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DOJ will Open Criminal Inquiry Into Its Own Russia Inv’n chasing RW conspiracy theories.

This will open Barr to accusations that he is trying to deliver a political victory for Trump.

Barr/Trump have kicked a hornets nest amongst the allied intel communities.
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The evidence in the case against Parnas & Fruman is “quite voluminous.”

📌50 bank accounts.

📌More than a dozen cell phones that were monitored in some fashion, as well as search warrants and subpoenas.
“The investigation is ongoing.”
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There is a RU proverb that applied to Fruman & Parnas.

"Don't go in the forest if you're afraid of wolves," Marks said. "And these guys, they just weren't wolves, I mean they were radioactive wolves."

Parnas & Fruman touted their connections to Giuliani & others.
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Including the DC lobbyist Brian Ballard, the former chief of staff to Mike Pence Nick Ayers and others.

10/9/19 Barr meets with Murdoch at his residence.

Giuliani, Parnas, Fruman had specific plans for Shokin up until the day of their arrest — a joint interview.
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With Sean Hannity in Vienna.

10/10/19 Parnas & Fruman were arrested on campaign finance charges

Trump & Barr pals diGenova & Toensing, attys for indicted Firtash who is at the center of the Ukraine scandal, also reps conspiracy theorist John Solomon.
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Why Did Republicans Storm the Capitol? They’re Running Out of Options

As more testimony is disclosed, it becomes clearer that Trump’s only defense against impeachment is to distract from the facts.

Turkey's Erdogan calls on U.S. to hand over top Kurdish commander
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“We clar­i­fied that…our in­tel­ or even in­d’l members of our in­tel­ have noth­ing to do w/ this mat­ter,” said Conte, who added that Barr seemed sat­is­fied w/ the an­swers.

“They [the U.S.] acknowledged they have no el­e­ments to dis­pute it.”
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Sondland seeks to align himself with Taylor after bombshell testimony

Trump says Turkey's ceasefire in N Syria now permanent, sanctions lifted

📌WH delayed UKR trade decision in August, a signal that U.S. suspension of cooperation extended beyond security funds
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Trump ran all the old plays. He said “witch hunt.” He fumed with Hannity. He tweeted “do-nothing Democrats.”

He may have been trying to self-soothe. But it came across as panic.
And the DEMs? “Do-nothing” maybe doesn’t quite nail what they’ve been up to.
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Pompeo says State Dept will “comply” with law on court order on release of Giuliani communications

House Democrats look to take impeachment probe public as soon as mid-November

Pompeo Cornered as Ukraine Envoy’s Testimony Forces Hard Choice
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The PM of Italy has shot down a big chunk of the Barr/Trump conspiracy theory about a ‘Deep State plot against Trump”

Barr has told foreign intel leaders that he does not believe his own country’s intel officials.

Turkey’s Lobbyists Had Deep Access to Trump WH
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Senate votes for North Macedonia to join NATO

Brexit: Boris Johnson to ask for general election on 12 December

U.S. Delegation Visits Greenland
High-level government meetings come months after Trump expressed interest in buying the autonomous territory
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Russia Demands All U.S. Troops Leave Syria, Slams Trump's Occupying Force

Trump, who ordered the partial withdrawal, said this week that a 'small number of U.S. troops would remain' in Syria, particularly to protect oil facilities
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Discredited Lutsenko together w/ propagandist John Solomon says he's opened probe into US election interference

NABU issued a statement calling Lutsenko's comments "not true and is an absurd effort to discredit an independent anti-corruption agency."
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Cybersecurity memo warns WH is 'posturing itself to be electronically compromised

Perhaps the most disingenuous aspect of the GaetzGang complaint is that GOP are actively involved in the ongoing hearings.

“We Are Their Voice” German RW Builds Balkan Alliances
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Vastakis warns the decision in July to fold the Office of the Chief InfiSec Officer into the Office of the Chief Info Officer is "alarming."

House Dems Accuse Impeachment Witnesses of Coordinating Testimony

RU lands nuclear bombers in Africa as Putin hosts conf.
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China Willing to Buy $20 Billion of U.S. Farm Goods in Year One (back to orig levels)🙄

India’s Modi to Meet King Salman in Saudi Arabia

U.S. has criticised India’s Kashmir move, political detentions
India’s leader due to meet King Salman in Riyadh on Oct. 29
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Trump atty Jay Sekulow was in repeated contact with Trump pal & lobbyist Brian Ballard who was pushing to help Turkey’s indicted national bank (Halkbank) avoid prosecution by the DOJ for its alleged role in a scheme to evade US sanctions on Iran.
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In rebuke of Erdogan, Armenian genocide resolution could soon pass House

Research by Transparency International found more than £300bn of suspect funds has been funnelled through UK companies

Super yachts and private jets: spending of corrupt super-rich revealed
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Trump’s heralded whistleblower office at VA is failing in its most basic mission, watchdog says

Franco’s remains to finally leave Spain’s Valley of the Fallen

Dictator’s tomb to be opened and coffin taken to cemetery near Madrid on Thursday
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Judge rules FL can’t block felons from voting, even if fines unpaid

NJ seeks to revoke liquor license for one of Trump’s golf clubs, triggered by a case in which a customer caused a fatal car crash

Ex-Deutsche Bank traders avoid prison time for Libor scheme
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Beijing reportedly developing plan to replace Hong Kong's leader by March

India eyes energy deals with Saudi Arabia during Modi's visit

GOP Senator: OK To Pull U.S. Troops If Turkey Trying To 'Ethnically Cleanse' Kurds
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US households experience large fluctuations in monthly incomes & spending over the course of a year that make it harder to budget for expenses, pay off debt and save for unexpected bills or income dips

National Archives probes Wilbur Ross’ use of private email
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Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin said on Thursday Russia's largest oil producer had fully switched to euros from U.S. dollars in its contracts.

It has done so in order to diminish the risks from international sanctions, Sechin said.
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The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It.

Nearly 40% of worldwide FDI – worth a total of $15T– “passes thru empty corporate shells” with “no real biz activities” designed to minimise COs tax liabilities rather than financing productive activity
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US Weighs Leaving More Troops, Sending Battle Tanks to Syria

The options represent a shift from the pullout Trump wanted & modify US objectives—from countering Islamic State to also protecting oil fields

GOP leader: emerging picture for Trump 'is not a good one'
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Zuckerberg struggles to defend Facebook's civil rights recor
Facebook’s Zuckerberg, Accused of Lying, Withstands a Washington ‘Beating’

Senators Ask FTC to Investigate Amazon Over Capital One Hack

Amazon failed to protect customers from a known security issue
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NY's Central Park to get its first statue honoring women

Trump to Tell Federal Agencies to Cut NYT, Washington Post Subscriptions

White House plans to direct government staffers to not renew orders with the newspapers, whose coverage he has disparaged as ‘fake’
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Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies (Yandex too)

🔥WARNING if you use any Facebook app you can be sure Chinese & Russian intelligence services know exactly what you posted.

#TheSnowdenOp was a distraction & diversion. Get it?
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Trump “calling on the Kurdish people to head to Syria's "Oil Region" where they have never lived.

He's saying Kurds should abandon their cities, farms & homes.

Mass population transfer was a tactic Stalin often used, not one called for by modern US presidents.”
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House committee subpoenas agency for Trump DC hotel documents

Trump Education Official to Resign and Call for Mass Student-Loan Forgiveness

A. Wayne Johnson, appointed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, calls the student-loan system ‘fundamentally broken’
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Republican Senators Introduce Bill to Relocate Major Federal Agencies Outside of D.C.

Ninety-percent of positions in 10 departments would be moved to economically distressed areas.  

Summer Zervos Says She Has Documents Corroborating Trump Sexual Assault
Remembering the great Rep Elijah Cummings

Mnuchin Asked by Top Senate Democrat to Detail Turkey Dealings

Senator Wyden concerned about interference in Halkbank case

Turkish president pressed Trump to help avoid Halkbank charges

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
U.S. Senators question Trump's interests in Turkey

ahvalnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/ahvalnews.…
Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry Into Its Own Russia Investigation

The move is likely to open the attorney general Barr to accusations that he is trying to deliver a political victory for President Trump.

nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/…
Turkey’s Lobbyists Had Deep Access to Trump White House
By @KlasfeldReports

courthousenews.com/turkeys-lobbyi…
The evidence in the case against Parnas & Fruman is “quite voluminous.”

📌50 bank accounts.

📌More than a dozen cell phones that were monitored in some fashion, as well as search warrants and subpoenas.

“The investigation is ongoing.”

politico.com/news/2019/10/2…
Research by Transparency International found more than £300bn of suspect funds has been funnelled through UK companies

Super yachts and private jets: spending of corrupt super-rich revealed

theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/o…
Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies (Yandex too)

🔥WARNING if you use any Facebook app you can be sure Chinese & Russian intelligence services know exactly what you posted.

#TheSnowdenOp was a distraction & diversion. Get it?

reuters.com/article/us-fac…
U.S. Delegation Visits Greenland
High-level government meetings come months after Trump expressed interest in buying the autonomous territory

wsj.com/articles/u-s-d…
Giuliani, Parnas, Fruman had specific plans for the former Ukrainian official up until the day of their arrest. they were headed to Vienna to help with a planned interview with Shokin & Hannity from the Austrian capital—Firtash’s home.

cnn.com/2019/10/23/pol…
The WH’s trade representative in late August withdrew a recommendation to restore some of Ukraine’s trade privileges after Bolton, then-national security adviser, warned him that Trump probably would oppose any action that benefited the government in Kyiv

washingtonpost.com/business/econo…
Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, who this year took on as a client indicted Dmytro Firtash who is at the center of the Ukraine scandal, also represent the conservative columnist John Solomon who has advanced Trump-friendly claims of corruption in Kyiv.

politico.com/news/2019/10/2…
GOP leader: emerging picture for Trump 'is not a good one'

msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-…
Ex-Deutsche Bank traders avoid prison time for conspiring to manipulate the Libor benchmark interest rate between 2005 & 2011, a federal judge ruled sharply criticizing US prosecutors for treating the 2 men as "proxy wrongdoers" for a much larger scheme.

reuters.com/article/us-deu…
Trump ran all the old plays. He said “witch hunt.” He fumed with Hannity. He tweeted “do-nothing Democrats.”

He may have been trying to self-soothe. But it came across as panic.

And the DEMs? “Do-nothing” maybe doesn’t quite nail what they’ve been up to

latimes.com/opinion/story/…
“We clar­i­fied that…our in­tel­ or even in­d’l members of our in­tel­ have noth­ing to do w/ this mat­ter,” said Conte, who added that Barr seemed sat­is­fied w/ the an­swers. “They [the U.S.] acknowledged they have no el­e­ments to dis­pute it.”

wsj.com/articles/itali…
Pompeo says State Dept will “comply” with law on court order on release of Giuliani communications

kansas.com/news/politics-…
Some Democrats are beginning to suspect that certain witnesses have coordinated with each other ahead of testifying to ensure their stories do not conflict—the very outcome investigators are trying to avoid by conducting hearings behind closed doors.

thedailybeast.com/house-democrat…
The PM of Italy has shot down a big chunk of the Barr/Trump conspiracy theory about a ‘Deep State plot against Trump”

Barr has told foreign intel leaders that he does not believe his own country’s intel officials.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/barrs-e…
Trump Education Official to Resign and Call for Mass Student-Loan Forgiveness
A. Wayne Johnson, appointed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, calls the student-loan system ‘fundamentally broken’

wsj.com/articles/trump…
Republican Senators Introduce Bill to Relocate Major Federal Agencies Outside of D.C.
Ninety-percent of positions in 10 departments would be moved to economically distressed areas.  

govexec.com/management/201…
US households experience large fluctuations in monthly incomes and spending over the course of a year that make it harder to budget for expenses, pay off debt and save for unexpected bills or income dips, according to a JPMorgan Chase Institute study.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Nearly 40 percent of worldwide FDI – worth a total of $15tn – “passes through empty corporate shells” with “no real business activities” designed to minimise companies’ tax liabilities rather than financing productive activity.

irishtimes.com/business/econo…
Sondland seeks to align himself with Taylor after bombshell testimony

politico.com/news/2019/10/2…
Trump says Turkey's ceasefire in northern Syria now permanent, sanctions lifted

reuters.com/article/us-syr…
Cybersecurity memo warns WH is 'posturing itself to be electronically compromised'

Vastakis writes that the decision in July to fold the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer into the Office of the Chief Info Officer was "alarming."

thehill.com/homenews/admin…
There was a Russian proverb that applied to Fruman and Parnas.
"Don't go in the forest if you're afraid of wolves," Marks said. "And these guys, they just weren't wolves, I mean they were radioactive wolves."

cnn.com/2019/10/23/pol…
Mark Zuckerberg struggles to defend Facebook's civil rights record

washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost…
Facebook’s Zuckerberg, Accused of Lying, Withstands a Washington ‘Beating’

nytimes.com/2019/10/23/tec…
India’s Modi to Meet King Salman in Saudi Arabia

U.S. has criticised India’s Kashmir move, political detentions

India’s leader due to meet King Salman in Riyadh on Oct. 29

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
In rebuke of Erdogan, Armenian genocide resolution could soon pass House

news.yahoo.com/in-rebuke-of-e…
Discredited Lutsenko together w/ propagandist John Solomon says he's opened probe into US election interference

NABU issued a statement calling Lutsenko's comments "not true and is an absurd effort to discredit an independent anti-corruption agency."

thehill.com/hilltv/rising/…
'Apprentice' Star Says She Has Documents Corroborating Trump Sexual Assault

Summer Zervos tells the court about calendar entries, old emails, correspondence with Fox News and a polygraph test

hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/appren…
GOP Senator: OK To Pull U.S. Troops If Turkey Trying To 'Ethnically Cleanse' Kurds
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas defended President Trump's widely panned decision to abandon U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in northern Syria.

huffpost.com/entry/john-cor…
Senate votes for North Macedonia to join NATO

thehill.com/policy/defense…
Trump atty Jay Sekulow was in repeated contact with Trump pal & lobbyist Brian Ballard who was pushing to help Turkey’s indicted national bank (Halkbank) avoid prosecution by the DOJ for its alleged role in a scheme to evade US sanctions on Iran.

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
The National Archives and Records Administration has launched an investigation into Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ use of private email for official business,

politico.com/news/2019/10/2…
United States of America v. Rudolph W. Giuliani

Giuliani could be indicted for conspiracy to interfere with the fair adm of elections, conspiracy to commit bribery, & contempt of Congress.

Below is a hypothetical indictment of Giuliani.

justsecurity.org/66705/united-s…
“We Are Their Voice”: German Far-Right Builds Balkan Alliances

balkaninsight.com/2019/10/24/we-…
Australia's amb to the US Joe Hockey made an unsolicited offer to help with the controversial WH inquiry into RU interference in the 2016 presidential elex.

Senator Payne said she had full confidence Mr Downer acted appropriately.

H/T @911corlebra777

news.com.au/national/break…
Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin said on Thursday Russia's largest oil producer had fully switched to euros from U.S. dollars in its contracts.
It has done so in order to diminish the risks from international sanctions, Sechin said.

reuters.com/article/us-ros…
The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It.

nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/…
New York's Central Park to get its first statue honoring women | TheHill

Actually this is quite shocking.

It’s 2019 & Central Park features its very first statue of a woman... shocking.

thehill.com/blogs/blog-bri…
10/9/19 Barr meets with Murdoch at his residence.

nytimes.com/2019/10/10/us/…
10/9/19 Barr meets with Murdoch at his residence.

10/10/19 Parnas & Fruman business associates of Trump’s personal attorney Giuliani have been arrested on campaign finance charges

nytimes.com/2019/10/10/us/…
🌳Breathe🌳

Quite the deluge today!

Think about it, Barr’s bizarro investigation into a ludicrous conspiracy theory absolving The Kremlin’s attack on our 2016 elex and instead blaming it on PBO adm & our intel communities, including our allies? WTF?

Time for The Lizard....
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