[NEWSWEEK] President Donald J. Trump loves a good conspiracy theory. He spent much of Barack Obama’s eight years in office suggesting that the president had been born outside the United States. That claim, with its obvious racial overtones, raised Trump’s profile with the nativist wing of the Republican Party, giving him the necessary credibility to launch a presidential campaign in 2015.
During the Republican presidential primary, he suggested that the father of Senator Ted R. Cruz, the Republican from Texas, was somehow involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Later yet, after his Republican foes had been vanquished, he charged that his general election opponent, Hillary Clinton, "meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors."
The statement suggested a fickle affinity for conspiracy theories that would be difficult for a 71-year-old to temper, even if his newfound political power may have called for a more restrained approach to unsubstantiated innuendo. Trump has carried the conspiratorial mind-set into the Oval Office, tweeting about illegal Obama wiretaps of Trump Tower and worrying about Deep State coups against his administration.
Yes, yes, yes of course Newsweek columnists, Trump is absolutely insane.
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During the Republican presidential primary, he suggested that the father of Senator Ted R. Cruz, the Republican from Texas, was somehow involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
We'll find out in the next couple of days, won't we?
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"'Smash them! Beat them! Bite them! Gnash them! Take them away to the dark holes full of snakes and never speak of your Dwarf Privilege again!'"
-The Hobbit, Chapter 4
[Newsweek] The Obama administration and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have risen to the center of controversy over a 2010 nuclear deal that handed Russia control of 20 percent of the U.S.’s uranium supply. The Uranium One deal has been referred to as a Russian nuclear bribery scheme and similar names since government documents surfaced last week showing the FBI had substantial evidence of racketeering by Russian officials before the Obama administration approved the deal.
[Townhall] New questions were raised this week about the Mandalay Bay security guard in the Las Vegas massacre. Fox News’s Tucker Carlson reported Wednesday that guard Jesus Campos left the country just days after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
According to documents Fox News obtained from Customs and Border Patrol, Campos returned to the U.S. from Mexico one week after the attack on concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. The documents do not reveal when he left, or how long he stayed, only that he entered at the San Ysidro border crossing in California.
The 25-year-old guard entered the U.S. from the same entry point in January. During that trip he drove his own vehicle, this time he rented a car, accorded to Fox News’s sources.
The new information raises even more questions about Stephen Paddock’s Oct. 1 massacre ‐ such as why authorities would allow Campos to leave the country in the middle of their investigation or how the security guard managed to make it down to Mexico with a gunshot wound to his leg.
Campos reportedly took a bullet from gunman Stephen Paddock at the start of his killing spree.
The union that represents him told Fox that they were aware of his trip to Mexico and claimed it was pre-planned visit. What’s unclear, though, why the group didn’t report his whereabouts in the days following the massacre. (NY Post)
Another odd detail about Campos is that he not a registered security guard with Nevada’s Private Investigator’s Licensing Board‐and when Fox pressed the Clark County Sheriff’s Office for answers about what requirements are needed to be a guard at the casino, an agent "refused to tell [the producer] what is needed" and said they don’t talk about victims. The agent then hung up.
"This story gets murkier by the day, and that is the opposite of what is supposed to happen," Carlson said. "It's obvious there is lying and incompetence at the heart of it."
See, that's the thing about boomerangs...they come back at ya
Veteran journalist Mark Halperin sexually harassed women while he was in a powerful position at ABC News, according to five women who shared their previously undisclosed accounts with CNN and others who did not experience the alleged harassment personally, but were aware of it.
"During this period, I did pursue relationships with women that I worked with, including some junior to me," Halperin said in a statement to CNN Wednesday night. "I now understand from these accounts that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. For that, I am deeply sorry and I apologize. Under the circumstances, I'm going to take a step back from my day-to-day work while I properly deal with this situation."
Widely considered to be one of the preeminent political journalists, Halperin, 52, has, among other career highlights, been political director at ABC News; co-authored the bestselling book "Game Change," which was made into an HBO movie starring Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin; and anchored a television show on Bloomberg TV. "He currently serves as an analyst for NBC News, making frequent appearances on MSNBC's "Morning Joe", and is featured in Showtime's "The Circus," a show that chronicled the 2016 campaign cycle and the early days of the Trump presidency, and has a project in development with HBO, which, like CNN, is owned by Time Warner.
But women who spoke to CNN say he also had a dark side not made public until now. The stories of harassment shared with CNN range in nature from propositioning employees for sex to kissing and grabbing one's breasts against her will. Three of the women who spoke to CNN described Halperin as, without consent, pressing an erection against their bodies while he was clothed. Halperin denies grabbing a woman's breasts and pressing his genitals against the three women.
The women who worked with Halperin and who spoke with CNN did not report to Halperin. However, Halperin made many decisions about political coverage at ABC News, and had a voice in some critical personnel decisions. None of the women have said, though, that he ever promised anything in exchange for sex, or suggested that he would retaliate against anyone.
Still, while they no longer work with him, Halperin continues to wield influence in politics and media.
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"I'm going to take a step back from my day-to-day work while I properly deal with this situation by letting it die down - the menory hole"
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...The circular firing squad has begun....
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Sex scandals play to a particular weakness of media types. They just can't resist digging for all the sordid details. Like sharks in a feeding frenzy they'll forget who they're biting. They can't help it because...well, because they're sharks.
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...pressing an erection against their bodies while he was clothed.
[NYPOST] A man splashed an unknown liquid in a girl’s face and called her a "white b‐ch" as she was getting off a school bus in Queens, officials said.
The 13-year-old had just stepped off the bus near the corner of Lefferts Boulevard and 101st Avenue in Richmond Hill when the man accosted her around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said.
"This is for you, white b‐ch," he shouted before throwing the substance in her face.
The attacker then fled north toward 97th Avenue, but not before the victim managed to snap a photo of him with her cellphone.
The child was taken to Jamaica Hospital for eye irritation. Police said she was not seriously injured and they are still working to figure out what the substance was.
The suspect is approximately 30 years old, bald and was wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt with a red shirt underneath, police said.
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But as we all know, this is not a racist or hate act because whites have all the power.
[LAWNEWZ] Another woman said Tuesday that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her. Mimi Haleyi, represented by attorney Gloria Allred, said he lured her to a SoHo loft in 2006, where he backed her into what seemed to be a children’s bedroom, and forcibly performed oral sex on her. She was having her period at the time and he pulled out her tampon during the sexual assault, she said.
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Attorney Gloria Allred is involved in this? Why does that always diminish my notions about any legal actions and legal case when she is involved?
OK, we get the message that Weinstein is a sleaze that for years used his power as gatekeeper to movie careers to take advantage of people. But this is starting to look like attention-whoring and piling on. Expect even more lurid tales in the coming (heh) weeks since just being groped is no longer front page news.
[BBC] Fats Domino, one of the most influential rock and roll performers of the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 89.
The American rock and roll artist was best known for his songs Ain't That A Shame and Blueberry Hill. ... and for playing in a beer joint in a Clint Eastwood monkey movie...
The New Orleans singer sold more than 65 million records, outselling every 1950s rock and roll act except Elvis Presley.
His million-selling debut single, The Fat Man, is credited by some as the first ever rock and roll record.
An official from New Orleans coroner's office confirmed the death, which was earlier announced by Domino's daughter to a local television station.
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Now it has to compete with Fox News talking about the unbelievably corrupt democrat leadership, FBI, Uranium One, and other things that make me hard.
Nothing will come against the Rock I tell you. And it has been a long time coming.
Hollywood pedophiles are next and then, the rest of the left including Soros, building contracts, rent scams, and a whole sack full of Christmass Presents for the poor Pheasants in America who have been dissed by these worthless pond scum for the past 50 years.
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Hey NFL players, BLM, Liberals and all you others that deny your actions have consequences... The light is only just beginning to shine on you and your misdeeds.
Keep kneeling - its time to come to Jesus. Its going to get worse for you.
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Here's the thing. Apparently tonight's game is the Cravens vs. Daphnes. I say apparently, because the spot sauntered past me on the program guide. Before I have been, what the hell, see who wins, enjoy a game when I don't have a dog in the fight, amiright Vick?
I have given myself the choice, and I choose instead Ash vs. Evil Dead.
And football, not as fast as everyone says. Still takes three hours, same as baseball, but without all the commercial blocks and referee dissertations.
Want fast, hockey is on. They actually throw players into the penalty box for trying to play the referees. Fuckayoo soccer boy, in the box!
[Tom's Hardware] As the U.S. Congress is now battling over three bills (a House version and two Senate versions) that aim to re-authorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 mass surveillance programs, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked an appeals court to declare Section 702 surveillance unconstitutional.
[Al Jazeera] A 90-day ban on a popular Swahili daily in Tanzania - the fourth newspaper to be shut down since June - has prompted concern over press freedom in the East African country.
Journalists and activists urged President John Magufuli on Wednesday to overturn the ban on the Tanzania Daima newspaper, and accused him of undermining the country's democracy by muzzling the media.
The call came a day after the opposition-leaning paper, which has a daily circulation of 30,000, was shut down for three-months. Authorities accused it of continuously spreading "false information" after it published an incorrect claim about the number of Tanzanians taking anti-retroviral drugs used to treat HIV.
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[FOXNEWS] Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... , the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , was suddenly evacuated Wednesday from a U.N. camp in South Sudan after violence and looting broke out during a political demonstration. Cheeze. Almost as hairy as when Hillarity was under sniper fire at Tuzla.
Haley, who’s in the middle of a three-country visit in Africa, left the camp as several hundred protesters opposing President Salva Kiir approached, a spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the U.N. told Fox News. The protesters "became upset that [Haley] was not able to meet with them, due to time constraint," the U.N. told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Shortly after Haley left the camp, which is meant for homeless and displaced residents, U.N. security guards fired tear gas into the crowd of more than 100 people who looted and destroyed a charity office operating there, an aid worker at the camp said.
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the crowd of more than 100 people who looted and destroyed a charity office operating there
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This year I met a couple of UN workers on leave. They had worked in camps like this. One seemed to exhibit PTSD when talking about some of his experiences.
[IsraelTimes] Russian firm acknowledges its software picked up source code but says it was destroyed and never shown to anyone
The Russian company Kaspersky Lab confirmed that it had taken source code for a secret American hacking tool via its antivirus software.
The company’s internal investigation came after Israeli intelligence discovered that Russian hackers were using the antivirus software to steal classified information from the United States.
Kaspersky’s anti-virus program is used by 400 million people worldwide, including officials at about two dozen American government agencies.
Source code for a secret American hacking tool was stolen from a National Security Agency employee who had improperly stored it on his home computer, which used Kaspersky antivirus software.
The company said it discovered the code in 2014 in a ZIP file that its software flagged as malicious. Kaspersky said it destroyed its only copy and that no third parties saw the code, though other reports dispute the claim.
According to Kaspersky, it found no evidence that the company had been hacked by the Russians or anyone else except Israel, though it suggested others could have hacked into the American official’s computer through a back door it identified.
The hack was discovered by the company a year later and publicly reported, though it did not name Israel as the culprit. Kaspersky’s report did state, however, that the program was similar to the Duqu virus, which allows the hacker to eavesdrop on conversations and steal electronic files.
Duqu was attributed to the inventors of Stuxnet, the computer worm that set back Iran’s nuclear program by several months or years by affecting some of its computer systems and centrifuges used to enrich uranium after it was released in 2010. Stuxnet was reported to be a joint project of Israel and the United States.
[PRESSTV] A high-ranking North Korean official has warned that Pyongyang’s threats of testing a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean should be taken "literally."
During a Wednesday interview with CNN, the North Korean Foreign Ministry official, Ri Yong-pil, stressed that his country "has always brought its words into action."
While addressing the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... General Assembly last month, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho announced that the North may test a powerful hydrogen bomb in the near future.
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A San Diego-based destroyer aided three Iranian civilian mariners who reported being attacked by pirates off Yemen, the Navy said Wednesday.
A boarding team from the USS Howard provided medical aid, food and water to the fishermen and helped make repairs to their boat on Monday, according to the Navy.
The pirate attack was reported by the Iranian coast guard in a call to the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, which sent a patrol aircraft to the area.
The Howard responded to the scene along with the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force destroyer JS Amagiri.
Despite rising tensions with Iran and its revolutionary guards, rescues by the U.S. Navy of Iranian civilian mariners having some sort of trouble aren't uncommon.
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The Iranian government issued a formal 'thank you', of course. Didn't they?
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[FoxNews] Oakland A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell, 26, claimed this week that a waiter in his Alabama hometown of Huntsville refused him service after identifying him as the MLB player who took the knee during "The Star Spangled Banner" last month ‐ only the waiter has a very different version of events, and told Fox News that was far from what went down.
"He is outright lying. This is really upsetting as he was given full service, I didn’t even know who Bruce Maxwell was," Matt Henry, a 42-year-old waiter at Keegan’s Public House, told Fox News. "This all started because I carded his friend who wanted to order a beer."
According to Henry, an Alabama native, Maxwell was dining with local Democratic councilman Devyn Keith and another friend who produced an expired ID, and the server refused to serve him a drink ‐ which upset the friend, who followed him into the kitchen.
"He asked me, don’t you know who Bruce Maxwell is, and told me I was making everyone feel uncomfortable. Nobody was even paying attention to them," Henry claimed. "I didn’t know anything about him or the kneeling. All I know is a friend of mine 15 years ago lost his job for serving someone a drink who happened to be underage, so if anyone looks under 30, I’m going to card them."
The waiter said that the councilman then complained to the restaurant’s manager about Maxwell being uncomfortable, and the manager simply swapped me to another table, and that it was "no big deal."
The restaurant manager on duty that day, Anne Whalen ‐ who requested the restaurant name not be used without permission from the owner ‐ also told Fox News that Maxwell’s story being portrayed in the media could not be further from the truth.
"Matt came to me and told me that a guy wanted a beer but his ID was not valid and told him he absolutely could not give it to him, we can go to jail for that in the state of Alabama. It was his friend causing all the fuss, none of us even knew who this baseball player was. I told him I had no idea who he was going on about," Whalen said. "Eventually Matt just asked if we could put another server on the table so I did. ... I can’t believe the story."
Whalen said that of the three men, Maxwell was the only one who produced a valid ID and thus was the only one they served a beer to.
However, Maxwell told TMZ Sports this week ‐ and headlines since have spanned the globe ‐ that the waiter said to him, "You’re the guy who took the knee?" After confirming he was, Maxwell alleged that the waiter then responded, "I voted for Trump, and I stand for everything he stands for," and then refused to serve him.
This allegedly prompted the councilman, who is a high school friend and is African-American, to approach the restaurant’s manager who then mitigated the situation by putting another waiter on their table.
"We didn’t even discuss Trump. I was working two jobs, I don’t have time for rallies," Henry continued. "If this all happened a month ago, why suddenly now is he claiming all this now?"
The pro-baseball rookie also claimed to TMZ that he was racially profiled by the server, of which Henry vehemently denies.
"It’s really easy for people to point a finger at Alabama, and that’s what has upset me about this fabrication the most," Henry noted. "This is one of the best places to live in America, if not the planet. Hearing this was a slap in the face."
Henry also noted that Maxwell was very polite during the meal, never raising any eyebrows. Whalen said that the men happily paid their bill without objection and left after their meal.
Maxwell became the first and only MLB player to kneel during the national anthem at a game against the Texas Rangers on September 23. He is also the son of a U.S. Army veteran and previously stated that the point of his kneeling was not to disrespect the military, but to draw attention to the "racial divide that is being practiced from the highest power."
"Unless you’re subjected to it, you won’t feel it," Maxwell also told TMZ. "I’m very respectful, I’m very educated. And it still happens to this day. And so ... that’s the reason I kneel."
Henry told Fox News that he started at the local restaurant a couple of months ago, but left two weeks ago only because of health issues from working two jobs and now is working only one.
A spokesperson for the Oakland A’s told Fox News that the club has no comment, and that Maxwell stands by his story and is not doing further interviews at this time.
A representative for Keith did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Keith previously told the Washington Post that the whole incident was "an embarrassment."
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Maybe everyone needs to start wearing body cams. You never know when you'll need the evidence.
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More Fake Hate - don't start your day without it!
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Another wanna-be who is soon to be released, and can get with his outa work NFL loser mentor to start some sort of pro athelete wank fest.
They could even rewrite the National anthem; just think of the possibilities with the new line in the lyrics: " From knee to whining knee..."
Still, it's pretty dumb to deny a drink to someone who produces an expired ID. There is no requirement that the ID be valid (i.e. unexpired) unless produced for the specific purpose of the ID (i.e. travel for a passport, operating a motor vehicle for a driver's license). For a bar, the point of the ID is to provide proof of age.
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ZF is correct. I just looked up MA law (MGL Ch. 138. Sec 34B) - there's no 'expired license' exception for taking a MA license as a valid ID to purchase booze.
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That's who I want in a teammate...someone who will blatantly lie to promote himself at the expense of and without regard to the target. Yup, he's got my back by Jim.
So about the friend. Get a DUI and have an old license laying around?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Is Paddock's computer hard drive now in Mexico ? 
[NYPOST] A man splashed an unknown liquid in a girl’s face and called her a "white b‐ch" as she was getting off a school bus in Queens, officials said.
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
North Korea
