Mannafort Trial

On August 17,2016 [almost two years ago] Cyclops posted  "TRUMPf  & CLINTON CAMPAIGN  Update"

this included the url below from a conservative web site REDSTATE

http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/08/17/report-paul-manafort-laid-groundwork-russias-invasion-crimea-trump-will-probably-recognize/

Cyclops said :   If true--are you betting against it?-then this is Treason.No really it is Treason.

It transpired that that was the day Mannafort "resigned" as  Trumpfski's campaign manager.

This was followed by a post on January 20,2017  " Trumpf Campaign and the  Kremlin"
https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=bfUC82QBAAA.V14HubE2yAMqD1dwvM2AjhyVbLDf99fpeTtKN4BnWKEnZ131Pa94Bj3vZCthOF8uZutuNb8ihhyJ9nV4bANARw.rjOi42ctfOuZH3ZbNMkLuQ&postId=5112424449027052005&type=POST
in which he predicted : 

 “If the Republican Congress has the patriotism to prevent the White House closing down these investigations then I have little doubt that Manafort will be charged with treason. Failing a full inquiry he may get away with serving time for tax evasion."

The post referrenced the NY  Times 

 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html?_r=0

The trial for Tax Evasion has Begun before Judge Ellis in Alexandria Federal Court.

Will  Treason Trial follow? Will  Mannafort  flip? Will  Polidium or Novichok get him first?

Labour Party Anti Semitism--redux

I have resisted writing a blog post about  Labour Party Anti Semitism.

The last time I wrote on this it turned into a rant against Ed Miliband.

On re reading a week or so later I was a little embarrassed by my tone. 

Just the tone NOT the substance.

Livingstone madness,Milne poison and  Corbyn  dissembling had hit a nerve.

The latest episode of this farce/tragedy  has led to a correspondence from old friends and obliges me to share.

To update non UK recipients:

• The Labour Party leadership has been forced by pressure from within and from  a concerned public to issue a "code of conduct" on Anti Semitism .
• An early draft of this included a very widely accepted  " International Definition of Anti-semitism" that has been adopted unabridged around the world. 
• The leadership however saw fit to amend /edit this for "clarity".

A redraft by Seamus Milne removed  clauses    

                              

• Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.
• Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

The first has been an anti Semitic trope since the formation of the nation state and the second is incendiary;guaranteed to anger Jews,Zionist or not.

Apparently Corbyn and the party leadership do not regard these clauses as sufficiently "depositive" to indicate an anti Jewish bias.

The new abridged definition was proposed after extensive "consultation" with Jewish groups and across the Labour Party.

The draft caused uproar and led to the Labour parliamentary group of MPs to reject it and to call on the Parties National Executive Committee to  adopt the Universal  definition without parsing  the text or its grammar.

The next day the NEC ignored the uproar and adopted the draft.

If what took place is not anti Semitic; what is?

Is it now possible to believe that Corbyn does not “understands and condone “?

Yesterday Margaret Hodge MP for Barking confronted  Corbyn outside the commons chamber calling him  "an Anti-Semite and a racist"

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-told-by-veteran-jewish-mp-youre-a-fucking-racist-and-anti-semite-margaret-hodge_uk_5b4e34cbe4b0fd5c73bfe020

Hodge lost family in the Holocaust and has been a Labour activist,councilour,civic leader and MP for over 50 years.

She has already been charged and called to face a party disciplinary hearing with the NEC. Somewhat faster action than a reckoning for ex London Mayor and MP Ken "Hitler was allied with the  Zionists" LIvingstone. He along with George Galloway a lifelong Corbyn friend.

All this with ten days of Corbyn promoting  Naz "move  Israel's jews  into the United States" Shah   https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44788629 to the role of "shadow equalities minister ".

None of this is made up or satirical.

All but one  living Labour leader has condemned anti semitism within the Party and support using the" International Definition of Anti-semitism". 

 We have yet to hear from  Ed Milliband.

The son of Jewish WWII refugees sheltered and protected by the UK and the British Labour party.

Speak out ED:

• If not you, Who?
• If not now, When?
• If not this,What?
• If not appropriate,Why?

Cyclops was politically involved with Corbyn  and Hodge forty some years ago.

He has spoken to neither in four decades.

He has reached out to Margaret Hodge and offered support if she chooses to run as an Independant Labour candidate.

I have been contacted already by numerous friends and contemporaries.

We shall not go quietly into this dark night.

That much we owe .

They Shall Not Pass

WITHER IVANKA

                                                      WITHER IVANKA

                           Trumpfski   “Buy American and Hire American,”    

•  Ivanka's fashion products ALL made in China,Vietnam or Philippines.
•  Ivanka gives Republican National Convention speech calling for paid maternity leave.  
•  “policies that allow women with children to thrive should not be novelties, they should be the norm.” 
• The contractor that designs Ivanka Trump apparel does not provide its employees paid family leave.

 Trump levies$34 billion tariffs on Chinese goods from auto parts to medical devices                               Fortune July 2018                                                                     http://fortune.com/2018/07/09/donald-trumps-china-tariffs-dont-apply-to-ivanka/     
    Clothing and shoes imported by Ivanka  Brand excluded.
  BUT : 
Nordstrom and other retailers cut ties with the brand—citing weak sales.                      

Donald Tweets:         

                       

My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person -- always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible! 

• Ivanka’s jewelry line discontinued                                          March 2017
• Ivanka gets 17 Chinese patent/trademarks                        March 2017
• More than Apple  
• DSW dropping Ivanka shoe range                                                 June 2018    https://www.bustle.com/p/ivanka-trump-shoes-are-reportedly-being-dumped-by-another-major-retailer-9272858  
• Brand removed from Hudson's Bay stores, Canada  July 2018                                Ivanka Trump Is Shutting Down Her Fashion Brand                                                            nytimes July34,2018       https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/business/ivanka-trump-brand-clothing.html    

             She is not selling the business to third party.
             Perhaps it has no value  

                                CYCLOPS  has QUESTIONS

Is Ivanka planning to follow daddy's footsteps?

•        pull all cash out of the business  
•         then declare bankruptcy    
•         stiff suppliers on outstanding invoices   
•      fail to pay redundancy payments  
•      default on Deutsche Bank loan        
•        cancel all maternity leave                                                               

Will she donate the brand and its trademarks/patents to charity? Trump foundation maybe?

                      Then take a charitable tax right off.

                      Tax break for rich thoughtfully left in the code last year.

Is Mueller team still investigation her role in Trump Hotel Baku?
                     Trump Venezuela
                     Trump  Istanbul
                     Trump  Mumbai
                     Trump  ........
                     Trump  ........

On what date will the commerce department announce that shoes and clothes are now on Chinese Tariff List?

                                                                                                         

Trumpfskian Tweets or Quotes Before and During Putin Summit

PUTIN + POODLE

 

 ITEMS :

•  Ex Soviet occupied Baltic States-Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia-- joined NATO in 2004
• NATO Article Five:  “commits each member state to consider an armed attack against one member state ..to be an armed attack against them all. Casus Foederis.
• Never needed to be declared throughout cold war.
• Only declared once as act of solidarity –9/11 attack on USA.
• Trump calls NATO “obsolete”.
• United States ambassador to Estonia, James Melville, resigned ahead of Putin summit.
• Russian speakers in Crimea at least 55%
• Russian speakers in Latvia and Estonia –over 30%                                                                     Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump                                                                                  My statement on NATO being obsolete and disproportionately too expensive (and unfair) for the U.S. are now, finally, receiving plaudits!   March 2016                    

Trumpfski Quotes and Tweets prior and during Putin summit:

• "You know what? Putin’s fine. He’s fine. We’re all fine. We’re people. 
• "Will I be prepared? Totally prepared. I’ve been preparing for this stuff my whole life."
•  "Germany is totally controlled by Russia.” planned gas pipeline under Baltic Sea..sad” because Germany is “supposed to be guarding against Russia"
• “I’m very consistent” “a very stable genius.”    
• NATO “has not treated us fairly”“they pay far too little." 
• “Estonia is a small country far away about which we know little.” 
• “Received many calls from leaders of NATO countries thanking me for helping to bring them together and to get them focused on financial obligations, both present & future. 
• We had a truly great Summit that was inaccurately covered by much of the media. NATO is now strong & rich!”

• “Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!”
• "I hold both countries responsible. I think that the United States has been foolish. I think we've all been foolish. ... And I think we're all to blame."
•  "I addressed directly with President Putin the issue of Russian interference in our elections. I felt this was a message best delivered in person. Spent a great deal of time talking about it”
• "Putin just said it's not Russia. I do not see any reason why it should be ... I have great confidence in my intelligence people but President Putin was extremely strong and confident in his denial today."
•  "There was no collusion at all. Everybody knows it.”
•  "We ran a brilliant campaign, and that's why I'm President."

                    

Tea with the Queen

Cyclops has been  watching the dreadfully discourteous demonstrators in London.
The Trumpfski Balloon Baby 👶 demeans a humble and thoughtful leader of the free world.
Thankfully HE is above letting such insults influence his pursuit of justice,peace and freedom.Balloon is a DISGRACE. Huuuuge DISGRACE.

                                                                                           

 [Ad: Three foot Trumpfski Baby 🎈👶 replica $80; twelve inch Wedgewood ceramic table      top collectible version $210 ,one inch key chain tool $12.

  Available at Cyclops.com.Bitcoin payments only.EU purchasers add 40% VAT.]

Cyclops has been informed that Theresa May played hardball to get Trumpfski to do full U turn on his INSULTS.
She went to the heart of  CRITICAL strategic US interests.
First Trumpfski  was not invited to sleep in Churchill’s four poster bed at Blenheim Palace.
Then she threatened to cancel tea with Queen.Final straw for Melania—only reason she agreed to come on trip.
Threat worked.
Ed: sources claim that Trumpfski offered to pay the standard  hedge fund narcissist fee for a night in Churchill bed.

Cyclops: Yes but the internet credit check came back negative 👎 

Trumpfski  had endorsed Boris Johnson for PM.This has led to Johnson leaving British politics in 😩 despair.

THIS JUST IN: 

Putin has invited Trumpfski to sleep in Czar Nicholas’s bed at Yekaterinburg.

Will be guarded by crack Bolshevic unit.

Golden shower can be arranged.

Ivanka's fashion line Exempted

This fits squarely into the category

 You could not Make this Up.                           

 US firms are scrambling to adjust to Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese-made goods. With one notable exception.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/how-ivanka-trumps-fashion-line-was-exempted-from-her-fathers-war-on-chinese-goods/news-story/fe2eb5ccd567062defe1e8dab68dc5a7

                              This is not lost on the Chinese media
"As trade war rages, the shoe biz goes on for Ivanka Trump and her Chinese suppliers"             While the United States and China are locked in a costly trade war, Ivanka Trump’s clothing and shoe business is not only exempted from the tariffs – it is in the pink.                        South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2154219/trade-war-rages-shoe-biz-goes-ivanka-trump-and-her
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2154219/trade-war-rages-

Engerland lose.

I post a sampling of responses to England's defeat and Cyclops predictions.
There were more in similar vein and some that the Palace censor[of taste not opinion]would not allow

Cyclops prediction:
  The Tottenham six will lead the way to Moscow final

  Some heartfelt commiserations from Cyclops readers : 

Sorry, Croatia beat England 😐   --Nigeria

Sorry about England…brave performance but life isn’t always fair…2022 -- Portugal

Load of bollix..like your projections--Ireland

The one-eyed King's days as a Football pundit are over. Perfidious Albion has been properly dispatched to attend Trumpf's reception and enjoy their clotted cream and scones with Nigel, Bojo and the like! Allons enfants!!!! -- FRANCE

Irv, I am so sorry that Juventus player should keep interfering with English (very legitimate) aspirations: first Higuain and Dybala against a deserving Tottenham, and now Mandzukic!!! I assure you it’s nothing personal…Anyway, great World Cup for the Three Lions….

Sorry Irv

The Tottenham lads have no experience in winning trophies.

Hope they can get you the bronze.--Ghana

 A deserved victory by Croatia. They were solid in the second half, demonstrating their many positives.
Inevitably France will be favourites for Sunday’s final.--Irish Francofile

Now Cyclops may comment without the need to remain supportive of the England/Tottenham [six players on Wednesday]team .

My Ghanaian friend has with, his usual perspicacity in these matters,nailed it.

For some reason Pochetino teams always fall at the the last hurdle.

The "they are still very young" meme h is now "old"

• England played above themselves in this tournament.
• They were flattered to have made the semi final.
• They beat only one team team in the FIFA  top 20 --Colombia no.16.
• And that took penalties after extra time.
• They lost to Croatia #18[silly,that says something about these rankings].

• The game showed up the flaw:
•  In playing without a quality midfield play maker.
• As hard and bravely as Henderson played,is anybody expecting an Italian/Spanish/French/Other  club to show up with a checkbook.
• Not even Arsenal are that confused.
• Croatia had two-- in addition  to Modric.
• And with a make shift centre back who plays right back for his club.
• Walker is a good and fast fullback but there is a reason Pochetino  had him sold to ManCity to be replaced by Trippier.
• He statutarily makes one sleepy error per game.
• He is not an international quality central defender.

• In five games England scored six against Panama #55 below Burkina Faso 😆
• Only another 6 in six games through this semi final.
• All from set pieces.
• Three of these by Harry Kane.
• More dependant on Kane than even Tottenham.

So be it mes amis 

France to beat Croatia .

They have genuine quality in every position .

The Tournaments best goalkeeper.

The last current Spur standing

Tottenham and France Captain Lloris will triumph.

Trumpfski,Nato,Brexit,Putin --A Diplomatic Triumph Awaits

 Following the Cabinet Brexit chaos in the UK, reliable sources have informed the Cyclop's Palace that the American President is planning to confront Theresa May over her unprecedented cruelty towards her opponents.
"Despite his extraordinary success as a dignified and brilliant diplomat,May has dumped Boris Johnson and viciously removed his access to a car and driver"-Trumpfski tweeted.
The President joined ambasador Nigel Farage in praising Johnson's leadership and good judgment.

Sources indicate that Trumpfski expects to display his commitment to Bonking Boris by their  playing a round of golf  at the Trump Turnberry Golf Course in Scotland.It was emphasised that it was thought safest for this display of solidarity to be in a neutral country and on US territory.

It is speculated that at his Windsor tea with Queen Elizabeth,Trumpfski may call for the Queen to behead Teresa May and to declare Brexit.While he is unclear on the precise constitutional arrangement in the UK,he is known to have praised Elizabeth as "very strong,very wise".

The turmoil resulting from the collapse of the UK Brexit cabinet and the expected implosion of NATO just before his UK visit leaves Trumpfski's team with a dilemma as to how to fill time between  golf in Scotland,the World Cup Final in Moscow and the Putin Summit in Helsinki,Finland.
It seems an extended visit to the fish market in Helsinki port--a World heritage Site-has been ruled out.

 Aides have been informed of Boris Johnson's distinguished Turkish ancestry and are exploring a Sunday meeting with President Erdogan to celebrate his election and subsequent purge of 16,000 trouble makers in the government,military and academia.
If this can be arranged it is expected to take the form of a threesome at Trump Tower in Istanbul.
Erdogan does not play golf.

At a hastily arranged press conference in the White House Sarah Huckleberry Sanders was asked whether the President intended to raise the issue of dissidents  with Vlad the impaler Putin at the Helsinki summit.
She tartly informed the press corp that this talk of a meeting at the summit was confusing as her briefing book confirmed that Helsinki was a seaport with a world renowned fish market.No mountains.

As to Russian dissidents she said Putin had assured the Donald that there were none ;only hooligans and maybe some "cosmopolitans".These accusations were fake news and an insult to the Czar Russian people.
Putin had also reconfirmed that Russia had not interfered in US elections,he had not ordered any assassinations in the UK[Moscow did not come up],he had not bribed Sepp Blatter et al to host  the World Cup,Russia had not reneged on multiple agreements in Syria and had not asked his oligarchs to funnel money through Deutche Bank to fund Trump's tottering property empire.

Trumpfski tweeted that "Putin was a good man .A STRONG leader and could be trusted"

Finally  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Putin had unilaterally committed to denuclearise Crimea in sync with  "our friends in Pyong Yang"

Subsequent claims by Joe Biden that  Crimea had no nukes because Ukraine had dismantled them over a decade ago were dismissed as "fake news".

"Anyway " Trumpfski tweeted "what the hell does Ukraine know about nukes in Crimea?"

Mara,World Cup,Brexit, Nato & Trumpfski

                                     There is so much going on at Palace its hard to keep up 😅

              Princess Jenny delivered beautiful new grand daughter 9lb 3oz.
              Princess Rachel due to do the same in 6 months 😊
             These ladies get priority.

             Next day France's lone Spur,goalkeeper Lloris,keeps out Spurs Belgium quartet.
             Today England's Spurs six face Croatia's ex-Spurs duo Modric & Corluca.

      BREXIT
         Meanwhile predicted collapse of UK Brexit negotiating position leading to the inevitable
         BINO:Brexit In Name Only.
         Bonking Boris shamed into resigning by David Davies.
         Government chaos .
         Ironically Teresa May looking more relaxed then at any time as
         Prime Minister.

•         The fat lady will not sing.
•         There will be a second referendum.
•         Perhaps as another election.
•         Parliament will effectively decide.
•         Poland's Tusk offers UK return ticket. 
•         Pressure from his master at Unite Union for Corbyn to campaign REMAIN. 
•         Corbyn/May in polling dead heat as next PM.

  Cyclops Predicts: Political Turmoil.

•                 BOTH party leaders will be replaced before next election.
•                 Each party will be led by the sons of Pakistani bus drivers.
•                 Both effectively running on a REMAIN platform.
•                 Nigel Farage in despair;seeks political refuge in Trumpfski land.
•                 Too late Trumpfski making campaign speeches to four walls in Sing Sing or                  Belvue Hospital.   

        NATO meeting treated to usual Trumpfski bombast and personal attack on Germany and                        Merkel.

•           Most pundits assume attacks on Merkel linked to his misogyny,
•           Insecurity when faced with powerful women.
•           Ignorance
•           Play acting for his "BASE".   or 
•          Jet Lag    

Cyclops adds another more profound psychological theory.

• Trumpfski is German.
• Although he claimed to be Swedish in his biography.
• His grandfather Friedriche made the family fortune in real estate and running brothels in the Californian and Klondike gold rushes.                                                                                             https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-trump-family-fortune/ 
• He returned to his home town to marry a local woman and to settle down as a wealthy burgher.
• The then German[Prussian] authorities deported him to the USA as a draft dodger.from the Franco/Prussian war.
• This history traumatised both Trumpfski and his father Fred.
• Both followed Der Alter-the old man -into the real estate and the hospitality industry.
• Fred dodged the call up in WW II and the Donald dodged the war in Vietnam--bone spurs and "advanced education".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   The sub conscious resentment to Germany's Merkel is partly explained by this history.                                                                                                                                         

England and Helsinki Summit

After disrupting NATO the President is heading to London for tea with the Queen and to Helsinki to report to Putin.

He has announced that he will be meeting with the brave  dissidents who have defied authoritarian leaders.

                                     Golf with "my friend" Bonking Boris

         

SUPREME'S CONSPIRACY

                                                     😩  SUPREME'S CONSPIRACY😬

In response to HRHC blog last week,THE SUPREMES,we have received supportive messages and referrals to an unrelated groundswell along the same lines from Liberal Lawyers and sundry "thoughtful people". 

Most interestingly Cyclop's agents close to the court and in the know have been diligently joining the dots. Their reports are confirming the thesis that the Trumpfski/Justice Kennedy conspiracy has little to do with Roe.It's all about Kennedy's son and Trumpfski's feared indictment.

Previously very reliable sources have told the Palace that Kennedy's son  Deutsche Bank Justin Kennedy will be interviewed by the Mueller team before the end of July.

 https://www.s/alon.com/2018/06/29/did-anthony-kennedys-son-loan-donald-trump-1-billion/

Justice Kennedy naturally has contacts in the Justice Department who informed him of this.This caused genuine panic.No one,never mind a  Supreme, welcomes their son being embroiled and possibly indicted in an influence peddling,money laundering Russian scandal.

It is known that Justice Kennedy has been very upset that his son still worked for a German bank linked to Putin corruption and money laundering.But salary and bonuses north of $2 million/year make an attack of conscience very expensive.

 The Bank has paid over a $ billion in fines in the US & UK and has had to replace two disgraced Ceos.The first of whom was then appointed as Chairman of the money laundering  National Bank of Cyprus by Trumpfski friend Wilbur Ross 

 Every time Trumpfski insults Merkel,the Supreme gets heart burn over whether she will accelerate the German prosecutors looking at Deutsche. for various crimes. These  include possibly using illicit Russian money to fund  under collateralised loans to an Orange Haired New York real estate mogul.

Cyclops sources believe that  the well documented pressure from the White House for Kennedy to retire played into a common interest for both men. To protect themselves and family from an unpredictable [aka fact based] court.

Neither wanted to risk Kennedy have to recuse [I hate that word]  himself from cases involving Trumpfski's Presidential prerogatives or Deutsche/Justin.Thus leaving an even balanced court to decide.They both now regard Chief Justice Roberts as unreliable in the event of a tied court.

He will be around after Trumpfski and Kennedy and jealously guards his reputation .He might even secretly relish his place in history leading the court through the Trumpfski demise and possibly presiding over impeachment hearings. Court insiders are fully aware that Roberts is politically careful and savvy and that he does not hold Trumpfski,Kelly et al in high intellectual or ethical regard.

So this all goes to confirming the thesis that Trumpfski is very happy about the furore over Roe as the perfect diversion from his need for a grateful appointee who has a record of supporting the odd notion that a President cannot be indicted,prosecuted or convicted because he/she is too busy. Kavanaugh and others on the list have this view or are malleable. 

 It may or may not be anybody on the current runners and riders list .Cyclops predicts that the choice will be  pro life but sufficiently vague on the Roe precedent to give Senators Collins and  Paul an excuse to cave to Trumpfski as usual .The nominee will ,more importantly, also be very deferential on executive privilege and immunity.If there is also an indication that the nominee respects Presidential prerogatives on Immigration and Tariffs then Then the White House has a trifecta.

The W H  counsels office also has a fantasy that they might find an Hispanic woman with a black spouse with the correct views. I said fantasy.

Well Cyclops hears you ask "Why haven't I been reading this in my Newspaper?" or seen it on the nightly news.

.

The thesis has made its way onto blogs and alternative media sites.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anthony-kennedy-resignation-trump/

Now a time honoured way for journalists to get their reporting out when the editor cannot get it past the paper's or network's lawyers.

Expect it on the Rachel Maddow show by the end of the week.

The other standard way to get the word out is to publish a piece debunking the "rumours' and " conspiracy theories".Of course to do that the writer has to explain to the reader what the rumours are about  

Eh Voila

Thats precisely what David Litt has done in the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/07/03/theres-no-conspiracy-between-trump-and-kennedy-theres-just-the-swamp/?utm_term=.e74174d9f442

Enjoy 

PS I spare you more for now but  posts to follow on Brexit,Teriffs,Nato etc 

Q: What do  North Korea's Young Kim,China's Xi,Russia's Putin,Saudi bin Sultan,Emirati BMZ and Israel's Netanyahu have in common?

answers on a postcard