Democrats' conspiracy theory has unraveled.

From the website of RL:

RUSH: Folks, I tell you, I really believe, I weighed very carefully whether or not to say this today, but I really believe the progressive-led attempt, the agenda of delegitimizing the Trump presidency, is beginning to unravel. We’re not there yet, but it is beginning to fall apart. Take a look Carter Page. He’s somebody that knew Trump on the periphery.

 

The media has been telling the Democrats ever since the election, “You gotta go get Carter Page. You gotta go get Michael Flynn. You gotta get Paul Manafort. Because those three are where you’re gonna find the link to the Russians. That’s where you’re gonna find the collusion. That’s where we’re gonna be able to prove that Trump worked with Putin to steal the election from Hillary.”

Despite all of it, as you know, there is no evidence of any collusion. Collusion is not a crime even if there were evidence of it, but there is no crime that can be found, and there is no collusion. There’s nothing there. Carter Page, zip. The news on Carter Page is the Democrat committee gonna be looking into this has been salivating over his upcoming testimony. Their tongues have been on the sidewalk panting earnestly awaiting his arrival because he had the goods.

Remember Sally Yates was gonna drop the bombshell. Sally Yates had the goods and she bombed out. And then Comey was gonna drop the bombshell that was gonna do all of this in. And he’s lost his reputation as having the most impeccable reputation in Washington. His integrity was beyond reproach. That’s not the case.

So now Carter Page testimony has been postponed indefinitely, and Trump’s out there tweeting that’s ’cause they’ve got nothing. In fact, it could well be that what Carter Page would say would embarrass the Democrats rather than nail Trump. So the Democrats now don’t want to hear from Carter Page and Trump is all over it tweeting to the effect that the Democrats bit off more than they can chew here. That Page doesn’t know anything ’cause there isn’t anything to know in terms of collusion.

So Comey, nothing there. Manafort, nothing there. Flynn, he’s offered to give documents to a committee, but there’s nothing there. So they go for Jared Kushner. And the reason they go for Jared Kushner is ’cause they’re bombing out on all these other people, and they are 1,000 percent invested in this story. Don’t forget, Democrats are so worried that they’re trying to talk their base supporters off the edge of the cliff, because the day’s gonna come when they have to announce that there will not be any impeachment.

 

Maxine Waters is out there saying that voters are getting fed up with the fact that there hasn’t been an impeachment yet, and they’re desperately waiting for an impeachment. The LA Times is running front-page stories to benefit anti-Trumpists on how to maintain their sanity while waiting for impeachment, essentially. There isn’t gonna be impeachment, at least on this, and if there is it’s gonna be trumped up. I don’t mean to be double entendre there or issuing a pun, but it really is starting to unravel on them.

 

And Andy McCarthy made a brilliant point on the tube last night. Grab audio sound bite number 17. He was on with Eric Bolling on the Fox News Specialists and Eric Bolling said, “Andy, you’re a friend of Rush Limbaugh,” it makes you a great guy. He didn’t say that. I just threw that in. He said, “You’re a prosecutor. Is there any ‘there’ there?”

MCCARTHY: There’s no “there” there as far as the collusion conspiracy is concerned, but I think the thing that happened this weekend that’s really important that people miss because they’re so giddy about this story about Kushner, is it blew up the collusion conspiracy. Because if there had actually been a collusion conspiracy, there would already be back channels to Russia. There’d be no reason for Kushner in December, weeks after the election, to need to set up a back channel to Russia had there been one during the campaign. So I know for the moment they’re loving the story. But I think it’s kind of exploded the story that they’ve been telling us for six months.

Political humor.

Subject: CNN Breaking News

 

Our reliable sources place Trump on the grassy knoll in Dallas the day JFK was killed. He was seen speaking with a group of Russian cosmonauts and two Martians just before the fatal shots were fired. Congress is planning to appoint an unbiased special prosecutor, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, to investigate.

Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham and Democrat Charles "Our Man Chuck" Schumer have solidly verified this story in a nude séance utilizing Ouija board and the blood of two roosters.

In a related story, broken by The Washington Post and corroborated by the New York Times, Trump was seen running from Ford's theatre on the night President Lincoln was assassinated. Trump was reportedly accompanied by two Russian diplomats and the editor of National Lampoon magazine.

The totally unbiased FBI is investigating. A statement released moments ago by the agency included "We are leaving no stone unturned. We are currently combing through Mrs. Lincoln's laptop and checking surveillance footage from the theatre cameras that most of the public never knew existed, but we created...uh, discovered them. We ARE going to railroad Trump...I mean find the culprit through modern investigative techniques..."

Mr. Trump is also being mentioned in connection with the killing of Bambi's mom, the expansion of global warming, and the sinking of the Titanic. These are ongoing investigations, as the evidence is still being manufactured.

Stay tuned.
 
CNN #1 in news that smells like #2
"We don't report the news, we create it."

Washington Compost story on Kushner is fake news?

Source: Russians had the idea to set up the secure line

A December meeting between Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and one of the senior advisers in the Trump administration, and Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak at Trump Tower focused on Syria, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Monday.

During the meeting the Russians broached the idea of using a secure line between the Trump administration and Russia, not Kushner, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News. That follows a recent report from The Washington Post alleging that Kushner wanted to develop a secure, private line with Russia.
The idea of a permanent back channel was never discussed, according to the source. Instead, only a one-off for a call about Syria was raised in the conversation.
In addition, the source told Fox News the December meeting focused on Russia's contention that the Obama administration's policy on Syria was deeply flawed.
JARED KUSHNER WANTED SECRET COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL WITH RUSSIA, NEW REPORT ALLEGES
Details of the meeting follow a NBC report that Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, is currently under FBI scrutiny as part of the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Kushner suggested the use of Russian diplomatic facilities as a way to shield pre-inauguration discussions with Kislyak from monitoring, according to The Post.
Kislyak allegedly then relayed the suggestion to his superiors in Moscow. That was based on intercepts of Russian communications that were reviewed by U.S. officials, although neither the meeting nor the communications of the Americans involved were under U.S. surveillance, officials told the Post.
The source has told Fox News that Kushner is eager to tell Congress about the meeting and any others of interest.
Fox News’ Catherine Herridge contributed to this report.

Gold: quoting the odds.

Intro by Vince Lanci  and Bon Scott for Soren K. Group

The pattern continues in Gold, with last week's move reaffirming the wave count Enda is using below. Friday's rally puts the market right above the high on the 30 minute chart established in the previous "5". The next  "1" would be completed if gold pierced the $1271.21 level. After that, any retracement that holds $1259.78 further confirms a wave  seeking final extensions to the $1550 area. A drop below $1247 at this point puts into  question the pattern, but does not negate it. 

 

How about Larry? Larry Edelson died last year. RIP

Feminist studies: one swamp ready to be drained.

 

Read the Gender Studies Papers That Inspired the ‘Penis Causes Climate Change’ Hoax

Everything is sexist or a social construct

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BY: Elizabeth Harrington
May 29, 2017 5:00 am

That the scientific method and zoos are sexist, that menstrual periods are a social construct, and that Pilates teaches white privilege are just a few subjects of gender studies papers that inspired the biggest hoax since the Sokal affair.
 

It did not take James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian long to get their fake paper that claimed the penis is "conceptual" and causes climate change published. A reading of over a dozen gender studies papers provided to the Washington Free Beacon by Lindsay makes it easy to understand why.

"We, like many, have been seeing stories and examples of ridiculous papers coming out of the far-left activist wing of academia, fields like gender studies, women's studies, and so on, based upon what's sometimes called ‘critical race and gender theory' or ‘radical constructivism,'" Lindsay said.

He first pointed to an infamous taxpayer-funded paper published last year that studied the "relationship between gender and glaciers." One goal of the study was to "improve human-ice relations."
 

"As many did, we strongly suspected the feminist glacier study was a hoax," Lindsay said. "But the journal and author stood by it."

Lindsay said he and Boghossian decided after the feminist glacier study that it was plausible to hoax the gender studies field, as Alan Sokal did in the 1990s. Sokal successfully submitted a paper that claimed gravity is a social construct.
 

Lindsay, a scholar and author, also said they witnessed many examples of gender studies proponents bullying other academics skeptical of their work, mostly by accusing their critics of racism and sexism.
 

"Thus we thought a hoax might be worth doing, not just possible," he said.

"Eventually, we settled on the idea that the penis isn't real, but that it causes all of our worst problems," Lindsay said. "By tacking on the popular idea from radical constructivism that pretty much everything is a social construct, we were off to the races."
 

Aside from the gender glaciers study, Lindsay pointed to dozens of examples of papers published in respected journals that sound like hoaxes, but are in fact real. The Twitter account @RealPeerReview highlights outrageous examples on a daily basis.
 

Among the examples Lindsay cited included a paper published in a top-ranked gender studies journal last fall that claimed menstrual periods are a social construct.
 

"Despite a great deal of feminist work that has highlighted its social construction, menstruation seems a self-evidently ‘natural' bodily process," wrote Karen Ann Hasson, in her paper "Not a ‘Real' Period? Social and Material Constructions of Menstruation." "Yet, how menstruation is defined or what ‘counts' as menstruation is rarely questioned."
 

Questionable research in gender studies goes back decades. A commonly cited paper by Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman, "Doing Gender," was published in 1987.

West and Zimmerman call gender a "routine accomplishment," an "achieved property of situated conduct," and a "powerful ideological device."
 

"We contend that the ‘doing' of gender is undertaken by women and men whose competence as members of society is hostage to its production," they wrote.

Another paper published in the Women's Studies International Forum in 1995 claims the scientific method itself is sexist and needs to be changed for feminists.
 

Donna M. Hughes wrote about a need for a "feminist critique of the scientific method," because science is "sexist, racist, heterosexist, and classist."
 

"Biological determinism has long been shown to be sexism, racism, and heterosexism at work under the guise of science," she wrote. "The objectivity of science has long been suspect or rejected."

Betsie Garner and David Grazian borrowed from West and Zimmerman for a paper published in 2016 that claims zoos are sexist.
 

An alligator's sharp teeth reinforces "hegemonic norms of masculinity" to boys, according to Garner and Grazian, who scold parents for engaging in dangerous stereotypes in conversations with their children at the zoo.
 

One example derides a mother for telling her child that it is surprising that the male peacocks are the ones with the "pretty, bright feathers."
 

A dad is rebuked for calling a white bear a "little sissy" for not running and jumping, "demeaning the bear as too weak and feminine to uphold masculine ideals of agility and drive," the authors write.

"The Essence of the Hard On: Hegemonic Masculinity and the Cultural Construction of ‘Erectile Dysfunction’" was cited by Lindsay and Boghossian in their hoax.

The paper, written by Annie Potts in 2000, argues that curing erectile dysfunction reinforces hegemonic masculinity.
 

"This article employs feminist poststructuralist discursive analysis to investigate the effect of the metonymic relationship between the penis and the phallus on the cultural construction of male ‘sexual dysfunctions,'" Potts wrote.

Another paper claims fat men's penises might not exist.

"Fat male sexuality: The monster in the maze," published in July 2016, argues, "fat male sexuality paradoxically doesn't exist" because of their depiction in the media. The first reference cited is Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, but lists the year 1992, instead of 1999, when the movie actually was released.
 

Other examples include donated blood is a social construction, how the Pilates exercises "Single Leg Stretch" and "Leg Circles" teach white privilege, and that male lactation is possible through social construction.
 

The article "The Lactating Man," published in May 2016, presupposes that the idea that "lactation and breastfeeding are typically viewed as inherently female activities," may be wrong.

Another paper published in April examines racism and sexism against squirrels using "feminist posthumanist theories and feminist food studies."
 

Yet another gender studies paper published in the Journal of Lesbian Studies in 2013 explores the "conundrums for masculine lesbians" due to "heterosexism and patriarchy" that forces expectations of pregnancy on women.
 

Wikipedia is also sexist, because it "excludes and silences feminist ways of knowing and writing," claims another paper. The federal government has also invested in this topic, spending $202,000 to find out why Wikipedia is sexist in 2013.
 

Syllabi used in STEM courses are also sexist, according to one paper that urges science professors to use "less competitive teaching methods and grading profiles that could improve the experience of female students."
 

Lindsay said the most alarming paper he has encountered was published last year.

The paper, written Breanne Fahs and Michael Karger, favorably compares feminists to viruses like HIV and Ebola, who should infect other fields of scientific study with liberal ideologies.

"The truly scary papers are the ones from radical constructivist schools that seek to replace science with feminist science," Lindsay said. "It's very concerning."
 

Nearly 15,000 students graduate with cultural and gender studies degrees each year.

Outreach to Russia.

Besides the utter disaster created by Obama's "Arab Spring" initiative, the Obama regime also screwed up our relations with Russia. Misre3ading the interests and capabilities of the Russians, Obama allowed George Soros to destabilize the Ukraine ushering in a government that would deny the Russians their rented base in Sebastopol and try to force the Russians of the Ukraine to change their language and culture. The disaster that followed ended with Russia taking back the Crimea and two regions of the Ukraine revolting and being devastated in the subsequent war.

Even the Obama regime knew that their Ukrainian/Russian policy was a shambles and tried for a reset via a back channel perhaps using Kissinger:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-12-31/inside-obamas-secret-outreach-to-Russia

The attempted reset failed. Jared Kushner suggested that Trump set up a back channel move to try for a reset.

The  Media and its Democrat patsies are now trying to use this as a character assassination of Kushner and continue their insane misleading of rank and file Democrats about the Trump campaign somehow cooperating with the Russians to steal the election. This insanity must end.

Effect of the Obama years.

 
 

 



from the St Louis FED. Not shown in the graph: workforce participation and home ownership plummeted. Actually, they do show if you use the right arrow.

Democrat insanity continues.

The election was in November and it is now the end of May. But, Democrats fight on, unable to accept that they lost. The Party's leadership follows the line set down by the Media and have driven their base insane.

This is not a hyperbola. A majority of Democrats (55%) believes that the Russians fixed the vote and stole the election. No telling how much of the Democrats base believes that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians. To do what? to use an old saying: "where is the beef?"

The latest in Democrat insanity is their insistence that the proposed slowdown in the growth of the budget is an ethnic cleansing, is a deep cut that will kill children.

I have a question. Does the First Amendment entitles the Media to lie and encourage sedition among part of the populace?

Montana: close only counts in horse shoes and hand granades.

The National (Liberal) news media had it taped out that Trump would weigh down Republican candidates so much that Democrats would regain their majority come 2018. The Media then focused on three special elections in the House: one in Kansas, one in Montana and one yet to come in Georgia. They lost in Kansas and now they lost in Montana.

The Montana special election was between Rob Quist (D, a nearly homeless cowboy) and Greg Giaforte (R, a businessman). Lots of money poured in as the Dems saw a chance. Mr Giaforte got help from VP Pence and the Republican National Committee and a local constabulary who charged Giaforte for misdemeanor assault of a pesky, Leftist Reporter. When the dust settled last night, Mr Giaforte got 189K votes and Mr Quist got a 165K votes.

So, the spin is on. The biggest spin is that Trump carried Montana by 60% whereas Giaforte barely eked out a win. That spin comes from the Liberal Media. Let's remember some facts, though. While Mr Trump carried Montana by 20%, Mr Giaforte lost his bid for the governorship by 4%. Come to think of it, close also counts in elections.

How the Obama regime monitored the Trump campaign.

We learned some of the excuses the regime used from the testimony of former CIA Director Brennan. Brennan testified that there was contact between some campaign officials and Russian operatives so he turned this over to the FBI. The FBI then monitored the phone of these individuals. The monitoring by its very nature picked up conversations of the Trump campaign, since the individuals targeted talked to other members of the campaign. Thus, Trump was right. Obama had his campaign monitored.

May 21: A great defeat for Trump's enemies.

While California Democrats were engaging in an orgy of debasing themselves and the networks were bleating that Trump was escaping the US on his first foreign trip, President Trump was sealing the deal with Saudi Arabia and the overwhelming majority of the Islamic world. This was a historic event that demands analysis and I will post on this more. But for now I will just make a few short points.

1. First, the optics. Trump was welcomed in the traditional welcome  of the Beduins for a friend. That was tremendously important. The Media's accusing Trump of being anti Islam was ignored, was ineffective.

2. During all the ceremonies Ivanka and her husband were right near Trump. Why was this important? Because both are Jews and they were accepted. Very important. Very important.

3. During all the ceremonies, Ivanka and Melania were present without any head covering. They both were dressed modestly as required by Islamic code of dress. Also important.

4. The king of Saudi Arabia stated that terrorism from now on is not acceptable for ANY reason. Both, the King and the President emphasized the need to cut off support and financing to the terrorists and this was not linked to any action vs Israel, nor was any exception carved out for terrorism against Israel.\

5. There is a change in paradigm in US policies; i.e. we are no longer tilting toward Iran and Iranian support for terrorism will no longer be tolerated.

6. The US is willing to sell weaponry to SA, but the US is expecting the Islamic world to shoulder the burden of providing for their security.

7. The US is not going to lecture or tell the Islamic world how to live. Unsaid but understood that we expect them to reciprocate. Whatever reform the Islamic world needs should be implemented slowly. Not said but understood: avoiding the chaos caused by the Obama regime.

8. It was a great speech and Trump was every inch a world leader.

Lessons fromthe story of the Night Watchman.

Socialism never works as well as private enterprise - what's the reason? Simple. When you spend your own money, the average person is careful not to spend it unless he has to. Government spending always considers political effects. Political effects trump economic effects.

There are spectacular examples. China under Mao-style Socialism was a basket case. China is still run by the Communist party, however profit motive had been reintroduced. Venezuela is a country rich in oil. Ever since Chavez took the country Socialist, it has had worsening economic conditions. There is a shortage of everything, including toilet paper. How  about the Scandinavian countries you say? The Scandinavians have short periods of sanity, which ensure that their economies do not go off the rail.

Are we then to live by the law of the jungle? Not at all. The Man said that you are to treat others as you wish to be treated yourselves. A simple concept. Just not easy to follow. But, the more this is applied the better off everybody is.

The Night Watchman.

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN

Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Some members of Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night."  So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.

Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions and one person to do time studies.

Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?"  So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One was to do the studies and one was to write the reports.

Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?"  So they created two positions: a time keeper and a payroll officer then hired two people.

Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?"  So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.

Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $918,000 over budget, we must cut back."  So they laid off the night watchman.

NOW slowly, let it sink in.

Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter. Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter administration?

Anybody?  Anything?  No?

Bottom line is, we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency, the reason for which very few people who read this can remember!  It was very simple... and at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate.

The Department of Energy was instituted on 8/04/1977, TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.

AND NOW IT'S 2017 -- 40 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS "NECESSARY" DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR.  IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND

APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!

34 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports. Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports. [The 70% figure has been reduced now due to new techniques in private industry. There are people busy in trying to ban the technology].

Ah, yes -- good old Federal bureaucracy.

NOW, WE HAVE TURNED OVER THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE, AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?

What can possibly go wrong?  Hello!! Anybody Home? 'Drain the swamp'!

Signed.... The Night Watchman

Just what is Robert Mueller investigating?

That is the question that is being asked even in Rolling Stones:

". an investigation into Trump's campaign might very well uncover a range of improprieties and shady dealings by some of the campaign "associates" who've figured into news reports. This wouldn't be surprising, I don't think, even to some of the people in the White House.

But when it comes to the collusion investigation, there are serious questions. A lot of our civil liberties protections and rules of press ethics are designed to prevent exactly this situation, in which a person lingers for extended periods of time under public suspicion without being aware of the exact nature, or origin, of the accusations.

It's why liberal thinkers have traditionally abhorred secret courts, secret surveillance and secret evidence, and in the past would have reflexively discouraged the news media from printing the unverified or unverifiable charges emanating from such secret sources. But because it's Donald Trump, no one seems to care.

We should care. The uncertainty has led to widespread public terror, mass media hysteria and excess, and possibly even panic in the White House itself, where, who knows, Trump may even have risked military confrontation with Russia in an effort to shake the collusion accusations. All of this is exacerbated by the constant stream of leaks and hints at mother lodes of evidence that are just around the corner. It's quite literally driving the country crazy.

The public deserves to know what's going on. It deserved to know before the election, it deserved to know before the inauguration, and it deserves to know now."

 

Rolling Stone is a Liberal publication, so it won't surprise many if I disagree with many of their themes. But I agree with their conclusion. We deserve to know what is being investigated. But, we are not left without knowing some of the results of the investigations so far. These are:

 

1. If there were collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, it would not be illegal;

 

2. The Russians were NOT involved with the Trump campaign;

 

3. Comey testified under oath (May 3) that there was no interference with the FBI investigation;

 

4. Comey's deputy testified that there was no lack of funds for the investigation, contradicting the fake news that appeared in the NY Times.

 

So, what is everyone investigating? Or, is it just an attempt to cloak an attempted coup d'état under the guise of 'investigating?' Political aims under the guise of "investigating?"

 

There are things  to investigate though. There is Obama saying in March 2016 that Hillary should not be charged because there was no intent on Hillary's part to cause harm when she transmitted classified material over an unsecured server. Comey repeated the same phrasing in June.

 

a) was Obama illegally interfering with the investigation of Hillary's conduct? b) was Comey delerict of his duties in failing to refer Hillary to the Justice Department?
 

c) then there is Hillary's false testimony to Congress on the subject of Bengazi and her illegal server.

d) As Secretary of State, Hillary signed off on a uranium mine sale to Russia and later received $100M to the Clinton Foundation that provided income to the Clintons.

e) There is the unmasking of US citizens whose names were obtained while being recorded  under FEISA warrants or swept up collaterally>

f) Innumerable leaks of classified material to the NY Times and Washington Post.

Mr Mueller has an opportunity of going into the history books as a person that helped the President "drain the swamp" in Washington, DC.

Will Mr Mueller rise to the occasion? Since, he served Obama (who complemented him and extended his tenure two years) he has slime on him.
 and one has little confidence in him. 

 

Harvard study revelas extent of anti Trump bias.

A major new study out of Harvard University has revealed the true extent of the mainstream media’s bias against Donald Trump.

Academics at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzed coverage from Trump’s first 100 days in office across 10 major TV and print outlets.

They found that the tone of some outlets was negative in as many as 98% of reports, significantly more hostile than the first 100 days of the three previous administrations:

The academics based their study on seven US outlets and three European ones.

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In America they analyzed CNN, NBC, CBS, Fox News, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

They also took into account the BBC, the UK’s Financial Times and the German public broadcaster ARD.

Every outlet was negative more often than positive.

Only Fox News, which features some of Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters and is often given special access to the President, even came close to positivity.

What the rules are on the Special Prosecutor.

Politics

By Soren K.Group 1d ago

The Appointment

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as a special counsel in the Russia investigation on Wednesday, a major escalation in the ongoing federal probe into Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.

In a letter formalizing the appointment, Rosenstein said Mueller was authorized to oversee the entire Russia investigation, including “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump” and “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.”

 

What it Means

It means unless you trust the people running this country with no reservations, then you should buy some insurance against human frailty - SKG

Under Justice Department rules, the attorney general can appoint a special counsel “when the facts create a conflict so substantial, or the exigencies of the situation are such that any initial investigation might taint the subsequent investigation.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from “any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president of the United States” in March after news outlets reported he had misled Congress about his conversations with top Russian officials during the election. That left the decision in Rosenstein’s hands.

Mueller’s power is not unlimited. While Justice Department rules say he is not under the “day-to-day supervision” of Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general can still request an explanation for any prosecutorial or investigative act Mueller undertakes. If Rosenstein finds the step “inappropriate or unwarranted under established [Justice] Department practices,” he can order Mueller to not pursue it. Rosenstein must provide a written explanation to Congress if he issues such an order.

And unlike those who once led the independence counsel’s office, a post-Watergate creation that bedeviled the Reagan and Clinton administrations before its abolition in 1999, Mueller could still theoretically be fired by Rosenstein. An unwarranted dismissal, however, would almost certainly trigger a political crisis equal to or greater than the one that followed President Trump’s stunning ouster of former FBI Director James Comey last week.

Special Prosecutor, economic troubles ahead.

Democracy has once again failed in America. The people's desire to "drain the swamp" has once again been thwarted by the Liberal Establishment. The last two Special Counsels took 4 years of poking around; effectively paralyzing the government. The Stock Market reflected this yesterday. Democrats are overjoyed; they hope to regain power by ruining the Country's economy. As the poet said: Treason never doth succeed - what's the reason? For if it doth succeed, none dare call it treason.

Special Prosecutor For Trump/Russia Investigation Is A Disaster

By Dick Morris on May 17, 2017

The Trump Administration may never recover from the decision of Deputy Attorney General Rob Rosenstein to cave into Democratic pressure and appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the totally fictitious “scandal” of Trump’s relationship with Putin.
The prosecutor, hired to investigate something that never happened, will not report Trump’s innocence. Special prosecutors never do. They justify their own existence, importance, budget, and staff by finding something to prosecute. Usually the “crime” they end up going after is one that his own investigation has created.
Remember the Valerie Plame affair? After years of work the special prosecutor found that no crime had occurred. The person who leaked her link to the CIA was authorized to do so. With no crime to come up with, Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, indicted poor Scooter Libby, an aide to VP Dick Cheney, for perjury, a crime that would never have taken place had there been no investigation.
That’s how special prosecutors work.
In the meantime, they hobble the president, drain away his political credibility, separate him from his supporters, and paralyze his administration. No legislator is willing to lend his support for fear of what the prosecutor might find. Each one will run for cover rather than work with Trump to get something done.
In appointing a prosecutor, Rosenstein has killed this Administration’s ability to function. No health care overhaul. No tax cuts. No government reform. All while we await the results of a nothing investigation into a nothing scandal.
And did Mr. Rosenstein get vested with this power to destroy? The Democrats sidelined Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General for doing his job as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and meeting with the Russian ambassador. He was forced to recuse himself when he said he knew of no instance of a Trump campaign official or aide meeting with the Russians. Of course, Sessions was no campaign aide but a Senator doing his job.
Mueller is a fair man and perhaps he will resist the temptation to look under rocks that aren’t there in search of scandal that never happened. Let us pray.

Another non-confirmation in the precious metal field.

Yesterday's and today's moves in the price of gold (up) were not followed by the price of silver or the mining shares. Tis means one of two things:

1. investors do not believe that this breakout in the gold price is universal; or

2. if the rally continues, the mining shares will skyrocket as they catch up.

Putin on the Liberal hysteria in DC.

Complaining about what he said were signs of "political schizophrenia" in the United States, Putin said Trump was not being allowed to do his job properly.

"It's hard to imagine what else can these people who generate such nonsense and rubbish can dream up next," said Putin.

 

"What surprises me is that they are shaking up the domestic political situation using anti-Russian slogans. Either they don't understand the damage they're doing to their own country, in which case they are simply stupid, or they understand everything, in which case they are dangerous and corrupt."

Two U.S. officials said on Monday that Trump had disclosed highly classified information to Lavrov about a planned Islamic State operation, plunging the White House into another controversy just months into Trump's short tenure in office.

Russia has repeatedly said that anti-Russian politicians in the United States are using groundless fears of closer ties with Moscow to sabotage any rapprochement and damage Trump in the process.

(Reporting by Denis Pinchuk/Jack Stubbs/Maria Tsvetkova; Writing by Andrew Osborn; Editing by Christian Lowe)

 

from Reuters

The problem of the Dems.

RUSH: General McMaster basically said, “Gang, there’s nothing here other than the risk you have put this country at. There’s nothing here. Nothing the president did in his conversations with the Russians has had any effect on national security. The president didn’t reveal any sources. The president didn’t share anything that threatens our security. You’ve done that.” Now, he didn’t say it in those words, because he can’t. But I’m telling you that’s what his statement means.


The NY Times is revving up its readers (and fearful Republicans) that Trump's request to Comey to shut down the investigation of Flynn was out of bounds. Trump even teased the Left about tapes of conversations with Comey. The Left forgets that there was nothing illegal about Gen Flynn talking to the Russians or participating in a conference and being paid for it. The investigation of the Trump campaign has now lasted a year and found nothing. Time to end it. "Move on," as the Dems were fond of saying.


Just in case you think the Democrats and the Media are carrying the day, consider. Three women Senators from NY, MA and CA are telling the Party to stand for something besides opposition to Trump. Can they? The Media is foaming at the mouth and elected Democrats call for impeaching Trump. Meanwhile, the Democrats continue to pit racial minorities against the white working class. Give it up Fauxcahontas.

The Dems are shameless!

They have the nerve to complain about releasing classified info? The President can release any info he wants.

Let's face it folks. No matter what Trump does or how he does it, the Left will caterwaul and call for Impeachment. The fact is that the Democrats are not loyal to this country and they will do ANYTHING to try to sabotage Trump in order to get rid of him.

Did Comey hid illegal surveillance of Trump?

New post on Powdered Wig Society   AUDIO: former NSA/CIA whistleblower delivered millions of docs to the FBI on the Trump surveillance operation. Comey hid it! by Thomas Madison It is becoming very clear why James Comey was fired. He sat on millions of documents to keep Barack Hussein, himself, and others out of jail. A whistleblower has come forward to blow the entire illegal operation up in Comey's face. Former FBI director James Comey seized and buried volumes of information that demonstrated a wide-ranging government surveillance operation targeting Donald Trump before he became president, reports Big League Politics. Big League Politics has learned that Larry Klayman, attorney for former NSA and CIA contractor and whistleblower Dennis Montgomery, delivered to the FBI 47 hard drives and data amounting to more than 600 million pages of documentation on the surveillance scheme. Then-FBI director James Comey’s general counsel James Baker took the data into his possession, according to multiple sources. But despite possessing Montgomery’s bombshell whistleblower revelations, Comey never acted on or publicized the information. Additionally, Comey’s former firm Lockheed Martin granted entry to Montgomery to one of its facilities to help him work on the alleged mass surveillance program, which was allegedly overseen by Obama administration officials John Brennan and James Clapper and specifically targeted Trump. As Big League Politics recently reported: real estate mogul Timothy Blixseth claims that he saw records from Montgomery proving that Obama CIA director John Brennan oversaw repeated spying on the phone calls of President Donald Trump and millions of other private American citizens. An audiotape of an interview Blixseth gave –released by Federal Judge G. Murray Snow as part of a civil case — is presented below. In the audiotaped interview — conducted before Trump ever ran for president — Blixseth spoke to former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and detective Mike Zullo. The audio was released in connection with a civil contempt case that the Department of Justice filed against Arpaio. The audio of this conversation appears to only be preserved in one location on the Internet, on a whistleblower Soundcloud page. “This guy showed me 900 million phone calls. And I see myself in there. I see people I know. I see Donald Trump in there a zillion times, and Bloomberg is in there,” Blixseth said on the tape, referring to information that Montgomery allegedly showed him. “He’s a very genius computer guy,” Blixseth said of Montgomery. “What they did is, they were actually working for the CIA. And they mask it as — I’m sure you’ll remember this — the contracts with the CIA, of which I had many copies, said that they were decoding Al-Jazeera television, said that there was broadcast embedded, remember that? Owned by Gore? Al Gore’s got part of it now. But it was all bullshit. That was bullshit. That was a front by the CIA. And this guy [Montgomery] worked for Brennan and Clapper. Those were the two guys running it,” Timothy Blixseth told Arpaio and Zullo on the tape. “He started out in 2004 with another partner in Reno, Nevada, called eTreppid. They collected about $40 million from the CIA. Top security clearance. All kinds of letters…In 2006 they started a new company that [my ex-wife] owns, and they started doing the same business for the government. What it really turns out they were doing is they were hacking into all of America.” Big League Politics called the listed number for eTreppid Technologies, but we were told that Montgomery no longer works there. “That company closed down years ago, sir,” a representative said of eTreppid Technologies. When asked what the company is called now, the representative said, “I’m sorry, I can’t discuss any more with you.” Blixseth claimed in his conversation with Zullo and Arpaio that Brennan and Clapper were running the operation. “Everything they said they didn’t do, that Brennan said recently, mainly Clapper. It’s all bullshit. And I’ve got it right here,” Blixseth said. Now the story gets better. Dennis Montgomery told Zullo in a separate interview — also preserved and released on audiotape — that he gained entry to a Lockheed Martin facility in Los Angeles to work on the surveillance program on a super computer contained at the facility. James Comey served as an executive at Lockheed Martin from 2005 until 2010. An insider close to the story estimates that Montgomery gained access to the facility in 2009, at the beginning of the Obama administration, but that date is only a close estimate. Lockheed Martin did not immediately return a request for comment for this report. Montgomery told Zullo on the tape that he accepted nearly eight thousand dollars from someone, with no receipt, and went to Los Angeles to use the facility. “Lockheed,” Montgomery said, referring to the company that operated the facility he used. Why did he have to use that Lockheed facility? Because it had a super-computer that made it easier for him to open a disk related to the surveillance program. “Well, the thing is, I could get on something that was a thousand times faster,” Montgomery said of the facility’s computer. Klayman has called on House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes to hear testimony from Montgomery. Read more.... Thomas Madison | May 13, 2017 at 5:54 pm | Tags: dennis montgomery, james comey, wiregate | Categories: wiregate | URL: http://powderedwigsociety.com/?p=29376 Comment

Comey’s firing is a gift to the FBI

By Michael Walsh

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May 13, 2017 | 10:14am | Updated May 13, 2017 |                               

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Let’s cut right to the chase: James Comey should have been fired immediately following his disastrous press briefing last July, in which he candidly laid out the case against Hillary Clinton over her mishandling of classified information and then refused to recommend charges. Overstepping his authority while radiating sanctimony, arrogating power while clumsily intervening in the election, Comey deserved to be sacked on the spot.

Everything since has been one long slow twist in the wind for Comey, a former US attorney in Manhattan, where his most notable accomplishment was sending Martha Stewart to jail.

Ignore for the moment Comey’s series of missteps resulting from the Clinton investigation and his increasingly erratic and unconvincing public fan dance as he sent the nation into electoral paroxysms over the past 10 months.

On his watch, the FBI continued its politically correct, see-no-evil attitude toward radical Islam and thus failed to prevent the atrocity in San Bernardino; it also investigated the Orlando nightclub shooter for 10 months before closing its case, allowing him to kill or wound 102 people. Meanwhile, the federal office of personnel management was hacked by the Chinese, resulting in a serious data breach. That’s failure on an unacceptable level.

Now the bureau’s tied up and bogged down in the almost certainly chimerical “Russian hacking” fantasy, which bubbled up out of the leftist fever swamp in the wake of Clinton’s loss in November, and for which there is exactly zero evidence.

So when President Trump finally put Comey out of his — and our — misery last week, it was the best merited cashiering since Truman fired a showboating MacArthur.

Ignore the political firestorm that’s followed. Trump could cure cancer, solve the Israeli-Palestinian crisis and appoint Oprah as his special envoy to Mars and the Beltway press corps would still howl for his head. The fires fueling this politically motivated hatefest will abate only when the Democrats accept that they lost an election they fully expected to win.

As the nation’s chief law-enforcement officer, the FBI director shouldn’t be a political figure.

And that’s the key word — political. As the nation’s chief law-enforcement officer, the FBI director shouldn’t be a political figure.

The bureau began as a financial-crimes investigatory arm of the justice department in 1908, and grew to maturity under J. Edgar Hoover, monitoring domestic Bolshevik radicalism in the early 1920s, then tackling interstate violent crime during the wild and woolly ’30s: the birth of the “G-Men.”

Yet the temptation to be a Washington player is always present. Hoover, who served under eight presidents and whose reign lasted until his death in 1972, amassed a storehouse of inside dirt on politicians, which made him essentially unfireable and which led to congressional insistence on Senate confirmation of future directors and 10-year term limits.

What’s needed now is a restoration of what should be the FBI’s primary mission, as it was in the early Hoover days: counterterrorism. Since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it’s far less important for the bureau to be chasing bank robbers in Burlington and Butte than it is for it to function as the nation’s first line of homeland security defense.

The country doesn’t need another politician, jurist or prosecutor at the bureau. It needs someone dogged, determined, experienced, impartial and fearless.

Although the parallels are not exact, historical circumstances have demanded that the FBI now function in relation to the CIA and NSA similar to the way Britain’s MI5 (domestic) and MI6 (foreign) intelligence services work together. Nearly 16 years on, the Washington establishment still hasn’t accepted that 9/11 really did fundamentally change our notions of crime, prevention and punishment.

But the American people have, which is one of the many reasons Trump won the election. Further, far from damaging the president in the eyes of his supporters, Trump’s decisiveness in canning Comey will only endear him to them even more.

So who should replace Comey? The rumor mills are already churning out names of the usual suspects: a judge (Michael J. Garcia), a prosecutor (Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher), a politician (Sen. John Cornyn of Texas) and a veteran fed (Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe)

But the country doesn’t need another politician, jurist or prosecutor at the bureau. It needs someone dogged, determined, experienced, impartial and fearless. Someone sworn to protect and serve, who will follow the evidence wherever it leads and make the appropriate recommendations in the name of justice. Incorruptible and impartial.

 

In other words, a cop — the best one we have.

Michael Walsh is an author, screenwriter and contributing editor at PJ Media. His most recent book is “The Devil’s Pleasure Palace.”

 

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