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Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Mueller is “closing in” – on what, no one seems able to say. – Last week was the week when Robert Mueller started “closing in”. That’s what everyone in our fake news media kept telling us, anyway, so it must be true, right? Well…ok. Supposedly, if all the talking heads on CNN and MSNBC are to be believed – which they most certainly are not – the sentencing memo related to Michael Cohen and the court filing in Mueller’s case against Paul Manafort contain all sorts of damaging allegations related to President...

The French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to his nation at 2pm Eastern time in the US today. He will break his verbal silence to address the challenge presented by the 'yellow vests' protest movement..... Climate change was on the agenda at a world conference in Katowice, Poland over the weekend..... The Battle of Brexit. Newspapers in the UK claimed that Prime Minister Theresa May won't allow her Brexit plan to be voted on Tuesday but her people said there would be a vote. May spoke to the Irish Prime Minister Sunday as well as the European Union leader Donald Tusk....

The number of arrests yesterday in France was raised even higher today to nearly 2,000. 1,939 is the latest number from the government, which also says that 136,000 people participated in the protests yesterday. Lawyers groups denounced the arbitrary nature of arrests, many of which were described as preventive by the authorities. People were arrested because they looked dangerous or were carrying items considered dangerous. 500 people were reported to still be in custody as of Sunday evening.....

"The gas is believed to be phosgene" As published around 5am by BBC News online, removed from later versions It was just last month (November 11th) that world leaders from some 80 nations gathered at the Arc de Triomphe to commemorate the end of World War I. It was reported earlier this morning that its believed a battlefield gas from World War I, phosgene, is being used in that same area against the "yellow vest" protesters today. An account on the BBC website saying that was published around 5am Eastern, but a later version did not mention it.....

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Paris Burning Watch: Reuters Top News ✔ @Reuters Paris in lockdown as France braces for new anti-Macron riots https://reut.rs/2RIwBKn 215 6:26 PM - Dec 7, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy Paris in lockdown as France braces for new anti-Macron riots Paris was in lockdown early on Saturday with thousands of French security forces braced to meet renewed rioting by "yellow vest" protesters in the capital and other cities in a fourth weeken... reuters.com 293 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Very predictable next step for President Emanuel...

A report by John Solomon of The Hill indicates that documents providing “the most damning evidence to date” of FISA abuses under Barack Obama have been requested for declassification by House Republicans. The documents include email exchanges between former FBI Director James Comey, investigators in the Russia probe and lawyers in the Department of Justice national security division. According to Solomon, the email conversations occurred prior to the FBI successfully securing a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign, and demonstrate the intelligence community had lingering doubts about the reliability of the infamous Steele dossier. That dossier was a...

The tactics resemble those used in 2016 in Oregon during the Oregon Standoff protest led by Ammon Bundy. Spread fear of "extremism" and "violence", target people for harassment or arrest and put people into the protest who claim to support it but who are there to disrupt it. An of course, militarize the police and create a "Red Dawn" occupation atmosphere. To underscore that armored vehicles are on the streets of Paris on Saturday. While the culture of protest is different in France, the tactics of the government are the same. On French television Friday night, the Prefect of Police...

When he appeared on television earlier this week "yellow vests" protester Eric Drouet said regarding the notion of protesting at the Presidential Palace. "If we arrive at the Elysee, we get into it" He is now being targeted by the Paris Public Prosecutor for "Provocation". Drouet said his comments were about peacefully entering the Elysee and not about violence in a Facebook video posted Thursday. Drouet's home was searched by police today (Friday). Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced today he is filing a complaint against Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, a Gaullist politician who ran for President against Emmanuel Macron in the last...

Over the last 32 years I’ve written many times about the unarguable fact that, to win the Democrat Party’s presidential nomination, a candidate must prove to be an especially accomplished and shameless liar. From Michael Dukakis to Bill Clinton to Al Gore to John Kerry to Barack Hussein Obama to the Pantsuit Princess, the nominees the Democrat Party has offered up to the American people over the last three decades reads like the murderers row in the grand pantheon of deceptive history. Democrat voters just love to be lied to. Enter Kamala Harris, about whom there has been so much...

The French police forces including the special CRS riot police will be as fully mobilized as possible in Paris and other locations tomorrow as the "yellow vests" protests move into their next phase of mobilization swelled by new supporters. 125-thousand plus were estimated to have protested last Saturday and its quite possible that the protests may be even larger tomorrow. The Prime Minister of France's increasingly unpopular President Emmanuel Macron, Edouard Philippe, appeared on the evening television news Thursday to say 89-thousand police are mobilized for tomorrow's protests....

Fearful rhetoric is coming from the highest levels of France's government as a source at the Presidential Elysee Palace told the "Le Figaro" newspaper that the 'yellow vests' are attempting a coup. That source was quoted by "Le Figaro": "They are putschists. We are in a putschist attempt." A "yellow vests" protester told a television program on BFM-TV Wednesday night that hoped to be in the Elysee Palace on Saturday. But that protester, Eric Drouet, set the record straight from his perspective in a "Facebook" video today (Thursday). Drouet said in part: "I do not call for hatred. I say...

by Imperator_Rex Uranium One and SpyGate are rigged to blow wide open. The Clinton’s money and information laundering fingerprints are all over both crimes, as REX explains. Apart from their ability to intimidate and silence anyone who may compromise them, there's one characteristic that defines the Clinton’s criminality: their ability to launder. 'Laundering', as most know, is a method of cleaning something. Innocent people launder dirty clothing. Criminals launder money. But what else are some criminals, especially the Clintons, good at laundering? INFORMATION. They use money laundering to increase their wealth. They use information laundering to increase their power. Their...

Hey, Bloomberg caught onto this reality just yesterday: Bloomberg Opinion ✔ @bopinion - No dinners with female colleagues - Don’t sit next to them on flights - Book hotel rooms on different floors - Avoid one-on-one meetings Wall Street's controversial strategies for the #MeToo era are making life even harder for women https://bloom.bg/2RvZYzx 1,064 6:47 PM - Dec 3, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost No more dinners with female colleagues. Don’t sit next to them on flights. Book hotel rooms on different floors. Avoid one-on-one meetings. bloomberg.com...

The government in France put out the word Wednesday night that the fuel tax would be suspended not just for six months, but for all of next year (2019). The leader of the opposition National Rally (former National Front) Marine Le Pen tweeted late Wednesday night that President Emmanuel Macron should pledge on his honor not to reintroduce the tax wit the amended budget in the spring. Whether this apparent concession will help stamp out protests is uncertain. Four have died and hundreds have been injured in the weeks of protests by the "yellow vests" but now high school and...

The House GOP leadership is responsible for blocking a pro-American immigration reform package which was backed by President Donald Trump, a top House chairman said Tuesday. The GOP leadership let the House immigration reform die in June by allowing a critical bloc of GOP legislators to split their votes between two rival reform bills, said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the retiring chairman of the House committee on the judiciary. “The strategy of having two options really let people have an off-ramp — they could vote for the more conservative bill and against the other, or vote for the second bill and...

NYT: Draft Version of Report on Moonves Sexual Harassment Situation Details Employee "On Call" To Provide Oral Sex, a "Transactional" Sexual Relationship With Four CBS Employees, and Management Knowing About Moonves' Misconduct But Doing Nothing Tweets from the NYT below the fold.

"There is not a smoking gun....there is a smoking saw" That's the assessment of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham regarding the involvement of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2nd. Graham said that the Saudi Crown Prince, commonly called "M-BS" is a:....... British Prime Minister Theresa May lost three votes in the House of Commons over Brexit Tuesday as her government was found in "contempt of Parliament"...... Nigel Farage announced Tuesday evening that he was leaving UKIP..... The French President, Emmanuel Macron, was booed and...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) “Ok, listen up. Here’s the plan: Strzok falsifies the 302s from his interview with Flynn. Then we bully him for months, raid his home, threaten his family, get a false guilty plea from him. And then…we let him off. Pure evil, right?” – Right. American Gestapo Chief, er, ‘special counsel’ Robert Mueller sent his 12 month overdue sentencing memo for General Mike Flynn to the judge in the case on Tuesday, and guess what? It calls for a fine (because ruining him financially just isn’t enough for Mueller and his evil minions)...

Rep. Barbara Lee will be joining the House Democratic leadership team, filling a key void for the caucus after its elections earlier this week left the group without a woman of color in the top ranks. Lee is expected to fill a new position being created by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to oversee the Steering and Policy Committee, the panel that determines committee assignments for Democrats. Pelosi’s decision expands leadership of the panel from two co-chairs to three. The decision to elevate Lee comes as a group of House Democrats, disappointed by both Lee’s narrow loss in the race for...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) This made my eyes water up a bit. – Here is a poem Sen. Orrin Hatch wrote to George and Barbara Bush in January 2013: For those who can’t read the handwriting, here is the text: You are resplendent in years and worth all the tears as we worry and hurry Through each eventful day in this great land made greater still by God’s firm hand and your strong will that searched for the better way every day Orrin G. Hatch Beautiful. Speaking of Bush 41… – All Americans should commend the...