Posted on 04/22/2018 4:28:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
April 22nd, 2018
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): French President Emmanuel Macron.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez; Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; White House legislative affairs director Marc Short.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif; former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Perez; Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Corker; White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.
Yeah!
Ain’t that something?
Good news for us is no news to them.
Like spoiled children, they’ll move on to the next shiny bauble.
Good catch! Analyzing what Blackwater does is waaaay above my pay grade I just don’t know.
Whoa, rodguy...you have been up all night preparing your research so we can be ahead of the curve!
You deserve a FREEPR reporter badge!
How do you do it? I would have to do speed to keep up with you...but that was a long time ago.ha
Thanks for all your efforts.
Here’s an overall view of what may be going on in Saudi Arabia it’s several months old.
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https://steemit.com/news/@ladyrebecca/saudi-coup-backed-by-american-mercenaries
Saudi Coup backed by American Mercenaries
ladyrebecca (61) in news • 5 months ago
American mercenaries are involved in torturing and interrogating the high-ranking Saudi officials arrested following Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s anti-corruption purge. Among those detained three weeks ago are 11 members of the Saudi royal family and hundreds of high officials and businessmen.
According to an article in ‘The Daily Mail’, which quotes several sources, at least 150 American mercenaries hired by the Crown Prince are tasked with guarding and interrogating the prisoners. The mercenaries belong to the American private military company Academi, better known by the name Blackwater, as it was called at the time of the American invasion of 2003. During those times, Blackwater received several government contracts to guard American officials deployed to Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Blackwater was also involved in providing security for some of the oil fields operated by American companies in Iraq. The company had to change its name following numerous incidents in which innocent Iraqi civilians were gunned down by Blackwater employees.
As for the company’s presence in Saudi Arabia, it appears the Crown Prince is not very confident of the loyalty of the troops under his command, which is why he had to bring in foreigners.
”A high-profile Saudi twitter account, @ Ahdjadid, which posts what is said to be inside information, also claimed Salman has brought in at least 150 ‘Blackwater’ guards.
Saudi whistleblower Ahdjadid tweeted: ‘The first group of Blackwater mercenaries arrived in Saudi Arabia a week after the toppling of bin Nayef [Salman’s predecessor as crown prince].
‘They were around 150 fighters. Bin Salman sent some of them to secure bin Nayef’s place of detention and the rest he used for his own protection.’”
Appointed Crown Prince in 2015, Bin Nayef was replaced by Mohammed Bin Salman in june 2017.
Royal jail at the Ritz
Among those arrested and currently detained at the Ritz Carlton in Ryadh is billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, worth some 16 billion dollars. Sources quoted by the ‘The Daily Mail’ say the Prince was hung upside down during his interrogation.
The same sources say that Blackwater mercenaries were also used to guard the Lebanese premier Saad Hariri, who was detained in Saudi Arabia for about two weeks. During that period, Hariri announced his resignation, a move that sent shock waves through Lebanon. President Michel Aoun tweeted that the Lebanese premier was being detained in Ryadh by Blackwater mercenaries. Hariri returned to Beirut on Tuesday and announced that his resignation is ‘on hold’ for the time being.
Blackwater mercenaries have also been employed by the Saudi to fight in Yemen, where several of them were killed by Yemeni forces.
The Saudi King-in-waiting
Nobody knows exactly what the Saudi Crown Prince is up to, although this whole anti-corruption business looks more like an ordinary power grab. Last week, there were rumors Saudi king Salman was about to resign, paving the way for Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to assume full power.
President Donald Trump has expressed full support for the Crown Prince’s latest moves. ‘I have great confidence in King Salman and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. They know exactly what they are doing...’ , Trump tweeted.
In other words, the Saudi Crown Prince has Trump’s full blessing.
Needless to say, Academi has denied any involvement in Saudi Arabia.
Just lucky. Got a late start today 4:30.
Kellyanne now on with F&F on FNC.....
If the Sauds have all this intel, why would they give it up and who would they give it to?
It looks like massive anti-Islam reform going on there which can get people killed in the center of Islam.
Where is Robbie Mook's book about the 2016 campaign?
Where is John Kerry's memoir?
It's almost like they're afraid to publish something that runs counter to the 'official narrative'.
That’s probably the nature of the coup.ONe of the sidelines. The Saudis won’t give it up since some of it tells of their participation in 911 and who knows what else. They will probably do anything to keep it under their control but if it can be stolen by a coup or whatever......
All bets are off.
N.B.: Never forget that Russia and China are also signatories to the JCPA (Iran Deal). The Russians constructed Iran’s nuclear reactor and there are plans for three more. Corker is the one who led the bogus deal that allowed Obama to get Senate “approval” for the deal by turning the Senate rules on their head by requiring that two-thirds of the Senate had to vote against the deal for it to be rejected.
Corker and Alexander are supporting legislation that will require Congressional involvement in future US actions in Syria. IMO this is not a bad thing. We are in Syria to eliminate ISIS, not for regime change.
Should I set my TV to French language for FNS today?
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Tuesday Date-4/17/18
In fact I did finally go see happaquiddick last week.
The main characters included:
Ted Kennedy-Jason Clarke
Mary Jo Kopechne-Kate Mara
Joseph Kennedy-Bruce Dern
As described on IMDB:
The scandal and mysterious events surrounding the tragic drowning of a young woman, as Ted Kennedy drove his car off the infamous bridge, are revealed in the new movie starring Jason Clarke as Ted Kennedy and Kate Mara as Mary Jo Kopechne. Not only did this event take the life of an aspiring political strategist and Kennedy insider, but it ultimately changed the course of presidential history forever. Through true accounts, documented in the inquest from the investigation in 1969, director John Curran and writers Andrew Logan and Taylor Allen, intimately expose the broad reach of political power, the influence of America’s most celebrated family; and the vulnerability of Ted Kennedy, the youngest son, in the shadow of his family legacy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5270948/?ref_=nv_sr_1
I did quite enjoy this movie but hasten to add it’s not for everyone. First, the viewer should be around 50 years old or more. The incident occurred in 1969. I was 19 years old.
It was also the year man walked on the moon with one small step for mankind.
The movie showed the accident and provided to me a few things I did not know.
First, I had no idea the water was so darn shallow! All these years I thought the water in which the car plunged was many feet deep, which is part of the reason Mary Jo Kopechne could not get out.
The movie shows the car floating upside down and it’s right there on the surface!
After all these years, I find Ted Kennedy even more despicable than before.
Of course the deaths of Teddy’s three older brothers was part of the movie action. John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy were both killed by an assassin’s bullet, this I knew. I also knew, vaguely and somewhere in the back of my mind, that there was the eldest Kennedy son who died during World War II.
No matter the gossip and scuttlebutt through the years, three Kennedy sons die in service of this country and deserved our admiration.
But America got a little carried away and Ted Kennedy was nowhere near the hero his older brothers were.
Ted Kennedy was a big zero and beyond Chappaquiddick there was the incident of the “waitress sandwich”, the out-of-control beer parties, the secret trip to Moscow to try and rid the world of Jimmy Carter,yes, from his own political party.
The relationship between Ted and his father was portrayed, rather nastily and to my great doubt, for which there is no proof.
Yes, Teddy’s father declared he will always be a loser, which he sort of was.
For Ted Kennedy went on to become the so-called “Lion of the Senate”.
He was no such thing.
I also learned some new details about the Chappaquiddick incident. The main one is the fact that Ted Kennedy told the world, and the world believes it to this day, that he had a concussion the night of the crash, was disoriented, and because of this, he did not recover enough to report the accident until the next morning.
It is believed, and portrayed as such in the movie, that Kopechne did not die of drowning. Instead she managed to find an air pocket and might well have lived long enough had Ted Kennedy gotten help to her.
The tone of the movie does not make one dislike Ted Kennedy. My dislike of the man comes from how I’ve known him through the years. I did, however, like many Americans, adore JFK and his brother Robert Kennedy.
It was Ted Kennedy’s three older brothers, all perceived as being heroes of the country (rumors about JFK swirled after his death. Seems he had quite an eye for the ladies) who might have caused his weakness and belief that as a vaunted Kennedy it is okay to leave a vibrant young woman to die all alone in his car.
I enjoyed the movie, would recommend anyone with an interest in the subject matter, go to see it.
It is a great movie for old political junkees like myself.
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Wednesday Date-4/17/18
Honest and lovable James Comey
Folks, after two days of hearing James Comey’s pathetic and childish rantings, I’ve lost all respect for the FBI.
Not that this is anything new but this man is sad, really sad. I am going to pray for him.
Next week Comey will be forgotten.
It was announced that North and South Korea are going to announce an end to the Korean was.
It’s about time.
The world has tolerated that nutjob Kim-Jong-Un quite long enough. The people of North Korea are eating leaves and trash. That guy, with the worst haircut on the planet, has not one ounce of leadership or goodness in him.
It is to be cautioned that announcing a treaty doesn’t mean there still won’t be skirmishes between the two halves of Koreas.
We shall see.
This is the first airplane mishap since 2009. Most recently, airlines have more problems wlth passengers seated in wrong place and pets onboard.
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Thursday Date-4/19/18
I chanced to watch Alan Dershowitz on the Sean Hannity show recently. Dershowitz gave Hannity hell because he didn’t mention a short conversation he had with Trump private attorney, Cohen.
Dershowitz was really a jerk about it.
Yeah, for a while I was kind of liking Dershowitz but when push comes to shove, he’s got a book out now so he goes on Fox and pretends he’s now on the side of Conservatives.
Dershowitz should have kept his mouth shut but instead he acted like a jerk.
He’s no longer on my list. Click goes TV when he comes on.
Hannity had a one paragraph conversation with Cohen and Dershowitz says Hannity should “reveal” it?
Let’s start with George Steponallofus, who NEVER reveals his $75K he contributed to the Clinton foundation and then work our way through the mob of them.
“Rep. Ron DeSantis (FL-06) today sent a letter, along with several colleagues, to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and US Attorney John Huber, asking them to investigate several Obama-era officials for potential violation(s) of federal statutes. These officials include former FBI Director James Comey, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former Acting Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Counsel Lisa Page, among others. “
Man, it’s about time. These people have broken every law and folks, Jeff Sessions is letting them get away with it.
We will see where this goes.
PDF of criminal referral document below
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Friday Date-4/20/18
There is no need for Rand Paul to vote AGAINST Pompeo for Secretary of State. After all, he voted FOR Pompeo for CIA Director.
All of a sudden garbly mouthed Paul gets on TV with some silly-assed reason why he’s voting AGAINST Pompeo for Sec-State?
Rand Paul, your day is over. Get away from the damn camera!!
So the Southwest pilot who managed to land a plane with passengers struggling to get a woman out of the window to soon be launched into space. With said plane crippled by a missing motor that somehow fell off.
I am no plane expert, but motors are not supposed to fall off an airplane.
The PILOT WAS A WOMAN!!!
Don’t tell Rush Limbaugh that such a fact makes me happy. For Rush launched into a diatribe about how comes the great pilot Sully, who landed a plane in the Hudson river, is not referred to as a male pilot.
Well, Rush Limbaugh is a man. He doesn’t know what it’s like to have a female suddenly become a heroine for doing something that, until the last decade or so, women did NOT do.
I love Rush. But he really does not seem to like women very much.
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Saturday Date-4/21/18
Former first lady Barbara Bush will be buried today.
May she rest in peace. She was a woman of great humor and love.
Heh.
That’s the funniest thing I heard all week.
Also, Cohen will flip on Trump, and the DNC lawsuit is substantial jeopardy to Trump.
Pretty much more "Russia Russia Russia" from NBC. Spiced up with Trump hiring hookers and having Cohen the fixer bury the evidence.
Then over to CNN with Dana Bash filling in for the Jake Tapper Comedy Hour.
CNN harping on Cohen going to flip on Trump. Kellyanne says it is a diversion from the collapse of "Russia Russia Russia"
Dana says diversion is Trump's fault for tweeting. Who is unnamed sources and drunken loser? asks Dana. Kellyanne doesn't know.
Dana pushy oin this, is it approiate for the president to call somebody a drunken loser? Kellyanne says she is sure CNN will talk about this for the next week. LOL. Better than discussing NK, tax cuts, nominees being held up in the Senate, etc. I guess CNN doesn;t want to talk about that.
Dana says CNN would talk about those things but Trump's tweets prevent them from doing so.
On to Comey. If Comey is a liar, then how is "Comey says Trump wasn't under investigation" true?
Kellyanne says even McCabe is calling Comey a liar. Hahahah.
Last question ... what is up with Kellyanne's husbad's tweets, critical of the administration. Kellyanne says it is good to know that CNN now says it is fair game to go after the spouses. Kellyanne says to Dana that the question was meant to demean and embarrass. Cross the Rubicon moment. Dana says it was meant to be light hearted. kellyanne is having none of that.
Going to e fascinating going forward ... massive catfight.
Dana insinuates that going after McCabe because his wife took money from DEMs is the same thing as CNN going after Kellyanne for her husband's tweets.
She has no concerns over Pompeo, will vote to confirm him.
Has not made her mind up on Haskell (CIA).
Toad closes by asking about the Barbara Bush send off. Bush family has a big compound in Maine, Walker's Point.
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Criminal Referral for a whole bunch of former Obama officials requested by Ron DeSantis.
“Rep. Ron DeSantis (FL-06) today sent a letter, along with several colleagues, to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and US Attorney John Huber, asking them to investigate several Obama-era officials for potential violation(s) of federal statutes. These officials include former FBI Director James Comey, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former Acting Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Counsel Lisa Page, among others. “
Man, it’s about time. These people have broken every law and folks, Jeff Sessions is letting them get away with it.
We will see where this goes.
PDF of criminal referral document below
https://desantis.house.gov/_cache/files/8/0/8002ca75-52fc-4995-b87e-43584da268db/472EBC7D8F55C0F9E830D37CF96376A2.final-criminal-referral.pdf
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I’m listening to Macron, he’s an arrogant POS liberal,little else.
Who cares what Macron has to say? He has ruined his country and wants to come here and ruin ours. Wallace will be trying to get him to dump on Trump.
Dana Bash=hardcore, deep stater, liberal icon. Not worth the time to watch.
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