Trump’s scam is failing him, and he’s in a panic over it
Whatever policy recs Trump makes — family separations at the border, tax cuts for the super-rich, pulling out of the TPP— We can be virtually certain that he is wrong.
Use him as a guide to to do the opposite.
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Pelosi’s words resonate on the global stage, which draws attention in foreign capitals, & carries a message from the US by simply arriving.
House Speaker Pelosi is an ambassador abroad, an emissary for bedrock democratic values & the promise of stability.
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Tom Barrack & Trump have been friends & confidants for more than 3 decades, but now no longer speak.
B/c Trump said he didn’t get any of that Inaugural money, & didn’t know Tom paid $26M to Melania’s friend’s firm, even though they chatted multiple times daily.🙄
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Pompeo may be remembered as the most conservative, ideologically driven SOS ever.
He is no sentimentalist about the world & is notably silent on human-rights abuses in e.g. NK & Saudi, where he mugged for the cameras during a photo op w/ MbS post murder of Khashogg.
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Maybe it’s time for Larry Kudlow to stop making predictions
As was widely noted Sunday after Kudlow’s interview, his consistent misses on the 2008 economic crash were some of the more remarkably bad predictions
New Indictments Expected in Wake of Epstein’s Death.
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Group of top CEOs says maximizing shareholder profits no longer can be the primary goal of corporations #TooLatePivot#Dimon
Leaked Docs Show UK Faces Food, Fuel And Drugs Shortages In No-Deal Brexit
French President Macron hosts Putin at his summer residence
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Russian Nuclear Monitoring Stations Went Silent After Missile Blast
Two days after the explosion of a suspected nuclear-powered cruise missile undergoing testing Aug. 8, two monitoring stations nearest the site of the accident stopped transmitting data.
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Daniel Pantaleo, N.Y.P.D. Officer Who Held Eric Garner in Chokehold, Is Fired
Mr. Garner’s last words, ‘I can’t breathe,’ gave impetus to the Black Lives Matter movement.
China Missiles Could Overwhelm U.S. Military in Asia in ‘Hours’, Says Think Tank
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Sydney think tank warns of growing Chinese weapons arsenal
New report recommends AU increase its own stockpiles
Google Is Deepening Its Involvement With Egypt’s Gov’t
Google planned to develop a censored search engine for use in China, which it code-named Dragonfly
🍑Monday9🍑
Dozens of current & former prosecutors & LEOs law signed a letter calling recent attacks by Barr on progressive district attorneys "deeply concerning."
White Supremacists Want a Dirty Bomb
And the Trump adm is letting them get dangerously close to acquiring one.
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Some telecom COs in the US are “dependent” on Huawei, & thus a 90-day reprieve was deemed appropriate, Wilber Ross said
But Ross didn’t address nationalNatSec concerns about Huawei.
U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5 Billion Corn Loss
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Iceland holds funeral for lost glacier
This was Iceland's first glacier to disappear.
But one geologist said all of the nation's ice masses will be gone in 200 years.
Germany, Hungary to mark end of the Iron Curtain
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Italy's 5-Star says Salvini no longer a credible partner
LE apprehends three white domestic terrorists
Officials seize $2.3M worth of marijuana mixed w/ jalapeño peppers
Prince Andrew ‘appalled’ by Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse claims
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China is investing in Europe — but there are strings attached #BRI
Alfredo Rodriguez, Epstein’s butler said that “Maxwell kept a list of the local girls who were giving massages at her desk, and that Maxwell kept nude photos of girls on her computer”.
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And they claimed: “It is an undisputed fact that [housekeeper] Juan Alessi testified that Defendant [Maxwell] was one of the people who procured some of the over 100 girls he witnessed visit Epstein.”
70 arrests in pan-European action against child trafficking
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Sudan's ex-president al-Bashir admits 'received $90m from Saudi Arabia
At the start of al-Bashir's corruption trial, investigator tells court the sum included $25m from Saudi crown prince.
Sums of $351k, more than 6M£, 5M Sudanese £ were found at his home
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Barr has removed the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons after Epstein took his own life while in federal custody
Epstein signed will just two days before suicide
The Laundromat, A-list movie based on the Panama Papers, to premiere at Venice
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Two Members of Proud Boys Convicted in Brawl Near Republican Club
COO of FB Inc Sheryl Sandberg sold 55,000 shares of FB on 08/14/2019 at an average price of $181.62 a share.
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Justice Dept. again sides with Trump over House in personal financial records fight
Planned Parenthood to exit federal program Aug. 19 over abortion ‘gag rule’ unless court rules in its favor
Elton John blasts treatment of Meghan and Harry by British press
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FB admits Trump campaign is violating its rules, takes down numerous ads targeting women
FEC chair challenges Trump to provide evidence of voter fraud in New Hampshire
Trump’s Plan to Slash Foreign Aid Puts Humanitarian Programs in Jeopardy
Pelosi’s words resonate on the global stage, which draws attention in foreign capitals, & carries a message from the US by simply arriving.
House Speaker Pelosi is an ambassador abroad, an emissary for bedrock democratic values & the promise of stability. apnews.com/7083d58ec18a4b…
Group of top CEOs says maximizing shareholder profits no longer can be the primary goal of corporations washingtonpost.com/business/2019/…
Tom Barrack & Trump have been friends & confidants for more than 3 decades, but now no longer speak.
B/c Trump didn’t get any of that Inaugural money, & didn’t know he paid $26M to Melania’s friend’s firm, even tho they chatted multiple times daily.🙄 politico.com/story/2019/08/…
Pompeo may be remembered as the most conservative, ideologically driven SOS ever.
He is no sentimentalist about the world & is notably silent on human-rights abuses in e.g. NK & Saudi, where he mugged during a photo op w/ MbS post murder of Khashogg. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
Maybe it’s time for Larry Kudlow to stop making predictions
As was widely noted Sunday after Kudlow’s interview, his consistent misses on the 2008 economic crash were some of the more remarkably bad predictions washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
QAnon is the conspiracy theory that won't die: Here's what they believe, and why they're wrong
To better understand the QAnon conspiracy theory, Salon spoke with Travis View, host of the QAnon Anonymous podcast salon.com/2019/08/18/qan…
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Big Tech 👉🏼Antitrust Probe
A group of state attorneys general is preparing to move forward with a joint antitrust investigation of big tech companies, adding additional scrutiny to an industry already under a federal spotlight wsj.com/articles/attor…
Google Is Deepening Its Involvement With Egypt’s Government
Google planned to develop a censored search engine for use in China, which it code-named Dragonfly.
Elton John blasts treatment of Meghan and Harry by British press
The notoriously intrusive British press won’t leave the Duke and Duchess of Sussex alone, and Sir Elton John has had enough washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/…
Russian Nuclear Monitoring Stations Went Silent After Missile Blast
Two days after the explosion of a suspected nuclear-powered cruise missile undergoing testing Aug. 8, two monitoring stations nearest the site of the accident stopped transmitting data. wsj.com/articles/russi…
Trump’s scam is failing him, and he’s in a panic over it
Iceland holds funeral for lost glacier
This was Iceland's first glacier to disappear. But one geologist said all of the nation's ice masses will be gone in 200 years. nbcnews.com/science/enviro…
Bashir on Trial: Ousted Sudanese President Admits to Taking Millions From Saudi Arabia
Sums of $351,000, more than 6 million Euros and 5 million Sudanese pounds were found at Omar al-Bashir's home when he was arrested haaretz.com/world-news/asi…
Sudan's ex-president al-Bashir 'received $90m from Saudi Arabia'
At the start of al-Bashir's corruption trial, investigator tells court the sum included $25m from Saudi crown prince. aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/s…
China Missiles Could Overwhelm U.S. Military in Asia in ‘Hours’, Says Think Tank
Sydney think tank warns of growing Chinese weapons arsenal
NEW YORK—New indictments are expected in the wake of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s death by apparent suicide, as the case shifts to focus on unnamed co-conspirators, according to criminal defense lawyers. theepochtimes.com/new-indictment…
Leaked Documents Show UK Faces Food, Fuel And Drugs Shortages In No-Deal Brexit
The Sunday Times obtained documents showing that Britain will face shortages if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal. huffpost.com/entry/uk-food-…
White Supremacists Want a Dirty Bomb
And the Trump administration is letting them get dangerously close to acquiring one. foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/16/whi…
Let’s be under no illusion about the game that Boris Johnson is playing – he is trying to sneak his reckless and destructive no-deal Brexit under the noses of our parliamentarians through dissolution rather than prorogation. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
No 10 is furious.
Leaked doc details preparations under Op Yellowhammer, discloses the most likely scenario is severe extended delays to medicine supplies & shortages of some fresh foods, combined with price rises, if there is a no-deal Brexit on 31 Oct. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
GE CEO Larry Culp bought company's stock after fraud accusation and after an 11% drop in price, which happened in response to the allegations. markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ge…
Inmate 76318-054: The Last Days of Jeffrey Epstein
The notorious jail in Manhattan was a sharp departure from his formerly gilded life. Here’s what happened inside.
French President Emmanuel Macron hosts Russian leader Vladimir Putin at his summer residence on Monday and his office is adamant about what the get-together is not. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
@WSJ of course paints the organization behind the Palestinian protests as “left wing” when it is actually a well know propaganda organization in support of Hammas currently being sued by survivors of the Oct 7th massacre. wsj.com/us-news/educat…
Survivors of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks filed a Fed lawsuit citing the nationwide college protests, arguing that Nat’l Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) and its parent org are working in the US "as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas."
Through NSJP, AJP Educational Foundation Inc. – also known as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) – allegedly "uses propaganda to intimidate, convince, & recruit uninformed, misguided, and impressionable college students to serve as foot soldiers for Hamas on campus and beyond.”
Mr. Kushner’s plans in the Balkans appear to have come about in part through relationships built while Mr. Trump was in office. Mr. Kushner, who was a senior White House official, said he had been working on the deals with dirty trickster and Trump sycophant Richard Grenell.
These first two projects both involve land now controlled by the governments of Albania and Serbia, meaning a deal would have to be finalized with these foreign governments.
The elite British society magazine Tatler describes Zhukova as being "at the centre of a sprawling web of power that encompasses the art world, Russian oligarchs and one of the world's most influential Greek shipping dynasties." tatler.com/article/rupert…
All news outlets who pushed the Burisma smear campaign against Hunter & Joe Biden are guilty of aiding & abetting Putin & his Russian Intel Services disinfo & owe a huge apology not only to the Biden’s, but to the American people. @CBSPolitics @ABCPolitics @CNN @NBCNews @ABC
Three apartments in the Trump SoHo hotel-condominium, which Trump owned jointly with the real estate companies Bayrock and Sapir Org. LLC, were sold in April 2013 for a total of $3.1 million to shell companies ultimately controlled by Elvira Kudryashova
The Trump administration’s slapdash efforts to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan hurt the prospects of a negotiated settlement between Kabul and the Taliban, according to secret congressional testimony. politico.com/newsletters/na…
Afghanistan-focused officials were kept out of the loop by senior Trump aides. That ultimately put personnel at risk, endangered a fragile diplomatic effort and left a new administration in the dark about their inheritance, they said in previously unreported comments.
The Trump administration struck a deal with the Taliban in February 2020 that set the conditions for a U.S. withdrawal by May 2021.