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Major Update on Flynn Related Lobbying Case
One of the last cases investigated by former special counsel Robert Mueller appeared to be on the brink of getting thrown out by a federal judge on July 18. Ultimately, District Judge Anthony Trenga allowed the case to continue—albeit with reservations—saying the main charge of conspiracy rested on “very circumstantial” and “speculative” evidence.
The case alleges that Bijan Rafiekian, former partner in Gen. Michael Flynn’s lobbying firm, and Ekim Alptekin, a Turkish businessman, conspired to lobby in the United States on behalf of Turkey without disclosing it to the U.S. government.
The Hill's Morning Report — Mueller Time: Dems, GOP ready questions for high-stakes testimony
By Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver - 07/22/19 06:41 AM EDT
Welcome to The Hill’s Morning Report. Happy Monday! Our newsletter gets you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Co-creators are Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver (CLICK HERE to subscribe!). On Twitter, find us at @asimendinger and @alweaver22.
After months in the making, former special counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill on Wednesday as House Democrats say they hope his appearance spurs committees’ ongoing probes of President Trump.
Although Mueller has he won’t go beyond the four corners of his 448-page report, House Democrats are expected to shine a spotlight on its most untoward and unpleasant aspects as they try to move the ball in their investigation of Trump. Meanwhile, House Republicans are expected to defend the president and question the origins of Mueller’s 22-month investigation. It is also likely that they will invoke Mueller’s finding that there was no collusion among Trump, his campaign associates and Russians.
Morgan Chalfant looks at 10 questions that lawmakers on the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees could pose to the former special counsel. Among them:
Whether he would have charged Trump if it weren’t for the Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion that a sitting president cannot be indicted.
Why his office wrote a letter to Attorney General William Barr objecting to his four-page memo detailing the report’s main conclusions.
Whether the investigation exonerated Trump on the questions of collusion and obstruction of justice.
The Hill: Key numbers to know for Mueller's testimony.
James Comey: What I would ask Robert Mueller.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/morning-report/454093-the-hills-morning-report
Courts become turbocharged battleground in Trump era
By Jordan Fabian and Jacqueline Thomsen - 07/22/19 06:00 AM EDT
The nation’s courts have become a central battleground for President Trump’s policy agenda, posing challenges for the third branch of government that has long sought to insulate itself from partisan politics.
As more of the president’s policies fail to gain traction in Congress, he has increasingly turned to executive actions to set them in place. Outside groups have filed lawsuit after lawsuit challenging those measures, leaving their fate in judges’ hands.
Courts have long played a role in sorting out messy policy fights, but legal experts who spoke to The Hill believe the growing polarization in Washington has increasingly thrust the courts into the political realm.
“The reason you get these fights moving to the courts is people can't agree,” said Aziz Huq, a law professor at the University of Chicago. “The reason they can't agree is that there's more polarization.”
Trump has also singled out the courts for abuse, personally attacking judges when he dislikes their decisions and questioning their motives.
On Twitter alone, Trump has attacked courts, judges and legal figures at least 31 times since launching his presidential bid in 2015, according to a count compiled by The Hill.
The fights are also on the rise given Democratic control of the House, which divided control of Washington after two years in which Turmp had the benefit of a Republican-controlled House and Senate.
“I certainly agree with the idea that the federal courts are going to remain a battleground for partisan politics,” Huq said, noting the ongoing court battles already centered around political topics, like Republican attempts to repeal ObamaCare.
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Jeffrey Epstein hobnobbed with high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, banking, Hollywood and philanthropy at a Hamptons party just two months after his release by the state of Florida for soliciting a minor.
Photos from a 2010 dinner party at the home of David and Julia Koch obtained by DailyMail.com show Epstein as he chats with guests after a screening of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
Among those guests were two men who currently serve in President Trump's cabinet and his most trusted legal adviser.
Steve Mnuchin and his then-wife Heather, Rudy Giuliani and his then-wife Judith and Wilbur Ross all attended the screening and dinner that followed at the Koch's.
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The Wall Street Journal wrote about those who attended the event a few days later, and in the piece noted that Giuliani 'walked out of the theater around the same time as Jeffrey Epstein, leading one observer to remark on the "beautifully done meeting of the prosecutor and the felon."'
The party that night was also attended by designers Tory Burch and Tamara Mellon, billionaires Henry Kravis and Steve Schwarzman and publicist Peggy Siegal.
She has admitted to helping Epstein out, and in an interview with The New York Times said: 'I was a kind of plugged-in girl around town who knew a lot of people. And I think that’s what he wanted from me, a kind of social goings-on about New York.'
Siegal also said in that interview that she was not paid by Epstein and he did not go to parties, choosing to skip them after screenings
.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7270735/Jeffrey-Epstein-Trumps-closest-advisers-Wilbur-Ross-Rudy-Giuliani-Steve-Mnunchin.html
Iran taunts Britain by hosting its flag over seized UK tanker: State TV broadcasts new footage of Tehran's forces on the decks of the UK-registered Stena Impero
Tanker Stena Impero was seized in the Strait of Hormuz at 4pm on Friday by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
State TV has shown the Iranian flag being hoisted over British-registered tanker, with soldiers patrolling decks
British-registered oil tanker was ordered to turn to the north and it was steered into Iranian territorial waters
On dramatic audio, the British warship HMS Montrose is heard urging Stena Impero to stick to its course
Britain has reported Iran to the United Nations, saying that the Iranian action 'constitutes illegal interference'
Prime Minister Theresa May will chair a Cobra meeting on the crisis Monday morning, her office has said
The Iranian flag has been hoisted over seized British oil tanker Stena Impero, in new footage broadcast on state TV.
Footage also shows Iranian armed forces patrolling the decks of the oil tanker after the Iranian Revolutionary Guard seized it in the Strait of Hormuz at 4pm on Friday.
The clip seems to have been recorded in the southern port of Bandar Abbas, where an Iranian official earlier confirmed the 23-strong crew of the British-registered tanker were 'safe and in good health'
It comes after dramatic audio emerged of the moment a British warship ordered Iranian special forces not to board the previously UK-flagged oil tanker moments before it was hijacked.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7270149/State-TV-shows-Irans-flag-hoisted-seized-British-oil-tanker.html
Time Magazine Calls For State-Funded Pro-Migration Brainwashing
An article in Time Magazine is calling for special courses to be introduced in school that would teach children that mass migration is a positive thing.
This is, by any reasonable assessment, quite insane. Mass migration, throughout history, has always been fraught with logistical issues for both the migrants and the residents of the nation they migrate to.
This is common sense. Whenever a large amount of people with few skills, no property, and little wealth flood into a new nation to which they are unaccustomed, it puts a strain on the locals which puts a strain on the local infrastructure which in return makes it more difficult for migrants to settle in without causing massive problems.
This is to say nothing of the dramatically different values migrants also have, their tendency to rely on the state for monetary support, and their tendency towards crime.
Nonetheless, Time Magazine thinks children in state-sponsored schools should be taught that it is positive as a means of weeding out the “extremist” view that it isn’t.
Paul Joseph Watson reports:
The outlet published an article written by two members of an extremism monitoring group called ISD, which is funded by numerous globalist organizations which all support mass immigration (imagine my shock).
Those funders include the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Google, Facebook, the European Commission and Open Society Foundations (George Soros).
The article frets about how, “Popular support for politicians who build their campaigns around anti-migrant and anti-Muslim themes have surged across the Western world” and “theories such as the “great replacement” and “white genocide” have effectively made their ways into societal and political discourse”.
“We need to proactively expose the one-sided, ill-informed and historically myopic nature of the far-right’s assessment of migration. This could also be done through the introduction of migration-focused courses in schools, alongside digital literacy skills, so that students can brace themselves from the distortion and manipulation tactics employed by extremists,” states the piece.
Again, this is a completely bizarre stance to take, if taken at face value.
The Time author is literally calling for children to be educated in a way that they are prepared to ignore arguments made by an ideological opponent.
There was a time when it was commonly understood that the purpose of education was to seek answers for oneself, now it is apparently to avoid the cultivation of certain ideologies.
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It’s a fascinating disconnect how the mainstream media can relentlessly report on the demographic decline of white voters (as Axios did today) and that’s OK, so long as it’s framed as a good thing.
But when anyone suggests that such a decline might not be entirely positive, they are immediately smeared as extremists and conspiracy theorists.
The fact that white people are in demographic decline is a manifestly provable fact, but if you respond to that development with anything other than total enthusiasm, the media demonizes you as a far-right reactionary at best and a neo-nazi terrorist at worst.
This is thought policing. No longer are we allowed to have honest conversations. No longer are children taught to read and write and learn for themselves.
Now, you either fall in lockstep with the radical globalist ideology, or you’re a Nazi.
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https://teapartypac.org/time-magazine-calls-for-state-funded-pro-migration-brainwashing/
Millions Of Barrels Of Iranian Crude Are Piling Up At Chinese Ports
In what appears to be a gesture of contempt for Washington, Chinese companies have continued to import Iranian crude, but instead of reporting the crude imports, which would violate US sanctions, they're storing the oil in bonded storage tanks situated at Chinese ports.
The phenomenon began when Washington reimposed sanctions back in May. And two months later, Iranian crude is still being shipped to China, only to end up in the tanks. Possibly the strangest aspect of this whole arrangement is that the oil sits in the tanks, unused. So far, none of it has been cleared through Chinese customs, so the oil is still technically "in transit."
So far, Washington hasn't commented on how it views this stash of oil looming over global markets. If Chinese companies were to ever tap this store of oil, it could dampen demand in the world's second-largest economy, which could rattle global markets.
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"There Is No Excuse For What Happened" - 50,000 Con Ed Customers Lose Power During Deadly Heatwave
Mon, 07/22/2019 - 05:45
This weekend's record-setting heatwave roasted 200 million Americans inhabiting the eastern two-thirds of the country, but some had it worse than others.
While most of those affected had the option of beating the heat by staying indoors, power outages in Brooklyn and Queens left more than 50,000 people temporarily without power - and thus, no AC - subjecting them to the punishing heat, which was blamed for at least six deaths.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-22/there-no-excuse-what-happened-50000-con-ed-customers-lose-power-during-deadly
Global Markets Rebound Ahead Of Earnings And News Deluge
Mon, 07/22/2019 - 07:32
US equity futures followed European stocks higher, following a mixed session in Asia as investors looked ahead to a busy week of corporate earnings in which 145 S&P 500 and 10 of the Dow 30 companies are due to report. Oil gained amid tensions in the Persian Gulf, while the dollar continued to rise amid concerns the Fed may disappoint with a smaller than expected rate cut.
Europe 's STOXX 600 index gained 0.1%, while Germany's DAX and France's CAC rose 0.3% and Britain's FTSE jumped 0.5% as traders reversed the wave of selling observed earlier in the Asian session. Energy and mining shares lead gains after crude oil prices jumped at least $1 per barrel, on concern that Iran’s seizure of a British tanker last week may lead to disruptions in the Middle East. European losses were led by real estate stocks which would benefit from lower interest rates and defensive sectors such as utilities and telecoms ahead of a big week for earnings.
“Sentiment about company earnings potential appears to be mixed at best, with some evidence that we might be seeing a bit of a pickup in economic data, after a slow first half of the year,” said Michael Hewson at CMC Markets. “The pickup in U.S. economic data last week, as well as contradictory commentary from Fed officials, appears to be muddying the waters for investors about the possible reaction function of the U.S. Federal Reserve at the end of this month and whether we can expect to see a 25 basis point or 50 basis point rate cut.”
READ MORE: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-22/global-markets-rebound-ahead-earnings-and-news-deluge
War Profiteers And The Demise Of The US Military-Industrial Complex
Mon, 07/22/2019 - 00:10
Authored by Dmitry Orlov via Club Orlov blog,
Within the vast bureaucratic sprawl of the Pentagon there is a group in charge of monitoring the general state of the military-industrial complex and its continued ability to fulfill the requirements of the national defense strategy. Office for acquisition and sustainment and office for industrial policy spends some $100,000 a year producing an Annual Report to Congress. It is available to the general public. It is even available to the general public in Russia, and Russian experts had a really good time poring over it.
In fact, it filled them with optimism. You see, Russia wants peace but the US seems to want war and keeps making threatening gestures against a longish list of countries that refuse to do its bidding or simply don’t share its “universal values.” But now it turns out that threats (and the increasingly toothless economic sanctions) are pretty much all that the US is still capable of dishing out—this in spite of absolutely astronomical levels of defense spending.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-21/war-profiteers-and-demise-us-military-industrial-complex
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Blain: This Really Is Not A Good Time To Be A Central Banker
Mon, 07/22/2019
Blain's Morning Porridge, submitted by Bill Blain of Shard Capital
Thanks goodness for all the happy pictures of Prince George’s Birthday across the papers this morning. Not much else to celebrate here in Blighty. We’re about see a screed of cabinet ministers resign before they are pushed, while other Tories are threatening to decamp to the Liberals.. (which is likely to prove a career call ranking alongside joining Deutsche’s equity trading team..). The prospect of Boris? The Scots are going to demand immediate independence. What could possibly make the mood worse? All we really need now to complete the misery would be something scandalous from up in the Turnip growing regions.. and the country will tip into utter despair and despondency…
There is plenty of noise out there – tankers being seized in the Gulf, more demonstrations in Hong Kong and Trump digging his hole even deeper. Much talk over the weekend about how the US news about Trump’s racism is covering up the real story of the summer – who has Jeffrey Epstein been pimping for? More will no doubt be revealed. In terms of investments – passive stock funds do best, alpha funds trying to beat the market lost. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent has never been more true.
In terms of markets the coming two weeks are likely to be dominated by Central Banks. What addictive crack of lower rates and QE infinity will the ECB foist on Europe? After last week’s spat about Fed members giving poorly coordinated academic speeches to market audiences suggesting a double cut was on the way, what will Fed do at the end of the month? (The answers: i) wait, and kick the can down road, ii) 25 bp ease.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-22/blain-really-not-good-time-be-central-banker
NBC Poll – Wide Majority See Improved Race Relations Under President Trump…
Posted on July 21, 2019
Well, there it is…. Right there in a poll [full pdf below] of eleven southern states conducted by NBC over two weeks we see the reason why the DNC, political leadership and media are whipping up false accusations of racial anxiety against President Trump.
The majority of those polled see improvements in race relationships,… and their approval of President Trump is higher…. and their view of the economy is more optimistic…. and the number one issue is immigration.
All empirical points that help President Trump and simultaneously destroy the Democrat narrative. That recently released NBC polling result is exactly behind why Trump’s political opposition had to make a fast move against his administration.
All of those data-points are toxic to Nancy Pelosi and the DNC candidates; especially in a week where they will be attempting to frame the impeachment narrative around Robert Mueller.
Oh, those well schemed plans…
The survey was conducted by NBC between July 2nd and July 16th. No doubt the phone lines were ringing at the DNC with the early results. The survey measures ten solid months of media effort to attack and frame President trump… yet the public can see right through it.
(Via NBC) – President Donald Trump’s approval ratings in the South have ticked upward, with 54 percent of voters giving a thumbs-up to the way he’s handling his job, according to a new NBC News|SurveyMonkey online poll.
The survey of voters in 11 southern states found 38 percent said they “strongly approve” of the way Trump’s handling his job, and 16 percent who said they “somewhat approve.” That’s up slightly from a poll in September of last year, which put his total approval at 52 percent.
[…] More Southerners also said they think race relations in their states are improving. Twenty percent said they’re getting better, compared to 14 percent in September. The number of people who said relations are getting worse dropped significantly, from 44 percent in September to 34 percent in the current poll. A plurality of respondents, 44 percent, said they’re “about the same.” (read more)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/07/21/nbc-poll-wide-majority-see-improved-race-relations-under-president-trump/
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