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11-21-2019, 05:22 PM
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Speaking of the Clintons. Remember that time they ran a huge pay to play foundation, all under the guise of "humanitarian what-have-you?"
It's almost like once the Clintons lost power, people stopped buying things from them...
“The Clinton Foundation literally raised 10 percent of what it did in 2009 when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state," Schweizer added, "and the international numbers are even worse."
The foundation posted its third straight year of losses following Hillary Clinton's defeat in the 2016 presidential election, according to 2018 tax documents.
The foundation lost $16.8 million on revenue of $30.7 million in 2018, according to the documents. It has posted roughly $16 million in losses every year since 2015, when it had roughly $116 million in revenue.
Foundation director Bruce Lindsey saw his reportable compensation stay about the same in 2018 as in 2017 when he was paid just over $362,000.
Clinton Foundation spokesman Brian Cookstra pushed back against media reports implying that the foundation is struggling.
"These reports are not accurate. Our entire 990 shows our work was fully funded by donations, grants, savings from prior years, and interest from our endowment," Cookstra told Fox Business. "In the last year, the Clinton Foundation's programs have grown to help more people, and we are committed to operating programs that are effective, efficient, and sustainable."
The foundation posted its third straight year of losses following Hillary Clinton's defeat in the 2016 presidential election, according to 2018 tax documents.
The foundation lost $16.8 million on revenue of $30.7 million in 2018, according to the documents. It has posted roughly $16 million in losses every year since 2015, when it had roughly $116 million in revenue.
Foundation director Bruce Lindsey saw his reportable compensation stay about the same in 2018 as in 2017 when he was paid just over $362,000.
Clinton Foundation spokesman Brian Cookstra pushed back against media reports implying that the foundation is struggling.
"These reports are not accurate. Our entire 990 shows our work was fully funded by donations, grants, savings from prior years, and interest from our endowment," Cookstra told Fox Business. "In the last year, the Clinton Foundation's programs have grown to help more people, and we are committed to operating programs that are effective, efficient, and sustainable."
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11-21-2019, 05:36 PM
"But hillarys emails"
In July 2017, former South Carolina governor and the Trump administration’s former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley used a government system for unclassified information to discuss North Korean rocket launches because she forgot her password to the secure one, the Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.
https://gizmodo.com/report-nikki-hal...uri-1839971610
In July 2017, former South Carolina governor and the Trump administration’s former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley used a government system for unclassified information to discuss North Korean rocket launches because she forgot her password to the secure one, the Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.
https://gizmodo.com/report-nikki-hal...uri-1839971610
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11-21-2019, 05:56 PM
On one hand you got protection for the women, on the other hand you have unstable men wanting guns and a nice fat donation from NRA...
"The House passed its VAWA bill over objections from the National Rifle Association and Republicans, who opposed the legislation because of a provision that eliminated the so-called boyfriend loophole by expanding a current ban on firearm purchases for spouses or formerly married partners convicted of abuse or under a restraining order to include dating partners who were never legally married."
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...inst-women-act
"The House passed its VAWA bill over objections from the National Rifle Association and Republicans, who opposed the legislation because of a provision that eliminated the so-called boyfriend loophole by expanding a current ban on firearm purchases for spouses or formerly married partners convicted of abuse or under a restraining order to include dating partners who were never legally married."
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...inst-women-act
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11-21-2019, 09:40 PM
EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland reportedly discussed a rapper jailed in Sweden during an overheard phone call.
U.S. diplomat David Holmes
that he overheard a phone call between President Donald Trump and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland on July 26, during which the pair discussed rapper A$AP Rocky, a rapper aligned with the Kardashians https://pitchfork.com/news/why-asap-rocky-was-arrested-in-sweden-for-assault-and-what-happens-next/, a member of the European Union.
According to published reports, Trump was willing to harm U.S. relations with Sweden in order to assist this rapper.
via USA Today:
A special U.S. presidential envoy warned of "potentially negative consequences" to U.S.-Swedish relations if American rapper A$AP Rocky were not released from prison and allowed to live in a hotel during his trial this week on assault charges in Stockholm, according to media reports.
Trump has sought to align himself with Kanye West for domestic political considerations because he believes West speaks for the nation's African-Americans.
Because of this, Trump leaned on Sondland, the E.U. Ambassador, to ensure A$AP Rocky's release from Sweden. However, Sondland was not positive that he would be able to help.
Sondland had other advice though:
According to testimony, Sondland
that he should let Rocky “get sentenced, [then] play the racism card, and [then] give him a ticker-tape when he comes home.”
Sondland added that despite his failed efforts, Trump could “tell the Kardashians you tried.”
https://mavenroundtable.io/theintell...3cI2OLKwbKpplc
U.S. diplomat David Holmes
According to published reports, Trump was willing to harm U.S. relations with Sweden in order to assist this rapper.
via USA Today:
A special U.S. presidential envoy warned of "potentially negative consequences" to U.S.-Swedish relations if American rapper A$AP Rocky were not released from prison and allowed to live in a hotel during his trial this week on assault charges in Stockholm, according to media reports.
Trump has sought to align himself with Kanye West for domestic political considerations because he believes West speaks for the nation's African-Americans.
Because of this, Trump leaned on Sondland, the E.U. Ambassador, to ensure A$AP Rocky's release from Sweden. However, Sondland was not positive that he would be able to help.
Sondland had other advice though:
According to testimony, Sondland
Sondland added that despite his failed efforts, Trump could “tell the Kardashians you tried.”
https://mavenroundtable.io/theintell...3cI2OLKwbKpplc
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11-21-2019, 11:11 PM
Weeee bit racist but you work for trump? No problem.
They added that Miller had a "white supremacist" influence on Trump's policies -- specifically his position on Dreamers and effort to lower the ceiling for refugee admissions.
Their letter came after the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) -- a left-wing group known for accusing conservatives of "hate" -- published its findings from more than 900 emails it obtained from former Breitbart editor Katie McHugh.
The SPLC report claimed Miller emailed Breitbart, a conservative news platform, more than 900 times between 2015 and 2016. The non-profit claims the emails showed Miller “promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols” following the 2015 Charleston, S.C., church shooting. (The gunman in that attack was a white supremacist and killed nine African-Americans.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ste...er-resignation
They added that Miller had a "white supremacist" influence on Trump's policies -- specifically his position on Dreamers and effort to lower the ceiling for refugee admissions.
Their letter came after the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) -- a left-wing group known for accusing conservatives of "hate" -- published its findings from more than 900 emails it obtained from former Breitbart editor Katie McHugh.
The SPLC report claimed Miller emailed Breitbart, a conservative news platform, more than 900 times between 2015 and 2016. The non-profit claims the emails showed Miller “promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols” following the 2015 Charleston, S.C., church shooting. (The gunman in that attack was a white supremacist and killed nine African-Americans.)
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ste...er-resignation
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11-22-2019, 08:48 AM
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No, the real distraction is this:
BREAKING NEWS: FORMER FBI LAWYER UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOCUMENT DURING 2016 RUSSIA PROBE
by Kevin Ryan
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's review of the FBI's Trump/Russia investigation discovered that a former FBI lawyer altered a document related to the Obama Justice Department’s 2016 surveillance of the Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
The alterations are said to have been significant enough to have shifted the document's meaning. It’s not known whether the FBI's FISA warrant to monitor Page would have been approved without the altered document.
When Horowitz's investigators confronted a witness about the document, and the witness admitted to the change. The person responsible for the alteration is now under criminal investigation, and is no longer working for the bureau.
The discovery of a substantive change to an investigative document will likely further fuel allegations that the FBI committed wrongdoing in opening its investigation of the Trump campaign.
Horowitz has turned over evidence on the altered document to John Durham, the federal prosecutor appointed by Attorney General William Barr to conduct a broad investigation of intelligence gathered for the Russia probe by the CIA, FBI, and other agencies.
Horowitz is expected to release his report on December 9 and testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee two days later.
SOURCE: https://www.cnn.com/…/fbi-fisa-russia-investigat…/index.html
by Kevin Ryan
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's review of the FBI's Trump/Russia investigation discovered that a former FBI lawyer altered a document related to the Obama Justice Department’s 2016 surveillance of the Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
The alterations are said to have been significant enough to have shifted the document's meaning. It’s not known whether the FBI's FISA warrant to monitor Page would have been approved without the altered document.
When Horowitz's investigators confronted a witness about the document, and the witness admitted to the change. The person responsible for the alteration is now under criminal investigation, and is no longer working for the bureau.
The discovery of a substantive change to an investigative document will likely further fuel allegations that the FBI committed wrongdoing in opening its investigation of the Trump campaign.
Horowitz has turned over evidence on the altered document to John Durham, the federal prosecutor appointed by Attorney General William Barr to conduct a broad investigation of intelligence gathered for the Russia probe by the CIA, FBI, and other agencies.
Horowitz is expected to release his report on December 9 and testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee two days later.
SOURCE: https://www.cnn.com/…/fbi-fisa-russia-investigat…/index.html
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11-22-2019, 09:32 AM
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When a deep red town’s only grocery closed, city hall opened its own store. Just don’t call it ‘socialism.’
Baldwin, Fla., is surrounded by farm country, and in late October, local green beans, tomatoes, peanuts, cabbage and milk filled the shelves of the Baldwin Market, which the town owns.
By Antonia Noori Farzan
November 22, 2019 at 4:03 a.m. CSTBALDWIN, Fla. — When Sean Lynch ran for mayor, he never anticipated that the job would involve hiring a butcher and tracking the sale of collard greens.
But in 2018, two years into his first term, the only grocery store in town shut down. People in Baldwin, Fla., a rural outpost in northeast Florida, were left with few options. They could leave town, driving 10 miles through road construction to nearby Macclenny or battling 20 miles of freeway traffic through Jacksonville’s suburban sprawl. Alternatively, they could cobble together a meal out of canned goods from the local Dollar General, or head to a nearby truck stop for greasy, deep-fried fast food.
For many of Baldwin’s roughly 1,600 residents, though, traveling for food wasn’t really a choice. The town’s median household income of $44,271 is well below the state average, and it’s not uncommon for families to juggle their schedules around sharing one car. Senior citizens also make up a significant percentage of the population, and many no longer drive.
So Lynch came to his colleagues with a proposal: What if the town opened its own grocery store?
Abandoned by mainstream supermarkets whose business models don’t have room for low profit margins, both urban and rural communities nationwide have turned to resident-owned co-ops or nonprofits to fill the gap. But Baldwin is trying something different. At the Baldwin Market, which opened its doors on Sept. 20, all of the employees are on the municipal payroll, from the butcher to the cashiers.
"You expect to hear about this in a place like the People’s Republic of Massachusetts,” jokes Brian Lang, the director of the National Campaign for Healthy Food Access at The Food Trust.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-grocery-store
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11-22-2019, 04:37 PM
Here i thought there was nothing to worry yet republicans are already trying to rig the impeachment hearing..
"Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are working with the White House to prepare for the likely Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, coalescing around the idea that allowing Democrats to lay out their evidence may be the best course of action to protect the President."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/polit...&utm_term=link
"Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are working with the White House to prepare for the likely Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, coalescing around the idea that allowing Democrats to lay out their evidence may be the best course of action to protect the President."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/polit...&utm_term=link
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11-22-2019, 07:22 PM
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College-aged American socialists be like "The Russian people were so prosperous under Communist rule in the Soviet era that they routinely enjoyed vast surpluses of refrigerated meat cases and grocery shelving units."
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11-23-2019, 10:43 AM
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Somebody set me straight...
Let's say, for sake of discussion, we know without doubt that Joe Biden used his position as Vice President to get his son, Hunter, a job with Burisma in return for protection from investigation. Regardless of how, let's just say we know. When would it be okay to investigate him? No democrat administration will do it, so that leaves it to a republican. If being a democrat makes him a political rival and investigating a political rival is somehow bad, he'd never be investigated. And assuming he's guilty, what difference does it make if he's vying for the democrat presidential nomination?
Let's say, for sake of discussion, we know without doubt that Joe Biden used his position as Vice President to get his son, Hunter, a job with Burisma in return for protection from investigation. Regardless of how, let's just say we know. When would it be okay to investigate him? No democrat administration will do it, so that leaves it to a republican. If being a democrat makes him a political rival and investigating a political rival is somehow bad, he'd never be investigated. And assuming he's guilty, what difference does it make if he's vying for the democrat presidential nomination?
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