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I think Lebron has just demonstrated "Shut up and dribble" in China.......He's wisely gonna wait until he's back in he US before he starts mouthing off......

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https://realityanddenial.wordpress.com/2019/10/07/it-becomes-clear-why-theyre-all-trying-to-destroy-trump/?fbclid=IwAR0FWoloAFUK9PhlnUy1kJU8mCIfYWhOTOVy_vu_ViaxyqDRSr_FpJWpLmA Mitt Romney’s top adviser, Joseph Cofer Black, joined the board of the Ukraine energy firm, Burisma, while Hunter Biden was also serving on the board. Hunter Biden was taking a salary of $50,000 per month from Burisma, and was simultaneously engaged in a relationship with John Kerry’s stepson, Chris Heinz, and mobster Whitey Bulger’s nephew, in a private equity firm, that allegedly appeared to be laundering millions of dollars in foreign money from China & the Ukraine, through Latvia, and back to the US. Romney’s adviser, Joseph Cofer Black, trained for covert operations and eventually became the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks perpetrated by al-Qaeda, Black was appointed ambassador at large and coordinator for counterterrorism in December 2002 by President George W. Bush. John Brennan succeeded Black in his job as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Cofer Black left the CIA in 2006 to join Blackwater, the huge contractor for services related to military and intelligence action, where he served as Vice Chairman until 2008. See all the ties that bind? It appears that Romney, Kerry, Biden, McCain, Pelosi, Clinton, Mueller and Schiff all have ties to Ukrainian firms. VP Biden bragged on camera that he was able to force the former Ukraine President to fire a prosecutor who was investigating his son, Hunter, by threatening to withhold $1 BILLION in US loans from Ukraine – all with approval from Obama! While Communist China ran $1.5 BILLION through the Biden/Heinz private equity firm to purchase US companies with military ties, John Kerry, as Secretary of State, approved questionable acquisitions that threatened national security, but enriched his family and friends. Kurt Volker, who served as the U.S. Ambassador to NATO under Obama, and was just fired from the Trump White House as special envoy to Ukraine, is the executive director of the John McCain Institute. NAncy Pelosi’s son, Paul Pelosi Jr., is involved in oil importing from Ukraine and his company, Viscoil, is under investigation for securities fraud. In 2015, Pelosi used the Air Force to fly her entire family to Ukraine at a cost of over $185,000. Nancy Pelosi’s legislative aide, Ivanna Voronovych, is from Ukraine and is connected to the Ukrainian Embassy, the Ukrainian military, the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian party life. Pelosi and Schiff are also both connected to a Ukrainian arms dealer. We also know that Ukraine was involved in helping the Clinton campaign fabricate evidence against Paul Manafort to smear the Trump campaign and the firm the DNC used to “inspect” Hillary’s email server, Crowdstrike, is funded by anti-Russian Ukrainian Oligarchs and run by a man who used to work for Mueller at the FBI! Most concerning of all, the former CEO of Danske Bank in Estonia, Aivar Rehe, a bank known for money laundering during the years Obama and Biden were in office, was just found dead in his yard. He was a witness for the prosecution in a $220 BILLION money laundering scandal involving transfers to Latvia. Rudy Giuliani intimated that this corrupt banking network was likely used by Biden & pals to launder foreign $ from the Ukraine & China – to Latvia, Cyprus and on to America. Records show that some 10,000 “non-resident” accounts were involved. Giuliani says he began investigating Joe Biden before he announced his run for President and that more “corroborating” evidence is forthcoming. Rudy Giuliani, who was once James Comey’s boss, and the former Mayor of New York during 9/11, took down the mob and runs one of the biggest private investigation firms in the world. Don’t underestimate Rudy. He already has videotaped interviews of the Ukraine prosecutor that Biden forced out of office. We shall hopefully soon see all the rest of the ties that bind. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-25/police-reassess-search-as-ex-danske-ceo-in-estonia-feared-dead Suicided........

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/us/politics/beatles-isis-us-custody.html The American military is moving to take as many as several dozen Islamic State detainees out of Kurdish-run wartime prisons in northern Syria, and already has two British men in custody who are notorious for their roles in the torture and killing of Western hostages, according to United States officials. The decision comes as the Turkish military moved into northern Syria after getting a green light from President Trump. Turkey is targeting the American-backed Kurds — known as the Syrian Democratic Forces — who were the primary allies of the United States in the fight against the Islamic State in Syria. The Turkish invasion called into question the militia’s ability to continue securely holding some 11,000 captured ISIS fighters. The officials spoke cautiously about the transfer operation because it was still underway, but Mr. Trump spoke openly on Wednesday afternoon about the fact that the United States was taking “a certain number of ISIS fighters that are particularly bad” in order to make sure that they did not get out. “We are taking some of the most dangerous ISIS fighters out,” Mr. Trump said in remarks while signing some executive orders. “We’ve taken them out, and we’re putting them in different locations where it’s secure.” Mr. Trump had previously said that Islamic State detainees in northern Syria would become Turkey’s responsibility, and it was not clear what his administration’s long-term plan would be for those who were instead coming into the American military’s custody. For now, the military was taking at least some of the men to Iraq, where the United States has a base where it has held a handful of Islamic State detainees with American citizenship before transferring them to domestic soil — or, in one case, releasing a detainee in Bahrain. So as Turkey moves into the border areas of Syria to remove the Kurds, and create a safe buffer zone (they have never liked the Kurds that close to their border), the US has quietly moved the high-value ISIS detainees out of the area. Do you think DJT is relying on the Turk's habit of killing terrorists rather than detaining them to take care of the remaining detainees?

https://www.theblaze.com/news/ukrainian-mp-joe-biden-got-nearly-1m-from-burisma-for-lobbying?utm_content=bufferaebe0&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=fb-glennbeck&fbclid=IwAR3d4Rr0Mb7TbwS2cMU4E3DTO6sXwX1Y5-SxHobpu9XIbIWx7BIqySr_9ec A Ukrainian member of Parliament said former Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 from Burisma for lobbying activities and called for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate further, according to Ukrainian news agency Interfax. Ukrainian MP Andriy Derkach said he has documentation to back up his claim, which he said he will post on his Facebook page. "This was the transfer of Burisma Group's funds for lobbying activities, as investigators believe, personally to Joe Biden through a lobbying company," Derkach said. "Funds in the amount of $900,000 were transferred to the U.S.-based company Rosemont Seneca Partners, which according to open sources, in particular, the New York Times, is affiliated with Biden. The payment reference was payment for consultative services." Derkach also alleged that $16.5 million was paid by Burisma to a group of representatives that included Hunter Biden. He said Joe Biden used "political and economic levelers of influencing Ukrainian authorities and manipulating the issue of providing financial aid to Ukraine" to help Burisma by closing investigations into Burisma group's founder and owner, Mykola Zlochevsky. According to Derkach, there is a clear link between a $1 billion loan guarantee signed between the U.S. and Ukraine, and the firing of prosecutor general Viktor Shokin two months before. Shokin was investigating Burisma before he was fired. "Biden's fifth visit to Kyiv on December 7-8, 2015, was devoted to making a decision on the resignation of [then Ukrainian Prosecutor General] Viktor Shokin over the case of Zlochevsky and Burisma," Derkach said. "Loan guarantees worth $1 billion that the United States was to give to Ukraine was the point of pressure. Biden himself admitted exerting pressure in his speech at the Council of Foreign Relations in January 2018, calling Shokin 'son of a bitch who was fired.'" The Biden campaign did not immediately return a request by TheBlaze for comment on Derkach's allegations. Rudy Giuliani, attorney for President Donald Trump, pointed to Derkach's allegations to support his own claims of the Bidens' corruption in Ukraine. "This case stinks. They can run away from it all they want," Giuliani said on Fox News on Wednesday, also suggesting that there was corruption involving Biden with China and Romania. Yeahbut.......The previous "investigation" already "exonerated" the Bidens - so this must be fake news.....And Joe Biden already said he didn't know anything about his son's employer....... https://noqreport.com/2019/10/09/breaking-ukrainian-press-reports-burisma-paid-900000-joe-biden/ Original Story: Ever since a whistleblower accused President Trump of inappropriately pressuring Ukraine to reopen their investigation into Burisma Holdings, Joe Biden’s son Hunter has been at the center of the controversy. Democrats have claimed the President leveraged aid in a quid pro quo exchange for dirt on his political opponent, while Republicans have said there was no quid pro quo. Moreover, many Republicans have called for investigations on both continents about the former Vice President’s own quid pro quo of a billion-dollar loan guarantee in exchange for the firing of former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. It has been assumed that Biden was trying to protect his son, but a bombshell accusation by a current member of the Ukrainian government puts the corruption squarely in Biden’s own lap. According to Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada (parliament) member Andriy Derkach, the elder Biden received $900,000 through a holding company associated with his son. The company, Rosemont Seneca, disclosed they received multiple transfers from Burisma while Joe Biden was still Vice President. It was assumed that these payments were in addition to Hunter Biden’s board member salary, but the Ukrainian MP claims the payments were meant for his father. I know, I know, SF is looking at a new hat........Whatcha think?

Have loved Ellen for decades. First seen her on the earlier improv shows. She had a wonderful standup routine.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2019/08/07/wind-turbine-blades-being-disposed-of-in-casper-landfill/?fbclid=IwAR1JYouAbKTUpx3Le2Dma5rJ5Y08btnW6qF88quZupUBLgIJJcXPu40YM8I The Casper landfill will soon be the home of more than 1,000 decommissioned wind turbine blades and motor housing units. According to Cindie Langston, solid waste manager for the Casper Regional Landfill, the materials will be deposited in an area of the landfill designed to hold construction and demolition material. CRL is one of the few landfills with the proper permits and certifications to accept the decommissioned turbine materials. The turbine disposal project, which started this summer, is slated to continue until the spring of 2020, bringing the CRL estimated revenue of $675,485. Such “special waste projects” bring in about $800,000 a year, which helps keep CRL rates low, Langston said. The wind turbine components are being delivered by InStream Environmental, a company that recycles and disposes of other companies’ waste streams. The company is retrieving the blades from two different wind farm locations. Each turbine blade will need between 30 and 44.8 cubic yards of landfill space, using a total of 448,000 cubic yards of the 2.6 million yards set aside for construction and demolition material. The components are made of a fiberglass material that is one of the most inert, non-toxic materials accepted at CRL, Langston said. The average lifespan of a wind turbine is 20 to 25 years, and wind farms repurpose and recycle 90 percent of the materials in a wind turbine unit. The only materials not recycled are the fiberglass blades and motor housings. Nationwide, there are nearly 50,000 wind turbines, with 2,700 being decommissioned since the energy boom of the 1970s. Researchers at Washington State University are looking for ways to reuse the fiberglass components of aged-out turbines, but no practical commercial applications have yet been found. There is some hope that ground up blades can be used to create building materials, among other things. To prevent acres of abandoned and decaying wind farms, Wyoming laws require companies provide bonds to cover the cost of decommissioning and disposal of turbines once they are taken out of service or abandoned.

It’s interesting that Bush received no censure from conservatives angry that he had been spotted sitting next to a progressive, lesbian celebrity at a football game, but DeGeneres continues to endure backlash for defending her friendship with someone across the political aisle. Because: Snowflakes.......

Just waiting for the Durham/Horowitz report.......... Clapper seems to be feeling the sharks circling....... https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/clapper-2016-election-scandal-we-did-what-we-were-told-do-president-obama Clapper: "It’s kind of disconcerting now to be investigated for, you know, having done our duty and done what we were told to do by the president. (Emphasis added.) As has been reported by numerous media, FBI officials in the Obama administration obtained FISA warrants to spy on certain members of the Trump campaign in 2016. Also, a trigger in the FBI's efforts (and perhaps other intelligence agencies) was a dossier compiled by a former British MI6 agent, Christopher Steele. He had been hired by Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump allegedly from Russian sources. Fusion GPS was funded for this work by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign. (Steele was also paid directly by the FBI for his investigative work.) Now seems to be pointing out that he was simply following orders......

With all the MSM's focus on the "impeachment" headlines and working to keep this as the top news, AG Barr and John Durham (and their recent travels) are being kept out of the news for some reason..... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/amid-impeachment-furor-barr-and-durham-flew-to-rome-to-hear-a-secret-tape-of-joseph-mifsud-mysterious-professor-at-center-of-mueller-probe Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham met with Italian intelligence and listened to a secret recording of Joseph Mifsud, the mysterious professor at the center of the Trump-Russia saga. The quiet trip to Rome by Barr and Durham last week as impeachment furor swept Washington, D.C., was part of the “investigation of the investigators.” The Justice Department is looking into the origins of the counterintelligence investigation into Russian election interference in 2016 and any possible ties to the Trump campaign, which later became part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Barr and Durham listened to a taped deposition of Mifsud at the U.S. Embassy in Rome as well as met with Italian security officials who provided them with other information that the Italian government had on Mifsud, according to the Daily Beast. Mifsud explained why he was leaving his job at Rome’s Link University and asked for police protection, claiming that his life might be endangered. The Trump administration's interest in Mifsud likely stems from a 2016 conversation in which Mifsud allegedly told Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos about possible Russian dirt on then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Papadopoulos allegedly mentioned this to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, who passed it to the Australian government, who passed it to the United States, leading to the official launch of the Trump-Russia investigation in July 2016. The Australian government is also cooperating with Barr in his efforts, and the DOJ said last week that Barr and Durham were reaching out to foreign governments for help. “Mr. Durham is gathering information from numerous sources, including a number of foreign countries,” DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said. “At Attorney General Barr’s request, the president has contacted other countries to ask them to introduce the attorney general and Mr. Durham to appropriate officials.” Stephan Roh, a lawyer who says he represents Mifsud and shared a picture of Mifsud allegedly signing a power of attorney in 2018, told the Washington Examiner that Mifsud “is in Italy, at least until recently.” But Roh said Mifsud, whose whereabouts are unknown, hadn’t contacted him in a while. Mifsud denied he told Papadopoulos the Russians had Clinton's emails, and Roh claims his client cooperated with Western intelligence, not Russian intelligence, aligning with what some GOP investigators have said. Roh previously said Durham was seeking an interview with Mifsud, but it was not clear if Durham and Barr were doing so. Papadopoulos has claimed Mifsud has “connections to Italian intelligence.” The Mueller report confirmed the role information from Mifsud played in prompting the FBI “to open an investigation into whether individuals associated with the Trump campaign were coordinating with the Russian government in its interference activities.” The investigation “did not establish” any criminal conspiracy between the Kremlin and anyone associated with Trump. Mueller's report said Mifsud “had connections to Russia” and “maintained various Russian contacts.” Mueller also said Mifsud misled investigators when they questioned him, but he was not charged. As part of Mueller’s Russia investigation, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in 2017 to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Mifsud and served 12 days in prison late last year. Republicans have alleged that foreign intelligence agencies, like those in Western Europe, may have played a role in monitoring Trump associates in 2016. Durham’s investigation is separate from the one just finished by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz. The DOJ watchdog investigated allegations of abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the DOJ and the FBI, and Horowitz has spoken with Durham, who is handling any criminal referrals from Horowitz’s investigation. https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/10/02/bill-barr-risks-becoming-joseph-mifsuds-new-coffee-boy/ There are a ton of reasons why this trip is batshit crazy. For one, Barr is placing himself in the role of a line Special Agent, someone without the requisite expertise chasing off to watch taped depositions while he should be running DOJ. For another (as I’ll show in more detail later), Barr is literally just chasing conspiracy theories sown by sworn liar George Papadopoulos, conspiracy theories which fabulist John Solomon (and his obvious sources named Rudy Giuliani and some Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs including Oleg Deripaska) has both fed and magnified. That Barr is doing it as he becomes personally embroiled in a scandal which could implicate him criminally suggests he and Trump may be trying to beat the clock, produce results before the shit really hits the fan. But what’s most remarkable about the trip is the Attorney General of the United States went out on this goose chase without first ensuring he’d get what he was promised. There’s a principle often aired when discussing Trump’s failed diplomacy with North Korea. You don’t send out the Principal for a meeting before getting certain commitments that advance your own goals. Trump should not have met with Kim Jong-Un without first getting concessions, because by doing so he took away several things of value (such as conferring credibility on the world stage) that Kim was most interested in. The same is true here. The Attorney General should never run off to do the work of an FBI line Special Agent. But he certainly shouldn’t do so unless he was getting what he was really after. And Billy Barr just flew to Italy without getting what he was really looking for. Handily, for this scandal, Papadopoulos and Solomon and Chuck Ross have been ready scribes for the script that Trump and Billy Barr are supposed to be following. It’s all out in the open. The Attorney General’s voyage to Italy got set in motion last fall when Ross published two stories relying on Mifsud’s “attorney” Stephen Roh (who himself has close ties to Russia). The first, dated September 10, reported that Mifsud was alive and well hiding in Italy. The second, published October 24, was explicitly a set-up for George Papadopoulos’ testimony before the joint OGR/HJC investigation into the Russian investigation. It included comments from Roh alleging that Mifsud was not a Russian asset, but was instead a Western one. Ross included those comments almost as a side note, even though the comments make what would normally be big news. SF thinks that if this trip by the AG was such an epic failure as depicted by the story above, it would be front page news and widely reported, not quietly hidden and ignored........SF believes that the AG is beginning to get close enough to the source that there is deep concern among the dem's that this is going to blow up directly at some of their highest ranking members......

When was America ever Greta?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-78-canceled-events-notice-hospitalized/story?id=66003850&fbclid=IwAR0cNpouxF1Ob2uyAUyJ1Ss1jYngW7RVlfCAaSqv-0Y3QXtiU1sNWQiVad0 "During a campaign event yesterday evening, Sen. Sanders experienced some chest discomfort. Following medical evaluation and testing he was found to have a blockage in one artery and two stents were successfully inserted. Sen. Sanders is conversing and in good spirits. He will be resting up over the next few days," said Sanders’ senior adviser Jeff Weaver on Wednesday in a statement. "We are canceling his events and appearances until further notice, and we will continue to provide appropriate updates.”

George Carlin on the environment....

Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and the guys from the Ukranian Company that the Vice President (who was still the VP in this picture) didn't know anything about or who the Ukes were or what his son was doing there...... So, 1) Hunter Biden gets paid $50,000 per month working for a Ukranian Company. 2) A Ukranian prosecutor investigates same company. 3) Hunter's dad (the Vice President) holds up a billion in aid until the prosecutor is fired. 4) Joe Biden didn't know who these guys were? AND it's Trump's fault? I guess it's who you choose to believe.......

The science is not settled? ........perhaps in the gender "identity" category......