DC Dems Deploy Countermeasures – Pelosi: “John Conyers is an icon in our country”….


It is being reported by ‘some’ media outlets that Democrat John Conyers has stepped down from the House Judiciary Committee, that is false.  Conyers is staying on the committee and just removing himself from the seniority position of “ranking member”.

As CTH shared when the sexual harassment charges and financial settlements surrounding John Conyers were first revealed, the institution of the Democrat apparatus will never stop supporting Conyers.  It is a cornerstone of the institutions created by progressives (Democrats) to operate their leadership hierarchy from positions of seniority.  Cue the audio visual demonstration by Nancy Pelosi:

WASHINGTON – Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) announced he is stepping aside as the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee pending an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment.

“After careful consideration and in light of the attention drawn by recent allegations made against me, I have notified the Democratic Leader of my request to step aside as Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee during the investigation of these matters,” he said in a statement on Sunday. (read more)

Sunday Talks: Maria Bartiromo Interviews Gordon Chang, Subject: China and North Korea…


CTH has been looking, unsuccessfully, for China SME’s who have insight on the DC lobbying angle by Chinese foreign nationals and the hidden story of how the Trump administration might be confronting that aspect.

Gordon Chang briefly touches on that note during a discussion segment on the overall outcome of President Trump’s 12-day visit to Asia.

Apparently, if Chang’s sources are accurate (likely they are), the notification by POTUS Trump toward Chairman Xi Jinping, of the lobbyist warning did take place [Video 02:25].

.

The foreign influence lobbying is a critical element for us domestically in the larger geopolitical strategy.  Chinese nationals pay our congressional representatives millions of dollars to purchase U.S. foreign policy.  CTH is cautiously optimistic this is a key element of Robert Mueller.

China, Russia and the downstream North Korean enablers (Cuba, Venezuela, etc.) are the keys to stopping the DPRK. As such each national interest is being targeted and leveraged as part of the N-Korean strategy.

♦ President Trump continues to pressure Russia via energy.
♦ President Trump continues to pressure China via trade outcomes.
♦ President Trump is leveraging financial sanctions on Venezuela along with energy pressure; and simultaneously breaking away from former short-sighted benefits for Cuba delivered that were delivered by President Obama.

Hopefully CTH readers can see how comprehensive this strategy is.  Unfortunately you won’t see it outlined in U.S. media.

Corruption is Pervasive & Standard Operating Procedure in Government


Feinstein Dianne

COMMENT: I read your post on Trump, Jr. and it does appear obvious that there is no investigation into the whole Maginsky Act and why are Trump Jr.’s lawyers not exposing this more? It seems that corruption only really exists when it always involves government.

KA

ANSWER: Corruption is a huge problem in all governments worldwide. It is the possession of power in the hands of authorities that can be bribed which regularly instigates corruption. The ONLY possible way to prevent this corruption is term limits. Believe it or not, California’s notorious Senator Dianne Feinstein announced that she said she was running for reelection in 2018. “I’m all in!” she tweeted and wrote in a Facebook post. These people have to be dragged out of office by their hair. She is 84 years old! Feinstein is the oldest Senator in Washington. Her next term, if Californian elect her again, which is likely, she will be past her 91st birthday. She has been the leading person taking all our liberty and a staunch supporter of the NSA. I have written before that “She is an outright liar” claiming if the government had more power they would have prevented 911. They were in on it!

Feinstein’s husband, Richard C. Blum, is chairman of C.B. Richard Ellis, or CBRE. Because of his wife, his real estate firm was hired in 2011 to serve as the exclusive agent to the Postal Service, selling facilities from post offices to plots of land worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They claim it was a competitive bid and Blum owns less than 5% of the stock. Blum’s investment firm, Blum Capital Partners, is the real estate company’s fifth-largest institutional shareholder, according to Factcheck.org.

If any analyst took money through a family member to put out a report that was favourable to a company, you go to jail. Politicians play this game all the time. A family member gets the deal and they pretend it is arm’s length. Hillary “Rodham” Clinton handed a LUCRATIVE deal to her brother Tony Rodham became a board member of a gold mine in Hati with no mining experience. There Joe Biden, when Vice President, stuffed his son on the board of a Ukrainian company. Burisma, a private oil and gas company in Ukraine, announced that it had appointed Hunter Biden, the youngest son of US Vice President Joe Biden, to its board of directors.

The list is too long to even go into. Just like the fake Clinton Foundation that suddenly lost all its contributors when Hillary lost the election, it is standard operating procedure in politics to funnel brides and deals to their family members. They are NEVER prosecuted. It is just unimaginable how this has become standard operating procedure. There is no hope of ending corruption without term limits. End that, and you will end the corruption.

Marines that Never Invaded the CIA


QUESTION: I really wonder why these people who read all these conspiracy theories seem to hate you. I think it is because they want them to be true so much, they are blind to everything else.  Any comment on the thousands of sealed indictments? You are the only person worth reading on all these claims.

ANSWER: Oh yes. The thousands of sealed indictments are for the gangs. Trump is going after them really hard. It is not politicians and part of a coup nonsense. You really have to give it to these people. They have vivid imaginations even if they are totally clueless about reality.

Just look at this logically. If Trump sent in troops to seize the CIA, you can bet that CNN would have been all over it calling him a dictator like Hillary. Then they claim it’s “CONFIRMED” which once again is completely false and just made up. They live in some alternative dimension.

Alabama Senate Race – Dinesh D’Souza is 100% Correct…


War is ugly.  Political war against the swamp, while accepting their one-sided rules of engagement, is exponential hell.  In order to gain victory, you have to be prepared to advance into the fire at all costs. Andrew Breitbart, Donald Trump and apparently Dinesh D’Souza understand this modern political truth.

In the final analysis this approach is the essential element of ‘Cold Anger’:

The Democrats and UniParty Republicans will cede no ground.  There is only one majority political ideology within Washington DC, and it is based on financial interest. Their rules of engagement are entirely self-serving.  They will fight against any entity, for any reason, on any issue, even reversing their own individual policy positions, if they view that entity as an existential risk to their power structure and decades-long financial constructs.

For those who live within the institutions, nothing is out-of-bounds; therefore, in order to defeat the systemic and institutional rot, we must fight as an insurgent opposition.

It may be unsettling for most; after all, we-the-people have never sought confrontation for the sake of itself.  However, confrontation is an outcome of a battered electorate finally saying ‘No More’.

The political pendulum has never, in the history of humanity, stayed on one side of a swing. Likewise, the resulting backlash is always, always, directly proportionate to how far off skew it was taken before corrective action was engaged.

President Trump was/is our corrective political MOAB.  There is no longer a retreat position possible.  Those who oppose the restoration of our Republic have gone all-in.  Their terms are to remove the threat.  He and We are the threat.

Foolishness, selfishness, corruption and betrayal of our nation by its political elites have  served to reveal dangers within our republic.  Exhausted, we accepted that 2016 was the time when forceful correction needed to be applied. However, we fully understood that misplaced corrective action, regardless of intent, would be neither safe nor wise.

The media are disconnected from the reality of their landscape yet seem to find themselves opining about political violence.  Those media voices would be wise to remind themselves that candidate Donald Trump, now President Trump, was the “lesser extreme” strategy for correction.  As President Trump said during a recent rally in Iowa: “they’re lucky our side isn’t violent.”  He was entirely accurate.   President Trump was the last best option.

There’s a level of anger far deeper and more consequential than expressed rage or visible behavior.  Cold Anger does not need to go to violence.  For those who carry it, no conversation is needed.  You cannot poll or measure it; and even those who carry it avoid discussion.  And that decision has nothing whatsoever to do with any form of correctness.

Cold Anger is not hatred, it is far more purposeful.

Hatred takes energy.  Cold Anger is not willing to give energy to the opposition.

Cold Anger absorbs betrayal silently, often prudently.

Betrayal lies at the originating cellular level for Cold Anger.

We watched the shooting of cops, and the protests parades which followed, absorbing.

Cold Anger takes notice of the liars, even from a great distance – seemingly invisible to the mob.  Cold Anger will still hold open the door for the protest parade goer.  Mannerly.

Cold Anger when evidenced is more severe because it is more strategic. It is more deliberate; Cold Anger is far more purposeful.

Cold Anger does not gloat; a central tenet is to absorb consistent vilification and ridicule as fuel.

This sense of Cold Anger does not want to exist.  It is forced to exist in otherwise unwilling hosts – who would much rather be sensing something more productive, yet each person refuses to be destabilized by it.

The productive and polite life continues, but the larger notations necessarily remain. Keen awareness and acceptance of the surroundings is a trait of those carrying Cold Anger.

Deliberate intent and prudence ensures avoiding failure.  The course, is thoughtful vigilance;  a strategy essentially devoid of emotion, hence ‘Cold’.

Cold Anger is not driven to act in spite of itself; it drives a reckoning.  Patience is not acceptance; time is simply measured for optimal value.

When the well attired leave the checkout line carrying steaks and shrimp using an EBT or SNAP card, the door is still held open; yet notations necessarily embed.

When the border is left unguarded, it is accepted to be unguarded for a purpose.

When the United States flag lays undefended, perhaps gleefully unattended, it does not lay unattended and unnoticed.  It is being well noted.

When a school community cannot openly pray, it does not mean the prayerful were absent.

When a liar seems to win, it is not without observation.  Many – more than the minority would like to admit – know the difference between science, clocks and a political agenda.

Cold Anger perceives deception the way a long-term battered spouse absorbs the blow in the hours prior to the pre-planned exit; with purpose.

A shield, or cry of micro-aggression will provide no benefit, nor quarter.  Delicate sensibilities are dispatched like a feather in a hurricane.

Pushed far enough, decisions are reached.

Support Roy Moore… we can work out the details later.

Office of Legal Counsel Determination on Presidential Authority to Appoint Director of CFPB (Full Legal pdf)…


There’s an extensive back story to this issue: Part I, and Part II, and Part III

(President Trump Tweet Link)

The Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray, has resigned. Senator Elizabeth Warren does not want President Trump to appoint an interim replacement.  President Trump has announced OMB Director Mick Mulvaney will be the “acting” head of the agency until he nominates a permanent replacement for senate confirmation. Senator Warren wants to take President Trump to court to stop him filling the interim position.

The U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), has provided legal guidance (full pdf outline of opinion below), and decided that President Trump clearly has the authority to appoint the acting Director.  Senator Elizabeth Warren is going bananas.

Here’s the OLC recommendation to the President:

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/365493749/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-F2UEoLtox2KsspOhGZ9E

.

 

US Prosecutors Violating International Law – As Always!


The USA is once again abusing international law. It is a rare event when I find that I actually have to agree with the head of Turkey about anything, but Recep Tayyip Erdogan is absolutely correct. The prosecution of the Turkish Gold Trader Reza Zarrab.

Mr. Zarrab’s lawyers had asked the judge, Richard M. Berman of Federal District Court, to dismiss the indictment, calling the government’s case “unprecedented” and “a prosecutorial overreach of the first order.” This classification is absolutely correct. Judge Berman rejected the defense arguments claiming the indictment was proper. Judge Berman is just another bought and paid-for Judge in New York who just cannot bring himself to ever rule against the government. He wrote: “The dismissal of an indictment is an ‘extraordinary remedy’ reserved only for extremely limited circumstances implicating fundamental rights.”

The case of Mr. Zarrab, who has pleaded not guilty and this is a classic case of the USA trying to apply its law globally ignoring international law and territorial jurisdiction.  Justice Scalia delivered the opinion in ROBERT MORRISON, et al., PETITIONERS v. NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK  LTD 561 U.S. 247 (2010) that stated clearly that there was a presumption AGAINST extraterritorial jurisdiction of US law. Even if Congress imposes sanctions on Iran, Russia, or North Korea, there is NO possible foundation for the USA to prosecute anyone in another country for violating its sanctions.

Under this principle, any country could pass a law saying they are maki9ng it a criminal act to deal with Canada. They then could prosecute any American who dared to travel to their country. Can you imagine if every country engaged in writing laws to punish people in other countries for dealing with someone they are in a political dispute with?

If Turkey agreed to US sanctions against Iran, then it is Turkey who has the jurisdiction to prosecute the act of its citizen in its territory. This is an example of how the RUle of LAw is completely collapsing and it is highly dangerous for you certai9nly will not find a New York Federal Judge who will ever say no to a prosecutor.


MORRISON, et al., v. NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK  LTD

It is a “longstanding principle of American law ‘that legislation of Congress, unless a contrary intent appears, is meant to apply only within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.’ ” EEOC v. Arabian American Oil Co. 499 U. S. 244248 (1991) (Aramco) (quoting Foley Bros., Inc. v. Filardo ,336 U. S. 281285 (1949) ). This principle represents a canon of construction, or a presumption about a statute’s meaning, rather than a limit upon Congress’s power to legislate, see Blackmer v. United States 284 U. S. 421437 (1932) . It rests on the perception that Congress ordinarily legislates with respect to domestic, not foreign matters. Smith v. United States 507 U. S. 197 , n. 5 (1993). Thus, “unless there is the affirmative intention of the Congress clearly expressed” to give a statute extraterritorial effect, “we must presume it is primarily concerned with domestic conditions.” Aramco supra, at 248 (internal quotation marks omitted). The canon or presumption applies regardless of whether there is a risk of conflict between the American statute and a foreign law, see Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc. 509 U. S. 155173–174 (1993) . When a statute gives no clear indication of an extraterritorial application, it has none.

Hillary Calls Trump Administration a Dictatorship if She is Investigated


The Washington Post has no problem with a Special Prosecutor investigating Trump and any attempt to stop that would be a crime known as Obstruction of Justice. Yet, when it comes to Hillary, they do a backflip and have the audacity to write: “The Justice Department’s declaration that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is considering appointing a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton in response to demands by Republicans should alarm anyone who cares about the independence of the department.” So if a Special Prosecutor is “justice” going after Trump and suddenly an abuse of power to investigate Hillary, to even take such a position seems to be the pinnacle of journalistic corruption.

Reuters reported that Senate Republicans acknowledged that their investigation of Hillary Clinton’s role in approving a deal to sell U.S. uranium mines to a Russian company hinges in part on the testimony of a secret informant in a bribery and extortion scheme inside the same company.

 

I have reported that there was a prior FBI investigation that uncovered bribery in that uranium deal. FBI gathered evidence confirming that there was bribery that took place for Russia to get the uranium deal. Loretta Lynch refused to investigate her own administration. Hillary keeps saying those allegations have been debunked. But that was by Loretta Lynch. Comey never recorded Hillary’s “interview” before the FBI to ensure she could never be charged. That is CONTRARY to every process. The only time the FBI does that is to prevent a prosecution.

With all the ranting going on, why not a Special Prosecutor to once and for all indict or exonerate Hillary? To bad mouth, this as some dictatorship against her is just more of the same. If she really has nothing to hide, she and the Democrats should welcome such an investigation for posterity.

Flynn Legal Team No Longer Communicating With White House Legal Team…


The New York Times reporters are outlining another silly story to squeeze out the final drips of usefulness within the vast Russian conspiracy narrative.   Comey’s leak recipient Michael Schmidt, and the narrative engineer with a Phd in passive aggressive writing, Maggie Haberman, collaborate.

The outline is that lawyers for Michael Flynn are no longer sharing information with lawyers from the Trump team.  Obviously the intended premise of this engineering feat is infer that Flynn is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller to the detriment of President Trump.  Key word for narrative building here is: ‘infer’.  The years’-long media Russian conspiracy script relies heavily on ‘inference’.

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, notified the president’s legal team in recent days that they could no longer discuss the special counsel’s investigation, according to four people involved in the case — an indication that Mr. Flynn is cooperating with prosecutors or negotiating a deal.

Mr. Flynn’s lawyers had been sharing information with Mr. Trump’s lawyers about the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who is examining whether anyone around Mr. Trump was involved in Russian efforts to undermine Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

That agreement has been terminated, the four people said. Defense lawyers frequently share information during investigations, but they must stop when doing so would pose a conflict of interest. It is unethical for lawyers to work together when one client is cooperating with prosecutors and another is still under investigation.  (read more)

As with just about every well positioned clickbait story, the parseltongue narrative gives every audience something from the buffet.   Trump-haters get another infusion of giddy optimism toward the end goal of impeachment; Mueller conspiracy theorists get a dose of additional fuel for the usurping special prosecutor angle; and nervous sideline Trump supporters get anxiety….  It’s intended that way.

Meanwhile, it doesn’t come as a surprise that Flynn would be working a deal to remove himself from the tenuous position he put himself into with the entire Turkish Lobbying thing he forgot to register in DC.

Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, the Podesta brothers, and a host of other DC characters who gain affluence from the lobbying of foreign influence, are all tenuously positioned like  cat burglars who jumped the wall without realizing the new owner has installed flood-lights and a hungry pride of unleashed lions.

:::POW:::

Midway to the villa, LIGHTS ON !

Unfortunately for Flynn this was his first time joining the operation.

Nothing more.

Carry on.

~ BACKSTORY ~

Intellectual Froglegs – Thanksgiving Edition….