Monday, January 28, 2019

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MISSING ONE-YEAR-OLD BOY - Help us locate one-year-old, Jordan Robinson. Investigators believe that the child has sustained injuries and is likely with the subjects pictured here. Please call Det. Plummer at (909) 384-5668 or our dispatch at (909) 383-5311

Happy Birthday Randi Rhodes

APACHE JUNCTION AZ (IFS) --Thank you, Randi Rhodes, for your great incite and your daily words for our lives and your love of our country.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Sunday, January 27, 2019

While Trump deports Southeast Asian refugees en masse, the media stays silent

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

When the FBI Wanted To Sank Hillary Clinton - They Now Find Themselves Unpaid and in Bread Lines, The Irony of It All, and Things that make you go "Hummm"

APACHE JUNCTION AZ (IFS) -- When one speaks of "Karma", this writer immediately thinks of John Lennon's, "Instant Karma" gonna get you.  DON’T LOOK: Feds Uncover Yet Another “Stroking Gun” From Anthony Weiner’s Laptop! It was the NYC Department of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's team of hatters that wanted to push Clinton over the edge, and they did it with "Dirty Deeds" done dirt cheap, a song titled by Slick Pelt.

The FBI held Weiner's laptop until the very last minute, as they knew that James Comey had promised Congress that any new information was discovered, that they (Congress) would be informed immediately, and Comey did his job and reported such, which killed Clinton's chances of being the first woman president in the United States.

Among the brave FBI Agents included Peter Strzok and President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani that led the fight to expose the laptop that had the emails placed on them and then hide the computer until the last minute and forced James Comey to go to Congress and explain it.

After all of those "Dirty Tricks", the FBI got what they wanted President Donald Trump and now he has destroyed their lives forever.  As it is said, "... NO GOODS DEEDS GO UNPUNISHED."  The emails were bogus and had already been screened.

As Mike Huckabee put it, isn't it crazy that one of the final nails in Hillary's election coffin came from...a Weiner?









The FBI ignored Anthony Weiner’s laptop. That may have cost Hillary Clinton the election.




Was the FBI biased against Donald Trump in 2016? Trump and his supporters think so, and now they have fresh evidence: a 500-page report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general. The report includes text messages in which two then–FBI officials, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, spoke of “stopping” Trump. On the other hand, the report concluded: “We found no evidence that the conclusions by Department prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations.”
My reading of the report is more complicated. FBI bias did affect the election, and the bias was, in a sense, pro-Clinton. But the bias didn’t help Clinton. It destroyed her.
On Sept. 26, 2016, as part of a sex crimes investigation, an FBI agent in New York found hundreds of thousands of emails on a laptop belonging to former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who was married at the time to Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide. Two days later, the head of the New York FBI office told dozens of FBI executives, including Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, that the laptop had 140,000 emails possibly relevant to the Clinton investigation. The next day, on Sept. 29, the New York office told several members of the FBI’s Clinton investigation team that the emails included BlackBerry messages. That was a red flag, because although the FBI had closed the Clinton investigation in July 2016, it had never found old messages from her BlackBerry account, which theoretically, was the most likely place to contain evidence of criminal intent.


https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/fbi-ignored-anthony-weiners-laptop-and-it-may-have-cost-hillary-clinton-the-election.html

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Anastasia Vashukevich

 | ThursdayJan. 17, 2019, 4:45 p.m.
MOSCOW — A model from Belarus who claimed to have recordings shedding light on the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia was detained Thursday at a Moscow airport on prostitution allegations, the police said.
The model, Anastasia Vashukevich, had been deported from Thailand earlier in the day after spending nine months in prison on charges of conspiracy and soliciting prostitution.
She was booked to fly to Minsk, Belarus, but was detained along with three others traveling with her as she changed planes at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport, according to her husband and another person traveling with her.
No evidence has emerged of the tape that Vashukevich claimed showed contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russians. Her arrest in Moscow was unexpected and blocked her from possibly talking to dozens of journalists waiting for her in the airport’s arrivals zone.
Gregory Kogan, a close friend of Vashukevich, asserted that Russian and Belarusan diplomats in Thailand had pledged the group would be safe if they left for Russia or flew via Moscow.
The four now face charges of inducement into prostitution, said a police statement quoted by the Interfax news agency. They face a maximum of six years in prison.
Vashukevich, a model and self-described “sex expert” also known as Nastya Rybka, became an unlikely figure in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
Alexei Navalny, a Russian anti-corruption activist, last year highlighted Instagram videos from 2016 apparently showing her on a yacht with Russian metals magnate Oleg Deripaska and a Russian deputy prime minister.
Soon after her apparent connection to Deripaska came to light, Vashukevich and several Russians were arrested while conducting what she described as a sex training seminar for Russian tourists in the Thai resort town of Pattaya. In jail, she pleaded for U.S. help, saying she had recordings revealing ties between Russia and Donald Trump.
Deripaska used to work with Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Deripaska has denied wrongdoing.
On Tuesday, she and her seven co-defendants pleaded guilty in Thai court, clearing the way for them to be deported.
“They’re dumb allegations, with no grounds and no explanation,” her husband, Nikolay Vashukevich, who wasn’t one of the four detained, said in a text message as he waited in the airport’s transit area to learn his wife’s fate.

Trump blocks Pelosi trip as tensions mount over U.S. government shutdown

Trump blocks Pelosi trip as tensions mount over U.S. government shutdown
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Steve Holland, James Oliphant




WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s conflict with Democrats over a partial U.S. government shutdown escalated on Thursday with Trump denying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi use of military aircraft for an overseas trip in apparent retaliation for her suggestion that he delay the annual State of the Union address.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) arrives for a press briefing on the 27th day of a partial government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 17, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
The rising tension suggested that the shutdown, now in its 27th day, remains far from being resolved.

In the meantime, the Trump administration continued to try to mitigate the shutdown’s impact. The State Department said it would call its furloughed employees back to work next week for national security reasons.

Pelosi had been scheduled to travel on a military aircraft as part of a congressional delegation to Belgium, where NATO is based, and Afghanistan to visit American troops stationed there.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown/trump-blocks-pelosi-trip-as-tensions-mount-over-u-s-government-shutdown-idUSKCN1PB2TG

Mike Pence's 'Bush League' Move On ISIS | Morning Joe | MSNBC



APACHE JUNCTION AZ (IFS) -- VP Mike Pence, is the most un-informed man alive, or just really ignorant of the facts and left in the basement without any communications.  Making a statement about the defeat of ISIS as four (4) US Military personnel were killed just hours before this TV appearance, show that the incompetence of this person and administration is just on the verge of a fatal crash and burn.  Getting facts first before you speak is essential to any situation. 

Pence declares 'ISIS has been defeated' on the same day as deadly ...


1 day ago - On the same day that an ISIS-claimed attack killed US service members in Syria, Vice President Mike Pence declared that "the caliphate has ...

Mitt Romney Caves In on Russian Vote


APACHE JUNCTION AZ (IFS) -- It was no surprise here, as we predicted about the junior senator from Utah would be a traitor and vote with the old men on the DJT Ship "Trumptanic" as his tough talk was just that "all talk".  Romney did not waste any time in casting his very first votes to strip the Russian Bankers of sanctions and giving President Trump his way.

When in the future, that the US Senate is looking for a real "grown-up" in the room, Romney is not it.  Just a "Milk-toast" wimp that needs to go back to Utah, as he proves he is "worthless" and not a leader at all.

1 day ago - Senate Democrats fail to stop Trump administration from lifting sanctions on firms linked to Putin friend. ... Sen. Mitt Romney, who had warned as a 2012 presidential candidate that Russia is the U.S.' top geopolitical foe, votes against Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's resolution.


 · Published: 4 hours ago 

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/01/17/eli-lake-romney-fails-his/


When Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, opened 2019 with a scathing commentary lamenting President Donald Trump’s lack of moral leadership, it seemed he was claiming the mantle of the late Sen. John McCain.
Like McCain, Romney — for the most part — did not partake in the ritual fealty that so many of Trump’s vanquished foes demonstrated. Sure, he met with Trump in November 2016 to audition for secretary of state. But Romney never fully bent the knee.
So one might think Romney would have joined the 11 other Republican senators who voted this week to stop the Trump administration from lifting sanctions meant to squeeze Russian President Vladimir Putin’s allies. Senate aides told me Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not try too hard to whip the vote, and neither did the White House.

Sunday, January 6, 2019

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Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued to Grow Last Year



By VERONICA NETO
3:56 PM EST
Albums sold on vinyl and cassette both saw a growth in sales according to BuzzAngle Music’s End-Year Report profiling U.S. music industry consumption for 2018.
Vinyl sales grew by just shy of 12% from 8.6 to 9.7 million sales, while cassette sales grew by almost 19% from 99,400 to 118,200 copies sold in the US, The Verge reported.
Sixty-six percent of those vinyl sales were of albums that are more than three years old and feature classic bands like The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, and Pink Floyd, reported BuzzAngle. Cassettes saw popularity in newer releases.
CDs on the other hand have declined by 18.5% in popularity leading to a total decline in physical album sales of over 15%, reported The Verge. Meanwhile, audio streaming saw an increase of 41.8%, the largest of all music consumption.

http://fortune.com/2019/01/06/vinyl-cassette-sales-2018-growth/

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