Posted on 03/28/2019 10:00:04 AM PDT by ransomnote
Does the book take a look at what’s going on in those rooms upstairs? ;-)
... Mr. Bronfman sought the restraining order in Kings County Court after it was reported Ms. Arulpragasam was hoping to take their son to London where the Grammy-nominated artist was born in 1975 and lived prior to meeting Mr. Bronfman in New York in late 2007.
The couple made headlines internationally in May, 2008, when they announced they were engaged. To many, it seemed an unlikely pairing – Mr. Bronfman, raised on New York’s Upper West Side, is the son of billionaire Edgar Bronfman and his first wife, actress Sherry Brewer. He is the great-grandson of the late Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Seagram distillery empire that was headquartered in Montreal. Ms. Arulpragasam, daughter of a Sri Lankan-born Tamil activist, is famous for her support of the Tamil Tiger and Palestinian liberation movements, among others.
In 2009, she urged U.S. President Barack Obama to refuse his Nobel Peace Prize “like John Lennon sent back his [order of the British Empire].” Earlier she claimed she was “a bit beyond being an artist who says, ‘Give peace a chance.’ Part of me is like, ‘Give war a chance.’ “
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Thank you...I can’t imagine the nightmares those people left behind must have had, and for Alice to tell me all of it, I don’t think I could have been that strong...and they took her mother, can you imagine...oh my...
Thank you again, I will read it...
Planned Parenthood Is Going To Get What It Deserves
Awesome!!
Planned Parenthood Is Going To Get What It Deserves
Awesome!!
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Well, I sure hope so.
I do believe the pigs ARE starting to fly!
Even Cali is doing better!
PART TWO of the series on the [UNCONFIRMED] story about Ryan-at-the-Tarmac-Meeting.
See, this is the problem I have with these “unconfirmed” things....People don’t always see the “unconfirmed” notation. Other’s quote the post and leave out the “unconfirmed” part. Later, much later, some posters believe the post...having not seen the “unconfirmed” status. And then the “unconfirmed” becomes truth.
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What you say has merit, blu.
WAS PAUL RYAN ON THE TARMAC WITH BILL AND L.L.?
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Posting blind. I haven’t had time to go over the last day or so posts.
Is this fact, or since it was posted at 12:02 AM on April 1st, misleading?
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Not true. He was not.
4/1/2019, 7:06:53 AM · 1,703 of 1,844
rodguy911 to TEXOKIE
Great find,I think many of us knew ryan was deep state and had been outed so much he had to get out of politics.
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I am sorry- there is no evidence Ryan was on the plane, and stylin19a has found evidence he was in DC.
Agreeing with your assessment of him however,
you are too kind.
I could only trace Ryan back to Wisc. on 06/24/2016.
All the rest was a WAG.
Trump Retreats on Health Care, Saying Republican Plan Will Appear After the 2020 Election
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3739218/posts
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I was reading headlines on here this morning and reading some posts, when I ran across this article...it’s like “Trump hasn’t done anything” since he’s been in office, all because he wants to wait on healthcare until after the election in 2020, which to me makes complete sense, get the RATS out of the House and then start the ‘Cross over Border’ state to state health care plan he talked about during the campaign...
There is NO way he could pass the health bill right now with the RATS running the House, so wait until we have the House back and then, I’m sure you all remember he wants a committee to form health care plans that if an insurance is cheaper in another state rather than the state you live in, you can cross the border to get it...again makes perfectly good sense to me...
Grab your pearls and fall on the fainting couch unbelievers of what great things Our President has done in 2 years already, heaven be that he can’t fill ALL of his promises in 24 hours after taking the Office of POTUS!!!
The reason he was elected. To quote him, “I’m a problem solver. I love solving problems”.
That he has accomplished so much, thus far, while combated the deep state critters all the while, shows just how serious he is that the USA is littered with problems and problem makers.
Here, the fainting couch is used not to clutch pearls, but just to sit and read of the many WINS he has achieved. The WIN LIST takes the breath away and prevents standing while having your socks blown off.
NOT. TIRED OF WINNING. YET!
As I stated:
heaven be that he can’t fill ALL of his promises in 24 hours after taking the Office of POTUS!!!
I have NEVER in my lifetime seen a POTUS accomplish as much as this man has with as many RATS and RINOs trying to block him as this President has, I have to wonder if any RAT or RINO would have the backbone that Our President has, apparently NOT!!!
I DO NOT like ANYONE downing this President at ANYTIME on ANYTHING!!! When those that don’t like what he does, well there is the office, lets see how great you would be!!!
It’s irritating that I can’t link, but I did read an article on American Thinker that reported that it was Rod Rosenstein who was among the few counselors with whom Sessions received advice on recusing.
To paraphrase the scenario, Sessions was so gob smacked by Rosenstein that he elected to recuse and was never the same, after, essentially demoralized.
It’s my personal (and minority ) opinion that Sessions reflected that very behavior, as being quite demoralized.
I have no idea what was said to Sessions that caused him to virtually disappear and to abdicate from his charge, or why he would appear before congressional committees unarmed, unprepared and be seen having to turn to some female aide, whom we never knew or heard of, before he could answer basic questions from Republican friends on the committee, whose Party is the same.
I was so embarrassed for him, I could have cried. No one knows where he is now. And, even just a few days ago, POTUS still referred to him as an AG... “who didn’t have a clue”.
Something brutal must have happened to Sessions. His reaction to it was real and visible (imho) and quite understandable, but it did hurt the president, who counted on Justice rising and Finally landing a heavy footprint, against the deeply embedded Department corruption,and a far sooner than now.
I just found this on CTH, amazing to connecting dots; so I thought some might like it; I posted the written part of the article, but there are videos, grafts and other things you might want to look at, I will enclose the link for those of you that want to see the whole thing:
Carter Page Had a More Important Use Beyond a FISA Warrant….
It has never made sense that U.S. Person Carter Page was an FBI witness from 2013 through to March/May 2016 and yet in October 2016, to achieve a FISA warrant, the FBI called him an agent of a foreign government. [FISA APPLICATION]
It just never made any sense; perhaps, until today.
Put yourself in the mindset within the highly political small group at the DOJ and FBI who have a plan to help Hillary Clinton win the presidency.
From October 2015 through early March 2016 Fusion GPS was assembling opposition research on all the GOP candidates. However, mid-March it became obvious Donald Trump was going to win, so all other efforts were side-lined and Trump becomes the Fusion-GPS focus. Billionaire Paul Singer, a Rubio backer, drops funding for Fusion-GPS Trump research; the DNC and Clinton campaign take over the payments.
After carefully negotiating issues with the Clinton email scandal, the FBI small group has successfully announced Hillary Clinton was ‘extremely careless’ but not ‘intentionally grossly negligent’. The team timed the whitewash to conclude prior to the conventions.
Now it’s July 21st, 2016, and candidate Donald Trump has made his acceptance speech at the GOP convention in Columbus, Ohio. In ten days Operation Crossfire Hurricane will officially begin after CIA Director John Brennan gives FBI Director James Comey a two-page “electronic communication” memo to kick things off. Things are going according to plan.
In the background CIA Director Brennan was running an international operation against peripheral figures within the Trump campaign since March. The goal was to create the appearances needed to generate surveillance, and launch the FBI counterintelligence operation.
Through the use of Five-Eyes allies in Australia and the U.K, by July 31st the Brennan op had successfully created suspicious appearances for Paul Manafort, George Papadopolous, Michael Flynn and Carter Page; Brennan turns the “EC” over to James Comey and Andrew McCabe. Crossfire Hurricane, led by FBI Agent Peter Strzok is off and running. Things are going according to plan.
HPSCI Final Report Link (page #12)
On July 28th, 2016, Hillary Clinton accepts the democrat presidential nomination. The DOJ and FBI now get down to business conducting surveillance on the Trump campaign and defending Hillary’s interests.
Simultaneously, Glenn Simpson, Nellie Ohr and Mary Jacoby of Fusion-GPS have contracted with former British Intelligence Officer Christopher Steele to receive information from their research, verify it, enhance it, and compile it into a set of memos that can be used to align with the Russian conspiracy narrative constructed by Brennan.
There is now an official investigation, Crossfire Hurricane via the FBI, and an unofficial investigation, dossier assembly via Steele and Fusion, underway. Watch carefully, later it will become part of a collaborative effort to merge these two elements.
HPSCI Final Report Link (page #12)
On July 28th, 2016, Hillary Clinton accepts the democrat presidential nomination. The DOJ and FBI now get down to business conducting surveillance on the Trump campaign and defending Hillary’s interests.
Simultaneously, Glenn Simpson, Nellie Ohr and Mary Jacoby of Fusion-GPS have contracted with former British Intelligence Officer Christopher Steele to receive information from their research, verify it, enhance it, and compile it into a set of memos that can be used to align with the Russian conspiracy narrative constructed by Brennan.
There is now an official investigation, Crossfire Hurricane via the FBI, and an unofficial investigation, dossier assembly via Steele and Fusion, underway. Watch carefully, later it will become part of a collaborative effort to merge these two elements.
Throughout the summer things are going swimmingly. Hillary is on track, albeit taking too much time off the campaign trail, and her campaign is being briefed by Fusion on the overall Russia collusion narrative effort. Emissaries networked between the FBI/DOJ, the intelligence community and the Clinton campaign are aligned through mutual channels.
On August 5th, former interim CIA Director Mike Morell publishes an Op-ed in the New York Times saying: “In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.”
[Not coincidentally Mr. Morell was Hillary’s CIA safety net following Benghazi when CIA Director General David Petraeus had to be removed by DNI James Clapper. {Go Deep}]
On the same day as the Morell Op-Ed… Hillary Clinton releases the following video. Knowing what you know now about the CIA/DOJ/FBI Trump-operation, watching this in hindsight might just blow your mind. WATCH:
The hindsight coordination visible here is stunning. [That video might disappear]
Crossfire Hurricane is ongoing. Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele are ongoing. The only thing not working according to plan is the media fully embracing the material being provided by Fusion and Steele and publishing it. The media are reluctant because the dossier material is almost impossible to validate and verify.
Reminder…. There is now an official investigation, Crossfire Hurricane via the FBI, and an unofficial investigation, dossier assembly via Steele and Fusion, underway.
On August 15th, 2016, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok have a meeting with Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. At the conclusion of that meeting, Peter Strzok sends a text message to Ms. Page:
“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office -that there’s no way he gets elected- but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
Here’s where Carter Page is about to come in; but first more context…
Crossfire Hurricane is actually a surveillance operation and counterintelligence operation against the Trump campaign based on the originating “EC” from Brennan. Crossfire Hurricane is also part of the background Russian conspiracy narrative being pushed by the Clinton campaign. However, Crossfire Hurricane is also mostly invisible except for leaks. Leaks can be risky; and they don’t want to tip-off the Trump campaign.
Meanwhile, despite their earnest efforts Fusion-GPS and Christopher Steele are not getting much media traction on their dossier. The media whispers are louder, most of them know about it, but no real traction on pushing specific stories.
On August 25th Hillary Clinton gives a speech in Reno Nevada where she outlines how the “Alt Right” and Russian agents/bots are behind an effort to destroy her campaign. To many people the speech just seemed goofy and paranoid. She was mocked for it.
Mysteriously Clinton disappeared for almost two weeks after that “Alt Right” speech, and resurfaced on September 11th in New York for a 9/11 event. This is when she had that mysterious collapsing episode, and was thrown in the van like a sack of potatoes. With each cough and stumble the possibility and risk of a Trump victory increases.
On September 29th, 2016, the FBI received word from New York that new Clinton emails were uncovered in the Weiner/Abedin laptop. Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok buried the issue, assuming (hoping) that Clinton would win the election. The laptop would be avoided by the FBI until October 27th. [backstory] Undoubtedly the Clinton campaign team was notified.
On October 19th Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump square off in their final debate. During the debate Clinton calls Trump “a puppet of Putin”. Clinton suggested that Trump would be a “puppet” for Putin, who has a “very clear favorite in this race.” “No, you’re the puppet!” Trump responded.
Clinton said 17 U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that recent cyber attacks targeting the U.S. election came from Russia. “She has no idea” where the hacking originated, Trump argued. Clinton accused Trump of taking Putin’s word over the conclusions of the U.S. military and intelligence professionals, calling it “frightening.” LINK
Two days after this debate, October 21st, the FBI rushed an application to the FISA court for a Title-1 surveillance warrant against U.S. person Carter Page.
It has never made sense that U.S. Person Carter Page was an FBI witness from 2013 through to March/May 2016 and yet in October 21st 2016, to achieve a FISA warrant, the FBI called him an agent of a foreign government. [FISA APPLICATION] To get the FISA application approved they used the Christopher Steele Dossier.
Up to now the operating assumption has been that the FBI used the Steele Dossier to get the FISA warrant approved. They used the FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign.
However, if you assess the context of the time-frame; and consider the Trump campaign was already under surveillance from the July 31st “EC”; and then overlay the aspects around Carter Page that have never made sense; a different picture emerges.
The FBI didn’t need the FISA warrant for additional investigation. The FBI needed a Russia narrative and to protect themselves from Trump. The FBI needed the Steele Dossier to justify their pre-existing investigation and mount a defense in the event of a Trump victory.
It was the Steele Dossier they needed.
What is Fusion-GPS’s Steele Dossier without Carter Page?
ithout Carter Page, the Steele Dossier is an assembled political file with a bunch of speculative claims about the opposition campaign of a presidential candidate. Without Carter Page, the Steele Dossier is a binder of information, a file, sitting on a desk at the FBI essentially useless. It also came in AFTER their surveillance/investigation began.
How could the FBI ever justify investigating the opposition research of a rival candidate for office? How could they ever get past the sourcing issues? How could they explain their blind eye to the provenance? How could they ever justify using the Steele Dossier?
They need some justification to exploit the Dossier. The FBI needed to use Carter Page as a way to inject the Steele Dossier into a pre-existing investigation of the Trump campaign.
The FBI didn’t use the Steele Dossier as a way to exploit Carter Page for a FISA warrant against the Trump campaign. The FBI used Carter Page as a way to inject the Steele Dossier into a pre-existing investigation of the Trump campaign.
The FBI didn’t use the Steele Dossier as a way to exploit Carter Page for a FISA warrant against the Trump campaign. The FBI used Carter Page as a way to inject the Steele Dossier into a pre-existing investigation of the Trump campaign.
Carter Page was never an actual target any more than Russia interference was genuine threat within the campaigns. Both were complete fabrications. Despite calling him an agent of a foreign government, Carter Page was never charged. However, for the sake of protecting themselves, and continuing to keep a President Trump undermined, it was the Dossier that was important, not the FISA warrant. To get the dossier “in” they needed Carter Page.
With the Dossier in the official investigative bloodstream, the FBI could exploit the content and their media allies could assist in framing an actual, albeit completely fabricated, Russian conspiracy narrative. The Russia narrative could then serve multiple purposes and even launch another FBI investigation in May 2017 per Andrew McCabe.
Once the FBI and Robert Mueller had used the Steele Dossier to generate the needed narrative; and once the counterintelligence investigation into Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn and Michael Cohen had successfully ensnared them and Mueller shut them down on unrelated issues; then the dossier had exhausted its usefulness, and was dispatched along with the FISA on Carter Page.
Once Manafort, Papadopoulos, Flynn and Cohen were under control, all efforts were on “obstruction” 24/7/365.
No wonder Christopher Steele was surprised to hear his Dossier work product was used to launch a counterintelligence investigation…. because, here’s the key takeaway, it wasn’t.
The Dossier was used to validate and justify, albeit fraudulently, a pre-existing investigation. That pre-existing counterintelligence investigation, a political surveillance operation under the color of FBI legitimacy, originated from the sketchy Brennan intelligence operation in early 2016.
“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office -that there’s no way he gets elected- but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
Carter Page was not accused of being an agent of a foreign government to get a FISA warrant; that was secondary. Carter Page was accused of being an agent of a foreign government to get the Dossier into the investigation.
It was the Dossier that became important and useful in mid-October 2016, not Carter Page. One of the issues that raised the joint DOJ importance and FBI urgency was realizing they were going to have to do something before the election with the Weiner/Abedin laptop, which they announced on October 27th.
[…] “We found that what changed between September 29 and October 27 that finally prompted the FBI to take action was not new information about what was on the Weiner laptop but rather the inquiries from the SDNY prosecutors and then from the Department. The only thing of significance that had changed was the calendar and the fact that people outside of the FBI were inquiring about the status of the Weiner laptop.” (IG Report pg 331)
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It was the dossier they needed most, not Carter Page.
Mind blowing. We have to sometimes wonder where we would be, in America, without Peter Schweitzer’s deeply investigative reporting.
He has advanced soo many arguments that reveal the indisputable trails of real and hard evidence that have given us a hell of a jump on exposing corruption.
Stunning that Hillary and Bill never succeeded in disputing a single word that Peter wrote in “Clinton Cash”.
If ONE MAN can unravel all these untouchable details, think what the Justice Department and the FBI could be doing if they wanted to.
Do we even need the Department and the Bureau, when we’ve got Reporters like Peter?
Texie,
You won’t believe what I found looking for Rabbit holes.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/youtube-exec-denies-the-existence-of-rabbit-hole-effect.html
youtube Mar. 29, 2019
YouTube Exec Denies the Existence of ‘Rabbit Hole Effect’ that Definitely Exists
In an interview with the New York Times published today, YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan denied that the company has a business interest in pushing users toward extremist content. “It is not the case that ‘extreme’ content drives a higher version of engagement or watch time than content of other types,” he said. He also reiterated that, gosh, YouTube is just so vast and it’s so tough to balance user safety and information integrity with concerns about freedom of speech — a standard talking point for large platforms.
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