"firework storage facility"
SUUUUUUURRRRRRE it was.
"Media says"
RIIIIIIIGHT, THE MEDIA
Ya'll don't be blowing up anything expensive that we could still use, alright? 'k, thx
Money doesn't grow on trees, even if Washington DC thinks it does.
POTUS and FLOTUS trip to the UK is just outstanding, start to finish.
THANK YOU, Q+!!
We love you and the First Lady so much <3
Lockheed Skunk Works ended up building test facilities out of necessity.
Nobody wants a beta version of an airplane that looks like something from 40 years in the future crashing into an elementary school or a shopping center.
Godforsaken desert is perfect. The men who worked there in the beginning nicknamed it "Paradise" because of how totally desolate and hot it was.
I don't get the mystique over "underground bases".
The 1960's accounting department was, no doubt, screaming about the expense to air condition buildings in 120-degree desert heat. Don't want utilities expenses to blow your budget, so they found a solution.
The bean counters are always the ultimate boss.
Sauce: pic related
George Papadopoulos
@GeorgePapa19
Downer was such a clown that he was actually holding his phone upright as I was answering his questions to record me. The walrus, Stefan Halper, tried to pull the same thing. Both are responsible for getting the UK and Australia to kiss the ring and humiliate themselves.
12:34 PM · Jun 5, 2019
Getting closer to the target.
"We are saving Israel for last"
Further: Politico article
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/05/senate-intelligence-committee-british-security-consultant-1353675
WALTER SORIANO
Call for dig!
Senate investigators have added yet another name to the constantly evolving cast of characters in the Russia investigation.
On April 5, just 2 weeks after Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his final report on Russia’s election interference, the Senate Intelligence Committee sent a letter to a British security consultant named Walter Soriano asking for a voluntary, closed-door interview and documents with various Russia probe figures dating back to June 2015.
The letter, obtained by Politico, offers yet another window into the panel’s secretive — but largely bipartisan — two-year-old investigation, and reveals the investigators’ interest in what, if any, role Israel may have played in attempts to manipulate the 2016 election.
The panel’s interest in Soriano is not a mere fishing expedition, according to a source familiar with the investigators’ internal deliberations who requested anonymity to discuss them freely.
“They’re surprised by how connected he seems to several people of interest,” this person said, including the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska — a former business associate of Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who offered Deripaska private briefings about the campaign in 2016. Deripaska is believed to have worked with Soriano on corporate intelligence matters, this person said.
On April 5, the committee sent a bipartisan request to Soriano at the London address for his security firm, USG Security Limited. The letter asked for “all communications or records of communications” with some characters who have by now become household names, like Manafort and Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
The committee also requested Soriano’s communications with three Israeli private intelligence firms: Psy Group, Wikistrat, and Black Cube, as well as any communications he may have had with Orbis Business Intelligence, a firm co-founded by the former British spy Christopher Steele.
A committee spokeswoman declined to comment. A lawyer for Soriano did not return a request for comment. It's not clear whether, or how, Soriano responded to the committee's letter.
Soriano is virtually a ghost online, aside from publicly available corporate records listing him as the director of a London-based security firm called USG Security. He has been accused in the Israeli press of spying on police officers involved in the corruption probe of Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu—an allegation he’s staunchly denied. Soriano also produced a documentary about Netanyahu’s late brother, Yoni Netanyahu, who died in Uganda years ago.
It isn’t clear why the Senate committee believes Soriano may have a connection to the private Israeli firms — one of which, Psy Group, was enlisted by Trump’s deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates in 2016 to use social media manipulation to help Trump beat his Republican primary opponents and Hillary Clinton. Psy Group’s founder Joel Zamel also owns WikiStrat, which reportedly gamed out how to successfully interfere in an election as early as 2015. Black Cube is one of Zamel’s main rivals, according to the Wall Street Journal. Steele has worked with Deripaska in the past, but a source close to Orbis told POLITICO that they’d never heard of Soriano.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has been investigating Russia’s election interference and a potential conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Moscow for more than 2 years. It’s not clear when the probe will end, but one Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee aide said in February that the investigation was “closer to the end than to the beginning."
This may be too disgusting for even this place.
Go check Luke Rosiak's twatter. I can't bring myself to post what follows here.
George Nader is disgusting and needs a lobotomy.
Chemical castration isn't enough for this monster.
Luke Rosiak
@lukerosiak
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HORROR: An adviser to an Arab prince, who also testified to Robert Mueller, was caught with child porn vile even by those standards.
It involves male, crying toddlers forced to engage in beastiality with goats and chickens, and pliers to one's genitals.
:(
Got the judge's name?
Pretty easy bet that he's an old Clinton friend.
Arkansas is bursting at the seams with 'em.
We've got China on the ropes, frens.
BenTallmadge
@BenKTallmadge
Why is US dollar access so restrained in China as trade war rages on?
Foreign financial institutions increasingly reluctant to lend US dollars to Chinese banks given worries about financial risk.
“People r thinking if China’s Future is so strong & stable, why aren’t we allowed to buy dollars?”
“The harder it is to get around the Capital controls,the more people want to obtain dollar.”
Withdrawers of $3K 🙄 or more in any single transaction were scrutinized, down from $5K
Last month, the State Administration for Foreign Exchanges named & shamed 17 banks, companies & individuals for trying to illegal transfer money out of China.
The trade war makes matters exponentially worse if China can’t earn US$ from exports to the US, said analysts, which would rapidly push the current account into deficit.
BenTallmadge
@BenKTallmadge
June 5, 2019
Shanghai extends losses for fifth day while Hong Kong finishes ahead
Markets partied at the opening over news the US Fed is open to rate cut if needed.
Then trade gloominess set back in.
Tim
@Timdedicated
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2h
Replying to
@BenKTallmadge
@TheLastRefuge2
and 2 others
Next stop for the Chinese mavens will be to devalue their currency
Not many bullets left in their proverbial gun.
mrmrmrj
@mrmrmrj
Replying to
@STUinSD
Supply chain is shifting away from China fast. The game is already over.
Let's see, who do we know who MIGHT have millions stashed in Chinese banks?
From FB:
The Input
October 27, 2017 ·
As it comes close to court for Tyler Calamese. Let's everyone remember the injustice done in his case. Remember how the Jackson county court system works. Remember that judge Harold Erwin is the residing judge. Let's remember that Henry Boyce is the prosecuting attorney. The more people that pay attention to the actions of these Incorporated characters will make it harder for them to do what they do best. Which is.. be unfair, unjust, and not abiding of the due process laws.
Here's another, where Erwin presided over a case regarding sex abuse by a prison chaplain:
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/nov/30/prison-sex-victim-suing-ex-chaplain-201/
Sounds like a great guy:
"Let me remind you of the pecking order," Erwin said. "I am the circuit judge. I don't get interrupted or told to hold on."
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/mar/21/little-rock-attorney-representing-teen-accused-kil/?crime
Aha! Arkansas seems to have a BIG problem with judges, including a whole bunch who were too lazy/cheap/stupid to pay their state bar dues, rendering them suspended for non-payment and thus ineligible for judicial election.
https://www.bluehogreport.com/2014/04/07/the-scope-of-things-fifty-nine-sitting-judges-with-problematic-suspensions/
Arkansans, for their part, were wondering exactly how the hell to sue someone for this.
Arkansas is the good ol' boy network on steroids:
https://www.arkansasnews.com/news/20171203/i-choose-newport-tim-watson
"Tim Watson will be sworn in by Judge Harold Erwin, his second cousin, on January 2nd at the Jackson County Courthouse. That Tuesday is Tim Watson’s first day as a Circuit Court Judge. The short ceremony will take place shortly before 9 am. The cousins have practiced law in Newport for decades, Watson since 1970. Newport is well represented within the circuit district. Many great law minds are born within this community and the tradition continues in the Watson family."
The SANDLERS?!?!?
It figures. It absolutely figures.
Mom Marion is dead, but the father is still alive (health status unknown) but their ugly (blind? wtf, it's a goblin) daughter Susan hooked up with total avowed Marxist Steve Phillips at Stanford University, and they're busy spending that sweet corrupt in-law money.
Herb and Marion are the reason that thousands lost their jobs when Wachovia Bank crashed. Also see: Golden West mortgage crisis
Steve Phillips, you may recall, is the money/"organizer" behind such freaks as Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum.