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May 2, 2017

The JESTER gives first ever radio interview



The world’s most patriotic American hacker, the Jester, gives first ever radio interview

FBI agents call him the Batman of the internet. He hacked ISIS after Charlie Hebdo and posted pictures of Muhammad. He just recently hacked the Russian Foreign Ministry. His laptop is in the spy museum in D.C.

He’s the Jester and he joined the show last week.

Why Conservatives need to get better at direct action

He said it took him about 20 seconds to hack into the Russian Foreign Ministry website. No damage was done but it was designed to ruffle their feathers and to send a message to them to stay out of our Democratic process.

The Jester also says there is a big connection between WikiLeaks and Russia. He says Snowden may not be a Russian agent but he is a useful idiot and a giant narcissist. The Jester thinks Russia keeps the juicy stuff for themselves and gives WikiLeaks the scraps.

http://mynorthwest.com/460335/patriotic-hacking-jester/
April 30, 2017

Trumps Very Friendly Talk With Duterte Stuns Aides and Critics Alike

During their “very friendly conversation,” the administration said in a late-night statement, Mr. Trump invited Mr. Duterte, an authoritarian leader accused of ordering extrajudicial killings of drug suspects in the Philippines, to visit him at the White House.

Now, administration officials are bracing for an avalanche of criticism from human rights groups. Two officials said they expected the State Department and the National Security Council, both of which were caught off guard by the invitation, to raise objections internally.

The White House disclosed the news on a day when Mr. Trump whipped up ardent backers at a campaign-style rally in Harrisburg, Pa. The timing of the announcement — after a speech that was an angry, grievance-filled jeremiad — encapsulated this president after 100 days in office: still ready to say and do things that leave people, even on his staff, slack-jawed.

“By essentially endorsing Duterte’s murderous war on drugs, Trump is now morally complicit in future killings,” said John Sifton, the Asia director of Human Rights Watch. “Although the traits of his personality likely make it impossible, Trump should be ashamed of himself.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/us/politics/trump-duterte.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
April 30, 2017

OMG! Trump is telling us if our knees hurt, we should focus on North Korea -

Trump melts down over preexisting conditions: ‘Focus on North Korea, focus on other things than your knee’

“Preexisting [conditions] is going to be [in the Obamacare replacement bill and we’re also going to create [high risk] pools and pools are going to take care of the preexisting [conditions].”

As Dickerson pressed for details, Trump began to get annoyed.
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“Look, if you hurt your knee, honestly, I’d rather have the federal government focus on North Korea, focus on other things than your knee or than your back, as important as your back is,” Trump declared. “I would much rather see the federal government focused on other things.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/trump-melts-down-over-preexisting-conditions-focus-on-north-korea-focus-on-other-things-than-your-knee/
April 30, 2017

Empty seats at Pennsylvania rally give the lie to Trumps claim of record breaking crowd

of course, Trump claims there were so many people, they could all not get in -

Jonathan Tamari

@JonathanTamari

Trump says "we have a lot of ppl standing outside" and he "broke the all time record" in this arena. There are rows of empty seats here


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/empty-seats-at-pennsylvania-rally-give-the-lie-to-trumps-claim-of-record-breaking-crowd/
April 29, 2017

Duck and Cover - "How to survive a nuclear blast"

"The Atomic Bomb will burn you worse than sunburn" - " make sure to cover the back of your head" - "it can explode why you are on your way to a cub scout meeting"




Advice for life in 2017: How to survive a nuclear blast

So this is where we are now, apparently. NBC News has dedicated more than 1,500 words to the subject of how to survive a North Korean nuclear attack. If you’re thinking “How to survive a nuclear attack?” and laughing bitterly, you’re not alone, but NBC’s James Rainey has assembled a parade of experts here to tell you to stay inside—preferably way inside—and not to try to escape.

“Stay inside for at least 24 hours after a nuclear bomb goes off” does not seem like advice anyone should need to be given, and yet you know that there would be at least a few people going “Well, it’s been an entire 18 hours so we should probably head outside to check things out.”

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/26/1656410/-Advice-for-life-in-2017-How-to-survive-a-nuclear-blast
April 29, 2017

Some Twitter talk of one grand jury being almost complete - Claude Taylor

Claude Taylor? @TrueFactsStated 12h12 hours ago
Report: grand juries underway on multiple Trump-Russia conspirators, indictments expected



This just in from a source with knowledge of Comey's investigation. "two grand juries have convened and I know that one is almost complete."

The revelation comes from Washington insider Claude Taylor, who served in the the Bill Clinton administration. He says that according to his inside source, two grand juries are in progress in the Trump-Russia scandal, with one of them “almost complete” (link). So what now? It’s not clear who has initially been targeted, though they’re likely to be proverbial smaller sized fish who can be persuaded to provide damning evidence and testimony against a bigger fish in return for leniency. The end goal of the investigation is ostensibly to get to Donald Trump himself, being the biggest fish in the scandal.

Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn failed to register as a foreign agent at the time he was taking payments from intermediaries of the governments of Russia and Turkey. Trump’s former campaign manager is Paul Manafort is accused of having taken tens of millions of dollars from a pro-Kremlin benefactor in similar fashion. Trump’s former campaign adviser Roger Stone has admitted to contact with the Russian hacker who stole emails from Trump’s election opposition. Carter Page is alleged in a number of Russia-related incidents.
So take your pick as to whom the targets of these two initial Trump-Russia grand juries might be. But with one of them near completion, and indictments more or less automatic, we should begin finding out soon. Will the FBI have the two indicted individuals arrested in a public spectacle in order to pressure them to flip more quickly?


https://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/indictments-grand-juries-trump-russia/2498/



plus:

Louise Mensch?Verified account @LouiseMensch

EXCLUSIVE: Boris Epshteyn Paid Russian Hackers For Both Team Trump and FSB


https://patribotics.blog/2017/04/29/sources-boris-epshteyn-paid-russian-hackers-for-both-team-trump-and-fsb/
April 28, 2017

Now Trump wants South Korea to pay for Thaad antimissle system

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/world/asia/trump-south-korea-thaad-missile-defense-north-korea.html

SEOUL, South Korea — President Trump’s comment that he wants South Korea to pay for a missile defense system being set up in the country jolted its presidential race on Friday and surprised the government, leaving it scrambling to figure out the intentions of a close ally.

In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, Mr. Trump said that he wanted South Korea to pay for the system, known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or Thaad, whose cost he estimated at $1 billion.

He also said that he wanted to renegotiate or terminate what he called a “horrible” trade agreement with South Korea because of a deep trade deficit. “Very soon,” he said when asked when he would announce his intention to renegotiate the pact. “I’m announcing it now.”

In South Korea, Mr. Trump’s comments shook the race to choose a successor to Park Geun-hye, the former president who was formally ousted last month after being impeached by Parliament in December. The election is on May 9.
April 26, 2017

A former top NSA lawyer is joining the Senate's Trump-Russia probe - April Doss

The former head of intelligence law at the National Security Agency (NSA), April Doss, has been hired to work on the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, her law firm confirmed in a press release on Wednesday.

Doss, who spent over a decade at the NSA and now chairs the Cybersecurity and Privacy practice at Saul Ewing, LLP, will serve as the committee's special counsel as it examines " allegations that Russia participated in a disinformation campaign intended to benefit President Donald Trump, and claims of potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia," the firm said.

Doss will join the committee on May 1.

The former NSA attorney testified before the House Judiciary Committee on March 1, 2017 in a public hearing over the reauthorization of Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, according to her firm, which hired her one year ago.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/how-mike-flynn-became-americas-angriest-general-214362
April 26, 2017

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