Year: 2016

Politico – by Burgess Everett

FBI Director James Comey “may have broken the law” by showing favoritism to Republicans in announcing new investigative steps regarding Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid alleged on Sunday evening.

In a sharply worded letter that suggested Reid has lost confidence in Comey, the Nevada senator charged that Comey is withholding sensitive information about Russian meddling in the United States election and had “rushed to publicize” what Reid deems “thin innuendo” about emails that may be relevant to the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s email practices. Reid said his staff’s investigation into Comey’s work indicates the FBI director may have violated the Hatch Act, a law that prohibits political activity by most executive branch officials.   Continue reading “Reid: FBI director ‘may have broken the law’”

From the Chicago Tribune of all places…

Chicago Tribune – by John Kass

s America become so numb by the decades of lies and cynicism oozing from Clinton Inc. that it could elect Hillary Clinton as president, even after Friday’s FBI announcement that it had reopened an investigation of her emails while secretary of state?

We’ll find out soon enough.
Continue reading “Democrats should ask Clinton to step aside”

RT

New York City’s Metropolitan Opera was forced to cancel its Saturday afternoon performance after unidentified powder, allegedly human ashes, was sprinkled into the orchestra pit.

Investigators said the man, whose name has not been disclosed, was in front of the first row of seats when he scattered a dust-like substance into the orchestra pit during the second intermission of Rossini’s William Tell opera on Saturday. Luckily, no musicians were in the pit at the time.    Continue reading “Man scatters ‘friend’s ashes’ in NYC Met Opera prompting evacuation”

Mail.com

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament on Monday elected Michel Aoun, an 81-year-old former army commander and strong ally of the militant group Hezbollah, as the country’s president, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the top post and a political crisis that brought state institutions perilously close to collapse.

Aoun secured a simple majority of votes in the house after a chaotic session that saw several rounds of voting because extra ballots appeared in the ballot box each time. He garnered 83 votes out of 127 lawmakers present at the session.   Continue reading “Lebanese parliament elects new president, ending vacuum”

Mail.com

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The trial of a white former police officer captured on dramatic cellphone video shooting an unarmed black motorist began Monday at the county courthouse in Charleston’s historic district.

The first of almost 200 potential jurors began reporting for duty, with individual jury questioning set to begin later in the day. The jurors seated will have to decide if 34-year-old Michael Slager is guilty of murder in the shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott as he ran from a traffic stop in April 2015. If convicted Slager faces 30 years to life imprisonment.   Continue reading “Trial of officer seen on video shooting black man starting”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has obtained a warrant to begin reviewing newly discovered emails that may be relevant to the Hillary Clinton email server investigation, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

FBI investigators want to review emails of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were found on a device seized during an unrelated sexting investigation of Anthony Weiner, a former New York congressman and Abedin’s estranged husband.   Continue reading “Warrant to search newly found emails obtained by FBI”

Paul Craig Roberts

Putin expressed hopes that a new US president will work with him to rectify the dangerous deterioration in relations between the US and Russia. Obviously, this cannot happen if the new president is Hillary.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/10/30/president-putin-valdai-speech-obama-legacy-can-be-rectified.html

Here is President Putin’s speech at Valdai:   Continue reading “President Putin Asks US To Stop Provoking Russia”

Todd Starnes

A massive pile of manure was dumped on the doorstep of the Warren County Democrats in Ohio – and police are searching for the culprit.

It sounds like one of those shovel-ready jobs President Obama is always talking about.

A spokesperson for the party told Fox 18 that it took three trucks to move all the manure. That’s a whole lot of fertilizer – even for Democrats.    Continue reading “Load of manure dumped outside DNC HQ”

KRON 4

LAFAYETTE (KRON)—A police department in the East Bay is looking for a new home.

It is getting the boot from a space it has leased for the past 25 years

The owner of the Desco Plaza says he will not renew the lease for the Lafayette Police Department because there is no room for all the police cruisers.   Continue reading “Lafayette Police Department is facing eviction”

Video Rebel’s Blog

No matter who wins the elections we will have a Depression in the very near future. It will be far more severe than in the 1930s when 3 million Americans starved to death. Professor Steve Keen said that we can reliably predict the severity of the coming Financial Crisis by counting the number of Unpayable Debts that we have to cancel. Keen said we are headed to the worst Financial Crisis in 500 years because we have more Unpayable Debts to cancel than at anytime in the last five centuries.

Hint: Dr Michael Hudson said, “Unpayable Debts will never be repaid.”   Continue reading “A Few Suggestions For The US Military After Martial Law”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Yesterday, we reported that the FBI has found “tens of thousands of emails” belonging to Huma Adein on Anthony Weiner’s computer, raising questions how practical it is that any conclusive finding will be available or made by the FBI in the few days left before the elections

Now, according to the WSJ, it appears that Federal agents are preparing to scour roughly 650,000 emails that, as we reported moments ago were discovered weeks ago on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, to see how many relate to a prior probe of Hillary Clinton’s email use, as metadata on the device suggests there may be thousands sent to or from the private server that the Democratic nominee used while she was secretary of state, according to people familiar with the matter.   Continue reading “650,000 Emails Found On Anthony Weiner’s Laptop; DOJ Blocked Foundation Probe”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

This presidential election cycle has been nothing, if not a controversy-laden shit show of the bizarre — and a monumentally pricey one, at that. It’s now estimated the stupefying cost for the duopoly to provide us with two altogether unappealing candidates — possibly the least liked in American electoral history — as well as congressional minions, totals no less than $6.6 billion.   Continue reading “There Has To Be a Cheaper Way To Find The Worst People — 2016 Elections Will Cost Over $6 Billion”

Reuters

U.S. prosecutors on Friday regrouped to strategize for their next trial of armed militants who occupied a wildlife center in Oregon the day after seven others at a related trial were surprisingly acquitted of all charges.

The group’s leader, Ammon Bundy, and six others were declared not guilty on Thursday of conspiracy charges stemming from their role in the armed takeover and 41-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.   Continue reading “U.S. prosecutors regroup for second trial in Oregon occupation”