December 30, 2016
Burning the House
Down...Obamas Last Stand
What a child. A tantrum pouty
child. Yes Barak Hussein Obama is quickly descending down to the dregs of
Presidential Has-beens.
Obama's Legacy is what Obama
is really lusting after, and this will be good for a few Liberal Left Loons, however
for mainstream America, he is quickly becoming a bad taste in our mouths.Which is really too bad as
almost everyone had some hope for Obama. We, for the most part, wanted him to
succeed.
He didn't. Although he claimed
he did. It took Donald Trump to scratch the record and start a new
conversation.
The last days of Obamas
Administration are sure to be anger and angst filled, as Obama continues to piss off
allies and non-allies alike, steal lands for government set asides and do
everything in his power to make President Trumps start to be difficult.
You have no honor Obama, you
have no care for your fellow man, just yourself and your progressive liberal
imbeciles.
Lets look at some of the
carnage from Obama
First of all, it seems that Russia and Turkey have brokered a cease fire deal...without the US.
This is a slap in the face to
Obama and proves that the rest of the world doesn't need Obama to engage cease
fires.
After all, Obama wants
everyone to think of him as a man of peace, right?
Cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey begins across Syria
Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reestablished control over the northern city of Aleppo earlier this month, forcing rebels to flee what was once their largest stronghold and handing the government a victory that appeared to bring the war’s endgame into view.
The Assad government, backed by Russia and Iran, is now in its strongest position since the start of the war, while rebel groups are mostly boxed into the northwestern province of Idlib and hold no strategically significant urban areas.
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Now we move to the "Russian Hacking" issue
Obama under pressure to prove Russian interference in election
The Obama administration is under intense pressure to release evidence confirming Russian interference in the presidential election before leaving office.
The administration up until now has provided little documentation to back up its official October assessment that the Russian government was attempting to interfere in the U.S. election.
Nor has it corroborated subsequent leaks from anonymous officials contending that the CIA believes the campaign was an attempt by Russian President Vladimir Putin to ensure Donald Trump’s victory.
President Obama has ordered the intelligence community to produce a complete review of its findings before Trump takes office on Jan. 20. The White House has said it will make as much of the report public as it can.
But officials have warned that the document will contain “highly sensitive and classified information” and it is unclear how much concrete evidence it will be able to release.
Releasing any documentation of Russian interference would be a slap in the face to Trump, who has rejected assertions that the Kremlin was involved in the hacks on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
The president-elect and his team have treated any suggestion of Russian involvement as an attack on the legitimacy of his election, and Republican leaders in Congress have treaded carefully on the issue.
The firestorm ignited by the CIA’s assessment has spurred calls from both parties for the administration to provide proof of Russian meddling.
In late November, seven Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee urged the White House to declassify “additional information concerning the Russian Government and the U.S. election.”
As of last week, they had not yet received a response.
The House Intelligence Committee earlier this month demanded a briefing on the subject but was rebuffed by intelligence leaders, who said they will not brief Congress again until the completion of the report for the White House.
re documentation.
Vice journalist Jason Leopold and Ryan Shapiro, a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the office of the director of national intelligence seeking records pertaining to Russian interference.
And even Trump’s transition team has said the White House should provide definitive proof to back up its claims.
"If the CIA Director [John] Brennan and others at the top are serious about turning over evidence … they should do that," Trump aide Kellyanne Conway said earlier this month. "They should not be leaking to the media. If there's evidence, let's see it."
Which leads to this....note the next to last paragraph.
Investigators linked the Russian government to hacks of Democratic Party organizations.
The document makes clear reference to the hacks of the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton
campaign chairman John Podesta, though it does not mention either by
name.
The 13-page report provides technical details regarding tools
and infrastructure used by Russian civilian and military intelligence services
to “compromise and exploit networks and endpoints associated with the U.S.
election, as well as a range of U.S.
Government, political, and private sector entities.” (See the entire
report below.)
The report, known as a “Joint Analysis Report” or JAR, refers to
the Russian hacking campaign as “Grizzly Steppe.”
It comes as part of a slate of retaliatory
measures against Russia
issued Thursday by the Obama administration in response to the hacks, and
expands on a joint statement issued by the two agencies in October, formally
attributing the attacks to Russia.
In the October statement, officials described the the hacks
and subsequent publication of stolen emails on WikiLeaks as an attempt to
“interfere” with the U.S. election that is “consistent with the
Russian-directed efforts,” but provided no evidence to support their
assessment.
President-elect Donald Trump has
denied that Russia
was involved in the hacks, and Obama has been under
pressure to provide proof.
The luxurious, 45-acre compound in Maryland being shut down for alleged Russian espionage
Among the wide-ranging measures, the White House announced that the State Department would be closing two Russian-owned compounds — one in Maryland and one in New York — that it says were used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related purposes. It is also declaring 35 Russians “persona non grata” for their alleged role in intelligence operations.
How hidden were these alleged spy compounds? At least in the case of Maryland, the answer is simple: not very.
The compound in Maryland sits on around 45 acres of land at Pioneer Point, a peninsula where the Corsica and Chester rivers merge — around a 90-minute drive from downtown Washington, by the Eastern Shore town of Centreville in Queen Anne's County.
The site was purchased by the Soviet government in 1972, and became something of a resort for Soviets living in the United States. It is the former estate of John J. Raskob, a former executive for DuPont and General Motors perhaps best known as the builder of the Empire State Building. The Soviets later added to the estate by making a deal with the State Department, which received two properties in Moscow in return.
At the time of its purchase, there was some resistance to the sale of the building to the Soviets, with the local newspaper reporting there were “fears of nuclear submarines surfacing in the Chester River to pick up American secrets and defectors.”
But by 1974, the New York Times reported that many locals had been won over, with the help of dinner parties and gifts of vodka and caviar. “As far as neighbors are concerned you couldn't ask for better,” Joe Handley, a former estate manager for Raskob, told The Washington Post in 1979. “They don't bother anybody.”
A reporter from the local Star Democrat newspaper in Easton visited the site in 1987 — in large part because of the long-standing rumors that it was being used for espionage. The resulting article, also published in The Post, noted the tall chain-link fence outside the compound and the video cameras monitoring the gate, but also the lime-green bungalows, swimming pools and numerous tennis courts.
“Tomorrow we have a game,” one tennis player identified as Yevgeny told the reporter. “We have a tournament with the International Monetary Fund. They have a beautiful team. But this year, God knows who will win.”
After the turmoil of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Pioneer Point was bought by the Russian Federation — at the time, the Associated Press reported its value was $3 million. Local residents told the AP that they didn't have any problems with the Russians who visited the compound.
''I live down the road from them. We fish and crab with them. There's usually one that speaks English for the group,'' a woman named as Bonnie Delph told the AP.
The compound has been in the news very little since then. Nine years ago, the Russian ambassador to the United States, Yuri Ushakov, invited a reporter from Washington Life magazine to tour the grounds, explaining that for him it was like the traditional Russian summer house, or dacha, he was used to back home. “Because we have such a hectic life in Washington, we need a place to hide for a while,” his wife, Svetlana, was quoted as saying.
A man who answered the phone for a number listed online for the Pioneer Point compound said it was a wrong number, before adding that he did not speak English.
On Thursday, U.S. officials would not confirm the location of the New York compound being shut down — saying only that it was a 14-acre property on Long Island that had been purchased by the Soviet government in 1954. However, a number of Russia-watching bloggers pointed towards the Killenworth estate on Dosoris Lane in Glen Cove, which acts as the country home for Moscow's delegation to the United Nations. The grand country house was once owned by American philanthropist George Dupont Pratt.
Obama Names New Monuments in 2 States
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