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Lest we not forget....
The REAL shit is waiting to hit the fan. And it's all about the Kenyan who would be King. It's not going to be much longer before the small stage is clear and the Trumpian Colosseum takes its millions to the Mats (just threw that in for our Trump/Mafia conspirists).
Thanks to the 'hard on' media mentality of impeachment, in the wings, we conservatives see a little slippage of comments, a few name drops like Solomon, Carter, Durham and a worried Comey, Brennan, Clapper and Lerner.
Names not so unfamiliar to the average uninformed liberal, but others like two lawyers who connected the speculations to the specifics.
For three years or more Sarah Carter and John Solomon have diligently uncovered, traced and exposed information, providing the facts not just the backstories. Much of their work is now the property of the Barr investigation, in fact forms the basis for it.....the Woodward and Bernstein to put it in liberal perspective. And though much of the released info isn't out to the public it has been guidelined for the steps leading to prosecution of the previous administration. In short, we got it on the record, we got it verified, and we got it ready but only when we're sure its airtight and prosecution follows facts. Unlike our left wing Disney theorists, we are not given to supposition, hyperbole or theatrics. This is far too important because of the far reaching intentions of a very corrupt administration, who many claimed to be 'scandal free', sound familiar Barry?
If the demos/media/left wing has one winning tactic, it was providing flack by way of its impeach this/that nonsense. They will try and keep that in play, the smokescreen, but don't for a minute think they're not aware of what's coming down I95.....its T45 and he's got 4 more years to drive it straight to the former president who still lives nearby. And if there's one thing I'll supposit, it's that President Trump wants obama on a stick, his very own suppository smore to roast over 1600 and Philly.
Thing is.....President Trump keeps winning so much day after day, even the downstream media can't ignore his brilliance.
Thanks to the 'hard on' media mentality of impeachment, in the wings, we conservatives see a little slippage of comments, a few name drops like Solomon, Carter, Durham and a worried Comey, Brennan, Clapper and Lerner.
Names not so unfamiliar to the average uninformed liberal, but others like two lawyers who connected the speculations to the specifics.
For three years or more Sarah Carter and John Solomon have diligently uncovered, traced and exposed information, providing the facts not just the backstories. Much of their work is now the property of the Barr investigation, in fact forms the basis for it.....the Woodward and Bernstein to put it in liberal perspective. And though much of the released info isn't out to the public it has been guidelined for the steps leading to prosecution of the previous administration. In short, we got it on the record, we got it verified, and we got it ready but only when we're sure its airtight and prosecution follows facts. Unlike our left wing Disney theorists, we are not given to supposition, hyperbole or theatrics. This is far too important because of the far reaching intentions of a very corrupt administration, who many claimed to be 'scandal free', sound familiar Barry?
If the demos/media/left wing has one winning tactic, it was providing flack by way of its impeach this/that nonsense. They will try and keep that in play, the smokescreen, but don't for a minute think they're not aware of what's coming down I95.....its T45 and he's got 4 more years to drive it straight to the former president who still lives nearby. And if there's one thing I'll supposit, it's that President Trump wants obama on a stick, his very own suppository smore to roast over 1600 and Philly.
Thing is.....President Trump keeps winning so much day after day, even the downstream media can't ignore his brilliance.
Federal Reserve takes emergency action and cuts rates to zero
WASHINGTON (CNN) — In a bold, emergency action to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Reserve on Sunday announced it would cut its target interest rate near zero.
The swifter-than-expected rate cut is designed to prevent the kind of credit crunch and financial market disruptions that occurred the last time the Fed had to cut rates all the way to the bottom: The Fed last cut rates to zero during the global financial crisis just over a decade ago.
In addition to rate cuts, the Fed also said it would purchase another $700 billion worth of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities. It also struck a deal with five other foreign central banks, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank, to lower their rates on currency swaps to keep the financial markets functioning normally.
The Fed last lowered currency swaps during the European debt crisis in 2011. The move makes borrowing US dollars cheaper for banks around the world. Swapping currencies, particularly dollars, is a staple of global financial transactions.
The coordinated move will lower the cost of short-term borrowing for banks around the globe, and it could also keep the global economy clear of an all-out credit crunch similar to the one the world’s economies encountered a decade ago.
The bond and mortgage security purchases are tools the Fed previously used during the most recent recession. They helped to shore up housing and US government debt — two crucial markets that keep the gears of the American financial system turning.
Although the underlying US economy has remained on solid ground — unemployment is at a historic low and consumer confidence has stood near all-time highs — the Fed said the coronavirus outbreak has significantly hurt the global financial conditions.
The Fed could, in theory, take rates negative, as some other central banks have, but Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has resisted that idea. The Fed said Sunday it would hold rates steady near zero until it is confident that the US economy pulls out of the coronavirus-fueled economic quagmire.
The swifter-than-expected rate cut is designed to prevent the kind of credit crunch and financial market disruptions that occurred the last time the Fed had to cut rates all the way to the bottom: The Fed last cut rates to zero during the global financial crisis just over a decade ago.
In addition to rate cuts, the Fed also said it would purchase another $700 billion worth of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities. It also struck a deal with five other foreign central banks, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank, to lower their rates on currency swaps to keep the financial markets functioning normally.
The Fed last lowered currency swaps during the European debt crisis in 2011. The move makes borrowing US dollars cheaper for banks around the world. Swapping currencies, particularly dollars, is a staple of global financial transactions.
The coordinated move will lower the cost of short-term borrowing for banks around the globe, and it could also keep the global economy clear of an all-out credit crunch similar to the one the world’s economies encountered a decade ago.
The bond and mortgage security purchases are tools the Fed previously used during the most recent recession. They helped to shore up housing and US government debt — two crucial markets that keep the gears of the American financial system turning.
Although the underlying US economy has remained on solid ground — unemployment is at a historic low and consumer confidence has stood near all-time highs — the Fed said the coronavirus outbreak has significantly hurt the global financial conditions.
The Fed could, in theory, take rates negative, as some other central banks have, but Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has resisted that idea. The Fed said Sunday it would hold rates steady near zero until it is confident that the US economy pulls out of the coronavirus-fueled economic quagmire.
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Tag: A re] statement in physics (dnA optics.
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..tag.2....heavens on fire / the radio dept.
part II...and then came shitray...( policy.
O5. hand me down world / guess who
...3....the who sell out / who
002..Psalm 2 / blur......7861. s-ray / to de-Scribe policy
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( ..strong radio net.) aka Concordance.
...why do the nation's rage, and the people plot a vain thing...?...Psalm 2:1.
Once More // Rome....
...from the Top...} Color code of pop....epitaph / crimson king....
Gold / interference..)...sword of g'd / red crayola..... clockwork Orange...*Yello journalism
.. how green was my valley [?./ Llewellyn.....)..)...0ut of the blue / system F....
..... Synthesis.} ..any colour you like / pink Floyd
*.one defective verse ruins the entire poem..- M Ezra, 1924
PS.) pink surprise...."and every day the paper boy brings more......
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Radio. ) . Infrared...) . visible..
..Uviolet.......x . Ray.....G amma... r a y..
.....tag.2....heavens on fire / the radio dept.
part II...and then came shitray...( policy.
O5. hand me down world / guess who
...3....the who sell out / who
002..Psalm 2 / blur......7861. s-ray / to de-Scribe policy
.................154. (2) mighty : Arm. [ army
........ 7707. S p r e a d e r. of. L i g h t.
( ..strong radio net.) aka Concordance.
...why do the nation's rage, and the people plot a vain thing...?...Psalm 2:1.
Once More // Rome....
...from the Top...} Color code of pop....epitaph / crimson king....
Gold / interference..)...sword of g'd / red crayola..... clockwork Orange...*Yello journalism
.. how green was my valley [?./ Llewellyn.....)..)...0ut of the blue / system F....
..... Synthesis.} ..any colour you like / pink Floyd
*.one defective verse ruins the entire poem..- M Ezra, 1924
PS.) pink surprise...."and every day the paper boy brings more......
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Why Mueller failed to denounce the corrupt "so-called" president
From The New Yorker;
In response to:
Why the Mueller Investigation Failed
President Trump’s obstructions of justice were broader than those of Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton,
and the special counsel’s investigation proved it. How come the report didn’t say so?
By Jeffrey Tobin
June 29, 2020
Robert Mueller submitted his final report as the special counsel more than a year ago. But even now—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and the Administration’s tragically bungled response to it, and the mass demonstrations following the killings by police of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others—President Trump remains obsessed with what he recently called, on Twitter, the “Greatest Political Crime in the History of the U.S., the Russian Witch-Hunt.” In the past several months, the President has mobilized his Administration and its supporters to prove that, from its inception, the F.B.I.’s investigation into possible ties between his 2016 campaign and the Russian government was flawed, or worse. Attorney General William Barr has directed John Durham, the United States Attorney in Connecticut, to conduct a criminal investigation into whether F.B.I. officials, or anyone else, engaged in misconduct at the outset. Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has also convened hearings on the investigation’s origins.
The President has tweeted about Mueller more than three hundred times, and has repeatedly referred to the special counsel’s investigation as a “scam” and a “hoax.” Barr and Graham agree that the Mueller investigation was illegitimate in conception and excessive in execution—in Barr’s words, “a grave injustice” that was “unprecedented in American history.” According to the Administration, Mueller and his team displayed an unseemly eagerness to uncover crimes that never existed. In fact, the opposite is true. Mueller had an abundance of legitimate targets to investigate, and his failures emerged from an excess of caution, not of zeal. Especially when it came to Trump, Mueller avoided confrontations that he should have welcomed. He never issued a grand-jury subpoena for the President’s testimony, and even though his office built a compelling case for Trump’s having committed obstruction of justice, Mueller came up with reasons not to say so in his report. In light of this, Trump shouldn’t be denouncing Mueller—he should be thanking him.
The events that led to Mueller’s appointment began shortly after Trump took office, when he met several times with James Comey, the director of the F.B.I. Over dinner at the White House, on January 27, 2017, Trump said that he expected “loyalty” from Comey—specifically, as he would later make clear, he wanted an announcement from the F.B.I. that he was not under suspicion for misconduct with Russia during the campaign. At the time, Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national-security adviser, was being investigated for lying to the F.B.I. As Comey later testified, on February 14th, at a meeting in the Oval Office, the President told everyone else to leave, then asked Comey to drop the investigation of Flynn. “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Trump said. “He is a good guy.”
Comey declined either to publicly clear Trump of wrongdoing or to close the investigation of Flynn, and the President resolved to fire him. On May 8, 2017, Trump told Rod Rosenstein, who had recently been confirmed as the Deputy Attorney General, to write a memo describing Comey’s performance as the F.B.I. director, in particular his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private e-mail. The following day, Rosenstein submitted the memo and Trump fired Comey. ...
Why the Mueller Investigation Failed
President Trump’s obstructions of justice were broader than those of Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton,
and the special counsel’s investigation proved it. How come the report didn’t say so?
By Jeffrey Tobin
June 29, 2020
Robert Mueller submitted his final report as the special counsel more than a year ago. But even now—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and the Administration’s tragically bungled response to it, and the mass demonstrations following the killings by police of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others—President Trump remains obsessed with what he recently called, on Twitter, the “Greatest Political Crime in the History of the U.S., the Russian Witch-Hunt.” In the past several months, the President has mobilized his Administration and its supporters to prove that, from its inception, the F.B.I.’s investigation into possible ties between his 2016 campaign and the Russian government was flawed, or worse. Attorney General William Barr has directed John Durham, the United States Attorney in Connecticut, to conduct a criminal investigation into whether F.B.I. officials, or anyone else, engaged in misconduct at the outset. Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has also convened hearings on the investigation’s origins.
The President has tweeted about Mueller more than three hundred times, and has repeatedly referred to the special counsel’s investigation as a “scam” and a “hoax.” Barr and Graham agree that the Mueller investigation was illegitimate in conception and excessive in execution—in Barr’s words, “a grave injustice” that was “unprecedented in American history.” According to the Administration, Mueller and his team displayed an unseemly eagerness to uncover crimes that never existed. In fact, the opposite is true. Mueller had an abundance of legitimate targets to investigate, and his failures emerged from an excess of caution, not of zeal. Especially when it came to Trump, Mueller avoided confrontations that he should have welcomed. He never issued a grand-jury subpoena for the President’s testimony, and even though his office built a compelling case for Trump’s having committed obstruction of justice, Mueller came up with reasons not to say so in his report. In light of this, Trump shouldn’t be denouncing Mueller—he should be thanking him.
The events that led to Mueller’s appointment began shortly after Trump took office, when he met several times with James Comey, the director of the F.B.I. Over dinner at the White House, on January 27, 2017, Trump said that he expected “loyalty” from Comey—specifically, as he would later make clear, he wanted an announcement from the F.B.I. that he was not under suspicion for misconduct with Russia during the campaign. At the time, Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national-security adviser, was being investigated for lying to the F.B.I. As Comey later testified, on February 14th, at a meeting in the Oval Office, the President told everyone else to leave, then asked Comey to drop the investigation of Flynn. “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Trump said. “He is a good guy.”
Comey declined either to publicly clear Trump of wrongdoing or to close the investigation of Flynn, and the President resolved to fire him. On May 8, 2017, Trump told Rod Rosenstein, who had recently been confirmed as the Deputy Attorney General, to write a memo describing Comey’s performance as the F.B.I. director, in particular his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private e-mail. The following day, Rosenstein submitted the memo and Trump fired Comey. ...
15 in the race.
I saw a list of all the ones running for POTUS! A radio talk show host. An entrepreneur, an author, an activist scholar. Sheesh..they crawl out of the wood work! Granted we already had an actor. But, he came up through the ranks. And another actor and a wrestler who were Governors. And as far as I see, good at it.
Why do people with little claim to fame think they are capable of dealing with the baloney of DC?
The masses never heard of them. They have no money and politics is a rich mans game.
Anyone remember Pat Paulson? Lynden Laruche. Pat Davis? Other also rans?
Meanwhile the same old guard gets back in. They have the backers and cash and know who to bribe and blackmail.
Why do people with little claim to fame think they are capable of dealing with the baloney of DC?
The masses never heard of them. They have no money and politics is a rich mans game.
Anyone remember Pat Paulson? Lynden Laruche. Pat Davis? Other also rans?
Meanwhile the same old guard gets back in. They have the backers and cash and know who to bribe and blackmail.
Imran Khan warns that Pakistan’s election could be a farce
By Invitation | Pakistan
Imran Khan warns that Pakistan’s election could be a farce
His party is being unfairly muzzled, the former prime minister writes from prison
image: dan williams
Jan 4th 2024
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Today pakistan is being ruled by caretaker governments at both the federal level and provincial level. These administrations are constitutionally illegal because elections were not held within 90 days of parliamentary assemblies being dissolved.
The public is hearing that elections will supposedly be held on February 8th. But having been denied the same in two provinces, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, over the past year—despite a Supreme Court order last March that those votes should be held within three months—they are right to be sceptical about whether the national vote will take place.
The country’s election commission has been tainted by its bizarre actions. Not only has it defied the top court but it has also rejected my Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (pti) party’s nominations for first-choice candidates, hindered the party’s internal elections and launched contempt cases against me and other pti leaders for simply criticising the commission.
Whether elections happen or not, the manner in which I and my party have been targeted since a farcical vote of no confidence in April 2022 has made one thing clear: the establishment—the army, security agencies and the civil bureaucracy—is not prepared to provide any playing field at all, let alone a level one, for pti.
It was, after all, the establishment that engineered our removal from government under pressure from America, which was becoming agitated with my push for an independent foreign policy and my refusal to provide bases for its armed forces. I was categorical that we would be a friend to all but would not be anyone’s proxy for wars. I did not come to this view lightly. It was shaped by the huge losses Pakistan had incurred collaborating with America’s “war on terror”, not least the 80,000 Pakistani lives lost.
In March 2022 an official from America’s State Department met Pakistan’s then ambassador in Washington, dc. After that meeting the ambassador sent a cipher message to my government. I later saw the message, via the then foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and it was subsequently read out in cabinet.
In view of what the cipher message said, I believe that the American official’s message was to the effect of: pull the plug on Imran Khan’s prime ministership through a vote of no confidence, or else. Within weeks our government was toppled and I discovered that Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, had, through the security agencies, been working on our allies and parliamentary backbenchers for several months to move against us.
Click the link below to read more.
Imran Khan warns that Pakistan’s election could be a farce
His party is being unfairly muzzled, the former prime minister writes from prison
image: dan williams
Jan 4th 2024
Share
Today pakistan is being ruled by caretaker governments at both the federal level and provincial level. These administrations are constitutionally illegal because elections were not held within 90 days of parliamentary assemblies being dissolved.
The public is hearing that elections will supposedly be held on February 8th. But having been denied the same in two provinces, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, over the past year—despite a Supreme Court order last March that those votes should be held within three months—they are right to be sceptical about whether the national vote will take place.
The country’s election commission has been tainted by its bizarre actions. Not only has it defied the top court but it has also rejected my Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (pti) party’s nominations for first-choice candidates, hindered the party’s internal elections and launched contempt cases against me and other pti leaders for simply criticising the commission.
Whether elections happen or not, the manner in which I and my party have been targeted since a farcical vote of no confidence in April 2022 has made one thing clear: the establishment—the army, security agencies and the civil bureaucracy—is not prepared to provide any playing field at all, let alone a level one, for pti.
It was, after all, the establishment that engineered our removal from government under pressure from America, which was becoming agitated with my push for an independent foreign policy and my refusal to provide bases for its armed forces. I was categorical that we would be a friend to all but would not be anyone’s proxy for wars. I did not come to this view lightly. It was shaped by the huge losses Pakistan had incurred collaborating with America’s “war on terror”, not least the 80,000 Pakistani lives lost.
In March 2022 an official from America’s State Department met Pakistan’s then ambassador in Washington, dc. After that meeting the ambassador sent a cipher message to my government. I later saw the message, via the then foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and it was subsequently read out in cabinet.
In view of what the cipher message said, I believe that the American official’s message was to the effect of: pull the plug on Imran Khan’s prime ministership through a vote of no confidence, or else. Within weeks our government was toppled and I discovered that Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, had, through the security agencies, been working on our allies and parliamentary backbenchers for several months to move against us.
Click the link below to read more.
In case you missed it, here's Joe Biden's terrific speech yesterday live from Pittsburgh, PA
Joe chose to sit back and wait for the proper time to start campaigning and feels that with only 2 months before the election, the time is right to begin.
Joe chose to make his first speech from one of the many steel mills that Trump promised
to restore to productivity, but failed to do so. There's a LOT that Trump promised, but did not deliver. Instead, what Trump did deliver was not good at all.
Joe is a seasoned public servant, who has spent his life working towards bipartisan unity
in making progress towards improving America. He is exactly who is needed at this time of
severe division created in large part due to Trump's rhetoric and failed presidency resulting in over 180,000 deaths from a horrendous lack of proper response to a pandemic. This also contributed to a record loss of jobs. In addition we see a record national debt due in large part to Trump's decision to give the rich a big permanent tax break, while raising taxes on the lowest tax bracket. Now Trump looks to destroy ACA and Social Security, as well as destroy democracy. Violent crime is up and terrorist organizations have continually risen since Trump's election with a minority of the vote. Trump was impeached and if not for a corrupt republican controlled senate, he would have been removed from office.
In November the American voters should vote for Joe and those who run against those in congress who voted for Trump to remain in office.
In Joe's speech I see a small hint of retention of some stuttering, that used to be more present in Joe's past.
However, there is no cognitive issues, that were falsely suggested by Trump supporters.
With no further ado, here is that speech yesterday;
Joe chose to make his first speech from one of the many steel mills that Trump promised
to restore to productivity, but failed to do so. There's a LOT that Trump promised, but did not deliver. Instead, what Trump did deliver was not good at all.
Joe is a seasoned public servant, who has spent his life working towards bipartisan unity
in making progress towards improving America. He is exactly who is needed at this time of
severe division created in large part due to Trump's rhetoric and failed presidency resulting in over 180,000 deaths from a horrendous lack of proper response to a pandemic. This also contributed to a record loss of jobs. In addition we see a record national debt due in large part to Trump's decision to give the rich a big permanent tax break, while raising taxes on the lowest tax bracket. Now Trump looks to destroy ACA and Social Security, as well as destroy democracy. Violent crime is up and terrorist organizations have continually risen since Trump's election with a minority of the vote. Trump was impeached and if not for a corrupt republican controlled senate, he would have been removed from office.
In November the American voters should vote for Joe and those who run against those in congress who voted for Trump to remain in office.
In Joe's speech I see a small hint of retention of some stuttering, that used to be more present in Joe's past.
However, there is no cognitive issues, that were falsely suggested by Trump supporters.
With no further ado, here is that speech yesterday;
Why is Imran Khan the center of political crisis in Pakistan?
How did former cricketer Imran Khan come into politics?
Khan entered politics in the mid-1990s as the leader of a newly formed political party, the Pakistan Movement for Justice, or PTI. The young, popular former cricketer quickly grabbed the nation's attention. He offered an alternative to a political establishment that, perhaps ironically, was riddled with allegations of corruption. Pakistan is stuck in dynastic politics.
Khan entered politics in the mid-1990s as the leader of a newly formed political party, the Pakistan Movement for Justice, or PTI. The young, popular former cricketer quickly grabbed the nation's attention. He offered an alternative to a political establishment that, perhaps ironically, was riddled with allegations of corruption. Pakistan is stuck in dynastic politics.
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