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Besieged IS mufti blows himself up in northern Baghdad
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Shock Claim From Inside DNC: Seth Rich Leaked Emails To Moscow Lawyer One Month Before His Murder
[ZEROHEDGE] With the 'Russian hacking' conspiracy theory hanging by a gossamer thread, a new claim from a prominent Seth Rich investigator casts further doubt that the DNC servers were breached by a foreign actor - yet maintains the charge of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election: Seth Rich leaked the DNC emails to the same Moscow attorney who met with Trump Jr. in June 2016.

According to Radar Online, an anonymous staffer currently employed by the DNC contacted prominent attorney, GOP lobbyist, and Seth Rich investigator Jack Burkman with the claim that Rich met with Natalia Veselnitskaya one month before his murder - giving her a cache of DNC emails later released by WikiLeaks.

Of note, Veselnitskaya - who doesn't speak English, would have needed an interpreter to meet with Rich unless he spoke Russian.

Jack Burkman represents the family of Seth Rich, and has been pushing the Seth Rich - Russia connection for months, calling for an investigation into links to the murder. In January, he told Infowars Rich was murdered by Russia after uncovering evidence that they hacked the DNC.
I'm confused. Why would Russia assassinate him after he'd given them something so useful of his own free will?
In addition to creating the website www.whokilledseth.com, Burkman is staging a reenactment of Rich's murder next Tuesday.
Posted by: Fred || 07/31/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seth Rich was murdered July 10, 2016. Per this article Natalia Veselnitskaya met with him one month prior to his murder which would place this around June 10, 2016.

Natalia Veselnitskaya met with the Trump campaign to say she had info on the Hillary campaign June 9, 2016.

I'm confused. Why would Russia assassinate him after he'd given them something so useful of his own free will?

Because he was an unstable spy who was compromised by Natalia Veselnitskaya, had second thoughts and stopped cooperating, went drinking that night to get drunk over the mess and was being followed by Russian agents based in DC?

Wild guesses but great conspiracy stuff.
Posted by: Otto Cromoger3549 || 07/31/2017 1:41 Comments || Top||

#2  The typical B.S. from zerohedge. This is meant to confuse the issue and get the heat of the Seth Rich investigation. "TEH ROOSHINS" is a distracting tactic, distrust whoever says it.
Posted by: Crinetle Glusosh3466 || 07/31/2017 3:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Sent from a Pakastan server in Qatar next to the United Staes Base who knew and know nothing about anything!
Posted by: Crinegum Ulaigum2776 || 07/31/2017 5:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Disinformation campaign to cover the real story of what happened to Seth Rich. If you bury the truth deep in silly lies, eventually it all is dismissed as silly. The DNC and the Hildabeest seem to be at the core of so much, yet the MSM and Trump himself cannot get out of the Russia meme.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/31/2017 10:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Need the Morton Salt girl with her umbrella.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/31/2017 12:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Seth Rich is an interesting story but now I'm also intrigued by the possibility that Imran Awan got hold of the DNC email via Debbie Downer's laptop. Well, the Dems were so damn careless there's no telling how that server was compromised.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/31/2017 12:41 Comments || Top||

#7  If KGB is so potent, how the hell Sov U has collapsed?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/31/2017 12:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Imran Awan at bar with Seth Rich the day he was killed



Posted by: 3dc || 07/31/2017 13:18 Comments || Top||


#10  News-For-Hire Scandal Deepens: ‘Fusion GPS’ Sleazy Venezuela Links Shed New Light on Trump Dossier

No, the point of the Kremlin’s assault on the American election of 2016 was to defame both candidates, and sow chaos, and thereby to discredit the American system of government, which rests on the consent of the governed. By any measure you care to use, the Kremlin has succeeded, and Fusion GPS was one of its most useful instruments.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/31/2017 13:23 Comments || Top||

#11  More likely to be real enemy Pakistan than Russia!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/31/2017 14:24 Comments || Top||

#12  I've been wondering if there was an Awan Seth Rich connection as they would likely have crossed paths.

Maybe, Rich had found out what Aman was up to and told him that night he was going to the FBI.

More plausible than some shadowy hitman.
Posted by: phil_b || 07/31/2017 17:00 Comments || Top||

#13  #8 What is in Imran's sniffer?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/31/2017 17:04 Comments || Top||

#14  What is in Imran's sniffer?

Can't say specifically but it certainly looks like something unIslamic.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/31/2017 18:49 Comments || Top||

#15  Seth Rich would have been on of the few tech savvy people around the Amans.

From wikipedia,

In 2014 he began working for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) as the Voter Expansion Data Director. One of his tasks at the DNC was the development of a computer application to help voters locate polling stations.
Posted by: phil_b || 07/31/2017 18:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/31/2017 17:03 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, politics has certainly become more interesting this past few months.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 07/31/2017 17:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Wondered how long he would last.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/31/2017 17:18 Comments || Top||

#3  LOL
Posted by: newc || 07/31/2017 17:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Easy come. Easy go.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/31/2017 18:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Seriously, he called Ryan Lizza? That's firing offense right there
Posted by: Frank G || 07/31/2017 20:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Good enough to be a comedy skit on stage at Caesars, 'Buffoon hires Mafiosa'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/31/2017 23:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Little different than Obama's Ebola Czar, I suppose.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/31/2017 23:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Guess he couldn't do the fandango after all.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/31/2017 23:57 Comments || Top||


Pelosi: I'll Never Resign
[DAILYWIRE] House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
has had a long run. At 77 -- and a multi-millionaire -- the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democrat could ride off into the sunset.

But the former Speaker of the House said Sunday she's not going anywhere.

"Self-promotion is a terrible thing, but somebody has to do it," Pelosi said on Fox News Sunday. "I am a master politician. I know the budget to the nth degree."

There have been rumblings that Democrats want to replace its aging leadership before the 2018 mid-term elections. Right now, there is no leader of the party, with Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook...
gone and Sen. Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
-- even older than Pelosi -- on the sidelines.

There have been a few coup attempts, but none that reached critical mass. Still, things have gotten worse for Democrats who have lost all four special elections this year and are struggling to find a message that resonates with working-class Americans.

Posted by: Fred || 07/31/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That is fine by me. I have other plans for you.
Posted by: newc || 07/31/2017 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  This isn't exactly a news flash, for any of them.
Posted by: Raj || 07/31/2017 0:21 Comments || Top||

#3  You'll die in place?
Ok. How's tomorrow look for you?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/31/2017 1:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Ah, it's not a tenured position, Nancy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/31/2017 3:59 Comments || Top||

#5  ...Absolutely, Madame Congressperson - PLEASE stay. Please remain the face of Democratic leadership as long as your arrogance and ego will allow. Please allow the anger in your party to build up to the point where they're fighting each other instead of us.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/31/2017 5:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Term Limits was the 90s Obamacare Repeal and the GOPe your Lucy Van Pelt.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/31/2017 5:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Fear the walking dead!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/31/2017 5:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Since when do the Democrats give a shit about the working class? They're all about the Obama Coalition, women and minorities. The white working class can go fuck itself as far as the Dems are concerned.
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 07/31/2017 6:17 Comments || Top||

#9  DEMOCRATS RULE and ARE THE MAJORITY RULE Congress in both the Senate and the House.

Even though they are a minority by number, they are a UNIFIED minority. Not one of them ever votes out of line.

Republicans on the other hand have enough RINO's voting like Democrats the TRUE MINORITY is the Republicans.

Even though Republicans now win more elections these Democratic Leaders ALWAYS find a way to hold power in DC.
Posted by: Elmeatle Spoter5404 || 07/31/2017 7:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Well the dead vote in the DNC - early and often - why not have them hold office too?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/31/2017 8:00 Comments || Top||

#11  I'm all for keeping her the face of the party. She keeps demoncrats out of legislatures like no one else.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/31/2017 11:51 Comments || Top||

#12  If she has another face lift, she'll need to begin shaving
Posted by: Beavis || 07/31/2017 12:05 Comments || Top||

#13  She's from the Strom Thurmond, Robert Byrd, John McCain school of thought which holds that it's more of an honor to die in harness than it is a disgrace to keep going long after they are incapacitated.

But, please Nancy, continue on as Minority Leader as long as your fellow Dumbocrats are dumb enough to keep you.

BTW, how are those new meds working?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/31/2017 13:01 Comments || Top||

#14  Weekend at Bernie's Pelosi's. What is her staff going to do when she passes the mortal realm? The incoming replacement won't need them as he/she/it will be the most junior of the critters. All that power and (real) privilege gone. You think they'll be welcomed in to other offices that they've treated like serfs for over a decade?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/31/2017 13:18 Comments || Top||

#15  Cult of personality, or lack thereof.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/31/2017 19:11 Comments || Top||

#16  Well, there's always glioblastoma.
Posted by: Thravimp Lover of the Antelope7006 || 07/31/2017 20:06 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2017-07-31
  Besieged IS mufti blows himself up in northern Baghdad
Sun 2017-07-30
  Four arrested in plot to bomb plane over Sydney
Sat 2017-07-29
  IS cuts ears of 23 elements who fled battles in Western Nineveh
Fri 2017-07-28
  Pakistan's prime minister removed amid corruption probe
Thu 2017-07-27
  Deadly truck bombing foiled in Kabul city
Wed 2017-07-26
  Wasserman Schultz’s IT Aide Arrested At Airport After Transferring $300k To Pakistan From House Office
Tue 2017-07-25
  Governor dismissed over AQAP ties
Mon 2017-07-24
  Suicide car bombing kills 24, wounds 42 in Afghan capital
Sun 2017-07-23
  Azhar opens fatwa kiosks in Cairo metro station to counter extremism
Sat 2017-07-22
  Rebel ambush kills 28 pro-govt fighters near Damascus
Fri 2017-07-21
  Ruthless Henchman® of top Abu Sayyaf leader falls
Thu 2017-07-20
  ISIS militants refuse to surrender in Marawi as Philippine Army unleashes final assault
Wed 2017-07-19
  Kenyan police foil Al-Shabaab attack in Lamu
Tue 2017-07-18
  Deadly blast hits mosque in Nigeria's Maiduguri
Mon 2017-07-17
  Leader Of ISIS In Afghanistan Killed By US Forces 3 Months After Assuming Command


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