Contains a bit more on the Mueller Team's Zainab Ahmad
[Disobedient Media] In April last year, Disobedient Media broke coverage of the British involvement in the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, asking why All Russiagate Roads Lead To London, via the quasi-scholar Joseph Mifsud and others.
The issue was also raised by WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange, just days before the Ecuadorian government silenced him last March. Assange’s Twitter thread cited research by Chris Blackburn, who spoke with Disobedient Media on multiple occasions covering Joseph Mifsud’s ties to British intelligence figures and organizations, as well as his links to Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign, the FBI, CIA and the private cyber-security firm Crowdstrike.
We return, now, to this issue and specifically the research of Chris Blackburn, to place the final nail in the coffin of the Trump-Russia collusion charade. Blackburn’s insights are incredible not only because they return us to the earliest reporting on the role of British intelligence figures in manufacturing the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, but because they also implicate members of Mueller’s investigation. What we are left with is an indication of collusion between factions of the US and UK intelligence community in fabricating evidence of Trump-Russia collusion: a scandal that would have rocked the legacy press to its core, if Western establishment-backed media had a spine.
In Disobedient Media’s previous coverage of Blackburn’s work, he described his experience in intelligence:
"I’ve been involved in numerous investigations that involve counter-intelligence techniques in the past. I used to work for the 9/11 Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism, one of the biggest tort actions in American history. I helped build a profile of Osama bin Laden’s financial and political network, which was slightly different to the one that had been built by the CIA’s Alec Station, a dedicated task force which was focused on Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. Alec Station designed its profile to hunt Osama bin Laden and disrupt his network. I thought it was flawed. It had failed to take into account Osama’s historical links to Pakistan’s main political parties or that he was the figurehead for a couple of organizations, not just Al-Qaeda."
Skipping down to the piece on
Mueller’s Team And Joseph Mifsud Zainab Ahmad
Zainab Ahmad, a member of Mueller’s legal team, is the former Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. As pointed out by Blackburn, Ahmad attended a Global Center on Cooperative Security event in 2017. In recent days, Blackburn wrote via Twitter: “Zainab Ahmad is a major player in the Russiagate scandal at the DOJ. Does she work for SC Mueller? She was at a GCCS event in May 2017. Arvinder Sambei, a co-director of the [London Centre of International Law Practice], worked with Joseph Mifsud, [George Papadopoulos] and [Simona Mangiante]. She’s a GCCS consultant.”
Blackburn told this author: “Zainab Ahmad was one of the first DOJ prosecutors to have seen the Steele dossier. In May 2017, she attended a counter-terrorism conference in New York with the Global Center on Cooperative Security (GCCS), an organization which Joseph Mifsud, the alleged Russian spy, had been working within London and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.”
Then comes the Brennan connection.
An Embarrassment For John Brennan?
Disobedient Media previously reported that Robert Hannigan, then head of British spy agency GCHQ, flew to Washington DC to share ‘director-to-director’ level intelligence with then-CIA Chief John Brennan in the summer of 2016. This writer noted that “The Guardian reported Hannigan’s announcement that he would step down from his leadership position with the agency just three days after the inauguration of President Trump, on 23 January 2017. Jane Mayer, in her profile of Christopher Steele published in the New Yorker, also noted that Hannigan had flown to Washington D.C. to personally brief the then-CIA Director John Brennan on alleged communications between the Trump campaign and Moscow. What is so curious about this briefing “deemed so sensitive it was handled at director-level” is why Hannigan was talking director-to-director to the CIA and not Mike Rogers at the NSA, GCHQ’s Five Eyes intelligence-sharing partner.”
He's intellectually unable to be embarrassed. If sh*t came out his nose in a Beltway elite hangout, he'd act like nothing was amiss. And the other customers and staff would do the same. F*cking cretin...
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None of these misbehaviours will ever be tried as treason — that isn’t even done for citizen jihadis plotting gun and bomb attacks against this country. But they’ve broken enough laws to end up in prison for years, when someone gets around to arresting them.
[PJ] Zainab Ahmad and Andrew Weissmann -- two top prosecutors on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team -- have left the team in recent days, sparking speculation that the Russia probe is wrapping up. One Republican congressman, however, thinks something else may have prompted their departures.
On Fox News Tuesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) speculated that a letter he and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) sent to Attorney General William Barr on March 1 may have prompted the pair's departures.
In the letter, Reps Jordan and Meadows questioned the independence of Ahmad and Weissmann, pointing out that both were involved in discussions with DOJ official Bruce Ohr as he transferred unverified anti-Trump dossier material from Fusion GPS into the FBI and DOJ. After two years, no recusal, no admission of conflict of interest? How many more like Ahmad and Weissmann remain on the Mueller Team? Are we to assume Mueller knew nothing about their Bruce Ohr connection ?
In 2016 and 2017, Ohr kept top officials at both the FBI and Department of Justice apprised of his conversations with Christopher Steele, both before and after Steele was fired as an informant.
"The reason Ms. Ahmad might have left is the fact that the report is coming soon. We all kind of suspect that it is," Jordan told Fox News host Harris Faulkner. "It also might be a letter that Mr. Meadows and I sent to Attorney General Barr just 19 days ago, on March 1."
According to Jordan, Ohr told House investigators that he warned Ahmad and Weissmann in August 2016 that Steele was "desperate to stop Trump."
"We pointed it out. Maybe that had to do with them leaving him as well. I don't know," Jordan said. Emphasis added.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The captain of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight did not get a chance to practice on his airline’s new simulator for the Boeing 737 MAX 8 before he died in a crash with 157 others, a pilot colleague said.
Captain Yared Getachew, 29, was due for refresher training at the end of March, his colleague told Reuters, two months after Ethiopian Airlines had received one of the first such simulators being distributed.
The March 10 disaster, following another MAX 8 crash in Indonesia in October, has set off one of the biggest inquiries in aviation history, focused on the safety of a new automated system and whether crews understood it properly.
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Two buttons and they would have shut the suspect system down. Not sure about Ethiopia, but where I come from emergency procedures are memorized, backed up by the check list and manual. The hunt is on to blame Boeing, but is it clear with the tens of thousands of hours the 737 Max has flown, this is not a systems problem, pilot error.
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Looks like a systems problem to me!
The pilot didn't steer it into the ground, the FCS did.
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IIRC, there was a letter circulating a few years back about the training of Asian pilots. American trainers wanted to train on emergency procedures, but the pilots just wanted to know how to fly. Trainers who insisted were terminated. Remember the San Fran crash where the plane landed short on a clear day? Wikipedia
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#2 The pilot failed to fly the airplane. The procedure when this issue occurs is to shut off the auto-pilot and re-trim the elevator. It takes less than 10 seconds. IF, you know what you are doing. It was pilot error due to lack of training.
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Re: 49 Pan: The Max is a family of aircraft, not just one; it is the Max 8 that is involved.
And while the fine print may say to do something different it is just plain stupid to change operating procedures on a family of aircraft in such widespread service.
Anybody remember the 60's era Pontia automatic transmission? reverse was at the far end of the selector display, not the familiar PRNDL of nowadays. So if you wanted to start out on Low on your Bonneville you did NOT pull the shift lever all the way down ( at least not more than once) don't ask me how I know.....
I suspect the root casue of these accidents will not have just one smoking gun; Boeing, FAA, and the airlines will all get to eat a bite of that sh!t sandwich.
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I suspect the root casue of these accidents will not have just one smoking gun; Boeing, FAA, and the airlines will all get to eat a bite of that sh!t sandwich. Posted by USN, Ret.
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He would have to do something really awful to lose my vote.
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Pissing of ann coulter really doesn't bother me...
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It is hard to unseat a current president unless there is an economic crash, or some horrible corruption scandal. Unless those happen, Trump should win pretty comfortably in 2020.
Which is why the demoncrats are doing everything they can to tank the economy and drudge for or make up scandals.
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I find Trump repulsive, but less so than any known alternatives, and surprisingly effective despite all obstacles, both self-made and from the outside. I held my nose and voted for him the first time and would have no problem doing so again.
CHRISTCHURCH (Reuters) - New Zealand will ban military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country’s worst mass shooting, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday.
In the immediate aftermath of Friday’s shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, Ardern labeled the attack as terrorism and said New Zealand’s gun laws would change.
"On 15 March our history changed forever. Now, our laws will too. We are announcing action today on behalf of all New Zealanders to strengthen our gun laws and make our country a safer place," Ardern told a new conference.
"All semi-automatic weapons used during the terrorist attack on Friday 15 March will be banned."
Ardern said she expects the new laws to be in place by April 11 and a buy-back scheme will be established for banned weapons.
The buyback would cost up to NZ$200 million ($138 million), she said.
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Australia’s mandatory buyback in 1996 took precisely one fifth of the population’s guns off the street. Since then gun smuggling into the country has become a bit of a problem. Let me wish y’all much joy from the predictable outcome of your own effort, Prime Minister.
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I'm sounding like a broken record, I know. But. Like Michigan (Tlaib) Minnesota (Omar) and Utah (Romney) I don't even need to boycott NZ. Nothing I buy comes from there...
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"All semi-automatic weapons used during the terrorist attack on Friday 15 March will be banned."
So just the ones the guy used then? Oh, the styles.
Let me get this straight - they will be banned immediately, then voted on whether they will be banned or not a month from now...kind of backwards isn't it for the liberal model country? Ah, ruled by tiny authoritarian shit lords.
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Run, burn down the barn! Soil your drawers,
Then pull up those slippery floors!
Go empty all fountains
And level the mountains!
Bring Maoris and orcas indoors!
[American Thinker] Angela Merkel apparently went behind NATO's back to make a deal with Russia for the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream II, paying for which will drive Germany's contribution to NATO defense spending below the 2% of GDP that was agreed on in 2014. Germany, with one of the world's wealthiest economies, is far in arrears on her NATO obligations, has been for years, and has no acceptable excuse for it.
America has been open for years now to selling liquid natural gas (LNG) to Europe at rates below those the Russians can provide with a pipeline. It actually looks as if Merkel just prefers to do business with the thuggish Eastern oligarchs than with the putatively like-minded free markets of the West. Germany evidently isn't as like-minded as we might have imagined.
Merkel casts it as a choice between foreign aid and an obligation of lesser importance. After all, why would Germany worry about Eastern military adventurism when she's buying Russian LNG? It isn't a clash of priorities, but stubborn refusal to meet a commitment. As if Germany didn't owe America some consideration for the years we rebuilt her shattered WWII economy and then stood by her through decades of Russian bullying and threats. Now Merkel makes nice with those same Russians while thumbing her nose at America.
It remains to be seen how President Trump will respond, but one hopes tariffs on German goods go through the ceiling and that the American market for anything Deutsch screeches to a halt. Ingratitude is among the more infuriating human failings, and Angela Merkel has many of us on this side of the pond good and riled.
Germans may want to think about shunting this old girl aside. We who have shouldered their defense load for seventy years rightly consider her duplicitous. That thought should be sobering in view of whom they've chosen to partner with instead.
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#1 Was she working with the Stassi when it was East Germany?
Posted by: 3dc 2019-03-21 02:10
...In fairness, everybody in East Germany was working with the Stasi. The difference here is that she was the one who got elected Chancellor.
If we had any brains at all, we'd tell them that either they go to the 2% standard in 30 days (and none of this counting environmental projects as 'defense'; the money goes to bombs, bullets, boats, bombers, and armed bubbas) or we deploy OUT.
OOOH - just thought of something: Have DJT announce that all troops pulled out of Germany will be immediately deployed on the US-Mexico border, and the money we would have given to Germany will pay for the wall. The exploding heads would be heard around the world, and there would be a line of liberals clear back to the Channel to beat her about the head and tell her to get her head out PDQ.
Mike
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We shouldn't bargain with them at all. They like muzzist killers better than Americans, so let's make travel from Chermany to the US as difficult as travel from any other muzzist country. And let's shut Turkey off totally for about 36 months to see if they might wise up (not expecting much there...)
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"then stood by her through decades of Russian bullying and threats. "
Merkel is probably holding this against the US.
She was on the other side at the time, probably still is.
[FOX] In the wake of the horrific mass slaughters in New Zealand and Nigeria, some people have criticized offers to pray, suggesting that prayers are nothing more than empty platitudes. But as Christians, we believe in the power of prayer. In prayer, we get to engage in a conversation with the God of the universe, as well as seek His guidance and forgiveness. And beyond that, through prayer we have the opportunity to the move the hand of our all-powerful God to intervene supernaturally in our lives and our world.
Some years ago, my previous church planned to build a new worship center. However, it would require purchasing a city street that bisected our property. The city was opposed to the sale, and the project appeared doomed. Then I had an idea‐why not pray about the matter? About 100 prayer partners joined me in our sanctuary to ask God to change the city officials’ hearts. A few hours later, out of the blue, the city manager called the chairman of our building committee to discuss selling the street, and within a few weeks the deal was done.
Throughout the Bible, there is an inseparable link between faith and answered prayer. Jesus said in Matthew 17:20, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ’Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you."
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Rebuttal to AOC comments. Suggest we send her to Venezuela for a listening tour to see how her view of government would turn out. My suspicion is that she would soon learn the necessity of prayer.
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[PJ] Zainab Ahmad and Andrew Weissmann -- two top prosecutors on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team -- have left the team in recent days, sparking speculation that the Russia probe is wrapping up. One Republican congressman, however, thinks something else may have prompted their departures.
CHRISTCHURCH (Reuters) - New Zealand will ban military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country’s worst mass shooting, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday.
[American Thinker] Angela Merkel apparently went behind NATO's back to make a deal with Russia for the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream II, paying for which will drive Germany's contribution to NATO defense spending below the 2% of GDP that was agreed on in 2014. Germany, with one of the world's wealthiest economies, is far in arrears on her NATO obligations, has been for years, and has no acceptable excuse for it.
