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We Don’t Know How Close We Came to the Coup Succeeding

I mean, it’s almost incomprehensible the degree to which these people engaged in sedition. This was a coup. It was a nonmilitary coup. It was an effort to thwart a duly constituted election, a fair election. It was an effort to reverse the outcome. And it consisted of a series of crimes piled on top of each other, fueled by lies.

It was an attempt to actually create crimes, to trap people into committing crimes where none had occurred. One of the FBI’s informants was a guy named Stefan Halper, and he’s a former professor at Cambridge in the U.K., and he’s best buddies with one of these erudite, sophisticated elitists that ran MI5 in the U.K. He tried to get hired by the Trump foreign policy team during the campaign.

Thankfully, he was rejected.

The sole reason that he wanted to get hired was to collude with Russians. Stefan Halper hoped to be part of the Trump foreign policy advisory team, and I guarantee you if that has happened, he’d have been on the phone with people he knows in Russia, and those phone calls would have been wiretapped in cooperation with the FBI, and he would have been talking to Russians about Hillary’s emails, whatever it took.

It’s amazing that didn’t happen. Because this is the kind of thing they were trying with any number of people, not just Stefan Halper. They were trying to get people hired. When they couldn’t do that, they tried to get people like George Papadopoulos to do those kinds of things while they were observing and surveilling — and that bombed out.

We don’t know how close we came!

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/05/15/we-dont-know-how-close-we-came-to-the-coup-succeeding/

Trump mobilizes Reserves and sends them to Southern Border

A Presidential Order concerning the southern border has activated dozens of reserve units and thousands of individuals. After President Trump declared a national emergency in February 2019 this order comes as no surprise.

According to the Order, the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) Reserve Components Medical Corp, Dental Corp, and anesthetist officers will conduct 90-day boots-on-the-ground rotations for up to 24 months. Soldiers under this order must have 12 months dwell but can waive this requirement and deploy nevertheless.

The 151st Aviation Regiment, whose headquarters is in South Carolina, has been ordered to make calls for over 25 individual companies, mainly security forces and engineers, such as Military Police and Sappers. Units will be coming out of South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and several other states.

Some Americans are worried over the surge as they fear the increased numbers of American troops being used to collect intelligence.

It is unknown for just how long these units will be mobilized. Last year President Trump had stated the following, “The United States is launching enhanced counter-narcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere. The [military] will increase surveillance, seizures of drug shipments, and provide additional support for eradication efforts that are going on right now at a record pace.”

“These additional forces will nearly double our capacity to conduct counter-narcotics operations in the region,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper added.

https://sofrep.com/news/trump-mobilizes-reserves-and-sends-them-to-southern-border/

Wall Street Banks Paid $11.7 Billion in Dividends to Investors this Year while Taxpayers Must Absorb $454 Billion of Bank Losses

Following the Wall Street banking collapse in 2008, the then head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Sheila Bair wrote the book Bull by the Horns. She described how the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) had ignored the systemic problems at Citigroup and allowed this “sick bank” to continue paying out cash dividends. Bair wrote as follows:

“By November [of 2008], the supposedly solvent Citi was back on the ropes, in need of another government handout. The market didn’t buy the OCC’s and NY Fed’s strategy of making it look as though Citi was as healthy as the other commercial banks. Citi had not had a profitable quarter since the second quarter of 2007. Its losses were not attributable to uncontrollable ‘market conditions’; they were attributable to weak management, high levels of leverage, and excessive risk taking. It had major losses driven by their exposures to a virtual hit list of high-risk lending; subprime mortgages, ‘Alt-A’ mortgages, ‘designer’ credit cards, leveraged loans, and poorly underwritten commercial real estate. It had loaded up on exotic CDOs and auction-rate securities. It was taking losses on credit default swaps entered into with weak counterparties, and it had relied on unstable volatile funding – a lot of short-term loans and foreign deposits. If you wanted to make a definitive list of all the bad practices that had led to the crisis, all you had to do was look at Citi’s financial strategies…What’s more, virtually no meaningful supervisory measures had been taken against the bank by either the OCC or the NY Fed…Instead, the OCC and the NY Fed stood by as that sick bank continued to pay major dividends and pretended that it was healthy.”

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/05/wall-street-banks-paid-11-7-billion-in-dividends-to-investors-this-year-while-taxpayers-must-absorb-454-billion-of-bank-losses/

Austrian Princess Maria Galitzine married to Indian-origin chef dies of cardiac aneurysm in US

Austria's Princess Maria Galitzine died in Houston at the age of 31 after sudden "cardiac aneurysm", american television news reported. The princess had died on May 4 and was laid to rest at the Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery in Houston four days later.

May 15, 2020, 11:10 AM IST

Austria's Princess Maria Galitzine died in Houston at the age of 31 after sudden "cardiac aneurysm", american television news reported. The princess had died on May 4 and was laid to rest at the Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery in Houston four days later.

The princess who changed her name to Maria Singh after her marriage to Indian-origin chef Rishi Roop Singh, lived in Houston with their two-year-old son, Maxim, as per an obituary published in a newspaper locally.

Maria was an interior designer while her husband Singh is a renowned executive chef. They were married in April 2017.

She was born in 1988 in Luxembourg, when she was five-years-old her family moved to Russia. She attended the College of Art and Design in Belgium after completing her graduation.

Princess Maria lived and worked in Brussels as well as in Chicago, Illinois and Houston.

https://zeenews.india.com/world/austrian-princess-maria-galitzine-married-to-indian-origin-chef-dies-of-cardiac-aneurysm-in-us-2283664.html

Closer Everyday

Putin suggests creating national genetic database

As the Russian leader noted, the success of genetic researches is largely determined by digital technologies and the access to data sets

NOVO-OGARYOVO, May 14. /TASS/. Russia should create the national genetic database, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

"I suggest creating the national genetic database, using our considerable competences and the potential developed in bioinformatics," the head of state said at a meeting on the development of genetic technologies in Russia.

As the Russian leader noted, "the success of genetic researches is largely determined by digital technologies and the access to data sets - the larger their amount, the more authentic and reliable the results are."

"As in the sphere of scientific instrument-making, we must also ensure our sovereignty in these issues," Putin stressed.

"This means using uniform standards as the basis for protecting data, providing for their storage and transfer, developing the software of information search, analysis and modelling," the Russian president said.

https://tass.com/science/1156449

US Foreign Relations Committee Starts Probe Into Trump's Firing of State Dep't Inspector General

According to Politico, US President Donald Trump fired Steve Linick in a letter sent to Congress late on 15 May, saying he no longer had "fullest confidence" in the high-ranking official, who had been heading the oversight office of Washington’s diplomatic arm since his appointment in 2013 by President Barack Obama.

The US House Foreign Relations Committee has launched a probe into Trump's firing of the State Department inspector general, a statement from the panel said. The House Panel and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democrats have asked the Trump administration to submit records related to the State Department inspector general's firing by 22 May, according to the statement.

Earlier today, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi took aim at President Donald Trump for his dismissal of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, calling the move a part of a "dangerous pattern of retaliation".

Linick’s firing, which has turned out to be the latest in a series of oversight removals by Trump, is considered as an attempt to suspend an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for allegedly using department aides for personal tasks, Politico reported.

According to the news outlet, Congressman Eliot L. Engel, who chairs the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, called Linick's dismissal an "outrageous act of a president trying to protect one of his most loyal supporters, the secretary of State, from accountability".

https://sputniknews.com/us/202005161079327160-probe-into-trumps-firing-of-state-department-inspector/