The nature of kingship in William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth follows the events that occur during Macbeth’s unlawful rise to the throne......The themes of greed, arrogance and excessive political ambition are still, very relevant to the world today. Shakespeare got it right - his story of Macbeth still applies to today's world....
CIA: Kim Jong Un isn't crazy..top officials from the CIA said Wednesday that Kim's actions are not those of a maniacal provocateur but a "rational actor" who is motivated by clear, long-term goals that revolve around ensuring regime survival. ”
Text of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's response to Trump..Action is the best option in treating the dotard who, hard of hearing,.......I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U. S. dotard with fire.”
Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska ..Deripaska is known for his close ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin, as well as his connection to American political consultant Paul Manafort, whom Deripaska employed from at least 2005 to 2009”
Fired by Trump...Here are the top-level people who've either been fired or forced out from the Trump administration.”
Bill Browder’s Senate Judiciary Committee Testimony...There are approximately ten thousand officials in Russia working for Putin who are given instructions to kill, torture, kidnap, extort money from people, and seize their property.”
Trump Jr., Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rob Goldstone...Donald Trump Jr. met with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer who promised to share political dirt on Hillary Clinton. Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman at the time, and Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and a key strategist, also attended. ”
Felix Sater....Flynn Intel Group.....Peter W. Smith....The Silk Road Group...intelligence agencies that describe Russian hackers discussing how to obtain emails from Mrs. Clinton’s server and then transmit them to Mr. Flynn via an intermediary.”
Trump's March Toward Autocracy...Trump seems happy to mold himself into a brassier American version of Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong Un.”
Christopher Ruddy...Christopher Ruddy, chief executive of the right-leaning media outlet Newsmax and a longtime friend of the president”
Sergey Gorkov...The VneshEconomBank...Donald Trump Was Bailed Out of Bankruptcy by Russia Crime Bosses.”
Michael Flynn and Sergey I. Kislyak...Ms. Yates told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Monday. “To state the obvious: You don’t want your national security adviser compromised with the Russians.”
Trump and Afghanistan...The US dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS positions in a remote part of Afghanistan in Nangarhar province, near the Pakistan border.
Carter Page: Russian Agent?...Carter Page is an American oil industry consultant. Donald Trump named him as a foreign policy advisor to his presidential campaign....Page is under investigation by US intelligence agencies for his connections to the Russian government and the possibility that he has been a foreign agent acting on their behalf.
Russian Hacking: Peter Severa and Pyotr Levashov ...Spanish police have arrested a Russian programmer for alleged involvement in "hacking" the US election.....Pyotr Levashov
North Korea: Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center...A U.S. Navy strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier was making its way towards the Korean peninsula Sunday “to maintain readiness”.
Trump and “Collateral Damage”...Collateral damage is a general term for deaths, injuries, or other damage inflicted on an unintended target. In American military terminology, it is used for the incidental killing or wounding of non-combatants.
Putin, Trump and Syria...Hafez Assad's successor, son Bashar, was quick to seize the opportunity. He visited Moscow in 2005 and succeeded in having three-fourths of Syria's external debt to Russia for arms sales written off.[11] The move became an impetus for renewed Russian-Syrian military cooperation in upgrading the port of Tartus for larger ships.
Stephen Bannon...Bannon, left Breitbart "News" to become Trump’s campaign C.E.O. in August, after spending years turning the conservative news site into a haven for anti-Semitism, racism, and misogyny, as well as virulently anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Mikhail Kalugin: Russian Agent...Mikhail Kalugin, who was based in the US and has reportedly been confirmed as a Russian spy by US officials....A key detail of the infamous intelligence report on alleged Russian collusion with the Trump campaign to influence the US election has reportedly been verified.
The Trump Players & Russian Agents...The role Putin and Russia are playing in Donald Trump’s administration is quite extraordinary.
Putin and Syria...The publication of Putin’s Master Plan (2016) puts the current events around Trump’s election into a broader context.
Garry Kasparov…”Trump’s all over the map. He’s a figure of chaos. But he’s been amazingly consistent in being pro-Putin.”
Erik Prince...Erik Prince, former U.S. Navy SEAL officer best known for founding the government services and security company Blackwater USA, now known as Academi. He served as its CEO until 2009 and later as chairman, until Blackwater Worldwide was sold in 2010 to a group of investors. Prince currently heads the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group and is chairman of Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group Ltd. He lives in both Middleburg, Virginia and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Jared Kushner...Jared Kushner, 36, is married to Mr Trump's daughter, Ivanka....His father Charles received a prison sentence in 2005 for tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering……At the time, he admitted setting up his own brother-in-law with a prostitute, secretly filming the liaison, and sending the tape to his sister in an effort to dissuade them from testifying against him......Chris Christie was the prosecutor in the case.
Ivanka Trump...Ivanka Trump vacationed with Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, who is rumored to be dating Russian President Vladimir Putin........Deng Murdoch also introduced Trump to her eventual husband, Jared Kushner.
Trump & Marine Le Pen....French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday that her election as president next year would form a trio of world leaders with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin that "would be good for world peace."
Trump & China….In the Pacific region, a war between the greatest military power and the world's second largest economy "is no longer unthinkable.
Trump & Islam....Trump’s civilizational conflict will be experienced not by Shiite militias or Sunni terrorists — who will surely welcome it — but by average citizens across the Muslim world.
The FISA Investigation.... The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court granted Justice Department investigators a warrant to probe the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia
Milo Yiannopoulos.... Yiannopoulos is the 31-year-old British tech editor and star writer for Breitbart News, where he’s the loudest defender of the new, Trump-led ultraconservatism, standing athwart history, shouting to stop immigrants, feminists, political correctness, and any non-Western culture….Yiannopoulos resigned following outrage over his support of pedophilia…..
Putin & Syria.... “In the face of Putin’s naked aggression in Europe, the West has shown a level of incompetence that approaches impotence.”
Trump and Golf.... Trump told Fortune magazine in February that golf should be for the rich elite......Trump wants a limited number of courses (his, of course) with exorbitant greens fees that would naturally drive up the cost -- and price regular folk out of the game
MacTrump in Moscow....The Miss Universe Beauty Pageant...November, 2013
Kompromat... 'Compromising' Material & Russian Blackmail....Kompromat is straight from the old Soviet playbook and has often involved photographs and videos — real or fake. Russians often use it for internal battles, though it is also deployed to blackmail foreign diplomats serving in Russia.
The Ritz Carleton Article...One....Russian special operation in the U.S. presidential election...Puts the current events around Trump’s election campaign into a broader context."
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The Ritz Carleton Article...Five
The Ritz Carleton Article...Six...Carter Page in Moscow in july, 2018
The Ritz Carleton Article...Seven.... Kompromat is straight from the old Soviet playbook and has often involved photographs and videos — real or fake. Russians often use it to blackmail foreign diplomats serving in Russia.
The Ritz Carleton Article...Eight....Associated Hackers in Prague...Hackers paid by both Trump team and Kremlin but ultimate loyalty to Ivanov, Head of PA
The Viktor Leonov and the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay Georgia....Russian CCB-175 The Viktor Leonov, a nearly 300-foot spy ship, was spotted off the Georgia coast on Wednesday, 20 miles south of the U.S. nuclear submarine base at Kings Bay
The Trump Appointments....The Trump Appointments include Cabinet secretaries, deputy and assistant secretaries, chief financial officers, general counsel, heads of agencies, ambassadors and other critical leadership positions. All require Senate confirmation."
The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court....The Justice Department sought a FISA warrant in June, 2016 to intercept communications from two Russian banks suspected of facilitating donations to the Trump campaign.
Putin and the Russian Opposition....Russia's main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been arrested at an anti-corruption protest he organized in the capital, Moscow
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