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Alien Invasion in Cork.
Cork used as a base for alien landings.
Connor Gasworks resident of Cork, says he was walking
with his girlfriend after shopping at Tesco's, when he saw a beam of orange light shine in the sky, he was petrified, couldn't move and his girldfriend peed herself.
'I couldn't believe what I was seeing' says Mr. Gasworks.
But the time he reached for his iphone to snap a picture it was gone.
'Missed the opportunity of a lifetime' he regrets.
The first people to hear about it were his parents, whom not only didn't believe him but added he 'made the story up to get attention'
Mr Gasworks fiancée has broken off the engagement.
-'She's too embarrased after what happened.
Won't return my calls'.
I wish someone would believe us'. He added.
Connor Gasworks resident of Cork, says he was walking
with his girlfriend after shopping at Tesco's, when he saw a beam of orange light shine in the sky, he was petrified, couldn't move and his girldfriend peed herself.
'I couldn't believe what I was seeing' says Mr. Gasworks.
But the time he reached for his iphone to snap a picture it was gone.
'Missed the opportunity of a lifetime' he regrets.
The first people to hear about it were his parents, whom not only didn't believe him but added he 'made the story up to get attention'
Mr Gasworks fiancée has broken off the engagement.
-'She's too embarrased after what happened.
Won't return my calls'.
I wish someone would believe us'. He added.
Yearbook photos completely destroy credibility of Ford’s story
BREAKING LIVE: KAVANAUGH ACCUSER SET TO CANCEL SENATE TESTIMONY AFTER SHOCKING HS YEARBOOKS REVEAL DRUNKEN SEX PARTIES, EXTREME RACISM, ADULT MALE DANCERS – AND MORE!
Watch as Alex Jones covers Christine Blasey Ford’s apparent high school yearbook photos, filled with references to drunken promiscuous parties where the attendees were not able to remember what happened, which someone was trying to scrub from the Internet.
A whopping five high school yearbooks show that not only did Ford attend wild parties that make Animal House look tame, but she was a prominent participant and even a leader.
These shocking developments, including a celebration of drinking to amnesia, completely impeach her already baseless claims against Brett Kavanaugh.
Watch as Alex Jones covers Christine Blasey Ford’s apparent high school yearbook photos, filled with references to drunken promiscuous parties where the attendees were not able to remember what happened, which someone was trying to scrub from the Internet.
A whopping five high school yearbooks show that not only did Ford attend wild parties that make Animal House look tame, but she was a prominent participant and even a leader.
These shocking developments, including a celebration of drinking to amnesia, completely impeach her already baseless claims against Brett Kavanaugh.
online now!
Jan. 22- Statistically The Coldest Day Of The Year
in the Northern Hemisphere.
I'm in Wisconsin.
We're having a bona fide thunderstorm. With real rain!
NOT snow - aka a thundersnow.
There's grass in my yard.
True, it's not green. But it IS grass. In January!
I'm in Wisconsin.
We're having a bona fide thunderstorm. With real rain!
NOT snow - aka a thundersnow.
There's grass in my yard.
True, it's not green. But it IS grass. In January!
online today!
Waiting 14 hours to see the Queen...
The Queen, Lying-in-State outside Westminster Hall in London has crowds reportedly waiting 14 hours to see a closed casket and pay their respects.
Reports are due to the huge number of people, the queue was at capacity and entry had to be paused for six hours making wait times reach 14 hours as the line stretched 5 miles (8km) from Parliament to Southwark Park.
One woman interviewed said she got in the line at 4am Friday. Quoted as saying it's a moment in history to celebrate and would regret not being part of it.
I saw a reader comment about the lead lined casket being closed. He had suspicion her body wasn't inside.
Reports are due to the huge number of people, the queue was at capacity and entry had to be paused for six hours making wait times reach 14 hours as the line stretched 5 miles (8km) from Parliament to Southwark Park.
One woman interviewed said she got in the line at 4am Friday. Quoted as saying it's a moment in history to celebrate and would regret not being part of it.
I saw a reader comment about the lead lined casket being closed. He had suspicion her body wasn't inside.
More breaking news 9/7/2018 Michael Cohen to get at least 4 years in prison - Russian involvement
Today from the Associated Press
(Continued in my first comment below)
In response to:
US: Trump lawyer met Russian offering 'political synergy'
Associated Press CHAD DAY, ERIC TUCKER and JIM MUSTIAN,
Associated Press 57 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in touch as far back as 2015 with a Russian who offered "political synergy" with the Trump election campaign and proposed a meeting between the candidate and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the special counsel said Friday.
Court filings from prosecutors in New York and special counsel Robert Mueller's office lay out previously undisclosed contacts between Trump associates and Russian intermediaries and suggest the Kremlin aimed early on to influence Trump and his campaign by playing to both his political aspirations and his personal business interests.
The filings, in cases involving Cohen and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, cap a dramatic week of revelations in Mueller's ongoing investigation into potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
They make clear how witnesses previously close to Trump — Cohen once declared he'd "take a bullet" for the president — have since provided damaging information about him in efforts to come clean to the government and in some cases get lighter prison sentences. One witness, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, provided so much information to prosecutors that Mueller this week said he shouldn't serve any prison time.
The interviews with prosecutors have yielded intimate information about episodes under close examination, including possible Russian collusion and hush money payments during the campaign to a porn star and Playboy model who say they had sex with Trump a decade earlier.
In one of the filings, Mueller details how Cohen spoke to a Russian who "claimed to be a 'trusted person' in the Russian Federation who could offer the campaign 'political synergy' and 'synergy on a government level.'" The person repeatedly dangled a meeting between Trump and Putin, saying such a meeting could have a "phenomenal" impact "not only in political but in a business dimension as well."
That was a reference to a proposed Moscow real estate deal that prosecutors say could have netted Trump's business hundreds of millions of dollars. Cohen admitted last week to lying to Congress by saying discussions about a Trump Tower in Moscow ended in January 2016 when in fact they stretched into that June, well into the U.S. campaign.
Cohen told prosecutors he never followed up, though the offer bore echoes of a proposal presented by Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who raised the idea to other advisers of leveraging his connections to set up a Putin encounter.
In an additional filing Friday evening, prosecutors said Manafort lied to them about his contacts with a Russian associate and Trump administration officials, including in 2018.
The court papers say that Manafort initially told prosecutors he didn't have any contact with anyone while they were in the Trump administration. But prosecutors say they recovered "electronic documents" showing his contacts with multiple administration officials. The officials are not identified in the court filings.
Manafort, who has pleaded guilty to several counts, violated his plea agreement by then telling "multiple discernible lies" to prosecutors, they said.
Prosecutors in Cohen's case said that even though he cooperated in their investigation into the hush money payments to women he nonetheless deserved to spend time in prison.
"Cohen did provide information to law enforcement, including information that assisted the Special Counsel's Office," they said. "But Cohen's description of those efforts is overstated in some respects and incomplete in others."
US: Trump lawyer met Russian offering 'political synergy'
Associated Press CHAD DAY, ERIC TUCKER and JIM MUSTIAN,
Associated Press 57 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in touch as far back as 2015 with a Russian who offered "political synergy" with the Trump election campaign and proposed a meeting between the candidate and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the special counsel said Friday.
Court filings from prosecutors in New York and special counsel Robert Mueller's office lay out previously undisclosed contacts between Trump associates and Russian intermediaries and suggest the Kremlin aimed early on to influence Trump and his campaign by playing to both his political aspirations and his personal business interests.
The filings, in cases involving Cohen and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, cap a dramatic week of revelations in Mueller's ongoing investigation into potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
They make clear how witnesses previously close to Trump — Cohen once declared he'd "take a bullet" for the president — have since provided damaging information about him in efforts to come clean to the government and in some cases get lighter prison sentences. One witness, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, provided so much information to prosecutors that Mueller this week said he shouldn't serve any prison time.
The interviews with prosecutors have yielded intimate information about episodes under close examination, including possible Russian collusion and hush money payments during the campaign to a porn star and Playboy model who say they had sex with Trump a decade earlier.
In one of the filings, Mueller details how Cohen spoke to a Russian who "claimed to be a 'trusted person' in the Russian Federation who could offer the campaign 'political synergy' and 'synergy on a government level.'" The person repeatedly dangled a meeting between Trump and Putin, saying such a meeting could have a "phenomenal" impact "not only in political but in a business dimension as well."
That was a reference to a proposed Moscow real estate deal that prosecutors say could have netted Trump's business hundreds of millions of dollars. Cohen admitted last week to lying to Congress by saying discussions about a Trump Tower in Moscow ended in January 2016 when in fact they stretched into that June, well into the U.S. campaign.
Cohen told prosecutors he never followed up, though the offer bore echoes of a proposal presented by Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who raised the idea to other advisers of leveraging his connections to set up a Putin encounter.
In an additional filing Friday evening, prosecutors said Manafort lied to them about his contacts with a Russian associate and Trump administration officials, including in 2018.
The court papers say that Manafort initially told prosecutors he didn't have any contact with anyone while they were in the Trump administration. But prosecutors say they recovered "electronic documents" showing his contacts with multiple administration officials. The officials are not identified in the court filings.
Manafort, who has pleaded guilty to several counts, violated his plea agreement by then telling "multiple discernible lies" to prosecutors, they said.
Prosecutors in Cohen's case said that even though he cooperated in their investigation into the hush money payments to women he nonetheless deserved to spend time in prison.
"Cohen did provide information to law enforcement, including information that assisted the Special Counsel's Office," they said. "But Cohen's description of those efforts is overstated in some respects and incomplete in others."
(Continued in my first comment below)
Bad president, bad president. What you gonna do, when they come for you.
In response to:
New York state judge allows suit against Trump and his personal charity to proceed
By Jonathan O'Connell and David A. Fahrenthold
November 23 at 5:46 PM
A New York state judge on Friday denied a request by attorneys for President Trump to throw out a lawsuit alleging that Trump and his family violated charity laws with the management of their personal foundation.
Justice Saliann Scarpulla sided with New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood in allowing the case to continue, saying it was fair for the attorney general to argue that the president used the Donald J. Trump Foundation to advance his campaign.
Attorney Alan Futerfas, who represents Trump and his three eldest children, had argued that the president was acting in his individual capacity — not on behalf of the foundation — in hosting a televised fundraiser for veterans and allowing his campaign staff to dictate what groups received donations.
But the allegations, Scarpulla wrote in her decision , “show that Mr. Trump was acting in both of his capacities as campaign candidate and president of the Foundation.”
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She wrote that Underwood “adequately alleges that the political acts by Mr. Trump and the Campaign are attributable to the Foundation.”
In a statement Friday, Underwood applauded the decision, saying that the “Trump Foundation functioned as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests.”
In the past, Trump has called the suit politically motivated and “ridiculous,” criticizing Underwood and her predecessor, Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat.
Futerfas and a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, the president’s company, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
New York state officials began scrutinizing the Trump Foundation in response to an investigation by The Washington Post.
Underwood brought the suit in June, arguing that Trump and three of his children — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump — had repeatedly misused the nonprofit organization to pay off creditors of Trump businesses, to decorate one of his golf clubs and to stage a multimillion-dollar giveaway at campaign events.
In asking that the case be thrown out, Futerfas made arguments last month including that the court lacked proper jurisdiction, that the attorney general’s office was biased against the president and that any mistakes made at the charity were too minor to merit such a case.
Trump’s attorneys also pointed out that the Trump Foundation, incorporated in 1987, had not written any checks to Trump’s campaign.
But Scarpulla sided with Underwood on that point, as well. In her ruling, Scarpulla wrote that the attorney general’s allegations that “Foundation checks were drawn up at Mr. Trump’s and the Campaign’s direction” were sufficient to support a claim that Trump “intentionally used foundation assets for his private interests knowing that it may not be in the Foundation’s best interest.”
Trump’s attorneys had also argued that because they found Underwood’s office to be operating out of political bias, they should be able to obtain documents and information from Underwood’s office.
But in dismissing the bias claim, Scarpulla shut the door on that possibility as well, calling the bias allegation and request for discovery both “irrelevant.”
Scarpulla noted that the outcome of this suit could hinge on an unrelated case pending in New York state: a lawsuit by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, who alleges that Trump defamed her.
New York state judge allows suit against Trump and his personal charity to proceed
By Jonathan O'Connell and David A. Fahrenthold
November 23 at 5:46 PM
A New York state judge on Friday denied a request by attorneys for President Trump to throw out a lawsuit alleging that Trump and his family violated charity laws with the management of their personal foundation.
Justice Saliann Scarpulla sided with New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood in allowing the case to continue, saying it was fair for the attorney general to argue that the president used the Donald J. Trump Foundation to advance his campaign.
Attorney Alan Futerfas, who represents Trump and his three eldest children, had argued that the president was acting in his individual capacity — not on behalf of the foundation — in hosting a televised fundraiser for veterans and allowing his campaign staff to dictate what groups received donations.
But the allegations, Scarpulla wrote in her decision , “show that Mr. Trump was acting in both of his capacities as campaign candidate and president of the Foundation.”
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She wrote that Underwood “adequately alleges that the political acts by Mr. Trump and the Campaign are attributable to the Foundation.”
In a statement Friday, Underwood applauded the decision, saying that the “Trump Foundation functioned as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests.”
In the past, Trump has called the suit politically motivated and “ridiculous,” criticizing Underwood and her predecessor, Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat.
Futerfas and a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, the president’s company, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
New York state officials began scrutinizing the Trump Foundation in response to an investigation by The Washington Post.
Underwood brought the suit in June, arguing that Trump and three of his children — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump — had repeatedly misused the nonprofit organization to pay off creditors of Trump businesses, to decorate one of his golf clubs and to stage a multimillion-dollar giveaway at campaign events.
In asking that the case be thrown out, Futerfas made arguments last month including that the court lacked proper jurisdiction, that the attorney general’s office was biased against the president and that any mistakes made at the charity were too minor to merit such a case.
Trump’s attorneys also pointed out that the Trump Foundation, incorporated in 1987, had not written any checks to Trump’s campaign.
But Scarpulla sided with Underwood on that point, as well. In her ruling, Scarpulla wrote that the attorney general’s allegations that “Foundation checks were drawn up at Mr. Trump’s and the Campaign’s direction” were sufficient to support a claim that Trump “intentionally used foundation assets for his private interests knowing that it may not be in the Foundation’s best interest.”
Trump’s attorneys had also argued that because they found Underwood’s office to be operating out of political bias, they should be able to obtain documents and information from Underwood’s office.
But in dismissing the bias claim, Scarpulla shut the door on that possibility as well, calling the bias allegation and request for discovery both “irrelevant.”
Scarpulla noted that the outcome of this suit could hinge on an unrelated case pending in New York state: a lawsuit by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, who alleges that Trump defamed her.
(continued in my first comment below)
4,738th Time’s The Charm? Democrats Sure Hope So!
Tomorrow Robert Mueller is supposed to testify before Congress. He has already said over and over again that there is nothing else to say other than what he already wrote in the report he submitted after more than two years and about $40 million dollars of taxpayer money wasted investigating President Trump for a crime that never happened. And he said that if he goes before Congress he won’t have anything at all to say about President Trump. As a matter of fact he can’t even talk about President Trump because he is not allowed to since President Trump was not indicted and is innocent in the eyes of the law. The Democrats already know that. It’s already been rehashed so many times that any sane person is sick and tired of hearing about it and wants the Democrats to shut up about it already and get on with the business of the country.
But that doesn’t deter those determined Democrats! Damn the facts! They know that President Trump is a criminal and the fact that there isn’t any evidence of it after the most exhaustive investigation in history is just a mere inconvenience. FULL SPEED AHEAD!
So as a final act of desperation (At least America is praying PLEASE PLEASE be a FINAL act!), they dragged Robert Mueller into Congress to repeat the same things he has said about 100 times already hoping against hope that there will be SOMETHING… ANYTHING… for them to latch onto that will change things. Good luck with that. It’s long over, but they just don’t get it yet. Talk about slow learners!
These Democrats are like those Civil War reenactors coming back over and over again every year reenacting the losing side’s part and hoping history will miraculously be changed. These people are serious mental cases.
I hope Robert Mueller speaks very slowly tomorrow so that even the Democrats can understand what everyone else in the country figured out a long time ago.
T..H..E..R..E
I..S
N..O
EV… ...... I … ...... DENCE
OF
COL ……. ....... ...... LUUUUUU ........ ……SION
Did you catch that nuance there yet Democrats? Wake up and smell another loss in 2020. You earned it!
But that doesn’t deter those determined Democrats! Damn the facts! They know that President Trump is a criminal and the fact that there isn’t any evidence of it after the most exhaustive investigation in history is just a mere inconvenience. FULL SPEED AHEAD!
So as a final act of desperation (At least America is praying PLEASE PLEASE be a FINAL act!), they dragged Robert Mueller into Congress to repeat the same things he has said about 100 times already hoping against hope that there will be SOMETHING… ANYTHING… for them to latch onto that will change things. Good luck with that. It’s long over, but they just don’t get it yet. Talk about slow learners!
These Democrats are like those Civil War reenactors coming back over and over again every year reenacting the losing side’s part and hoping history will miraculously be changed. These people are serious mental cases.
I hope Robert Mueller speaks very slowly tomorrow so that even the Democrats can understand what everyone else in the country figured out a long time ago.
T..H..E..R..E
I..S
N..O
EV… ...... I … ...... DENCE
OF
COL ……. ....... ...... LUUUUUU ........ ……SION
Did you catch that nuance there yet Democrats? Wake up and smell another loss in 2020. You earned it!
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