90 Miles From Tyranny

Sunday, May 20, 2018

Morning Mistress

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

Saturday, May 19, 2018

In a joint statement released Saturday, the United States and China announced that a “consensus” was reached to “substantially reduce” the $370 billion trade imbalance between the two countries.

“There was a consensus on taking effective measures to substantially reduce the United States trade deficit in goods with China,” the joint statement said, adding, “To meet the growing consumption needs of the Chinese people and the need for high-quality economic development, China will significantly increase purchases of United States goods and services.”

“The statement concluded joint talks on Thursday and Friday between the two countries, which included several U.S. cabinet secretaries and China’s State Council Vice Premier Liu He,” reports Channel NewsAsia.

Reducing the United States’ trade deficit with China was a core campaign promise of President Donald Trump.

The announcement comes after Trump recently reaffirmed his stance on countering China’s improper trade practices.

“We have been ripped off by China, an evacuation of wealth like no country has ever seen before, given to another country that’s rebuilt itself based on a...

TUSCALOOSA, AL (The Tuscaloosa News) – A judge has increased the bond of an undocumented immigrant accused of raping a 10-year-old girl.

Juan Vazquez Cornelio, 38, has been held on $60,000 bond since his arrest on March 16. Tuscaloosa County District Court Jude Joanne Jannik raised his bond to $500,000 after a hearing Monday morning.

He would be required to pay cash in order to make bond.

Cornelio is accused of sexually assault the girl at a location on Rice Mine Road earlier this month. She was treated at Children’s of Alabama hospital in Birmingham.

The Tuscaloosa County District Attorney’s office requested the bond increase, saying that if released on $60,000, Cornelio could be deported and would be unlikely to show up for further court proceedings.

Tuscaloosa County Assistant District Attorney Loren Rafferty asked the judge to increase the bond, saying “the only way to assure the defendant’s continued appearance in and proper resolution of this case is to have the court set an appropriate bond in this case.”

Defense attorney Eric Snow argued that the $60,000 bond was adequate.

“There has not been a showing that the defendant is a danger to the community, has made threats of any type, was not cooperative with law enforcement, or in any other way demonstrated actions that would require such a deviation from the listed bond schedule…,” he wrote in a motion submitted to...

Following two weeks of mounting speculation over the FBI's so-called "mole" inside the Trump campaign, the New York Times and Washington Post published separate accounts on Friday detailing the infiltration of the Trump campaign - a scheme revealed in a Wednesday report by the New York Times in which "at least one government informant met several times with Mr. Page and Mr. Papadopoulos." The Wednesday report also disclosed the existence of "Operation Crossfire Hurricane" - the FBI's code name for their early Trump-Russia investigation.

Thanks to Friday's carefully crafted deep-state disclosures by WaPo and the Times, along with actual reporting by the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross, we now know it wasn't a mole at all - but 73-year-old University of Cambridge professor Stefan Halper, a US citizen, political veteran and longtime US Intelligence asset enlisted by the FBI to befriend and spy on three members of the Trump campaign during the 2016 US election.

While Halper's name remains undisclosed by the NYT and WaPo, a quick read of all three articles linked above makes it abundantly clear that the "American academic who teaches in Britain" described by The Times, who "met several times with Mr. Page and Mr. Papadopoulos" is none other than Halper - whose meetings with the Trump aides were revealed by the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross in late March.

Two months before the 2016 election, George Papadopoulos received a strange request for a meeting in London, one of several the young Trump adviser would be offered — and he would accept — during the presidential campaign.

The meeting request, which has not been reported until now, came from Stefan Halper, a foreign policy expert and Cambridge professor with connections to the CIA and its British counterpart, MI6.

Halper’s September 2016 outreach to Papadopoulos wasn’t his only contact with Trump campaign members. The 73-year-old professor, a veteran of three Republican administrations, met with two other campaign advisers, The Daily Caller News Foundation learned. -Daily Caller

These contacts are notable, as Halper's infiltration of the Trump campaign corresponds with the two of the four targets of the FBI's Operation Crossfire Hurricane - in which the agency sent counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and others to a London meeting in the Summer of 2016 with former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer - who says Papadopoulos drunkenly admitted to knowing that the Russians had Hillary Clinton's emails.George

Interestingly Downer - the source of the Papadopoulos intel, and Halper - who conned Papadopoulos months later, are linked through UK-based Haklyut & Co. an opposition research and intelligence firm - founded by three former British intelligence operatives in 1995 to provide the kind of otherwise inaccessible research for which select governments and Fortune 500 corporations pay huge sums.

Downer - a good friend of the Clintons, has been on their advisory board for a decade, while Halper is connected to Hakluyt through Director of U.S. operations Jonathan Clarke, with whom he has...

9-year-old Muslim migrant boy threatens school children with knife: “My job is to kill people”

Several elementary school children were threatened by a boy with a migrant background in Ried, Austria. The case went public after Austria’s OÖN received a letter from worried parents about the incident.

The Turkish boy, who is only nine years old, threatened other school children with a knife and said that it is his job to kill people and god had commanded him to do so.

Alois Ebner, spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office Ried, confirms the incident to OÖN. It occurred in mid-April. However, the incident did not happen at school, but on a footpath in the city of Ried.

According to Ebner, the only nine-year-old boy with Turkish roots said he found an old kitchen knife on his way home from school. He admits that he threatened a somewhat older child, saying that he had been teased, but that he “did not mean the threat seriously.”

The school of threatened children confirmed the incident on OÖN request. Director Irene Horn says that the endangered children from the first NMS class have confided in a teacher and that they have handed over the knife they took after the incident.

A punishment does not threaten the nine-year-old. The final report is nearing completion and when the boy is not convicted, the case will be closed. The investigation has not revealed that he was instigated by his parents to...

Police body camera footage has revealed another side to a story told by a South Carolina woman claiming to have underwent a “traumatic experience” following a routine traffic stop.

In a Facebook Live video posted on April 27 Dawn Hilton-Williams claimed to be a victim of racism after she was pulled over by a Brunswick County Sheriff’s sergeant on Route 58 in Virginia going 70 mph in a 55. Hilton-Williams was asked to sign a summons confirming she would appear in court or pre-pay a traffic ticket, reports Fox News.

“It doesn’t matter how polite you are, it’s all sick, crazy bullying and the police are ridiculous,” Hilton-Williams said, inexplicably emotional after the routine stop as she wiped tears away during the 11 minute video.

But body camera footage released by the sheriff’s office last week tells a different story. The video shows Hilton-Williams spring to berating the officer as she demanded to know where the 55mph signs were.

related: VIDEO: NAACP President Claims He Was Profiled On Stop, Then Chief Releases Video

“You didn’t give me a warning, you gave me an actual ticket?” she asks the traffic cop.

“Yeah, no warnings today ma’am,” the officer replied.

The situation escalates when Hilton-William will not sign the summons.

“What you are signing here is a promise to come to court or a promise to pre-pay. It’s not an admission of guilt. It’s only a promise to me that you’re gonna get it taken care of by either coming to court or pre-paying it,” the officer politely explained.

“If you refuse to sign the summons, at this point, I’m going to have to get you outside of this car, I’m going to place you under arrest and take you in front of a magistrate. I will get your vehicle towed and go from there.”

Hilton-Williams then attempted to stop the conversation to take a phone call.

“You do not have a choice but to sign this summons,” he tells her, ignoring the interruption. “So once again you’re signing right there so thank you, I knew you were going to sign it. Thank you very much.”

Hilton-Williams eventually responded to the standard request by signing the paper and promptly took to Facebook to bad mouth the officer.

“I have had a traumatic experience and I want the people who are not African-American who know me to really get where we are coming from,” she told her followers. “When I saw the police pull up behind me, the state trooper, I was immediately afraid.”

“This is the area I’m in,” she says as she revealed the rural road on camera. “In the middle of, this kind of stuff. This is where I am, so it’s not like I’m not afraid, because this is where we got lynched.”

She continues, “Do any of my white friends…feel like that when they get pulled over?…Are they afraid that they are never going to come home or see anybody else because police are at the door saying [I’m going] to pull you out of the car? Why do only African-Americans and people of color know what I’m going through right now?”

Hilton-Williams wraps up the rant with saying “when you’re African-American and you get pulled out of the car you get shot, or you get tased, or you get Sandra Bland, if you are a woman.”

Brunswick County Sheriff Brian Roberts told WVTR he was looking into the claim after the video went viral and the Sheriff’s Department received several complaint calls.

“I don’t know what she has been through and I don’t know her life history, what I worry about is this kind of thing will inflame situations where you see cops in other states have been executed while they were just eating lunch,” Roberts warned.

Roberts then told reporters that he watched the footage and the officer did nothing unusual or wrong.

“This video here, there are things I could go over and critique the officer on, it’s not racial things, it’s not hate things. Certainly some etiquette or verbal judo that could be fixed and improved upon,” he said to WTVR. “What’s ultimately going to be accomplished, it’s not going to make the ticket go away, it’s not going to solve anything. It’s only causing more problems.”

Watch Hilton-Williams’s viral ‘racism’ video: