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Senate Candidate Who Praises Adolph Hitler Ejected From California GOP Convention
If he had any sense of history he would have run as a D. If this is where he has chosen to hang his hat, looks like way too many people have drunk the liberal Kool-Aid.
[Yahoo] A California Republican candidate for U.S. Senate who praises Adolph Hitler and believes Jewish representation in government should be limited was booted from the state’s GOP convention on Saturday.

Patrick Little hopes to become the Republican candidate to face off against Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who’ll be running for a fifth term in the fall. In a SurveyUSA poll last month, Feinstein was backed by 39 percent of the people surveyed in the poll while Little came in second place at 18 percent.

State GOP spokesman Matt Fleming told CBS News that Little has never been active in Republican politics. He added that the GOP condemns "anti-Semitism and any other form of religious bigotry."

In a video posted on BitChute, Little railed against his ejection while standing ― and spitting ― on an Israeli flag. He called participants in the GOP convention "zionist stooges."

The 33-year-old IT engineer is a Marine veteran who served in Afghanistan. He describes himself as a "white advocate" who aims to "crush ... anti-white racism in U.S. institutions," and has called Hitler "one of the greatest leaders in history." Little’s campaign slogan is: "Liberate the U.S. from the Jewish oligarchy."

Last month, Little protested outside Twitter headquarters in San Francisco after the company suspended his account. He held a sign that read: "It’s not okay to be white @ Twitter." Two counter-protesters flanked him, one holding a sign with an arrow pointing at Little and the message: "Fuck this white supremacist."

Little told a reporter from KPIX-5 TV that Twitter was "run" by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League and that he wanted to debate if the Holocaust happened.

"Oh, the Holocaust happened, Patrick Little," the reporter told him (see video above).

The primary is June 5.
Posted by: gorb || 05/07/2018 12:15 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't know this guy but a Democrat acting as a Republican to help paint Republicans as fascists doesn't seem that far fetched.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/07/2018 15:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah my first impression is this guy is a dem.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/07/2018 15:54 Comments || Top||

#3  A whack job or a Dem plant; probably both.
Posted by: Raj || 05/07/2018 18:17 Comments || Top||

#4  The 33-year-old IT engineer is a Marine veteran who served in Afghanistan. He describes himself as a "white advocate"

...Little came in second place at 18 percent.


Fascinating. Going from uninvolved to the Senate seems a bit unlikely, but he is clearly meeting an unmet need among California voters.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/07/2018 19:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah my first impression is this guy is a dem.

The inverse of a Donk running as a Trunk - see: Bloomberg
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 05/07/2018 21:34 Comments || Top||

#6  The survey that had him in second place is questioned by many.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/07/2018 22:03 Comments || Top||


Former Obama official: Israeli spy agency Black Cube targeted me
[Jpost] Aides to US President Donald Trump hired Black Cube to conduct an undercover campaign to smear Kahl and Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, according to a report first published in the London Observer on Saturday.

During the summer of 2017, Black Cube agents using aliases and shell companies attempted to solicit information from Rhodes's and Kahl's wives, as well as from reporters and Iran experts who had been in contact with Obama-era officials, The New Yorker reported.

Trita Parsi, a well-known expert on Iranian politics and foreign policy, was contacted by a Black Cube agent who claimed to be a reporter. The agent pressed Parsi for information on whether Obama officials had personally benefited financially from the nuclear agreement. Black Cube secretly recorded the conversation, a transcript of which was obtained by The New Yorker.

In his Twitter posts, Kahl stated that at the same time as the alleged Black Cube operation, Trump administration officials became "obsessed" with him and Rhodes, and "pushed a narrative that Ben and I were solely responsible for turmoil across the Middle East."
Look at me, I exist!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2018 03:18 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Battlespace prep for impending revelations?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 05/07/2018 5:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Not the fake Steele/Brit dossier, but real Mossad dossiers would indeed be entertaining.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 05/07/2018 6:04 Comments || Top||

#3  P2k,
(a) This is bullshit. An "Israeli spy company" wouldn't be interviewing targets - especially these particular targets, they would be analyzing their social media records.
(b) If Sessions wasn't a limp noodle, there's already enough evidence to lock all these people: from Obama down; for life.
(c) You don't want to know what Israeli Gov would do to a private company - let alone one that's not so private - for interfering in USA politics.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2018 6:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Given the Obama interference into the Israeli election, I'd believe any collection of materials on American pols is purely for self defense purposes.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 05/07/2018 8:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Granted, but (c) still applies.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2018 8:17 Comments || Top||

#6  I suspect if Black Cube had actually been involved, Benji would be toast
Posted by: Choting Elmusomble6855 || 05/07/2018 8:24 Comments || Top||

#7  If you want real dirt on Rhodes, go talk to his college buddies. I think he's such a douchebag that it's not necessary to do this sort of thing to discredit him, but I digress.
Posted by: Raj || 05/07/2018 8:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Whatever they may or may not have found, that schmo Rhodes would be the absolute last man to be aware of it.
Posted by: Cesare || 05/07/2018 8:52 Comments || Top||

#9  What Cesare said. If it's true, and Rhodes knows about it, then he was tipped off.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/07/2018 17:21 Comments || Top||

#10  If it's true, and Rhodes knows about it, then he was tipped off.

Would you take 1/2 Iblis?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2018 17:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Ïsraelis would want to know whats in it for the Obama regime for leaving the Iranians pallets of cash, not so much Trump. Blaming Donald for every thing is just standard procedure.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 || 05/07/2018 20:13 Comments || Top||

#12  Trump would be interested because it might give him what he needs to clean the Augean Stables we call Washington, DC.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/07/2018 23:13 Comments || Top||


Pelosi Refuses to Call on Tony Cardenas to Resign After Child Molestation Claim
[Breitbart] House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has declined to call upon Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-CA) to resign after he was sued for allegedly molesting a teenage girl whom he allegedly drugged in 2007.

Instead, Pelosi decided to refer Cardenas to the House Ethics Committee for investigation.

Late last week, Pelosi released a statement in which she indicated that she had spoken with Cardenas, and that he had "appropriately asked us to withhold judgment until there is a full investigation of the facts."

Last year, Pelosi was among those Democratic leaders demanding that Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama, withdraw "We’re talking about a child molester," Pelosi told NBC News’ Chuck Todd on Meet the Press on November 27.

Pelosi declared that there would now be "zero tolerance" for sexual misconduct in Congress: "Women have spoken out. Their concerns will be addressed in a way that I think will give comfort, as well as end this behavior. ... Because you know what? It’s disgusting, it’s repulsive, and it has to be zero tolerance."

At the time, Pelosi also said there should also be "due process" for Rep. John Conyers (R-MI), who was soon forced to retire over allegations of sexual misconduct.

Like Moore, Cardenas denies the claims against him. His lawyer attacked the woman who sued him ‐ identified only as "Jane Doe" ‐ as "the daughter of a disgruntled former employee and [she] may be the victim of manipulation," as quoted by Politico.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2018 02:30 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Power is self justifying and self rationalizing. We're just watching the shuffling in the 'who's protected and who's expendable' ladder.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 05/07/2018 6:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Sultan Knish: How the Dems Killed #MeToo in Their Party
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2018 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm shocked, shocked to find there's connivance among politicians.
[sarc off]
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/07/2018 10:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Because..shut up
Posted by: Gerthudion Gluger5366 || 05/07/2018 11:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Someone should write the tea-party version of that Sultan Knish article. How Washington fends off threats from the voters.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/07/2018 17:09 Comments || Top||


Carville: Clinton unlikely to run again- or.."I call Bullshit for $800 Alex"
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/07/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hillary may decide to backoff and work to push Chelsea upon an unwary nation.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/07/2018 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  rjs, if she does push Chelsea more into the public eye then Tractor Supply has a special on 10 foot poles and paper sacks. Ya know, for all our protection.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/07/2018 10:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Why would anyone believe what he says? Like Dick Morris, when his mouth is moving truth coming out is accidental.
Posted by: magpie || 05/07/2018 11:56 Comments || Top||

#4  For some unknown reason, a mental image of 10,000 monkeys sitting at 10,000 typewriters just popped into my head.
Posted by: gorb || 05/07/2018 12:29 Comments || Top||


Nuclear Nepotism: The Hushed Up Truth of Kerry's Personal Iran Connection
[BIN] The debate over US President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is undoubtedly the hottest issue today, with truly apocalyptic repercussions. One of the main overlooked details of the deal has to do with US Secretary of State John Kerry’s personal connection to Iran. Being the main negotiator, his personal judgement and integrity is an essential element, and there are reasons to question his judgement.

Every minute aspect of the agreement is of vital importance and, unfortunately, many details have been hidden, even from the senators and congressmen who are expected to vote on the results of the negotiations. A hushed up fact concerning Kerry’s personal life, involves his younger daughter from his deceased first wife, Dr. Vanessa Bradford Kerry. Kerry’s daughter married Dr. Brian (Behrooz) Vala Nahid, an Iranian-American physician and the son of Nooshin and Reza Vala Nahid of Los Angeles, in October 2009.

The marriage was even announced in the New York Times but oddly enough, no mention was made of the groom’s Iranian connection, an irregular occurrence for the paper. It should be noted that after the wedding, the couple went to Iran to visit those relatives.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  there is a huge Persian population in Los Angeles and almost all of them hate the mullahcrasy with a significant number wanting to reinstate a shah from the Pahlevi family

what Kerry's son in law thinks may not be what Kerry thinks at all
Posted by: lord garth || 05/07/2018 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  ...oddly enough, no mention was made of the groom’s Iranian connection, an irregular occurrence for the paper.

Not 'oddly enough' if you've been following that crooked newspaper for any length of time.
Posted by: Raj || 05/07/2018 8:40 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 05/07/2018 12:58 Comments || Top||


Republican congressman threatens to hold Republican Attorney General in contempt
[Think Progress] Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the Trump apologist who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, threatened on Fox News Sunday to "hold the attorney general of the United States in contempt" over a dispute regarding unredacted documents that Nunes wants from the Justice Department.

In April, Nunes wrote to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray, requesting several documents relating to the FBI’s counterintelligence investigations into the Trump campaign generally, and specifically into former Trump adviser Carter Page. The request appears related to a conspiracy theory Nunes touted in a memo released to the public earlier this year.

In that memo, Nunes claimed that the Justice Department’s obtained a warrant to surveil Page by relying on a dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. The Steele dossier was produced through the research firm Fusion GPS, and was initially paid for by the conservative website the Washington Free Beacon. After Trump won the Republican nomination, the Clinton campaign decided to continue funding Steele’s work.

Nunes and his allies claim that the warrant against Page was fundamentally flawed because the Justice Department did not disclose that some of Steele’s work was paid for by Democrats.

In reality, it is unlikely that the Steele dossier provided the bulk of DOJ’s case for obtaining a warrant against Page. For one thing, US counterintelligence officials have known about Page’s "long history of meeting with dubious Russian officials" since at least 2013. For another, many of the claims in the Steele dossier have been independently verified.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The usual collection of false statements from the far left.
1. The Washington Free Beacon claims its relation with Fusion GPS terminated before it hired Christopher Steele.
2. It was a high official of the FBI who stated that the FISA request re Page would not have been submitted without the Steele dossier; that is not a wacky conspiracy theory created by Nunes.
3. The only claim in the Steele dossier that has been verified is that Page gave a lecture in Moscow, which nobody has ever denied. That is not evidence of any wrongdoing.
4. There is more evidence that Obama had illicit secret relations with Putin's Russia than that Page did so. There is the open mike message to the Russian ambassador telling him to tell Putin that he would have more flexibility after the election; his supine behavior re the invasion of Ukraine; his ceding power to handle chemical atrocities in Syria to
Putin, making him the major influence on the Syrian government, and his efforts to impede US oil production. The worst one can say about Page is that was and is in favor of much of that.
5. Page had next to no influence on the Trump campaign.





Posted by: Daniel || 05/07/2018 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  The Obama regime knows that unless they can take back control, their shady actions will surface. From their side of the fence, there is no other way out.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 05/07/2018 3:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Republican congressman threatens to hold Republican Uniparty Attorney General in contempt

FIFY
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 05/07/2018 6:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't threaten, do it!

I'm tire of politicians talking about doing stuff, just do it and don't jeep us waiting! That will get my respect!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 05/07/2018 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5  All bark, no bite!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 05/07/2018 8:52 Comments || Top||

#6  THE FTI OPERATION: The dossier, which was funded by those connected with the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party, has been the subject of ongoing controversy; while some of its claims have allegedly been verified, many others remain unproven. ...

Ferrante, a former top FBI official...,is now at FTI Consulting, where he is leading the effort.

Ferrante joined the FBI as a special agent in 2005... In 2006, he was selected as a member of the FBI’s Cyber Action Team, a group of experts who deploy globally to respond to critical cyber incidents. As a top FBI cybersecurity official tasked to the White House, Ferrante was in charge of coordinating the U.S. government response to Russian attempts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election... Prior to joining the NSC in 2015, Ferrante was chief of staff for the FBI’s cyber division at headquarters under then-Director James Comey. Ferrante, still working for the FBI but at the White House, stayed in his position as director for cyber incident response at the NSC through the Trump administration, until April 2017, when he left to join FTI.
Posted by: Clurong Peacock9529 || 05/07/2018 8:54 Comments || Top||

#7  while some of its claims have allegedly been verified, many others remain unproven. ...

Effective deception cannot be successful without bits of truth sprinkled in here and there.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2018 8:59 Comments || Top||

#8  In order to hold him in contempt don't you first have to wake him up?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/07/2018 10:03 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 while some of its claims have allegedly been verified, many others remain unproven...

Please elaborate with specifics about ANY claims made in the dossier that have even come close to being "verified"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/07/2018 10:41 Comments || Top||



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  Syrian rebels start pull-out from south Damascus
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