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Virginia governor and first lady test positive for coronavirus

House Democrats prepare new $2.4 billion stimulus plan with unemployment aid, direct payments

John Brennan reportedly overruled analysts who concluded that Russia favored Hillary Clinton

Democrat Primary: Arrests made in illegal ballot harvesting scheme

Meadows attacks Wray, pushing FBI to probe voter fraud

Coronavirus live updates: Uber to verify riders’ mask use, AstraZeneca wins partial immunity in EU vaccine deal

FBI official who served on Mueller team says Special Council had ‘get Trump’ attitude

Report: Gun sales surge 80% in 7 swing states

DOJ announcement on Pennsylvania ballot investigation baffles election experts

EU appeals against Apple ruling in $15 billion tax battle

Texas Governor announces new proposed penalties for rioters

Durable goods orders rise for fourth straight month

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Biden’s convention embraced racial justice. BLM leaders saw it mostly as lip service.

S&P 500’s return to a record doesn’t tell the full story, with 60% of stocks still with losses

Dr. Birx says it’ll be safe to vote in-person in November

Trump: Democrats at DNC removed ‘God’ from pledge of allegience ‘on purpose’

Trump calls out FDA Chief, suggests agency is slow-walking Covid clinical trials

China’s Achilles heel: What Japan’s 1980 boom and bust can tell us about the Chinese economy

John Brennan says he isn’t under criminal investigation after 8-hour interview with attorney Durham

School Act would assure education money ‘follows the child, not the system’

Biden says he’d lock down country if spread of coronavirus warranted it

New York City May take a decade to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, says developer Don Peebles

WH National Security Advisor calls the suspected poisoning of Kremlin critic Novalny “extraordinarily concerning”

California wildfires some of the largest in state history

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Chinese tech companies could face trouble in Europe

Buffet buys back $5.1 billion in Berkshire stock as coronavirus hits operating earnings

John Brennan escapes prosecution in Durham probe

NY attorney general seeks to dissolve NRA

Trump and Macron discuss sending aid to Lebanon

Trump threatens executive action if no deal is reached in coronavirus stimulus talks

Bill Maher confronts ex-Clinton advisor about Epstein allegations

Police will be escorted to and from new Swedish No-Go police station

California sorts through coronavirus data as glitch stymies policy decisions

Jerry Falwell Jr. asks for indefinite leave of absence from Liberty University

President Trump says he’ll defer payroll tax until end of the year through executive action

Biden: Trump lying about safety of potential coronavirus vaccine

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American Gulag

It seems clear to me, kind reader, that the United States had, during the last four or five years, moved dangerously close to creating the old Soviet Union gulags... in that it was trying to (and did) imprison people solely for their political opinions. By that I mean prison time was obviously being handed out for no legal reason other than whether this person is a Trump supporter. George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and Roger Stone have been mousetrapped by dirty FBI cops and a sympathetic legal system as a way of punishing them for their support of the Orangeman.

Their actual ‘process crimes’ (primarily inconsequential lying under oath) feel very much like set-ups wherein they and their families were crushed financially by the sheer power and perfidy of a corrupt and politicized Obama FBI and Justice Department ... organizations that Attorney General Barr is doing his best to restore to dignity and fairness. (Notice I have not included in this list Trump’s old lawyer, Michael Cohen, or his former brief campaign manager, Paul Manafort ... bot of whom were convicted of serious felonies: money laundering, tax evasion and corruption ... unconnected to the Trump campaign.)

And an even more disturbing aspect of this politicalization of crimes in the Washington, DC swamp is that known perjurers such as Comey, McCabe, Clapper, Brennan, Sally Yates, Susan Rice and maybe higher-ups ... are still walking free ... and under no legal jeopardy (that we know of currently). And, if they are being investigated and found guilty, is this political persecution too?

Nah!

Perhaps, it’s a good thing that we have no Siberia equivalent?

Spooks

Governments need to have spooks ... spies, counter spies, espionage agents and counter espionage  agents. That’s the nature of national security. And because of what these agents are charged to do ... unsavory stuff ... they are generally not Boy Scouts. If they are not nefarious when they are hired, they become nefarious in order to advance their careers.

So we should not be surprised when we find unsavory individuals like Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Strzok, Page, McCabe, etc. inside our intelligence operations. It comes with the territory ... like frogs in a frog pond.

Which is all the more reason why, if these intelligence officials turn rogue and use their powerful wiles and ways against their political adversaries, they should be severely punished. If they are given a pass, because they are spooks, then they effectively become like antibodies attacking their own tissue, they create a very dangerous precedent ... a precedent that might eventually kill their host ... i.e., bring down their country.

All the more reason that the FBI Inspector General Horowitz and Attorney General Barr should not pull their punches in their investigations into the alleged attempted coup by our intelligence community against a sitting president, Donald J. Trump. If our president cannot trust his spooks, it is very spooky!

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Schiff accuses Trump of ‘witness intimidation’ for twitter attack on Yovanovich

Dow jumps more than 200 points to 28,000, posts 4-week winning streak

Roger Stone guilty on all 7 counts in federal trial ...

Dems build case for making diplomats sad?

Trump fires back at claims he’s intimidating witnesses, ‘I have the right to speak’

Trump, Apple CEO Tim Cook set to tour computer plant in Texas Wednesday

Brennan warns Trump: ‘May your downfall be swift’ ...

Marie Yovanovich compares herself to diplomats killed in Benghazi

Twitter rolls out total ban on ads from political figures

Fed cautious about debt, liquidity issues, but says system is stable otherwise

Kissinger warns of ‘catastrophic’ conflicts between China, U.S. ...

U.S. industrial production slumped again in October

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Trump’s quest for vengeance against John Brennan

Elizabeth Warren pushes Treasury Secretary Mnuchin for answers on overnight lending issues

[Trump’s] Tax return fight spreads to Supreme Court ...

Donald Trump: Impeachment a Democrat-led ‘lynching’

States antitrust probe into Facebook balloons to 47 AGs

Home prices are overheating again, causing buyers to turn away

[Mayor] Pete focus groups found gay a barrier for black voters ...

Barack Obama dines with Robert De Niro amid impeachment inquiry

Premiums for popular Obamacare plan to drop by 4%

The year that changed Boeing: Airplane maker struggles to regain footing since first 737 Max crash

Pump: Worries grow over Fed efforts to fix funding issue ... $99.9 billion more!

2020 panic: Democrat establishment hoping for ‘white knight’ to enter race

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Populist tide rises but fails to flood European Union

US takes aim at Chinese surveillance as trade war becomes tech war

Netanyahu struggles to form government amid talk of new election ...

Donald Trump needles ‘Swampman’ Joe Biden

North Korea calls Bolton ‘a defective human product’

Bitcoin nears $9,000 as it breaks through highest level this year

Brennan security clearance NOT revoked ...

Graham: Dems don't care if FISA court was defrauded by FBI, DOJ

Trump awards trophy at marquee sumo event in Tokyo

Japan central bank chief Koruda sounds alarm on global economy ahead of G-20

Boris Johnson poised to lead Britain ...

Pirro: Pelosi hasn’t accepted 2016 election result ...

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Dems agree to billions in humanitarian aid for southern border

China has plenty of ways to get back at US for treatment of Huawei

Texas serial killer suspect — in country illegally!

Comey vs. Brennan on pushing ‘pee’ dossier in intel assessment

Kasich aide backs out of contract to lobby against Russian sanctions

Michael Flynn told special counsel  about possible attempts to obstruct Russian probe

Judge orders parts of Mueller report unredacted, made public ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs abortion ban into law

Senate confirms Jeffrey Rosen to replace Rod Rosenstein at DOJ

Architect I.M. Pei dies at age 102

Rasmussen: Trump 45% approval ...

Billionaire Koch’s rail against tariffs: Eliminate all tariffs

Burning Bridges

The growing revelations surrounding our intelligence agencies’ apparent conspiring with foreign spooks to spy on the Trump campaign and then trying to bring down his presidency ... very likely will cast a pall over future cooperation involving legitimate security threats. It looks like those agencies in Great Britain, Australia and Italy ... at least ... will end up with egg on their faces after this chicanery is fully revealed in AG Barr’s investigation of the investigation.

These governments seem to have been up to their eyeballs ... involved into US political intrigue ... and Italy is already cleaning house ... calling for resignations from the involved parties ... see: Citizens Free Press Story. These countries may now be reluctant to cooperate again under actual intrusion threats. Have Obama’s bumbling Keystone Kops, Brennan, Comey and Clapper, burned down our bridges with foreign intelligence agencies?

Quite likely ... at least for the nonce.

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Mueller’s move dooms impeachment in Senate

Avenati arrested for alleged $29 million extortion plot against Nike, embezzling client’s money

Brennan: ‘I don’t know if I received bad information’ ...

MSM journalists turn on Obama CIA Director John Brennan

Supreme Court to consider new gerrymandering limitations

Trump’s tariffs costing Americans $1.4 billion per month, study shows

Israel strikes Hamas after Gaza rocket attack ...

Don Jr.: Adam Schiff is the ‘leader of the tinfoil hat brigade’ ...

Britain’s House of Commons takes control of Brexit

Democrats want full Mueller report released to Congress by April 2, while GOP resists

Russia deploys troops, equipment to Venezuela ...

France bans Iranian airline for shipping troops and weapons to Syria

Investigation Fatigue

The Mueller investigation is over. It appears to this observer to have been nothing more than an exercise in gorilla dust to keep the country distracted with bluster so that we would not focus on the many real serious scandals committed by Obama, Hillary Clinton, Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Lynch, et alia during The One’s regime. This obfuscating strategy continues into the foreseeable future with the intent to tire us out from bogus investigations so that these real Obama scandals will be swept away.

So, the fact that Mueller seems to have come up empty with his two-year investigation may not be a total loss for the Democrats. Hillary is still sipping Chardonnay in Chappaqua, Obama is ensconced with Michelle O. and Valery Jarrett in his DC manse, most of the crooked CIA, FBI and DOJ bad actors are still cashing their checks from book publishers, MSNBC, CNN and other media moguls ... and spittle-flecked Democrats are plotting new ways to negate the results of the last election ... instead of helping Trump to Make America Great Again.

“The investigation continues ...” So sad!

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House Democrats to push for more diversity in top corporate ranks

Chinese manufacturing had an even worse December than expected, more data show

Brazil's Bolsonaro rakes power amid high hopes, fears ...

John Brennan hopes GOP ditches Trump in 2019

Changes may be ahead for criticized Georgia election system

Why 2019 could be very good for stocks, after worst year in a decade

Courtroom foe resurrects Mueller team's prior botched legal work ... [prosecutorial misconduct]

Poll: Most Democrats pessimistic about 2019

Trade deal unlikely under May's Brexit deal, U.S. enjoy warns U.K.

Romney attacks Trump saying he causes dismay around the world

Netflix bows to Kingdom, corporate censorship intensifies

Kenye West kicks off 2019 by reasserting support for Donald Trump

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How the liberal wish list could bite Democrats

The case of the missing Saudi journalist is causing major worries around the oil market

German press claims Khashoggi a spook ...

Retail sales surprisingly weak, restaurant  sales crash

GOP courts Asian-Americans with drive to end affirmative action

Not everyone is willing to ride as autonomous vehicles take to the road in ever-increasing numbers

Richest 1,409 taxpayers pay more than the bottom 70 million ...

Hillary Clinton: The way that Trump debated me, it was imbued with sexism'

Ambassador says China confused over who speaks for Trump on trade

Global market turmoil could slow flurry of Chinese listings in US [stock exchanges]

Trump reacts to Warren's DNA test [great-great-great-great-grandmother]: 'Who cares, hope she runs' ...

Brennan: Trump 'encouraged' Saudi crown prince

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Why 'Medicare for all' is proving unpopular in Democrat primaries

Sen. Elizabeth Warren's new reform bill would ban members of Congress from owning individual stocks

Israel eases gun controls following lobe-wolf attacks ...

Rand Paul: Brennan's a 'national security risk'

Sentencing reform to test [Tom] Cotton's clout with Trump

China's central bank official rebuts Trump's claim it is manipulating the yuan

Google sued for tracking users when 'Location History' turned off ...

Donald Trump deports 95-year-old Nazi guard

Trump issues rollback of Obama's biggest climate rule

China's biggest risk may be its property values -- not the trade war

Measles cases hit record high in Europe ...

Report: [Trump] 'Not thrilled' with Fed Chair Pwell over tate hikes

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Sex, lies and DUIs: GOP dumps oppo on Dem House hopefuls

JP Morgan is back to predicting a Tesla stock plunge because funding was 'not secutrd'

Shock: #MeToo leader paid off young actor

South, North Korean families reunite decades after war

[Lawyer] McGahn seen as 'undercover operative' in Trump's White House

Trump is the unsung hero of the world economy

SAfrica begins seizing white-owned farms ...

[Newt] Gingrich: John Brennan 'should never have been' Director of the CIA

Shots reported fired outside U.S. embassy in Turkey

Student loan assistance may become as popular as 401(k) plans

CHICAGOLAND: 61 people shot over weekend ...

Bill Maher defends Alex Jones: Liberals should be for free speech

The Price of Perfidy

John Brennan, the former Communist and suspected secret Muslim, has had his security clearance revoked by President Trump to the consternation of most of the chattering class and poison peners. Brennan had been the head of the CIA under Obama and is now one of the vindictive chatters on MSNBC ... clawing Trump has impinged oh his freedom of speech. No, no ... it his on his freedom of listening.

It seems abundantly  clear that Brennan and the others mentioned by Trump as possible losers of security clearance  had formed the core of a cabal opposing Trump in the most pernicious  ways. Had they succeeded in their evil, Hillary would be president and their actions would have been rewarded ... at the country's peril.

We escaped this national disgrace by a whisker ... and the price of this perfidy will likely be that all former intelligence operatives will lose their security clearance (including, hopefully, Hillary and maybe even Obama himself if they can be linked to this plot).

HeadlInes

Trump calls Washington Post 'very expensive lobbiest for Amazon'

Tesla explains why it asked some suppliers for retroactive discounts

Cohen gives Fed's 12 recordings

James Comey begs Democrats, 'Please, please donn't go Socialist'

Trump threatens the Iranian in ALL CAPS

Trump is considering removing the security clearance for James Comey, Andrew
McCabe and other ex-officials

Trump to seek repeal of California's smog-fighting power ...

Gillibrand: If Dems win, 'first thing we should do is  abolish ICE'

Judge tells Mueller to name witnesses who got immunity

Top biotech investor says Trump's criticism of Pfizer has caused other. drug companies to halt price increases

LAST DANCE: Stormy's husband files for dvorvce ...

Poll/ Brits overwhelmingly reject Theresa May's soft Brexit ...

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Trump promised them better, cheaper health care. It's not happening.

Commerce Secretaty Wilbur Ross: We've seen 'positive developments' in trade talks with Mexico

White House struggling to contain political outcry ...

Donald Trump: No confidence in Intelligence led by Brennan, Clapper, Comey

Trump: Dems have 'death wish' in push to abolish ICE

New York governor 'opens the door' to a criminal case against the Trump
Foundation

Iran claims it rejected Trump meeting requests 8 times ...

Trudeau appoints border minister because of wave of asylum seekers

Trump plays semantics on Russian meddling

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon: 'We're at war with China'

Could Putin have bugged soccer ball he gave Trump?

Barack Obama: 'Men gave been getting on my nerves lately'

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Trump defiant after rare mea culpa on Russia

Trump: 'No,' Russia is not targeting the United States

[Alexandria] Cortez calls for occupation of airports, ICE offices ...

San Francisco opens non-citizen voting

Cuomo leads Nixon by 36 points in latest Quinapiac poll

Trump says defending tiny NATO ally Montenegro could result in World War Iii

California Supreme Court blocks measure that would divide state in 3 ...

House funds 200 miles of border wall in 2019

Poll: Corruption message gaining traction against GOP

Millennials watt retire by 61, but most have nothing saved

Rand Paul: 'Brennan most biased, bigoted CIA director' ever ...

Paul Ryan confronts Trump: 'Russia is not our ally'