Politics

John Podesta has accused “forces within the FBI” of helping Donald Trump win the US election.

Submitted by InternationalMan's Jeff Thomas, via The Burning Platform blog,

Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said. “One can’t believe impossible things.”

 

“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” 

 

–Alice in Wonderland

Saudi Arabia says it is ready to support the United States in its so-called war against ISIS by sending ground troops and special forces to Syria. In an interview with the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said that other Persian Gulf Arab “countries” were also “ready to allocate forces to fight on the US side,”  adding that there were consultations with the Americans to find out what the plan was and what was needed to implement it.

White House officials say they believe that Senator John McCain eavesdropped on classified telephone calls between Trump and world leaders, and then leaked that information in order to destabilize the Trump administration. An analysis of McCain’s recent public statements by the White House reveals that the Senator has inside knowledge of Trump’s private telephone conversations, including one with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Kim Jong Nam had rejected an offer to lead a government-in-exile on behalf of North Korean defectors in Europe and the United States before his assassination at Kuala Lumpur airport last week. The Korea Times reports: “He was concerned that accepting such an offer may not help end hereditary succession of power in the repressive regime,” a source said. The source said Kim’s paternal half-brother and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may have ordered his death with suspicions that he may join the government-in-exile aimed at eventually overthrowing the regime.