Schumer Calls on Trump to Withdraw Bill Barr Nomination One Week Before Confirmation Hearings

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called on President Trump to withdraw Bill Barr’s nomination for Attorney General Wednesday, saying Barr’s previous criticisms of King Mueller disqualifies him to lead the Department of Justice.

The Senate Judiciary Committee set confirmation hearings for President Trump’s AG nominee Bill Barr for January 15th and 16th.

William Barr, former Attorney General who served under George H.W. Bush was nominated by President Trump in December to be the next Attorney General.

If confirmed, Bill Barr will take over the Mueller investigation.

The Democrats are panicking because Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who currently oversees the day-to-day operations of Mueller’s witch hunt is expected to step down from his post in the next few weeks according to FOX News.

Schumer took to the Senate floor and cited a memo Barr wrote to Rosenstein last year criticizing Mueller’s investigation into ‘obstruction of justice’ as “fatally misconceived.”

Mr. Barr wrote in his memo that Mueller should not be allowed to “demand” President Trump be questioned about so-called ‘obstruction of justice.’

“The Senate should subject Mr. Barr’s views to the strictest of scrutiny next week and I still believe, after the revelations about Mr. Barr’s unsolicited memo, President Trump ought to withdraw this nomination,” Schumer said.

Barr heads to Capitol Hill next week to meet with Senators as he prepares for the confirmation hearings scheduled for January 15-16.

It remains to be seen if the Democrats will turn the hearing into a circus like they did with Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/here-we-go-schumer-calls-on-trump-to-withdraw-bill-barr-nomination/

Deutsche Bank Prosecutors Seize Massive Client List During 'Panama Papers' Raid

Prosecutors in Frankfurt seized a list of more than 900 Deutsche Bank clients in a tax evasion case known commonly as the "Panama Papers," a set of leaked documents which resulted in a raid at the German bank's headquarters in November, according to Bloomberg.

The list is said to contain names of individuals and entities mostly located outside Germany, while the raid was focused on the role of a former Deutsche Bank wealth management entity located in the British Virgin Islands.

The Panama Papers showed that Deutsche Bank employees may have helped customers set up off-shore companies in tax havens, prosecutors said at the time. Those companies were allegedly involved in tax evasion, they said, adding that 900 clients were allegedly served via the unit. Prosecutors also seized extensive data on paper and electronically, the people familiar with the matter said.

The footage of rows of police cars parked in front of the bank’s two downtown Frankfurt towers in November fueled concerns about potentially expensive legal risks and sent the share price to an all-time low. -Bloomberg

Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sweing said he was surprised at the raid, saying in December that he thought the case was considered closed, having addressed it in "close cooperation with supervising authorities" in 2016 when the Panama Papers were leaked.

Felix Hufeld, head of Germany's financial supervisor Bafin, said a year ago that German banks investigated in the Panama Papers probe had "largely" complied with existing money-laundering rules.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-09/deutsche-bank-prosecutors-seize-massive-client-list-during-panama-papers-raid

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Dirty Cop Rod Rosenstein to Leave DOJ as Swamp Continues to Lose Trust of American People

BREAKING: Scandal-plagued Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is resigning

Rosenstein is the deputy Attorney General and presides over the criminal Mueller investigation of President Trump.

Rosenstein was also involved with the Uranium One Scandal.

Rosenstein was also involved in the sham investigation of Hillary Clinton.

And DAG Rosenstein signed a dishonest FISA warrant to spy on Trump in 2017.

The Department of Justice today is a corrupt body of criminals intent on destroying the country and implementing the demands of the radical Democrat Party.

In September The New York Times reported that Rosenstein discussed wearing a wire in a plot to remove the sitting US president.

Rosenstein confirmed the news today. He will be leaving in weeks.

He is dirty cop and a big part of the problem with Washington DC.

FOX News reported:

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave his role in the coming weeks, sources familiar with the matter told Fox News.

Rosenstein wants to ensure a smooth transition for incoming Attorney General nominee Bill Barr and plans to transition out of the job in the coming weeks, the sources said.

Rosenstein long thought of his role as a two-year position and the two-year mark is coming soon, officials close to the departing attorney general told Fox News.

AMERICA NEEDS BILL BARR TO TAKE THE REINS AT THE BADLY DAMAGED JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

ABC News was the first to report on Rosenstein’s departure.

Speculation of Rosenstein’s departure mounted after the firing of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions in November. He has, until recently, overseen Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election and has been a target of Trump on Twitter.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/breaking-dirty-cop-rod-rosenstein-to-leave-doj-as-department-continues-to-lose-trust-of-american-people/

Putin is the ‘greatest gift’ to NATO since end of Cold War — ex-CIA head Petraeus

Russia successfully ‘breathed new life’ into NATO by giving it a reason to boost military expansion into Eastern Europe and strengthen the US foothold on the continent, ex-CIA boss, retired four-star general David Petraeus said.

Russia singlehandedly gave the American-led military bloc “a new reason for living,” the former general told the audience at an international conference in New Delhi, India on Wednesday.

Petraeus stressed that Moscow prompted the alliance to deploy more troops and aircraft into Eastern Europe and the Baltic States as well as set up new command HQs in the region.

Soldiers from the US National Guard participate in a NATO drill in Lithuania, June 2014. © AFP / Petras Malukas

It was done under the pretext of fighting ‘Russian aggression’ as relations between NATO and Moscow steadily deteriorated during the presidency of Vladimir Putin. In that sense, Putin is “the greatest gift” NATO has received since the conclusion of the Cold War, the American general said.

He also ‘credited’ the Russian leader for providing the US with the rationale to return an armored brigade to Europe “for the first time in a number of years.” It is currently stationed in Poland.

The former CIA head told the audience that despite the occasional tensions between the US President Donald Trump and NATO, Washington remains the “backbone” of the alliance as its chief armed force and financial backer.

In recent years, the US and its allies have been boosting military might in Europe, citing the need to deter Moscow following the Ukrainian crisis and the accession of Crimea into Russia. This strategy led to the increase of the number of combat-ready troops and large-scale military drills near the nation’s borders.

The Kremlin, in turn, had been blasting NATO’s continued expansion eastward. Russian politicians said that the growing militarization of the region undermines European security and may lead to destabilization in the region.

Four-star General David Petraeus was considered to be one of the most influential military policy-makers in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. Before being appointed the head of the CIA, he led the US Central Command.

https://www.rt.com/news/448392-david-petraeus-nato-comments/

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Je's NOT a placeholder!

Report: Rod Rosenstein — who currently oversees Mueller probe — plans to leave DOJ after William Barr gets confirmed

Very interesting

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — who is overseeing the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller — is reportedly planning to leave the Justice Department once a new attorney general is confirmed, which could come within a matter of weeks.

What are the details?

On Wednesday, ABC News and CNN reported that Rosenstein told President Donald Trump that he intends to leave the department after attorney general nominee William Barr is confirmed.

Barr's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to begin Jan. 15, and The Washington Post reported that Rosenstein does not have a definitive timeline for departure.

Rosenstein took charge of overseeing Mueller's Russia probe after former Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigation.

Rosenstein also reportedly once discussed secretly monitoring the president without his knowledge, but a source familiar with the situation said that Rosenstein was being sarcastic when he made the purported remarks.

If confirmed, Barr would replace appointed acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and would assume oversight of the Mueller investigation.

ABC News also reported that there is no indication that Trump is attempting to force out Rosenstein, despite their rocky past. Also, Rosenstein told senators during his 2017 confirmation hearing that he would not remain in his post if he believed that he was being pressured to influence any investigations.

What else?

On Wednesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued remarks about the reports of Rosenstein's purported departure.

"I know the deputy attorney general has always planned to roughly stay around two years," Sanders told "Fox & Friends" co-hosts. "My guess is that he is making room for the new attorney general to build a team that he wants around him.

"I haven't spoken to the deputy attorney general myself, so I'll leave any announcements for him or the president to make when they want to do that, but certainly I don't think there's any willingness by the President or the White House to push him out," she noted.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/rod-rosenstein-plans-to-leave-doj-after-barr-confirmed

US Issues Statement On Trade Meeting In Beijing

The long-anticipated statement from the US Trade Representative on the just concluded 3 days of talks in Beijing has been released and it appears to be another "nothingburger":

In the brief, sub-200 word statement, the USTR says that US and China negotiators discussed ways to achieve "fairness, reciprocity and balance in trade relations"; additionally, the talks also "focused on China's pledge to purchase a substantial amount of agricultural, energy, manufactured goods, and other products and services from the United States" - something that is hardly news - while the two sides also discussed "the need for any agreement to provide for complete implementation subject to ongoing verification and effective enforcement."

In other words, absolutely no formal agreements or commitments and just more hot air, which begs the question: what was the point of this meeting if it achieved nothing in terms of trade, but then we look at the market's response which is up 5% in four days on "trade deal optimism" and suddenly it all becomes clear.

Here is the full "Statement on the United States Trade Delegation's Meetings in Beijing"

On January 7-9, an official delegation from the United States led by Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Jeffrey Gerrish held meetings in Beijing with Chinese officials to discuss ways to achieve fairness, reciprocity, and balance in trade relations between our two countries. The officials also discussed the need for any agreement to provide for complete implementation subject to ongoing verification and effective enforcement

The meetings were held as part of the agreement reached by President Donald J. Trump and President Xi Jinping in Buenos Aires to engage in 90 days of negotiations with a view to achieving needed structural changes in China with respect to forced technology transfer, intellectual property protection, non-tariff barriers, cyber intrusions and cyber theft of trade secrets for commercial purposes, services, and agriculture.

The talks also focused on China's pledge to purchase a substantial amount of agricultural, energy, manufactured goods, and other products and services from the United States. The United States officials conveyed President Trump's commitment to addressing our persistent trade deficit and to resolving structural issues in order to improve trade between our countries.

The delegation will now report back to receive guidance on the next steps.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-09/us-issues-statement-trade-meeting-beijing

Brazil’s Bolsonaro Promises to Fire Filthy Communists in Government – Pulls Out of Horrid UN Migration Pact

The “Trump of the Tropics” — Jair Bolsonaro — made history las week becoming the first conservative-populist president sworn in as the leader of Brazil.

Bolsonaro won his election promising to fight corruption and the crime epidemic in the world’s fourth-largest Democracy.

Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousam all attended the inauguration.

President Bolsonaro thanked President Trump after his inauguration.

Last Friday President Bolsonaro said he is open to hosting a US military base in Brazil sometime in the future.

Last week Jair Bolsonaro’s chief of staff Onyx Lorenzoni told reporters that Bolsonaro intends to fire any “communists” who work for the government currently.

And on Tuesday the Brazilian government pulled out of the horrid UN migration pact.

Brazil will continue to take in refugees from neighboring Socialist sh*thole Venezuela.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/brazils-bolsonaro-promises-to-fire-filthy-communists-in-government-pulls-out-of-horrid-un-migration-pact/

Twitter testing new features aimed at promoting 'healthy' conversations while users keep asking, 'Why can't I edit my tweet?'

Social media giant is asking users to take part in beta testing — but remain mum on rolling out an 'edit' function

Twitter announced this week that it will soon allow a few thousand users to test out new features aimed at promoting "healthy" conversations on the social media platform. Volunteers will give feedback on functions like status indicators that show whether a user is online, and "icebreaker" posts encouraging feedback on certain topics.

But one function seemed to be missing from the testing grounds, as the Twitter-verse continues to ask: "Why can't we edit our posts?"

What are the details?

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Tuesday, Twitter's director of product management, Sara Haider, explained that the company is developing ways to making conversation threads easier to follow with indentations and highlighting functions. Instead of trying out the features behind closed doors, the company is asking users to take part in beta testing and provide feedback before expanding new functions platform-wide.

"The investments and thinking we do around health permeate into all of our product decision-making and how we think about what products we are building," Haider told the audience.

Yet, Engadget reported that before Haider left the stage, she was asked to address "those editable tweets people keep asking about," but she said she had nothing to say about that possibility right now.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was dogged by similar questions when promoting the new conversation features Tuesday, with several of his followers asking why the company won't just add an "edit option."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/twitter-testing-new-features-will-there-be-an-edit-option

Democratic Operatives Used Misleading Facebook Pages To Suppress GOP Turnout In Midterms

Democratic operatives, led by a former Obama official, bought ads on misleading Facebook pages to suppress GOP turnout in the midterm elections.

The pages appear to be designed to give the impression that they were operated by disgruntled conservatives rather than Democratic operatives.

The operatives were funded by left-wing billionaire Reid Hoffman, who previously funded a “false flag” effort in the 2017 Alabama special election.

Democratic operatives funded by left-wing tech billionaire Reid Hoffman ran a widespread campaign using misleading Facebook pages in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections, The Daily Caller News Foundation has found.

American Engagement Technologies (AET), which was founded by former Obama administration official Mikey Dickerson, bought ads for two Facebook pages, “The Daily Real” and “Today’s Nation,” encouraging Republican voters to stay home in the midterm elections, Facebook’s ad archives show.

Both pages appear to be designed to give the impression that they were operated by frustrated conservatives rather than by Democratic operatives.

The American flag-adorned pages encouraged conservative voters to either stay home in November or vote for Democrats to punish Republicans for being insufficiently conservative. Other ads called polls predicting a “blue wave” in the 2018 elections “unreliable” and downplayed the election’s importance.

The misleading ads collectively garnered millions of impressions on Facebook, TheDCNF’s review of Facebook’s archives found.

Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn and an early investor in Facebook, previously acknowledged funding AET after both he and the group came under fire for running a self-described “false flag” campaign during the 2017 Alabama special election. That misinformation campaign was intended to falsely link Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore to Russian influence operations.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/08/democrat-facebook-campaign-supress/

One series of ads told voters that there were “No good choices” in the midterm elections. Voting for Democrats to send a message “feels like the best option,” the Democratic operatives wrote.

Other ads linked to an article that urged “Semi-Trumpers” to either cross party lines, vote third-party or stay home in November, rather than vote Republican. “Even more true in light of the recent violence,” read the caption. “If you aren’t helping, don’t show up.”

A similar set of ads linked to an article that called for Republican voters to boycott the GOP. The post was captioned: “I hope folks go for this. Seems like the only thing that can save true conservatives.”

Neither Dickerson nor Hoffman returned requests for comment.

Another Hoffman-funded group, News for Democracy, similarly used a patriotic-themed page called “Our Flag Our Country” to push anti-Trump messaging in the midterms, as The Washington Post reported on Monday.

Facebook is investigating whether News for Democracy violated its rules against misleading political advertising, according to the Post.

Priorities? Only 14 MPs showed up to debate ‘extreme poverty’ in the UK

Ending poverty doesn’t seem to be a top priority for British MPs, as only 14 of them showed up to attend a parliamentary debate on the UN report urging the government to address the burning problem.

MPs were supposed to debate the findings of a United Nations report on ‘Extreme Poverty and Human Rights in Northern Ireland’ on Monday, but the House of Commons remained almost empty as the debate got underway.

https://www.rt.com/uk/448406-mps-ignore-poverty-debate-uk/

Bernie Sanders: President Trump Creates ‘Artificial Crises,’ Climate Change Is ‘Biggest Issue’

Senator Bernie Sanders reacted to President Donald Trump’s address to the nation on the southern border Tuesday night by claiming the president is “creating an artificial crisis,” and the “biggest crisis of all” may be climate change.

Sen. Sanders said the president is right to claim the United States faces a national emergency, except that the emergency, according to Sanders, is “an emergency and a crisis that [Trump] himself created.”

Sanders began by blaming the government shutdown on “an assortment of right-wing ideologues,” referring to the border wall as a waste of money. The senator added border security can be implemented in another way, but did not give any specific examples.

“It is inhumane that tiny children at the border have been torn away from their parents,” continued Sanders, who also suggested that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients were additional victims of the president.

The senator added that it is “heartbreaking” that nearly “11 million undocumented people” worry about whether or not they will be deported and “separated from their loved ones.”

During Sanders’ response to President Trump, the senator did not, however, mention officer Ronil Singh, who was fatally shot by an illegal alien one day after Christmas, permanently separating him from his wife and five-month-old son.

Instead, Sanders accused the president of trying to “create fear and hatred” for speaking of such incidences, and that the real crisis was not about our southern border, but instead, about health insurance, student loan debt, and workers earning “starvation wages,” among other issues.

“That’s a crisis!” exclaimed Sanders, dismissing the president’s concerns.

Sanders also claimed that “thousands die each year” due to not having health insurance, but that the “biggest crisis of all” is probably climate change.

“The scientific community has made it very clear in telling us that climate change is real and is causing devastating harm to our country and the entire planet,” concluded Sanders in his response to President Trump, adding that the entire planet will likely become “unhealthy and even uninhabitable in the not so distant future.”

The senator finished by informing the president that his address to the nation regarding border security was simply creating “artificial crises,” and that the government shutdown must end.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/09/bernie-sanders-president-trump-creates-artificial-crises-climate-change-is-biggest-issue/

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Agreed

Remainer Speaker Bends Rules so MPs Can Vote to Disrupt No Deal Brexit

Members of Parliament have challenged Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow for allowing a vote on an amendment intended to derail a “No Deal” Brexit, in what may be construed as a breach of Commons precedent.

It is widely expected that Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU Withdrawal Agreement will be voted down next week, which would leave No Deal as the default Brexit option. Current rules dictate that Mrs May would have to make a statement within 21 days on the Government’s plan of action, with a Commons vote in the following seven days.

However, Mr Bercow accepted a business motion amendment from Dominic Grieve, ad hoc leader of the anti-Brexit rebels within the Tory Party, calling for the Government to go back to Parliament within just three days of the “meaningful vote” — to give MPs an opportunity to try and block a No Deal Brexit, by all accounts.

Combining with the left-wing opposition parties, the Tory europhiles were able to pass the amendment in the teeth of Government and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) resistance, by 308 to 297.

A Government source speaking to The Times said Bercow allowed the amendment despite Commons clerks, whose job it is to advise the Speaker on Parliamentary procedure, telling him that amendments should not have been allowed.

Other sources expressed their shock, telling the newspaper of record that they believed the motion was “bomb proof,” with even those in favour of the Grieve amendment sure it would never be accepted.

Mr Grieve had tabled the amendment Tuesday night after pro-EU MPs had passed an amendment to the Finance Bill designed to prohibit spending on No Deal preparations without authorisation from Parliament — which is dominated by Remainers and largely opposed to No Deal.

Following Prime Minister’s Questions, the Speaker defended his decision, saying: “It is the long, established practice of this House that the Speaker in this chair makes judgements upon the selection of amendments and those judgements are not questioned by members of the House.

“I am clear in my mind that I have taken the right course.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/01/09/remainer-speaker-bends-rules-so-mps-can-vote-to-disrupt-no-deal-brexit/

An Idiot's Guide To The Federal Reserve SCAM

What Is The

Federal Reserve?

The Federal Reserve, or Fed, is a privately owned central bank that controls the money supply of the United States. All the dollars we have in existence today were created by the Federal Reserve. In fact, if you look at any piece of currency you will see that it says Federal Reserve Note on it:

https://www.truthcontrol.com/federal-reserve-guide

Lots more in link!

Tom Fitton: ‘INCREDIBLE That We Had to Sue L.A. County to Clean Up Voter Rolls’

January 1, 2019- JW President Tom Fitton appeared on “Daily Ledger” on One America News Network to discuss Judicial Watch’s major election integrity victory in California–up to 1.5 million potentially-inactive voters may be removed from voting roles in Los Angeles county.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/in-the-news/tom-fitton-incredible-that-we-had-to-sue-l-a-county-to-clean-up-voter-rolls/

Japan,Italy,and U.S., 134 Billion in US Bonds Smuggling Case

This would make a great movie. Two Japanese couriers are stopped and searched trying to cross into Switzerland from Italy with 134 Billion in US bearer bonds. The bonds were hidden in a secret compartment of a suitcase.

Yes, officials are determining if these are counterfeit or legitimate. If real, Italy stands to collect 40 Billion dollars as that is the penalty on the 134 billion amount.

These bonds (#249 500 million notes) are bearer bonds,that is like a check drawn on the U.S. Treasury,payable to the holder.

You just can't make this stuff up,but this story has had almost no exposure by the MSM in this country.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/06/13/742096/-Japan,Italy,and-US,-134-Billion-in-US-Bonds-Smuggling-Case

WE WILL NOT MARCH TO ZION

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They sure as hell are asking for it

M.E.G.A

MAKE EARTH GREAT AGAIN

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Godspeed!

Jeremiah 11:9-14

9 Then the Lord said to me, “There is a conspiracy among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem. 10 They have returned to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant I made with their ancestors. 11 Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them. 12 The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes. 13 You, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’

14 “Do not pray for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress.