SEDER AT THE BEACH DAYANU !

The Court is Decamping for their  Seder to the King's Fishing Lodge on the Deleware Coast.

We can assure our British family,subjects and friends that this year we will be using the newly issued
                                                         LIVINGSTON HAGADAH
                         

     

Some among you will be familiar with the ancient celebratory song DAYENU which the Jews have  been chanting at the Seder table lo these 3,500 years since the Exodus.

[cut the b.s. Cyclops,you know it was written during the Babylonian exile. 2500 years tops]

DAYENU translates as:"it would have been enough for us", or "it would have been sufficient" It lauds god for all the wonderful blessings bestowed on  the Ancient Hebrews;especially taking them out of slavery,There is no mention of her allowing them to be enslaved in the first place.

Anyway there are fifteen laudatory verses after each of which the congregants yells DAYENU and a little wine is spilled from each cup.The theme being that if  God had only given one of the  gifts  --DAYENU - -it would have still been enough.                                                                                         

In the spirit of Dayenu the King instructed the Royal Lyricist to compose some extra verses for

 Ken Livingstone 

· Had he just claimed Jewish MPs are a "distortion running through politics”                                                                                                              DAYENU                                                        

·Had he just claimed "suddenly the Jews became reactionaries, turned Right, nearly to be fascists" after Menachim Begin became Israeli Prime Minister.                                                                                                   DAYENU              

Had he just claimed that "extremist Jews" were organising "paramilitary groups, which resemble fascist organisations",                                                                                                                                                                                  DAYENU

·Had he compares a Jewish journalist,Oliver Finegold, to a Nazi concentration camp guard                                                                     DAYENU             

                 

·Had he simply suggested Jews support the Tories because they have got rich                                                                                       DAYENU

· Had he only claimed this “storm about anti-semitism is manufactured by Zionists and Blairites to silence criticism of Israel and to smear the left. They know there is nothing to it”                                  DAYENU                                                                                            

·  Had he called the creation of Israel “fundamentally wrong,” and “a great catastrophe                                                DAYENU

· Or claimed the existence of the Jewish state …could ultimately lead to 

nuclear war.                                                                   DAYENU         

    

· Had he alleged claims of anti-semitism were invented by the Jewish Chronicle to silence criticism of Israel and to smear Jeremy Corbyn.                                                                                                                                                 DAYENU           

· Had he only claimed this “storm about anti semitism is manufactured by Zionists and Blairites to silence criticism of Israel and to smear the left.     They know there is nothing to it”                              DAYENU 

                        

· Or the existence of the Jewish state …could ultimately lead to nuclear war.                                                                                          DAYENU

·Had he alleged claims of anti-semitism were invented by the Jewish Chronicle to silence criticism of Israel and to smear Jeremy Corbyn.                      DAYENU 

·Had he only supported MP Naz Shah publishing a facebook screenshot suggesting that all Israelis should be "relocated"  to the United States" Problem solved,".                                                                                  DAYENU

·Or another in which Shah compares Israel to apartheid South Africa, segregated American South, and Germany under Hitler.                                       DAYENU

 ^{Had he said Shah's was not anti-Semitic because"a real anti-semite doesn't just hate the Jews in Israel"                                                                                 DAYENU} 

 Or on the BBC"in 1932 Hitler was supporting Zionism - this was before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews".                                                                                           DAYENU          



  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    For those of you who have followed the demise of the British Labour party from a far   

     KEN LIVINGSTONE HAS NOT BEEN EXPELLED                   FROM THE LABOUR PARTY 

                            A SHANDA {disgrace/shame}
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

MANAFORT IN THE BOX

      As far back as August 17th 2016  KC posted

•  Trump's campaign manager  Paul Manafort had received over $12 million of secret payments from President. Yanukovych  of the Ukraine. 
• He of course denies receiving such "cash" sums. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html?_r=0  
• Now the fact that Manafort had sold his sold his soul to to the Ukrainian dictator is not news.
•  He has in fact sold it many times over to a series of despots. 
• This is how he makes his living.
• Nor is it surprising that Yanukovych so grossly overpaid.
•  It was just the people's money. 
•  Manafort can be bought for much less than this.        

                              this was based on a piece 2 days earlier the NY Times
                         http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html?_r=0  

• "The Manafort revelations/accusations have shocked me .Less about the money but rather what he did for it.http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/08/17/report-paul-manafort-laid-groundwork-russias-invasion-crimea-trump-will-probably-recognize/
• "The senior Ukrainian prosecutor alleges that in 2006 Mr Manafort orchestrated a series of anti-Nato,anti-Kiev protests in Crimea led by Viktor Yanukovych’s pro-Russian Party of Regions — now designated a criminal organisation.
•  The protests forced planned Nato exercises there to be cancelled. 
• No charges were pursued because of a lack of evidence after Crimea was annexed. "

The King went on : " If true--are you betting against it?-then this is Treason.No really it is Treason.

I guess Paul Manafort is looking forward more to his Tax Audit than to the coming National Security Investigation.Probably not good for future assignments.  "

On the day I posted that blog Manafort was fired as Head of Trumpf's campaign. 

This posting was over six months ago.The King has had cause to refer to Manafort,and his underling,Carter Page ,several times in this context noting that the federal investigations--and the journalists--were closing in.Even as the Sean Spicer and the Trumpf court desperately tried to distance themselves.

Most recently on March 27th ,HRH KC  predicted
  
" Paul Manafort will not be indicted for Treason but will have very serious Tax  and Money Laundering problems."
and    His sidekick Carter Page will be thrown to the wolves by Trumpf Whitehouse"

   I further mused that  " Manafort or Page  or both will seek exile in non extradition territory--Moscow?"

       

Failing that we can safely expect Carter Page  to plea bargain in return for the goods on Mannafort and a place in witness protection----from Putin.


                      LOOKING FORWARD TO THOSE SENATE HEARINGS ?

   

           

BYE BYE BANNON BYE BYE

          How are those predictions doing King Cyclops?

             Two months ago  Monday, February 6, 2017 The King posted

                         HIS DAYS ARE NOW NUMBERED

                                                               Upstaging the Donald

                             

                                 Trumpf will dump him by mid year

Today’s headlines

Trump Removes Stephen Bannon From National Security Council Pos

                                                                                                                                                            NewYork Times

Bye Bye Bannon                                                                        Slate Magazine

Bannon Reportedly Threatened to Quit Over Removal from NSC
                                                                                                        New Yorker

Bannon reportedly threatened to leave White House after NSC shakeup                                                                                                         Fox News

Megadonor urged Bannon not to resign                                        Politico 

                                                YOU'RE FIRED STEVE BANNON       

                    
                               BANNON HAD HIS RESIGNATION BLUFF CALLED

                               HANGING ON BY HIS FINGER NAILS--CRED GONE.                                            
                     

                                                                                                                                                                                               

                                 The  King posted a bunch of predictions on  22/23 March.
                                  Its sooo hard to keep up --will update later today.

HAIL TO THE CHIEF---PREDICTION

It is possible that several of   the King's readers are  unaware that  General Michael Flynn has demanded immunity from criminal prosecution in return for "important testimony".

One is on his boat fighting hurricane Debbie in the Indies,another hiking between Vietnam and Malaysia,a third enjoying Cafe en Paris and several seem to be living in caves.

The rest of us are following this comedy soap opera,wall to wall cable news on six continents We are still 30 days away from the 100th!!

Some background:

General FLYNN,Trumpf loyalist,Putin confidant,Erdogan vendor and all round Great American Patriot, is determined to share all he knows about those pesky whistle blowers, WH Ruskie friends and the bank accounts of his erstwhile colleagues.

"Mike Flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch hunt (excuse for big election loss), by media & Dems, of historic proportion!" Trump tweeted today .

Full hearted defence of his old friend ,wonder why?   --"he was just a campaign volunteer"

                                                                                                                              Spicy

But first    An Aside:

   The heroic Paul Ryan, Leader of the House of Representatives,saviour of American health care and putative future President, is panicking.Having failed valiantly to replace Obamacare with Trumpfcare he is being blamed by Trumpf and all factions of his House caucus,he is terrified that the Donald will cooperate with the Democrats.

Donald,the master of the deal, is pursuing his usual  strategy of                                                                                          "demand,bluster,surrender,blame and declare victory "
and seems to want to make nice with Demoratic Senator Schumer.

Ryan in response on CBS : "What I worry about is if we don’t do this, then he’ll just go work with Democrats to try to change Obamacare ,,,. that’s hardly a conservative thing"
 "This is a can-do president .  . . I worry we'll push the president into working with Democrats."                                                                                                       Ryan told Norah O'Donnell
Trump is "reaching out ' to the democrats on other issues-infrastructure,tax reform--and they will extract a price on "THE WALL",immigration , Medicaid. and military spending.This will make the Pulican pay masters very unhappy..

There was real fear in Ryan's eyes.His health care debacle has alienated  the rePublican moderates and the tea party.The Freedom Caucus is hunting his head .

The King's intelligence from the Caucus is that they are planning a coup to replace Ryan with one of their intellectual leaders--LOUIE GOHMERT of Texas.

  Gohmert is a very strong Trump Partisan and early supporter.The White House is keen to have him become the Republican Speaker  -the second most powerful position in Washington and third in line for the Presidency.
They hope he would become a lightning rod for the lying press and assorted Trumpf enemies i.e.70% of the US population.

              His views very closely track those of the GREAT DEAL MAKER himself. As he has said:

• Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States.
• It's OK to burn a Bible, that's OK. OK to burn a flag, OK, that's all right. But just, you know, for heaven's sake, don't say anything that might offend someone of the Islamic religion
• The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States. 
• No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 

                                                      

• Socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke.

• We give the military money, it ought to be to kick rears, break things, and come home.
• Don’t Ask Don’t Tell will make the U.S. more “vulnerable to terrorism” because gay soldiers will take after the ancient Greeks in bringing their lovers to the front lines so they can “give them massages before they go into battle.”

•  It’s kind of like marriage when you say it’s not a man and a woman anymore, then why not have three men and one woman, or four women and one man, or why not somebody has a love for an animal? There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage,
•  It’s the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it’s just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.

• The dirty little secret on Wall Street: Eighty percent of the Wall Street executives' and their spouses' donations go to Democrats.-----[just cannot trust those people in jewyork]

His majesty predicts that this coup will be successful. Louie will become the rePublican Speaker & third in linet o the throne.

Ryan will take himself to a nunnery  monastery,close to the  kibbutz  investment bank  and bar where  previous victims of the tea party---Eric Cantor and John Boehner  -- reside.

Trumpf  will cheer the ascendancy of Gohmert.  BUT READ ON

                                    The Coups
Back at the ranch[White House]  there is panic over the Flynn "Revelations"'.

The media believe that Flynn will dish the dirt on Trumpf.

But this loyal ,brave and upright General has another in his sights.

PENCE ,his nemesis and cruel,cold executioner.Pence will learn the lesson of millennia of war and politics :              KILL do not WOUND.

Flynn: battered ,bloodied,bruised and ruined --still lives.And is in the hands of COMEY's  dreaded FBI.

"Vengeance is mine saith the Lord  General"

His testimony will focus on Pence and scandals from his time as Governor of the Province of Indiana

As always follow the money --or maybe Pence is the true Conservative Saint

He and Robespiere  Bannon are determined to get Pence and Hercules Priebus.They will use the dupe, Court Jew Kushner as their useful fool.

Of course Pence and Priebus  can see this coming.Along with their allies Ryan, McConnel and  the Koch brothers they have been planning and waiting their opportunity.

The events of this week means time has run out and they must make their move .

The King predicts it is too late.Their coup will fail.Pence and Priebus will be found guilty of disloyalty and worse--residual sanity--and will be sacrificed to the FBI. Ryan will go to his monastery[see above]

Bannon will emerge as the only power behind the throne.Louie the Avenger will control the House and Flynn will continue to manoeuvre  Trumpf's foreign policy--Rex Who?

                   THE REPUBLIC IS NOT YET LOST!!

There is still that implacable defender of  DEMOCRACY,FREEDOM & TRUTH  --COMEY'S FBI

They will continue to pursue Flynn,the Russians ,Cortrumpftion and bad hair cuts.

The King predicts that by year end Trumpf  is taken away by the men in White coats,is indicted or dies in mysterious[polonium] circumstances.

Trumpf     Gone

Pence       Gone

Ryan        Gone

Bannon    Vanishes

Comey    Smiles

                                     ALL HAIL PRESIDENT  GOHMERT

Trumpf,Russia,Money,Espionage and SEX

         
                                     That  SEX  word always seems to get the readers attention.

 A number of members of the Court claim to appreciate the comments on the Trumpf team's sleazy Russian connections,financial corruption and espionage but feel that i am holding back on the sex.

An accusation the King cannot take lightly.But he has always eschewed common gossip.The King believes the  sexual peccadilloes of Trumpf ,Paul Mannafort ,Michael Flynn,Mike Pence or Hercules Priebus -even Sean Spicer--et al are none of our business.

The King has  resisted commenting on the "Golden Shower".

He was unable to resist coming to the the defence of David Cameron's pig's head.[post 12April2016]. Other than that for the King sex is off the agenda[perhaps I should re phrase that?].

One man/woman's perversion or adultery, romantic tryst  or adventure is of relevance only to them and their partner[s]. There is only relevance if these dalliances create a national security risk.Or if they are part of a pattern of corruption that affects the public good.

Having said that : Are there cases of Russian/Ukrainian money buying collusion,influence or fealty that have not involved sexual  kompromat? 

My sources in Moscow and Kiev laughed at my question.

Mr.Putin's  "Russian prostitutes are best in the world" claim is no idle  boast from the KGB trained Despot.

So my more salacious friends,never mind this blog :watch the news/leaks next week from the FBI,CIA and various congressional intelligence committees .

In the UK "Private Eye"[a satirical magazine] readers  may read that which investigative journalists cannot get through their paper's legal team.

                                                           STOP DROOLING

  P.S.  I thought it best not to include pictures or videos in this blog post.

The Kushner Boy

Given all the responsibilities being thrust upon Trumpf's son in law it dawned on me that I,nor any of my multitude of readers,emissaries and subjects had ever heard him speak.Not just on the substance of Middle east Peace nor any other of  of his many briefs BUT not at  all.                               

I turned to google and you tube and this is ALL I could find.

                                              At HARVARD CHABAD Jan 2017

                                                        The audience was clearly riveted.

• If you listen he seems to be proposing peace between Orthodox Jews and Reform Jews.
• A critical  precursor to an Israeli/Palestinian peace?
• Or an ambition AFTER  he has accomplished the easier task?

This was a fine reading of a speech .Any BARMITZVAH boy's Bubba would be proud--"and so young"
Or so I would have thought ! 
 I then found this you tube clip of Bubba  RAE KUSHNER  עליו השלום alav ha-shalom[May she rest in peace]  She died in April 2004.

You do not need to watch all of this clip but the last 30 seconds will tell you what you need to know.

She was a Polish holocaust survivor who lived for 3 years in an Italian refugee camp before,in 1949, joining her aunt's family in New York.It seems she knew where she stood on the plight of refugees  of any faith and her take on Bannon/Trumpf policies would be self evident.

.As to to Jared-- looking down : kvelling she is not, nachers she must get from the grand children --her boychickle she will forgive anything. Probably.


The King's Court knows of  the generation of holocaust survivours. Now nearly all gone.

You were born to great privalege thanks to their survival,hard work and tenacity.You owe them more than bromides and uncontreversial  donations to feel good Jewish charities .                                            
Your grandfather and Ivanka's would not have been besties.
You and Ivanka have the power to stop  Bannon and rein in  Trumpf's Teutonic heritage.

                                                                     USE IT

  think Chris Christie

PREDICTIONS TOO HARSH ,UNWORTHY?

The king has received several missives from his loyal opposition chiding him for his bias.
Two of them from the  Emerald Isle. They must be concerned for my negative influence on the Hell's Kitchen born Irish Queen.

Trust me boyos she can fend for herself.

I produce below the masked but unredacted gist of these.
Very succinct:


  " Fake news, Irving.

     Trash

     Come on ,I expect better of you"


MY response:

Did you really? (expect better of you)  I'll take that as a complement--however unearned.

These are predictions .Which do you disagree with?

• Disgraced  ex National Security advisor John Flynn will be indicted on tax evasion charges .
• His military pension may be challenged for serious breach of regulations while chief of military Intelligence.

These two investigations have already been announced. Trumpf spokesman already thrown him under the bus at press conference and in briefings and phone calls to media.

•  His son may be drawn into the tax maw.    

  Sins of the father I am afraid, but he seems to share his dad's conspiracy theories  and dodgy employment practices,

• Paul Manafort will not be indicted for Treason but will have very serious Tax  and Money Laundering problems. 

Do you think he will be indicted for treason? He has already lawyered up for the other two investigations.

• His sidekick Carter Page will be thrown to the wolves by Trumpf Whitehouse  

 Already happened this week along with another campaign advisor  Roger Stone who I forgot to include in original post.

 Each has now hired seperate lawyers.

• A non partisan, independent probe will be authorised by a REPUBLICAN  congress.

 One hour ago on live TV watched 2008 Republican presidential candidate and Arizona  Senator John McCain call for precisely this.

 He and a number of other senior Republicans do not believe[trust] the Republican led House Intelligence [sic] Committee can do or be seen to do an impartial investigation.

 Press briefing by Republican Committee Chair Nunes one hour earlier served to prove the point.

• As will Wilbur Ross[Commerce Secretary] and Rex Tillerson [rumoured to be Secretary of State} both of whom will resign in disgrace.

          We will see ,call me in November.

         

 p.s.                         

•   Forgot about HHS Secretary Dr. Tom Price, leading the charge to impoverish the sick .
  
     

 "Trumpf fired federal prosecutor Preet Bhararain  in the middle of  investigating stock trades by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price." Bhararain has not yet been replaced and the Manhattan District Attorney's office staff will continue the probe. In addition   "He is subject of an SEC probe into insider trading."                 Kaiser Healthcare News March 20th,2017.

       http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/author/1566 

These probes can drag on. Expect resignation in November/December.

  The details of the rest are more speculative or [humorous] hyperbole. But we are only into day 62 so......

• As will Wilbur Ross[Commerce Secretary] and Rex Tillerson [rumoured to be Secretary of State} both of whom will resign in disgrace.
• Although Tillerson may go first because he is tired.
•  Manafort or page  or both will seek exile in non extradition territory--Moscow?
• Ivanka's Baku deal will be drawn into the probe.
• Bannon will remain in bunker with adolph   the Donald --at least till November.
• Paul Ryan will be  deposed as speaker of the House of representatives .
• He will run for President in 2020,2024,2028.
• So will Rand Paul

                     And you discount the palace coup and the men in white coats too lightly