HUGE! Trump Considers Mix of White House Lawyers and Stellar House Members Such as Jordan, Ratcliffe and Meadows For Senate Defense: Report

President Trump is considering a mix of White House lawyers and fierce fighters in the House such as Reps. Jordan, Ratcliffe and Meadows for his Senate defense.

ABC reported:

President Donald Trump is considering a mix of White House lawyers and some of the president’s most aggressive defenders serving in the House of Representatives to play a larger role in his defense, multiple sources familiar with the internal discussions told ABC News.

GOP Reps. Jim Jordan, John Ratcliffe and Mark Meadows are under consideration by the White House, along with Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Doug Collins and Rep. Elise Stefanik. The members could be used in what once source described as a “support role” to counter the arguments made by the House impeachment managers – those members presenting the House case for his removal during the Senate trial. The House impeachment members have yet to be named by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“Having House members go against House members, whether it be in public or in the media, is seen as a competitive strategy,” one GOP lawmaker told ABC News.

On the White House front, despite no formal team being named to represent Trump in a Senate trial, the president dispatched White House counsel Pat Cipollone to Capitol Hill last week for a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to plot the next phase.

Sources have told ABC News that the president is considering adding controversial attorney Alan Dershowitz to his team and that Dershowitz has privately made clear to the White House he is willing to help the president’s defense. The move that has been publicly pushed by Rep. Mark Meadows, a close ally of the president.

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on two articles of impeachment Wednesday.

Of course, they added criminal charges of wire fraud and bribery to a report after voting in committee on two bogus charges:

1.) Abuse of power – a very broad charge that means nothing

2.) Obstruction of Congress – a made up crime. It is something they completely made up out of whole cloth

Fox News reporter Chad Pergram said House Democrats may actually hold onto the articles of impeachment in order to use it as a negotiating tool with McConnell.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/huge-trump-considers-mix-of-white-house-lawyers-and-stellar-house-members-such-as-jordan-ratcliffe-and-meadows-for-senate-defense-report/

OK Boomer, OK Fed

Eventually the younger generations will connect all the economic injustices implicit in 'OK Boomer' with the Fed.

Much of the cluelessness and economic inequality behind the OK Boomer meme is the result of Federal Reserve policies that have favored those who already own the assets (Boomers) that the Fed has relentlessly pumped higher, to the extreme disadvantage of younger generations who were not given the opportunity to buy assets cheap and ride the Fed wave higher.

OK Fed: you've destroyed price discovery, driven housing out of reach of all but the wealthy and hollowed out the economy, all the while patting yourselves on the back for being so smart and fabulous.

OK Fed: you've waged generational war without even acknowledging how disastrous your policies have been for younger generations. You've bloated the paper wealth of everyone old enough to have bought a home 20, 30 or 40 years ago and who's had a Corporate America or government job who's seen their 401K or pension soar because "the Fed has our back" and Fed policies have inflated one bubble in stocks and bonds after another for 25 years.

OK Fed: as a direct consequence of your free-money-for-financiers policies, inflation has gutted the purchasing power of younger generations. As the bogus consumer price (CPI) claims inflation is near-zero year after year, two generations of Americans have been crushed by student loan debt that tops $1.5 trillion– a debt serfdom that would have been impossible had interest rates been settled by market forces.

The clueless higher education cartel would have been forced to innovate decades ago rather than pass on their administrative bloat to those least able to pay, the students. Without the Fed and other federal agencies, student debt would not have exploded.

OK Fed: as a direct consequence of your pump-up-speculative-excess policies, speculation has ruined the U.S. economy as banks, financiers and corporations all skim hundreds of billions of dollars via leveraging Fed cheap money while younger generations get credit cards with nosebleed interest rates and rapacious banks that charge $25 and up for every overdraft that they engineer by manipulating when deposits are credited.

OK Fed: while you've been hectoring young people to buy assets so they can join your speculative asset-bubble party, they've been dealing with the broken mess of an economy you've created while patting yourself on the back, an economy where only the already-wealthy can buy a house in hot job market regions, where young workers have to work crazy-hard to keep their precarious jobs or get by on the gig economy, a happy-story code phrase for an economy in which corporations have transferred the risk to their workers while they get rich buying back their own shares with cheap Fed money.

OK Fed: eventually the younger generations will connect all the economic injustices implicit in OK Boomer with the Fed that created the ever-widening wealth and income inequality between the generations: those who effortlessly rode the Fed's asset-bubbles to wealth and those who have been priced out of the assets and left the shards of a once-functioning economy, an economy destroyed by the Fed's toxic worship of speculative exploitation and serial asset-bubbles.

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2019/12/ok-boomer-ok-fed.html

Norway’s postal service runs ad suggesting Virgin Mary conceived Christ with mailman

NORWAY, December 17, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A new commercial for the Christmas season produced by the Norwegian Postal Service, Posten Norge, suggests that Christ's conception in the Virgin Mary's womb was not miraculous, and that He was really the mailman’s son.

The ad which the Postal Service said is meant to “create awareness about Posten in a warm, humorous and surprising way,” is incredibly offensive to Christians as it not only denies Jesus’ divinity and the Virgin Birth, it implies that Mary was unfaithful to Joseph, willingly having sex with any man who knocked on her door. (The ad can be viewed here.)

In the commercial spot, after the postman makes his rounds he sets out to deliver a scroll sent by Emperor Augustus to Joseph and Mary ordering them to return to their hometown to register in the census.

As the postman bends down to deposit the scroll in a pot in front of the house, Mary opens the door. Their eyes meet, and Mary is shown to be smitten with the blond-haired mailman.

Nine months later, we see Mary and Joseph in a stable. Brown-haired Joseph looks lovingly at Mary and Jesus, who is shown to have blond hair just like the mailman’s.

“Well, maybe that’s not quite how it happened in those days,” says a narrator.

“But whatever the story,” continues the narrator, “the postman has always been an important part of Christmas.”

A version of the video posted on Twitter has generated intense backlash from Christians on the platform.

Deacon Nick Donnelly wrote that Norway's postal service, has made a “blasphemous advert attacking the Virgin Birth.”

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PETITION: Norwegian Post must pull ad suggesting sex between postman and Virgin Mary. Sign the petition here.

NORWAY, December 17, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A new commercial for the Christmas season produced by the Norwegian Postal Service, Posten Norge, suggests that Christ's conception in the Virgin Mary's womb was not miraculous, and that He was really the mailman’s son.

The ad which the Postal Service said is meant to “create awareness about Posten in a warm, humorous and surprising way,” is incredibly offensive to Christians as it not only denies Jesus’ divinity and the Virgin Birth, it implies that Mary was unfaithful to Joseph, willingly having sex with any man who knocked on her door. (The ad can be viewed here.)

In the commercial spot, after the postman makes his rounds he sets out to deliver a scroll sent by Emperor Augustus to Joseph and Mary ordering them to return to their hometown to register in the census.

As the postman bends down to deposit the scroll in a pot in front of the house, Mary opens the door. Their eyes meet, and Mary is shown to be smitten with the blond-haired mailman.

Nine months later, we see Mary and Joseph in a stable. Brown-haired Joseph looks lovingly at Mary and Jesus, who is shown to have blond hair just like the mailman’s.

“Well, maybe that’s not quite how it happened in those days,” says a narrator.

“But whatever the story,” continues the narrator, “the postman has always been an important part of Christmas.”

A version of the video posted on Twitter has generated intense backlash from Christians on the platform.

Deacon Nick Donnelly wrote that Norway's postal service, has made a “blasphemous advert attacking the Virgin Birth.”

Veiling Millenial noted on Twitter that Jesus was depicted in the commercial as a “bastardized child,” and pointed out just how many people were responsible for the content of the ad.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/norways-postal-service-runs-ad-suggesting-virgin-mary-conceived-christ-with-mailman

Cancer Linked Monsanto Chemical Discovered In ALL Tested Children’s Foods Made From Oats

The Facts: According to a report released in June by The Environmental Working Group, all children’s foods made from aats are all contaminated with glyphosate, the popular weed killer that’s been getting a lot of criticism.

Reflect On: How are these products able to get approval from Federal Health Regulatory agencies when it’s quite clear that they are harmful to human health as well as the environment.

Western cancer research is organized as a business whose fundamental motivation is profit, which is why it will likely never cure cancer because it’s so profitable, and it’s sad that the causes of cancer continue to be ignored. Raising money for a cure is great, but cancer prevention needs more attention, and more resources should be poured into alternative treatments and research. Doctors are only allowed to recommend the patented treatment.

One of many supposed causes of cancer, among several other diseases, is glyphosate, the main active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. Despite the fact that countless amounts of publications and research have shown that it’s carcinogenic, only recently did the World Health Organization (WHO) classify it as such.

It is commonly believed that Roundup is among the safest pesticides… Despite its reputation, Roundup was by far the most toxic among the herbicides and insecticides tested. This inconsistency between scientific fact and industrial claim may be attributed to huge economic interests, which have been found to falsify health risk assessments and delay health policy decisions. – R. Mesnage (et al., Biomed Research International, Volume 2014 (2014), article ID 179691)

Glyphosate has received a lot of attention in the form of lawsuits lately; the latest example would be Diamond & Diamond, a national personal injury law firm in Canada that is spearheading a $500 million class-action lawsuit against various Roundup makers, including the pharmaceutical company Bayer, the owner of Roundup maker Monsanto. There have been many lawsuits filed across North America alleging that glyphosate can cause health problems including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects the lymphatic system. In the United States alone, there have been about 18,000 lawsuits filed against the makers of Roundup. This all seemed to become more recognized within the mainstream when schools groundskeeper, and cancer survivor, Dewayne Johnson was awarded millions of dollars in his lawsuit against the Monsanto corporation as the courts determined it caused his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2019/12/cancer-linked-monsanto-chemical-discovered-in-all-tested-childrens-foods-made-from-oats.html

RNC Says It Added 600K New Donors Since Start of Impeachment

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has garnered over 600,000 new donors since the start of impeachment, Mike Reed, deputy chief of staff for communications at the RNC, told Axios.

Republican voters, activists, and lawmakers alike have rallied in opposition to the Democrats’ partisan impeachment inquiry. Opposition has translated to new donors altogether. According to Reed, the RNC has seen 600,000 new donors since the start of the Democrats’ partisan impeachment effort.

“Voters are consistently expressing how they want Washington to focus on real issues,” he said, according to Axios.

The RNC reportedly took in over $10 million in small-donor contributions in the last week, a campaign official confirmed to the outlet. The news follows the contributions made following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) announcement of the impeachment inquiry in September.

As Breitbart News reported, the Trump campaign and RNC raised a combined $5 million in the 24 hours following Pelosi’s initial announcement:

Three days after the announcement, they raked in $15 million. The RNC ultimately reported a record $27.3 million in the month of September, “the highest amount for an ‘off-cycle month’ ever raised by the GOP and Democrat National Committee (DNC),” as Breitbart News detailed.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) did not indicate any “specific donor or dollar figures to share on impeachment,” according to Axios.

“.@realDonaldTrump fights for you. Now it’s our time to fight for him! Go to StopTheMadness.com to get involved,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tweeted on Tuesday:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/17/rnc-says-it-added-600k-new-donors-since-start-of-impeachment/

Last-ditch attempt to stop Nord Stream 2: US Senate passes Pentagon budget that includes Russian pipeline sanctions

The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act just approved by the US Senate includes a bill sanctioning companies involved in building the almost-finished Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany.

The “Protecting Europe's Energy Security Act of 2019” embedded in the 3,500 page NDAA was proposed by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire), who argued the pipeline would “vastly strengthen President Vladimir Putin at the expense of the rest of the free world.”

Penalizing the companies involved in installing the pipeline will “have protected Europe's energy security and prevented Putin from leveraging billions of dollars that could be used to fuel Russian aggression,” Cruz argued last week, when it was clear the bill would be included in the compromise version of the bill negotiated with the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives.

The final vote was 86 in favor and 8 opposed, with six senators not voting. The massive NDAA allocates almost $740 billion to US “defense” programs, ranging from the construction of the wall on the US-Mexico border to the establishment of US Space Force as a new branch of the military. It now goes to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature.

Cruz and Shaheen’s sanctions target the specialty ships laying the pipeline on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, but it is unlikely they will manage to stop the completion of Nord Stream 2. The pipeline is down to one last stretch near the Danish island of Bornholm. Once finished, it will double the capacity for Russian natural gas deliveries to Germany and allow Moscow to bypass Ukraine and Poland in delivering gas to Europe – if it so wished.

Moscow has already said it would not halt gas transit through Ukraine, however.

Last week, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called the proposed US sanctions “unacceptable” and “an attempt to influence sovereign decisions of Europe,” urging the Senate to reject them.

Washington has long sought to stop the pipeline’s completion, originally scheduled for the end of 2019 but pushed back to mid-2020 due to delays in Denmark approving the Bornholm route.

Lawmakers from both parties who believe Russia “invaded” Ukraine are alarmed at the prospect of Kiev losing transit fees from Russian natural gas, while also trying to pressure European countries to buy the far more expensive US product, earnestly dubbed“molecules of freedom” by the Department of Energy.

https://www.rt.com/news/476129-us-defense-bill-nord-stream-sanctions/

Pakistan Army expresses anguish over death sentence handed down to former president Musharraf

Pakistan's army has gone public and expressed its “pain and anguish” after a special court sentenced retired general and ex-president Pervez Musharraf to death. The military press unit said he “can surely never be a traitor.”

“The decision given by special court about General Pervez Musharraf, Retired, has been received with a lot of pain and anguish by [the] rank and file of Pakistan Armed Forces,” it said.

The distinguished military man, “who has served the country for over 40 years, [who] fought wars for the defense of the country, can surely never be a traitor," the statement continued, adding that “[the] Armed Forces of Pakistan expect that justice will be dispensed in line with [the] Constitution of [the] Islamic Republic of Pakistan.”

It appears that Musharraf had been denied his fundamental legal rights in the process, which led to Tuesday’s verdict in the case against him of high treason, the statement, released by the army’s press unit, ISPR, asserts.

The former four-star general and president, who came to power in a bloodless military coup and ruled for almost a decade, stood accused of subverting the Pakistani constitution by declaring a state of emergency in 2007. A special three-member court declared him guilty and sentenced him to capital punishment. Musharraf was absent when the verdict was passed; he may appeal.

He is a divisive figure in Pakistani history. Critics call him a military dictator who may have facilitated the assassination in 2007 of his political opponent, Benazir Bhutto. Supporters see him as a venerable veteran who stood up to foreign and domestic threats and boosted Pakistan’s international profile.

https://www.rt.com/news/476108-pakistan-army-anguish-over-musharraf/

Epic cop-out! World’s climate chiefs at COP25 decide it’s just too complex, so they kick the carbon emissions can down the road

After all the big claims, a hypocritical COP25 summit runs two days over schedule and decides absolutely nothing, leaving climate change issues up in the air and any plans to ‘save the planet’ on hold until next year in Glasgow.

The disgraceful collapse of the COP25 gabfest in Madrid, while it was running two days over schedule, is an indictment of everything that those in attendance purported to stand for.

The extra allowances for these holier-than-thou do-gooders, (that includes you, Mary Robinson) , the rescheduled flights (oh, the fuel), the extra meals (the methane emissions), the energy bills from those chilly Madrid hotel rooms (oil, gas, wind, even). If the check is ever totalled I’m sure we will discover this is a summit that actually took the world climate change lobby backwards in its bid to save the planet.

Glacial cliffs are shearing off into the sea in Antarctica, polar bears eat their newborn in the Arctic Circle, but those churros and hot chocolate were bangin’.

This whole débâcle was world-class hypocrisy at a global level.

Sure, the head of the UN, António Gutteres can chunter on about this being a missed opportunity but the game was rigged from the start and it’s those international bodies claiming to represent everyone that are the worst.

The UN has every nation in the world to answer to. The EU has 27 (for now) nations to claim it represents. Within those institutions there is absolutely no consensus whatsoever. Poland scuppered the EU’s most recent attempt to head the climate-change crusade, not out of obstinacy but after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said: “Poland will be reaching climate neutrality at its own pace.”

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/476039-cop25-worlds-climate-results/