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Thursday, December 21, 2017
Protected US Hezbollah Op Might Tie Into FBI’s Bruce Ohr, Imran Awan
Fox Business News host Lou Dobbs revealed Wednesday that Bruce Ohr led the Justice Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces while the Obama administration protected Hezbollah drug dealers in the U.S. as part of his effort to mollify Iran. The reason for that is believed to have been to protect the Iran deal. Also tied to Hezbollah at the same time — Imran Awan.
Bruce Ohr is the man who visited Fusion GPS and met with Glenn Simpson during the 2016 election campaign and after the election. His wife, Nellie Ohr was hired during the campaign to work with Fusion GPS on the Trump “investigation” and she is a Russia expert.
Also at the same time Imran Awan might have been laundering money for Hezbollah and he does have ties to the terror organization. The ties are discussed in some depth on The Daily Caller in an article by Luke Rosiak published Wednesday, titled House IT Aides Ran Suspicious Used Car Dealership with Markings of a Nefarious Money Laundering Operation. Furthermore, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz knew about her aide Imran Awan’s ties to Hezbollah.
Rep. Matt Gaetz told Dobbs after the report that he wants the hearings made public because the public deserves to know and the FBI shouldn’t be allowed to hide what ...
House Republicans have been quietly investigating the FBI and Justice Department for weeks
Politico on Wednesday reported that the coalition is attempting to build a case that senior DOJ and FBI leaders improperly – and maybe criminally – mishandled a controversial dossier.
Four people familiar with the collective’s plans told Politico that the dossier is the one described alleged ties between President Trump and Russia.
A subset of the House Intelligence Committee’s GOP members is quietly working on the matter parallel to the panel’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race.
Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) is leading the subset, which has not informed Democrats about its plans but has consulted with the House’s general counsel.
Politico’s sources said the goal is to illuminate what some panel Republicans view as conspiracy and corruption in the top ranks of federal law enforcement.
The group hopes to release a report in early 2018 explaining their concerns about the DOJ and FBI, and they might also seek congressional votes to declassify elements of their evidence.
Republicans in the effort suspect that the FBI and DOJ have worked to hurt Trump or help Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee he defeated in last year’s White House race. The separate inquiry was born out of steadily rising frustration with the DOJ’s refusal to share details of how the Trump dossier was used to start the FBI’s probe of his election bid last year. The examination is also interested in whether the dossier was the basis of any court-ordered surveillance of Trump’s associates.The group is using the same documents and testimony provided by....
BREAKING: Jeff Sessions Orders New Look Into Uranium One Criminal Investigation
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered prosecutors at the Department of Justice to begin interviewing FBI agents about evidence they uncovered in a criminal investigation into a highly-controversial uranium deal that involves Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Multiple law enforcement officials confirmed Sessions’ orders to prosecutors, NBC News reported exclusively in the early morning hours on Thursday.
At the heart of the issue is the 2010 Uranium One deal which Hillary Clinton signed off on while she was Secretary of State at the U.S. State Department.
NBC News adds:
A senior law enforcement official who was briefed on the initial FBI investigation told NBC News there were allegations of corruption surrounding the process under which the U.S. government approved the sale. But no charges were filed.
While Clinton has vehemently denied that she did anything wrong, a fresh round of reports in recent months from The Hill and Circa News suggests that there is more to this case than meets the eye.
An October report revealed that the FBI started gathering evidence in 2009 of Russian officials engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and money laundering that were involved in the Uranium One deal:
Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as...
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #112
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.
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
The Roots Of A Flourishing Society..
More Wrath:
Dying Societies Accumulate Laws Like Dying Men Accumulate Remedies..
If You Are Not Prepared To Defend Civilization...
Protect The Sanctity Of Your Home And Land..
Make Your Communities And Towns Lovely And Lovable, For Without Love, Who Will They Inspire To Fight For Them?
Politeness Never Defeated An Existential Threat...
You Came To The Wrong Colony...
Should We Sacrifice Our Civilization For Strangers?
Someday, ... Your Kind Will Pray For A Man With A Sword...
Napoleon Smacks Down Obama...
The Inferior Man Argues About His Rights...
He Who Saves His Country Does Not Violate Any Law...
Dying Societies Accumulate Laws Like Dying Men Accumulate Remedies..
If You Are Not Prepared To Defend Civilization...
Protect The Sanctity Of Your Home And Land..
Make Your Communities And Towns Lovely And Lovable, For Without Love, Who Will They Inspire To Fight For Them?
Politeness Never Defeated An Existential Threat...
You Came To The Wrong Colony...
Should We Sacrifice Our Civilization For Strangers?
Someday, ... Your Kind Will Pray For A Man With A Sword...
Napoleon Smacks Down Obama...
The Inferior Man Argues About His Rights...
He Who Saves His Country Does Not Violate Any Law...
Fusion GPS, the producer of the fake Trump dossier is being sued by The Russians they smeared..
The three primary investors in Moscow’s Alfa Bank — Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan — filed a libel lawsuit against Fusion in October. Fusion’s dossier, written by former British spy Christopher Steele, says two of them engineered cash bribes to Mr. Putin. The dossier also implies that the bank colluded with Mr. Putin to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election by hacking Democratic Party computers.
The lawsuit describes the three billionaires as international businessmen who became “collateral damage” in Fusion’s war to destroy the Donald Trump campaign.
“This is a defamation case brought by three international businessmen who were defamed in widely disseminated political research reports commissioned by political opponents of candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election cycle,” says a Dec. 12 filing in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
“The reports are gravely damaging in that, directly or by implication, they falsely accuse the plaintiffs — and Alfa, a consortium in which the plaintiffs are investors — of criminal conduct and alleged cooperation with ‘Kremlin’ to influence the 2016 presidential ....
German Christmas market disrupted by “Palestinian” protesters with loud Arabic music
All the while, it is our mores and grand traditions under attack (violently and culturally) from these savage invaders. Beloved traditions such as Christmas markets, July 14 fireworks at Versailles, music festivals in Sweden and music festivals in Germany are now canceled. This one in Bad Doberan wasn’t canceled, but it was disrupted by pro-jihad “Palestinian” savages waving “Palestinian” flags and blaring Arabic music. Germans better get used to this kind of disruption, because it is their future. The Germans in Bad Doberan should be grateful that all they got in their Christmas market was loud Arabic music, not a homicide bomber.
“German Christmas market disrupted by Palestinian protesters with loud Arabic music,” Voice of Europe, December 16, 2017:
Yesterday evening, a new video was posted on the Facebook page of the local branch of Germany’s populist AfD party. On the page they say the video shows a Christmas Market in the German town of Bad Doberan (Weihnachtsmarkt in Bad Doberan).
While a man films secretly from his car, loud Arabic music is being heard and a group of people are waiving Palestinian flags. It clearly looks like a pro-Palestinian protest or a provocative way to make a statement. A reply on the post shows probably the same group walking with the same flags through the German town.
Most people are disgusted by the video and one person reacts with:
The Reason the Left Gives Communism a Pass
The number of war dead pales in comparison with the number of people who lost their lives at the hands of their own governments. The late professor Rudolph J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii documented this tragedy in his book “Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900.” Some of the statistics found in the book have been updated.
The People’s Republic of China tops the list, with 76 million lives lost at the hands of the government from 1949 to 1987. The Soviet Union follows, with 62 million lives lost from 1917 to 1987. Adolf Hitler’s Nazi German government killed 21 million people between 1933 and 1945. Then there are lesser murdering regimes, such as Nationalist China, Japan, Turkey, Vietnam, and Mexico.
According to Rummel’s research, the 20th century saw 262 million people’s lives lost at the hands of their own governments.
Hitler’s atrocities are widely recognized, publicized, and condemned. World War II’s conquering nations’ condemnation included denazification and bringing Holocaust perpetrators to trial and punishing them through lengthy sentences and execution. Similar measures were taken to punish Japan’s murderers.
But what about the greatest murderers in mankind’s history—the Soviet Union’s Josef Stalin and China’s Mao Zedong? Some leftists saw these communists as heroes.
W.E.B. Du Bois, writing in the National Guardian in 1953, said, “Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. … The highest proof of his greatness [was that] he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate.” Walter Duranty called Stalin “the greatest living statesman” and “a quiet, unobtrusive man.”
There was even leftist admiration for Hitler and fellow fascist Benito Mussolini.
When Hitler came to power in January 1933, George Bernard Shaw described him as “a very remarkable man, a very able man.” President Franklin Roosevelt called the fascist Mussolini “admirable,” and said he was “deeply impressed by what he [had] accomplished.”
In 1972, John Kenneth Galbraith visited Communist China and praised Mao and the Chinese economic system. Michel Oksenberg, President Jimmy Carter’s China expert, complained, “America [is] doomed to decay until radical, even revolutionary, change fundamentally alters the institutions and values.” He urged us to “borrow ideas and solutions” from China.
Harvard University professor John K. Fairbank believed that America could learn much from the Cultural Revolution, saying, “Americans may find in China’s collective life today an ingredient of personal moral concern for one’s neighbor that has a lesson for us all.” By the way, an estimated 2 million people died during China’s Cultural Revolution.
More recent praise for murdering tyrants came from Anita Dunn, President Barack Obama’s acting communications director in ...
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #111
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.
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
4 Big Signs of a Trump Economic Recovery
“Economic growth has topped 3 percent,” Trump said Thursday at a White House event while addressing his administration’s reduction in regulations. “Two quarters in a row, except for the hurricanes, we would have almost hit 4 percent, and you remember how we were doing when I first took office.”
Trump also noted a difference between President Barack Obama’s eight years in office and the current outlook.
“This country was going economically down,” he said. “Small business optimism is at its highest point in 34 years, and we are just getting started.”
Trump touted the coming benefits of tax reform, as Republican lawmakers iron out final details of their bill, and noted that his administration so far has killed 22 regulations for every one added. The president’s original executive order called for elimination of two regulations for every new one.
The debate with any president comes with how much credit or blame his policies deserve for the economy’s performance, and how big a factor his immediate predecessor’s policies are.
Some experts are more cautious than others in giving Trump credit.
The National Association of Manufacturers’ survey of members found that 94.6 percent of respondents had a positive outlook for their companies for 2018. That is the best result in the survey’s 20-year history, and up significantly from the survey done in late 2016, when positive outlook hit 63 percent.
This rosy attitude can be in part attributed to Trump’s policies, said Jay Timmons, president of the manufacturers association.
“Most of our respondents were talking about pro-growth tax policies and getting around the regulatory morass, and those are the two big priorities for manufacturers,” Timmons told The Daily Signal in an in-person interview. “The third priority [for manufacturers] is infrastructure. Those are three big priorities for the administration. This will encourage hiring and investment.”
Consumers are spending more money, but expanding companies’ physical investments—buying a major tool, a truck, a facility—will be the real measurement, said Salim Furth, a research fellow in macroeconomics at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis.
“The good direction of the economy in 2017 is largely a continuation of the strong economy that started in 2014, when we’ve had a huge decrease in energy prices because of fracking and low inflation,” Furth told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.
Attributing economic growth to one president is difficult, but the benefits of fracking—the extraction of fossil fuels from rocks—are clear and provable, Furth said.
“Anticipation of tax policies and regulatory policies can drive the economic outlook, but an administration that lives by the economic numbers dies by the economic numbers,” he said. “Politicians will always put their spin on numbers.”
But Trump should be credited as the “fountainhead of the current economic boom,” said Alfredo Ortiz, president of Job Creators Network, a pro-business advocacy group.
“His long and deeply held commitment to tax cuts and deregulation, among other policies, has given small businesses—and for that matter, all businesses—the confidence and ability to invest, hire, and expand, generating the current economic boom,” Ortiz told The Daily Signal in a written statement. “Now President Trump must continue to leverage his leadership skills to get his policies across the goal line and consolidate these gains.”
Here are four key categories of economic indicators and improvements since Trump took office.
1. Growth Gets Closer to 4 Percent
The gross domestic product grew by 3.3 percent for the third quarter of 2017, as the Trump administration touted the goal of achieving 4 percent growth.
The White House Council of Economic Advisers estimates that ...
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How Venezuela Became A Communist Totalitarian State
Years later, on consolidating total power in his own hands, Chávez again emulated Fidel and confessed to being “a convinced follower of Marxist-Leninist ideology.”
During his 14-year rule in Venezuela, Chávez followed a strategy of introducing socialism in stages. The first stage entailed obtaining total control of all institutions of the Venezuelan state. Thus, during the first four years, he concentrated his efforts in changing the Constitution, packing the Supreme Court, installing soviet-style political commissars in army units, and changing the national identity card and the electoral system to ensure his reelection through manipulation of voter-rolls. During this stage, Chávez was not interested in antagonizing the private sector or the business community. He had enough on his plate, and knew he could not tackle all enemies at once.
Just as Hitler’s final destruction of the Jewish middle class during Kristallnacht did not occur until five years after his ascension to power in Germany, in Venezuela, Chávez reassured the business community that he was not really interested in their demise. Throughout this period, “Chavismo” seemed very similar to Argentina’s “Peronismo.”
In September 2001, Chávez began his offensive for the “Second Stage of the Process for the Revolution,” as he called his march towards a totalitarian state. That month, he openly broke with the United States by calling the US bombing of Afghan targets “an act of terrorism equal to 9/11.” He then proceeded to pass 49 laws directed against the private sector. These laws eliminated private participation in the oil business, allowed for confiscation without payment of private lands, suspended constitutional guarantees for business owners, and established “military security zones” in major metropolitan areas — a de facto confiscation of prime real estate in Venezuela’s major cities. At the same time, he launched an all out attack against the country’s independent labor unions, persecuting and even imprisoning several prominent leaders.
These actions galvanized the opposition, as Chávez expected, and resulted in mass protests and two national general strikes. He expected these reactions and was prepared for the challenge.
However, he miscalculated while he panicked during the mass protest and march of April 11, 2002. His order to members of his civilian armed militias to fire on unarmed demonstrators disgusted the officer corps that he had handpicked to run the Army. His own generals deposed him.
These same generals, though, quickly brought him back only three days later when the opposition’s chosen leader bungled in every imaginable way. As a result, the Second Stage of the Process succeeded. By the end of 2004, Chavez had embarked on an unstoppable march to acquire the “commanding heights” of the Venezuelan economy, destroyed the independent labor movement — its leaders were mostly imprisoned or...
Former White House Insider Sebastian Gorka, Explains What Trump Did to Devastate ISIS
“Our troops have been unleashed,” Sebastian Gorka, former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and counterterrorism adviser, said Friday at The Heritage Foundation.
“I had a tier one operator, meaning a top of the top special operations guy on detail from the National Security Council … come up to me in maybe week five of the administration and say, ‘Sir, you have no idea, no idea how the morale amongst our forces have skyrocketed because we are no longer micromanaged … and we are allowed to do our job, and it is clear the president trusts us,” he said.
The contrast in strategy has made all the difference, Gorka said.
“We have been told by the last administration that ISIS is a generational threat … [that] our children, our grandchildren will be fighting ISIS jihadis decades from now,” Gorka said. “Well, I guess the Trump administration has defined generations to last just a few months.”
While President Barack Obama called ISIS a “J.V. team” in a January 2014 interview in The New Yorker, Gorka said Trump and his administration did what the Obama administration said would take years.
“There is no ISIS caliphate any longer,” Gorka said. “We have liberated Mosul, we have have taken back Raqqa, the operational headquarters of ISIS, and just three weeks ago, the last ISIS stronghold in Syria has fallen as well.”
Trump has been successful, Gorka said, by evaluating threats and responding to threats strategically.
Trump “looked at the threat we faced clearly as a war, not as some problem to be managed, but as a war, and not only that, he wants to win that war, and that is exactly what we have been doing as a nation,” Gorka said.
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis has also been key in Trump’s successes in defeating terrorism.
“We have gone under Secretary Mattis from a strategy of attrition, he has said this openly, a strategy of attrition to a strategy of annihilation,” Gorka said.
Trump has also made gains on winning the war on terrorism by acknowledging that there is ...
Dershowitz Uses Sports Analogy to Explain How Trump Team Is 'Playing' Mueller
Trump told reporters on Sunday evening that he does not plan to fire Mueller, and that makes sense to Dershowitz, who explained the Trump strategy as "playing the refs."
Well, I learned about this from Red Auerbach, the great coach of the Boston Celtics who told me one day when we were sitting at a Celtics game that whenever he used to scream at an official and yell at the official, he'd always get the next call in his favor. Then I heard the same thing from a baseball player who said when he protested a ball or a strike he would get the next call.
I think that's the tactic that's being used here. You continuously attack Mueller. You bring up every possible issue, whether it be conflict of interest, hiring the wrong people, failing to get a warrant for the emails, using the dossier to get the national security warrant -- and Mueller, who's so concerned about his integrity and his reputation, may very well be inclined to lean over backwards to...
Clapper under fire for calling Trump a Russian asset: ‘He just accused the president of treason, essentially’
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton responded by trashing Clapper’s over-the-top paranoia. “He just accused the president of treason essentially,” Bolton told Judge Jeanine Pirro. “He’s saying that he is an unwitting Russian agent. If he’s got evidence for that I would like to hear it!”
Bolton said this unsubstantiated narrative being pushed by liberal media has gotten out of control and is hurting the United States. And it’s time for...
In 1 Chart, What’s in the Final Tax Reform Bill
The conference report is a serious effort to reform a complex and badly broken system that provides significant tax relief to the vast majority of taxpaying Americans.
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #110
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.
Monday, December 18, 2017
Blogs With Rule 5 Links
These Blogs Provide Links To Rule 5 Sites:
The Other McCain has: Rule 5 Sunday: Wrapping Things Up
Proof Positive has: Best Of Web Link Around
The Woodsterman has: Rule 5 Woodsterman Style
The Right Way has: Rule 5 Saturday LinkORama
The Pirate's Cove has: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup
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