Chinese Bank With $100 Billion In Assets Is About To Collapse

While the western world (and much of the eastern) has been preoccupied with predicting the consequences of Trump's accelerating global trade/tech war and whether the Fed will launch QE before or after it sends rates back to zero, Beijing has quietly had its hands full with avoiding a bank run in the aftermath of Baoshang Bank's failure and keeping the interbank market - which has been on the verge of freezing - alive.

Unfortunately for the PBOC, Beijing was racing against time to prevent a widespread panic after it opened the Pandora's box when it seized Baoshang Bank, the first official bank failure in an odd replay of what happened with Bear Stearns back in 2008, when JPMorgan was gifted the historic bank for pennies on the dollar.

And with domino #1 down, the question turned to who is next, and could it be China's Lehman.

As a reminder, back in May, shortly after the shocking failure of China's Baoshang Bank (BSB), and its subsequent seizure by the government - the first takeover of a commercial bank since the Hainan Development Bank 20 years ago - the PBOC panicked and injected a whopping 250 billion yuan via an open-market operation, the largest since January. Alas, as we said at the time, it was too little to late, and with the interbank market roiling, with Negotiable Certificates of Deposit (NCD) and repo rates soaring (in some occult cases as high as 1000%) we said that it's just a matter of time before another major Chinese bank collapses.

And, in order to present the list of the most likely candidates, will picked those names that - just like Baoshang - had delayed publishing their latest annual reports, the biggest red flag suggesting an upcoming solvency "event." The list is below.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-25/chinese-bank-100-billion-assets-about-collapse

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is Suing Google for 50 Million Dollars for Censoring Her Campaign

Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has filed a federal lawsuit against Google for suspending her campaign’s advertising account following the first debate in June.

Gabbard was the most searched candidate at the time.

Google had suspended the campaign’s advertising account for six hours from June 27th into June 28, immediately following the debate while searches for her were trending.

The lawsuit was filed in a Los Angeles federal court on Thursday, the New York Times reports. They are seeking an injunction against Google to prevent them from continuing to meddle in the election and damages of at least $50 million.

“Google’s discriminatory actions against my campaign are reflective of how dangerous their complete dominance over internet search is, and how the increasing dominance of big tech companies over our public discourse threatens our core American values,” Rep. Gabbard said in a statement to the Times. “This is a threat to free speech, fair elections, and to our democracy, and I intend to fight back on behalf of all Americans.”

A Google spokesperson told the Hill that the account was suspended due to sudden “large spending changes” that were detected automatically.

“We have automated systems that flag unusual activity on all advertiser accounts – including large spending changes – in order to prevent fraud and protect our customers,” the spokeswoman said.

“In this case, our system triggered a suspension and the account was reinstated shortly thereafter.”

Her campaign says that they had increased spending as she had become the most searched candidate following her performance in the debate.

The lawsuit also alleges that Google is sending their campaign emails to people’s spam folders at “a disproportionately high rate” compared to other campaigns.

“Google’s arbitrary and capricious treatment of Gabbard’s campaign should raise concerns for policymakers everywhere about the company’s ability to use its dominance to impact political discourse, in a way that interferes with the upcoming 2020 presidential election,” the lawsuit said. “To this day, Google has not provided a straight answer — let alone a credible one — as to why Tulsi’s political speech was silenced when millions of people wanted to hear from her.”

Rep. Gabbard, a veteran, has broad appeal across party lines for her staunch anti-war and anti-censorship platform. She faces pushback from many establishment Democrats due to her blasting the party in 2016 for rigging the primaries in favor of Hillary Clinton.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/rep-tulsi-gabbard-is-suing-google-for-50-million-dollars-for-censoring-her-campaign/

Looks like this is her pay off from Israel

What Tulsi Gabbard’s caving in to the Israel Lobby really shows

https://thesaker.is/what-tulsi-gabbards-caving-in-to-the-israel-lobby-really-shows/

Ukraine Seizes Russian Oil Tanker, Moscow Threatens "Consequences"

Ukraine’s security services said on Thursday they had detained a Russian oil tanker that had blocked Ukrainian warships near Crimea in November, drawing reaction from Russia which vowed ‘consequences’ should Russians aboard the tanker be taken hostage.

On Thursday, Ukraine’s security service seized Russian tanker Neyma, which Ukraine believes took part in the incident in the Kerch Strait near Crimea in November 2018.

Russia seized at the end of November three Ukrainian ships near Crimea in an incident that risked spilling over into a wider conflict between the two countries, exacerbating the disputes between Moscow and Kiev over oil and gas resources and infrastructure.

Russia—which annexed Crimea in 2014, for which the U.S. and the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow—said at the time that three Ukrainian vessels had violated its state border in waters near Crimea.

Ukraine, for its part, said that it had informed Russia about the plans for the ship movements and said that the seizing of the vessels was “another act of armed aggression” by Russia.

The November 2018 incident was the first open conflict between Russian and Ukrainian militaries in recent years. Tensions had been rising over the access to the Kerch Strait, where the incident took place, and the Sea of Azov.

Today, Ukraine said that it believes that the Neyma was the same ship with a changed name that took part in the seizure of the Ukrainian ships in November. The investigation found that the Neyma tanker changed its name to Nika Spirit to conceal its involvement in the “illegal acts and an act of aggression that took place on November 25, 2018,” Ukraine said.

Russia, for its part, said there would be consequences soon “if Russians have been taken hostages.”

Russian lawmaker Vladimir Dzhabarov, who is deputy chairman of the committee on international affairs at Russia’s upper house of Parliament, said that Ukraine seizing the Russian tanker today was “absolutely illegal.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-25/ukraine-seizes-russian-oil-tanker-moscow-threatens-consequences

Palestine’s Abbas suspends ALL agreements with Israel

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that all standing agreements with the state of Israel will be suspended indefinitely, following the bulldozing of homes in the occupied West Bank.

President Abbas announced the decision on Thursday afternoon, and said it would take effect by Friday. The move comes in response to the Israeli government’s demolition of homes in Wadi Hummus, a Palestinian community in southeast Jerusalem.

https://www.rt.com/news/465082-palestine-abbas-suspends-agreements-israel/

Federal government is set to give an additional $16 billion in aid to farmers hurt by President Trump's tariffs

Chinese purchases of soybeans during the 12-month period ending in May fell by more than 75 percent.

The U.S. government says that it will give $16 billion in additional aid to farmers who have been hurt by President Donald Trump's tariffs, the Wall Street Journal reported.

What's the background?

In March 2018, Trump announced steep tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum to the United States. This triggered a series of retaliatory tariffs by China, which were met with additional tariffs by the U.S.

China was a huge buyer of U.S. agricultural products, including sorghum and soybeans. U.S. exports to China in the first three months of 2019 decreased by $17.1 billion compared to the same time period in 2018.

Without the lucrative Chinese market, some U.S. exporters were forced to sell their soybeans to Iran at a discount. While the U.S. has imposed strict sanctions on Iran, agricultural products like soybeans are exempt.

In July 2018, the Trump administration announced that it would be giving $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers who were hurt by these tariffs.

What happened now?

"Farmers will not stand alone in facing unjustified retaliatory tariffs while President Trump continues working to solidify better and stronger trade deals around the globe," USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue said on Thursday.

While the U.S. and China have made some indication that they want to reach a permanent trade agreement, they have been unable to come up with a deal so far. According to the Wall Street Journal, Chinese purchases of soybeans during the 12-month period ending on May 31 fell by more than 75 percent.

The Wall Street Journal reported that applicants for this aid will be limited to $500,000 each, with farmers who earned $900,000 or more between 2014 and 2016 — before the tariffs took effect or Trump took office — banned from the bailout.

In addition to soybean farmers, hog, dairy, and cranberry farmers will also be among those eligible for this aid.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/the-federal-government-is-set-to-give-an-additional-16-billion-in-aid-to-farmers-hurt-by-trumps-tariffs

‘Never bowed to anyone & never will’ – Pakistani PM on ‘World Cup win’ US visit

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has dismissed criticism of his ‘begging’ while visiting the US, saying he ‘never bowed down to anyone,’ and likened his triumphant homecoming to “winning the World Cup.”

The premier arrived home after a three-day trip to the United States where he met Donald Trump. The goal of Khan’s trip was mainly to negotiate further support for Pakistan’s faltering economy, a matter with which Trump could assist. For instance, the IMF recently approved a $6 billion loan package for Pakistan, funds which may not have been given without America’s consent.

Khan was welcomed back by jubilant crowds at Islamabad Airport, which the former cricket star said felt like “I’ve won the World Cup and come home.”

But it was not all cheers. Opposition leader and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari earlier this week blasted Khan as an “embarrassment” to the nation, calling him a “beggar” who “dances to umpire’s tunes” instead of taking care of his people. But Khan was undaunted by the criticism.

Neither have I bowed down to anyone nor will I let my nation to do so. All my struggle is focused on making our country one of the great nations of the world.

He blasted Pakistan’s former government, saying that “thieves put this country in a difficult spot,” and promised that “they will be held accountable.”

“We will collect that stolen money and spend it on the people,” he said, admitting that he did go to the US to “ask for help retrieving that money.”

Imran Khan flew to the US on a commercial flight instead of a private jet – reportedly to cut expenses. During his visit to Washington, the premier had his first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump, during which he promised the US president to assist in resolving the conflict in Afghanistan. Khan said he would negotiate in talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government. In return, Trump spoke of the possibility of restoring US security aid to Pakistan, which was cut off last year over the country’s alleged cooperation with terrorists.

https://www.rt.com/news/465022-imran-khan-bow-down/

German daycare centers under police protection after they ban pork to please Muslim children

Plans to no longer serve children pork or gelatin-containing products like gummy bears at two daycare centers in the German city of Leipzig prompted a wave of criticism online and made headlines across the country.

The Bild newspaper first reported on the daycare centers’ proposal, saying the decision to make the changes came from consideration for two Muslim children.

“Out of respect for a changing world, only pork-free meals and snacks will be ordered and served starting from July 15”, read a letter sent to parents, according to Bild.

Responses to the plans grew so heated that Leipzig police decided to park patrol cars outside both of the daycare centers to protect against “possible dangers”.

The director of the two centers, Wolfgang Schäfer, said they were putting the plans on hold for now following the outrage.

“We’re overwhelmed by the whole thing”, he told news agency DPA.

The Bild report spread like wildfire on social media, with #Schweinefleisch (pork) taking the number one trending spot on Twitter for most of the day.

The Saxony branch of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats described the plans as a “ban on pork” and said it was unacceptable.

Beatrix von Storch, an Alternative for Germany parliamentarian, described it as “cultural subjugation”, honing in on reports that the daycares made the decision out of respect for Muslim children.

Sawsan Chebli, a German politician in Berlin for the center-left Social Democrats who is of Palestinian descent, said the measure may have been well-intentioned, but did little to include Muslims.

“If daycares, schools and other such institutions would rather serve vegetarian food instead of meat – fine with me. I am only against it whenever they say: it’s out of respect to Muslims”, she wrote on Twitter.

From schnitzel to sausages to gelatin-containing gummy bears, many classic German dishes contain parts taken from pigs.

In many daycares and schools, children who do not eat certain meats due to religious reasons, allergies or other dietary restrictions are often offered an alternative.

As for the parents of the children at the daycare, several said they agreed with the daycare’s decision to forego pork.

One mother told DPA that the debate was “absurd” and that her 4-year-old daughter doesn’t notice anyway if what she’s eating has pork in it or not.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/07/german-daycare-centers-under-police-protection-after-they-ban-pork-to-please-muslim-children/

Jews also don't eat pork!

Tesla Reports Loss of $400+ Million, Co-Founder Leaves Company

Tesla shares dropped significantly following the release of a lower-than-expected earnings report, which included a loss for the quarter of $408 million, along with the departure of the company’s co-founder and Chief Technology Officer J.B. Straubel.

CNBC reports that Tesla’s Q2 earnings release resulted in a significant drop in Tesla stock price with an overall decline of 10 percent in extended trading. The drop continued into Thursday trading, Tesla is down 14 percent at the time of this writing. Refinitiv compiled a summary of what Tesla posted versus what analysts expected, it reads as follows:

Loss per share on an adjusted basis: $1.12 vs. 40 cents expected

Revenue: $6.35 billion versus $6.41 billion expected

Despite falling short of expectations, Tesla reaffirmed full-year delivery guidance stating that the company still believes it will sell 360,000 to 400,000 vehicles in 2019 mostly consisting of Model 3 sedans. In the first six months of 2019, Tesla delivered approximately 158,200 vehicles to customers and still has to deliver more than 200,000 in the last six months of the year to hit the low-end of its projected figures.

Tesla alleges it has a weekly run-rate of 7000 Model 3 cars and plans to produce 10,000 Model 2s per week by the end of 2019. Tesla stated in its second-quarter letter that it plans to improve production at existing factories in order to make high-volume Model 3 sales possible. While sale of the firm’s Powerwall and Powerpack energy storage products increased, sale of its solar energy products continued their decline. Tesla combines sales of all energy generation and storage product into one figure which came to $368.2 million in revenue, a two percent decline over the same time period last year.

What didn’t help the poor earnings report is the announcement of the departure of Tesla co-founder and Chief Technology Officer J.B. Straubel. Drew Baglino, vice president of technology, will be replacing Straubel as CTO while Straubel will stay on in an advisory role.

The announcement was made on a conference call with analysts on Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk discussed his departure stating: “I want to thank JB for his fundamental role in creating and building Tesla. If we hadn’t had lunch in 2003, Tesla wouldn’t exist, basically.” Straubel stated that his time at Tesla had been an adventurous 16 years and added: “I’m not disappearing, and I just wanted to make sure that people understand that this was not some, you know, lack of confidence in the company or the team or anything like that.”

Straubel is the latest in a long line of executive departures at Tesla, recently the firm’s vice president in charge of engineering for car interiors and exteriors, Steve McManus, left the firm to join Apple. Tesla executive, Michael Schwekutsch, and chief engineer Doug Field also recently departed the firm to join Apple.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/07/25/tesla-reports-loss-of-400-million-co-founder-leaves-company/

Time to forget the word Russiagate & look into FBI-gate instead – Ron Paul

The Democrats’ dream of impeaching President Trump over the Russiagate scandal has “totally failed,” its fate confirmed by special counsel Robert Mueller's disastrous showing in Congress, former congressman Ron Paul told RT.

The utterly anticlimactic hearing saw the ex-special counsel serving up reheated details of his two-year probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, reminding both the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees that there was no proof that members of the Trump campaign conspired with Russia. “Hopefully, this will end it all, because Mueller did not have any evidence,” Paul said.

I think we should never use the word Russiagate again. I think we ought to use the FBIgate because there was a conspiracy to try to frame Trump.

“If they have impeachment hearings next year, it is going to backfire on them, just as I think this hearing today backfired on the Democrats,” Paul said, suggesting that lawmakers should instead investigate the origins of the Russia probe – in particular the Steele dossier, which was partially funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party. The document, produced by Fusion GPS, was full of unsubstantiated tales about Trump and helped to kick off the FBI probe, yet when pressed on the key role of the opposition research firm, Mueller didn’t even appear to be familiar with the organization.

Both parties have much bigger problems, Paul pointed out, marveling at how Democrats and Republicans are “bosom buddies,” marching in lockstep on “more debt, more interference, more involvement overseas, more welfare-ism,” yet “they hate each other’s guts when it comes to power.”

The empire’s broke, the empire’s in trouble, yet [both parties] don’t want to talk about that.

https://www.rt.com/usa/464996-ron-paul-mueller-russiagate/

Dangerous, 1984

Johnson Pledges More Police, Increased Stop and Search, Harsher Punishments for Violent and Sex Crimes

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for an increase in stop and search, longer prison sentences for perpetrators who commit violent and sexual crimes, and pledged to put 20,000 new police officers on the streets of Britain to fight the rising tide of violent crime in the country.

Addressing the House of Commons on Thursday in his first statement as prime minister, Mr Johnson plans to put “more police on the streets”, allocating funds to “address the rising tide of violence and rising violent crime in our country”.

“I have announced there will be 20,000 extra police keeping us safe over the next three years, and I have asked my Right Honourable Friend the home secretary [Priti Patel] to ensure that this is treated as an absolute priority,” Prime Minister Johnson said.

“We will give greater powers… to the police to use stop and search to help tackle violent crime,” he added, continuing that he was drafting proposed reforms so that “those found guilty of the most serious sexual and violent offences are required to serve a custodial sentence that truly reflects the severity of their offence and policy measures that will see the reduction of prolific offenders”.

Violent crime had risen by one-fifth in England and Wales in one year, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, with the countries seeing 112 knife crimes every day. London continues to have the highest proportion of knife-related crime.

During the October Conservative Party conference, the former mayor of London called for the government to “end the politically correct nonsense that has endangered the lives of young people” and bring back “systematic stop and search”.

Mr Johnson, who was mayor of London from 2008 to 2016, had overseen an increase in the use of stop and search in the capital which he said reduced the murder rate by 50 per cent and resulted in there being “fewer than 100 [murders] for four or five year running”.

Stop and Search allows police to stop and search people if they have “reasonable grounds” to suspect that person is carrying stolen property, drugs, or a weapon. However, leftists and progressives in the Conservative Party called for the police powers to be reduced, on grounds that it was racist.

In 2014, then-home secretary Theresa May dramatically reduced the police power, alleging that the tactic was “unfair, especially to young black men”. By the end of 2016, knife crime had soared to a five-year high. When Mr Johnson’s successor, Labour’s Sadiq Khan, took office, he made good on his campaign pledge to reduce the power further, contributing to a steep climb in knife crime in the capital.

However, Mayor Khan was forced to reverse his position on stop and search in early 2018 after a rise in stabbings, acid attacks, shootings, and youth homicides across London. Then-home secretary Sajid Javid called for the Met to increase their use of the powers after five fatal stabbings in less than a week in November, with May being forced to u-turn on her position in April following a spate of stabbings across the capital.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/07/25/johnson-pledges-more-police-stop-search-punishments/

‘I am a passionate Zionist,’ declares Boris Johnson

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/boris-johnson-zionist/

He’s back! Boris puts alleged leaker and warmonger Williamson in charge of UK schools

There’s widespread disbelief that Boris Johnson is now the UK’s prime minister, but have you noticed that Gavin Williamson is back, and he’s been put in charge of educating Britain’s kids?

Oh yes, the former defence secretary has been resurrected into a position of power mere months after being sacked for allegedly leaking state secrets to the press over the role of Chinese tech giant Huawei in the UK’s 5G network.

Well, after being given the boot by Theresa May and narrowly escaping prosecution, three months on Boris has let bygones be bygones, and has let Williamson loose on fixing the school system as education secretary. There is a slight caveat, because while it is a senior job, it doesn’t require top level security clearance. The rest of the cabinet will be keeping their folders well and truly closed when he’s around.

It’s a quirk of political life that a man who once sold fireplaces for a living can be placed in charge of a nation’s military and then its schools, all in a matter of months.

Headmasters, teachers and pupils have every right to be nervous, because Williamson used his brief tenure as defence secretary desperately trying to start a war. He told Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power, to “shut up and go away” before threatening to deploy an aircraft carrier off the coast of China and saying he’d be willing to use ‘lethal force.’

Asking a man like that for a bit more cash for textbooks is going to be a nervy experience, especially if his famed pet tarantula is sitting on his desk at the time.

His voting record on education suggests he is very much in favour of less funding for students and making them pay higher fees, but is there a bright side for anyone in education with Williamson at the helm?

Well, kids should pay attention because there is a good chance he’ll leak answers to exam questions.

British parents could see space open up in private schools if he scares off all the Russian and Chinese students.

Schools should be warm though as he can probably still get them a good deal on some heating.

And, ultimately, he will be a role model for all children who can now see that, no matter how unpopular you are, no matter how badly you screw up, no matter how low you sink, there is always a way back. Especially in the Tory party. Inspirational.

https://www.rt.com/uk/465076-gavin-williamson-boris-education/

Italian Police Bust Migrant Drug Dealers Working From Asylum Centre

Italian carabinieri conducted a large scale raid at a migrant reception centre and found at least six migrants using the centre as a base to sell drugs.

The raids, titled Operation Capolinea, occurred in the port city of Agrigento on Wednesday and lasted for a few hours as carabinieri officers arrested the six young men, all from North African backgrounds, Il Giornale reports.

The investigation began several weeks ago when parents were alarmed by a number of drug dealers operating in front of local schools where their children were enrolled as pupils.

Investigators tracked down the drug activity to a bus terminal, finding that many of the drugs had been trafficked from the Sicilian capital of Palermo by bus. Prosecutors say the migrants, along with a local drug dealer, were turning over as much as 500,000 euros from their drug sales.

Populist interior minister Matteo Salvini commented on the raid and successful arrests saying: “Thanks to law enforcement and investigators in the fight against drugs, crime, and the business of immigration in every city. The fun is over.”

The raid comes only weeks after police in the Italian capital of Rome busted a drug network operating out of a local church in the Torre Angela area.

Five migrants from Africa were arrested during the operation, with investigators claiming the migrants attempted to hide at least two pounds of heroin.

Interior minister Salvini has been outspoken about migrant drug traffickers, stating in April: “A Pakistani ‘asylum-seeker’ has been arrested, caught in Pesaro by the police with 180 doses of heroin! DISGUSTING! All-out war on death dealers! #zerotolerance, get these delinquents OUT of Italy!!!”

Italy is not the only country to see a rise in drug dealing migrants. In the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, police expressed concerns as far back as 2017 that asylum seekers were taking over the local illegal drug trade.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/07/25/italian-police-bust-migrant-drug-dealers-asylum-reception-centre/

16 U.S. Marines Arrested on Human Smuggling, Drug Charges near Border

Naval law enforcement investigators arrested 16 U.S. Marines in connection to human smuggling and drug-related charges. The arrests follow allegations of human smuggling made against two other Marines earlier this month.

Officials of the 1st Marine Division and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) arrested 16 Marines assigned to Camp Pendleton, California, Thursday morning. The 16 are facing charges related to human smuggling and other drug-related offenses, according to a statement from officials at Camp Pendleton.

The new arrests follow the arrests of two other Camp Pendleton Marines earlier this month. U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested the two Marines, Byron Darnell Law, II and David Javier Salazar-Quintero, on July 3 after they observed suspicious behavior near the border, Breitbart News reported. NCIS investigators followed up on information received during the first two arrests, leading to Thursday’s arrest of 16 Marines.

Law and Salazar-Quintero allegedly received money from a human smuggling organization to pick up migrants near the border and move them inland past Border Patrol checkpoints. The Mexican nationals being smuggled during the arrest told the Border Patrol agent they agreed to pay $8,000 for transit into the U.S., according to a criminal complaint. They listed their destinations as New Jersey and Los Angeles. All three identified Law as the driver of the smuggling vehicle, the complaint concludes.

Camp Pendleton officials also announced on Thursday that eight additional Marines are being taken aside to be questioned about their involvement in drug offenses that are not related to the charges being faced by the other 16 Marines.

Officials reported that none of the Marines who are arrested or being investigated are connected to the Department of Defense efforts to support the Southwest Border Support mission.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/07/25/16-u-s-marines-arrested-on-human-smuggling-drug-charges-near-border/

Fusion GPS Spy Natalia Veselnitskaya Worked Out Of Obama Official’s Office

Aug 21, 2018.

The Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya who set up Don Trump Jr. for a meeting in Trump Tower as part of a Fusion GPS plot was operating out of the Washington offices of Cozen O’Connor, a law firm run by an anti-Trump former Obama administration official whose super PAC donated to Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush in the 2016 presidential election.

Veselnitskaya’s work from the Cozen O’Connor office provides more evidence of a Democrat and establishment Republican effort to set up the Trump campaign for a future Russian collusion case. Veselnitskaya was allowed into the United States by the Obama Department of Justice while the former Obama official who runs Cozen O’Connor publicly warned then-candidate Trump that if he became president he would be investigated by the DOJ for contacts with foreign leaders. Veselnitskaya reportedly had dinner meetings with Fusion GPS chief Glenn Simpson the day before she met in Trump Tower and also the day after she went inside Trump Tower.

Big League Politics has confirmed that a Cozen O’Connor partner who lives in the same apartment building as James Comey’s friend Daniel Richman — who leaked classified information to the press on Comey’s behalf — spoke with Richman during the period that Comey and the Fusion GPS team were trying to obtain FISA warrants on Trump Tower.

Let’s break down the facts of an Obama administration official’s involvement in the Trump Tower plot:

(Excerpt) Read more at bigleaguepolitics.com

PROOF POSITIVE THAT OBAMA KNEW

Obama’s CYA maneuver of January 3, 2017-——the signing of NSA Data-Sharing Order Section 2.3 by AG Lynch —— is the coupe d’etat to blow out The Deep State. Obama’s after-the-fact ex/order contains some unusual language particularly the convoluted language WRT “The Strategic Delay of Section 2.3 of Obama’s Executive Order 12333”:

NOTE WELL: Prior to the formal signing of Section 2.3, greater latitude ALREADY existed within the White House in regards to collection of information – especially in relation to the Trump Campaign. However, once signed, Section 2.3 granted broad latitude to inter-agency sharing of information.

But by the time Obama’s new executive order was signed on January 3, 2017, all that information was already in the possession of Obama White House.

Thus, Susan Rice’s January 20, 2017 email to herself takes on an even greater significance b/c no one was ever supposed to know about the REAL meaning of Obama’s retroactive CYA…..until Rice stupidly laid it all out in an official email.

When Susan Rice stupidly wrote a CYA memo to herself, she inadvertently confessed to a series of crimes that added the time line and inferences about what the outgoing Obama administration illegally concealed from incoming President Trump and his aides.

CYA memos are rarely a good idea. Most often, they reveal things the author never intended——ala Susan Rice’s now-infamous email to herself.

powerlineblog.com

WHY SUSAN RICE WROTE AN EMAIL TO HERSELF……..the extraordinary email Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote to herself at 12:15 on January 20, 2017……..within minutes of President Trump’s inauguration must have been her last act, more or less, before she vacated the White House. So obviously the email was important to her. But why would it be important to send an email to herself (the only person copied was one of her aides)?

If you read the email, along with Senator Grassley’s letter to Rice, it is obvious that it is a CYA memo. But the question is, whose A is being C’d?

Most attention, so far, has focused on the first two paragraphs of the email, which describe a meeting that occurred around two weeks earlier. The participants included

<><>Barack Obama,

<><>Joe Biden,

<><>James Comey,

<><Sally Yates–who turns up like a bad penny whenever skulduggery is afoot–

<><>and Rice:

Rice made sure to underscore that Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book”. Rice writes Obama stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.

http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/fusion-gps-spy-natalia-veselnitskaya-worked-out-of-obama-officials-office.704239/

DEA Most Wanted Fugitive Arrested in Mexican Border State

Mexican border state authorities arrested a Houston-based drug dealer who is one of the DEA’s “Most Wanted.” The man is now in custody at the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey.

This week, agents with Nuevo Leon’s State Investigations Agency (AEI) arrested Juan Angel “El Juanillo” Guajardo, a Houston-based drug dealer who fled to Monterrey to avoid capture. While details of his case remain sealed, Guajardo is named in a large-scale drug trafficking investigation in Houston.

The arrest took place when DEA agents reached out to AEI for their help in locating Guajardo, a U.S. citizen. Law enforcement sources in Nuevo Leon revealed to Breitbart News that AEI agents tracked down Guajardo to the municipality of Apodaca, where he was hiding with relatives. The fugitive used a variation of his last name as “Martinez Guajardo” to avoid capture. On Monday, AEI agents carried out a raid, where they detained Guajardo and confirmed he was selling drugs in an independent fashion, the source revealed.

As part of a cooperation agreement with U.S. law enforcement agencies, authorities in Nuevo Leon turned over Guajardo for extradition and prosecution in Texas.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/07/25/exclusive-dea-most-wanted-fugitive-arrested-in-mexican-border-state/

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Unmasking the Five Eyes Beast – Globalist Deep State Intel Network

Did Obama use the “Five Eyes” intelligence agreement to get Britain to spy on Trump?

“[T]hree intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command. He didn’t use the NSA. He didn’t use the CIA. He didn’t use the FBI, and he didn’t use Department of Justice. He used GCHQ. What the heck is GCHQ? That’s the initials for the British spying agency. They have 24/7 access to the NSA database. So by simply having two people go to them saying, ‘President Obama needs transcripts of conversations involving candidate Trump, conversations involving president-elect Trump,’ he’s able to get it, and there’s no American fingerprints on this,”

Fitton: Deep State ‘Coup Cabal’ Tried to Interfere in 2016 Election & Wants to Overthrow Trump

https://youtu.be/Bmlqulaxu6g

patriots4truth.org/2019/05/24/unmasking-the-five-eyes-beast/

newstarget.com/2017-03-14-did-obama-use-the-five-eyes-intelligence-agreement-to-get-britain-to-spy-on-trump.html

https://youtu.be/ACQ4PehICIg

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/unmasking-the-five-eyes-beast-globalist-deep-state-intel-network/

Jeffrey Epstein splashed out $18M for SECOND Caribbean island… Dems refuse to give back donations

Jeffrey Epstein owns two neighboring properties in the US Virgin Islands, having purchased Little St. James in 1998 and Great St. James in 2016

He paid $18 million to purchase all 162 acres on the island from two separate parties in January 2016, and soon after began building roads, a home and a pool despite only being approved to erect a flag pole

In 2016, he was fined $70,000 and then approximately $150,000 for violating building orders on the island, with the first violation ‘in regards to unpermitted land clearing’

Epstein has erected ‘No Trespassing’ signs all around the island as many tourists spent time off the coast in Christmas Cove

Work was ordered to stop on December 21 but has not according to local reports, which means that Epstein could be facing up to $2.15 million in fines and penalties

A spokesperson with the Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources declined to comment on the island, illegal building or Epstein’s plans

Democratic fundraising committees decline to say whether they will donate or give back Jeffrey Epstein contributions

Two Democratic fundraising committees have remained silent since Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest for alleged sex trafficking three weeks ago.

Epstein gave more than $80,000 to the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee combined starting in the early 1990s.

Former DNC chair Don Fowler, who was in charge of the DNC at the time of the contributions, questions why they should give away these contributions.

Three weeks after Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on child sex trafficking charges, Democratic fundraising groups have remained silent on whether they will donate or give back contributions from the wealthy financier.

Epstein started giving to these organizations just over two decades ago. He was first accused of sex crimes in the mid-2000s. When asked whether the Democratic National Committee or the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will return or contribute these Epstein funds to a charity organization, press representatives for the groups did not respond. CNBC has reached out to the committees numerous times over the past two weeks.

Epstein gave at least $80,000 combined to the DNC and the DSCC from the late 1990s through the early 2000s, according to Federal Election Commission records. Epstein’s donations to the committees were given either directly or through Democratic joint fundraising operations, including one in part led by Hillary Clinton’s U.S. Senate exploratory committee called New York Senate 2000.

Epstein has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7282441/Jeffrey-Epstein-paid-18M-SECOND-Caribbean-island-building-compound-prison.html

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/jeffrey-epstein-splashed-out-18m-for-second-caribbean-island-dems-refuse-to-give-back-donations/

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SHILLBAKER

Need a patriot to do a bun

Israel's systemic denial of Palestinians' right to water

The lack of water in the occupied Palestinian territories is not a technical problem, but rather a 'politically generated drought'

Over the last few weeks, Palestinians have been facing severe water shortages because Mekorot, the Israeli water company, is denying or restricting their access to the resource.

The evidence suggests that the annual rainfall in Ramallah is higher than in London (619 mm/year compared to 596 mm/year). However, the Palestinian daily water consumption per capita (about 70 l/day) is strongly below the World Health Organisation’s recommendations (about 100 l/day). Meanwhile, Israelis consume on average about 250 l/day. How is such a drastic difference possible? What are the mechanisms that allow Israel to maintain this imbalance?

Fundamentally, this is not a typical water conflict. Contrary to other situations across the globe, and to what we often hear or might think, there is enough water for everyone in the region. This means that the problem is not hydrogeological or geographical, nor technical, but mainly political. And not only is it political, but it is consciously used by Israel “as a tool of warfare”, of which repercussions are manifold.

Therefore, the problem doesn’t lie in the lack of water resources in Palestine, but rather in the impossibility for the Palestinians to access them, because Israel considers itself to have priority over them, as a direct manifestation of its military occupation of the Palestinian lands and natural resources.

Since water from the basins of the occupied West Bank naturally flows down to lands lying at a lower altitude, it is enough for the latter to prevent the Palestinians from extracting the water to get full control. This is done either administratively – by denying authorisation to drill wells, often without justification – or physically – by destroying existing infrastructure or not taking care of it. The Israelis help themselves generously, and then sell back to “their neighbours” what is left of the “stolen” resource, choosing its price and amount.

Is this legal? No. Nor is it secret, since the targeting of water resources for example has been recognised by UN reports as “deliberate and systematic”. This, of course, is contrary to international law, according to which access to water and sanitation is a human right, and preventing it is a war crime. Indeed, Israel has the obligation to ensure an “equitable and reasonable allocation of resources” as an occupying power.

The problem here is twofold. On the one hand, borders are not clearly defined, and Israel systematically blurs the lines with its illegal settlements and expansion on the ground, that have nothing to do with official maps. As a consequence, it is hard to argue in favour of Palestinian territories following international law, because these territories are not precisely defined.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israels-systemic-denial-palestinians-right-water