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Maybe find inside of cell for other games played soon enough.
There were over 34.8 Million shares traded that one day to stop that slide, yikes.
Do you know what was going on with AVXL last Oct. when price went from 14.82 to 3.22 in a month or so? Was it same drug as now?
I ask because I own a little.
Lotto on such a terrible condition. As you know I lost my Father in law to louie body. (sp as usual,uggg)
Thanks.
ahh, many thanks, not sure if it's there with free acct. but will check. i paid, i think for 6 years, but never really used extra features so went free.
congrats on silver.
I also like bw strat on gdxj but have been to chicken to add on dips, like thld, don't know what is going on there likely penny stock games, but who knows, it had been hammered plenty.
between wy coming back, gldj, thld, the trading acct is at it highest point, maybe ever, even with hdge falling for now. been dollar cost averaging that one for years now, as a bet that world debt catches up to us, first mentioned it in corx posts years ago, that I was worried about world debt, then they turned on flow like never in the history of man, whole generation thinks it's normal now, all over the world. might need that silver.
lucky longs have been doing well generally, plus 5+% div locked in on the wy.
barely, just 6k shares, hand on button to buy more yesterday around .38, but for the second time, moved on and left it alone.
i did see a news icon next to its name on my i-hub favorites page, so there is some kind of new on it, i'll see if i can find it:
this is from news icon next to stock name on favorites page today, sorry the columns don't line up right:
Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership (4)
Date : 06/28/2016 @ 5:58PM
Source : Edgar (US Regulatory)
Stock : Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (MM) (THLD)
Quote : 0.6199 0.2646 (74.47%) @ 8:00PM
Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership (4)
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FORM 4
[ ] Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES
OMB APPROVAL
OMB Number: 3235-0287
Estimated average burden
hours per response... 0.5
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person *
BIRD JEFFREY W 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
THRESHOLD PHARMACEUTICALS INC [ THLD ] 5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable)
__ X __ Director _____ 10% Owner
_____ Officer (give title below) _____ Other (specify below)
(Last) (First) (Middle)
755 PAGE MILL ROAD, SUITE A-200 3. Date of Earliest Transaction (MM/DD/YYYY)
6/24/2016
(Street)
PALO ALTO, CA 94304-1005
(City) (State) (Zip)
4. If Amendment, Date Original Filed (MM/DD/YYYY)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
_ X _ Form filed by One Reporting Person
___ Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1.Title of Security
(Instr. 3) 2. Trans. Date 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any 3. Trans. Code
(Instr. 8) 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D)
(Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s)
(Instr. 3 and 4) 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price
Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned ( e.g. , puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivate Security
(Instr. 3) 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Trans. Date 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any 4. Trans. Code
(Instr. 8) 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D)
(Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security
(Instr. 3 and 4) 8. Price of Derivative Security
(Instr. 5) 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) 10. Ownership Form of Derivative Security: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Stock Option (Right to Buy) $0.3800 6/24/2016 A 35000.0000 (1) 6/24/2026 Common Stock 35000.0000 $0.0000 35000.0000 D (2)
Explanation of Responses:
( 1) The options vests in accordance with the following schedule: (a) 8.3333% of the shares subject to this option shall vest on each monthly anniversary of the date of grant of June 24, 2016 for the first 11 months and (b) the remaining shares are subject to this option shall vest on the date of Issuer's 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
( 2) The reporting person shares pecuniary interest in these shares with other individuals pursuant to a contractual relationship. The reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership in these shares except as to the reporting person's pecuniary interest therein.
Reporting Owners
Reporting Owner Name / Address
Relationships
Director 10% Owner Officer Other
BIRD JEFFREY W
755 PAGE MILL ROAD, SUITE A-200
PALO ALTO, CA 94304-1005 X
===less than 10%===
why is it that we don't hear about this often, if ever.
down here they call any non-profit that returns less than 10% a scam, at least that what I was told by a bureaucrat in Columbia in the 1980's when I called about a charity that had come to my door. Not much internet back then but they had a number you could call in the capital to check out "charities."
less than 10% was as bad as they listed. unreal that is not plastered on every front page of every paper in the country.
maybe EW words of "thinly veiled bribe," would be in order in this case, likely exactly what she was talking about, before their common interest in defeating something new, brought them together.
deep breaths, ha.
From google:
===Bernie Sanders served as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont from 1981 to 1989, serving four terms. He was then elected to the House of Representatives in 1990 and served until 2006 when he was elected into the U.S. Senate, where he has served ever since.===
I am absolutely sure that our founders envisioned men and women to serve in the Congress and Senate for 26 years straight, which for almost all is the best jobs they will ever have, lots of free stuff, even the power to vote yourselves raises, being treating like kings/queens, told how great you are by every lobbyist there is. Nice, Power, Don't want to give that up, after all I know better, I am more experienced, blah, blah, blah.
They never would have thought that you serve a term as your duty to America and then go back to the district you served and live with the laws you passed.
It's much preferable that as soon as they get in office they IMMEDIATELY start trying to figure out how to stay in power so as not to ever have to get a regular job.
Even Marco R. has now said he will re-run for senate, after saying he would not run again, many times. He must have looked at the real job market out there.
Ha, hope you are doing well.
Trump: Elizabeth Warren ‘Sellout,’ ‘Turncoat’ for Backing Hillary
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/27/donald-trump-exposes-sellout-warren-backing-clinton-becoming-turncoat-causes-supposedly-supports/
by Alex Swoyer27 Jun 2016Washington, DC 5,011
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump slammed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who appeared at a campaign rally with presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to rally voters in Ohio on Monday.
In a press release titled “Sellout Warren,” Trump exposed Clinton’s differing positions on several policies Warren supports.
“As Clinton tries to salvage support among the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democrat Party, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has become a turncoat for the causes she supposedly supports,” Trump stated in the press release, pointing out Clinton and Warren’s differences on Wall Street, special interests and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Trump’s statement continues:
While Warren claims that Wall Street businesses have too much influence in D.C., by paying “barely disguised bribes,” through campaign contributions. The Clinton campaign has accepted over $41 million this cycle from Wall Street interests. Warren is also campaigning for the author of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal she has routinely slammed. This is a trade deal that Clinton has expressed support for in over 45 public speeches. Warren’s campaigning for Clinton stands in stark contrast to the liberal ideals she once practiced. This sad attempt at pandering to the Sanders wing is another example of a typical political calculation by D.C. insiders. Mr. Trump has been against TPP from the start of his campaign because he understands how detrimental it would be to American workers. He will continue to fight for the American people and serve them over the special interests in Washington, D.C.
During the rally, Warren blasted Trump.
“Here’s what it boils down to,” Warren stated during the rally. “Hillary has brains, she has guts, she has thick skin and steady hands, but most of all, she has a good heart and that’s what America needs, and that’s why I’m with her.”
Bernie Sanders shifts priorities to beating Trump, advancing liberal agenda
Published: June 16, 2016 10:53 p.m. ET
Senator still won’t endorse Hillary Clinton
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bernie-sanders-shifts-priorities-to-beating-trump-advancing-liberal-agenda-2016-06-16
Reuters By Peter Nicholas
Bernie Sanders said he would work feverishly to defeat Republican Donald Trump in the general election, urged his volunteers to run for elective office and said he would press Hillary Clinton to embrace a liberal policy agenda in a 23-minute speech to his supporters Thursday night.
In the online speech Sanders neither endorsed Clinton nor said he was ending his campaign, moves that might have drained his leverage in trying to shape the Democratic Party’s future. But he made plain that one of his overriding goals is bringing about Trump’s defeat.
“The major political task that we face in the next five months is to make certain that Donald Trump is defeated and defeated badly,” said Sanders, who appeared by himself against a simple blue backdrop with his campaign logo. “And I personally intend to begin my role in that process in a very short period of time.”
Sanders’s plans have been a bit of a mystery since Clinton last week secured the delegates making her the presumptive presidential nominee. The address offered few new insights into his future. Sanders’s tone was somewhat wistful, celebrating a campaign that far surpassed expectations but fell short in the end. He said he won 22 state primaries and caucuses and, what’s more, “we came very close — within two points or less — in five more states.”
What’s clear is Sanders has accepted defeat and has given up plans to wrest the nomination from Clinton. His new agenda, he said in the address, is to transform the political system and open the Democratic Party to new voters while pushing it in a leftward direction
Sanders tells MSNBC he will vote for Clinton in November
Published: June 24, 2016 4:31 p.m. ET
Independent senator from Vermont in talks with Clinton camp
Reuters
Sanders at a January rally in New Hampshire.
By Tim Rostan Managing editor
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sanders-tells-msnbc-he-will-vote-for-clinton-in-november-2016-06-24 ?
Asked directly on the MSNBC program “Morning Joe” early Friday whether he would vote for Hillary Clinton, her pitched rival in the Democratic primaries, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, said he would.
‘I have zero respect for anybody who tries to get votes by insulting Mexicans [and] Muslims.’
Sen. Bernie Sanders
“Yes,” he said. “I’m going to do everything I can to defeat Donald Trump.” The “cornerstone” of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s campaign, Sanders said, has been bigotry. “I have zero respect for anybody who tries to get votes by insulting Mexicans [and] Muslims.”
He also characterized Trump as “a pathological liar” and lambasted his dismissal of the scientific community’s climate-change consensus.
He opted not to “parse words” when pressed on whether his vote on Election Day would be more anti-Trump or pro-Clinton.
In response to a question about the U.K. vote Thursday to exit the European Union, Sanders said he worries about the “breakdown in international cooperation” that took shape after World War II.
One message to be taken from the “Brexit” vote, he added, is that “the global economy is not working for everybody.”
Four ways Hillary Clinton will work to end gun ownership as president
John Lott By John R. Lott ·Published June 06, 2016 FoxNews.com
(AP)
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/06/06/four-ways-president-hillary-clinton-will-work-to-end-gun-ownership.html
On Sunday, Hillary Clinton just couldn’t bring herself to say on ABC's "This Week" that Americans have an individual right to own guns. But it didn’t stop her from denying Donald Trump’s claim that she wants to abolish the Second Amendment. Clinton accused Trump of making “outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue.”
From changing the Supreme Court to make it possible to again ban guns in the United States to making it more costly to own guns, I predict that a President Hillary Clinton will do four things to either ban guns or at least reduce gun ownership, especially for poor people:
1. Sunday, George Stephanopoulos pushed Clinton twice on whether people have a right to own guns on ABC News’ "This Week": “But that's not what I asked. I said do you believe that their conclusion that an individual's right to bear arms is a constitutional right?” Clinton could only say: “If it is a constitutional right...”
But to anyone familiar with the Supreme Court rulings on the Second Amendment, Clinton clearly indicated that she would appoint Supreme Court Justices who will allow gun bans.
Until 2008, Washington, D.C., had a complete handgun ban. It was also a felony to put a bullet in the chamber of a gun. In effect, this was a complete ban on guns. In District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down these laws.
Clinton told Stephanopoulos: “I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the late Justice Scalia and there was no argument until then that localities and states and the federal government had a right, as we do with every amendment, to impose reasonable regulation.”
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Clinton went on to talk about her push for expanded background checks, but that has nothing to do with Scalia’s decision in Heller. Instead, she should explain what made D.C.’s regulations “reasonable.” She could have told us why people should be imprisoned for five years for defending their families.
In McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), Supreme Court justices Stephen Breyer wrote in his dissent: "I can find nothing in the Second Amendment’s text, history, or underlying rationale that could warrant characterizing it as ‘fundamental’ insofar as it seeks to protect the keeping and bearing of arms for private self-defense purposes.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor joined in this dissent.
Breyer and Ginsburg were both appointed by President Bill Clinton. Sotomayor was Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court. Obama’s second nominee, Elana Kagan, would clearly have voted the same way had she been on the court at the time. Indeed, Kagan served in the Clinton administration and helped lead the President’s gun control initiatives.
If Hillary wins in November, she will appoint Scalia’s successor and the Supreme Court will overturn the Heller decision. Make no mistake about it, gun bans will return.
2. Stephanopoulos also asked Hillary on Sunday about her support in 1993 for a 25 percent sales tax on handguns. This is enough to add a hundred or more dollars to the price of a gun. Clinton wouldn’t say if she still supported such a tax, but she appeared to justify the proposal by talking about the costs of gun violence. Of course, she has never acknowledged the fact that guns are used to stop crimes 4 to 5 times more often than they are used to commit them.
3. Hillary never mentions it, but the new background checks that she keeps pushing will also make guns more costly and not make us safer. In Washington and New York City, expanding background checks to private transfers will add at least $125 to the cost of obtaining a gun. In New Jersey, it usually adds $100. It is as low as $60 in Washington State.
4. On Sunday, Hillary also pushed the idea of making gun makers and sellers liable for guns which end up being used in crimes. As her rival Bernie Sanders, of all people, has explained: “If somebody has a gun and it falls into the hands of a murderer and the murderer kills somebody with a gun, do you hold the gun manufacturer responsible? Not any more than you would hold a hammer company responsible if somebody beats somebody over the head with a hammer.” Even if Sanders exaggerates when he says that Hillary’s proposal will eliminate guns in the U.S., everyone knows that this change in rules will raise the cost of guns and put many out of business.
After adding up all these fees, taxes, and liabilities, few Americans are going to be able to afford guns. That is especially true for the people who need guns the most for protection — poor blacks who live in high crime urban areas. It wouldn't be surprising if some otherwise law-abiding citizens resort to buying guns illegally.
Of course, Clinton’s plan to take away peoples guns could be seen in all her misleading or false statements. On Sunday, she couldn’t help repeating the false statistic that gun violence in America claims the lives of “33,000 people a year.” In 2014, there were 21,334 firearm suicides, 586 accidental gun deaths, and 8,124 gun murders. Clinton gets to the 33,000 number by adding in roughly 3,000 justifiable homicides by police and civilians.
Moreover, 71 percent of these 30,134 deaths are suicides. In light of Clinton’s support for legalizing assisted suicide, it is strange for her not to make a clear distinction between suicides and murders. Research continually shows that banning guns won’t prevent suicides — there are simply too many easy ways to kill oneself. In Japan, which has a suicide rate that is 54 percent higher than the U.S. rate, many people take their lives by stepping in front of trains.
The 90 percent poll number that she uses is just as misleading, since it doesn't actually ask about real legislation.
It's time for someone to ask Clinton a simple question: Won’t overturning the Heller decision make gun bans possible again? If so, exactly how is Donald Trump’s statement wrong?
On Sunday, Hillary Clinton just couldn’t bring herself to say on ABC's "This Week" that Americans have an individual right to own guns. But it didn’t stop her from denying Donald Trump’s claim that she wants to abolish the Second Amendment. Clinton accused Trump of making “outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue.”
From changing the Supreme Court to make it possible to again ban guns in the United States to making it more costly to own guns, I predict that a President Hillary Clinton will do four things to either ban guns or at least reduce gun ownership, especially for poor people:
1. Sunday, George Stephanopoulos pushed Clinton twice on whether people have a right to own guns on ABC News’ "This Week": “But that's not what I asked. I said do you believe that their conclusion that an individual's right to bear arms is a constitutional right?” Clinton could only say: “If it is a constitutional right...”
But to anyone familiar with the Supreme Court rulings on the Second Amendment, Clinton clearly indicated that she would appoint Supreme Court Justices who will allow gun bans.
Until 2008, Washington, D.C., had a complete handgun ban. It was also a felony to put a bullet in the chamber of a gun. In effect, this was a complete ban on guns. In District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down these laws.
Clinton told Stephanopoulos: “I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the late Justice Scalia and there was no argument until then that localities and states and the federal government had a right, as we do with every amendment, to impose reasonable regulation.”
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Clinton went on to talk about her push for expanded background checks, but that has nothing to do with Scalia’s decision in Heller. Instead, she should explain what made D.C.’s regulations “reasonable.” She could have told us why people should be imprisoned for five years for defending their families.
In McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), Supreme Court justices Stephen Breyer wrote in his dissent: "I can find nothing in the Second Amendment’s text, history, or underlying rationale that could warrant characterizing it as ‘fundamental’ insofar as it seeks to protect the keeping and bearing of arms for private self-defense purposes.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor joined in this dissent.
Breyer and Ginsburg were both appointed by President Bill Clinton. Sotomayor was Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court. Obama’s second nominee, Elana Kagan, would clearly have voted the same way had she been on the court at the time. Indeed, Kagan served in the Clinton administration and helped lead the President’s gun control initiatives.
If Hillary wins in November, she will appoint Scalia’s successor and the Supreme Court will overturn the Heller decision. Make no mistake about it, gun bans will return.
2. Stephanopoulos also asked Hillary on Sunday about her support in 1993 for a 25 percent sales tax on handguns. This is enough to add a hundred or more dollars to the price of a gun. Clinton wouldn’t say if she still supported such a tax, but she appeared to justify the proposal by talking about the costs of gun violence. Of course, she has never acknowledged the fact that guns are used to stop crimes 4 to 5 times more often than they are used to commit them.
3. Hillary never mentions it, but the new background checks that she keeps pushing will also make guns more costly and not make us safer. In Washington and New York City, expanding background checks to private transfers will add at least $125 to the cost of obtaining a gun. In New Jersey, it usually adds $100. It is as low as $60 in Washington State.
4. On Sunday, Hillary also pushed the idea of making gun makers and sellers liable for guns which end up being used in crimes. As her rival Bernie Sanders, of all people, has explained: “If somebody has a gun and it falls into the hands of a murderer and the murderer kills somebody with a gun, do you hold the gun manufacturer responsible? Not any more than you would hold a hammer company responsible if somebody beats somebody over the head with a hammer.” Even if Sanders exaggerates when he says that Hillary’s proposal will eliminate guns in the U.S., everyone knows that this change in rules will raise the cost of guns and put many out of business.
After adding up all these fees, taxes, and liabilities, few Americans are going to be able to afford guns. That is especially true for the people who need guns the most for protection — poor blacks who live in high crime urban areas. It wouldn't be surprising if some otherwise law-abiding citizens resort to buying guns illegally.
Of course, Clinton’s plan to take away peoples guns could be seen in all her misleading or false statements. On Sunday, she couldn’t help repeating the false statistic that gun violence in America claims the lives of “33,000 people a year.” In 2014, there were 21,334 firearm suicides, 586 accidental gun deaths, and 8,124 gun murders. Clinton gets to the 33,000 number by adding in roughly 3,000 justifiable homicides by police and civilians.
Moreover, 71 percent of these 30,134 deaths are suicides. In light of Clinton’s support for legalizing assisted suicide, it is strange for her not to make a clear distinction between suicides and murders. Research continually shows that banning guns won’t prevent suicides — there are simply too many easy ways to kill oneself. In Japan, which has a suicide rate that is 54 percent higher than the U.S. rate, many people take their lives by stepping in front of trains.
The 90 percent poll number that she uses is just as misleading, since it doesn't actually ask about real legislation.
It's time for someone to ask Clinton a simple question: Won’t overturning the Heller decision make gun bans possible again? If so, exactly how is Donald Trump’s statement wrong?
House Benghazi report slams administration response to attacks
Published June 28, 2016 FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/06/28/house-benghazi-report-slams-administration-response-to-attacks.html?intcmp=hpbt1
A damning report authored by the Republican-led House committee probing the Benghazi terror attacks faulted the Obama administration for a range of missteps before, during and after the fatal 2012 attacks – saying top administration officials huddled to craft their public response while military assets waited hours to deploy to Libya.
The report released Tuesday pointedly blamed a “rusty bureaucratic process” for the slow-moving response the night of the attack. The report said despite orders from President Obama and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to deploy, the first military force did not do so until more than 13 hours after the attack started.
The report said one anti-terrorism security team known as the FAST unit sat waiting for three hours in Rota, Spain, as Marines changed “in and out of their uniforms four times,” and even debated whether they should carry personal weapons, according to one witness. All together, the report said, “it would take nearly 18 hours” for that team to move.
The report described a web of internal debates and hold-ups, including apparent State Department guidance that “Libya must agree to any deployment,” though Panetta would later say Libya approval was not necessary.
While various officials debated how to proceed, U.S. personnel were under attack at two sites in Benghazi.
In the end, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans -- foreign service officer Sean Smith and former Navy Seals Ty Woods and Glen Doherty -- were killed in the attacks.
CLICK TO READ THE REPORT.
In a stunning detail, the report said the security force that helped evacuate U.S. personnel from the so-called “annex” in the end – “likely saving over two dozen lives,” according to the report – was a unit known as Libyan Military Intelligence composed of former military officers under the Qaddafi regime, which the U.S. helped topple.
The CIA did not know that unit existed. “In other words, some of the very individuals the United States had helped remove from power during the Libyan revolution were the only Libyans that came to the assistance of the United States on the night of the Benghazi attacks,” the report said.
The committee's work itself was fiercely contested, with Democrats accusing Republican members of trying to politically harm presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the attacks.
Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., asked Americans to "read this report for themselves ... and reach their own conclusions."
At a press conference, Gowdy and other GOP lawmakers lamented that no forces were ordered to Benghazi.
“Nothing was ever coming to Benghazi,” Gowdy said.
Lawmakers contrasted the "heroism" of those on the ground with the discussions in Washington. Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., described the D.C. attitude as "near fecklessness." He said, "They were more concerned about how they’re going to offend the Libyan government than how this rescue is going to take place.”
The findings about the military asset response the night of the attacks contrasted with the relatively robust internal debate over the public narrative regarding the attack – namely, claims that the attacks were sparked by an anti-Islam YouTube video.
Watch Benghazi Select Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and committee member Rep. Susan Brooks, R-Ind., Tuesday at 6 p.m. ET on Fox News' “Special Report with Bret Baier.”
The committee report identified for the first time a White House meeting that was convened roughly three hours into the attack and included deputies to senior Cabinet members and Clinton.
Stevens was missing at the time. But the report found “much of the conversation focused on the video (which) is surprising given no direct link or solid evidence existed connecting the attacks in Benghazi and the video at the time.”
The report found that “five of the 10 action items from the rough notes of the 7:30 pm meeting reference the video.”
The report also showed that there were top-level calls to have the video removed from the Internet, before any of the forces that were ordered deployed “had actually moved.”
The report, meanwhile, found the video narrative was crafted in Washington by Obama administration appointees and reflected neither eyewitness nor real-time reports from the Americans under attack.
One U.S. agent at the American outpost in Benghazi, whose name was withheld for security reasons, told the committee he first heard “some kind of chanting.”
Then that sound was immediately followed by “explosions” and “gunfire, then roughly 70 people rushing into the compound with an assortment of “AK-47s, grenades, RPG’s … a couple of different assault rifles,” the agent said.
In addition, a senior watch officer at the State Department's diplomatic security command described the Sept. 11, 2012, strikes as "a full on attack against our compound.”
When asked whether he saw or heard a protest prior to the attacks, the officer replied, "zip, nothing, nada," according to the Republican majority report.
“None of the information coming directly from the agents on the ground in Benghazi during the attacks mentioned anything about a video or a protest. The firsthand accounts made their way to the office of the Secretary through multiple channels quickly,” the report concluded.
Five days later, then-United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice went on every national Sunday talk show. She told Fox News Sunday, “What sparked the recent violence was the airing on the Internet of a very hateful, very offensive video that has offended many people around the world.”
The report also said, “Security deficiencies plagued the Benghazi Mission compound in the lead-up to September 2012.”
Panetta bluntly told the committee “an intelligence failure” occurred with respect to Benghazi. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell also acknowledged multiple times an intelligence failure did in fact occur prior to the Benghazi attacks.
The committee proposed 25 recommendations for the Pentagon, State Department, intelligence community and Congress aimed at strengthening security for American personnel overseas. Among them were: Figuring out who is in charge in such situations, holding joint training exercises, and improving communication.
The GOP report came after a report by the Democrats on the panel saying that security at the Benghazi, Libya facility was “woefully inadequate” but Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional protection.
Democrats have long slammed the committee’s work as partisan, and Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon repeated that charge Tuesday.
“Far from honoring the four brave Americans who died, the Benghazi Committee has been a partisan sham since its start,” he tweeted.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner defended the department in a written statement issued shortly before the report’s formal release, while saying the “essential facts” surrounding the attacks have been known “for some time.”
“We have made great progress towards making our posts safer since 2012,” Toner said. “… Our implementation efforts include work to expand the corps of Diplomatic Security personnel, enhance interagency coordination to address threat information, expand the Marine Security Guard program, and accelerate projects to build and upgrade secure facilities.”
He said the department “cooperated extensively with the Select Committee,” providing over 50 current and former employees for interviews and over 100,000 pages of documents.
The report, though, said the department “withheld a number of documents from the Committee based on ‘executive branch confidentiality interests,’ an administration-constructed privilege not recognized by the Constitution.”
THANKS, meet qualifcations, with ammo to boot, used to live outside Houston in 70's for short spell, but long enough to get drivers license.
Dallas/Fort Worth seems to have melded into one now so not sure about big cites, path of progress where one can shoot out in back yard preferable, any suggestions? Job not important so that really opens up the field. I heard Austin used to have topless beach, but I would just send everyone scurring away these days once the shirt came off, had to tell me 3 year old grand nephew that "those are man boobs." HA
reminds me of the mayors of either wash, or phia, that kept getting elected, even when there was video snorting meth, and taking bribes I think, or worse, crack. then reelected, maybe a rehab in there, maybe not, don't remember, just floored we had desended as a nation that far.
a lesbian friend of mine for 25+ years, don't all gasp at once, was always at odds with me. she was at the Baptist seminary in louiville, 3rd year, when the leaders, all white men, decided that women were not allowed to speak the dord of God any more and halted the phd program for women that she already had 3 years in. they let her finish but she was never the same. and she is so aggressive towards me now, even if we haven't seen each other in few years. me and her other friends from here can't spend 3 minutes in any type of conversation with her without it turning, by her, to militant lesbianism. this was before marriage legal, so maybe better now, but it was awful, how are your kids, well xxx mf'ers won't accept us, and then describe a lesbian encounter, I could care less with who someone is sleeping with the last thing I want to hear about is how it went.
reminded me of driving car with 18 yo nephhew and new girlfriend when WW2 came up, and she kept getting more and more disrespectful until I had my fill and pulled over and told her 17 or 18 yo ass that if it weren't for people like my father willing to die for the freedoms of her not speaking german and allowed to spill the crap coming out of her mouth, or her parents might have been killed and therefor never born. her response was, give me a cause and I will protest it. dumbest person I ever met, I told her to get out of car with one more word.
we have been changing for a while now. that was 15+ years ago.
like talking to wall sometimes,
agree he better have a good running mate,
think i am close to out of posts today,
let's see, a person running for office who has never held one before,
i wonder if we were created for lifer political jobs, 6, 6 year terms in senate, or 11, 2 year terms in the congress.
it's all broken
worry about the ww3 though, by accident, of course we are running some of nuke facilities on 8 inch floppy drives as we give bernie type supporters free crap instead of upgrading our military.
look at every big, dem run, social based, usa city, most are like war zones, they had their 40-50 year runs and FAILED
good luck with HRC, looks like the fix is in anyway, as democracy goes down the drain.
wasn't xena the warrior princess a lesbian fantasy for millions?
am i getting warm?
please crawl back under your rock until asked, or sent, by bernie.
plus, you never answered, are you 12?
exactly what the most left SC justice said to congress all stews up to make a ruling, if fact, if you would look it up, she even said, paraphrasing, "that I could render a decision better than a white man."
guessing you would melt if trump said anything approaching that, of course the mexican parents of a federal judge plays into his decisions, not to mention that he first scheduled the trump u trail for the first day of the republican convention, yeh, he is non-partition and fair, like you.
=== toss up===
not even close, give him 4 years over her,
a non lifer tossing his hat in ring,
of course the job comes with only the BIGGEST of egos,
check the congressional record,
SM on the SC said, in front of congress, that, during her confirmation hearings, paraphrasing, of course ones background, color, sex, immigration status, upbringing, will all be a part the decision making process. trump mentions judges background and he is taken out to the shed by the left wing media. not exactly fair and plays very well into what they are hoping for with HRC getting in.
didn't work so well for Cameron, who happens to have the exact same "get it done" message, "STRONGER TOGETHER" oops, he's out of a job for underestimating the masses.
agree with most, but the nomination of the next 3-4 sc judges really swings it for me, as there is no doubt in my mind which way HRC would go. with the other there is a chance of life as i know it.
didn't know the general was still around, ha.
would likely jump on a texas exit if it were ever to occur, guessing state would be overrun, but as i still have 30-40 year old driver license from there, maybe they would let me through the gates, ???
Conservative writer George Will drops out of GOP over Trump
Associated Press 17 hours ago
https://www.yahoo.com/news/conservative-writer-george-drops-gop-over-trump-010204968--election.html
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative columnist George Will has parted ways with the Republican Party, changing his voter registration to "unaffiliated" because of the GOP's support of Donald Trump.
Will tells The Washington Post that he made the change several weeks ago. The news site PJ Media reports that Will discussed his decision during an event Friday for the conservative group the Federalist Society.
Will isn't saying whom he will support for president. He has been criticizing the billionaire businessman for months in his column for the Post and, in doing so, has drawn Trump's scorn.
Recently, Will wrote a column in which he urged Republican donors to "save their party by not aiding its nominee."
Will received a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977 and has been a leading conservative voice for decades.
no joke, it can slide into the sea, and I would be fine, and think the country would be better off.
nothing better than a superior californian, or nyc fellow/madam, telling me what I should be thinking.
xenalives forever, as long as you give up 90% of your income and give it to her/him to get free crap.
or, as they say in the movie, "the big short," i call bullshit.
think they will print enough to even things out monday? hummmm
===I am not politically partisan.====
===Trump will be a disaster,===
===than a nutcase like Trump.====
all your words, and you are right, not partisan,
troll
sorry, i know i said i wouldn't respond, but you just set it up so well, bernie troll,
please go back under your rock now that you are supporting HRC. Maybe we can get an 8-1 SC for all kinds of anti-american stuff, are you excited, ha.
S&P 500 could drop as much as 7% in Brexit swoon
Published: June 26, 2016 11:33 a.m. ET
Volatility to keep investors on the edge
By SUE CHANG MARKETS REPORTER
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/brexit-sparked-volatility-will-continue-to-weigh-on-us-stock-market-2016-06-25
Defying expectations, the U.K. on Thursday voted to leave the European Union—the first country to do so in the bloc’s 59-year history—and sent investors around the world into panic mode.
Both the large-cap and the blue-chip U.S. indexes had their worst session on Friday since Aug. 24 with the S&P 500 SPX, -3.59% falling 75.91 points, or 3.6%, to close at 2,037.41, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -3.39% slumped 611.21 points, or 3.4%, to close at 17,399.86. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -4.12% plummeted 202.06 points, or 4.1%, to finish at 4,707.98, its worst one-day percentage drop since August 2011.
Most expect the weakness to continue, at least in the coming days.
“In an environment of weak corporate earnings growth and lofty valuations, U.S. financial markets are already primed to overreact to external developments,” G. Scott Clemons, chief investment strategist for Brown Brothers Harriman’s wealth management business, wrote in a blog post. “This is a big external development, and U.S. financial markets—even though not directly exposed to a redefinition of Europe—are likely to experience heightened price volatility for some time to come.”
Savita Subramanian, an equity strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who had been bearish on stocks even ahead of the U.K. referendum, predicted the S&P 500 could drop as much as 6% to 7% based on previous selloffs sparked by external shocks.
The CBOE Market Volatility Index VIX, +49.33% which gauges the level of fear in the financial markets, skyrocketed 49% to 25.76, notching its biggest one-day percentage gain since Aug. 8, 2011.
“There are obviously many ripples that will flow from this momentous event,” said Douglas Borthwick, managing director of Chapdelaine Foreign Exchange. “One thing we can be certain about, and that is volatility.”
But despite the glum mood in the market, analysts are urging calm as the Brexit-sparked instability is expected to recede in time.
“Markets will be down sharply over the next few days. However, the fundamentals have not changed, and markets will recover,” Tom Siomades, head of Hartford Funds’ Investment Consulting Group, wrote in a note. “The U.S. economy will continue growing slowly. Brexit will not have a meaningful impact on us or push us into recession.”
If nothing else, Friday’s global bloodbath is likely to push central banks to maintain accommodative policies to boost liquidity. More important, it will dissuade the Federal Reserve from tightening monetary policy until the markets have regained their equilibrium, according to economists.
Ethan Harris, global economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, projected the Fed will not raise rates until December and then wait until June 2017 to hike again.
Some, like Siomades, think a rate increase is completely off the table for now.
“The Fed will not move this year. Once Brexit subsides, the U.S. election cycle will kick in, and then the year will be over,” he said.
Other than the potential boost from a more dovish Fed, the stock market won’t be able to count on much support on the domestic front with corporate earnings still depressed. Second-quarter earnings are forecast to shrink 5.2%, prolonging the earnings decline for a fifth quarter, according to FactSet.
Only 10 S&P 500 companies and one Dow component, Nike Inc. NKE, -2.83% are scheduled to release quarterly results next week.
“Investors will need to be patient as [Brexit] winds through the markets—it’s going to take more than a week,” said Karyn Cavanaugh, market strategist at Voya Investment Management.
This story was first published on June 25, 2016.
Charlie Rangel Found Guilty on 11 of 13 Ethics Violations
BY TOM KNIGHTON JUNE 25, 2016 CHAT 1242 COMMENTS
(AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/06/25/charlie-rangel-found-guilty-on-11-of-13-ethics-violations/
Democrat Rep. Charlie Rangel has found himself in a bit of a pickle. After years of allegedly thumbing his nose at pesky things like rules, his supposed misdeeds may be coming back to bite him on the proverbial hind quarter.
A House ethics committee subpanel today found Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel guilty of 11 of the 13 charges of ethics violations against him.
The panel, composed of four Democrats and four Republicans, emerged after private deliberation to announce their findings.
"This has been a difficult assignment," committee chair Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said. "We have tried to act with fairness, led only by the facts and the law, and I believe we have accomplished that mission."
The subpanel will now submit its findings to the full ethics committee, which will schedule a public hearing to determine the appropriate sanctions to take against the longtime New York representative. Whatever action they decide on during the sanctions hearing will then go to the full House of Representatives. The committee could go so far as to recommend expelling Rangel, but that would be unlikely. Other possible sanctions include a House vote deploring Rangel's conduct, a fine or a denial of privileges.
The only other investigation of this scale was James Traficant's, and he was eventually booted from his lofty position in Congress.
Unsurprisingly, Rangel claims he wasn't treated fairly. Apparently the fact that the panel was four Republicans and four Democrats is irrelevant -- they were being mean to him or something. He also cites a lack of legal counsel as an issue.
'A Criminal Organization Masquerading as a Political Party'
However, Rangel had counsel. They dropped him after allegedly butting heads over defense strategy. Rangel seems to think the investigation should have just ground to a halt until he could get another attorney. This despite his claim that he couldn't afford a new lawyer and was unable to set up a legal defense fund so others could pay for it on his behalf (apparently GoFundMe is just too complicated).
troll = last response
nice try california liberal,
i'll be cheering the loudest when your state slids into the sea.
Primary odd couple pushes to unite Democratic party
Lisa Lerer and Ken Thomas, Associated Press,Associated Press 2 hours 13 minutes ago
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/primary-odd-couple-pushes-unite-democratic-party-124206187--election.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It seemed like a surprising party of two.
There was Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton's top campaign aide, known for his calm temperament and fiercely disciplined ways, and Jeff Weaver, a combative political fighter often called Bernie Sanders' alter ego, sharing a Friday night dinner at The Farmhouse Tap & Grill in Burlington, Vermont.
But over the long months of a frequently contentious primary, the two rival Democratic campaign managers struck up an unusually friendly relationship, founded on exhaustion, goofy jokes and a shared affection for their home state of Vermont.
They talk almost daily, text frequently and email often.
Now, as Sanders lingers in the presidential race, refusing to concede the nomination to Clinton even as he says he'll vote for her on Election Day, the competing campaign managers have become a powerful political odd couple, responsible for engineering a graceful conclusion to a hard-fought Democratic contest.
"I've really come to respect him," Mook said. "There were some tense moments, but he was always honest, straightforward and very easy to work with."
Weaver is equally effusive in his praise.
"I think he's the kind of guy who is doing what he does for the right reasons," Weaver said about Mook. "He believes in the cause and he believes in making the world a better place."
After Clinton and Sanders met in at Washington hotel this month, their managers stayed until almost midnight, attempting to hammer out an agreement that would give Sanders some of the changes he wants to make to the party's platform. During his Friday trip to Vermont, Mook made sure to meet with Sanders supporters.
Some of the communication hints at far closer cooperation to come.
The two camps are increasingly comparing notes on how best to attack presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. Clinton's campaign and state Democratic parties have hired some Sanders staffers, and there is chatter about joint events to come.
Both Mook and Weaver share a slightly silly sense of humor.
Mook, 35, regales his fiercely loyal band of young operatives, known as the Mook Mafia, with impressions, including spot-on impersonations of Bill Clinton and Sanders.
Weaver, 50, who owns and operated a Falls Church, Virginia, comic book and gaming store before taking the helm of Sanders' campaign, made up gag business cards at the start of the campaign describing himself as the "comic book king."
"His Bill Clinton is pretty good," Weaver said of Mook. "It's not only the voice, but it's the subject matter."
But their back-channel negotiations are nothing but serious.
While Clinton has largely unified Democratic leadership around her bid, she's struggling to win over the young and liberal voters who supported Sanders, a Vermont senator.
Sanders is pushing for ways of addressing key economic issues in the Democratic platform, including trade, providing free college tuition and expanding Medicare and Social Security.
"Right now, what we are doing is trying to say to the Clinton campaign, stand up, be bolder than you have been. And then many of those voters in fact may come on board," Sanders told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday.
He also wants procedural changes, such as allowing independents to participate in primaries and curtailing the role of superdelegates — the party leaders who help determine the party's nominee.
On Friday, Sanders told MSNBC that he would vote for the former secretary of state. But he shied away from offering a formal endorsement or urging his supporters to back her.
Instead, he's kicked off a new phase of his "political revolution," campaigning on behalf of like-minded Democrats who are running for Congress or local office.
To close that gap, the candidates may rely on the personal rapport between their two top aides, a relationship helped along by formative years in Vermont politics.
Weaver was raised in a rural, northern Vermont town. Mook, the son of a Dartmouth professor, grew up in Norwich, near the New Hampshire border.
As a 20-year-old Boston University student, Weaver drove Sanders around the small state during Sanders' unsuccessful campaign for governor. Mook's first campaign memory: going to the dump to get petition signatures and distribute literature.
While they knew of each other, the first time they met in person was in October, at the Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, a key stop for presidential candidates.
Wearing matching outfits of khakis, blue blazers and Johnson & Murphy brown shows, they posed for photos with their legs propped up on a security barrier.
"His shoes were in better condition," joked Mook.
In New Hampshire, they were subjected to a series of interviews about each other's campaigns — while sitting kitty-corner. The experience was remarkably friendly, Weaver recalled, allowing them to commiserate over the lack of sleep and endless travel that is part of a presidential campaign.
After that, the conversation slowly expanded. Today, their relationship has grown far closer than that of their bosses.
Though Clinton and Sanders have known each other since she came to Washington as first lady in 1993, they rarely communicate, say aides.
Former President Bill Clinton, according to aides, was particularly frustrated by Sanders' ability to cast himself as above politics-as-usual while firing off what he considered to be misleading attacks on Clinton's White House legacy.
For Weaver, his focus remains on ensuring that Sanders and his supporters are represented in the party and the platform that will be voted on at the Philadelphia convention.
"It obviously is important that the secretary during the general election speaks to the aspirations of that 13 million people who voted for Bernie Sanders," Weaver said. "It's important those people be heard — not just feel like they've been heard — but be heard."
Mayor carjacked at gunpoint in city where Trayvon Martin was killed
Published June 26, 2016 FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/26/mayor-carjacked-at-gunpoint-in-city-where-trayvon-martin-was-killed.html
(REUTERS/Steve Nesius)
The mayor of a central Florida city was carjacked while standing outside his home, according to police who said Sunday they were hunting for a third suspect.
The incident unfolded in Sanford. The city made headlines in 2012 after George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin at a gated community there.
Mayor Jeff Triplett was outside around 2:15 a.m. Saturday when three men approached, pointed a gun at him and stole his car keys, police said. They told reporters the suspects also stole Triplett's wallet before driving off in his Mercedes.
Triplett gave a detailed description of the suspects to police and 18-year-old Jermine Jacques Horne and a 17-year-old were arrested a short time later.
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George Zimmerman is seen at left in his April 11, 2012, booking photo after being charged with second-degree murder in killing of Trayvon Martin.Expand / Contract
George Zimmerman is seen at left in his April 11, 2012, booking photo after being charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin. (AP)
The third suspect has not been caught, police said. It was not immediately known if either suspect had a lawyer.
Police eventually found the mayor's damaged car, Fox 35 reported.
Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in February 2012, said he was defending himself when he killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The case sparked protests and a national debate about race relations. A jury acquitted Zimmerman of murder charges the next year, and the Justice Department later decided not to prosecute Zimmerman on civil rights charges.
Triplett said, "Being a victim of a crime is unnerving, yet it was reassuring to witness both speed and diligence from the Sanford Police Department."
Sanford is about 25 miles northeast of Orlando.
Clinton White House was den of coke, mistresses: ex-Secret Service officer
By Daniel Halper June 25, 2016 | 6:53pm
http://nypost.com/2016/06/25/clinton-white-house-was-a-den-of-cocaine-and-mistresses-ex-secret-service-officer/
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Gary J. Byrne has devoted his life, and risked it, to serve his country — as a member of the US Air Force, a uniformed White House Secret Service officer, and a federal air marshal.
And he believes it is his patriotic duty to do anything he can to prevent Hillary Clinton from becoming president of the United States.
As someone who guarded the Oval Office during the Clinton presidency, Byrne, in an exclusive interview with The Post, tells how he witnessed “the Clinton machine leaving a wake of destruction in just about everything they do.”
He says he has also seen Hillary’s “dangerous,” abusive, paranoid behavior.
“It’s like hitting yourself with a hammer every day,” says Byrne, pounding a fist into his open hand, of the former First Lady’s explosive anger.
In his new book, “Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate,” out Tuesday, Byrne makes no apologies for his anti-Clinton motivations.
“?‘America first’ is in my blood,” he writes, sounding very similar to another presidential hopeful.
Modal TriggerByrne says he wants Americans to “vote [their] conscience,” but pledges to make sure “they have all the information that they need.”
For one, he thinks the Clintons’ own behavior bred an immoral White House culture.
Byrne revealed to The Post during the interview that Clinton staffers used cocaine on the job.
“There were some drug issues,” Byrne says. “Some people would come in to work in the morning, and they were barely walking, they would drop stuff off at the office, and go to the restroom where they would come out minutes later happy as a clown.”
He also exposes the “jogging list” for the first time.
“In the beginning of his first administration, when President Clinton was jogging outside, women who were dressed as if they were going clubbing or working out, started showing up at the southeast gate,” Byrne explains. “The agents .?.?. would get the women’s names, and run them to see who they were. If the women wouldn’t cooperate, they would be ushered out of the jogging group.
“Agents … insinuated that this list was used by President Clinton to try to meet these women,” Byrne says.
The book details how the president had as many as three mistresses during the same time period, including former Vice President Walter Mondale’s daughter, Eleanor, who Byrne once discovered “making out on the Map Room table” with Bill Clinton.
What bothered Byrne more than the infidelity was the way Bill Clinton programmed the entire White House to accommodate his cheating ways.
Hillary, meanwhile, was a human minefield. The Secret Service was convinced Hillary posed a physical threat to her husband, and even gave him a black eye, Byrne writes.
She also cursed out her security detail, and she and Bill would often try to evade the Secret Service, making it difficult to protect them and putting agents at greater risk, Byrne says.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton in 1999.Photo: Getty Images
But what sticks most in Byrne’s mind is the personal destruction the Clintons wrought in his own life – the fear and turmoil he had to endure as authorities subpoenaed and harassed him as they investigated the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
It all could have been avoided, Byrne maintains, if Bill Clinton had simply told the truth.
Byrne’s revelations have come under fire recently, with some critics doubting he had the access to the Clintons he claims he had, and that his book details do not align exactly with his testimony to prosecutors nearly two decades ago.
Hillary Clinton’s spokesman has ripped the book, telling Page Six “Gary Byrne joins the ranks of Ed Klein and other ‘authors’ in this latest in a long line of books attempting to cash in on the election cycle with their nonsense. It should be put in the fantasy section of the book store.”
“I know what the public image of the Clintons is and I know what the real image is. And the real one’s dangerous.”
- Former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne
“Anybody who asserts that what I’m saying is not true,” Byrne says, his voice cracking with emotion, “they don’t know any better or they’re flat-out lying.”
Yet, he confesses, “I’m not completely comfortable telling the story, but I am telling it.”
He says a number of people could vouch for his access, including George Stephanopoulos, the former Bill Clinton communications director; John Podesta, Hillary’s campaign chairman, who worked in the Clinton White House; and Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary Clinton’s current campaign communications director, who worked near Byrne in the White House.
As for his testimony during the Ken Starr investigation, Byrne — who never signed a non-disclosure agreement with the Secret Service — says at the time he gave narrow answers to specific questions, as instructed.
“[I]f my testimony wasn’t true, I would end up doing seven years,” he says.
To prove he’s being truthful, he says, he’s willing to undergo a polygraph test — if Hillary takes one too.
Byrne says he is not committed to Donald Trump, despite sharing his slogans.
“The only thing I’ve ever heard about Donald Trump,” says Byrne, “was that he built a lot of buildings and he gave a lot of money away to charity.”
But, he says, he will never vote for a Clinton.
“I know what the public image of the Clintons is and I know what the real image is,” he says. “And the real one’s dangerous.”
===I would like to see a law, perhaps it would have to be a Constitutional am=====
imagine, a california leftist, who thinks they know better then that of the founders.
blah, blah, blah, So now Bernie is not a Socialist, even though He calls himself one? Keep Dreaming and one day maybe we can become like Europe, oops, that's not going so well.
XenaLives, what are you tweleve?
Have all of California sink into the sea and the last thing you will hear is the rest of the country clapping.
Sorry, I'm sure you are a nice person, but I just couldn't keep swallowing the bile coming out of your fingers.
We already have SC that splits 4-4 on an issue the pres himself said he didn't have the authority to do, 22 times, then did it anyway. the 4 dissenters, must be like you, who don't believe in the separation of powers, and the Constitution is just a starting point to be changed with the times, so as to be changed by whatever majority happens to be in power,
no, then God help us.
---'yous guys', lol) ---
i can see some guy giving me the finger, while yelling, what's wrong with 'yous guys', lol) while driving up the 12 lane Roosevelt Blvd during rush hour toward Nashamety Mall. (finger part happened, but not the yelling, ha.)
best day in hdge and gdxj in a while, the gold bet is now a double, been awhile......
Weak U.S. core capital goods orders point to subdued business spending
Reuters 17 minutes ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/weak-u-core-capital-goods-124609499.html
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - New orders for U.S. manufactured capital goods unexpectedly fell in May as demand declined across the board, suggesting business spending will remain a drag on economic growth in the second quarter.
The Commerce Department said on Friday non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, fell 0.7 percent last month after a revised 0.4 percent decline in April.
These so-called core capital goods orders were previously reported to have dropped 0.6 percent in April. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast core capital goods orders increasing 0.3 percent.
Overall orders for durable goods, items ranging from toasters to aircraft that are meant to last three years or more, declined 2.2 percent last month after a downwardly revised 3.3 percent increase in April. Durable goods orders were previously reported to have risen 3.4 percent in April.
There is little sign of reprieve for the manufacturing sector, which has been hurt by the lingering effects of the dollar's surge between June 2014 and December 2015, and sluggish global demand, which have eroded export growth.
The sector, which accounts for about 12 percent of the U.S. economy, has also been weighed down by lower oil prices, which have undercut profits of energy companies and forced deep cuts in capital spending budgets.
Business spending on equipment has declined over the last two quarters. It dropped in the first quarter at its quickest pace since the second quarter of 2009.
With core capital goods orders falling for a second straight month in May, spending on equipment will likely remain a drag on economic growth in the second quarter.
Shipments of core capital goods, which are used to calculate equipment spending in the government's gross domestic product measurement, slipped 0.5 percent last month after an upwardly revised 0.6 percent rise in April.
Core capital goods shipments were previously reported to have increased 0.4 percent in April. Economists say uncertainty over the global economy and the upcoming U.S. presidential elections are making businesses cautious about spending.
((Reporting by Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Andrea Ricci))
=== Neil Farage===
He actually admitted defeat 15 minutes after the pools closed, saying it looked like the remains had it by a nose. surprise.
I watched it for hours last night seeing at one point the dow futures down 725+ points. someone already grabbed all the premarket hdge at +.03, next at +45 more, no takers yet. and only 1000 shares there, at 10.45, next 12.64 200 shares, but moving all over.
one commentator had interesting things to say about the last time circuit breakers were used and how the ETF's were messing up the system because, since they are valued on underlying assets, and no one knew what real market prices were during the breaks, all hell broke loss with the etf's, and " I don't think they have done anything to fix that yet. " so it could be interesting.
haven't checked on futures yet, but last night was a gas, with brits saying how deeply offended they were when our current pres went over there to tell them to fall in line and stay, or face, "getting to the back of the que." instead of line, for future trade deals, and they all took that as a set up from their pm as just another crony trying to "fit in," with a speech prepared for him, by the pm's people, saying que, instead of line.
I think it be like telling people to "get to the back of the bus." must have gone over REAL GOOD. not very smart.
about half the "laws" being passed down were coming from unelected pencil pushers with a crony capitalist adjenda, sound familiar? they even had their "epa" folks in Brussels outlawing some british tea kettles as using too much jucie for the environment. be like banning hot dogs here, out of their f'ing minds, and FINALLY some sanity on the planet, "we aren't going to take it anymore, even if it costs us in the short run." stories of ques ling up at banks in the middle of the night.
should be interesting, jr gold minors up 3.69 in pre market.
thank you for that one........
not perfect, only real game in town
we would already be disarmed without them imo.
Goldman Sachs expects steep dropoff in U.S. demand for stocks
Published: June 21, 2016 1:32 a.m. ET
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/goldman-sachs-expects-steep-dropoff-in-us-demand-for-stocks-2016-06-20
Companies like Apple Inc. have spent billions to buy back shares as stock prices remain depressed on tepid earnings.
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Goldman Sachs slashed its 2016 estimate of U.S. demand for equities by nearly half on Monday, citing a weaker appetite for stocks among retail investors as the market struggles to break free from its range-bound trading amid global uncertainty.
David Kostin, chief U.S. strategist at Goldman Sachs, cut his 2016 forecast for net U.S. equity demand to $125 billion, citing lower inflows into the stock market during the first half.
The strategist had initially projected equity demand of $225 billion for this year, with $325 billion in foreign stock purchases by U.S. investors and $50 billion in credit investments offsetting $600 billion in gross demand.
“We now estimate gross equity demand of $500 billion and overall U.S. equity net demand. Inflows into equity mutual funds and ETFs—and by extension demand for shares—will be less than we had originally forecast,” Kostin said in a note.
Goldman made no mention of revising the S&P 500’s year-end target of 2,100.
Read: Wall Street’s forecast for 2016: Worse than 2015’s
In the first quarter, the U.S. stock market recorded net sales of $7 billion with foreign investors dumping $27 billion worth and mutual funds unloading $4 billion. Corporations remained the single biggest source of support for the equity market with buybacks totaling $173 billion.
Exchange-traded funds, meanwhile, bought $3 billion, which comes out to $12 billion on an annualized basis, significantly below $175 billion in purchases for 2015.
“The January correction sparked ETF outflows of $21 billion during the first two months of the year,” said Kostin. “So far in the second quarter, inflows into ETFs — which are equal to ETF equity purchases — equal $6 billion resulting in total flows of $9 billion year to date,”
The S&P 500 SPX, +0.29% slumped 5.1% in January due to global volatility, its worst monthly decline since August when it plunged 6.3% after the Chinese government unexpectedly devalued the yuan to combat the slowing economy.
The index is up 2.3% year to date after a strong run-up between March and May, but the benchmark has largely moved in a 200-point band for the past few months.
Kostin lowered his estimate on mutual funds’ purchases by $100 billion to net sales of $25 billion this year due to a combination of weak results, low cash balances and a shift away from active management.
“Only 23% of large-cap core mutual funds have beat the S&P 500 year to date,” he said. “Outflows from mutual funds—domestic and foreign—equal $50 billion so far in second quarter compared with $6 billion in the first quarter, suggesting increased selling this quarter.”
Pension funds will also be net sellers to the tune of $150 billion in 2016 after unloading $62 billion in shares in the first quarter, he said.
Discouraged by the U.S. market’s tepid gains and divergence in monetary policies in the U.S. and other developed economies, foreigners will continue to remain net sellers after unwinding $27 billion in stocks in the first quarter, according to Kostin. This compares with $48 billion in foreign equity purchases by U.S. investors.
“History suggests that foreign purchases of U.S. equities are lower during periods of a strengthening U.S. dollar than when the U.S. dollar is weakening,” Kostin said.
The trade-weighted dollar index, which measures the currency against a select group of currencies most often used in international trade, fell from 122.83 at the beginning of the year to 120.87 on Monday. Goldman expects the dollar to rise 4.5% over the next 12 months.
Going forward, political risk from the U.S. presidential election and confusion over the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hike schedule will continue to weigh on the market.
Against this backdrop, corporate buybacks remain the one strong source of demand for U.S. stocks with net stock repurchases by U.S. companies expected to total $450 billion on the back of modest earnings growth and elevated cash positions.
“Our buyback desk estimates that $156 billion of unused authorizations are available for execution as of the start of second quarter,” said the strategist.
Apple Inc. AAPL, +1.00% which spent the most money on buybacks in the fourth quarter, said it would raise the ceiling on its stock repurchase program to $175 billion from $140 billion when it released its quarterly earnings in April. The iPhone maker was followed by companies like Allergan PLC AGN, -0.84% Southwest Airlines Co. LUV, +1.34% and Delta Air Lines Inc. DAL, +1.89% which have detailed plans to repurchase billions of dollars in shares in recent months.
For the year, however, buybacks are expected to fall short of 2015’s $561 billion. There has been $212 billion in new authorizations by S&P 500 companies so far this year, down from $374 billion at the same time last year, according to Goldman.
naw, you are missing the countless bills they have pushed back on, with success. without them, you already would not have a firearm.
we are way outnumbered now, city folk mostly don't shoot, were not brought up shooting, don't have the room, don't understand the joy of a day at the range with fun to shoot guns, and are never trained in firearms, like I was AT MY SCHOOL. if all you hear is guns are bad, you start to believe it.,,bezos and carlos slim influencing millions now, by buying up rags for 10 cents on the dollar in 2008 downturn, even the wall street journal fell. right now tube saying how trump is getting 4x the negative press of hillary...... and here we go again, paint him now, like romney and ryan.
and how can there not have been an autopsy done on AS, or even blood work drawn? arguably one of the 9 most important folks in our country, i just don't get it.
these days i wouldn't trust a chain of command, even by 24x7 line of site, for any samples anyway i guess. russia with holes in olympic blood test walls, yikes.
looks like Germany went neg interest rates today. i knew their ten year was something like 100.001, so it was getting about as close as it can.
the world is upside down, vix up, folks want to kill us and are finding we are easy targets. have family in nyc and worry for them about everyday, poof.
can't even fathom third term and 4 more years of this, unarmed at that.
upside down.
can't wait for DT to educate entire generation on the Clinton Machine, what happens to those that get in the way, and to dynasties/countries that fail to name those trying to kill them. So many voters now have no idea how she really was back then. Times change, things get scrubbed, like the large donor, that her cheif of staff had put on nuke commission, even though he had no apparent expertise, had his name scrubbed from ever sitting on the board, even though he did, even if only two days.
Don't like history, change the way it is recorded.
i guess it is to each his/her own. the goa is great imo for sure, but the expensive "i'm freedom's safest place." commercials pushed me into action, at last. They are almost like free Republican Commercials at this point. The women from the country who's leaders convinced the populace to turn in their guns, and now just the gang members and crooks have them, while the elites are still guarded by their body guards with their arsenals. not exactly what was promised, is a powerful message for the rank and file thinking about giving up their freedoms, that, "Shall Not Be Infringed." bullcrap.
just what does it take to impeach a sitting president?
many think an easy case can be made for "giving comfort" to the enemy via the Iran "deal."
what did they take from us? 431 hostages for over a year? On every freaking night on the news, years before many here were born. Vow to nuke the Jews the second they can get a nuke on a missile. Aiding and abetting.......seems like i heard that in civics class a long time ago, never thought i would live to see it twice. this is much more dangerous than, "i did not have sex with that women, and I did not tell anyone to lie, ever, under oath, not long before they reportedly tried to take stuff for themselves from the WH, that actually belongs to each of us. Seems like a Redneck thing to do.
This is much more serious though. It sure seems like there is a disconnect from reality.
gfp, sorry about reed, wait till everybody forgets about it, and then start dollar cost averaging such small amounts you don't move the needle. Used to work with corx like clockwork......i would buy it for months and sell at 30-50%, don't get to greedy, maybe keep 1k shares or so in case it's the next amgen.
Obama: ‘We’ are to blame, not Islamic terrorism, for massacre
By John Podhoretz June 12, 2016 | 3:59pm
http://nypost.com/2016/06/12/obama-says-we-are-to-blame-not-islamic-terrorism-for-orlando-massacre/
Hillary is running a painfully stupid campaign
Omar Mateen called the cops to pledge his fealty to ISIS as he was carrying out his mass murder in Orlando early Sunday. Twelve hours later, the president of the United States declared that “we have no definitive assessment on the motivation” of Omar Mateen but that “we know he was a person filled with hate.”
So I guess the president thinks Mateen didn’t mean it?
Here again, and horribly, we have an unmistakable indication that Obama finds it astonishingly easy to divorce himself from a reality he doesn’t like — the reality of the Islamist terror war against the United States and how it is moving to our shores in the form of lone-wolf attacks.
He called it “terror,” which it is. But using the word “terror” without a limiting and defining adjective is like a doctor calling a disease “cancer” without making note of the affected area of the body — because if he doesn’t know where the cancer is and what form it takes, he cannot attack it effectively and seek to extirpate it.
So determined is the president to avoid the subject of Islamist, ISIS-inspired or ISIS-directed terrorism that he concluded his remarks with an astonishing insistence that “we need the strength and courage to change” our attitudes toward the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
That’s just disgusting. There’s no other word for it.
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Friends and family members embrace outside Orlando police headquarters after the Pulse nightclub mass shooting.Photo: Reuters
America’s national attitude toward LGBT people didn’t shoot up the Pulse nightclub. This country’s national attitude has undergone a sea change in the past 20 years, by the way, in case the president hasn’t noticed.
An Islamist terrorist waging war against the United States killed and injured 103 people on our soil. We Americans do not bear collective responsibility for this attack. Quite the opposite.
The attack on the Pulse nightclub was an attack on us all, no less than the World Trade Center attack.
To suggest we must look inward to explain this is not only unseemly but practically an act of conscious misdirection on the president’ s part to direct out attention away from Omar Mateen’s phone call.
True to form, the president spoke more words about the scourge of guns than about the threat of terror. In doing so, he actually retards rather than advances the cause of gun control he so passionately advocates.
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A president totally and credibly committed to the destruction of ISIS and other terror groups seeking to bring the war to us might earn the political and moral capital to seek more extensive limits on gun ownership.
A president who cannot name the enemy even as he anthropomorphizes the weapon the enemy uses is a president unable to bring anyone to his side who’s not already there.
To fight back against the evils of San Bernardino and Orlando, we do need change — and fortunately for us, it’s constitutionally mandated change. It’s the change required by the 22nd Amendment — the change that will compel Barack Obama to leave the White House on Jan. 20, 2017, after completing his second term with America less safe than it was when he took office.
so the magic wand gets waved in the morning, even though some of it was debated in the Senate, and denied. They booed PR today in the house and some walked out yelling, where is our legislation? Nice, during a moment of silence.
told my better half we are about 2 years away from where they start to launch themselves across desks and podiums, like so many U tube videos of Asian Countries way of solving problems......
became lifetime member of nra today, promote safety for whatever we have left, if anything, to range/play with.
ugg.