[Red State] Investigative Reporter John Solomon has confirmed that at least six informants with long-established associations to the FBI or to US or Western (British and Australian) intelligence and two Russians made contact with Trump business and campaign officials between March and October 2016. Solomon said the informants told Trump associates "they had possible political dirt or stolen emails harmful to Hillary Clinton, or unsolicited business in London or Moscow." Solomon obtained this information by conducting over 50 interviews with witnesses and by reviewing court records. But, but, but I thought Carter Page was supposed to be looking after these people ?
It’s noteworthy that "several of the contacts occurred before the FBI formally launched a legally authorized probe into the Trump campaign and possible collusion on July 31, 2016." This is especially significant because the FBI or the intelligence agency involved may one day be called upon to explain the reason for the contact. Or maybe that’s too much to hope for.
The names of most of the individuals contacted are familiar: Donald Trump Jr., Michael Cohen, Roger Stone, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, Sam Clovis and General Michael Flynn.
Solomon’s new information indicates that at least four additional, previously unknown spies tried to infiltrate the Trump campaign or his inner circle of business associates.
We’ve known that the informants included Professor Stefan Halper, Russian businessman Hank Greenberg, former MI6 agent Christopher Steele and former FBI informer Felix Sater. But Solomon was able to uncover at least four others whose names have not been made public. He said he was asked by US government officials not to reveal their names to "avoid compromising their identities or nexus to intelligence and law enforcement work."
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Obviously, based on what we have learned since March 2017, and what has surfaced recently, we can all see why the FBI would want to keep it hidden that they were running a counterintelligence operation against a presidential candidate. After all, as FBI Agent Peter Strzok said it in his text messages, it was an “insurance policy”.
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Russia Investigation: Donald Trump Warmed by MI6 That Declassifying Documents Would Undermine provide (politically - and career-wise - damaging) Intelligence.
Trump needs to dump all the raw intel out as unclassified: FISA apps, Judges, appellants, ...
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[LEGALINSURRECTION] Des Moines Police say one of the alleged victims of a racist note found at Drake University actually wrote it herself.
Two female Drake University students reported on November 15th that they had received harassing, racist notes that were slid under their dorm room door. The same students reported receiving a third note of similar nature on November 28th.
Des Moines Police say detectives and Drake University officials have determined that the third note was written by one of the alleged victims ‐ an 18 year old female Drake University student. The student has admitted to being responsible for this note.
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They'll both be "diversity officers" earning six figures this time next year.
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Times-Delphic: "Is Racism Dead?
The loss that Obama fans dread!"
Turn the years in reverse:
Hear your grandparents curse
The political beetle they bred.
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It strikes me as odd that racism is so infrequent that the "victims" feel the need to fake it.
You noticed that too, eh? Michelle Obama said America is a mean hateful country. If white people aren't going to be racist, then black people will just have to step up and do it for them.
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Heh. Was just going to post that, Elmavins.
The Professor sez: I now start with the assumption that incidents like this are fake. The demand for Nazi/White Supremacist hatred far exceeds the supply.
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Notice how they bury the implied state that such acts are racists upon the majority of the population. If a hundred years ago, falsely accused black males were lynched was racist, it follows that false accusations against whites is also racist. "It's different because....shut up."
Frankly, I'd like to suggest that the running-dog followers of techno-oligarch capitalists like Krugman aren't the future either. If we can never get the free market back then sooner or later the substitute population isn't going to be satisfied with caffeine-free diet communism.
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"White People are not the future of America."
Not exactly a news breaking story. Our gov't hasn't seen a 'white future' for decades.
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Given that he has no children, it is certainly true that Mr. Krugman’s descendents are not the future. And given the relative fecundity of liberal white Ameriicans compared to conservative white Americans, it is equally certain that the future will hold more conservative white Americans. Finally, given that the ideas that made America great are equally available to all Americans, regardless of race, creed, or s3x — and being increasingly adopted by American member of races, creeds, and s3x heretofore believed by some to be immune to them —it is not clear to me why Mr. Krugman’s racist position matters, even if it only works when the key group formerly considered to be white, that is to say Hispanics, is kept artificially separated.
But the Nobel Prize-winning idiot savant has kept himself blindered by his politics for quite some time now.
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25-30 more years I'll be beyond all caring. Would like a peaceful free and prosperous world for everyone who comes after me, but I have sort of done my part and can't carry them all on my back, regardless of what occasional cortex is selling...
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Part of what bugs me is that Krugman (who, according to the AoSHQ style guide, should forever be referred to as "Former Enron Advisor Paul Krugman") is just another white person, with (as I just pointed out) a history of working for the seediest of large corporations.
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Yes, it's disheartening how the self-proclaimed elites have tied "liberty" and "white" together,as if non-whites neither want nor deserve liberty. If you want to destroy "white supremacists", start with those folks -- they don't think you're fully human.
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Rob: precisely. As near as I can tell, Krugman is just another white dork.
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The feds should charge locals that release an illegal that commits a murder with murder or whatever the legal charge is for helping a murder be committed.
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Make it extremely hard for businesses to continue to function, especially the shipping and the construction businesses, and their owned politicians will start crying hard until they finally give up their stance.
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#5 Well, he can console himself by keeping the money in his "campaign" account.
He's screwed over a woman who has sex on film for money. She's gonna want it back
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He has been under pressure for awhile now and seemed to me to be ingesting something illegal at times, judging by his comments and behavior.
Going...going...
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[Wash Times] A former Obama administration official with ties to a liberal advocacy group funded by Democratic megadonors George Soros and Tom Steyer helped prepare the Fourth National Climate Assessment, whose dire predictions have since been attacked as overblown.
Andrew Light, who worked on the 2015 Paris accord negotiations as a senior adviser to the U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change under Secretary of State John F. Kerry, served as a review editor for the assessment, overseeing the pivotal final chapter that concluded under a worst-case scenario that global warming could wipe out as much as 10 percent of the U.S. economy by 2100.
Now a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute, Mr. Light also spent five years as senior fellow and director of international climate policy at the Center for American Progress, which was founded and now led by longtime Democratic insider John Podesta. The center is also financed by liberal billionaires such as Mr. Soros and Mr. Steyer.
The involvement of Mr. Light and other figures known for their climate change advocacy has raised questions about the credibility of the report, which has been widely depicted as a politically neutral, scientific document prepared by disinterested specialists from 13 federal agencies.
Roger A. Pielke Jr., University of Colorado Boulder environmental studies professor, criticized the decision to bring in Mr. Light, as well as the report’s reliance for the 10 percent figure on a 2017 study funded in part by Mr. Steyer’s Next Generation and Bloomberg Philanthropies.
[MSN] Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill ...Now, why would I pay taxes on my airplane? Send the bill to the taxpayers!... , the moderate-leaning Democrat who was defeated in this year’s midterm elections, took swipes at her own party in an exit interview aired Friday.
In blunt terms, McCaskill accused fellow Democrats of demanding ideological "purity" from candidates and suggested their "failure" to connect with rural Americans contributed to her loss to Republican Josh Hawley.
"This demand for purity, this looking down your nose at people who want to compromise, is a recipe for disaster for the Democrats," McCaskill said in an interview with National Public Radio. "Will we ever get to a majority in the Senate again, much less to 60, if we do not have some moderates in our party?"
She also complained that media outlets make political compromise difficult by encouraging people to stay in "their own bubble" and look for "affirmation not information."
She made similar comments in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee business meeting.
"I'm really most worried going forward about this place because the middle has atrophied so badly," McCaskill said. "I remember when I first got here, where we could have easily recognized 20 members of the Senate, of both parties on an equal basis that were in the room trying to find that compromise. That has become a very dangerous thing for senators now because the base of the party is very impatient with anybody who wants to compromise."
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When you are selling a totally defective product to completely undiscriminating buyers and still have a problem, you have a big problem. I'm sure she wonders why Missouri can't be like Caliphornia.
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Gerrymandering and its inevitable result: Balkanizing the general population into factions. As times go by the local politicians will compete to offer more outlandish promises to be reelected... radicalizing the factions.
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This will never get better. The Left's motto is "no enemies to the left, no friends to the right." This drives them further and further away.
Either they will win and enslave us, or we will vote them out. I'm not very optimistic right now, they have a lot of powerful friends in the media and internet giants who literally have the power to shape the way people think.
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Dem elites hate "rural Americans" and everyone else who doesn't agree with their leftist, anti-American, anti-Christian/Jewish ideology. They have no desire to connect, understand, persuade or attract us.
I hope McCaskill is correct and they never win the Senate.
[MSN] North Carolina’s board of elections on Friday declined to certify Republican Mark Harris' apparent victory in a U.S. House of Representatives race, calling instead for a public hearing to investigate claims of voter fraud and irregularities.
Harris edged Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes in the Nov. 6 congressional election. But the validity of hundreds of mail-in absentee ballots from a rural county has been called into question, the elections board said on Twitter.
The board voted 7-2 to hold a hearing due "to claims of numerous irregularities and concerted fraudulent activities related to absentee mail ballots," Joshua Malcolm, vice chairman of the board of elections, said in a recorded session on Friday.
It is the second time in as many years the board has considered voter fraud accusations in Bladen County, with charges after the 2016 elections ultimately dismissed.
In a statement, Harris said there were not enough ballots in question to affect the outcome of the race. He urged the board to immediately certify him the victor, while continuing to conduct their investigation.
The contest will not affect the balance of power in the new Congress that sits in January. Democrats already gained enough seats to take control of the House, while Republicans will still hold a Senate majority.
Harris was on Capitol Hill on Friday participating in freshman orientation. He participated in the office lottery and selected a space in the House office buildings.
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Easily solved. No mail in ballots. Absentee ballots must be executed in the presence of an officer of the court, said absentee ballots available only to those demonstrating extreme need via an affidavit.
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"Ballot farming" in California should be banned to prevent possible fraud.
This caused five Orange County Republicans to lose only after weeks of counting absentee ballots.
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A repeat of the 80s case, whereas the Trunk was the count winner but the Donk controlled House seated their man instead. The Donks rationalized it due to the small number difference in the vote. Indiana if I recall correctly. Next go around, the Trunk won handily.
[BIZPACREVIEW] In an unexpected turn of events, Rep. Jim Jordan has won the top Republican spot on the Oversight Committee after his friend and colleague, Rep. Mark Meadows, suddenly stepped aside.
The Ohio politician was unanimously elected by the Republican Steering Committee for the ranking member role on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday after last-minute jockeying for positions in the last few weeks, The Hill reported.
A staunch defender of President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , Jordan was seeking the ranking Republican position on the House Judiciary Committee until Wednesday. He withdrew his bid amid concerns that he would not get the position as Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, who was favored by GOP leaders for the role, did get the votes.
As the senior-most member on the Oversight committee, which is currently chaired by retiring South Carolina Rep, Trey Gowdy, it seemed logical for Jordan to seek the top spot. But Meadows, his House Freedom Caucus ally, appeared to still be running ‐ a position the North Carolina Republican was expected to easily win.
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Will be interesting to see what the Hon. Mr. Jordan can do in a month / four weeks / 30 days.
[POLITICO] Before she could retire early in January, Gov. Rick Scott decided Friday to suspend Brenda Snipes, Broward County’s troubled election supervisor, from office following a series of voting and ballot controversies that culminated in the 2018 midterms when the Republican had to sue her to get public information.
"Every eligible voter in Florida deserves their vote to be counted and should have confidence in Florida’s elections process," Scott said in a written statement to POLITICO. "After a series of inexcusable actions, it’s clear that there needs to be an immediate change in Broward County and taxpayers should no longer be burdened by paying a salary for a Supervisor of Elections who has already announced resignation."
Snipes, an elected official whose term ends after the 2020 elections, will be replaced by Scott’s longtime fixer, attorney Pete Antonacci, Scott’s former general counsel who does not plan to run for the Broward elections position and who has been appointed by Scott to fill three other posts, including his current job as president and CEO of Enterprise Florida.
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You can't quit, slaves have to be sold!
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Ah fok'n nice! Now she can sue for mental anguish and damages.
"Your swampwater cocktail... elixir!
But what's this mysterious mixer?"
"He pissed in your drink
While insisting it's ink,
Then he stirred in some dirt with his stick, sir."
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I always liked the part where Maggie whopped Jiggs with her umbrella and shouted "Insect!"
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She changeded her mine. Gonna fight dat cracker guvner. Gonna fight!
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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.
[LEGALINSURRECTION] Des Moines Police say one of the alleged victims of a racist note found at Drake University actually wrote it herself.
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