2017

Friday. Time for the NEWS DUMP!

SEPTEMBER MARKS FIRST MONTH OF JOB LOSSES IN 7 YEARS.

One thing that is guaranteed to cripple a President faster than scandal is a failing economy.

Job growth was negative for the first times in 7 years.

In English, for the first time since the Great Recession, the economy lost jobs.

Granted, this is the first time jobs have shrunk, but the previous few months have seen smaller gains than expected, and far less than compared to the previous years.

TRUMP APPROVAL RATING AT 32% PER AP.

2 out of 3 people think Donald Trump sucks at his job. Puerto Rico, Russia, North Korea, Travel abuses by his staff, opening his mouth. Pick a disaster.

MUELLER AND THE CLOSED DOOR MEETING.

According to ABC News, Robert Mueller met with a group of unknown attorneys and the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C.

Why? That’s the question.

There are a few rumors floating around as to why, spanning the range from arguing about subpoenas to unsealing indictments to nullifying the election.

I’ll keep an eye on this, see where it goes.

KELLY AND TILLERSON RUMORS.

From the Rumor Mill, there were reports that Rex Tillerson and/or John Kelly were on their way out.

As of 21:47 EST, they both still have a job.

RUSSIA SOLD MERCH THROUGH FACEBOOK, TARGETED RUST BELT.

Not only did the Russians target the Rust Belt, THEY SOLD MERCH! It’s like an Indie Wrestling show. The only thing missing are the misogynists who ruin the fun for everyone.

Oh, that’s right, the Gamergate bros joined the alt-right.

STEELE IN TALKS TO MEET WITH SENATE.

This is developing. My guess is Steele wanted to get the go-ahead from Mueller’s team and wanted to vet who he talks to before agreeing to meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee.

NY ASSEMBLYMAN WANTS INVESTIGATION INTO NYC AG CYRUS VANCE.

Here’s a piece in this unfolding drama. Keep in mind, State charges are outside of pardon protection.

INTEL ACRONYMS FROM ERIC GARLAND.

Thanks to Eric Garland, here’s a breakdown of Intelligence Acronyms. I’ll add this to the links section this weekend.

TRUMP’S ACTIONS ON IRAN AND BIRTH CONTROL.

Trump is trying to undo birth control access protections under the ACA, and roll back the Iran Nuclear deal.

About the only consistency in Trump’s agenda is undo what the black guy did.

TIM MURPHY RESIGNED.

Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person.

FORMER CRUZ AIDE SAYS INVESTIGATORS SHOULD LOOK AT ENTIRE ELECTION.

This is interesting. One of Ted Cruz’s aides, Ron Nehring, went on Ari Melber’s show to say that the various investigations should look into the GOP Primary, and if the Russians interfered.

We know for certain that the Russians screwed around with us during the general election, and some shenanigans in the Democratic Primary, but there hasn’t been much focus on the GOP Primary.

Why’s that?

The trolls were out, the knives drawn, the fighting was ugly. There were reports that the GOP was hacked, just like the Democrats, but the mails were kept inside the party.

This is worth a look.

YAHOO! DOCUMENTARY ABOUT OCTOBER 7, 2016

Check this out. It’s called 64 Hours.

In a span of two hours last year, history changed. Hurricane Matthew, The White House announced that Russia is trying to screw with the election, Pussygate, and Wikileaks released some of Hilary’s mails.

In less time than it takes to watch The Princess Bride.

That’s it for today. I’m not sure what I’ll write about this weekend. I think I’ll do something in the Crime section about FARA, Voter Fraud, or Hacking. Then again, I’m due for an article about Bernie Sanders.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

Daily Check-In 10/5/2017

Thursday.

UNINSTALL KASPERSKY SOFTWARE YESTERDAY!

If you have Kaspersky Anti-Virus, or any other software installed on your computer, uninstall that shit right the fuck now.

Then, rip the hard drive out, take it to a person who can get your special files off it, and only if you don’t have backups already.

Then buy a new computer, and never, ever, ever, ever, ever install ANY Kaspersky software again.

DO IT! This post will still be here when you’re done.

Why go to such extremes?

Here’s why. The Russians stole a metric fucktonne of information from the NSA, and they used Kaspersky to do it.

An NSA contractor who had Kaspersky installed on their computer, had downloaded some files to their laptop. The Russians, using Kaspersky as a backdoor, tunneled in to this machine and stole all of the files on the laptop. Since this mental midget didn’t get caught the first time, they kept doing this, until eventually other IC agencies found out about the leak.

IS JOHN KELLY OUT AS CHIEF OF STAFF?

This one comes from the Rumor Mill. Take it with a grain of salt. Sea Salt works well, but if you have Himalayan Pink Rock Salt, just use it.

Earlier this week, when Trump was on his way to Las Vegas, Chief of Staff John Kelly was not on Air Force 1 when it took off. While not completely unusual, it did raise some eyebrows.

According to a couple people on Twitter, John Kelly either already had resigned or will resign.

john-kelly-face-palmedited

Yep, that’s him listening to Donald Trump fuck up a speech at the U.N. by ad-libbing that Neo-Nazis are fine people.

The reporting is a little sporadic. @AngryWhiteHouseStaffer (Angry) and @Alt_SpicerLies (Spicy) reported early in the day that Kelly had quit last week, but was serving out his notice.

Confirmation has been sketchy on this. Expect to hear something about this tomorrow in the FRIDAY NEWS DUMP!

GENERALS SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP

This is a bit peculiar. In a well-functioning American Republic, the Military Leaders defer to the Civilian leadership in pretty much everything that isn’t military business. The Military serves the Citizenry, not vice-versa.

So, when multiple generals and admirals speak out against the President and his policies, that is definitely not normal.

Speaking out against a Senior Officer is heavily frowned upon in strict chains of command like the Military. (One of the reasons I didn’t serve. It’s not that I have a problem with authority figures, I have a problem with idiots in authority, and I don’t always say the smartest thing in the spur of the moment.) Speaking out against the Commander in Chief is nearly verboten.

The Military is acting like the conscious of the country while the President actively does the worst thing possible at all times.

BREITBART COURTED ALT-RIGHT. HOW THE F*** DID BUZZFEED GET ALL OF MILO’S EMAILS?

Here’s a great article by BuzzFeed about Milo Yiannopoulos and how rose through the ranks at Breitbart from a Tech Editor to the Face and Voice of the Alt-Right. It’s a very, very long read, but it is absolutely amazing. This is the kind of reporting that used to be only the domain of the Washington Post or the New York Times. Like, Pulitzer quality reporting.

This article asks “How does a Gay Jew with a Greek name and Black husband end up as the poster boy for a bunch of misogynistic, racist, hate-filled, anti-democracy white supremacists and Neo-Nazis?”

And yes, I’m aware that I censored out the F-Bomb in this section title, but dropped it like 10 times so far.

TRUMP AND THE “FAKE NEWS” TWEETS

Once again, Trump calls the media FAKE NEWS. Once again, Congress says Not Fake.

This is getting old. Every time Trump hears about a report he doesn’t like, he cries “Fake News.” The worse the news, that tiny-handed prick jumps on the caps lock key, then attacks the place that reached out to him or the White House by comment.

SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION IMPLICATED IN USING PRIVATE JETS FOR TRAVEL.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has been accused of taking 7 trips on private jets. If her name sounds familiar, she’s also Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife.

On top of that, The Cryptkeeper and Trump Spokeswoman KellyAnne Conway has been on several of those flights, and more details came out today about Ryan Zinke’s use of jets.

Chao, Shulkin, Perry, Mnuchin, Price, Zinke. 5 out of 15 cabinet members. One has been forcefully resigned already.

NYC AG RETURNS SOME OF THE MONEY DONATED BY TRUMP

Guilty Conscience Much? Or, is he returning money in an attempt to not appear dirty AF and avoid a corruption and bribery charge?

DEBUNKED IRS SCANDAL, AND THE FRACTURING GOP

New York Magazine wrote this article breakdown about the mass hysteria that’s taking over the GOP at times, this time against the IRS.

That’s it for …, oh, what’s that? One more story?

What’s that? oh…

ROBERT MUELLER MET WITH CHRISTOPHER STEELE THIS PAST SUMMER!

I talked about this yesterday, but I didn’t have an article confirming it. The Steele Dossier was originally a piece of opposition research against Donald Trump paid for by one of his opponents in the GOP Primary (*cough*Jeb Bush*cough*). That person hired Fusion GPS, who then contracted out former MI6 Agent Christopher Steele. Steele, having previously worked on the FIFA corruption scandal, combined some of his previous work and rolled it into his job on Donald Trump.

The Dossier is definitely worth a read. There are some salacious claims in there, but much of it has already been confirmed. Multiple meetings, people, and places have been corroborated by the press, and reverse engineered by law enforcement and Congressional investigators.

This past summer, Steele shared his info with the FBI. He shared his notes, his sources, his raw intel, all of it with the FBI.

And Bobby Three Sticks was part of that conversation.

That’s it for today. I’m going to do a little neatening up tonight, and plan my next few long form stories. I’ve got a few in the pipeline, like a breakdown of the Justice League, more articles on Crimes, a few more breakdowns of how the government works, how to spot propaganda, and why voter fraud is a red herring.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

Daily Check-In 10/4/2017

HSIOW. Holy Shit, it’s Only Wednesday.

SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE FINDS THAT RUSSIA MEDDLED IN ELECTION. CONTINUES INFLUENCE OPERATION TO THIS DAY.

The Senate Intelligence Committee had a press conference today. This is not standard operating procedure. Normally, they wouldn’t announce anything until the final report.

Why did they do this?

To light a fire under the asses of the states to get their shit together for next year’s elections.

What they said and didn’t say was important. Very important.

What did they say?

The Russians meddled in the 2016 election in the United States, and in elections around the world.

They continue their operations to this day, and show no signs of stopping.

They’ve interviewed over 100 people, and cannot rule out collusion between Trump and the Russians.

They hit a wall with reverse engineering the Steele Dossier.

What didn’t they say?

They didn’t say that Trump, his family, or his staff were exonerated.

They didn’t say that the investigation was wrapping up immediately.

They didn’t say that they were giving up on the Dossier.

STEELE DOSSIER PART OF MUELLER PROBE.

Speaking of the Steele Dossier, guess who’s coming?

Mueller’s coming.

He has the same information the FBI has. Which means that he has the sources that Steele gave them months ago.

TILLERSON AND THE FUCKING MORON.

Ever call your boss a moron? I prefer idiot, jackass, nincompoop, fucktard, waste of skin, or useless sack of electrified meat.

Well, I have. Many times over the past 20 plus years that I’ve been in the workplace.

This is one thing that I have in common with the Secretary of State. We have both questioned the mental state of our immediate supervisor, threatened to quit, denied the quitting part, but not the calling out the boss’s mental state.

Pro Tip: Call out the decision first, then the decision making process, then the decision maker, in that order. Offer suggestions at each step. Never open with “You’re a fucking moron!”

TRUMP KIDS, SoHo PROJECT, AND BRIBERY.

A big story broke today about corruption, bribery, and organized crime involving the Trumps. This time, though, it implicates Ivanka and Donnie Jr.

Trump SoHo was a clusterfuck from day one, which was used as a money laundering front. Many of the people who bought condos sued for fraud.

Did you know that lawsuits are another way to launder money? Party A sues Party B, dirty money is put into escrow, case gets dropped, then the now clean money gets returned.

The NYC AG Office wanted to prosecute the children. NYCAG Cyrus Jones overruled his staff following a visit from Mark Kasowitz, and $75,000 in campaign donations.

Well, Mueller’s team is looking into this.

This is a development worthy of hyperbole.

This is the first time that Ivanka has been directly implicated in a crime from before her time in the White House. Not just that, but she was the brains behind the operation.

Next, NYC was ready to prosecute. The only reason they didn’t was what looked like bribery.

Finally, they partnered with Bayrock Property. Who runs that? Known FBI informant Felix Sater.

Get the popcorn.

RUSSIA’S FAVORITE REP MET WITH LAWYER FROM JUNE 9TH 2016 MEETING.

Yep, it’s Rohrbacher.

FURIOUS REPUBLICANS TRYING TO SHIT DOWN RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION.

WaPo reports that GOP groups around the country are putting pressure on House and Senate members of the various committees investigating Trump to stop their work, because of what they might find, and how much it’s killing Trump’s work.

This will end badly.

Years from now, when people ask “When did the Republican Party die?”, this will be one of the pivotal moments that I’ll point to.

Instead of letting them work to find the truth, they want to protect one man. One man, who isn’t worthy of respect or loyalty, and who has no loyalty to them.

They are putting party over Country during a war. History will not look kindly on them.

That’s it for today. Oh, wait, one more…

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

Daily Check-In 10/3/2017

Tuesday.

Today was a weird one. On one hand, we’re dealing with the fallout of the Las Vegas shooting. On the other, the world continues.

TRUMP IN PUERTO RICO MAKES AN ASS OF HIM SELF. DEATH TOLL RISES TO 34 HOURS AFTER HE LEAVES.

That last part is a little confusing. Earlier in the day, the official death toll was 16. Hours later, it was raised to 34. 18 people didn’t just spontaneously die. These people were dead for a while, but there is a process to declaring someone deceased. I’m not completely sure of the process, but if there aren’t any clerks or coroners to sign off on the deaths, they aren’t officially dead.

Expect more people to officially die in the next few days.

PUTIN THREATENED CANADA OVER MAGNITSKY ACT

Canada is debating their own version of the Global Magnitsky Act, which targets those who routinely commit human rights abuses. This targets Russia in general, and Putin specifically. Putin threatened retaliation against Canada if they pass this bill.

As a side point, it looks like Russia is ramping up its attacks on Canada and their upcoming elections.

MORE DETAILS EMERGE ON RUSSIAN USE OF FACEBOOK

We’re just getting started with learning how the Russians did it. 10 million ad views on 3,000 ads, at a cost of $100,000. The ads were targeted to people in key districts that had tendencies to either buy into crazy ideas, or were already sympathetic to their cause.

MERCERS PAYING PART OF TRUMP’S LEGAL FEES

The Mercer Family, the money behind Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica, are paying some of Donald Trump’s legal fees, and started this the day that Comey was fired.

The Mercer’s are in it up to their necks. If Trump goes down, they’ll follow.

RUSSIAN HACKER EXTRADITED TO UNITED STATES.

One of the hackers involved in Russia’s hacking of the election was arrested in Spain. Peter Leshayov, a man responsible for one of the largest bot nets in the world, was nabbed while on vacation in Barcelona.

Where it gets interesting is, while in police custody, he told his wife that he was arrested for his role in the American election.

Russia fought his extradition to the United States.

JARED AND IVANKA SET UP PERSONAL EMAIL FOR WHITE HOUSE BUSINESS ON TRUMP SERVERS.

So, let’s say that the most powerful attorney in the United States says “hand over all of your emails concerning White House business. Do something stupid, and we will fuck your day up.”

What is the stupidest thing that a person could do?

If you answered “set up a personal email server hosted by my family in the company headquarters, and possibly open everyone up to even further investigation” then congratulations, you are the dumbest motherfucker in Washington, D.C.

You’re also either Jared Kushner or Ivanka Trump.

The article that I linked to did some quick, yet in-depth network tracing that showed that the mail servers used for ijkfamily.com, the domain they created for their mail, were actually two mail servers used by trumporg.com.

This is incredibly stupid. If those servers weren’t already under investigation, they are now. And there’s a good chance that one of those two forwarded classified documents to this unsecured email.

Those servers open up the entire IT infrastructure of Trump Org to a subpoena. This includes backups, servers they communicated with, and any devices they talked to.

Don’t forget the IT Staff. Think any of them are loyal enough to do time for Jared?

The irony that email could take down the Trump’s is not lost on me.

IN OTHER NEWS:

MUELLER IS PLANNING FOR PRE-EMPTIVE PARDONS, HIRED MOST EXPERIENCED APPELLATE LAWYER

FLORIDA RUSSIAN WHO PURCHASED TRUMP PROPERTIES FIRED AFTER GETTING CAUGHT BUYING MULTI MILLION DOLLAR CONDOS ON $75,000 SALARY.

MOST NEWS SHARED DURING ELECTION WAS FAKE.

WHITE HOUSE ANTICIPATES DAMAGE AND FALLOUT FROM RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION.

That’s it for today. I’m expecting to hear some bigger news about Jared Kushner before the end of the week. There’s been too much noise recently.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur