[Daily Caller] A nonprofit group partially funded by billionaire activist George Soros paid firms tied to Fusion GPS and dossier author Christopher Steele more than $3.8 million in 2017 to provide research and analysis to "government entities," according to IRS filings.
The payments made by The Democracy Integrity Project are more than three times what the DNC and the Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS and Steele during the 2016 presidential campaign to investigate Donald Trump’s possible ties to Russia.
Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the DNC and Clinton campaign, paid $1 million to Fusion GPS in 2016 to investigate Trump. Fusion GPS in turn paid Steele, a former MI6 officer, nearly $170,000 for a project that resulted in the infamous Steele dossier.
Steele’s report, which alleged a "well-coordinated conspiracy" between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, has come under intense scrutiny in the wake of the special counsel’s findings in the 22-month Russia probe.
Daniel J. Jones, a former staffer to California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, founded TDIP on Jan. 31, 2017, seemingly to resume Democrats’ investigation of Trump’s possible links to Russia.
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As some erudite commenter said here recently: Limit all contributions to $200 / person / year, only eligible to contribute to candidates in your home state for statewide elections. No pass thrus, no PACS.
For starters...
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Limit all contributions to $200 / person / year, etc...
That would result in the rich giving dozens or hundreds of their friends, relations, and employees $200+ apiece so they could donate to the limit as directed... or they’d find another way to help those politicians and political parties they favoured. One of the pleasures of being rich is that all sorts of legal and illegal possibilities for reshaping the world to your particular taste become possible.
No hugs for joe.
[The Hill] Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor.
In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
"I said, ’You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ’I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’" Biden recalled telling Poroshenko.
"Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time," Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations event, insisting that President Obama was in on the threat.
Interviews with a half-dozen senior Ukrainian officials confirm Biden’s account, though they claim the pressure was applied over several months in late 2015 and early 2016, not just six hours of one dramatic day. Whatever the case, Poroshenko and Ukraine’s parliament obliged by ending Shokin’s tenure as prosecutor. Shokin was facing steep criticism in Ukraine, and among some U.S. officials, for not bringing enough corruption prosecutions when he was fired.
But Ukrainian officials tell me there was one crucial piece of information that Biden must have known but didn’t mention to his audience: The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.
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The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.
Follow the money...and risk of prosecution. Dem Mafia model that's operated for some time.
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None of this is new, it is just now being released; total hit job.
And Gropey Joe, we were assured he is just a comical guy...until he considered running. Certainly not news to "right wing news feeds" or whatever Team Biden is blaming it on.
[PJMedia] WASHINGTON -- Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), a 2020 presidential candidate, predicted that the U.S. has 10 years left to act on climate change. Down from 12. No point adding more to my 401k I guess. Let's party down!
"At this point there can be no shadow of a doubt that our own excesses and emissions and inaction politically and as a country and a democracy, where each of us comprise the government, have led to the warming we've seen so far -- one degree Celsius just since 1980," O'Rourke said during the "We the People Membership Forum" in Washington on Monday. "I direct you to Valencia from Florida, whose question I just listened to backstage -- how does this First World country create second-class citizens who face Third World conditions?" It is called socialist policies and graft
To support his position on climate change, O'Rourke referred to the "58 inches of rain that fell from the sky" in Houston. He called on lawmakers to start "confronting climate change before it is too late, within the 10 years we have left to us to act." How many times has the green priests and believers screamed at us that weather isn't climate? Oh it is different when you do it because shut up. Got it.
O'Rourke said he would join the Paris climate agreement that President Trump withdrew from in 2017.
"As ambitious as those are, [they] are not ambitious enough," O'Rourke said of the agreement.
O'Rourke promised that he would sign an executive order on the first day of his presidency requiring all cabinet secretaries to hold town hall meetings with the public each month "to listen to you and be accountable to you." Um... that isn't their job. And what good would it do other than to waste their time with true believers (who are very ignorant usually) screaming at them about whatever the emergency dejour is?
The more Beto opens his mouth the more of a dumbass he sounds.
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If he's not willing to back up his predication by say, agreeing to be burnt at the stake in ten years when his predication doesn't come true, then I'll just assume he's a lying, posturing Nazi like all other Democrats.
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Tried to embed the link. She's a no flush. Sorry...
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We had 12, 12, now we have ten. Do I hear eight? Will anybody bid eight?
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AOC gave us 12! Boy, those first two years just flew by!
Gimme 8 ... Gimme 8 ... Do I hear 6 ... 6 ... There's a 6 ... Thank you, Sir!! .. Going for 4 ...
M. Murcek, you need to attach a bit of text In order to make the link visible — it was sitting there quietly in the comment, awaiting that last step. ;-)
First type in a bit of text, then highlight it, then click on the hyperlink icon, and finally paste the link into the pop up box.
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Thanks, TW. I figured pictures out but the link thing was beating my behind. Thanks again...
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These things always remind me of Ghostbusters 2 when Vinkman interviews the guy who says the worlds going to end on new Years and Bill Murray responds, why not delay it to get some book sales out of it, or something along those lines.
100 years is too distant for anyone to care, 10 years is too easily proven incorrect.
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Apropos #19, internet time has made most time oriented predictions useless. If it doesn't happen by the end of the YouTube video, it's time for a bong or to go out for craft beers and mini tacos.
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This is becoming like Zeno's Paradox - but instead of going halfway each step, you have to go 10 years. I'm sure we'll get there eventually.
Fred? I thought you'd cleaned this place up in your spare time
[Hot Air] Sometimes a story begins picking up speed like a snowball turning into an avalanche. That may be what’s happening with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and her “Healthy Holly” book sales scandal. Only this morning we learned that the state legislature was scrambling to make much of what she was doing illegal (since apparently nobody had thought to do that before) and it was barely lunchtime when another questionable book sales deal was revealed.
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Fred? I thought you'd cleaned this place up in your spare time
Despite Mr. Pruitt's many accomplishments, even Hercules, when given the choice between cleaning up Baltimore and cleaning the Augean stables, chose endless poop-shoveling as the lesser and more easily accomplished task.
[PJ] How radical has the modern Democratic Party become? How about this? One of the featured speakers at a Democratic conference being held this week in Washington, D.C., just favorably quoted a domestic terrorist who is on the FBI's Most Wanted list. And the audience enthusiastically chanted along.
The annual "We The People" summit in Washington is featuring many Democratic presidential candidates, including Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O'Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Jay Inslee and Kirsten Gillibrand. The candidates are expected to discuss progressive causes such as organizing rights, health care, and climate change.
Jamal Watkins of the NAACP led the "We The People" crowd Monday morning with a chant quoting convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur (aka Joanne Chesimard):
In which we are treated to the sight of Deep State obstructionists doing their best to gin up new outrage against President Trump’s team instead of admitting there would have been no “breaches”, grave or otherwise, if they had only done the jobs they were sworn to do.
[AnNahar] Some 25 White House officials including top advisors of President Donald Trump were given security clearances despite staff recommendations against it, a whistleblower has told Congress.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said in a letter Monday that White House security official Tricia Newbold detailed to his panel "grave breaches of national security at the highest levels of the Trump Administration."
Had any been members of the Communist Party or converted to Islam?
None of the 25 were named, but in his letter, addressed to White House counsel Pat Cipollone, Cummings requested information relating to clearances for National Security Advisor John Bolton, former national security advisor Michael Flynn, Trump daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, and several other top security officials.
How many on that list had previously held security clearances, and therefore ought to have been rubber stamped?
He also said he would subpoena Carl Kline, Newbold's former superior at the White House Personnel Security Office, to testify to the committee on the clearances, along with other officials.
Newbold told the committee that the Personnel Security Office recommended against security clearances -- which allow access to top secret materials -- for the 25, Cummings said.
Two of them were top-level officials in national security.
Newbold told the committee that the recommendations for denial were for serious questions involving foreign influence, conflicts of interest, personal conduct issues, financial problems, drug use, and criminal acts.
But the 18-year veteran of the White House said they were pressured to change their recommendations and overruled by Kline and higher-ups.
An abnormally large number of staffers had interim security clearances for long periods, including several for the highest level of secrecy classification that granted them access to "sensitive compartmented information," or SCI.
It sounds like somebody was slow-walking the investigations... and now is whistle blowing to prevent a well-deserved firing.
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People with security clearances who have not threatened US security:
Flynn, M.
Kushner, J.
Trump, I.
People with security clearances who have threatened US security:
Snowden, E.
Winner, R.
Clinton, H.
Abedin, H.
etc.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings
That he was involved, tells me all I need to know. A phony ginned-up Dem issue. Dems better go back to trying to sell cow farts as a climate change issue. After all, the end of the earth comes in 12 years according to AOC.
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denial were for serious questions involving foreign influence, conflicts of interest, personal conduct issues, financial problems, drug use, and criminal acts.
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Aren't these 'serious questions' ultimately resolved through an investigation into these charges and a determination as to their veracity? Seems to me that's a pretty important part of this article.
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.
[Daily Caller] A nonprofit group partially funded by billionaire activist George Soros paid firms tied to Fusion GPS and dossier author Christopher Steele more than $3.8 million in 2017 to provide research and analysis to "government entities," according to IRS filings.
[PJMedia] WASHINGTON -- Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), a 2020 presidential candidate, predicted that the U.S. has 10 years left to act on climate change.
