Posted on 10/29/2017 4:43:45 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Thanks for thread A.B. And the Refs you sent to the Ohio State game did not save Penn State. Anyone: What is P.D.J.T.?
Rod-I have thought about this for many years. How exactly did this obscure man end up as the President? With the corruption of the FBI, DOJ and State, we will likely never know. What Trump is doing is letting us have a peak at all the snakes in the swamp. I pray for his security and that of his family.
Looks like LS suggests that its gonna be Manafort and Podesta fingered by the Mule team,LS has a good record,I guess we shall see.
As for Krauthammer,we reported here early on that zero/val jar were only two miles away from the White House.
Zero’s goal,doing the wishes of his employers—creating more chaos— creating a brownshirt army that would go after us in any way they could, is now a reality.
Are they,OFA, implicated in Vegas,Charlottesville, other ops? Difficult to say. But I would not count it out.
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Likely right...I hope PDJT has a plan to combat obama/ofa. I believe he has the goods like Hannity says...he’s likely letting Mueller show his cards first.
Exactly I totally agree and pray myself.
“there will be lots of anti-Trump sound bites that will be played endlessly this week.”
On the same networks that only libs watch? The echo chamber continues.
The son of a mailman will be on FNS...what hot air will he be talking about....? I don’t care about that AntiTrump jerk...
• Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.
Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
Pay attention to intriguing poster Kahuna
The intriguing question this morn is will the Sunday talk shows discuss Unanium One, Fusion GPS and other matters of Clinton/Obama corruption with Russia.
Stay around and let’s see.
Mark Cuban? Heh.
Mark Cuban seems like a nice enough guy but he trends liberal and I’m not convinced he’s all that smart.
Yes he’s a millionaire and stars on one of my favorite shows, Shark Tank.
I’ll take Lori Lanier over Mark and yeah, she could run for President as well.
Thursday Date-10/26/17
The Russian Uranium One Scandal
I’m following this story people but it’s a mess.
Let’s cull everything to the back burner and bring up the big question that every single Sunday political talk show host should ask:
“WHY WOULD WE SELL URANIUM TO THE RUSSIANS? WHY WOULD WE SELL OUR URANIUM TO ANY OTHER COUNTRY?”
We also learn that the FBI had a covert operative who filtered into the Russian ring working for Putin. Somehow, the FBI had the guy sign an agreement NOT to tell anyone what he saw, heard or learned.
We learn that the FBI isn’t a federal police force, that it is a force of its own and evidently over at the FBI they do what they what and bribe for stuff the current administration might want.
I’m not sure what the hell a dossier is or who Christopher Steele is. Or Fusion GPS….what the hell?
I am a political junkee and I’m reading and listening and if nothing else, pay attention to Sean Hannity on the radio and TV.
I’m working my way through the morass of the swamp but again, let us begin with the sole question every American has a right to an answer to:
“WHY ARE WE SELLING AMERICAN URANIUM TO RUSSIA?”
We’ll work on GPS Fusion, Christopher Steele, the joke we call the FBI….later.
Friday Date-10/27/17
G.H.Bush a groper?
Now two women have come out and accused former President George Herbert Bush and, indeed, there are some pictures that show the disabled 93 year old man with his hands where they ought not to be.
Further, Bush Sr. himself admitted his transgressions and apologizes to all women he might have offended with his silly joke.
Let me stand up right proud and tall and say something. Yes I am a former women’s libber and no, I am not proud of that.
I disliked men in my youth because I thought women were treated unfair.
Here I am, in the twilight of my years, and still women are treated unfair.
FIRST….women DO NOT LIKE TO HAVE STRANGE MEN’S HANDS ON THEIR PRIVATE PARTS!!!!
How difficult is this to understand? What law of logic makes it hard for men to understand this, including former presidents who say it was a joke.
WE’RE NOT LAUGHING!!!
Now I understand that folks get old, senile, get a snippet of dementia and have hands that go places on their own. But in the case of Bush Sr., he admitted he did it and says it did it for a joke.
Why on earth would a man think a woman would laugh at a man she does not love, or even know, who puts his hands on her boobs? Often in public? Do men really think this is something that turns women on?
Allow me to insert a caveat here. For proof that my days as a women’s libber are over, I declare that the vast majority of men do not exhibit such behavior….the way vast majority.
Most men get that groping a woman uninvited is not classy. Or they have daughters and wives and sisters of their own who they want groped.
My experience, and it’s anecdotal only, is the men doing this sort of thing are usually wielding some kind of power and want a free feel up, maybe more, for favors that might come.
Which is not to say that all men with power engage in such behavior, again, a caveat.
But we got presidents doing this kind of thing….never mind that horrible Bill Clinton who thinks that all of femaledom wants to mate with him.
I might just go out and march again.
Saturday Date-10/28/17
The Kennedy papers
The assassination of John F. Kennedy has been the subject of interest this past week. I have, long ago, decided that Lee Harvey Oswald operated by himself but will not discount a role by Russia and/or Cuba.
So with new papers released over this killing in 1963, I, first, recall my experience with this action.
I was 13, living in Harford county Maryland, living on a farm. I was at school when the teacher got called out of the room in the middle of class. We all squirmed in our seats. This was odd.
When the teacher came back in the class she somberly told us that the president has been shot and that school buses will be coming early to take us all home.
It was a wild weekend on the farm. My Dad came home from working in Baltimore and we turned on the TV. There was nothing else on for the entire weekend and we watched David Brinkley and Chet Huntley tell us over and over about what happened, what was thought to have happened, tears, national sadness.
And then there was, in the middle of all this, the one and only odd thing that happened with this murder with some nothing-burger Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. IN FRONT OF EVERYONE!
I never understand this dedication of Jack Ruby as he was….just an ordinary, not too awful bright, guy, an average nobody. If anything was suspicious about the killing of JFK is what the Jack Ruby part of the story.
Now we learn that some journalist got notice of the assassination allegedly almost a half an hour before it took place. I can dismiss this as bad timing as the journalist was European and there’s different time zones and what with this Las Vegas shooter and all the bad timelines for this I see that tidbit as dismissable.
There is also verbiage about Dallas cop Trippett being part of the assassination. Trippett was also shot on the day of the assassination.
We hear the CIA reports saying Oswald was tracked travelling through Mexico.
Why was the CIA tracking Oswald at all, BEFORE the assassination, I must ask.
At any rate, I am not convinced that JFK was killed by anyone but Lee Harvey Oswald but again, I think there was Russian/Cuban influences, if only through newspaper accounts of the day.
If we make it expensive to get them out of jail the one thing that matters to these deep staters,losing cash,will take a toll. They will be forced to think twice about hiring goons to disrupt most anything they can.
Also, one thing not mentioned by Krauthammer is that Obama has not changed anything he does. He is still a fundraiser-in-chief,only this time for OFA. Ironically, he is in competition with the DNC,Dem party and Berny fundraisers. Ozero winds up screwing the ones who brought him to the ball,just too good.
What is OFA?
Sorry, I get it. Got to read the Krauthammer article.
So while I’m wasting a post here, let me say that all of this obsfucation, lies and misdirection is all to PROTECT FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!
He’s our first black president. The GOPe (and many in the regular ranks) all knew what was going on.
The fight is to keep Obama from going down in history as a traitor trying to help the Muslims take over America.
This is why all the lies, etc. They are protecting Obama, not necessarily the Clintons.
The Clintons are banking on it. It was part of the deal.
OFA=Organizing for Obama—once a group supposedly for his election and reelection. Now a group that hires everyone from MS13 on down to help tear the country apart any chance they get.Part of the impeach Trump group.
OFA = Organizing for America. Was Organizing for Obama.
Think of ACORN merged with a Clinton Foundation clone.
Bet the Dems don’t like Trey Gowdy much.
All leftists - either from the DNC/CPUSA or the GOPE - and all managed by the Marxist Propaganda Media
No conservatives
Mueller will NOT indict the Molesta Podesta bros - too close to Comrade Hellary and his own cover-up criminality.
At least not now...
He definitely was loyal to the Russians, "tell Vlad I'll have more flexibility after the election",finally he forces the sale of 20 % of our uranium past enough watchdog agencies that he fulfills his mandate of being a Russian plant.
Also he was loyal to the MB putting Muslim Brotherhood agents everywhere in govt. he possibly could. He helped them takeover Egypt for a while and did everything he could to advance sharia/islam on a worldwide basis especially here in the US.
Also his aide to the cabal by creating chaos everywhere he could also on a worldwide basis. Including aiding the Arab Spring,creating chaos,Isis. All the above helped his mandate of creating chaos for the illuminati.
I guess we shall see tomorrow.....
Well, good evening and welcome to “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” We are beginning tonight with a story we just learned a few hours ago, a story that amazed us.
Last night on this show, we told you about how the Podesta group, a lobbying firm co-founded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign — and John Podesta and his brother Tony have been sucked into the independent counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of alleged Russian interference in American politics. Before last night’s show was even over, we got an email from a man with direct personal knowledge of that story.
The man, whose name we can’t reveal for the time being, is a former senior employee of the Podesta Group. He worked there for years. He said he was motivated to contact us by the disgust he felt watching media coverage of the Russia story. Not only were most reporters getting it wrong he said, they were getting it backward. The Russians were in fact deeply involved in American politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 presidential campaign.
Well, intrigued, we agreed to meet with that source today. He just left our offices here in Washington a couple of hours ago. The story he told us is astonishing. We will be following up on it, confirming more of it and bringing you details throughout this week and after.
But first, here’s an overview of what he told us: Media reports describe Paul Manafort as a central figure in the Russia investigation due to the several months he spent as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman. According to our source, that’s only half true. Manafort is indeed at the center of this investigation, but not because of his ties to Trump. In fact, Paul Manafort spent years working with the Podesta Group on behalf of Russian government interests.
That relationship extends back to at least 2011 when our source claims Manafort had dinner in Washington with both Podestas, Tony and John. In the years following, our sources says, he saw Paul Manafort in the Podesta Group offices, quote, “all the time.” At least once a month. Manafort was not there to socialize, he was representing Russian business and political interests, who sought to influence Capitol Hill, Hillary Clinton’s State Department and the Obama administration.
Our source describes Manafort bringing what he called a parade of Russian oligarchs up to the Congress where they met with members and their staffs. But the central effort to extend Russian influence was focused on the executive branch, the Obama administration. The vehicle through which Paul Manafort worked for the Russians was a shell group called the European Center for a Modern Ukraine.
Now, the group supposedly was based in Belgium, but it had no actual offices there. It had in fact only two employees, both of them based in Ukraine. Their telephone number in Brussels rang in Kiev. It was a sham. Yet it did have a presence here in Washington. The European Center for a Modern Ukraine was a major client of the Podesta Group.
Now, why did the Russians choose the Podesta group? Well, because both Podestas were close to the Clintons and Hillary was then Secretary of State. She could get things done for the Podestas’ Russian clients. It was influence peddling, the most obvious kind.
For example, our source says that at John Podesta’s recommendation, his brother Tony hired a man named David Adams. Now, before joining the Podesta group, Adams worked at the State Department as assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs. He was also chief legislative adviser to Hillary Clinton. As part of his job, Adam’s personally briefed Hillary Clinton every day.
He aided in the confirmation of at least 122 political nominees at state. By hiring him in 2013, our source says, the Podesta Group got a direct liaison between their offices and by extension their Russian clients, and Hillary’s State Department. Sometimes, our source said, ties between the Podesta Group and the Clintons were explicit. Tony Podesta spoke regularly to Hillary Clinton while she ran the State Department.
Our source remembers Podesta’s assistant announcing that, quote, “Secretary Clinton is on the line.” At one point in either 2013 or maybe early 2014, our source says a meeting was held that included both Tony Podesta and a representative of the Clinton Foundation. The explicit subject of that meeting? How to assist Uranium One, that’s the Russian owned company that controls 20 percent of American uranium production, and whose board members gave more than $100 million to the Clinton Foundation.
As our source put it, quote, “Tony Podesta was basically part of the Clinton Foundation.” Now, apparently there was not a lot of pretending about this internally at the Podesta group. According to our source, Manafort was clear, crystal clear that Russia wanted to cultivate ties to Hillary Clinton in the belief she was likely to become president. These links to Hillary were apparently quite valuable to the Russians.
Our source believes that the Russian money Manafort funnel to the Podesta Group greatly exceeds the roughly $1 million they were officially paid. That’s what he said. Some of these payments he indicated could be hidden kickbacks that would be hard for investigators to trace. Our source described the Podesta groups books as, quote, “A treasure trove, and highly secret.”
He told us the Podesta group had no board overseeing it and that all financial decisions internally were made by Tony Podesta personally. The group’s employees he said included a person whose only official job was managing Tony Podesta’s art collection. It would be obviously pretty easy for an organization like that to conceal financial transactions. Now, the source we spoke to has been interviewed extensively by Robert Mueller’s independent investigators.
In press accounts, Mueller’s investigation is still framed for a hunt for collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the government of Russia. Our source says investigators are in fact very interested in Manafort’s behavior while he ran the Trump campaign, but otherwise that description is mostly bogus. The investigation has broadened now to determine which people and which organizations in Washington have spent years working secretly as de facto operatives on behalf of Russian government and business interests.
The Podesta group is chief among these. Quote, “They are more focused on facilitators of Russian influence in this country,” says our source, “than they are on election collusion.” “The Podesta Group,” he says, quote, “is in their cross hairs.”
Now, we should note the obvious, which is that many of the lobbying efforts are source described to us today are not yet illegal necessarily and that tells you a lot about modern American politics.
But if true, the story we heard overturns much of what we think we know about Russian attempts to influence American policy. We believe our source is telling the truth. We don’t think he has reason to lie to us. The facts we’ve been able to check have turned out to be accurate. We believe our source has exposed behavior that undermines this country, but that unfortunately is common here in Washington.
We plan to proceed carefully as we report this out, but we will proceed bringing you everything we find. We suspect there’s a lot there.
Yes, we shall see tomorrow.
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Clarice does her best to explain what is going on with Fusion gps,Podesta,hillary and the rest. Very well done, excellent posts, over 200 already.
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Today's talking point "it was never hillary's fault in the uranium debacle it was the nine govt. agencies that allowed it." this inadvertently shifts blame to zero,gently throwing him under the short bus, for allowing the nine agencies to allow the sale of 20% of our uranium.
Moe the dem just advanced this on Wall Asses show now some old dem gal who is out of politics blaming it all on Free Beacon. The dems have all their chatting points down. Wall ass amazingly corrects her. The dems seem convinced Mueller is bought and paid for by their side.We shall see.
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