[Hurriyet Daily News] Consistency in political arguments has not been a virtue of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) politics.
The party’s officials and supporters have not found it difficult to change their views on various subject 180 degrees. U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... and his followers were once praised for their "contributions to humanity," but they are now public enemy number one.
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[Wash Times] Radio host Rush Limbaugh excoriated CNN’s Jake Tapper and BuzzFeed on Wednesday for a "coordinated" attack on President-elect Donald Trump.
Reporting Tuesday night on "State of the Union" that Russia may possess compromising information on Mr. Trump -- followed shortly thereafter by the release of an unverified intelligence dossier by BuzzFeed -- was no coincidence to the man behind the "golden EIB microphone." Mr. Limbaugh told listeners on Wednesday that CNN’s Jake Tapper knew what would happen, but acted anyway because "the normal techniques" for destroying Republicans "bounce off of Trump."
"There’s a coordinated effort," Mr. Limbaugh said. "CNN reports on the existence of the report but they don’t detail it. Jake Tapper, who wants to be known as one of the most highly respected journalists in the world, decides to start vomiting this stuff -- but he doesn’t get into details. That’s a signal for BuzzFeed to go ahead and release and publish all 35 pages. And BuzzFeed does so while telling everybody that none of it has been verified."
The conservative said that media outlets have been trying since before Election Day to verify the reports, but held off because "not a single shred" of evidence warranted coverage.
Mr. Tapper tried to distance CNN from any connection with BuzzFeed on Wednesday by saying BuzzFeed’s reporting was "irresponsible."
A Russian venture capitalist and tech expert whose name and company are mentioned in the now-notorious document alleging connections between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian hackers says no intelligence officers have ever contacted him about the accusations, which he says are false.
A report compiled by a former Western intelligence official as opposition research against Trump was made public Tuesday when BuzzFeed posted its 35 pages. The document included unsubstantiated claims of collusion between the Trump campaign team and the Kremlin.
It also alleged that global tech firm XBT Holding, with operations in Dallas, was instrumental in the hack of leaked Democratic Party emails that embarrassed Hillary Clinton and fellow Democrats.
XBT, owner of Dallas-based enterprise-hosting company Webzilla, is run by a successful Russian tech startup expert, Aleksej Gubarev. In a phone interview from Cyprus, where he said he’d lived since 2002, Gubarev said he was surprised to see his name in the report.
“I don’t know why I was there,” Gubarev said, adding that perhaps a competitor sought to discredit him. “I still don’t understand the true reason for this report.”
The salacious innuendoes in the periodic reports about Trump’s personal life dominated social media headlines. The mention of Webzilla and Gubarev was among the more specific allegations: that XBT and affiliates “had been using botnets and porn traffic to transmit viruses, plant bugs, steal data and conduct ‘altering operations’ against the Democratic Party leadership.”
Gubarev said he operated 75,000 servers across the globe and got real-time information if there had been hacking or illicit activity tied to his businesses. There is no evidence of that, he said, adding that no one has contacted him.
“I have a physical office in Dallas. Nobody contacted me,” said Gubarev, adding that 40 percent of his business is handled over the servers it runs in Dallas and the United States accounts for about 27 percent of his global business.
[PJ] Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called President elect Donald Trump tonight to discuss the many intelligence leaks to the liberal media over the past week.
Clapper also discussed the disgusting and fraudulent "golden shower" conspiracy being pushed by CNN, Buzzfeed and several liberal media outlets. Clapper statement at the link
Is Clapper REALLY dismayed by the many intelligence leaks by liberal hacks in the intelligence community. Clapper needs to step down. The intelligence community is OUT OF CONTROL! If he can’t control the leakers he needs to let someone else lead who can.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper tells Trump that the CNN-Buzzfeed report was garbage! pic.twitter.com/owtXzOXBMv
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I'm not keen on blaming Clapper. Responsibility rests with the fellow we're not hearing from and his homesteading colleagues at Main. Does anyone actually believe Christopher Steele and his Orbis Business Intelligence LTD firm acted unilaterally ?
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I believe Clapper was one of the ones who gave Trump intel briefings, one of the ones who may have possibly passed on intel briefing news to the media. I bet he was dismayed that his people were tricked so easily by Trump.
I mean even if Trump made that bit up he pulled one over on them.
[Breitbart] New York (AFP) ‐ President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked the pharmaceutical industry for high drug prices and for manufacturing overseas, saying he will create new procedures for bidding on drugs.
The industry is "getting away with murder," Trump said in his first press conference since he was elected, sending pharma stocks plunging.
"Pharma. Pharma has a lot of lobbies, a lot of lobbyists, a lot of power," he said, making the industry the latest target of his frequent attacks on business since the November election which have included the auto and aerospace industries.
Trump said pharmaceutical companies will be coming back to the United States from overseas.
"Our drug industry has been disastrous. They’re leaving left and right. They supply our drugs but they don’t make them here, to a large extent," Trump said.
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I am a big fan of free-market capitalism, but there are areas that need gov't. regulations are necessary for safety reasons.
Unfortunately that opens the door to the rapacious rent-seekers of the politco-pharaceutical world. Hope Trump follows through and can cut this Gordian knot.
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I agree some things need to be regulated. For example there should be some *limited* regulation of drugs and medical equipment. This is to keep the snake-oil salesmen at bay and keep unsuspecting patients from being injured or killed by badly designed or tested equipment. But note I said 'limited' - some of the food regulations are simply enforced marketing.
As for Pharma....
The way I read it it works like this.
Pharma give the consumer 'payment vouchers' for their product - to cover most of the portion of the deductable that Obamacare won't cover.
In the meantime they jack up their prices 10x and charge it to Obamacare. Epipen is just the tip of the Iceberg. The consumer, with the voucher, never really sees the real price and the plan either has to pay whatever is charged or gets re-reimbursed from the government and doesn't really care.
I never, ever thought I'd be agreeing with Glenn Greenwald. Yet here I am. I feel faint, I'd best go lie down...
You poor dear -- I'll be along with some chamomile tea directly. Ponder the stopped clock as we all hope it's only this once.
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I never, ever thought I'd be agreeing with Glenn Greenwald.
You still don't have to. This article is trying to sell a false idea that Obama appointed IC supervisors' opposition to Trump is based on their principled opposition to Russia. Ask yourself: if Trump was a russophobe like McCain - would they support him?
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Ask yourself: if Trump was a russophobe like McCain - would they support him?
Depends. Part of it is the "mentality of the priesthood"; thou shall not question the Pharisees. That's a lot more intractable than what you've alluded to - the politics of the IC individual leadership and ranks.
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There is something to what you say because one of their faith's major tenets is "we are the smartest". However, I believe that it's not so much stupidity as a certain mental outlook - are you familiar with Campbell's TRIBESMAN, BARBARIAN, AND CITIZEN?
[DAWN] CHAUDHRY Nisar Ali Khan’s remarks in the Senate on Tuesday about sectarianism in Pakistain beggar belief. Not only are they out of touch with reality, they are deeply offensive, and -- given he is interior minister of a country involved in a battle against violent religious extremism -- cause for extreme concern. Responding to the senators’ objections about his meeting last October with the head of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... , Ahmed Ludhianvi, who had arrived as part of a Difa-e-Pakistain Council delegation, Chaudhry Nisar said that banned sectarian organizations could not be equated with banned terrorist groups. The Shia-Sunni conflict, he added, went back 1,300 years. His words outraged members of the Senate, triggering a walkout by the opposition.
First, some basic facts. The ASWJ is a sectarian organization that has been banned earlier, initially when it was called Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Breitbart] New York (AFP) ‐ President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked the pharmaceutical industry for high drug prices and for manufacturing overseas, saying he will create new procedures for bidding on drugs.
