TRUMPFSKI RESIGNING

                        So what did you expect Cyclops to post?

  The Royal In box is full of questions,comments and exhortations on the latest in the WH Soap Opera.

 Cyclops was waiting for the Mannafort verdict but got distracted by watching Bambi in back yard.

 The buggers are eating the grass seed,having destroyed the flowers,bushes and hedges year after year.

                                   

                                       

              At least the foxes don't do any damage.   I am a little wary of the Lynx though.

Know anybody who wants to buy a palace surplus to requirements ?

I DIGRESS

Last week's post was on Bin Salman and HRH King Cyclops promised posts on Corbyn,Mannafort,Wilbur Ross and the Kushners.

All headed to the clink except for Corbyn. He is headed to exile on the Caspian.Wilbur Ross was the plan for this week.

                                                                                 BUT

Yesterday's events necessitate a slight detour.

   

Between the  PUBLICAN CONVENTION 2016 and  MARCH 2017 [The Stormy Daniels crime was not revealed until January 2018 by the WSJ ]Cyclops predicted indictments and/or disgraced resignations for: 

                                 JOHN         FLYNN

                                 PAUL         MANNAFORT 

                                 CARTER    PAGE

                                 ROGER     STONE

                                 GEORGE  PAPADOPOULOS

                                 RICHARD   GATES  

                                JARED &      IVANKA KUSHNER 

                                WILBUR       ROSS

                                DONALD jnr [not ERIC]

                                MICHAEL     COHEN

                                TOM             PRICE

                       and   SCOTT         PRUITT 

Regular readers may recall that none of these predictions were made lightly or without substance.

These predictions were greeted with howls of derision,claims of bias,prejudice and wishful thinking.

                    EG

  " Fake news, Irving.

     Trash

     Come on ,I expect better of you"

You Know Who you Are!!

How We Doing?

I DID NOT predict the now indicted DUNCAN HUNTER and CHRIS COLLINS.

The first two congressman to endorse candidate Trump.

Nor the indicted co deputy chair of the Trumpfski  RNC Finance Committee-- ELLIOTT BRODY

The other co deputy chairs? MICHAEL COHEN  and DAVID WYNN--fired by WYNN RESORTS and under investigation for felony sexual assault.

Who was the CHAIR? STEVE MNUCHIN   Just a matter of time? 

Cyclops did NOT predict indictments for Chief of Staff JOHN KELLY[then at Homeland Security];ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS;STEVE BANNON;STEPHEN MILLER or SEBASTIAN GORKA. All truly nasty human beings who were directly responsible for TRUMFSKI's racist immigration policies. KELLY and MILLER were the first to recommend child separation as a deterrent--swiftly joined by the others.They are  nasty but no evidence of illegality. 

Cyclops also predicted Tillerson and Cohn would be driven out.That was before they were embarrassed by Trumpfski's  moral equivalence outrage at the White Supremacist march in Charlottesville. 

Finally, Cyclops predicted back in march 2017 that                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 "Paul Ryan will be  deposed as speaker of the House of representatives ".

       Got that wrong ?He has "retired" from the House of Representatives---bite me

  

              Well again Cyclops has been distracted from Wilbur "Nicosia" Ross 

But fear not Wilbur's time approaches apace.  Last weeks headlines:

• Wilbur Ross, Trump’s Elusive Swamp Survivo The commerce secretary’s list of ethical conflicts would make even Scott Pruitt blush.                                                                      Bloomberg                           https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-09/wilbur-ross-trump-s-elusive-swamp-creature
• New Report Uncovers (Even More) Ethical Issues For Wilbur Ross -- Forbes
• US ethics office chastises Wilbur Ross for failure to divest   -Financial Times 
• In Paul Manafort’s Trial, a Cyprus Bank Is a Cooperating Witness - WSJ                                                                                                                                                                                                                These stories are in the business press--not Rolling Stone or Politico              They are fearless!!    Which implies what?

Guess who owned this bank when Mannafort laundered his money--

                          a]Donald Duck

                          b]Wilbur Ross

                          c]Proffesor Moriarty

                          d] Tsar NicholasIII

                                                       We'll be seeing you Wilbur

Mohammad bin Salman not Dead

The palace  is astonished to note that Cyclops has note posted on the Desert Kingdom  since the release of the Saudi Seven when he posted :

"A Gulf Source has forwarded the following from Middle East Media

"Saudi Arabia elites released after tireless campaigning by foreign royal" 

                             http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-4284161

All seven of the Princes and a number of others have been released to their homes and families." 

                        

Perhaps Cyclops has been discouraged by the lack of SAUDI  interest amongst his readers or  distracted by the arrival of a his third grandchild--"ITS A GIRL " 👶🙏👍

Anyway the Great Leader of Sunni Islam has had a mixed year

• His extortion of his extended family went well
• All released now 
• Only a couple died in the Ritz Carlton Riyadh
• Previous maladies
• Most of the detainees swiftly left Saudi for comfier pastures                                                                                                                                                                                                                   The Palace is assured that there are no resentments;certainly nobody plotting revenge.

The major piece of good news for Prince Mohammad came in  May 

                   "Bin Salman not Dead"     screamed the headlines

https://www.newsweek.com/wheres-mohammed-bin-salman-not-dead-according-saudi-arabia-950996
                     Always good to read over one's croissants in the morning

This invigorating news left Mohammad free to pursue his transformation of the Saudi economy and continue with his brilliant and radical foreign policy

On the foreign policy front

• The liberation of Yemen continues a pace
• Its been four years and 100,000 deaths now
• Saudi air strike took out  a menacing school bus last week slaughtering the occupants
• Not even the Trumpfski WH applauded.
• The blockade of Qatar is of course a triumphant success
• As is his support of Syrian rebels against Assad.
• Never mind at least he was able to rejoice in the declaration of a trade war with Canada and the  expulsion of its ambassador.
• CANADA --not a typo.

To show seriousness Saudi patriotic group posted  image of the Toronto CN Tower on the web

                                                                Hearts and Minds

Word has it that the Yanks are getting a little nervous with Jared's best friend.

Maybe that is why Gulf dominated investment fund is buying into 666 Fifth Avenue

While foreign policy may not be the Prince's strong suit who can doubt his vision on transforming the Saudi economy away from its dependence on oil?

• He still draws great plaudits for allowing women to drive.
• Though locking up women's rights activists does take the lustre off a bit   //www.middleeasteye.net/news/detained-saudi-womenrs-rights-activists-could-face-death-penalty-saudi-media-944280895
• Canadian concern over this trifle is what caused the the Prince's restrained call for a trade war.
• The 2040 Economic plan is hitting the odd road bump
• The listing of Aramco on international stock exchanges has vanished from discussion.
• Oh the despair in London's Merchant Banks ,Law Firms and Media Advisers
• Foreign investment into the Kingdom has collapsed.
• Not much to start with                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     But this week  Great News !!!
• Tesla's Elon Musk has announced that he wants to take the company private 
• "Elon Musk says going private is 'best path forward' for Tesla"                                                     https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/07/news/companies/elon-musk-tesla-private/index.html                                                          
  

•  Saudi Sovereign Wealth Funds ,under personal guidance of bin Salman,are poised to take a large chunk.
• The current Tesla stock price is  $330.
• Valuing Tesla at $55 billion
• Musk proposes that he and the Saudis go private at a price of  $420-440
• Valuing Tesla at $72 billion about the same as  VolksVagen
• It is believed that the Saudis have already built a five percent stake for $2+ billion  
• They would invest at least another $3-4 billion to own 10%  
• GM market value is $51 billion
• Ford $38 billion 
• Tesla sales are less than 1 % of any of the above
• Let alone the Japanese and Korean car makers
• Tesla has NEVER made a profit
• Just like UBER
• Currently all the rest do
• They are all investing in electrical vehicles

What could possibly go wrong?

Tesla 'to be probed by regulators' over privatisation plan

                                       https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45201155

A Saudi Tesla purchase of 10% for $6+/- billion would complement the $3.5 billion they paid for 5% of UBER  two years ago.This was prior to UBER leaving China,struggling in India, having its licence revoked in London.Paris etc and losing its CEO and founder to a series of scandals.

UBER is a private,illiquid company so it is difficult to verify market estimates that it is now valued at 30% of what the Saudis paid.

There is no truth to the reports that the professional advisers to the Sovereign Wealth Fund are fighting to kill the Tesla deal.
Nor to the vicious speculation that Bin Taleel is laughing his socks off.

As most western pundits have confirmed the people of Saudi Adore and Revere the Great Leader
the Crown Prince  and his Father their King

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.