If he posted a picture of Singapore…he was no longer in Singapore when he did it.
Peter King: DOJ and FBI “Put One Over” On President Trump – Nunes and Gowdy Never Saw Documents…
Posted on May 11, 2018 by sundance
Interesting new developments in the growing story of the FBI and DOJ conducting a surveillance operation against candidate Trump in 2016, to include the use of an FBI and CIA informant.
Contrary to previous reporting, representative Peter King (R-NY) reveals that yesterday Devin Nunes and Trey Gowdy were not allowed to see the originating documents during their visit with the DOJ and FBI officials. Representative Trey Gowdy (U-DC) reluctantly admitted moments ago, the statement by Peter King was true.
The DOJ refused to allow Nunes & Gowdy access to the “EC” (electronic communication) document that initiated the FBI counterintelligence operation. Instead, Nunes and Gowdy were given an opaque description of the EC process; and told to come back next week if they wanted to talk more.
Additionally, Peter King reveals the DOJ and FBI are manipulating President Trump, and tricking him to believe declassifying information would endanger sources
https: //theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/11/peter-king-doj-and-fbi-put-one-over-on-president-trump-nunes-and-gowdy-never-saw-documents/
77 Percent of Americans Support President Trump and Kim Jong-un Summit…
Posted on May 11, 2018 by sundance
A recent CNN poll (full pdf below) of how President Trump is handling North-Korea has the moonbats going bananas. A sea change in the behavior of North Korea led to a historic meeting between South Korea and the DPRK. Quite simply, President Trump’s strategic policy worked.
With advancing optimism for peaceful relationships, and against the backdrop of an upcoming summit between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un, CNN took a poll to evaluate opinion. https:// theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/11/77-percent-of-americans-support-president-trump-and-kim-jong-un-summit/
Mapping Erik Prince's Private Mercenary Empire
Authored by Ty Joplin via Albawaba.com,
Erik Prince is the modern architect of private military firms
His latest venture is in training security personnel in China
But he's been all over the world, outsourcing militaries to cheap labor markets
Al Bawaba has provided a partial map to track Erik Prince's activities over the years
Erik Prince, the brain behind the infamous private military firm Blackwater, is now in China training security forces.
Prince is partially responsible for modernizing the private army for the post 9/11 world, outsourcing militaries to cheap, specialized labor pools and skirting traditional regulations meant to ensure accountability for armed forces.
His journey from hiring mercenaries to help bolster the U.S. occupation in Iraq to China is long, dizzying and includes stops around the world to train Colombian mercenaries to help make a private army for the U.A.E. and outfitting crop duster planes with missiles to be fired at Armenians.
He has become a global figure, roaming between conflicts zones to sell various governments his expertise on private armies.
To document his journey thus far, Al Bawaba has compiled a partial list of countries/regions in or for which he has done business.
United States
Prince’s trip around the world starts in the United States.
Born in an affluent Michigan family, his family maintained deep ties to the Republican establishment and several conservative, religious organizations like American Values. His sister, Betsy DeVos, married into one of the most influence political families in the Midwest, the DeVos’s, and began helping to run the Republican party machine in Michigan.
That marriage, which tied the Prince and DeVos family together, has given Erik unprecedented political access into the federal government. His list of close allies including Steve Bannon, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist. His sister gives him a direct line of access to Trump himself.
Erik became a Navy SEAL and then established his own private military firm in 1997, Blackwater.
Once the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, Blackwater received billions in contracts from the U.S. government to help supplement the official mission with private boots on the ground, relatively free from accountability or laws from any particular government.
READ MORE:
https:// www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-11/mapping-erik-princes-private-mercenary-empire
We all are I'm sure.
Top Iran cleric: Tel Aviv, Haifa will be destroyed if Israel behaves ‘foolishly’
In sermon broadcast on state TV, Ahmad Khatami also says European nations cannot be trusted following US withdrawal from nuclear deal
A leading Iranian cleric said Friday that Tel Aviv and Haifa will be destroyed if Israel behaves “foolishly,” while also vowing Iran will ramp up missile development despite Western criticism. He spoke as thousands of Iranians marched in anti-Israel and anti-US protests nationwide.
“We will expand our missile capabilities despite Western pressure (to curb it)… to let Israel know that if it acts foolishly, Tel Aviv and Haifa will be totally destroyed,” Reuters translated Ahmad Khatami as saying during Friday prayers at Tehran University, broadcast on Iranian state television.
His comments came after the Israeli military said it destroyed a significant chunk of Iran’s military assets in Syria earlier this week in response to Iranian rocket fire on the Golan Heights.
https:// www.timesofisrael.com/top-iran-cleric-tel-aviv-haifa-will-be-destroyed-if-israel-behaves-foolishly/
Thanks for clearing that up for us.
Remarks by President Trump at a Roundtable with Automaker CEOs
THE PRESIDENT: Okay, thank you very much. We have, at this table, the biggest car manufacturers in the world all represented by their top people. And, Mary, it’s nice to see you again.
BARRA: Good to see you as well.
THE PRESIDENT: We had a — probably my first meeting was with you and a group. And we’ve made a lot of progress in the last period of a year and a half.
We’re working on CAFE standards, environmental controls. We’re working on how to build more cars in the United States. We have a great capacity for building. We’re importing a lot of cars, and we want a lot of those cars to be made in the United States.
https:// www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-roundtable-automaker-ceos/
Pompeo: U.S. will provide economic aid to a denuclearized North Korea
Pompeo and Kim on Korean TV
Pompeo and Kim Jong-un. Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
Following a bilateral meeting with the South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the U.S. will assist North Korea with economic development if it gets rid of its nuclear weapons, reports the AP.
https:// www.axios.com/north-korea-pompeo-economy-assist-nuclear-weapons-denuclearization-d784db5e-dd87-45a3-8fc5-9a9144e28f4a.html
Tesla's head of engineering temporarily stepping down
Senior vice president and head of engineering at Tesla, Doug Field, is reportedly "taking a break" from the company citing the need to "recharge" and be with his family, Bloomberg reports. The announcement rides on the heels of CEO Elon Musk taking over responsibilities of the production department amid the "rocky ramping up of the Model 3 sedan."
Why it matters: Field's break comes at a time when the company is seeking to show investors that it can maintain recent momentum in scaling up production of the mass market Model 3 — a product that’s critical to the Silicon Valley electric automaker’s future.
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The big picture: The company repeatedly missed initial targets set when it rolled out the car in 2017, and now hopes to reach 5,000 per week by mid-year. Tesla is also planning new products. An electric semi-truck is supposed to begin production in 2019, and the company is also planning to produce a crossover vehicle.
The intrigue: Musk asked Field last year to lead both the engineering and production departments, he detailed in a tweet adding that "[Field] agreed that Tesla needed eng[ineering] & prod[uction] better aligned, so we don’t design cars that are crazy hard to build."
https:// www.axios.com/teslas-head-of-engineering-temporarily-stepping-down-e0252084-fdee-457c-ab16-81a71aff4390.html?utm_source=sidebar
Midterm watch: Manchin falls behind GOP challenger
GOP candidate Patrick Morrisey (L) and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (R). Photos: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call; Drew Angerer via Getty Images
After Tuesday's West Virginia primary, red-state Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is now trailing Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey by two points in his re-election race, according to a new poll conducted by WPA intelligence.
Why it matters: That's within the margin of error, but the poll is a sign that the GOP has improved its chances of defeating Manchin since Don Blankenship lost the primary this week. Manchin is in an especially vulnerable position given that President Trump won West Virginia by 42 points 2016.
https:// www.axios.com/midterm-watch-manchin-behind-gop-challenger-west-virginia-9e93e82c-8a77-410a-baa6-3ddd8a136958.html
WSJ: Mueller asked Ford for records of conversation with Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that special counsel Robert Mueller has requested records from Ford Motor Company about a conversation the company had with Michael Cohen in January 2017 during which Cohen offered his consulting services — which the automaker swiftly rejected.
The details: Cohen reportedly reached out to Ford's D.C. office "touting his proximity to the president," a move the special counsel "later learned about in the course of his investigation." The Journal, citing multiple people familiar with the matter, adds that Mueller's team has interviewed Ziad Ojakli, Ford's head of government affairs who rebuffed Cohen's services.
https:// www.axios.com/wsj-mueller-asked-ford-for-records-of-conversation-with-michael-cohen-8530fbdb-1793-445f-a757-d86dea3e8cc3.html
SpaceX successfully launches and lands Falcon-9 rocket
SpaceX has successfully launched its Falcon-9 rocket carrying the Bangabandhu-1, Bangladesh's first-ever high-orbit communications satellite, and landed it safely on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida.
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The company delayed the launch one day due to an undisclosed issue that triggered an automatic abort under one minute from its scheduled takeoff, reports Space.com.
The details, per Axios Science Editor Andrew Freedman: SpaceX launched the satellite on the last and most powerful iteration of the company's Falcon-9 rocket.
The Block 5 Falcon-9 rocket is more powerful than its older siblings, and is designed to be easier to reuse, with the potential to be launched to space, land on Earth, and be launched again up to 10 times.
Such ambitious rocket reuse goals are central to SpaceX's business plans of dramatically cutting the cost of access to space.
https:// www.axios.com/spacex-successfully-launches-and-lands-falcon-9-rocket-b641cb85-e38b-43a0-941c-90552e71c112.html
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?
Glenn Greenwald
A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case
Former FBI counterterrorism agent Tim Clemente, on CNN, discussing government's surveillance capabilities Photograph: CNN screegrab
The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy. But a seemingly spontaneous admission this week by a former FBI counterterrorism agent provides a rather startling acknowledgment of just how vast and invasive these surveillance activities are.
Over the past couple days, cable news tabloid shows such as CNN's Out Front with Erin Burnett have been excitingly focused on the possible involvement in the Boston Marathon attack of Katherine Russell, the 24-year-old American widow of the deceased suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. As part of their relentless stream of leaks uncritically disseminated by our Adversarial Press Corps, anonymous government officials are claiming that they are now focused on telephone calls between Russell and Tsarnaev that took place both before and after the attack to determine if she had prior knowledge of the plot or participated in any way.
On Wednesday night, Burnett interviewed Tim Clemente, a former FBI counterterrorism agent, about whether the FBI would be able to discover the contents of past telephone conversations between the two. He quite clearly insisted that they could:
BURNETT: Tim, is there any way, obviously, there is a voice mail they can try to get the phone companies to give that up at this point. It's not a voice mail. It's just a conversation. There's no way they actually can find out what happened, right, unless she tells them?
CLEMENTE: "No, there is a way. We certainly have ways in national security investigations to find out exactly what was said in that conversation. It's not necessarily something that the FBI is going to want to present in court, but it may help lead the investigation and/or lead to questioning of her. We certainly can find that out.
BURNETT: "So they can actually get that? People are saying, look, that is incredible.
CLEMENTE: "No, welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not."
https:// www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi-boston
How Google is secretly recording you through your mobile, monitoring millions of conversations
GOOGLE has turned your phone into a listening device. If you know where to look, you can see what it has on you.
DID you know that Google has been recording you without your knowledge?
The technology giant has effectively turned millions of its users’ smartphones into listening devices that can capture intimate conversations — even when they aren’t in the room.
If you own an Android phone, it’s likely that you’ve used Google’s Assistant, which is similar to Apple’s Siri.
Google says it only turns on and begins recording when you utter the words “OK Google”.
But a Sun investigation has found that the virtual assistant is a little hard of hearing, reports The Sun.
In some cases, just saying “OK” in conversation prompted it to switch on your phone and record around 20 seconds of audio.
http:// www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/how-google-is-secretly-recording-you-through-your-mobile-monitoring-millions-of-conversations/news-story/8089bf3084a430f4c4be46b81710c158
Mum dies after catching flesh-eating bacteria on family holiday
WHAT was meant to be a blissful family holiday has turned to tragedy after the mother contracted a deadly virus from a simple dip in a hotel bath.
AN INDIANA family’s vacation to Florida reportedly left a mum dead from a flesh-eating bacteria.
Carol Martin, 50, died Saturday, nearly two months after returning from Clearwater, Fla., with an infection known as necrotizing fasciitis, the New York Post reported.
Martin’s family said they believe the virus may have been from a hot tub at the localDays Innhotel.
“My thing is nobody else [in the family] got it, the flesh-eating bacteria,” her husband, Richard, told news station WFLA.
“No one else got it but she was the only one who got in the hot tub.”
It wasn’t until they were back in Indianapolis that the mother noticed a nickel-size sore on her buttocks, according to the news station.
READ MORE: http:// www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/mum-dies-after-catching-a-flesheating-virus-from-a-hotel-hot-tub/news-story/e8fc84e82f7beade0049a73c6778d172