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This "WP" sign, as everyone agrees, can be interpreted in infinite variety of ways, and not necessarily as "White Power". So, I do not think, that we should make a big deal out of this occurrence.
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Rep. Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote that President Trump is a threat to the Constitution and should be removed from office, according to the committee's 658-page report on the articles of impeachment resolution against Trump that was submitted early Monday.
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At least four cadets at the game flashed a hand gesture that is widely known as the white power symbol during the Army vs. Navy football game broadcast on Saturday.
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| "Rudy Giuliani" - Google News: Ex-FBI Director William Webster: ‘Profoundly Disappointed’ in Bill Barr, Rudy Giuliani, Trump is Threatening the FBI’s Independence - Mediaite | |||
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The full House of Representatives will vote this week on whether or not to impeach President Trump. This comes after the House Judiciary Committee released a new report that Democrats say makes the case for impeaching the president based on his abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. CBS News chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes joins CBSN with the latest.
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| Russia’s State TV Calls Trump Their ‘Agent’ - 1:25 PM 12/16/2019 | |||
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| The Anthony Weiner sexting affair: It looks almost certainly, that it was the FBI operation, that is why Prince, Giuliani, and Kallstrom knew about it in advance, and they bragged about it. - M.N. - 10:52 AM 12/16/2019 | |||
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The Weiner sexting affair: It looks almost certainly, that it was the FBI operation, that is why Prince, Giuliani, and Kallstrom knew about it in advance, and they bragged about it. See the links below. M.N. - 10:52 AM 12/16/2019 - Post Link "Barely a year into the 2010s, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York decided, for reasons that we may never understand completely, to tweet a photo of his | |||
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| The Anthony Weiner sexting affair: It looks almost certainly, that it was the FBI operation, that is why Prince, Giuliani, and Kallstrom knew about it in advance, and they bragged about it. - M.N. - 10:52 AM 12/16/2019 | |||
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 It looks almost certainly, that it was the FBI operation, that is why Prince, Giuliani, and Kallstrom knew about it in advance, and they bragged about it. See the links below. M.N. - 10:52 AM 12/16/2019 - Post Link "Barely a year into the 2010s, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York decided, for reasons that we may never understand completely, to tweet a photo of his crotch." And this is exactly what we have to understand in his second episode in 2016; WHY?! Many commentators, including myself think, that he was "baited", induced into it. But how? All sexual disorders and/or aberrations have a strong COMPULSIVE component in them, but this does not explain it completely. There is something there that we do not know about. But it looks almost certainly, that it was the FBI operation, that is why Prince, Giuliani, and Kallstrom knew about it in advance, and they bragged about it. We also have to remember, that Weiner was the first who brought up the issue of Trump's relations with Deutsche Bank, and apparently, they wanted to shut him up. It is all described and addressed in my old posts, starting from 2016, read them: Michael Novakhov on Anthony Weiner and the Operation Trump - Google Search. M.N. P.S. As far as I remember, I wrote to DOJ about it, and I think, that this story should of interest to Mr. John Durham, in his inquiry. However, his scope and mandate are presently limited, and he cannot go beyond them. Your humble servant thinks, that they should be expanded and broadened, to include everything of interest, otherwise we will not know the whole story. _________________________________________ Michael Novakhov on Anthony Weiner and the Operation Trump - Google Search
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Barely a year into the 2010s, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York decided, for reasons that we may never understand completely, to tweet a photo of his crotch.
That split-second act initiated a chain of increasingly far-flung consequences, as many observers have chronicled: Weiner’s resignation; his repeated relapses; the tabloids’ years-long obsession with him and his wife, Huma Abedin, who happened to work for Hillary Clinton, who happened to be running for president in late 2016 while dogged by a dormant email scandal, which reactivated 11 days before Election Day when the FBI announced its agents had discovered hundreds of thousands of Clinton’s emails while searching Weiner’s computer for evidence of sexts with an underage girl. That dramatic reminder of Clinton’s email woes arguably swung the election to her opponent, all of which raises the question of whether Donald Trump would be president today had Anthony Weiner not chosen nine years earlier to photograph his underwear. Even the most seemingly insignificant (or in Weiner’s case, ignominious) decisions can influence the course of history. As the 2010s come to an end, we revisit the people whose choices helped spark sweeping changes to our politics, law, culture and the geopolitical order. Dec. 17, 2010A fruit seller tries to get his apples backMohammed Bouazizi, 26, lived without electricity, savings or hope in a rural town in Tunisia, under the rule of a dictator who had held power nearly as long as Bouazizi had been alive. Every morning, he pushed a cart of fruit a mile to the market, where he tried to sell whatever the police did not steal from him.His frustration built day after day, until one day he was pushed too far. As an officer was loading her second basket of unpaid-for apples into her car, a Washington Post reporter who visited the town wrote, Bouazizi tried to block her. The officer pushed the vendor to the ground, confiscated a produce scale that was likely one of Bouazizi’s most valuable possessions and slapped him in the face in front of the entire market. “Bouazizi wept with shame,” The Post wrote. City hall turned him away when he tried to complain, so he “told his fellow vendors he would let the world know how unfairly they were being treated, how corrupt the system was.” Later that day, Bouazizi stood in front of the municipal building, doused himself with paint thinner and ignited. “There had been self-immolations in Tunisia before and others since. For whatever reason, his act seemed to be a tipping point that pushed a lot of people over the edge,” said Steven Heydemann, a political scientist at Smith College who studies the aftermath of Bouazizi’s actions, known today as the Arab Spring. “He really became this kind of iconic symbol to conditions that millions of young people were finding intolerable. They very spontaneously and without much organization just swept into the streets to express anger.” Protests spread from the town of Sidi Bouzid across the country and then through much of North Africa and the Middle East, fueled by social media and Arab newscasts. Tunisia’s ruler was ousted 10 days after Bouazizi died of his burns. The dictators of Egypt, Libya and Yemen soon were gone, too. For a while, it seemed that the Arab Spring would revolutionize the region, but Heydemann noted that most countries eventually fell back to autocracy — or civil war as regimes beat back the protests with violence. Only one country affected by the Arab Spring has managed to hold democratic elections: Tunisia, where a fruit seller started it. June 26, 2013Jim and John decide to marryThey waited two decades to do it, and then everything happened at once.Jim Obergefell was sitting in an armchair in their Cincinnati condo. John Arthur was on the bed, which he rarely left since Lou Gehrig’s disease began to destroy his body. The TV was on, and a news alert informed them that the Supreme Court had just struck down a law that prohibited the federal government from recognizing same-sex married couples. “That was the first moment in our almost 21 years together when, wow, marriage now has the potential to mean something,” Obergefell recalled. “After I hugged and kissed him, I said let’s get married. Luckily, he said yes. It was totally spur of the moment.” The court’s decision did not affect their state’s ban on same-sex marriage, so Obergefell and Arthur — who by that point was too sick to walk — flew to Maryland on July 11 and got married without leaving the plane. After they returned home, a civil rights attorney heard about them at a party and asked to meet. “He came over on Tuesday, five days after the marriage,” Obergefell said. “He pulled out a blank Ohio death certificate and said, ‘Do you understand that when John dies, his official death certificate will be wrong? They’ll say he was single, and you won’t be his spouse.’” Obergefell had never been to court before, he said. He and Arthur had never considered themselves part of the equality movement. They had been, until that moment, content that the federal government validated their marriage, even though Ohio’s state constitution forbade it. “This piece of paper — knowing John would die officially as an unmarried man — it broke our hearts,” Obergefell said. “But it also made that [state] constitutional amendment real. It made it hurtful. More than that, it made us angry.” The lawyer asked them: “Would you guys like to do something about it?” On July 19, the couple sued their state in federal court. In October, Arthur died. A district judge ruled Ohio’s marriage ban unconstitutional in December. One year later, an appeals court overturned the couple’s victory, along with the victories of 15 other couples who had taken their states to court. The Supreme Court stepped in again and this time Obergefell’s name was on the case. On June 26, 2015 — two years to the day after Obergefell and Arthur’s engagement — same-sex marriage was legalized across the country. Aug. 9, 2014Johnetta Elzie goes to a vigilA few months before a Ferguson, Mo., police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, Johnetta Elzie said, a friend of hers was killed by police in St. Louis. She hadn’t protested that; it was par for the course for a black community living under a police department they saw as trigger-happy.“In St. Louis, there are so many people who have so many stories like that,” she said. “I’ve been harassed over a speeding ticket, had a warrant issued, followed everywhere I go.” Elzie didn’t know Brown. She learned of his death the same way many others did: through a viral photo of him lying in a pool of blood in the middle of the street. On an impulse, she decided to drive across town with a friend that evening to see the scene herself. They arrived after Brown’s body had been removed. About 15 people were still gathered there, and Elzie began tweeting about what she saw and heard. “I just remember there were these two little toddlers and their parents, and they’d been out there all day,” she recalled. “They had to be 2 or 3 years old. And the two little ones kept saying they saw Mike-Mike get killed." “The fact that they kept repeating it — sometimes in life, I wonder what happened in the moment that made you become the person you are right now. For these kids, you could see the point where this is going to be a lifetime of trauma, for these two kids who saw a black man get killed." After she and her friend drove back home that night, she thought about what she’d seen — and what she might see if she returned to the neighborhood. “We stayed up talking. I stayed up tweeting, trying to figure out what was the next thing for tomorrow, or were we even going to go.” She did go to the next vigil for Brown, and the next, and the next, documenting protests, riots and police retaliation in 140-character dispatches. Elzie is loath to take any special credit for the movement now called Black Lives Matter, but nevertheless is known across the country today as one of its most prominent founding activists. Jan. 15, 2015April Reign makes a joke“The Oscars were like my Super Bowl,” said April Reign. “There were special snacks involved. I’d rip off the TV so the kids know this is mommy’s night.”Back in 2015, Reign was a Washington-area attorney, raising two kids with her husband and occupying her free time watching movies and writing tweets for the entertainment of her 8,000 followers. That all changed on the morning the nominations for the 87th Academy Awards were announced. The kids had left for school, and Reign was standing half dressed in her family room listening to the list of names: Julianne Moore, Steve Carrell, Bradley Cooper, Laura Dern, Edward Norton … “There were no people of color nominated at all,” Reign observed of the acting nominees. “And this is the year that gave us ‘Selma.’" She reached for her phone tweeted: “#OscarsSoWhite they asked to touch my hair.” The joke had sprung to mind spontaneously, born from the countless strangers who would walk up to her and ruffle her curls, and the white children in her elementary school who would compare their summer tans to her natural skin. “It was a snarky one-off,” Reign said. “I got dressed and went to work.” The next time she checked Twitter, #OscarsSoWhite was the top hashtag in the world. “#OscarsSoWhite they are adding a best golf movie category.” “#OscarsSoWhite they got their own sitcom on NBC in the 90s.” “#OscarsSoWhite they accurately represent Hollywood and its racial make up.” (That last from Trevor Noah.) The hashtag remained viral well into 2016, until the academy was so thoroughly embarrassed that it redrew its membership to include more people of color. The last Oscars included one of the most diverse list of nominees in history — and Reign was invited. Fall 2017Ashley Judd speaks outAshley Judd had told her story about Harvey Weinstein — what had happened after the all-powerful film producer invited the actress to his hotel room about 20 years earlier — to many people before she began to speak off the record to the New York Times. Judd had told her parents, her agent and her therapist that he had made sexual advances at what she expected to be a business meeting.Weinstein’s sexual predation was something of an open secret in Hollywood. Now the Times reporters were asking her to become the first actress to put her name to an accusation. Judd took a day to think about it. “I just laced up those sneakers and went for a long run,” she said. Her regular route is a one-lane road through the hills, pastures and forests outside Nashville. “I just listened to the countryside and the wind, and the dialogue between my head and my heart,” she said. She imagined the worst-case scenario: retaliation from Weinstein and all the power structures around him. Best case: “I thought maybe there’d be some protests in front of Harvey’s house.” She made up her mind when she reached a farmhouse at the three-quarter-mile mark: “I’d already made the most important decision I’ll ever make: I decided to turn my life over to a loving God,” she said. “The important question is whether you believe the universe is a friendly place. Then it became very — to choose to be Jodi [Kantor] and Megan [Twohey]'s named source became very simple and exceedingly forthright. The yes was absolutely automatic.” The article, which included other accusations and ran just before a New Yorker exposé on Weinstein, did inspire protests. By the end of the month, a viral campaign known as #MeToo was revolutionizing the standards of behavior for powerful men. June 22, 2018A restaurant owner asks Sarah Sanders to leaveStephanie Wilkinson was at home on a Friday evening when her chef called from the Red Hen, a 26-seat restaurant she owns in Lexington, Va., and informed her that President Trump’s press secretary had just walked in.Wilkinson is a Trump critic in a conservative county, and had until that evening kept politics off the menu. But this was the summer of 2018, as Trump was pushing harsh policies against immigrants and transgender people, and several administration officials had already been heckled in public. The staff of the Red Hen, some of whom were gay and concerned about his attitude toward LGBTQ community, were asking for help. Wilkinson arrived at her restaurant — “a tiny little box of a room,” she said — to find Sanders, her husband and a few presumed relatives seated around a plate of cheese. Disconcerted waiters and cooks were in the kitchen, preparing the main course. Wilkinson huddled with her staff, about 10 feet from Sanders’s table, and asked them what they wanted to do. “It was the moment when every single bit of news was happening at the southern border,” Wilkinson recalled. “It felt like a moment of crisis, and I know if I’d said, ‘Suck it up, we’re going to serve her and in two hours it’ll be over,’ to all of us it would be a bit of an ignoring of our moral compass.’” “I said I’d like to ask her to leave. Very quickly, everyone said yes.” So Wilkinson took Sanders outside and did just that. She comped the appetizers and went home. When she woke in the morning, she discovered that one of her kitchen workers had written about Sanders’s eviction on Facebook. In the days that followed, the Red Hen was forced to close, as reporters, supporters and protesters swamped its regular clientele. In the following months, it became almost routine for Trump allies to be hounded in public, as when former Democratic governor Martin O’Malley of Maryland lit into Ken Cuccinelli II, acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, at a bar on Capitol Hill last month. In hindsight — at the end of a decade in which every aspect of public life seemed to become political — Wilkinson believes she wouldn’t have acted differently that evening. “This is a unique moment in history,” she said. “People want to have their values heard and upheld by businesses they want to do business with.” The Red Hen has long since reopened, and Wilkinson said business is up. Read More: The best books of 2019 Do you really believe this is the most important election of our lives? Because we’ve heard that before. Illustrations by Jacob Thomas for The Washington Post. Design by Beth Broadwater | |||
| Anthony Weiner's Butterfly Effect Might Have Caused Trump's Election | |||
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Did Anthony Weiner tweeting a photo of his crotch in 2011 lead to a series of events resulting the election of Donald Trump in 2016? That is the intriguing "butterfly effect" question posed by a Washington Post article by Avi Selk, "Decisions that shaped the decade."Although Selk did not use the term "butterfly effect," that is basically the premise of his article which showed how small events in the 2010s decade caused big changes, including the chain of events brought about by Anthony Weiner, that led to the ruin of Hillary Clinton's campaign in the last days over emails on his laptop, enabling the election of Trump. Barely a year into the 2010s, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York decided, for reasons that we may never understand completely, to tweet a photo of his crotch. Nearly 45 years ago, during the 139th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Edward Lorenz posed a question: “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?” The answer to that question probably differs from what you’ve heard. That is a question that has to drive liberals crazy if they think about it. The improbable yet very real butterfly effect initiated by Weiner that quite possibly has destroyed their political world. | |||
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| Will Mike Flynn be charged over White House scandal? – Wellston Journal | |||
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 09:31:22 -0500
Will Mike Flynn be CHARGED over the White House‘s secrets and lies scandal? New questions over whether ex-national security advisor lied to the FBI
Ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn could face federal charges if the FBI determines that he lied to investigators. It is an offense not to tell the agency the truth and interviews do not have to be under oath. If the ex-general misled the FBI he could face an investigation with the possibility of felony charges. Flynn talked to the agency on Jan. 26 about a call he had in December with Russia‘s ambassador, the reported. Investigators were so concerned that Flynn had not told them the entire truth, they warned the White House the very same day that the senior aide could be blackmailed. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO The White House conducted its own investigation into the legal ramifications of Flynn‘s call with the Kremlin representative, Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, and determined that he hadn‘t broken any laws. President demanded his national security adviser‘s resignation Monday night because an ‘eroding level of trust‘ had made it impossible to leave him in the sensitive position. Flynn told the vice president that he did not discuss sanctions with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak only to change his story several weeks later to allow for the possibility that the topic came up. Vice President Mike Pence did not find out about Flynn‘s lapse until Feb. 9, when it was reported by the Washington Post, claimed early on Tuesday evening. That was two weeks after the Department of Justice informed the White House‘s lawyer that Flynn may not have been completely honest. The message was delivered to Trump the same day acting DOJ head Sally Yates talked to White House Counsel Don McGhan. Mike Pence‘s spokesman, Mark Lotter, confirmed NBC‘s reporting to a group of journalists. Lotter further said that the VP learned of Flynn‘s deceit from the report on Feb. 9 that they did. ‘The vice president became of the incomplete information that he had received on Feb. 9 last Thursday night based on media accounts, and he did an inquiry based on those media accounts,‘ Lotter stated. Lotter delivered the statement as reporters finished a gaggle with Spicer about Flynn‘s spectacular fall from grace. Spicer had said at a news conference earlier in the day that Trump had been reviewing and evaluating allegations against Flynn for weeks. He would not get into the details of the situation then, or later, other than to say that it reached ‘critical mass‘ on Monday night. ‘That is why the president decided to ask for his resignation, and he got it.‘ Spicer cited Flynn‘s misleading statements to Pence about the call he had with the Russian ambassador – ‘and a series of other questionable instances‘ that he would not describe. TRUMP: WHAT ABOUT THE LEAKERS?on Tuesday morning tweeted his first public statement since accepting National Security Advisor Michael Flynn‘s resignation – blaming leakers not the disgraced former general, for driving his administration‘s first big scandal.‘The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington?‘ the president wrote on . ‘Will these leaks be happening as I deal on etc?‘ A White House aide told DailyMail shortly thereafter that a ‘shameless‘ ‘enemy within‘ is hamstringing the president in ‘disgusting‘ fashion. Trump did not say whether he would prosecute government employees behind the ‘illegal‘ leaks that brought Flynn down after he conducted secret conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December and lied to Vice President Mike Pence about them. Flynn suggested in an interview on Monday with the that he was not currently under federal investigation. It came up as he insisted to the non-profit news outlet that he hadn‘t done anything wrong. ‘If I did, believe me, the FBI would be down my throat, my clearances would be pulled. There were no lines crossed,‘ he said in the interview that hit the internet around the same time as the Times‘ report. Spicer had dismissed concerns earlier in the day that Flynn‘s talk with Kislyak in December was problematic. He said the retired general was dismissed when Trump decided he couldn‘t rely on him. ‘There was nothing wrong or inappropriate about those discussions. It purely came down to a matter of trust. That‘s it,‘ Spicer told reporters. After a thorough review, Flynn was cleared of any violations, Spicer said during his daily briefing. ‘We got to a point not based on a legal issue but based on a trust issue where the level of trust between the president and General Flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change,‘ the president‘s press secretary said. Flynn was not fired on Jan. 26 when Yates informed McGhan that Flynn‘s story didn‘t add up because the Justice Department hadn‘t launched a probe and could not say with certainty that the Trump official had lied, Spicer posited. ‘The evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation and a series of other questionable instances is what led the president to ask for General Flynn‘s resignation,‘ Spicer told reporters during his Tuesday briefing. Asked later to explain what those other instances were, Trump‘s spokesman said his ‘statement was very clear – it was this and a series of issues.‘ Spicer declined to offer clarification later in his office. He would not say what the tipping point was for Trump was with Flynn, either. ‘The president made a decision last night, that’s as far as I’m going to go,‘ he told reporters on Tuesday. Flynn has not spoken out since his interview with the DCNF that took place at an unknown time on Monday. He talked to the DCNF, he has said, because the president encouraged him to defend himself. The retired three-star general had no idea at that time that he was headed for the chopping block. ‘He [President Donald Trump] expressed confidence,‘ Flynn is quoted as saying to the DNCF. ‘That‘s when he told me that we need to go out and talk more. So I‘m going to do that.‘ The interview was conducted ‘just hours before his resignation,‘ DNCF‘s Richard Pollock stated. It is not clear how late in the day Flynn spoke to DCNF. Spicer announced just after 5pm on Monday that Flynn was being evaluated. Flynn told the DNCF at that time that he believed the controversy surrounding his call with Kislyak was ‘ridiculous‘ and ‘out of control.‘ ‘I haven‘t been fighting back because I‘m not that kind of guy. I‘m behind the scenes. I‘ve always been behind the scenes,‘ he said. Attempting to clear his name, Flynn said that he did discuss the Obama administration‘s punishing actions with Kislyak – but only in the abstract. ‘It was basically, ‘Look, I know this happened. We‘ll review everything.‘ I never said anything such as, ‘We‘re going to review sanctions,‘ or anything like that,‘ he said. Flynn said he reminded the Russian ambassador that Trump wouldn‘t be in office for several more weeks. ‘ ‘Give us some time to take a look at everything,‘ ‘ he remembers saying. Spicer said he was unable to corroborate Flynn‘s conversation with DCNF, particularly the part about Trump saying his aide should defend himself and speak out, when it came up in his gaggle with reporters on Tuesday night. A senior administration official suggested that Flynn had been on the ropes for some time. The official told reporters Tuesday, after the DCNF story, that the White House talked to Navy Vice Admiral Robert Harward for the high-ranking position last week and again on Monday. ‘We‘ve been getting our ducks in a row for a long time,‘ the official stated. Spicer said the White House is aiming to have a permanent replacement for Flynn in place by the end of the week but would not offer a definitive timeline for hiring. House Speaker Paul Ryan was the first to say that Trump had asked for his national security advisor‘s resignation. ‘National security is perhaps the most important function or responsibility a president has. And I think the president made the right decision,‘ Ryan said of Flynn‘s departure on Tuesday morning. At a House leadership press conference the Republican told reporters, ‘You cannot have a national security adviser misleading the vice president and others. So I think the president was right to ask for his resignation. And I believe it was the right thing to do.‘ Ryan said Wednesday, on MSNBC, ‘If I were the president, I would have done the exact same thing.‘ He would not chastise Trump for keeping Pence in the dark about Flynn‘s missteps. ‘The president backed up the vice president. The president said if he was misleading to Mike Pence, than he‘s gotta go. And that‘s what counts, here I think,‘ Ryan told Morning Joe. The White House tried to gently remove Flynn from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, allowing him to tender his resignation even as it kicked him out. A White House press release Monday night stated that Trump had accepted Flynn‘s resignation and was appointing Lt. General Joseph Keith Kellogg, Jr. to the post. It did not say that Flynn had been dismissed. An accompanying letter from Flynn said, ‘I am tendering my resignation, honored to have served our nation and the American people in such a distinguished way.‘ Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway made it sound like a mutual decision on Good Morning America as she spoke about the situation with Flynn at the behest of the president. Flynn resigned because he realized he‘d become a distraction for the administration, she said. ‘It became increasingly unsustainable for him.‘ The president accepted the senior aide‘s resignation because he ‘misled‘ the vice president, Conway said. He was ‘dishonest or forgetful.‘ Flynn‘s letter acknowledged that he ‘inadvertently briefed the Vice President Elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian Ambassador. ‘I have sincerely apologized to the President and the Vice President, and they have accepted my apology.‘ He told the DCNF earlier in the day, when he thought he was staying on that he felt ‘terrible‘ about the position he put Pence in. ‘He‘s a man of incredible integrity. I think the world of him. He is so good for our country,‘ he said. ‘I should have said, ‘I don‘t know. I can‘t recall,‘ which is the truth. Looking back, that‘s what I should have done.‘ Pence‘s office suggested Tuesday evening that the apology had been accepted, but the VP also believed that Flynn needed to go. ‘The vice president has tremendous respect for the fact that General Flynn tendered his resignation last night and that the president accepted that resignation,‘ Lotter said. ‘He is very grateful for General Flynn’s service to our nation in uniform and his service to this administration, and he wishes him very well.’ As of early Monday evening, Trump was ‘evaluating‘ Flynn‘s position. Conway said on GMA that Flynn‘s clarification that he may he have talked about sanctions on the call after all ‘accelerated matters.‘ The hysteria over Flynn reached ‘a fever pitch‘ Monday night, Conway said. ‘The fact is the president is a very loyal person and he has a team him that serves him very admirably, and in this case information had been forthcoming for a while, but the situation had gotten to a fever pitch yesterday, later in the day.‘ Ryan offered a more direct version of events at his news conference on Tuesday. ‘I think the key is that as soon as this person lost the president‘s trust, the president asked for his resignation,‘ he said, ‘and that was the right thing to do.‘ Spicer took a similar tone at his own news conference. ‘The president was very concerned that General Flynn had misled the vice president and others,‘ Spicer said. ‘He was also very concerned in light of sensitive subjects dealt with by that position of national security advisors like China, North Korea and the Middle East, that the president must have complete and unwavering trust for the person in that position.‘ FLYNN‘S VERY MESSY DEPARTURE – AND HOW IT ALL BEGANDecember 29: Obama announces sanctions against Russia over alleged hacks targeting election. Flynn spoke with Russian ambassador Kislyak repeatedly the same day, it was later reported.December 30: Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will not respond to the sanctions, surprising many U.S. officials. Trump praises Putin‘s decision as ‘very smart.‘ January 13: Trump spokesman Sean Spicer says Flynn had called Kislyak merely to set up a phone call between Trump and Putin January 15: Vice President-elect Mike Pence says in an interview with CBS that Flynn had not discussed santions in the call with Kislyak January 20: Trump inaugurated president January 23: Spicer, now White House spokesman, said Flynn had told him the call to Kislyak covered four topics: a plane crash that killed a Russian military choir; Christmas greetings; Russian-led talks over the Syrian civil war; and logistics for a call between Putin and Trump January 26: Flynn talks to the FBI about the call with Kislyak. Acting Attorney General Sally Yates briefs Trump officials that intercepted communications indicated Flynn had discussed sanctions with Kislyak in ways she believed were ‘highly significant‘ and ‘potentially illegal‘ White House Counsel Don McGhan passes on her concerns to the president and other senior aides. January 30: Trump fires Yates for refusing to defend executive immigration order in court February 8: Flynn denies in interviews that he discussed sanctions in the calls with Kislyak February 9: Flynn backpedals, saying through a spokesperson that he ‘couldn‘t be certain‘ sanctions weren‘t discussed February 13: Report breaks of Justice Department concerns about blackmail, and Flynn resigns hours later Flynn, a retired military general, stepped down late on Monday night, less than a month into Trump‘s administration as questions mounted over his close links with the Kremlin. His stunning announcement, first reported by , came just hours after sources close to the government revealed that the Justice Department had warned the new administration that his conversation with the Kremlin had put him in a compromising position and left him open to blackmail. Flynn made numerous phone calls to the Russian Ambassador to the US before Trump took office, and later hinted he may have gone against diplomatic protocol by discussing the rollback of sanctions. The VP had vouched for Flynn, without knowing the full details of the calls, and gave him his full support several days before the inauguration. Retired general Keith Kellogg has taken over as acting national security advisor, but the administration is considering former CIA Director David Petraeus and US Navy Admiral Michelle Howard as permanent replacements. Democrats in the House of Representatives are demanding a classified briefing and have renewed calls for an investigation into the Russia‘s election meddling in response to the abrupt resignation announcement. Reps. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), respectively the ranking members of the Judiciary and Oversight committees said in a statement that they were ‘shocked and dismayed‘ to learn that the Trump administration was informed of Flynn‘s vulnerabilities three weeks ago. ‘We in Congress need to know who authorized his actions, permitted them, and continued to let him have access to our most sensitive national security information despite knowing these risks. We need to know who else within the White House is a current and ongoing risk to our national security.‘ Former acting attorney general Sally Yates told the new administration last month she was concerned over potential blackmail after Flynn denied that he had discussed sanctions in calls with the Russian ambassador to the United States, the reported just hours before the resignation. Intelligence intercepts of those calls indicate that they did touch on sanctions in ways Yates believed were ‘highly significant‘ and ‘potentially illegal‘, leaving Russia with potential leverage over Flynn, the Post reported. Flynn, a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, spoke to Kislyak more than once before Trump took office, sparking concerns that the two were discussing US policy toward Russia. One call took place on the same day that President Obama applied sanctions against Moscow for their alleged interference in the presidential election. The White House says Trump was aware of the warning, but it was not enough for him to fire Flynn. The Trump administration‘s handling of the Flynn firing was fraught with conflicting information. First, Chief White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC that President Donald Trump wasn‘t planning to axe his national security advisor. ‘General Flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president,‘ Conway said. Less than an hour later, press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement that the president ‘is evaluating the situation‘. ‘He‘s speaking to Vice President Pence relative to the conversation the Vice President had with Gen. Flynn,‘ Spicer said, ‘and also speaking to various other people about what he considers the single most important subject there is: our national security.‘ I inadvertently briefed the Vice President Elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian Ambassador. -FLYNN RESIGNATION LETTER Spicer told reporters in his office on Monday evening that Flynn has not offered to quit his position, and called questions about whether Trump would accept his resignation ‘hypothetical.‘ He said he had spoken directly with Trump about the latest statement‘s wording, declaring that it reflected the president‘s ‘current thinking.‘ ‘This is what he asked me to communicate to you,‘ Spicer recounted. After flatly denying he‘d discussed rolling back sanctions with Russian officials in a January 15 interview, Flynn said he was uncertain whether the subject came up. Two administration officials told DailyMail on Friday that Flynn was still unsure what he told Kislyak, the Russian ambassador. One said he couldn‘t be ‘100 percent‘ certain sanctions were not discussed. Monday‘s joint press conference between Trump and Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau came and went without a single Flynn-related question. Retired General Keith Kellogg will take over as acting National Security Advisor Trump didn‘t respond to shouted queries as he left the White House‘s East Room. As of Monday night, he had not commented on Flynn‘s departure. Hillary Clinton took to Twitter on Monday night to share her opinion on National Security Advisor Michael Flynn‘s resignation, suggesting there are ‘real consequences of fake news‘. Clinton retweeted a post from longtime confidante Phillipe Reines on Monday night, where he suggested Flynn and his son, who spread the discredited ‘Pizzagate‘ conspiracy theory on social media, get jobs at Domino‘s. ‘Philippe‘s got his own way of saying things, but he has a point about the real consequences of fake news,‘ Clinton said in her tweet. Reines had written, ‘Dear Mike Flynn & Mike Flynn Jr., What goes around COMETS around. And given your pizza obsession…‘, with a link to Domino‘s Pizza‘s job site. In December, Flynn Jr tweeted about the Pizzagate conspiracy, which linked Clinton and her campaign chief to Comet Ping Pong pizza shop in Washington, DC. The theory suggested that Clinton and John Podesta presided over a child-sex ring run out of the DC pizza parlor. Police said a 28-year-old North Carolina man opened fire with a rifle inside the restaurant in December because he thought child sex-slaves were being held against their will in the basement. No one was harmed but the man was arrested. In his tweet, Flynn Jr did not endorse the conspiracy theory, but predicted that it wouldn‘t go away. ‘Until #Pizzagate proven to be false, it‘ll remain a story. The left seems to forget #PodestaEmails and the many ‘coincidences‘ tied to it,‘ he tweeted. Meanwhile, Russian lawmakers suggested that Flynn had been forced out of his position because Trump‘s administration had been ‘infected‘ by anti-Russian feeling. ‘Either Trump has not gained the requisite independence and | |||
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| RUSSIA and THE WEST - РОССИЯ и ЗАПАД: A plague on both your houses!!! Та же самая Гебешная Ново-Абверовская Жидовня: И на Украине, под лыбящейся маской их зелёного Зеленского, и в вонючем проклятом Азербайджане, под маской их старых агентов, тупых Алиевых | |||
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A plague on both your houses!!! Та же самая Гебешная Ново-Абверовская Жидовня: И на Украине, под лыбящейся маской их зелёного Зеленского, и в вонючем проклятом Азербайджане, под маской их старых агентов, тупых Алиевых. Чума на оба ваших дома!
A plague on both your houses!!!
Та же самая Гебешная Ново-Абверовская Жидовня: И на Украине, под лыбящейся маской их зелёного Зеленского, и в вонючем проклятом Азербайджане, под маской их старых агентов, тупых Алиевых. Чума на оба ваших дома! Post Link - 2:42 AM 12/16/2019
Azerbaijani man Elvin Isayev disappeared in Kyiv on Dec. 12.
His whereabouts were unknown until the State Migration Service of Azerbaijan reported on Dec. 14 that he had been deported from Ukraine on Dec. 12 for violating immigration laws. He is being held in a detention center in Baku.
President Volodymyr Zelensky plans to visit Azerbaijani in December, several Ukrainian media outlets reported, citing their sources.
Isayev arrived in Kyiv in late September, according to Azerbaijani journalist-in-exile Fikret Huseynli. Despite having a Dutch passport, Huseynli was arrested in Ukraine in 2018 and faced extradition to his native country of Azerbaijan but won the case and returned to the Netherlands.
“Isayev contacted me on Dec. 3 seeking help and advice. I told him to stay in, not to use metro, order food online. He didn’t plan to stay in Ukraine and wanted to go to Europe and seek asylum there,” Huseynli told the Kyiv Post over the phone. “He told me some acquaintance of his promised to help him get a visa to Slovakia. But he was lied to. Azerbaijani citizens can’t get Schengen visas without residence in Ukraine.”
Isayev has got 20,800 subscribers on his YouTube channel. He wasn’t a journalist nor a professional video blogger.
But his thing was insulting the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his family, says Huseynli, and he gained some scandalous fame on social media for his foul-mouthed rants.
The ruling family of the oil-rich country monopolized not only power but also control over all major sectors of the economy. The authoritarian clan has been implicated in massive corruption schemes and rigging elections while generously spending on western PR firms to whitewash its reputation in the west. Any criticism has been brutally stifled through arrests and prosecution. Journalists and bloggers are specifically targeted.
Several dissidents were arrested or abducted in former Soviet countries at the behest of the Azerbaijani government.
“After the total capture of the media environment inside the country, the government of Ilham Aliyev has turned its attention to silencing critics in exile,” wrote the non-profit Index of Censorship in its 2019 report on the state of media freedom in Azerbaijan.
Born in Azerbaijan, Isayev lived in Russia for nearly two decades. In 2001, he received Russian citizenship. He married a Russian woman and ran a retail business.
Two years ago, Isayev helped an Azerbaijani emigre Qurban Mammadov, who lives in London, launch an opposition YouTube channel called Azer Freedom TV, said Huseynli.
The problems began in August 2019. Azerbaijani authorities opened a criminal case against Isayev and ordered his arrest. Huseynli says the charges are grave: terrorism. But the Kyiv Post could not verify the charges.
Isayev got arrested in St. Petersburg, where he had lived for years, and had his Russian passport revoked by a court. The Russian
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| Ukraine deports blogger to Azerbaijan where he faces prison | KyivPost | |||
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 01:56:20 -0500
Azerbaijani man Elvin Isayev disappeared in Kyiv on Dec. 12.
His whereabouts were unknown until the State Migration Service of Azerbaijan reported on Dec. 14 that he had been deported from Ukraine on Dec. 12 for violating immigration laws. He is being held in a detention center in Baku. President Volodymyr Zelensky plans to visit Azerbaijani in December, several Ukrainian media outlets reported, citing their sources. Isayev arrived in Kyiv in late September, according to Azerbaijani journalist-in-exile Fikret Huseynli. Despite having a Dutch passport, Huseynli was arrested in Ukraine in 2018 and faced extradition to his native country of Azerbaijan but won the case and returned to the Netherlands. “Isayev contacted me on Dec. 3 seeking help and advice. I told him to stay in, not to use metro, order food online. He didn’t plan to stay in Ukraine and wanted to go to Europe and seek asylum there,” Huseynli told the Kyiv Post over the phone. “He told me some acquaintance of his promised to help him get a visa to Slovakia. But he was lied to. Azerbaijani citizens can’t get Schengen visas without residence in Ukraine.” Isayev has got 20,800 subscribers on his YouTube channel. He wasn’t a journalist nor a professional video blogger. But his thing was insulting the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his family, says Huseynli, and he gained some scandalous fame on social media for his foul-mouthed rants. The ruling family of the oil-rich country monopolized not only power but also control over all major sectors of the economy. The authoritarian clan has been implicated in massive corruption schemes and rigging elections while generously spending on western PR firms to whitewash its reputation in the west. Any criticism has been brutally stifled through arrests and prosecution. Journalists and bloggers are specifically targeted. Several dissidents were arrested or abducted in former Soviet countries at the behest of the Azerbaijani government. “After the total capture of the media environment inside the country, the government of Ilham Aliyev has turned its attention to silencing critics in exile,” wrote the non-profit Index of Censorship in its 2019 report on the state of media freedom in Azerbaijan. Born in Azerbaijan, Isayev lived in Russia for nearly two decades. In 2001, he received Russian citizenship. He married a Russian woman and ran a retail business. Two years ago, Isayev helped an Azerbaijani emigre Qurban Mammadov, who lives in London, launch an opposition YouTube channel called Azer Freedom TV, said Huseynli. The problems began in August 2019. Azerbaijani authorities opened a criminal case against Isayev and ordered his arrest. Huseynli says the charges are grave: terrorism. But the Kyiv Post could not verify the charges. Isayev got arrested in St. Petersburg, where he had lived for years, and had his Russian passport revoked by a court. The Russian authorities, however, could not send him to Azerbaijan after the European Court for Human Rights blocked his extradition. His Russian lawyer told Reuters back in August that Isayev had tried to give up his Azerbaijani citizenship in the past but the government of that country did not accept it. Huseynli believes the blogger was lured into a trap by Mamedov, who is suspected to collaborate with the Azerbaijani security agency. “Mammadov advised him to go to Ukraine, and he gave his location to Azerbaijani agents,” Huseynli told the Kyiv Post. “After what happened to me in Ukraine, many Azerbaijani journalists refused to go there. It is unsafe for political refugees.” He added that it was risky for Isayev to come to Ukraine because of the video in which he expresses support for the Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. In the video, Isayev shows humanitarian aid that is being sent to Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts from the Azerbaijani diaspora. “Hold on. Russia is with you. We are praying for you,” Isayev says in the video. Mammadov has not replied by the time this story was published.  | |||
| Hey Putin, what are you doing? - Hakkı Öcal | |||
Sun, 15 Dec 2019 21:21:57 -0500
Well, Mr. Putin, I could be a little nicer and ask "что вы пытаетесь доказать, чёрт возьми?" but after listening to the pleads coming from Libya's internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli, as it prepares to face an assault from the U.S.-puppet warlord Khalifa Haftar, one can hardly be nice. Tell us what the hell you are doing in Libya?
For years you have acted as an observer looking at what financial capitalism was doing to Libya. You acted as if Russia were an impartial observer retired to a dacha in Odesa. Even the juniors in the Polytechnic University of Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso were more involved in the events in Libya. That great country of yours couldn't bring itself to vote on the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 to protect the civilians in Libya. Without the help of the Russian mercenaries, the self-appointed field marshal Khalifa Haftar would not survive more than a week after a second civil war in Libya. Thanks to Mother Russia. Haftar was the defeated and embarrassing tool of Moammar Gadhafi in his failed war against Chad, but he also held a senior position in the forces that overthrew Gadhafi in the first civil war. In between, he was a prisoner of war in the U.S. and he returned carrying the citizenship of that country. He was accused of the war crime, of ordering the killing of prisoners of war during the recapture of Derna, but thanks to Russian protection, in 2014 he unilaterally dissolved the General National Congress (GNC), the elected parliament. Since then Haftar has been running one half of the country in and around Benghazi. The war between GNA and Hafter's forces was largely stalemated until recently. In addition to the state-of-the-art drones, piloted by personnel from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, hundreds of Russian mercenaries from the so-called Wagner Group have changed the balance of power in recent weeks. We know why the U.S. and its cronies are helping Haftar: The GNA and the majority of the Libyan people are acting as Muslims: For instance, they supported the resolution in the Fourth Committee of the U.N. to extend the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, known as UNRWA, mandate until 2023. Israel and the U.S. were the only countries that voted against the resolution, with 169 countries voting in favor and nine abstentions. The GNA representative also joined Turkey in its condemnation of the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Finally, GNA signed a maritime border agreement with Turkey. The EU leaders declared the pact invalid; Greece, Cyprus and Egypt are angry for being cut off from oil and gas drilling in the Eastern Mediterranean. The EU and the U.S., again, seem interested only in what they call the Daesh pockets in Libya. As in Syria, it is of course just a masquerade to hide their real intention: to put Libya's reins in trusted hands, for now, which seem to belong to Haftar. We sort of know why the U.S., EU, Israel, Egypt, Greece, the UAE and Saudi Arabia believe in him but why on earth would you support him, comrade Putin? | |||
| Ilham Aliyev: Do you molest young girls? | Google Search google.com/search?q=Ilham… | |||
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| Ilham Aliyev: Do you molest young girls?! - 3:16 PM 12/15/2019 | |||
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Ilham Aliyev: Do you molest young girls?! I think, you do. | This Post Link Michael Novakhov 3:16 PM 12/15/2019 - Post Link Search Results Web results It's the company you keep... the Duke's dangerous liaisons ... https://www.independent.co.uk › News › People › Profiles Mar 8, 2011 - But after his billionaire friend had admitted abusing a young girl, ... Whenever | |||
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I think, you do. The FBI News Review - fbinewsreview.blogspot.com - Blog by Michael Novakhov: Ilham Aliyev: Do you molest young girls?! - 3:16 P... fbinewsreview.blogspot.com/2019/12/ilham-… | |||
| Ilham Aliyev: Did you murder Caruana Galizia? I think, you did. - 3:36 PM 12/15/2019 | |||
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The FBI News Review - Blogger.com Azerbaijan behind Caruana Galizia assassination – 11:15 AM ... Ilham Aliyev: Did you murder Caruana Galizia? I think, you did. 3:36 PM 12/15/2019 - Post Link Ilham Aliyev: I have a lot of questions for you. I think, you better release Elvin Isayev, and you better do it right now! Michael Novakhov _________________________________ | |||
| The FBI News Review Azerbaijan behind Caruana Galizia assassination Ilham Aliyev: Did you murder Caruana Galizia? I think, you did. Ilham Aliyev: I have a lot of questions for you. I think, you better release Elvin Isayev, and you better do it right now! | |||
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Azerbaijan behind Caruana Galizia assassination Ilham Aliyev: Did you murder Caruana Galizia? I think, you did. Ilham Aliyev: I have a lot of questions for you. I think, you better release Elvin Isayev, and you better do it right now! fbinewsreview.blogspot.com/2019/12/ilham-… | |||
| The FBI News Review Azerbaijan behind Caruana Galizia assassination Ilham Aliyev: Did you murder Caruana Galizia? I think, you did. Ilham Aliyev: I have a lot of questions for you. I think, you better release Elvin Isayev, and you better do it right now! | |||
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The FBI News Review
Azerbaijan behind Caruana Galizia assassination Ilham Aliyev: Did you murder Caruana Galizia? I think, you did. Ilham Aliyev: I have a lot of questions for you. I think, you better release Elvin Isayev, and you better do it right now! fbinewsreview.blogspot.com/2019/12/ilham-… pic.twitter.com/Z7EErRFFoe  | |||
| "Much More to Come" - Giuliani Says Impeachment is Intended to Obstruct Investigations of Obama-Era Corruption | |||
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by Cristina Laila
December 15, 2019  Biden, Obama, KerryTrump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani was on a roster Sunday afternoon and fell bombshells showing a massive Ukrainian money laundering operation between Obama-era officials along with the Biden crime family. “More to come” Giuliani said Sunday finishing that Democrats’ impeachment for innocent behavior is meant to block analyses of Obama-era corruption. Giuliani also said that sham impeachment against Trump is meant to cover the DNC’s collusion with Ukraine throughout the 2016 election”to ruin candidate Trump.” Billions of laundered $ — Billions, largely US $, broadly misused — Extortion — Bribery — DNC collusion w/ Ukraine to ruin candidate Trump Rudy showed a massive money laundering operation between the Bidens and Burisma Holdings. Money has been flowing through Latvia and Cyprus disguised as loans to different tech firms then paid as’board charges’ into Hunter Biden. “This is a direct out breach of a money laundering statute,” Giuliani said. Giuliani disclosed there is records showing Schiff’s star witness, fired US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch perjured herself at least two times throughout her impeachment testimony. Documents demonstrate Yovanovitch was involved with the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s investigations and refused visas to witnesses who might establish Biden, Dem corruption,” Giuliani said. The Democrats established a sham impeachment inquiry against President Trump since he had been performing his duty to reach the base of Ukrainian corruption between Obama-era officials along with other Democrats. The Obama government and Democrats were utilizing Ukraine as a conduit to launder millions, if not billions of dollars of US money back in their pockets. However there wasn’t a”smidgen” of corruption or scandal, right Obama? Post Views: 38 | |||
| Hey Putin, what are you doing? - Hakkı Öcal - Daily Sabah | |||
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| How the 1% Scrubs Its Image Online | |||
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Rachel Levy, Wall Street Journal Prominent figures from Jacob Gottlieb to Betsy DeVos got help from a reputation management firm that can bury image-sensitive Google results by placing flattering content on websites that masquerade as news outlets | |||
| Possible 'white power' hand signs at Army-Navy game probed - WJLA | |||
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| Military investigates possible white power signs flashed by students during Army-Navy telecast | |||
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Military officials said they are looking into what appeared to be white supremacist hand signs made by students before the Army-Navy football game on Saturday.
Pregame festivities aired by ESPN showed cadets on both sides of the rivalry — two West Point cadets and one Naval Academy midshipman — making gestures as a camera focused on a sideline report from journalist Rece Davis. At least one of the gestures resembled a white supremacist symbol described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "the thumb and forefinger joined together in a circle, the remaining three fingers splayed out behind." The Morning RundownGet a head start on the morning's top stories.Cmdr. Alana Garas of the Naval Academy said in an email, "We are aware and will be looking into it." Download the NBC News app for breaking news The Navy won the 120th annual game 31-7. It was kicked off with the help of President Donald Trump, who took the field during the coin toss and visited both teams' locker rooms beforehand to shake hands with the players. Someone on the Midshipmen side who was out of the frame then appeared to make the one-handed symbol, which looks like a W and a P, and continued until someone wearing a glove tapped him on the hand.
Dennis Romero writes for NBC News and is based in Los Angeles.
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| Army, Navy officials investigate possible ‘white power’ gestures by students | |||
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| Possible 'white power' hand signs at Army-Navy game probed | |||
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Army and Navy academies are looking into hand signs flashed by students that can be associated with “white power" and were televised during the Army-Navy football game on Saturday, school officials said.
Cadets at West Point and midshipmen at the Naval Academy in the stands both appeared to display the sign during the broadcast, officials with the two military academies told The Wall Street Journal. The gesture was seen during an ESPN broadcast segment. School officials are trying to determine what the hand signals were meant to convey, they said. “We’re looking into it,” Lt. Col. Chris Ophardt, a spokesperson for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York, told the Journal. “I don’t know what their intention is.” “We are aware and will be looking into it,” said Cmdr. Alana Garas, a spokesperson for the U.S. Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland. The Pentagon didn’t immediately respond to the Journal's request for comment. The hand sign is similar to the one often used to indicate “OK,” but the Anti-Defamation League says it has lately been used as an extremist meme, in part because of its ambiguity. U.S. Coast Guard leaders last year reprimanded an officer who used a similar hand sign during a television broadcast. | |||
| House to vote on articles of impeachment against Trump | ABC News | |||
Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:03:11 -0500
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The full House of Representatives will vote this week after the Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump - abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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| Comey: 'I was wrong' to say FISA process was 'followed' | |||
Sun, 15 Dec 2019 19:59:48 -0500
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Fox News Exclusive: Chris Wallace presses former FBI Director James Comey on IG Horowitz's bombshell revelations about the DOJ's FISA system on 'Fox News Sunday.' #FoxNewsSunday #FoxNews
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| Trump 'believes he is above the law and accountable to no one': Rep. Adam Schiff | ABC News | |||
Sun, 15 Dec 2019 19:48:00 -0500
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff sit down with George Stephanopoulos on "This Week."
#ABCNews #ThisWeek #Impeachment #HouseJudiciaryCommittee #JerryNadler #AdamSchiff  | |||
| James Comey on FISA errors: I was wrong | |||
Sun, 15 Dec 2019 19:43:08 -0500
From: CNN
Duration: 10:39
Former FBI Director James Comey conceded that there was "real sloppiness" involved with the bureau's effort to obtain warrants to secretly surveil a Trump campaign adviser in 2016, saying in a Sunday interview that he was "overconfident" with his trust in the bureau's procedures.
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| President among Jeffrey Epstein clients: Ilham Aliyev? - 7:01 PM 12/15/2019 | |||
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Adding to those concerns is the fact that Azerbaijan is hardly a beacon of transparency and democracy, but rather the opposite.
In an interview with this newspaper last year, Dr Muscat insisted that the suggestion of kickbacks had not even been tabled during discussions.
Here is a section of the transcript:
Let us talk about the secret Azerbaijan deal. Can you confirm that no kickback offers were made?
Of course not! Absolutely not! I deny that most categorically.
I am not asking if you took kickbacks, but if you were offered any.
No way. And I think that we made a mistake by not taking journalists with us. At the time we were reviewing the system of taking (and paying for) journalists on government trips and we really thought that this was not that important. Again, let me be clear, nothing was offered and I cannot imagine a scenario where such an offer could be made. You have every right to ask. I have no problem with that.
A corrupt regime?
The Aliyev family has been a prominent feature of Azerbaijani politics for half a century – President Ilham Aliyev’s father Heydar was the leader of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic between 1969 and 1982, before becoming First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union.
He was forced to resign by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, but reinvented himself when Azerbaijan won its independence, becoming its third president in 1993 and stepping down a few weeks before his death in 2003.
Ilham Aliyev is his father’s handpicked successor, and has obtained over three-quarters of the national vote in three presidential elections, marred by allegations of irregularities and political oppression.
Mrs Michelle Muscat with Leyla Aliyeva, daughter of Azerbaijan’s President
A cult of personality was created around the former president, which has continued under his son’s rule. The state news agency, AzerTAc, actually uses the appellation “Great Leader” – the same term that the North Koreans use to describe his counterpart Kim-il Sung.
The Memorandum of Understanding between Malta and Azerbaijan was itself signed underneath a massive bust of Heydar Aliyev, which overlooks a quotation of his that roughly translates as “all our efforts in the economic sector should be devoted to the welfare of our people”.
But various reports suggest that a sizeable part of the country’s economic efforts is devoted to improving the welfare of the Aliyev family itself.
While Azerbaijani law prohibits President Aliyev – whose annual salary is around €200,000 – from owning businesses, there are no such restrictions on his relatives, who appear to have amassed significant commercial interests across the globe.
Some time back, the Washington Post revealed that real estate in Dubai worth some $75 million was owned by the president’s three children: daughters Leyla and Arzu and son Heydar. The lion’s share of this real estate – nine waterfront mansions in the Palm Jumeirah land reclamation project worth $44 million – had been acquired by the president’s son, who was just 11 years old at the time.
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Azerbaijan, along with Panama, has become the most talked about foreign country in the wake of allegations by journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia that the South Caucasus country has been funnelling money, through a company owned by the dictator’s daughter Leyla Aliyeva, to companies owned by Minister Konrad Mizzi, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Keith Schembri and the Prime Minister’s wife Michelle Muscat.
But while these allegations have yet to be proved true or otherwise, there are a number of hard facts about Malta’s seemingly increasingly cosy relationship with the faraway country known best for its oil and gas exports, as well as for its corruption. These include an Azerbaijani state company’s involvement in the new Delimara power station, the government’s 18-year obligation to purchase natural gas to fuel it from an Azerbaijani state owned entity, the visit Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, his chief of staff, his communications coordinator Kurt Farrugia and Minister Mizzi made to the country in December 2014, and the dictator’s daughters’ dubious company in Malta that was used to rake in funds from the Azerbaijani telecommunications market. PM Muscat leading a Maltese delegation in a meeting with Azerbaijan President Aliyev That contentious trip to Azerbaijan In December 2014, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, his chief of staff Keith Schembri and then Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi paid a somewhat dubious visit to Baku. No section of the press was invited to attend, an oversight that the Prime Minister later said had been a mistake. The trip had raised eyebrows, both before and after. The government’s own sparse report on the visit confirmed that Dr Mizzi signed two memoranda of understanding during the visit: one with his Azerbaijani counterpart on strategic cooperation in the field of energy, and the other with SOCAR, the state oil company, to plan and implement this cooperation. According to the government statement, the two countries agreed on “collaboration in the exploration and production of oil and gas, the trading and distribution of petroleum, the trading of energy commodities in the Mediterranean, the possibility of new infrastructure and innovative services of LNG among others. “This agreement will lead to our country cooperating with one of the greatest energy centres to continue developing the foundations of a regional energy hub,” the government said. Minister Konrad Mizzi signing an agreement in Azerbaijan But beyond the vague statement on possible areas of cooperation “with one of the greatest energy centres”, there is little indication of what the agreement was intended to lead to. What it led to was apparently a loss of millions of euros on a fuel hedging agreement with SOCAR. In 2015, the Auditor General reported that a lack of documentation led his office to question the way fuel-hedging agreements with SOCAR were signed last year based on "ministerial direction". That “ministerial discretion” led to Enemalta losing over €14 million on fuel hedging, according to the National Audit Office, although it did recoup nearly €8 million through currency exchange hedging. However, in comments made to The Malta Independent at the time, then Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi defended his involvement, pointing out that it was simply limited to suggesting SOCAR as a possible supplier at a time when fuel prices were set to go up. The minister insisted that the agreements with SOCAR led to a €0.02/litre reduction in the price of petrol and the price of diesel remaining stable, at a point when the price of both was set to increase by €0.02 a litre. Dr Mizzi maintained that his involvement was limited to suggesting that Enemalta keep trying to get a better deal and eventually to suggest that it should consider SOCAR Trading, and not impose an agreement with the Azerbaijani oil trading company. The fact that the trip had been made with no accompanying media present had also raised eyebrows, and resulted in accusations that kickbacks on the deals had been offered. Adding to those concerns is the fact that Azerbaijan is hardly a beacon of transparency and democracy, but rather the opposite. In an interview with this newspaper last year, Dr Muscat insisted that the suggestion of kickbacks had not even been tabled during discussions. Here is a section of the transcript: Let us talk about the secret Azerbaijan deal. Can you confirm that no kickback offers were made? Of course not! Absolutely not! I deny that most categorically. I am not asking if you took kickbacks, but if you were offered any. No way. And I think that we made a mistake by not taking journalists with us. At the time we were reviewing the system of taking (and paying for) journalists on government trips and we really thought that this was not that important. Again, let me be clear, nothing was offered and I cannot imagine a scenario where such an offer could be made. You have every right to ask. I have no problem with that. A corrupt regime? The Aliyev family has been a prominent feature of Azerbaijani politics for half a century – President Ilham Aliyev’s father Heydar was the leader of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic between 1969 and 1982, before becoming First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union. He was forced to resign by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, but reinvented himself when Azerbaijan won its independence, becoming its third president in 1993 and stepping down a few weeks before his death in 2003. Ilham Aliyev is his father’s handpicked successor, and has obtained over three-quarters of the national vote in three presidential elections, marred by allegations of irregularities and political oppression. Mrs Michelle Muscat with Leyla Aliyeva, daughter of Azerbaijan's President A cult of personality was created around the former president, which has continued under his son’s rule. The state news agency, AzerTAc, actually uses the appellation “Great Leader” – the same term that the North Koreans use to describe his counterpart Kim-il Sung. The Memorandum of Understanding between Malta and Azerbaijan was itself signed underneath a massive bust of Heydar Aliyev, which overlooks a quotation of his that roughly translates as “all our efforts in the economic sector should be devoted to the welfare of our people”. But various reports suggest that a sizeable part of the country’s economic efforts is devoted to improving the welfare of the Aliyev family itself. While Azerbaijani law prohibits President Aliyev – whose annual salary is around €200,000 – from owning businesses, there are no such restrictions on his relatives, who appear to have amassed significant commercial interests across the globe. Some time back, the Washington Post revealed that real estate in Dubai worth some $75 million was owned by the president’s three children: daughters Leyla and Arzu and son Heydar. The lion’s share of this real estate – nine waterfront mansions in the Palm Jumeirah land reclamation project worth $44 million – had been acquired by the president’s son, who was just 11 years old at the time. PM Muscat leading a Maltese delegation in a meeting with Azerbaijan President Aliyev The Washington Post also quoted an Azerbaijani Opposition leader as saying that Azerbaijan’s leaders faced no risk of consequences because the country’s judiciary, anti-corruption bodies and most of its media outlets were firmly under their control. This and other revelations of the family’s business interests helped earn Mr Aliyev the dubious honour of being named ‘Person of the Year’ by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project in 2012. The Panama Papers have also revealed that Mossack Fonseca helped the family of the Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev – whose dictatorial government controls at least a significant interest in SOCAR Trading SA – with hiding shares in mining companies and London property through Panama. Malta shell company helps Azerbaijan’s ruling family gain millions A Malta-based shell company has been linked to financial transactions which likely saw Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his family amass hundreds of millions of euros at the expense of the country. FA Invest (Malta), which is held by a Maltese fiduciary firm, had been reported to have taken a 6.5 per cent stake in Azerbaijani telecoms company Azercell, while the Azerbaijani government transferred its own stake at highly discounted prices to a company which appears to be indirectly controlled by the Aliyev family. FA Invest, it is alleged, was created in October 2011 to take over a 6.5% shareholding from a shareholding telecommunications company Azercell. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat addressing a conference in Baku, Azerbaijan The Malta link is one of many findings following a months-long investigation carried out by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Swedish Television’s programme “Uppdrag Granskning” (Mission Investigate) and the Swedish News Agency TT into Azerbaijani telecoms company Azercell, which is majority owned by Swedish-Finnish company TeliaSonera. The story was ultimately based on the work of Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, an OCCRP member who was later arrested, tried and sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison on what were widely perceived to have been trumped-up charges. Their examination of countless business records, annual reports and internal documents uncovered a scheme to transfer Azercell shares into the hands of a “local partner” with numerous links to the Aliyevs, while TeliaSonera and its partners played down what was happening and often made misleading public statements. The Swedish company was actually found to have acted against its interest by allowing the deal to go through. It is alleged that Azercell is linked to the two daughters of President Aliyev, Arzu and Leyla Aliyeva after it emerged that FA Invest purchased the 6.5% shareholding that Turkish company Cenay Inshaat held in Azercell and that two Panamanian companies connected to the Aliyeva siblings also purchased another Azercell shareholder, Cenay Iletishim. The two Panamanian companies have the same signatory, financier Olivier Mestelan, as do three other Panamanian companies which hold the sisters’ 72% holding in another company, Azerfon. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat with Azerbaijan President Aliyev (second from left front row) “That means two out of the top three companies are closely connected to the Aliyev family… the proven paper trail links the family to nearly three-quarters of the mobile market, a commercial dominance that raises serious questions about Internet surveillance and communications security within Azerbaijan,” the OCCRP report stated. FA Invest Malta was represented by a certain Hamzayev Rashad Firidunoglu, whose name is coincidentally identical to one of the President’s personal security guards, who was awarded the “For service to the motherland” medal from President Aliyev in 2010. Only after FA Invest’s entry into the scene did Azercell receive its long-awaited 3G licence. A 4G licence soon followed. Investigations carried out by The Malta Independent on Sunday in 2015 showed that FA Invest Malta was owned by two companies at the time. One of them was Panama-based Stella International Services, which appears to be linked to the Aliyev family: it is based in the Morgan y Morgan offices in Panama City. The other was Trident Trust Company (Malta) Ltd, whose directors are Maltese citizen Nissim Ohayon – who is also the company secretary of FA Invest Malta – Mark Wilson LeTissier from Guernsey, and David Hermanus Bester from the Isle of Man. Trident Trust’s shares are owned by TTG (Malta) Ltd, which is based in the same Mosta office, but TTG Malta’s own shares are controlled by Binder Investments Limited, which is based in the British Virgin Islands. This has now changed, and FA Invest Malta is now owned by Fides Fiduciary Limited, a Maltese fiduciary company that holds dozens of companies under its wing as shareholders. The ultimate beneficiary owners of these companies are unknown. President Aliyez of Azerbaijan Companies based in Malta linked to the Azerbaijani regime: SOCAR Trading Shipping Limited Owned by: SOCAR Trading Holding Limited SOCAR Oil & Gas International Limited Owned by: SACT Limited (Hong Kong – 49%) and State Oil Company of The Azerbaijan Republic (Baku – 51%) SOCAR Oil & Gas International Holding Limited Owned by: SACT Limited (Hong Kong – 49%) and State Oil Company of The Azerbaijan Republic (Baku – 51%) SOCAR Investments And Finance Ltd Owned by: SOCAR Overseas LLC SOCAR Trading Shipping Limited Owned by: SOCAR Trading Holding Limited SOCAR Trading Holding Limited Owned by: State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic UML Investments Limited Owned by: Socar Trading Shipping Limited UML Navigation 1 Limited * UML Navigation 2 Limited * UML Navigation 3 Limited * UML Navigation 4 Limited * UML Navigation 5 Limited * UML Navigation 6 Limited * UML Navigation 7 Limited * UML Tugs 2 Limited * UML Tugs Limited * * Owned by: UML Investments Limited | |||
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