[Ted] Peter van Uhm is the Netherlands' chief of defense, but that does not mean he is pro-war. In this talk, he explains how his career is one shaped by a love of peace, not a desire for bloodshed -- and why we need armies if we want peace.
[Daily Caller] Carlson mocked critics in a sarcastic voice saying, "Wiretapping? Come on. That’s tin foil hat stuff, it’s nuts!"
The Daily Caller co-founder continued, "Now, in another time with more trustworthy institutions that would have been the end of the story. But we live in a country with deeply corrupt institutions..."
Carlson recapped recent reports, stating, "According to a now report from CNN, Paul Manafort who for a time last year was Trump’s campaign chairman was wiretapped by the federal government both before and after the election."
"Manafort, it ought to be noted, had an apartment inside Trump Tower during that time so it’s virtually certain that surveillance of him would have included other members of the Trump campaign staff, maybe Trump himself," he said.
Carlson is referring to a recent report from CNN that shows that Manafort was wiretapped before the election by the federal government.
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGainn, Rogue Spooks, Page 151-152
But the NSA intercepts were not permitted to identify that Michael Flynn was the American speaking with Kislyak [Russian Ambassador to the U.S.]. Becaue Flynn is an American citizen, FISA rules did not permit him to be identified in the phone intercepts. He is listed as "Citizen One" or some such description, and the actual name is redacted.
So Susan Rice, Obama's national security adviser, asked the NSA to "unmask" Flynn's name so it could be proven that it was he who had the conversation with the Russians. Somehow, someone, whose identity has yet to be published, leaked the fact that it was Flynn who had spoken to the Russians.
Rice didn't mindlink the fact of Flynn had discussions with Kislyak, she was tipped off to Flynn's identity through someone in the intelligence community. He was targeted! Targeted not unlike Paul Manafort and possibly many others.
At lease one likely reason for the Flynn targeting can be found on page 147 of the Morris' book. Flynn was seen as someone who could "blow up the myth" of the Iran deal as being a great Soetoro achievement.
One should keep in mind that those hundred of millions of dollars in USD and Swiss francs, palletized, placed upon 'unmarked' aircraft and sent to Iran in the middle of the night were NOT appropriated by the Congress. Someone else was involved in their authorization and transfer. Mike
Flynn was undoubtedly knowledgeable of this bit of intelligence community mischief, and probably substantially more. He had to be discredited and silenced.
[Reuters] NEW YORK - Uncertainty about how the United States will cope with growing tumult in the world has not dampened Warren Buffett’s optimism for the country’s prospects over the long term -- even 100 years into the future.
"Whenever I hear people talk pessimistically about this country, I think they’re out of their mind," Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N), said on Tuesday night.
Buffett spoke in New York at an event celebrating the 100th anniversary of Forbes magazine, and is on the cover of an issue featuring 100 of the world’s greatest living "business minds."
The billionaire has transformed Berkshire since 1965 from a failing textile company into a conglomerate with more than 90 businesses in such sectors as insurance, railroads, energy and retail, and well over $100 billion of stocks.
Buffett said he expects the Dow Jones Industrial Average to be "over 1 million" in 100 years, up from Tuesday’s close of 22,370.80. He said that’s not unreasonable, given how the index was roughly 81 a century ago.
But he knows he won’t be around to see it happen.
"When I hear talking about making it to 100, I get excited," he said. "I’m 87."
Buffett said he recently determined that of the 53,364 people in the United States who were at least 100 years old, the ratio of women to men was nearly 5-to-1.
[FOX] Jeff Sessions should never have accepted the position of Attorney General of the United States. His leadership has proven unproductive and ineffectual.
There are two reasons for this.
First, he deceived President Trump by concealing his intent to recuse himself from the federal investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. Hours after he was sworn in, Sessions began setting his recusal in motion by meeting with Department of Justice officials to discuss stepping aside from the probe. Failing to disclose such a material matter to the president was an egregious betrayal.
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If they keep acting up, put this corruption down. It is all self evident.
If Hillary wants to treat this Nation like her whore, Put THAT Bitch in Prison.
Grandma has outlived making all her kids out as excuses and she does not even make good Children.
Maybe not the deep state but at least the Clinton state.
Tentacles?
Fish and Scales, not bottom dwellers.
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.
