Levi Tilleman is a greenie "clean energy entrepreneur" standing for congress.

His main apparent claim to fame is "Worked for Obama".  

Levi, AKA The Village Idiot reckons guns are bad.

He reckons pepper spray is better.

To prove his point, the clown sits down for a huge squirt of the gear to his eyes and face.

You'll never guess what!!!!!

Pepper spray is all it's cracked up to be!

I promise you, his video will make your day! 

Thanks Levi - what have you got to say about people who put their hands in blenders?

This text exchange is between FBI agent Peter Strzok (who was directly in charge of the Hillary email investigation - known inside the FBI as the 'Midyear Investigation') and FBI special legal counsel Lisa Page who also worked on the Clinton write-off.

US DoJ Inspector General report into FBI, Clinton and 2016 election by Michael Smith on Scribd

A few more grabs to whet your appetite.

"Absolutely".

Julie Bishop on whether Australian taxpayers should be forced to handover more money so she can give it to people in other countries.

Julie Bishop must be preparing for life after the Liberal Party.

Absolutely.

If you:

Set up pay-to-play operation while US Secretary of State and pull in hundreds of millions in suspect donations from foreign powers.

And if you:

Operate the unlawful scheme through unlawful private communications networks to defeat FOI scrutiny and government oversight.

But you are Hillary!

Sorry, no prosecution is apparently yet possible.

However, if you lack Clinton immunities and your Foundation

Takes in $18.8M but gives out $19.2M to US charities while you are Donald Trump in a public place........

Here's what the New York AG says:

And here's what the Trump Foundation says

Barbara Underwood's law suit against Donald Trump and the Trump Foundation by Michael Smith on Scribd

The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won’t settle this case!...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2018

....Schneiderman, who ran the Clinton campaign in New York, never had the guts to bring this ridiculous case, which lingered in their office for almost 2 years. Now he resigned his office in disgrace, and his disciples brought it when we would not settle.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2018

The Trump Foundation has donated over $19.2 million to charitable causes.

It had no expenses. No overhead. Zero.

Virtually no foundation in the country can say that.

This is a disgusting political hack job, by low life corrupt Democrats. https://t.co/1yEUIf0SXB

— Harlan Z. Hill (@Harlan) June 14, 2018

Later today the Inspector General (ie watchdog) of the US Department of Justice will release its report into the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

Clinton ran the family's pay-to-play scam through her private email server while she was the US Secretary of State.  The private server was set up to keep emails about donations to the family Foundation/business away from prying eyes.

You can find some of the evidence of criminal acts associated with the Clinton Foundation here. 

Australia's ABC has given Mrs Clinton a rails run with soft interviews and positive coverage - it even provided the hosts for Mrs Clinton recent fee-paying speeches in Australia.  

So it's no surprise that today the ABC is running with this.

New York's Attorney-General has sued US President Donald Trump, three of his children and his namesake foundation, alleging "persistently illegal conduct" at the nonprofit including support for Mr Trump's 2016 campaign.

Attorney-General Barbara Underwood asked a New York state judge to dissolve the Donald J Trump Foundation, and impose bans on Mr Trump, his sons Donald Jr and Eric, and his daughter from holding leadership roles in New York charities.

Ms Underwood said her office's 21-month investigation, begun under her predecessor Eric Schneiderman, uncovered "extensive unlawful political coordination" by the foundation with Mr Trump's campaign, as well as "repeated and willful self-dealing" to benefit Mr Trump's personal and business interests.

The Republican President attacked the lawsuit in a series of tweets that blamed Democratic politicians in his home state.

"The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won't settle this case!" he tweeted.

The Trump Foundation issued a statement criticising the lawsuit as "politics at its very worst" and accusing the Attorney-General of holding its $US1.7 million in remaining funds "hostage for political gain".

The lawsuit adds to legal problems affecting Mr Trump, including a probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into whether Mr Trump's 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.

Mr Trump and Russia have denied there was any collusion.

The lawsuit filed in the state Supreme Court in Manhattan is seeking $US2.8 million of restitution plus penalties, a 10-year ban on Mr Trump serving as a director of a New York nonprofit, and one-year bans for his children.

"As our investigation reveals, the Trump Foundation was little more than a chequebook for payments from Mr Trump or his businesses to nonprofits, regardless of their purpose of legality," Ms Underwood said in a statement.

"That is not how private foundations should function."

Time and place?

Bishop reminds me of the other half of the clown-pair leading the Liberal Party - this was exactly one year ago.

The writer wants to remain anonymous, the way the SAS likes things.  

He served 14 years in the ADF, 9 years as a Royal Australian Regiment infantryman and 5 years with the Special Air Service Regiment. 

The Special Air Service Regiment seeks out and destroys Australia’s most dangerous enemies.

It targets the leaders of terror organisations who are shielded by suicidal, heavily armed Jihadis embedded amongst co-operative “civilians”. 

Our enemies don’t like us and they do their best to kill us with no moral restraint and complete impunity.  The Mujahideen don’t have much use for a Human Rights Commission.

The SAS cannot fight enemies like that by adhering to normal Western moral standards. If we did, it would be leveraged as a weakness by the enemy.  We have to keep them guessing about our limits.  I wouldn’t deploy if I was working with blokes who operated like predictable Mr Nice Guys. 

The ADF is currently conducting a full-blown enquiry into "rumours of possible breaches of the laws of armed conflict” by Australian special forces in Afghanistan.  We are alleged to have operated with “disregard for human life and dignity”.  Fair enough.  I don’t know one bloke I served with who has a high regard for the lives of terrorists.  There’s nothing dignified about IEDs and their fighting methods either.

We are not sent out to deliver a personal dignity entitlement to our enemies.  We go out to kill them.

Right now the Chief of Defence Force is doing immense damage to our troops deployed in Afghanistan.

Australian taxpayers are paying for ads in the Afghani press encouraging Afghanis to dob in Australian troops for war crimes. How idiotic is that?  What a propaganda gold mine;  and you can be certain the enemy will be using it against us.

The Australian enquiry will receive heaps of responses from the enemy, let’s face it they are embedded among the local Afghans.

And what will it achieve?  How do you think Australian troops will respond to allegations against them from the enemy? This might be difficult for outsiders to hear, but even if boundaries have been overstepped, unless the entire patrol turned on each other there will be little chance of any evidence to support any claims made by the enemy or Afghan civilians.

SAS troops obey orders.  We go where we’re ordered to go and act as we’re ordered to act.  There’s no allegations that I know of that say SAS troops have failed to obey orders.  Whatever’s been done has been the work of a highly disciplined team of professional, accountable soldiers operating within their own internal chain of command - and that goes all the way to the top.  Smiling politicians are always on hand to get their photo taken and congratulate us on our results.  Well God help any ADF leadership that tries to hang a few young troopers out to dry.

So what are we stuck with?

• A bombardment of allegations that will ALL have to be investigated at taxpayer expense.
• SAS unit members taken away from their duties to “help” the investigation and for interviews with investigators.
• The usual bags of tax payers money given to the enemy in compensation for alleged wrongdoing by us - even if unproven
• SAS tactics and operational security compromised by our own Government and Defence force due to a call for an open investigation and for transparency from left wing journalists to mention a few. 
• Resentments amongst the SAS members and as is common practice much more secrecy, which is a certainty at the grass root levels. 

The ADF’s investigation into the rumours has already been leaked to Fairfax and the ABC who've made the leaked material public.

As a result of Fairfax and the ABC’s reports, the Russians have now joined in to make life more difficult for us in the field.  

On Saturday the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement about “The crimes committed by Australian troops in Afghanistan”.

Using the ABC and Fairfax’s reports, the Russian statement said Australians have engaged in “systematic, unauthorized and groundless use of weapons, particularly against  civilians.”  It quotes the ABC as the source for “shocking facts about cold-blooded murders committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan”.

Total bullshit, created by our taxpayer funded broadcaster to be used by our enemies against us.  

The ABC is always going on about Russia and scandals.  Looks like they've made one of their own.

There are plenty of problems in Australian society.

There is definitely a problem in the ADF.  

But it’s not the war fighters.   

It’s our leadership and the tone they set - from the PM down.

Signed, John Anon.

This report is published by Tass, the Russian news agency.  It features a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry in which Russia calls for an enquiry into Australia's special forces.

Good work Fairfax and the ABC.

http://tass.com/politics/1008958

MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/. Moscow calls on the Australian and Afghan authorities to investigate the crimes committed by Australian troops in Afghanistan and bring those responsible to justice, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

According to the ministry, Moscow has "taken notice of the 2016 secret defense force documents, which became publicly available recently." The report "points to Australian troops’ systematic, unauthorized and groundless use of weapons, particularly against civilians."

"In 2017, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported shocking facts about cold-blooded murders committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan," the statement reads, adding that "the shooting of a boy in Kandahar in September 2012 caused the most outrage."

Russia believed it significant that "no one was held accountable for these crimes, while the Australian Department of Defense only expressed deep concern about the matter."

"We condemn such actions by Australian troops," the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed. "We call on the Australian and Afghanistan to conduct an independent and impartial investigation into these crimes and punish those responsible."

The Sydney Morning Herald wrote earlier, citing a confidential defense inquiry that "some members of Australia’s elite special forces allegedly committed war crimes in Afghanistan amid a ‘complete lack of accountability’ from the military chain of command." According to the newspaper, the report "also describes ‘enormous and difficult challenges’ facing the Australian government to confront conduct that goes ‘well beyond blowing off steam’ and involves ‘problems deeply embedded in the culture’ of the elite taskforce at the spearhead of Australia’s mission in Afghanistan."

More:
http://tass.com/politics/1008958

And on Sunday, that report was the basis for articles in the Kabul press like this one.

On Tuesday, 12 June 2018 President Trump and Chairman Kim signed this agreement in Singapore.  

It contains only 4 numbered points, the last of which is

4. The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.

Importantly, the Agreement isn't confined to US POW/MIA remains.  

It commits the parties to "recovering POW/MIA remains" and "immediately repatriating" them when they're identified.  

Forty-three Australian men, allies of the USA remain missing in North Korea or the DMZ.  They are covered by the Agreement.  And not for return to the USA - repatriation means, "the return of someone to their home country".  It's an important point which appears to have eluded the Australian Government.

Shortly after the summit concluded, President Trump was interviewed by Sean Hannity in Singapore.  The President spoke of the pre-eminent importance of the MIA/POW repatriation agreement - he spoke with passion and great respect for the dead and their families.

At about the same time on Tuesday afternoon, Australian security and intelligence heads briefed cabinet ministers at a national ­security council meeting in Canberra.   

Late on Tuesday, Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop published this statement on behalf of the Australian Government - it restates the 4 points of Trump/Kim agreement including number 4 on POW/MIA remains.

That night Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was interviewed on the ABC's 730 program - she appears to have had one issue on her mind long before the interview was broadcast and it wasn't the 43 Australians in North Korea.

Coming up on #abc730 Australia's Foreign Minister @JulieBishopMP says Australia is already looking at how we could help with the verification process of NK de-nuclearisation.

— Leigh Sales (@leighsales) June 12, 2018

The host Leigh Sales opened the interview with a wide open question:

Around the world leaders and diplomats watched every move at today's summit in Singapore.

One of them was Australia's Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, in Canberra.

Foreign Minister, what is the Australian Government's reaction to what's been signed today?

Ms Bishop may have been watching every move at the summit - perhaps for the fashion - because not once in the expansive interview did Ms Bishop mention Australia's 43 men who are missing in North Korea. 

She spoke about wanting to involve Australia in verifying North Korea’s progress towards denuclearisation, “The Australian government is currently assessing what we could offer in terms of expertise to assist in that verification process.” 

She was more expansive for The Australian newspaper about involving that well-known nuclear power Australia in the nuclear verification role.   But nothing on our MIAs.

On Wednesday, 13 June the newspaper published this substantial report, extensively quoting Ms Bishop.  There was no mention by Ms Bishop or anyone from the Australian Government of the 43 Australians who remain missing in action after the Korean War.

Our men were forgotten.

IN the early hours of Wednesday morning, I am proud to say that this website paid tribute to our 43 men who remain missing in action in Korea.  Until Midday Wednesday, we were the only Australian media outlet to do so.

At Midday Wednesday the ABC's World Today reported on Australia's MIAs, including a brief interview with Julie Bishop.

I'd love to know more about Ms Bishop's “numerous representations” on the issue.

I'll be bringing you the published history of this issue in detail in part two of this post, but I can say those "numerous representations" are curiously absent from the public records.

You may have noticed that Ms Bishop appears to misunderstand the agreement with Kim Jong Un on the MIA/PoW issue.

“The fact that it was raised by President Trump and it has been agreed by North Korea gives us some hope that Australia will also be able to make representations to North Korea for the ­return of our war dead,” she said.

Why would we need a separate agreement for our MIAs who were allies of the US, fighting alongside them.  What does she think the recovery teams will do on encountering an Australian set of dog tags?  Stop work?

By Wednesday evening the MIA issue was starting to become of interest to the mainstream media - and of course politicians.

Here's the front page of The West Australian today:

The West Australian's 'exclusive' (WA is home to her electorate of course) features Ms Bishop's "renewed bid".

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has flagged a renewed diplomatic push to repatriate the bodies of Australian servicemen lost in the Korean War as veterans’ groups call for help to deliver closure for the families of the lost.

Australia’s war dead have rested in North Korea for more than 65 years since the end of the Korean War, but their families have new hope after “breakthrough” talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore this week.

Their agreement included a commitment to “immediately” repatriate the remains of former prisoners of war and fallen soldiers whose identities are known. Five WA-born servicemen are among 43 Australians still listed as missing in action.

While the Federal Government has taken a cautious approach to promises made by North Korea flowing from the talks, Ms Bishop told The West Australian she hoped it would lead to the repatriation of Australia’s war dead.

“We will continue our diplomatic efforts to retrieve the remains of Australian soldiers classified as missing in action in the Korean War,” she said.

“Given that this issue was included in the declaration signed by President Trump and Kim Jong Un, I hope it will present the opportunity for a breakthrough in our efforts to return our war dead to Australia.”

ENDS

The Australian and other publications are onto the issue today as well, with Ms Bishop pointing to her 'numerous representations' in the past.

We'll pop an FOI application off today to find out how numerous they were and what was represented in them.

In October 2013 Ms Bishop gave this speech to Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea.  

Given the official visit of Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs had been arranged for some time, it's likely her predecessor's staff had some input into the speech.  

Ms Bishop told the South Korean students: 

Australia demonstrated the depth of its commitment to South Korea in the Korea War. Over seventeen thousand Australians fought in the Korean War and 340 died. About 280 are buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery Korea in Busan and around 40 remain missing in action. 

We did indeed.

But in all the published DFAT material quoting Ms Bishop - that's the only time (that I can find) where she mentioned the Australians who went missing in the Korean War.

In part two of this story I will show you details of Ms Bishop's abject disinterest in our Korean MIAs over the past 5 years.

Regular Bishop watchers will be aware of her medium of choice in communicating with her public.

@JulieBishopMP joined Twitter in November 2009.

She's made almost 10,000 Tweets since.  I searched every single one for the words "Korea missing in action".

More soon.

Malcolm Turnbull famously donated $1M to secure his own job as PM.

From 1 July we'll pay his secretary Martin Parkinson $900K PA to help him keep it.

The Gillard appointed Remuneration Tribunal has just announced senior public servant pay rises from 1 July this year.

They'll get an extra $18,000+ odd per year.

Martin Parkinson will move up from $878,000 to $896,000.

That's a lazy $75,000 odd every month.

Egalitarian Australia Fair?