Soros, Pelosi headline hush-hush 'Resistance'

conference in California 

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Business magnate George Soros arrives to speak at the Open Russia Club in London, June 20, 2016.  (Reuters)

Liberal billionaire George Soros and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi were listed as the main attractions Friday at a California gathering of the anti-Trump elite.

The four-day event in Carlsbad, titled “Beyond #Resistance: Reclaiming our Progressive Future,” asked that guests refrain from contacting the media or posting to social media, the agenda shows.

Other speakers appearing in person or via video were expected to include U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-Minn.; and Democrats Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania and governor-elect Ralph Northam of Virginia.

Special guest speakers were listed as CNN contributor Van Jones and Center for American Progress CEO Neera Tanden.
The conference, which began Wednesday and runs through Saturday at La Costa Resort, was organized by the Democracy Alliance, a network of liberal donors, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
The purpose “is to generate support for Alliance Partner Organizations and engage in diverging perspectives connected to shaping political and policy transformation in America,” the report said.

When not plotting their next political moves, it's assumed the group will have access to the resorts 17 tennis courts and championship golf course, as well as pools and hot tubs.
Soros made headlines in October when he transferred $18 billion -- or "the bulk of  his wealth" -- into his activist charity arm, making the philanthropic organization second only to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in U.S. assets.

So how could these remarks be interpreted ? Couldn't this mean more trouble for him ?

Menendez to political opponents: ‘I know who you are’

By Priscilla DeGregory and Kaja Whitehouse November 16, 2017

 
Sen. Bob Menendez

Senator Robert Menendez wasted no time in sending a warning shot to his political adversaries after being freed — for now — from bribery charges

“To those of you who were digging my political grave so you could jump into my seat, I know who you are and I won’t forget you,” the senior senator said outside of Newark federal court on Thursday.

“I’ve made my share of mistakes but my mistakes were never a crime,” he said.

Menendez made the comments after Newark federal judge William Walls declared a mistrial because the jury said it remained hopelessly deadlocked following four days of deliberations.

“I find you are unable to reach a verdict and that further deliberations are futile,” Judge William Walls said shortly before 1 pm on Thursday. “There is no alternative but to declare a mistrial,” he said before dismissing the jurors after more than two
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Is the ocean that small that the ships keep running into one another ? OR....is it on purpose ???

US Warship Rams Into Japanese Tug Boat in Latest Navy 7th
Fleet Mishap  by Jim Hoft 

The USS Benfold collided with a Japanese tug boat on Saturday in Japan’s Sagami Bay.
This is the fifth collision by the the 7th fleet this year.

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The Japanese ship reportedly lost propulsion.

ABC News reported:

A U.S. warship collided with a Japanese commercial tug boat in Japan’s Sagami Bay on Saturday, marking the fifth time this year that a ship in the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet in the Pacific has been involved in a crash.

The Japanese tug boat lost propulsion and drifted into the USS Benfold during a towing exercise. The U.S. guided-missile destroyer sustained minimal damage, and there were no reported injuries on either vessel, according to a press release from the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet.

The USS Benfold, which is awaiting a full damage assessment, remains at sea under its own power. The incident will be investigated, the 7th Fleet said.

A senate investigation in 2012 found over one million counterfeit parts used in the US military.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Says Bill Clinton Should’ve Resigned Over Lewinsky Scandal   By Carla Herreria

The New York Democrat said the former president would’ve had to step down if the revelations occurred today.

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) says that the standards of behavior that would lead to someone resigning or being fired have changed since Bill Clinton was in office. 

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In a 1998 news conference in the White House Rose Garden, President Bill Clinton apologized for his sexual relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said that President Bill Clinton should have resigned from the Oval Office after news broke of his infamous affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

In an interview with The New York Times, Gillibrand said that Clinton stepping down after the scandal was made public would have been “the appropriate response.”

Gillibrand, who fervently supported Hillary Clinton during her 2016 campaign for the presidency, added that the standard for behavior has changed since her husband’s presidential term ended in 2001.

“Things have changed today, and I think under those circumstances there should be a very different reaction,” she said, apparently nodding to the watershed conversation happening nationally in the U.S. on powerful men and sexual abuse. 

“And I think in light of this conversation, we should have a very different conversation about President Trump, and a very different conversation about allegations against him.”

Gillibrand’s spokesman later clarified to the Times that the senator was trying to express that if the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal had happened now, Bill Clinton would’ve felt more pressure to resign.

Gillibrand has publicly expressed her admiration of the Clintons in the past.

In an essay published on Medium in 2016, she endorsed Hillary Clinton’s Democratic presidential bid. In the essay, she wrote adoringly of Hillary Clinton, who mentored Gillibrand during her own run for office and said she was “truly honored” that Bill Clinton had campaigned for her congressional run in 2006.

As senator, her government website reads, Gillibrand is “leading the fight to reform the justice system for sexual assault survivors in the military and on college campuses.”

On Wednesday, Gillibrand co-sponsored a bill, known as the “Me Too” Act, with Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) to make the process of reporting sexual harassment by lawmakers and staffers easier. The bill, which gained bipartisan support, is a part of Speier’s efforts to address the issue of sexual harassment and abuse within Congress.

Gillibrand has also publicly denounced Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), who was recently accused of groping and kissing broadcaster Leeann Tweeden without consent during a USO tour in 2006.

There has been an outpouring of sexual abuse or harassment accusations against men in powerful positions since The New York Times and The New Yorker published explosive reports last month on film mogul Harvey Weinstein’s alleged history of sexual abuse and manipulation.

Accusations have since stretched across industries to include political circles, with Senate nominee Roy Moore of Alabama also at the center of sexual misconduct allegations.

U.S. Navy pilot draws obscene pictures over Washington state

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A U.S. Navy pilot drew obscene pictures in the sky over Washington state on Thursday, CBS affiliate KREM-TV reports.
Viewers contacted the station after watching a plane draw what appeared to be crude depictions of a penis in the sky in Okanogan County, which borders Canada. The station posted pictures of the drawings on its website. (Warning: Some viewers may find the pictures offensive.)
A mother in Okanogan, Washington, told the station she was upset because she might have to explain the drawings to her kids.
The Navy told the station that the aircraft involved was based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island off the Washington coast. The air station's website describes it as the "premier naval aviation installation in the Pacific Northwest."

In a statement to the station, the Navy said the incident was "unacceptable."
"The Navy holds its aircrew to the highest standards and we find this absolutely unacceptable, of zero training value and we are holding the crew accountable," the Navy said.
An FAA official told the station there was nothing the agency could do about the incident because it "cannot police morality."

This is what should be being done in pro sports as well........

Muslim Athlete Disrespecting Anthem Pays BIG TIME         11/17/2017  Source: AAN  by: Remington Strelivo

A Muslim college student has been kicked off Kansas's Garden City Community College basketball team – for disrespecting the National Anthem.

Rasool Samir, 19, refused to leave the court during the National Anthem, which was a team rule, during a game on November 1. He continued to practice shooting baskets as "The Star-Spangled Banner" played.

The day after his dismissal, Samir apologized for what happened, saying he did not "mean any disrespect at all to the fans or the flag at last night's game. I am truly sorry to anyone that felt disrespected, and I am also sorry to the school. I apologize for what happened."

Samir has since filed a complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union, claiming that the college violated his First Amendment rights.

The ACLU sent a letter to Garden City Community College, demanding that they give detailed answers about why Samir lost his spot on the team, arguing that, because Garden City is a public school, it must honor Samir's First Amendment rights.

The ACLU cited Samir's religion claiming, "he refrained from participating in the anthem because he is a Muslim and his faith prohibits acts of reverence to anything but God." Their representatives also asserted that the school had stifled freedom of speech, arguing that Samir was forced to engage in "a kind of compelled patriotic salute" to play sports.

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Trump Pulls a Rubio; Twitter Freaks Out  Christine Rousselle  Posted: Nov 15, 2017

Today, during his speech recapping his trip to Asia, President Donald Trump got a bit of a dry mouth and took a sip of water. 
He pulled a Rubio, as one does. (Rubio took an awkward sip of water during his State of the Union response in 2013.) 

Now, because this is 2017, the internet had some feelings about it:

Pres. Trump pauses speech to take big swigs of water

Even Sen. Rubio (R-FL) weighed in and gave some constructive criticism on President Trump's "technique." 

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Similar,but needs work on his form.Has to be done in one single motion & eyes should never leave the camera. But not bad for his 1st time https://twitter.com/warddpatrick/status/930899999092887552 …

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Fox News host tore into Sessions in private meeting with Trump: report  By John Bowden - 11/14/17

During a private meeting with President Trump, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro reportedly tore into Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his refusal thus far to appoint a special prosecutor to probe former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the Uranium One deal.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Pirro met with Trump early this month, during which she “excoriated” the attorney general for not investigating Clinton, Trump’s Democratic opponent in the 2016 presidential race.

The report follows weeks of critical coverage on Pirro’s show, “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” and elsewhere on Fox, of the 2016 deal that allowed a Russian nuclear agency to purchase Uranium One, a Canadian company that owns access to uranium in the U.S.

Clinton ran the State Department under former President Obama when the deal was approved by the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

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REVEALED: Paul Ryan blocking vote on National Concealed Carry Reciprocity    By D.E  Nov 15, 2017

Go HERE right now to sign the petition to tell Speaker Ryan to drop his anti-gun schemes and pass National Concealed Carry Reciprocity.

Photo: Gerald Rich/Flickr (cc by 2.0)

Americans support National Concealed Carry.
President Trump is waiting at his desk to sign National Concealed Carry Reciprocity

Half of the U.S. House has co-sponsored National Concealed Carry Reciprocity.
So why hasn’t there been a vote on it?
A D.C. insider reveals that Speaker Paul Ryan, hoping to placate the anti-gun media, demanded Republicans agree to pass anti-gun laws in exchange for passing National Concealed Carry Reciprocity. After the June 14, 2017, Alexandria attack. Ryan told Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) that “he didn’t think the time was right” for legislation revolving around reciprocity.
It’s apparently because of H.R. 2909, the D.C. Personal Protection Reciprocity Act. Seems Ryan only wants security-protected people like him to have guns – oh, and the criminals! He’s conveniently ignoring the fact that Rep. Scales would have stood a chance if he had been allowed to carry in D.C. where he was headed after his baseball practice in Virginia, which allows concealed carry.
If it’s true that Ryan is blocking this vote: that’s betrayal.

If you want to stop violence, pass National Concealed Carry Reciprocity.  States that adopted concealed carry have seen their crime rates drop faster than states that didn’t.

If National Concealed Carry Reciprocity, it could likely pass the Senate even with Democrats holding enough seats to filibuster.  Many of those Democrats are in pro-gun “red” states, and Democrat leaders are willing to cave on this one issue if it means helping keep the seat in Democrat hands.
Our friends at American Liberty PAC are leading the charge for National Concealed Carry Reciprocity. 

FUNNY.....This article is about Brett Talley (alias "BamainBoston.") but they picture President Trump......?

Trump judicial nominee defended ‘first KKK’ in online arguments: report     By Julia Manchester - 11/16/17

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President Trump's pick to be a federal district judge in Alabama defended the early Ku Klux Klan on a University of Alabama fan online message board, according to a report from Slate.

"Heaven forbid we let the facts get in the way of your righteous indignation, but Forrest, when he decommissioned his men, told them to make peace with the men they had fought and live as good citizens of the United States," Brett Talley wrote on TideFans.com, using his online alias "BamainBoston."

"It was only after the perceived depredations of the Union army during reconstruction that Forrest joined (it is highly unlikely that he founded or acted as the Grand Wizard) the first KKK, which was entirely different than the KKK of the early 19th Century," he said.
"When the Klan turned to racial violence, he distanced himself from the organization as he had long supported the reconciliation of the races. In fact, he often spoke to black organizations."
Buzzfeed first reported that Talley used the pen name "BamainBoston" online.
Slate found that Talley often commented on other controversial issues such as abortion, government overreach, race and southern heritage.
Talley has been the subject of scrutiny as of late, with a New York Times report saying he failed to disclose he was married to Ann Donaldson, the chief of staff to the White House counsel.
The Daily Beast obtained a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, which included Talley as saying he was part of the Tuscaloosa Paranormal Research Group between 2009 and 2010.
Talley was the fourth of Trump’s judicial nominees to be deemed unqualified by the American Bar Association.
The Senate could vote on his nomination as early as Monday.

Al Franken accused of kissing, groping LA TV host without consent     By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News

A California TV host and sports radio broadcaster on Thursday accused Democratic Sen. Al Franken of kissing and groping her without her consent in 2006.

Leeann Tweeden posted a blog detailing the alleged incident and also tweeted a picture of what seems to be a grinning Franken standing over her as she sleeps, pretending to grab her breasts. 

Franken said he doesn't remember the kissing incident but apologized for posing for the picture. He said he intended it to be funny -- but it wasn't.

“I certainly don’t remember the rehearsal for the skit in the same way, but I send my sincerest apologies to Leeann," Franken said in an initial statement. “As to the photo, it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn’t. I shouldn’t have done it.”

 

 

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Secret witness in Senate Clinton probe is ex-lobbyist for Russian firm      Reuters     Joel Schectman3 hrs ago


© AP Photo/Mary Altaffer In this April 6, 2017, photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the Women in the World Summit at Lincoln Center in New York. 

Senate Republicans say 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.
The Senate committee searching for Clinton's alleged wrongdoing is keeping their witness's name cloaked. However, William D. Campbell, a lobbyist, confirmed to Reuters he is the informant who will testify and provide documents to Congress about the Obama Administration’s 2010 approval of the sale of Uranium One, a Canadian company with uranium mines in the United States, to Russia's Rosatom.
At the time of the sale, Campbell was a confidential source for the FBI in a Maryland bribery and kickback investigation of the head of a U.S. unit of Rosatom, the Russian state-owned nuclear power company. Campbell was identified as an FBI informant by prosecutors in open court and by himself in a publicly available lawsuit he filed last year. [Link to page from Campbell lawsuit http://tmsnrt.rs/2zZhZkM and full complaint http://tmsnrt.rs/2zXKMWD]
In a telephone interview, Campbell said he wanted to testify because of his concerns about Russia’s activities in the United States, but declined to comment further.
Campbell's lawyer, Victoria Toensing, who has not previously identified her client, said despite Campbell telling the government "how corrupt the company was,” Rosatom still got permission to buy Uranium One. She did not say what Campbell would reveal regarding any alleged wrongdoing by Clinton.


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House Dems introduce articles of impeachment against Trump
By Mike Lillis and John Bowden - 11/15/17 

Six House Democrats on Wednesday launched the latest official effort to oust President Trump, introducing five new articles of impeachment revolving around the central theme that the president is a danger to the country.

“Given the magnitude of the constitutional crisis, there’s no reason for delay,” said 

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), the sponsor of the resolution.

Joining Cohen in endorsing the articles are Democratic Reps. Luis Gutiérrez (Ill.), Al Green (Texas), Marcia Fudge (Ohio), John Yarmuth (Ky.) and Adriano Espaillat (N.Y.).

The lawmakers pointed to numerous actions by Trump they say make him unfit to be president, but they singled out five actions they say rise to a level meriting impeachment.

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TRUMPS OPPOSITION

Ed Cintron

October 22 

By Charles Krauthammer

I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one of our former presidents set up a group called "Organizing for Action" (OFA).
OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt everything that our current president’s administration is trying to do. This organization goes against our Democracy, and it is an operation that will destroy our way of governing. It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and the processes established over 200 years ago. If it is allowed to proceed then we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries are run. What good is it to have an established government if it is not going to be respected and allowed to follow our laws?

If you had an army some 30,000 strong and a court system stacked over the decades with judges who would allow you to break the laws, how much damage could you do to a country? We are about to find out in America!

Our ex-president said he was going to stay involved through community organizing and speak out on the issues and that appears to be one post-administration promise he intends to keep. He has moved many of his administration's top dogs over to Organizing for Action.

OFA is behind the strategic and tactical implementation of the resistance to the Trump Administration that we are seeing across America, and politically active courts are providing the leverage for this revolution.

OFA is dedicated to organizing communities for "progressive" change. Its issues are gun control, socialist healthcare, abortion, sexual equality, climate change, and of course, immigration reform.

OFA members were propped up by the ex-president's message from the shadows: "Organizing is the building block of everything great we have accomplished Organizers around the country are fighting for change in their communities and OFA is one of the groups on the front lines. Commit to this work in 2017 and beyond."

OFA's website says it obtained its "digital" assets from the ex-president's re-election effort and that he inspired the movement. In short, it is the shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic we know as AMERICA.

Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says, “The OFA will fight President Donald Trump at every turn of his presidency and the ex-president will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House."

Sperry writes that, “The ex-president is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the Trump administration through a network of non-profits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide. The OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate that the OFA has 32,525 (and growing) volunteers nationwide. The ex-president and his wife will oversee the operation from their home/ office in Washington DC.

Think about how this works.. For example: Trump issues an immigration executive order; the OFA signals for protests and statements from pro-immigrant groups; the ACLU lawyers file lawsuits in jurisdictions where activist judges obstruct the laws; volunteers are called to protest at airports and Congressional town hall meetings; the leftist media springs to action in support of these activities; the twitter sphere lights up with social media; and violence follows. All of this happens from the ex-president's signal that he is heartened by the protests.

If Barack Obama did not do enough to destroy this country in the 8 years he was in office, it appears his future plans are to destroy the foundation on which this country has operated on for the last 241 years.

If this does not scare you, then we are in worse trouble than you know.

So, do your part. You have read it, so at least pass this on so others will know what we are up against. We are losing our country and we are so compliant. We are becoming a "PERFECT TARGET" for our enemy!

Charles Krauthammer