Electric dreams of Yellow Rain.

[Joseph Tracy]

Who’s pissing on whom? Certainly Urine abounds and flows from on high. Somebody somewhere is definitely taking a leak. Allegations are coming in from somebody somewhere who claims to know someone who knows something. High mucky mucks are sure that if they can get their heads far enough up the butts of the right people everything will fall into one big tasty pile for all to share.

Actually, as I said earlier  I really do hope there is video of Trump getting peed on by Russian prostitutes because I would love to hear Billy Graham JR expalin this to faithful.   But would those jolly fun-loving Republicans  force the Tyrannasaurus Rump to step down just because of something like that, or is the gentle laving of a warm yellow rain something every aging american dinosaur has a right to enjoy? 

One does long for the good old days of clean Cinton politics. I picture Monica’s head bobbing  earnestly up and down over the presidential stiffy, while he smokes a stogie and talks on the phone and I am glad  for those purer, simpler, almost holier times.

 YELLOW JOURNALISM IS CERTAINLY FUN  AND IT MAY LOOK TASTY, BUT CHECK FIRST WITH YOUR MOTHER. THERE ARE REASONS NOT TO EAT THE YELLOW SNOW!

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/live_at_truthdig_robert_scheer_and_william_binney_on_the_alleged_russian_ha

This from Greenwald today in the Intercept:
"BACK IN OCTOBER, a political operative and former employee of the British intelligence agency MI6 was being paid by Democrats to dig up dirt on Trump (before that, he was paid by anti-Trump Republicans). He tried to convince countless media outlets to publish a long memo he had written filled with explosive accusations about Trump’s treason, business corruption and sexual escapades, with the overarching theme that Trump was in servitude to Moscow because they were blackmailing and bribing him.

Despite how many had it, no media outlets published it. That was because these were anonymous claims unaccompanied by any evidence at all, and even in this more permissive new media environment, nobody was willing to be journalistically associated with it. As the New York Times’ Executive Editor Dean Baquet put it last night, he would not publish these “totally unsubstantiated” allegations because “we, like others, investigated the allegations and haven’t corroborated them, and we felt we’re not in the business of publishing things we can’t stand by.”

The closest this operative got to success was convincing Mother Jones’s David Corn to publish an October 31 article reporting that “a former senior intelligence officer for a Western country” claims that “he provided the [FBI] with memos, based on his recent interactions with Russian sources, contending the Russian government has for years tried to co-opt and assist Trump.”

But because this was just an anonymous claim unaccompanied by any evidence or any specifics (which Corn withheld), it made very little impact. All of that changed yesterday. Why?

What changed was the intelligence community’s resolution to cause this all to become public and to be viewed as credible…...

ALMOST IMMEDIATELY after it was published, the farcical nature of the “dossier” manifested. Not only was its author anonymous, but he was paid by Democrats (and, before that, by Trump’s GOP adversaries) to dig up dirt on Trump. Worse, he himself cited no evidence of any kind, but instead relied on a string of other anonymous people in Russia he claims told him these things. Worse still, the document was filled with amateur errors.While many of the claims are inherently unverified, some can be confirmed. One such claim — that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen secretly traveled to Prague in August to meet with Russian officials — was strongly denied by Cohen, who insisted he had never been to Prague in his life. …. This morning, the Wall Street Journal reported that “the FBI has found no evidence that [Cohen] traveled to the Czech Republic.”



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