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Monday, April 24, 2017
Independent evidence conflicts with dossier on suspected Trump-Russia conspiracy
Via Billy
Christopher Steele, who compiled a dossier that Democrats are using in
an attempt to prove collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, was
paid by Fusion GPS, a Democratic Party-aligned opposition research firm
An anti-Donald Trump “dossier” created by a former British spy and financed by Democratic-linked money has significant detractors: the people accused of crimes in a supposed Trump-Russia conspiracy.
Three men — Mr. Trump’s attorney, a campaign volunteer and a tech company CEO — have publicly said that the parts about them in the dossier are fiction.
A fourth figure — a Russian diplomat whom Londoner Christopher Steele accused of lawbreaking — said via Russia’s Foreign Ministry that the dossier is fantasy. And there is evidence to back him up.
The 35-page dossier by Mr. Steele has taken on critical importance in recent weeks for Democrats in Washington. They cite its accusations without corroboration as the reason for a special commission to investigate Mr. Trump and his aides for a supposed role in Russia’s hacking of Democratic Party email servers.
An anti-Donald Trump “dossier” created by a former British spy and financed by Democratic-linked money has significant detractors: the people accused of crimes in a supposed Trump-Russia conspiracy.
Three men — Mr. Trump’s attorney, a campaign volunteer and a tech company CEO — have publicly said that the parts about them in the dossier are fiction.
A fourth figure — a Russian diplomat whom Londoner Christopher Steele accused of lawbreaking — said via Russia’s Foreign Ministry that the dossier is fantasy. And there is evidence to back him up.
The 35-page dossier by Mr. Steele has taken on critical importance in recent weeks for Democrats in Washington. They cite its accusations without corroboration as the reason for a special commission to investigate Mr. Trump and his aides for a supposed role in Russia’s hacking of Democratic Party email servers.
More @ The Washington Times
Hold the celebrity enablers of Venezuela's hellhole accountable
Via Billy
What holds Venezuela together these days? According to the New York Times, this state is held together only by an encircling ring of death-squad gangs, who serve as its enforcers. These are the community organizers known as 'colectivos' who ride and circle around menacingly on motorcycles, and shoot randomly into crowds to generate terror. I saw them myself in Caracas in late 2005, and they were scary. Now, they are engorged with drug cash and legitimized by the state. Who could have imagined that this tontons macoute situation would be the logical conclusion of Chavista socialism?
Not Venezuela's celebrity endorsers from the Hollywood elites, that's for sure. These Useful Idiots spent years using their capacity for drawing media attention to browbeat the West into believing that Chavista socialism was the wave of the future. They were no different from the political pilgrims who endorsed the Soviet Union in its early days while the Ukraine starved from the communists' man-made famine. Sean Penn declared that anyone in the West who called the late Hugo Chavez a dictator should be imprisoned and gushed:
What holds Venezuela together these days? According to the New York Times, this state is held together only by an encircling ring of death-squad gangs, who serve as its enforcers. These are the community organizers known as 'colectivos' who ride and circle around menacingly on motorcycles, and shoot randomly into crowds to generate terror. I saw them myself in Caracas in late 2005, and they were scary. Now, they are engorged with drug cash and legitimized by the state. Who could have imagined that this tontons macoute situation would be the logical conclusion of Chavista socialism?
Not Venezuela's celebrity endorsers from the Hollywood elites, that's for sure. These Useful Idiots spent years using their capacity for drawing media attention to browbeat the West into believing that Chavista socialism was the wave of the future. They were no different from the political pilgrims who endorsed the Soviet Union in its early days while the Ukraine starved from the communists' man-made famine. Sean Penn declared that anyone in the West who called the late Hugo Chavez a dictator should be imprisoned and gushed:
(Chávez) is a fascinating guy. He’s done… incredible things for the 80% of the people that are very poor there.
More @ American Thinker
How the Election Split France
Via Frank
Two outsiders, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, advanced in France’s presidential election on Sunday, setting up a runoff that could decide the future of the European Union. Election results are as of 4 a.m. Paris time.
Two outsiders, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, advanced in France’s presidential election on Sunday, setting up a runoff that could decide the future of the European Union. Election results are as of 4 a.m. Paris time.
The two winners will rely on starkly different bases of support in the runoff on May 7.
Ms. Le Pen captured areas with high unemployment and low wages, where she campaigned on pledges to stop immigration and renegotiate France’s relationship with the European Union.
Mr. Macron dominated in economically dynamic
areas and large cities, like Paris and Bordeaux, where his pro-business
and socially progressive platform resonated with educated voters.
More @ The New York Times
AG Sessions: Improper Payments to ‘Mostly Mexicans’ Could Fund Border Wall
Via Billy
On ABC’s “This Week” this Sunday, Attorney General, Jeff Sessions remarked that through the improperly paid tax credits to “mostly Mexicans”, the border wall could be funded.
The following is a partial transcript:
On ABC’s “This Week” this Sunday, Attorney General, Jeff Sessions remarked that through the improperly paid tax credits to “mostly Mexicans”, the border wall could be funded.
The following is a partial transcript:
More with video @ The Gateway Pundit
EDITORIAL: Thanks for blowing the Navy's operational security, New York Times
Via Billy
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Apparently,
the Navy doesn’t need to worry about Pyongyang calling its bluff when
The New York Times will do it for the dictatorship.
On
April 8, as North Korea’s threats of war grew more belligerent, the
Department of Defense announced that the USS Carl Vinson was headed to
the Korean Peninsula. Many South Koreans and others cheered the
decision, calling the move a powerful symbol of U.S. strength and
resolve.
This past Tuesday,
however, The New York Times breathlessly broke the news that the USS
Carl Vinson wasn’t actually where the Department of Defense said it was.
In fact, at the time, the carrier had been sailing in the opposite
direction toward Australia. (It will be in the Western Pacific this
week.) The Grey Lady was shocked that the Trump administration would
give out false information regarding a ship’s movement and location.
More @ Culpeper Star-Exponent
New DNC Chair Demands ‘Ideological Purity’ on Abortion from Candidates
Via Billy
This is basically the definition behind what’s called The Big Tent strategy, and it seems to be a pretty basic truism with which many would intuitively agree.
However, newly-elected Democratic Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez appears not to agree with that sentiment.
According to The Huffington Post:
Perez’s statement will likely alienate some high-profile anti-abortion
Democrats in the party, including Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and
Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
Edwards said at the Democratic National Convention in 2016 that the
party might be more successful in the Deep South if it allowed more
anti-abortion candidates to rise in the ranks.
This is basically the definition behind what’s called The Big Tent strategy, and it seems to be a pretty basic truism with which many would intuitively agree.
However, newly-elected Democratic Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez appears not to agree with that sentiment.
According to The Huffington Post:
James O’Keefe Thrown Out of Movie Premiere — About James O’Keefe!
Via Billy
James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII
President and founder of Project Veritas, James O’Keefe purchased a ticket to the world premiere of ‘Acorn and the Firestorm’ at the TriBeCa film festival and was kicked out by security.
**UPDATE** — We spoke with James O’Keefe on Sunday and he said that he bought his ticket to the premiere but was not allowed inside. He then went outside and was handing out fliers. That’s when attendees came out and yelled and cursed at him outside of the premiere. As usual, the liberals are the ‘tolerant’ ones extending compassion.
Via The Hollywood Reporter:
James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII
We passed these flyers out to correct the lies in @ReubenAtlas movie. I've never seen such hate up close and personal.
President and founder of Project Veritas, James O’Keefe purchased a ticket to the world premiere of ‘Acorn and the Firestorm’ at the TriBeCa film festival and was kicked out by security.
**UPDATE** — We spoke with James O’Keefe on Sunday and he said that he bought his ticket to the premiere but was not allowed inside. He then went outside and was handing out fliers. That’s when attendees came out and yelled and cursed at him outside of the premiere. As usual, the liberals are the ‘tolerant’ ones extending compassion.
Via The Hollywood Reporter:
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