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By Mark Mazzetti, David D.Kirkpatrick & Maggie Haberman @ NYTimes.com, March 3.
Just read it, as there is no way anyone could summarize it. If you're the type that likes convoluted spy stories or mysteries, you'll like it, trust me. It obviously started with this A copy of Mr. Broidy’s memorandum about the meeting was provided to The New York Times by someone critical of the Emirati influence in Washington and this George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman [.....] is now a focus of the investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel [.....] In one example of Mr. Nader’s influential connections, which has not been previously reported, last fall he received a detailed report from a top Trump fund-raiser, Elliott Broidy, about a private meeting with the president in the Oval Office.
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One of many questions raised for me by this article: Why is Tillerson still on the job? Could it be that he's a masochist?
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/03/2018 - 10:34pm
It's Javanka and this corrupt entanglement they've been building since they got near office. All the players - UAE, Iran, Saudi, Russia... not as an alternate mode to peace, but a multi-trillion dollar corruption juggernaut.
I still don't know why they'd quote Erik Prince verbatim without noting "liar", but I must say, these 2, Nader and Broidy, are names I haven't seen in scads of tweets and news repirt, so indeed the investigation may be expanding and pulling new important threads. I'm wondering if this one pulls in Bibi or the next.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/04/2018 - 3:56am
Oh crap, left out China as one of the most important but quietest in this dance. There are consistent noises about their hacking and money influence, but seldom anything front page. Javanka of course has courted them hard and received major concessions in China - what's the quid pro quo?
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/04/2018 - 4:06am
FoxNews.com has this story as the headline on its home page. Honestly don't know how to interpret that. Just pointing it out:
MUELLER PROBE WIDENS
Special counsel looking into whether the UAE put money into Trump's 2016 presidential campaign
Investigators in recent weeks have questioned a top Trump adviser and asked witnesses for information about whether the UAE tried to buy political influence by giving money to the president's campaign, reports claim.
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/04/2018 - 12:35pm
Judging solely on the image you provide, I think we are approaching Illuminati territory as Mueller attempts to superimpose his visage on top of Benjamin Franklin's.
Hacking, its not just for Russians anymore.
by moat on Sun, 03/04/2018 - 2:21pm
It was on the top of their home page with MUELLER PROBE WIDENS superimposed over the image. Given as Fox goes after a big audience, I would think their illustrators pick ambiguous iconography to appeal to as many narratives as possible.So they could be C-notes lobbyists are throwing around for the drain-the-swamp types or indeed they could also be the illuminati's Masonic Benjamins for the deep-state-conspiracy fans?
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/04/2018 - 7:11pm
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 03/04/2018 - 9:03pm
I find it helpful when you express your own analysis about something calmly, like here, without getting into imaginary rhetorical attacks on strawmen snowflakes et. al. I might still think what you think nutty, but I, for one, don't feel the need to attack you directly as being a nut (must say others might think different.in this particular) After all. you're just another pseudonym on the internet, what good would that do? It's really a world of difference for this reader when you seem to be honestly expressing something vs. when you do the agitprop routine. The latter often comes across as trolling with intent to inflame, a comment like this doesn't.
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/04/2018 - 10:46pm
by Peter (not verified) on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 9:10am
If they're bigger and quite public, how can you "expose" them? Just askin...
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 9:19am
I think he is telling self-reference jokes for the pleasure of it.
They are similar to this one supplied by Hilliard on the linked page:
"A logician saves the life of a tiny space alien. The alien is very grateful and, since she's omniscient, offers the following reward: she offers to answer any question the logician might pose. Without too much thought (after all, he's a logician), he asks: "What is the best question to ask and what is the correct answer to that question?" The tiny alien pauses. Finally she replies, "The best question is the one you just asked; and the correct answer is the one I gave."
by moat on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 10:55am
I once had the good fortune to have Willuam Burroughs recite the Curse of the Monkey's Paw in his house in Lawrence, KS. Though come to think of it, maybe it wasn't good fortune after all...
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 11:57am
Yes, that is an excellent example.
I would call that good fortune, even if you never completely recover.
by moat on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 12:45pm
I think it was ocean-kat who commented a long while back about how he could tell the slant of the article by the photo chosen (and was so right); but sometimes laziness allows for a couple of mashed-up clipart images to suffice, hence the chosen headline = Mueller's face and pictures of money.
by barefooted on Sun, 03/04/2018 - 7:32pm
I used to read an interesting site, bagnewsnotes, that gave some good insights into what the pictures in news articles were trying to say. I lost internet access for a year and forgot to return to it but I checked and discovered it still exists as Reading the Pictures. I'm not sure it maintains the same quality it did some years ago but I guess I'm going to put it back on my list of regularly checked sites. There are also a few books by Wilson Bryon Key discussing the use of subliminals in advertising that are worth reading.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 5:06pm
I definitely remember bagnewsnotes as being very good at what he did. So thanks for sharing that you had tracked a new version down.
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 8:55pm
One of the unfortunate by-products of the loss of editorial influence/overview/existence is that we see the same photos of any subject over and over again. Check any Post, NYT, etc. site with articles about the same theme and you'll see the same photo. A shame, really. Not as much fun as it used to be to see what real photo editors could do for a story.
by barefooted on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 9:13pm
Arty... spy stories?
Follow this...
Yesterday . . .
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Last December . . .
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Now... Go to Seth's thread and follow the 15 posts to fill in the picture...
~OGD~
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 2:09am
Thanks,OGD. I do check out his tweets from time to time.
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 8:56pm
Combine the below with this bit in Mayer's article on Steele, and this story about the $160 million to fight Russia unused by State, and stories about plotting involving Tillerson getting as thick as pea soup:
Emails show UAE-linked effort against Tillerson
By Suzanne Kianpour @ BBC News, Washington, 5 hrs. ago
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 9:57pm