[National Review] Not only the Clintons are implicated in a uranium deal with the Russians that compromised national-security interests.
Let’s put the Uranium One scandal in perspective: The cool half-million bucks the Putin regime funneled to Bill Clinton was five times the amount it spent on those Facebook ads ‐ the ones the media-Democrat complex ludicrously suggests swung the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump.
The Facebook-ad buy, which started in June 2015 ‐ before Donald Trump entered the race ‐ was more left-wing agitprop (ads pushing hysteria on racism, immigration, guns, etc.) than electioneering. The Clintons’ own long-time political strategist Mark Penn estimates that just $6,500 went to actual electioneering. (You read that right: 65 hundred dollars.)
By contrast, the staggering $500,000 payday from a Kremlin-tied Russian bank for a single speech was part of a multi-million-dollar influence-peddling scheme to enrich the former president and his wife, then‐secretary of state Hillary Clinton. At the time, Russia was plotting ‐ successfully ‐ to secure U.S. government approval for its acquisition of Uranium One, and with it, tens of billions of dollars in U.S. uranium reserves. Here’s the kicker: The Uranium One scandal is not only, or even principally, a Clinton scandal. It is an Obama-administration scandal. The Clintons were just doing what the Clintons do: cashing in on their "public service." The Obama administration, with Secretary Clinton at the forefront but hardly alone, was knowingly compromising American national-security interests.
The administration green-lighted the transfer of control over one-fifth of American uranium-mining capacity to Russia, a hostile regime ‐ and specifically to Russia’s state-controlled nuclear-energy conglomerate, Rosatom. Worse, at the time the administration approved the transfer, it knew that Rosatom’s American subsidiary was engaged in a lucrative racketeering enterprise that had already committed felony extortion, fraud, and money-laundering offenses.
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Based on what the "intelligence community" and "national law enforcement" have been doing to him, I don't think he owes them anything beyond what prudence dictates.
States the CIA isn't really all that bothered with the 50+ year old stuff, but some of the documents generated in 1990 about it they may want to redact. They could explain methods used to gather the data and some of those methods are still in use.
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"Remember, it's never the crime, but the cover-up."
Let me explain.
I firmly believe that Lee Oswald killed John Kennedy, end of story. Therefore I don't believe we'll find anything in these papers that say anything else. I also don't believe we'll find anything other than garden-variety Agency stupidity and incompetence in them either.
I do, however, expect them to reveal a lot about JFK's philandering and other Bad Acts, stuff that would have infuriated the voters had they known about it when Bobby and Teddy ran...and may have in fact involved them. Watch for the Kennedy family to make a full-court press to put the kibosh on this, because you know they've known what's in those papers for a very long time.
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The wack jobs are still looking for "the truth" in that the (pick one) CIA, the FBI, Jack Anderson, Tricky Dick, da Mob pulled the trigger. People jast can't accept that a nobody like Lee Harvey could have done it
[DAILYCALLER] The number of people who could have provided BuzzFeed News with a copy of the infamous Trump dossier is vanishingly small. Only a few people had access to the full document, which consists of 17 memos dated between June 20, 2016 and Dec. 13.
One person who was provided a copy of the salacious document, written by former British spy Remington Christopher Steele, is Arizona Sen. John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... . But McCain, who has already acknowledged providing an early version of the dossier to former FBI Director James Comey, denied this week that he also gave a version to BuzzFeed, which published it on Jan. 10.
"I gave it to no one except for the director of the FBI. I don’t know why you’re digging this up now," McCain said during a testy exchange with The Daily Caller on Wednesday.
McCain was asked whether he was BuzzFeed’s source after the Republican’s office declined to answer direct questions on the matter.
Only a few people are known to have had possession of the full 35-page document before BuzzFeed obtained its copy.
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Has the tumor grown to totally replace his brain?
[The Hill] Financial industry groups and Democratic lawmakers are concerned that Republicans’ forthcoming tax-reform bill could make a big change to the taxing of retirement funds.
Stakeholders say they’ve heard that Republicans are considering significantly lowering the amount of money people can tuck into their traditional 401(k) plans on a pre-tax basis.
Currently, people can contribute up to $18,000 annually to their traditional 401(k) plans. Those contributions are paid before taxes, meaning people don’t pay taxes on the money until they pull it out of their account.
The potential change that people following the tax bill are hearing about would lower the maximum annual contribution to $2,400. Amounts over $2,400 could be put into Roth 401(k)s, where the money is taxed upfront but not when it’s withdrawn.
It’s unclear how seriously lawmakers are considering reducing the cap on pre-tax contributions to 401(ks). But industry groups are worried that dramatically lowering the cap on pre-tax contributions would reduce the amount that people save for their retirement.
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Why would a federal government which has absolutely no concept of fiscal accountability, saving money, or thrift encourage it's citizens to save for retirement, or for anything else for that matter ?
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If the GIVERnment really wants to do good by the people as it relates to 401k retirement they should encourage wealth building by the working class:
1. Have unlimited tax deferred savings until a maximum level based on year of birth. Get people to the build a sizable nest egg as quickly as possible.
2. Remove the tax deferred benefit once the balance reaches and stays above the max.
3. Place large penalties for early withdraws by not allowing benefit to return if withdraw is post-maximum reached
For example: if born in 1980 you can save up to 1 million. If you withdraw 200k early, pay the penalty and your new max is 800k.
This will encourage saving early and often but also stop taxpayers from subsidizing those that no longer need the tax deferred benefit while building wealth.
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But industry groups are worried that dramatically lowering the cap on pre-tax contributions would reduce the amount that people save for their retirement.
h/t Instapundit
...According to a Fox News analysis of White House personnel reports, Melania Trump has significantly reduced the number of aides on the first lady's office payroll in comparison to her predecessor, Michelle Obama.
During then-President Barack Obama’s first year in office, 16 people were listed working for Michelle Obama, earning a combined $1.24 million a year.
This year, just four people were listed working for Melania Trump as of June. Their salaries totaled $486,700.
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During then-President Barack Obama’s first year in office, 16 people were listed working for Michelle Obama, earning a combined $1.24 million a year.
I believe the number of Mooch courtiers rose to platoon size toward the end of Soetoro's sad tenure.
[AP] WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ Former presidents are shedding a traditional reluctance to criticize their successors, unleashing pointed attacks on the Trump White House and the commander in chief ‐ but without mentioning him by name.
Remarks on the same day by former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama raise the prospect that more dissenters will follow in defiance of President Donald Trump and his policies.
"What they are doing is laying down a marker for acceptable public discourse," said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor of political communication and rhetorical theory at the University of Pennsylvania. "They’re saying, ’We don’t stand for that kind of language and behavior. These are our values, these are our principles.’"
Bush and Obama themselves were preceded by other prominent figures. In recent weeks, Republican Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and Arizonans John McCain and Jeff Flake have taken swipes at a president who has pushed the limits of polite political discourse and has seemed to relish public fights over sensitive subjects, including nuclear war, race relations, immigrants and, this week, the war dead.
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Obama put us $20 trillion in debt. He also was the most divisive POTUS in recent memory. He participated in the Clinton's corruption by not doing anything to prevent it. He also weaponized the government against citizens. He made the worst deal in history with Iran--Maybe Neville Chamberlain vies for this honor. George W. kept mum for 8 years while Obama hammered him for everything; now he chooses to speak out against Trump. Moreover, the Patriot Act ends up taking away basic rights/freedoms of citizens. WTF?
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GWB was a vast disappointment from the time he didn't name the enemy.
I've always thought that the Bushes represented the concept of noblesse oblige as applied to the US. They were the all knowing aristocracy ruling the Plebs for the plebs own good. HW hasn't really dumped on Reagan but I'm sure he wanted to.
Oh, they may want to consider just how wide they want to open the Overton window. Especially Obama. You think criminal prosecutions might rattle a few cages?
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Everyone is upset because the formers, left and right, have been shown to be weak, ineffectual and interested only in continuing their own dynasty. I only hope Trump keeps up the fight.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... didn't win the presidency, but she's in line for something almost as interesting -- the crown of "Wonder Woman."
The Women's Media Center, co-founded by feminist Gloria Steinem, told us that it is giving the latest Democratic presidential candidate its first "Wonder Woman Award" for her "extraordinary accomplishments" and public service.
Hillary Clinton to Receive 2017 WMC Wonder Woman Award Next Week in NYC https://t.co/4tLAKfl8pk‐ Women's Media Center (@womensmediacntr) October 20, 2017
"Like Wonder Woman, she seems to have superhuman strength, resilience, and courage," said the group in a reference to the famous comic and TV character.
"Hillary Clinton's actions have inspired and protected women and men on every continent," said Steinem. "She has battled negative forces and helped to maintain a fragile peace with her negotiating skill on behalf of this country and peace-seekers everywhere. She has handled all this with grace, grit, determination, integrity, humor and fortitude while remaining a steadfast feminist, advocate, activist, sister and tireless leader in the revolution. With this award, the Women's Media Center declares Hillary Clinton our Wonder Woman."
Others being recognized at the October 26 event in New York City include Jane Fonda, Maria Hinojosa, Ashley Judd, White House news hound April Ryan, María Elena Salinas and Gail Tifford.
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It's more like "wonder WTF she thinks she's doing" woman.
[TOWNHALL] Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) is not backing off her claim that President Trump disrespected a fallen soldier's widow earlier this week. Trump phoned Myeshia Johnson to share his condolences for the death of her husband Sgt. La David Johnson, who died during an Islamic State ambush in Niger earlier this month. Wilson says she overheard some of the president's words via speakerphone and swears she heard him insensitively say that Johnson "knew what he signed up for."
President Trump rebuked Wilson on Twitter and called her a liar, but she has not changed her story.
White House Chief of Staff and former Gen. John Kelly, who lost a son in combat, was so distraught by the politicization of the soldiers' deaths in Niger, that he took a somber visit to Arlington Cemetery to collect his thoughts. Once he had, he offered some poignant, yet strong remarks at Thursday's White House press briefing. At one point, he scolded Rep. Wilson for supposedly bragging about getting securing funding for an FBI field office in 2015.
Wilson, after hearing the remarks, said she feels "sympathy" for Gen. Kelly and the loss of his son, but insisted he can't just "go on TV and lie." Somehow, she perceived part of his speech as being "racist."
Democratic Rep. Wilson: "Empty barrel," used by WH Chief of Staff Kelly to describe her, is a "racist term" https://t.co/356W7kIDPJ
— New Day (@NewDay) October 20, 2017
Wilson told CNN's Alisyn Camerota that Kelly's "empty barrel" remark was racist, but didn't explain why.
"We looked it up in the dictionary, because I had never heard of an empty barrel. And I don't like to be dragged into something like that," she said.
Following Kelly's speech and President Trump's tweets calling Wilson a liar, the representative jokingly referred to herself as a "rock star." Yet, on CNN Friday she said her No. 1 concern is the families. She wants answers on the Niger mission and why our troops were there in the first place and what led to the Islamic State attack.
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The empty barrel makes ths most noise.
Against Kelly, I heard Wilson claimed to have a part in naming the FBI building, not acquiring funds for it. This is entirely possible.
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Many of these people loath our great country but hold the murderous, tyrannical regimes of darkest Africa in the highest of regard.
Quite incredulous when you consider standards of living and life expectancy in the United States far exceeds the best of their esteemed native homelands.
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The following Telegraph Site not blocked or restricted by Zim communist nuus cadres:
[Telegraph] Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has long faced United States sanctions over his government’s human rights abuses. But the World Health Organization’s new chief is making the longtime African leader a "goodwill ambassador."
With Mugabe on hand, WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus told a conference in Uruguay this week on non-communicable diseases that he’d agreed to be a "goodwill ambassador" on the issue.
Tedros, an Ethiopian who became WHO’s first African director-general this year, said Mugabe could use the role "to influence his peers in his region."
A WHO spokeswoman confirmed the comments to The Associated Press on Friday.
In his speech, Tedros described Zimbabwe as "a country that places universal health coverage and health promotion at the center of its policies to provide health care to all."
Two dozen organizations - including the World Heart Federation, Action Against Smoking and Cancer Research U.K. - released a statement slamming the appointment, saying health officials were "shocked and deeply concerned" and citing his "long track record of human rights violations." Link to Telegraph Article
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Two dozen organizations - including the World Heart Federation, Action Against Smoking and Cancer Research U.K. - released a statement slamming the appointment, saying health officials were "shocked and deeply concerned" and citing his "long track record of human rights violations."
Short memories? History a bit of a challenge? Can't repeat the term 'Rhodesian Independence.' Your gov't was instrumental in putting him where he is today.
[OANN] Senate Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief after defeating an attempt by Democrats to block oil drilling in Alaska.
The drilling plan put forth by the Trump administration will help pay for proposed tax cuts, and is expected to be a lucrative source of revenue for the country.
Senate Democrats argued the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was too environmentally sensitive to allow for oil drilling.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... Senate Republicans prevailed saying the economic benefits outweighed any perceived effects on the environment.
"I think we recognize that responsible development would not only reduce our immediate deficits but its about jobs and job creation... it’s about wealth and wealth creation... about allowing us to build new wealth and create prosperity," said Senator Lisa Daddy, can I be a senator? Murkowski ... representing K Street ... of Alaska.
The Republican victory does not explicitly authorize drilling in the refuge, but it opens up the door.
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If you wait too long to find and develop mid-sized accumulations the pipeline will have deteriorated and become unusable, so such accumulations will be uneconomic to ever develop, which is probably the intention.
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The dems keep shreaking about it, but in reality the drilling has always planned to be at the edge of the refuge and drill diagonally to the oil. 99% of the refuge wouldn't be touched.
But that doesn't fit the narrative that it will destroy everything so ban it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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