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Thursday, February 1, 2018 - 10:15am

The Russian Dossier: Enter, Sid

FEBRUARY 01, 2018

The strange case of the Russian dossier got even stranger this week with a new report from the Guardian raising a name from the seamy side of Clinton past. A “second Trump-Russia dossier” has been turned over to the FBI, the Guardian reported. The second dossier was compiled by Cody Shearer, who the Guardian identifies as a “a controversial political activist and former journalist who was close to the Clinton White House in the 1990s.”

That’s putting it mildly. Shearer in fact has long been linked to the sleaziest aspects of the Clinton operation, mainly through his close relationship with Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal. Longtime observers of the Clinton ecosystem know that when Cody appears, Sid Blumenthal is not far behind. A ceaseless schemer, Blumenthal was so offensive to the Obama White House that he was banned from an official role at Mrs. Clinton’s State Department. But that barely slowed him down. As documented by Judicial Watch and others, Blumenthal was a constant presence by Mrs. Clinton’s side during her State Department years.

Blumenthal and Shearer are connected to a global network of intelligence and military freelancers. They played a dangerous game meddling in Libyan affairs after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. They supplied intelligence to Secretary of State Clinton in the weeks leading up to the Benghazi debacle and pitched deals to make money off the Libyan turmoil. ProPublica reports at length on the Blumenthal and Shearer’s Libyan efforts here. According to Judicial Watch’s reporting, during Mrs. Clinton’s State Department tenure, Blumenthal also promoted African business deals and meddled in European Union elections.

As for Shearer, he has a long history of dirty tricks. He’s been linked to Whitewater-era efforts to dirty up Bill Clinton critics; to shakedown politics involving the Cheyenne-Arapaho Indian tribe; and to fronting for Bosnian Serb butcher Radovan Karadzic. Read more about it here and here.

The Guardian reports that the new Shearer document makes some of the same allegations about Mr. Trump as the original Christopher Steele dossier, including “lewd acts at a five-star hotel” in Moscow. It also notes that Steele passed on the Shearer report to the FBI in October 2016, but would not vouch for its accuracy. That’s worth pausing over.

According to the Guardian, Steele provided “a copy [of the Shearer report] because it corresponded with what he had separately heard from his own independent sources.” If the reporting here is accurate, that’s quite a coincidence—that Cody Shearer and Christopher Steele were hearing the same things from different sources at pretty much the same time. A closer look at timelines and sources might be revealing. If Sid and Cody are behind the original Russian dossier sources, that would be big news indeed.

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Perdue Unveils Farmers.gov, Interactive Website for Agricultural Producers

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue unveils Farmers.gov at a breakfast hosted by the Michigan Farm Bureau.

(Grand Rapids, MI, February 1, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today unveiled Farmers.gov, the new interactive one-stop website for producers maintained by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Farmers.gov is now live but will have multiple features added over the coming months to allow agricultural producers to make appointments with USDA offices, file forms, and apply for USDA programs. The website, launched at a breakfast hosted by the Michigan Farm Bureau, gathers together the three agencies that comprise USDA’s Farm Production and Conservation mission area: the Farm Service Agency, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Risk Management Agency.

“Many farmers are out in their fields using equipment that is connected to satellite and GPS technology, yet when they need to interact with USDA, they have to stop, fill out a paper form, and fax or carry it to their local office. That is a real digital divide,” Perdue said. “Our staff is friendly, and they love to see farmers in person, but they know that time is valuable. Producers are working hard to make their farms profitable, so these tools will help get the paperwork done without taking a big chunk out of the day to fill out forms.”

Farmers.gov is mobile device-friendly and can identify for farmers the most convenient USDA office locations. New functions will be added shortly, including an interactive calendar, farming success stories, an online appointment feature, digital forms, and a business data dashboard. Additionally, when the 2018 Farm Bill is signed into law, there will be plain language program descriptions and a tool to determine eligibility.

“As I’ve traveled to 32 states in my first nine months as Secretary of Agriculture, I have consistently heard people express a desire for greater use of technology in the way we deliver programs at USDA,” Perdue said. “It’s my goal to make USDA the most effective, most efficient, most customer-focused department in the entire federal government, and Farmers.gov is a big step in that direction.”

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LIMBS

Premiere "EYES" Music Video

via Metal Insider

On Tour with Great American Ghost Starting 2/2

New EP SLEEP Out Now via Equal Vision Records

Available for Purchase at limbs.lnk.to/sleep

Previously featured on Revolver, Metal Injection,

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Tampa, FL - February 1, 2018 - Tampa Bay post-hardcore quintet LIMBS is thrilled to share a brand new video for their song "EYES," premiering now exclusively on Metal Insider. The track comes from the band's new EP, SLEEP, which was released on October 26th via Equal Vision Records. SLEEP was produced by Tim McTague (Underoath) and marks the band's debut EP with the label. For more information, or to purchase SLEEP online, please visit:
limbs.lnk.to/sleep.

On the new video, LIMBS vocalist Chris Costanza shares: "This is an older song that we re-tracked drums for with Matt Goldman at Glow in the Dark studios. This video is a re-color of the original music video featuring the newly mixed version of the song. Hope you guys dig it!"

This Friday, February 2nd, LIMBS will kick off a two week tour in support of SLEEP with Great American Ghost. The run features stops in Rochester, Chicago, Dallas, Nashville, and more.

LIMBS is Chris Costanza (vocals), Daniel Nelson (drums), Joshua Kowalski (bass), Jordan Hunter (guitar), and Tyler Martin (guitar). The band debuted with their EP, Admission, in late 2014, to copious amounts of positive feedback.

In 2015, LIMBS toured the DIY circuits relentlessly, and released two independent singles. LIMBS ventured out on an east coast tour with Saosin in 2016, and also performed at the South By So What?! Music Festival in Dallas, Texas. That year they also recorded 3 songs (now re-recorded on the upcoming EP, SLEEP), which were mixed by Beau Burchell (Saosin) and mastered by Mike Kalajian.

In 2017 the band set out to support Envy on the Coast on select dates in the southeast. Following that, the band trekked across the country supporting Hail The Sun on their nationwide headliner.

SLEEP, LIMBS' debut with Equal Vision Records, is available now at limbs.lnk.to/sleep.

For More Information, please visit:

Website: www.whoislimbs.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/whoislimbs

Twitter: www.twitter.com/whoislimbs

Instagram: www.instagram.com/whoislimbs

Upcoming Tour Dates:

2/1 - Amityville, NY @ Revolution Bar & Music Hall **

2/2 - Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall

2/3 - Buffalo, NY @ Stamps

2/4 - Lansing, MI @ Mac's Bar

2/5 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean