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Next Week Will Be A Very Bad Week For Democrats and Their Media…
CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE ^ | 1/13/2018 | SUNDANCE

Posted on 01/13/2018 5:29:15 AM PST by bitt

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To: LS
In the story. Yes, months ago. TENEX. That’s U1 involvement.

Where did you go? I searched the whole article for the word "Tenex" and it doesn't even appear. So I searched Google for "Tenex conviction" and found one from back in 2015, as I originally said. That hardly classifies as "months ago" so still waiting for your response, and hoping you have something better. Thanks.

101 posted on 01/13/2018 8:53:20 AM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "I'm disappointed in the Attorney General. He should not have recused himself immediately...")
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To: bert

They should only be allowed to self-exile after serving serious time in a Fed SuperMax for their many, many crimes.


102 posted on 01/13/2018 8:57:00 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Golden Eagle
There were very minor Uranium One arrests back when Rosenstein was supposedly investigating it, but that was YEARS ago.

That was Rosenstein with (sleazy) Weissman, too, no?

A couple things I can't get past:

Trump meets with Rosenstein & Mueller the day before Mueller is appointed SC. There was surely a discussion of Rogers' NSA IG findings (85% of Obama era "about" requests reviewed from 2015-2016 were determined to not be legal based on findings of FISC in 4/17). Or Trump did not mention?

In testimony recently Rosenstein said he meets regularly with Trump. I thought I remembered Rosenstein was out of DoJ before Sessions brought him (back?) on board.

IMO Mueller is either deep state stooge who must also be so biased he's stupid falling for the likes of Papadopolous ... or somewhere in here, whether Mueller is good or bad, with IG riding alongside, greatest sting in history ... TBD ;)
103 posted on 01/13/2018 9:33:30 AM PST by Steven W.
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To: Golden Eagle
I searched the whole article for the word "Tenex" and it doesn't even appear.

See the source DoJ press release": "According to the indictment, beginning at least as early as 2009 and continuing until October 2014, Lambert conspired with others at “Transportation Corporation A” to make corrupt and fraudulent bribery and kickback payments to offshore bank accounts associated with shell companies, at the direction of, and for the benefit of, a Russian official, Vadim Mikerin, in order to secure improper business advantages and obtain and retain business with TENEX. In order to effectuate and conceal the corrupt and fraudulent bribe payments, Lambert and others allegedly caused fake invoices to be prepared, purportedly from TENEX to Transportation Corporation A, that described services that were never provided, and then Lambert and others caused Transportation Corporation A to wire the corrupt payments for those purported services to shell companies in Latvia, Cyprus and Switzerland. Lambert and others also allegedly used code words like “lucky figures,” “LF,” “lucky numbers,” and “cake” to describe the payments in emails to the Russian official at his personal email account. The indictment also alleges that Lambert and others caused Transportation Corporation A to overbill TENEX by building the cost of the corrupt payments into their invoices, and TENEX thus overpaid for Transportation Corporation A’s services."

If Russia wants to ship uranium that is in the ground here in the USA, they are going to have to ship it. One down, who's next? Who would like to be "Transportation Corporation B"? ;)


104 posted on 01/13/2018 9:40:04 AM PST by Steven W.
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To: bitt

After BOOM! I trust that I can break into my happy dance.

Like frog marching and orange jumpsuits...boom.

5.56mm


105 posted on 01/13/2018 9:44:35 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Geronimo

The same here, FRiend!


106 posted on 01/13/2018 9:46:32 AM PST by Grampa Dave (America had regime change 20 Jan 2017! ISIS collapsed! Are Iran/Our media, the DNC/FBI/DOJ/CIA next?)
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To: bitt; Jim Robinson

Regardless.

Thanks for following Sundance and posting what he/they present.

This is an example of why 99% of my news comes from Free Republic.

I can quickly scan any new post, check out/go to the referenced article. Then, decide if I want to read any more from the original article.

Most of the boom posts and posts re Fake News get at most a few seconds of my time.

Keep the good work going and pinging.

Also, we need to donate monthly to Free Republic to keep these positive interactions going and to save our precious time.


107 posted on 01/13/2018 9:53:28 AM PST by Grampa Dave (America had regime change 20 Jan 2017! ISIS collapsed! Are Iran/Our media, the DNC/FBI/DOJ/CIA next?)
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To: txhurl

> I wonder whose/what initials TEN is/are.

I think it’s Tennessee, as in Oak Ridge.


108 posted on 01/13/2018 9:56:55 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Steven W.

Yes, I think you are correct that Weisman was working as “General Counsel” for Mueller at the FBI during the time of the Uranium One scandal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Weissmann

Rosenstein worked for Mueller as far back as 1990. He was primarily known for being the US’s Attorney for Maryland, where he worked until being appointed Deputy AG under Sessions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Rosenstein

There’s really no way to predict how this may turn out yet, and many may be adjusting their positions along the way. But people should be judged by their fruits, and Mueller, Rosenstein, and Weissman all have very questionable backgrounds, and all very well could have been involved in the coverup of Uranium One, if not other notorious scandals of the day.

Here in the present, we see multiple Trump associates arrested, yet not one from the Clinton orgs, or the DOJ that was protecting them. Hopefully that will change, but with an Attorney General who is recused from actually investigating any of it, by choice, the chances of actual arrests of the Clintons or the DOJ would by extension be lower, just by nature. So we have to keep the pressure up, and not listen to those claiming it’s all already in the bag, because that usually means they just don’t have to fortitude or capability to actually keep up with it, and are just hoping someone else will take care of it all for them.


109 posted on 01/13/2018 10:05:38 AM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "I'm disappointed in the Attorney General. He should not have recused himself immediately...")
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To: bitt

I hope this guy’s confidence is not misplaced.


110 posted on 01/13/2018 10:12:01 AM PST by dead
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To: Steven W.

Yes, that is the new indictment, that was just announced yesterday. The claim I was pursuing was that there had been an actual conviction related to Tenex in the last few months, which I still haven’t found any proof of.

Hopefully of course this means the DOJ is actually re-opening the investigation into Uranium One. However I would be much more confident in an independent special counsel being assigned to conduct the investigation, as has been requested by many in Congress, as the investigation needs to include a determination as to whether officials like Mueller covered up the original investigation, and the DOJ cannot honestly be trusted to investigate itself.


111 posted on 01/13/2018 10:15:18 AM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "I'm disappointed in the Attorney General. He should not have recused himself immediately...")
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To: txhurl
"I wonder whose/what initials TEN is/are."

You could look it up...

112 posted on 01/13/2018 10:19:06 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias | "Islamists": Satan's assassins | "Moderate Muslims": Useful idiots.)
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To: Westbrook

Really? Off I go to google.....


113 posted on 01/13/2018 10:20:43 AM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: TXnMA

You could look it up...


Do you have any guesses?


114 posted on 01/13/2018 10:21:31 AM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: Liz; LS

I think the MS-13 roll-up by Sessions is also worthy of note on LS’s list, as this could be early stages of prosecutions in one probe or another, leading via Seth Rich murder back to emails or via drug-running connections back to Hezbollah—and from there back to the Iran nuke deal money trail (bribes paid).

I hope Libya (and other Mideast countries) can be added to LS’s list as Liz suggests via the Blumenthal emails or otherwise. This was a nation-scale home invasion and murder—one of Obama/Clinton’s more heinous crimes (though it pales by comparison with trying to overthrow the U.S. Constitional Government).

Not sure where the Saudi upheaval fits within a list of US DoJ actions ... but, it’s obviously related to the overall takedown of the international criminal conspiracy of Clinton/Bushes/Obama.

The sleaze surrounding these people is just endless. I do not know any rock-solid evidence ... but it is so easy to believe the child-trafficking allegations. These are the people that stole the hurricane relief funds from the people of Haiti.


115 posted on 01/13/2018 10:41:53 AM PST by Disestablishmentarian
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To: TalBlack
As soon as yeatw barred the IG access there should have a big blowup.
Absolutely
Why not? What failed?
Ideological competition in journalism is the planted axiom of the First Amendment. Everyone has the right to be hearable, and therefore “the truth will out.” Theoretically.

But, there is another theory:  

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)
. . . and that theory prevails. People of the “trade” of journalism do, and arguably have to, “meet together” - at least virtually. The Associated Press began (as the New York Associated Press) only four years after the 1844 demonstration of Morse's Baltimore - Washington telegraph. The AP was aggressively monopolistic from its inception, and already in the Nineteenth Century people began to question its concentration of propaganda power. But back then, newspapers were, and had always been, idiosyncratic and dominated by their printers - everyone expected opinionated journalism and made allowances for it. So when the AP replied to its critics that its stories mostly came from its member newspapers, and they famously did not agree on just about anything - and that the AP itself was therefore objective - its defense was successful.

There may have been a grain of truth in that argument in the Nineteenth Century, but in the long run the fact that the AP “wire” was and is nothing but a virtual meeting of all major journalism outlets brought Adam Smith’s analysis into play. A “meeting” of all major news outlets - not about “merriment and diversion” but precisely about business - has been ongoing since memory of living man runneth not to the contrary. The consequence is that the absence of “a conspiracy against the public” among journalists is not plausible.

The obvious questions questions are, “What form would such a conspiracy take?” and “If such a ‘conspiracy' exists, why is it not obvious?” Adam Smith again:

The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.

The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

Thus we see that journalists want to be believed, and therefore have a motive to “go along and get along” with each other in order to maximize the respect they get from the public. This implies that people who resist “joining the Borg” of the journalism establishment will be marginalized and squeezed out of the business. Anyone who questions the objectivity of a journalist is automatically categorized as “not objective, not a journalist.”

The business of journalism has rules which are optimized, not to benefit the public, but to make journalism profitable. One of the most famous is, “‘Man Bites Dog’ not ‘Dog Bites Man.’” Another is that “If it bleeds, it leads.” Both focus journalism on the negative - in the former case, that means not only “bad” but also the opposite of what usually happens. Which means that a story of abuse by someone or some organization which is considered trustworthy by the public makes the best story for preventing the public from ignoring the news.”

The upshot is that journalism has motive, and via the AP has opportunity, to collude against the public by unifying in projecting a cynical view of society. But a cynical view of society corresponds to a naive view of government, as the radical notion that “things couldn’t be worse” illustrates. If “things couldn’t be worse,” government must do something. Conservatives always know that things could be worse - and, with increased government, almost certainly will.

I attribute the fact that huge swathes of the public are not conservative to the first point in the Smith quote - "The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.”

The short answer to your question is that journalism favors Democrats.


116 posted on 01/13/2018 10:44:43 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: Disestablishmentarian

I do believe cronies Blumenthal-—and Cheryl Mills-—played a big part in this horror story ——

The two are clammed up somewhere (in a fetal position).


117 posted on 01/13/2018 10:47:09 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: bitt

Add me to this ping list please


118 posted on 01/13/2018 11:00:03 AM PST by The_Republic_Of_Maine (RINO politicians beware your time is coming ... SOON)
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To: Steven W.

https://twitter.com/benkostka/status/952099517977038850

somewhat related..


119 posted on 01/13/2018 11:28:06 AM PST by bitt (We donÂ’t need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers.)
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To: Disestablishmentarian; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

return to the thread - at #115 and down


120 posted on 01/13/2018 11:35:11 AM PST by bitt (We donÂ’t need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers.)
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