his estranged wife lives, saying he can no longer afford to support her lifestyle.

Recent court filings amid their divorce case claim Jackson Jr. is forking out $5,100 a month in alimony, school fees and voluntary payments to his children while Sandra Jackson refuses to pay the mortgage.

She opposes the sale of the property, according to the court filing.

Jackson Jr., who served time in prison for misusing campaign funds, was said last year to be $1.8 million in debt, with legal costs over their divorce only adding to the burden.

He draws $125,000 in taxpayer-funded annual workers’ compensation and disability payments and lives in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Posted by: Fred || 03/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  that's raycisssst
Posted by: Frank G || 03/03/2018 5:05 Comments || Top||

#2  He draws $125,000 in taxpayer-funded annual workers’ compensation and disability payments
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/03/2018 5:12 Comments || Top||

#3  If these numbers are right, he's still broke once he sells the house. I think he'd be better off declaring Chapter 11 first and hope Sandra marries someone else, fast.
Posted by: Raj || 03/03/2018 8:53 Comments || Top||

#4  If she hasn’t been making mortgage payments, the bank will foreclose on the thing, evict her and the kids — though it may take up to a year — and sell it, not crediting them with however much equity they might have in it. This will impact her credit rating but not his, which suggests that neither of them has any brains.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2018 18:22 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Leaked: Secret Documents From Russia’s Election Trolls
[TheDailyBeast] An online auction gone awry reveals substantial new details on Kremlin-backed troll farm efforts to stir up real protests and target specific Americans to push their propaganda.

The Kremlin-backed troll farm at the center of Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election has quietly suffered a catastrophic security breach, The Daily Beast has confirmed, in a leak that spilled new details of its operations onto obscure corners of the internet.

The Russian "information exchange" Joker.Buzz, which auctions off often stolen or confidential information, advertised a leak for a large cache of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) internal documents. It includes names of Americans, activists in particular, whom the organization specifically targeted; American-based proxies used to access Reddit and the viral meme site 9Gag; and login information for troll farm accounts.

Even the advertisement for the document dump provides a trove of previously unknown information about the breadth of Russia’s disinformation effort in the United States, including rallies pushed by IRA social media accounts that turned violent.

While special counsel Robert Mueller’s recent conspiracy indictment against the IRA showed a sophisticated organization aimed at targeting U.S. voters with disinformation, the seller appears not to have understood the implications of the auction.

The listing was titled "Savushkina 55," the physical address in St. Petersburg from which the troll farm used to operate. The date on the auction is listed as Feb. 10, 2017‐seven months before Facebook and Twitter identified and pulled down Internet Research Agency accounts from Twitter. It received no bids. The seller, "AlexDA," has not posted any other listings, and was unable to be reached. In Russian, the listing promised "working data from the department focused on the United States."

While the date of the auction could not be independently confirmed, the authenticity of the leak can. The leaked documents list screen names connected to a number of American citizens who were used as unwitting proxies by the Russians. The Daily Beast was able to track down four of those citizens, whose names have not been previously revealed. The leak contains precise dates in 2016 in which the IRA-created account Blacktivist reached out to those U.S. citizens, plus a short description of the conversations. The Daily Beast spoke to those citizens, and confirmed they interacted with the Blacktivist account in the ways described by the IRA in the document. In one case, the American even provided screenshots of his interactions with the Russian troll trying to dupe him.

In short, the leaked document contains details of the Russian disinformation campaign that have not been previously made public‐details which The Daily Beast was able to confirm.

The leak shows that even as the Russian trolls were able to influence and manipulate American political discourse online, they were less equipped to keep their own secrets. While The Daily Beast does not possess anything close to a comprehensive trove of the IRA’s internal operations, it is now likely that substantial amounts of the troll farm’s files are waiting to be discovered online.

But what The Daily Beast has seen provides a new level of texture and detail to the IRA’s U.S. efforts, online and off. While the troll farm’s use of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook is now well-known, the leak shows that the Internet Research Agency also operated on Reddit and had a substantial footprint on Tumblr. They documented and tracked their personalized interactions with specific, unsuspecting Americans, some of whom are named in the leaks.

Those outreach efforts display conceptual sophistication. The leaks show that IRA imposter accounts targeted activists for specific causes the Russians wanted promoted. On the target list: the daughter of one of Martin Luther King’s lieutenants.

But the leaks also provide a glimpse into the troll farm’s weaknesses. Some of the Americans the group contacted described receiving impersonal entreaties from unfamiliar accounts, asking for trivial aid and then declining to follow up. The Internet Research Agency might have known how to leverage social media, but they knew far less about how users authentically interact with each other on it‐which itself attracted suspicion amongst the very people the Russians were contacting.
Then there are the physical visits by IRA managers and lots of details of the described efforts at the link. The eighty staffers earnt their share of the project’s monthly $1.25 million budget.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
Trump threatens ‘reciprocal taxes’ on trade partners
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
said Friday he plans to impose "reciprocal taxes" on imports to reduce the US trade deficit -- a move sure to ratchet up tensions with Washington's trading partners.

"When a country Taxes our products coming in at, say, 50%, and we Tax the same product coming into our country at ZERO, not fair or smart," Trump said on Twitter.

"We will soon be starting RECIPROCAL TAXES so that we will charge the same thing as they charge us. $800 Billion Trade Deficit-have no choice!"

The comments come one day after Trump announced he will impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum next week, which already had prompted angry reaction at home and abroad -- and threats of retaliation.

But taking the more drastic step of imposing reciprocal import tariffs on all goods and countries would eviscerate the rules-based global trading system.

In a tweet earlier on Friday, Trump said "trade wars are good, and easy to win."

Economists say such steps hurt American workers and industry including the important auto and defense sectors -- key planks in Trump’s political base.

Rising import prices also would stoke inflation and crimp economic growth.

When former president George W. Bush imposed 30 percent tariffs on steel in 2002, one study estimates it cost 200,000 American jobs. Those tariffs were rescinded 18 months later when the US lost a dispute before the World Trade Organization.

Posted by: Fred || 03/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "When a country Taxes our products coming in at, say, 50%, and we Tax the same product coming into our country at ZERO, not fair or smart," Trump said on Twitter.

I'm pretty sure he couldn't actually name a US product that is taxed at 50% or more in another country. Certainly not in the EU or Canada.

Steel definitely isn't an example. And most steel the U.S. imports comes from Canada. This means that the "national security" argument is not valid.

But it serves as a perfect excuse for other nations to claim "national security exemptions". WTO rulings be damned.

This is a SERIOUSLY BAD IDEA and if not stopped in time will see no winners.
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/03/2018 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Tariffs are historically stupid. It is better to keep this hand.
Posted by: newc || 03/03/2018 0:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Germany taxes American cars at 10%. America taxes German cars at 2.5%. In what kind of world is that fair?

China charges 17% VAT on all American goods. America has no such tax on Chinese goods. In what kind of world is that fair?

Let's charge them the same as they charge us. That's fair.
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 03/03/2018 1:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Germany almost imports no cars manufactured in the U.S. Instead it produces U.S. cars (Opel, belonged to General Motors until 2017).

Also Germany produces most of its cars it sells in the U.S. in the U.S.

Actually German car companies are the biggest exporter, by value, of cars from the U.S.
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/03/2018 2:32 Comments || Top||

#5  And your VAT example doesn't hold. China has 17% VAT on almost everything (Germany 19%).

VAT is a tax on all products, not just imports.
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/03/2018 2:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Also note that TTIP was going to eliminate all tariffs. Trump killed it.
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/03/2018 2:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Yeah of course it doesn't import cars from the US. The tariffs make the cars too expensive! LOL. That's the whole point of higher taxes for American goods.

America should put a 17% tax on all Chinese imports. That would be fair. Plus the additional tariff that China charges on top of this.

It's just that the world has become accustomed to America as a highly profitable dumping ground for its products. We put our own people out of work so we can fund the development of ungrateful nations. That's coming to a screeching halt and a lot of people are going to be very confused because 'stupid America' has been part of their lives since they were born. It's going to be a painful adjustment period for them but luckily hundreds of other countries are still around to trade with.

Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 03/03/2018 3:30 Comments || Top||

#8  It's going to be a painful adjustment period for them but luckily hundreds of other countries are still around to trade with. Posted by Harcourt Angoluting9366

..."painful for them" ....and also for US investors who put money in foreign companies (fok'n global economy) betting the betrayal of the American worker would never end. This is undoubtedly why the why the market appears to be in a bit of a downward spin, but will in time correct.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2018 3:50 Comments || Top||

#9  "Free trade" has to be bidirectional otherwise, there's nothing "free" about it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/03/2018 4:22 Comments || Top||

#10  NAFTA negotiations just started
Posted by: Frank G || 03/03/2018 4:38 Comments || Top||

#11  I'm pretty sure he couldn't actually name a US product that is taxed at 50% or more in another country. Certainly not in the EU or Canada.

AND...YOU, would be wrong. Take Harley-Davidson for example, India was taxing that product at 100%! They’ve since reduced the tax to 50%. Trump has used that situation as an example a couple of time. Turn about is fair play. Apply the same tax on all imports that the exporting nation applies to our products.
Posted by: Betty Hatfield5124 || 03/03/2018 6:23 Comments || Top||

#12  Oh, it's bidirectional all right. But it's not equal. It highly favors everyone else, while the American worker gets screwed.

Well here we are with this "madman and wild card" as president who is now setting up to rearrange the relationship with the world to America's advantage. He is doing the same with NAFTA, TPP and TTIP. He intends to make sure America becomes energy self sufficient. All this to bring jobs and wealth to America for the national benefit.

Naturally, the Europeans in particular are horrified by this. They take unequal trade with America as their birthright. It's been going on ever since after WWII. See, lots and lots of people in Europe wanted to go Communist. It was genuinely popular among not just the masses, but with intellectuals as well. Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, the list goes on and on.

In order not to "lose" Europe (i.e. let their own people decide what they want to do) the State Department decided to offer Europe a gigantic bribe to stay on "our" side. American markets are open to your goods, but you can protect your own markets all you like. And here I thought all this time Europe was our friend. Nope, the only reason they stayed on "our" side is because our government gave a truly gargantuan bribe to them with our money. America is the violent bully who doesn't have any friends and whose mother has to pay other children to play with him. But the moment Mom stops paying, the other kids immediately go back to hating the bully, which is what is happening right now.

Europe grew up doing nothing but taking, taking, taking from America. Making a mint off of screwing American workers, accepting the free security provided by NATO, and the really delicious part - all the while calling Americans deranged warmongering baby-killers whose products suck so bad nobody will buy them. So satisfying. Practically a national sport in Europe.

They aren't angry because reciprocal tariffs are unfair. They're angry because it is fair.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 03/03/2018 7:39 Comments || Top||

#13  Using the methodologies of the '30s and not the cook books methodologies of 2010s, we've been in a depression. Eight years of which there has been no Smoot-Hawley in effect. Maybe its well beyond time the 'settled' economics be reexamined rather than just tossing it out as an excuse to treat trade issues as a given.

Wonder how sovereign nations would feel if we demanded a VAT in countries that expect us to provide their military security?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/03/2018 8:59 Comments || Top||

#14  Tesla cars have more than %100 tax in China.
They say no tax if he makes them there partnered with some politically connected thug and no mechanism to take profits out of China.
India is the same. Good luck taking profit out.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/03/2018 9:58 Comments || Top||

#15  Not to mention that China is a hostile and aggressive totalitarian nation with complete disregard for the human rights of its workers. It isn't fair at all that American workers have to compete with slave labor.

And, as I've said before, we need to slap a hefty tariff on their computers too.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/03/2018 11:46 Comments || Top||

#16  Steel definitely isn't an example. And most steel the U.S. imports comes from Canada.

There was a thread about this the other day over on the Canadian blog Small Dead Animals. tl;dr version:
Steel and Aluminum from Canada and Mexico actually originates in China and is sold thru 'cutouts' to get the advantage of North American Free Trade pact.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/03/2018 11:58 Comments || Top||

#17  Getting the heat reports (we require them on every lot) should show country of origin and metallurgy
Posted by: Frank G || 03/03/2018 12:10 Comments || Top||

#18  It ain't about Europe.
Posted by: Anguper Angearong6845 || 03/03/2018 13:46 Comments || Top||

#19  Steel and aluminum from China via Mexico and Canada actually originates in Australia (and Brazil). Maybe some American company will now have the bright idea of cutting out the two stages of middlemen.
Posted by: Grunter || 03/03/2018 14:28 Comments || Top||

#20  It raises the prices for all of us to subsidize a small sector that was decimated by unions.
Do not use the Harley Davidson argument. That was one and a very short lived thing for a specific reason.

We are not at an emergency level with these industries.

We just went through this a few years ago.
Posted by: newc || 03/03/2018 15:22 Comments || Top||

#21  The EU (not Germany) charges a flat tax of 10% on imported automobiles. I wouldn't mind to see it go (and TTIP would have eliminated it), but this tax is hardly a reason why Germans don't import (and buy) cars manufactured in the U.S. Germans buy a lot of Japanese cars which are subject to the same tax.

10% not fair? Maybe, but then the U.S. charges tariffs of 25% on imported light trucks. Fair?

Sorry folks, tariffs between developed nations are stupid. They might make sense if a country blatantly subsidizes its production (China comes to mind), but even then I'd tread lightly. Competition is always the best thing to guarantee quality and the best price.

Trump says that trade wars are easy to win. No Sir, they are not. They are easy to begin (like any other war).

Steel tariffs will only have indirect effects on Europe. Trump's latest threat to impose crippling tariffs on European vehicles is an open declaration of war. A very stupid war that no side will win.

The people on both side of the Atlantic would pay for this stupidity.

I'll give you an example

Let's assume that in the U.S. you have these prices:

1) Imported BMW: 50000 US$
2) Locally produced BMW: 45000 US$
3) Locally produced Chrysler: 30 000 US$

Now let's say Trump slaps a 25% tariff on imported cars.

The imported Beamer would now cost 62500 US$

Great you say. Now Americans will buy more locally produced cars. Maybe they will.

But the local BMW or Chrysler now competes with a more expensive imported car. What will happen? They can afford to raise their prices, too. How about 5000 US$ more?

Who pays? YOU

Btw tariffs are not the sharpest sword in a trade war (as they are so visible). The finer "weapon" is regulations.

TTIP was going to harmonize them. And then we'd have had true competition based on quality/price only.

Anyway I think that most of it is just Trump grandstanding. The U.S. steel industry may love the tariffs, most others won't.

And if you give me Harley Davidson at (now) 50% in India, I give you US import tariffs at 100% on European products like

100% tariffs on:

cured ham
French truffles
lingonberry and raspberry jams
certain chocolates
unfermented fruit juice
oats
Italian mineral water

And did you know that peanut imports into the U.S. are subject to an ad valorem tax anywhere between 131.8% (for shelled peanuts) and 163.8% (for unshelled peanuts)?
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/03/2018 17:37 Comments || Top||

#22  100% tariffs on:
cured ham
French truffles
lingonberry and raspberry jams
certain chocolates
unfermented fruit juice
oats
Italian mineral water


H-D motorcycles and the agriculture products you listed are apples and oranges comparison. A 50% tax on a $20,000 motorcycle results in $30,000 motorcycle.

A 100% tax on a $20 ham...or whatever is still affordable. I personally am not a big fan of tariff's, VAT's, or other import taxes. However, I am in favor of turning the screws on these countries that engage in unfair trade practices.

You mention that TTIP would have fixed some things, ok, sure. But I looked at it and its cousin TPP, these were overall very bad for the US, and we weren't going to get one without the other. It is way past time for a major reset across the board. We, the US can weather a lot more than Europe or Asia. WE, are the MARKET.

Enjoy your Islamification, don't ask us to bail your asses out again.
Posted by: Otto White1881 || 03/03/2018 18:23 Comments || Top||

#23  H-D aren't taxed at 50% in Europe.

Btw largest economies in 2017

1) China $23.1 trillion in economic output
2) EU $19.9 trillion.

Together, China and the EU generate 33.9 percent of the world's economic output of $127 trillion.

U.S. $19.4 trillion

A trade war against the EU and China? Good luck.
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/03/2018 18:33 Comments || Top||

#24  Enjoy your Islamification, don't ask us to bail your asses out again.
Posted by: Otto White1881


Otto nails it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2018 18:37 Comments || Top||

#25  The last time I was in Europe ('86-90), the import tax on an American-built car bought by Europeans was 35% of the LIST PRICE. The import tax on a British or European luxury car in the US was 12.5%, for a regular car was 0%. One of my commanders sent a Bentley back to the US in pieces to avoid the luxury tax, since there was no tax on parts.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/03/2018 18:37 Comments || Top||

#26  European car makers were all in favor of TTIP, which would have eliminated the 10% on EU import taxes.

Go figure.
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/03/2018 18:50 Comments || Top||

#27  I think that most of it is just Trump grandstanding.

I tend to look at Trump's "outbursts" as an opening bid or a feint to get the conversation moving in a particular direction. Say what you will about his personal style, but the man has some well-honed negotiating skills.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/03/2018 18:59 Comments || Top||

#28  yep
Posted by: Frank G || 03/03/2018 19:44 Comments || Top||

#29  I tend to look at Trump's "outbursts" as an opening bid or a feint to get the conversation moving in a particular direction.

Well...in his book the art of the deal, he says that is exactly what he does.
Posted by: Otto White1881 || 03/03/2018 20:20 Comments || Top||

#30  April 2017: EU ups import tariffs on China steel (18.1 to 35.9 percent)
http://www.dw.com/en/eu-ups-import-tariffs-on-china-steel/a-38321597

The EU executive said Thursday it had set anti-dumping duties on imports of hot-rolled flat steel products from China at a higher rate than the preliminary tariffs already in place.

The European Commission explained it had set final duties of between 18.1 percent and 35.9 percent for five years for producers including Bengang Steel Plates, Handan Iron & Steel and Hesteel.

This compared with provisional rates in place of 13.2 to 22.6 percent, following a complaint by EU producers ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel and ThyssenKrupp.
Posted by: Elmish Chusolet1370 || 03/03/2018 21:10 Comments || Top||

#31  1) China $23.1 trillion in economic output
2) EU $19.9 trillion.
U.S. $19.4 trillion


Thank you for pointing out why we should be out of NATO. First World military welfare.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/03/2018 21:19 Comments || Top||

#32  Those GDP numbers are in adjusted purchasing power parity (PPP) dollars. Try paying for trade with PPP dollars. They don't exist. China's 2017 GDP is 12 trillion USD, EU GDP is 17T USD.
Posted by: Elmish Chusolet1370 || 03/03/2018 21:50 Comments || Top||

#33  State dumping policies like China's are a different matter.

German car makers just make good cars.

If you REALLY want to start a trade war, it would help to do it WITH the EU, not against it.
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/03/2018 22:04 Comments || Top||

#34  The 2017 US trade deficit with the EU was $150 billion, half of it with Germany. Not as much as with China at $375 billion, but equalizing trade with the EU would add nearly $500 billion to US GDP assuming a monetary turnover of 3 times a year in the economy.

Now factor in the total 2017 US trade deficit of $800 billion. That would add 2.4-3.2 to the US economy based on a monetary turnover of 3 and 4 or an additional 12-16.5% to GDP. That enough to re-employ the cities and countryside and eliminate the budget deficit.
Posted by: Elmish Chusolet1370 || 03/03/2018 22:22 Comments || Top||

#35  On a smaller level - a friend's son had a game that won one of the "cons" as best new game. The produced it with a kickstarter. Unfortunately they got some orders from the EU. By the time they were able to fill them and ignoring the paperwork the EU took 3 times the sales price in taxes and duties. They quickly made sales "US ONLY".
Posted by: 3dc || 03/03/2018 22:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Cash-Strapped DNC, DCCC Pay Hillary Clinton's ‘Resistance' Group Nearly $900,000 Combined for List Acquisitions
Some parasites refuse to leave their hosts
The cash-strapped Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) have combined to pay Hillary Clinton's "resistance" group nearly $900,000 for list acquisitions, Federal Election Commission filings show.

The DNC, which is in the midst of facing financial hardships, conjured up $300,000 on Jan. 8 to pay Onward Together, Clinton's group, for "list acquisition," according to the FEC filings. The payment was made to Clinton's organization as state Democratic parties were waiting on $10 million in funding for rebuilding efforts that was initially promised last July.

As of early January of this year, the money had never made its way to the parties, and the DNC did not even have $10 million on hand. In late January, after reports surfaced of its inaction in relation to the state parties, the DNC finally announced it would begin disbursing $1 million to 11 different state parties, with grants going to Arizona, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, and West Virginia.

The DCCC also paid hundreds of thousands to Clinton's "resistance" group for "generic committee list rental" between mid-December and late January.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/03/2018 09:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  WTF is "list acquisitions"?
Posted by: 3dc || 03/03/2018 9:54 Comments || Top||

#2  donors
Posted by: Frank G || 03/03/2018 10:01 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 Russians and Chinese. I wonder if Kim is in on the program in light of past Clinton deals.
Posted by: Dale || 03/03/2018 15:56 Comments || Top||


Government
U.S. Income Makes Highest Jump In Five Years
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More good news coming out of the Trump economic boom as U.S. income makes its highest jump in five years. That’s real-world dollars in the pockets of workers and families which economists believe will be yet another engine for yet more economic growth in the coming months. As of now, no mention of this positive news coming from CNN or MSNBC.
Posted by: Fred || 03/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wake up and be thankful Hillary didn't get elected Reason #many: People don't have to fiscally plan for her rapacious taxation schemes.
Posted by: magpie || 03/03/2018 1:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Higher U.S. Incomes only effect people who actually work for a living. The layabouts and politicians (who get automatic increases) are generally oblivious.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2018 4:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Higher U.S. Incomes only effect people who actually work for a living

Plus "these people" might use their increased incomes to buy more guns and bibles.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/03/2018 5:00 Comments || Top||

#4  From $0 to $10.25/hr is a big jump.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/03/2018 5:07 Comments || Top||

#5  ...I don't know Skid. Going from 54K a year in various government subsidies to 28k a year in direct income may not appeal to a good sector of the electorate, particularly those on the vote farms.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/03/2018 9:02 Comments || Top||

#6  The biggest "pay raise" I've gotten in the last five years was $30+ a month from the tax reform. For three years under Obama, the "cost of living" raises I received on my FIXED INCOME from the federal government usually disappeared in higher taxes, mostly for mediscare.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/03/2018 18:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Same here, almost to the penny.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2018 18:45 Comments || Top||



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