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Fusion GPS has accused the Russian businessmen of illegal activities with Putin to meddle in our 2016 election. The Russian businessmen said we don't know anything about this and had nothing to do with it. We don't know about Steele, the Dossier or any of that stuff that has come out and we can prove it. They decided to fight this in court and claim by bringing a libel suit against Fusion GPS. The Russian business (plaintiffs) case has survived motions to dismiss by Fusion GPS.
The wheels of justice, at times, are exceedingly slow; like watching trees grow.
[The Federalist] A witness in the ongoing trial of infamous Mexican drug cartel kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a.k.a. "El Chapo," testified Tuesday that former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto took a $100 million bribe from Guzmán.
The witness, Alex Cifuentes Villa, is a former Colombian drug lord who worked closely with Guzmán from 2007 to 2013. His bombshell testimony comes amid a trial that has revealed corruption at almost every level of the Mexican government.
According to The New York Times, one of Guzmán’s lawyers, Jeffrey Lichtman, asked Cifuentes during cross-examination, "Mr. Guzmán paid a bribe of $100 million to President Peña Nieto?" "Yes," responded Cifuentes.
Later, Cifuentes said Peña Nieto is the one who first reached out to Guzmán, asking for $250 million in exchange for allowing him to come out of hiding. Guzmán offered $100 million instead.
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Nowhere near as cheap as a lot of American politicians.
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His bombshell testimony comes amid a trial that has revealed corruption at almost every level of the Mexican government. Not a huge surprise. Building a wall might put a crimp in the kickbacks/payoffs from the money laundry business, human trafficking, drug trade businesses on this side of the border.
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A timely comment at #5. I just finished reading Adra J. Wolfe's, Freedoms Laboratory - The Cold War Struggle For the Soul of Science, Chapter 8, beginning on page 157. *Cough, hmmm, Cough*...discussions on clandestine funding of private foundations.
Anyone recall the general timeframe we began to hear of the massive reductions in Clinton Foundation contributions ?
Anyone question why nothing has been done about the numerous Hillary Clinton issues ?
I suspect this to be a tradition. Foxx was almost as anti-Trump (who wants a wall) as the entire Clinton, Obama regimes, and other old school Dims, who all admire the South of the Border population's acceptance of rampant corruption, and want to import that population so eagerly to the US.
Had he agreed to the recruitment arrangement, he may not have encountered those unpleasant, General Mike Flynn style legal issues.
[Daily Caller] Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos told Congress in October that an FBI agent asked him to travel to London to spy on a mysterious Maltese professor who allegedly claimed that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton.
"The FBI agent said, we need you to wear a wire and we’ll pay you and you can go to London and you can kind of look behind the scenes of an FBI operation. It was very bizarre, very strange," Papadopoulos told members of the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees in an interview on Oct. 25.
The request was allegedly made during a meeting in Chicago on Jan. 31, 2017, four days after Papadopoulos was first interviewed by the FBI about his tenure on the Trump campaign. In that first interview, Papadopoulos told FBI agents about encounters he had with the professor, Joseph Mifsud, during his time on the Trump campaign.
Papadopoulos told FBI agents in his initial interview that Mifsud told him during a meeting in London on April 26, 2016 that Russia had "thousands" of former presidential candidate Clinton’s emails. Though Papadopoulos shared that detail with the agents, he later admitted making false statements about the extent and full timeline of his contacts with Mifsud. A bit foggy about the extent of your contacts, dates, etc? Sorry, we call that lying and deception George. It's federal charges for you.
Skipping to closing para:
Halper paid Papadopoulos $3,000 to fly to London in mid-September 2016 and to write a policy paper about Mediterranean energy issues. Unknown to Papadopoulos at the time, Halper had also been in contact with Carter Page, another Trump campaign adviser.
Carter Page? Yes, unlike you George, one of our more cooperative recruitments.
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He said that the request was “extremely problematic” because he now believes that Mifsud may have been working for Western intelligence agencies instead of Russia.
Or he could have been working for both, and that is why we asked you to assist us George.
[BIZPACREVIEW] A gay actor’s statement-making wardrobe earned a barrage of social media mockery after it was highlighted as an effort to fight President Donald Trump.
“Billy Porter is taking his resistance to the red carpet,” the New York Post’s Page Six noted in a story titled, “‘Pose’ star Billy Porter uses fashion to fight Trump.”
The article noted how the 49-year old actor “wants to use the red carpet as a platform for activism” and focused on the custom embroidered suit and cape from Randi Rahm that he showcased at the Golden Globes.
Porter’s stylist Sam Ratelle told Page Six that “every single time we work on something together, the first thing we do is think: What is the statement we’re making with this? What can people take away from this?”
While Porter’s fashion earned raves from his fans and the award show red carpet, the Page Six tweet touting the article and the Tony Award-winning actor sparked a hilarious chain of reaction on Twitter.
The idea that the Resistance could so easily remove Trump from office with just a fashion choice – albeit an eye-catching hot pink lined cape – prompted a hilarious response from Twitter users.
How will @realDonaldTrump ever recover?— Happy Camper (@Cox_Cu) January 14, 2019
We shall fight them in the powder room …
— Dean H (@Dean_Housden) January 14, 2019
I don’t know who that is, but his white socks make me want to vote for Trump.
— just alan (@anythingbutdem) January 14, 2019
This just in: Trump resigns https://t.co/RiXyDdSh1U
— Jen the Foreign Asset (@Jen_Dodgson) January 14, 2019
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Someone who wasn't good enough at sucking directors genitals to get a good part.
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IMO, Billy couldn't resist the chance to perform in front of an audience. He papers things over by saying he is a part of a great cause, "The Resistance." When everything comes out, he might just get "woke."
[Al Jazeera] A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an effort by three major US cities to require the Pentagon to be more vigilant about reporting service members who were disqualified from owning weapons to a national background check system.
By a three-to-zero vote, the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals said it lacked jurisdiction to compel the Department of Defense to fix what New York City, Philadelphia and the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... called a "broken" system, or to supervise improvements to the Pentagon's "partial and inconsistent reporting".
The lawsuit was filed seven weeks after former Air Force member Devin Kelley killed 26 people on November 5, 2017 at a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church before killing himself.
Kelley, 26, was convicted in a 2012 court martial of assaulting his wife and stepson and should not have been allowed to possess weapons.
But his conviction had not been entered into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
The cities said the Pentagon had failed to report some 15,000 current or former personnel who could not own guns because of court martial convictions or dishonorable discharges, and that this undermined their ability to fight violent crime.
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[FoxNews] President Trump on Thursday abruptly denied military aircraft to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a foreign trip just minutes before the congressional delegation was set to depart, in a stunning response to her call to delay the State of the Union address amid the government shutdown.
In a curt letter, Trump said her trip has been “postponed.”
“Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed. We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over. In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate,” Trump wrote. Classic Donald Trump.
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Some think that Pelosi "as the House Speaker has a right to her own air force because 'co-equal branch' " (Congress, by the way is the co-equal and consists of House and Senate... whatta maroon, try again...).
And others say that "it's from the military budget so it is already allocated" (So, it's Other People's Money™ and Pelosi deserves a slice just because she wants it? But that's another issue...).
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I do support the military flying congress/government critters in and out of areas that are hostile to Americans. It makes it nearly impossible to hijack planes and hold them hostage and has defense against MANPADS and the like.
Now... that being said. To many of the congress critters and government pukes have been using and expecting military transport for regular things. Just like they expect 1st class and the taxpayer to foot the bill. Seeing Lady (spit) Pelosi losing face when the Commander in Chief of the military says she can't fly on the planes is pure awesome.
If she wants to pull spiteful and divisive stunts to score points and try to shame Trump, she has a lot to learn. Trump has no shame and will happily rub your face in mud just because he can. We can't spare this man. He fights.
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More Please! Finally, a President who fights back harder.... The toxic males across the country applaud this well deserved FU to the Socialist Insurrectionists in Congress, and the use of their own language in the letter is classic...
I don't get the logic of Trump denying Pelosi her trip. Why not just point out that her trip will require massive logistical support -- and that she'll get it -- and that she's obviously lying about SOTU?
How else are you going to get all those wonderful pics of pi$$ed off liberals with steam jetting from their ears as they grudgingly get off the bus in defeat?
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Ben Shapiro can suck it, and does. She's overstepped her self-authorized privileges. She can take public transportation. Show disrespect, get it back, "Co-equal of the President"
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From the article, more amusement:
According to sources, the president pulled the plug on Pelosi's aircraft as she was about to leave for her overseas trip. Her congressional delegation's military aircraft was slated to depart at 3 p.m. ET.
A senior White House official also told Fox News that all congressional delegation travel by military aircraft is now postponed.
An official said that “as soon as the president found out about the trip today, he took immediate action.” A source told Fox News that when moving to cancel Thursday's flight, the White House reasoned that the trip would keep Pelosi out of the country beyond next Tuesday night—when the next government pay period would occur.
"If she had gone on this trip she would have guaranteed that 800,000 federal workers would not receive their second paycheck because she would not have been here to negotiate any kind of deal," a senior White House official said Thursday.
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I am waiting for a pundit chorus of: "How could he! How petty and partisan! He will not be able to work with a Pelosi-led Democratic Party Majority House!!!!"...
...As if Trump could have "worked" with them anyway. The Supreme Court Farce signaled that it was going to be Total War from now until 2020.
[Politico] House Democratic leaders have quietly rejected a push by rank-and-file members to force a rare and potentially divisive vote on censuring Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), according to multiple Democratic sources.
The House moved Wednesday to essentially shelve a grassroots attempt to further punish King for racist remarks that he made to the New York Times this month. If it had succeeded, King could have faced one of the most severe punishments that a lawmaker can receive.
The two House Democrats who have led the charge to censure King ‐ Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) and Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) ‐ ultimately agreed not to force the vote, under pressure from some Democratic leaders who feared lasting consequences from the move.
Their decision almost certainly means that the House will not take a formal vote to censure King, which has only happened a few dozen times in history. Instead, both Rush and Ryan say they are putting King on notice.
"Obviously, it’s not what I want," Ryan said Wednesday about forgoing a vote on the censure motion. "The next time something like this happens, we’ll bring it out of committee, and I think we move to expel him at that point."
[USA Today] The woman President Donald Trump has picked to fill the seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is coming under fire from liberal advocacy groups for her past writings on issues ranging from rape to race.
Several of judicial nominee Neomi Rao's controversial opinion pieces were compiled by the liberal judicial activist group Alliance for Justice and shared with journalists. Rao has been nominated to fill the seat left vacant by Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he joined the Supreme Court.
Buzzfeed News first reported on the Rao's op-eds, which she wrote in college and shortly after her graduation. Rao graduated from Yale University in 1995 and the writings were from 1993 to 1996.
Rao has not previously served as a judge. She currently heads the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. According to Politico, she is on Trump's short list for the Supreme Court if another seat on that bench opens up during his administration.
Here are some examples of what Rao wrote: Perhaps there might be some way we could get her views on Affirmative Action, The Affordable Care Act, Global Warming/Climate Change, and Planned Parenthood....or a future presidential bid.
On date rape
In an October 1994 column for the Yale Herald, titled "Shades of Gray," Rao warned of the "hysteria over date rape." She questioned laws that say an intoxicated person can't give consent and argued, "a good way to avoid a potential date rape is to stay reasonably sober."
"Unless someone made her drinks undetectably strong or forced them down her throat, a woman, like a man, decides when and how much to drink," she wrote. "And if she drinks to the point where she can no longer choose, well, getting to that point was part of her choice.
"Implying that a drunk woman has no control of her actions, but that a drunk man does strips women of all moral responsibility," she continued.
In an April 1993 article titled "The Feminist Dilemma," Rao wrote that she agreed with feminist critic Camille Paglia, who "accurately describes the dangerous feminist idealism which teaches women that they are equal. Women believe falsely that they should be able to go anywhere with anyone."
"Although I am certainly not arguing that date rape victims ask for it, when playing the modern dating game women have to understand and accept the consequences of their sexuality," she said. "Some feminists chant that women should be free to wear short skirts or bright lipstick, but true sexual signals lie beyond these blatant signs."
On race
In a 1995 cover story for The Yale Free Press that focused on differences between men and women, Rao said that gender discrimination in Yale classrooms was virtually non-existent.
"But this should come as no surprise. Over the past decades, Yale has dedicated itself to a relatively firm meritocracy, which drops its standards only for a few minorities, some legacies and a football player here and there," she wrote.
And in a 1994 piece for the Washington Times titled, "How the Diversity Game is Played," Rao – who described herself as Asian Indian –assailed "multiculturalists, who separate and classify everyone according to race, gender and sexual orientation."
"Those who reject their assigned categories are called names: So-called conforming blacks are called 'oreos' by members of their own community, conservatives become 'fascists.' Preaching tolerance, multiculturalists seldom practice it," she wrote.
On multiculturalism
In the same Washington Times piece, she wrote that "multiculturalists are not simply after political reform."
"Underneath their touchy-feely talk of tolerance, they seek to undermine American culture. They argue that culture, society and politics have been defined - and presumably defiled - by white, male heterosexuals hostile to their way of life. For example, homosexuals want to redefine marriage and parenthood; feminists in women's studies programs want to replace so-called male rationality with more sensitive responses common to women. It may be kinder and gentler, but can you build a bridge with it?"
On homosexuality
In a 1994 article for the Yale Herald titled "Queer Politics," Rao again explored the ideological rigidity she says is expected of members of minority communities, in this case people who identify as LGBT.
She said that while gays "have established themselves as a minority group fighting against discrimination" and "trendy political movements have only recently added sexuality to the standard checklist of traits requiring tolerance," there was a major difference between sexuality and race or gender:
"People who tolerate women in the workplace and blacks and Hispanics as neighbors view homosexuality as a behavior – and behaviors, unlike gender and race, are subject to change," she said. "No one knows whether sexuality is a biological phenomenon or a social construct. The truth may lie somewhere in the middle."
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And if she drinks to the point where she can no longer choose, well, getting to that point was part of her choice."
Getting to that point might be but this doesn't change or excuse anything about the rape. So that's a problematic argument.
If the guy doesn't rape her but picks her pocket instead he could hardly argue: Oh she voluntarily put herself in that position so I could take the money.
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Women also have responsibility for their actions. If a drunk man and drunk woman have sex - is it rape? Don't treat them like children
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The question is: Could consent be given or not.
Jut because you're drunk doesn't mean you can't give or refuse consent.
If you're passed out, that's a different story.
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"Implying that a drunk woman has no control of her actions, but that a drunk man does strips women of all moral responsibility,"
[FOXNEWS] A federal judge ruled Tuesday that former national security adviser Susan Rice and former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes must answer written questions about the State Department's response to the deadly 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, as part of an ongoing legal battle over whether Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... sought to deliberately evade public record laws by using a private email server while secretary of state.
U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth denied a request by the conservative group Judicial Watch to make Rice and Rhodes sit for depositions, but agreed to have them answer written questions. He also agreed to Judicial Watch's request to depose the State Department about the preparation of talking points for Rice, then President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... 's ambassador to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... , ahead of appearances on political talk shows the Sunday following the attack. That deposition is part of Judicial Watch's inquiry into whether the State Department acted in bad faith by not telling a court for months that they had asked in mid-2014 for missing emails to be returned.
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As part of the discovery, Judicial Watch can depose Jacob Sullivan, Clinton's former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff, and Justin Cooper, a longtime Bill Clinton aide who helped arrange the setup of Hillary Clinton's private email address and server.
Judicial Watch said the discovery period will conclude within 120 days. A post-discovery hearing will then be held to determine whether additional witnesses, including Clinton and her former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, may be deposed.
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Imo, little aside smoke will come of this. Questions with truthful answers implicating the ultimate Perp (Chicago Jesus) will n.e.v.e.r. be asked. It would cause too much popular tribal uproar.
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Imo, little aside smoke will come of this. Questions with truthful answers implicating the ultimate Perp (Chicago Jesus) will n.e.v.e.r. be asked. It would cause too much popular tribal uproar.
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.
[The Federalist] A witness in the ongoing trial of infamous Mexican drug cartel kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a.k.a. "El Chapo," testified Tuesday that former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto took a $100 million bribe from Guzmán.
[BIZPACREVIEW] A gay actor’s statement-making wardrobe earned a barrage of social media mockery after it was highlighted as an effort to fight President Donald Trump.
Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 
