Tuesday Morning Breakfast For The Brain

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Christopher Steele: I Was Hired to Help Hillary Clinton Challenge the 2016 Election Results

Via Breitbart News

Christopher Steele, the former British spy who prepared the Russia “dossier” that has led to more than two years of investigations into President Donald Trump’s campaign, has told a London court that he was hired to provide a basis to challenge the legitimacy of the 2016 presidential election in the event that Trump won.

The Washington Times reported Monday (original links):

He said the law firm Perkins Coie wanted to be in a position to contest the results based on evidence he unearthed on the Trump campaign conspiring with Moscow on election interference.

His scenario is contained in a sealed Aug. 2 declaration in a defamation law suit brought by three Russian bankers in London. The trio’s American attorneys filed his answers Tuesday in a libel lawsuit in Washington against the investigative firm Fusion GPS, which handled the former British intelligence officer.

In an answer to interrogatories, Mr. Steele wrote: “Fusion’s immediate client was law firm Perkins Coie. It engaged Fusion to obtain information necessary for Perkins Coie LLP to provide legal advice on the potential impact of Russian involvement on the legal validity of the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election.

“Based on that advice, parties such as the Democratic National Committee and HFACC Inc. (also known as ‘Hillary for America’) could consider steps they would be legally entitled to take to challenge the validity of the outcome of that election.”

(Read the full Washington Times article here.)

Steele’s dossier was used by the FBI to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on several Trump associates. The FBI never told the FISA court explicitly that the Democratic National Committee or the Hillary Clinton campaign had paid for the dossier, though it did indicate that the document had been compiled as opposition research.

Read the entire article HERE.

Michael Savage being silenced by ‘corporate censorship,’ attorney says

By Cheryl K. Chumley

The voice of New York, come January 7, may be no more.

That’s because WABC, one of the city’s premiere, preeminent stations, is poised to boot Michael Savage — to deplatform him, in broadcast-speak, said his attorney, Daniel Horowitz, in a telephone interview.

WABC isn’t saying such; in fact, a recent news release from the station indicates Savage will be moving into a new, fresher format designed to take advantage of emerging media, one that will see him do one hour of radio alongside one hour of podcast.

But the behind-scenes story is a bit different.

According to Horowitz, who said he’s seen “the emails back and forth” between his client, Savage, and the radio powers-who-be, “The Savage Nation” is actually poised to go dark on WABC on January 7.

And not just on WABC: Horowitz said media powerhouses in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., are all giving the boot to Savage, as well.

OK. So out with the old, in with the new?

Perhaps. Perhaps that’s how the radio gods might put it. But given Savage’s ratings and time-tested popularity with the people, that excuse doesn’t meet the smell test.

More likely, it’s this: Political distaste for Savage’s fiercely independent streak.

“The only reason I can see,” Savage said, in a telephone interview, “is because of politics. … It makes no sense. I have a loyal, large audience. Why not at least do reruns at night?”

Horowitz put it blunter.

“Michael’s voice, unlike [his conservative competitors] has always been very independent,” Horowitz said. “Savage is completely a wild card, right? And that’s what they’re trying to kill. It’s all about corporate control. Taking him off the air is not a business decision.”

Read the entire article HERE.

Michael Cohen Heads To ‘America’s Cushiest Prison’

Via Forbes

Forbes loves lists! It lists billionaires, top paid models, top paid authors, top paid athletes …. and on and on. We also have a list of the “Cushiest Prisons,” and nearly every cable news network has jumped on the fact that President Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, is heading to Otisville federal prison camp … one of the “cushiest.”

I would think that one would prefer a cushy prison over a notorious one and Otisville is better than most. It is close to NYC and was the choice location for Bernie Madoff but his 150 year prison term made him ineligible for a minimum security camp. According to Bureau of Prisons policy, in order to eligible for prison camp, an inmate has to have less than 10 years to serve. Bernie will have to wait about 140 years for the transfer. In the meantime, Cohen will be incarcerated with former New York State Senator Dean Skelos who will begin serving his 4-year sentence at Otisville in early 2019 …

Read the entire article HERE.

Women’s March Group Disbands After Shocking Report Detailing Anti-Semitism

Via The Daily Wire

Women’s March organizers in Washington state have announced that they are dissolving their chapter of the national Women’s March after an explosive report from Tablet Magazine which detailed rampant anti-Semitism in the national organization’s highest ranks.

The Washington Times reports that the Washington state Women’s March group — an active group within the organizations fifty-state system — could no longer abide blatant attacks on their Jewish members from some of the national group’s leaders, including Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez, and Tamika Mallory.

The group’s spokeswoman took to Facebook to explain the “difficult” decision.

“Continuing to be a part of the Women’s March with the blatant bigotry they display would be breaking a promise,” she wrote. “We can’t betray our Jewish community by remaining a part of this organization.”

The spokeswoman, Angie Beem, later told the Spokane Spokesman-Review that she could no longer abide Sarsour, Perez, and Mallory’s ties to Louis Farrakhan. Beem added that while she knows the decision to disband an active organization would come as a surprise to some of the group’s membership, she hasn’t gotten a lot of pushback on her decision to disengage from the national March.

Read the entire article HERE.

France prepares ‘last resort’ chemical weapon that can be smothered around Paris to keep Yellow Vest rioters away from key buildings as anti-Macron protests continue

Via The Daily Mail

French security forces are ready to smother the centre of Paris with a ‘last resort’ chemical weapon in a bid to keep protesters away from key buildings, it has emerged.

Astonishing revelations about the debilitating powder – which can be spread across an area the size of six football pitches in just ten seconds – highlights the increasing desperation of President Emmanuel Macron’s administration as it faces up to a law and order crisis.

The country has been hit by five straight weeks of violence sparked by the Yellow Vests protest movement that has seen national monuments including the Arc de Triomphe ransacked.

There were 168 arrests in Paris on Saturday alone as the demonstrators – who are named after their high visibility jackets – fought running battles with police, who responded with water cannon, baton charges and tear gas.

Now senior officers have confirmed that some of the 14 armoured cars deployed by gendarmes contained ‘a radical device that was only to be used as a last resort’ against their own citizens.

Read the entire article HERE.

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