The big story this week is that the FBI uncovered a Moscow bribery plot just before the Obama Administration approved the transfer of 20 per cent of American uranium into the hands of the Russians.
And who precisely were the Russkies trying to bribe?
They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.
The racketeering scheme was conducted "with the consent of higher level officials" in Russia who "shared the proceeds" from the kickbacks, one agent declared in an affidavit years later.
Fancy that! A racketeering scheme centered on the Clintons! Who'da thunk it? Other names in the story have a weary familiarity, too:
The connections to the current Russia case are many. The Mikerin probe began in 2009 when Robert Mueller, now the special counsel in charge of the Trump case, was still FBI director. And it ended in late 2015 under the direction of then-FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired earlier this year.
Unlike the current "Russia investigation", where details of dawn raids on Paul Manafort are gaily leaked hither and yon, Mueller and Comey managed to keep the lid on this one for the six-plus years it was active. And happily it doesn't seem to have obstructed either the Clintons' or the Russians' mutually beneficial relationship:
The first decision occurred in October 2010, when the State Department and government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States unanimously approved the partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, giving Moscow control of more than 20 percent of America's uranium supply.
Hmm. Uranium One... Rosatom... Where have I heard those names before? Oh, yeah. From me, two-and-a-half years ago - April 27th 2015:
One of the lessons learned by the Clintons back in the Nineties is that, if you're gonna have a scandal, have a hundred of 'em. And then it's all too complicated and just gives everyone a big headache, and they go back to watching "Friends" or "Baywatch" or whatever it was back then. When a scandal gets too easy to follow, that's where the danger lies.
As things stand, Vladimir Putin has wound up with control of 20 per cent of American uranium production.
That's almost too funny an update of the line variously attributed to Lenin, Stalin and others: "The capitalists will sell us the rope by which we will hang them." In this case, we've sold Putin the uranium by which he will nuke us. As the Russian news agency TASS reported two years ago:
'MOSCOW, May 22 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's nuclear power corporation Rosatom controls 20 percent of all uranium reserves in the United States, the corporation's chief, Sergei Kiriyenko told the State Duma on Wednesday...
'"I am pleased to inform you that today we control 20 percent of uranium in the United States. If we need that uranium, we shall be able to use it any time," Kiriyenko said.'
Great! By the way, before he became America's fastest rising uranium executive, Mr Kiriyenko was Prime Minister of Russia.
In return for facilitating the transfer to Putin of one-fifth of US uranium, the Clintons were given tens of millions of dollars by Vancouver businessman Frank Giustra (the founder of "Uranium One" in its pre-Putin days) and various of his associates. In 2006, Mr Giustra told The New Yorker:
"All of my chips, almost, are on Bill Clinton," he said. "He's a brand, a worldwide brand, and he can do things and ask for things that no one else can."
Ah.
Oh, my mistake. When I said Giustra and his pals had given over $100 million to "the Clintons", I meant they gave it to "The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation" - or its Canadian subsidiary, established after Hillary had signed a disclosure agreement for the US foundation with the Obama Administration and, being Canadian, thus exempt from the disclosure agreement. At least as Bill and Hillary's lawyers read it.
There is no Clinton "Foundation" - in the sense of a body that engages in charitable activities and does good works. As I said to Hugh Hewitt on the radio all those years ago:
Well wait, but just a minute, Hugh, there is no 'Clinton Foundation'... The only purpose of this foundation is to enable this family to lead the lifestyle of a head of state after it has ceased to be head of state.
And the only reason anyone ponied up money to the "foundation" is that it was assumed a Clinton would be head of state again in a couple of years - just as the tedious requirements of the Russian constitution required Putin to take a break (albeit entirely nominally) from being head of state for a couple of years. After November 8th, the price for Clinton speeches mysteriously dropped 98 per cent - so the Clintons closed their "foundation". But by then it had served its purpose.
Everybody who knows anything about charity knows the truth about the Clinton "Foundation" - as The New York Post reported, also all those years ago:
The Clinton Foundation's finances are so messy that the nation's most influential charity watchdog put it on its "watch list" of problematic nonprofits last month.
The Clinton family's mega-charity took in more than $140 million in grants and pledges in 2013 but spent just $9 million on direct aid.
The group spent the bulk of its windfall on administration, travel, and salaries and bonuses, with the fattest payouts going to family friends.
Indeed. Me again, from April 2015:
For example, Chelsea's chum Eric Braverman was paid $275,000 for five months' work. In Clintonworld, charity begins at home. So, if, like all these big-hearted Saudi princes and Canuck uranium execs, you give money to the Clinton Foundation because you care about starving Third World urchins, for every million bucks you hand over, a full 64 grand goes to the Third World urchins and the remaining $936,000 is the processing fee. Paul Mirengoff cautions:
'It's important to note that the Clinton Foundation's status as a problematic charity is distinct from the "Clinton cash" issue that Peter Schweizer and others have highlighted. "Clinton cash" focuses on the fundraising methods used by the Clintons. Specifically, there are substantial allegations that they raise money in part because nations and wealthy individuals hope to influence U.S. policy through their donations, and very possibly have succeeded in doing so.
'The problem flagged by Charity Navigator and other watchdogs focuses on what the Clinton Foundation does with the money it raises (whether ethically or not). The Foundation's profligacy and failure to spend a significant percentage of its funds on its alleged mission would be of concern even if there were no ethical problems associated with the Clintons' fundraising.'
That's true. But it does undermine the Clinton courties' defense for all the funny money that's rolled in - that all these Saudis are ponying up for Bill and Hill because they want to improve women's rights in Africa; that Kazakh oligarchs are so generous because they want to reduce diarrhea outbreaks in Africa. Which is why Chelsea gets 75 grand a pop to give dull speeches about diarrhea. But, assuming for the purposes of argument that the House of Saud really did want to promote women's rights in the Third World, why would they do it through the Clintons and see 94 per cent of it get sluiced off before it got anywhere near Africa?
What Charity Navigator calls the Clinton Foundation's "atypical business model" is, in fact, the point of the operation. The Saudis, Kazakhs, Canucks et al are giving to the Clintons - and that six per cent to emaciated Africans is merely the equivalent of that moment at the supermarket checkout when the clerk tallies up your $150 of groceries and asks if you'd like to give a buck to Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
But, as I said, let's keep it simple: As Sergei Kiriyenko told the Russian Duma, Tsar Putin now owns a fifth of US uranium - in return for Bill and Hill's slush fund getting a hundred million bucks.
To modify Lady Macbeth, not all the diarrhea in Africa can wash away the stench of the Clinton Foundation.
Only at the FBI could you investigate the Clinton uranium deal for over six years - until Hillary is too far advanced on her path to the Democrat nomination for it to be politically feasible to stop her. Fifty per cent of America remains committed to not noticing the stench of the Clinton "Foundation" ...and not seeing any - what's the word? - collusion between Bill and Hill's hundred mil and Vladimir Putin's mountain of uranium. Here's more from that Hugh Hewitt interview:
It turns out that, while we were all worrying about the mullahs' nuclear program, the Clintons' nuclear program was going gangbusters. Kazakhquiddick dominated the conversation on my weekly chat with Hugh Hewitt:
HUGH HEWITT: I'm looking at an extraordinary article – Cash Flowed To Clinton Foundation As Russians Press For Control Of Uranium Company. It's by Jo Becker and Mike McIntire from today's New York Times. It's almost unfathomable that Hillary Clinton would consider running for president after this article comes out, but what say you, Mark Steyn?
MARK STEYN: Yes, I agree. And I like Elizabeth Warren, and I want her to run. And when I say 'like', don't get me wrong - I think she would be a disastrous president for this country, and she would want to turn it into a socialist basket case. But she believes in something, and she wants to do something. And Hillary Clinton is an entirely hollow creation. She is basically just an empty vessel in which the dodgiest characters on the planet pour money in return for favors. And I regret to say her daughter is becoming much the same kind of thing, too. Her daughter's joined the family on stage with this Kazakh oligarch and all the rest of it. In fairness to Bill Clinton, he likes chasing nymphettes - he's the only Clinton with a human characteristic...
HH: Now I don't want to overstate the complexity, but in a nutshell, Russia has cornered the world uranium market.
MS: Right.
HH: They have done so through acquiring huge uranium resources in Canada and the United State subject to review by the State Department was given, and Bill Clinton pocketed a half million along the way, and the foundation picked up two and a half million bucks from interested parties...
I think I've mentioned before that, for a while, the US Department of Labor used to call up my assistant once a year and demand to know whether we "worked with uranium". And once in a while they'd insist on speaking to me personally and I'd say, "Hmm. Let me have a think on that. Did we use any uranium in my Christmas disco single? No, wait, that was bongos..."
And, when they'd gone away, I used occasionally to wonder how many American businesses the vast federal bureaucracy had to harass before they got a positive response to that question. But it turns out that, if the Department of Labor were to call up the Clinton Foundation, which Hill's impressionable rubes seem to think is something to do with reducing diarrhea outbreaks in Africa, and ask them, "Do you work with uranium?", the answer is yes.
On the radio, I made one of my very rare interruptions of Hugh - because the big cynical American lawyer guy was for once sweetly naïve enough to think that there is an actual thing called the "Clinton Foundation" that does "foundation"-type work:
HH: I'm going to ask after the break, Mark Steyn, Lindsey Graham, whether or not Senate hearings are in order, because I want to know if Iran has given money to the Clinton Foundation. Honestly, at this point...
MS: Well wait, but just a minute, Hugh, there is no 'Clinton Foundation'... The only purpose of this foundation is to enable this family to lead the lifestyle of a head of state after it has ceased to be head of state. They spent $70 million dollars on travel at the Clinton Foundation. By comparison, the entire Royal Family, to fly between their various realms - the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, that's a lot of air miles - the entire Royal Family in one year spent $7 million dollars. So in other words, the Clintons have ten times the airplane costs of the Royal Family, who are heads of state of dozens of bits of real estate around the world. The Clinton Foundation is a hollow shell foundation playing the usual shell game with U.S. taxation. There's no need for a Clinton Foundation except for them to rake in money from Kazakhs and Ukrainians and Iranians and Saudis and everybody else...
If this sleazy uranium'n'jailbait operation is returned to the White House, the republic is over.
Well, America dodged that bullet. But forget the jailbait. The Clinton Foundation's de facto DBA is Uranium & Diarrhea, Inc.
Any chance justice will finally come a-callin' for the Clintons? I suppose anything's possible. To get away with the "Foundation" scam for as long as Bill and Hill did would be a challenge for most of us. To do it under a six-year Mueller/Comey FBI investigation testifies yet again to the uniquely charmed lives these two lead...
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I knew diarrhea of the mouth would do Hillary in . . . eventually.
For those of us who knew in the 1990s about this racketeering, it's been more like ending the constipation of the truth!
But the real question is -- how does Chelsea escape this Toxic Slush Fund that she has now been known to give advice to her mother about it -- the "You have several options" comment, or something like it.
You, Mr. Steyn, have a mountain of manuscript-ed materials on these two crooks. I wonder if this "Power Couple" just gets buried by the piles of corruption they have dragged from place to place. Crooked H won't be done till she takes down Bill and the guy who really took the White House away from her -- Obama!
On another note (ka-ching!) I have to confess that "Marshmallow World" is indeed a radioactive song -- I can't stand to hear Dean Martin sing it, but you've captured the essence of the stuff!
It's fascinating how sordid organised crime can exist for so long in plain sight!
This sewer is now bubbling up into so many crocks that even the masterful Andrew McCarthy can't elucidate it comprehensively, as he misses the Ghost Stories gusher in his current column. To my naive mind, it has become clear that Mueller will never be able to bring anyone to trial in any of the Trump-collusion illusion, as it would seem any defense lawyer's list of witnesses would include the Clintons, various Russians mentioned in the scheme and Mueller himself for the cover up.
Roy Gilley is absolutely 100% right! The left wing bias and agenda of the press has been keeping Americans uninformed for decades (hey, that should be their byline). And without an unbiased and rigorous Fourth Estate to watch over the doings of government, you do not have a free democracy, but something more akin to a banana republic or autocracy. Currently, with the ability to be properly informed through the Internet, the American people no longer have an excuse for not revolting against this insipid transformation of their republic and perhaps, will join the ranks of the Europeans willfully committing civilizational suicide.
It's interesting how there is so little meat in the "Russia!" story, and so much in the Uranium One deal.
How is it the press advances one, but not the other?
I can only consider the press has a different agenda, that is divorced from the facts. It's not whether or not Russia is competing with the US. It's that it can be used to try to influence the electorate because the press could not advance their vision for the US. One Hillary espoused, but Trump is trying to roll back.
That there seems to be a "Deep State" opposition to Trump and his agenda, the one Americans elected Trump to implement, indicates to me "We the People" have little influence on our country.
Trump, in my view, has done a great service to Americans to let them know what is in fact happening to their country, or what has happened. Many think Trump does not have the support to implement his platform, but I hope that enough of us can recognize what he is about to help him.
I agree with the inference below, that Trump is alone in his efforts to tackle Deep State endemic corruption. Who can he turn to? Maybe John Kelly is the start. But first and foremost, for Clinton, and DS cleansing to occur, Trump needs to survive. In Mark's hilariously troubling article , the bit therefore of most concern is Robert Meuller running the investigation of Trump. He was not appointed directly by Sessions, but by Dep Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein. It seems the swamp may be lapping at the feet of the administration.
Further to a comment by 'Ann', Trudeau's $ 20 mil is chump change when set against Australia's efforts. How does $ 460 mil sound ?
HERALD SUN Oct 2016
Gillard also donated $300 million of our money [ Australian Tax Dollars] to the Clinton-affiliated Global Partnership for Education.
Lo and behold, she became chairman in 2014 and has been Âactively promoting Clinton as president ever since — in a campaign video last December slamming Trump, in opeds trumpeting the next woman president and in appearances with Clinton spruiking girls' education.
The Abbott government topped up the left-wing organisation's coffers with another $140 million in 2014, bringing total Australian largesse to $460 million, according to a press release from Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
Imagine the Clinton equivalent of Trump's campaign comment that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose voters.
I just don't get why anyone outside of the Clinton family and immediate beneficiaries would support them. I understand how people have been brainwashed to hate Republicans, but I simply can't understand those same people liking the Clintons. They are the most disgustingly corrupt politicians outside of a few third world hell holes. They don't even really try to hide it. The fact that half the country buys into their lies and deceit is just astounding to me, sickening, really.
I have always considered myself an optimist, but they really test my faith in people.
When you believe nothing, you can fall for anything. It seems to me that when a model on a trend-setting fashion runway struts along with some crazy looking contraption on top of her head, the sophisticated thing is definitely not to say, "Boy, that is one crazy looking headpiece." The sophisticated things is to suavely accept it because it buys you a ticket into the cool crowd.
It also turns you into someone who is no longer using his own faculties, but assenting to someone's guidance in surrender. This is right up many people's alley, because it validates them. They are in the flow of whatever is in.
Assenting to the initial, "No, that's not weird, not weird at all" thing is like checking the "D" box on a voter registration card. That's your crowd. Trump and Hillary's campaign slogans last year were accurate. "Make America Great Again" was a vote for a set of specific steps to alter the course. "I'm With Her" was a vote to be in what Harvey Weinstein and his people assure is the "in" crowd.
Thank you for your very clear thoughts. This paragraph in particular:
"It also turns you into someone who is no longer using his own faculties, but assenting to someone's guidance in surrender. This is right up many people's alley, because it validates them. They are in the flow of whatever is in."
is a wonderfully concise summary of their thinking. It's almost as if merely parroting the position of their peers allows them to circumvent the actual process of thinking out a position and its consequences, providing them a shortcut to being perceived as a nuanced intellectual.
"All the diarrhoea of Africa could not wash away the stench of the Clinton Foundation"
Where would we be without the brilliant Mark Steyn
Aargh! She has just been interviewed on prime time Graham Norton Show! Almost brought up my Irish Stew. Naturally not a hint of a question about Harvey or indeed Bill; just a litany of complaints on behalf of the sisterhood and had the audience lapping it up! What a saint!
She did a similar interview for an Irish TV late night show.
Refused to watch it my wife lest I vomit.
Language completely fails to convey my emotions about all this.
Inchoate comes close.
Followed by righteous fury.
The inactivity of Jeff Sessions is extraordinary. What is he doing? I'd happily do twice his level of work, for only half the dosh. I don't know anything much about law, but he's behaving as if he doesn't, either, despite having a collection of qualifications the size of Barack Obama's ego.
"The Mueller investigation has become an all-out assault to find crimes to pin on [the friends, family and colleagues of the president] — and it won't matter if there are no crimes to be found. This team can make some." Sidney Powell writing in The Hill, 19 October 2017.
Speaking from one of the colonial outposts of the Steyn Club, this state of affairs and all described in Mark's column above, is frightening, unconscionable, deplorable. Banana republic doesn't begin to describe the crimes being committed against the people. Trump is the United States' only hope and he is really up against it.
Trying to find a possible historical parallel of the Clintons and am starting to consider that the most apt was horrible King Leopold with his private deals to secure monopolies in Africa, his tentacles in the Belgium government that enabled his actions, his creation of a huge self-serving 'humanitarian; (International African Association) philanthropy that collected huge donations from the most wealthy and connected in Europe, his need for a supply of fresh girls, his marriage hostilities, the euphemisms of 'Congo Free State' (wholly-owned by him in dubious deals that should never have been recognized internationally as legit), grooming, bribing and stacking the media with supporters to write glowing stories that cloaked the brute reality of what was going on in Congo, which was forced labor to extract ivory and rubber, slaughter, rape, child labor, child trafficking... in today's modern versions what's different? Begs the question, what backroom deals were made to allow the Clintons to get a deal to get Haiti under their personal control via their personal Clinton Foundation? How history repeats - the worst action is still in Congo, still desired - all sorts of grubby entities wheeling dealing and actually shooting to capture the control of it's rare minerals for the high tech and weapons, human trafficking. Leopold's cold-blooded conniving resulted in the deaths of over 2 million people of the supposed 'Congo Free State.' Quite hidden from and by the world press, until small people started picking it apart, at the threat of their lives and reputations. Curiously in timing, just a couple of weeks ago, the Daily Mail reported the most expensive property in Europe was for sale ... turns out, one of Leopold's private residences that was built from the wealth Leopold strangled out of Congo.
Excellent historical reference. Thanks.
A bit unnerving - actually infuriating. Don't believe they've been channeling Eleanore Roosevelt all these years but King Leopold's Ghost:
"Leopold routinely banned unfriendly journalism."
"Dissident state or company employees could not write... directly for a 'cabinet noir' or censorship office monitored their correspondence."
"If Parliament gave him the loan he wanted... generous... humanitarian...anti-slavery Leopold would leave Congo to Belgium in his will...he got his loan, interest-free...." his will was "backdated so it looked like an act of generosity instead of a financial bargain." - all from "King Leopold's Ghost" by Adam Hochsch.
The critical element which gives a real example to what M. Mark raised, is that Leopold even though royalty, actually had no governing authority in Belgium, so he used influence and his placed people to get deals, loans, massive donations and semblances of treaties that governments usually made, not private citizens. Without checks of this power, millions died. By historical example, this kind of situation is very, very dangerous to nice, normal people.
The entire 'charity' construct should be shut down. As Leopold did, it's used for power under the disarming title of 'charity' and 'humanitarian.' Fool me once... fool me twice...
The Congo River is astonishing. In some places it's 700 feet deep. River transport from Kinshasa to most of the rest of the country is cheap and efficient, but from Kinshasa the river drops a 1,000 feet to sea level at the Atlantic coast in a series of spectacular waterfalls and rapids. The hydroelectric power it can provide can easily serve numerous countries for the next hundred years - easily! It will be able to produce cheap electrical power to numerous countries, so the battle is currently on as to who gets the contracts and the cut of all profits. The railway link from the Atlantic Coast to the capital, Kinshasa was actually so good an idea to move goods over that non-navigable distance that the nation finally has been restoring it, in 2016. What was unnecessary and bad was how horribly the Congolese people were treated during its original construction by Leopold's brutish overseers. There was simply no reason to work men to death on it. That was cruelty from a complete disregard for humanity. Farmers never work their oxen to death - that's seen as complete idiocy. Yet, human beings? No. This was so awful and unnecessary it created a century of anger in Congo against the railroad. If it had been built properly with good work camps and paying of salaries, then it would have been celebrated for a century. No African would have complained about paid reasonable jobs and a useful railway-waterway transportation system that benefits everyone. No one! What Leopold did and promoted was evil. He wanted a royal lifestyle with the fawning accolades of the elite and had no care or compassion as to how vicious the means were to provide himself that and he collected thuggish people to him to do it.
The scale and scope of the Clinton corruption is now widely know. It would be interesting to know what prompt's the Bush family's interest in this charity racket cum globalization project. The really interesting thing is that this indulgence purchasing routine seems to be a bipartisan enthusiasm. I am starting to think that W.'s incompetence and wholesale abandonment of American interests in pursuit of this utopian globalist scheme may have been prompted by Clintonesque greed rather than naivety. I think it is high time the Bushes get the same scrutiny as the Clintons. War on Terror, doubling of Muslim immigration, Trillions squandered to no purpose in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's almost as if W. was trying to make the problems worse. I mean what is the appeal of this utopian fantasy of an integrated global market supervised by unaccountable global institutions? It doesn't appeal to voters and yet it seems to appeal to our elites. Cui bono?
When, oh when, is this awful family going to finally go away? Kevin Williamson was wrong about Trump but he was exactly right when he characterized the Clintons as the antibiotic-resistant syphilis of American politics.
Your description of the Clinton family made me think about a recent book tour of Hillary. Apparently she does it in spite of objections of Bill the only person that you describe with the human characteristics. Hillary is unfazed in spite all the ridicule of the media including you about the content of the book. You describe Hillary as a hollow creation an empty vessel to pour money into. Based on this description I think that Hillary couldn't care less about the criticism of her book, on the contrary the more criticism it raises interest in the book which translates to more sales. So what drives Hillary is to keep the cash register ringing mind you not $500,000 for half an hour talk but her book tour keeps replenishing the coffers of the Clintons and that is the only thing that matters.
What else would Hillary do with her time now that she is out of the limelight? She is not going to be an active grandmother, has no real friends, won't cook or take up a hobby... Unlike her husband she doesn't have a parallel "Lolita Express" or the pursuit of same to keep her busy.
The only thing that drives her is money and more of it. Ecclesiastes 5:10 He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
It seems that George III and his "Foundation" might possibly have been Clinton lite. At least George was transparent in his imperial intentions!
I am curious about the "Canadian Connection". When the story broke, someone mentioned that CPC Prime Minister Stephen Harper had to sign off on the uranium deal. That makes me a bit squeamish. I would expect such a thing by Trudeau, with perhaps glow-in-the-dark socks for the event, but not Harper. Although perhaps the Canadian government was not able to restrict the sale, or it was after they were admonished for blocking some other foreign deal and making Canada appear "closed for business".
Anybody have the facts on that aspect?
Dems always muscle Republicans to eat their own - YET the list of knaves, thieves and demons on the left grows and grows with impunity - Lynch, Lerner, Rice, both Clintons, Samantha Power - Comey, and now Mueller and Rosenstein.
I swear - it's all about - CONTROL FILES - Lobbyists ARE the Deep State - they are the revolving door bureaucrats and legislators who accumulate DIRT ... but Leftist dirt never seems to stick.
Trump orders Borscht and the full force of the FBI, CIA and NSA are sifting his underwear drawer.
Voters must push back on this. There just aren't enough howls - yammers and squeals.
"When a scandal gets too easy to follow, that's where the danger lies"
Incidentally, I had entirely missed the CA subsidy after the non-disclosure, and I semi-follow this story.
It's clear to me that the biggest threat our country faces is the left-wing bias and agenda of the press. They ignore law breaking by those with whom they approve and constantly attack those with whom they are opposed. This emboldens their side to act even more outrageous while it enervates their opposition. The media are engaged in propagandizing and the result is an ill-informed citizenry.
This affects Mr & Mrs average voter - who scans news headlines. How do we protect the Republic from this cancerous depravity? Bezos owns. WAPO -- he also runs the largest company on the planet... and it eats all its competition ... growing and growing and eating andqueating... and NEVER TURNED A PROFIT or ISSUED A DIVIDEND
At $1000 a share... Amazon and Bezos are on their way to owning Walgreens next... JUST EXACTLY WHAT ARE ANTI TRUST LAWS FOR?
But there isn't anyone with the muscle to stop this demonic company or their vile leadership.
If Trump took out Bezos... he would win HEARTS ON THE LEFT.... why isn't he doing it?
your words are repeated over and over again across conservative websites... the difference between you, me and the Democrats - is THEY LOVE THE LIES.... THEY LOVE THE MUSCLE ... there is no right or wrong.. there is only them against us...
this is PRAVDA in America.... Bezos and WAPO are evil evil people.
Will Trump's nomination of Washington antitrust attorney Joseph Simons as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission help?
I hate to compromise Mark's sterling reputation .... but absent the question .... is Mr. Simons a Jew?
we cannot know
Ethnocentrism is a powerful player in this high stakes game. And Mr. Bezos has powerful brethren
"Any chance justice will finally come a-callin' for the Clintons?"
Jeff Sessions behavior suggests -rather strongly- that this is likely a forlorn hope.
It's amazing how little is being done just to expose all that has been (and is?) going on.
Jeff Sessions - IMHO - signed on early for positioning - to protect the swamp ... he's part of it...
There is just nobody in POWER besides the Donald... who will tackle the creatures of the lagoon.
Hit it:
Diarrhea why must we say goodbye? /
When you dry up I want to throw up /
Rrhea hear my prayer /
Don't be so unfair /
We'll have the runs 'til the end of time....
Here's lookin' at you, kid -- we'll always have diarrhea.
From Bill and Hill: The Musical....
Here's a Washington Post Fact Checker article giving Trump 4 Pinocchios for saying that Hillary gave US uranium to Russia and made millions off it. Why would anyone believe what WP writes? They are the darkness.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/10/26/the-facts-behind-trumps-repeated-claim-about-hillary-clintons-role-in-the-russian-uranium-deal/?utm_term=.b8c59e91b113
And again nothing but crickets from our good friends in "Big Media." This leads to a condition that we've all gotten used to - That steady drip-drip-drip of stomach acid that occurs when you read about another shameless piece of Clinton corruption and also realize that they are going to get away with it. Well, time for my next Bromo Seltzer.
A tour de Steyn.
This post should be used, by students interested in the subject, as an introduction to La Cosa Clinton.
To list all the Corruption and Sordidness that are part of the make-up of these two [and now their spawn] fecal stains on the American Culture would be tl;dr for most budding historians of The Clinton Era, so you have provided us with a near-perfect primer.
Bravo.
As to whether Uraniumquiddick will finally bring about the incarceration of these two: one can only hope that soon we will hear these Little Caesars [aka: BJ and Hillaria] concurrently crying-out: 'Is this the end of our RICO?' as they receive their consecutive sentences.
The scene with Hillary and Sergei Lavrov in March '09 with that ridiculous reset button yuck-yucking it up always gave me shudders. Now I know they were having their last sinister jollies over the stupidity of the American public. I got this eery sense that this was somehow a scene in a spin-off of Dr. Strangelove with the secret three-letter code DAA (Dumb *** Americans) already present inside the colorful plastic toy button. Hillary was laughing thinking how this could be the last time I'll ever be beholden to anyone and I'll be rich, rich, rich like all my fiends in Hollywood and Sergei Lavrov chanting in his head "we got da' bomb, we got da' bomb"!
Yikes, the 20 million in tax dollars that Canadian PM Trudeau donated to the Clinton Foundation is looking a little dodgy now.
It looked dodgy from the start. Canadians are slowly catching on to Trudeau and his cabal of liars and thieves.
If the new government in the US can eventually bring resolution to Steyn issues like Clinton-Obama corruption and climate scams, we should expect he'll finally be elevated to sainthood. Even the corrupt media must be realizing they've backed the wrong team.
Why can't this illegal transaction be at least partially unwound? Unlike the Iran deal where the planeloads of cash have flown, most of the material is still in the ground.
Seems like it could, but doesn't seem like Trump or State dept. have any interest in doing so. I have to say, it's hard to place all the blame on the left / MSM when the administration sometimes seems seems so invested in the status quo. (Sessions has been disappointing.)
"Bay Watch", "Oprah", "Ellen". I often think of it as "Jerry Springer Nation".
Fast forward to yesterday, when Dubya finally decided to weigh in on American politics - by attacking Trump. Here's the great JJ Sefton, from this morning's Ace of Spades HQ blog, addressing Bush: "You're not a Marxist stooge like the jug-eared dog-eater; but you serve the same purpose. Please go away and take your entire family with you. And take the Clintons with you too. You've all done enough damage."
You made me think of what Leo Amery(1) said to Neville Chamberlain:
You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Amery#World_War_II
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1) Yes, yes, I know he was quoting Oliver Cromwell, but I despise that English Caesar.
The Amery quote that Bob Belvedere uses is also the climax of Lynne Olsen's wonderful book _Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England_.
And to think that, despite all this, there are actual lawsuits pending against the current president for "violations" of the emoluments clause because he owns corporations that own hotels in which foreigners are allowed to reserve rooms!
I mean,. .. .
For as long as I can recall the mention of "Clinton" - the Bill & Hillary iteration that is - there was always this shroud of protected illicit behavior associated with it.
Going back to Arkansas days (daze) and the Whitewater enterprise, then the Governor and the Babes episodes; onto Travelgate, Filegate and the mysterious death of Vince Foster; then fast-forward to Monica-the-humidor, et al. Never enough to put 'em away - always just on the periphery of being "nailed." Makes sea sickness a thing of welcomed relief.
These people - the "Clintons" - are as crooked as the letter "S," which of course is silent when used in a sentence.
Thanx Mark for putting this chapter into clear perspective, but that shroud still hangs comfortably over it all.
Tom in Missouri
I think there is a justified fear of Arkancide. Interrupting the Clinton "Foundation"'s terribly important work could destroy one's life and livelihood. Going up against Big Left carries considerable risk.
Then it is a good thing that there are those willing to take any risk to purge our society (if indeed the U.S. has such a thing in the cohesive sense) of bottom-feeders akin to the Clintons.
Arkancide be damned - "Book em Danno!"
Tom in Missouri
The media is staying away from this story like it's radioactive.
WHERE IS JEFF SESSIONS? -- hiding in the closet from his Control FILE?
Our Republic cannot survive with this standard for truth. This is Pravda - Mao - all of em.
LOL. What a set-up!
... staying away because it stinks and it's radioactive?
But unfortunately for them, poo sticks... and this poo is radioactive so this time, at last, they're in deep glowing doo-doo.
Good grief... this is actual for real political analysis using the accurate terms - and not metaphorically!
The deafening silence from all the other politicians about this can only mean one thing : they are just as guilty.
Like the late great private detective who licks himself in a room where he knows there is a killer, only to realize too late that all in the room are in on it...except the detective. The late detective.....