Trump Presidency 4 - February 14, 2017 - February 28, 2017 PDF
Trump Presidency 4 - February 14, 2017 - February 28, 2017 PDF
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CONTENTS
EXCLUSIVE: In Final Interview, Defiant Flynn Insists He Crossed No Lines, Leakers Must Be Prosecuted xxx
Dems On Flynn: 'This Is Just The Beginning'
Secret Service Director Clancy Leaving Agency
Wikileaks Claims Flynn's Resignation Triggered By 'Destabilization Campaign'
Russian Officials Defend Flynn, Say Admin May Be Infected With 'Russophobia'
Hillary Clinton References Pizzagate In Tweet To General Flynn
Clinton: Mike Flynn Was Targeted By Establishment For Exposing Pizzagate
'Michael Flynn’s Resignation - US Establishment Coup’
Russia "Secretly" Deploys Banned Cruise Missile In "Latest Challenge To Trump"
"It's Over Folks" The Neocons & The "Deep State" Have Neutered The Trump Presidency
Deep State Works With Corporate Media Hacks In Political Assassination Of Michael Flynn
Office Of Government Ethics Urges 'Disciplinary Action’ Against Conway
Trump Leaks = NSA, Beacon Global Strategies?
The Citadel Of Broken Dreams
Trump Reportedly Kept Pence In Dark About Flynn's Russian Phone Calls
Deep State Captures Flynn With En Passant Move — Who’s Next?
The Dangerous Precedence Of The Hunt Against Flynn ... And Trump
Flashback: Chuck Schumer Predicts Intelligence War Against Trump
Oh, Sure, Suddenly Now The House Intelligence Boss Is Concerned About Surveillance... Of Mike Flynn
Trump Has The Power To Declassify Whatever He Wants — Including The Russian Intercepts
'Just Like Russia': Trump Renews Fight With Intelligence Agencies Amid Leaks xxx
NYT Commits TREASON In Fake News Attempt To Overthrow The United States Government… Is It
Time To Start Arresting Traitors Who Pretend To Be Journalists? xxx
Obama’s Minions Aim To Humble Trump’s Presidency
Explosive New Hacking Scandal Has Democrats' Fingerprints xxx
Maxine Waters: Flynn Just The ‘Tip Of The Iceberg’ Of White House Collusion With Russia [VIDEO] xxx
George Soros Gave Jared Kushner $259 Million Credit. Thirty Pieces Of Silver To Betray Trump
And The American People? xxx
Is There A Conspiracy Inside Washington To Destroy Trump's Inner Circle? Top Republican Claims
Flynn Was The Appetizer - Kellyanne Will Be Next And Trump Is 'The Entree' xxx
Bill Kristol Backs ‘Deep State’ Over President Trump, Republican Government
Top Neocon, Bill Kristol, Exposes His True Undemocratic Feelings During High Moment On Twitter
NYT Intent On Wrecking Trump’s Administration
“Border Tax”: Word-Manipulation Used To Stop Trump’s Economic Plan
Kellyanne Conway Bashing Targets Trump
The Guy Trump Just Put In Charge Of The Economy Has Deep Ties To George Soros
Trump: 'Fake News Media Is Going Crazy With Their Conspiracy Theories And Blind Hatred'
Flynn’s Head Rolls. Is Trump’s Next?
Why Michael Flynn Resigned
Trump Directly Tells Netanyahu To 'Hold Off On Settlements For A Bit' In Israel
Unacceptable White
House Demands on Russia
Exclusive: Trump, Netanyahu Used Flynn To “Catfish” Putin
Student Who Recorded Prof Saying Trump Election Is ‘Act Of Terrorism’ Gets Suspended xxx
The Imperial Presidency Of Donald Trump: A Threat To American Democracy And An Agent Of
Chaos In The World? xxx
This Is Treason: Intelligence Community Working Against President Trump In Move To End American
Democracy xxx
EXCLUSIVE: How The Nation’s Spooks Played The Game ‘Kill Mike Flynn’
Trump Must Execute the Nuclear Option—There’s No Other Way
‘Not Freedom Of The Press’: Journalists Upset Trump Keeps Calling On Conservative Media
Trump Accuses Iran Of Seeking To Develop Nuclear Weapons
Evan McMullin: President Donald Trump Is A ‘Domestic Enemy’
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Western Media Bias Is Getting Obvious To Pretty Much Everyone
3 Muslim Agents Caught Spying On Trump, Proof Points Directly At Obama
Does Donald Trump Have The Fortitude To Take On And Defeat The Deep State?
NSA Whistleblower: Agency Illegally Recording Trump’s Phone To Oust Him xxx
The Surveillance State Coup Has Succeeded: NSA Now Running The Country, Tapping Top Secret
Phone Calls And Blackmailing Those Who Do Not Comply xxx
Obama Gave NSA Special Powers To ‘Take Down Trump’
NYT Anti-Trump Jihad
Michael Flynn: Minding Our Own Business Vs. Saving The World
Trump Praises Rogue State Israel
Open Warfare Declared In DC As Deep State ‘Goes Nuclear’ — Trump ‘Will Die In Jail’
Coup Underway To Weaken Or Oust Trump
Deutsche Bank Probe Reveals No Link Between Trump's Finances, Russia
Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Block Trump From Lifting Russia Sanctions
The Public Should Demand To See The Michael Flynn Transcript
‘Democrats & Neocon Warmongers Formed Unholy Alliance Against Trump’
Will Trump Succeed In Restoring America, Or Will His Enemies Drag Him (And The Country) Down?
Trump Considers Appointing Ally To Conduct Review Of Intelligence Services
‘Flynn Sacrificed To Prevent Trump From Recalibrating US Relations With Russia’
Fake News CNN Insinuates Trump Is Mentally Unstable… Will They Ever Stop Lying?
Putin Orders Russian Media To "Cut Back" On Positive Trump Coverage xxx
Trump The Braveheart: Any Other Republican Would Have Caved By Now, But Trump Refuses
To Be Bullied Or Destroyed By The Commie-Run Media xxx
Trump’s Approval Rating Continues To SOAR, Overwhelming Majority Believe Media Against Trump
President Trump Announces New Labor Secretary Pick - Live Feed
Trump Attacks "Low-Life Leakers" After Chaffetz Requests DOJ Probe Into Source Of Leaks
Republicans Ask DOJ To Probe Illegal Leaks Of Classified Flynn Info
Trump Urges 'Failing' NYT, Other Media To Apologize Over Leaking Classified Data
Trump: ‘I Didn’t Come Along And Divide This Country’
"Wake Up America" Dennis Kucinich Defends Trump, Issues Dire Warning About "Deep State"
'Information Civil War' Underway Between US Intelligence, Trump Administration
On The Verge Of Treason: US Spies Withhold Intelligence From Trump
Is The NSA The Real President Of The United States?
Forget Flynn; Logan Act Could Ensnare Top Establishment Insiders
Harward Turns Down Trump's National Security Adviser Offer, Sources Say
8 Things Congress Has Done While Everyone Was Distracted By Trump xxx
'Very Insulting Question': Trump In Bizarre Rant At Jewish Journalist Who Asks About
Anti-Semitism After Claiming 'He Lied' About Being A 'Friendly Reporter' xxx
Foreign Policy Mag: Russian Insiders Fear Trump Could Be Impeached Or KILLED By The Globalist
Political Elite xxx
Turncoat: John McCain Is A Globalist Shill, Uses Speech To The Elite To Attack Trump
President Announces “Civilian National Security Force” – But Wait, That Was OBAMA, Not Trump
Greenwald, Kucinich Issue Chilling Warnings About Deep State’s War on Trump
The Chaos-Promoting Left Has Become A Powerful ALLY Of Anti-American Terrorists xxx
DOJ Is Also A Target Of President Trump's Probe Into Leaks
Treason: Shadow Government In “All Out War” To Bring Down President Trump (And His Supporters) xxx
After “Politically Assassinating” Flynn IC Fears “Friday Night Massacre” By Hedge Fund Manager In Deep
State War xxx
This Lawsuit Could Answer Lingering Questions About The Trump Dossier xxx
President Trump Unleashes His BEST TWEET EVER: The Fake News Media Is “The Enemy Of The
American People” xxx
It Is About Time That We Had A President That Was Willing To Go To War With The Mainstream Media xxx
Glenn Greenwald Tells Truth About DNC: Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Leading Collapsed Party
of Shills xxx
Trump Is RIGHT When It Comes To The Law Regarding His Travel Ban Executive Order, And The Wapo
Is WRONG xxx
The Did-You-Talk-To-Russians Witch Hunt
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Trump's New Travel Ban Revealed: Phase-In Period; Green-Card Holders Spared
U.S. District Attorney Vows To Charge Obama With “Treason”
Yes, Trump Is Dangerous, But The Unelected Deep State Trying To Overthrow Him Is Far Worse xxx
BREAKING: @Reince’s Gal & @Whitehouse Chief Of Staff @Kmwalsh_GOP Is Source Of Trump Leaks
To @Nytimes & Others xxx
Obama’s Domestic Terrorism Manual Vows To Overthrow Trump
Jay Sekulow: Obama Should Be "Held Accountable" For The "Soft Coup" Against Trump
Why Was The FBI Investigating General Flynn?
US Establishment Forcing Trump To 'Copy Obama's Foreign Policy'
Trump Returns To Campaign Mode, Rallying Supporters, Attacking Foes, Promising A Greater America
How Can We Get Rid Of Trump?
Intelligence Agencies Worldwide 'Seem To Have Gotten Out Of Control' xxx
Retired Green Beret Warns: Deep State's Utopia Of Oligarchs Is "Enslavement And Complete Control Of
All Of Mankind" xxx
F-15s Cause Sonic Boom Over Palm Beach In Scramble To Intercept Unresponsive Aircraft
Trump Supporters Rally In Downtown Atlanta With Semi-Automatic Weapons
The Stakes For Trump And All Of Us
The FBI Is Pursuing Three Separate Probes
London Mayor: No VIP Treatment For TrumpBecause Of 'Cruel' Immigration Ban
Trump Gets Ready To Pick John Bolton As Advisor xxx
Confused About National Security Advisor Flynn’s ‘Resignation’ After CIA Illegal Spying, Leak? Partial
Timeline: xxx
Nothing Wrong In Flynn's Contacts With Russian Envoy - Priebus
Obama Appointed FEC Commissioner Behind Internet Censorship Forced To Resign
Senior Trump Appointee Fired After Critical Comments
President Trump: Diplomacy and Democracy in America
Trump Back On The Stump
Trump Dreams vs. Trump Reality – Hopes Still Permitted!
Democrats Go There: Invoke 25th Amendment Unless Trump “Gets A Grip”
What Trump Has Done His First 30 Days Vs. What Hillary Probably Would Have Done
Did Trump’s New Anti-Drug Policy Prompt The CIA To Move Against Him?
The AP Asked Trump's Supporters How Feel About His War With The Press: This Is What It Found
US President Trump Calls On NATO Allies To Pay Fair Share For Defense
Who's Really Behind The Soft-Coup? Obama-Founded Activist Group Offers Anti-Trump Protest "Guide"
Oliver Stone Gives Impassioned Speech at WGA Awards: It’s Not Just Trump, ‘But a System’
Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good And The Bad In His First 30 Days
Looks Like Donald Trump Was Right About Sweden After All
Unconfirmed, Leftist Usurped Violent Operation American Spring 2017 To Begin May 1, 2017
Intelligence Heads Say No Evidence Of Collusion With Russia - Priebus
Rex Tillerson Purges Remnants Of “Shadow Govt” At State Department
The President Needs To Purge And Start Fresh: “White House Staff Has Been Infiltrated And Infested”
The CIA Vs. The Presidency: This Is Not The First Time
The Term “Deep State” In Focus: Usage Examples, Definition, And Phrasebook
Trump Names Lt. Gen. HR McMaster As National Security Adviser
“They Are Taking Out Trump’s Lieutenants”: Deep State Intelligence Ops Sabotaging The White House?
Lewandowski Slams Trump Senior Staff For Recent Missteps On Immigration
Rand Paul “We’re Very Lucky Trump Is In Charge And Not McCain”
West Unable To Show Proof Of RT's 'Lies' As It Does Not Exist - Editor-In-Chief
Trump Isn’t The One Who Needs To ‘Get A Grip,’ It’s Hysterical Democrats
Pence & WaPo On NATO
Thirty Days Later: Trump’s First Month In The Media Hole
McCain In Munich: The War Party Fights Back
Psychiatrists Diagnosing Trump With Personality Disorders Told They Must Stop
Fox News Turns Against Trump: You Crossed The Line!
The President Needs To Purge And Start Fresh: “White House Staff Has Been Infiltrated And Infested”
SD Bishop Calls On Catholics To Protest Trump: ‘We Must All Become Disrupters’
Why Obama Should Be Arrested For Treason
No, President Trump Can't Be Removed With The 25th Amendment
"Talk" Has Always Been Cheap
DHS Secretary Orders Immigration Agent Hiring Surge, End To 'Catch-And-Release'
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Trump Plans Mass Deportations
In TRUMP We Trust: Most Are Confident The Economy Will Be Fixed By A Billionaire Businessman
NSA And CIA Is The Enemy Of The People
Trump Chooses Hawkish National Security Advisor
Homeland Security Unveils Blueprint For Mass Deportation Of Immigrants
Former CIA Agent Explains Why He Resigned Because Of Trump
MSNBC Uproar Over 'Meaningless' Museum Visit: 'Sick' Trump Out Of 'Chances'
Former President Obama And His Paid Thugs Trying To Topple Trump
Trump Denounces Anti-Semitic Incidents As "Horrible And Painful"
The New Wave Of Violent Protests Is Exactly What The Elite Want — Here’s Why
NYT Big Lies About Trump’s Ties To Russia
Chuck Schumer: ‘Hope Of America’ Is Republicans Break With Trump xxx
EXCLUSIVE: White House Fingers John McCain As Media Leak; Believes U.S. Senator Eavesdropped On
Trump’s Classified Phone xxx
Trump Would Be Willing To Remove Bannon From National Security Council
More Than 200 Protesters Indicted On Rioting Charges From Inauguration Day
Michael Moore Launches ResistanceWebsite Promoting Daily Anti-Trump Actions
Tucker Carlson Takes On Typical Leftist Who Says Trump Is 'Worse Than Hitler'
Democrat Maxine Waters Calls Trump Cabinet Picks: “A Bunch Of Scumbags” (VIDEO)
Oscars Poll: 66 Percent Of Trump Voters Turn Off Awards Shows When Speeches Get Political
Mixed Messages on Russia: Trump Administration Divided and All Over the Place
Revised 'Extreme Vetting' Order Drops Language Rejecting Syrian Refugees, Official Says
Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia, And The Petrodollar
Obama Lawyers Form 'Worst-Case Scenario' Group To Tackle Trump
Intelligence Community Leaking
Trump Administration Instructs CIA To Halt Support For Anti-Assad Rebels In Syria
Steven Mnuchin Speaks To CNBC, Fails To Give Trump Tax Plan Details: Key Highlights
Trump Meets With Top CEOs To Brainstorm "Jump-Starting" US Economy, Creating Jobs
How 'They' Sell Vote Fraud As Legitimate Election Totals
Bannon Rips "Corporatist" Media: "They're Not Going To Give The Country Back Without A Fight" xxx
RED ALERT: Fascist Google Begins PURGE Of Pro-Trump Websites As Prelude To Massive False Flag Or
Coup Attempt xxx
US Debt Slashed By 12 Billion In Trump’s First Month
‘Oh, Good Grief’: Wapo Hires Entrenched Dem John Podesta For Political Insight On D.C., Trump Admin
The McMaster Pick: Score One For The Swamp?
The Covert Op To Neuter The Rebel
John McCain Again Meets With Terrorists In Syria
John McCain Makes "Unusual" Secret Trip To Syria As Trump Prepares Plans To Defeat ISIS xxx
Leading Contender In Democratic Chairman Race Says Donald Trump 'Legitimately Raises The Question
Of Impeachment' xxx
‘Today’ Staffer Leaked Infamous Trump Tape That Ruined Billy Bush: Sources
Combative Trump Promises Americans Safety And Strength
Trump Is On The Verge Of His Own Bull Market
Head-Scratching Investors Call Time On Trump Stock Rally
Vulnerable Dems Lay Low As Town Hall Angst Rages
Here’s How the Deep State Is Trying to Lead Trump into a Nuclear War
The White House Blocked CNN, BBC, New York Times, & LA Times From Media Briefing
President Trump Gets Standing Ovation At Conservative Political Action Conference
Why Resistance Is Insufficient
It’s Official: Trump’s Pentagon Orders Military To Use ‘ISIS’ To Refer To Islamic State
Britain’s Nigel Farage Exults Over Trump And Brexit Wins At CPAC xxx
Hillary Clinton Calls For RESISTANCE To Trump: “We Need To Stay Engaged… I’ll Be With You Every
Step Of The Way” xxx
Obama, Democratic 'Super Group' Unite To End Gerrymandering, Win State Races, Reclaim Majorities
Some Of Trump's Picks Have Troubling Links To Globalism, CFR
Trump Administration Unveils First Step In Building Border Wall
Exclusive—Regnery: Anti-Trump Democrats’ Best Allies Are Senate Republicans
Ashley Judd Claims Trump’s Victory Was Worse Than Child Rape
Report: Trump's New National Security Adviser Not A Fan Of The Term 'Radical Islamic Terrorism'
Trump Tweets He’ll Skip White House Correspondents’ Dinner – After Some Media Also Cancel
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Trump: I Won't Attend White House Correspondents' Dinner
‘US Held Hostage For Too Long, Trump Right To Bar MSM From White House Gaggle’
Trump Administration Dominated By Zionist Lobby: Analyst
Trump Cuts US Debt By $12bn In His First Month In Office, Accuses Media Of ‘Not Reporting’ It
Crazy California Congresswoman Calls Trump’s Cabinet Picks “A Bunch Of Scumbags”
Google May Be Part Of A Deep State Conspiracy To Silence Trump Defenders, New Interview Reveals
Trump’s War Against The Media Continues
Trump to Skip White House Correspondents Dinner
Rogue Bureaucrats At Homeland Security Leak ‘Incomplete’ Report Critical Of Trump
Crucial Group Of Americans Like Trump's Stands, Not Him, Poll Finds
Dems Prepare To Disrupt President Trump’s Address To Congress
Majority Finds Media Coverage Of Trump Is "Too Critical, Exaggerated": WSJ/NBC Poll
Trump Budget Plan Boosts Pentagon, Trims State Dept, EPA: Officials
Sean Spicer Targets Own Staff In Leak Crackdown
Lana Del Rey Using Witchcraft To Rid The World Of Donald Trump
Trump’s War Against The Fake Media Continues
Trump’s Policies Towards Russia ‘Disappointing’: Analyst
Trump Claims Clinton Rigged Race For Dnc Chairman, Bernie's Guy Never Had Chance
Disgusting: CNN Attacks Melania And Ivanka Trump For Being Thin And White
Plot Holes
Spicer Grills Staffers On Leaks, Orders Phone Search & Bans Encryption Apps – Report
Media Ban! Making Sense Of The War Between Trump And The Press
NBC/WSJ Poll: Majority Say Media Too Critical Of Trump
Trump Blasts Dems For Peddling ‘Fake News’ Russian Narrative
President Trump: Replace The Dollar With Gold As The Global Currency To Make America Great Again
"Welcome To The Next Awakening" - Author Of Steve Bannon's Worldview Explains The Path Ahead
New York Times Rediscovers Aggressive Fact-Checking Just In Time To Attack Trump
Trump Supporters To Hold 'Spirit Of America' Rallies Across US
The Republicans May Impeach Trump
Trump To States With Recreational Pot: Drop Dead
US House Intelligence Chair Calls Trump Russian Ties Investigation 'Witch Hunt'
Stein Rips Into CNN, NYT, 'Looking For A Scandal' From Trump 'Every Day'
Trump Gets Ready For His Biggest Sell Yet
Trump Claims Obama Is “Behind” Protests Against Him And White House Leaks
Billionaires Disagree With Trump Voters Over Immigration, Say America Is Great
Trump’s Travel Ban Receives Another Blow From Court, Case Won’t Be Put On Hold
Second House Conservative Won't Back Trump's Obamacare Replacement
Leaked Audio Reveals Anti-Trump Forces Manufacturing Hostile Town Hall
CIA Paid $600 Million To Wapo To Publish Trump Disinformation xxx
Enforcing The Law Against Human Trafficking - Trump: 1,500 Busts In 1 Month, Obama: Less Than 400
In 1 Year xxx
Trump Seeks "Historic" $54 Billion Increase To Defense Spending
Trump To Propose 10 Percent Spike In Defense Spending, Major Cuts To Other Agencies
Obama Scheme To Sabotage Trump Admin With High Profile Moles Exposed?
Wikileaks Busts McCain In Russian Cash Treason Before Russian Ambassador Died (VIDEO)
Risk Bounces After Trump Promises To Start "Spending On Infrastructure Big", But Warns On Tax Plan
Antifa Domestic Terrorists Announce Plans To Disrupt March 4 Pro-Trump Rallies
Trump Pushes For Massive Budget, Staff Cuts At EPA Michael Bastasch
The Resurrection Of Armageddon
‘America First’ Is A Mantra for Unilateral Aggression
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EXCLUSIVE: In Final Interview, Defiant Flynn Insists He
Crossed No Lines, Leakers Must Be Prosecuted
Richard Pollock - Reporter
3:22 PM 02/14/2017
President Barack Obama fired him as DIA director in 2014 Former intelligence and military officers told TheDCNF
after Flynn delivered testimony before Congress that was they agree Flynn was the victim of a highly orchestrated
at odds with Obama’s contention that radical Islamic “disinformation campaign” generated by current and
terrorism, including ISIS, was not a major threat. Since former intelligence officers, many with loyalties to former
then, Obama administration officials have openly held low President Obama.
regard for him.
Intelligence officials are supposed to use their expertise in
Since Trump and Flynn entered the White House, psychological warfare and disinformation campaigns
anonymous sources have given select reporters against enemy states, but never against an occupant of the
information about telephone intercepts conducted by the Oval Office.
National Security Agency (NSA).
“Who pulled the NSA tapes on Mike
The classified information secretly given to reporters Flynn?” asked retired Col. James
purportedly showed that Flynn discussed sanctions on Waurishuk, a 30-year intelligence officer
Dec. 29, when 35 Russian diplomats were being expelled who once served in the National Security
that same day by the outgoing Obama administration. Council. “Who compiled it? Who released
it?” the retired Special Forces veteran
Other intelligence leaks have revealed Trump’s private asked in an interview with TheDCNF.
discussions with heads of state soon after he became
president-elect. Waurishuk argued the many leaks meant the public is
seeing the politicization of intelligence. “There are those in
In a Feb. 9 story, The Washington Post cited the intelligence community that are more concerned with
unnamed “current and former U.S. officials” who accused their agendas than with national security,” he said.
Flynn of violating the law in a Dec. 29 telephone
conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislvak. “Notice how the intelligence community can
leak Flynn’s conversation, but there are no
Flynn called the leaks of classified information against leaks on Hillary Clinton and Benghazi,” he
government officials “unprecedented,” and predicted added.
those would be the focus of future congressional
investigations. Another former intelligence official, retired Col. James
Williamson, told TheDCNF,
“Members of Congress are very concerned
because these are leaks from classified “What is illegal is that Flynn has his
systems. The House and Senate are conversations eavesdropped on. Who at
looking into those things, as they should,” NSA leaked the transcript?”
he told TheDCNF.
Williamson called it an “egregious overstep” by current
The issue of government leaks is an issue for House and former intelligence officials.
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman
Devin Nunes. On Monday, Nunes told Bloomberg News Flynn insisted that he crossed no lines in his telephone
that he views leaks about Flynn’s private conversation as conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak:
part of a pattern.
“If I did, believe me, the FBI would be down
“There does appear to be a well- my throat, my clearances would be pulled.
orchestrated effort to attack Flynn and There were no lines crossed.”
others in the administration,” said Nunes,
who is a California Republican. “From the Flynn said there was a brief discussion of the 35 Russian
leaking of phone calls between the diplomats who were being expelled by Obama in
president and foreign leaders to what retaliation for Moscow’s alleged interference in the 2016
appears to be high-level [Foreign campaign.
Intelligence Surveillance Court] information,
to the leaking of American citizens being
denied security clearances, it looks like a “It wasn’t about sanctions. It was about the
pattern.” 35 guys who were thrown out,” Flynn said.
“So that’s what it turned out to be. It was
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basically, ‘Look, I know this happened. which is the truth. Looking back, that’s what
We’ll review everything.’ I never said I should have done.”
anything such as, ‘We’re going to review
sanctions,’ or anything like that.” The December conversation
Flynn said he apologized to Vice President Mike Pence “was not to relieve sanctions. It was
about his earlier contention that there were no discussions basically to say, ‘Look, we’re coming into
about the expulsion order, which was part of the Obama office in a couple of weeks. Give us some
sanctions. time to take a look at everything.’”
“For the vice president, I feel terrible. I put Before he submitted his resignation, Flynn said the
him in a position. He’s a man of incredible president urged him early Monday morning to speak out
integrity. I think the world of him. He is so more frequently.
good for our country,” he said. “I should
have said, ‘I don’t know. I can’t recall,’ Flynn has been silent since tendering his resignation.
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Dems On Flynn:
'This Is Just The Beginning'
By Mike Lillis
02/14/17 11:43 AM EST
House Democrats have a message for GOP leaders eager The House and Senate Intelligence committees are both
to move beyond the Russia controversy following the looking into Russia's interference in last November's
resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn: Not elections, but those deliberations are being largely
so fast. performed outside the public eye.
"This is not the end, this is just the Crowley said the controversy swirling around Flynn only
beginning," Rep. Joseph Crowley (N.Y.), heightens the need for a broader probe of potential Russian
chairman of the House Democratic influence in full daylight.
Caucus, told reporters in the Capitol "The real question with respect to Flynn is:
Tuesday. "This is larger than Flynn." What did President Trump know, and when
The comments set the stage for a messaging war on did he know it?" he asked.
Capitol Hill between Republican leaders, who are hoping "Did the president order Flynn to call the
to move beyond questions of the White House's ties to the Russians? Did he seriously not know that
Kremlin, and Democrats, who are amplifying their calls his campaign adviser was calling
for a deeper dive in the wake of Flynn's resignation. Russians? What does President Trump
Flynn stepped down from his post atop the National have to hide?"
Security Council late Monday night, following revelations The minority Democrats have no power to launch an
that he had misled top White House officials — including investigation on their own, a situation they readily
Vice President Pence — about the nature of a pre- acknowledge.
inauguration discussion he'd had with the Russian
embassy. "We can't force them to do it, you're
absolutely right," said Rep. Linda Sánchez
Flynn had initially told Pence the conversation did not (D-Calif.), vice chairwoman of the caucus.
broach the topic of U.S. sanctions on Russia, which led the "But the people of the United States of
vice president to defend Flynn in a series of subsequent America can. They just need to ratchet up
media interviews. After The Washington Post reported last the pressure."
week that Flynn had, in fact, discussed sanctions, Pence
was reportedly furious. Sánchez also took a shot at the GOP leaders who are ready
to move on to other issues.
Flynn stepped down after less than a month on the job, and
many Republicans are eager to put the controversy to bed. "Speaker Ryan, Jason Chaffetz, Devin
Nunes, where is your spine?" she asked.
GOP leaders — including Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.), "Do you care about our national security,
House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (Utah) and because if you do, you cannot sweep this
House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (Calif.) — said under the rug."
Tuesday that they have no plans to dig deeper into Flynn's
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Secret Service Director Clancy Leaving Agency
Kevin Johnson , USA TODAY
Published 11:55 A.M. ET Feb. 14, 2017
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during the busy campaign season, characterizing the and incidents of misconduct over the past
protection effort as "stellar.'' few years,'' Goodlatte said. "I have the
utmost respect for Director Clancy and his
"He also helped restore professionalism at leadership.''
the agency after a series of security lapses
.
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Wikileaks Claims Flynn's Resignation Triggered By
'Destabilization Campaign'
© AP Photo/ John Locher - US
18:16 14.02.2017(Updated 18:17 14.02.2017)
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Russian Officials Defend Flynn, Say Admin May Be
Infected With 'Russophobia'
Foxnews.Com
Published February 14, 2017
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Hillary Clinton References
Pizzagate In Tweet To General Flynn
By The_Real_Fly
Feb 14, 2017 9:09 AM
https://jobs.dominos.com/dominos-careers/
…
xo
Philippe But why?
If you're unfamiliar with Flynn Jr., he was one of the more General Flynn resigned because he might've spoken to the
prominent people close to the Trump administration who Russians about sanctions at a time when he wasn't
questioned the peculiarities of the Pizzagate story. authorized to do so, not because of some story about
pedophilia taking place in the basement of a Washington
DC pizza parlor.
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Clinton: Mike Flynn Was Targeted
By Establishment For Exposing Pizzagate
Clinton And Her Top Adviser Mock The Flynn Family
By Alex Thomas -
02.14.2017 @6:00 PM EST
For his part, Flynn never actually publicly spoke about This is what the corporate media does and will continue to
PizzaGate but was known to be looking into the shocking do as long as their masters interests are at risk.
claims behind the scenes and his son had actually publicly
declared the conspiracy a real story.
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'Michael Flynn’s Resignation - US Establishment Coup’
Published Time: 14 Feb, 2017 11:29Edited Time: 14 Feb, 2017 16:15
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thought was a wrong story. This is completely bizarre. And he has said there is something wrong
They dug up these all tweets and they tried to find the with the US intelligence policy. So, once he
tweet that maybe they didn’t like. They’ve been going went against the grain, he became a target
after him, Stephen Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, and for the so-called experts in Washington.”
Stephen Miller because those are the four people who
really are pro-Trump, pro-America, they really want what
is best for America. Reince Priebus and the other
establishment Republicans, they are no different than the
Democrats in America. They are controlled opposition, so
what we see right now is a coup. The elite members of the
Republican Party are trying to take over, they are very
upset that Trump won, they didn’t want Trump to win.
They tried to sabotage him the entire campaign. So, what
they are doing now is the next best thing: they couldn’t
stop him from becoming president, so now they have a
coup.
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Russia "Secretly" Deploys Banned
Cruise Missile In "Latest Challenge To Trump"
By Tyler Durden
Feb 14, 2017 1:06 PM
First a spy ship off the US East Coast, now a banned possess, produce or flight test a ground-
missile. launched cruise missile (GLCM) with a
range capability of 500 kilometers to 5,500
According to the NYT, Russia has (not so) "secretly" kilometers or to possess or produce
deployed a new ground-launched intermediate-range cruise launchers of such missiles."
missile in violation of a 1987 treaty with the US which
helped end the Cold War, despite complaints from As the NYT adds, the Obama administration had sought to
American officials. persuade the Russians to correct the violation while the
missile was still in the test phase. Instead, the Russians
Reportedly, the move presents a have moved ahead with the system, deploying a fully
operational unit.
"major challenge for President Trump,
who has vowed to improve relations Administration officials said the Russians now have two
with President Vladimir Putin" battalions of the prohibited cruise missile. One is still
located at Russia’s missile test site at Kapustin Yar in the
country’s southeast.
and comes at a very sensitive time for Trump, currently
reeling to stabilize the fallout from Flynn's departure over
his communication with Russia. The new Russian missile The other was shifted in December from that test site to an
deployment also comes as the Trump administration is operational base elsewhere in the country, according to a
struggling to fill key policy positions at the State senior official who did not provide further details and
Department and the Pentagon — and to settle on a requested anonymity to discuss recent intelligence reports
permanent replacement for Michael Flynn. about the missile.
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"increase the military threat to NATO and lead to an even bigger build up of NATO forces
nations, which potentially would be one of around Russia, and so on.
the principal targets",
.
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"It's Over Folks" The Neocons & The "Deep State" Have
Neutered The Trump Presidency
Submitted and Authored by The Saker
Feb 14, 2017 9:25 PM
Less than a month ago I warned that a Ever since Trump made it to the White
‘color revolution ‘ was taking place in House, he has taken blow after blow
the USA. from the Neocon-run Ziomedia, from
Congress, from all the Hollywood
My first element of proof was the so-called “investigation” doubleplusgoodthinking “stars” and
which the CIA, FBI, NSA and others were conducting even from European politicians.
against President Trump’s candidate to become National
Security Advisor, General Flynn. And Trump took each blow without ever fighting back.
Nowhere was his famous “you are fired!” to be seen. But I
Last night, the plot to get rid of Flynn still had hope. I wanted to hope. I felt that it was my duty
has finally succeeded and General to hope.
Flynn had to offer his resignation.
Trump accepted it. But now Trump has betrayed us all.
Now let’s immediately get one thing out of the way: Remember how Obama showed his true face when he
hypocritically denounced his friend and pastor Rev.
Flynn was hardly a saint or a perfect Jeremiah Wright Jr.? Today, Trump has shown us his true
wise man who would single handedly face. Instead of refusing Flynn’s resignation and instead
saved the world. That he was not. of firing those who dared cook up these ridiculous
However, what Flynn was is the accusations against Flynn, Trump accepted the
cornerstone of Trump’s national resignation. This is not only an act of abject cowardice, it
security policy. is also an amazingly stupid and self-defeating betrayal
because now Trump will be alone, completely alone,
For one thing, Flynn dared the unthinkable: he dared to facing the likes of Mattis and Pence – hard Cold Warrior
declare that the bloated US intelligence community had to types, ideological to the core, folks who want war and
be reformed. Flynn also tried to subordinate the CIA and simply don’t care about reality.
the Joint Chiefs to the President via the National Security
Council. Put differently, Flynn tried to wrestle the Again, Flynn was not my hero. But he
ultimate power and authority from the CIA and the was, by all accounts, Trump’s hero.
Pentagon and subordinate them back to the White House. And Trump betrayed him.
Flynn also wanted to work with Russia. Not because he
was a Russia lover, the notion of a Director of the DIA as a The consequences of this will be immense.
Putin-fan is ridiculous, but Flynn was rational, he
understood that Russia was no threat to the USA or to For one thing, Trump is now clearly
Europe and that Russia had the West had common broken. It took the ‘deep state’ only
interests. That is another absolutely unforgivable weeks to castrate Trump and to make
crimethink in Washington DC. him bow to the powers that be.
The Neocon run ‘deep state’ has now Those who would have stood behind Trump will now feel
forced Flynn to resign under the idiotic that he will not stand behind them and they will all move
pretext that he had a telephone back away from him. The Neocons will feel elated by the
conversation, on an open, insecure and elimination of their worst enemy and emboldened by this
clearly monitored, line with the Russian victory they will push on, doubling-down over and over
ambassador. and over again.
And Trump accepted this resignation. It’s over, folks, the deep state has won.
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From now on, Trump will become the Trump, for all his faults, did favor the
proverbial shabbos-goy, the errand boy US, as a country, over the global
of the Israel lobby. Hassan Nasrallah Empire.
was right when he called him ‘an idiot‘.
Trump was also acutely aware that ‘more of the same’ was
The Chinese and Iranian will openly laugh. The Russians not an option. He wanted policies commensurate with the
won’t – they will be polite, they will smile, and try to see if actual capabilities of the USA. With Flynn gone and the
some common sense policies can still be salvaged from Neocons back in full control – this is over. Now we are
this disaster. Some might. But any dream of a partnership going to be right back to ideology over reality.
between Russia and the United States has died tonight.
Trump probably could have made America, well, maybe
The EU leaders will, of course, celebrate. Trump was not “great again”, but at least stronger, a major world
nowhere the scary bogeyman they feared. Turns out that power which could negotiate and use its leverage to get the
he is a doormat – very good for the EU. best deal possible from the others. That’s over now. With
Trump broken, Russia and China will go right back to their
Where does all this leave us – the pre-Trump stance: a firm resistance backed by a
millions of anonymous ‘deplorables’ willingness and capability to confront and defeat the USA
who try as best we can to resist at any level.
imperialism, war, violence and
injustice? I am quite sure that nobody today is celebrating in the
Kremlin. Putin, Lavrov and the others surely understand
I think that we were right in our hopes because that is all exactly what happened. It is as if Khodorkovsy would
we had – hopes. No expectations, just hopes. But now we have succeeded in breaking Putin in 2003.
objectively have very little reasons left to hope. For one
thing, the Washington ‘swamp’ will not be drained. If In fact, I have to credit Russian analysts
anything, the swamp has triumphed. We can only find who for several weeks already have
some degree of solace in two undeniable facts: been comparing Trump to Yanukovich,
who also was elected by a majority of
1. Hillary would have been far worse than any version of a the people and who failed to show the
Trump Presidency. resolve needed to stop the ‘color
2. In order to defeat Trump, the US deep state has had to revolution’ started against him. But if
terribly weaken the US and the AngloZionist Empire. Trump is the new Yanukovich, will the
Just like Erdogan’ purges have left the Turkish military US become the next Ukraine?
in shambles, the anti-Trump ‘color revolution’ has
inflicted terrible damage on the reputation, authority Flynn was very much the cornerstone of the hoped-for
and even credibility of the USA. Trump foreign policy. There was a real chance that he
would reign in the huge, bloated and all-powerful three
The first one is obvious. So let me clarify the second one. letter agencies and that he would focus US power against
the real enemy of the West: the Wahabis. With Flynn
gone, this entire conceptual edifice has now come down.
In their hate-filled rage against Trump
and the American people (aka “the We are going to be left with the likes of Mattis and his
basket of deplorables”) the Neocons anti-Iranian statements. Clowns who only impress other
clowns.
have had to show they true face.
By their rejection of the outcome of the elections, by their Today's Neocon victory is a huge event
riots, their demonization of Trump, the Neocons have and it will probably be completely
shown two crucial things: first, that the US democracy is a misrepresented by the official media.
sad joke and that they, the Neocons, are an occupation
regime which rules against the will of the American Ironically, Trump supporters will also try minimize it all.
people. In other words, just like Israel, the USA has no But the reality is that barring a most unlikely last-minute
legitimacy left. And since, just like Israel, the USA are miracle, it’s over for Trump and the hopes of millions of
unable to frighten their enemies, they are basically left people in the USA and the rest of the world who had
with nothing, no legitimacy, no ability to coerce. So yes, hoped that the Neocons could be booted out of power by
the Neocons have won. But their victory is removes the means of a peaceful election. That is clearly not going to
last chance for the US to avoid a collapse. happen.
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* * * thereof). Ask yourself – after what happened to Flynn,
would you stick your neck out for Trump?
UPDATE1: Just to stress an important point: the disaster
is not so much that Flynn is out but what Trump’s caving UPDATE2: Just as predicted – the Neocons are
in to the Neocon tells us about Trump’s character (or lack celebrating and, of course, doubling-down:
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Deep State Works With Corporate Media Hacks
In Political Assassination Of Michael Flynn
Anonymous Intelligence Analysts Leak Calls To
Corporate Media In Direct Attack
On American Democracy
By Alex Thomas -
02.14.2017 @10:09 PM EST
The effort, said to include former Obama administration In the past it was considered scandalous for senior U.S.
adviser Ben Rhodes—the architect of a separate White officials to even request the identities of U.S. officials
House effort to create what he described as a pro-Iran echo incidentally monitored by the government (normally they
chamber—included a small task force of Obama loyalists are redacted from intelligence reports). John Bolton’s
who deluged media outlets with stories aimed at eroding nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
Flynn’s credibility, multiple sources revealed. was derailed in 2006 after the NSA confirmed he had
made 10 such requests when he was Undersecretary of
[…] State for Arms Control in George W. Bush’s first term.
The fact that the intercepts of Flynn’s conversations with
However, multiple sources closely involved in the Kislyak appear to have been widely distributed inside the
situation pointed to a larger, more secretive campaign government is a red flag.
aimed at discrediting Flynn and undermining the Trump
White House. In essence, Flynn was merely exercising due diligence as
incoming National Security Adviser by communicating
“It’s undeniable that the campaign to with a prominent foreign official. However, the politicized
discredit Flynn was well underway before intelligence community and the breathless, hysterical anti-
Inauguration Day, with a very troublesome Trump press demanded Flynn’s head on the basis that he
and politicized series of leaks designed to had violated the Logan Act, even though that contention is
undermine him,” said one veteran national shaky at best.
security adviser with close ties to the White
House team. “This pattern reminds me of This direct attack on American democracy is so shocking
the lead up to the Iran deal, and probably that even some liberal writers are warning about the
features the same cast of characters.” dangers of supporting deep state actions like this as it is
absolutely not the role of the intelligence community to
Of course the compliant establishment media was all too target political branches of the government.
happy to help this operation and published a series of
articles on information solely obtained from these Writing for The Week, public Flynn critic Damon Linker
anonymous intelligence operatives, not once caring about warned of the dangers:
the fact that they were given information on supposedly
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But no matter what Flynn did, it is simply information, to the leaking of American
not the role of the deep state to target a citizens being denied security clearances, it
man working in one of the political looks like a pattern.”
branches of the government by dishing to
reporters about information it has gathered As noted above, this attack on Flynn was a culmination of
clandestinely. It is the role of elected a months long operation, one that we warned about over
members of Congress to conduct public and over again, even noting Flynn’s importance to the
investigations of alleged wrongdoing by White House due to what he actually brought to the table.
public officials.
Two days before Flynn’s sudden resignation I warned in a
What if Congress won’t act? What if both the Senate and piece for Intellihub News that the CIA was directly
the House of Representatives are held by the same party as targeting the national security adviser while noting his
the president and members of both chambers are reluctant outsider reputation and direct opposition to the globalist
to cross a newly elected head of the executive branch who plan for the world.
enjoys overwhelming approval of his party’s voters? In
such a situation — our situation — shouldn’t we hope the
“While CIA attacks on Trump as a whole
deep state will rise up to act responsibly to take down a
are obviously important, this shocking new
member of the administration who may have broken the
information is possibly the worst yet,
law?
especially when you consider who Flynn is
and what he stands for within the Trump
The answer is an unequivocal no. administration,” I noted.
“Flynn has a long history of directly
In a liberal democracy, how things happen is often as
targeting the so-called “new world order”
important as what happens. Procedures matter. So do rules
and is now seeing the repercussions for his
and public accountability. The chaotic, dysfunctional
work attacking the globalist elite. Even
Trump White House is placing the entire system under
more important, Flynn has shown a key
enormous strain. That’s bad. But the answer isn’t to
willingness to listen to alternative media
counter it with equally irregular acts of sabotage — or with voices instead of simply pushing the
a disinformation campaign waged by nameless civil establishment narrative on each and every
servants toiling away in the surveillance state. issue.
While some rhino Republicans are sure to have been in on Consider this. Michael Flynn’s son has
the operation, at least one in the House of Representatives even tried to expose PizzaGate and
sees this attack on Flynn for what it is. remains in contact with certain people in
the alternative media which is something
the CIA is obviously aware of.”
Speaking to Lake in his Bloomberg piece, Representative
Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said, “There Now that this sick operation has ended in a victory for the
does appear to be a well orchestrated effort to attack Flynn deep state it is even more imperative that Americans read
and others in the administration.” and spread real alternative news in a direct effort to stop
the spread of intelligence community disinformation so
eagerly pushed throughout the mockingbird media.
“From the leaking of phone calls between
the president and foreign leaders to what
appears to be high-level FISA Court
.
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Office Of Government Ethics
Urges 'Disciplinary Action’ Against Conway
Tue Feb 14, 2017 9:11PM
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Democrats are also pressuring for an independent
investigation into the matter.
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Trump Leaks = NSA,
Beacon Global Strategies?
By Helena
Posted on February 14, 2017
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The Citadel Of Broken Dreams
By Jim Kirwan
2-15-2017
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https://www.rt.com/usa/377346-spicer-russia-return- Pelosi Backs Obama on Secret
crimea/ Execution of Americans without trial
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Trump Reportedly Kept Pence
In Dark About Flynn's Russian Phone Calls
Published February 15, 2017
“They did not discuss anything having to do However, a U.S. official told AP that Flynn was in
with the United States’ decision to expel frequent contact with Kislyak on the day the Obama
diplomats or impose censure against administration slapped sanctions on Russia for election-
Russia,” Pence said in a televised interview related hacking, as well as other times during the
with CBS News last month. transition. Spicer said Flynn was not discussing sanctions
at the president's behest.
Marc Lotter, a Pence spokesman, said the vice president
only became aware that he had received “incomplete Before he resigned Monday night, Flynn told the
information” from Flynn after the first Washington Post investigative news nonprofit affiliated with the website
report last Thursday. Pence learned about the Justice The Daily Caller that he and Kislyak spoke only generally
Department warnings to the White House around the same about the Russian diplomats expelled by President Barack
time. Obama as part of the previous administration's response to
Moscow's interference in the U.S. presidential election.
Pence and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus
played an integral role in Flynn’s resignation, sources told "It wasn't about sanctions. It was about the
Fox News. 35 guys who were thrown out," Flynn said.
"It was basically: 'Look, I know this
happened. We'll review everything.' I never
The White House said earlier Tuesday that Flynn’s
said anything such as, 'We're going to
downfall wasn’t because he discussed the sanctions levied
review sanctions,' or anything like that."
against Russia with Kislyak – which is a potential violation
of a rarely enforced law – but the fact that he denied it for
weeks and misled Pence and other senior Trump aide
about the nature of the conversations.
.
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Deep State Captures Flynn
With En Passant Move — Who’s Next?
Trump’s Unconventional Approach Throws Deep State For Loop
By Shepard Ambellas -
02.15.2017 @12:25 PM EST
WASHINGTON D.C. (INTELLIHUB) — In America, of being powerless, even if it is only for a mere second,
once sworn into office the President of the United States weighs heavy on their minds. Like in the Wizard of Oz,
(POTUS) becomes the acting C.E.O. for the corporation of they are the people behind the curtain who pull the strings
the UNITED STATES and goes to work. And yes, the and they can’t stand it that Trump is the new C.E.O. of the
“UNITED STATES” is a corporation, just in case you corporation and that he is not following the C.I.A.’s
didn’t already know. It was formed in 1871 and only handout or roadmap so to speak.
controls the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) and
territories which the corporation acquires or purchases. But Trump is his own animal. An unusual character with
that’s a whole other story within itself and I really don’t extremely honed skills in many areas. And he is not going
want to get too far off the beaten path here, so I’ll keep it to always do things the traditional way because he is quite
short. aware of what I am taking the time to explain herein.
Trump also knows that the Deep State is hovering over his
When a POTUS takes the helm on Inauguration Day he or shoulder, lurking, waiting for any opportunity to arise
she is then essentially the new 24/7/365 controller for the which the Deep State can then use against him in order to
UNITED STATES. However, since the POTUS is not a restore power to the machine. You can almost look at the
robot (at least we can hope) and needs to rest, relax, plan, Deep State like Skynet, like in the Terminator movies,
shower, etc., the Deep State is always there to step in and where at all times the Deep State wants to have full
save the day, taking any burden of the POTUS needed at control, yet it is entirely out of control as nothing is what it
the time — it’s almost like having a personal maid or seems.
assistant. And after awhile, a POTUS can get comfortable
and may enjoy taking full advantage of the lavish The most recent en passant move by the powers-that-be to
apparatus that’s just waiting in the wings. remove Gen. Michael Flynn from Trump’s cabinet was
well done on their part. Not that I agreed with it or
The Deep State (A.K.A. the National Security Racketeering anything — it was just a brilliant move. Don’t get me
Network) and all that encompasses it, both good and bad, wrong, for sure I would have rather seen Flynn stay as the
which includes but is not limited to, all of its quantum president’s National Security Advisor because I thought
computers, all of its spooks (the C.I.A.), its techies, all of he was going to be a good one. But the bottom line is,
its operatives, and the entire Continuity of Flynn was taken out by the Deep State.
Government Program (COG) combined, serves as a crutch
for the POTUS if need be. And seems how pretty much Intellihub’s Alex Thomas reported Tuesday:
every president since John F. Kennedy’s assassination has
had substantial C.I.A. ties or direct and heavy association
We now know that Flynn wasn’t actually
with the agency, one can only assume that most presidents
targeted over phone calls with a Russian
simply hit the Ol’ cruise control button when they enter the
ambassador but rather was a victim of a
White House, which signals the Deep State to streamline
full-scale operation to take him out.
everything, ultimately putting the Deep State in control.
Although this process is not so passive, it’s more like the
C.I.A. directs their operative, which is usually the sitting This operation, conducted by Obama operatives, elements
POTUS, to do exactly as they say as the president is more of the intelligence community, and the establishment
often than not just a puppet per se. media, was a direct effort to counter not only
investigations into possible elite pedophile rings but also
to take out a fierce critic of the corrupt intelligence
But now things have changed. You see, with Trump’s community leaders.
unexpected win, the powers-that-be (the entire Deep State
apparatus) are having a hard time controlling things due to
Trump’s unconventional approach and the fact that Trump Now we have to wonder what Trump’s ultimate response
is not a cutout in the first place. The very thought of them will be. We also have to wonder what the Deep State’s
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next move will be as the ‘Russian narrative’ culminates
throughout the media yet once again.
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The Dangerous Precedence Of
The Hunt Against Flynn ... And Trump
Source: Moon Of Alabama
Published: February 15, 2017
Kicking Flynn out of his office has hurt Trump. His disinformation campaign waged by nameless civil
standing is diminished. The efforts against Flynn, mainly servants toiling away in the surveillance state.
by the "deep state" in the intelligence agencies, were
designed to change Trump's declared foreign policy aims. Robert Perry at Consortium News:
They worked. Yesterday the White House spokesperson
said:
Flynn’s real “offense” appears to be that he
favors détente with Russia rather than
President Trump has made it very clear that he expects the escalation of a new and dangerous Cold
Russian government to deescalate violence in the Ukraine War. Trump’s idea of a rapprochement with
and return Crimea. Moscow – and a search for areas of
cooperation and compromise – has been
Today Trump tweeted: driving Official Washington’s foreign policy
establishment crazy for months and the
Donald J. Trump Verified account neocons, in particular, have been
@realDonaldTrump Crimea was TAKEN by determined to block it. ... The neocons and
Russia during the Obama Administration. liberal hawks also hated Flynn because –
Was Obama too soft on Russia? as director of the Defense Intelligence
Agency – he oversaw a prescient 2012
4:42 AM - 15 Feb 2017 analysis that foresaw that their support for
the Syrian insurgency would give rise to “a
That is a position Trump had not preciously taken. "Return declared or undeclared Salafist principality
Crimea" is a no-no to any current and future Russian in eastern Syria.” ... Flynn’s resignation and
government. If Trump insists on this the prospective its acceptance by Trump also prove that
détente is already dead. these tactics work and that “tough-guy”
Trump is not immune to them. ...
Several writers along the political spectrum point out that
this show of raw power by the "intelligence community" is The so-called permanent government of Washington and
a great danger. its complicit mainstream media – what some call the Deep
State – have taught Trump a lesson and have learned a
Damon Linker in The Week: lesson, too.
The whole episode is evidence of the They now can be expected to redouble
precipitous and ongoing collapse of their march toward war and more war,
America's democratic institutions — not a ironically with progressives and leftists
sign of their resiliency. Flynn's ouster was a in tow.
soft coup (or political assassination)
engineered by anonymous intelligence Justin Raimondo at Antiwar:
community bureaucrats. The results might
be salutary, but this isn't the way a liberal Flynn was in the crosshairs of the War
democracy is supposed to function. ... Party because he’s the most prominent of
those around Trump who advocated for
In a liberal democracy, how things happen is often as détente with Russia. Also, his somewhat
important as what happens. Procedures matter. So do rules loopy belief that Islam, per se, is a
and public accountability. The chaotic, dysfunctional pernicious political ideology rather than a
Trump White House is placing the entire system under religion, made him a natural enemy of the
enormous strain. That's bad. But the answer isn't to counter pro-Saudi faction within the intelligence
it with equally irregular acts of sabotage — or with a community, which had long worked with
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Riyadh to, among other things, overthrow This is what police states do.
the government of Syrian strongman
Bashar al-Assad. ... ...
The Flynn resignation is just the beginning. As one In the end, it was Trump's decision to cut Flynn loose. In
Politico writer put it, it won’t stop there. They’ll move on doing this he caved in to his political and bureaucratic
to new targets, and they won’t rest until they’ve bagged opposition. Nunes told me Monday night that this will not
their real target: the President of the United States end well.
Eli Lake for Bloomberg: "First it's Flynn, next it will be Kellyanne
Conway, then it will be Steve Bannon, then
[F]or a White House that has such a casual it will be Reince Priebus," he said.
and opportunistic relationship with the truth,
it's strange that Flynn's "lie" to Pence would Put another way, Flynn is only the appetizer. Trump is the
get him fired. It doesn't add up. ... A better entree.
explanation here is that Flynn was just
thrown under the bus. ...
Trump will now cave in on foreign policy: on Russia, on
Syria and everywhere else the borg demands it. He has
Normally intercepts of U.S. officials and citizens are some been put "on notice" and will either do as he is told to do
of the most tightly held government secrets. This is for or he will be the prey in an even bigger hunt.
good reason.
It is alarming that the so-called left part
Selectively disclosing details of private of the U.S. policy is lauding the "deep
conversations monitored by the FBI or state" for this open attack on the elected
NSA gives the permanent state the government. They are now justifying the
power to destroy reputations from the methods that will one day be turned
cloak of anonymity. against themselves. Why do they fail to
see this?
.
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Flashback: Chuck Schumer
Predicts Intelligence War Against Trump
Intelligence Agencies 'Very Upset With How He Has Treated Them'
Infowars.Com
February 15, 2017
Schumer said,
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Oh, Sure, Suddenly Now The House Intelligence Boss Is
Concerned About Surveillance... Of Mike Flynn
From The High-Court,-Low-Court Dept
By Mike Masnick
Wed, Feb 15th 2017 10:50am
We've written a few times about Rep. Devin Nunes, who "a U.S. person’s name can be used when it
heads the House Intelligence Committee. He's been a long- is necessary to understand the foreign
time vocal supporter of NSA surveillance. He insisted that intelligence information in the report."
there was no need for reform after the Snowden leaks and
he actively misled the public and other members of Of course, there's lots of irony to go around here. Timothy
Congress to shoot down an amendment that would have Edgar -- who was the director of privacy and civil liberties
stopped so-called backdoor searches of "incidentally for the White House National Security staff under Obama
collected" information on Americans. Nunes falsely (and also did privacy/civil liberties work in the Bush
claimed that by blocking backdoor searches of the 702 administration) has noted that the leaking of the contents
database, it would have blocked things such as tracking of his phone calls actually means that Flynn's own civil
whether or not the Orlando nightclub shooter had overseas rights have been violated and even suggests he gives the
contacts (it would not have done that at all). ACLU a call (oh, and another layer of irony: Edgar has
been warning about how Flynn and others in the Trump
So it's fairly hilarious to see that Nunes' first reaction to the administration might trample on civil liberties... and yet
news of National Security Advisor Mike Flynn's here, he's arguing that Flynn's civil liberties have been
resignation was to demand answers on why Flynn's calls violated.)
with Russian officials were recorded.
Along those lines, Glenn Greenwald notes that the leaking
“I expect for the FBI to tell me what is going of actual content from intercepted communications is a
on, and they better have a good answer,” really serious crime, but one that should be seen as totally
said Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), chairman justified here, as it was clearly a form of whistleblowing
of the House Permanent Select Committee (even as he admits that the motives of the leakers likely
on Intelligence, which is conducting a weren't pure, but were possibly for revenge against Flynn,
review of Russian activities to influence the who many in the intelligence world disliked).
election. “The big problem I see here is that
you have an American citizen who had his It is a big deal to actually leak the contents of an
phone calls recorded.” intercepted communication (most leaks and
whistleblowing tend to be about programs, not the actual
Uh, dude, you approved this kind of thing (loudly and intercepted communications). Of course, this should raise
proudly), and not only that, but you actively blocked other questions about why the NSA and FBI are surveilling
suggested amendments that would have blocked the using so many people -- and will the content of those other calls
of this information to dig into information on US persons. be used for political vendettas rather than true
Maybe it's time to rethink that one, huh? Of course, whistleblowing? Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that
(former assistant Attorney General) David Kris (who someone like Devin Nunes is going to care about all that.
knows this stuff probably better than anyone else) has In typical "high court/low court" fashion, he's only
made it clear that Flynn's calls with a Russian official concerned that someone on his team was hurt by such
wouldn't need to be "minimized" (i.e., have his identity surveillance, not that such surveillance regularly occurs.
excluded) because
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Trump Has The Power To Declassify
Whatever He Wants — Including The Russian Intercepts
Jon Schwarz
February 15 2017, 1:56 P.M.
Late Tuesday evening the New York Times reported that In practice, any president, even one who honestly wanted
current and former U.S. officials claim that members of to reveal as much as possible, would want to learn what
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign as well as other intelligence capabilities would be revealed by such a
Trump associates “had repeated contacts with senior disclosure, and then keep aspects of the intercepts secret to
Russian intelligence officials” before the 2016 election. conceal the sources and methods that were most
significant.
Donald Trump then spent the early morning Wednesday
unhappily tweeting about this: The White House press office did not respond when asked
whether Trump plans to use his declassification authority.
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National Security Advisor Michael Flynn are all under FBI “The president should tell his attorney
scrutiny. general that either he finds proof of this, or
he puts it to bed and announces none of it
None of the four could immediately be reached happened. … I would relish the opportunity
with questions about whether they would support Trump to testify in public under oath on this issue.”
using his declassification power to release any intercepts
of their conversations that exist. Stone told The Guardian
on Wednesday that..
.
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'Just Like Russia': Trump Renews
Fight With Intelligence Agencies Amid Leaks
By Cody Derespina
Published February 15, 2017
He added:
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NYT Commits TREASON In Fake News Attempt To
Overthrow The United States Government… Is It Time To
Start Arresting Traitors Who Pretend To Be Journalists?
By: Mike Adams
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
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“Let’s not believe anonymous information,” No. 1 state sponsor of terror. Yet the New York Times
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov didn’t blink. Apparently, when Trump team members talk
told reporters. “It’s a newspaper report to Russia, it’s a national emergency, but when Obama
which is not based on any facts.” hands over hundreds of billions of dollars in cash to a
nation that promises to build nuclear weapons to nuke
A Russian senator, Vladimir Jabbarov,
Israel, that’s perfectly fine.
cited by the Independent went so far as to
tell state media the latest claims “were part
of an intelligence community conspiracy to As usual, every insane, anti-American act that Obama
have the President impeached.” pulled off was accepted and even glorified by the media,
while every act that Trump pursues to save America is
“This is a common tactic to try to discredit a venomously demonized. The real position of the left-wing
particular person,” he added. media is:
As I’ve explained in my podcast below, there is also a “Obama could do not wrong, and Trump
“civil war” raging inside the bureaucracy, and some can do no right.”
elements — Obama “sleeper cell” saboteurs — are trying
to set off land mines to destroy Trump from within.
NYT is now a domestic enemy of the United States
government
Click here for my podcast at the Health Ranger Report, or
listen below (story continues below the podcasts)…
With this latest assault on the Trump presidency, we really
have reached the point where the NYT, Washington Post
and CNN are all active enemies of America, working to
deliberately overthrow the legitimate United States
government.
The left-wing media has truly become the single greatest What’s clear at this point is that America is already in a
threat to the future of America. Long gone is any pretense civil war. The first phase of every war is “information
of engaging in legitimate journalism or factual reporting. warfare,” where opposing sides attempt to establish a
Now, the media has become the propaganda wing of left- justification narrative for the violence they plan to pursue
wing radical organizers like international terrorism in phase two.
financier George Soros and former U.S. President Barack
Obama, who’s actually running much of this behind the Understand that right now, the NYT,
scenes from his “shadow White House” from where he Washington Post and CNN are deliberately
commands 30,000 activist “troops” who are conspiring to engaged in establishing the justification
overthrow President Trump. With Obama now controlling narrative for the violent uprising they
“sleeper cell” traitors inside the bureaucracy, and the plan to announce and support. They are
media committing treason on a daily basis by either laying the groundwork, in other words, for a
fabricating anti-American news or publishing genuine violent coup attempt against the United
intelligence secrets, the subversive Left is going all-in to States government.
try to foment a literal communist takeover of the
country. The next phase, by the way, is for them to stage a false
flag attack on liberals that can be blamed on Trump
Removing Trump from office is their highest priority, supporters, so watch for CNN to stage a mass shooting
followed by installing so much hatred in the minds of any day now, complete with “crisis actors” who can cry for
obedient left-wing sheeple that they rise up and start the cameras and relentlessly sob while explaining that pro-
executing their political enemies. The goal, of course, is to NRA, pro-Trump gun supporters massacred their innocent
cause so much chaos and mayhem that the nation becomes children (or some such thing). Once that false flag is
“ungovernable” and is therefore relatively easy to accomplished, the media hammers it home in the minds of
overthrow. the obedient left-wing sheeple until anger boils over and
every major U.S. city revolts with mass chaos, riots and
The plan is already crystal clear in the mind of left-wing violence… all of which the media will characterize as
agitator Michael Moore, who has now called for Hillary “peaceful protests” or “justified resistance” against the
Clinton to be “installed as president” while Trump is “murderous Trump regime.”
arrested.
This is how they plan to overthrow America, and they are
That’s been the plan from the very start, of course: LIE frighteningly close to achieving it.
about the President, gin up hatred across the population,
fabricate fake news “facts” from the news cartels, and This is why I predict we are all going to “beg for Martial
make sure they are sufficiently repeated across a sufficient Law” in the very near future as the radical Left goes
full-on bat-s##t crazy with violence and mayhem, all
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egged on by a complicit media that is deliberately and wing radicals. If you lose the country, America becomes a
actively working to overthrow the U.S. government. That’s killing fields scenario, with uncontrolled civil war raging in
why I say it’s time for Trump to start making arrests of the the streets and towns while communist terrorists run by
anti-American subversives who pretend to be journalists at Obama and Soros stage a coup in Washington D.C. This
the NYT, Washington Post, CNN, etc. scenario is no longer fiction. It is, in fact, the undisclosed
goal of the New York Times.
It has all come down to this: You either protect America
by defeating her enemies, or you lose the country to left-
.
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Obama’s Minions Aim To Humble Trump’s Presidency
Throw A Spotlight On The Hide-Y-Hole Wherever Barack Hussein Is
Stealthily Planning His Revolution. Smoke Him Out! Radical Community
Organizers Should Not Be Allowed To Operate From The Shadows
By Judi McLeod - Bio And Archives
February 15, 2017
The story you shouldn’t miss? The first counter attack came one day after the
inauguration of Donald Trump as America’s 45th
president. You can’t put a 400,000-activist strong
‘The Washington Post’s underhanded Women’s March in Washington, D.C. overnight.
“Humbling of a president’.
While so many in the masses reeled in disgust at March
The WaPo ‘humbling of a president’
participant Madonna declaring she wanted to “blow up the
story is misleading, unprofessional and White House”, Obama’s handpicked ‘Spies R Us’ had a
inaccurate plan in place for really blowing up the White House called:
‘The Political Assassination of National Security Adviser
No president is ever “humbled” because the digital Michael Flynn’.
dilettantes of the Washington Post say so.
BOOM! Led by the Washington Post and
‘The Humbling of a president’ story, is posted on the New York Times, the mainstream
today’s Drudge Report,—but to get past the headline to the media could now pick up the pieces of the
WaPo story, you have to sign in as a subscriber. spy bomb and run with them.
The WaPo ‘humbling of a president’ story is misleading, According to them, the unwashed masses hoping for a
unprofessional and inaccurate. It is not President Donald better life for America would never know what hit them.
J. Trump who is “humbled” but a mainstream media
working hand in hand with the progressive left down at the Fired by President Barack Obama as DIA director in 2014
bottom of their voluminous dirty tricks bag working after daring to present sworn testimony before Congress
feverishly to humble him. that argued Obama’s belief that radical Islamic terrorism,
including ISIS, was not a major threat, Flynn’s days were
Humbling the president means making up the kind of already numbered.
stories you see in the supermarket tabloids. Humbling the
new president means inferring that his wife was a
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If Hillary didn’t get him, a hiding-it-out Obama would president and foreign leaders to what
appears to be high-level [Foreign
If Hillary didn’t get him, a hiding-it-out Obama would. Intelligence Surveillance Court] information,
to the leaking of American citizens being
denied security clearances, it looks like a
“Since Trump and Flynn entered the White pattern.”
House, anonymous sources have given
select reporters information about “A Wall Street Journal editorial Tuesday
telephone intercepts conducted by the asked, “Did U.S. spooks have a court order
National Security Agency (NSA). (Daily to listen to his conversations?”
Caller, Feb. 14, 2017) “Former intelligence and military officers
told TheDCNF they agree Flynn was the
This is the same NSA that spied on the American public victim of a highly orchestrated
without intervention of any kind from the Obama “disinformation campaign” generated by
administration current and former intelligence officers,
many with loyalties to former President
“The classified information secretly given to Obama.”
reporters purportedly showed that Flynn
discussed sanctions on Dec. 29, when 35 The theory that “the president has been humbled” is
Russian diplomats were being expelled that the work of digital dilettantes
same day by the outgoing Obama
administration. (DailyCaller) That spy operatives of the same president caught on an
“Other intelligence leaks have open mic hinting he could do more for Russia after his
revealed Trump’s private discussions with reelection, bites.
heads of state soon after he became
president-elect. The public should be having a cow at this blatant coup
“In a Feb. 9 story, The Washington d’état to bring the Trump government down and probably
Post cited unnamed “current and former will.
U.S. officials” who accused Flynn of
violating the law in a Dec. 29 telephone The theory that “the president has been humbled” is the
conversation with Russian Ambassador work of digital dilettantes like the Washington Post who
Sergey Kislvak. want the president humbled.
“Flynn called the leaks of classified
information against government officials Don’t fall for their propaganda.
“unprecedented,” and predicted
those would be the focus of future Don’t sign on as a Washington Post subscriber; don’t
congressional investigations. believe everything you read in the mainstream media.
“Members of Congress are very concerned
because these are leaks from classified Message to the citizen journalists who are the public’s only
systems. The House and Senate are hope of unearthing the truth: Find out and name the
looking into those things, as they should,” “current and former U.S. officials” cited by the
he told TheDCNF. Washington Post, who accused Flynn of violating the law
in a Dec. 29 telephone call.
“The issue of government leaks is an issue
for House Permanent Select Committee on
Throw a spotlight on the hide-y-hole wherever Barack
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes. On
Monday, Nunes told Bloomberg News that Hussein is stealthily planning his revolution. Smoke him
he views leaks about Flynn’s private out! Radical Community Organizers should not be allowed
conversation as part of a pattern. to operate from the shadows.
“There does appear to be a well- Drag Citizen Obama out from where ever he is hiding and
orchestrated effort to attack Flynn and make him fight the American people face to face.
others in the administration,” said Nunes,
who is a California Republican. “From the
leaking of phone calls between the Semper Fidelis!
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Explosive New Hacking
Scandal Has Democrats' Fingerprints
Criminal Investigation Into What IT Contractors Did Set To Blow Up
Bob Unruh
February 15, 2017
Yet the Democrats are mum over their own explosive “were among the dozens of members who
hacking scandal, which could overshadow Watergate, employed the suspects on a shared basis.”
Filegate, Travelgate and dozens of other Washington “The two committees deal with many of the
scandals. nation’s most sensitive issues and
documents, including those related to the
The allegation is that Democrats hired tech staffers who war on terrorism.”
were Pakistani nationals, and they likely gained
illegal access to secret congressional information. WND made dozens of calls and sent dozens of emails on
Tuesday asking members who might have hired the
And that includes classified documents. brothers for comment and an update on the status of the
investigation.
Flynn resigned late Monday after reports that he not been
truthful with Vice President Mike Pence about his A spokesman for Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., responded
discussions with the Russian ambassador about sanctions. tersely,
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported brothers “Can’t comment on this one.”
Imran, Jamal and Abid Awan had been working for IT
departments of multiple Democratic congressional offices.
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A spokeswoman in the office of Rep. Diana Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Magazine recently
DeGette, D-Colo., said it was a “personnel outlined what is known about the breach and the
matter,” and “that’s all I’m going to say.” implications.
Among the many offices WND contacted, without Imran Awan and his two brothers, Jamal and Abid, are at
generating a response, were those for Democrats Andre the center of an investigation into, among other things,
Carson, Luis Guiterez, Jim Himes, Terri Sewell, Jackie allegations of illegal access. They have been barred from
Speier, Mike Quigley, Eric Swalwell, Patrick Murphy, the House of Representatives network.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Joaquini Castro, Lois Frankel,
Ted Lieu, Robin Kelly, Tammy Duckworth, Mark A member of Congress feared that they
Takano and John Sarbanes. “may have stolen data from us.”
What do YOU think? Sound off on the criminal probe into Greenfield reported that the three Pakistani brothers had
Democrat staffers in Congress worked only for Democrats, including members of the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It was
‘Very concerning’ not even a year after eight Democrats on that committee
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a member of the Oversight and “issued a demand that their staffers be
Government Reform Committee, said something must be granted access to top secret classified
done. information,” he reported.
“I hope we investigate this issue,” he said. There’s a special concern about Carson, he revealed.
“The facts regarding technology
procurement and potentially illegal “Carson is the second Muslim in Congress
violations of the House IT network by and the first Muslim on the House
several Democratic staffers is very Permanent Select Committee on
concerning.” Intelligence and, more critically, is the
ranking member on its Emerging Threats
Philip Haney, a former Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee,” Greenfield wrote. “He is
officer and co-author of “See Something, Say Nothing,” a also a member of the Department of
book about his effort to expose the U.S. governments Defense Intelligence and Overhead
capitulation to Islamic supremacists, said the case will be a Architecture Subcommittee. The Emerging
bellwether. Threats Subcommittee, of which Carson is
a ranking member, is responsible for much
“This particular breach of security will of counterterrorism oversight. It is the worst
reveal how seriously our three branches of possible place for a man with Carson’s
government actually take the threat posed credentials.”
by what appears to be a network of at least
five Muslim operatives, who have managed Greenfield continued:
to soak their way into the very heart of our
constitutional republic,” he said. “Carson had inherited his grandmother’s
“Let’s hope that this scandal isn’t just swept seat and exploited it to promote a radical
under the rug, or allowed to fade quietly Islamist agenda. He has interfaced with a
into the background, like so many others laundry list of Islamist groups from CAIR to
that have, but instead becomes a case ISNA to ICNA to MPAC. Islamists have
study in how our elected officials defend funded Carson’s career to the tune of tens
the Constitution against all enemies, both of thousands of dollars. The Center for
foreign and domestic. Security Policy has put together a dossier
of Carson’s connections to the Muslim
Haney said that in “this hyper-political Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is the
environment, anything less than parent organization of many key Islamic
unrestrained bipartisan cooperation in a full terror groups posing a threat to our national
investigation, followed by subsequent security including al-Qaida and Hamas.
prosecution, if warranted, will be seen not Andre Carson shared the stage at a CAIR
only as an open indictment, but also as a banquet with Sirraj Wahaj: an unindicted
blatant display of malevolent hypocrisy.” co-conspirator in the World Trade Center
bombing who had once declared, ‘You
Illegal access don’t get involved in politics because it’s
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the American thing to do. You get involved The Daily Caller noted in a subsequent report that the staff
in politics because politics are a weapon to members allegedly involved also had
use in the cause of Islam.’ CAIR itself had
been named an unindicted co-conspirator “multiple suspicious mortgage transfers
in terror finance.” and a debt-evading bankruptcy.”
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Maxine Waters: Flynn Just The ‘Tip Of The Iceberg’ Of
White House Collusion With Russia [VIDEO]
Written By Philip Hodges
February 15, 2017
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George Soros Gave Jared Kushner $259 Million Credit.
Thirty Pieces Of Silver To Betray Trump And
The American People?
From Jewish Business News
February 15, 2017
The financing was provided; even though, Soros has called As for Mike Pence, Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus,
President Trump a “would-be dictator.” their closeness to Kushner and their actions strongly
suggest the notion they are all Soros operatives. Soros
…. bribes some, blackmails others.
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Is There A Conspiracy Inside Washington To Destroy
Trump's Inner Circle? Top Republican Claims Flynn Was
The Appetizer - Kellyanne Will Be Next
And Trump Is 'The Entree'
Speaking To Bloomberg View Columnist Eli Lake, Rep. Devin Nunes Suggested There Was A
Nefarious Pattern In The Leaks Plaguing The Trump Administration
Nunes Believed The Resignation Of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn Was Just The
Beginning As Other Members Of Trump's Inner Circle Will Be Targeted
'First It's Flynn, Next It Will Be Kellyanne Conway, Then It Will Be Steve Bannon, Then It
Will Be Reince Priebus,' The Republican Lawmaker Said
By Nikki Schwab, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 20:34 EST, 14 February 2017 | Updated: 11:12 EST, 15 February 2017
One Republican lawmaker is saying he sees a pattern in contents of his conversation with Russian Amb. Sergey
the leaks that brought down President Donald Trump's Kislyak were clearly monitored by the government, and
National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. then, so easily got out.
Rep. Devin Nunes told Bloomberg View columnist Eli Later he added,
Lake that he's concerned about all the leaks and suggested
'Normally intercepts of U.S. officials and
'it looks like a pattern' citizens are some of the most tightly held
government secrets.'
One of the most notable things about the Flynn fall-from-
grace story, Lake pointed out, was the fact that the
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Not in this case, however, which caused Nunes to suggest Days after Trump conversed with foreign leaders,
that something really didn't smell right. embarrassing details have leaked out, including that the
president had to ask aides about a nuclear arms treaty,
'There does appear to be a well while on the phone with Russian leader Vladimir Putin,
orchestrated effort to attack Flynn and and that he and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm
others in the administration,' Nunes told the Turnbull had a fraught back-and-forth over an Obama era
Bloomberg View columnist. refugee resettlement plan.
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Bill Kristol Backs ‘Deep State’
Over President Trump, Republican Government
By Neil Munro
15 Feb 2017
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Top Neocon, Bill Kristol, Exposes His True Undemocratic
Feelings During High Moment On Twitter
By The_Real_Fly
Feb 15, 2017 12:58 AM
Bill Kristol's father was one of the founders of the neocon And now here he is laid bare. Do we need any further
movement. Essentially, they were former communists who proof that these people are a threat to democracy?
were loyal to Trotsky who toiled to overthrow Stalin, in an
effort to spread communism. After the USSR collapsed,
they coopted the GOP and used 'democracy' as their call
for global revolution, which was essentially code for
empire through war.
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NYT Intent On
Wrecking Trump’s Administration
From Stephen Lendman
2-15-17
The problem with Trump’s deplorable record in office so The Times was a co-conspirator against Flynn, calling him
far is the alternative is worse. “a hothead and an ideologue…not fit to be national
security adviser,” adding:
America’s political system is too debauched to fix. One-
party governance with two right wings constitutes fantasy “That Mr. Trump clung to such a
democracy, voting a waste of time, a worthless exercise. compromised person in such a sensitive
position is at best an abysmal failure of
Dirty business as usual always wins. On all issues judgment.”
mattering most, column A and B are in lockstep. All the
uproar going on reflects contesting for power. “All this puts more pressure on Congress to
act.”
Over the longterm, both sides take turns sharing it, serving
wealth and privilege at the expense of the general welfare, The Times wants Trump officials investigated. It wants
a deplorable situation, each administration turning out more heads to roll, his administration wrecked.
worse than its predecessor.
It’s seething over his electoral triumph, defeating Hillary,
The Times supported the Clinton co-presidency, its favorite. It wants revenge.
Bush/Cheney and Obama, ignoring 24 years of high crimes
at home and abroad - the worst period in US history since It wants imperial and neoliberal harshness the way it’s
the Civil War years. been for the last generation continued uninterrupted - no
matter the enormous harm done to so many worldwide,
The self-styled newspaper of record blasted Trump’s including adversarial relations maintained with all
administration as dysfunctional and dishonest, independent nations, notably Russia.
“ill prepared…to protect the nation” - from Conditions in America are deplorable, including endless
what it didn’t explain. wars of aggression, corporate favoritism at the expense of
ordinary people, and tyranny heading for full-blown.
No enemies exist except invented ones.
Dante’s Inferno comes to mind, saying
Deep state long knives targeted Michael Flynn, the best
hope for better relations with Russia now gone. Trump “(a)bandon hope, all ye who enter here.”
erred in sacking his key foreign policy advisor, weakening
himself in process, making others in his administration Is this where America is heading, along with planet earth if
vulnerable. its endless war on humanity continues?
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“Border Tax”: Word-Manipulation
Used To Stop Trump’s Economic Plan
By Jon Rappoport
February 15, 2017
I’ll get to the devious word-manipulation in a minute, but Here are current news headlines. Read them and then I’ll
first a bit of background. explain.
Corporate Globalists are now gathering their forces to New York Times:
destroy Trump’s economic plan.
“Profitable pickups may be in cross hairs of
Their goal: stop Trump from laying tariffs on goods Trump’s border tax.”
exported to America.
Marketwatch:
Trump has announced a simple and straightforward idea. If
US companies shut down factories here and set them up in “Target, Gap, Best Buy and other retailers
Third World hell holes, with slave labor and no going to DC to oppose border tax…”
environmental rules, and then export those goods back to
the US, they’ll have to pay a stiff tariff. Reuters:
That tariff will cut them off at the knees. They won’t be
“Retail CEOs head to Washington to try to
able to sell their products so cheaply here. In fact, they’d kill US border tax.”
be better off re-opening their factories in the US and re-
employing all those workers they threw out of jobs when
they left the US. Automotive News:
Trump’s other obvious idea: countries where the labor is “US border tax could raise vehicle tax…”
cheap have their own native companies, of course, who are
producing goods and exporting them to the US— Wall St. Journal:
undercutting American companies who make the same
products. Those foreign companies would also have to pay “Border tax could upend global markets…”
a stiff tariff, putting them on an equal footing with US
manufacturers. Drudge summary of Financial Times:
Globalists hate these plans. They want predatory “BRUSSELS GEARS UP FOR HIGH-
corporations to roam free all over the world, gutting STAKES CHALLENGE TO ‘US BORDER
economies, and exporting their products to one and all, TAX’ PLAN… Biggest case in World Trade
without paying tariffs. Organization history…”
This is what 50 years of conferences (1945-1995) on the There are many more headlines along the same line. And
treaty called GATT were all about. Knocking out tariffs. they all mention “border tax.” What are they talking
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade culminated about?
in the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), a
pillar of the new world economic order.
Well, “border tax” equals “tariff,” a word that has been
used since the founding of the American Republic. But
Now, there is panic as Trump appears to be going after the suddenly the memo has gone out to mainstream news to
WTO and its grand foundation. use this other term instead.
And so we come to the word-manipulation. Why? Because “border tax” suggests the idea of a tax
connected with immigration, as in “border.” Yes, tariffs
are traditionally collected at a nation’s border (a port)
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when imported goods arrive. But no one had been calling a When “new world order” and “new international economic
tariff a border tax until now, when Trump is under heavy order” came into vogue, decades ago, the psyop was based
fire for his temporary immigration ban. on the idea that “new” was preferable to “old,” and “order”
was much better than “chaos.”
In order to pile on, and give a negative twist to the idea of
a tariff, conflating it with immigration, we have “border Of course, “new world order” backfired, because millions
tax.” Another bonus: everyone dislikes more taxes. So of people saw through it.
“border tax” has two negatives.
Hopefully, the same thing will happen now to “border
It’s called mind-control propaganda by tax.”
word association.
War is peace. As in:
Ignorance is strength.
“Why yes, borders are good. They should
And tariffs are (immigration) border taxes. be solid and well defined and protected.
In the same way, sheer corporate greed And that’s where tariffs are collected. Plus,
(demanding an end to tariffs) has long draconian corporations should pay their
been called “free trade.” It sounds positive. taxes. Border-tax. It’s a terrific idea. Let’s
It’s the opposite of “slave trade.” do it.”
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Kellyanne Conway Bashing Targets Trump
From Stephen Lendman
2-15-2017
“(g)o buy (Trump daughter) Ivanka’s OGE director Walter Shaub called Conway’s action a
stuff…It’s a wonderful line. I own some of it.
I'm going to give a free commercial here. “clear violation” of ethics rules, saying
Go buy it today.” “there is strong reason to believe (she)
violated the Standards of Conduct Act…”
It was a minor indiscretion of no consequence in response
to Nordstrom dropping her line, possibly at odds with US He requested the White House to investigate the matter,
law, prohibiting then send its findings and any proposed disciplinary action
to OGE by end of February.
“use of public office for private gain,”
including “endorse(ments) (of any) product, Whoever put Shaub up to this wants Conway either ousted
service or enterprise.” or heavily tarnished to harm Trump. Lots more dominos
may fall.
Conway’s comment wasn’t intended for personal gain, so
the whole business should have amounted to much ado Taking them out or damaging their reputations enough
about nothing. weakens their ability to serve effectively.
Not in Washington, especially with Trump bashing so If this dirty game continues relentlessly, the last domino to
intense. The Office of Government Ethics (OGE) wants fall may be Trump. That’s what it’s all about.
her investigated, disciplinary action following if
warranted. First eliminate or discredit his key people. Then take him
out or force total capitulation to longstanding deplorable
You can’t make this stuff up whatever comes of this. policies. In the meantime, Washington’s imperial agenda
Attacking her is solely meant harm Trump. She, Flynn and continues without missing a beat.
likely other administration officials to follow are punching
bags.
.
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The Guy Trump Just Put In Charge
Of The Economy Has Deep Ties To George Soros
Written By Carey Wedler
February 15, 2017 At 7:48 Am
(ANTIMEDIA) Donald Trump’s cabinet picks have “not clear from news reports how close
raised doubts about his commitment to the anti- Mnuchin and Soros were, if at all,”
establishment platform he promoted during the presidential
race. Though he drew praise shortly after the election for
taking meetings with people as diverse as Democratic the outlet continued:
Senator Tulsi Gabbard and a libertarian who advocates
abolishing the Federal Reserve, his final selections were “In 2004, Mnuchin departed to start his own
less predictable. hedge fund, Dune Capital Management.
Bloomberg News reported that Dune ‘got
The president’s selection of hedge fund manager Steven hundreds of millions of dollars from Soros.’”
Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary — and Mnuchin’s
subsequent confirmation on Monday — has drawn This is particularly newsworthy, especially considering
criticism, in part, because of Mnuchin’s seventeen-year Trump mouthpiece Breitbart News has covered the
career at Goldman Sachs. However, the loathed financial revelation that Soros allegedly donated $650,000 to Black
giant’s presence in American politics is, at this point, par Lives Matter, which many on the right have accused of
for the course — even when it’s instigated by a candidate being a terrorist organization. In their article on Trump’s
who campaigned on “draining the swamp.” selection of Munchin, however, Breitbart’s only
acknowledgment of the candidate’s ties to Soros read:
Beyond Goldman Sachs, more concerning to Trump
supporters who expect change from their new president “He also partnered briefly with liberal
should be Mnuchin’s ties to one of the most hated leftist financier George Soros.”
figures in America: George Soros.
They made no mention of the “hundreds of millions of
It’s one thing to purchase stock or invest in a company dollars” tied up between Trump’s pick and the alleged
whose values you disagree with. After all, Green Party neoliberal puppet master, nor that the actual ties of Soros’
candidate Jill Stein admitted last year that regretfully, her organizations to protesters are scant — and about as
investment portfolio includes companies reliant on fossil extensive as Mnuchin’s own ties to the billionaire
fuel and other industries that clash with her ideology. Still, financier.
she noted they were choices made by investors who
manage her wealth. As journalist Justin King reported for Fifth Column News
shortly after the election, when protesters were accused of
But Mnuchin didn’t just invest in a company tied to being hired by Soros:
George Soros — or have others do so. He actually started
an investment fund with him. From Newsweek: “There it was. Money had certainly flowed
from Soros to these organizations. Three in
“After departing Goldman, Mnuchin went to particular.
work for SFM Capital Management, a firm “United We Dream: This organization
backed by billionaire George Soros, known received $75,000 from Open Societies.
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Clean Water Action: Received about to function from principle and question Trump’s
$36,000 from an organization called appointment. After all, according to Breitbart, which now
America Votes that draws funding from an holds a powerful position in the Trump administration,
organization Soros is said to support. Soros is a dangerous man. Of his initiative to work with
the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Breitbart wrote:
“Washington CAN!: This organization
received $50,000 from Open Societies.
“The institutional left’s funding behemoth
“While this may seem like concrete W.K. Kellogg Foundation has partnered
evidence, there’s a problem. United We with and given major donations to George
Dream received that money in 2010. Clean Soros’s Open Society Institute and the
Water Action obtained their funds two Tides Center as part of its massive push
years ago. Washington CAN! obtained its to promote a far-left agenda.” [emphasis
money seven years ago. Incidentally, their added]
funds were used to purchase telemarketing
equipment.”
Though Mnuchin’s ties to Goldman Sachs hardly imply
Trump’s pick is eager to push a “far-left agenda,” his
As King established, the ties Soros had to protest and proximity to Soros in any capacity — let alone a profit-
activist groups were circumstantial and failed to prove any making venture — should be cause for alarm among a
direct links between the funds and actions taken in the demographic that claims to be eager to remove special
streets following the election. But that didn’t stop many influences from positions of power.
right-leaning news organizations from reporting heavily on
the Soros-funded resistance. If these tenuous ties are to be
taken seriously, however, the same standard must also be But it’s not just Mnucnhin’s ties to Soros that should raise
applied to Soros’ ties to Mnuchin; they may not be explicit eyebrows. In the 2016 election, Mnuchin donated to only
or reveal that Mnuchin has taken tangible actions taken as four entities: Donald Trump, who received the vast
a result of the money. But the investment endeavors and majority of funds; Kamala Harris, a Democrat; Michael
transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars is, by the logic Wildes, a Democrat; and ActBlue, a super PAC that
used to indict protests, enough to discredit Mnuchin. describes itself as a
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Trump: 'Fake News Media Is Going Crazy
With Their Conspiracy Theories And Blind Hatred'
Chris Menahan - InformationLiberation
Feb. 15, 2017
Trump also attacked the lying media's new red scare, "Thank you to Eli Lake of The Bloomberg
tweeting: "This Russian connection non-sense is merely an View - "The NSA & FBI...should not
attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary interfere in our politics...and is" Very
Clinton's losing campaign." serious situation for USA," Trump tweeted.
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Why Michael Flynn Resigned
By Brother Nathanael
February 15, 2017 @ 6:53 pm
C’mon people, isn’t it obvious that Trump’s dumping of And Pence didn’t appreciate being embarrassed by Flynn’s
Flynn was an ‘inside job?’ dissembling after sticking up for him. Why else did Trump
keep saying: “This was a trust issue?”
No ‘deep state’ here, but an ‘in state’ leak of a phone
conversation between Flynn and the Russian And my guess is that Flynn called the Russian ambassador
ambassador—known by all the Intel agencies since on his own while Trump was out doing his victory laps
December, of which, the FBI found no wrong doing. during the transition period in December.
It was standard FBI protocol to review intercepts of Flynn had to go and an ‘inside leak’ prepared the way.
communications after ‘listening-in’ on the Russian Perhaps a Pence-faction leaked it to the press…
ambassador obtained from routine electronic surveillance
of Russian officials (The Russian ambassador would have My observations on Flynn during Trump’s long campaign
known that he, like his predecessors, was under is that he saw anti-Iran Trump as a potential winner to
surveillance.) hook his own anti-Iran wagon to.
Flynn was a loose cannon inside the White House, volatile Flynn was a man with an agenda who believed his
and uncurbed. He was his own worst enemy. Islamophobic bombast would launch the right bombs in all
the wrong places.
Spicer didn’t like Flynn barging in on his press conference;
Mattis, who probably didn’t care for Flynn given their Brother Nathanael
differing personalities, has a whole different approach to Publisher, Real Jew New
warmongering, that is, lacing mass murder with quietly-
stated lies.
.
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Trump Directly Tells Netanyahu To 'Hold Off On
Settlements For A Bit' In Israel
Pamela Engel
Feb. 15, 2017, 12:50 PM
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"While we don't believe the existence of many times, he hopes to achieve peace
settlements is an impediment to peace, the throughout the Middle East region."
construction of new settlements or the
expansion of existing settlements beyond Trump was a staunch advocate of Israel during his
their current borders may not be helpful in campaign for president. In a speech to the American Israel
achieving that goal," the White House Public Affairs Committee last year, Trump said he was a
press secretary, Sean Spicer, said in a "true friend" of Israel and there was "no daylight between
statement. "As the president has expressed America and our most reliable ally the state of Israel."
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Unacceptable White
House Demands on Russia
From Stephen Lendman
2-15-2017
Though still too early to draw definitive conclusions, Not likely by blaming Moscow for Kiev aggression and
Trump’s White House is beginning to look like Obama demanding it relinquish part of its sovereign territory.
never left or the return of Bush/Cheney. Not a pretty
picture! In response to Spicer’s comments, Russian Foreign
Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said
Hoped for improved US/Russia relations were dashed on
the rocks of Michael Flynn’s sacking, surrendering to deep “(w)e do not give away our territories away.
state forces running America, Trump looking like Crimea is a territory of the Russian
disturbing continuity, not responsible change. It was Federation.”
wishful thinking believing otherwise.
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov emphatically said Crimea
In Security Council remarks, White House envoy Nikki won’t be returned to Ukraine. It’s not a topic for
Haley replicated neocon Samantha Power’s anti-Russia’s discussion. “Russia does not discuss issues related to its
rhetoric, accusing Moscow of “occupation and military territory with” other nations.
intervention” in Ukraine, disgracefully misrepresenting
hard facts. During Putin’s phone call with Trump, the issue “was not
raised,” Peskov explained. In July 2016, candidate Trump
She lied calling Crimea “part of Ukraine.” Minsk said
agreement terms to end fighting in Donbass said nothing
about the territory. “(t)he people of Crimea, from what I’ve
heard, would rather be with Russia than”
Haley speaks for Trump. On her debut as US envoy, she Ukraine, adding he’d consider recognizing
warned US allies and adversaries alike - provocatively the territory as part of Russia if elected
saying president.
“(y)ou’re going to see a change in the way Russian lower house State Duma International Affairs
we do business.” Committee chairman Leonid Slutsky called Spicer’s
comments
“Our goal with the administration is to show
value at the UN, and the way we’ll show “alarming…a cold shower that will cool
value is to show our strength, show our down high expectations from Trump and
voice, have the backs of our allies and his team.”
make sure our allies have our back as
well.” Russian upper house Federation Council Defense
Committee chairman Viktor Ozerov called
“For those who don’t have our back, we’re
taking names. We will make points to “(t)he issue of Crimea…absolutely clear. It
respond to that accordingly.” is part of Russia, and it cannot be the
subject of bargaining between Russia and
On Tuesday, White House press secretary delivered mixed the United States, no matter what is at
messages, saying stake.”
“President Trump has made it very clear Adversarial US relations toward Russia are longstanding,
that he expects the Russian government to not likely to change under Trump based on comments by
de-escalate violence in the Ukraine and Haley and Spicer.
return Crimea. At the same time, he fully
expects to - and wants to - get along with Candidate Trump said plenty on Russia and Vladimir
Russia.” Putin, comments raising hope for better relations. So far as
president, he’s let others speak for him on this sensitive
issue.
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It’s time for him to speak out directly on this issue, telling of details need to be filled later bases on bilateral talks.
Americans and Russia where he stands - even though lots
.
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Exclusive: Trump, Netanyahu
Used Flynn To “Catfish” Putin
Meeting With Netanyahu As Of This Writing,
Planning Putin's Downfall
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
February 15, 2017
[ Editor’s Note: The Trump plot is thickening and quickly, and Trump putting the kid in charge of doing a peace deal, with no
yet we have tons of time left in the first 100 days. To all of you diplomatic or career experience to take on that Gordian Knot?
out there who wanted predictions from me early on where Trump What do you think the chances are that the kid is not fronting for
was going, remember I said that was a waste of effort, as all we someone? We have polled our analytical group, and all agree he
had to do is ride out his first three months and guessing would no is not fronting for the U.S.
longer be necessary.
We are still looking into how Trump survived so many
And as a bonus, we would know what and who the real power(s) bankruptcies by angels with big checkbooks always arriving
behind Trump were. It is not that I claim to be a soothsayer, but it on the scene and coming to his rescue. The illegal Poles
appeared self-evident to me that he was going to move fast. and who worked on Trump tower had to sleep on site, as NY City
this meant he would have to put a lot of cards down on the table. accommodations were a bit steep for the wages they were
being paid.
Sure, some of the cards could be marked, as Gordon will get into
below concerning Mr. Michael Flynn. But we knew he would be Be careful America. You might get what you paid for, not just with
attacked, and if things got rough, his real allies would come out of Mr. Trump, but by doing nothing to raise hell about how Israeli
the shadows. The flip-flop in the past week began the revelation espionage is allowed to go on here, on an industrial scale, with
process. no one allowed to even mention it in Congress. I will say it again.
This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better… Jim W.
As of today, it is well established that the cabal around Trump Dean ]
met with Russian intelligence, not only made promises but cut
private “under the table” deals themselves, all of which will cost _________
the people of the United States dearly. As is now apparent to
“watchers,” the worst of it was the meetings, not with Russia but – First published … February 15, 2017 –
with Israel and the deals cut there. Bannon, we are told, not only
met Israeli intelligence but used them as intermediary when he
General Flynn had to be gone when
talked to the Russian’s as well.
Netanyahu came to Washington, that
was predetermined. No National
Kushner, we are assured, is Israeli intelligence, no middle Security Advisor serving the American
man there. people could sit silently while Trump
and Netanyahu announced to the world
All well-connected American Jews who do IDF service are that the US now supported a fully
closely evaluated by Israeli military Intelligence as to their future apartheid police state in Israel with 7
value to Israel, their “other country”. Suitable recruits would million Palestinians relegated to camps,
routinely be given basic training and a cover to justify their ghettos or worse. Sound familiar,
coming back to Israel now and then for “business reasons”. “Hitleresque” even? We think so.
It has always been Israel’s goal to run the Whitehouse. Those It also guarantees more war, more dead Americans, more
folks, the Likuds, hate Americas. They hate everybody really, but terrorism and the world even worse than it is and not by
Americans in particular, because they have a lot of stuff the accident. Flynn had to go, but he was only there to
Likuds have not been able to take yet, which they feel is being “catfish” the Russians.
unfairly withheld from them, hence they have a right to correct
the oversight. Catfish: A fake identity, persona or
profile indented to seduce or victimize.
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Mike Flynn was fired, supposedly, because he didn’t someone unacceptable to everyone. Boykin, a good
explain his discussions with Russian spies and the deals he soldier, according to friends we have in common, had a
cut. Then again, Pence believes humans and dinosaurs “breakdown” we are told, began ranting about
lived together in harmony on a planet magically brought Armageddon and the rapture, spouting bizarre phony
into existence on September 23, 4004 BCE. biblical prophesy bible stories that are utterly unrelated to
the Christian religion.
Yes, we aren’t kidding, this is exactly what Vice President
Pence says he believes, and he claims Trump shares this as He became more and more unbalanced and extreme and
well. Is it any wonder that, according to the UK Guardian, has said enough things that he could never be vetted or
none of America’s intelligence agencies are passing high pass any questioning before congress. Trump also follows
level classified information to the White General Paul Vallely, who met with terrorist leaders he
House? According to the Guardian, they aren’t worried says inside Syria, we aren’t so sure about that, and has
about leaks, the problem is Trump. (Netanyahu and been involved in not only questionable mining and oil
Bannon) deals under FBI investigation but has, according to FBI
sources, raised money to get Obama assassinated.
VT does talk to the Russians, after all, as journalists, we
publish in Russia, in Russian and appreciate the reaction Then again, FBI sources said that, not me. We have reports
and comments we get from Russian officials, who will be from Montana that Vallely is an FBI informant, and that
reading this as well. They won’t be happy but they will has been confirmed even by high level Trump appointees.
appreciate it, and so it goes.
Back to the Russia story:
We warned them not to trust Trump. Our sources in
Moscow, highest of the high, believed in Michael Flynn as We believe that Flynn was held out to
the “real deal,” someone who understood Israel’s role in the Russians as a “catfish,” a “pretty
9/11, their role in Syria and how Russia was the natural face” to fool Russia into backing the
partner of the US. same neocons and Zionist oligarchs
that have plotted against Putin all along,
This is how they talked, but we aren’t so the exact same people who are running
sure this is what they actually believed. the Deep State operation of White
After all, that Flynn and his son were Nationalists that took Ukraine and have
hoodwinked by phony news and made- pushed Trump to demand the return of
up conspiracy theories time and time Crimea.
again and Flynn’s toadying up to Trump,
when he well knew Bannon, a total idiot, We all know that the Kiev junta has sworn to slaughter
was really running things, has shown every Russian speaker in Crimea, repeated this over and
Flynn to be a weakling. over and 85% of Crimeans are Russian speakers, ethic
Russians that want nothing to do with Ukraine and voted
The other rumor, and why Flynn is being consider to do their own “Brexit.”
“blackmail bait”, has nothing to do with sanctions or
misleading Pence. The real fear is that Flynn was sexually Let’s look at Trump policies, not the ones where his
compromised in Moscow a year ago, something we environmental, labor, education and interior secretary
consider pretty silly. nominees will be working overtime to destroy as much of
America as possible on behalf of offshore corporations that
Flynn’s real weakness, as we have it, is that he has been paid off Congress long ago through Citizens United v. the
sexually compromised by Trump and his gang, not the United States.
Russians. The real depravity and blackmail is in
Washington or at the Florida Whore House, Mar a Lago, Trump and Netanyahu are now building a new coalition,
where Trump is free to run his own game — a hotel and including Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States
“gentlemen’s club” staffed by “medium-illegal” aliens. to stand against Iran. Of course, Iran is part of the Russian
coalition against terrorism with Turkey and a major trading
This is what suckered so many who are notoriously inept partner as well. This is very much a deal-breaker with
with women to Trump’s side, and why Petraeus might well Moscow.
be a “perfect fit” for a White House gang of self-
proclaimed “sexual athletes”, who couldn’t get a date in Then again, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Israel and, to a
the Tijuana redlight zone. lesser extent Jordan, have been supporting ISIS and other
terrorist organizations in their war against the Syrian
Flynn also knew that Trump secretly put General Jerry people, another not so minor deal breaker in Moscow as
Boykin in charge of military operations and the Pentagon, well.
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Let’s not forget that Iran is carrying much of the $423 million in Poland to build amaments in
weight against ISIS in both Iraq and Syria and that you Poland, specifically the Spike anti tank
can’t fight Iran without aiding ISIS. missile. Poland would also like to purchase
Israeli drone technology and have the
Trump based much of his campaign rhetoric on supporting drones built in Poland.
Damascus against ISIS but now seems to be building a Aeronautics, a Yavnah based Israeli
coalition carefully omitting Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran, company, is supplying the Polish army with
the nations that are really fighting terrorism, though drones.
Turkey is a late comer to the group.
Poland is purchasing border security
technology from companies including
Though Trump and Netanyahu claim to be going after Israel’s Elbit Security systems, for 2.3
Iran, their real target is “Iranian influence,” which means million Euros.
they plan to war on Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, something
well beyond the game the neocons planned after 9/11. Haaretz reports that Poland’s GROM
special operations forces cooperates with
Let’s also look at Israel’s client state of Azerbaijan. several Israeli secret police and anti
Back in 2010, Israel put in a secret airbase in Azerbaijan to terrorist units. Polish airmen might also
stage an attack on Iran. After that was exposed, they train in Israel for flying older F-16 fighters
replaced it with a drone base and still operate combat purchased from the US. Regarding close
aircraft there. security and military ties between Israel
and Poland, former Polish ambassador to
Israel is said to have stated: “We don’t talk
Israel is secretly providing AWAC radar vectoring using in public about those things. We just do
their F 15s, guiding Ukrainian attack aircraft to their them.”
targets, invariably ethnic Russians in Donbass and, as we
have multiple confirmations of, one Malaysian airliner as
well, a plane shot down by two SU 25’s from Kiev, guided There is no greater threat against Russia than Poland, the
in by an Israeli F15 with transponders turned off, real Russia-hating aggressor of NATO.
according to a Canadian source.
We could talk about Egypt in regard to the Trump-
Then again, Israel is arming Azerbaijan for a potential Netanyahu coalition. Russia’s relationship with Egypt is a
military confrontation against Armenia, a nation Russia keystone of its new position in the Middle East, under
has a mutual defense pact with and a relationship, direct threat at the hands of Trump and Netanyahu, sworn
Azerbaijan and Armenia. Russia has worked to improve lifelong friends of Putin.
that relationship and make peace in the region. Israel is
working very much against Russia there, and is raking in Then again, if Russia stays silent or
tons of cash in the process. impassive about the new Palestinian
“slave state” the US is now backing,
Oh yes, we did mention that Israel is training Ukrainian long a deal-breaker for Putin, an
special forces to be used against Crimea? There have advocate of international law who has
already been attacks. long advocated an end to the Israeli
occupation of Jordan and Syria in
violation of the Geneva Convention,
Then again there is Israel’s role in Poland, a nation now where does that leave Moscow in
run by a neo-Nazi junta that surprisingly has turned to advocating for a just settlement in Syria
Israel for arms to threaten Russia. From and Donbass?
WanderingRaven’s Blog:
Truth is, nothing being discussed in Washington today
Israel and Poland have a long standing between Netanyahu and Trump is going to be acceptable to
arms trading association. Not only are Russia — not a Russia with Putin alive and well. Then
there direct arms sales by Israel to Poland, again, since 1990, Trump has partnered with Russian
but Israeli companies have invested in oligarchs, many outright mobsters, more enemies of Putin
building arms manufacturing facilities in and all good friends of Netanyahu, who isn’t anyone’s
Poland. friend.
Israeli arms manufacturer Rafael Advanced
Defense Systems has agreed to invest
.
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Student Who Recorded Prof Saying
Trump Election Is ‘Act Of Terrorism’ Gets Suspended
Dave Urbanski
Feb 15, 2017 3:02 Pm
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The Imperial Presidency Of Donald Trump: A Threat To
American Democracy And An Agent Of
Chaos In The World?
By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay - Global Research
February 15, 2017
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Three weeks after his inauguration, President Trump has • President Donald Trump has shown a
turned out to be a much more erratic politician than could propensity to govern by decree with a
have been expected, even after all the inanities he uttered minimum input from government
during the U.S. Presidential campaign. departments and from the elected
Congress
I, for one, thought that once elected president and installed
in the White House, he would abandon his tweeting A dangerous and potentially disastrous approach to
eccentricities. —I was wrong. government, in a democracy, occurs when a leader adopts
the practice of governing by decree, without constitutional
constraints, thus forcing the hands of responsible
departments, of the elected Congress and submitting the
entire U.S. bureaucracy to his will by governing as an
autocrat. If it were to continue on that road, the Trump
administration could turn out to be more like a would-
be imperial presidency than a responsible democratic
government.
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explain the rationale behind the policy changes and symbol of a corrupt establishment that has been robbing
without outlining the objectives being pursued. America’s working class and enriching the elite. He also
tweeted point blank, on July 28, 2016, that Secretary
When such a development of governing by decree has Hillary Clinton was “owned by Wall Street” and that Wall
occurred in other countries, democracy was the loser, and Street banks had “total, total control” over his
the consequences for the leader and his country turned out rivals Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz, implying that they
to be disastrous. were unfit for the Office of the President. On October 19,
2016, Mr. Trump tweeted that “crooked Hillary is nothing
more than a Wall Street Puppet”, thus presenting himself
• President Donald Trump seems to be
as the populist defender of the working class against the
anxious to find pretexts to pick fights
financial elite.
with other countries: For him, it seems
to be the U.S. against the world
During the 2016 Presidential political campaign, candidate On Monday February 6, President Trump launched a
Donald Trump was very critical of politicians who do the barrage of off-the-cuff intimidating insults at the American
heavy lifting for Wall Street firms in Washington D.C. On news media, accusing them of “refusing to report on
many occasions, Mr. Trump said that Wall Street is a terrorist attacks”, without providing any evidence to back
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up such serious accusations. He has also attempted advisers would be wise to understand these truths of
to intimidate judges who have to rule on the international finance.
constitutionality of some of his decrees and threatened
their judiciary independence. If his administration wants to reduce the annual U.S. trade
deficit with the rest of the world, the U.S. government
Such behavior is a violation of, and contempt for should balance its books and reduce its foreign
the separation of powers clause in the U.S. Constitution borrowings. Trade wars will not improve the U.S. trade
and is a frontal attack against the free press. balance if the country keeps over-spending and keeps
borrowing from abroad. They would only make matters
This is not a trivial matter, because when an authoritarian worse.
regime wants to establish itself and avoid accountability, it
usually attacks the legislative and the judiciary branches of For many decades now, the U.S. government has piled
government to pressure them to toe the line of the up debtupon debt while running continuous fiscal deficits,
executive branch, and it tries to silence the very mainly due to the fact that it has been waging costly
institutions that can put the false statements of politicians wars abroad, while financing such interventions with
to the test. foreign money. This is a problem that American politicians
must understand if they don’t want their country to go
• President Donald Trump has a bankrupt. This has happened in the past to
mercantilist view of international trade, other overextended empires, and there is no reason why it
which is rejected by nearly all should not happen today when a country continuously
economists spends more than it produces. And wars do not produce
anything, except death and destruction.
President Donald Trump seems to think that his country
should have trade surpluses on goods and services vis-à- • Hopes of putting an end to the Middle
vis other countries, the latter being saddled with trade East chaos have greatly diminished
deficits, whatever the overall balance of payments of the
United States, especially its capital account, and whatever One of the positive results of the Trump election was the
the domestic and foreign economic circumstances. This is promise to end the deadly chaos in the Middle East.
economically false. That is not the way adjustments in the During the presidential campaign and once in power, Mr.
balance of payments of a country work, in a multilateral Trump threw some cold water on that promise.
world.
Firstly, in his March 21, 2016 speech to AIPAC, he
When Donald Trump places all the emphasis on only one flattered his rich Zionist donors by announcing his
part of the balance of payments, the trade balance, he intention to break with the half-century policy of most
misses the point. For example, if a country lives beyond its western nations that considers the city of Jerusalem a
means and borrows money from abroad, such foreign United Nations protected zone and an international city
borrowing appears as an inflow of foreign capital in the occupied by Arabs, Christians and Jews.
country. Such an inflow of foreign capital causes an excess
of domestic spending over its production, and that helps He declared “we will move the American
finance an excess of imports over exports of goods and embassy [from Tel Aviv] to the eternal
services with the rest of the world. The capital account of capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.”
the country shows a surplus, while the trade balance (more
precisely the current account) indicates a deficit, thus
Secondly, on Thursday December 15, 2016, to make sure
balancing more or less each other. that everybody understands that he is one-sided in the
more than half a century old Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
The main reason why the United States is registering trade President-elect Trump announced his choice of a hardliner
deficits is because it borrows too much from abroad. pro-Israeli settlements on privately-owned Palestinian
lands for U.S. ambassador to Israel (in fact, David
This is partly due to the fact that the U.S. government Friedman, his former bankruptcy lawyer).
runs huge fiscal deficits, spending more than its tax
revenues, and borrowing money both from the private The new ambassador didn’t waste any time
sector and from foreigners, thus increasing the public debt. in professing that he was looking forward to
Such deficits often are the result of tax reductions and of doing his job “from the U.S. embassy in
increased military expenditures. The fact that the world Israel’s eternal capital, Jerusalem.”
economy uses the U.S. dollar as a reserve
currency represents an interest-free loan that the rest of And, thirdly, seemingly forgetting that he had criticized
the world makes to the United States, which allows the Secretary Clinton for proposing a similar dangerously
USA to have a chronic trade deficit. Mr. Trump and his reckless policy, President Trump announced, on January
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25, that he “will absolutely do safe zones in Syria”, and ill-considered pronouncements and policies, has the
seemingly without considering if it was legal to do so potential to drive the Planet to oblivion.
without the consent of the Syrian government, and without
consulting with the three principal countries (Russia, This means that they consider that the Earth is now closer
Turkey and Iran), which had just concluded a peace plan to oblivion than it has ever been since 1953, at the height
for Syria. He opted instead to talk to leaders of Saudi of the nuclear confrontation between the USA and the
Arabia and of the United Arab Emirates— two countries Soviet Union.
known to be sponsoring terrorism in Syria.
The existential threats facing the Earth now come from the
• The world is afraid of President Donald loose talk about using nuclear weapons and the
Trump: Doomsday Clock scientists have proliferation of such weapons, as well as the observed
concluded that humanity is just two- acceleration of climate change.
and-a-half minutes from the apocalypse
Conclusion
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This Is Treason: Intelligence Community Working Against
President Trump In Move To End American Democracy
Establishment Cheers On Deep State Takeover
By Alex Thomas -
02.15.2017 @8:47 PM EST
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Unbelievably, it isn’t just the corporate media, the actually EXPANDED the powers of the NSA in a move
intelligence community, and Hollywood liberals who are we now know was designed to help along the deep state
cheering on using illegal means to strike at the very goal of taking out the rightfully elected new president.
foundation of the country, but also so-called conservatives.
In early January, the New York Times reported about this
Failed third-party presidential candidate Evan McMullin, vast expansion of NSA powers with little fanfare but now,
who himself is a former CIA agent and most likely directly thanks in part to PJ Media and the Drudge Report, the
speaks for the agency, took to both Twitter and CNN to American people are learning about this in mass.
declare the president a “threat to the country” in an
obvious move by the deep state to attempt to legitimatize The Times reported:
their illegal actions.
In its final days, the Obama administration
Breitbart reported, has expanded the power of the National
Security Agency to share globally
“In response to President Trump’s tweets intercepted personal communications with
earlier Wednesday, in which he alleged the government’s 16 other intelligence
that elements of the Federal Bureau of agencies before applying privacy
Investigation and National Security Agency protections.
were engaged in “Russia”-style political
operations, McMullin tweeted:” The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on
what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by
its most powerful surveillance operations, which are
largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These
include collecting satellite transmissions, phone calls and
emails that cross network switches abroad, and messages
between people abroad that cross domestic network
switches.
[…]
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EXCLUSIVE: How The Nation’s
Spooks Played The Game ‘Kill Mike Flynn’
Richard Pollock Reporter
9:10 PM 02/15/2017
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D.W. Wilber, who has over 30 years of experience in Goslin noted, “
security and counterterrorism with the CIA and the
Defense Department agrees. When Trump came in, even though they
were able to staff key NSC positions, for
“It appears to me there has been a the most part it’s still staffed by previous
concerted effort to try to discredit not only administration holdovers and bureaucratic
General Flynn, but obviously, the entire appointees.”
Trump administration through him. He just “I don’t think they have any loyalty to the
happened to be the first scalp,” Wilber told current administration,” the former CIA
TheDCNF in an interview.
operations officer said, adding, “the NSC is
going to be a hard one to fix.”
Williamson agreed, telling theDCNF,
All of the former intelligence officials say the rage against
“There are individuals who are well versed Flynn dated back to when the decorated general headed up
in information operations — we used to call the DIA. There he garnered a reputation to balk at the
that propaganda. They know how to do it. “politicization of military intelligence” in order to conform
It’s deliberately orchestrated.” with President Obama’s world views.
Retired Marine Col. Bill Cowan, who often interacted with Flynn refused to downplay the threat posed by the Islamic
the intelligence operatives in combat zones, believes Mike State and other radical Islamic groups throughout his two-
Pompeo, Trump’s new CIA Director, must clean house. year reign at the DIA. He was fired after offering
Otherwise, the administration will encounter four years of congressional testimony that was at odds with the Obama
attacks. administration’s posture on the Islamic threat.
“The director, Pompeo, if he doesn’t get a Waurishuk, who interacted with Flynn as an Air Force
hold of the agency and its personnel, he intelligence officer and as deputy director of intelligence at
can expect four years of this: clandestine, the U.S. Central Command, said Flynn was a “straight
undercover disinformation, misinformation, shooter” who always demanded accurate threat
psychological information to undermine this assessments and never bent to the Obama pressures of
administration and this president,” he told political correctness.
TheDCNF.
Waurishuk worked in military intelligence in the Obama
Charles Goslin, a 27-year veteran in CIA operations also administration. He told TheDCNF Obama officials “know
believes that many insubordinate intelligence staff are Flynn and they hate Flynn because he would call them out.
working within the National Security Council within the So, this was their opportunity to wage what is a personal
White House. vendetta in some respects.”
“With the NSC, I think that’s where the California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of
leaks are coming from on calls to foreign the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
leaders. That’s where they undermined has promised to look into the leaks of classified
Flynn to the point where he got information to reporters. The date has yet to be set for the
hammered,” Goslin told TheDCNF in an hearings.
interview.
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Trump Must Execute the Nuclear Option—
There’s No Other Way
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 9:00
The 3 Pillars of Deep State Must Be The MSM-CIA-FED Triad Must Be Terminated
Knocked Down Post Haste
The Mainstream Media must be shut For every sober and sane patriot, it has become obvious
down. that the destructive forces within the MSM-CIA-FED
The Central Intelligence Agency must be Triad must be dealt with decisively and firmly.
dissolved.
The Federal Reserve System must be There can be no sovereign American
taken over by the U.S. Treasury Republic as long as these three
seditious entities retain their power and
SOTN was the first Alt Media news platform to describe influence over the affairs of the
Donald Trump as a “Wrecking Ball”. nation. CASE CLOSED!
This Internet moniker was chosen after At the risk of sounding redundant, as long as the MSM,
serious deliberation, as it became clear that CIA and the FED seditiously operate as they have for
the Obamanation needed to be completely destroyed if the many decades, this once constitutional republic is anything
American Republic was to be saved. but. To call the United States of America a grotesque
misrepresentation of the Founding Fathers original
In fact, The Donald made his way slowly but surely all the intention would even be a gross understatement.
way to the Oval Office by wrecking everything in sight.
This is his signature MO, and exactly what was needed These three entities — MSM-CIA-FED — are the very
throughout the most divisive and violent campaign season pillars which hold up the temple of Deep State. While
in U.S. history. there are many other integral components such as the
entire Military-Industrial Complex, these 3 malevolent
Post Inauguration institutions form the backbone which allow the BEAST
(aka Deep State) to make so much mischief both here and
abroad.
It is now clear that Deep State will not — under any
circumstances — allow President Trump to deliver on his
many campaign promises. Nor will the NWO globalists This triad also forms the skeleton of the
permit him to be POTUS. current Purple Revolution being waged
by the Soros-funded globalists, the
Democratic Party and the Sultans of
Every day that goes by it becomes evident that the Purple
Silicon Valley.
Revolution in running in the background—full bore. 99%
of the sedition and subversion associated with this soft
coup is taking place completely under the radar. And, yet, In view of this rapidly devolving predicament, there is now
the 1% that everyone does see and hear has gotten so ugly only one alternative for President Trump to salvage his
and intolerable that some folks now understand that the presidency. Before his administration is taken down one
Titanic is about to hit the iceberg. Barring a deus ex cabinet secretary at a time, he must take executive actions
machina event, Trump is being set up as the Titanic. similar to those that even President John F. Kennedy took
against the FED, and was prepared to take in the early
1960s against the C.I.A. And that was 55 years ago when
the C.I.A. had not even perfected its soft coup strategies or
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violent revolution tactics. Ergo, the C.I.A. must be Both individually and collectively, the true patriots across
dissolved post haste. the land must resolve themselves to first
Likewise, if President Trump is to really move forward, (i) take back their power from those who
the Mainstream Media must be held accountable for the have systematically stolen it; secondly
non-stop treason and sedition that is has been proven to be
(ii) stand firmly in their own truth and
guilty of. The massive ongoing cover-up of the false flag
newfound power; and thirdly
9/11 terror attacks alone is enough to take them down for
good. So is the highly coordinated and continuing cover- (iii) speak that infallible truth to power
up of the assassination of President Kennedy. like never before.
Therefore, the MSM must be shut down In this instance “speaking” is used to mean writing,
and reconstituted under new corporate videotaping, Tweeting, Facebooking, blogging,
charters with appropriate regulation (i.e. Instagramming, YouTubing and, yes, speaking truth to
prohibited from committing treason and power whenever and whenever necessary.
sedition on a regular basis).
Thirdly, the Federal Reserve System has Conclusion
repeatedly demonstrated that it
functions as an international banking The vast majority of those elected representatives who
crime syndicate, accountable to no one in occupy seats in the U.S. Congress are dangerous career
the U.S. Federal Government. criminals, as well as outright traitors to the Constitution
and Bill of Rights. President Trump has access to enough
The volumes of evidence which are now available in the evidence to imprison most of them for life.
public domain does indicate that the FED answers to
foreign powers, international financiers and wealthy elites The President’s real trump card, however, is Pizzagate.
who do not have the best interest of the American people Deep State only exists in its current demonic incarnation
anywhere on their priority list. The Federal Reserve Bank through the sheer power of blackmail and bribery, coercion
is such an incorrigible criminal banking entity that it must and intimidation. Because so many in Congress, the 17
be taken over by the U.S. Treasury with all deliberate intelligence agencies, the super-secret services, as well as
speed. throughout the leadership of Corporate America,
Where is this all going? What can be done? have been seriously compromised from
their involvement with either Pizzagate or
There is a palpable acceleration of transparently subversive the global Pedogate, virtually every major
plots coming out of Deep State. As a matter of historical power-player is totally owned by The
fact, the American people have never witnessed so much Company (also known as the C.I.A.)
soft power projected and insurrection instigated by a
political party against a sitting president. Alarmingly, Given this worsening state of affairs, the American people
the Purple Revolution is getting more real by the day as it are being challenged as never before to take back their
plays out in living color and during prime time. country. Hence, either the US citizenry uses it (their civic
power) or they will lose it for a very long time. Either the
In light of the most recent developments whereby Deep governed collectively withdraws their consent from those
State fired NSA General Michael Flynn, Trump has shown organs within the federal government which have proven
that things are truly out of control. Senior Counselor to to be treasonous and unworthy of existence, or the people
the President Stephen Bannon and Counselor to the will be irreversibly crushed by them (e.g. MSM, CIA,
President Kellyanne Conway are next on the list, as is FED).
Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Such Executive Branch
attrition and unwarranted attacks have never occurred in Lastly, it must be acknowledged by all
U.S. presidential history so close to Inauguration Day. concerned citizens that each administration
prior to the present one has profoundly
If ever there was a time for the American people to violated the public trust and irrevocably
respond to a very real revolution — a Purple broken the social contract. In so doing
Revolution — being surreptitiously carried out, it is now. they have rent asunder the sacred
But how can the body politic of these United States of covenant which ought to exist between
America most effectively do this? Very simple! the governed and the government.
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With so many highly consequential betrayals of the D.C. and converge on the Capitol—mad as hell! Welcome to
American people over the past century, there can only be the American Spring—2017!
one outcome.
Editor’s Note
Let’s get busy!
This article was posted with great urgency. The citizens need to
State of the Nation come together, as never before, to present a powerful
February 5, 2017 countervailing force to Deep State. This massive show of unity
and strength and resolve must be so overwhelming that
Author’s Note members of Congress become more afraid of We the
People than they are of Deep State. Do you get it? Only when
the countless agents of Deep State fear the wrath of the citizenry
Dear reader, have you ever heard of the American Spring?You more than the retribution of the C.I.A., the FBI and the MSM, will
have now. That’s when 5 or 10 million Oathkeepers, NRA things start to really change. Hence, there needs to be an
members, Libertarians, Independents, Tea Partiers, historic demonstration of people power and raw force. What
Conservatives, real Republicans, militiamen and comes to mind is a 10-million strong assembly of [armed] patriots
gunowners, bikers and hunters, farmers and factory workers, surrounding the Capitol Building shouting “GET OUT OF OUR
former Democrats and ex-liberals all show up in Washington, HOUSE!”
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‘Not Freedom Of The Press’:
Journalists Upset Trump Keeps Calling
On Conservative Media
Alex Pfeiffer - Reporter
2:03 PM 02/15/2017
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Trump Accuses Iran Of
Seeking To Develop Nuclear Weapons
Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:47PM
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Evan McMullin: President
Donald Trump Is A ‘Domestic Enemy’
By Joel B. Pollak
15 Feb 2017
By oath, intelligence officials’ first duty is to “ran a campaign that was assisted by a
“defend the Constitution of the United foreign adversary — our greatest foreign
States against all enemies, foreign and adversary.”
domestic..” https://t.co/gVKiB98Fq2
— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) Pressed by host Brooke Baldwin as to whether there were
February 15, 2017 “too many leaks,” McMullin said that intelligence officers
were bound by an oath to defend the country and the
So, the real scandal isn’t that the President Constitution against “domestic and foreign enemies.” That
of the United States of America appears to included “a security threat coming from the White House.”
have been co-opted by America’s greatest
adversary? https://t.co/gVKiB98Fq2 An obviously sympathetic Baldwin then asked McMullin:
— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin)
February 15, 2017 “Are any of these people you’re talking to
just even worried about him even getting
The obvious implication was that McMullin believes that intel briefings, period?”
intelligence and law enforcement agents are entitled to
break the law based on their own views that the President
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McMullin said that they are — and seemed to admit, in the On Tuesday, Weekly Standard editor-at-large Bill Kristol
process, that he is speaking with intelligence officials who expressed similar sentiments, and appeared, in theory, to
may be leaking information. endorse a coup by the “deep state” against the “Trump
state.”
During the presidential campaign, McMullin was a leader
in the “NeverTrump” movement, consisting of Obviously strongly prefer normal
conservatives who rejected Trump as the Republican Party democratic and constitutional politics. But if
nominee. Though he hoped to flip Utah, among a few it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the
other states, to Hillary Clinton by relegating Trump to Trump state.
third place, Trump won in that state and elsewhere.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 14,
2017
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Western Media Bias Is Getting
Obvious To Pretty Much Everyone
Author: Martin Berger
15.02.2017
Finally, American society begins to mature, which isn’t “it cannot be really argued that the
simply shown in just the rejection of the stream of lies selective outrage with which Western
Western journalists are broadcasting, but also in the media sources often indulge is not really
ongoing fight against corporate media bias. moral. There is also a cynical selectivity
engaged in by outright ideologues and
This has been noted in a SurveyUSA poll, which asked partisans, who favor (or disfavor) some
1,207 registered voters back in February about their repressive regimes over others.”
opinion on certain press outlets. It’s curious that just 17%
of voters had a very favorable opinion of CNN, while no The article also states that,
more than 14% of voters had a favorable opinion of The
New York Times. The Washington Post and MSNBC “in each of the past two administrations, the
similarly were only very favorably viewed by less than president’s moral reach far exceeded his
15% of voters. Another finding that, to a certain degree, practical grasp—leading to debacles in
allowed Trump to secure his victory was that Fox News places like Iraq and Libya. President Trump
was the outlet with the highest favorability in the poll, but seems to have learned from his
only at 21%. predecessors’ mistakes, but it’s not clear
that his critics have. At the same time,
In turn, the Emerson College poll that conducted about the Russia remains a particular target for
same time showed that 91% of Republicans believed the multifarious reasons, not least the residual
news media was untruthful. It’s curious that for the fist Cold War enmity that persists in
time in a long while opinions of the general public appears neoconservative and liberal hawk circles.”
in tune with the position the current US president, who has
repeatedly criticized New York Times, Washington Post, The National Interest is convinced that the outrage of
and CNN for their lies, thus starting an undeclared Western media sources over Trump and Russia is self-
war against the corporate media. defeating. The US narrative that Putin alone is responsible
for the new Cold War hangs largely on his alleged
The National Interest believes that the myth of the United unprovoked “aggression” against Ukraine in 2014 and ever
States as an almost angelic enforcer of justice, if since. At the same time, the narrative is sustained in part
sometimes an inept one, gives rise to much mischief, in the by the near-total absence of any American mainstream
press as well as in the policy realm, since journalists reporting of what is actually happening in Kiev-controlled
pressure one another, and together pressure officeholders, or rebel-controlled territories. In fact, Putin’s actions both
to substitute dudgeon for careful calculation. in Donbass, where an indigenous rebellion broke out
against the overthrow of the legally elected president in
The National Interest article also claims that Kiev three years ago, and in Crimea, which had been part
of Russia longer than the existence of the United States,
was a direct reaction to the longstanding campaign by
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Washington and Brussels to bring Ukraine into NATO’s level of mistrust or paranoia begin to drop. There’s no
“sphere of influence,” itself a form of political aggression. chance that such media sources as the New York Times,
Washington Post and CNN will regain the trust they’ve lost
If Trump is to win the information war on the home front, before they set the record straight.
there’s a real chance that we can see the unprecedented
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3 Muslim Agents Caught Spying
On Trump, Proof Points Directly At Obama
By Voice Of Reason ·
Wednesday, February 15th, 2017
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Does Donald Trump Have The
Fortitude To Take On And Defeat The Deep State?
Donald Trump Needs To Study Well How Vladimir Putin
Defeated The Deep State In Order To Liberate His
People And His Country From Occupation...
By Rahul Manchanda, Esq.
February 15, 2017
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NSA Whistleblower: Agency Illegally
Recording Trump’s Phone To Oust Him
By Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Posted On February 16, 2017
If they weren’t behind it, they certainly had He offered recommendations for how he says Trump can
the data. Now the difference here is that reign in the agency:
FBI and CIA have direct access inside the
NSA databases. So, they may be able to He can order that they put a filter on the front end of all
go directly in there and see that material their collection that eliminates any U.S. citizens anywhere
there. And NSA doesn’t monitor that. They in the world unless they have a warrant for it. If they don’t,
don’t even monitor their own people going then he has to put people in jail if they violated.
into databases.
So, I mean, that’s the way to do it. The other way is to cut
So, they don’t monitor what CIA and FBI do. And there’s their budget. I mean they are given too much money
no oversight or attempted oversight by any of the anyway. When they are given too much money, they get to
committees or even the FISA court. So, any way you look do wild and crazy things. And this is wild and crazy.
at it, ultimately the NSA is responsible because they are Violations of the Constitution’s 4th, 5th, and 6th
doing the collection on everybody inside the United States. amendments.
Phone calls. Emails. All of that stuff.
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On Wednesday, Trump singled out the NSA and FBI in a The Times on Tuesday seemed to be quoting from
series of tweets about Flynn’s case as well as reports in the intercepted phone calls to report on alleged contacts
New York Times and Washington Post claiming further between Trump campaign aides and Russian intelligence
contacts between Trump advisors and Russia. agents.
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The Surveillance State Coup Has Succeeded: NSA Now
Running The Country, Tapping Top Secret Phone Calls And
Blackmailing Those Who Do Not Comply
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 16, 2017
And Americans are seeing that now as the IC and its deep
state careerist operatives – with help from their allies in the
Washington establishment media – take on President
Donald J. Trump and his administration for daring to bring
some sanity back to U.S. foreign policy.
But as NationalSecurity.news noted, the law was basically When asked if he believed Trump’s phone calls were being
symbolic: intercepted, he said,
Members of the United States Congress “Absolutely. How did they get the phone
are patting themselves on the back for call between the president and the
having passed a bill called the USA president of Australia? Or the one that he
Freedom Act which, in theory, is designed made with Mexico? Those are not targeted
to stop the National Security Agency (NSA) foreigners.”
from continuing its mass collection of
innocent American citizens’ personal data. He also said it’s likely the NSA intercepted and leaked the
information pertaining to former National Security
That would be great news if it were actually true, but the Advisor Michael Flynn’s purported conversations with a
bill is so riddled with loopholes and unclear provisions that Russian diplomat, which subsequently led to his
many see it as accomplishing precisely nothing in terms of resignation from the Trump White House.
restoring privacy rights to the American public.
“If they weren’t behind it, they certainly had
The truth is, few in Congress then and now have ever the data. Now the difference here is that
really had the guts or the power to take on the U.S. FBI and CIA have direct access inside the
Intelligence Community. Born after World War II, the IC NSA databases. So, they may be able to
came into maturation during the Cold War. But since that go directly in there and see that material
fateful day in September 2001, the power of the IC has there. And NSA doesn’t monitor that. They
really grown and is now so pervasive at all levels it is don’t even monitor their own people going
literally a government in and of itself. (RELATED: See into databases,” Binney told Aaron Klein,
why the Russian election hack narrative is completely host of Aaron Klein’s Investigative Radio
bogus at Cyberwar.news) program. (RELATED: Find out how to tell
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when Trump is triumphing over globalist “Amazing battle for dominance is playing
forces at Disinfo.news) out between the elected US govt & the IC
who considered themselves to be the
He went on to explain that while the CIA and the FBI are ‘permanent government,’” Assange
not monitored by the NSA, there is no oversight or even tweeted on Wednesday.
any attempted oversight from any congressional “Trump’s National Security Advisor Michael
committees or the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Flynn resigns after destabilization
Act) Court. campaign by US spies, Democrats, press,”
he also tweeted, as reported by Infowars.
“So, any way you look at it, ultimately the
NSA is responsible because they are doing There is an internal civil war going on within the
the collection on everybody inside the intelligence community – the same one that illegally
United States,” he said. “Phone calls. leaked sensitive intelligence data about the FBI’s
Emails. All of that stuff.” investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email
server.
But is the NSA actually “running” the country? One cyber-
sleuth seems to think so: Julian Assange, founder of The fact that the IC (Intelligence
Wikileaks, which published scores of hacked emails from Community) has become powerful
the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton enough to change political outcomes
campaign during the recent election cycle.
in the country it was sworn to protect
should make every American shudder.
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Obama Gave NSA Special Powers
To ‘Take Down Trump’
By Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Posted On February 16, 2017
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NYT Anti-Trump Jihad
By Stephen Lendman
2-16-2017
The Times represents pro-Hillary dark forces militantly That’s the so-called “line” he’s accused of crossing. The
against Trump - denigrating him relentlessly, featuring Times wants US adversarial relations kept unchanged -
advocacy, not real journalism. risking eventual confrontation if responsible action doesn’t
change things.
Daily feature stories vilify him, going way beyond
justifiable criticism. The self-styled newspaper of record The Times:
mocks fair and balanced reporting, absent on its pages.
“(M)embers of Mr. Trump’s campaign and
It supports US imperial madness, neoliberal harshness inner circle were in repeated contact with
harming the nation’s most vulnerable, and police state Russian intelligence officials.”
targeting of nonbelievers.
False without evidence proving it, none presented!
It’s gone all-out to delegitimize Trump, failed to prevent
his electoral triumph, now on a rampage to weaken him The Times:
irreparably, ideally wanting him removed from office - a
coup d’etat by any standard if happens. “…Russia tried to destabilize and influence
the 2016 presidential campaign.”
Urging improved relations with Russia, both nations
cooperating in combating terrorism, became his achilles False! Again no evidence proves it - just baseless
heel. accusations without hard facts backing them. The
scheme involves bashing Russia and delegitimizing
The Times exploits his vulnerability on this issue Trump’s election.
relentlessly. On Wednesday, it published fake news, citing
four unnamed, clearly anti-Trump, current and former US The Times:
officials, claiming his campaign aides had “repeated
contacts with Russian intelligence” - allegations without “Congress (should) investigate what
evidence proving them. Moscow has been up to and whether
people at the highest levels of the United
In a Thursday editorial, it called on States government have aided and abetted
the interests of a nation that has tried to
“Congress to investigate Mr. Trump’s thwart American foreign policy since the
(alleged) ties to Russia.” Cold War.”
No indication of anything out of the ordinary cited. Fact: This type rubbish passes for Times journalism. The
Nothing about wrongdoing. Big business operates in many self-styled newspaper of record is a national disgrace, a
countries, dealing with governments at times required. It’s malevolent force.
standard practice.
Calling for investigating so-called Trump ties to Russia
Yet Times editors allege Trump “crossed the line,” reflects witch-hunt efforts to weaken and remove him from
posturing about a situation presented as being akin to office.
Watergate and Iran-Contra. Nothing suggests it.
He should be held accountable for continuing harmful
The issue is solely about Trump defeating Times favorite domestic and foreign policies his predecessors began - real
Hillary and wanting better relations with Russia, hoping he issues of concern, not fake ones regarding Russia.
and Vladimir Putin can get along well.
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Michael Flynn: Minding Our
Own Business Vs. Saving The World
The Global Snake Wears A Sneer Because It’s His Party.
By Jon Rappoport
February 16, 2017
Flynn talked to some Russian and said the US under with some Russian ambassador about easing US sanctions
Trump might ease sanctions against Russia? This was the against Russia.
high crime? This was why he had to go?
The US sanctions were launched in the first place because
What sanctions? Imposed for what purpose? What are all Russia annexed the Ukrainian territory of Crimea. And that
these people in Washington talking about? was our business because…?
Let’s go back to the beginning. Here from Wikipedia is a bit of background on the
annexation. Note the jungle of entangling alliances
At the founding of the Republic, there was a chance to involved, the agreements, the rules and regulations—
mind our own national business, and a few years later, NONE of which America needed to be concerned about.
outgoing President George Washington warned the Therefore, why did we lay on sanctions? My comments
country to stay away from entangling foreign alliances. below are in brackets.
Once you start down the road of making alliances and If Trump actually cares.
agreements with other governments, you’re in the web.
You’re in the nest of vipers. You are a viper. Trump is the target in the cross hairs for the entire US
intelligence community, the State Department, parts of the
The US population has been thoroughly conditioned to Pentagon, the defense contractors, and numerous other
expect their government to intervene in crises at the drop Washington and media sluts. To say nothing of the
of a hat, “on the side of the angels,” of course. Rockefeller Globalists. They want wars. They need to
know he’ll play ball. They don’t like even a hint that he’ll
But each “solution” digs us deeper in the fundamental go in a different direction. They want the whole pie.
problem. Meddling.
Foreign entanglements.
Once meddling is established as a way of life, the military-
industrial complex and the Deep State can feel secure in George Washington warned against them.
the knowledge that any intervention and any war will play
well—because all they have to do is promote war as a way And ever since he was ignored, the chickens have been
of offering “freedom and peace to the less fortunate.” coming home to roost.
War is peace.
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Trump Praises Rogue State Israel
By Stephen Lendman
2-16-2017
During a White House press conference with Netanyahu, scuttling hopes for improved relations with Russia and
Trump turned truth on its head, calling Israel “a symbol to curtailing US imperial wars.
the world of resilience in the face of oppression.”
“I’d like to see you hold back on
He praised its nonexistent “open democracy in the face of settlements for a little bit,” he told
violence” it alone instigates against defenseless Netanyahu, a meaningless throwaway
Palestinians and other regional states. statement. “We’ll work something out. But I
would like to see a deal be made. I think a
He expressed disturbing hostility toward Iran, a peaceful deal will be made,” he said.
nation threatening no one. He ludicrously called America
and Israel “two nations that cherish the value of all human Fact: Settlement construction never stopped before. It
life.” won’t now. The only possible “deal” will be devastating
for Palestinian rights and regional peace.
Claiming to support Israeli/Palestinian peace, he said both
sides “must directly negotiate such an agreement” - what Trump said he’s
never worked for nearly half a century, guaranteed to fail
again. “looking at” a two-state v. a one-state
solution, adding he “like(s) the one that
The only resolution acceptable to Israel is unconditional both parties like. I can live with either one.”
Palestinian surrender, yielding nothing in return, a repeat
of the failed Oslo process, a Palestinian Versailles by any With Israel controlling the vast majority of historic
standard, isolating them in cantonized open-air prisons, Palestine, one state for all its people alone is best for
surrounded by hostile settlements, brutalized by Israeli Palestinians - even though they’d continue being treated as
viciousness. second-class citizens under ruthless apartheid rule.
Trump: “I want the Israeli people to know As for moving America’s embassy to Jerusalem, Trump
that the United States stands with Israel in said “we’ll see what happens.” The move appears off the
the struggle against terrorism.” table, given the regional firestorm it would cause.
Fact: Its worst of all unmentioned variety is state- Netanyahu repeated the long-ago discredited canard about
sponsored. The other kind is supported by America, Palestinians seeking Israel’s destruction.
NATO, Israel and allied rogue states.
Long ago they expressed willingness to accept statehood
Netanyahu: “(O)ur alliance (with America) within June 1967 borders, 22% of their historic land along
is based on a deep bond of common with East Jerusalem as their exclusive capital - ideas Israel
values and common interests. And, categorically rejects.
increasingly, those values and interests are
under attack by one malevolent force: Netanyahu wants their homeland exclusively for Jews,
radical Islamic terror.” longstanding ethnic cleansing ongoing to assure it.
Fact: US/Israeli “values” and “interests” threaten Palestinians are marginalized, brutalized and slaughtered at
humanity’s survival. No two nations represent a more Israel’s whim, making peaceful conflict resolution
“malevolent force.” impossible.
Fact: Both are the world’s most reviled and feared. Both Israel has a strong ally in Trump. Palestinians have no
foster endless conflicts and instability. Peace is anathema friends in Washington, the way it’s always been with rare
to their agendas. profiles in courage exceptions like former congresswoman
Cynthia McKinney.
Trump duplicitously called what happened to Michael
Flynn “very unfair.” He sacked him, an act of betrayal, There’s no one like her in Congress today.
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Open Warfare Declared In DC As Deep State ‘Goes
Nuclear’ — Trump ‘Will Die In Jail’
By Jay Syrmopoulos
Posted On February 16, 2017
Washington, D.C. – The United States is entering an Kucinich urged Trump to take control, and locate where
extreme and unprecedented political crisis in the form of a the leakers are so he and the American people will know
soft coup by the deep state. Politicians on both sides of the the truth. Kucinich said members of the intelligence
community want to reignite a Cold War between the
aisle have publicly called out these elements of the
United States and Russia so the military, industrial and
“intelligence-industrial complex” that are actively working intelligence “axis” can “cash in.”
to undermine, discredit and forcibly remove President
Trump.
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While on the opposite side of the aisle, California will personally do. Whatever we may think
Congressman Devin Nunes (R), chairman of the House of Trump as a person and about his
Committee on Intelligence, proclaimed that the nine potential as a President, what is certain is
intelligence officials who leaked the contents of Flynn’s that millions of American patriots have
phone call should be locked up for leaking classified voted for him to “clear the swamp”, give the
intelligence. boot to the Washington-based plutocracy
and restore what they see as fundamental
“That’s nine leakers that all belong in jail,” American values.
he said. “Those nine people broke the law,
clearly, by leaking classified information to If the Neocons now manage to stage a coup d’etat against
anybody.” Trump, I predict that these millions of American will turn
to violence to protect what they see as their way of life,
This all comes in the wake of the nation’s top security their values and their country. In spite of the image which
official, National Security Advisor Flynn, being forced to Hollywood likes to give of them, most Americans are
resign after leaks from the IC revealed that he gave peaceful and non-violent people, but if they are pushed too
“incomplete information” to Vice President Mike Pence far they will not hesitate and grab their guns to defend
and others about the conversations he had with the Russian themselves, especially if they lose all hopes in their
ambassador prior to Trump taking office. democracy. And I am not talking only about gun-toting
hillbillies here, I am talking about the local, state and
county authorities, who often care much more about what
Flynn has since publicly stated that he “crossed no lines”
their local constituents think and say than what they are up
during an interview with The Daily Caller. Obviously, an
to in DC. If a coup is staged against Trump and some
experienced intelligence official like Flynn was completely
wannabe President à la Hillary or McCain gives the order
aware of the signals intelligence on Russian diplomats,
to the National Guard or even the US Army to put down a
thus making it extremely unlikely that he would say
local insurrection, we could see what we saw in Russia in
anything that could be construed as violating the law.
1991: a categorical refusal of the security services to shoot
at their own people.
Just remember, it’s not what Flynn said, it’s who he talked
to – the Russians – as it is standard operating procedure for
This is a very prescient warning given the volatile political
incoming officials to talk to diplomats from other
atmosphere in the United States. It should be noted that the
countries. The neoliberal and neocon forces are determined
confluence of deep state forces in this soft coup against
to push a new Cold War with Russia, and will not allow
Trump includes Clinton political operatives of the
for Trump’s intended rapprochement.
Brock/Podesta/Soros ilk, neocons represented by
McCain/Graham, and intelligence operatives in the
When intelligence officials are using their position to leak security apparatus.
details to the press in an effort to control the public
narrative in hopes of delegitimizing a sitting president,
Essentially, the losers of the election refuse to submit and
make no mistake that the politicians are no longer in
have determined that they will wage total war on Trump in
control of the United States – the intelligence apparatus is
an effort to force regime change – elections be damned.
in control.
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Coup Underway To Weaken Or Oust Trump
By Stephen Lendman
2-16-2017
What’s ongoing against him is what fantasy democracy He initially rejected the notion of Russian US election
looks like in America - the way banana republics and other hacking - claimed by the intelligence community. He
despotic regimes work. wants new leadership replacing Obama holdovers.
It’s a deplorable state of affairs. Ordinary people have no He accused US spy agencies of illegally leaking
say. Deep state power brokers run things. The president, information to undermine him, saying during a press
key members of Congress, the judiciary and bureaucracy conference with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
serve them.
“(i)ntelligence papers are being leaked.”
Challenging the system practically assures being targeted
by long knives. Was Trump’s presidency over before it “Things are being leaked. It’s a criminal
began? action - criminal act - and it’s been going on
for a long time. Before me. But now it’s
Throughout the campaign, post-election and inauguration, really going on.”
he’s been beset by relentless assaults on his legitimacy,
determined efforts to undermine him - led by “(D)ocuments and papers (were) illegally - I
Washington’s intelligence community, opposition stress that - illegally leaked.” Separately,
Democrats resembling autocrats, extremist GOP elements he tweeted “(t)he real scandal here is that
and scoundrel media attacks. classified information is illegally given out
by ‘intelligence’ like candy. Very un-
The Wall Street Journal reported the latest, headlining American.”
“Spies Keep Intelligence From Donald Trump on Leak
Concerns.” Other tweets covered the same issue.
Denying him sensitive intelligence perhaps is true, not On a separate one, he tweeted
over concerns of it being leaked or compromised as the
Journal reported, citing current and former US officials. “Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the
Obama Administration. Was Obama too
It’s part of the campaign to weaken and undermine him, soft on Russia?”
perhaps heading toward eliminating him by impeachment
and conviction, resignation or something more sinister. Not a good sign - combined with Flynn’s sacking,
indicating continued adversarial relations.
It’s over his desire for improved relations with Russia,
both countries cooperating in combating terrorism - the The late Chalmers Johnson believed the CIA’s existence
possibility dashed by the firing of National Security and democracy are incompatible. Separately, he said the
Advisor Michael Flynn, the one key administration official agency
he could count on to pursue this agenda.
“outlived any Cold War justification it once
It’s about his mistrust of the intelligence community. He might have had and should simply be
wants the Office of Director of National Intelligence abolished.”
restructured and downsized, believing its current structure
is fundamentally flawed. So should the FBI, DHS and all US spy agencies in their
current form, enforcing police state rule at home, mischief
leading to wars abroad, risking eventual catastrophic
nuclear war, humanity’s ultimate nightmare.
.
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Deutsche Bank Probe Reveals
No Link Between Trump's Finances, Russia
© Reuters/ Kai Pfaffenbach - World
17:01 16.02.2017
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Lawmakers Introduce Bill To
Block Trump From Lifting Russia Sanctions
Published Time: 16 Feb, 2017 08:59
Democrats and a handful of Republicans in Congress have The Russia Sanctions Review Act would need to win a
submitted a bill that would block President Trump from majority in both chambers and be signed into law by
lifting the anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the Obama Trump to come into force, giving it shaky prospects.
administration, despite the White House showing little Democrats would need overwhelming support from
movement in that direction. Republicans, who currently hold a majority in both the
House and the Senate, to overcome a presidential veto.
The measure, which was first announced last week, moved
forward on Wednesday, when identical bills were The US has imposed several rounds of sanctions on
submitted to both chambers of Congress that would give Russian entities, citing Moscow’s acceptance of Crimea’s
lawmakers 120 days to block any move to lift anti-Russian request to become part of Russia after a referendum and
sanctions using a congressional oversight mechanism alleged interference in eastern Ukraine. More recently, the
based on the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. US has justified new restrictions by accusing Russia of
meddling with the US presidential election, while failing to
“Every American, every Republican, every offer any concrete proof.
Democrat is concerned about Russia and
what they have been doing to violate Russia denies the latter two charges and considers
international law, not to mention the Crimea’s decision to rejoin Russia a lawful development
criminal behavior they may be pursuing under the principle of self-determination.
and are pursuing, we believe, in Syria,”
Democratic Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer
said at a media conference.
.
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The Public Should Demand
To See The Michael Flynn Transcript
Submitted By Mike Krieger Via Liberty Blitzkrieg Blog
Feb 16, 2017 4:00 AM
The United States is much better off is Glenn Greenwald, and I eagerly read his latest piece on
without Michael Flynn serving as the matter:
national security adviser. But no one
should be cheering the way he was The Leakers Who Exposed Gen. Flynn’s
brought down. Lie Committed Serious — and Wholly
The whole episode is evidence of the Justified — Felonies.
precipitous and ongoing collapse of
America’s democratic institutions — not There are several key points he outlines in the piece, most
a sign of their resiliency. Flynn’s ouster of which I agree with. First, he proves that the leakers
was a soft coup (or political committed serious felonies under the law. Second, he
assassination) engineered by states that if illegal leaks lead to the disclosure of
anonymous intelligence community information that is clearly very much in the public interest,
bureaucrats. The results might be then such action is not only justified, but ethically
salutary, but this isn’t the way a liberal necessary. I agree with this as well. Where he doesn’t
democracy is supposed to function. really convince me, is the argument that this particular leak
President Trump was roundly mocked represented some sort of great public service. He writes:
among liberals for that tweet. But he is,
in many ways, correct. These leaks are This Flynn episode underscores another
an enormous problem. And in a less critical point: The motives of leakers are
polarized context, they would be irrelevant. It’s very possible — indeed,
recognized immediately for what they likely — that the leakers here were not
clearly are: an effort to manipulate acting with benevolent motives. Nobody
public opinion for the sake of achieving with a straight face can claim that lying to
a desired political outcome. It’s the public is regarded in official Washington
weaponized spin. as some sort of mortal sin; if anything, the
contrary is true: It’s seen as a job
In a liberal democracy, how things requirement.
happen is often as important
as what happens. Procedures matter. So Moreover, Gen. Flynn has many enemies
do rules and public accountability. The throughout the intelligence and defense
chaotic, dysfunctional Trump White community. The same is true, of course, of
House is placing the entire system Donald Trump; recall that just a few weeks
under enormous strain. That’s bad. But ago, Democratic Sen. Chuck
the answer isn’t to counter it with Schumer warned Trump that he was being
equally irregular acts of sabotage — or “really dumb” to criticize the intelligence
with a disinformation campaign waged community because “they have six ways
by nameless civil servants toiling away from Sunday at getting back at you.”
in the surveillance state. It’s very possible — I’d say likely — that the
– From The Week article: America’s Spies motive here was vindictive rather than
Anonymously Took Down Michael noble. Whatever else is true, this is a case
Flynn. That is Deeply Worrying. where the intelligence community, through
strategic (and illegal) leaks, destroyed one
I never intended to write about the Michael Flynn affair. I of its primary adversaries in the Trump
figured it had been covered to death and I probably White House.
wouldn’t have anything to add to the conversation. That But no matter. What matters is not the
said, I hadn’t been following the story closely so I decided motive of the leaker but the effects of
to get caught up by reading a diverse selection of articles the leak. Any leak that results in the
on the topic. One of my favorite sources on such subjects exposure of high-level wrongdoing — as
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this one did — should be praised, not according to current and former
scorned and punished. American officials.
Throughout the discussions, the
Glenn’s conclusion here is that the Flynn leak exposed message Mr. Flynn conveyed to the
high-level wrongdoing. What wrongdoing are we talking ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak — that
about specifically? Yes, it seems he clearly lied to the the Obama administration was
public and Mike Pence about the content of his Moscow’s adversary and that relations
conversation with the Russian ambassador. The lie to Mike with Russia would change under Mr.
Pence in particular led to Pence embarrassing himself Trump — was unambiguous and highly
publicly by repeating that lie, and this betrayal seems to be inappropriate, the officials said.
the primary motivator (from my seat) of why Trump fired
him. Others are referring to potential violations of the But current and former American officials
Logan Act, but as we learned from Lawfare: said that conversation — which took place
the day before the Obama administration
imposed sanctions on Russia over
Flynn certainly breached protocol. He may accusations that it used cyberattacks to
also have broken the law by interfering with help sway the election in Mr. Trump’s favor
U.S. diplomatic efforts while still a private — ranged far beyond the logistics of a
citizen, which is forbidden by the Logan post-inauguration phone call. And they said
Act. The centuries-old law is vague, it was only one in a series of contacts
however, and has never resulted in a between the two men that began before the
conviction. Furthermore, there may be election and also included talk of
significant First Amendment problems with cooperating in the fight against the Islamic
enforcing it. Officials became more alarmed State, along with other issues.
when Flynn was not forthcoming with Vice
President-Elect Pence and others, The officials said that Mr. Flynn had
possibly including federal agents, about the never made explicit promises of
conversations. Those officials feared that sanctions relief, but that he had
Flynn’s dissembling might open up him up appeared to leave the impression it
to risks of blackmail. would be possible.
Yes, Flynn was a private citizen, but he was less than a How do we know what was really said without the
month away from being a high-level government official, transcript?
and the Obama administration was doing everything it
possibly could to antagonize Russia during its last few During the Christmas week conversation,
weeks in office. I’m not justifying what Flynn said in those he urged Mr. Kislyak to keep the Russian
conversations, or the lies he told about it, but there’s a key government from retaliating over the
problem with this whole leak. coming sanctions — it was an open secret
in Washington that they were in the works
It wasn’t really a leak meant to inform — by telling him that whatever the Obama
the public. administration did could be undone, said
the officials, who spoke on the condition of
It was a leak to specific journalists, at specific papers, with anonymity because they were discussing
a clear intent of political assassination through the classified material.
manipulation of public opinion via cryptic releases of Federal officials who have read the
filtered information. transcript of the call were surprised by
Mr. Flynn’s comments, since he would
For example, here’s how the New York Times reported on have known that American eavesdroppers
the information in its February 9 article, Flynn Is Said to closely monitor such calls. They were even
Have Talked to Russians About Sanctions Before Trump more surprised that Mr. Trump’s team
Took Office: publicly denied that the topics of
conversation included sanctions.
WASHINGTON — Weeks before President Prosecutions in these types of cases are
Trump’s inauguration, his national security rare, and the law is murky, particularly
adviser, Michael T. Flynn, discussed around people involved in presidential
American sanctions against Russia, as well transitions. The officials who had read
as areas of possible cooperation, with that the transcripts acknowledged that while
country’s ambassador to the United States, the conversation warranted
investigation, it was unlikely, by itself,
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to lead to charges against a sitting it’s going to be made into a story of
national security adviser. such huge national importance.
I have so many issues with the above reporting it’s hard to Finally, I want to end with the mind-boggling absurdity of
know where to start. Everything mentioned above is given those who wanted Edward Snowden’s head on a platter,
to us secondhand via “anonymous American officials.” but are somehow ok with these leaks. As Lawfare
Nowhere do I see any specific quotes from the transcript, explains:
despite the fact that the paper admits it talked with federal
officials who read it. Why not? Why must we hear about Furthermore, these leaks are criminal. As
the content of the transcripts secondhand from anonymous Edward Snowden has learned, the
officials? This is the most significant red flag with this Espionage Act makes intentional disclosure
whole story. If the leakers were truly interested in of classified “communications intelligence
transparency, and wanted the public to know the truth, why activities” a felony if such disclosure is
not leak the transcript to Wikileaks and let the public made in a “manner prejudicial to the safety
decide? or interest of the United States or for the
benefit of any foreign government . . . .” 18
I’ll tell you why. They didn’t do this because transparency U.S.C. § 798(a). This particular group of
was never the goal here. They wanted to illegally use leakers might argue their motives were in
intelligence information to take a scalp from a Trump defense of U.S. interests—to protect the
administration they hate, and they knew they could do this nation from national security policy guided
via mainstream media journalists. I know what you’re by a hand tainted by Russian influence—
thinking, Edward Snowden didn’t leak everything to but under current law, that argument is
Wikileaks either. He likewise picked a few journalists and highly unlikely to prevail. As Snowden well
trusted them to responsibly report the information. How is knows, there is no public interest
this any different? defense to prosecution for violations of
the Espionage Act.
It’s different in two important respects. First, we are
talking about a single transcript, or a few transcripts, as Somehow I doubt the Flynn leakers will find themselves in
opposed to the enormous intelligence data-dump that the same position as Snowden, scrambling to get to a
Snowden provided. Secondly, The Intercept and others country that will provide them safe haven from the vast,
who reported on the Snowden material provided a huge vindictive reach of the U.S. government. That’s because
amount of primary source documentation for the public to the leakers in this case are powerful operatives of the deep
see so that it could come to its own conclusion. state. As Greenwald explained:
They didn’t simply tell everyone what to think about
leaked documents while refusing to share any It’s hard to put into words how strange it is
actual content. to watch the very same people — from
both parties, across the ideological
Where are the specific, comprehensive spectrum — who called for the heads of
quotes from the Flynn transcript? Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Tom
Drake, and so many other Obama-era
Why doesn’t the public have a right to see the entire thing? leakers today heap praise on those who
Instead, we are being told what happened and what to leaked the highly sensitive, classified
think via secondhand anonymous sources. Sorry, but this SIGINT information that brought down Gen.
doesn’t cut it for me. Flynn.
It’s even more surreal to watch Democrats
I have yet to see any excerpts from the transcript. All I’ve act as though lying to the public is some
seen is what anonymous officials say was discussed. This grave firing offense when President
is absurd. We the people should demand the content of the Obama’s top national security official,
relevant transcripts so we can decide for ourselves just James Clapper, got caught red-handed not
how bad Flynn’s actions were. In the absence of this, only lying to the public but also to Congress
we’re essentially being manipulated on a massive scale by — about a domestic surveillance program
rogue intelligence agents and told what to think through that courts ruled was illegal. And despite
the major newspapers. This doesn’t cut it for me. I want to the fact that lying to Congress is a felony,
see the content of these conversations so I can make up my he kept his job until the very last day of the
own mind. Perhaps it’s even worse than we know. So be it. Obama presidency.
But this is how political power and the
We should be treated as adults and addled partisan brain in D.C. functions.
allowed to see the actual conversation if Those in power always regard leaks as a
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heinous crime, while those out of power
regard them as a noble act. They
seamlessly shift sides as their position
in D.C. changes.
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‘Democrats & Neocon Warmongers
Formed Unholy Alliance Against Trump’
Published Time: 16 Feb, 2017 03:46Edited Time: 16 Feb, 2017 04:51
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some of the neo-con warmongers. It’s it’s a good question as to whether the
really an unholy alliance,” Rowley said. executive, as you know would be Trump’s
administration, or the legislative along with
“It’s debatable as to who’s actually in power
the deep-state, which includes the media. I
right now. We’re supposed to have three
don’t know who’s actually in power.”
equal and separate branches, but I think
.
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Will Trump Succeed In Restoring America,
Or Will His Enemies Drag Him (And The Country) Down?
Submitted By James George Jatras Via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Feb 16, 2017 2:00 AM
After barely two weeks in office Donald the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the criminal
Trump has stunned the world with his pseudo-state of «Kosova»?) Still, you have to start
«shock and awe» campaign to keep someplace, and the order can be refined as it moves
promises made when he was a forward.
candidate. The mere fact of a politician
doing what he said he would do seems to If it gets a chance. In a barefaced political move, a federal
have unsettled the nerves of his district judge in Washington State enjoined the order, and
opponents. What is called «Trump his injunction was upheld by three judges of the Ninth
Derangement Syndrome» is already Circuit, the worst in the country. (As they say at the
reaching critical proportions. Supreme Court: «This case comes on appeal from the
Ninth Circuit. Other reasons for reversal include...»)
Withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trump can ask for review by the full Circuit en banc (a
ordering a start on his Mexican border wall, ordering an futile undertaking) or more likely turn to the Supreme
investigation into voter fraud (if conducted properly, Court. If the Supreme Court agrees to hear the case, which
almost certain to uncover widespread unlawful voting by is far from certain, a probable split of 4 to 4 (at best) would
non-citizens both legally and illegally present in the U.S., affirm the injunction. Or, as some consider likely, pseudo-
since no proof of citizenship is required to register), conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, of same-sex
insisting he wants to get along with «killer» Vladimir marriage infamy, could side with the terrorists-welcome
Putin, and cutting short a call with Australia’s prime crowd, handing Trump a 5 to 3 defeat. Either result would
minister over Barack Obama’s idiotic promise to take in kill Trump’s order. He could always withdraw it and
Muslim refugees that our mates Down Under don’t want reissue it in modified form crafted to survive judicial
themselves – all of these have infuriated the usual scrutiny, but the lesson would be clear: questions of who
suspects. can safely be let into the U.S. will no longer be governed
by the duly elected president, whom the Constitution and
But the declaration of war was his order to impose federal statute empower to make such assessments, but by
restrictions on entry from seven majority-Muslim countries unelected judges’ according to their personal preferences.
designated as trouble spots by Obama with nary a peep This is the antithesis of the rule of law.
from the progressive watchdogs of «tolerance» and anti-
«Islamophobia». As Srdja Trifkovic has noted, Trump’s Clipping Trump’s wings early to prevent
order is the first step in instigating an ideological test to his protecting our country from
bar jihad ideologues from the United States. (See «The dangerous intruders is only one element
Real ‘Muslim Ban’» and my «If He Doesn’t Like Trump’s of the threat he faces.
Exclusion of All Muslims, Obama Must Exclude Advocates
of Sharia and Caliphate»). Of even greater menace is the effort to create what
amounts to a «color revolution» on the streets, in a replay
If Trump prevails on his exclusion order, of the tried-and-true method used in other countries:
he has the high ground to crush his Philippines, Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine (twice), Egypt,
opponents in both political parties – and Lebanon, just to name some that succeeded. Now the same
they know it. That’s why the reaction Deep State and George Soros team are setting their sights
has been both hysterical and cynical. on overturning the will of the American people to restore
and preserve our country.
Mainstream media, inveterate enemies of Trump and the
American people, rarely mention the list of countries was Violence against political speech of the
Obama’s. (Frankly, it’s a bad list. Iran is on it – how many wrong kind is being legitimated and
terrorist attacks by an Iranian, or by any Shiite, have we mainstreamed by the media.
seen in the U.S. or Europe? But look who’s not on it:
Saudis (9/11), Pakistanis (San Bernardino), Palestinians Black-clad «anti-fascist action» reincarnations of Mao’s
(Fort Hood), Afghans (Orlando). For that matter, where’s Red Guards and Röhm’s brownshirts beat up and mace
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peaceful citizens. So-called journalists openly mull If Trump is to win, he needs to stick to
whether the president should be assassinated. A celebrity his own instincts and vision.
fantasizes about blowing up the White House.
Compromising in the hopes of wooing those opposed to
Americans are more divided than any him would be fatal. Those who can be reconciled will be
time since 1861. won only by delivering on his primary pledge to restore
the economy and jobs for working people.
The term «civil war» is heard more and more, both in the
«cold» variety and the prospect it could turn hot. Half of Actually, Trump is not totally alone.
America hates the other half. We have become virtual
aliens to one another who don’t agree on even the most There are still the tens of millions of
basic principles of God, man, and the purpose of life. people who voted for him and who
Secessionist movements are gathering unprecedented disdain his enemies as much as
levels of support (notably in California – please, please, Trump’s enemies hate him.
please let them go and take their 55 Democratic Electoral
Votes with them!). For the media, the «antifa» thugs, the fantasists of
assassination, it may now seem all in good fun to trash
Taken together, there’s reason to be every rule of civil and moral restraint in their quest to
cautiously pessimistic. bring Trump down. But they should think twice, and then
think again.
Trump beat his GOP rivals, he beat Hillary, and maybe he
can beat the confederacy of scoundrels mobilizing against The side that starts a civil war isn’t
him. But it’s far from a sure thing. It’s a fight in which necessarily the side that wins it.
he’s virtually alone, with few trustworthy allies within his
own party and even in his own nascent administration.
(This is a particular concern in the national security area,
which I will touch upon at another time.)
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Trump Considers Appointing Ally
To Conduct Review Of Intelligence Services
© REUTERS/ Carlos Barria/File Photo - US
10:28 16.02.2017
The sources also told the paper that the real purpose of the
intelligence services review was to introduce Feinberg
for a higher position later on.
US President Donald Trump is mulling Both Feinberg and the White House refused to comment
over plans to appoint New York on the speculations. However, Feinberg has recently told
billionaire Stephen Feinberg, who his company's shareholders that he was in talks to join the
allegedly has close ties to Stephen administration.
Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, local
media reported citing administration The publication came amid The New York Times reports,
officials. pointing at phone records and intercepted calls, that
members of Trump’s presidential campaign and several
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to these reports, associates had multiple contacts with senior Russian
Trump also considering appointing Jared Kushner, his son- intelligence officials in the year before the election. The
in-law, to lead the review of the work of the intelligence Wall Street Journal, meanwhile, reported that US
services against the backdrop of mutual distrust intelligence officers were holding back sensitive
between the services and the president. information from Trump because they were concerned data
might be leaked or compromised.
Current and former intelligence officials as well
as Republican lawmakers told The New York Times that
.
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‘Flynn Sacrificed To Prevent Trump
From Recalibrating US Relations With Russia’
Annie Machon
Published Time: 16 Feb, 2017 03:05
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Fake News CNN Insinuates Trump Is
Mentally Unstable… Will They Ever Stop Lying?
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 16, 2017
It’s an agenda, the president said, that frankly does not “I know we’re not supposed to bring this up
serve the American people very well, and one of the main — but it is staring us brutally in the face.”
reasons why readership is declining and TV ratings for
most news networks are falling. The bizarre, unhinged nature of the charge led Trump
friend and CEO of Newsmax Media, Christopher Ruddy, to
Trump has singled out CNN in particular – though he wonder aloud if Sullivan personally and CNN generally
mentioned others during his presser – as being little more were “connected to reality.”
than a “fake news” network whose hosts and guests have
so much hatred for him and his Republican Party they are “To believe, as Andrew claimed, that
incapable of telling the American people the truth. because he got the murder statistic rate
(RELATED: Fake News And Fact-Checking: How The wrong, that therefore he’s a pathological
Truth Gets Lost) liar, and therefore he’s mentally unstable, I
really think that’s over the top,” Ruddy said.
For instance, the discredited ‘mainstream’ media like CNN
introduce fake narrative after fake narrative – again as a That’s one way of putting it. But the point is, CNN is one
way to discredit and delegitimize the president. One of the of several Left-wing hack outlets responsible for the
earliest narratives that the establishment press and creation, and then perpetuation, of so much of this fake
Democrats in Congress, as well as rogue elements of the news nonsense that they are now feeding off of each
intelligence community, continue to push is that “Russia others’ fake news stories as if they were real. The New
hacked the election” on behalf of Trump, who is “in York Times publishes a nothingburger story filled with no
cahoots” with its president, Vladimir Putin – something substantiated facts but lots of innuendo about alleged
that Trump, again, categorically denied Thursday. connections between Trump’s campaign team and Russian
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“intelligence,” then the rest of the discredited mainstream Trump isn’t as concerned with accurate facts and figures as
media used that report as the basis for continuing to he is in speaking generally about the issues facing the
advance the Russia hacked the election narrative…which country. While his crime statistics may have been off, he is
is false to begin with. right that violent crime is on the rise (and look, even CNN
agrees). While he takes heat for suggesting there is
Then the cycle begins all over again. Now, as is obvious, widespread voter fraud, there is evidence of it everywhere
Sullivan and CNN want to advance a little further the (here, here, and here, for starters).
lunacy that Trump is not mentally fit to hold the office of
the presidency as a way to at least diminish but, more But the angry Left-wing establishment media is more
importantly, as another way to try to get him out of office. content to help Democrats push their narrative that
(RELATED: The Time Has Come For The Trump something beyond their control must have happened for
Administration To Start Arresting Traitors In Government Trump – a reality TV star and billionaire real estate mogul
AND The Media) with no political experience – to have beaten Hillary
Clinton, rather that accept the fact that she was a lousy
“If he’s crazy, he’s crazy like a fox,” Ruddy candidate who did not inspire enough Americans to vote
said in defense of the president. for her.
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Putin Orders Russian Media
To "Cut Back" On Positive Trump Coverage
by Tyler Durden
Feb 16, 2017 1:44 PM
Trump's honeymoon with capital markets is on the rocks, Putin's decree comes at a time of rising anti-Russian
kept alive only by the occasional soundbite about sentiment in Washington, where U.S. spy and law-
"massive" or "phenomenal" tax cuts; it now appears that enforcement agencies are conducting multiple
the US president's - until recently - amicable relationship investigations to determine the full extent of contacts
with Russia is also quickly souring. Trump’s advisers had with Russia during and after the
2016 election campaign.
The suggestion is that since Trump is looking to end And so, with Trump-Putin relations suddenly in purgatory,
governmental corruption, the "authoritarian" Putin should and Trump's domestic "Russia-facing" exposure in chaos,
be worried; and yet instead of "draining the swamp" it is now unclear how Trump will pivot away to restore
Trump has filled it by surrounded himself with precisely what many had hoped would lead to a restoration in
those bankers he used as populist examples of all that is normal relations between the two countries.
wrong with the government. As such, Putin should greet
Trump's failed "swamp draining" although that part did not
make it into the Bloomberg report.
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Trump The Braveheart: Any Other Republican Would
Have Caved By Now, But Trump Refuses To Be Bullied Or
Destroyed By The Commie-Run Media
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 16, 2017
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And so on.
In fact, Trump has taken on the media, and the deep state it
promotes, like a valiant hero of old.
.
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Trump’s Approval Rating Continues To SOAR,
Overwhelming Majority Believe Media Against Trump
Ryan Saavedra
Feb 16th, 2017 11:00 Am
The most interesting part of the entire poll was how those
Trump’s Approval Rating Clims Even After Onslaught who were surveyed viewed the media.
From Media
From Rasmussen:
Rasmussen Reports’ latest poll shows that President
Nearly half (48%) also believe most
Trump’s approval rating has increased over the last 24
reporters are biased against the
hours despite the vicious attacks from the mainstream
president. Only 12% think they are
media.
biased for Trump, while 31% feel most
reporters try to be fair and balanced.
From Rasmussen:
On Wednesday The Gateway Pundit reported that
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Rasmussen Reports showed that President Trump’s
Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 55% approval rating was at 53%.
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President Trump Announces
New Labor Secretary Pick - Live Feed
By Tyler Durden
Feb 16, 2017 12:20 PM
Given the tweetstorms of the last 24 hours, we suspect he Our Make America Great Again indicator
will rage against "leakers" - promising they will "pay a off to a good start in recent months; we
big price".. regard housing in particular as absolutely
key to bond markets. Path of least
resistance for yields is higher until
rates rise to a level that hurts housing.
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And finally, the topic of an Intelligence Community coup
(or withholding intel) will likely come up.
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Trump Attacks "Low-Life Leakers" After
Chaffetz Requests DOJ Probe Into Source Of Leaks
by Tyler Durden
Feb 16, 2017 7:13 AM
In his second and third tweet of the day, Trump doubled- reports leading up to the resignation of the
down his attack against what he sees the biggest threat to former national security adviser.
his administration, namely the leakers who quickly
"We have serious concerns about the
disclose everything that takes place around the new
potential protection of classified information
president to the WaPo, NYT and CNN, and said
here ... the release of classified information
can, by definition, have grave effects on
"Leaking, and even illegal classified national security. In light of this, we request
leaking, has been a big problem in that your office begin an immediate
Washington for years. Failing @nytimes investigation into whether classified
(and others) must apologize!" followed by a information was mishandled here," the
tweet that lawmakers wrote.
"The spotlight has finally been put on "No matter where you are on the political
the low-life leakers! They will be spectrum, you cannot have classified
caught!" information migrating out into a non-
classified setting," Chaffetz said during an
interview with Fox News on Wednesday.
"Same with Hillary Clinton, same with
Donald Trump, and same with those in the
intelligence world or at the Department of
Justice who get to see this information," the
lawmaker said. "They just can’t hand it out
like candy and favors to those in the news
media. Can't do it." Chaffetz also said the
Oversight Committee won't probe the
circumstances surrounding Flynn.
As Politico adds, Chaffetz told reporters on
Tuesday, following Flynn's resignation, that
he had no plans to have the Oversight
Committee investigate Flynn's
communications with Russian officials,
saying that the situation was "working itself
Trump's tweets were likely in response to news that late on out."
Wednesday, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep.
Jason Chaffetz on Wednesday asked the DOJ's inspector Prior to his Thursday tweets, Donald Trump on
general Michael Horowitz to investigate the intelligence Wednesday similarly criticized the information leaks,
leaks that led to the ousting of National Security Advisor
blasting the media for reporting on Flynn "very unfairly."
Michael Flynn. And just hours before his ouster Flynn himself also
denounced the leaks as "criminal" in an interview with the
"Over the last several days, there have Daily Caller.
been a series of news articles recounting
potentially classified national security
“You call them leaks. It’s a criminal act.
information," Chaffetz wrote in a letter, also This is a crime. It’s not just a wink and a
signed by the chair of the House Judiciary
nod,” Flynn told the outlet from his White
Committee Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.). In
House office Monday. “In some of these
the letter Chaffetz expressed concern over cases, you’re talking about stuff that’s
"potentially classified national security
taken off of a classified system and given
information" circulated in recent news to a reporter. That’s a crime."
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Chaffetz' letter below:
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Republicans Ask DOJ To Probe
Illegal Leaks Of Classified Flynn Info
Published Time: 16 Feb, 2017 15:18Edited Time: 17 Feb, 2017 09:34
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Trump Urges 'Failing' NYT, Other Media
To Apologize Over Leaking Classified Data
© AFP 2016/ Brendan Smialowski - US
16:19 16.02.2017(Updated 19:30 16.02.2017)
The New York Times and other US "The spotlight has finally been put on the
media outlets must apologize over low-life leakers! They will be caught!" he
"illegal classified leaking" they have added.
been involved in, US President Donald
Trump said Thursday. US House of Representatives Democratic Party members,
including House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, said
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, The New York Wednesday the alleged communications between then-
Times reported, citing phone records and intercepted calls, candidate Trump's campaign aides and Russian officials
that members of Trump’s presidential campaign team and should be investigated. Hoyer called for a "very serious"
several associates had allegedly contacted Russian House and Senate committee and oversight hearings to
intelligence services and members of the government prior "get to the bottom" of the allegations.
to the election.
Earlier on Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
"Leaking, and even illegal classified declined to evaluate Hoyer's calls, saying that the initiative
leaking, has been a big problem to investigate the alleged connections was "an absolutely
in Washington for years. Failing @nytimes internal affair" of the United States.
.
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Trump: ‘I Didn’t Come
Along And Divide This Country’
Foxnews.Com
Published February 16, 2017
“I didn’t come along and divide this Earlier in the press conference, Trump cited the Islamic
country,” Trump said. “This country was State’s rise and other issues in claiming he
seriously divided before I got here.”
“inherited a mess at home and abroad.”
Political tensions flared throughout the 2016 presidential
campaign, and a string of political protests – some violent,
some civil – have been held since his inauguration. While
.
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"Wake Up America" Dennis Kucinich
Defends Trump, Issues Dire Warning About "Deep State"
Submitted By Michael Shedlock Via Mishtalk.Com
Feb 16, 2017 1:12 PM
Dennis Kucinich, Former U.S. Rep. and Democratic "...the American people have to know that
presidential candidate, defended Donald Trump on there's a game going on inside the
“Mornings with Maria” on Tuesday. intelligence community... at the bottom of
all this is the fact that there are those that
In regards to Michael Flynn’s resignation, Kucinich seek to separate US from Russia to
defended Trump and told America to “Wake Up” reignite the cold war... wake up
America!!"
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'Information Civil War' Underway
Between US Intelligence, Trump Administration
© REUTERS/ Carlos Barria - US
14:20 16.02.2017(Updated 18:18 16.02.2017)
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On The Verge Of Treason:
US Spies Withhold Intelligence From Trump
By Tyler Durden
Feb 16, 2017 9:44 AM
Following President Trump's exclamations today with of topics and how much information is
regard "un-American" leaks of classified intel, it appears described under each topic, an official said.
he has a bigger, more serious problem on his hands. WSJ Compared with his immediate
reports that US intel officials have withheld information predecessors, Mr. Trump so far has
from President Trump due to concerns it could be leaked chosen to rely less on the daily briefing
or compromised. than they did."
However, now that the WSJ brought up this topic, one can
be absolutely sure the first demand Trump will make
during his next intel briefing:
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Is The NSA The Real
President Of The United States?
By Jon Rappoport
February 16, 2017
The US intelligence community continues its war to kick there. And NSA doesn’t monitor that. They
Donald Trump to the curb and destroy his presidency. don’t even monitor their own people going
into databases’.”
Obviously, the NSA, the CIA, and their silent partners “So, they don’t monitor what CIA and FBI
want to continue to run this country. do. And there’s no oversight or attempted
oversight by any of the committees or even
So they spy and leak, spy and leak. the FISA court. So, any way you look at it,
ultimately the NSA is responsible because
We’ll get to the guts of the problem in a minute, but first a they are doing the collection on everybody
word from Bill Binney. inside the United States. Phone calls.
Emails. All of that stuff’.”
Breitbart: “Utilizing data provided by whistleblower
Edward Snowden, the Guardian and
“William Binney, a former highly placed Washington Post in June 2013 released a
NSA official turned whistleblower, series of articles reporting that the NSA
contended in an exclusive interview today was collecting the telephone records of
that the National Security Agency (NSA) is millions of Americans.”
‘absolutely’ monitoring the phone calls of “…’they [the NSA, Binney said]] are given
President Donald Trump.” too much money anyway. When they are
“Binney was an architect of the NSA’s given too much money, they get to do wild
surveillance program. He became a famed and crazy things. And this is wild and
whistleblower when he resigned on crazy. Violations of the Constitution’s 4th,
October 31, 2001 after spending more than 5th, and 6th amendments’.”
30 years with the agency.” —end of Breitbart clip—
“Asked whether he believes the NSA is
tapping Trump, Binney replied: ‘Absolutely. —Nearly two years ago, on April 19, 2014, I wrote:
How did they get the phone call between
the president and the president of “Taking the overall [NSA] scheme to
Australia? Or the one that he made with another level, consider this: those same
Mexico? Those are not targeted [NSA] heavy hitters who have unfettered
foreigners’.” access to financial information can also
“Binney further contended the NSA may choose, at opportune moments, to expose
have been behind a data leak that might certain scandals [e.g., Michael Flynn] and
have revealed that Michael Flynn, Trump’s crimes. In this way, they can, at their whim,
national security adviser, allegedly misled cripple governments [e.g., the Trump
Vice President Mike Pence and other administration]…”
Trump administration officials about the
contents of his phone calls with Russia’s Now we come to the guts of the problem. Here is my
ambassador to Washington.” complete article from April 10, 2014:
“Regarding Flynn’s case, Binney stated of
the NSA”: The Surveillance State has created an
apparatus whose implications are
“’If they weren’t behind it, they certainly had staggering. It’s a different world now. And
the data. Now the difference here is that sometimes it takes a writer of fiction to
FBI and CIA have direct access inside the flesh out the larger landscape.
NSA databases. So, they may be able to
go directly in there and see that material
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Brad Thor’s novel, Black List, posits the Taking the overall scheme to another level,
existence of a monster corporation, ATS, consider this: those same heavy hitters
that stands alongside the NSA in collecting who have unfettered access to financial
information on every move we make. ATS’ information can also choose, at opportune
intelligence-gathering capability is moments, to expose certain scandals and
unmatched anywhere in the world. crimes (not their own, of course).
On pages 117-118 of Black List, Thor In this way, they can, at their whim, cripple
makes a stunning inference that, on governments, banks, and corporations.
reflection, is as obvious as the fingers on They can cripple investment houses,
your hand: insurance companies, and hedge funds.
Or, alternatively, they can merely blackmail
“For years ATS had been using its
technological superiority to conduct these organizations.
massive insider trading. Since the early We think we know how scandals are
1980s, the company had spied on anyone exposed by the press, but actually we
and everyone in the financial world. They don’t. Tips are given to people who give
listened in on phone calls, intercepted them to other people. Usually, the first clue
faxes, and evolved right along with the that starts the ball rolling comes from a
technology, hacking internal computer source who remains in the shadows.
networks and e-mail accounts. They What we are talking about here is the
created mountains of ‘black dollars’ for
creation and managing of realities on all
themselves, which they washed through sides, including the choice of when and
various programs they were running under
where and how to provide a glimpse of a
secret contract, far from the prying eyes of
crime or scandal.
financial regulators.”
It’s likely that the probe Ron Paul had been
“Those black dollars were invested into
pushing—audit the Federal Reserve—has
hard assets around the world, as well as in already been done by those who control
the stock market, through sham, offshore
unlimited global surveillance [NSA]. They
corporations. They also funneled the already know far more than any
money into reams of promising R&D
Congressional investigation will uncover. If
projects, which eventually would be turned
they know the deepest truths, they can use
around and sold to the Pentagon or the them to blackmail, manipulate, and control
CIA.”
the Fed itself.
“In short, ATS had created its own license The information matrix can be tapped into
to print money and had assured itself a
and plumbed, and it can also be used to
place beyond examination or reproach.” dispense choice clusters of data that end
In real life, whether the prime criminal up constituting the media reality of painted
source is one monster- corporation or a pictures which, every day, tell billions of
consortium of companies, or elite banks, or people “what’s news.”
the NSA itself, the outcome would be the
In this global-surveillance world, we need
same. to ask new questions and think along
It would be as Thor describes it. different lines now.
We think about total surveillance as being For example, how long before the
directed at private citizens, but the mortgage-derivative crisis hit did the
capability has unlimited payoffs when it Masters of Surveillance know, from spying
targets financial markets and the people on bank records, that insupportable debt
who have intimate knowledge of them. was accumulating at a lethal pace? What
did they do with that information?
“Total security awareness” programs of
surveillance are ideal spying ops in the When did they know that at least a trillion
financial arena, designed to suck up dollars was missing from Pentagon
millions of bits of inside information, then accounting books (as Donald Rumsfeld
utilizing them to make investments and eventually publicly admitted on September
suck up billions (trillions?) of dollars. 10, 2001), and what did they do with that
It gives new meaning to “the rich get information?
richer.” Did they discover where billions of dollars,
in cash, shipped to post-war Iraq,
disappeared to?
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When did they know the details of the Libor spying on those criminals, who are
rate-fixing scandal? Press reports indicate gathering up those secrets and using them
that Barclays was trying to rig interest rates to commit their own brand of meta-crime.
as early as January 2005.
And in the financial arena, that means we
Have they tracked, in detail, the men think of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan as
responsible for recruiting hired mercenaries perpetrators, yes, but we also think about
and terrorists, who eventually wound up in the men who already know everything
Syria pretending to be an authentic rebel about GS and Morgan, and are using this
force? knowledge to steal sums that might make
GS and Morgan blush with envy.
Have they discovered the truth about how
close or how far away Iran is from —end of 2014 article—
producing a nuclear weapon?
Have they collected detailed accounts of This is what we are dealing with. This is the way, for
the most private plans of Bilderberg, CFR, example, governments and administrations can be brought
and Trilateral Commission leaders? down.
For global surveillance kings, what we think
It all depends on whom the NSA wants to support and
of as the future is, in many respects the
present and the past. whom it wants to get rid of.
It’s a new world. These overseers of The NSA is not only the swamp that needs to be drained, it
universal information-detection can enter is the agency looking at and probing the swamp and
and probe the most secret caches of data, extracting crucial information for itself and its close
collect, collate, cross reference, and friends.
assemble them into vital bottom-lines. By
comparison, an operation like WikiLeaks is
an old Model-T Ford puttering down a To accumulate more power.
country road.
To forward its agenda of…security? Yes, if by security we
Previously, we thought we needed to look mean endless conquest and Empire and control.
over the shoulders of the men who were
committing major crimes out of public view.
But now, if we want to be up to date, we Ah, there they are. The NSA, the obsessed technocrats
also have to factor in the men who are who believe they are masters of all they survey. And spy
on.
.
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Forget Flynn; Logan Act Could
Ensnare Top Establishment Insiders
Written By Alex Newman
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Photos at top (from the left): Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, David The law in question reads:
Rockefeller, and Henry Kissinger
“Any citizen of the United States, wherever
Globalists and establishment types, watch out. The he may be, who, without authority of the
establishment media-driven brouhaha over Trump's United States, directly or indirectly
national security advisor Lt. General Michael Flynn, who commences or carries on any
just resigned amid the controversy, has resurrected talk of correspondence or intercourse with any
an obscure U.S. law known as the Logan Act. Passed foreign government or any officer or agent
more than 200 years ago, the federal statute makes it a thereof, with intent to influence the
crime for Americans to seek to influence the policies of measures or conduct of any foreign
foreign governments without official permission from U.S. government or of any officer or agent
authorities. And Flynn aside, there are plenty of Americans thereof, in relation to any disputes or
in that category — controversies with the United States, or to
defeat the measures of the United States,
potentially including top power-brokers shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
ranging from Obama and House Minority not more than three years, or both.”
Leader Nancy Pelosi to senior globalists
and Bilderberg bigwigs including David Page, the law professor from Georgia, suggested that
Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger. Flynn ought to be prosecuted under the law, and dismisses
concerns by critics about using it.
Anti-Trump forces and the establishment media organs
they control have alleged that Flynn's phone call with the “There are literally hundreds of federal
Russian government's U.S. ambassador may have run afoul crimes in the federal code that are rarely, if
of the 1799 statute. At the time of the phone call, Flynn ever, used,” he wrote, addressing the point
was a top official on Trump's transition team. But the by Flynn defenders that the statute has
globalists, Democrats, and others touting the Logan Act never been used to prosecute anyone.
should be very careful what they wish for. If the act were “While I personally think that many of these
to actually be enforced, more than a few globalists and obscure federal ´crimes´ are outdated,
senior members of the ruling establishment might find misguided and patently unconstitutional,
themselves behind bars. that doesn't change the fact that they are
still on the books.”
In over 200 years, not a single person has actually been
prosecuted under the Logan Act so far. But in their zeal to And so, Flynn should be prosecuted, Page argues.
go after Trump and his officials for every real and
imagined misstep, establishment media organs and Details in the ongoing saga surrounding Trump's former
propagandists have argued that Flynn violated the act. adviser are still hazy. But it appears that Lt. Gen. Flynn,
who oversaw the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency during
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Obama's term and argued against Obama's criminal policy But the Democrats and their establishment media allies
of arming terrorists before joining Trump as national should think very carefully about their strategy. Ironically,
security advisor, had a phone conversation in late it seems that a much stronger case could be made that
December with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. What Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have
was discussed was not immediately clear. both violated the Logan Act. A 2008 article by Pamela
Meister published by Accuracy in Media laid out the case
Flynn was accused by leakers within the Trump against both clearly.
administration — reportedly elements of the globalist
“deep state” determined to sabotage Trump — of giving In 2008, while Bush was in the White House, then-Senator
the ambassador the impression that Trump would lift Obama went to Iraq to try, “in private,” to persuade Iraqi
Obama's sanctions on the Kremlin upon being sworn in. officials to “delay an agreement on a draw-down of the
What exactly was said on the call, which was apparently American military presence” until after the election. Of
intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, will undoubtedly remain course, Obama was not authorized by Bush to try to
the subject of much controversy. But because Trump was influence the Iraqi government's policies, suggesting a
not yet in office, anti-Trump voices claimed that it may clear-cut violation of the Logan Act took place. The
have been a violation of the Logan Act. establishment media said nothing about the law.
With the media hyping the story as if it were the next Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi engaged in similar
Watergate, Flynn resigned this week. In addition to the activities that would seem to represent a much more
alleged Logan Act concerns, it was also claimed that Flynn obvious violation of the Logan Act than anything Flynn is
may have provided inaccurate information on the call in accused of doing. In 2007, Pelosi went to Israel and Syria.
question to Vice President Mike Pence and other officials. While in Damascus, she reportedly told Syrian dictator
The Trump administration, though, made clear that the Bashar al Assad that Israeli officials were ready for peace
resignation was due to a loss of trust between Trump and talks. Israeli officials were stunned, and the U.S. State
Flynn, and had nothing to do with the alleged “legal Department blasted the entire visit, saying it did not want
concerns” that the establishment media, Democrats, and Pelosi meddling in Syria or anywhere else. Again, the
anti-Trump agitators have been shrieking about. establishment media was missing in action when it came to
Pelosi's apparent violation of the Logan Act.
Of course, as a senior member of Trump's transition team,
Flynn was hardly a “private person” seeking to influence Many of Pelosi's colleagues could also be prosecuted
another government's policy. In fact, the White House under the Logan Act, according to experts.
spokesman specifically said that Trump's legal counsel had
investigated the matter and determined that there were no “If Flynn had discussions with Kislyak and,
legal issues involved. through that, the Russians, and he
discussed a wide variety of topics, forget
“There was nothing that the general did the Logan Act because half of Congress
that was a violation of any sort,” White since the 1980s would be in prison if the
House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in Logan Act were enforced,” said Ed
a Tuesday press briefing. “He was well Turzanski, the John Templeton Fellow at
within his duties to discuss issues of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
common concerns between the two
countries.” The latest brouhaha over the Logan Act is rare, but the
statute does occasionally make headlines in the United
Still, Democrats in Congress refused to let go of the issue, States. Most often, in recent years, at least, the law has
perhaps hoping to keep Trump on defense as they try to surfaced in the alternative media in connection with the
undermine his campaign to “drain the swamp.” On annual Bilderberg summit, a powerful network founded by
Monday, Democrats on the House Oversight and Nazi SS member Prince Bernhard that brings together top
Government Reform committee called on Chairman Jason globalists and lesser figures they hope to exploit who
Chaffetz (R-Utah) to pursue an investigation of Flynn. display the right attitudes. In 2012, Alex Jones, one of
Citing establishment media hysteria, the letter claims America's most popular and influential talk-radio hosts,
Flynn declared that the American attendees were violating the
statute and should be prosecuted.
“secretly discussed with the Russian
ambassador, in possible violation of the “This is illegal,” declared Jones, famous for
Logan Act, sanctions imposed by President using a bullhorn to lambaste elite attendees
Obama.” from afar, as he led chanting “Occupy
Bilderberg” protesters outside the gathering
in Chantilly, Virginia. “Government officials
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meeting and discussing policy with private One top establishment figure who has likely violated the
interests in secret, or representatives of Logan Act on multiple occasions is globalist “bankster”
other governments, is a violation of the David Rockefeller, a leading figure behind the Council on
Logan Act.” More than a few activists, Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg network, and the
journalists, and others made similar Trilateral Commission. Like other members of his dynasty,
statements. influencing policy around the world is par for the course
when it comes to the current Rockefeller patriarch. And in
As is the case every year, there were numerous prominent his case, he bragged about what would seem to be an
Americans in attendance at the secretive summit. Among obvious violation of the Logan Act in his own
them: then-NSA chief General Keith Alexander; Thomas autobiography, Memoirs, published in 2002.
Donilon, Obama’s former National Security Adviser;
former U.S. National Security Adviser and “New World “Some even believe we [the Rockefellers]
Order” promoter Henry Kissinger; failed GOP Presidential are part of a secret cabal working against
hopeful and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman; ex-Senator the best interests of the United States,
John Kerry (D-Mass.); former World Bank boss Robert characterizing my family and me as
Zoellick; Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Co-Chair internationalists and of conspiring with
and former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin; and many others around the world to build a more
others. None were charged under the Logan Act, despite integrated global political and economic
presumably lacking official permission to influence other structure — one world, if you will,”
governments’ policies. Rockefeller explains in his book. “If that's
the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of
The year before that summit, then-Congressman Ron Paul it.”
(R-Texas), a constitutionalist and a legendary figure in the
liberty movement, also called for an investigation into Another leading globalist who regularly meets in private
possible violations of the Logan Act by Bilderberg with foreign officials is former Secretary of State Henry
attendees — specifically former Texas Governor Rick Kissinger, who constantly promotes his vision of a
Perry. “This information about him going over there and totalitarian “New World Order.” Among other foreign
violating the Logan Act and getting involved, I’m just officials, Kissinger regularly meets with the Kremlin's
impressed that that’s in the ordinary media — I think that’s Vladimir Putin and top officials from the mass-murdering
encouraging, too,” Paul said during an interview on talk Communist Chinese dictatorship. If anyone should be
radio, saying that Perry’s attendance was “a sign that he’s under suspicion of violating the act, it is Kissinger, who
involved in the international conspiracy.” openly works toward imposing regional and the global
governance on humanity.
In 2014, Bilderberg attendee Diederik Samsom, then
leader of the Socialist International-aligned Dutch Labor At this point, it appears that Democrat and media claims
Party, confirmed to this writer and others outside the that Flynn may have violated the Logan Act are beyond
meeting in Copenhagen that, despite Bilderberg claims to ridiculous. After all, he was not a “private person” in any
the contrary, attendees are involved in influencing policy. sense of the word, but a top official of the incoming
Asked if he was there in an informal capacity, he president. But revisiting the Logan Act and using the law
responded: “Well, I’m formal, because being a politician, to prosecute those establishment globalists who violate it
you’re 24/7, so there’s no way of exiting my role.” would be an excellent idea. Perhaps U.S. Attorney General
Numerous other attendees and leaders have made similar Jeff Sessions could dust it off and start seeking evidence of
statements over the years, showing conclusively that violations by subpoenaing Bilderberg steering committee
policy is indeed set at the summit. members' correspondence.
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Harward Turns Down Trump's
National Security Adviser Offer, Sources Say
Foxnews.Com
Published February 16, 2017
"It's purely a personal issue," Harward said He was also fined $100,000 and remains on probation.
Thursday evening. "I'm in a unique position
finally after being the in military for 40 years
to enjoy some personal time."
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8 Things Congress Has Done
While Everyone Was Distracted By Trump
Sarah Cronin, The Antimedia - Waking Times Media
Posted On February 16, 2017
The reintroduction of The Life at Conception Act is in E-Verify has been criticized in the past as a faulty
alignment with several other pieces of legislation proposed computerized mechanism for mass deportation. Still, it
in January that would indirectly limit access to legal could be broadly mandated as the electronic iteration of
abortions. Chief among these is S. Res.15, in which Trump’s ‘build a wall’ immigration policy.
Senator Mike Lee recommended the permanent
establishment of Reagan’s ‘Mexico City Policy,’ a block 6. The House approves nearly 20
on federal funding for non-governmental organizations Department of Homeland Security bills
that provide abortion counseling or referrals. President
Trump reinstated the policy by executive order just days
Bills that passed include H.R. 505 to “strengthen
later.
accountability or deployment of border security
technology,” and H.R. 612, which would establish a grant
Additional pending legislative efforts include H.R. 692, a program to promote cooperative research between the U.S.
bill that would prohibit minors from crossing state lines to and Israel on cybersecurity.
access abortions, H.R. 718, a bill that would criminalize
“reckless disposal” of fetal remains, H.R. 354, a bill to
Among the bills that passed is also H.R. 666, which would
defund Planned Parenthood, and H.R. 7, a bill to limit
establish an Insider Threat Program to identify
taxpayer funding for abortion providers, which has already
passed in the House and is heading towards a vote in the
Senate. “the threat that an insider will use his or her
authorized access, wittingly or unwittingly,
to do harm to the security of the United
5. More stringent legislation on
States, including damage to the United
immigration and refugee resettlement States through espionage, terrorism, the
unauthorized disclosure of classified
While attention focused on Trump’s travel ban, national security information, or through the
Republican lawmakers introduced a series of amendments loss or degradation of departmental
to the Immigration and Nationality Act that would result in resources or capabilities.”
more stringent visa and refugee vetting policies. S.180,
introduced by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, would The ‘insider threat’ description offered in H.R. 666 draws
change the eligibility criteria for certain H1b and L1 work to mind cases of whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and
visas, making them no longer obtainable without a U.S. Chelsea Manning, who previously released sensitive
degree or equivalent. information about the government. The act, which never
mentions the word “whistleblower,” was passed along with
S.211, or the “State Refugee Security Act,” introduced by two explicit whistleblower protective bills — H.R.914
Republican Senator Ted Cruz, would allow the governor of and H.R. 67, a.k.a. the “Thoroughly Investigating
a state the ability to reject the settlement of any refugee in Retaliation Against Whistleblowers Act.” The
that state by default contradictory legislation suggests the DHS has a vested
interest in maintaining the outside appearance of a pro-
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whistleblower stance, even as they devote more resources Republican Congressman Griffith Morgan introduced the
to identifying whistleblowers within the department. two bills in succession.
7. The Legislative Battle to Expand vs. The first, H.R. 714, or “LUMMA,” would
Limit President Trump’s access to “provide for the legitimate use of medicinal
Nuclear Weapons marihuana in accordance with the laws of
the various States.”
The House passed H.R. 590, a bill to foster LUMMA was followed by H.R. 715, or the
civilian research and development of advanced “Compassionate Access Act,” which
nuclear energy technologies in an apparent would amend the Controlled Substances
fulfillment of the president’s previously expressed Act (CSA) and formally recommend to the
desire to “greatly strengthen and expand” U.S. DEA a rescheduling of marijuana from a
nuclear capability. Schedule 1 drug to another category. A key
provision of H.R. 715 would exclude
“cannabidiol” from the definition of
Alarmed, Democratic Senator Edward Markey “marijuana” and remove it from the CSA.
and Congressman Ted W. Lieu quickly countered
by introducing legislation to prohibit President
Trump from launching a “first-use nuclear strike” California Congresswomen Barbara Lee and Dana
without a declaration of war by Congress. Rohrabacher also proposed separate bills that would
protect residents in states where marijuana is legal from
civil forfeiture of property and punishment for use and
“It is a frightening reality that the U.S. now distribution, respectively. As Anti-Media reported, the
has a Commander-in-Chief who has legislation comes at a crucial moment of uncertainty
demonstrated ignorance of the nuclear regarding the future of federal drug policy and
triad, stated his desire to be ‘unpredictable’ enforcement under Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
with nuclear weapons, and as President-
elect was making sweeping statements
about U.S. nuclear policy over Twitter,” ***
Rep. Lieu said in a statement.
While Trump has been busy eagerly flexing his executive
8. New bills on marijuana legalization, power, a quiet power struggle has begun in Congress
re-scheduling, and protection from between legislators who aim to pass bills that reinforce the
efforts of Trump’s administration and legislators
seizure
frantically introducing bills in attempts to block the
administration’s impact. As we head into month two of
Given that marijuana was joked to be ‘real winner’ of the Trump’s presidency — and as some of these bills head into
2016 Election, it seems only fitting that two marijuana the next phase of debate — these power struggles will
bills would appear in the House on Inauguration Day. continue playing out, both on Twitter and in Congress.
.
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'Very Insulting Question': Trump In Bizarre Rant At
Jewish Journalist Who Asks About Anti-Semitism After
Claiming 'He Lied' About Being A 'Friendly Reporter'
President Donald Trump pushed back aggressively after a Jewish reporter asked him
his plans to curb rising anti-Semitism
Trump, who had asked for a 'friendly reporter,' was peeved at the query, saying the
reporter 'lied' and the question was 'very dishonest'
Jake Turx of Ami Magazine later took to Twitter and said he thought the president
had 'misunderstood' his question
By Nikki Schwab, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com
Published: 19:00 EST, 16 February 2017 | Updated: 03:53 EST, 17 February 2017
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The reporter in question, Jake Turx, said he believed and then he said, forget it,' Trump said,
Donald Trump had misunderstood his query, as he asked referencing a defense made yesterday by
about rising anti-Semitism, not if the president was anti- the Israeli prime minister against any
Semitic charges of anti-Semitism made against
Trump and his White House.
Trump was likely referencing swastikas and other racist 'It won't be my people,' Trump said of such
graffiti that has popped up in recent months. One viral antics. 'It will be the people on the other
video depicts people on the New York City subway side to anger people like you. OK.'
.
.
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Foreign Policy Mag: Russian Insiders Fear Trump Could
Be Impeached Or KILLED By The Globalist Political Elite
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 17, 2017
On the one hand, Trump’s victory and the mandate he has There is a civil war going on inside the U.S. government –
been given by his supporters validates Russia’s the Trump outsiders versus the entrenched, globalist
establishment. Stay tuned.
.
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Turncoat: John McCain Is A Globalist Shill,
Uses Speech To The Elite To Attack Trump
By Alex Thomas -
02.17.2017 @10:24 PM EST
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President Announces “Civilian National Security Force” –
But Wait, That Was OBAMA, Not Trump
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 17, 2017
Mind you, the president hasn’t said anything or done We have seen Obama steadily assume
anything – and neither has Congress – that even remotely dictatorial powers over apathetic
qualifies as fascist, bigoted, homophobic and racist. But Americans in just three and a half years.
that doesn’t matter to the hate-mongering Left: Trump’s He has all but hushed the people’s voice
the real villain because he’s actually doing what he said he in government, the US Congress, by
would do on the campaign trail, enforce our laws and keep simply by-passing them and ruling by
the country safe. executive order—just like any other two-
bit dictator.
He’s an authoritarian just waiting for the right moment to
march his Brown Shirts into American cities, where they And again, that was in 2012. My, have times have
will round up dissidents and anti-Trump/anti-conservative changed. Except now, the Marxist Alt-Left is
citizens and then ship them off to FEMA camps where demonstrating both a short memory and utter hypocrisy,
they will be forced into hard labor and never be heard from which doesn’t mean anything to them, since they wear
again. (RELATED: Find out what the real Trump agenda hypocrisy like a badge of honor.
is about at Conservative.news)
Here’s Obama making the announcement in 2008:
Yes, yes…that’s ridiculous and the stuff of tin foil hat
conspiracy theories. Yet these lunatics are out there and
they really believe Trump is getting ready to order this
nonsense.
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That’s incredible, isn’t it? Now imagine if candidate who he really is and what kind of people he represented as
Trump, already bearing the phony accusation that he’s the president. The Left, not the political Right, gave Obama a
new face of fascism (which was a Left-wing political pass on doing something they now are convinced Trump
construct, not a Right-wing construct), would have will do.
deigned to suggest the creation of what the CFP accurately
described as a private government army? Then and only Absurd, but it goes to show just how unhinged, misguided,
then could those on the Left accurately claim that the new politically inane and detached from reality the angry Left
president is an authoritarian in the waiting, ready to really is. What’s more, the time has come to label the
unleash an army of ideological drones to prey on them and groups who are keeping their supporters perpetually angry
the Constitution. (RELATED: Find out the latest threats to what they really are: Threats to our freedom, our
our liberty at Freedom.news) democratic republic and the future of our country.
Obama’s promised “Civilian National Security Force” Protests are one thing, but when there are sinister motives
never came to fruition, but the mere fact that he was the behind them, how we can they be ignored?
one who proposed it – and not Trump – is telling about
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Greenwald, Kucinich Issue
Chilling Warnings About Deep State’s War on Trump
Written by Carey Wedler
February 17, 2017 at 4:28 pm
Greenwald asserts the CIA preferred Clinton because, like “But on the other hand, the CIA was
the clandestine agency, she supported regime change in elected by nobody. They’re barely subject
Syria. In contrast, Trump dismissed America’s practice of to democratic controls at all. And so, to
nation-building and declined to tow the line on ousting urge that the CIA and the intelligence
foreign leaders, instead advocating working with Russia to community empower itself to undermine
defeat ISIS and other extremist groups. the elected branches of government is
insanity.”
“So, Trump’s agenda that he ran on was
completely antithetical to what the CIA He argues that mentality is “a prescription for destroying
wanted,” Greenwald argued. “Clinton’s was democracy overnight in the name of saving it,”
exactly what the CIA wanted, and so they highlighting that members of both prevailing political
were behind her. And so, they’ve been parties are praising the Deep State’s audacity in leaking
trying to undermine Trump for many details of Flynn’s conversations.
months throughout the election. And now
that he won, they are not just undermining As he wrote in his article,
him with leaks, but actively subverting him.”
“…it’s hard to put into words how strange it
As former congressman Dennis Kucinich noted in a recent
is to watch the very same people — from
interview with Fox News, the Deep State’s retaliations are both parties, across the ideological
not limited to Trump: spectrum — who called for the heads of
Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Tom
Drake, and so many other Obama-era
leakers today heap praise on those who
leaked the highly sensitive, classified
SIGINT information that brought down Gen.
Flynn.”
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The Chaos-Promoting Left Has Become
A Powerful ALLY Of Anti-American Terrorists
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 17, 2017
Speaking of the entertainment and music industry, at least He’s doing it through a network of leftist
one analyst – Martin Armstrong, of Armstrong Economics nonprofits led by Organizing for Action.
– believes Hollywood is part of a wider Left-wing effort to Normally you’d expect an organization set
keep the country violently divided. In fact, in a recent up to support a politician and his agenda to
analysis, he believes we’re headed for another civil war: close up shop after that candidate leaves
office, but not Obama’s OFA. Rather, it’s
The constant protests by the Entertainment gearing up for battle, with a growing war
industry against Trump will not subside. chest and more than 250 offices across the
There is only one way this is going to end country.
and that is blood in the streets. The riots
will only escalate and the left ALWAYS And it’s not just the president these and other groups are
becomes violent. They would not even organizing to oppose: All Republicans are in their
allow the education secretary to enter a crosshairs. Since the angry Left-wing Democratic Party
school. The Grammy show was reduced to cannot defeat the GOP at the ballot box, having lost
hurried political statements, A Tribe Called hundreds of seats in Congress and in statehouses and
Quest delivered a vigorous rebuke of governor’s mansions all over the country, it has decided on
Trump during a tribute to Phife Dawg, who a strategy to bring the country to war with itself, with the
died in March 2016. The group said the goal of taking power in the aftermath.
performance of We the People was also in
honor of protesters.
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Consider what we’re now seeing at Republican town hall At what point does the violent, never-satisfied and always
events: “Protesters” showing in congressional districts angry Alt-Left become the erstwhile ally of ISIS and other
where the GOP candidate often won by 40-50 percentage anti-American terrorist organizations who want the same
points with pre-printed signs or a singular message (like thing – destruction of the United States?
“RESIST”). Can you imagine if the Right treated Obama
this way? And now he and other Marxist Alt-Left leaders I think that time has arrived.
would rather destroy the country than try to help Trump
govern it. (RELATED: Stay current on the Trump agenda
at Trump.news)
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DOJ Is Also A Target
Of President Trump's Probe Into Leaks
By Sara A. Carter
February 17, 2017
He said,
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Treason: Shadow Government In “All Out War” To Bring
Down President Trump (And His Supporters)
Article By Susan Duclos From Allnewspipeline.Com
Date: February 17, 2017
The chairman said there are only two ways As we note from a Fox News report, cleaning house would
that intelligence agencies can listen in on not necessarily mean removing all members of the relevant
an American’s phone call — after obtaining departments, as the information in question was “highly
a warrant, or inadvertently, such as in the restricted” as former NSA analyst Bill Binney asserts that
case of Flynn speaking with a foreign “less than 100 [people would have access to the
official being spied on, which the report intelligence].”
suggests was the case.
“I think it is compartmentalized, meaning a
Nunes said “it’s pretty clear” that there was small circle, less than 100 [people would
no warrant.
have access to the intelligence],” Binney
“It’s pretty clear that’s not the case,” he said. “They are supposed to minimize the
said. “I’m pretty sure the FBI didn’t have a American side. … All presumed U.S.
warrant on Michael Flynn … To listen to an citizens have rights under the Fourth
American’s phone call you would have to Amendment.”
go to a court, there’d be all that paperwork Nunes said the timing may be significant
there. So I’m guessing that doesn’t exist.” because the authorization to unmask Flynn
In case Flynn was speaking to a foreign was likely taken under the Obama
official — Russian Ambassador Sergey administration, as the phone calls occurred
Kislyak in this case — Nunes said there in December. The committee chairman
said the issue goes beyond politics
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because it is also undermining the title but not less than $10,000; and shall be
relationship between a president and world incapable of holding any office under the
leaders. United States.
Not only did they overplay their hand and expose the truth
of the Shadow Government and Deep State to every
American and the world, vindicating everyone that warned
the country of their existence, but the information they
chose to reveal also considerably narrows down the search
for who is behind the leak, and who is part of the Deep
State, and they can follow the money to find out who is
behind this shadow government, pulling the strings.
BOTTOM LINE
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After “Politically Assassinating” Flynn IC Fears “Friday
Night Massacre” By Hedge Fund Manager In
Deep State War
Joanne Leon
17 Feb 2017
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Kiriakou, we discussed the raging battle going on in the some reason, to report that they were under
intelligence agencies and the deep state. investigation.
US: Leaking Communications of Top Officials On Tuesday, in a drastic change of tone during the
press briefing, Trump’s press secretary said that the
Days before Flynn resigned, Politico reported that the “evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this
CIA is out to get Trump national security advisor, situation and a series of other questionable instances is
Michael Flynn, and turned denied security clearance for what led the President to ask for General Flynn’s
his aide, a former Marine intelligence officer, because resignation.” He then stressed that Flynn “did not do
they believe “that the CIA doesn’t run the world” and anything wrong” and this is “not a legal issue, but rather
they’re skeptical of the intelligence community’s a trust issue.” The thing that led to Flynn being forced
techniques. The same source said that “some in the out was “misleading the Vice President and others, or
intelligence community feel threatened by Flynn and the possibility that he had forgotten critical details of
his allies.” Flynn was forced out of his position as head this important conversation had created a critical mass
of the rival DIA during the Obama administration after and an unsustainable situation.” Flynn had years of
the faction in power at the CIA at the time allegedly experience with the intelligence community (IC) and
forced him out. The sources in the article are with him out of the way, manipulation of the president
anonymous, and some of them claim that the new CIA by the IC will be much easier.
director, Mike Pompeo, went along with the political “hit
job from inside the CIA on Flynn and the people close In another drastic change in tone, Pres. Trump praised
to him,” which is causing a rift between Trump Michael Flynn at a press conference and said he was
administration top officials. treated badly and unfairly by the media but his reason
for not completely informing Vice Pres. Pence was not
Democrat Adam Schiff, a Hillary Clinton surrogate and acceptable, even though he did nothing wrong. Trump
ranking member of the House intelligence committee, also pledged to find and punish the criminal leakers at
said that’s “baloney” and if the CIA denied someone a meeting with House Republicans, saying they would
clearance there was a good reason for it. But Schiff “pay a big price”. He also lashed out at the intelligence
himself is also going after Flynn, as he has made clear community and the media for leaking and publishing
in public statements. The Washington Post has now, his own communications and the communications of
for the second time, reversed the story on Flynn’s top officials.
communications with the Russian ambassador. So
three versions of this story have been published by the US: Opposition to Detente With Russia
WaPo in the past six weeks. (Version 1, Version 2,
Version 3) Version 2 and version 3 were written by the During the campaign Trump favored detente, as did
same journalists. Version 1 was written by David Flynn. The tone and positions toward Russia began to
Ignatius, the MSM mouthpiece for the CIA. change immediately on the day after Flynn was fired.
Sean Spicer said that “President Trump has made it
Tuesday night (Feb. 14) The New York Times (NYT) very clear that he expects the Russian government to
published an article with anonymous current and deescalate violence in the Ukraine and return Crimea.”
former intelligence officials leaking that “Trump He then quoted UN ambassador Nikki Haley saying:
campaign members and other Trump associates” had “dire situation in Eastern Ukraine is one that demands
contact with “senior Russian intelligence officials” clear and strong condemnation of Russian actions.”
during the year before the election. The leakers said After all that, Spicer said Trump “fully expects to and
they knew this because of “phone records and wants to be able to get along with Russia” so they can
intercepted calls.” The anonymous officials named Paul work together against terrorism.
Manafort, a businessman, as one person who had
contact with Russian intelligence. They note that _ The head of Russia’s foreign affairs committee in the
American businessmen frequently come in contact with upper house of parliament, Konstantin Kosachev said:
foreign intelligence officials, sometimes unwitting). “Flynn, unlike many other high-ranking Americans, was at
least open to dialogue.”
Later in the NYT article they report an ongoing
classified FBI investigation of all Trump “associates” _ To make things even more perplexing, even after the
(they don’t define what an associate is) and their radical change in stance toward Russia during the press
communications. The FBI refused to comment but the briefing from his spokesman, and with the media, led by
NYT named 3 individuals who the FBI “has closely the New York Times, publishing sinister articles with
examined.” They don’t specify a source and don’t say anonymous sources about connections with “the
they were implicated. They chose to put out the names: Russians,” Trump continued to use social media to protest
Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, and Carter Page, for that these connections are hogwash, et al. Trump,
Wednesday morning, on his personal Twitter account:
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“This Russian connection non-sense is merely an attempt reported that US officials had told him Harward was
to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton’s offered the job. On Friday Harward turned down the job.
losing campaign.”
_ Harward is a former Navy SEAL who currently is an
“Information is being illegally given to the failing “executive for defense contractor Lockheed Martin
@nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence (LMT.N), with responsibility for its business in the United
community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia” Arab Emirates in the Middle East.” Like Flynn, Harward is
a Rhode Island native. He went to school in pre-revolution
“Thank you to Eli Lake of The Bloomberg View – “The Iran, graduated from the Naval Academy, and an MIT
NSA & FBI…should not interfere in our politics…and is” masters program. He served on Pres. George W. Bush’s
Very serious situation for USA” national security council from August, 2003 to April,
2005, served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and
“The real scandal here is that classified information is had high ranking jobs in Joint Special Operations
illegally given out by “intelligence” like candy. Very un- Command and CENTCOM. In 2013, he Huffington Post
American!” published his article: “Half of our Potential,” where he
advocated “integrating women into the force,” gender
_ Retired Gen. Breedlove, (nicknamed by many as Gen. equity, and women’s education around the world.
Strangelove) the former NATO commander who was a key
figure in reigniting the Cold War and made the previously _ Sam Husseini at ConsortiumNews: “Progressives Pile
unthinkable hot war with Russia now very on Flynn’s Ouster” and by doing so they “are rallying
thinkable, invoked his fighter pilot experience to rant behind neocon-driven demands for a New McCarthyism to
against cooperation with Russia to the US Senate Foreign silence those who object to a costly and dangerous New
Relations Committee. Breedlove said: “To align ourselves Cold War.”
with Iran and Russia in support of Mr. Assad would be
very tough for me to deal with,” although, given that he is _ Brad Hoff at the Libertarian Institute: “New Declassified
retired, it’s not clear what exactly he would be expected to CIA Memo Presents Blueprint for Syrian Regime
“deal with.” Collapse.” Hoff notes that some of the scenarios in the
proposals from the 1980s are “remarkably consistent with
_ Breedlove was so belligerent that Germany had to events as they unfolded decades later at the start of the
intervene to get him to tone down his warmongering Syrian war in 2011.” And the current situation in Syria
rhetoric during his stint as NATO commander. Hacked surpasses what the CIA had described as their worst case
emails revealed that Breedlove had also “plotted in private scenario. Edward Dark. a Syrian from Aleppo, considers
to overcome President Barack Obama’s reluctance to the memo to be a “smoking gun that proves the Syrian
escalate military tensions with Russia.” conflict was planned and orchestrated by the US & allies
from Day 1.”
_ The extremely hawkish Senate Foreign Relations
Committee is publicly undermining the new president’s _ New research from Thomas Piketty finds that the bottom
intentions (and campaign promises) for detente with 50%’s share of income in the United States is “collapsing.”
Russia. There is bipartisan agreement on the committee Between 1978 and 2015, the income share for the bottom
“that the legislative branch should take decisive action 50% went from 20% to 12% and their real income did not
against Russia, even if that means circumventing the White grow, it shrunk by 1%. By contrast, in China, the bottom
House’s expressed desire for a better relationship between 50% saw their income increase by 401% and in France it
the two nations.” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) is preparing grew by 39%. Wealth has also become more concentrated.
legislation to “take decisions about Russian sanctions out
of the hands of the White House.” (Hearing video) US: Push Back Against Intelligence Community
_ Joint Staff reported a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan _ Former military and intelligence officials (named, not
between the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs Gen. Dunford anonymous) are speaking out to The Daily Caller about the
and his Russian counterpart Gen. Gerasimov on Thursday, “hit job launched by intelligence operatives, Obama
Feb. 16, to further the military-to-military relationship. government holdovers and former Obama national security
Dunford was in Azerbaijan to meet with their Minister of officials.” They called it “stage Two of ‘Kill Mike Flynn”
Defense and chief of General Staff to discuss the status of and said it was part of a larger operation against the new
the relationship between the military forces of the United president. They explained that it was also part of a
States and Azerbaijan. vendetta by the Obama administration against Flynn from
his days as head of DIA.
US: New National Security Advisor
“There he garnered a reputation to balk at the
_ Flynn reportedly recommended Vice Admiral Robert “politicization of military intelligence” in order to conform
Harward as his replacement. The next day, Reuters with President Obama’s world views. Flynn refused to
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downplay the threat posed by the Islamic State and other time, on terrorism. And it was time for a clean slate and he
radical Islamic groups throughout his two-year reign at the just fired them. Now, it was probably a bad idea to fire
DIA. He was fired after offering congressional testimony your most experienced officers, but that’s what he did, and
that was at odds with the Obama administration’s posture he did it on a Friday, and they called it the ‘Friday Night
on the Islamic threat.” Massacre.'”
_ At a roundtable meeting with House Republicans, Trump “The same thing happened in the very beginning of the
said “We are going get the leakers… we are gonna find Clinton administration. And it was because — and we’re
the leakers and they’ll pay.” (via press pool). seeing a parallel here now — it was because Clinton said
that the CIA was bloated and inefficient, that there was a
US: Trump Calls Monitored by Intelligence Community peace dividend because there was no more Soviet Union,
and we didn’t need to spend all this money spying on
_ In an interview, William Binney, a whistleblower and every single country in the world. He also did it on a
former high level technical official at the NSA, said the Friday. People were fired. It’s the second ‘Friday Night
intelligence community is monitoring the new president’s Massacre.'”
calls and leaking them to the press.
“Well Donald Trump has come out and said that the CIA is
Binney: “Absolutely. How did they get the phone call bloated and inefficient. He’s certainly no friend of the
between the president and the president of Australia? Or CIA’s leadership, as we’ve discussed. And I wouldn’t be
the one that he made with Mexico? Those are not targeted surprised if when he was interviewing Pompeo, he said
foreigners.” that his vision for the CIA was more streamlined, more
focuses on overseas recruitments, and I want you to clean
“If they weren’t behind it, they certainly had the data. Now out headquarters and get rid of all these operational people
the difference here is that FBI and CIA have direct access who aren’t doing operations.”
inside the NSA databases. So, they may be able to go
directly in there and see that material there. And NSA _ Pres. Trump hired private equity firm executive Stephen
doesn’t monitor that. They don’t even monitor their own Feinberg to do a review and “clean up” of US intelligence
people going into databases.” agencies. The private equity firm/hedge fund, Cerberus
Capital Management, owned the now bankrupt Chrysler
US: Un-elected Senior Intelligence Operatives Say auto company, owns DynCorp, and in recent years has
They’re Going Nuclear, Trump Will Die in Jail bought up many gun companies and put them under an
umbrella Freedom Group entity. DynCorp is in a dispute
_ Former NSA analyst John Schindler, known for his with the State Dept. over their previous contract “to
aggressive social media behavior, obsessive Russophobia, provide air support for counternarcotics operations
and for being fired from the Naval War College after overseas.”
sending illicit photos of himself to a woman who later
exposed him, claims that a senior intelligence community _ “The findings of any White House review would give
“friend” sent him an email that said “now we go nuclear” Trump ammo should he seek full-scale change to the way
in their war against the new president. The “friend” also intelligence agencies operate,” according to MarketWatch.
said of Trump: “He will die in jail.” Ironically, Schindler James Risen of The New York Times (NYT) said there has
has been published frequently in The Observer, a weekly been no announcement of Feinberg’s job but he told his
newspaper owned by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. shareholders about a “senior role.” Risen said the idea has
met “fierce resistance” from intelligence officials who
US: Cerberus Exec Will Do Intelligence Community think Feinberg, an outsider, may be placed into a high
Review; IC Fears “Friday Night Massacre” level position inside the intelligence apparatus, which are
usually reserved for career intelligence professionals.
_ During our podcast interview with former CIA officer
John Kiriakou on Jan. 18, he told the story of the “Friday _ The NYT article notes the frequently and loudly voiced
Night Massacres” (and more) at the CIA: concerns about Trump’s alleged (and possibly concocted,
since there has been no hard evidence) ties with Russia
Kiriakou: “There have been two events in the CIA’s when discussing the concerns of intelligence officials
history that CIA officers called ‘Friday Night Massacres.” about an outsider encroaching on their territory, possibly
One was in October, 1977, when then CIA director even running the black ops clandestine branch of the CIA
Admiral Stansfield Turner (this was during the Carter or another high level position.
administration) just arbitrarily fired something like a
hundred and forty officers from the Directorate of _ Feinberg is an ally of White House advisors Stephen
Operations, some of them just weeks away from Bannon and Jared Kushner. The Reagan administration
retirement. He did it because the D.O. had failed. They had brought a businessman, Max Hugel, in to run the spy
failed on Iran and on a couple of other major issues at the service and he was forced out within 6 months. He later
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won a libel suit. Some members of Congress and former US: KSM Letter to Obama
CIA chief Michael Hayden think that either no major
overhaul is needed or that Congress won’t allow it. _ One day after the Miami Herald published a letter to
Pres. Obama from the alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid
_ Risen noted that distrust of the intelligence community Sheik Mohammad (KSM), the Pentagon decided it was
“has been building for years” even before the latest classified. KSM had written the letter but the Guantanamo
unprecedented chaos they have created. The CIA was seen prison officials refused to mail it. His trial judge ordered
as “heavily politicized” under the Obama administration. the prosecutors to get the letter to Obama before he left
In our podcast interview with John Kiriakou, a former CIA office and to publish a redacted version on the military
officer, he said that he noticed the politicization of the commission’s website._ The Herald’sCarol Rosenberg
agency under the Bush administration and has escalated describes the letter in her article and says that KSM said
ever since. 9/11 changed everything. “America brought the 9/11 attacks on itself for years of
foreign policy that killed innocent people across the
US: Army Air Strikes Not Included in Official Counts world.” He referred to Obama as the “head of the snake”
and to the US as “the country of oppression and tyranny.”
_ Thousands of US air strikes have gone unreported, KSM doesn’t fear death or life in prison. He listed
according to Military Times. Nobody seems to know why numerous US wars and interventions but was “particularly
the Army air strike numbers aren’t included in the widely focused on the cause of the Palestinians, highlights civilian
used data. suffering and accuses Obama of being beholden to special
interests.” But KSM’s lawyer said that Gaza was the
“Those airstrikes were carried out by attack helicopters primary motivation for writing the letter, which he began
and armed drones operated by the U.S. Army, metrics to draft in 2014. “Your hands are still wet with the blood
quietly excluded from otherwise comprehensive monthly of our brothers and sisters and children who were killed in
summaries […] Most alarming is the prospect this data has Gaza.”
been incomplete since the war on terrorism began in
October 2001.” _ Osama bin Laden got a dozen “mentions” in the letter
and KSM accused Obama of being a smart lawyer who
US: New CIA Director Gave Saudi Prince a Medal for knows all about human rights but who “can kill his enemy
Counterterrorism Work without trial and throw his dead body into the sea instead
of giving him to his family or respecting him enough as a
#CIA honors #Saudi Crown Prince for efforts against human being to bury him.”
terrorism https://t.co/s3FaMFCCBg
pic.twitter.com/5C1PnMZG7o _ KSM, now on trial at Guantanamo, was held in CIA
black site prisons for 3 1/2 years and was waterboarded
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) February 10, 183 times.
2017
CENTCOM
_ New CIA director Mike Pompeo visited Saudi Arabia
and awarded Crown Prince Muhammed bin Nayef with the
George Tenet Medal in recognition of his “excellent
intelligence performance, in the domain of counter- Syria: Race for Raqqa
terrorism and his unbound contribution to realise world
security and peace”. The prince told the Saudi Press _ Fabrice Balanche at the Washington Institute for Near
Agency that “no attempt will succeed in driving a wedge East Policy, an Israeli lobby-backed think tank: “The
between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the US”. Campaign to Retake Raqqa is Accelerating.” Balanche had
Pompeo visited Saudi Arabia after a trip to Turkey last also written in June, 2016, about how Raqqa would not fall
week. until Arab tribes joined the fight against ISIS, and that now
seems to be happening.
_ Gulf states are reportedly very optimistic about Trump
and his administration. “They see in Trump a strong _ Turkey seeks the “safe zones” despite Russia’s refusal.
president who will shore up Washington’s role as their
main strategic partner in a region central to U.S. security Syria: Turkey Sets Sights on Raqqa
and energy interests.” Mattis, Pompeo, and Tillerson,
Trump’s choices for Sec. Defense, CIA Director and Sec. _ Turkey’s Pres. Erdogan announced that his next targets
State are “all well known to Saudi officials.” are Manbij and Raqqa.
Syria: Jordan and Southern Syria Rebels Join Astana Syria: Gutman’s Hit Piece on Syrian Kurds
Peace Talks
_ Roy Gutman wrote a controversial piece at The Nation
_ Jordan has joined Russia, Iran, Turkey and the UN envoy asking whether the Syrian Kurds have committed war
Steffan de Mistura at peace talks in Astana. Middle East crimes. It has stirred many arguments and discussions.
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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi wrote a response at Syria against the British military. Officials condemned the
Comment in which he doesn’t dispute all of Gutman’s committee, said it was “horrific” for the soldiers being
claims, especially ties to PKK and their treatment of the investigated and the IHAT’s most telling failure was that
Arab population in Syria and Iraq. But Al-Tamimi offers there had been no successful prosecutions. The
alternative explanations to other Gutman’s claims such as parliament’s Defence Committee report said:
the accusation that the YPG were colluding with ISIS
against the Syrian rebels, which he says is a “recurring “IHAT has operated without any regard to its impact on
trope.” Al-Tamimi cites Gutman’s long held biases toward the UK military which has directly harmed their reputation
the Syrian opposition and Turkey “have had and still have across the world, and negatively affected the way this
a problematic impact on his reporting.” The lawyer who country conducts military operations and defends itself.”
was interviewed for the article later accused Gutman of
falsifying the interview. Germany: Summit With Israel Canceled
Syria: ISIS Destroying More of Ancient Palmyra _ Germany canceled an annual summit with Israel to be
held in Jerusalem in May. The official reason was
_ ISIS destroyed more of ancient Palmyra, including the “national and international political commitments,” the
amphitheater. The Russian defense ministry published G20, and elections in September, but Israeli media said “it
video evidence. Syrian coalition forces are advancing on was also due to Merkel’s alarm over the settlement
Palymyra, and the ministry also reported that ISIS is in the legalization law.” The German foreign ministry said of the
process of bringing more explosives into the area of the legislation:
ancient ruins, apparently planning to destroy as much as
they can before they’re forced out again. “The confidence we had in the Israeli government’s
commitment to the two-state solution has been profoundly
MidEast: American-Israeli-Arab NATO shaken […] “We follow these developments with great
concern and have repeatedly voiced our view. Building
_ Via Stratfor: Washington, Arab Allies Discussing settlements in the occupied territories, also in east
Possible Military Alliance. The US, Saudi Arabia, United Jerusalem, contravenes international law and jeopardizes a
Arab Emirates, Egypt and Jordan (with membership open lasting peace between Israel and Palestinians.”
to other states) are discussing a NATO-like military
alliance with an intelligence sharing arrangement with SOUTHCOM
Israel and the US would provide military and intelligence
support.
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ANALYSIS & OPINION _ Brad Hoff at the Libertarian Institute: “New Declassified
CIA Memo Presents Blueprint for Syrian Regime
Collapse.” Hoff notes that some of the scenarios in the
proposals from the 1980s are “remarkably consistent with
_ Jon Finer for Foreign Policy magazine: “From SEALs events as they unfolded decades later at the start of the
to All-Out War: Why Rushing Into Yemen Is a Dangerous Syrian war in 2011.” And the current situation in Syria
Idea.” surpasses what the CIA had described as their worst case
scenario. Edward Dark. a Syrian from Aleppo, considers
_ Julie Lenarz at the Telegraph: “Michael Flynn’s political the memo to be a “smoking gun that proves the Syrian
assassination by the deep state sets a terrifying precedent conflict was planned and orchestrated by the US & allies
for democracy.” from Day 1.”
_ Sam Husseini at ConsortiumNews: “Progressives Pile on _ New research from Thomas Piketty finds that the bottom
Flynn’s Ouster” and by doing so they “are rallying behind 50%’s share of income in the United States is “collapsing.”
neocon-driven demands for a New McCarthyism to silence Between 1978 and 2015, the income share for the bottom
those who object to a costly and dangerous New Cold 50% went from 20% to 12% and their real income did not
War.” grow, it shrunk by 1%. By contrast, in China, the bottom
50% saw their income increase by 401% and in France it
grew by 39%. Wealth has also become more concentrated.
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This Lawsuit Could Answer
Lingering Questions About The Trump Dossier
Chuck Ross - Reporter
10:20 PM 02/17/2017
A lawsuit filed against BuzzFeed earlier this month could Trump were briefed on some of the allegations laid out in
shed light on some details about the “how, why and when” the document.
an unsubstantiated 35-page dossier published by the
website last month came into being. The dossier includes a number of accusations, the most
explosive being that the Russian government is using
The Daily Caller spoke to Brady Cobb, a lawyer for blackmail material of a sexual nature against Trump and
Aleksej Gubarev, the CEO of web hosting company XBT that Trump campaign advisers coordinated with the
Holdings. Gubarev was named in the dossier as a Russian Kremlin to influence the election.
government agent who coordinated hacks of Democrats
during the presidential campaign. In a Jan. 11 press conference, Trump called the allegations
“phony” and the work of “sick people” who opposed his
Gubarev strongly denies the charge and is suing BuzzFeed, candidacy.
its editor Ben Smith, and Christopher Steele, the ex-British
spy who compiled the dossier, for defamation for including Gubarev is named at the end of the dossier, which is
his name in the document. actually a series of memos compiled by Steele from
various sources between June and December.
In a phone interview Cobb said that “a pretty wide net”
will be cast in the discovery phase of the suit. That could It states that a Steele source claimed that Gubarev and his
lead to the revelation of a few key questions about the anti- companies
Donald Trump dossier, including the identities of the
donors behind the document, the sources of the
“had been using botnets and porn traffic to
information contained in it, and the extent of BuzzFeed’s
transmit viruses, plant bugs, steal data and
investigation into the dossier’s claims.
conduct ‘altering operations’ against the
Democratic Party leadership.”
“We want to know how, why and when this
story came on board,” Cobb said in an The dossier also states that Gubarev was recruited as a
interview on Thursday about his legal Russian agent “under duress.”
strategy for the case.
“We want to know the extent to which they Cobb said that Gubarev, who has lived in Cyprus for the
took any journalistic actions to verify the past 15 years, was shocked to see his name mentioned in
story before just posting it,” he said of the document.
BuzzFeed. (RELATED: Russian Tech
Exec Sues BuzzFeed For Defamation
“My client when he saw it was scratching
Over Dossier)
his head,” the attorney told TheDC, noting
that Gubarev is not a public figure.
“‘Why am I in this? How am I even a part of
this story?'” was Gubarev’s response, Cobb
said.
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David Corn, a Mother Jones reporter who saw the dossier
before the election and interviewed Steele, declined to
share information about the redactions with TheDC.
BuzzFeed claims it attempted to run down some of the Sergei Millian (left); Donald Trump (center); Jorge Perez (right), in
allegations in the dossier but could not confirm any. 2007. (via Facebook)
The identities of the donors of the dossier have yet to be ABC reported that Millian, whose real name is Siarhei
disclosed. A foreign reporter who was given the dossier by Kukuts and sometimes goes by Sergio, may have
Fusion GPS told TheDC that the firm shared the identity of “unwittingly” provided the information attached to his
the Republican donor but refused to do so regarding the name in the dossier to a source of Steele’s.
identity of the Democratic backer.
Corn, the Mother Jones reporter who interviewed Steele,
The information behind the initial redactions has not been published an article several days before Millian was named
made public and repeated requests to Fusion GPS have encouraging federal investigators to interview him.
gone unanswered.
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During the campaign, Millian, who runs a small trade But Cohen strongly denied the accusations and provided
group called the Russian-American Chamber of evidence he was in the U.S. at the time he was allegedly in
Commerce, claimed in several interviews to have close Prague. A U.S. government official also told CNN’s Jake
business connections to Trump. He said he helped broker Tapper that a different Michael Cohen is believed to have
real estate deals between Trump and Russian nationals. He met in Prague.
also claimed to have ties to the Kremlin.
Millian has issued vague denials regarding the dossier, and
But in an interview with TheDC last month, Michael it is entirely possible that someone falsely identified him to
Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney, called Millian “a Steele as a source for the salacious Trump claims. But
phony” who falsely portrayed himself as a close associate Millian has ignored numerous requests for an interview.
of Trump’s. He also said that he has never met Millian and He did agree to talk to TheDC at one point but did not
only talked to him twice. follow through with an interview.
Cohen was named in the dossier as a Trump adviser who CNN has reported that federal investigators have
met with Russian government officials in Prague in August corroborated some parts of the dossier, but not the most
to discuss ways to influence the election. He was also salacious sections.
named in the same paragraph that identified Gubarev.
Gubarev’s lawsuit can potentially help corroborate or
disprove others.
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President Trump Unleashes His BEST TWEET EVER:
The Fake News Media Is “The Enemy Of
The American People”
By: Mike Adams
Date: February 17, 2017
Now more than ever, the media really is the “enemy of the
American people.” On every topic that matters, the media
either censors the truth (mercury in vaccines, for example)
or fabricates false “facts” to lie to the nation (“the Russians
stole the election”). The fake news media networks long
ago abandoned any pretense of engaging in objective
journalism and have become nothing more than hysterical
liberal cultists shoveling vile hatred disguised as noble
resistance.
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It Is About Time That We Had A President That Was
Willing To Go To War With The Mainstream Media
By Michael Snyder
February 17th, 2017
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“They don’t understand this country,” The war for our society is a war for hearts and minds, and
Bannon said. “They still do not understand the reason why the elite have made so much progress is
why Donald Trump is the president of the because most Americans allow thousands upon thousands
United States.” of hours of “programming” to be constantly pumped into
their heads.
At this point, the mainstream media is so desperate to
portray Trump as a bad guy that they have resorted to a The following numbers come directly from Nielsen, and
modern day version of McCarthyism. For decades, they show how much news, information and entertainment
liberals always pointed to McCarthyism as one of the average Americans consume through various methods
greatest examples of paranoia and intolerance in modern each day…
American history, but now they are doing the exact same
thing to Trump… Watching live television: 4 hours, 32 minutes
Watching time-shifted television: 30 minutes
Listening to the radio: 2 hours, 44 minutes
Using a smartphone: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Using Internet on a computer: 1 hour, 6 minutes
When you add the top two categories together, the average
American consumes more than five hours of television
every single day.
Glenn Greenwald appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight Republicans do not dominate virtually all levels of
Wednesday for yet another truth bombing after The government because there is some sort of massive surge in
Intercept co-founder, attorney, and author penned an enthusiasm for right-wing extremism. Quite the contrary:
article on the deeply flawed DNC's inability to cope with This all happened because the Democrats are perceived
loss. As Greenwald and others have pointed out since the — with good reason — to be out of touch, artificial,
election, Democrats seem to have a major problem with talking points-spouting automatons who serve Wall
introspection. I get it - admitting fault means being wrong, Street, Silicon Valley, and the agenda of endless war,
and for a party built upon emotionalism and led by millionaires and funded by oligarchs to do the least
condescending moralization instead of facts and common amount possible for ordinary, powerless citizens while still
sense, being wrong strips the self-righteous DNC of the keeping their votes.
one argument they've built their entire platform on; we're
right because we say we are. Enjoy:
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Trump Is RIGHT When It Comes To The Law Regarding
His Travel Ban Executive Order, And
The Wapo Is WRONG
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 17, 2017
In short, the paper’s managing editors and reporters have Well, that was just too much for the Post, which launched
become so unhinged when it comes to coverage of the 45 th into “fact-check” mode:
president, they will twist facts, massage details, and lie
outright to “prove” Trump is “wrong.” We’ll note first of all that sanctuary cities do not
“breed crime.” Analysis of FBI data shows that
The latest incident has the paper “analyzing” Trump’s crime in sanctuary cities is generally lower than
comments regarding California’s refusal to recognize the in non-sanctuary cities. But that’s beside the
federal government’s superior role in deciding point.
immigration policy and enforcing immigration law.
(RELATED: Keep up with the seesaw battle between More importantly, Trump says two things. First,
the Trump administration and sanctuary cities at that California is “out of control.” Second, that he
InvasionUSA.news) doesn’t want to yank federal funding from the
state, but he will if he has to.
As you may have seen, Trump was interviewed by Fox
News’ Bill O’Reilly during the pre-game portion of Super The paper trotted out some facts and figures – crime rates
Bowl LI. During the interview, the subject of sanctuary in sanctuary cities, the amount of federal tax money the
cities in California – as well as the state’s push to become state pays (more than it receives), yada, yada, yada. The
a sanctuary state – came up. paper then claimed that Trump is fixated on California
because he’s just “mad” that most voters there voted for a
“I just spent the week in California,” O’Reilly criminal, Hillary Clinton.
began. “As you know, they are now voting on
whether they should become a sanctuary state. Only constitutional simpletons with less than a high
So California and the U.S.A. are on a collision school-level grasp of civics and an out-sized hatred for
course. How do you see it?” Trump would publish such irrelevant nonsense.
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First of all, this has nothing to do with charts, precedence of state laws, and even state
FBI statistics, or the amount of federal tax money constitutions,” Cornell University Law School
California contributes to the Treasury. notes. So any and all immigration-related
statutes in U.S. Code are supreme when
It has everything to do with the rule of law. And in this compared to state and local immigration statutes.
arena, it is Trump, not California Gov. Jerry Brown and
the communists who run the state legislature, who is right. — Article I, Sect. 8 of the Constitution gives
(RELATED: Will constitutionalists in Congress succeed in Congress – not Brown or the California
reigning in sanctuary cities? Stay tuned at legislature – authority to make all rules governing
Conservative.news) “naturalization” (immigration rules, to those of
you in Sacramento).
Consider:
The Post may have some facts and figures correct, but they
— The Constitution contains what is commonly are beside the point. The issue is whether or not a) Trump
referred to as the “supremacy clause.” Article VI, and the federal government have the lawful authority to
Paragraph 2 “establishes that the federal enforce all immigration laws (they do); and b) whether
constitution, and federal law generally, take California has a legal right to resist the enforcement of
those laws (it doesn’t).
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The Did-You-Talk-To-Russians Witch Hunt
By Robert Parry
February 18, 2017
Exclusive: Democrats, liberals and media pundits – in Although the Cold War has long been over – and Russia
their rush to take down President Trump – are pushing a has often cooperated with the U.S. government, especially
New McCarthyism aimed at Americans who have talked to on national security issues such as supplying U.S. troops in
Russians, risking a new witch hunt, reports Robert Parry. Afghanistan – Democrats and liberals seem ready to force
Americans to again prove their loyalty if they engaged in
In the anti-Russian frenzy sweeping American politics and conversations with Russians.
media, Democrats, liberals and mainstream pundits are
calling for an investigative body that could become a new Or perhaps these “witnesses” can be entrapped into perjury
kind of House Un-American Activities Committee to hunt charges if their recollections of conversations with
down Americans who have communicated with Russians. Russians don’t match up with transcripts of their
intercepted communications, a tactic similar to ones used
by Sen. McCarthy and HUAC to trip up and imprison
targets over such secondary charges.
Such an admission apparently would be prima facie Under mounting media and political pressure, President
evidence of disloyalty, a guilt-by-association “crime” on Trump fired Flynn, apparently hoping that tossing Flynn
par with Sen. Joe McCarthy’s Cold War pursuit of overboard to the circling sharks would somehow calm the
“communists” who supposedly had infiltrated the U.S. sharks down. Instead, blood in the water added to the
government, the film industry and other American frenzy.
institutions.
Iran-Contra Comparison
Operating parallel to McCarthy’s Red Scare hearings was
the House Un-American Activities Committee (or HUAC), Some prominent Democrats and liberals have compared
a standing congressional panel from 1945-1975 when it Trump-connected contacts with Russians to President
was best known for investigating alleged communist Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal or President Reagan’s
subversion and propaganda. One of its top achievements Iran-Contra Affair, an issue that I know a great deal about
was the blacklisting of the “Hollywood Ten” whose having helped expose it as a reporter for The Associated
careers in the movie industry were damaged or destroyed. Press in the 1980s.
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The Washington Post building in downtown Washington, D.C.
(Photo credit: Washington Post)
For instance, the Post’s senior foreign affairs writer Karen
DeYoung on Friday described the civil war in Ukraine this
way: “That conflict began when Russia invaded and
annexed Crimea in 2014, then backed separatists in eastern
Ukraine in what has become a grinding war, despite a deal
to end it, called the Minsk agreement, negotiated with
Putin by the leaders of France and Germany.”
In other words, Iran-Contra was about enabling a In early 2014, a coup to overthrow the democratically
paramilitary force to continue its brutal marauding inside a elected Yanukovych took shape under the guidance of U.S.
country that was no threat to the United States while the Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S.
current “scandal” is about people trying to avoid hostilities Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt who were caught
between two nuclear superpowers, an existential threat that in a phone call in late January or early February 2014
many mainstream and liberal pundits don’t want to conspiring to impose new leadership inside Ukraine.
recognize.
Nuland disparaged a less extreme strategy favored by
Indeed, there is a troubling denial-ism about the risks of an European diplomats with the pithy remark: “Fuck the
accidental or intentional war with Russia as the U.S. media E.U.” and went on to declare “Yats is the guy,” favoring
and much of Official Washington’s establishment have lots Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the new leader. Nuland then
of fun demonizing Russian President Vladimir Putin and pondered how to “glue this thing” while Pyatt ruminated
jabbing the Russians by shoving NATO troops up to their about how to “midwife this thing.”
borders and deploying anti-ballistic missiles in Eastern
Europe. For some crazy reason, the Russians feel On Feb. 20, 2014, a mysterious sniper apparently firing
threatened. from a building controlled by the ultranationalist Right
Sektor killed both police and protesters, setting off a day of
False Narratives violence that left about 70 people dead including more
than a dozen police.
This Russia-bashing and Russia-baiting have been
accompanied by false narratives presented in the major The next day, three European governments struck a deal
U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times and The with Yanukovych in which he agreed to early elections and
Washington Post, to justify increased tensions. accepted reduced powers. But that political settlement
wasn’t enough for the U.S.-backed militants who stormed
government buildings on Feb. 22, forcing Yanukovych and
his officials to flee for their lives.
Spreading Violence
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In the ensuing days, the right-wing violence spread beyond no faith in the sincerity of the Kiev regime to live up to its
Kiev, prompting Crimea’s legislature to propose secession commitment to grant limited autonomy to the Donbass.
from Ukraine and readmission to Russia, whose
relationship to the peninsula dated back to Catherine the In other words, Kiev inserted a poison pill to prevent a
Great. peaceful resolution, but the Western media and
governments always blame the Minsk failure on Putin.
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Since last November’s election, this New McCarthyism
has merged with hatred toward Donald Trump, especially The New York Times joined in the frenzy by calling for
after the outgoing Obama administration lodged unproven leading technology companies to marginalize Web sites
accusations that Russia undercut Hillary Clinton’s that are deemed to be publishing “fake news,” a vague
campaign by hacking into the emails of the Democratic term that was applied not just to intentionally false stories
National Committee and those of her campaign chairman but to information that questioned official narratives, no
John Podesta – and slipped that information to WikiLeaks. matter how dubious those narratives were. The New
McCarthyism was morphing into a New Orwellianism.
Those emails showed how the DNC undercut the rival
campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders and revealed the contents The movement toward a Ministry of Truth gained further
of Clinton’s speeches to Wall Street banks as well as pay- momentum in December when Congress passed and
to-play aspects of the Clinton Foundation, information that President Obama signed a military authorization bill that
Clinton wanted to keep from the voters. included a new $160 million bureaucracy to identify and
counter alleged “Russian propaganda.”
But no one thought the emails were a major factor in the
Clinton-Trump race; indeed, Clinton blamed her stunning The anger of Democrats and liberals toward President
defeat on FBI Director James Comey’s last-minute Trump in his first month has added more fuel to the
decision to reopen and then re-close his investigation into Russia-bashing with some Democrats and liberals seeing it
security concerns about her use of a private email server as as a possible route toward neutralizing or impeaching
Secretary of State. Trump. Thus, the calls for a full-scale investigation with
subpoena power to demand documents and compel
But the script on how Clinton lost was flipped during the testimony.
Trump transition as President Obama’s intelligence
agencies floated the Russia-hacked-the-election scenario While the idea of getting to the full truth has a superficial
although presenting no public evidence to support the appeal, it also carries dangers of launching a witch hunt
claims. WikiLeaks representatives also denied getting the that would drag American citizens before inquisitors
material from Russia, suggesting instead that it was leaked asking about any contacts – no matter how innocuous –
by two different American insiders. with Russians.
A Ministry of Truth In the late 1940s and early 1950s, HUAC also claimed that
all it wanted was the truth about whether some Americans
Still, during the post-election period, the anti-Russian were allied with or sympathetic to Moscow. Sen. Joe
hysteria continued to build. In November, The Washington McCarthy offered a similar rationale when he was trying to
Post highlighted claims by an anonymous group called root out “disloyal” Americans with the question, “are you
PropOrNot accusing some 200 Web sites, including now or have you ever been a communist?”
Consortiumnews.com and other major independent media
outlets, of disseminating Russian “propaganda.” That Democrats and liberals who hold the McCarthy era in
understandable disdain would now seek to rekindle
something similar reeks of rank opportunism and gross
hypocrisy – doing whatever it takes to “get Trump” and
build an activist movement that can revive the Democratic
Party’s flagging political hopes.
New York Times building in New York City. (Photo from Wikipedia)
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Trump's New Travel Ban Revealed: Phase-In
Period; Green-Card Holders Spared
by Tyler Durden
Feb 18, 2017 4:19 PM
Deciding not the see the 9th Circuit court of appeals "in to the United States, when they arrive they will
[Supreme] court" after all, last week the White House be allowed in"
announced it would unveil a revised immigration order
banning travel t the US over the next few days. On and explained that it would be a temporary ban as the
Saturday, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly government reviewed the vetting procedures regarding
previewed what it would look like, when he told a Munich people from the banned countries.
Security Conference gathering that the travel ban will no
longer stop green card holders or travelers already on “I can tell you right now they’re not very reliable,”
planes from entering the United States, in hopes of he said of the seven mostly Muslim countries the
avoiding another round of legal challenges. administration defined as terrorism threats and
listed on the initial, temporary travel ban.
German interior minister de Maiziere and U.S. Homeland However, his German peer had less qualms about lashing
Security Security, John Kelly in Munich out at Trump. Onstage with Kelly, his German counterpart,
Thomas de Maizière, criticized the idea.
“The president is contemplating issuing a tighter,
more streamlined version of the first Executive “To ban whole countries perhaps could create
Order. And I will have, this time, the opportunity more collateral damage and perhaps does not
to work (on) a rollout plan, in particular to make produce more security,” Mr. de Maizière said.
sure that there's no one in a sense caught in the
system of moving from overseas to our airports, The abrupt implementation of Trump's original
which happened in the first release." Kelly said in immigration order last month resulted in immigration
a panel discussion in Munich. chaos, sparking a wave of criticism from the countries
affected, and from Western allies and some of America's
Asked whether green card residency permit holders would leading corporations, especially technology firms which
be allowed in, Kelly said: are now hunkering down ahead of the next round of
Trump's sweeping immigration changes, this one expected
"It's a good assumption and, as far as the visas to impact H1-B visa holders.
go, ... if they're in motion from some distant land
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U.S. District Attorney Vows
To Charge Obama With “Treason”
By Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Posted On February 18, 2017
“The Berkeley riots May have been The democrats know that they will no longer ever again
ordered by President Obama himself.” have the power they have enjoyed because the public is
now aware of the voter fraud and the man America elected
There is enough evidence for the FBI to implicate Obama President will not let it continue.
for Sedition and treason but behind the scenes there is
fierce debate over the fall out including worrying about Trump To Launch “Major Investigation
traitors at all levels of government if action was taken Into Voter Fraud”
against the Agitator in chief.
This means that the Democrats who counted on the
fraudulent voting machines and millions of dead voters
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voting for them in multiple states are dead ducks If this wasn’t coordinated by a central command and
politically. So what is left for the communist democrat control center why were the police ordered to stand down?
party? Who had the power and foreknowledge to do and order
them to do this?
“The FBI have investigation files proving
Obama’s links to these radical leftist groups As reported by the New York Post:
plotting the overthrow of President Trump
and the US government,” Obama is intimately involved in OFA
operations and even tweets from the
The latest evidence was just enough for experts to group’s account. In fact, he gave marching
understand Obama’s plans to support immigrants and form orders to OFA foot soldiers following
a shadow government. What’s his final goal? Keep himself Trump’s upset victory. Far from sulking,
inside the government Indirectly.Usurp the government OFA activists helped organize anti-Trump
with dirty tricks and violent protests. marches across US cities, some of which
turned into riots.
Voter Fraud Proof:18 Million Invalid & 2
Million Dead Registration. “Obama may have in fact coordinated Berkeley riots.”
Usually there are around 400 of these well trained vicious What Is Martial Law And How Does It Work?
violent agitators to small protests their MO is to outnumber
and beat up the opposition who were sent Allegedly by
Obama to stop a speech being given by the conservative
British journalist Milo Yiannopoulos—and when police
authorities were ordered to “stand down”, caused $100,000
in damage—and to which their “leader”, Yvette Felarca,
said she had “no regrets” over the terror and chaos caused
adding that “the left has been far too timid for way too
long”. Indicating this will change an more violent protests
are on the way.
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Yes, Trump Is Dangerous, But The Unelected Deep State
Trying To Overthrow Him Is Far Worse
Matt Agorist
February 18, 2017
There is a proverbial shit storm brewing in Washington Now we go nuclear. IC war going to new levels.
D.C. right now, and it is separate from the one created by Just got an EM fm senior IC friend, it began: "He
President Donald Trump. Since Trump took office, his will die in jail."https://t.co/e6FxCclVqT
executive orders have enraged Americans from coast to
coast. While some of them were beneficial, such as ending — John Schindler (@20committee) February 15,
the US involvement in TPP, others such as the travel ban 2017
have caused unnecessary turmoil for innocent people.
However, all those orders were conducted in the open and While there is no textbook definition of what the deep state
for all Americans to see — unlike the soft coup being is, Glenn Greenwald recently summed it up perfectly,
carried out against Trump in secret by the deep state. when he said the deep state, generally refers to the
agencies in Washington that are permanent power factions.
They stay and exercise power even as presidents who are
elected come and go. They typically exercise their power
A game is being played with the security of our in secret, in the dark, and so they’re barely subject to
country. Pls watch & share this is important. democratic accountability, if they’re subject to it at all. It’s
#DeepState https://t.co/zh8yRbyhjb agencies like the CIA, the NSA and the other intelligence
agencies, that are essentially designed to disseminate
— Dennis Kucinich (@Dennis_Kucinich) disinformation and deceit and propaganda, and have a long
February 14, 2017 history of doing not only that,
As Jay Syrmopolous pointed out last week, giving a clear but also have a long history of the world’s
admission of a soft coup in progress, John Schindler, a worst war crimes, atrocities and death
former professor of national security affairs at the U.S. squads.
Naval War College, who spent nearly a decade with the
super-secret National Security Agency as an intelligence Amazing populist concern over US deep state
analyst and counterintelligence officer — and who still influence that hasn't been seen since the 1970s.
maintains deep connections to the intelligence community Positive but it's CIA/contractors not UN etc.
— readily admitted that senior elements of the intelligence
community (IC) are engaging in treason against Trump. pic.twitter.com/ZmeuwOyQTW
“Everyone knows not to talk to her in the Walsh would have significant access as she controls the
White House unless you want to see it in president’s schedule. There’s also reportedly a trove of e-
the press,” says a source close to the mails where Katie Walsh and Reince Priebus discuss how
president. “The only question is whether or to rid themselves of Trump, according to a former
not she’s doing it at the behest of [White #NeverTrump consultant.
House Chief of Staff] Reince Priebus or if
she’s doing it to advance herself in DC
“The president and his allies have been
media circles.”
deliberately feeding her fake information in
order to find her network,” says a source
One source in particular stands out: Walsh is close to close to the president’s family. “It’s been
Maggie Habberman, a New York Times reporter who wrote going well.”
fawning pro-Republican National Committee stories
during the presidential election. Walsh has also planted
Walsh was a #NeverTrump Republican during the
stories in The Washington Post and Politico.
campaign. Neither Walsh nor her family were supporters
during the campaign, says a source from Walsh’s
Walsh is referred to as “Madame President” in the White hometown of St. Louis.
House, says a senior aide.
A White House investigation is planned into Walsh, who
“It isn’t a compliment.” couldn’t be reached for comment.
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Obama’s Domestic Terrorism
Manual Vows To Overthrow Trump
By Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Posted On February 19, 2017
“This is a fight we can win,” OFA recently “Now is the time for some organizing,” he
told its foot soldiers. “They’re starting to said. “So don’t mope” over the election
waver.” results.
On Thursday, Trump insisted he’s moving ahead with He promised OFA activists he would soon join them in the
plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which fray.
has ballooned health-insurance premiums and deductibles.
“Obamacare is a disaster, folks,” he said, adding that “Understand that I’m going to be
activists protesting its repeal are hijacking GOP town halls constrained in what I do with all of you until
and other events. I am again a private citizen, but that’s not
so far off,” he said. “You’re going to see me
“They fill up our rallies with people that you early next year, and we’re going to be in a
wonder how they get there,” the president position where we can start cooking up all
said. “But they’re not the Republican kinds of great stuff.”
people that our representatives are
representing.” Added the ex-president:
As The Post reported, OFA boasts more than 250 offices “I promise you that next year Michelle and I
nationwide and more than 32,000 organizers, with another are going to be right there with you, and the
25,000 actively under training. Since November, it’s clouds are going to start parting, and we’re
beefed up staff and fundraising, though as a “social going to be busy. I’ve got all kinds of
welfare” non-profit, it does not have to reveal its donors. thoughts and ideas about it, but this isn’t
the best time to share them.
These aren’t typical Black Lives Matter or Occupy Wall “Point is, I’m still fired up and ready to go,
Street marchers, but rather professionally trained and I hope that all of you are, as well.”
organizers who go through a six-week training program
similar to the training — steeped in Alinsky agitation
tactics — Obama received in Chicago when he was a
community organizer.
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Jay Sekulow: Obama Should Be "Held Accountable"
For The "Soft Coup" Against Trump
By Tyler Durden
Feb 18, 2017 11:11 PM
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Why Was The FBI Investigating General Flynn?
By Andrew C. Mccarthy
February 18, 2017 4:00 AM
Flynn at Trump Tower, November 2016 (Reuters photo: Mike Segar) Most people think of the FBI as a federal police
department that does gumshoe detective work, albeit at a
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was dismissed high level and with peerless forensic capabilities. That,
amid a torrent of mainstream-media reporting and indeed, is how I thought of the FBI for my first eight years
disgraceful government leaks (but I repeat myself). Among as a federal prosecutor, before I began investigating
the most intriguing was a New York Times report the terrorism cases and became acquainted with the FBI’s
morning after Flynn’s resignation, explaining that the night job. Turns out the FBI’s house has a whole other
former three-star Army general and head of the Defense wing, separate and apart from its criminal-investigation
Intelligence Agency was “grilled” by FBI agents “about a division. Back in pre-9/11 days, this side of the house was
phone call he had had with Russia’s ambassador.” called the foreign counter-intelligence division. Now, it is
the national-security branch. Whatever the name, it is our
No fewer than seven veteran Times reporters contributed domestic security service, protecting the nation against
to the story, the Gray Lady having dedicated more hostile foreign activity — espionage, other hostile
resources to undermining the Trump administration than intelligence ops, terrorism, acquisition of technology and
the Republican Congress has to advancing Trump’s components of weapons of mass destruction, and so on.
agenda. Remarkably, none of the able journalists appears
to have asked a screamingly obvious question — a Most of the national-security branch’s work is done in
question that would have been driving press coverage had secret, never intended to see the light of day in courtroom
an Obama administration operative been in the Bureau’s prosecutions. In some countries, including Britain,
hot seat. domestic security is handled by an agency (MI5)
independent of domestic law enforcement (MI6). In our
On what basis was the FBI investigating General Flynn? country, it is handled by a single agency, the FBI, based on
To predicate an investigation under FBI guidelines, there the assumption (a sound one in my opinion) that the two
must be good-faith suspicion that (a) a federal crime has missions are interrelated and that one can leverage the
been or is being committed, (b) there is a threat to other more easily under one roof.
American national security, or (c) there is an opportunity
to collect foreign intelligence relevant to a priority The FBI also has the foreign-intelligence gig because the
established by the executive branch. These categories Bureau is fully constrained by the Constitution and other
frequently overlap — e.g., a terrorist will typically commit federal law. Our other intelligence agencies — the best
several crimes in a plot that threatens national security, and example is the CIA — are prohibited from “spying” inside
when captured he will be a source of foreign intelligence. the United States, largely because their foreign operations
are outside the jurisdiction and fetters of American law.
Categories (a) and (b) are self-explanatory. It is category We understand that our security requires that our domestic
(c), intelligence collection, that is most pertinent to our security service have wide intelligence-gathering latitude;
consideration of Flynn. but we do not permit it to be limitless — it must respect
our constitutional rights.
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So how do we make sure the FBI does that if we’re giving something our government can passively collect rather
it license to investigate people even when it does not than expend investigative resources to gather.
suspect a crime or a threat? We do it by dividing the
subjects of its intelligence investigations into three The more complex example is Americans who act as
classifications and giving the FBI commonsense authority covert foreign agents. The detection of these Americans is
to deal with each. obviously tougher but of greater urgency. After all, if their
activities on behalf of foreign powers were benign, they
1. Aliens acting as overt foreign agents would not be acting covertly — and here it is worth
pointing out that, under federal law, “foreign powers” are
The first classification, and the easiest to grasp, consists of not just other countries; they include international terrorist
aliens who overtly work as foreign agents. Such a person organizations. Some of the terrorists I prosecuted in the
— for example, Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador 1990s, for example, were American citizens (some born as
with whom General Flynn communicated — is a non- such, some naturalized) who were operatives of foreign
American (i.e., one who does not have the full-blown jihadist cells.
constitutional rights of an American citizen) and is openly
acting on behalf of a foreign regime — in the case of Whether they are Americans or aliens, covert foreign
Russia, a regime notoriously hostile to U.S. interests. agents merit heightened scrutiny, such as eavesdropping
Clearly, there is no problem with his being targeted by the on phone calls and e-mails, or “sneak and peek” searches
FBI for intelligence-gathering purposes. (when agents covertly look around a home or office,
maybe take pictures and plant bugs, but don’t leave
Note that, because the FBI is constrained by federal law, evidence that they’ve been there). To get that kind of
even overt foreign operatives have significant protections. authority, as presaged above, the FBI and Justice
It is still necessary, for example, for the FBI to get a Department must seek warrants from the secret court
judicial warrant to search a foreign agent’s home or established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of
intercept his phone and e-mail communications — and 1978 (the FISA Court).
more on those warrants momentarily. Within the wide
parameters of federal law, though, the FBI is free to This requires a showing of probable cause. Significantly,
monitor an overt foreign operative’s activities very this does not mean probable cause that a crime has been or
aggressively, even when there is no suspicion of criminal is being committed — the traditional law-enforcement
wrongdoing or national-security threats. The presumption standard. Under FISA, the government must show
that our government is entitled to observe what foreign probable cause that the target of its surveillance is acting
governments are up to on our soil is sufficient — and, of as an agent of a foreign power. Libertarians complain that
course, American officials operating overseas are routinely this is a lower standard, a sinister pretext to make it easier
monitored by host governments (most of which are not so to hassle Americans in the absence of evidence that
fastidious about civil liberties). they’ve broken the law. But it is not a lower standard; it is
the same standard (probable cause) for making a different
2. Americans acting as foreign agents — overt and showing (that one is a foreign agent). If you are a covert
covert foreign agent, it should be easier for the FBI to investigate
you, especially when it is doing so under judicial
The second classification is more complicated: American oversight.
citizens who act as agents of foreign powers. Contrary to
the legal illiteracy dismayingly peddled by Fox News from 3. Americans who are not foreign agents but may
time to time, one can be an American citizen and possess foreign intelligence Covering overt and covert
nonetheless be an agent of a foreign power, and therefore foreign agents does not complete the FBI’s intelligence
subject to investigation under the FBI’s foreign- mosaic.
intelligence-gathering authority, even if there is no
suspicion of criminal wrongdoing. There are many Americans who do not act on behalf of
foreign regimes but who are possessed of information that
The easy example in this second classification is an would be of great value to the FBI in understanding what
American who openly and formally declares himself to be foreign powers are up to — owing, for example, to their
a foreign agent. Many Americans do work for and travels, business dealings, or academic concentrations.
advocate on behalf of foreign regimes. Our law mandates Plainly, we want the FBI to be able to seek this
that they register with the Justice Department. They must information. Yet we don’t want these Americans to be
make periodic disclosures detailing their relationship with investigated — they should be thanked, not hassled. So
the relevant foreign country, their activities on its behalf, how should our fellow citizens in this wholly innocent
the financial arrangements, and so on. The FBI is free to classification be handled? The FBI’s guidelines for
investigate such American foreign agents just as it domestic operations strike the right balance: “The FBI
investigates alien foreign agents; in fact, the point of the should . . . operate openly and consensually with U.S.
disclosure requirements is to make the foreign-intelligence persons to the extent practicable when collecting foreign
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intelligence that does not concern criminal activities or Democrat complex has desperately sought to obscure this
threats to the national security.” problem by emphasizing Putin’s likely role in publicizing
embarrassing Democratic e-mail communications.
Openly and consensually. That means FBI agents should Notwithstanding Democratic talking points, that is a far
tell Americans in this “non-foreign agent” classification cry from “hacking” the voting process.
that they are not under investigation or suspicion, and that
their voluntary cooperation is requested to help the FBI The second flaw is that, although Trump has made
protect the country against potentially harmful foreign disturbingly flattering remarks about Putin, there is no
activities. They should not be “grilled” as if they were evidence his campaign has given or promised Russia any
suspects. actual accommodation in exchange for Putin’s favor.
Democrats hope to erase this problem by finding
General Flynn’s situation That brings us back, finally, to something, anything, that could be spun as a quid pro quo.
General Flynn. Anonymous intelligence officials (a Obviously, they hoped the Flynn–Kislyak conversation
category that may include the FBI — though we do not would answer their prayers. No such luck. As the Times
know who the leakers are) outrageously revealed to the puts it:
New York Times that Flynn was subjected to FBI
interrogation (“grilled,” the Times says) and that the Obama officials asked the FBI if a quid pro quo had been
Justice Department suspects that Flynn did not provide discussed on the call, and the answer came back no,
truthful, accurate information. That does not sound like a according to one of the officials, who like others asked not
cordial, “open and consensual” conversation. It sounds like to be named discussing delicate communications. The
an investigation. topic of sanctions came up, they were told, but there was
no deal.
Why would Flynn be the subject of an investigation by the
FBI and the Justice Department? Asked not to be named discussing delicate
communications. That’s a good one. Let me translate: The
We are told that the FBI was monitoring the phone calls of officials don’t want you to know who they are because
Russian ambassador Kislyak under FISA. Makes sense — they are corrupt — (a) FISA intercepts are classified, so
he’s an overt foreign agent from a hostile government. disclosing them to the press is a crime; (b) by revealing the
Flynn called Kislyak on December 29, 2016. It was not a Flynn–Kislyak conversation to the press, the “officials”
nefarious communication: Flynn was a top adviser of then- inform the Russians that whatever countermeasures they
president-elect Trump, a part of the Trump transition team, are taking against U.S. surveillance have failed, assuring
and just three weeks from formally becoming the new that the Russians will alter their tactics, making the job of
president’s national-security adviser. His communications our honorable intelligence agents more difficult; and (c)
with Kislyak were just some of the many conversations the FBI’s investigative powers are not supposed to be put
Flynn was having with foreign officials. in in the service of a political party’s effort to advance a
partisan storyline, like “Putin hacked the election.”
The call to Kislyak, of course, was intercepted. No doubt
the calls of other American officials who have perfectly So since there was no impropriety in Flynn’s call to the
valid reasons to call Russian diplomats have been Russian ambassador, why did the Bureau continue
intercepted. It is the FBI’s scrupulous practice to keep the investigating Flynn? Why did FBI agents interrogate him?
identities of such interceptees confidential. So why single
Flynn out for identification, and for investigation? FBI According to press reports of other rogue intelligence
agents did not need to “grill” Flynn in order to learn about leaks, the FBI was sicced on Flynn after Trump officials
the call — they had a recording of the call. gave inaccurate public statements about his conversation
with Kislyak, to wit: They said that it had not touched on
They also knew there was nothing untoward about the call. the punitive actions President Obama took against Russia
We know that from the Times report — a report that on the same day the conversation took place, when in fact
suggests an unseemly conjoining of investigative power to there had been some discussion of that topic — which the
partisan politics. FBI and Justice Department knew from the recording.
Specifically, Flynn denied any discussion of these
The report informs us that as the FBI set its sights on sanctions, unnamed Trump officials denied it to the
Flynn, its agents were consulting with “Obama advisers.” Washington Post, Vice President Pence denied it in a CBS
Interesting, no? Ever since Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald interview shortly before the inauguration, and finally
Trump on November 8, Obama’s Democratic party had White House spokesman Sean Spicer denied it again on
been pushing a narrative that “Putin hacked the election.” January 23. According to the Times, it was the Spicer
The narrative continues to have two major flaws. First, denial that triggered the FBI’s interrogation. It was as if
while the Russian dictator may have preferred Trump to the Bureau and Justice Department intentionally waited to
Clinton, there is no evidence that his Russian regime did pounce until Trump was in power — which meant that any
anything to compromise the voting process. The media-
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misstatement could now be framed as a false The statute is a discredited relic of the President John
representation by the sitting president. Adams administration’s over-criminalization of political
speech on the grounds of its purported seditiousness. It is a
But just ask anyone who knows that you can’t keep your highly dubious prohibition against foreign-policy
health-care plan and your doctor if you like them, that the freelancing by American citizens acting without executive-
Benghazi massacre was not caused by a video, that the IRS branch permission. As Jeremy Duda comprehensively
really did harass Americans over their political beliefs, and explains in the Washington Post, in its 218-year history,
that Iran will be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. there has been just a single Logan Act prosecution, ever —
Anyone who knows those things — that would be all of us an unsuccessful, aborted charge brought in 1803 by an
— also must know that misleading statements by Adams-appointed U.S. attorney.
presidential administrations, even egregious ones, are not
grounds for FBI investigations. They are left to the It is not enough to say it is ludicrous to contemplate a
political process to sort out, and we don’t want the FBI Logan Act prosecution against a transition official who
turned into a political weapon. was the incoming national-security adviser over a phone
call with a foreign ambassador. Beyond that, we must refer
So how come the FBI got involved here? to the high-profile July 2016 press conference held by FBI
director James Comey.
Is the FBI saying that Mike Flynn is an agent of a foreign
power? A covert Russian operative? That would be absurd. In contrast to General Flynn, as to whom there is no
As I’ve detailed, Flynn is on record — unambiguously, in evidence of criminal wrongdoing, there was a Mount
the core theme in his bestselling book — urging Olympus of damning proof that Hillary Clinton committed
Americans to view Russia as an implacable enemy of the felony violations of a law against mishandling classified
United States that must be checked. Now, are you unhappy information. Yet Director Comey concluded that “no
— as I am unhappy — with the Trump administration’s reasonable prosecutor” would consider indicting Mrs.
blandishments toward the murderous, anti-American Putin Clinton. Why? Because behavior of the type in which she
regime? Sure . . . but that does not make Flynn and other engaged is never prosecuted. Now it happens that Comey
Trump officials Russian agents — any more than Obama is was wrong about Clinton — to make his assertion, he had
an Iranian agent. Again, political disagreement is not a to paint a narrowly skewed picture of her misconduct and
rationalization for drawing a ridiculous legal conclusion ignore several prosecutions of military officials for far less
(“maybe he’s a ‘foreign agent’”) as a pretext for an serious violations. Nevertheless, he does run the Bureau,
investigation by the FBI. and so we must assume that his explicit guidance governs
its investigative standards: “Responsible decisions . . .
Fear of blackmail? That is a theory purportedly advanced consider the context of a person’s actions, and how similar
by former acting attorney general Sally Yates, an Obama situations have been handled in the past.”
political hack who was eventually fired for insubordination
by Trump (who had foolishly retained her). The blackmail If that is the standard, there was no conceivable chance
theory is almost too stupid to regurgitate. If you can follow that Flynn could ever be prosecuted for a Logan Act
this, the idea is that the Russians knew that Flynn withheld violation. Using the Logan Act as a pretext for
information about his Kislyak call from the Trump interrogation would have been improper.
administration and was therefore vulnerable to extortion —
i.e., the Russians could expose his concealment if he didn’t And Flynn is not a foreign agent. And there was no need
do their bidding. It should go without saying that to “grill” him over the contents of a conversation of which
blackmail works only if the compromising information is the FBI and Justice Department already had a recording.
not in the possession of the aggrieved party. Here, the
United States — i.e., the Trump administration itself — And the FBI has no business probing the veracity of public
had a recording of the Flynn–Kislyak call, a fact that both statements made by presidential administrations for
Russia and Flynn (who is deeply versed in intelligence political purposes — something it certainly resisted doing
craft) had to know was highly likely. during the Obama administration.
Finally, there’s Flynn’s supposed potential criminal There appears to have been no foreign-intelligence or
violation of the 1799 Logan Act. Recall what we said at criminal-investigative purpose served by the FBI’s
the start: The FBI’s criminal investigation and domestic interrogation of General Flynn. It is easy to see why
security functions overlap. If there is not a valid foreign- Democrats would want to portray Flynn’s contact with the
intelligence basis to investigate someone, a potential law Russian ambassador as worthy of an FBI investigation. But
violation could do the trick. But . . . the Logan Act? Are why did the FBI and the Justice Department investigate
you kidding? Flynn — and why did “officials” make sure the press
found out about it?
.
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US Establishment Forcing
Trump To 'Copy Obama's Foreign Policy'
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Trump Returns To Campaign Mode, Rallying Supporters,
Attacking Foes, Promising A Greater America
Foxnews.Com
Published February 18, 2017
“I am here to tell you about our great He has continued to do them, although with smaller
progress … and our incredible plans for our crowds, throughout the early part of the transition, during
future,” said Trump, who since officially what he called a "thank you" tour.
taking over the White House in late-
January has been unable to hold But until this week, Trump has mostly relied on Twitter to
campaign-style rallies. “I am here because sidestep reporters and on spokespeople, who have
I want to be among my friends and among struggled at times to deliver his agenda -- including plans
my people. This was truly a great to temporarily ban travel from seven mostly Muslim
movement.” nations -- to a largely combative press corps.
Trump essentially picked up from where he left off during The event Saturday was put on by Trump's campaign,
Thursday’s freewheeling, 77-minute press conference in rather than the White House.
which he accused reporters of knowingly writing incorrect
stories to hurt his young administration and perpetuating
damaging “fake news.” “I hear your demands. I hear your voices,”
Trump said. “And I promise you, I will
deliver.”
“I also want to talk to you without the filters
of fake news,” Trump told the estimated
crowd of 9,000 at the Orlando Melbourne Asked if the rally was for the 2020 election, spokeswoman
International Airport near Melbourne. “They Sarah Huckabee Sanders called it "a campaign rally for
have their own agenda.” America."
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Asked by reporters aboard Air Force One if a campaign “I know you want safer neighborhoods where the streets
rally was too early, Trump said that "life is a campaign" belong to families and communities, not gang members
and that making America great again is a campaign. He and drug dealers who right now, as I speak, are being
added that "it's not easy, especially when we're also thrown out of the country and will not be let back in,” he
fighting the press and the media." said. “We will have strong borders. … Get them to hell out
of here.”
The speech was not without Trump’s familiar, tough talk
on crime, border security, radical Islamic terrorism and
illegal immigration, too.
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How Can We Get Rid Of Trump?
Nicholas Kristof
FEB. 18, 2017
Sky Bet, another site, is taking wagers on whether Trump Tribe said that he believed Section 4 could be used in such
will be out of office by July. a situation.
There have been more than 1,000 references to “In the unlikely event that Pence and a
“Watergate” in the news media in the last week, according majority of Trump’s bizarre cabinet were to
to the Nexis archival site, with even some conservatives grow the spine needed to do the right thing
calling for Trump’s resignation or warning that he could be with the process set up by that provision,
pushed out. Dan Rather, the former CBS News anchor who we would surely be in a situation where a
covered Watergate, says that Trump’s Russia scandal isn’t very large majority of the public, including a
now at the level of Watergate but could become at least as very substantial percentage of Trump’s
big. supporters, would back if not insist upon
such a move,” Tribe said. “In that
Maybe things will settle down. But what is striking about circumstance, I can’t imagine Trump and
Trump is not just the dysfunction of his administration but his lawyers succeeding in getting the
also the — vigorously denied — allegations that Trump’s federal courts to interfere.”
team may have cooperated with Vladimir Putin to steal the
election. What’s also different is the broad concern that The better known route is impeachment. But for now it’s
Trump is both: A) unfit for office, and B) dangerously hard to imagine a majority of the House voting to impeach,
unstable. One pro-American leader in a foreign country and even less conceivable that two-thirds of the Senate
called me up the other day and skipped the preliminaries, would vote to convict so that Trump would be removed.
starting with: Moreover, impeachment and trial in the Senate would drag
on for months, paralyzing America and leaving Trump in
“What the [expletive] is wrong with your office with his finger on the nuclear trigger.
country?”
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My take is that unless things get much worse, removal may same incentive Republicans had in 1974 to
be a liberal fantasy. Progressives thought that Trump insist on Nixon’s resignation,” Larry Sabato
would never win the nomination or the election. He of the University of Virginia told me. “The
survived the “Access Hollywood” tape and countless incentive is survival.”
crises that pundits thought would doom him, so it’s not
clear why Republicans would desert him now that he’s Trump does have one weakness, and it’s parallel to
president. Nixon’s. Republicans in Congress were willing to oust
Nixon partly because they vastly preferred his vice
Some people believe that the 2018 midterm elections will president, Gerald Ford — just as congressional
be so catastrophic for the G.O.P. that everyone will be Republicans prefer Mike Pence today.
ready to get rid of him. I’m skeptical. In the Senate, the
map is disastrous for Democrats in 2018: The Republicans If I were betting, I’d say we’re stuck with Trump for four
will be defending only eight Senate seats, while Democrats years. But as Sabato says:
will in effect be defending 25.
“Lots of things about Donald Trump’s
So while Democrats can gnash their teeth, it’ll be up to election and early presidency have been
Republicans to decide whether to force Trump out. And shocking. Why should it stop now?”
that won’t happen unless they see him as ruining their
party as well as the nation. And what does it say about a presidency that, just one
month into it, we’re already discussing whether it can be
“The only incentive for Republicans to act ended early?
— with or without the cabinet — is the
.
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'Seem To Have Gotten Out Of Control'
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Retired Green Beret Warns: Deep State's Utopia Of
Oligarchs Is "Enslavement And Complete
Control Of All Of Mankind"
Submitted By Jeremiah Johnson (Nom De Plume Of A Retired Green Beret Of The United States Army
Special Forces (Airborne)) Via Shtfplan.Com,
Feb 18, 2017 7:25 PM
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Barney Frank…two troglodytes…who came up with that In previous articles, it was mentioned how critical this first
one) is sneered at. The executive order to halt the illegals 6 months to one year-period in office is for the President,
from potential hotbeds of Middle Eastern terrorism is namely because of the midterm elections.
challenged by states packed with liberals and also by the
business and industry oligarchs who would rather the U.S. If the public does not see results, they
be vulnerable if they can continue to hire “tax-free” day- could very well change the complexion
laborers for less than minimum wage with impunity. and composition of Congress in 2018
and the Republicans could lose control
Senator John McCain (R- AZ) wants to go of either one of or both houses of
to war with Russia and he wants to Congress.
reshape eastern Europe. McCain and
Lindsey Graham were instrumental in the The President realizes this, and he is moving swiftly.
Obama-ordered and sanctioned coup d’état
that brought down Ukraine’s government The public will also see that he is doing good things, and
and president and installed a U.S. puppet that it is the Democrats who are attempting to obstruct his
picked by Victoria Nuland. McCain hasn’t efforts. This will carry the Republicans through in the
stopped: he’s just been “on hold” to see
midterm elections, and thus all legislative efforts by the
where he can take footing when the dust President will be able to be enacted. It’s a tough fight and
settles from the initial Trump shakeup. at times it’s uphill, but he started out well, and right…and
the Democrats won’t be able to hold him off.
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F-15s Cause Sonic Boom Over Palm Beach
In Scramble To Intercept Unresponsive Aircraft
By Tyler Durden
Feb 18, 2017 12:18 PM
New Yorkers, and certainly their mayor Bill de Blasio, The two fighters were able to establish communication
complained bitterly about the traffic chaos unleashed by with the aircraft. This incident occured at about 7 p.m. ET.
then president-elect Donald Trump when he used his Fifth No further details were immediately available. "The intent
Avenue-located Trump Tower as campaign headquarters, of military intercepts is to have the identified aircraft re-
resulting in logistical and security chaos. Now it's the turn establish communications with local FAA air traffic
of Palm Beach, where Trump resides on most weekends in controllers and instruct the pilot to follow air traffic
his Mar-A-Lago "Winter White House" (at a cost to controllers' instructions to land safely for follow-on
taxpayers of approximately $3 million per trip). action," the statement read.
On Friday evening, two F-15s caused a sonic boom as they "The intent of military intercepts is to have
were scrambled from their base in Homestead, Florida, to the identified aircraft re-establish
intercept an unresponsive general aviation aircraft that communications with local FAA air traffic
flew near Palm Beach during a stay by President Trump at controllers and instruct the pilot to follow air
Mar-a-Lago, Fox News reported. The jets flew at traffic controllers' instructions to land safely
supersonic speeds the North American Aerospace Defense for follow-on action," the statement read.
Command, NORAD, said in a statement leading to started
residents confused by the loud noise. This was the latest airborne incident involving President
Trump Earlier this month, a private plane got within 2
nautical miles of Air Force One, which is closer than
permitted, while flying over Florida and the incident is
being investigated by authorities, Bloomberg reported.
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Trump Supporters Rally In Downtown
Atlanta With Semi-Automatic Weapons
By Tyler Durden
Feb 18, 2017 8:40 PM
As Trump was preparing to address an audience in Florida the rally. He said a permit is required if
on Saturday afternoon, in a speech which Reuters there are more than 35 people, but he did
summarized as "returning to the campaign trail to attack not think that would be the case.
the media again and tout his accomplishments in the
friendly atmosphere of a rally with supporters", a group of There were no reports of any confrontations or violence
supporters gathered for a pro-President Trump rally in during the rally.
downtown Atlanta armed with semi-automatic weapons.
In an interview on its website with one of its founding
The crowd met at Centennial Olympic Park. Those there members, the "Three Percenter" militia explains that it is
told Channel 2 Action News that they are part of an area "is comprised of men and women as citizens in esch state
militia group, III% Security Force, which was also serving which come together to form a chapter. Each chapter is
as security for the event. classified as being part of the “Unorganized Militia,” we
are officially a civilian volunteer organization.
We need to understand, and so does President Trump, that to it at all. It’s agencies like the CIA, the
the hoax “war on terror” was used to transform intelligence NSA and the other intelligence agencies,
agencies, such as the NSA and CIA, and criminal that are essentially designed to
investigative agencies, such as the FBI, into Gestapo secret disseminate disinformation and deceit and
police agencies. Trump is now threatened by these propaganda, and have a long history of
agencies, because he rejects the neoconservative’s agenda doing not only that, but also have a long
of US world hegemony that supports the gigantic history of the world’s worst war crimes,
military/security annual budget. atrocities and death squads. This is who
not just people like Bill Kristol, but lots of
Our secret police agencies are busy at work planting Democrats are placing their faith in, are
“intelligence” among the presstitute media that Trump is trying to empower, are cheering for as they
compromised by “Russian connections” and is a security exert power separate and apart from—in
threat to the United States. The plan is to make a case in fact, in opposition to—the political officials
the media, as was done against President Nixon, and to to whom they’re supposed to be
force Trump from office. To openly take on a newly subordinate.
elected president is an act of extraordinary audacity that “And you go—this is not just about Russia.
implies enormous confidence, or else desperation, on the You go all the way back to the campaign,
part of the police state agencies. and what you saw was that leading
members of the intelligence community,
Here you can see CNN openly cooperating with the CIA in including Mike Morell, who was the acting
treating wild and irresponsible speculation that Trump is CIA chief under President Obama, and
under Russian influence as if it is an established fact. Michael Hayden, who ran both the CIA and
the NSA under George W. Bush, were very
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46476.htm outspoken supporters of Hillary Clinton. In
fact, Michael Morell went to The New York
Times, and Michael Hayden went to The
The “evidence” provided by CNN and the CIA is a
Washington Post, during the campaign to
“report” by the New York Times that, with little doubt, was
praise Hillary Clinton and to say that
planted in the NYT by the CIA.
Donald Trump had become a recruit of
Russia. The CIA and the intelligence
This is so obvious that it is clear that CNN and the CIA community were vehemently in support of
regard the American people as so gullible as to be Clinton and vehemently opposed to Trump,
completely stupid. from the beginning. And the reason was,
was because they liked Hillary Clinton’s
Glenn Greenwald explains to Amy Goodman that the CIA policies better than they liked Donald
is after Trump, because Trump’s announced policy of Trump’s. One of the main priorities of the
reducing the dangerous tensions with Russia conflicts with CIA for the last five years has been a proxy
the military/security complex’s need for a major enemy. war in Syria, designed to achieve regime
change with the Assad regime. Hillary
“The deep state, although there’s no Clinton was not only for that, she was
precise or scientific definition, generally critical of Obama for not allowing it to go
refers to the agencies in Washington that further, and wanted to impose a no-fly zone
are permanent power factions. They stay in Syria and confront the Russians. Donald
and exercise power even as presidents Trump took exactly the opposite view. He
who are elected come and go. They said we shouldn’t care who rules Syria; we
typically exercise their power in secret, in should allow the Russians, and even help
the dark, and so they’re barely subject to the Russians, kill ISIS and al-Qaeda and
democratic accountability, if they’re subject other people in Syria. So, Trump’s agenda
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that he ran on was completely antithetical controls at all. And so, to urge that the CIA
to what the CIA wanted. Clinton’s was and the intelligence community empower
exactly what the CIA wanted, and so they itself to undermine the elected branches of
were behind her. And so, they’ve been government is insanity. That is a
trying to undermine Trump for many prescription for destroying democracy
months throughout the election. And now overnight in the name of saving it. And yet
that he won, they are not just undermining that’s what so many, not just neocons, but
him with leaks, but actively subverting him. the neocons’ allies in the Democratic Party,
There’s claims that they’re withholding are now urging and cheering. And it’s
information from him, on the grounds that incredibly warped and dangerous to watch
they don’t think he should have it and can them do that.”
be trusted with it. They are empowering
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/4
themselves to enact policy.
6476.htm
“Now, I happen to think that the Trump
presidency is extremely dangerous. You The United States is now in the extraordinary situation that
just listed off in your news—in your the liberal/progressive/left is allied with the deep state
newscast that led the show, many reasons. against democracy. The liberal/progressive/left are
They want to dismantle the environment. lobbying for the impeachment of a president who has
They want to eliminate the safety net. They committed no impeachable offense. The neoconservatives
want to empower billionaires. They want to have stated their preference for a deep state coup against
enact bigoted policies against Muslims and democracy. The media obliges with a constant barrage of
immigrants and so many others. And it is lies, innuendos and disinformation. The insouciant
important to resist them. And there are lots American public sits there sucking its thumb.
of really great ways to resist them, such as
getting courts to restrain them, citizen
What can Trump do? He can clean out the intelligence
activism and, most important of all, having
agencies and terminate their license granted by Bush and
the Democratic Party engage in self-
Obama to conduct unconstitutional activities. He can use
critique to ask itself how it can be a more
anti-trust to breakup the media conglomerates that Clinton
effective political force in the United States
allowed to form. If Bush and Obama can on their own
after it has collapsed on all levels. That isn’t
authority subject US citizens to indefinite detention
what this resistance is now doing. What
without due process and if Obama can murder suspect US
they’re doing instead is trying to take
citizens without due process of law, Trump can use anti-
maybe the only faction worse than Donald
trust law to break up the media conglomerates that speak
Trump, which is the deep state, the CIA,
with one voice against him.
with its histories of atrocities, and say they
ought to almost engage in like a soft coup,
where they take the elected president and At this point Trump has no alternative but to fight. He can
prevent him from enacting his policies. And take down the secret police agencies and the presstitute
I think it is extremely dangerous to do that. media conglomerates, or they will take him down.
Even if you’re somebody who believes that Dismissing Flynn was the worse thing to do. He should
both the CIA and the deep state, on the have kept Flynn and fired the “leakers” who are actively
one hand, and the Trump presidency, on using disinformation against him. The NSA would have to
the other, are extremely dangerous, as I know who the leakers are. Trump should clean out the
do, there’s a huge difference between the corrupt NSA management and install officials who will
two, which is that Trump was identify the leakers. Then Trump should prosecute the
democratically elected and is subject to leakers to the full extent of the law.
democratic controls, as these courts just
demonstrated and as the media is showing, No president can survive secret police agencies determined
as citizens are proving. But on the other to destroy him. If Trump’s advisers don’t know this,
hand, the CIA was elected by nobody. Trump desperately needs new advisers.
They’re barely subject to democratic
.
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The FBI Is Pursuing Three Separate Probes Into "Russian
Hacking" Of The Elections
By Tyler Durden
Feb 18, 2017 9:15 PM
While it has been previously documented that the FBI has Russian individuals and companies who are believed to
launched an investigation into Russian "hacking" of the have links to Trump associates. The transactions under
elections, today Reuters provided more details on the scrutiny involve investments by Russians in overseas
ongoing effort to scapegoat Hillary Clinton's loss on the entities that appear to have been undertaken through
Kremlin, when it reported that the FBI is pursuing at least middlemen and front companies"
three separate probes relating to alleged Russian hacking.
Among the topics pursued by the counterintelligence
The details according to Reuters, which cites unnamed investigations are the alleged contacts between members of
officials, are as follows: the Trump campaign and current and former Russian
intelligence officers prior to the November election, as
the FBI's Pittsburgh field office, which runs many cyber previously reported by the New York Times.
security investigations, is trying to identify the people
behind breaches of the Democratic National When reached by Reuters, Scott Smith, the FBI's new
Committee's computer systems. Those breaches, in assistant director for cyber crime, declined to comment this
2015 and the first half of 2016, exposed the internal week on which FBI offices were doing what or how far
communications of party officials as the Democratic they had progressed. The White House likewise had no
nominating convention got underway and helped comment on Friday on the Russian hacking investigations.
undermine support for Hillary Clinton. The Pittsburgh A spokesman pointed to a comment Trump made during
case has progressed furthest, but Justice Department the campaign, in which he said: "As far as hacking, I think
officials in Washington believe there is not enough it was Russia, but I think we also get hacked by other
clear evidence yet for an indictment, two of the sources countries and other people."
said.
the FBI's San Francisco office is trying to identify the It was unclear if any FBI bureaus were investigating the
people who called themselves “Guccifer 2” and posted leaks emanating from the US government which Donald
emails stolen from Clinton campaign manager John Trump repeatedly slammed in the past week, and which
Podesta’s account, the sources said. Those emails led not only to the resignation of Michael Flynn but to
contained details about fundraising by the Clinton constant disclosures into the inner workings of the Trump
Foundation and other topics. cabinet. While many of the opponents of the Clinton,
FBI counterintelligence agents based in Washington Podesta and Democratic leaks - broadly grouped under the
are pursuing leads from informants and foreign "Russians hacked the election" umbrella - have slammed
communications intercepts, two of the people said. "Russian interference" in the US electoral process, they
"This counterintelligence inquiry includes but is not have been far less troubled by similar leaks impacting
limited to examination of financial transactions by Trump, and - of course - vice versa.
.
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London Mayor: No VIP Treatment For Trump
Because Of 'Cruel' Immigration Ban
By Jacqueline Klimas (@Jacqklimas)
2/19/17 3:47 PM
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Trump Gets Ready To
Pick John Bolton As Advisor
Kurt Nimmo
February 19, 2017
Two other candidates, former Army Gen. Stanley In short, they all thought that man’s humanity depended on
McChrystal and former CIA Director David Petraeus, are his willingness to rush naked into battle and headlong to
no longer in the mix, sources told CNN Friday night. The his death. Only perpetual war can overturn the modern
front-runner for the post, Vice Adm. Bob Harward, project, with its emphasis on self-preservation and
dropped out of consideration apparently over concerns that “creature comforts.” Life can be politicized once more,
he could not bring his own staff to the National Security and man’s humanity can be restored.
Council.
This terrifying vision fits perfectly well with the desire for
For my take on Kellogg, read this, and Bolton here. honor and glory that the neo-conservative gentlemen
covet. It also fits very well with the religious sensibilities
The Bolton selection is being pushed by Ted Cruz. of gentlemen. The combination of religion and nationalism
is the elixir that Strauss advocates as the way to turn
There were signs of strong support inside and outside the natural, relaxed, hedonistic men into devout nationalists
administration for Bolton. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told willing to fight and die for their God and country.
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The neocon Bill Kristol recently reminded us this On Sunday, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul warned about
philosophy is still in play. He said “lazy white” workers nominating John Bolton.
should be replaced by more motivated foreign workers. He
probably believes they may be more willing to die for the “John Bolton still believes the Iraq War was
neocon cause of endless war and mass murder. a good idea. He still believes that regime
change is a good idea. He still believes that
Last September, Boykin endorsed Trump. A few weeks nation-building is a good idea,” said the
later, he praised Trump’s selection of James “Mad Dog” senator. “I think that his history of sort of
Mattis as secretary of defense. Mattis is known for his anti- acting on his own, my fear is that secret
Iran animus. wars would be developing around the
globe. And so, no, I think he would be a
According to his convoluted neocon logic, Iran is bad choice.”
responsible for the rise of the Islamic State.
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Confused About National Security Advisor Flynn’s ‘Resignation’
After CIA Illegal Spying, Leak? Partial Timeline:
Flynn Tweeted About ‘Elite Pedophilia,’ Senator Schumer
Threatened CIA ‘Getting Back At Trump,’
Flynn Repeated Lies For Illegal War On Iran,
Trump Escalates ‘Fake News’ Rhetoric On Corporate Media! Want
Truth? Without .01% ‘Deep State’ Arrests,
You’ll Never Have It
By Carl Herman
Posted On February 19, 2017
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1,500 arrests seem to have occurred since Trump’s
inauguration for sex trafficking and child sex crimes. I
did searches to verify each claim with multiple reports
of news agencies and/or law enforcement. Others have
documented at least some of these reports (and here,
here, here for three examples of news reports).
Washington’s Blog’s owner’s documentation of
pedophilia.
UK Prime Minister Edward Heath’s pedophilia
confirmed as “120% genuine” by the investigating
police chief.
US President George W. Bush gave a White House
press pass to a gay male prostitute for over 200 visits, Senator Schumer threatens Trump?
with pictures of W. kissing, hugging, and fondling the
prostitute’s head. This prostitute is linked to Bush Sr.
and child pedophile Franklin Affair. 3-minute InfoWars with Senator Harry Reid requesting “fake news”
video from Invisible Empire with President Bush, Jr. intelligence reports for Trump, and Senator Chuck
kissing, fondling and embracing gay male prostitute, Schumer promising that US intelligence agencies have “six
Jeff Gannon: ways to Sunday” to get back at Trump for
challenging a factless intelligence report claiming Russia
“hacked” the 2016 US presidential election
(and here, here). In one minute:
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3-minute video of Dan Rather’s fake news from November **
25, 1963 to sell the lie that President Kennedy’s fatal head
shot caused “violent forward motion” opposite to the fact Note: I make all factual assertions as a
his head was violently hit to cause backward motion (hat National Board Certified Teacher of US
tip What Really Happened): Government, Economics, and History, with
all economics factual claims receiving zero
refutation since I began writing in 2008
among Advanced Placement
Macroeconomics teachers on our
discussion board, public audiences of
these articles, and international
conferences (and here). I invite readers to
empower their civic voices with the
strongest comprehensive facts most
important to building a brighter future. I
challenge professionals, academics, and
citizens to add their voices for the benefit of
all Earth’s inhabitants.
Conclusion **
We’ll never have the truth until .01% arrests. Truthstream Note: Examiner.com has blocked public
Media’s pointed 12 minutes: access to my articles on their site (and from
other whistleblowers), so some links in my
previous work are blocked. If you’d like to
search for those articles other sites may
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uploaded to webarchive. I’ll update as
“hobby time” allows; including my earliest
work from 2009 to 2011 (blocked author
pages: here, here).
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Nothing Wrong In Flynn's
Contacts With Russian Envoy - Priebus
© REUTERS/ Jonathan Ernst - Politics
10:35 19.02.2017(Updated 14:27 19.02.2017)
Former US National Security Adviser He added that US President Donald Trump had not
Mike Flynn was within his rights to commented on whether Flynn was right to discuss
communicate with Russian officials, sanctions with Russia.
including on the matter of sanctions
against Moscow, White House Chief of
Staff Reince Priebus said. Flynn did not concede any wrongdoing in his resignation
letter, saying that he inadvertently briefed Vice President
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Monday night, Flynn resigned Mike Pence and others with incomplete information
as US national security adviser over misleading Trump regarding his phone calls with the Russian ambassador.
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Obama Appointed FEC Commissioner Behind Internet
Censorship Forced To Resign
Ryan Saavedra
Feb 19th, 2017 3:48 Pm
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Senior Trump Appointee
Fired After Critical Comments
By VIVIAN SALAMA - Associated Press
Feb 19, 6:10 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior Trump administration Trump signed an order in the first week of his presidency
official was fired following criticism in a private speech of to build a border wall with Mexico, jumpstarting a
President Donald Trump's policies and his inner circle of campaign promise. The move prompted Mexico's
advisers. President Enrique Pena Nieto to cancel his trip to
Washington in late January.
Craig Deare, whom Trump appointed a month ago to head
the National Security Council's Western Hemisphere The person who attended the Wilson Center discussion
division, was on Friday escorted out of the Executive also said that Deare openly expressed frustration over
Office Building, where he worked in Washington. being cut out of most of the policy discussions about
Mexico, saying that members of Trump's inner circle,
A senior White House official confirmed that Deare is no including chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump's son-
longer working at the NSC and has returned to the position in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, have not consulted with
he previously held at the National Defense University. The NSC directorates as the White House formulates policy.
official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an
incident not otherwise made public, and provided no Deare has been on the faculty of National Defense
further details. University in Washington since 2001. He joined the
university's College of International Security Affairs in
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said 2010 and most recently served as dean of administration.
Sunday that Deare "was sent back to his original position."
Asked if government employees should be concerned that The person who attended the Wilson Center talk also noted
they could be fired for criticizing the president, she said: "I that Deare made several remarks about how attractive
don't think any person that is there in order to carry out the Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, appeared, remarks that
president's agenda should be against the president's person described as "awkward."
agenda."
Deare did not immediately respond to a request for
Current and former administration officials say Deare's comment. Officials with the Wilson Center also declined a
termination was linked to remarks he made Thursday at a request for information, saying the discussion was off the
private talk at the Wilson Center, a Washington think tank. record.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because
they were not authorized to discuss the matter. Deare is the second senior NSC official to leave in under a
week. On Monday, Trump's national security adviser,
According to one person who attended the discussion, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, resigned after revelations that
Deare slammed the Trump administration for its policies he discussed sanctions with a Russian diplomat before
on Latin America, specifically its rocky start to relations Trump was sworn in, then misled Vice President Mike
with Mexico. That person spoke on condition of Pence about the nature of those conversations.
anonymity to discuss a private event.
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President Trump:
Diplomacy and Democracy in America
By Dr. James Petras
February 19, 2017
President Donald Trump has broken the ice with Chinese President
Xi Jinping.
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In sum, Trump is moving to reduce external imbalances by Under NAFTA, 2 million Mexican farmers went into
85% in order to increase domestic production and create bankruptcy and billions of dollars have been spent
jobs for US-based industries. importing (subsidized) rice, corn and other staples from the
US. A ‘Mexico First’ policy could open the door for a
Trump and Latin America revival of Mexican agriculture for domestic consumption
and export; this would also decrease out-migration of
Mexican farm workers. Mexico could re-nationalize its oil
Trump’s Latin America policy is focused primarily on
Mexico and to a much lesser degree on the rest of the industry and invest in domestic refineries gaining billions
continent. of dollars and reducing imports of refined petroleum
products from the US. With an obligatory import-
substitution policy, local manufacturing could increase the
domestic market and employment. Jobs would increase in
the formal economy and reduce the number of unemployed
youth recruited by the drug cartels and other criminal
gangs. By nationalizing the banks and controlling capital
flows, Mexico could block the annual outflow of about
$50 billion dollars of illicit funds. National-popular
policies, via reciprocity, would strengthen the election of
new leaders who could begin to purge the corrupt police,
military and political leadership.
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Trump Back On The Stump
By Stephen Lendman
2-19-2017
On Saturday, he addressed supporters in Melbourne, FL, Pruitt has deep ties to America’s energy industry,
his wife Melania introducing him. including billionaires Charles and David Koch.
He’s most comfortable in this element, saying he wanted He won’t be “environmentally friendly,” as
to speak Trump claimed - nor a “great secretary.”
He’ll make “a big difference (moving away
“without the filter of fake news - the from) clogging up the veins of our country
dishonest media…publishing one false with environmental impact statements and
story after another with no sources…” all of the rules and regulations,” Trump
added.
He came to tout his agenda without explaining his
disturbing start, his first 30 days in office far from What’s vitally needed, Trump opposes. Letting companies
encouraging. “navigate” freely assures greater environmental destruction
than already - polluting land, air, and water, Americans
He justifiably went on a rampage against media getting unsafe foods to eat.
scoundrels.
“…I’ve taken decisive action to keep radical
They’re “a big part of the problem,” he said. Islamic terrorists the hell out of our
“They are part of the corrupt system…They country,” he roared. Not a word about
have their own agenda…(W)e will continue ending US support for these elements.
to expose them for what they are…” Nothing about halting America’s imperial
wars or wasting trillions of dollars waging
He’s right about inheriting an enormous mess. He hasn’t them.
improved things so far, despite claiming otherwise. He’s
filling the swamp, not draining it. The best way to keep the nation safe is by no longer
harming people worldwide, waging peace, not war, aiding
He made lots of lofty promises earlier and yesterday with the poor and disadvantaged at home, treating everyone
little to show for them so far - deserving more justifiable everywhere equitably, serving all Americans, not just its
criticism than praise. privileged few.
He bragged about authorizing environmentally destructive So far, Trump is long on lofty promises, short on fulfilling
Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines, exaggerating the what matters most to ordinary people.
number of jobs they’ll create, failing to explain they’re
short-term, most no longer needed once construction is Will things improve in the weeks and months ahead? Can
completed. The damage they’ll cause is forever. he survive attacks intending to weaken and likely remove
him from office?
His touted war on regulations is great for big business, bad
for consumer rights and ecosanity. His EPA chief Scott Whatever his good intentions, if any, he’s no match against
dark forces wanting things run their way.
.
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Trump Dreams vs. Trump Reality –
Hopes Still Permitted!
The Saker
February 19, 2017
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points 6 and 7 are on life support and only 4 is having of Russia or an immediate recognition of
chills and a runny nose but might still live. Crimea (as part of Russia). Our joy at the
election of Trump was linked to a single
They key, of course, is point 1: draining the swamp. In factor: with Clinton we would had no
other words, wrestling the power away from the Neocons chances, none at all, to agree on anything.
and the US ‘deep state’ and putting it back where it If Clinton was now sitting in the White
belongs: in the hands of a President with a mandate of a House we would not be discussing the
majority of the American people. That is, alas, the biggest issue of the recognition of Crimea or the
loss we all suffered last week: the man who was supposed future of US sanctions. We would be trying
to drain the swamp got a humiliating smack-down by a to guess when the nuclear war would start,
deep state drunk on its own infinite chutzpah. The biggest we would be studying our bomb shelter
deal is not that Flynn was sacked, although that is a big maps, how to use a Geiger counter, and
deal, but the fact that the deep state forced Trump into how to count the correct dosage for iodine
publicly betraying Flynn and sacking him instead of those tablets.
who were involved in this palace coup (including Pence
himself). He is absolutely right, of course. This is also exactly what I
wrote on November 9th following the election:
What the deep state demonstrated this
week is that everybody in the Executive So it has happened: Hillary did not win! I say that instead
Branch serves not at the pleasure of the of saying that “Trump won” because I consider the former
President, but at the pleasure of the even more important than the latter. Why? Because I have
deep state, including probably Donald no idea whatsoever what Trump will do next. I do,
Trump himself. however, have an excellent idea of what Hillary would
have done: war with Russia. Trump most likely won’t do
By terminating Trump’s #2 the Neocons have now shown that.
the world that everybody else (#3, #4, etc.) and possibly #1
are all here only to the extend that they, the Neocons, let I never was a “Trump dreamer”. I was merely a Trump
them. I am personally convinced that unless Donald Trump hoper meaning that I had hopes that Trump would not
finds in himself the courage to mount a major counter- only be better than Hillary, but that he might deliver on, at
attack, the Neocons will find a way of kicking him out of least, some of his “dream” message.
the White House before his term ends. That is typically
their style: sending “messages” and “making an example”. But if the choice is the Neocons humiliating Trump or
thermonuclear war – then I pick the former, with gratitude.
If Trump “behaves” they might, possibly, let him do a little
of points #6 (law and order) and #4 (redirecting some Furthermore, however unpleasant this thought might be to
money to the US homeland). As for point #7 (Iran and many Americans, it is an undeniable fact that the United
China bashing), that is the only part of his program which States is currently the host upon which the AngloZionist
they will enthusiastically support (thereby also ending the parasite feeds and which this parasite uses to try to
dream of him not acting on that crazy nonsense). subjugate the entire planet.
So yeah, this is bad, and barring a miracle, the dream is What is happening now is that the Neocons and the deep
really over. state have succeeded in re-taking control of their host, but
only at the cost of a major weakening of that host. And that
However, let’s put that right back in perspective. is objectively good for our planet. Just as the coup in
Turkey ended up gutting the military and security services
The Trump reality and dramatically curtailing their ability to influence the
events in Syria (this is, in part, why Erdogan is now
playing ball with the Russians and the Iranians), the
If the dream is over, that is hardly a reason to become
ongoing color revolution against Trump is gutting the
despondent or to claim that supporting Trump was a
power of the American host and, thus, of the AngloZionist
mistake. Please always keep in mind what the alternative
parasite. For one thing, the entire political establishment is
was: Hillary Clinton.
so deeply involved in the struggle for power inside the
USA, that very little bureaucratic energy is left to deal with
One of my favorite Russian commentators, Ruslan anything else. Furthermore, in political terms, the
Ostashko, brilliantly put it when he said: “indispensable nation” and “city upon the hill” are now the
laughingstock of the planet. The next time around some
Not a single rational person was expecting State Department propagandist starts regurgitating the
Trump to display true friendship or love for usual chunk of propaganda prolefeed about democracy,
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human right and fair elections he will be greeted with a opportunities it presents us with. And there are a lot of
hysterical laughter and screams of “physician, heal great opportunities, along with very real risks, to be
thyself!!”. And, frankly, God only knows where this discovered. Just the fact that the leaders of the Empire
process might lead us next. I, for one, would absolutely not have turned against each other is a God sent blessing!
exclude the possibility of civil war in the USA. And before Let’s use that to the max.
that statement gets greeted with jeers and the usual set of
ad hominems, let me remind you that I predicted the civil Coincidence or not, but the Duran is reporting that the
war in the Ukraine when almost everybody else was in Chairman of the JCS, General Joe Dunford, and General
total denial (see: The gates of Hell are opening for the Valery Gerasimov, the Chief of the Russian military’s
Ukraine, written on Nov 20th, 2013). At this point in time, I General Staff have met in Baku. This is the first such
am not predicting a civil war in the USA, but I am saying meeting since January 2014 and it took place in a “cordial
that it has become a real possibility. atmosphere”. In fact, Dunford reassured Gerasimov that
there are in fact no plans to deploy US ground troops to
Civil war or not, all the Neocons and the deep state are Syria (there are, of course, already several thousand US
doing is accelerating the inevitable collapse of the USA as troops on the ground in Syria, both sides know that, but
a world hegemon. True, Trump could not have prevented both sides also know what Dunford is referring to: regular
it, but he could have negotiated it, using the still immense armed forces).
power of the USA to get the best possible deal from the
other big actors. If a person falls off a skyscraper, there is Can you imagine such a meeting under Hillary?
no way of preventing him of hitting the ground – but
whether he has a parachute or not will make a huge
What happened is really simple. With the election of
difference to him on how he will land. That is what Trump
Trump, the Neocons suffered a crushing defeat and it took
could have done – making a “descent on the breaks” as the
them less than a month to regroup and castrate Trump.
Russians expression goes. The skills to make that happen
This is bad and the “Trump dream” is over. But we – the
are straightforward: realism, willingness to negotiate, resistance to Empire, as still in very good shape. After all,
ability to understand the other guy, the courage to give up
Trump was never *our* candidate, he was the candidate of
that which is not sustainable, etc. That is the exact skillset
the part of the deep state which we, opponents of the US
that the Neocons totally lack. What they can do is double-
deep state in toto, supported as a lesser evil: and we were
down, then double-down again, and then double-down
right – he was and he still is the lesser evil. Furthermore,
some more. And that kind of maniacal attitude always the party which really lost the most is the Trump-
leads to catastrophe. supporting part of the deep state, and they now enough
power left (10, 30 or 45 percent – that does not really
Whatever may be the case, the big story for the foreseeable matter) to regroup and fight back. And if/when they do
future will be the infighting inside the US deep state. Why fight back, we still have to give them our support simply
infighting? Because Trump is also part of the deep state, he because that is the moral and pragmatic thing to do. Right
did just suddenly pop out of nowhere ex nihilo, he had, and now, Trump looks like Yanukovich, true. But I think that
still has, powerful backers. That’s the, comparatively he is also a far smarter and much more honorable person
speaking, the good news. The bad news is that the faction than Yanukovich. Call me naïve, but my gut feeling is that
of the deep state which is backing Trump appears to be the Trump cares for the USA and that he wants to do the right
weaker one. And Trump himself is not exactly a knight in thing. I might be wrong, of course. But at least so far I do
shining armor, to put it mildly. Still, if we imagine that by not see the clear signs of the total rot and corruption which
some aggregate measure of power the anti-Trump forces Yanukovich has all over his face. Furthermore, Trump
inside the deep state are, oh, 70% and the Trump appears to be learning. That is very important. In his latest
supporters are therefore 30%, the infighting between the press conference Trump finally finally showed some real
70% and the 30% will leave very little energy to either guts and counter-attacked the media, very effectively I
party to deal with Russia, China or Iran. would say. And remember how fast Trump learned from
his first defeat in the debate against Hillary? Trump might
It is a sweet irony that the big proponents of divide et be a fast learner and if that is really the case, then he might
impera did just that to themselves, is it not? learn some most useful lessons from the entire Flynn
debacle.
Conclusion
Hopes still permitted
It is way too early to become despondent. Yes, the “Trump
dream” is probably over, it was beautiful as long as it So hopes are still permitted. Not expectations – those are
lasted, but now the “Trump reality” is taking center stage always bad. But reasonable, reality-compatible hopes. Like
and we all need to learn how to operate in this new all humans, politicians change. If the Neocons don’t
context. We need to carefully and systematically study this succeed in impeaching him, Trump might still end up
new reality and carefully parse it for all the risk and kicking some ass, so to speak. And if they do impeach
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him, they will further weaken the Empire. So, all in all, I on good shape.
would say that while we had a very bad week we are still
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Democrats Go There: Invoke
25th Amendment Unless Trump “Gets A Grip”
Tyler Durden
February 19th, 2017
After questioning President Trump's sanity earlier in the And Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) plans to
week, it appears Democrats have found another narrative introduce legislation that would require
to cling to the presence of a psychiatrist or
psychologist in the White House.
- invoke the 25th Amendment unless
Trump "gets a grip." Justifying their questions by pointing to Trump’s habit of
making demonstrably false claims.
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What Trump Has Done His First 30 Days
Vs. What Hillary Probably Would Have Done
President Trump Certainly Has His Hands Full With An
Antagonistic Media To Overcome
By Jack Hellner - American Thinker
February 19, 2017
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Hired scandal-plagued loyalists such as Huma Abedin Had a news conference with pre-screened, scripted
and Cheryl Mills as a first priority and set up a private media questions and answers, just as she did
server. during the presidential debates.
Continued to ignore existing immigration laws and
allow sanctuary cities to do what they want. Although Hillary’s main goal would remain the same as it has
she voted for the wall, she and other Democrats hardly throughout her adult life: to enrich herself and her family
meant it. through her use of political power.
Allowed refugees to pour in and then pretended to
seriously review applications.
Thankfully, we now have a president who wants to give
Expanded issuance of new regulations. power, freedom, and money back to the people instead of
Certainly wouldn’t have frozen federal salaries that are
continue to expand the power of the massive government.
already much higher than the private sector, including
President Trump certainly has his hands full with an
benefits.
antagonistic media to overcome – a group who obviously
Let Obamacare continue to collapse under its own
want the government to get bigger and have been willing
weight and, as it did, declared that the only solution is
to look the other way no matter what Obama and Hillary
government-run health care. Hillary, the Democrats,
said or did.
and the media continue to want to take freedom of
choice away from Americans on health care.
Looked the other way, as Obama did, when Iran Yet Trump has done a lot in his first 30 days despite
violated U.N. sanctions. Approved the sale of more the obstruction of the Democrats, the courts, and the
U.S. uranium to Iran from Russia. Paid more ransom media. His approval rating by Rasmussen is now at 55%,
to Iran. and 45% now think the country is heading in the right
Begun work on raising taxes for individuals and direction (up around 15% from before the election). Of
corporations. course, those numbers are never reported, because facts
Nominated people with no private-sector experience, just don’t matter when the media have a president and an
just as Obama did. agenda to destroy.
Met with union leaders, hedge fund financier George
Soros, and other people who will pay her husband, Bill, Trump should also get credit for the drought ending in
$250,000 or more for short speeches. California, despite having nothing to do with it. After all,
Nominated a person for the Supreme Court who would the media and Obama himself gave Obama credit for
rule in favor of whatever Democrats like. ending the recession in 2009, just 130 days after he took
Continued to pay Boeing and Lockheed inflated prices. office, so it would seem only fair.
Continued the goal of bankrupting coal companies.
May have backed out of TPP but had previously said it I have an easy question for scientists, the media,
was the gold standard for trade agreements, even Democrats, professors, and Hollywood: since you blame
though she, like most other people, had no idea what humans and fossil fuels for the drought in California, what
was in it. caused it to end? I heard on CBS radio news this morning
Continued to block pipelines for no apparent reason that drought conditions have lessened, and they gave the
other than to appease special interest groups. reason that there was more precipitation. What deep
thinkers they are!
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MUST READ EXCELLENT ARTICLE!!!
Did Trump’s New Anti-Drug Policy
Prompt The CIA To Move Against Him?
By Mark H. Gaffney For The International Reporter:
February 19, 2017
“Trump’s executive orders would intelligence community, which are trying to elevate
launch a new war on drugs! Evidently, tensions between Russia and the US.” Kucinich continued:
president Trump idealistically (or “At the bottom of that is money, an agenda for someone to
naively) has decided to accomplish cash in on conflict between the US and Russia.”
what no president before him was able
(or willing) to do, namely, eradicate the Kucinich was spot on. The military industrial complex and
double scourge of drug and human their media pawns clearly do not want improved relations
trafficking which have destroyed so with Russia and are using their considerable power to
many young lives. Certainly it is a goal prevent it, for the reason cited. Untold billions in military
worthy of our support. However, there is contracts are at stake. War and the preparations for war are
a hitch, namely, the collision of such a extremely profitable; at any rate, for a privileged few.
policy with the status quo. This needs
clarification: If Trump’s new anti drug
trafficking policy is carried out it will
place drug enforcement agencies in
direct opposition to CIA officers who for
many years have “managed” the flow of
cocaine and heroin into the United
States. In fact, “dismantling the
transnational criminal organizations”
responsible for the drug trade will
ultimately require nothing less than the
dismantling of the CIA itself.”
In recent days, we have witnessed the Nikki Haley At The UN. Falsely accused Russia of invading Crimea.
disturbing spectacle of open warfare Crimea had a legal referendum in 2014 where 90% of the population
voted to return to Russia.
between the newly elected president
and the intelligence community. During the last few days, Trump and his
inner circle made statements about
Crimea indicating the immense pressure
had the intended effect.
Break up the media conglomerates. Paul Craig Roberts has A special thank you to George Webb, whose ongoing open
suggested that Trump use anti-trust law to accomplish this sourced people’s investigation at Youtube has been a great
and I agree. The US corporate media has long since help in connecting the dots!
abandoned its original function, which is to inform the
citizenry, and unfortunately has become an instrument for
fake news and propaganda. Press diversity must be
restored.
Notes:
1. https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/09/presidential-executive-order-task-force-crime-reduction-and-public
2. https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/09/presidential-executive-order-enforcing-federal-law-respect-transnational
3. Chris Arsenault, “Mexican official: CIA ‘manages’ drug trade”, Aljazeera, July 24, 2012, posted at
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/07/2012721152715628181.html
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4. Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin (Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 2003 revised edition); Doug Valentine, The CIA as Organized
Crime (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2017) see especially chapters 12-14; Peter Dale Scott, Cocaine Politics (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1991).
5. Kathryn Bolkovac, The Whistleblower (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Also: don’t miss the movie with the same name
based on the book starring Rachel Weisz
6. Raymond W. Baker, “The Biggest Loophole in the Free Market System,” Washington Quarterly, Autumn 1999, p. 29, posted at
(see p. 1061) http://frwebgate.access. Quarterly, Autumn 1999, p. 29, posted at (see p. 1061)
http://frwebgate.access. earings&docid=f:61699.pdf. Also see The CIA as Organized Crime, p. 214.
7. Rajeev Syal, “Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor”, the Guardian, December 12, 2009.
8. http://truepundit.com/breaking-bombshell-nypd-blows-whistle-on-new-hillary-emails-money-laundering-sex-crimes-with-children-
child-exploitation-pay-to-play-perjury/
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The AP Asked Trump's Supporters How Feel
About His War With The Press: This Is What It Found
By Tyler Durden
Feb 19, 2017 7:41 PM
While vocal critics of Donald Trump, many of them "most impressive presidential press
members of the media, saw in Trump's Thursday news conference" of his life. "Largely because it
conference, Friday tweet in which he claimed the press was so unorthodox," said Felty, 48, who
was the "enemy of the American people", and subsequent works as a surgical assistant and sells life
Saturday campaign speech, a combative, thin-skinned insurance. "It was hyper adversarial
chief executive who continues to blame the media for the between the president and the press. And
controversies roiling his administration, his supporters saw yet he was able to control the questioning
something else entirely: a champion of Middle America and the tone and the mood in the room."
who is taking on the establishment and making good on his
campaign promises to put the country first. Felty said the media needs to move on regarding Russia
and former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
The Associated Press contacted Trump supporters across
the country to see how they viewed Trump's latest fued "There was nothing illegal that General
with press. Here are the views of some of those supporters: Flynn had done at that time," Felty said.
"What he did do is make a mistake in not
*** being accurate with the vice president."
Richelle Kirk of Logan, West Virginia, watched some of He also said he believes Trump is trustworthy as president.
Trump's news conference on Thursday and didn't see any
head-scratching comments from the president. "He doesn't need the media to chide him to
make the right decisions," Felty said. "It's
"I back him 100 percent," said the 42- something he's been doing well for
year-old stay-at-home mom. "You either decades."
love it or get out, is my opinion."
***
During Barack Obama's presidency, her husband was laid
off from his coal-mining job, a loss they blamed on Regina Lenoir of Picayune, Mississippi, enjoyed watching
Obama's environmental policies. She said they lost a home Trump's news conference and said the president "looked
and "everything we owned." more relaxed." Lenoir, 69, said she was most interested in
the president's comments about the alleged leaks that led to
After West Virginia voters resoundingly rejected Obama the resignation of Michael Flynn as national security
during his 2012 re-election, "we didn't show our hind ends adviser.
when Obama was re-elected," Kirk said. So she believes
people shouldn't overreact to Trump, either. "We don't know the conversation that
happened between him and (Vice
She particularly agreed with the president when he took President Mike) Pence. Only they know.
credit for an optimistic business climate and a rising stock But the news media gets out there (and)
market, saying Trump is beginning to fulfill his campaign says such and such with no corroboration,"
promise to put people back to work. she said. "I'm sick of them making up
stories. You know, we're intelligent people.
Reporters, she said, "need to leave him We can make up our own mind on whether
alone. He's just doing what he said he's they're telling the truth."
going to do."
She agreed with Trump's take on how the media has
*** covered his administration and campaign, saying those
covering his administration are good reporters but biased.
Kevin Felty of Norfolk, Virginia, said it was the
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She said if people gave Trump a chance, "he might just racism in every speech. They're looking at
surprise everyone. the wrong things."
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US President Trump Calls On NATO Allies To Pay Fair
Share For Defense
© REUTERS/ Kevin Lamarque - US
04:55 19.02.2017(Updated 05:58 19.02.2017)
As US Defense Secretary James Mattis The issue of relations within NATO between the United
and US Vice President Mike Pence States and other allies has become a relevant matter
traveled to Europe to persuade in recent months, after the election of Trump as the US
America's allies to increase their president. During his campaign, as well as after the
spending on NATO, President Trump victory, the US politician has repeatedly criticized the
delivered a speech in Florida, in which alliance, calling for its member states to increase defense
he stressed that despite he is a "fan" of spending to fulfill their obligations as part of NATO.
the military alliance, he wants allies to
pay a fair share for their defense.
Only a handful of NATO members have reached the 2-
percent target as of 2016. The United States is the top
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Trump said on Saturday that he spender, allocating over 3.6 percent of its GDP on defense,
was a "NATO fan," and urged other members of the followed by Greece, the United Kingdom, Estonia and
military alliance to increase their defense spending Poland. The remaining 23 members are below target.
in accordance with their obligations.
On Saturday, Former NATO chief Anders Fogh
"We must ignore the tired echoes Rasmussen said that NATO allies are capable of raising
of yesterday's fights. We are fighting battles their defense spending to 2 percent of gross domestic
that no longer help us, we are fighting product by 2024. A day before it, current NATO Secretary
battles that other people are entreating us General Jens Stoltenberg said that the target would have
fairly in the fight. I am a NATO fan, to be reached in the next decade and NATO's spending
but many of the countries in NATO, many on defense would gradually increase after years
of the countries that we protect, many of cutbacks.
of these countries are very rich countries,
they are not paying their bills… they have
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Who's Really Behind The Soft-Coup? Obama-Founded
Activist Group Offers Anti-Trump Protest "Guide"
By Tyler Durden
Feb 19, 2017 9:50 PM
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Republican lawmakers, it says, when Nobody is safe. Not even the members ducking town
“shared through social media and halls. Our Revolution, the group that spun off from
picked up by local and national media.” Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, will launch a
map tomorrow showing every congressional district in
After protesters gave MSNBC, CNN and the networks the country that they intend to swarm next Saturday.
footage of their dust-up with Chaffetz, for example, the Shannon Jackson, Our Revolution's executive director,
outlets ran them continuously, forcing Chaffetz to issue says they've already got close to 200 events planned
statements defending himself. around the country and will be rallying outside nearly
every Republican congressional office.
The manual also advises protesters to flood “Trump-
friendly” lawmakers’ Hill offices with angry phone calls Resisting the resistance: House Republicans have been
and emails demanding the resignation of top White House intensely prepping for these confrontations. At least 175
adviser Steve Bannon. members attended Obamacare "listening sessions" —
which were really detailed policy briefing sessions —
A script advises callers to complain: convened by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
“I’m honestly scared that a known racist
and anti-Semite will be working just feet Finally, Martin Armstrong concludes by
from the Oval Office … It is everyone’s remarking that the Obama administration
business if a man who promoted white intentionally set the stage knowing what
supremacy is serving as an adviser to they were doing was designed to
the president.” undermine and cripple the Trump
Administration.
None other than Robert Reich is front and center in the
"Townhall Disruption Guide"... The sanctions on Putin were also intended to prevent
Trump from reversing the tension created by Obama to
create an international conflict. These leaks appear to be
part of an intentional plot by Obama/Left to allow his
supporters within the intelligence community to topple
Trump if they can. Obama waited until he had just 17 days
left in office to sign an executive order to expand the
power of the National Security Agency (NSA) allowing it
to share globally intercepted personal communications
with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies
before any application of top secret or privacy protection
would be attached.
As he states boldly to believe in that the people can bring It’s like the Hunger Games – suppress all freedom is their
about change through their own action. agenda.
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Oliver Stone Gives Impassioned Speech at WGA Awards:
It’s Not Just Trump, ‘But a System’
By Alex Stedman, Debra Birnbaum
February 19, 2017 | 08:45PM PT
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Trump’s Foreign Policy:
The Good And The Bad In His First 30 Days
Foreign Policy Highlights And Lowlights From The First Month
By Chris Ernesto / Antiwar.Com
February 19, 2017
Trump said: “Russia … this is fake news put out by the THE BAD
media … I’m here today to tell you the whole Russian
thing, that’s a ruse.” US troops deploy to Bulgaria as part of NATO
“It’s going to be impossible for [me] to ever get along operation.
with Russia because of all the pressure [I’ve] got with Hundreds of US Troops, Tanks Arrive in Romania.
this fake story” Trump: “Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the
“If we could get along with Russia … China and Japan Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on
and everyone … it would be a positive thing, not a Russia?”
negative thing”. Saudi crown prince receives CIA honor for anti-terror
“I say it’s better to get along with Russia than not.” efforts.
When asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin, US-led coalition air strikes killed 18 Afghan civilians,
who was called a “killer” by the interviewer, Trump U.N. says.
responded, “We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you US tanks, infantry fighting vehicles arrive
think our country is so innocent?… take a look at what in Estonia amid NATO buildup on Russian borders.
we’ve done too.” US to Deploy Navy Destroyer Off Yemen Coast.
Trump: ‘Nothing Off the Table’ On Iran.
“We made a lot of mistakes. I’ve been against the war US sanctions Iran after missile test.
in Iraq from the beginning … A lot of mistakes, but a lot Nikki Haley just delivered the Trump administration’s
of people were killed. A lot of killers around, believe most hawkish words yet toward Russia.
me.”
Many Civilians Among the Dead After US Raid
Russian lawmakers & economists optimistic after Putin- in Yemen.
Trump call.
President Trump said he believes that “torture works.”
Trump: “They have sanctions on Russia — let’s see if
The first arms sales of the Trump administration: $1.85
we can make some good deals with Russia … For one
billion to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Britain and Kenya
(pending congressional approval).
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U.S., Coalition Continue Strikes Against ISIL in Syria, Donald Trump’s top team don’t all agree with him
Iraq. on Russia.
NATO has our ‘unshakable commitment’, Pentagon Tillerson Wants to Provide Saudi Arabia With More
chief vows. Help to Bomb Yemen.
US declines to send formal delegation to Syria peace Mattis: US Needs to Be Ready to ‘Confront’ Russia.
talks, citing timing issues; will instead send an
ambassador. NOTE: The information above is excerpted from the St.
Yemen Reports First US Drone Strikes Under Trump – Pete for Peace fact sheet on the Trump administration’s
10 Killed in Two Strikes. foreign policy. The fact sheet will be updated throughout
the Trump presidency.
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Looks Like Donald Trump
Was Right About Sweden After All
By Emily Zanotti
8:49 Pm, February 19, 2017
Trump also managed to baffle Sweden itself, which Sweden, Horowitz says, is hiding the truth about its
responded by asking the Trump Administration for any situation, and the Swedish people want their country to
inside information they might have about a recent attack in adapt to the migrants, rather than requiring the migrants to
their country. adapt to Sweden.
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Unconfirmed, Leftist Usurped Violent Operation American
Spring 2017 To Begin May 1, 2017
Posted By Harry Riley, COL, USA, Ret
February 19, 2017
This report is unconfirmed but worthy of leftist individuals, neocons, and Central
your attention.......... Banks to bring down the Trump
Administration, in essence reverse what
There is now unsubstantiated information/rumor God ordained and “we the people” voted
circulating that a violent (leftist usurped) Operation for in the 2016 election.
American Spring 2017 is scheduled to begin on or about
May 01, 2017 across America. Monetary power-brokers in world-wide central banks are
losing control and they don’t like it. Thus, attacks, protests,
My primary reason for writing is to absolve myself fake news, on every government in the world that is
personally as well as Operation American Spring 2014 focusing on monetary change/reversal away from Central
from any agreement or association or intent to support, Banks control, is increasing.
Operation American Spring 2017. There is nothing about
this reported violent activity that I or Operation American This so-called Operation American Spring 2017 is
Spring 2014 can condone, in fact we reject and condemn reported being paid for by Central Bank and foreign
the reported operation. money, and reported to begin May 1, 2017 (May Day-
Communist holiday) with tens of millions of paid violent
In late 2013 I introduced a peaceful plan for patriots who agitators across the United States creating chaos and
love the United States of America and our Constitution to destruction in hopes of bringing down the Trump
participate, if desired. This was a peaceful protest in Administration and US government. There is nothing
Washington, D.C. against the direction leadership in about this reported violent activity that I or Operation
Washington was taking our nation. American Spring 2014 can condone, if fact we reject and
condemn the reported operation.
The peaceful plan was called “Operation American
Spring” and conducted for a period beginning May 16th, It is interesting that President Trump is reiterating that the
2014. (To read about this www.patriotsforamerica.ning.com/ ) White House is running “very smoothly” while the “fake
news” is broadcasting nothing but “chaos” in the White
House. Politicians such as Senator McCain in a foreign
Operation American Spring 2014 Mission: Restoration of
land disrespectfully suggesting “dictator” associated with
Constitutional government, rule of law, freedom, liberty
our President, another method of encouraging an
"of the people, for the people, by the people" from despotic
atmosphere of “chaos”. The display of arrogance by
and tyrannical federal leadership.
democrat senators stalling President Trumps Cabinet
confirmations is another indication of liberal/leftist
While Operation American Spring of 2014 did not contribution to a fake chaotic condition. More on the
accomplish it’s mission of the peaceful removal of Barack “chaos” movement...Radical Left is now scheduling
Obama, Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, FAKE TOWN HALLS in the names of Republican
Nancy Pelosi, and AG Holder, the peaceful election of Congressmen/Congresswomen...WITHOUT EVEN
2016 solved many goals OAS 2014 was pursuing. INVITING THE REPRESENTATIVES TO
Successful removal, in a peaceful election, of the democrat ATTEND!!! DON'T FALL FOR THE FAKE NEWS!!!
regime from any leadership positions in the United States Go to the leftist site www.indivisibleguide.com/ to see
Federal Government, basically accomplished the major how these progressives will be attacking the conservative
goal of 2014 Operation American Spring agenda.
The reported Operation American Spring According to a report the above examples
2017 is being identified as a “Deep of chaos is exactly what the “Deep State
State”(shadow government working within supporters, leftist, media fake news,
the US government bureaucracy ), media, neocons, black-mailed, bribed or bought
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US politicians, and central banks” are criminal behavior in the extreme with a goal of creating so
creating and desire. much chaos that the Trump Administration will not be able
to secure our nation...resulting in President Trump
Operation American Spring 2017, if valid as reported to removal..
begin May 1, 2017, is a nation-wide, destructive, anti-
American attack on property, civilian personnel, our Qualifier: This report is unconfirmed but worthy of your
Constitution and form of government. Potential threat and attention..........
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Intelligence Heads Say
No Evidence Of Collusion With Russia - Priebus
© AP Photo/ Pablo Martinez Monsivais - US
21:55 19.02.2017(Updated 06:04 20.02.2017)
"The New York Times last week put out an Meanwhile, the FBI is actively investigating at least three
article with no direct sources that said that lines of inquiry into foreign involvement in the election. In
the Trump campaign had constant contacts Pittsburgh, the bureau's field office is trying to identify
with Russian spies," Priebus told Fox News who breached the DNC computer systems in 2015 and
Sunday, the Hill reports. 2016, Reuters reports. They have not found enough
evidence for an indictment so far.
That story is "complete garbage," Priebus said his sources
told him.
In San Francisco, the FBI is trying to identify the Guccifer
2 hacker group, which posted emails from Clinton
"I can assure you, and I've been approved campaign manager John Podesta. And in Washington, FBI
to say this, that the top levels of the counterintelligence is looking into foreign communications
intelligence community have assured me intercepts and leads from informers regarding transactions
that that story is not only inaccurate but it's between Russians and Trump associates.
grossly overstated."
Trump repeated this week that he had no business
According to the New York Times story from earlier this connections to Russia. He has in the past traveled to Russia
week, intercepted calls and phone records reveal that now- to explore business opportunities, and he has partnered
President Donald Trump's campaign team and other with Russian financiers on projects in other parts of the
associates were frequently in contact with Russian world through his large, international business network.
intelligence officials in the year before the election. The Moscow has consistently denied any involvement in the
article, which cites anonymous sources, says the contacts hack or the election.
caused intelligence officials to investigate whether the
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Rex Tillerson Purges Remnants
Of “Shadow Govt” At State Department
Tillerson Recently Laid Off Several Employees Associated With The “7th-
Floor Group” At The State Department, A Group Which FBI Documents
Revealed Is Part Of A “Shadow Government” That Once Stepped In To
Protect Hillary Clinton From Prosecution.
By Whitney Webb
February 20, 2017
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been let go at the end of January. One of the employees the recent firings, once again make plain the great rift
fired recently, Tom Countryman, told CBS News he was between those “Deep State” elements that stay in place
worried that the White House was showing its intent to cut throughout Presidential administrations and the fledgling
out the State Department in order to prevent allegedly Trump administration.
“nonpartisan” officials from challenging the executive
branch on foreign policy matters. Though this latest move by Tillerson and the Trump
administration may serve to lessen some of the Deep
The firings came soon after Trump’s meeting with Israeli State’s influence in U.S. politics, it is worth noting that
Prime Minister Netanyahu, a meeting which drew criticism such entrenched elements will not go off quietly into the
from the U.S. political establishment as not a single State night. At the very least, there will be some sort of
Department official was included in the meetings. A State retaliation for this latest move, meaning that even more
Department official told CBS News that the decision to controversy can be expected in the months ahead for
change the meeting’s normal procedures was done to Trump and the executive branch over which he now
facilitate “a more personal discussion.” This, along with presides.
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The President Needs To Purge And Start Fresh:
“White House Staff Has Been Infiltrated And Infested”
Jeremiah Johnson
February 20th, 2017
As of this writing, the President is beset by forces in “The purge of Army Lt. Gen. Michael
Washington and in the White House who are determined to Flynn engineered by White House Chief
derail his “cleansing” efforts and continue with their own of Staff Reince Priebus, formally the
actions. Those forces are spearheaded by the RINO head of the Republican National
(Republicans In Name Only) “5th Columnists” either Committee in Washington, is the “Pearl
working directly for and with the Democratic Party or Harbor” for Trump loyalists – a
independently of them but for the interests of the Globalist devastating attack that determines for
Network. On December 17, 2016 I wrote a piece for Trump supporters that Priebus, an elite
entitled Trump Can’t Stop It: The people who have GOP Washington insider, must go. The
been orchestrating the collapse have not halted their concern among Trump loyalists is that
agendas. Here is an excerpt: now that Priebus has succeeded in
getting rid of Flynn, his next targets will
“He [President Trump] is going to be Trump top advisors Steve Miller,
emplace several people in his cabinet Steve Bannon, and Kellyanne Conway –
who are known to be either in the all of whom D.C. insiders are planning
pockets of the corporations (such as must go if Priebus is to succeed in
Mnuchin), or have stances that sabotaging Trump’s revolutionary
diametrically oppose his own campaign agenda. Infowars has established that
pledges (such as his selection for White Priebus is the Chief Leaker in the White
House Chief of Staff who supports House, responsible for feeding the
amnesty for illegal aliens).” Trump-hating mainstream media that
daily dominate the White House news
I specifically referred to Priebus in that article and went on room with “read meat,” including the
to write that the President would either knuckle under to demeaning leak to the Washington Post
the interests, or else he would be removed from office. It that Trump is “isolated,” a “clueless
appears the second option is in motion by the child,” wandering about in a bathrobe
establishment, as he has not knuckled under and has been (that Trump does not own), who’s
in the process of cleaning house since day one of his term. presiding over a “White House in
Referring to the excerpt, let it be stressed that Reince disarray.”
Priebus has been a bought and paid for Washington insider
since long before the appointment to White House Chief of All of this is now: subsequent to what happened prior to
Staff. Priebus has been attempting to staff the White the election, in this final excerpt from the article:
House with supporters loyal to him, and not to the
President. In addition, as reported on Alex Jones’ Info “In October 2016, as the presidential
Wars, the leaks of potentially-damaging and degrading campaign was entering its final weeks,
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Priebus, in reaction the controversy President, with his hardcore Marxist Democrat wife for a
over Trump’s lewd comments about First Lady?
women recorded in 2005, redirected
RNC funds from Trump’s campaign , Ryan threw Donald Trump under the
spending instead on down-ticket GOP bus prior to the election, but now he is
candidates Priebus at that time thought kissing the seat of the President’s
were more likely than Trump to win.” trousers.
Such actions should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that Priebus is worse. All of this has been orchestrated
Priebus was not for the President before the election and (perhaps by him) to waste time, generate negative
he’s not in his corner now. There are some people that publicity, and enmesh the President in scandal/pseudo-
should not have been selected for the President’s team, and scandal to negate his efforts.
leading the pack is Priebus. The best way to have avoided
these pitfalls would have been to start with intelligent
Priebus is proof that the President’s staff
people and people with ability that aren’t part of the
is both infiltrated and infested with a
establishment and have not been bought beforehand. This
severe need for a complete
is a mistake that the President did not consider. He was
cleanout…an “enema” in every sense of
hoping that these individuals would come into his camp
the word.
with the connections and the experience, and that they
would change their mindset and follow his plans. Now we
see that it isn’t so. It is also proof that there are no political parties.
Democrats and Republicans are a ruse to provide the
people with the illusion of choice. There are either NWO
Priebus was clearly pro-amnesty for the illegal aliens prior
Globalists, their servants, and the mindless slaves, or those
to his assignment as Chief of Staff. Priebus was bought
who resist them and their agendas.
and paid for by the businesses that favor paying foreign
aliens under the table illegally and keeping them in the
U.S. illegally, rather than paying American citizens to do If the Republican Party was either good and/or unified
those jobs and reporting the wages and withholding with a conservative agenda, then surely the former chair
legally. The President needs to “file 13” Priebus, and then (Priebus) would demonstrate an example of solidarity with
start from scratch. the reformative efforts of a President who wishes to clean
up the mess in Washington and place the country back on
course. This is not the case, proving that most of the time
Look at Ryan…. Paul Ryan, the “Number 3” in line for the the greatest enemies of a leader are in his own camp.
White House after the President and Vice President. Priebus is no exception to that rule, and in order to lead
Really? So, if the President and Vice President have
effectively, he and the other swine need to be scourged out
“bought the farm,” then Ryan becomes the President? of the White House before further (and perhaps
Republican Speaker of the House Eddie Munster as the irreparable) damage is done.
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The CIA Vs. The Presidency:
This Is Not The First Time
By Jon Rappoport
February 20, 2017
—In 1947, the president of the United States, Harry decisions unchecked by responsible
Truman, decided: I’m going to create a snake and call it policy–making power’?”
the CIA. Its watchword will be secrecy. It will collect
“Later, when Lee Harvey Oswald’s possible
secrets of our enemies and hold them secret and report the
role in the U–2 affair became known, some
secrets to the president, who will decide what to do. Of observers felt Dulles’s action implied that
course, the snake will remain under the president’s control.
the director of the CIA was above the
Its entire personality will be based on deception, but it will
president and that the military–industrial
remain loyal to the president. No problem. Sure. complex could do what it pleased,
independent of the will of the people as
I’m thankful for Charles Hollander’s challenging piece on expressed by the popularly elected and
Thomas Pynchon’s novel, The Crying of Lot 49: duly constituted chief executive. No wonder
“Pynchon, JFK and the CIA: Magic Eye Views of The Ike [Eisenhower] was peeved: the CIA was
Crying of Lot 49.” running the U.S. the way it ran Latin
America. The U–2 affair was no mere
Hollander offers vital reminders of the war between two personality squabble, Ike vs. Dulles; it was
parts of the Executive Branch: the presidency and the CIA. two institutions of the executive branch
vying for supremacy, the presidency vs. the
“Implicit in Pynchon’s fiction is the view that CIA, hence the democratic process vs. a
events in recent American history have led form of totalitarism.”
to a virtual constitutional crisis, a challenge “The CIA had already planned the April
to the supremacy of the presidency by the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion before Kennedy
intelligence community.” took office in January, and when the
“When Eisenhower made his ‘open skies’ invasion failed, Kennedy felt that the CIA
proposal, in July 21, 1955, at a Geneva had set him up. He let it be known he
summit conference, calling for unrestricted intended to dismantle the CIA and assign
but monitored overflight of national its functions to the other intelligence units
territories on both sides of the Iron Curtain, within the government. He reportedly
many observers felts its acceptance would vowed ‘to splinter the CIA in a thousand
have gone a long way toward thawing the pieces and scatter it to the winds’…
Cold War. To make a gesture of good faith Kennedy, a Democrat, forced the
toward Soviet Premier Khrushchev, the Republican Allen Dulles to resign, along
president ordered the CIA (under Allen with other senior CIA officers. But the CIA
Dulles) to halt its U–2 photo– was too deeply involved just then in
reconnaissance flights. But Dulles secretly operations around the world to be
arranged for the flights to continue. When disassembled. Kennedy was assassinated
Francis Gary Powers’s U–2 spy plane was in 1963, in a way that implicated the
shot down in the Ural mountains on May 1, CIA…critics of the Warren Commission
1960, and Khrushchev announced the facts Report, maybe even J. Edgar Hoover—
to the world media, the embarrassed believed the CIA had some hand in
Eisenhower lied to cover up. To many it Kennedy’s assassination and the coverup.
appeared that the CIA chief had disobeyed If it had, the CIA was again demonstrating
a direct order from the Commander–in– that the presidency was subordinate to the
Chief. The St. Louis Post–Dispatch asked CIA.”
the next day, ‘Do our intelligence “In a very short time, two presidents, a
operatives enjoy so much freewheeling Republican and a Democrat, ran afoul of
authority that they can touch off an incident the CIA. The result amounted to a
of grave international import by low–level constitutional crisis, a change in our actual
form of government without benefit of a
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duly ratified constitutional amendment. The This is not a recent assumption. It goes all the way back to
crisis is reminiscent of that period in the early days of the CIA; Eisenhower, Kennedy.
Roman history when the Praetorian Guard
could sell the office of Emperor to the In 2016, the IC leadership decided Trump would be a
highest bidder and then, after a time, threat to their power, so they leaked/invented information
assassinate him and have a new auction. about the Russians influencing the election on behalf of
To this day, the president has never again Trump. This effort was aimed at corroding his right to
challenged the CIA, though the agency has claim that he was the legitimate president.
made its share of egregious errors. With
the selection of former CIA director George
The war continues.
H.W. Bush, the presidency and the CIA
effectively merged…”
The IC doesn’t want presidents with
independent ideas.
These days, President Trump is in his own war against the
CIA and other parts of the intelligence community (IC). They’re the bosses, and they intend to
keep it that way.
In his case, he has overtly criticized the IC and called them
disseminators of fake news and lies. He claims he’s putting —The snake slithers in the sun and the shade. It moves
an end to foreign wars of conquest. He’s already canceled deftly and collects information and decides what to do with
a major Globalist trade treaty, the TPP. it. It compiles its own private list of enemies and allies. It
senses its own power. Why should it honor its mandate?
But the IC believes it owns the Presidency and sets his There is an Empire to be gained.
agenda.
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The Term “Deep State” In Focus:
Usage Examples, Definition, And Phrasebook
Source: Naked Capitalism
By Lambert Strether Of Corrente
Published: February 20, 2017
Since today is President’s Day, there will be no Water stepping up leaking stuff, fine. But it is not ‘deep state’
Cooler. Which is a good thing, because this puppy took like in Turkey.”
forever to write. –lambert
Comment: One danger I always face is projecting
*** American politics onto other countries. Tufekci warns us
the opposite is a bad idea too!
“It’s called the ruling class because it
rules.” –Arthur Silber
Properties: Permanent bureaucracy and/or non-electoral
Readers know that I’ve been more than dubious about that institutions; “shadowy,” cross-institutional. We cross out
incredibly virulent earworm of a term, “deep state” “conducting killings” for the American context (or do
(December 1, 2014). However, in the last week or so, we?).
“deep state” is all over mainstream discourse like kudzu,
and so it’s time to look at it again. As we shall see, it’s no 2. Glenn Greenwald, Democracy Now!. Greenwald thinks
more well-defined than before, but I’m hoping that if we the term is sloppy too (though “scientific” is a high bar):
aggregate a number of usage examples, we’ll come up
with a useful set of properties, and a definition. Following The deep state, although there’s no precise or scientific
the aggregation, I’ll propose a number of phrases that I definition, generally refers to the agencies in Washington
hope can attenuate deep state‘s virulence, and render it a that are permanent power factions. They stay and exercise
sharper and more subtle analytical tool in posts and power even as presidents who are elected come and go.
comments. They typically exercise their power in secret, in the dark,
and so they’re barely subject to democratic accountability,
While the usage of “deep state” exploded last week after if they’re subject to it at all. It’s agencies like the CIA, the
General Flynn’s defenestration by Trump, it seems likely NSA and the other intelligence agencies, that are
to me that the term had been spreading in the recent past essentially designed to disseminate disinformation and
before that, given that a series of politically motivated deceit and propaganda, and have a long history of doing
leaks by the “intelligence community” (IC) from summer not only that, but also have a long history of the world’s
2016 onwards could colorably be attributed to such an worst war crimes, atrocities and death squads. This is who
entity. The examples are in no particular order; I haven’t not just people like Bill Kristol, but lots of Democrats are
had the time to find a “patient zero.” placing their faith in, are trying to empower, are cheering
for as they exert power separate and apart from—in fact, in
opposition to—the political officials to whom they’re
Usage Examples of “Deep State”
supposed to be subordinate.
1. The Atlantic. Since “deep state” as a term originated in
Turkey (derin devlet), I’ll start with a Turkish analyst: Comment: Later in the show, Greenwald says that the deep
state is “almost engag[ing] in like a soft coup.” Here’s the
Kristol tweet to which Greenwald alludes, explicitly
There Is No American ‘Deep State’ applauding that coup with the bracing clarity so foreign to
most Democrats:
Zeynep Tufekci, a Turkish sociologist and writer at the
University of North Carolina, tweeted a string of criticisms
about the analogy Friday morning. “Permanent
bureaucracy and/or non-electoral institutions diverging
with the electoral branch [is] not that uncommon even in
liberal democracies,” she wrote. “In the Turkey case, that’s
not what it means. There was a shadowy, cross-institution
occasionally *armed* network conducting killings, etc. So,
if people are going to call non electoral institutions
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I characterized Greenwald’s soft coup — and Kristol’s — the CIA, NSA, Defense Intelligence Agency, and
more delicately as “a change in the Constitutional Order” components of the State Department, Justice Department,
(“Federalist 68, the Electoral College, and Faithless Department of Homeland Security, and the armed forces.
Electors”) but the sense is the same.
With a docile Republican majority in Congress and a
Properties: Kristol, not normal, not democratic, not demoralized Democratic Party in opposition, the leaders of
constitutional; Greenwald: permanent power factions, the Deep State are the most—perhaps the only—credible
agencies, especially intelligence agencies, which specialize check in Washington on what Senator Bob Corker (R-
in deception and require secrecy. Tenn.) calls Trump’s “wrecking ball presidency.”
3. Peggy Noonan, Patriot Post: And Roger Stone, a man who knows his memes:
Is [the current chaos], as some suggest, “deep state” “This is an effort by the Deep State to destabilize the
revenge for the haughty, dismissive way Donald Trump president,” Stone said.
spoke of the U.S. intelligence community during and after
the campaign? … Is it driven by the antipathy of the Comment: Morley, then, agrees with Kristol (the “only
permanent government toward Mr. Putin, and a desire to check” in Trump).
bring down those, like Mr. Trump, who hope for closer
relations with Russia? …
Properties: Intelligence agencies; permanent.
5. Jefferson Morley, Alternet: Comment: Grandin does give an early usage example, but
I’m totally unpersuaded by his identification of the “deep
What Is the ‘Deep State’—And Why Is It After state” with “civil society.” Rather — as Breitbart,
Trump? amazingly enough, suggests — the deep state more
plausibly includes components of civil society (media,
contractors, etc.).
The Deep State is shorthand for the nexus of secretive
intelligence agencies whose leaders and policies are not
much affected by changes in the White House or the Properties: Not monolithic; includes (components of) civil
Congress. While definitions vary, the Deep State includes society.
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7. Benjamin Wallace, The New Yorker: Properties: Law enforcement, contractors, agencies, the
courts.
The Deep-State Theory Cuts Both Ways
9. New York Times
This pattern of dissent [“#TheResistance”], and its early
successes, has brought about a vogue for the theory of the As Leaks Multiply, Fears of a ‘Deep State’ in America
deep state, usually used in analyzing authoritarian regimes,
in which networks of people within the bureaucracy are Though the deep state is sometimes discussed as a
said to be able to exercise a hidden will of their own… shadowy conspiracy, it helps to think of it instead as a
political conflict between a nation’s leader and its
The federal government employs two million people; its governing institutions.
sympathies move in more than one direction. While many
federal employees may want to oppose the White House, That can be deeply destabilizing, leading both sides to
others (especially border-patrol and immigration agents, wield state powers like the security services or courts
whose support Trump often cited on the campaign trail) against one another, corrupting those institutions in the
have already been taking some alarming liberties to process.
advance the President’s politics.
In countries like Egypt, Mr. El Amrani said, the line is
Comment: Wallace urges that some Federal employees in much clearer.
the permanent bureaucracy are, in essence, “working
toward the Fuhrer,” which is a consequence of the deep
There, “the deep state is not official institutions rebelling,”
state not being monolithic. He attributes the “vogue” for he said, but rather “shadowy networks within those
“deep state” to the resistance, but I (and most others cited institutions, and within business, who are conspiring
here) think it’s the Flynn firing.
together and forming parallel state institutions.”
It’s the militarized police, which have joined forces with Properties: I’ll use Egypt’s! Network, shadowy,
state and federal law enforcement agencies in order to businesses forming parallel state institutions.
establish themselves as a standing army. It’s the fusion
centers and spy agencies that have created a surveillance 10. Marc Ambinder, NPR:
state and turned all of us into suspects. It’s the courthouses
and prisons that have allowed corporate profits to take With Intelligence Leaks, The ‘Deep State’ Resurfaces
precedence over due process and justice. It’s the military
empire with its private contractors and defense industry
GARCIA-NAVARRO: So how do you define the deep
that is bankrupting the nation. It’s the private sector with
state?
its 854,000 contract personnel with top-secret clearances,
‘a number greater than that of top-secret-cleared civilian
employees of the government.’ It’s what former AMBINDER: Well, I try to define it simply – maybe the
congressional staffer Mike Lofgren refers to as ‘a hybrid of national security and intelligence bureaucracy, the secret-
national security and law enforcement agencies’: the keepers in the United States, people who have security
Department of Defense, the State Department, Homeland clearances, who have spent 10 to 20 to 30 years working in
Security, the CIA, the Justice Department, the Treasury, and around secrets.
the Executive Office of the President via the National
Security Council, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance GARCIA-NAVARRO: So when we’re hearing about this
Court, a handful of vital federal trial courts, and members term this week to do with Michael Flynn, what do we –
of the defense and intelligence committees.” what are people making that connection with potentially a
huge group of people and this particular case?
Comment: Seems pretty big to be deep…
AMBINDER: They’re essentially alleging that the national
security state, this metastate that exists and, again, traffics
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totally in secret – used its collective power in order to 3. Is not monolithic
bring down a duly chosen national security adviser 4. Is composed of “cross-institutional” networks of
because they disagreed with him or they disagreed with his individuals in both state (agencies, law enforcement)
president or they disagreed with his policies. It is a term of and civil society (media, contractors)
derision, a term that suggests people are using their power 5. Is not democratic in its operation; and (potentially) is
for ill-begotten ends. And that, if true, sets up a crisis. not accountable, not normal, not constitutional.
Comment: Ambinder, then, rejects putting a “civil society” (Individuals within the deep state belong to factions that
construction on “deep state.” (He also rejects Greenwald, compete and cooperate, often in addition to their “day
and Kristol’s, “soft coup.”) jobs,” rather as in a “matrix management” construct.)
Comment: Note the lack of agency in “was disclosed.” It’s important to put into our thinking right from the start
Had the deep state not been able to use David Ignatius as a that Deep State actors are not all-powerful, and that Deep
cut-out, the scandal would never have occured. Therefore, State operations are not invariably successful. I mean, can
a media figure, a member of civil society, was essential to anybody look at the foreign and nationally security
the operation of the Deep State, even though Ambinder’s outcomes from what these guys are doing and urge that the
definition of the deep state doesn’t reflect this. baseline for performane is very high? I don’t think so.
Accidents happen all the time, and these guys, for all the
Properties: Network; civil society. power their positions bring them, are accident-prone.
(After all, they’re not accountable, so they never get
accurate feedback, in a typical Banana Republic power
***
dynamic.
So now I’m going to aggregate the properties suggested by
Example: “The Iraq WMD’s yellowcake uranium episode
these 10 sources, and make some judgements about what
was a Deep State Blooper.” (See here for details; the
to keep and what to throw away. Throwing out Noonan’s
yellowcake uranium was part of the Bush administration’s
concept of “a government within a government”, I get this.
WMD propaganda operation to foment the Iraq War.)
The deep state:
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for agencies, their operations are not bureaucratic in Example: “Leon Panetta is a consummate Deep State
nature. Actor.” (Panetta has been OMB Director, CIA Director,
White House Chief of Staff, and Secretary of Defense.
Example: “The White House Iraq Group was a Deep State “[Panetta] regularly obtains fees for speaking
propaganda operation that succeeded tactically but failed engagements, including from the Carlyle Group.[55] He is
strategically” (See here for details; the WHIG planted also a supporter of Booz Allen Hamilton.”
stories in the press to foment the Iraq War. They succeeded
in that narrow goal, but the war itself was a debacle, and 4. “Deep State Faction”. This is a no-brainer:
the damage to the credibility of the press as an institution
took a hit.) Example: “The Neoconservatives are a Deep State
Faction.”
3. “Deep State Actor”. An individual can be a member of
the Deep State as an official, and then later as media Conclusions
personality or contractor. (It also seems to me that once
you have been within the intelligence community, you can
I apologize for the length as I fought my way through the
never be said to have left it, since how could anyone know
material, and I hope I haven’t made any gross errors —
you have really left?
especially political science-y ones! And any further
additions to the Deep State Phraseology will be very
welcome (but watch those definite articles!).
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Trump Names Lt. Gen. HR McMaster
As National Security Adviser
By Tyler Durden
Feb 20, 2017 4:13 PM
BREAKING: Trump picks retired Gen. H.R. According to Foreign Policy'sThomas Ricks says,
McMaster as next national security adviser picking McMaster is not a bad thing.
https://t.co/BHiYnKtXJe
I’ve known him since he was major. He’s smart, energetic,
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 20,
and tough. He even looks like an armored branch version
2017
of Harward. (That’s him, working out with a punching bag
in Iraq, in the foto. I took it in the citadel in downtown Tell
McMaster is a highly regarded military tactician and Afar one sunny winter day about 10 years ago.) (Btw,
strategic thinker, but his selection surprised some Harward was scheduled to appear on ABC’s “This Week”
observers who wondered how McMaster, who is known yesterday morning, but backed out an hour before airtime.
for questioning authority, would deal with a White House )
that has not welcomed criticism, Reuters wonders. He
replaces a Trump loyalist. Michael Flynn, a retired Army
Once Trump was turned down by Harward, it became
lieutenant general, was fired as national security adviser on
more likely that he would turn to the active duty military
Feb. 13 after reports emerged that he had misled Vice
for his 3rd pick for the job. McMaster is among the best
President Mike Pence about speaking to Russia's
of them out there. For his Ph.D. dissertation, he wrote one
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of the best books on the Vietnam War, Dereliction of War, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring
Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Freedom, and his reputation for questioning U.S. policy
the Lies That Led to Vietnam. and military leaders regarding the Vietnam War.
He has good combat experience, he was a good trainer, McMaster graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy
and he led the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment well in his in 1980, where he served as a company commander with
deployment to Iraq, most notably in pacifying Tell Afar, to the rank of cadet captain. He is a 1984 graduate of West
the west of Mosul. Point, where he played rugby.
I wrote about his operations there in my book The Gamble. He holds Master of Arts and Ph.D. degrees in American
I am traveling so I don’t have it with me, but I remember history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
him telling his soldiers that understanding Hill, and authored a thesis critical of American strategy in
counterinsurgency really wasn’t hard: “Every time you the Vietnam War, which is detailed in his 1997 book
disrespect an Iraqi, you’re working for the enemy.” They Dereliction of Duty.It harshly criticizes high-ranking
even had “Customer Satisfaction Forms” that detainees officers of that era, arguing that they inadequately
were asked to fill out upon release: Were you treated well? challenged Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and
How was the food? What could we do better? President Lyndon Johnson on their Vietnam strategy. The
book is widely read in Pentagon circles and is on the
There are two big differences between official reading list of the Marine Corps.
him and Harward: First, he is on active
duty. (Though the Army inexplicably Early Career
couldn’t find a four star job for him, and
had told him to plan to retire later this His first assignment after commissioning was to the 2nd
year.) Second, his wife won’t kill him if Armored Division at Fort Hood, where he served in a
he takes the job, as Harward’s wife variety of platoon and company level leadership
might have. assignments with 1st Battalion 66th Armor Regiment. In
1989, McMaster was assigned to the 2nd Armored Cavalry
That said, the basic problems remain. To do the job right, Regiment at Warner Barracks in Bamberg, Germany,
McMaster needs to bring in his own people. And it where he served until 1992, including deployment to
remains unclear if he can get that. Operation Desert Storm.
As for relations with the Pentagon: McMaster knows During the Gulf War in 1991 he was a captain
Mattis, but not well. (They both spoke at a conference at commanding Eagle Troop of the 2nd Armored Cavalry
the University of North Carolina in April 2010.) But they Regiment at the Battle of 73 Easting. During that battle,
are similar people and will respect each other. Ricks adds though significantly outnumbered and encountering the
that he did an informal poll of people who have worked for enemy by surprise as McMaster's lead tank crested a dip in
McMaster, asking if they would be willing to follow him the terrain, the nine tanks of Eagle Troop destroyed over
to the National Security Council staff. To a surprising eighty Iraqi Republican Guard tanks and other vehicles
degree, they replied, Yes, they would. That’s an indication without loss, due to the Abrams tank being state-of-the-art
of loyalty to and confidence in him. armored technology while the Iraqi equipment included
grossly outdated T-62s and -72s of the Soviet era as well
*** as similarly dated Type 69s of Chinese manufacture.
Herbert Raymond "H.R." McMaster's full public bio is "At 4:10 p.m. Eagle Troop received fire
below: from an Iraqi infantry position in a cluster of
buildings at UTM PU 6801. Eagle troop
Herbert Raymond "H. R." McMaster (born July 24, 1962 Abrams and Bradleys returned fire,
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American soldier, and silenced the Iraqi guns, took prisoners, and
a career officer in the U.S. Army. His current assignment continued east with the two tank platoons
is Director, Army Capabilities Integration Center and leading. The 12 M1A1 tanks of Eagle Troop
Deputy Commanding General, Futures, U.S. Army destroyed 28 Iraqi tanks, 16 personnel
Training and Doctrine Command. His previous assignment carriers and 30 trucks in 23 minutes with no
was commander of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at American losses. At about 4:20 Eagle
Ft. Benning, Georgia. McMaster previously served as crested a low rise and surprised an Iraqi
tank company set up in a reverse slope
Director of Combined Joint Interagency Task Force-
Shafafiyat (CJIATF-Shafafiyat) (Transparency) at ISAF defence on the 70 Easting. Captain
(International Security Assistance Force) Headquarters in McMaster, leading the attack, immediately
engaged that position, destroying the first
Kabul, Afghanistan. He is known for his roles in the Gulf
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of the eight enemy tanks to his front. His 60 Minutes produced a similar segment in July, and the
two tank platoons finished the rest. Three operation was the subject of an article in the April 10,
kilometers to the east McMaster could see 2006 issue of The New Yorker.
T-72s in prepared positions. Continuing his
attack past the 70 limit of advance, he Author Tim Harford has written that the pioneering tactics
fought his way through an infantry employed by 3rd ACR led to the first success in
defensive position and on to high ground overcoming the Iraqi insurgency. Prior to 2005, tactics
along the 74 Easting. There he included staying out of dangerous urban areas except on
encountered and destroyed another enemy patrols, with US forces returning to their bases each night.
tank unit of eighteen T-72s. In that action These patrols had little success in turning back the
the Iraqis stood their ground and attempted insurgency because local Iraqis who feared retaliation
to maneuver against the troop. This was would very rarely assist in identifying them to US forces.
the first determined defense the Regiment McMaster deployed his soldiers into Tal Afar on a
had encountered in its three days of permanent basis, and once the local population grew
operations. Still, the Iraqi troops had been confident that they weren't going to withdraw nightly, the
surprised because of the inclement citizens began providing information on the insurgents,
weather and were quickly destroyed by the enabling US forces to target and defeat them.
better trained and better equipped
American troops."
McMaster passed command of the 3rd Armored Cavalry
Regiment on June 29, 2006 and joined the International
McMaster was awarded the Silver Star. The battle features Institute for Strategic Studies in London, as a Senior
in several books about Desert Storm and is widely referred Research Associate with a mandate described as
to in US Army training exercises. It also receives coverage "conducting research to identify opportunities for
in Tom Clancy's 1994 popular non-fiction book Armored improved multi-national cooperation and political-military
Cav. McMaster served as a military history professor at integration in the areas of counterinsurgency, counter-
West Point from 1994 to 1996, teaching among other terrorism, and state building", and to devise "better tactics
things the battles in which he fought. He graduated from to battle terrorism."
the United States Army Command and General Staff
College in 1999.
From August, 2007 to August, 2008 McMaster was part of
an "elite team of officers advising US commander"
Later Career General David Petraeus on counterinsurgency operations
while Petraeus directed revision of the Army's
From 1999 to 2002, McMaster commanded 1st Squadron, Counterinsurgency Field Manual during his command of
4th Cavalry Regiment, and then took a series of staff the Combined Arms Center. Petraeus and most of his team
positions at U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM), were stationed in Fort Leavenworth at the time but
including planning and operations roles in Iraq. McMaster collaborated remotely, according to senior team
member John Nagl.
In his next job, as lieutenant colonel and later colonel,
McMaster worked on the staff of USCENTCOM as Career as General Officer
executive officer to Deputy Commander Lieutenant
General John Abizaid. When Abizaid received four-star McMaster was passed over for promotion to Brigadier
rank and became Central Command's head, McMaster General in 2006 and 2007, despite his reputation as one of
served as Director, Commander's Advisory Group (CAG), "the most celebrated soldiers of the Iraq War." Though the
described as the command's brain trust. rationale for promotion board decisions is not made public,
it is generally agreed that McMaster was held back
In 2003 McMaster completed an Army War College because of his tendency to argue against the status quo. It
research fellowship at Stanford University's Hoover should be noted that McMaster was the second person in
Institution. his 1984 West Point Class to be promoted to Brigadier
General behind only William Rapp and the third in the
In 2004, he was assigned to command the 3rd Armored entire 1984 Year Group. No officers from later year groups
Cavalry Regiment (3rd ACR). Shortly after McMaster are senior to him except for Special Corps officers, e.g.
took command the regiment deployed for its second tour in Medical and Judge Advocate General Corps. This should
Iraq and was assigned the mission of securing the city of call into question the assertion that he was ever "passed
Tal Afar. That mission culminated in September with over" for promotion.
Operation Restoring Rights and the defeat of the city's
insurgent strongholds. President Bush praised this success, McMaster was selected for Brigadier General on the 2008
and the PBS show Frontline broadcast a documentary in promotion list. Secretary of the Army Pete Geren had
February, 2006 featuring interviews with McMaster. CBS' requested General Petraeus to briefly return from Iraq to
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take charge of the promotion board as a way to ensure that On February 18, 2014 Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
the best performers in combat received every consideration announced the nominations of four officers for promotion
for advancement, and it is generally acknowledged that to Lieutenant General, including McMaster, who was
Petraeus's presence ensured that McMaster was among selected to become Deputy Commander of the Training
those selected. and Doctrine Command and Director of TRADOC's Army
Capabilities Integration Center.
In August, 2008 McMaster assumed duties as Director,
Concept Development and Experimentation (later renamed "It is heartening to see the Army reward such an
Concept Development and Learning), in the Army extraordinary general officer who is a thought leader and
Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) at Fort Monroe, innovator while also demonstrating sheer brilliance as a
Virginia, part of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine wartime brigade commander," retired Army Gen. Jack
Command. In this position McMaster was involved in Keane, a former Army vice chief, said of the promotion.
preparing doctrine to guide the Army over the next ten to
twenty years. He was promoted on June 29, 2009. In April 2014, Maj General McMaster made Time
magazine's list of 100 most influential people in the world.
In July 2010 he was selected to be the J-5, Deputy to the He is hailed as "the architect of the future U.S. Army" in
Commander for Planning, at ISAF (International Security the accompanying piece written by retired Lt. Gen. Dave
Assistance Forces) Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. Barno, who commanded U.S. and allied forces in
Additionally, McMaster directed a joint anti-corruption Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005.
task force (CJIATF-Shafafiyat) at ISAF Headquarters.
"Major General Herbert Raymond
As with his promotion to Brigadier General, McMaster McMaster might be the 21st century Army's
was the second member of his 1984 West Point class pre-eminent warrior-thinker," Barno wrote.
behind William Rapp to be selected for promotion to "Recently tapped for his third star, H.R. is
Major General and all six Year Group 84 officers selected also the rarest of soldiers—one who has
that year were promoted within 2 months of each other. repeatedly bucked the system and survived
Rapp was selected the previous year and was the only Line to join its senior ranks."
Year Group 84 officer selected that year. Army Chief of McMaster is cited for his "impressive
Staff General Martin Dempsey called McMaster "probably command and unconventional exploits in
our best Brigadier General." the second Iraq war," Barno wrote.
McMaster was nominated for Major General on January In July 2014 McMaster was promoted to Lieutenant
23, 2012. In April, 2012 he was announced as the next General and began his duties at the Army Capabilities
commander of the Army's Maneuver Center of Excellence Integration Center.
(MCoE) at Ft. Benning. On June 13, 2012 McMaster
assumed command of the MCoE and was promoted to
Major General in a ceremony at Ft. Benning with a date of
rank of 2 August 2012.
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“They Are Taking Out Trump’s Lieutenants”:
Deep State Intelligence Ops Sabotaging The White House?
By Mac Slavo - Via Shtfplan
02.20.2017 @10:33 AM EST
If Gen. Mike Flynn can be removed, it not only challenges Hypocrisy and true intent mean nothing to these people.
the power of the Trump White House but builds upon the They must have it their way, and they will stop at nothing
false narrative that Russia has been involved in hacking, to get their agenda settled. They are at war with Trump,
cyber attacks and undermining legitimate U.S. power. and he will either bend or break, as far as they’re
concerned.
Greg Hunter of USA Watchdog spoke with the very
insightful Catherine Austin Fitts about the palace intrigue If that is the case, then there is no “democracy” or
and cloak-and-dagger inner-workings of the new “constitutional republic.” The American Dream and the
administration, and the creatures of the establishment who republic for which it stands are null and void, because the
resent their rival claim to power over U.S. policy. This is shadow government stole unchecked power from the gods
truly historical stuff going on: like Prometheus, and have kept it to themselves rather than
distributing the power.
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Lewandowski Slams Trump Senior Staff For Recent
Missteps On Immigration
By Barnini Chakraborty
Published February 20, 2017
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Andrew Puzder bowed out, Trump unleashed a battery of “This administration is running like a fine-
accusations against the media. tuned machine,” Trump said.
His lengthy presser came on the heels of Michael Flynn The White House did not immediately return a request for
resigning as national security adviser over a controversy comment.
regarding his past contact with Russia’s ambassador.
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Rand Paul
“We’re Very Lucky Trump Is In Charge And Not McCain”
Senator Rand Paul Ripped Fellow Republican John McCain
By VNN
February 20, 2017
13 Comments:
Reba: Senator Rand Paul…Thank you… for a voice of Alvin Ross: Toooooo a Nursing Home with Hillary,
reason and support for our President Trump ! - February 19, Pocahontas Warren, Nancy Pelosi, Feistein and Reid! -
2017 February 20, 2017
Michael Cleveland: Yes Mc Cain is a democratic - February Robert Booth: Do not forget Ginsberg that bat shit crazy
19, 2017 loon falls asleep at the drop of a hat .. - February 20, 2017
Gilbert Jackson: McCain is no good, he a loser, and nothing John V.: Don’t call McCain a conservative, he is anything
more. he need to be hung by our Gov. along with hc and but. Needs to leave, he is pissed Trump is his own man that
Obama and john k. so many not for the good of America or it does not make deals that make Senators rich. McCain is a
People, some say President Trump is costing us a lot of RINO. He does not like the fact an “outsider” won the
money, gust they for get, he is working free. da Presidency, which the professional DC politicians think is just
February 19, 2017 for them. - February 20, 2017
Bell: Leftist loony McCain acting like a basker and Roseanne Sansouci: How come he couldn’t talk like this on
overreacting, misleading Europe. That dude is unhinged. - the campaign trail? Here he was articulate and had good
February 19, 2017 ideas. During the campaign he couldn’t get a straight
sentence out. - February 20, 2017
Elle: McCain is losing it.. he needs to retire - February 19,
2017 James Reeser: McCain can’t get it though his brain dead
head that he isn’t I in charge anymore. Time for him to go
Mike: He is too old to reason logically. Very bitter man. home he’s not going to rape the people anymore! - February
Trump didn’t cost you the election John McCain. Stop hate. 20, 2017
He is your president. - February 19, 2017
Harold: John McCain is a idiot no wonder he got caught
Kufre Friday: Rand Paul is super balanced and stable unlike when he was fighting the war back in the day because he just
McCain that is an unhinged conservative that seems not to a screw up he needs to go back to Arizona and sit down and
realize that Trump speaks for all true lovers of America and a whine and cry to his wife. - February 20, 2017
stable world - February 20, 2017
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West Unable To Show Proof
Of RT's 'Lies' As It Does Not Exist - Editor-In-Chief
© Sputnik/ Evgeny Biyatov - World
13:13 20.02.2017(Updated 13:14 20.02.2017
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Trump Isn’t The One Who
Needs To ‘Get A Grip,’ It’s Hysterical Democrats
There Are People Who Have Been Elected To Govern Us With Mental
Problems, But The President Isn’t One Of Them
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 20, 2017
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Pence & WaPo On NATO
By Stephen Lendman
2-20-2017
As long as NATO exists, world peace, stability and
security are impossible. He ignored Kiev aggression on Donbass, instead bashed
Russia irresponsibly, saying Washington will hold
The alliance is a US-dominated killing machine, used for Moscow “accountable” on Ukraine and its (nonexistent)
endless wars of aggression, not defense at a time the only efforts to redraw international borders by force” - while
threats are invented ones. “search(ing) for new common ground.”
Candidate Trump called NATO “obsolete.” How many resets will Russia tolerate, given a history of
UK Prime Minister Theresa May said he’s US broken promises? On Monday, Sergey Lavrov
“100% behind NATO.” diplomatically blasted US intelligence, anonymously
admitting it routinely wiretaps the communications of
In early February, he expressed “strong support” for the Russia’s ambassador to Washington, including “reports to
alliance, according to a readout of his conversation with Moscow about his activities in” America’s capital.
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg,
Neocon, CIA-connected Washington Post Editors urged
“agree(ing) to continue close coordination European NATO members to increase their defense
and cooperation to address the full range of spending when cutting it sharply should be prioritized.
(invented) security challenges facing
NATO.” They quoted former Obama defense secretary Robert
Gates, saying
Representing the Trump administration at the Munich
Security Conference on Saturday, Vice President Pence “(i)f current trends in the decline of
said European defense capabilities are not
halted and reversed, future US political
“the United States of America strongly leaders…may not consider the return on
supports NATO and will be unwavering in America’s investment in NATO worth the
our commitment to this trans-Atlantic cost.”
alliance.”
Gates’ hyperbole fooled no one. Washington uses NATO
Urging member states to increase military spending at a as an imperial tool. Imagine how much safer humanity
time no enemies exist, he added would be if it didn’t exist.
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Thirty Days Later: Trump’s First
Month In The Media Hole
Danielle Ryan
Published Time: 20 Feb, 2017 09:48
It’s been thirty days since Donald Trump took office and what a 30
days it’s been. The Trump administration — whether operating in
sheer chaos or running like a “finely tuned machine” — is certainly
one of a kind.
The crowd size at Trump’s inauguration somehow ended While chaos and confusion ensued in airports, Trump
up being one of the biggest stories of Trump’s first few made calls to five world leaders, including Russian
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President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Trump takes time to blast Nordstrom department stores for
Merkel. While nothing substantial came from the call with dropping his daughter Ivanka’s product line. Celebrities
Putin — other than a mutual agreement that US-Russia respond by posting pictures of themselves holding
relations were in need of repair — the exchange still Nordstrom bags online.
prompted more media attention than the rest. Speculation
over Trump’s elusive ‘ties to Russia’ (which he denies) Week 4: Finely tuned machine
continues to plague the administration and fascinate
American journalists, despite little evidence.
Allegations that Trump’s national security adviser Michael
Flynn discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador to
Week two ends with the Trump administration putting the US provoked more Russia-related trouble for the new
Iran “on notice” after an attack on a Saudi warship by administration. Flynn is eventually forced to resign,
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. In light of other admitting that he misled Vice President Mike Pence on the
hawkish statements from Trump and his administration on content of the calls. The media makes a mountain out of a
Iran, one expert warns that the US could stumble into a molehill, implying that Flynn is in Russia’s pocket and that
conflict which would make the wars in Afghanistan and his calls with the Russian ambassador are part of a wider
Iraq look like “a walk in the park”. scandal of “Russian influence” in the political system. A
general climate of neo-McCarthyism continues to
Week 3: Setbacks and killers permeate the American mainstream media.
Trump suffered a policy setback in his third week when a Speculation abounds that US intelligence agencies are
judge temporarily halted his travel ban after hearing withholding information from Trump over fears that he has
arguments that it had discriminated against Muslims and been compromised by the Kremlin. Again, little reliable
caused unnecessary harm. Trump lashed out at the “so- evidence has been presented by either the media or the
called judge” on Twitter. The next day he tweeted that if intel agencies to support this theory.
something happened (presumably a terror attack), the
American people should blame the judge and the court Trump himself calls the Russia story a
system. At the same time, things were heating up for “ruse”.
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway as she defended the
ban, citing the “Bowling Green Massacre” — a terror Week 4 also saw Trump take to the podium for his first
attack that never actually happened. Conway’s words solo White House press conference which lastly roughly
invited ridicule from the media. 75 minutes. Trump berated the press for their treatment of
him and boasted that his administration had accomplished
Trump and his ‘Russia ties’ were back in the news when more than any other in “such a short period of time”.
he gave a pre-Superbowl interview to Fox’s Bill O’Reilly.
Responding to O’Reilly’s assertion that Putin is a killer,
He also defends reports that his
Trump disappointed mainstream media yet again by
administration is in “chaos” and calls it a
refusing to erroneously put the US on a higher moral plane
“finely tuned machine”.
than the rest of the world.
Trump’s first weeks have been marred by scandals (big
“There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of ones or small ones, depending on your particular point of
killers,” Trump said. “You think our country view), dramas and protests. His biggest conflict yet has
is so innocent?” been with the media. As I’ve written before, both Trump
and the journalists covering him play right into each
Trump’s third week ends with another blow to the other’s hands; a dysfunctional circus and a vicious cycle
immigration ban as a panel of three judges upholds the which doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.
earlier injunction against the order. On a lighter note,
.
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McCain In Munich: The War Party Fights Back
The Battle Over US Foreign Policy Is Taking Center Stage. Sen. John
McCain, The Senate’s Leading Warmonger,
Is At The Forefront Of The Fight.
By Justin Raimondo - Antiwar.Com
February 20, 2017
The Munich conference held over the weekend – an annual Sen. John McCain, the Senate’s leading warmonger, is at
event that brings the leaders of the Atlantic alliance the forefront of the fight: in a speech delivered at Munich,
together to celebrate their hegemonic pretensions – was he took direct aim at Trump – without having the courage
anything but celebratory this time around. to name him, of course. Assailing the “blood and soil”
nationalism that is supposedly taking root not only in
Europe but also in the US, McCain noted with sympathy
Despite the assurances of Vice President Pence that
the “alarm” with which the founders of NATO would view
America’s commitment to NATO is “unwavering,” the
the new trend:
Euro-crats in the audience were miffed that he failed to
mention the European Union. And while they agreed, at
least in public, with US admonitions that they have to start “But what would alarm them most, I think,
fulfilling their obligations to devote at least 2 percent of is a sense that many of our peoples,
their budgets to defense, the reality is that there is very including in my own country, are giving up
little will to do so: for example, the Brits are now boasting on the West … that they see it as a bad
that they have brought their military expenditures up to deal that we may be better off without …
speed, but as Peter Hitchens points out they only did this and that while Western nations still have
by adding in the cost of military pensions, i.e. cooking the the power to maintain our world order, it is
books. unclear whether we have the will.”
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Trump, and it should be taken with a grain
of salt, because John McCain’s the guy
who’s advocated for war everywhere. He
would bankrupt the nation. We’re very
lucky John McCain’s not in charge,
because I think we’d be in perpetual war,”
“I would say John McCain’s been wrong
on just about everything over the last four
decades. He advocated for the Iraq War,
which I think destabilized the Middle East.
If you look at the map, there’s probably at
Neocon architects of failed regime change wars least six different countries where John
McCain has advocated for us having boots
And where, exactly, is “our world order”? The world is in on the ground.”
chaos, thanks in large part to people of McCain’s ilk, who
led us into the Middle Eastern quagmire and plunged that Amen, brother!
region in a maelstrom of violence that has only escalated
since George W. Bush’s fateful decision to invade Iraq.
One thing McCain isn’t wrong about is that there is
considerable opposition in the political class to the new
turn in American foreign policy, and the core of it was
present in Munich:
McCain, and his co-warmonger Lindsey Graham, hope to No, we aren’t taking all of the credit for the fact that his
mobilize the bipartisan foreign policy Establishment and nomination for Deputy Secretary of State was nixed – but
throw a monkey wrench into any effort to rip up the many it’s not over the top to say that we had some effect. People
tripwires that would drag us into a conflict with Russia. wrote, called, and tweeted their opposition to Abrams –
and he didn’t get the job.
Yet they are generals without an army: polls show that
Americans don’t consider Russia much of a threat to the Your voice does matter, yes we can bring pressure to bear
US, and this is true especially among Republicans. And – but, again, we can’t do it without you. The War Party has
there is no appetite among the general public for a unlimited resources: we, on the other hand, only have what
confrontation with Moscow: that sentiment is limited to our readers and supporters decide to give us. And that
the Washington Beltway. decision could make the difference between war and
peace.
What this means is that a grassroots effort to beat back the
War Party and make some real changes in our foreign
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Psychiatrists Diagnosing Trump With Personality
Disorders Told They Must Stop
© AP Photo/ Chris O'Meara - US
19:20 20.02.2017(Updated 19:26 20.02.2017)
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the highest office in the world. Some have even formed a It's not merely in the US that psychiatrists have detected
political action group, Citizen Therapists Against personality disorders in the US president.
Trumpism — in the group's manifesto, they state
In the UK, Oxford Professor Kevin Dutton conducted a
"we are alarmed by the rise of the ideology study which, he alleges, found Trump scored higher
of Trumpism, which we see as a threat than Adolf Hitler and Idi Amin on the psychopathy scale.
to the well-being of the people we care
for and to American democracy itself."
.
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Fox News Turns Against Trump:
You Crossed The Line!
Mon Feb 20, 2017 10:5AM
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Sunday, according Reuters. “The press, as
far as I'm concerned, are a constituency
that we deal with, and I don't have any
issues with the press myself.”
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace (L) and White House Chief of Staff
Reince Priebus
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The President Needs To Purge And Start Fresh: “White
House Staff Has Been Infiltrated And Infested”
Jeremiah Johnson
February 20th, 2017
“In October 2016, as the presidential Ryan threw Donald Trump under the
campaign was entering its final weeks, bus prior to the election, but now he is
Priebus, in reaction the controversy kissing the seat of the President’s
over Trump’s lewd comments about trousers.
women recorded in 2005, redirected
RNC funds from Trump’s campaign , Priebus is worse. All of this has been orchestrated
spending instead on down-ticket GOP (perhaps by him) to waste time, generate negative
candidates Priebus at that time thought publicity, and enmesh the President in scandal/pseudo-
were more likely than Trump to win.” scandal to negate his efforts. Priebus is proof that the
President’s staff is both infiltrated and infested with a
Such actions should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that severe need for a complete cleanout…an “enema” in
Priebus was not for the President before the election and every sense of the word. It is also proof that there are no
he’s not in his corner now. There are some people that political parties. Democrats and Republicans are a ruse to
should not have been selected for the President’s team, and provide the people with the illusion of choice. There are
leading the pack is Priebus. The best way to have avoided either NWO Globalists, their servants, and the mindless
these pitfalls would have been to start with intelligent slaves, or those who resist them and their agendas.
people and people with ability that aren’t part of the
establishment and have not been bought beforehand. This If the Republican Party was either good and/or unified
is a mistake that the President did not consider. He was with a conservative agenda, then surely the former chair
hoping that these individuals would come into his camp (Priebus) would demonstrate an example of solidarity with
with the connections and the experience, and that they the reformative efforts of a President who wishes to clean
would change their mindset and follow his plans. Now we up the mess in Washington and place the country back on
see that it isn’t so. course. This is not the case, proving that most of the time
the greatest enemies of a leader are in his own camp.
Priebus was clearly pro-amnesty for the illegal aliens prior Priebus is no exception to that rule, and in order to lead
to his assignment as Chief of Staff. Priebus was bought effectively, he and the other swine need to be scourged out
and paid for by the businesses that favor paying foreign of the White House before further (and perhaps
aliens under the table illegally and keeping them in the irreparable) damage is done.
U.S. illegally, rather than paying American citizens to do
.
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SD Bishop Calls On Catholics To Protest Trump:
‘We Must All Become Disrupters’
By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
20 Feb 2017
women and children as sources of fear
rather than as children of God.”
“We must disrupt those who seek to rob
our medical care, especially from the poor.
We must disrupt those who would take
even food stamps and nutrition assistance
from the mouths of children,” he said.
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“a consequence of the violation of the “Let all the world know that this economy
human rights to private initiative, to kills,” the bishop said amidst cheers, urging
ownership of property and to freedom in his hearers to agitate for an increase in the
the economic sector.” minimum wage to “at least $15 an hour.”
Asking whether the free market system ought to be Curiously, it was researchers from the University of
proposed to countries trying to rebuild their economy and California San Diego who found in 2014 that low-skilled
society, John Paul famously answered: workers were the most adversely affected by minimum
wage increases, despite the fact that this was the group that
“If by ‘capitalism’ is meant an economic such legislation sought to help.
system which recognizes the fundamental
and positive role of business, the market, Hikes in the minimum wage have other effects besides just
private property and the resulting giving low-income workers a raise, the study found, and
responsibility for the means of production, minimum wage increases in the late 2000s resulted in the
as well as free human creativity in the loss of some 1.4 million American jobs.
economic sector, then the answer is
certainly in the affirmative.” Sometimes soft slogans—as appealing as they are—must
yield to hard economics.
Bishop McElroy seems to see things differently.
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Why Obama Should Be Arrested For Treason
Article By James Bailey
February 20, 2017
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United States. They left a big trail of dust behind them as In the 4:38-minute interview on Lou Dobbs Tonight (see
they destroyed everything in their path. As they finished video below), Sperry said,
covering that region, the whole line pivoted and turned
east to enter the next region. “I don’t think Republicans know what
they’re up against. He is quietly building a
For a long time, I wondered why the President of the shadow opposition government to
United States would ride on a white horse through the sabotage Trump and Republicans as well,
land, one region at a time. I also wondered who were the and their policies, while at the same time
other riders. It made no sense for the President, but it saving his own legacy. He’s doing this
makes perfect sense for the Organizer in Chief. through a radical Alinsky group that he
founded, called Organizing for Action
So when I heard Obama telling his supporters, “I am sure (OFA). They’ve got an army of agitators
that we are going to be working shoulder to shoulder for and they are fanning out. They are going to
many many years to come,” he described exactly like what hit Republicans even harder next week
I saw, riders riding side by side, shoulder to shoulder. when they go home for recess back to their
home districts.”
I wondered why they started in the western region. The
first reports of his post-Presidency actions came from his During the interview, Lou Dobbs pointed out the group
involvement in California’s exit from the union, called could have been called Organizing for America, but no,
Cal-Exit. OFA trained community organizers are actively that would not have been accurate because they are not for
trying to collect enough signatures to force a vote on America. They are taking action against America.
whether or not California should secede from the United
States (Source: LA Times). Paul Sperry explains more about how OFA operates:
The Cal-Exit movement gained momentum after the “It starts at a training center. These are not
election of Donald Trump, and is now being organized and like the rabble from Occupy Wall Street or
supported by Obama. One of his first actions was to bring even Black Lives Matter. These are
in some of the same thugs who worked for him as professionally trained agitators. They are
President, including former Attorney General Eric Holder schooled in Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
as Cal-Exit spokesperson, former Chief of Staff Rahm tactics at a program that lasts six weeks.
Emanuel, and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch. That’s about 32,000 that have gone
through that, over 32,000. They have
Cal-Exit is a great example of the kinds of actions Obama another 25,000 under training now and
will be taking in his new role during the next few years. they have another training summit coming
While Trump pushes his agenda from the White House, up in March. We have not seen the worst of
Obama will be pushing his opposition at the ground level, these protests. These are really going to hit
stirring up all sorts of trouble with his army of OFA hard, but Obama is the guy who is behind
trained agitators. all of this. He is the master-mind.”
When Mena received the word on June 27 2016, there was Contrary to what the mockers claim, God is not slow
no way she could have known about what is happening concerning his promises (2 Peter 3:9). He is right on time
now, but today it is in view. There was no way she could every time. The problem is on our end because we lack
have known Obama’s new spokesman would be named faith and patience. We also tend to think way too highly of
Kevin, but she did. Now that Obama no longer has any our opinions. In the words of my friend Aaron Brickman,
Presidential duties getting in his way, he is focused on his
assignment like never before. He already has a large “The prophetic is like the rodeo. You have
number of people working with him, and it is growing fast. to hold on for more than eight seconds.”
When I received my vision in the spring of 2014, there was If we can grow some patience, just hold on for a few
no way I could have known why Obama and his cohorts seconds before charging ahead like a bull in a china shop,
were riding “shoulder to shoulder,” or why they started in we will eventually see the fulfillment.
the western region. There was no way I could have known
what God meant when He asked me, Obama’s actions are treasonous because they are intended
to divide and destroy our nation. He should be arrested and
“Was it not written about this one that he jailed. Our leaders take sworn oaths to defend us from all
would do these things?” enemies, foreign and domestic. Obama is our enemy and
should be stopped. We already fought one civil war to stop
I had no idea what he was talking about until a few days these kinds of actions. It appears we are now approaching
later when I found it written in Daniel 11:39. I could not another one.
have known Obama’s organization would assign a name
for their organization that aligns perfectly with that verse,
confirming the scripture and the vision.
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No, President Trump Can't
Be Removed With The 25th Amendment
Daniel Greenfield
February 20, 2017
The amendment states that if, for whatever reason, the vice
president and a majority of sitting Cabinet secretaries
decide that the president is “unable to discharge the powers
and duties of his office,” they can simply put that down in
Alternatively, this is embarrassing. Please stop. writing and send it to two people — the speaker of the
House and the Senate’s president pro tem.
A House Democrat is calling for Congress to review the
25th Amendment of the Constitution, suggesting President Then the vice president would immediately become
Donald Trump is mentally "unstable." “Acting President,” and take over all the president’s
powers.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), who has represented a
Portland district for 20 years, wrote in an op-ed that the Let that sink in — one vice president and any eight
50-year-old amendment contains a "fatal flaw" that must Cabinet officers can, theoretically, decide to knock the
be addressed. president out of power at any time.
"Trump still has significant political support, The 25th Amendment was adopted after the JFK
so the obstacles are gargantuan. But the assassination to allow for an orderly transfer of power. It is
cleanest and quickest way to remove a not an impeachment shortcut. It addresses disability. It's
president involves Section 4 of the 25th not meant as a mechanism for a coup.
Amendment and has never been
attempted. It provides that the cabinet can, The context for presidential disability, whether it was
by a simple majority vote, strip the Eisenhower's heart attack or Reagan's shooting, was
president of his powers and immediately medical. That is not to say that the 25th Amendment isn't
hand power to the vice president. The deeply flawed. Anything with Bayh-Celler origins is. And
catch is that the ousted president can Section Four is open to abuse. Which is why it's been
object, and in that case Congress must summoned up. And it was understood at the time that it
approve the ouster by a two-thirds vote in was open to abuse. But it also clearly refers to medical
each chamber, or the president regains disability, not dislike of a president.
office."
Democrats need to let go of a twisted
That's Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times. fantasy of removing President Trump from
office. Especially since this fantasy
depends on Republicans doing so.
.
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"Talk" Has Always Been Cheap
By Jim Kirwan
2-21-2017
Once upon a time America had a president that meant what of course there were others that were troublesome to these
he said, and tried to do what he promised: Despite the fact bastards like Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and
that with each action he added another bulls-eye to his much later there have been prominent senators, and JFK
back. junior along with that huge laundry list that Killary & Bill
Clinton and now Chelsea Hubble have each added to their
Today America has added another 'president' to that murdering ways all of this was artificially used in the last
massively long list of political-criminals that have dragged selection process, not as goals to be achieved, but as
that once revered title through the mud. talking points to be mentioned; but which were never
intended to actually be prosecuted.
When Kennedy entered any fray, he tried to bring with Trump needs to be held accountable for
him, some solutions, that could begin to change the way all his shoddy reversals across the
nations and other people were treating each other. He was board.
not always successful, far from it, but he was more than
just willing to try. Talk has always been cheap and Trump is clearly among
the impostors who talks a great line, but when pressed on
After WWII when Russia was still the USSR Berlin was a the actions he's promised the world that he would do - he's
divided city. The Russians tried to blockade the city, and just another lying fake another snake-oil politician, driven
Kennedy introduced a full scale 24-7 American-Airlift to by gold and profit and nothing more.
relieve the lives that were threatened by the Russian Iron
The world has never been in a worse
Curtain. That time Kennedy's actions led directly to a real
condition that it is today and Trump has
change in Soviet-American policies and that wall was
remained as silent as a tomb.
never again viewed in quite the same way.
When that woman was discovered yesterday in the middle
Near the end of his career, Kennedy informed Israel that of sabotaging the country to rid “us” of Trump she should
the United States would be inspecting Israel's nuclear have been frog-marched out of the White House in
arsenal for stolen nuclear weapons, Israel was beyond handcuffs the same with the Vice president and Preibus,
furious and added their own names to the list of the or whatever the hell his name is.
assassins that wanted him dead. The CIA added Kennedy
to their hit list when he interfered in the Cuban revolution, The true key to everything on any
with the Bay of Pigs, that would have put the mob back in subject are arrests and prosecutions to
charge in Havana. When Kennedy issued his own currency the fullest extent of all the lawsBut so
in five-dollar bills backed by Silver, to begin to overthrow far Trump has yet to even make his own
the Federal Reserve, that too added snipers to the list of income taxes public.
those who wanted Kennedy dead. The first thing LBJ did
after Kennedy was buried was o revoke the new currency Many were willing to give Trump a chance, until we could
that had just been circulated. But in each of these cases see his true colors but that day has already come and
Kennedy saw massive crimes blocking the way for gone: From now on that lying Israeli-puppet will need to
America and the world to improve life for everyone here prove everything he purports to promise - going forward.
yet Jack took those chances, regardless of the danger to his What he really needs to do, in my very thin book of
life, because it was the right thing to do. And when he relevant actions, is to get a horsewhipping in public:
decided to withdraw American combat troops from Because he's already lied far too often to ever be taken
Vietnam, that was the final straw and he had to die. seriously again.
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DHS Secretary Orders Immigration
Agent Hiring Surge, End To 'Catch-And-Release'
By Judson Berger
Published February 21, 2017
A DHS official said the agencies are “going back to our While congressional Republicans have vowed to work
traditional roots” on enforcement. with Trump to fund the front-end costs associated with his
promised border wall, the same memo also hints at future
The memos cover a sprawling set of initiatives including: efforts to potentially use money otherwise meant for
Mexico – following on Trump’s repeated campaign vow to
Prioritizing criminal illegal immigrants and others for make Mexico pay for the wall. The secretary called for
deportation, including those convicted or charged with “identifying and quantifying” sources of aid to Mexico,
“any criminal offense,” or who have “abused” any public without saying in the memo how that information might be
welfare program used.
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Mexican officials repeatedly have said they will not pay immigration advocacy groups for recent ICE raids of
for a border barrier. DHS said it has identified initial illegal immigrants.
locations to build a wall where current fencing is not
effective, near El Paso, Texas; Tucson, Ariz.; and El DHS officials on Tuesday’s conference call stressed that
Centro, Calif. they are operating under existing law and once again shot
down an apparently erroneous news report from last week
The DHS directives come as the Trump White House claiming National Guard troops could be utilized to round
continues to work on rewriting its controversial executive up illegal immigrants. That will not happen, an official
order suspending the U.S. refugee program as well as said.
travel from seven mostly Muslim countries. The order was
put on hold by a federal court, and Trump’s team is said to “We’re going to treat everyone humanely
be working on a new measure. and with dignity, but we are going to
execute the laws of the United States,” a
The directives also come as the Trump administration DHS official said on the conference call.
faces criticism from Democratic lawmakers and
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Trump Plans Mass Deportations
By Stephen Lendman
2-21-2017
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In TRUMP We Trust: Most Are Confident
The Economy Will Be Fixed By A Billionaire Businessman
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 21, 2017
It was a message that resonated among a majority of the There is more ancillary evidence that the country believes
electorate, handing Trump victories in historically blue or in Trump: The stock market has been on a markedly
blue-leaning states like Wisconsin, Michigan, upward trend, reaching new records, since his Nov. 8
Pennsylvania and Ohio. And now, just a few weeks into victory. Also, the economy added 227,000 jobs in January,
his presidency, Americans trust him – not big government far better than the 175,000 most economists predicted.
careerists in the federal bureaucracy and in the political
class – to repair our country’s flagging economic growth. Trump and the GOP Congress still have a long way to go
to match the job growth of the 1980s under Ronald
According to The Hill, Americans have the most Reagan, when the economy was growing an average of 3.5
confidence in our economy now than they have in years, percent (it grew an average of 3.9 percent under Bill
and they are crediting the president with their optimism. Clinton – and a Republican-controlled House, where
(RELATED: Americans Elected Trump To “Drain The spending and tax legislation begin).
Swamp” – Well, This Is What It Looks Like, And The
Establishment Doesn’t Like It) But clearly, the country is more confident in Trump than it
ever was under Obama, who regularly blamed his poorly-
In a survey commissioned by the Capitol publication and performing economy on his predecessor, George W. Bush.
conducted by Harvard-Harris, 61 percent of those surveyed And while Obama did, in fact, inherit a financial mess, his
viewed the economy as strong versus 39 percent who policies of heavy regulation did little to spur growth over
disagreed. Further, a plurality – 42 percent – say it is his eight years in office. In fact, his was the first
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presidency in the modern era that did not achieve 3 percent corporations (taxed at 35 percent, the highest in the
growth even in a single quarter. industrialized world) as well as American families.
(RELATED: WINNING: IRS Won’t Enforce Obamacare
What is driving Americans’ confidence? Several things. Penalty For Uninsured)
First, Trump has already managed to save at least some
U.S. jobs from being outsourced to Mexico and beyond. All of these policies in the past, when they have been put
Secondly, Trump’s entire domestic policy platform is in place, have led to virtually unrestrained economic
focused on jobs and economic growth. Third, Trump has growth. They will again if Trump and Republicans can
pledged to dramatically cut back regulations on both small enact them.
businesses and large industries, which will save companies
money and spur expansion. And fourth, Trump (and the And obviously, most Americans believe they can.
GOP Congress) wants to reduce tax burdens on
.
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NSA And CIA
Is The Enemy Of The People
SARTRE
February 21, 2017
Activities provides intriguing bed time reading rivaling
any Frederick Forsyth or John le Carré spy novel. And
who can dismiss the Declassified CIA Memo Reveals CIA
Directly Involved In JFK Assassination Cover-Up!
Guarding signals traffic or capturing foreign Supposedly agency employees work in the executive
communication is a logical task to protect national secrets, branch of government for the President. Yet, the deep state
while gathering information on intentions and operations operates as if they are preeminent in their Machiavellian
from advocacies. Once upon a time the National Security immoral system of perpetual lies and deceit. These fifth
Agency directed the ECHELON project as a cold war column establishment gatekeepers are the enemy of the
network. Over the decades the functions of electronic republic. Citing the way the Intel eavesdrop presence
surveillance broadened into collection on all forms of data, targets the populist president, is clear cut proof of the
no matter the source or the national origin of the subject. nature of the intelligence community.
The religion of State worship has destroyed all semblances Well, now you are seeing with the release of all these leaks
of civil liberties and constitutional law, especially since the that present suspect intelligence. Support Trump in his
programmed plot on September 11, 2001 that brought battle with the intelligence agencies, before they take their
America the Patriot Act despotic society. The NSA and retribution as they did on JFK.
CIA are responsible for the continuous misinformation
faux newscast cycle as the former provide the raw
falsification data, while the later uses their media assets to
spread the fabrication of their pro interventionist narrative.
.
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Trump Chooses Hawkish
National Security Advisor
By Stephen Lendman
2-21-2017
On Monday, Trump named hawkish Army Lt. General HR As a captain, McMaster won a Silver Star for service
McMaster to replace Michael Flynn as National Security during the 1991 Gulf War, illegal by any standard, a
Advisor (NSA). walkover from mid-January to February 28, massacring
tens of thousands of Iraqis. US aggression remains
Political pressure lead to his unfortunate sacking for ongoing, defenseless civilians suffering most.
harmlessly discussing sanctions with Russia’s US
ambassador. During Bush/Cheney’s war on Iraq, McMaster served
under General David Petraeus, involved in his so-called
Twice passed over for brigadier general, McMaster earned counterterrorism operations.
two more stars in less than six years after getting his first
one, a remarkable advancement - given to warriors, not Known for challenging conventional wisdom, a White
peace advocates. House spokeswoman said Trump “gave full authority for
McMaster to hire whatever staff he sees fit.”
As a lieutenant general, he was US Army Training and
Doctrine Command (TRADOC) deputy commanding Passed over for NSA, Trump said former UN envoy
general in charge of the Army Capabilities Integration (neocon) John Bolton will serve in an unspecified
Center (ARCIC) - tasked with devising strategies for administration role, a disturbing development, given his
America’s next war and how to win it. rage for endless wars.
Known as a tough, outspoken, detail-oriented intellectual McMaster will be chief advisor to the president on national
with a reputation for battlefield acumen, he remains on security issues, a major administration position, needing no
active duty in his new position. Senate confirmation.
Acting National Security Advisor General Keith Kellogg He’s a warrior, in 2015 saying
will work with him as chief of staff, Trump announced.
“(w)hat we have to do is really develop the
A 1984 West Point graduate, McMaster earned a doctorate ability to think clearly about future war.”
in American history at the University of North Carolina. Last spring, he lied, accusing Russia of
His dissertation criticized US Vietnam War strategy, invading Ukraine and annexing Crimea.
explained further in his book titled “Dereliction of Duty.” “What is needed is forward deterrence,” he
advised. Not good signs!
The war’s illegality went unmentioned, US naked
aggression against Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, nations Washington has lots of hawks, doves in short supply -
threatening no others. especially with disturbing hostility toward Russia, China
and Iran, risking direct confrontation.
.
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Homeland Security Unveils
Blueprint For Mass Deportation Of Immigrants
Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:4PM
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Former CIA Agent Explains
Why He Resigned Because Of Trump
By Tyler Durden
Feb 21, 2017 9:03 PM
Edward Price worked at the CIA from 2006 until this otherwise abstract international-relations degree to use. I
month, most recently as the spokesman for the National wasn’t disappointed.
Security Council.
The CIA taught me new skills and exposed me to new
cultures and countries. More important, it instilled in me a
sense of mission and purpose. As an analyst, I became an
expert in terrorist groups and traveled the world to help
deter and disrupt attacks. The administrations of George
W. Bush and Barack Obama took the CIA’s input
seriously.
It has little need for intelligence Until that happens, President Trump and
professionals who, in speaking truth to his team are doing another disservice to
power, might challenge the so-called these dedicated men and women and
“America First” orthodoxy that sees the nation they proudly, if quietly, serve.
Russia as an ally and Australia as a
punching bag. But while Price vows that his resignation was not
politically motivated,
That’s why the president’s trusted White House advisers,
not career professionals, reportedly have final say over we find it curious that Federal Election
what intelligence reaches his desk. Commission records indicate that he
donated the legal maximum of $2,700 to
To be clear, my decision had nothing to "Hillary for America" in August 2016 and
do with politics, and I would have been another $2,300 to the DNC's "Hillary
proud to again work under a Republican Victory Fund" on the very same day.
administration open to intelligence analysis.
But we're sure that doesn't mean anything.
I served with conviction under President George W. Bush,
some of whose policies I also found troubling, and I took Nevertheless, perhaps President Trump has created an
part in programs that the Obama administration criticized environment that cleanses itself...A self-'draining' swamp?
and ended.
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MSNBC Uproar Over 'Meaningless'
Museum Visit: 'Sick' Trump Out Of 'Chances'
By Kristine Marsh
February 21, 2017
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Former President Obama And
His Paid Thugs Trying To Topple Trump
The U.S. Constitution Must Be Enforced And Stop The Political
Insurgency And Guerrilla Warfare Activities Bent On The Destruction Of
Duly Elected Public Office Holders. If Not, The U.S. Will Have Become
Just Another Third World Hell Hole
By Katy Grimes —— Bio And Archives
February 21, 2017
The violent thugs who disrupted Rep. Tom McClintock’s expose the real workings inside this
recent town hall meeting in Roseville, CA were clearly disastrous, frightening Administration.”
organized and had a plan. There was nothing organic about
that town hall riot, or any of the other town hall meetings There’s Kipchoge Spencer @KipchogeNotKip , Take2
held by Congressional Republicans around the country, founder and Yuba Indivisible co-organizer.
ending in violent protests.
And, Indivisible Guide @IndivisibleTeam
“From California to Florida, liberal activists tweeted, “Mitch McConnell and Donald
are bringing the fight to the doorsteps of Trump are trying to steal a seat on the
GOP lawmakers, marching on the streets Supreme Court. Don’t let them.”
of their hometowns and making legislators’
lives miserable as they attend meetings Indivisible LA @indivisible_la posted this:
and town halls with constituents,” The Hill “Reminder: @RepKarenBass is hosting a
recently wrote. “Hundreds of protesters meeting at 10am on resisting Trump
lined the streets of downtown Janesville, agenda.”
Wis., on Saturday—just blocks from the Indivisible Guide @IndivisibleTeam sent
home of Speaker Paul Ryan (R)—to out this: ACTION ALERT: This doesn’t end
protest President Trump’s executive order with Flynn. Use the script:
on immigration.” https://www.indivisibleguide.com/resources
-2/2017/2/14/investigate-trump-
There is a playbook for this: It’s called Indivisible: A administrations-ties-with-russia ...
Practical Guide For Resisting The Trump Agenda. #notpaidjustapatriot #standindivisible
Written by former congressional staffers who watched the
rise of the Tea Party, they have launched an aggressive Unable to cope with losing the Presidential election,
assault promoting a radical progressive agenda intent on Marxist tactics have been deployed to tear down our
crushing the Trump Administration and the United States constitutional form of government, as well as the
of America. principles and values comprising our foundation.
This active assault was recently launched by former Obama and his thugs are now operating and recruiting on
President Barack Obama and his anarchist minions to social media, attempting to asphyxiate the Trump
collapse the Trump Administration, under the guise of Administration, and Republicans in Congress.
Obama’s Organizing for Action, the new name for
Obama’s Organizing for America, created after his 2008 A campaign of this magnitude takes a great deal of money
election. And now, the new spin-off organization, - at the levels seen during the presidential campaign, spent
“Indivisible.” to organize, protest and oppose Trump.
A little navigating on Twitter found @RoguePOTUSStaff “Leaders of the organization have loose
ties to George Soros, the billionaire hedge
“The unofficial resistance team inside the fund manager who bankrolls liberal causes,
White House. We pull back the curtain to according to the Capital Research Center,
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a conservative think tank that investigates not all sit together,’ the New York Post
nonprofits,” The Daily Signal recently reported. “Rather, spread out in pairs to
wrote. While Indivisible has denied this, make it seem like the whole room opposes
Matthew Vadum, senior vice president at the Republican host’s positions. ‘This will
the Capital Research Center, found help reinforce the impression of broad
otherwise. “Indivisible is ultraslick leftist consensus.’ It also urges them to ask
astroturf activism at its finest,” Vadum told “hostile” questions—while keeping ‘a firm
The Daily Signal in an email. “At least three hold on the mic’—and loudly boo the GOP
of the group’s five principals—Ezra Levin, politician if he isn’t ‘giving you real
Leah Greenberg, and Angel Padilla—have answers.’”
ties to organizations funded by George
“Separately, OFA, which is run by ex-
Soros. Indivisible is apparently not yet a
Obama officials and staffers, plans to stage
nonprofit, but plans are in the works to
400 rallies across 42 states this year to
register it as a nonprofit.”
attack Trump and Republicans over
‘I’M SHOCKED,” shocked! ObamaCare’s repeal,” The Post reported.
“Added the ex-president: “I promise you
Of course Soros is footing the bill to pay these rent-a-mobs that next year Michelle and I are going to
to show up with professionally printed “RESIST” signs, as be right there with you, and the clouds are
they did during the Presidential campaign. And the former going to start parting, and we’re going to be
President of the United States is helping with 250 OFA busy. I’ve got all kinds of thoughts and
offices set-up across the country, staffed with 32,000 ideas about it, but this isn’t the best time to
organizers, and 25,000 actively training anarchists, share them.”
preparing to bring civil disruption, destruction, and
economic chaos to a Republican district near you. The U.S. Constitution must be enforced and stop the
political insurgency and guerrilla warfare activities bent on
“‘Indivisible,’ advises protesters to go into the destruction of duly elected public office holders. If
halls quietly so as not to raise alarms, and not, the U.S. will have become just another Third World
‘grab seats at the front of the room but do hell hole.
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Trump Denounces Anti-Semitic Incidents
As "Horrible And Painful"
By Tyler Durden
Feb 21, 2017 10:42 AM
Having come under pressure to address an uptick in were later determined to be hoaxes. The terrorizing phone
incidents targeting Jewish institutions across the US, calls have targeted 54 community centers in 27 states this
President Trump denounced anti-Semitism Tuesday when year alone. Federal investigators are looking into the
during a tour of the National Museum of African- source of the threats.
American History and Culture he said that “Anti-Semitism
is horrible and it’s going to stop and it has to stop.". Jewish groups have been frustrated by what they say is
Trump’s lackluster response to the incidents. Last week,
Trump prompted an aggressive media to question his
determination to fight anti-semitism after he told a Jewish
reporter, who asked him a question about the incidents by
telling him to "sit down" and accusing the reporter of
misleading him. The president insisted he is “the least anti-
Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director and CEO called
Trump’s response “mind-boggling” and “shocking.”
Riots erupted on February 1st, 2017 at the University of While most Black Lives Matter protests across the country
California at Berkeley over the arrival of the conservative remain entirely peaceful the majority of the time, some of
celebrity and self-described “dangerous faggot” Milo them, often with the help of outside instigators devolve
Yiannopoulos. So-called anti-fascists and other SJWs were into utter chaos. Examples of this chaos happened in
inciting mass violence, vandalism, and hysteria in order to August and September of 2016, when violent BLM
prevent the gay interracial loving Jewish foreigner from protests devolved and riots broke out in Milwaukee, WI
peacefully expressing a political opinion that differs from and Charlotte, NC respectively. In Milwaukee, BLM
their own. They firebombed the location where Milo’s rioters set fires to gas stations, auto parts stores, banks, and
event was to take place, pepper sprayed a female while several other businesses. There were also reports of rioters
being interviewed (and who was ironically offering words firing off guns, hurling bricks, and looting local grocery
of respect to the non-violent protestors who showed up), stores.
burned Milo effigies, beat Milo supporters unconscious,
and even violated neutral yet curious bystanders. It has In Charlotte, BLM chaos erupted after a black police
repeatedly been made clear that as soon as a person of officer shot a black man. Rioters responded by shutting
color, queer, woman, or Muslim expresses non-leftist/non- down an interstate and setting it ablaze, looting several
egalitarian views, the left will treat him/her with the same private businesses, throwing rocks at random motorists,
or even greater level of disdain and prejudice they accuse and even targeting white people for beat downs simply for
“right leaning” bogeymen of. being white. It’s fairly safe to say that if your cause is to
diminish the ill effects that racism has on society and your
Yes, Yiannopoulos is a troll and says things to rile up the community, then it’s probably best not to burn down local
masses, but meeting free speech with violence only serves productive enterprises, hinder your community’s ability to
to empower your opposition. travel safely, and beat down any white person you can find
with extreme prejudice.
Free speech was stomped on by the
radical left at the birthplace of the free Women’s March
speech movement.
On January 21st, 2017 more than 2.5 million protestors
The poorly named “anti-fascists” (a.k.a antifas) were the participated in the worldwide “Women’s March” whose
ones leading the violent charge to silence and censor the aim was to promote human, civil, and reproductive rights.
gay Jew. If the irony weren’t thick enough, the topic of Unlike the other examples, this protest was largely absent
Milo’s discussion was a critical examination of “cultural the more injurious elements of violence and intimidation.
appropriation,” yet it seems the antifas took no issue with However, many of the same themes were promoted and
culturally appropriating the tactics of fascists and Nazis. other off-putting tactics used thus a brief examination is
warranted.
Presidential Inauguration Riots
Perhaps the most paradoxical feature of the protest was the
On January 20, 2017, in Washington D.C. several hundred ubiquitous presence of both vagina attire (ranging from
antifas, anarcho-communists, and other radical leftists subtle vagina shaped/colored headwear to ostentatious full
came together to protest the presidential inauguration of bodied vagina costumes) and anti-“islamophobia” themes.
Donald Trump. To the dismay of peaceful protestors and
Trump supporters alike, the radical leftist rioters quickly It’s amusing to consider how the average Muslim, in his
resorted to tactics of violence and vandalism. Many were capacity as a Muslim, would be absolutely mortified upon
caught throwing bricks and blocks of concrete, breaking encountering a woman dressed as a giant pubic hair
the windows of private businesses, violently clashing with infested vagina. Such a costume must be the antithesis of
and intimidating Trump supporters, setting cars on fire, the hijab.
and harassing defenseless trash cans. Before the day was
done, over 200 rioters would be arrested. One may rest Beyond this, of course, the majority of the march’s themes
assured that engaging in such public, juvenile, and violent were anti-libertarian as they included support for anti-
behavior is the surest way to secure a second term for discrimination laws, tax-funded healthcare, and the
the controversial commander in chief. subsidization of both contraceptives and abortion. It
should go without saying that all such measures entail both
theft and private property violations. Thus, to say this was
a march for liberty would be a gross misnomer. It was
instead a march for entitlements funded at liberty’s
expense.
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Conclusion deemed illegitimate and the cause ignored as it will be
immediately associated with violence. Aside from the
If one is sincerely opposed to racism, sexism, and fascism societal damage created by such violence and intolerance,
then it may be best for him to refrain from engaging in this divisive and obstinate environment plays right into the
racist, sexist, and fascist means to support his cause. The hands of those who want to keep you under control.
fact these radical leftist factions utilize such means
indicates a more sinister and subtle objective than the When objectively assessed, these violent protests are
purported one of “social justice.” And unfortunately, any revealed as being among the most bigoted, hateful, and
legitimate peaceful protests to stop injustice will be dangerous threats to the cause of liberty.
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NYT Big Lies About Trump’s Ties To Russia
Posted By Stephen Lendman
Date: February 21, 2017
Attorney General Sessions is out for The Times because of The Times went at Trump throughout the campaign this
his support for Trump. way. It’s continuing the same jihad post-inauguration.
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Chuck Schumer: ‘Hope Of America’
Is Republicans Break With Trump
By Pam Key
21 Feb 2017
Tuesday on ABC’s “The View,” Senate Minority Leader they know he’s doing a lot of things that are
Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said “the hope of America” was if against what America is all about.”
Republicans break with President Donald Trump.
He added,
Schumer said,
“My prediction is, if he keeps on this path,
“Let me put it like this when you talk to which is likely, I don’t think he will change,
Republicans quietly, you know, in the cloak within three, four months, you’ll see a
room in the gym, they are having real whole lot of Republicans breaking with him.
problems with him. Now, very few, John That’s the salvage of America. That’s the
McCain to his credit, but very few have had hope of America.”
the courage to oppose him even though
.
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EXCLUSIVE: White House Fingers John Mccain As Media
Leak; Believes U.S. Senator Eavesdropped On
Trump’s Classified Phone
By Investigative Bureau
Posted On February 21, 2017
Even more alarming, officials believe McCain is secretly This audio recording of the phone call is absolutely
sharing this sensitive information with colleagues and his incredible.
cabal of friendly mainstream media journalists in a
dangerous clandestine campaign to damage Trump’s It’s time for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to determine
presidency even before it has a chance to succeed. Trump the level McCain’s involvement and just how many laws
has been searching for media rats in the Beltway in recent he has broken.
weeks. White House aides are confident they have now
outed one of the major leaks plaguing the early days of the -30-
.
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Trump Would Be Willing To Remove
Bannon From National Security Council
The Wall Street Journal
Published February 22, 2017
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More Than 200 Protesters Indicted
On Rioting Charges From Inauguration Day
By Madison Park, CNN
Updated 2:25 AM ET, Wed February 22, 2017
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Michael Moore Launches Resistance
Website Promoting Daily Anti-Trump Actions
An Anti-Trump “Coalition” Actually Exists
By Shepard Ambellas -
02.22.2017 @1:03 PM EST
(INTELLIHUB) — In an effort to create more political meetings across the country” which he feels his new site is
friction for the White House than there already is, liberal, contributing to.
filmmaker and activist, Michael Moore launched The
Resistance Calender, a website aimed at empowering
liberals by pairing them with daily anti-Trump actions in
which they can attend.
What Moore didn’t point out is the fact that the left-
leaning Obama-tied group Organizing for Action (OFA) is
also promoting the Town Hall Project.
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Tucker Carlson Takes On Typical
Leftist Who Says Trump Is 'Worse Than Hitler'
By The_Real_Fly
Feb 22, 2017 11:24 AM
Quick question for you retards out there: who'd you rather
have with the nuclear football, a billionaire who loves
women, hotels and golf or this bitch?
This is the first interview that I've seen where Tucker had
to cut his guest off early. She was fucking deranged and
prattled on about Trump being a fascist leader, 'worse than
Hitler' and also a 'war criminal', which is interesting since
he's done nothing but continues to manage the Obama
wars.
Ever notice how these women always look the same, shrill,
When the right wing good squads hit the streets, people
dead eyes, without any warmth?
like her shall be exchanged for rabbit skins with our
trading partners in Siberia.
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Democrat Maxine Waters Calls
Trump Cabinet Picks: “A Bunch Of Scumbags” (VIDEO)
Jim Hoft
Feb 22nd, 2017 8:20 Am
Far left Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has Idiot #California Rep. @MaxineWaters calls
taken on the role of spokesperson for @realDonaldTrump cabinet "#scumbags."
the Democrat Party since the November #LMAO #irony
election. pic.twitter.com/1YHG3bnuLc
— Lone Star Statement
During an appearance on MSNBC’s All in with Chris (@LoneStrStatment) February 22, 2017
Hayes, Democrat Maxine Waters read off a list of people
connected to the Trump team who also have connections to Two weeks ago Maxine Waters told reporters Russian
Russia and the oil and gas industry.
leader Vladimir Putin invaded Korea.
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Oscars Poll: 66 Percent Of Trump Voters Turn Off Awards
Shows When Speeches Get Political
By THR Staff
6:15 AM PST 2/22/2017
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Mixed Messages on Russia:
Trump Administration Divided and All Over the Place
Posted by Makia Freeman
Date: February 22, 2017
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“If Russia and the United States actually Mixed Messages on Russia #4: Tillerson’s Comments:
got together and got along – and don’t Russia is a Danger
forget: we’re a very powerful nuclear
country and so are they … I’ve been
Another manifestation and reflection of the inconsistency
briefed. And I can tell you one thing about a
of Donald Trump’s positions and policies is the degree to
briefing that we’re allowed to say, because
which his entire administration is divided on the Russia
anybody that ever read the most basic
issue. This was evident quite early on. Trump himself
book can say it, nuclear holocaust would
seems to be the only one remaining who is for Russia now
be like no other … If we have a good
that Flynn has ignominiously departed.
relationship with Russia, believe me, that’s
a good thing. Not a bad thing.”
For instance, when Rex Tillerson, nominated for Secretary
Mixed Messages on Russia #3: Trump Sacks his of State, was at his Senate confirmation hearing, he
referred to Russia as a danger. However, Tillerson is
National Security Advisor Michael Flynn
known for his closeness with Russia, having being
awarded the “Order of Friendship” by Putin in 2013, so he
In one of the first shocks of the fledgling Trump knew he would have had to have said some strong words
Administration, Michael Flynn was fired by President about Russia to appease the overwhelmingly Russophobic
Trump himself after it was revealed that he had allegedly US Senate.
broken the 1799 Logan Act by discussing sanctions and
other matters with Russian Ambassador to the US, Sergey
Mixed Messages on Russia #5: Mattis’ Comments:
Kislyak, back in December 2016. However, when is
breaking the Logan Act such a big deal, especially when Russia is Top Threat
you consider all the NWO insiders who gather at
Bilderberg every year to discuss all sorts of sensitive Mad Dog Mattis, at his Senate confirmation hearing to
national matters and policy behind closed doors? become Secretary of Defense, said he placed Russia first
among all threats:
The allegations may not be true.
“The most important thing is that we
The FBI cleared Flynn by stating that he recognize the reality of what we deal with
was “cooperative and provided truthful Mr. Putin, and that we recognize that he is
answers”. trying to break the North Atlantic Alliance,
and that we take the integrated steps –
diplomatic, economic, military – and the
Strangely, Flynn was not allowed to review the call log
alliance steps, working with our allies, to
and clear himself … which indicates that this affair may
defend ourselves where we must.”
have been some kind of a coup. The Post and Courier
reports:
Sources:
*http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/16/trump-raises-spectre-nuclear-holocaust-amid-questioning-russia/
*http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-15/fbi-reportedly-will-not-pursue-charges-against-cooperative-and-truthful-
mike-flynn
*http://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/commentary/flynn-s-departure-a-political-hit-job/article_30ab6f34-f2e6-11e6-
b55c-234006b399e0.html
*http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/war-with-iran-agenda-11-signs/
*https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/12/13/what-is-the-russian-order-of-friendship-and-why-
does-trumps-pick-for-secretary-of-state-have-one/
*https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senate-set-to-question-trumps-pentagon-pick-veteran-
marine-gen-james-mattis/2017/01/11/b3c6946a-d816-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html
*http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/no-fly-zone-buffer-safe-zone-scam/
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Revised 'Extreme Vetting' Order Drops Language
Rejecting Syrian Refugees, Official Says
Foxnews.Com
Published February 22, 2017
The White House believes that new order will satisy the
courts because it is
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Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia, And The Petrodollar
Submitted By Nick Giambruno Via Internationalman.Com
Feb 22, 2017 8:30 PM
Obama pulled out his veto pen 12 times during his a prominent member of the Saudi royal family. He’s also
presidency. one of the largest foreign investors in the US economy,
particularly in media and financial companies.
Congress only overrode him once…
The Saudis openly backed Hillary during the election. In
In late 2016, Obama vetoed the Justice Against Sponsors fact, they “donated” an estimated $10 million–$25 million
of Terrorism Act (JASTA). The bill would allow 9/11 to the Clinton Foundation, making them the most generous
victims to sue Saudi Arabia in US courts. foreign donors.
With only months left in office, Obama Besides Hillary Clinton, the single biggest loser from the
wasn’t worried about the political price US presidential election was Saudi Arabia.
of opposing the bill. It was worth
protecting Saudi Arabia and the The Saudis did not want Donald Trump
petrodollar system, which underpins the in the White House. And not because of
US dollar’s role as the world’s premier some bad blood on Twitter. There are
currency. real geopolitical issues at stake.
At the moment, Trump seems
Congress didn’t see it that way though. Those up for
determined to walk back on US support
reelection couldn’t afford to side with Saudi Arabia over
for the so-called “moderate” rebels in
US victims. So Congress voted to override Obama’s veto,
Syria.
and JASTA became the law of the land.
The Saudis are furious with the US for
The Saudis, quite correctly, see this as a huge threat. If not holding up its part of the petrodollar
they can be sued in US courts, their vast holdings of US deal. They think the US should have
assets are at risk of being frozen or seized. already attacked Syria as part of its
commitment to keep the region safe for the
monarchy.
The Saudi foreign minister promptly threatened to sell all
of the country’s US assets.
Toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a
longstanding Saudi goal. But a President Trump makes
Basically, Saudi Arabia was threatening that unlikely. That’s not good for Saudi Arabia’s position
to rip up the petrodollar arrangement, in the Middle East, nor its relationship with the US.
which underpins the US dollar’s role as
the world’s premier currency.
This is just one of the ways President
Donald Trump and the Saudis Trump will hasten the death of the
petrodollar.
Unlike every president since the
petrodollar’s birth, Donald Trump is
openly hostile to Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi Arabia, Islam, and Wahhabism Julian Assange says the email revealing this is the most
significant among the Clinton-related emails his group has
I loathe quoting a neoconservative historian like Bernard released.
Lewis, but even a broken clock is right twice a day:
Here’s an excerpt of the relevant interview with Assange:
Imagine if the Ku Klux Klan or Aryan Nation
obtained total control of Texas and had at Interviewer: Of course, the consequence
its disposal all the oil revenues, and used of that is that this notorious jihadist group,
this money to establish a network of well- called ISIL or ISIS, is created largely with
endowed schools and colleges all over money from people who are giving money
Christendom peddling their particular brand to the Clinton Foundation?
of Christianity. Julian Assange: Yes.
This is what the Saudis have done with Interviewer: That’s extraordinary…
Wahhabism. The oil money has enabled
them to spread this fanatical, destructive
With all this in mind, Vladimir Putin opened an unusual
form of Islam all over the Muslim world and
conference of Sunni Muslim clerics recently. It took place
among Muslims in the West. Without oil
in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, a Sunni Muslim region
and the creation of the Saudi kingdom,
within Russia’s southwestern border.
Wahhabism would have remained a lunatic
fringe in a marginal country.
The conference, which included 200 of the top non-
Wahhabi Sunni Muslim clerics, issued an extraordinary
This is actually an apt description of Wahhabism, a
statement labeling Wahhabism “a dangerous deformation”
particularly virulent and intolerant strain of Sunni Islam
of Sunni Islam.
most Saudis follow. ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and a
slew of other extremists also follow this puritanical brand
of Islam. That’s why Saudi Arabia and ISIS use the same These clerics carry serious weight in the Sunni world. The
brutal punishments, like beheadings. imam of Egypt’s al-Azhar mosque, one of the most
important Islamic theological centers, was among them.
(Egypt is the Arab world’s most populous Sunni country.)
Many Wahhabis consider Muslims of any other flavor—
like the Shia in Iran, the Alawites in Syria, or non-
Wahhabi Sunnis—apostates worthy of death. Basically, Putin gathered the world’s most important non-
Wahhabi clerics to “excommunicate” the Saudis from
Sunni Islam. In other words, Putin is going for the jugular
In many ways, Saudi Arabia is an
of the petrodollar system.
institutionalized version of ISIS. There’s
even a grim joke that Saudi Arabia is
simply “an ISIS that made it.” Russia and Saudi Arabia have been
enemies for decades. The Russians
have never forgiven Saudi Arabia (or the
After living in the Middle East for three years, it’s clear to
US) for supporting the Afghan
me that many people in the region despise everything
mujahedeen that drove the Soviet Army
about Wahhabism. Yet it flourishes in certain Sunni
out of Afghanistan. And they haven’t
communities, among people who feel they have nowhere
forgiven the Saudis for supporting
else to turn.
multiple Chechen rebellions.
It’s also widely believed in the Middle East that Western
As far as I know, the British writer Robert Fisk was the
powers deliberately fostered Wahhabism, to a degree, to
only Western journalist to cover this extraordinary
keep the region weak and divided—and as a weapon
conference.
against Shia Iran and its allies. That includes Syria and
post-Saddam Iraq, which has shifted its allegiance towards
Iran. Here’s Fisk:
Thanks to WikiLeaks we know the Saudi Who are the real representatives of Sunni
and Qatari governments, which are also Muslims if the Saudis are to be shoved aside?
the two largest foreign donors to the And what is the future of Saudi Arabia? Of such
Clinton Foundation, willfully financed questions are revolutions made.
ISIS to help topple Bashar al-Assad of
Syria.
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If the Saudis are shoved aside, it could This will likely be the tipping point…
strike a fatal blow to the petrodollar
system. Afterward, the US government will be desperate enough to
implement capital controls, people controls, nationalization
The truth is, the petrodollar system is in its death throes. It of retirement savings, and other forms of wealth
doesn’t matter if the Saudis willfully abandon it, or if it confiscation.
crumbles because the kingdom implodes. The end result
will be the same. I urge you to prepare for the economic and sociopolitical
fallout while you still can. Expect bigger government, less
Right now, the stars are aligning against the Saudi freedom, shrinking prosperity… and possibly worse.
kingdom. This is its most vulnerable moment since its
1932 founding. It’s probably not going to happen tomorrow. But it’s clear
where the trend is headed.
That’s why I think the death of the
petrodollar system is the No. 1 black It is very possible that one day soon, Americans will wake
swan event for 2017. up to a new reality.
I expect the dollar price of gold to soar when the Once the petrodollar system kicks the bucket and the dollar
petrodollar system crumbles in the not-so-distant future. loses its status as the world’s premier reserve currency,
You don’t want to find yourself on the wrong side of you will have few, if any, options.
history when that happens.
The sad truth is, most people have no
But that brings up another crucial idea how bad things could get, let alone
point. There’s also likely to be severe how to prepare…
inflation.
Yet there are straightforward steps you can
start taking today to protect your savings
The petrodollar system has allowed the US government
and yourself from the financial and
and many Americans to live way beyond their means for
sociopolitical effects of the collapse of the
decades.
petrodollar.
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Obama Lawyers Form
'Worst-Case Scenario' Group To Tackle Trump
Fearful The New Administration Will Abuse Its Power, The Former
President’s Lawyers Are Uniting To Fight Back.
By Edward-Isaac Dovere
02/23/17 05:14 AM EST
Top lawyers who helped the Obama White House craft and can become a resource.
hold to rules of conduct believe President Donald Trump
and his staff will break ethics norms meant to guard White House press secretary Sean Spicer, responding to
against politicization of the government — and they’ve the group's formation, said, "This administration has raised
formed a new group to prepare, and fight. the level of ethics training and oversight to a new level
compared to the practices of the previous administration."
United to Protect Democracy, which draws its name from
a line in President Barack Obama’s farewell address that Bassin was an associate White House counsel during the
urged his supporters to pick up where he was leaving off, first three years of the Obama administration, spending
has already raised a $1.5 million operating budget, hired much of his time working on ethics questions such as
five staffers and has plans to double that in the coming what’s known as the agency contact rule, meant to prevent
months. They’ve incorporated as both a 501(c)(3) and politics and favoritism from influencing independent
501(c)(4), allowing them to operate as a nonprofit but agencies. He’s hiring other lawyers with similar White
participate in some forms of political advocacy as well. House counsel and Justice Department experience who
have the insider knowledge of where problems tend to
While other Trump opponents focus on taking the arise, and the kind of questions that can pin down answers:
president to court over the travel ban and deportations, the They were the ones who not so long ago were responding
new group plans to drill into issues that aren’t already to the FOIA requests and guiding government employees
hitting the headlines, like potential intervention in and away from conflicts.
intimidation of regulatory agencies by West Wing staff.
“As people who had the privilege of serving
“When people hear concerns about at the highest level of our government, we
democracies declining into understand those guardrails, where people
authoritarianism, they expect that moment might come up against them and what the
to come in a singular thunderclap where tools are that we have as private citizens to
everyone can see that this is the time,” said hold our government accountable,” Bassin
Ian Bassin, who’s leading the new group. said.
“In reality, often times, democracies decline
over a period of years that happen through “You need folks who have been in the
a series of much smaller steps.” government to understand how they
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operate to make sure that those protections debate prep for Obama and Hillary Clinton,
continue to serve their function,” said Tom and called her former colleague the
Perrelli, an associate attorney general “perfect person for this particular
during Obama’s first term now in private organization at this particular moment.”
practice who's spoken with Bassin about
“It’s really important for a bunch of people
the new group.
to shine the light on this question, to make
very clear when autocrats are starting in
Jesse Lee, who was Obama’s White House director of any way to detract from democratic
rapid response, is also on board as communications institutions,” said Yascha Mounk, a Harvard
director,and Caroline McKay, a former legal assistant in Law lecturer who specializes in the rise of
the White House Counsel’s office, is managing operations. authoritarianism and has been having high
But they’re also coming with a huge network of support level strategic advisory conversations with
from other Obama lawyers, as well as partner the group.
organizations like the Brennan Center.
But it’s more than just the smaller encroachments that are
"President Obama has said repeatedly that on Bassin’s mind. Trump’s attack on the judge who halted
his lawyers deserve a lot of credit for his immigration ban already has him building a plan for
helping his Administration go eight years what might happen if the White House directly defies a
without a major scandal,” said Danielle judicial ruling, and what they’d need to do in the potential
Gray, one of Obama’s former secretaries of constitutional crisis that would follow. Existing nonprofits,
the Cabinet. “The leaders of this effort will he said, have not been structured to deal with the kind of
bring that experience to protecting and unprecedented, norm-breaking threats that he believes are
preserving accountable and democratic coming from Trump and his aides.
government.”
Bassin “has managed to gain the support “We need an organization that is
of a lot of very serious people,” said Karen specifically and holistically focused on that
Dunn, another former associate White worst-case scenario,” Bassin said.
House counsel best known for helping run
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Intelligence Community Leaking
By Matthew Vadum
February 23, 2017
—FrontPage Mag: Saboteurs in the U.S. intelligence dirty tricks to kick the legs out from under the incoming
community posing as patriots have been working hard to Trump administration by changing intelligence-sharing
drive President Donald Trump from the White House. rules. The goal is to prevent Trump from rolling back
Obama’s poisonous legacy.
Former National Security Agency intelligence analyst and
former War College professor John R. Schindler bragged The most famous victim so far of what could be called
on Twitter last week about the spy-led plot his friends are Obama’s shadow government is National Security Advisor
conducting against the president. Mike Flynn, an anti-Islamofascist hardliner who was
forced out of his post Feb. 13 by what appears to be a deep
“Now we go nuclear,” he tweeted. “IC state cabal centered around the sleazy former Obama
[intelligence community] war [is] going to advisor Ben Rhodes. As Flynn’s replacement, Trump has
new levels. Just got an [email from] senior appointed “warrior-scholar” U.S. Army Lt. Gen. H.R.
IC friend, it began: ‘He will die in jail.’” McMaster.
“US intelligence is not the problem here,”
Schindler added. “The President’s collusion Rhodes and other former Obama administration officials
were part of an intrigue that led to the downfall of Flynn,
with Russian intelligence is. Many details,
but the essence is simple.” investigative journalist Adam Kredo reported at the
Washington Free Beacon.
In a column Feb. 12, Schindler cited wild, unproven,
conspiratorial theories about Trump’s ties to Russia to Flynn’s resignation was
justify his comrades’ seditious push to remove Trump
from power. “the culmination of a secret, months-long
campaign by former Obama administration
[T]he still-forming Trump administration is already doing confidantes to handicap President Donald
serious harm to America’s longstanding global intelligence Trump’s national security apparatus and
partnerships. In particular, fears that the White House is preserve the nuclear deal with Iran,
too friendly to Moscow are causing close allies to curtail according to multiple sources in and out of
some of their espionage relationships with Washington—a the White House who described to the
development with grave implications for international Washington Free Beacon a behind-the-
security, particularly in the all-important realm of scenes effort by these officials to plant a
counterterrorism. series of damaging stories about Flynn in
the national media.”
People like Schindler think they know what’s best for
Kredo isn’t the only one crying foul.
America in terms of national security and foreign policy.
Allowing an outsider like Donald Trump to do the job
Americans elected him to do is unthinkable to them. So Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin
Trump must go. said Flynn was targeted. It was
People of Schindler’s ilk are using government resources “because they were concerned about
in an effort to overthrow the nation’s duly elected where Flynn was going to go in terms of
government. While smiling on TV and assuring the public what he was going to recommend to
his administration was fully cooperating with the Trump President Trump.”
transition team, President Obama gave members of the
intelligence community permission to wage war against The intelligence community
then-incoming President Trump.
“itself has been politicized,” he told Laura
Before leaving office President Obama cleared the way for Ingraham. “And I think this is one of the
his confederates in the intel world to ramp up their use of results — this is one of the things that
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you’re seeing come out of that out the identities of innocent people and irrelevant
politicization.” personal information before passing intercepted
communications along to other agencies like the CIA or
“You’re seeing a guy that is key in the
the FBI’s intelligence units.
Trump administration being targeted, and
they have used the tools that they have
available to them to bring this guy down,” Put another way, 17 days before President Trump was
Boykin said. sworn in, NSA was unleashed against his embryonic
administration, newly empowered to share raw intelligence
Leaks of Trump’s telephone conversations with the leaders gathered from telephone calls and emails that go through
of Mexico and Australia have found their way into the network switches outside the country, as well as messages
media ecosystem. One gossipy news website published the between people outside the U.S. that go through domestic
ridiculous, unverified “golden showers” dossier that claims network switches.
Trump is a urophiliac, of all things, who hired prostitutes
in Moscow to inundate his hotel bed. There is also the New rules were issued under section 2.3 of Executive
wholly unsupported blanket claim that Russia somehow Order 12333 (Dec. 4, 1981) after Obama administration
“hacked” the election, interfering to help Trump, along officials Loretta Lynch, then the attorney general, and
with the more specific but unproven assertion that Russia James Clapper, then the national intelligence director,
hacked documents from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and signed off on them on Jan. 3 this year and Dec. 15 last
gave them to WikiLeaks. year, respectively. These rules came in the form of an
unclassified document titled “Procedures for the
In addition to leaking, U.S. intelligence operatives have Availability or Dissemination of Raw Signals
been engaging in a gross, seditious form of insubordination Intelligence Information by the National Security
that may be endangering national security. These people Agency.”
have been withholding sensitive intelligence from the
president because they claim to be worried the data could “Now intelligence agencies can search
be leaked or compromised if it reaches the White House, directly through raw repositories of
the Wall Street Journal reported last week. communications intercepted by the NSA
and then apply such rules as required for
Why they think they are allowed to withhold such minimizing privacy intrusions,” Harry G.
information from their ultimate overseer, the Hutchison writes at the American Center
democratically elected official whom Article II, Section 2, for Law and Justice website.
of the U.S. Constitution empowers to protect the nation as
“Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United This means
States,” is unclear.
“the contents of the conversations engaged
But these “spooks” who operate in the shadows don’t have in by members of the Trump Administration
to bother with excuses because they are unaccountable. and by President Trump himself are now
They defy our new president’s directives and make public under an increasing risk that they will be
whatever policy they disagree with in hopes of exposed to the public for purposes of
undermining it. They are the “deep state,” which, embarrassing the Trump Administration
according to one website, is “a body of people, typically and in order to impede the effectiveness of
influential members of government agencies or the his policies.”
military, believed to be involved in the secret manipulation
or control of government policy.” The deep state doesn’t The policy change allowed
give up its power when a president leaves office. It stays
behind to clandestinely exert its dark influence regardless “far more agents and officials to search
of which party controls the White House. through raw intelligence data,” and
accordingly, “it appears that the prospect of
These deep-state dwellers leapt into action in the final intel leaks grew exponentially.”
weeks of Obama’s presidency.
Whatever investigation of Flynn took place was tainted
As the clock ticked, Obama green-lighted a disturbing from the start: U.S. intelligence operatives appear to have
relaxation of the rules regulating the National Security spied on him without any reasonable justification. There
Agency’s ability to circulate globally intercepted personal was no reason for the FBI to carry out the grilling Flynn
communications among the other 16 intelligence agencies, reportedly received because it already possessed the
some of which are more politicized than the NSA, before intercepted alleged communication.
applying important longstanding privacy-protection
protocols. Before the policy was altered, the NSA screened
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“There appears to have been no foreign- on-the-record sources so it is entirely possible the
intelligence or criminal-investigative allegations against Flynn were conjured out of thin air by
purpose served by the FBI’s interrogation Obama holdovers determined to undermine the Trump
of General Flynn,” former federal administration.
prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy writes.
This is the form that what Michael Walsh calls “a rolling
A retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, Flynn fell on coup attempt” against the Trump administration has taken.
his sword for making contact with Kislyak and then lying
to Pence about it, according to the White House. Faceless operatives whose highest loyalty is to their jobs
and their twisted realpolitik ideology don’t care what
It’s not as if we know what actually happened with Flynn American voters think.
and the Russian or Russians at this point, or if there really
was any contact at all. News reports have not quoted any This, too, is part of the Obama legacy.
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Trump Administration Instructs
CIA To Halt Support For Anti-Assad Rebels In Syria
By Ian Allen
February 23, 2017
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Steven Mnuchin Speaks To CNBC,
Fails To Give Trump Tax Plan Details: Key Highlights
By Tyler Durden
Feb 23, 2017 7:24 AM
Following his first interview since being confirmed similarly has gotten bogged down in negotiations in
yesterday with the WSJ, US Treasury Secretary Steven Congress. Overnight we laid out an extensive primer of
Mnuchin spoke to CNBC's Becky Quick and repeated how Trump's tax policies will likely be impacted by the
some of the key points he made yesterday, among which stalled negotiations over Obamacare.
his hope to get tax reform done by the August Congress
recess, however he again confirmed that there are too
many moving pieces at this point saying it is "too early to
give details" of the Trump tax plan.
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addition to the punchline, namely that it is "too early to
give details of tax plans" here are some other notable
mentions by Mnuchin in the interview:
— CNBC (@CNBC) February 23, 2017 Finally, while he denied to provide details on plans for a
50 year bonds, he conceded that the "idea of issuing 50-
Overall, Mnuchin avoided most "hot button" topics, and year or 100-year U.S. Treasuries worth a serious look."
reiterated the same vague WSJ talking points to CNBC. In
.
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Trump Meets With Top CEOs To Brainstorm "Jump-
Starting" US Economy, Creating Jobs
By Tyler Durden
Feb 23, 2017 8:20 AM
Today at 10:30am, president Trump will summon some of Styslinger; General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic;
America’s most prominent corporate executives to the assistant to the President, Reed Cordish; Dana CEO
White House Thursday, in a roundtable brainstorming James Kamsickas.
session whose purpose is to come up with policy ideas
meant to facilitate trade and taxes, boost job creation and The genesis of the idea comes from Jared Kushner, who
generally jump-start the US economy. originated the concept of working sessions. A key part of
Kushner's job has been outreach to the private sector. He
According to press reports, Trump will split the group of thinks government needs to find innovative ways to work
executives, among which Johnson & Johnson’s chief closer with the private sector, Axios adds. Ivanka Trump
executive officer, Alex Gorsky, and David Farr, chairman will also participate in today's session.
of Emerson Electric, into four working groups to come up
with recommendations on deregulation, workforce Trump has used previous meetings with companies to
training, infrastructure, taxes, and trade. Vice President encourage corporate leaders to build their products in the
Mike Pence and White House aides will meet with the U.S., offering tax breaks and lower regulation to bring
individual working groups and compile their down costs -- and warning that he wants to raise tariffs on
recommendations for the president ahead of his meeting products produced overseas. The heads of labor
with the full group of executives. organizations, automotive firms, national retail chains,
drug companies, and airlines are all among the groups who
According to Axios, which cites a planning document, the have met with Trump in the West Wing in recent weeks.
participants - and groups - are as follows:
"As a successful businessman himself, the
Tax and trade team: Treasury Secretary Steve president knows that if we’re going to get
Mnuchin; top economic advisor Gary Cohn and his the country back to work, we need to hear
aides Jeremy Katz and Shahira Knight; top trade directly from job creators what is holding
advisor Peter Navarro; Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell them back and, where appropriate, take
Technologies; Inge Thulin, CEO of 3M; Kenneth steps to remove the barriers," White House
Frazier, CEO of pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.; press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters
Mark Fields, CEO of Ford; Alex Gorsky, CEO of on Wednesday. "As you can tell by the
Johnson & Johnson. structure of the meeting, the president is
Regulatory reform team: Budget Director Mick expecting these interactions to lead to real
Mulvaney; senior policy advisors Stephen Miller and action being taken by the administration,"
Andrew Bremberg; Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn he added.
Hewson; Whirlpool CEO Jeff Fettig; International Paper
CEO Mark Sutton; Emerson Electric CEO David Farr; It wasn’t immediately clear whether Trump would address
Harris Corp. CEO Bill Brown; and Campbell Soup CEO his plans to overhaul the tax code, which he has said he
Denise Morrison. will deliver within weeks, or a border-adjustment tax
Infrastructure team: Transportation Secretary Elaine proposal under consideration by House Republicans,
Chao; Gary Cohn will float into this session as well; which would shift the tax burden from exporters to
former Bush Administration official DJ Gribbin; importers. As Bloomberg adds, republican leaders in the
Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman; Corning CEO House, including Speaker Paul Ryan, argue a border-
Wendell Weeks; Nucor Corp. CEO John Ferriola; US adjustment tax would benefit American manufacturing
Steel CEO Mario Longhi; Veresen Inc. CEO Don while providing revenue to make up for losses from
Althoff; Archer Daniels Midland CEO Juan Luciano. reducing corporate tax rates. Several manufacturers,
Workforce of the future: Ivanka Trump; nominee for including Dow Chemical, are actively lobbying for the
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross; Small Business plan, which Trump has called "too complicated."
Administrator Linda McMahon; Dow Chemical CEO Opponents, including net importers like Walmart, oppose
Andrew Liveris; United Technologies CEO Greg Hayes; it and warn it will raise taxes on American consumers.
LiveOps CEO Keith Leimbach; Altec CEO Lee
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How 'They' Sell Vote Fraud
As Legitimate Election Totals
By Devvy Kidd
2-23-2017
“There is in Italy a power which we seldom hell bent on destroying this constitutional republic are
mention in this House … I mean the secret slapped with all the worn out labels.
societies … It is useless to deny, because
it is impossible to conceal, that a great part "1987: Then U.S. Attorney General William
of Europe the whole of Italy and France French Smith blew the whistle on a fairly
and a great portion of Germany, to say low ranking Marine officer by the name of
nothing of other countries is covered with a Oliver North. According to Smith, Lt. Col.
network of these secret societies, just as Oliver North directly helped draft a plan in
the superficies of the earth is now being 1984 to impose martial law in the United
covered with railroads.” States in the event of an emergency. This
—Benjamin Disraeli, at British House of secret plan would suspend the U.S.
Commons, July 14, 1856. Constitution and turn over control of the
government to the little known agency at
Regular readers of my columns for decades know I have that time: FEMA. This plan would appoint
written about vote fraud since 1993. As a victim of it when military commanders to run state and local
I ran for Congress in 1996, I know all to well how those governments. Implementation of this plan
who run 'our' government from behind the scenes pull it would have been triggered by violent and
wise spread internal dissent, disagreement
off every two years.
with government policy or national
opposition to any U.S. military invasion
Do you remember the movie, Conspiracy Theory with abroad. Essentially, it amounted to a
Mel Gibson? He kept trying to explain to Julia Roberts complete and total suspension of the U.S.
who 'they' were without coming right out and saying secret Constitution and Bill of Rights.
societies which are no longer so secret. Like the
Treasonous Council on Foreign Relations and the "Investigators who uncovered this plan
Treasonous Tri-Lateral Commission to name two of the believe that between 1983 - 1986, North's
most powerful. Both of those are my columns and a third office was the 'central command center' for
which lists most of them: The House That evil Built. Those this informal secret structure which
three columns are critical in understanding 'who' is behind involved more than the illegal sale of arms
the curtain and 'they' now have their sights trained right at to Iran and illegal funding of the
President Trump. underground war in Nicaragua under
President Ronald Reagan. "Lifers" in the
military were shocked, saying at the time
Another must read is The Secret Team: The CIA and Its
that no Lt. Colonel is ever given the kind of
Allies in Control of the United States and the World by
power North was apparently given within
the late L. Fletcher Prouty, a truly great American.
this secret structure. So great was his
authority, he could have the orbits of
"L. Fletcher Prouty (19172001), a retired sophisticated satellites altered to follow
colonel of the U.S. Air Force, served as the Soviet ships around the world or launch
chief of special operations for the Joint high-flying spy aircraft on secret missions.
Chiefs of Staff during the Kennedy years. Some even compared this whole operation
He was directly in charge of the global as eerily similar to the one portrayed in the
system designed to provide military support movie, Clear and Present Danger, starring
for the clandestine activities of the CIA. " Lt. Harrison Ford (1994).
Col. Prouty was the shadowy Mr. X in
Oliver Stone's movie JFK. "North wasn't alone in this secret structure.
Others included Reagan's closest advisers:
U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, CIA
Finally, after all these decades newly sworn in President
Director William Casey and National
Trump has unleashed a galactic poop storm against media
Security Adviser William Clark.
lackeys in this country who do the bidding of the 'shadow
Congressional investigators at the time
government'. Naturally, anyone exposing the evil doers
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were shocked by how far along this secret number. The perception is - even though Ryan was peeing
structure and planning had progressed. his pants a week before the primary - the voters of his
Arthur Liman, who was the chief counsel of district overwhelmingly approve of his anti-American
the Senate's Iran-Contra committee stated worker, anti-Constitution voting record. Rat Ryan
in a memo that Oliver North was at the supported the job & sovereignty killer, TPP. Nehlin
center of what he called a "secret opposed it.
government within a government." Prior
to those hearings, Liman wrote that a policy On primary night in my run for the U.S. House, March 26,
decision made at the highest levels during 1996, despite being behind only 5-7% points (internal
the Iran Contra scandal "...reveals the polling) behind Rep. Waffle Wally Herger two weeks
whole secret government within a before the primary and no scandals, my race was called at
government, operated from the Executive 8:01 pm - one minute after the polls closed and no votes
Office Building by a lieutenant colonel with counted: 86-14 in favor of Herger. The Secty of state
its own army, air force, diplomatic agents, stopped counting at around 6:00 am. The numbers never
intelligence operatives and appropriations really changed.
capacity."
Additionally, in the largest county in the
Over the years many, many individuals have been district I went to vote and my name wasn't
successfully prosecuted for vote fraud. We know all forms even on the ballot! We had to write in my
of electronic voting machines and scanners are easily name.
hacked on site and preprogrammed from long distance. I
have covered this in minute details in my multitude of
I was in shock; there was nothing I could do.
columns.
Check these winners/losers that night
Perception is everything and that's how 'they' get away
(primary March 26, 1996): 85-15, 81-18,
with selling the American people vote fraud as legitimates
85-15, 81-18, 85-15, 86-14, 87-13, 81-18
totals. Vote fraud is meant to keep constitutionalists like
and 81-14 which was my race.
yours truly out of office. In the recent election Dr. Kelli
Ward went up against one of the most corrupt political
whores in all of Washington, DC - John 'Juan' McCain. Those were the results for a few incumbents vs challengers
Despite the manure coming from the MSM, McCain is not for the U.S. House throughout the state of California.
so loved in Arizona because of his staunch support of Every incumbent, including Herger all voted for NAFTA.
illegal aliens. The alleged vote tally put Juan over the top All challengers including me were opposed to that
51.7% - 39.2%. unconstitutional, destructive 'agreement'. Wonder why we
all allegedly lost?
If only Dr. Ward had paid for a complete recount by hand
and an audit of the vote I absolutely believe the outcome Those house seats were scattered all over
would have been different. I also believe it would show the state of California. Unless you're
how many illegal aliens in Arizona voted in that primary. specifically looking at a particular race, in a
While McCain's final numbers allegedly slipped a bit, the state the size of California or Texas,
perception is the people of Arizona approve of his voting people don't put together the pattern,
record on the issues. Please. but it sure as hell is there.
Paul 'Rat' Ryan should not have won his primary last year, Herger was a low level flunky buddy of NAFTA
either. His challenger, Paul Nehlin, ran tough against Ryan cheerleader, Newt Gingrich (NAFTA never would have
who is much hated by a substantial number of Republican passed without Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh) the voters
conservatives in his district as well as across this country - wanted gone.
with good reason. Paul Ryan Running Scared in Final
Days Ahead of Primary Election, August 4, 2016: The perception in my run was that the voters in that district
overwhelmingly approved of Herger's voting record which
"House Speaker Paul Ryan's policy record they did NOT. My support was firm and widespread. The
is collapsing among voters here under morning after the primary a woman called my office to tell
scrutiny from Republican challenger Paul me she worked a precinct in a smaller county. When she
Nehlen, so badly that Ryan is refusing to came in primary night she observed ballots spread all over
appear even on the Fox News Channel." the table instead of in sealed boxes which is the law. She
was told to mind her own business and go back to work.
While my race was called at 8:01 pm, in the second largest
Yet, come primary night, miraculously the alleged final
county in the district, the county clerk's office didn't even
vote count was 84-15. I almost choked when I saw that
get the ballots until hours later.
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The Republican Secretary of State refused to look at my technology who know how it's being done
case after I filed a formal complaint. My name wasn't on and individuals who have become experts
the ballot in Butte County, in violation of state law ballots on massive fraud perpetrated upon we
were taken out of the secured boxes and he could care less. the people simply because we are either
I didn't have the money at the time to sue. That's when I victims or have done years and even
left the Republican Party and have remained no party decades of research.
since.
Pence has been tapped to head up a commission on this
BTW: I ran on abolishing the unconstitutional 'Federal' vital issue but unless President Trump invites non-elected
Reserve, getting us out of the United Nothing (UN) to keep officials, I don't believe (1) he will get to the truth and (2)
us from being sucked into a one world government, no the steps that need to be taken to clean up our elections -
'free' trade and abolishing unconstitutional cabinets like the that means purging voter rolls, too, which I have written
Federal Dept of Education. THAT's why I allegedly lost about too many times to count won't happen. Nearly 2
by a landslide. The perception being the voters million non-citizen Hispanics illegally registered to vote.
overwhelmingly rejected my message. That simply was That would be illegal aliens so send ICE to pick them up
not the case. and get them deported.
The only way we are going to get accurate vote counts is I guess we shall see what happens but if the mess called
to scrap ALL forms of electronic voting and counting our elections isn't cleaned up by January 2018, we will see
(scanning), period. NO voting over the Internet, overturn the same fraud once again because next year (February)
the Motor Voter Law of 1993 and crack down on absentee begins primaries for Congress which is when the real
ballots - those are ripe for fraud. Paper ballots hand election starts. If you don't oust the incumbent in the
counted in front of the public. If you watch the video primary you end up with the same crook going back to
below, I explain this further. It's the only way to clean up DC.
our elections.
WATCH: A speech I gave on vote fraud in California
President Trump is justified in opening an before I left the state in 2006. You will be shocked and
investigation on vote fraud. He should sickened. The precision with which vote fraud is pulled off
gather individuals who are experts in is even more advanced now.
Links:
1 - Flashback: Some of my vote fraud research
2 - Vote fraud: it's not just the machines
3 - A dozen or so of my vote fraud columns - needs to be updated with another dozen or two I've done
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Bannon Rips "Corporatist" Media:
"They're Not Going To Give The Country
Back Without A Fight"
By Tyler Durden
Feb 23, 2017 2:51 PM
Shortly after taking center stage at CPAC, Steve Bannon corporatist, globalist media," Steve Bannon
once again unleashed on the media, quickly calling the says pic.twitter.com/mhIz32h1xn
press the "opposition party" as he did in his infamous NYT
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 23,
interview, during his conversation with Reince Priebus.
2017
“If you look at the opposition party, how Considering virtually all mainstream media outlets are
they portrayed the campaign, how they owned by just six corporations, Bannon may be on to
portrayed the transition, how they portray something.
the administration, it’s always wrong,"
Bannon said. “If you remember, the
campaign, by the media’s description, was Earlier:
the most chaotic, the most disorganized,
most unprofessional, had no idea what they The Trump administration has taken center stage at this
were doing. And then you saw [the media] year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)
all crying and weeping” on election night. which infamously kicked out Milo Yiannopoulos earlier
this week, leading to the rapid fall from grace for the
"It's not gonna get better, it's gonna get
outspoken conservative.
worse," Bannon said.
Moments ago Trump's two right hand men, chief strategist
Steve Bannon, and chief of staff, Reince Priebus, started
speaking at CPAC. Later in the day, VP Mike Pence will
give a major address at 7:30 pm.
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A spokesman for CPAC told NBC that Spencer was that if he had comments we’d agree with,
removed because the organization finds his views he’d be on our stage, but he’s not on our
“repugnant.” stage,” Schlapp said of Spencer.
According to The Hill, American Conservative Union Shortly after being removed from the conference, Spencer
Chairman Matt Schlapp attempted to distance the held a gaggle with reporters.
conference from Spencer, who reportedly said that he was
credentialed for the event. “The ‘alt-right’ does not have a "CPAC cannot host a speech where they
legitimate voice in the conservative movement,” said denounce the alt-right by name and then
Schlapp, according to the Los Angeles Times, noting that expect me not to come,” he said, according
“nobody from that movement is speaking at CPAC.” to reports. "They’re children, I mean look,
adults will engage in dialogue particularly
“This is America, and we have to deal with when you're going to denounce someone.
the laws and, you know, all I can tell you is They're not even engaging in dialogue."
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RED ALERT: Fascist Google Begins PURGE Of Pro-
Trump Websites As Prelude To Massive
False Flag Or Coup Attempt
By: Mike Adams
Thursday, February 23, 2017
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This is on top of the economic sabotage committed will be pushed by the fake news media
against InfoWars on Tuesday, where the Google- (CNN, WashPo, NYT, etc.)
influenced advertising company AdRoll cut off InfoWars’
This is fascism on display as corporations
ads without warning, costing InfoWars a reported $3
are now carrying out the bidding of the
million in annual revenues.
deep state that’s planning to cause mass
mayhem or death in order to remove
Two days before that, Breitbart News was targeted with a Trump from power before he can go
malicious take down of Milo Yiannopoulos, thanks to public with the truth about the
video leaks coordinated by George Soros-linked front pedophilia links to prominent D.C.
groups. politicians.
A prelude to a massive false flag or My Health Ranger Report podcast that explains more, or
coup attempt against President Trump? watch below:
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US Debt Slashed By 12 Billion In Trump’s First Month
While The Media Has Been Inventing Scandal After Scandal To
Undermine President Trump, He Has Been Quietly Turning
Around Obama's Unsustainable US Debt Levels
By Baxter Dmitry
Posted On February 23, 2017
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President Trump’s first month in office proves the benefit of having a successful businessman in charge of incomings and
outgoings instead of a community organizer from Chicago with no understanding of budgeting.
How did President Obama fare in his first month in office? The supposed ‘Stimulus’ did not kick in till later in
The contrast to President Trump could not be more telling. Obama’s first year and lead to Obama’s first year deficit of
Obama, who spent his first month jetting around the world $1.4 trillion.
and flying in wookie chow for Sasquatch on C-130’s,
managed to increase the US debt burden by more than Overall, the Chicago community organizer has the dubious
$200 billion in his first month in office. distinction of managing to double the US debt during his
time in office and create a legacy for himself involving
Not only managing to increase the national debt by 2% in record breaking deficits and the largest debt increase by
his first month alone, Obama also signed the trillion dollar any President ever.
‘Stimulus’ bill, an expensive failure and unnecessary waste
of American tax payers’ money. President Trump has years of bad financial governance to
undo, but as the results of his first month prove, he is
hellbent on cleaning up the mess.
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‘Oh, Good Grief’: Wapo Hires Entrenched
Dem John Podesta For Political Insight On D.C., Trump Admin
Tom Tillison
February 23, 2017
Former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta “His long experience in Congress, inside
has been hired by The Washington Post as a columnist. two Democratic White Houses and on the
front lines of numerous presidential
…a fitting hire, given the newspaper’s new campaigns, will offer readers vital insight
tagline” “Democracy dies in darkness.” into Washington and politics at the start of
a new era.”
In his new role, Podesta
The reaction on social media suggests it’s getting harder
and harder for the media to shock folks. At the same time,
“will provide commentary and analysis on
Podesta has yet to live down Pizza-gate, the conspiracy
the intersection of politics and policy, the
theory that emerged after his hacked emails allegedly
Trump administration and the future of the
contained coded messages tied to a child sex ring operated
Democratic Party,”
through pizzerias.
The Post said in a statement, according to Politico.
Here’s a sampling of responses from Twitter:
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The McMaster Pick: Score One For The Swamp?
NSA Pick McMaster Told The National Defense University That
“The Islamic State Is Not Islamic.”
Robert Spencer
February 23, 2017
No transcript or video is publicly available, but there was a Now, this was during the Obama regime, when that was
large crowd, and multiple witnesses. the official policy of the U.S. government, but President
Trump has repeatedly criticized his predecessor (and his
In his address, McMaster said flatly: 2016 election opponent) for not being willing to call the
problem of jihad terror by its right name. Since he has
“The Islamic State is not Islamic.” become President, he has repeatedly reiterated his
determination to eradicate “radical Islamic terrorism.”
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The Obama team didn’t just deny that the Islamic State all federal, state and local law enforcement who have been
was Islamic. From 2011 on, it has been official Obama subjected to biased training”; and more—to ensure that all
administration policy to deny any connection between that law enforcement officials would learn about Islam and
Islam and terrorism. This came as a result of an October jihad would be what the signatories wanted them to learn.
19, 2011 letter from Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates
to John Brennan, who was then the Assistant to the Numerous books and presentations that gave a perfectly
President on National Security for Homeland Security and accurate view of Islam and jihad were removed from
Counter Terrorism, and later, of course, served in the coounterterror training. Today, even with Trump as
Obama administration as head of the CIA. President, this entrenched policy of the U.S. government
remains, and ensures that all too many jihadists simply
The letter was signed not just by Khera, but by the leaders cannot be identified as risks, since the officials are bound
of virtually all the significant Islamic groups in the United as a matter of policy to ignore what in saner times would
States: 57 Muslim, Arab, and South Asian organizations, be taken as warning signs.
many with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood,
including the Council on American-Islamic Relations President Trump must reverse this. He has spoken often
(CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the about the threat from “radical Islamic terrorism”; he must
Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Circle of follow through and remove the prohibitions on allowing
North America (ICNA), Islamic Relief USA; and the agents to study and understand the motivating ideology
Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). behind the jihad threat.
The letter denounced what it characterized as U.S. If McMaster was stating his conviction and not just the
government agencies’ “use of biased, false and highly party line, this would represent a step backward in this
offensive training materials about Muslims and Islam.” effort, not the step forward that is so urgently needed. It
Despite the factual accuracy of the material about which would also represent a victory for the compromised
they were complaining, the Muslim groups demanded that McCain/Graham Republican establishment, which
the task force “purge all federal government training subscribes no less than Obama did to the “Islam is a
materials of biased materials”; “implement a mandatory re- religion of peace” line, and is trying to neutralize Trump
training program for FBI agents, U.S. Army officers, and and keep the swamp from being drained.
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The Covert Op To Neuter The Rebel
By Jon Rappoport
February 23, 2017
If you want to track a civilization as it collapses, watch articulating a complete sentence, was “the rebel without a
what happens to the concept of the rebel. cause” in the “iconic film” of the same name. He raced
cars toward cliffs because his father couldn’t understand
From the 1960s onward—starting with Lee Oswald and him.
the assassination of JFK—the whole idea of “the rebel”
with power has been sequentially updated and repackaged. These were all puff pieces designed to make rebels look
This is intentional. ridiculous, and they worked. They also functioned to
transmit the idea to young people that being a rebel should
The objective is to equate “rebel” with a whole host of be a showbiz affectation. That worked, too.
qualities—e.g., runaway self-serving paranoia; random
destruction; out-of-control drug use; generalized hatred; Then the late 1960s arrived. Flower children, in part
the commission of crimes… invented by the major media, would surely take over the
world and dethrone fascist authority with rainbows. San
On a lesser, “commercialized” level, the new rebel can Francisco was the epicenter. But Haight-Ashbury, where
define himself by merely showing up at a concert to the flowers and the weed were magically growing out of
scream and drink heavily and break something, having the sidewalks, turned into a speed, acid, and heroin
already dressed to make a dissident fashion statement. He nightmare, a playground for psychopaths to cash in and
can take an afternoon off from college classes and have his steal and destroy lives. The CIA, of course, gave the LSD
arms tattooed. All the while, of course, he functions as an culture a major push.
avid consumer of mainstream corporate products.
For all that the anti-war movement eventually
You even have people who, considering themselves rebels accomplished in ending the Vietnam war-crime, in the
of the first order, support a government that spies on its aftermath many of those college students who had been in
people 24/7, launches military attacks all over the world, the streets—once the fear of being drafted was gone—
and now funds a Manhattan Project to map every move of scurried into counselors’ offices to see where they might
the 100 billion neurons of the brain, for the ultimate fit into the job market after graduation. The military
purpose of controlling it. industrial complex took its profits and moved on,
undeterred.
Going back as far as the 1950s, the so-called decade of
conformity, psyops professionals sculpted notions of The The idea of the rebel was gone. It later resurfaced as The
Rebel: He was the person who, because he had Cocaine Dealer, the archangel of the 1980s.
psychological problems, didn’t want to take part in the
emerging bland corporate culture. And so forth and so on. All these incarnations of The
Rebel were artificially created and sustained as psyops. At
He was imagined and presented as troubled, morose; a bottom, the idea was to discredit the Individual, in favor of
wobbly unfocused JD Salinger Holden Caulfield, or an The Group.
unkempt beatnik, a Madison Avenue caricature of
somebody who opposed Madison Avenue. Now, in our collectivist society of 2017, The Group, as a
rapidly expanding victim class, is the government’s
In other words, the people who were shaping the consumer number one project. It’s a straight con.
culture were creating the image of the rebel as a cartoon
figure who just didn’t want to buy into “the good life.” “We’re here to make you worse off while
we ‘lift you up’.”
Time Magazine ran a cover story on the beatniks, and
characterized them as a disaffected trend. Marlon Brando, In the op to demean, distort, and squash the rebel, there is a
heading up a bunch of moronic motorcycle riders, invaded single obvious common denominator: the establishment
a town of pleasant clueless citizens and took it over, media are doing the defining; they are the ones who are
wreaking destruction. The 1953 movie was The Wild setting the parameters and making the descriptions; they
One. James Dean, who had the same trouble Brando did in are the ones who build the cartoons; looking down their
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noses, pretending to a degree of sympathy, they paint one We’re well into a time period when the experts and
unflattering picture after another of what the rebel is and scientific authorities are settling on the human being as a
does and says; they have co-opted the whole game. biological machine that can only respond to programming.
That’s their view and their default position.
These days, the ultimate rebels, the media
would have you believe, are “gun-toting It’s sheer madness, of course, but what else do you expect?
racist bitter clingers who have religion.” We’re in an intense technological age, and people are
Another attempt to shape a distorted obsessed with making things run smoother. They treat their
unflattering portrait precious little algorithms for control like the Crown
You can take a whole host of political films and television Jewels. They’re terribly enthusiastic about the problem
series of the past 50 years, and look at them for signs of they’re solving, and that problem is us.
the Rebel:
We’re the wild cards, a fact which they take to be result of
Seven Days in May, our improper and incomplete conditioning. They aim to fix
Advise and Consent, that.
The Candidate,
The Seduction of Joe Tynan, “Why not stop diddling around and just
Dave, make the whole thing over? Why not
Primary Colors, reshape humans?”
The Contender,
Good Night and Good Luck, Having decided that, the battle begins between competing
The American President, programmers of the mind. Which program for humans is
West Wing, better?
Scandal,
The Newsroom… The rebel is against all such programming, no matter how
“good and right” it sounds. “Good” and “right” are the
traps.
Good acting, bad acting, drama, message—at the end
you’re looking for the core. What do the rebel heroes
really stand for? What are their principles? It’s all bland. “Well, certainly we could make a list of
It’s vague. It has the posturing of importance, but little qualities we want all people to have. You
else. know, the best qualities, like bravery and
determination. Who could be against that?
So suppose we could actually program
As I was finishing this piece, a friend wrote with a quote
such qualities into humans? Wouldn’t that
attributed to Robert Anton Wilson: “The universe is a war
be a fine thing? Then people would just BE
between reality programmers.”
that way…”
This is exactly where the real rebel enters the scene. He’s
The ultimate rebellion is against programming, whatever it
not trying to program people. Freedom means cutting loose
looks like, wherever it occurs.
from programming.
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John McCain Again Meets
With Terrorists In Syria
By Stephen Lendman
2-23-2017
In May 2013, ISIS elements posted photos they took with He “looks forward to working with the
neocon John McCain, during his Syria visit to meet with administration and military leaders to
anti-government terrorists. optimize our approach for accomplishing
ISIL’s lasting defeat.”
On return, he said
He met with Saudi King Salman, UAE
“it was a very moving experience to meet crown prince Al Nahyan, and Turkish
these fighters who have been struggling President Erdogan on the same trip, saying
now for over two years.” discussions focused on Syria and defeating
ISIS.
He called cutthroat killers moderate rebels.
Obama earlier pledged to defeat ISIS without putting US
“I know who they are. I was in Syria and I boots on the ground. His actions were polar opposite -
met with them,” supporting ISIS, not combating it, sending 1000s of US
troops to Iraq, at least hundreds of special forces to Syria.
he said - explaining nothing about America’s war of Their duties include engaging in combat, against whom is
aggression against a sovereign independent country uncertain.
threatening no one, using imported terrorists as imperial
foot soldiers. Trump promised to defeat international terrorism. He may
deploy more US troops to Syria, Afghanistan and perhaps
Last weekend, McCain returned to Syria, showing support elsewhere.
for US-backed death squads, committing gruesome
atrocities, wanting regime change. A statement by his So far, it’s unknown whether he’ll combat terrorist groups
spokeswoman said: or support them like his predecessors.
He “traveled to northern Syria…to visit with Given how much he backtracked on promises so far,
US forces…and to discuss the (so-called) chances for cooperating with Russia in combating
counter-ISIL campaign…(His) visit was a terrorism looks like another pledge to be broken.
valuable opportunity to assess dynamic
conditions on the ground in Syria and Iraq.” All politicians lie. Believe nothing they say. Follow only
what they do, the only way to judge them.
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John McCain Makes "Unusual" Secret Trip
To Syria As Trump Prepares Plans To Defeat ISIS
By Tyler Durden
Feb 23, 2017 9:15 AM
In an unusual move for a sitting senator, John McCain (R- Sec. 1. Policy. It is the policy of the United States that
AZ) secretly traveled to northern Syria last weekend to ISIS be defeated.
speak with American military officials and Kurdish
fighters at the forefront of the push to drive Islamic State Sec. 2. Policy Coordination. Policy coordination,
out of their de facto capital of Raqqa. The short visit came guidance, dispute resolution, and periodic in-progress
in the middle of a regional trip that took McCain from reviews for the functions and programs described and
Saudi Arabia to Turkey, where he discussed evolving plans assigned in this memorandum shall be provided through
to counter the Islamic State in the Middle East. Per the the interagency process established in National Security
Wall Street Journal: Presidential Memorandum – 2 of January 28, 2017
(Organization of the National Security Council and the
U.S. officials familiar with Mr. McCain’s trip said that the Homeland Security Council), or any successor.
senator traveled to Kobani, the Syrian town on the Turkey
border controlled by Kurdish forces since 2012. (i) Development of a new plan to defeat
ISIS (the Plan) shall commence
In a statement, Mr. McCain’s office immediately.
confirmed that a trip took place, saying the (ii) Within 30 days, a preliminary draft
senator “traveled to northern Syria last of the Plan to defeat ISIS shall be
week to visit U.S. forces deployed there submitted to the President by the
and to discuss the counter-ISIL Secretary of Defense.
campaign and ongoing operations to
retake Raqqa.” (iii) The Plan shall include:
Mr. McCain is believed to be the first (A) a comprehensive strategy and
U.S. lawmaker to travel to the Kurdish- plans for the defeat of ISIS;
controlled area of northeastern Syria (B) recommended changes to any
since it became a hub for American United States rules of engagement and
special-operations forces who are aiding other United States policy restrictions
local forces in the fight against Islamic that exceed the requirements of
State. international law regarding the use of
force against ISIS;
Of course, this trip came just a couple of weeks after
(C) public diplomacy, information
Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum giving his new
operations, and cyber strategies to
Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, 30 days to draw up a
isolate and delegitimize ISIS and its
military plan to "defeat ISIS" declaring definitely that
radical Islamist ideology;
"it is the policy of the United States that (D) identification of new coalition
ISIS be defeated." partners in the fight against ISIS and
policies to empower coalition partners
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, to fight ISIS and its affiliates;
is not the only threat from radical
Islamic terrorism that the United States (E) mechanisms to cut off or seize
faces, but it is among the most vicious ISIS's financial support, including
and aggressive. financial transfers, money laundering,
oil revenue, human trafficking, sales of
looted art and historical artifacts, and
It is also attempting to create its own state, which ISIS
other revenue sources; and
claims as a "caliphate." But there can be no
accommodation or negotiation with it. For those reasons I (F) a detailed strategy to robustly fund
am directing my Administration to develop a the Plan.
comprehensive plan to defeat ISIS.
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After traveling to Syria, McCain also met with Turkish According to the WSJ, the safe-zone proposal represents a
President Erdogan who is pushing the Trump significant policy reversal from the administration of
administration to sideline the Kurdish fighters that U.S. Barack Obama, who long resisted pressure for such an
military leaders view as a vital ally in the fight against approach from Congress and U.S. allies in the Middle East
Islamic State. because he believed it would draw the U.S. too deeply into
another war.
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Leading Contender In Democratic Chairman Race Says
Donald Trump 'Legitimately Raises The
Question Of Impeachment'
Keith Ellison said the president had done 'a number of things' which may warrant
impeachment
The only one he listed was 'monetizing from the presidency' by allowing 'foreign dignitaries'
to stay at Trump hotels while he was in office
He claimed it breaches constitutional laws preventing the president accepting money from
foreign powers
Ellison, the Muslim representative for Minnesota, is vying for the Democratic leadership
He made the comments at a debate chaired by CNN in Atlanta on Wednesday
Hours earlier Trump praised him on Twitter for predicting his election win in 2015
By Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com
Published: 00:54 EST, 23 February 2017 | Updated: 08:37 EST, 23 February 2017
A leading contender in the race for Democratic chair has but to protect our Constitution and the
claimed Donald Trump 'legitimately raises the question presidency of the United States to make
of impeachment'. sure that nobody can monetize the
presidency and make profit off of it for their
Rep. Keith Ellison, the Muslim congressman from own gain,' he continued.
Minnesota who the president gave a backhanded
compliment to on Wednesday, said he'd done 'a number of
things' which warrant investigation.
Rep. Keith Ellison said on Wednesday he agreed with 'One thing I will say about Rep. Keith
Democrats who want to see Trump impeached, telling a Ellison, in his fight to lead the DNC, is that
debate for the leadership of his party that the president had he was the one who predicted early that I
done 'a number of things' to raise the question. would win!' he said.
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Ellison, a Bernie Sanders favorite, is a front-runner in the race for
the new chair of the Democratic National Committee
Ellison said the president should be investigated for possibly
'monetizing' the presidency
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Talk of impeachment had begun even before the devise strategy – if they're the ones who
inauguration when far-left California Rep. Maxine Walters came up with "Crooked Hillary," if they’re
said the then incoming president could face impeachment the ones who came up with, "She's ill,
if it could be proven he colluded with Russian meddling in something’s wrong with her energy," and
the election. the way that he basically described her
during the campaign – I think that is
'If we discover that Donald Trump or his something that would put the question
advocates played a role in helping to squarely on the table, whether or not he
should be impeached,' she told MSNBC.
.
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‘Today’ Staffer Leaked Infamous
Trump Tape That Ruined Billy Bush: Sources
Article By Mara Siegler And Emily Smith
Date: February 24, 2017
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Combative Trump Promises
Americans Safety And Strength
Andrew Beatty, With Michael Mathes In Oxon Hill
AFP
February 24, 2017
"Offensive. Defensive. Everything. Bigger He painted Sweden, Germany and France as blighted by
and better and stronger than ever before. jihadist violence, as he sought to defend his own
And hopefully we'll never have to use it," he controversial crackdown on immigrants.
added.
"We fully understand that national security
The hawkish message was lapped up by conservatives begins with border security," he said.
gathered in Oxon Hill, where a combative Trump painted
immigrants as criminals, and renewed his assault on the "Let me state this as clearly as I can: We
"fake" media. are going to keep radical Islamic terrorists
the hell out of our country," he said,
"They are the enemy of the people, promising to revisit a failed attempt to bar
because they have no sources. They just entry to people from seven Muslim-majority
make 'em up when there are none," he countries.
said. "We will not be deterred from this course,
and in a matter of days, we will be taking
He was met by euphoric chants of "USA, USA."
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brand new action to protect our people and reportedly dragged out of a Texas hospital to a detention
keep America safe." center.
Trump also defended orders issued by his administration Trump asked supporters to remember the rationale behind
for a sweeping crackdown on the estimated 11 million his order.
illegal immigrants already living in the country.
"These are bad dudes. We're getting the
Though it targets as a priority people convicted or accused bad ones out, OK?"
of crimes, the move sent shivers through US immigrant
"If you watch these people, it's like gee,
communities, most of them from Mexico and Central
that's so sad. We're getting bad people out
America, who are seriously threatened with deportation for
of this country, people that shouldn't be,
the first time in decades.
whether it's drugs or murder or other
things."
Several cases of immigration enforcement have drawn
national attention since Trump took office, including that "Basically all I've done is keep my
of an undocumented woman with a brain tumor who was promise."
.
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Trump Is On The Verge Of His Own Bull Market
By Joseph Ciolli And Lu Wang
February 24, 2017, 4:00 AM CST
How does the future look when stock prices jump this fast?
There’s good and bad news. The last time it happened, in
January 1987, the Dow dropped 11 percent over the next
year as the market endured one of its worst crashes. The
previous occurrence in March 1964 saw the index climb
9.3 percent over 12 months.
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Head-Scratching Investors
Call Time On Trump Stock Rally
Jürgen HECKER - AFP
February 24, 2017
After all, he said, such a winning streak had not been seen
since 1987,
How high is too high? Investors marvel at Wall Street's record run But while all the world's major stock markets suffered in
(AFP Photo/SPENCER PLATT) Friday's correction, they were in no mood for a crash.
Paris (AFP) - World equity markets came under pressure Europe even came off early lows late in the session,
Friday as analysts ran out of ways to justify Donald relieved that Wall Street's morning fall turned out to be so
Trump-inspired stock valuations, but some said the party modest.
may not be completely over.
- 'Dangling' -
The dollar stuttered, while Wall Street, Asian and
European markets fell after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin forecast three percent growth by the end of next
Mnuchin lowered US growth expectations, providing the year, warning that the effect of certain measures would
trigger for a correction many said had been overdue. take time. That compared with the four percent Trump
promised on the campaign trail.
"The signs were there for a stock market
plunge, which is exactly what has In an interview with CNBC, Mnuchin also appeared to
happened today," said Fawad Razaqzada, wind back on his boss's earlier threats to call China a
an analyst at Forex.com. currency manipulator, easing concerns about a possible
trade stand-off between the world's top two economic
"Is this the start of the crash that many powers.
people had been waiting for? Well, that
remains to be seen," he said. Stephen Innes, senior trader at OANDA, said the
comments
- 'Awe and disbelief' -
"have left investors dangling about the US
Friday's downturn came after 10 gravity-defying straight administration's currency policy as there
record-breaking sessions on the New York exchange appears to be a subtle shift in the Trump
which had global investors looking on in "awe and administration's rhetoric".
disbelief", said Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at
eToro. The comments overshadowed his promise to push through
tax cuts by August, and pursue deregulation on companies
This took Wall Street's gains since Trump's election to and banks.
around nine percent.
- Gold sparkles again -
"Many analysts feel that this has been
overdone but most agree that it could very
well continue for a while," said Greenspan.
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Gold, an attractive investment in risky times, rose 0.5 Frankfurt heavyweight BASF shed close to three percent
percent on Friday as investors fled the stock markets for after the chemicals giant reported a "challenging" 2016,
safety. leaving it just "cautiously optimistic" for the current year.
The dollar lost some of its recent shine against the euro - Key figures around 1655 GMT –
and the yen, another sign that cracks may be appearing in
investors' belief that US economic strength will make them London - FTSE 100: DOWN 0.4 percent at 7,243.70 (close)
richer day after day. Frankfurt - DAX 30: DOWN 1.2 percent at 11,804.03 (close)
Paris - CAC 40: DOWN 0.9 percent at 4,845.24 (close)
In corporate Europe, some heavyweights saw heavy losses New York - Dow: DOWN 0.3 percent at 20,749.51
in response to annual results. Tokyo - Nikkei 225: DOWN 0.5 percent at 19,283.54 (close)
Hong Kong - Hang Seng: DOWN 0.6 percent at 23,965.7
Vivendi in Paris dropped nearly four percent after posting (close)
Shanghai - Composite: UP 0.1 percent at 3,253.43 (close)
a 35-percent decline in net profit.
Euro/dollar: UP at $1.0581 from $1.0579
Pound/dollar: DOWN at $1.2493 from $1.2556
Royal Bank of Scotland shares dropped 4.5 percent in Dollar/yen: DOWN at 112.27 yen from 112.67 yen
London after the bank's net loss widened to £7 billion in Oil - West Texas Intermediate: DOWN 42 cents at $54.03
2016. per barrel
Oil - Brent North Sea: DOWN 37 cents at $56.45
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Vulnerable Dems Lay Low As Town Hall Angst Rages
By STEVE PEOPLES
Associated Press
Feb 24, 9:09 AM EST
NEW YORK (AP) -- From Montana to West Virginia, the Heitkamp, Democrats whose states backed Trump by an
nation's most vulnerable Senate Democrats are avoiding average of 39 percentage points in November.
town hall meetings as their Republican counterparts get
pummeled by an energized electorate frustrated with Both have avoided formal town halls this week, but
President Donald Trump's early agenda. Heitkamp's office said she participated in a discussion
about flood issues with constituents in northeastern North
Some Democrats prefer to connect with constituents over Dakota and attended a subsequent ribbon-cutting on
the telephone or using social media. Others are meeting Thursday. She planned to tour a local National Weather
voters in controlled environments with limited Service office on Friday.
opportunities to ask questions. But few of the 10
Democratic senators facing re-election next year in states Manchin's office reported an equally busy schedule, but his
carried by Trump have scheduled in-person town hall constituents said he's been hard to find this week. They've
meetings during this week's congressional recess. scheduled a protest outside the Democratic senator's
Charleston office on Friday to demand more access,
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill declined an invitation to according to Cathy Kunkel, an energy consultant who
attend a town hall organized by a group called Kansas City helped plan the protest.
Indivisible this weekend, deciding to send a staff member
in her place. The two-term senator, up for re-election next "Here we are, and we'd like a town hall
year in a state Trump won by nearly 19 percentage points, meeting," Kunkel said. "His constituents
is scheduled to chat with voters next week on Facebook have a lot of questions. This is the first
Live. recess of the new Congress in the Trump
administration."
"Seems to me that all these members of
Congress are afraid to face their As skittish Democrats dodge, many Republicans face an
constituents," said Hillary Shields, a outpouring of anger in public meetings across the nation
volunteer organizer with the Kansas City from constituents fired up over Trump's first steps as
group. president. Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton have been
The cautious approach comes as Senate Democrats work yelled at, heckled and booed in recent days.
to limit risks ahead of a challenging 2018 election season.
After claiming the Senate majority in 2014, Republicans Some Republicans have avoided such confrontations.
could win a filibuster-proof 60-vote Senate majority next Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert evoked the near-fatal shooting
year in an election in which Democrats are defending 25 of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to explain why he's only
seats (23 held by Democrats, two by independents), 10 of holding telephone town halls. Giffords on Thursday urged
them in states carried by Trump. members of Congress to "have some courage" and face
their constituents.
The GOP has a 52-48 edge in the Senate.
Yet few vulnerable Senate Democrats are expected to do
There are no easy answers for Democrats like McCaskill, so in settings that allow for unscripted questions.
pushed to stand up to the Republican president by their
liberal base and pulled to cooperate with the GOP by In Montana, where Trump prevailed by 20 percentage
independents and moderates. points, Sen. Jon Tester made several public appearances
this week, but he did not advertise any of them as town
McCaskill's office noted she spent part of this week halls. He answered questions about Scott Pruitt, Trump's
touring the U.S.-Mexico border and planned to host town new chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, at one
halls later in the year. event about climate change, said spokeswoman Marnee
Banks.
The political pressure is particularly intense for West
Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and North Dakota Sen. Heidi
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In Pennsylvania, a spokeswoman for Sen. Bob Casey said "Grassroots Democrats won't be shy about
he would host a town hall in early March, but the details challenging their own leaders if they sense
hadn't yet been set. In Florida, Sen. Bill Nelson addressed a whiff of cooperation with the Trump
students at two Thursday appearances focused on agenda," said Ben Wikler, Washington
education. And in Ohio, Sen. Sherrod Brown "has director for the liberal group MoveOn.org.
participated in several telephone conference calls recently"
and his office "emailed surveys out to constituents" to It's unclear if they'll get the chance with certain Senate
gauge their priorities, said spokeswoman Jennifer Democrats, however.
Donohue.
Shields noted that McCaskill made time to visit the
For now, protesters' angst is largely focused on Mexican border:
Republicans. But only a few weeks ago, Democrats
including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and "We'd like to have her back in Missouri."
liberal heroine Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren faced
a sharp rebuke for backing one of Trump's Cabinet picks.
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Here’s How the Deep State
Is Trying to Lead Trump into a Nuclear War
Daniel Lang
February 24th, 2017
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And let’s pretend for a moment that a limited nuclear war Hopefully brighter minds will prevail, because whoever is
is possible. What would that do? It would normalize proposing this notion of limited nuclear conflict, needs to
nuclear warfare. It would make nukes a viable option in change out their dress uniform for a freaking straight
every single war. Every conflict would leave behind a trail jacket.
of radioactive fallout and mass civilian casualties.
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The White House Blocked CNN, BBC,
New York Times, & LA Times From Media Briefing
Joe Martino
February 24, 2017
In an intriguing move, the press secretary allowed outlets MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski thinks this move
including Breitbart News, One America News Network, by Trump is to control what people think,
and The Washington Times, who all tend to be right but isn’t that the media’s job? Take a look:
leaning news organizations. That said, a few other media
outlets were allowed in including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox
News, Reuters and Bloomberg.
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Trump? I think we can all agree that it should be up to non All in all, the state of mainstream media is being called out
one but ourselves. here and while there may be a number of reasons why
Trump took this action, one thing is clear, the MSM is no
What Can We Take From This? longer being given the monopoly when it comes to
reporting news. Public distrust in mainstream media is
growing, and taking actions to humble them is a good step
This wasn’t a move to bar mainstream media entirely, but forward. I believe this forces organizations to think about
one that certainly cut out outlets Trump doesn’t align well their approach just as much as it forces the public to
with. Is this a move that should be allowed? Does it allow question why this is happening.
for fair and free open press? I tend to believe it doesn’t.
I wish to leave with one final reflection point, I believe
But, at the same time, these outlets are manipulating news media is meant to be there as a lens into what is going on,
to fit their own agenda, which Trump seems to be taking a from a non-political, non-judgemental and non-
stand against, so perhaps that is his motive. If so, perhaps manipulative point of view. Very few media outlets out
Trump is trying to avoid tough questions or criticism. there, certainly none in the mainstream, are taking this
Maybe he has learned that mainstream media contributes approach. I believe people are systematically being
greatly to further dividing and confusing the public so he’s manipulated by mainstream media in ways that lead to
trying to control the situation. destructive outcomes. I believe the world is waking up to
this and a new world of media is emerging, one not
Whatever the reasoning, this is a very fine line between dominated by mainstream banter. Do actions like these
controlling free speech and trying to take action to better a only further anger people? Or does it get us reflecting on
situation. Can we trust that the general public can look at what the ultimate goal of media truly is?
media with a critical thinking lens and see through lies and
manipulation? Or does someone need to step in and try to There is no doubting that people need to learn to think for
control what goes out so people can get a clearer picture? themselves, and I believe changing the face of media and
An incredibly difficult debate to have and one that teeters how it’s presented will ultimately help with that.
on a very fine line of over stepping boundaries.
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President Trump Gets Standing Ovation
At Conservative Political Action Conference
Trump Fires Up Base At CPAC
By VNN
February 24, 2017
So sit down. Donald Trump did not get a standing ovation. They
leave out the part they never sat down. They leave that out. So I
just want to thank you.
But you know, my first major speech was at CPAC, probably five
or six years ago. First major political speech, and you were there.
And it was — I loved it. I loved the people, I loved the commotion,
and then they did these polls where I went through the roof and I
wasn’t even running, right? But it gave me an idea. And I got a
little bit concerned when I saw what was happening in the
country, and I said let’s go to it. So it was very exciting.
President Donald Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action
Conference Friday
I walked the stage on CPAC; I’ll never forget it, really. I had very
Full transcript: little notes and even less preparation. So when you have
practically no notes and no preparation and then you leave and
everybody was thrilled, I said I think I like this business.
Great to be back at CPAC. It’s a place I have really — I love this
place. I love you people. So thank you very much. First of all, I
want to thank Matt Schlapp and his very, very incredible wife and I would have come last year, but I was worried that I’d be at that
boss, Mercedes, who have been fantastic friends and supporters time too controversial. We wanted border security, we wanted
and so great when I watch them on television defending me; very, very strong military. We wanted all of the things that we’re
nobody has a chance. So I want to thank Matt and Mercedes. going to get, and people consider that controversial, but you
didn’t consider it controversial. So I’ve been with CPAC for a long
time. All of these years we’ve been together, and now you finally
When Matt called and asked, I said absolutely I’ll be there with have a president, finally. Took you a long time. Took you a long
you. time. And it’s patriots like you that made it happen, believe me.
You did it because you love your country, because you want a
The real reason I said it, I didn’t want him to go against me, so I better future for your children, and because you want to make
said absolutely. And it really is an honor to be here. I wouldn’t America great again.
miss a chance to talk to my friends. These are my friends. And
we’ll see you again next year and the year after that. And I’ll be The media didn’t think we would win. The pundits — you’re right
doing this with CPAC whenever I can, and I’ll make sure that — they had an idea. The pundits didn’t think we’d win. The
we’re here a lot. consultants that suck up all that money — oh, they suck it up —
they’re so good. They’re not good at politics, but they’re really
If you remember, my first major speech — sit down, everybody, good at sucking up people’s money. Especially my opponents’,
come on. because I kept them down to a minimum. But the consultants
didn’t think we would win. But they all underestimated the power
You know, the dishonest media, they’ll say he didn’t get a of the people, you, and the people proved them totally wrong.
standing ovation. You know why? No, you know why? Because This is so true, and this is what’s been happening. Never
everybody stood and nobody sat. So they’ll say he never got a underestimate the people. Never. I don’t think it will ever happen
standing ovation, right? again.
They are the worst. And I want you all to know we are fighting the fake news. It’s
fake. Phony. Fake. A few days ago I called the fake news the
enemy of the people, and they are. They are the enemy of the
people. Because they have no sources, they just make them up
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when there are none. I saw one story recently where they said Take a look at some of these polls. That were so bad, so
nine people have confirmed. There are no nine people. I don’t inaccurate. And what that does is it creates a false narrative. It
believe there was one or two people. Nine people. And I said creates this narrative that it’s just like we’re not going to win.
give me a brea,k because I know the people. I know who they People say I love Trump but I’m not feeling great today. He can’t
talked to. There were no nine people. But they say nine people. win, so I won’t go and vote. It creates a whole false deal, and we
And somebody reads it and they say, oh, nine people, they have have to fight it, folks. We have to fight it. They’re very smart,
nine sources. They make up sources. they’re very cunning, and they’re very dishonest.
They’re very dishonest people. In fact, in covering my comments, So just to conclude, it’s a very sensitive topic, and they get upset
the dishonest media did not explain that I called the fake news when we expose their false stories. They say that we can’t
the enemy of the people — the fake news. They dropped off the criticize their dishonest coverage because of the First
word “fake”. And all of a sudden the story became the media is Amendment. They always bring the the First Amendment. I love
the enemy. They take the word “fake” out. And now I’m saying, the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody —
oh, no, this is no good. But that’s the way they are. So I’m not who uses it more than I do? But the First Amendment gives all of
against the media, I’m not against the press. I don’t mind bad us — it gives it to me it gives it to you, it gives it to all Americans
stories if I deserve them, and I tell you, I love good stories, but — the right to speak our minds freely. It gives you the right and
we won’t talk — I don’t get too many of them. But I am only me the right to criticize fake news and criticize it strongly.
against the fake news media or press. Fake. Fake. They have to
leave that word. And many of these groups are part of large media corporations
that have their own agenda. And it’s not your agenda and it’s not
I’m against the people that make up stories and make up the country’s agenda, it’s their own agenda. They have a
sources. They shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they professional obligation as members of the press to report
use somebody’s name. Let their name be put out there. Let their honestly, but as you saw throughout the entire campaign and
name be put out. A source says that Donald Trump is a horrible, even now, the fake news doesn’t tell the truth. Doesn’t tell the
horrible human being — let them say it to my face. Let there be truth. So just in finishing, I say it doesn’t represent the people, it
no more sources. And remember this, and not in all cases. I never will represent the people, and we’re going to do something
mean, I had a story yesterday written about me in Reuters by a about it because we have to go out and we have to speak our
very honorable man that was a very fair story. There are some minds and we have to be honest.
great reporters around, they are talented and honest as the day
is long; that is great. But there are some terrible, dishonest Our victory was a win like nobody has ever seen before. And I’m
people that do a tremendous disservice to our country, and to our here fighting for you, and I will continue to fight for you. The
people. victory and the win was something that really was dedicated to a
country and people that believe in freedom, security and the rule
They are very dishonest people, and they shouldn’t use sources. of law. Our victory was a victory and a win for conservative
They should put the name of the person. You will see stories dry values. And our victory was a win for everyone who believes it’s
up like you’ve never seen before. You have no idea how bad it is time to stand up for America, to stand up for the American
because if you are not part of the story — and I put myself in your worker, and to stand up for the American flag. Yeah, there we
position sometimes because many of you, you’re not part of the should stand up. There we should stand up. And, by the way, we
story — and if you’re not part of the story, you know, then you love our flag.
sort of know if you are part of the story, you know what they’re
saying is true or not. By the way, you folks are in here, the place is packed. There are
lines that go back six blocks, and I tell you that because you
So when they make it up and they make up something else, and won’t read about it, okay? But there are lines that go back six
you saw that before the election — polls, polls. They come out blocks. There is such love in this country for everything we stand
with some of these polls — and some of them got it right. I must for. You saw that on Election Day and you’re going to see it more
say, Los Angeles Times, shocking, they did a great job. We had and more. So we’re all part of this historic movement, a
a couple of others that were right. Generally speaking, I can tell movement the likes of which the world has never seen before.
you the network. Somebody said, “A poll came out.” I said what There’s never been anything like this.
network is it?
There’s been some movements, but there’s never been anything
And they’ll say a certain — let’s not even mention names, right? like this. There’s been some movements that petered out, like
Shall we? Well, you have a lot of them. The Clinton News Bernie. Petered out. But it was a little rigged against him.
Network is one. Totally. Take a look, honestly. Take a look at Superdelegate, Superdelegate. She had so many delegates
their polls over the last two years. You’d think they’d fire the before the thing even started. I actually said to my people, how
pollster, right? After years and years of getting battered. I mean, does that happen?
who knows, maybe they’re just bad at polling. Or maybe they’re
not legit. But it’s one or the other. Look at how inaccurate. Look Not that Bernie — but a lot of Bernie people voted for Trump
at CBS, look at ABC also. Look at NBC. because you know why? He was right about trade. Our country is
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being absolutely devastated by trade deals, so we got a lot of Obamacare covers very few people. And remember, deduct from
support. So actually I like Bernie. the number all of the people that had great health care that they
loved that was taken away from them. Was taken away from
I’m here to tell you what this means for the future of the them. Millions of people were very happy with the health care.
Republican Party and the future of America. First, we need to They had their doctor, they had their plan. Remember the lie? 28
define what this great, great, unprecedented movement is and times. You can keep your doctor. You can keep your plan. Over
what it actually represents. and over and over again, you heard it. So we’re going to repeal
and replace Obamacare.
The core conviction of our movement is that we are a nation that
will put its own citizens first. And I tell Paul Ryan and all of the folks that we’re working with
very hard, Dr. Tom Price — very talented guy — but I tell them
from a purely political standpoint, the single best thing we can do
For too long we’ve traded away our jobs to other countries, so
is nothing. Let it implode completely. It’s already imploding. You
terrible. We’ve defended other nations’ borders while leaving
see the carriers are all leaving. It’s a disaster. But two years,
ours wide open — anybody can come in. Oh, we’re going to build
don’t do anything. The Democrats will come to us and beg for
a wall, don’t worry about it. We’re building the wall. We’re
help. They’ll beg. And it’s their problem. But it’s not the right thing
building the wall. In fact, it’s going to start soon. Way ahead of
to do for the American people. It’s not the right thing to do.
schedule. Way ahead of schedule. Way, way, way ahead of
schedule.
We inherited a national debt that has doubled in eight years.
Think of it, $20 trillion. It’s doubled. And we inherited a foreign
Gen. Kelly, by the way, has done a fantastic job. Fantastic, the
policy marked by one disaster after another. We don’t win
job he’s done. And remember, we are getting the bad ones out.
anymore. When was the last time we won? Did we win a war?
These are bad dudes. We’re getting the bad ones out. Okay?
Did we win anything? Do we win anything? Do we win anything?
We’re getting the bad — if you watch these people, it’s like oh,
We’re going to win. We’re going to win big, folks. We’re going to
gee, that’s so sad. We were getting bad people out of this
start winning again. Believe me.
country. People who shouldn’t be, whether it’s drugs or murder.
We’re getting bad ones out. They’re the ones that go first. I said it
from day one. But we’re taking a firm, bold, and decisive measure. We have to,
to turn things around. The era of empty talk is over. It’s over. Now
is the time for action. So let me tell you about the actions that
Basically all I’ve done is keep my promise. We’ve spent trillions
we’re taking right now to deliver on our promise to the American
overseas while allowing our own infrastructure to fall into total
people and on my promise to make America great again.
disrepair and decay. In the Middle East we’ve spent, as of four
weeks ago, $6 trillion. Think of it.
We’ve taken swift and strong action to secure the southern
border of the United States and begin the construction of a great,
And, by the way, the Middle East is in what — I mean, it’s not
great border wall. By doing this and with the help of our great
even close —it’s in much worse shape than it was 15 years ago.
border police, with the help of ICE, with the help of Gen. Kelly
If our presidents would have gone to the beach for 15 years, we
and all of the people that are so passionate about this. Our
would be in much better shape than we are right now. That I can
border patrol, what they do — they came and endorsed me, ICE
tell you. Could have been a hell of a lot better. We could have
came and endorsed me — they never endorsed a presidential
rebuilt our country three times with that money.
candidate before. They might not be allowed to, but they were
disgusted what they saw.
This is the situation I inherited. I inherited a mess, believe me.
We’ll stop it, we’ll stop the drugs from pouring into our nation and
We also inherited a failed health care law that threatens our poisoning our youth. Pouring in. Pouring in. We get the drugs,
medical system with absolute and total catastrophe. Now, I’ve they get the money. We get the problems. They get the cash. No
been watching and nobody says it, but Obamacare doesn’t work, good. No good. Going to stop.
folks. I could say, I could talk. And now people are starting to
develop a little — but the people that you’re watching, they’re not
By stopping the flow of illegal immigration, we will save countless
you. They’re largely, many of them are the side that lost. They
tax dollars. That’s so important because the dollars that we’re
lost the election. It’s like, how many elections do we have to
losing are beyond anything that you can imagine. And the tax
have? They lost the election.
dollars that can be used to rebuild struggling American
communities, including our inner cities. We are also going to
But I always say Obamacare doesn’t work, and these same save countless American lives. As we speak today, immigration
people two years ago and a year ago were complaining about officers are finding the gang members, the drug dealers, and the
Obamacare. And the bottom line, we’re changing it. We’re going criminal aliens and throwing them the hell out of our country. And
to make it much better, we’re going to make it less expensive, we will not let them back in. They’re not coming back in, folks.
we’re going to make it much better. They do, they’re going to have bigger problems than they ever
dreamed of.
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I’m also working with the Department of Justice to begin reducing The same bloodsucking consultants that hit him for all the money
violent crime. I mean, can you believe what’s happening in and failed, they’re now going to go back to him and say didn’t we
Chicago, as an example? Two days ago, seven people were do a great job? We want more money. That’s the way the system
shot. And I believe killed. Seven people. Seven people. Chicago. works — a little bit off — but that’s the way the system works.
A great American city. Seven people shot and killed.
We’re preparing bold action to lift the restrictions on American
We will support the incredible men and women of law energy, including shale oil, natural gas, and beautiful, clean coal,
enforcement. Thank you and thank them. and we’re going to put our miners back to work. Miners are going
back to work. Miners are going back to work, folks. Sorry to tell
I’ve also followed through on my campaign promise and you that, but they’re going back to work. We have begun a
withdrawn America from the Trans-Pacific Partnership so that we historic program to reduce the regulations that are crushing our
can protect our economic freedom. And we’re going to make economy. Crushing.
trade deals, but we’re going to do one-on-one — one-on-one —
and if they misbehave, we terminate the deal, and then they And not only our economy, crushing our jobs because companies
come back and we’ll make a better deal. None of these big can’t hire. We’re going to put the regulation industry out of work
quagmire deals that are disaster. and out of business. And, by the way, I want regulation. I want to
protect our environment, I want regulations for safety, I want all of
Just take a look at NAFTA, one of the worst deals ever made by the regulations that we need, and I want them to be so strong
any country having to do with economic development. It’s and so tough, but we don’t need 75 percent of the repetitive
economic undevelopment as far as our country is concerned. regulations that hurt companies, hurt jobs, make us
noncompetitive overseas with other companies from other
countries, that we don’t need. But we’re going to have regulation.
We’re preparing to repeal and replace the disaster known as
It’s going to be really strong and really good, and we’re going to
Obamacare; we’re going to save Americans from this crisis and
protect our environment and we’re going to protect the safety of
give them the access to the quality health care they need and
our people and our workers, okay.
deserve.
A lot sooner than you think. We will not answer to donors or There is no dream too large, no task too great. We are
lobbyists or special interests, but we will serve the citizens of the Americans, and the future belongs to us — the future belongs to
United States of America, believe me. Global cooperation, all of you. And America is coming about, it’s, and it’s coming back
dealing with other countries, getting along with other countries is and it’s roaring and you can hear it. It’s going to be bigger and
good. It’s very important, but there is no such thing as a global better. It is going to be, it is going to be. Remember. And it’s
anthem, a global currency, or a global flag. This is the United roaring. It’s going to be bigger and better and stronger than ever
States of America that I’m representing. I’m not representing the before.
globe. I’m representing your country.
I want to thank you, and Matt and Mercedes, I want to thank the
There’s one allegiance that unites us all, and that is to America. two of you, and all of the supporters I have all over the place, you
America. It’s the allegiance to America. No matter our are really great people. I want to thank you. And I want to say to
background or income or geography, we’re all citizens of this you God bless you and God bless the United States of America.
blessed land, and no matter our color or the blood, color of the
blood we bleed, it’s the same red blood of great, great patriots. Thank you, folks. Thank you. Thank you.
Remember great patriots. We all salute with pride the same
American flag, and we all are equal, totally equal in the eyes of
almighty God. We’re equal.
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Why Resistance Is Insufficient
By Elliot Sperber
February 24, 2017
Derived from the Latin prefix re (against) and sistere (to supreme strategy, respectively – two strategies that work
stop, or take a stand/stand firm), to resist means to best in tandem.
withstand, to keep something at bay. That is, to resist does
not mean to act so much as to counteract. As such, it gives Attacking Trump’s alliances, and those of the Right in
one’s opponent a significant advantage (as Bernal Diaz general, pose considerable difficulties, yet many openings
observed in his Conquest of New Spain, “the first attack is exist. While they may be less vocal than his more ardent
half the battle”). supporters, most of those who voted for Trump, for
instance, didn’t like him much during the campaign, and
Even if a resistance can contain one’s opponent, they like him less now. Many preferred Bernie Sanders,
neutralizing them, this problematic aspect persists. And as and only supported Trump out of disgust for the neoliberal
Trump launches attacks on multiple fronts (shutting down system that impoverished them, hollowed out much of the
the EPA, attacking women, workers, and Muslims, country, and added classist insults to these injuries.
rounding up immigrants, building new detention centers Moreover, much of Trump’s own party only haltingly
and oil pipelines, pursuing his wall) even containing supports him. The effectiveness of an attack on Trump’s
Trump is proving difficult. Of course, in launching so alliances, however, and other such alliances, will be
many attacks Trump risks spreading himself thin. But, limited to the degree that it is not integrated with what Sun
even if substantially weakened, resistance alone never Tzu described as the supreme strategy of warfare:
knocks anyone from power. That requires an offense. attacking strategy itself – a strategy less concerned with
issuing critiques of reactionary plans so much as with
As Trump weathers the attacks of the intelligence “winning hearts and minds” – winning people over to an
community and others who aim to restore the popularly altogether new way of thinking about organizing social
reviled neoliberal situation, which gave rise to Trump in life.
the first place, the Left ought to focus at least as much on
pursuing an offense as on resistance. For the goal of the As few concepts are more central to this question than the
Left should not be the restoration of earlier forms of concept of security, an attack on “strategy itself” should
neoliberalism, nor the mere removal of Trump and other incorporate a critique of this. Although a universal
demagogues from power, but the advancement of a concern, security is ambiguous and contradictory. As such,
genuinely egalitarian society. And, contrary to the it provides ample material for criticism. Derived from the
ideology of progress, which imagines this advancement Latin se (which means free from) and cura (care), security
occurring on its own, according to some Hegelian spirit of literally means free from care – a freedom from care that
history, deviating from inertia requires a considerable leads as easily to carelessness as to being carefree.
degree of effort. Reminiscent of the relation between liberty and license,
implicit in security is a similar contradiction – between
Because Trump and other functionaries of the state have care (and a duty of care) and its neglect. Energy security,
highly militarized police forces and national security for instance, is vital. People need energy to heat their
apparatuses protecting them, such an offense must proceed homes and cook their food. But when energy security is
with great care. However, for an offense to be successful it conceived of in a narrow way (as energy derived not only
needn’t necessarily physically engage its adversary at all. from fuels that pollute the planet but from fuels that are
As the legendary strategist Sun Tzu put it in The Art of extracted according to the dictates of a political-economy
War: “The supreme art of war consists in subduing an that advances the economic security of one class at the
enemy without fighting.” And this is precisely how beating expense of another), energy security leads to general
Trump, and other despoilers of the world, should be human insecurity – the economic insecurity of an exploited
approached. They can be slowed down, obstructed, class as well as the insecurity associated with ecological
weakened and ultimately removed from power by radical devastation and/or war, which accompanies the extraction
non-participation – e.g., by a general strike. Additionally, and production of these energy forms.
an opposition can prevail by attacking its opponents’
strategy, and by attacking alliances; the supreme strategy In other words, discussions of security need to distinguish
of warfare, according to Sun Tzu, and the second most narrow types of security from broad notions of security –
notions of security that are broader, for instance, than the
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national security of the national security state as well as breathable air will be commodified, and people will be
more universal than the social security of the welfare state. forced to work for or exploit others in order to simply
Related more to care, and caring, than to carelessness and breathe, raising human insecurity to unprecedented
carefree-ness, a critical conception of security does not fail heights. And yet, even if some clean, green energy form
to recognize, for instance, that a crucial aspect of our were developed, and global warming and ecological
security is not only our well-being, and the health of our degradation could be somehow reversed, the demand for
communities, but the health and well-being of the general profit would still create insecurity in some form or other in
environment – i.e., the planet – as well. And since the order to compel people to work beyond what is necessary
nation-state is a construct designed not to produce human for the production of use-values. Moreover, no matter how
security in general but only security for a small class of clean and green warfare becomes it will still sow death. In
people, and pits one nation-state against others, leading to short, this society – ostensibly obsessed with security – not
war and ecological devastation among other threats to a only fails to supply actual concrete security to most
critical conception of security, the nation-state and people, it is structurally pre-determined to undermine all
capitalism – two sides of the same historically-minted coin but the most superficial aspects of security.
– turn out to both be structurally inimical to actual human
security. As religious-thinking (emotion, superstition, and faith)
dominates political and economic discussions, and
Indeed, while capitalism certainly produces narrow forms information technology exponentially distances political
of security it only does so by producing broader types of opponents into members of practically unbridgeable
insecurity. Regulating the world according to the dictates alternative realities, little these days is not embroiled in the
of profit, capitalism doesn’t just consistently fail to satisfy religious war of contemporary politics. As such, many will
social needs, it actively undermines them. Not only does not be able to agree on what constitutes evidence, let alone
the prioritization of profit lead to the destruction of tons of on the less concrete aspects of social reality. Consequently,
food every day – to keep up prices, even while people are many will continue to deny the existence of discrimination,
starving the world over – so long as exchange-value is global warming, and other phenomena, while steadfastly
prioritized over use-value, human insecurity insisting upon the reality of myriad imaginary entities,
preponderates. Rather than some marginal dimension, even as the world floods and burns all around. As it stands,
creating scarcity, and thereby insecurity, is essential to however, plenty of people the world over need no
capitalism. As Karl Polanyi pointed out in The Great convincing that our very survival requires jettisoning
Transformation, in Africa freely growing food was capitalism and the nation-state, along with the culture of
destroyed by colonial administrators in order to compel domination and exploitation that subtends these, and
people to work – to earn money to pay for food that had replacing them with a non-coercive, non-exploitative, form
until then been available for free. And, in such practices as of social organization. If we are to develop a society that is
planned obsolescence, this creation of insecurity continues not only not contingent on destruction and abuse, but
to characterize capitalistic production. allows us to realize an actually democratic, egalitarian, and
fair society, we must abandon these barbaric
A similar dynamic amplifies housing insecurity. Since organizational forms.
capitalism is characterized by, in Immanuel Wallerstein’s
words, “the privatization of everything, in the interest of Although it is too soon to tell how the resistance to the
generating profit,” like other public necessities housing is general and particular arrangement of the world will
treated as a private good, a commodity. Produced to create develop, and whether Trump, among other demagogues,
profit, and only secondarily for its use (i.e., will be removed from power, it is only growing more clear
shelter/security) the commodification of housing creates that the racist, sexist, nationalistic governments assuming
insecurity. Again and again, the world over, so-called power the world over enjoy considerable yet limited
market forces deprive necessary housing from the poor, popular support. And because, as history repeatedly
and other vulnerable groups, creating insecurity, in order demonstrates, such deeply unpopular regimes inevitably
to enrich land owners, bankers, and others who use collapse, it is not difficult to imagine that, among others,
housing as a means to make money. Trump’s may too. Should this occur, however, it is crucial
to recognize that an egalitarian movement will not only be
This upside-down, scarcity-producing, exchange-value- undermined to the extent that it facilitates or otherwise
prioritizing economy systemically degrades the natural contributes to a neoliberal restoration, such a restoration
environment as well. The privatization of forests, for would certainly produce a more virulent strain of
example, leads to the conversion of so many trees into so Trumpism. As such, both must be eliminated. Rather than
many paper cups, among other disposable commodities, Trump’s brand of reaction, which seems bent on rolling
creating catastrophic environmental insecurity. And as the back neoliberalism to the 19th century, or even the
incessant drive for profit has destroyed forests, clean air, relatively enlightened New Deal reaction of Bernie
soil, and water throughout the world, it is not difficult to Sanders, we must not react to the current constitutional,
foresee clean air (like clean water) becoming privatized in economic, and ecological crises so much as develop a
the near future. If present trends continue, the commons of
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response that goes beyond the contradictions fundamental departments could flourish in each community college as
to our exploitative class-based society. well, allowing each community, in collaboration with
others, to design, build and maintain their individual
Although it is unlikely that new elections will be held this and/or interconnected infrastructure systems. Responsive
year, with the lack of popular support Trump and other to the needs of those who live in the community, and
demagogues enjoy it is not difficult to imagine that a prioritizing broader over narrow notions of security,
radical political rupture could lead to such a thing in the housing in the various colleges could be managed and
near future. Moreover, fidelity to democratic norms, and to cared for by the colleges (i.e., by the community), as well.
basic principles of justice and equality, demand that they Instead of receiving housing in exchange for rent, as
should be held. If we are to avoid reinstating an equally members of the community people would have a right to
reviled neoliberal government, however, new elections, as this basic level of security.
well as a constitution that is responsive to social and
economic inequalities and ecological exigencies alike Likewise, agricultural departments could enable each
should be two of the key considerations of a critical community, in collaboration with others, to raise its own
opposition. Meanwhile, because our commercial press has food. And since these necessities would be produced for
demonstrated its inability, along with its commercially- use, and each community’s self-care, as opposed to
generated conflict of interest, to report on substantive exchange, or profit, they would require far less work,
issues, the potential political campaigns and debates that affording people considerable leisure to pursue other
new elections would entail – ignited, perhaps, by a radical activities.
general strike – would need to be reported upon and
framed in a new, critical manner. Beyond providing nutritious food, health care, shelter,
leisure, and other necessities, there is no reason that these
Among the security-related issues that these as of yet community colleges would not also have sports, dance,
imaginary debates would foreseeably consider would be music departments, art departments, libraries, film
such issues as the security of women, people of color, the schools, and other resources necessary for well-being and
poor, the aged, refugees, and other vulnerable broader notions of human security. And, of course, these
communities. Universal health care, environmental policy, campuses and departments would be associated in
radical debt forgiveness, the abolition of our extensive regional, and ultimately global, confederations more
prison system and wage labor, the right to housing, the broadly, partnering, trading, caring for common resources,
legalization of marijuana and other drugs, and other and collaborating in collective projects, scientific research,
security-related issues would also foreseeably be symposia, film festivals, sports competitions, and scholarly
discussed. And in addressing the manner in which to conferences – sharing developments in various disciplines,
resolve our global insecurity, it is also very likely that a not out of the senseless, coerced competition and
communalist movement (the radically democratic, production characteristic of our commodified academia,
egalitarian communalism discussed by Murray Bookchin, but out of a genuine interest in and pursuit of knowledge,
among others, which extends back in history to well before for its own sake.
the Paris Commune) would be given voice.
Ultimately one could imagine not only the buildings of the
Among other proposals, such a movement might argue that neighborhoods but the public utilities and other resources
the democratization of society could proceed via a new, of the neighborhoods merging with the colleges – i.e., with
radical way of thinking about the community college. the community – and falling under public, democratic
Approached from both the federal and the local/municipal control. In this way the community college communes
level, a community college campus could be built in every could develop into more or less autonomous, actually
neighborhood in the country. Rather than degree-granting democratic, self-governing communities. A broad
institutions, however, these colleges would be publicly and conception of human security, however, would require
locally controlled and operated loci of democratization. cooperation between these community college communes.
Among other resources, each of these public, And it is not difficult to imagine city-level and regional-
neighborhood campuses could have medical and/or level congresses developing from the myriad community
nursing schools, along with self-managed medical clinics – colleges of the continents of the planet, eventually
enabling each community to train health care providers replacing not only the institutions of the nation-state, but
and care for its own health care needs. Additionally, the nation-state itself.
dispute resolution departments and other departments
could be developed within these campuses, allowing each Some will no doubt dismiss this community college
community to more or less resolve its own disputes. And communalism as utopian. And insofar as it doesn’t exist,
since these would be part of and run by the community, and is literally “no place,” it certainly is utopian in that
they would be free. respect. However, it addresses the ecological and social
crises we are confronting in a far more practicable and
In addition to departments devoted to math, history, realistic way than do proposals, for instance, of settling
biology, and other disciplines, engineering and design Mars – an inhospitable place with a problematic 25 hour
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day, not to mention no air, and only the possibility of reform – imagining radically new ways of organizing
water. As we spin on a planet that is being destroyed social life, beyond the self-cannibalization of capitalism
before our very eyes by a fundamentally exploitative and the state, is not only far more sensible than the inertial,
political-economy – a system gerrymandered and suicidal alternative; as we advance toward ecological
privatized to such a degree as to preclude meaningful Holocaust, it’s the only sane response.
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It’s Official: Trump’s Pentagon Orders Military To Use
‘ISIS’ To Refer To Islamic State
By Vera Bergengruen - [email protected]
February 24, 2017 6:25 PM
The military will now officially refer to the Islamic State — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
as “ISIS,” short for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, December 7, 2015
according to a memo issued by the Pentagon earlier this
month. President Donald Trump uses the more commonly The State and Defense Departments, however, continued
recognized term for the terrorist group, while former to use ISIL in some of their releases, including travel
President Barack Obama preferred “ISIL,” short for the advisories and readouts of calls.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Some other world leaders and governments, including
“We view ISIS, ISIL and Daesh as France, the United Kingdom and Turkey, use the word
interchangeable terms for the same thing,” “Daesh.” Daesh is an Arabic acronym for the group’s
Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said in an name, and is considered derogatory since it sounds similar
email clarifying the change on Friday. “ISIS is the to an Arabic verb that means to tread or trample underfoot.
term most known and understood by the
American public, and it is what our leadership During his campaign, Trump often criticized Obama for
uses. This memo simply aligns our terminology.” not using the phrase “radical Islam,” which the former
president said bolstered the narrative of a war between the
The Feb. 13 memo from Defense Department Executive West and Muslims pushed by the terrorist group.
Secretary Michael Bruhn cites guidance from Defense
Secretary Jim Mattis, who himself referred to the group as “What exactly would using this label
ISIS during his confirmation hearing, as well as Trump’s accomplish?” Obama asked in a speech last
executive memorandum in January as reasons for the June. “What exactly would it change? Would it
change. make ISIL less committed to try to kill
Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is
“The Defense Department will use the term there a military strategy that is served by this?
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, when The answer is none of the above.”
referring to this threat,” he wrote.
Last year, Trump implied that Obama similarly shied away
The Obama administration referred to the group as ISIL in from using the word ISIS to be politically correct.
official statements and documents. The “Levant” in the
term refers to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea,
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“The president of the United States always says an interview in March 2016. “And I actually think
‘ISIL.’ Everyone else says ‘ISIS,’” Trump said in he does it to bother people.”
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Britain’s Nigel Farage Exults
Over Trump And Brexit Wins At CPAC
FARAGE Insists The Tide That Caused Brexit And
Trump’s Victory Will Not Stop.
By VNN
February 24, 2017
His speech was entitled ‘Brexit and What it Means for “Don’t listen to the media, don’t listen to the
the World’. commentators – they are trying to break
you.”
The CPAC says it “What I do know is if the challengers don’t
get over the line this year, they will shift the
“combines ideas with action to leverage the center of gravity of the entire debate,”
strength of thousands of grass-roots Farage said.
activists to break through the resistance of
Washington’s powerful elites”. He closes his speech with:
Farage claims the people of Europe are tired of being ruled We are winning” to huge cheers.
by “boring grey men in Brussels”.
He said:
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Hillary Clinton Calls For RESISTANCE To Trump:
“We Need To Stay Engaged… I’ll Be With You
Every Step Of The Way”
Mac Slavo
February 25, 2017
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Obama, Democratic 'Super Group' Unite To End
Gerrymandering, Win State Races, Reclaim Majorities
By Joseph Weber
Published February 25, 2017
Former President Obama and other top Democrats are “There’s one district in Virginia where you have
focusing efforts on state-level races and ending the to take a boat on the James River to get to
reconfiguring of voting districts through the politically- another part,” Jared Leopold, spokesman for the
laden process known as gerrymandering -- a combined Democratic National Redistricting Committee,
effort to end “Trump-ism” and help their party regain told Fox News.
control of Congress and legislatures across the country.
The tax-exempt group is leading Washington Democrats’
Obama indicated before leaving the White House last fall major effort to erase the majorities Republicans have in
that his short-term, post-presidency focus will be on Congress and statehouses across the country.
General Assembly races and redistricting after the 2020
Census. The Republicans wave election of 2010 handed them the
House majority and control of 20 additional state House
And 2016 presidential candidate former Maryland Gov. and Senate chambers, giving the party broad authority in
Martin O’Malley has become the most recent high-profile redrawing district maps after the Census that year.
Democrat to take up the cause.
Twenty-three legislatures are primarily responsible for that
“America needs non-partisan redistricting task. And the situation has only helped Republicans retain
commissions,” O’Malley said at Boston College their seats and add to 2010 gains.
Law School, where he’s now a visiting professor.
“This simple reform … must become the new Leopold cited three main objectives: help Democrats win
norm of American democracy. … How can we more races in the next few election cycles to “put them in a
expect people to vote if their voice has been better situation before redistricting in 2020,” embark on
carved into irrelevance by a political map ahead legal efforts to “undo some of the more egregious
of time?” redistricting” after the 2010 Census and push ballot
initiatives that will lead to “fair maps.”
An early test for Democrats trying to win state-level races
and stopping the Trump wave arrives this weekend. He described the NDRC as a “super group” that brings
together the efforts of the Democratic Governors
Delaware is holding a special election for an open state Association, the Democratic Legislative Campaign
Senate seat that will decided whether Democrats keep their Committee and House Majority PAC.
roughly 40-year hold on the chamber.
The group’s chairman is former Attorney General Eric
"If we lose, a new Republican majority will take Holder, whose support, along with Obama’s, will give the
power and rubber-stamp every single one of group bonda fides and fundraising clout.
Trump's hateful policies," the Democratic
Legislative Campaign Committee said in a recent "We heard a lot in this past election about rigged
fundraising letter. "They'll grind all our progress systems,” Holder said last month in announcing
to a halt." the group’s start. “But I want to say the biggest
rigged system in America is gerrymandering.”
Voting districts are redrawn after a federal Census to
reflect the changes in population and other demographic. However, the group is not championing non-partisan
redistricting commissions, as O'Malley and others are.
Much of the redistricting across the country is done by the
political party that controls the state legislature. O’Malley, who is continuing efforts to lead the party’s
progressive wing, has also made clear that his call to end
However, critics argue the process, known as gerrymander speaks directly to what he fears is a rising,
gerrymandering, has run amok, with the majority party anti-immigrant sentiment and other policies associated
drawing districts in crazy-quilt patterns to help protect with Republican President Trump.
incumbents and their party win more races.
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“I want to speak with you today about the hawk and former Trump campaigner, and Ed Gillespie, a
immediate challenges facing our nation,” said former Republican National Committee chairman who
O’Malley, who also equates Trump’s beliefs and nearly upset Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner in
polices to fascism. “We must frame a principled 2014.
opposition to Trump-ism.”
Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee
Beyond the Delaware contest, the real bellwether races spokeswoman Carolyn Fiddler told Fox News that the
will start next year in Virginia, North Carolina and New Democrats’ recent efforts are a “smart refocus of efforts,”
Jersey. more than a reckoning and that related fundraising has
been “astronomical.”
Virginia, a battleground state that has voted Democrat the
past three presidential elections, next year is having state She also said Trump’s victory has indeed sparked a lot of
House races and a gubernatorial contest to replace interest -- from potential canvassers to candidates.
outgoing Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
“But it has also crystalized some social and
The governor’s race already has heavyweights from both political priorities for people in ways they had not
parties including Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello. The before.”
Republican slate includes Corey Stewart, an immigration
.
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Some Of Trump's Picks Have
Troubling Links To Globalism, CFR
Written By Alex Newman
Saturday, 25 February 2017
But it's even worse than that. “The main purpose of the
Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the
disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national
independence, and submergence into an all-powerful one-
world government,” the admiral warned, adding that “this
lust to surrender the sovereignty and independence of the
United States is pervasive throughout most of the
membership.” In other words, not everyone in the CFR is a
Photos of Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster and Judge Neil Gorsuch: AP Images
fanatical globalist determined to sell out America's
After crushing the establishment and delivering a series of sovereignty, but most are.
blows to globalism, President Donald Trump's winning
spree against the powerful forces that opposed him appears That sinister agenda becomes clear from reading the CFR's
to be slowing down. In fact, with his recent selection of own magazine, known as Foreign Affairs. In April 1974,
Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster as National Security for example, Richard Gardner, former deputy assistant
Adviser and Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court — Secretary of State, explained how the agenda for world
both of whom have been listed as members of the government would be pursued. “In short, the ‘house of
establishment globalist swamp known as the Council on world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up
Foreign Relations (CFR) — concerns are growing even rather than from the top down,” he wrote. “An end run
among Trump supporters and grassroots conservative around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will
activists. There were already several CFR-linked officials accomplish much more than the old fashioned assault.”
before the latest additions — the very same forces that The magazine also regularly promotes regional
viciously libeled and attacked him in their failed bid to government, war, and attacks on national sovereingty.
stop the swamp draining.
For some additional perspective, then-Secretary of State
The controversial CFR group's agenda is rarely discussed Hillary Clinton admitted in a speech that the CFR gives
openly in the media, despite the fact that much of the her instructions on “what we should be doing and how we
establishment media is actually listed as “corporate” should think about the future.” Bush's Vice President Dick
members of the CFR. The outfit's membership is often Cheney once bragged: “I've been a member [of the CFR]
quoted as supposedly dispassionate sources in the media, for a long time, and was actually a director for some period
too. But evidence of the organization's agenda — global of time. I never mentioned that when I was campaigning
governance, open borders, Big Government, surrendering for re-election back home in Wyoming.” Countless similar
sovereignty, attacking self-government, and more — is statements exist acknowledging the CFR's deceptive
hardly difficult to find. practices, its dangerous agenda, and its hijacking of U.S.
policy.
Indeed, prominent patriotic Americans, including CFR
members, have been sounding the alarm for generations. And yet, on the campaign trail, Trump blasted what he
The late U.S. Admiral Chester Ward, for example, who described as a “cabal” seeking “global government” and
served as the Judge Advocate of the U.S. Navy, was a CFR vowed to put an end to such machinations. “Americanism,
member for 16 years before resigning in disgust. “In the not globalism, will be our credo,” Trump said, adding that
entire CFR lexicon, there is no term of revulsion carrying a “America First” would become U.S. policy across every
meaning so deep as America First,” said Admiral Ward, sphere of government activity including foreign policy,
whose comments on the CFR shed light on why the group economic policy, trade policy, national security,
immigration, and much more.
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Of course, it is true that Trump's administration and Gorsuch to the Supreme Court,” the CFR's warmongering
cabinet has less establishment globalists and CFR neoconservative Max Boot wrote in an oped published in
members than any White House in recent memory, of Foreign Policy viciously attacking Trump and his agenda.
either party — Obama, Clinton, and both Bushes have Boot and other globalist neocons, often called RINOs
each installed hundreds of CFR members in top positions (Republicans In Name Only), viciously smeared Trump
within their administrations. But with some of Trump's during his campaign, too, abandoning the GOP for Hillary
most recent appointments, the trend toward adding more Clinton.
and more CFR members has raised questions and concerns
even among some of his most ardent supporters. Then there is Lieutenant General McMaster, Trump's new
national security adviser who took over after non-CFR
Did the so-called Deep State find a way to get to Trump? member Mike Flynn resigned amid what appeared to be a
Is Trump simply unaware of the CFR's well-documented well-orchestrated hit job by the so-called Deep State. By
agenda to undermine U.S. sovereignty, liberty, and all accounts, McMaster is a superb soldier, officer, and
prosperity? Are there globalist CFR operatives who have military man. He has received a wide array of awards,
burrowed their way into senior positions in the medals, and recognition for his service in the U.S. Army.
administration, and are now working to bring in more His insights into the failures of U.S. military leadership in
swamp creatures to mislead and sabotage Trump? The Vietnam have received widespread praise, too.
months and years ahead should make that more clear.
However, McMaster is listed as a member of the Council
First, Gorsuch. Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, on Foreign Relations, too — and his membership is current
assuming he is confirmed, will have immense influence on as of February 24, according to the CFR's online roster.
the future of America — far more than America's founding And while there are undoubtedly some non-globalists who
fathers ever intended. As soon as the announcement was have joined the CFR over the years for reasons other than
made, many well-known conservative and establishment believing in its anti-American, anti-freedom agenda,
voices sprang into action to support the nomination. Some McMaster's record suggests he may not be among that
prominent voices expressed hesitation — both on pro-life small group.
issues and gun rights — but overall much of the
Republican Party was pleased, ranging from A decade ago, he joined the globalist-minded International
constitutionalists and conservatives to the neocon and Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London as a
establishment wing of the GOP. “Senior Research Associate.” According to the
organization itself, his mandate was described as
A number of concerns ended up being raised about him, “conduct[ing] research to identify opportunities for
though. And more than a few liberals, including some far- improved multi-national cooperation and political-military
left pseudo-journalists, have applauded the choice. The integration in the areas of counterinsurgency, counter-
headline at the anti-Trump hysteria factory known as the terrorism, and state building.”
Washington Post, for example, reads: “Simply stated,
Gorsuch is steadfast and surprising. The Supreme Court There are a number of terms and phrases there that are
nominee resides on the right, listens intently to the left and cause for alarm — including standard globalist rhetoric
often finds a homespun truth somewhere in between.” An such as “multi-national cooperation” and “political-
opinion piece at The Hill, meanwhile, suggested military integration,” which sounds a lot like sovereignty-
approvingly that Gorsuch might even be a secret liberal. stealing schemes such as NATO and the European Union.
There was also the term “state building,” which critics
However, one crucial point on his résumé has flown pointed out resembles the “nation building” that Trump
largely under the radar, even among many usually well- specifically vowed to stop under his administration
informed voices that would have promptly sounded the following costly and deadly failures by Obama and Bush.
alarm. That is the fact that Gorsuch was listed as a term
member of the CFR in the organization's 2008 Annual The New American's Warren Mass reported on the
Report Membership Roster. He was also listed as a developments this week. “One would have expected an
member in his 2006 nomination by President George W. interventionist, neoconservative CFR member such as John
Bush. And aside from Internet commentators in comment McCain to have appointed a man such as McMaster to his
sections, the only major analyst who seems to have noticed inner circle,” Mass wrote. And indeed, true to form,
is Kelleigh Nelson. globalist neocon McCain, who has expressed nothing but
contempt for Trump and his supporters, was very pleased
CFR operatives must have noticed, too, though, recently with McMaster, calling him “an outstanding choice for
calling Gorsuch “well qualified” for the spot — while national security advisor — man of genuine intellect,
perhaps inadvertently sending out a major warning sign for character and ability.”
conservatives and constitutionalists. “Trump arguably had
one good day in his first two weeks, on Jan. 31, when he McMaster and Gorsuch are only the two most recent CFR
rolled out the nomination of the well-qualified Neil additions to the Trump Team. Others have already been
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documented in the pages of The New American. And a year to plot policy behind closed doors and recruit useful
regular commentator in the comments section of this idiots to their globalist cause. The first is former Texas
magazine's online portal, who goes by the username Governor Rick Perry, a Republican who serves as Trump's
St_Robert_Bellarmine, has compiled a significant list of energy secretary. The other is Secretary of Defense James
Trump's senior CFR-linked and globalist-tied appointees, Mattis, a military man who attended the 2015 Bilderberg
some of whom have attended the globalist Bilderberg meeting in Austria as a “distinguished fellow” of the
summit or have ties to globalist billionaire David Hoover Institution.
Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, a CFR-type body
focusing on America, Europe, and Japan. The name Rothschild — the unfathomably wealthy
banking dynasty — often pops up in connection with
Among them are Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. trade Bilderberg, billionaire George Soros, and other organs and
representative, who is listed as a current member of CFR, individuals associated with the globalist establishment and
despite the globalist outfit's key role in imposing the very the central banking cartel. And it just so happens that
multilateral “free-trade” regimes that Trump has opposed Trump's commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, was a senior
for harming America and undermining U.S. sovereignty. managing director at Rothschild, Inc., before joining
Another is Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, a CFR Trump's team. Soros, the extreme left-wing agitator, was
member with troubling links to the Communist Chinese also a Rothschild protege.
dictatorship. She also happens to be married to Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and may have been a Of course, hoping for a cabinet entirely devoid of people
bargaining chip in getting other nominees approved by with links to the establishment swamp — at least for now
establishment Republicans in Congress. — might be a bit unrealistic. After all, the nominees had to
get through Senate confirmation, and there are more than a
Then there are a number of non-members who few CFR operatives and globalist shills still haunting the
nevertheless have troubling ties to the CFR and other halls of Congress. And to be fair, on the campaign trail,
globalist organizations. Exxon-Mobil, of course, is a Trump did say he had “respect” for CFR boss Richard
“founder” corporate member of the CFR. And despite not Haass, a leading globalist operative who has publicly
being an official member himself, Rex Tillerson boasted to grumbled about Trump and his agenda. Trump's team has
CFR members in a speech that he shared their views on also said publicly that all cabinet members agreed to go
globalism. “Like the Council’s founders, I believe we must along with the president's America First agenda.
choose the course of greater international engagements,”
Tillerson said in a 2007 event at the CFR. However, at this point, it is starting to seem like there are
too many swamp creatures in the White House for
Another controversial figure is Steven Mnuchin, Trump's comfort. His supporters have expressed hope the president
treasury secretary and a former executive with “vampire will keep them on a short leash, and utter the famous
squid” international bank Goldman Sachs. Like Exxon- “you're fired” phrase from his TV days if any of the
Mobil, the globalist bank is also listed as a “founder” appointees get out of line. And to be fair, again, Trump has
corporate member of the CFR. And Mnuchin, while not taken a number of actions that clearly upset the globalist
listed publicly as a member of CFR, was a member of the establishment and the CFR, ranging from dismantling
secret “Skull and Bones” society at Yale that has been Obama regulations to withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific
exposed for being involved in dark and deeply disturbing Partnership. But being surrounded by globalists and
rituals. George W. Bush and John Kerry were also establishment operatives gives them the chance to mislead
members, though both refused to talk about it while Trump, sabotage his agenda, and more.
running against each other for president.
He does have many excellent people working for him,
Then there are at least two cabinet members in the Trump many of whom have been highlighted in these pages. To
administration who have attended the annual Bilderberg avoid becoming another victim of the establishment,
summit, where top globalists, politicians, bankers, though, Trump should probably exercise extreme caution
communists, royalty, and crony capitalists meet once a when getting advice or information.
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Trump Administration Unveils
First Step In Building Border Wall
By Tyler Durden
Feb 25, 2017 11:02 AM
In the first tangible step toward delivering on Trump's schedule," Trump told the Conservative Political Action
campaign promise to halt unauthorized immigration from Conference on Friday.
Mexico, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Friday
released plans for picking vendors for President Donald A U.S. Department of Homeland Security internal report
Trump's proposed border wall, issuing a preliminary seen by Reuters this month indicated the border wall
request for proposals saying it plans to release a formal would be a series of fences and walls that would cost as
solicitation around March 6 “for the design and build of much as $21.6 billion to build and take more than three
several prototype wall structures in the vicinity of the years to complete. The report’s estimated price tag is much
United States border with Mexico.” higher than a $12 billion figure cited by Trump in his
campaign and estimates as high as $15 billion from
Republican House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan
and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The plan
laid out what it would take to seal the border in three
phases of construction of fences and walls covering just
over 1,250 miles (2,000 km) by the end of 2020. With 654
miles (1,046 km) of the border already fortified, the new
construction would extend almost the length of the entire
border.
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Exclusive—Regnery: Anti-Trump
Democrats’ Best Allies Are Senate Republicans
by Alfred S. Regnery
25 Feb 2017
So far, the Senate has confirmed 14 of the other legislative business, which is also
549 senior federal positions that President impossible.”
Trump needs to run the government and who
need Senate confirmation—Cabinet Under Senate rules, when debate is cut off, senators are
secretaries and people who run the entitled to another 30 hours of debate. Since the Senate is
departments, bureaus, agencies and the rest rarely in session for more than 25 to 30 hours a week,
of the government. The rest of the Democrats can tie things up indefinitely.
government is being run by career
bureaucrats and a few Obama holdovers. So you would think the Senate would be working long
hours, forcing Democrats to talk until exhausted, so the
There are another 120 vacant federal judgeships and, of President’s team gets confirmed, right?
course, the Neil Gorsuch nomination to the Supreme
Court. Each requires Senate approval. Wrong. After doing virtually no work during most of
January, and working at a leisurely pace in February, the
White House staff is busily choosing and vetting Senate just left town for a 10-day recess. That means they
candidates for the rest of the positions, and there went home to campaign—after being on the job for about
undoubtedly will be many nominations sent to the Senate six weeks. As my friend said:
for confirmation in the next several weeks.
“The Democrats are shutting down the Senate’s
And where is the Senate now? On vacation. business, and Mitch McConnell’s answer is to
give everyone a big vacation. The message to
We hear a lot of talk that Harry Reid gave away the store Democrats is: keep up the great work, we have
when he exercised the nuclear option, and that Republicans no intention of fighting back.”
have the 51 votes needed to get the Trump team
confirmed. That may be, but with the way Majority Leader The result? The government will be run by bureaucrats,
Mitch McConnell runs the Senate, Democrats can—and Obama holdovers and temporary “acting” trump
probably will—make it impossible to confirm more than a appointees. Neil Gorsuch won’t get confirmed for weeks
handful of nominees. and weeks, and other judicial vacancies will remain
vacant. Not to mention letting President Trump’s program
The problem isn’t the votes. Republicans have those. The simply die on the vine—the crucial business of repealing
problem is time—floor time. Obamacare, tax reform, passing budgets and
appropriations, and the rest of the things Donald Trump
As a senior Senate staffer told me this week: and taxpayers so badly need.
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“Are any Republican Senators demanding that to split Republicans away from a president of their own
they fight back?” I asked. party.”
Not a one, I was told. Unless Mitch McConnell gets down to business and gets
the Senate back to work, he may help Democrats do
Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington told the New York Times exactly that.
this week that [Democrats] “have to resist [Trump] every
way and everywhere, every time we can… By Alfred S. Regnery serves as the Chairman of the Law
undermining Mr. Trump across the board, Democrats hope Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.
.
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Ashley Judd Claims Trump’s
Victory Was Worse Than Child Rape
By Baxter Dmitry
Posted on February 25, 2017
#ResistHollywood
The Silence Of The Lambs actress told the crowd “it’s Do yourself a favor and #ResistHollywood. Boycott the
time to show up” as the US President seeks to revive his celebrity nonsense until they learn their place and shut the
travel ban. hell up.
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The Spooks And The Hacks: Why Do They Hate Russia?
It’s A Mystery To Me. I Throw It Open To The Listenership. Why Am I
Supposed To Believe That Russia Is Our Enemy?
By John Derbyshire
February 25, 2017
Nothing wrong with that. Or perhaps not quite nothing. It’s penny-ante stuff; so much so you have to wonder—as
There is a federal law called the Logan Act that prohibits some commentators have wondered—whether Trump used
private citizens from talking to foreign governments.[18 the whole nothingburger as an excuse to dump Flynn this
U.S. Code § 953 ] The Act was passed in 1799 when one week because he was dissatisfied with him.
George Logan, a Pennsylvania state legislator, had talks
with the government of France, ticking off the John Adams It got blown up into a major story because of synergy
administration, which had majorities in Congress. In the between the intelligence people and the MSM, the spooks
subsequent 218 years, there has been just one indictment and the hacks. Dwight Eisenhower famously warned us
under the Logan act, and zero actual prosecutions. The Act about the military-industrial complex. What we’ve seen
is regarded as a bit of a joke, and the jurisprudential this week is the intelligence-media complex showing its
consensus seems to be that it is in fact unconstitutional, strength.
although with zero prosecutions in 200-plus years, nobody
thinks it’s worth the trouble to test the matter. When the hackers met the spooks.
Well, our spooks listened in to that December 29th episode The spooks can of course do major
of personal diplomacy. Then they passed on what they’d damage on their own. In alliance
heard to the FBI. Then someone—either a spook or a G- with the MSM, though, they are
man—leaked to the press. lethal.
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A leak is just a leak; the MSM decides what to make into The Cold War’s been over for a quarter
a major story and what to leave as a filler item on page 23. of a century, for Heaven’s sake.
And, working as they do in a pillar of the I can’t even figure out a conspiracy theory about our
CultMarx establishment, the media hacks Establishment’s hostility to Russia. Has the Homintern
are happy to take what scraps and been at work, stirring up anti-Russian feeling because they
fragments the vengeful spooks pass on won’t legalize same-sex marriage? Does someone think
to them and work them into bricks to they want to dominate the Middle East so they can control
throw through Trump’s windows. the Arabs’ oil? Do influential American Jews still nurse
resentment for the Kishinev Pogrom? None of that strikes
So again I ask: Whence all this hostility
to Russia? me as even remotely plausible.
Indeed, the temptation to show up But why are the rest of us supposed to
NATO for the hollow sham it is, is the care?
only reason I can think of for why
Russia would invade Estonia. It’s a mystery to me. I throw it open to the listenership.
Why am I supposed to believe that Russia is our enemy?
The Estonians should make what arrangements for mutual
defense they can with neighboring countries, and avoid Winston Churchill, following the Hitler-Stalin deal of
provoking the bear. They face nothing worse than small 1939, said that Russian policy was
countries with big neighbors have faced since the
beginning of time. “A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an
enigma.”
Russia’s just another country, like Brazil or Indonesia. I
can’t see any reason we shouldn’t get along with them on I’m feeling the same way about our own current Russia
the same terms as with those countries. policy.
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Report: Trump's New National Security Adviser Not A Fan
Of The Term 'Radical Islamic Terrorism'
By Kyle Feldscher (@Kyle_Feldscher)
2/25/17 11:49 AM
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Trump Tweets He’ll Skip White House
Correspondents’ Dinner – After Some Media Also Cancel
Published Time: 25 Feb, 2017 22:14Edited Time: 26 Feb, 2017 13:38
“roast” the leader and his politics. The president is also
invited to give a satirical speech, in which the media is
typically mocked in return.
In the most recent incident, the CNN, The New York Times,
The Los Angeles Times, Politico and Buzzfeed were
banned from attending a White House press gaggle, a non-
US President Donald Trump © Carlos Barria / Reuters televised briefing by White House press secretary Shaun
Spicer, sparking widespread outrage.
US President Donald Trump has tweeted he is not going to
be present at the White House Correspondents' Association Yet, several major news organizations were let in to cover
dinner. The announcement comes after several high-profile the briefing, including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Reuters,
news organizations, including Bloomberg and The New Bloomberg and McClatchy.
Yorker, withdrew from the event.
Spicer also noted that the Trump White House is
"I will not be attending the White House perhaps “more accessible" than under any other
Correspondents' Association Dinner this year. administration. For the first time, there are “Skype seats”
Please wish everyone well and have a great for journalists who cannot physically attend briefings.
evening!" Trump wrote, without giving any
reason for his decision. Before Trump’s decision to pull out of the WCHA dinner,
several US media outlets refused to host parties at the
I will not be attending the White House dinner. The New Yorker announced early February it
Correspondents' Association Dinner this year. would not hold a party it typically holds at the beginning
Please wish everyone well and have a great of the gathering. Vanity Fair magazine also withdrew from
evening! sponsoring its usual afterparty. Bloomberg said it would
follow suit.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 25, 2017 Trump's decision to skip the dinner comes after criticism
of the event in recent years, with some people saying that
The tradition to hold annual dinners organized by the it showed a too-cozy relationship between the media and
White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) goes the White House.
back the 1920s. The high-profile event honors journalists
who report the White House and the US president. The US leader has repeatedly come under fire for his
verbal attacks on some of the media outlets in America. In
For some years now, there has been a tradition for the a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference
serving US leader to attend the dinner. In fact, Donald (CPAC) in Maryland, the US President, however, stressed
Trump will be the first president in 36 years to miss the that he is “not against the media” but “only the fake news
high-roller event, following Ronald Reagan in 1981 who media or the press.”
was recovering from a gunshot wound, NBC reports.
“The media didn’t think we would win. The
This year’s dinner is set to take place on April 29 at the pundits didn’t think we’d win," he said, adding
Hinckley Hilton in Washington, DC. that "the people proved them all wrong.”
President Trump announced Saturday he will not be The WHCA typically invites the president and members of
attending this year's White House Correspondents' his staff. A comedian is brought in to roast the commander
Association dinner, a break with past presidents. in chief, who then delivers lighthearted remarks.
"I will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Trump attended the dinner in 2011, where he was
Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well repeatedly mocked and teased by then-President Obama.
and have a great evening!" Trump tweeted. Trump chose to skip the dinner during the 2016
presidential campaign, despite receiving a number of
I will not be attending the White House invites from the media.
Correspondents' Association Dinner this year.
Please wish everyone well and have a great Many have speculated that Trump's appearance at the 2011
evening! dinner fueled his desire to enter the political arena.
— Donald J. Trump Trump for months had cast doubt on the authenticity of
(@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2017 Obama's birth certificate in an effort to question whether
he was eligible to occupy the Oval Office. After Obama
The president's announcement comes amid growing released the certificate, he mocked Trump at length during
tensions between his administration and the media, with his speech at the dinner while the business mogul sat in the
several news organizations including CNN saying they audience.
may not participate in this year's event at the Washington
Hilton. “Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but
no one is prouder to put this birth certificate
ADVERTISEMENT matter to rest than The Donald,” Obama said.
“And that's because he can finally get back to
The dinner honors journalists who cover the White House focusing on the issues that matter, like, did we
and awards scholarships to aspiring reporters. fake the moon landing? What really happened in
Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?”
The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA),
which organizes the annual dinner, said in a statement the Trump brushed aside Obama's comments during an
event will continue as planned on April 29 despite Trump's interview days later on Fox News.
absence.
“I didn’t know that I’d be virtually the sole focus. I
WHCA president Jeff Mason said the dinner guess when you’re leading in the polls that sort
of thing tends to happen," he said.
"has been and will continue to be a celebration of
the First Amendment and the important role "But I was certainly in a certain way having a
played by an independent news media in a good time listening."
healthy republic."
Past dinners have attracted celebrities and athletes from
"We look forward to shining a spotlight at the outside of Washington. The association hosted the first
dinner on some of the best political journalism of dinner in 1921.
the past year and recognizing the promising
students who represent the next generation of Ronald Reagan was the last president to miss the event
our profession," he added. after he was shot in a 1981 assassination attempt. Calvin
Coolidge became the first sitting president to attend in
1924.
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Trump's decision is his latest jab at news outlets, which he Trump's announcement comes a day after his
has attempted to delegitimize by labeling "fake news" and administration's latest clash with the media.
"dishonest."
The White House faced backlash after press secretary Sean
“I love the First Amendment; nobody loves it Spicer barred several news outlets from attending a
better than me. Nobody,” Trump said Friday at briefing in his office on Friday.
the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Several news organizations including The New York
“But as you saw throughout the entire campaign, Times, The Hill, Politico and CNN were barred from the
and even now, the fake news doesn't tell the question-and-answer session, among others. Several right-
truth,” he continued. “I say it doesn't represent leaning news organizations were allowed to attend, along
the people, it never will represent the people, and with some major networks like ABC.
we're going to do something about it.”
The Associated Press and Time magazine, whose
Bloomberg L.P., which hosts a high-profile after-party for correspondents were allowed into Spicer’s briefing,
the dinner, had pulled the plug on the event. Vanity Fair, refused to attend, because of the way it was handled.
which usually partners with Bloomberg in throwing the
party, announced earlier this month that it would not Almost immediately, news outlets and journalist groups
participate. blasted the decision, including the WHCA.
The New Yorker, the magazine that hosts a kickoff party “The WHCA board is protesting strongly against
before the dinner, canceled its event earlier this month, how today's gaggle is being handled by the
while CNN and MSNBC are also reportedly deliberating White House,” Mason said Friday.
whether they will pull out of the annual dinner.
.
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‘US Held Hostage For Too Long, Trump Right To
Bar MSM From White House Gaggle’
Published Time: 25 Feb, 2017 13:18Edited Time: 25 Feb, 2017 14:56
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Trump Administration
Dominated By Zionist Lobby: Analyst
Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:21PM
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Trump Cuts US Debt By $12bn In His First Month In
Office, Accuses Media Of ‘Not Reporting’ It
Published Time: 25 Feb, 2017 18:25Edited Time: 26 Feb, 2017 18:51
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Crazy California Congresswoman Calls
Trump’s Cabinet Picks “A Bunch Of Scumbags”
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 26, 2017
In a perfect world, Left-wing Democrats would be seen for This is, of course, beside the point. Left-wing Marxist
who they really are: Divisive, authoritarian hypocrites who types who are in power love to pretend like they hate
are so angered by their rejection they can’t control their money and an elevated net worth, but how many of them
own emotions. do you ever see actually giving up their lifestyles? Yet, the
sheep who worship them are convinced that because they
That is especially true when the subject comes to talk about the “evils” of wealth, they have credibility, even
discussion of President Donald J. Trump and his Cabinet. if they, themselves, are wealthy.
In a recent interview on “All In with Chris Hayes” on
MSBNC, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., this week’s poster And what’s wrong with that? What is it about liberals and
child for term limits, laid into the administration with their disdain for the American dream? And why do their
unusually vile comments that are so far out of line she supporters so hate the notion of being successful?
really should be censured by the entire House, The
Gateway Pundit noted. Of course, it’s all political. Democrats empower
themselves by dividing Americans into groups and even
During the interview, the unhinged Waters began reading subgroups, using identity politics to pit the poor against the
off a list of Trump Cabinet members who are connected to rich, blacks and Hispanics against whites, the educated
the ‘oil and gas industry’ – code words purposely used in against the uneducated, and so on. They can’t win converts
order to gin up instant dislike and distrust of them by Left- and supporters with their ideas, which all center on more
wing sheep supporters of Waters and her ilk. Anyone who and bigger authoritarian government, so they play on petty
is “connected” to industries that power our cars so we can jealousies, sow mistrust, and create tension among the
get to work and our homes so we can live a modern life, masses.
you see, are evil.
Waters, then, is operating straight from her party’s
She then went on to call all of them “scumbags.” playbook. But once again, she shows why Democrats have
become a regional party, and why the vast majority of ZIP
“I just think the American people need to know codes reject the party and the far-Left Marxism it
what is going on. This is a bunch of scumbags. represents. (RELATED: New EPA Head Appointed By
That’s what they are. They’re all organized Trump May Finally Begin Dismantling The EPA’s
around making money,” she said. Overbearing, Totalitarian ‘Authority’)
If you haven’t read any news reports about Maxine Waters Most Americans believe in and support the country’s
refusing her salary or donating it to charitable causes, it’s founding economic principle of free market capitalism.
because she hasn’t and doesn’t. But the president himself They don’t want big government liberals telling them how
has done so. Also, his Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, much they can earn, what form of employment is
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“acceptable,” and what industries should be allowed to rules and any other obstacles that are preventing more
exist. They don’t accept that government should be picking Americans from doing better.
industry winners and losers. And they are given hope by a
president and Cabinet who are living the American dream As Waters proves, Democrats would rather criticize
so many of us revere. We can’t all be millionaires and success than do anything to help more Americans achieve
billionaires, but Trump and the people he has surrounded it. Frankly, that’s pathetic.
himself with would love it if every American could
become as successful as they have been. That’s why But it’s what I’ve come to expect from them.
Trump’s all for cutting taxes and getting rid of regulations,
.
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Google May Be Part Of A Deep State Conspiracy To
Silence Trump Defenders, New Interview Reveals
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 26, 2017
Just recently, Adams was threatened with complete He also said that the Trump White House was closing in
destruction of his hard-earned reputation as a liberty- on the so-called “Pizzagate” scandal, which was briefly
minded straight shooter when it comes to all aspects of associated with the failed campaign of Hillary Clinton
natural health. Then, he was offered $50,000 to help after hacked emails released by Wikileaks. According to
destroy Infowars’ founder/creator Alex Jones, or else, and some reports, the real scandal is that it is tied to a high-
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level child sex ring and that some of the released emails search results. I want you to know that I think
contained code words for ordering pizza when they really censoring NaturalNews.com is a big mistake.
refer to wanting to engage in sex with children. The site contains an incredible wealth of
(RELATED: Fascist Google begins PURGE of pro-Trump information on nutrition, healthy eating, body
websites as prelude to massive false flag or coup attempt) cleansing and detoxification, and many many
other topics. Natural News has played a huge
role in my efforts to improve my health and
quality of life and I am sure there are many
thousands of other people who would make the
same claim. The people of the world need the
information on NaturalNews.com. Google will be
condemned by the millions of Natural News fans
around the world if the NaturalNews.com website
isn’t reinstated without delay. I know that Google
is capable of doing the right thing, but there is
nothing right about censoring NaturalNews.com.
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Trump’s War Against The Media Continues
By Jon Rappoport
February 26, 2017
Those who thought Trump would back off in his war Even if you assume every single one of his policy
against media are, so far, wrong. objectives is wrongheaded and dangerous, he is still a
catalyst.
For example, the other day, the White House held an
informal press conference, a “gaggle,” and among those Most Progressives who have also been opposed to major
not invited was the New York Times. media fictions over the years now put that issue on the
back burner, because they hate Trump. They would never
—How dare they, the Times said. admit he is a wedge into the shattering of mainstream
supremacy. They would rather spend all their time
The truth is, we are long overdue for a massive exposure attacking The Donald.
of the mainstream press. As in: they are liars. As in: they
are shills for the so-called “progressive Left.” As in: they “We’ll revisit the continuing major media crimes
have a history of supporting horrific US wars. As in: they later, when hopefully a Democrat (who? Hillary
take CIA “leaks” as gospel. As in: they never expose the Clinton?) is leading the charge…” Good luck.
Globalist agenda. As in: they defend conventional
medicine which destroys millions of lives. And so forth In my 30 years as a reporter, I’ve come to see the result of
and so on. mainstream news parading as the eyes, ears, mouth, and
brain of the populace. It has been an utter disaster. The
Think of what Trump, Bannon, and their team are doing stench has risen high in the sky. I’ve watched reporters
as a necessary “market correction,” after a century-long who are actually CIA assets turn the truth upside down and
bubble. inside out. I’ve watched news editors ax vital stories that
could have redirected history along better roads. I’ve
Any president or presidential candidate could have watched “legendary journalists” betray the public trust
executed the correction. But they didn’t. Trump did. time and time again, as their reputations climbed to the
level of honored statesmen. I’ve watched newly minted
Who is reporting on Trump’s war against the media? For graduates emerge from journalism schools with the moral
the most part, independent news outlets. Of course, the sense of hustlers who sell pay-day loans to desperate
Times and other mainstream news operations are clients.
slamming Trump for his attacks on them—but they are in
the middle of the fire. And they don’t have the will, When you realize the persona of mainstream news is a
courage, and intelligence to assess their own performance stage hypnotist performing daily in front of millions of
over the last century. They can’t be expected to expose people, you know the clog in the brain of the public must
themselves. be taken away.
The overall long-term effect of mainstream news is the The naïve faith of the hypnotic subject must be dismantled.
induction of a hypnotic trance. The audience expects the
truth because they believe. They uncritically accept. They We have a chance now. More than a chance. We are
rely on “reputation.” They ingest Authoritative Tone. They winning. The shift to independent media is happening on a
need a Voice that narrates reality. They refuse to do their grand scale.
own research. They reject the idea that there are powerful
men behind the curtain who are controlling the direction of Consensus reality is absorbing powerful body blows.
government. They embrace vague “humanitarian” ideals
that are reflected with the same vagueness by mainstream In many cases, people are realizing the consensus doesn’t
news. even exist. It was erected on a foundation of sand by The
News. It was propped up by chatter from fake experts.
This is a war on the subject of waking up vs. staying
asleep. If six mega-corporations now own roughly 90% of the
mainstream news in America, it stands to reason they are
It is much bigger than Trump. He is a catalyst. going to service other mega-corporations, as well a federal
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government which supports and illegally advances the penetrate the hypnotic blanket would certainly cause an
prospects and profits of those other companies. amount of chaos. But it would be fertile chaos.
The News is the business of business, via hypnosis. From it, new individuals would arise with new discoveries
and new solutions. People would find out what hope (not
“Here is the Word about America today. Close fake hope) is.
your eyes and relax…”
Loads and tons of un-remediated problems would begin to
My own personal and final declaration of independence as dissolve in burning light.
a reporter came ten years ago, after I had researched and
exposed several monumental medical lies. In each case, I Well, this is happening now. We are still in the early
discovered mainstream news outlets were blocking the stages. But is happening.
publication of the truth. In each case, they were defending
the lies. The old familiar semi-happy status quo is going away. It
was never genuine. It was nothing more than the Sunday
There was no sadness or depression about this. Quite the edition of the New York Times arriving on a doorstep, with
opposite. I felt energized and inspired. My long-held the promise of morning coffee. Comfortable habits.
suspicion about mainstream news was irrevocably
confirmed. The die was cast. There was no going back. Now we are climbing mountains and making deep
From that point on, I would be dedicated to unseating archeological digs. We are launched.
major media cover stories with the facts.
No possible future is safe as long as The News is the
There are many, many people who would take it as a perceptual apparatus of the people. The News in the
personal loss and tragedy if the New York Times mainstream has forfeited its right to exist and flourish. We
disappeared tomorrow. They would be beside themselves. can know that now or know it later.
I would take it as a great victory. A tremendous amount of
“normalcy” would go out the window. Which is a good I opt for now.
thing.
I highly recommend now. It’s bracing and fortunate and
Because we really do exist in a landscape strewn with ops, absolving.
cover stories, real conspiracies, lies, omissions of great
importance, and bribery. Seeing all this surface and Joy comes in many forms.
.
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Trump to Skip White House
Correspondents Dinner
From Stephen Lendman
2-26-2017
Founded in 1914 during the Woodrow Wilson era, the On Saturday, a WHCA statement said it
White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) is a
organization of reporters covering POTUS. “takes note of President Donald Trump’s
announcement on Twitter that he does not plan
It holds annual dinners presidents usually attend. Until to attend the dinner, which has been and will
1962, women were excluded. Jack Kennedy changed continue to be a celebration of the First
things, refusing to come unless the ban was dropped. Amendment and the important role played by an
independent news media in a healthy republic.”
In 1942, the dinner was cancelled at the onset of America’s
involvement in WW II, in 1951 during Truman’s war on Fact: Media scoundrels abuse First Amendment rights by
North Korea. Other dinners were cancelled for various sanitizing news and information, suppressing what’s most
reasons. In 1981, Reagan couldn’t attend because he was important to report.
recuperating from an assassination attempt. He phoned in a
message instead. Fact: Reliable alternative media are the only independent
kind - real journalism the way it’s supposed to be.
Media scoundrels notoriously serve wealth, power and
privileged interests exclusively - their credibility long ago Fact: Corporate-controlled print and electronic media are
lost. beholden to special interests, not ordinary people.
Instead of holding POTUS and most other government Bloomberg News, the New Yorker and Vanity Fair said
officials accountable for their actions, they support them - they won’t host after-event parties this year, commonplace
including endless imperial wars and other US policies, following WHCA dinners.
harming millions at home and abroad.
Leading Trump basher New York Times responded to his
Schmoozing with US officials at any level, especially opting out of this year’s event, saying
presidents, shows up in press agent journalism, not the real
thing - Trump the exception proving the rule. “(c)apping a week of extraordinary hostility
toward the news media,” he tweeted he won’t be
Some fourth estate members refuse to attend the annual coming.
dinner for this reason. Most are unprincipled, producing
fake news, not what the public needs to know. The Times failed to explain that deplorable media
reporting, especially its own, is why Trump is staying
This year’s event is scheduled for April 29. On Friday, away.
Trump called reporters “the enemy of the people.”
Yesterday he tweeted he won’t be attending. Given how
unfairly media scoundrels treat him, why should he!
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Rogue Bureaucrats At Homeland Security Leak
‘Incomplete’ Report Critical Of Trump
Agenda To Associated Press
By Michael Patrick Leahy
26 Feb 2017
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A lifelong Democrat, “[p]rior to joining DHS, Mr. Further, the report does not include data
Grannis served as the Staff Director of the U.S. Senate from other intelligence community sources.
Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) from 2009 It is clear on its face that it is an incomplete
through 2014 and as the Minority Staff Director for 2015. product.
During this time, he served as the principal intelligence
Allegations by opponents of the president’s
advisor to SSCI Chairman Dianne Feinstein and SSCI
policies that senior DHS intelligence
Members and led the Committee’s efforts to produce and officials would politicize intelligence is
enact annual Intelligence Authorization Act from 2010 unfortunate and untrue. The dispute with
through 2016 and the Cybersecurity Act of this product was over sources and quality,
2015, according to the DHS website. not politics.
He has spent his career working for partisan Democratic The leaked document appears to be a clearly partisan
members of Congress: attack on President Trump’s agenda by an analyst working
within the Department of Homeland Security.
He previously served as a staff designee to
Senator Feinstein on the SSCI from 2005 Department of Homeland Security spokesperson
until 2009 with a varied portfolio of Christensen did not answer questions from Breitbart News
committee responsibilities. Mr. Grannis about whether Grannis had authored or reviewed the
worked on the House Select Committee on leaked incomplete report.
Homeland Security with responsibilities for
intelligence, aviation security, and science
and technology from 2003 to 2005 and was Christensen also did not answer a question from Breitbart
Senior Policy Advisor to Representative News if the Department of Homeland Security had
Jane Harman on matters of national discovered the identity of the bureaucrat who leaked the
security from 2001 to 2003. incomplete report to the Associated Press.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security The leaked report contains several significant flaws. It
would neither confirm nor deny that Grannis was the says, for instance, that citizenship/nationality is not a good
author of, or had reviewed, the leaked draft document, indicator of terrorism, but does not admit that religion is a
though it did appear to be authored by someone associated primary indicator.
with his area of responsibility within DHS.
In addition, the data included in the report is dramatically
“The report was incomplete and had not different than the data reported in another list of terrorists
been subject to the extensive interagency compiled by former Senator, now Attorney General, Jeff
review process required of finished Sessions.
intelligence products,” spokesperson Gillian
Christensen tells Breitbart News, adding:
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Crucial Group Of Americans
Like Trump's Stands, Not Him, Poll Finds
David Lauter
Feb. 26, 2017, 7:43 A.M.
Just under one third of Americans say they like Trump and
approve of his policies, the poll found. Another one in six
approve of most of his policies even though they dislike
him. Well over half, 59%, said they did not like him
personally.
With the public deeply split in its views of President By contrast, 86% agreed with one of the central lines of
Trump, one potentially key group stands out -- those who Trump's inaugural speech, that government insiders
dislike the man, but approve of the direction in which he's had "reaped the rewards of government, while the people
moving. have borne the cost."
That's a central finding of a new nationwide survey by On other issues, the public is more closely divided. The
NBC News and the Wall St. Journal. public splits evenly, for example, on Trump's proposed
temporary ban on travel from seven mostly Muslim
countries.
The new poll confirms what other major surveys have
shown: Trump starts his administration with less support
than any president in the seven decades of presidential Just over half of those surveyed, 52%, said that the
polling. Asked if they approve or disapprove of the job problems Trump has encountered in his first month
Trump is doing, 44% approve, 48% disapprove. No were “unique to this administration and suggest real
previous president has begun his tenure with a net negative problems"; 43% said they were "growing pains" similar to
job approval. those other administrations have had.
Trump has held onto the support of his ardent backers. At And by 51%-41%, the public thinks the press has been too
the other end of the spectrum, he gets almost no approval hard on the new administration.
from Democrats. In the middle, the poll found, are many
Americans -- just over a third of those polled -- who either The NBC/WSJ poll, run by a bipartisan team of two
voted for Trump with reservations, voted for a third party polling firms, was taken by phone, using cell phones and
candidate or did not vote at all in 2016. landlines, Feb. 18-22 among 1,000 American adults. It has
a margin of error for the full sample of 3.1 percentage
points in either direction.
.
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Dems Prepare To Disrupt
President Trump’s Address To Congress
by DCWhispers
Posted on February 26, 2017
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Majority Finds Media Coverage Of Trump
Is "Too Critical, Exaggerated": WSJ/NBC Poll
By Tyler Durden
Feb 26, 2017 12:26 PM
Three weeks after a poll found that the Trump That said, the survey respondents offered strong reactions,
administration was seen as more "truthful" than the news both positive and negative, to the president’s outspoken
media, a new WSJ/NBC News poll has found that critiques of the media.
according to a majority of Americans, the media’s
coverage of President Donald Trump has been too critical, “I think his views about the press being
although the margin is narrow and the split is once again fake news is horrible and I think it is a
largely down party lines. fascist viewpoint,” said one respondent.
While 51% rate the media as too critical Others disagreed, and said Trump's assault of the media
of Trump since the presidential election, has been warranted due its "one-sided" coverage. Another
41% say the coverage has been fair and person said Trump, in critiques such as calling some
objective, while 6% say the media hasn't mainstream news organizations ”fake,” is doing what he
been critical enough. said he would do during his campaign.
Furthermore, a majority of those polled,
some 53%, also believes that the news After covering President Barack Obama for
media have exaggerated problems in eight years, the media “don’t know what
the Trump administration. 45% say that to do with someone who has a different
is not the case. opinion, which is half the country,” the
respondent said.
79% of those whose primary news source is Fox News
agreed with the statement that Separately, in the same poll, Trump's job approval rating
stood at just 44 percent, a record low for a newly
“the news media and other elites are inaugurated commander-in-chief, and half of Americans
exaggerating the problems of the Trump say that his early challenges suggest unique and systemic
administration, because they are problems with his administration. The new rating comes
uncomfortable and threatened by the kind two days before Trump is set to address a joint session of
of change that Trump represents.” Congress, a State of the Union-style speech in which new
presidents typically lay out their vision for the country.
Even large numbers of more-liberal MSNBC audience,
40%, thought that the media had overstated the problems.
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Some details from the poll:
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Trump Budget Plan Boosts Pentagon,
Trims State Dept, EPA: Officials
Reporting By Washington Newsroom; Additional Reporting By Roberta Rampton.;
Writing By Warren Strobel; Editing By Peter Cooney And Paul Tait
Sun Feb 26, 2017 | 10:11pm EST
One of the officials said Trump's request for the Pentagon The agencies can argue for more funding, and final
included more money for shipbuilding, military aircraft spending plans must be approved by the U.S. Congress.
and establishing "a more robust presence in key
international waterways and chokepoints" such as the Trump's budget assumes annual economic growth of 2.4
Strait of Hormuz and South China Sea. percent, the second official said. While campaigning for
the presidency last year, Trump called for a "national goal"
A second official said the State Department's budget could of 4 percent economic growth.
be cut by as much as 30 percent, which would force a
major restructuring of the department and elimination of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, speaking on Fox
programs. News earlier on Sunday, said Trump's budget would not
seek cuts in federal social programs such as Social
The officials requested anonymity because the draft budget Security and Medicare.
had not been made public yet.
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Sean Spicer Targets Own Staff In Leak Crackdown
The Push Includes Random Phone Checks Overseen By
White House Lawyers.
By Annie Karni And Alex Isenstadt
02/26/17 11:55 AM EST
Updated 02/26/17 05:25 PM
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The campaign to sniff out a series of damaging leaks, “People are on fire about it,” one campaign
which Spicer is convinced originated from his veteran said of the Dubke hire.
communications department, has led to a tense
environment in the West Wing. During meetings, the press Multiple former campaign aides said they were under the
secretary has repeatedly berated his aides, launching impression that RNC veterans pushed through Dubke, who
expletive-filled tirades in which he’s accused them of is close with Republican strategist Karl Rove, with
disclosing sensitive information to reporters and saying relatively little consultation with others in Trump world.
that they’ve disappointed him. (Several other people interviewed for the post, including
Jarrod Agen, a spokesman for Vice President Mike Pence,
As word of the hunt has ripped through the office, talk has and Scott Jennings, a former political aide in the George
turned to the question of whether firings are to come. W. Bush White House.)
Spicer was particularly incensed by the leaks last week that To some degree, the challenge Spicer and other press aides
Michael Dubke had been tapped as the new White House face is unique — they are working for a president who
communications director — a hire that became public takes an unusually intense interest in the work his
before it was officially announced. communications office does. Trump is known to watch
Spicer’s daily press briefings while eating lunch in the
“In general,” said one senior administration White House dining room. While the president was critical
official, “there is a lot of insecurity.” of his press secretary in the administration’s first month —
especially after he was parodied on “Saturday Night
While other parts of the White House appear to be Live” — he more recently has offered the press secretary
stabilizing, the press shop is often a center of frustration his private assurances that his job is safe.
about how things are going — and not just from Spicer,
who fumes to aides about stories he doesn’t like. The push to crack down on leaks follows a week in which
the president ratcheted up his criticism of the press and
For Trump, a cable TV addict who has long obsessively condemned the free flow of information from parts of his
tracked news coverage about himself, the ongoing turmoil administration. On Friday, Trump called the media the
“enemy of the American people” during a speech at the
in the White House communications wing threatens to
Conservative Political Action Conference in which he
derail the media narrative that will help to define the
railed against journalists for using anonymous sources.
opening days of his presidency. His decision to hold a free-
flowing news conference last week, two senior officials
said, stemmed from a recognition that he was no longer “I want you all to know that we are fighting
breaking through in a news cycle that had turned against the fake news. It’s fake, phony, fake,”
him. Trump said. “A few days ago, I called the
fake news ‘the enemy of the people,’ and
they are. They are the enemy of the
“He reached a breaking point where he
people. Because they have no sources.
wanted to do it himself,” said one senior
They just make them up when there are
White House aide.
none.”
It has not been lost on senior White House officials that
Later on Friday, Spicer blocked certain media, including
Spicer is overseeing an overwhelmed press office, where
CNN, The New York Times, BuzzFeed and POLITICO,
work often begins just after 6 a.m. and ends close to
from attending an off-camera press briefing in his office.
midnight.
Time and The Associated Press boycotted the briefing out
of solidarity.
To help streamline the office, the administration has
tapped Dubke, a veteran under-the-radar Republican
On Saturday, Trump said he would not attend the annual
operative known for his organizational skills. Yet the move
White House Correspondents' Association dinner in
has infuriated Trump campaign aides, who argue that
Washington.
someone who’d been a vocal Trump supporter — which
the establishment-minded Dubke hadn’t been — should
have gotten the job.
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Lana Del Rey Using Witchcraft
To Rid The World Of Donald Trump
All You Need Are The Right Ingredients To Participate
Jack Shepherd @Jackjshepherd
February 27, 2017
Those who thought Trump would back off in his war Even if you assume every single one of his policy
against media are, so far, wrong. objectives is wrongheaded and dangerous, he is still a
catalyst.
For example, the other day, the White House held an
informal press conference, a “gaggle,” and among those Most Progressives who have also been opposed to major
not invited was the New York Times. media fictions over the years now put that issue on the
back burner, because they hate Trump. They would never
—How dare they, the Times said. admit he is a wedge into the shattering of mainstream
supremacy. They would rather spend all their time
attacking The Donald.
The truth is, we are long overdue for a massive exposure
of the mainstream press. As in: they are liars. As in: they
are shills for the so-called “progressive Left.” As in: they “We’ll revisit the continuing major media
have a history of supporting horrific US wars. As in: they crimes later, when hopefully a Democrat
take CIA “leaks” as gospel. As in: they never expose the (who? Hillary Clinton?) is leading the
Globalist agenda. As in: they defend conventional charge…”
medicine which destroys millions of lives. And so forth
and so on. Good luck.
Think of what Trump, Bannon, and their team are doing as In my 30 years as a reporter, I’ve come to see the result of
a necessary “market correction,” after a century-long mainstream news parading as the eyes, ears, mouth, and
bubble. brain of the populace. It has been an utter disaster. The
stench has risen high in the sky. I’ve watched reporters
Any president or presidential candidate could have who are actually CIA assets turn the truth upside down and
executed the correction. But they didn’t. Trump did. inside out. I’ve watched news editors ax vital stories that
could have redirected history along better roads. I’ve
watched “legendary journalists” betray the public trust
Who is reporting on Trump’s war against the media? For
time and time again, as their reputations climbed to the
the most part, independent news outlets. Of course, the
level of honored statesmen. I’ve watched newly minted
Times and other mainstream news operations are
graduates emerge from journalism schools with the moral
slamming Trump for his attacks on them—but they are in
sense of hustlers who sell pay-day loans to desperate
the middle of the fire. And they don’t have the will,
clients.
courage, and intelligence to assess their own performance
over the last century. They can’t be expected to expose
themselves. When you realize the persona of mainstream news is a
stage hypnotist performing daily in front of millions of
people, you know the clog in the brain of the public must
The overall long-term effect of mainstream news is the
be taken away.
induction of a hypnotic trance. The audience expects the
truth because they believe. They uncritically accept. They
rely on “reputation.” They ingest Authoritative Tone. They The naïve faith of the hypnotic subject must be dismantled.
need a Voice that narrates reality. They refuse to do their
own research. They reject the idea that there are powerful We have a chance now. More than a chance. We are
men behind the curtain who are controlling the direction of winning. The shift to independent media is happening on a
government. They embrace vague “humanitarian” ideals grand scale.
that are reflected with the same vagueness by mainstream
news. Consensus reality is absorbing powerful body blows.
This is a war on the subject of waking up vs. staying In many cases, people are realizing the consensus doesn’t
asleep. even exist. It was erected on a foundation of sand by The
News. It was propped up by chatter from fake experts.
It is much bigger than Trump. He is a catalyst.
444
If six mega-corporations now own roughly 90% of the importance, and bribery. Seeing all this surface and
mainstream news in America, it stands to reason they are penetrate the hypnotic blanket would certainly cause an
going to service other mega-corporations, as well a federal amount of chaos. But it would be fertile chaos.
government which supports and illegally advances the
prospects and profits of those other companies. From it, new individuals would arise with new discoveries
and new solutions. People would find out what hope (not
The News is the business of business, via hypnosis. fake hope) is.
“Here is the Word about America today. Loads and tons of un-remediated problems would begin to
Close your eyes and relax…” dissolve in burning light.
My own personal and final declaration of independence as Well, this is happening now. We are still in the early
a reporter came ten years ago, after I had researched and stages. But is happening.
exposed several monumental medical lies. In each case, I
discovered mainstream news outlets were blocking the The old familiar semi-happy status quo is going away. It
publication of the truth. In each case, they were defending was never genuine. It was nothing more than the Sunday
the lies. edition of the New York Times arriving on a doorstep, with
the promise of morning coffee. Comfortable habits.
There was no sadness or depression about this. Quite the
opposite. I felt energized and inspired. My long-held Now we are climbing mountains and making deep
suspicion about mainstream news was irrevocably archeological digs. We are launched.
confirmed. The die was cast. There was no going back.
From that point on, I would be dedicated to unseating
No possible future is safe as long as The News is the
major media cover stories with the facts.
perceptual apparatus of the people. The News in the
mainstream has forfeited its right to exist and flourish. We
There are many, many people who would take it as a can know that now or know it later.
personal loss and tragedy if the New York Times
disappeared tomorrow. They would be beside themselves.
I opt for now.
I would take it as a great victory. A tremendous amount of
“normalcy” would go out the window. Which is a good
thing. I highly recommend now. It’s bracing and fortunate and
absolving.
Because we really do exist in a landscape strewn with ops,
cover stories, real conspiracies, lies, omissions of great Joy comes in many forms.
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Trump’s Policies Towards
Russia ‘Disappointing’: Analyst
Wayne Madsen
Sun Feb 26, 2017 7:10PM
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Trump has been under attack for expressing his
(OSCE) said Friday that one of its patrols in Ukraine’s willingness to cooperate with Russia in tackling global
restive eastern parts was attacked by Russian-speaking issues such as terrorism.
people, who also seized a drone the group was using.
He came under more pressure when his national security
The US State Department blamed the attack on Moscow adviser Michael Flynn resigned over holding secret talks
and called on the Russian government to “immediately” with Moscow with regards to the sanctions.
observe ceasefire in the restive region.
However, many were surprised earlier this month, when he
“We were told that Trump would have a said that Russia should “return” Crimea to Ukraine.
different policy than his predecessor
Obama,” Madsen said. In their phone conversation in late January, Trump and his
“It is rather disappointing that the rhetoric Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin both said they would
by Trump is not matched by any actions,” like to try to mend battered US-Russia relations.
he added. “It is more of the same, not
much different than Obama.”
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Trump Claims Clinton Rigged Race For Dnc Chairman,
Bernie's Guy Never Had Chance
© Reuters/ Lucas Jackson - US
15:52 26.02.2017(Updated 18:53 26.02.2017)
Trump mocked Perez's election by saying that he "could Interestingly, by accusing Clinton of behind behind the
not be happier for him, or for the Republican Party!" "rigged" vote for the DNC chairman, Trump indirectly
struck back at the former Democratic presidential
nominee's praise of protests against his policies. In a
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message for the Democratic party's supporters, Clinton "keep fighting and keep the faith," adding
called on the Democratic party's supporters to that she "will be right with you every step
of the way."
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Disgusting: CNN Attacks
Melania And Ivanka Trump For Being Thin And White
Pathetic CNN Piece By Leftist “Journalist” Goes Off The Deep End
By Alex Thomas -
02.26.2017 @10:19 PM EST
(INTELLIHUB) — Over the last year Donald Trump has Dig a little deeper, though, and both Melania and Ivanka
increasingly attacked the lies and disinformation coming don’t look so feminist after all; they look prototypically
from corporate media giant CNN which has gone on a Trump.
public crusade to attack the new president over literally
every possible thing. At the rally President Trump held in Florida over the
weekend, Melania said that as first lady, she would be
Now, a new hit piece by the liberal propaganda outlet has supporting initiatives “dear to her heart” which would have
targeted both First Lady Melania Trump and First an “impact on women and children all around the world”.
Daughter Ivanka Trump for being faux feminists, or, in But in the same rare public address, she borrowed some of
other words, not being depressed and ugly enough. her husband’s favorite language, describing the media as
“the opposition.”
Jill Filipovic, a supposed journalist and extreme leftist
“feminist”, starts off her direct attack on both the minds Whoops. You described the media as the opposition, you
and bodies of the Trump women by attacking President are no longer allowed in the liberal feminist club!
Trump for liking the fact that he was asked a question
about his wife. Filipovic continues her disgusting hit piece by attacking
the women for making money, apparently signaling a new
In liberal feminist land this is apparently a bad thing. belief in liberal feminism that a woman having a business
is an evil part of the patriarchy.
Observers of this White House may be wondering when,
exactly, Mrs. Trump became a feminist advocate. Unless Eventually Filipovic gets to the heart of her
you count her general abdication of some archaic and deeply hard-left argument. Melania and
deeply silly first lady duties — Mrs. Trump prefers her Ivanka Trump can’t be feminists because
New York penthouse over the White House, prompting they love their husbands, aren’t fat, and
concerns she won’t adequately oversee flower happen to be white.
arrangements and the annual Easter Egg roll — she isn’t Melania and Ivanka provide good cover for
exactly a feminist firebrand. Trump’s misogyny because they’re
palatable, conventionally feminine women:
In framing her as an advocate for women’s rights when They’re docile and poised, they don’t make
there is close to zero evidence she has ever actually demands of men, and they are above all
advocated for women’s rights, Trump told us more about conventionally beautiful — white and thin.
himself than he did about her: Women are good for photo
ops, not for real positions of power. This is the type of literal garbage that CNN continues to
publish and the establishment wonders why Trump has
The piece goes on to continually attack both Melania and repeatedly attacked them?!
Ivanka for perceived slights against the liberal feminist
orthodoxy before ludicrously implying that if a women To recap, CNN is now publishing vile attack
attacks the mainstream media then she isn’t a feminist. pieces in which Ivanka and Melania Trump
are attacked over being thin and white.
You can’t make this insanity up folks. This is what passes as journalism in the
corporate media.
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Plot Holes
By Robert Gore
Posted on February 26, 2017
To counter the Putin puppet fairy tale, he could have his “The Corleone Family don’t have that much
ambassador to the UN condemn Russia’s annexation of muscle anymore. The Godfather is sick.
Crimea. He could continue Obama’s military build up on You’re getting chased out of New York by
Russia’s western border. Trump and team could tweet and the other Families and you think you can
talk tough about Russia and its allies China and Iran, and find easier pickings here. I’ll give you some
reject any joint military operations with Russia in Syria. advice, Mike, don’t try.”
Oh wait, all this has already happened. So why has the
Deep State resorted to repeatedly discredited tactics to The Godfather, Mario Puzo
propagate its concocted story, ultimately helping the
president in his battles with it and its captive press, Trump may be weak like Michael Corleone was weak, just
supposedly in service of a foreign policy criticism of the before he wiped out his enemies, including Moe Greene.
president that he easily undercuts by adjusting his rhetoric Like Corleone, Trump may be trying to further an
and moving toward their position? What’s going on? impression of feebleness and for the same reasons: to make
his enemies overconfident and to flush out traitors.
The real story isn’t Russia. Do you mount a “soft coup”
over policy differences when, after all the Washington give Until the swamp is drained, there is no prospect of making
and take, those policies will, at worst, marginally affect America great again.
your influence, power, and payola? Doubtful. (Keep in
mind Trump wants to increase military budgets.) If, on the
“Feared, Not Loved.” SLL
other hand, you’re facing complete disgrace and ruin,
including a long stretch in a penal institution, there’s
nothing you won’t do to save yourself. The Deep State is trying to kill Trump with a thousand
paper cuts. Trump has bazookas, howitzers, and tanks.
Don’t bet he won’t use them.
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Spicer Grills Staffers On Leaks,
Orders Phone Search & Bans Encryption Apps – Report
Published Time: 27 Feb, 2017 03:56
White House Communications Director Sean Spicer © Jonathan Setting an example himself, the press secretary has already
Ernst / Reuters deleted the Confide app from his cell phone, the channel
reported.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer has reportedly
gone on a crusade against unauthorized sharing of Wrapping up the meeting, the White House press secretary
information on his own turf, ordering extensive phone strongly cautioned the staffers against disclosing any
checks and urging staffers against using encrypted- details of the said meeting, however, apparently, to no
messaging apps. effect.
The official sprung into decisive action last week, after it Apart from communications staffers, Spicer also invited
emerged that information discussed at one of the planning White House lawyers to oversee the improvised searches.
meetings with employees of the White House Office of Before going ahead with the idea, Spicer sought the advice
Communications had been leaked to the media, of the White House counsel Don McGanh, the outlet
Politico reported, citing sources present at the meeting. reports.
According to the outlet, in an effort to find the source of So far Spicer has not issued any comment on the report.
the leaks, which cast the Donald Trump administration in
an unfavorable light in the media, Spicer ordered about a The official has previously spoken of Trump
dozen of the staffers called to the gathering to hand over administration’s “real concern” over the scale at which
their personal mobile phones as well as those provided by the sensitive information has been leaked to media,
the government for a “check.” potentially compromising national security, referring to the
controversy over Gen. Michael Flynn as a National
Spicer also instructed them against using apps, allowing Security Adviser. Flynn resigned from the post after the
encryption of the messages, specifically mentioning details of his contacts with Russian officials were leaked to
Confide and Signal, an official with the knowledge of the the media.
matter is being quoted by Politico as saying. Confide
enables its users to send encrypted messages that instantly Earlier in February, Spicer announced that officials at the
“self-destruct” and Signal employs end-to-end encryption White House are looking for those responsible for leaked
of photos and text messages. telephone conversations between Donald Trump and
international leaders, including those of France and Russia.
Justifying the restrictions, Spicer apparently said that the At the time, Spicer called the situation “very concerning.”
use of these and similar mobile features will constitute a
violation of the Presidential Records Act. Among the most awkward statements leaked was a
reported phrase by Trump who said that the phone call
Among the recent leaks that has drawn the particular ire of with the Australian Prime Minster Malcolm Turnbull was
the White House press secretary, according to Politico in fact the “worst call [of the day] by far.” The reaction
sources, was a report of Michael Dubke’s appointment as apparently followed the discussion of a US deal with
the White House communications director, which came Canberra to accept over a thousand refugees from
out before the official announcement. Dubke replaced Australia, which Trump labelled in the call as “the worst
Spicer himself, who was reportedly finding it hard to deal ever.”
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Media Ban! Making Sense
Of The War Between Trump And The Press
By Anthony Dimaggio
February 27, 2017
declared he was “at war” with the press upon taking office.
His press secretary, Sean Spicer, took advantage of his first
press conference to actively berate the press, refusing to
take questions, and lambasting reporters for supposedly
underestimating the size of the crowd attending Trump’s
inauguration on the National Mall. Non-partisan fact
checkers dismissed Spicer’s claims as false because of
photographic evidence that Trump’s attendance was
smaller than Obama’s 2009 inauguration crowd. The
manufactured inauguration controversy has come to
symbolize a Trump presidency that routinely provides
false information to the press and the public. The
administration quickly lost much of its credibility with the
On Friday, February 24th, the Trump administration issued press establishment after White House counselor
a “gaggle” against reporters from the New York Times, Los Kellyanne Conway asserted on NBC’s Meet the Press with
Angeles Times, CNN, and Politico, prohibiting them from Chuck Todd that “alternative facts” were just as good as
gaining access to the White House press briefing. The ban real ones. Conway is far too obvious in expressing her
was quickly followed by a boycott of the press meeting by contempt for the truth. It’s one thing to engage in subtle
Time magazine and the Associated Press. To their credit, propaganda and manipulation; it’s quite another to rub
these two outlets did what White House reporters should reporters’ faces in it.
have already done – stop attending press conferences
dominated by obvious fabrications, distortions, and Watching the relationship between the press and Trump
propaganda. If MSNBC’s Morning Joe can divorce itself administration play out in real time has been interesting
from the lies of Kellyanne Conway, certainly the New York and at times highly entertaining. Never in my life have I
Times can too, right? But losing access is the ultimate kiss seen reporters regularly accuse the president in story after
of death in corporate journalism. The core of this system is story, day in and day out, of distorting information and
based on maintaining access to high-level officials, so lying. The New York Times has run many stories
being blacklisted from press briefings is a devastating suggesting the Trump administration is pushing lies, and
blow to establishment reporters. offering “inaccurate,” “wrong,” or “false” claims, and
outlets such as CNN, the Washington Post and others have
The loss of access could be interpreted as the best thing to followed suit. The Washington Post concluded that, in his
ever happen to papers like the New York Times. Instead of first month in office,
amplifying every absurd utterance out of the mouth of a
carnivalesque tabloid president, they could be focusing Trump “averaged four falsehoods or
instead on hard-hitting investigative journalism that would misleading statements a day…There hasn’t
benefit the public. But in a media system where official been a single day of Trump’s presidency in
sources are king, it’s unlikely the editors of major news which he has said nothing false or
outfits will see things this way. Predictably, they have misleading.”
expressed anger at being cut out of the loop of the
Washington political power structure.
The dispute between journalists and Trump centers on
numerous issues. To name a few, reporters have criticized
The full-on meltdown of the relationship between the Trump for making false claims about voter fraud in the
Trump administration and the press had been steadily 2016 election, for referring to numerous non-existent terror
building late in the campaign cycle and into the first month attacks in Atlanta, Georgia, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and
of this presidency. The relationship between Trump and Sweden, for erroneously claiming the media invented the
the press has grown increasingly conflicted with the rift between his administration and intelligence agencies
issuance of the press ban. Trump himself rhetorically over Russia’s alleged role in the 2016 election, for falsely
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stating the media do not report on violent terror attacks, aka the First Amendment – to allow the president to sue
and for inaccurately asserting that the violent crime rate in journalists for writing “horrible” stories – aka stories that
2017 reached a record high for the last half-century. are unflattering to Trump. Even during the years of media-
Extraordinarily, these controversies all occurred within the press relations following September 11, President Bush
first month of Trump’s presidency. was not as draconian as Trump in dealing with the press.
He blacklisted UPI reporter Helen Thomas, refusing to
Are we entering a new era of media-governmental answer her questions, in punishment for her many
relations? Trump supporters don’t seem to think so. challenges to the administration’s credibility regarding the
They’ve long lambasted the press for a “liberal bias,” and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But Bush maintained a
are surely celebrating the Trump administration’s media “carrot and stick” approach to managing the press.
ban. But the liberal media claims were always a red Journalists who fell in line behind administration
herring. The clear majority of scholarly studies fail to find propaganda were rewarded, allowed to ask questions in
any evidence of a consistent liberal bias in the news. White House Press Briefings and invited to join U.S.
Reporters are not one-dimensionally liberal in their military forces as “embeds” on the ground in “reporting”
attitudes. They hold liberal views on social issues, and the 2003 Iraq invasion. Journalists like Thomas who
conservative ones on economic policies. Furthermore, the questioned the party line were told to go to hell.
segments of the media that are openly biased lean heavily
to the right. But Trump didn’t even offer the carrot upon taking office;
rather, his administration offered only a metaphorical
Talk radio is more than 90 percent right- hatchet to the skull. His press secretary’s first conference
wing, and the most heavily watched cable was an all assault on reporters, and Trump’s own
outlet by a large margin is Fox News, not declaration of war made it clear there would be no effort to
MSNBC. cultivate support from the press. Trump’s ban on multiple
news outfits, while shamelessly inviting the reactionary
Furthermore, most of the empirical work in the social Breitbart “news” into his inner circle, is a step beyond
sciences identifies an official source bias, rather than a anything the Bush administration attempted. This ham-
liberal bias, as characterizing the news. In my own fisted news “management” technique will surely backfire,
research, I’ve found that news reporting fluctuates further pushing journalists to challenge administration
depending on the structure of government over time. When misinformation.
Republicans control the White House and Congress,
reporters predictably direct most of their attention to Political spin, deception, and lies have always been
Republican officials. When Democrats control these two integral to U.S. politics and governmental communication.
branches, coverage shifts toward the Democrats. And in But I can think of no other president who was ever so
periods of divided control of government, reporters devote crude or clumsy in pushing obviously false claims as
regular attention to “both sides.” In short, while the Trump. He’s painted reporters into a corner via his
“liberal media” line is red meat for Trump’s base, it has administration’s absurdist, straight-faced lies and
little relevance to reality. “alternative facts.” Even Karl Rove knew to voice his
contempt for the “reality-based community” off the record.
Reporters’ conflict with Trump is real, but it has nothing to To not challenge fictitious terror attacks, false statistics
do with a fictitious liberal bias of journalists. So, what about crime rates, and bogus claims about voter fraud
gives? Reporters are clearly treating the Trump would be a serious risk to reporters’ credibility. To allow
administration much more skeptically than they did blatant falsehood after falsehood to go unchallenged would
Obama. Does the conflict between the press and the mean reporters have abandoned their already limited
president suggest a changing dynamic in the relationship commitment to accuracy in reporting. Before readers
between the media and government? I would argue yes, to attack me for suggesting that corporate reporters are
some degree, but we should be careful not to oversell the committed to reporting the truth, consider the following:
extent to which media are independent of government. Trump’s lies operate on an entirely different level than
Journalists are not opposed to the neoliberal, bipartisan previous official misinformation, which was at least more
consensus in Washington. Rather, they are opposed to a difficult to identify without serious investigation.
specific individual who they believe represents a threat to
the political-economic status quo. George W. Bush’s claims about Iraqi WMDs were harder
for reporters to authoritatively debunk than Trump’s
Trump is widely seen by journalists as far outside the manufactured lies, the latter of which are haphazardly
“mainstream” of American political culture. This pulled from thin air. Numerous intelligence sources existed
characterization is true in some ways. I can think of no that raised questions about Bush’s pre-war claims, but
precedent to Trump’s media ban in my lifetime. He has there was no smoking gun (like after the invasion) to
demonstrated a contempt for the press since he began authoritatively demonstrate that the administration was
campaigning, when he promised to “open up libel laws” – lying prior to the invasion. Other official untruths were
also hard to identify in real time. Obama’s promises that
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the Affordable Care Act would not interfere with thousands of Americans weren’t being killed in Iraq, but to
preexisting insurance plans was difficult to challenge do so would risk losing any remaining credibility
without documenting the failings associated with the journalists had with the public. As with Bush’s eccentric
implementation of the ACA. Republican denials that lies, reporters are in a difficult position in covering Trump
support for charter schools results in the decimation of administration grifters. The public will only put up with so
community public schools are difficult to disprove without much bullshit for so long.
an extensive analysis of facts on the ground across
American cities where charter schools are introduced. In While the relationship between the president and much of
contrast, most of Trump’s falsehoods are bush league. the media has grown increasingly combative, journalists
Citizens without any journalistic training can recognize were not the only ones to attack Trump. Throughout the
them with simple google searches or visits to a non- election, he was widely derided, or at least kept at arm’s
partisan fact checking website. For reporters to uncritically length, by much of the Republican Party establishment, by
disseminate these falsehoods would threaten what little many right-wing corporate donors, by the Democratic
trust is left between the media and public. Party, and by much of the public. To single out journalists
for criticizing Trump is to ignore a broader, bi-partisan
Sometimes, official misinformation becomes so extreme political culture that has denigrated Trump for supposedly
that reporters can no longer hold their noses and pretend lying outside the bounds of respectable politics. The efforts
not to notice the lies. The Pentagon Papers demonstrated to frame Trump as beyond the pale are silly in many ways.
that U.S. presidents had lied for years about the war in He is the heir of decades of class warfare, racism, sexism,
Vietnam. It was difficult to ignore the blatant and deception that have long defined American politics.
contradictions between what presidents said privately and Trump’s mistake is openly embracing bigotry and
what they fed the public. The Bush administration’s claims contempt for truth, whereas his compatriots in the
about Iraqi WMDs were a fiction of epic proportions that Democratic and Republican parties know not to be so crass
could no longer be denied when search after search in Iraq in their rhetoric. Still, it’s a serious exaggeration to claim
came up empty-handed. The deaths of American troops that the media are posing an independent challenge to the
and Iraqis in mass blatantly contradicted Bush’s ridiculous political system by questioning Trump. Their attacks stem
assertion that, contrary to the naysayers, everything in Iraq not from a liberal desire to undermine government, but
was going great. As the country disintegrated into civil rather from discomfort with parroting silly administration
war, it became impossible to deny the reality that was claims that are widely recognized as fraudulent by much of
staring Americans in the face. Reporters could have the public and the intellectual class.
pretended that a civil war wasn’t occurring, and that
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NBC/WSJ Poll: Majority
Say Media Too Critical Of Trump
By Kyle Drennen
February 27, 2017
That number was eight times larger than the 6% of the The President's approval rating stands at
public who thought the press hadn’t been critical enough 44 percent with 48 percent disapproving.
of the new administration. 41% said the news coverage has That is the lowest rating ever recorded in
been objective. our poll at this early stage of a presidency.
For a little perspective, it took President
In Monday’s Wall Street Journal, reporter Jason Bellini Obama 32 months to fall into negative
explained: territory. It took President George W. Bush
41 months for his numbers to be
It isn’t clear what role Mr. Trump’s barrage underwater.
of attacks on the fairness and credibility of
the press has played in shaping the In a report for Monday’s Today, correspondent Peter
majority’s opinion that coverage of his Alexander similarly touted:
administration has been too negative.
A majority of those polled, some 53%, “A day before the President makes his first
also believes that the news media have address to a joint session of Congress, the
exaggerated problems in the Trump new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll
administration. Some 45% say that is not shows him with an historic disapproval
the case. rating. He is the only president in modern
polling to begin his presidency underwater.”
While the Journal reported on the media
bias findings, NBC News did not find those
numbers noteworthy during its discussion
However, no mention was made on either broadcast of the
of the same poll. Debuting the survey on
American people being influenced by relentlessly negative
Sunday’s Meet the Press, moderator
media coverage that was “too critical” of the President and
Chuck Todd hyped: “And our brand new
“exaggerated” bad news for the administration.
NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, the
.
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Trump Blasts Dems For
Peddling ‘Fake News’ Russian Narrative
Published Time: 27 Feb, 2017 04:58
For its part, the FBI has made no official comment on the
investigation, but White House press secretary Sean Spicer
did confirm that the chief of staff asked top bureau
officials, including FBI Director James Comey, to deny
any contact between Russia and Trump; they have so far
declined.
Donald Trump has taken to Twitter yet again to blast reports that
Russian hackers interfered to help him win the presidency as “fake
news.”
“Russia talk is FAKE NEWS put out by the
Dems, and played up by the media, in
order to mask the big election defeat and
the illegal leaks!” the US leader wrote.
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President Trump: Replace The Dollar With Gold As The
Global Currency To Make America Great Again
Source: Forbes
Published: February 27, 2017
Inside President Trump’s otherwise “standard Trump countries had to pony up $100 of actual
stump speech” at CPAC was nestled what might be a most goods in order to obtain one.'”
intriguing observation:
That privilege, which made great sense during the period
Global cooperation, dealing with other immediately after World War II, became a curse.
countries, getting along with other countries
is good, it’s very important. But there is no In 1971 President Nixon, under the influence of his
such thing as a global anthem, a global Svengali-like Treasury Secretary John Connally,
currency or a global flag. This is the United
States of America that I’m representing.
“suspend[ed] temporarily the convertibility
of the dollar into gold.”
There’s a keen insight in there that could, just maybe,
transform our lives, America, and the world. No “global
That closure proved durable instead of temporary. The
currency?” Was this, with the poetic observation that
dollar became, and remains, the world’s global currency.
“there is no such thing as a global anthem…or a global
flag,” just a trope? Or could it contain a political portent
with potential high impact on world financial markets? What had been an “exorbitant privilege” devolved into an
Let’s drill down. exorbitant liability. As my former professional colleague
John D. Mueller, of the Ethics and Public Policy Center,
formerly Rep. Jack Kemp’s chief economist, writing in the
As it happens, there is a global currency.
Wall Street Journal in Trump’s Real Trade Problem Is
Money recently and astutely observed:
It’s called the “U.S. dollar.”
a monetary system based on a reserve
Most international trade is priced in dollars. The Bretton currency is unsustainable, since foreign
Woods international monetary system invested the dollar, official dollar reserves (for example) are
which then was defined as and (internationally) was acquired and must be repaid in goods. In
legally convertible to gold at $35/oz, with global currency other words, the increase in official dollar
status. France’s then-finance minister, later its reserves equals the net exports of the rest
president, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, called the of the world, which means it must also
equal U.S. international payments
“reserve currency” status of the dollar — its deficits—an unsustainable situation.
status, along with gold, as global currency
— an “exorbitant privilege.” In other words, if President Trump wishes to address
America’s merchandise trade deficit (balanced to
By this d’Estaing was alluding to the fact, as summarized perfection, of course, by a capital accounts surplus) he will
at Wikipedia, that find that allowing the dollar to be used as the global
currency is the real snake in the economic woodpile. The
“As American economist Barry dollar’s burden as the international reserve currency, not
Eichengreen summarized: ‘It costs only a currency manipulation by our trading partners or bad
few cents for the Bureau of Engraving and treaties, is the true villain in the ongoing melodrama of
Printing to produce a $100 bill, but other crummy job creation.
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"Welcome To The Next Awakening" - Author Of Steve
Bannon's Worldview Explains The Path Ahead
By Tyler Durden
Feb 27, 2017 3:55 AM
"Where did Steve Bannon get his media. Strauss, who died in 2007, and I never told Bannon
worldview? From my book..." what to say or think. But we did perhaps provide him with
an insight — that populism, nationalism and state-run
* * * by Neil Howe via WaPo,
authoritarianism would soon be on the rise, not just in
Neil Howe is the author, along with William America but around the world.
Strauss, of “Generations,” “The Fourth
Turning” and “Millennials Rising.” Because we never attempted to write a
The headlines this month have been political manifesto, we were surprised
alarming. “Steve Bannon’s obsession with by the book’s popularity among certain
a dark theory of history should be crusaders on both the left and the right.
worrisome” (Business Insider). “Steve
Bannon Believes The Apocalypse Is When “The Fourth Turning” came out, our biggest partisan
Coming And War Is Inevitable” (the fans were Democrats, who saw in our description of an
Huffington Post). “Steve Bannon Wants To emerging “Millennial generation” (a term we coined) the
Start World War III” (the Nation). A sort of community-minded optimists who would pull
common thread in these media reports America toward progressive ideals. Yet we’ve also had
is that President Trump’s chief conservative fans, who were drawn to another lesson: that
strategist is an avid reader and that the the new era would probably see the successful joining of
book that most inspires his worldview is left-wing economics with right-wing social values.
“The Fourth Turning: An American
Prophecy.” Beyond ideology, I think there’s another reason for the
I wrote that book with William Strauss rising interest in our book.
back in 1997.
We reject the deep premise of modern
It is true that Bannon is enthralled by it. In 2010, he Western historians that social time is
released a documentary, “Generation Zero,” that is either linear (continuous progress or
structured around our theory that history in America (and decline) or chaotic (too complex to
by extension, most other modern societies) unfolds in a reveal any direction). Instead we adopt
recurring cycle of four-generation-long eras. While this the insight of nearly all traditional
cycle does include a time of civic and political crisis — a societies: that social time is a recurring
Fourth Turning, in our parlance — the reporting on the cycle
book has been absurdly apocalyptic.
in which events become meaningful only to the extent that
I don’t know Bannon well. they are what philosopher Mircea Eliade calls
“reenactments.” In cyclical space, once you strip away the
I have worked with him on several film projects, including extraneous accidents and technology, you are left with
“Generation Zero,” over the years. I’ve been impressed by only a limited number of social moods, which tend to recur
his cultural savvy. in a fixed order.
His politics, while unusual, never struck Along this cycle, we can identify four
me as offensive. “turnings” that each last about 20 years
— the length of a generation.
I was surprised when he took over the leadership of
Breitbart and promoted the views espoused on that site. Think of these as recurring seasons, starting with spring
Like many people, I first learned about the alt-right (a far- and ending with winter. In every turning, a new generation
right movement with links to Breitbart and a loosely is born and each older generation ages into its next phase
defined white-nationalist agenda) from the mainstream of life.
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The cycle begins with the First Turning, outer world (of politics, economy and
a “High” which comes after a crisis era. empire).
In a High, institutions are strong and individualism is In our paradigm, one can look ahead and suggest that a
weak. Society is confident about where it wants to go coming time period — say, a certain decade — will
collectively, even if many feel stifled by the prevailing resemble, in its essential human dynamic, a time period in
conformity. Many Americans alive today can recall the the past.
post-World War II American High (historian William
O’Neill’s term), coinciding with the Truman, Eisenhower In “The Fourth Turning,” we predicted
and Kennedy presidencies. Earlier examples are the post- that, starting around 2005, America
Civil War Victorian High of industrial growth and stable would probably experience a “Great
families, and the post-Constitution High of Democratic Devaluation” in financial markets, a
Republicanism and Era of Good Feelings. catalyst that would mark America’s
entry into an era whose first decade
The Second Turning is an “Awakening,” would likely parallel the 1930s.
when institutions are attacked in the name of higher Reflecting on the decade we’ve just lived through, we can
principles and deeper values. Just when society is hitting probably agree that the 1930s parallel works well. In the
its high tide of public progress, people suddenly tire of all economy, both decades played out in the shadow of a
the social discipline and want to recapture a sense of global financial crash, and were characterized by slow and
personal authenticity. Salvation by faith, not works, is the disappointing economic growth and chronic
youth rallying cry. One such era was the Consciousness underemployment of labor and capital. Both saw tepid
Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s. Some historians investment, deflation fears, growing inequality and the
call this America’s Fourth or Fifth Great Awakening, inability of central bankers to rekindle consumption.
depending on whether they start the count in the 17th
century with John Winthrop or the 18th century with In geopolitics, we’ve witnessed the rise
Jonathan Edwards. of isolationism, nationalism and right-
wing populism across the globe.
The Third Turning is an “Unraveling,”
Geostrategist Ian Bremmer says we now live in a “G-Zero”
in many ways the opposite of the High. Institutions are world, where it’s every nation for itself. This story echoes
weak and distrusted, while individualism is strong and the 1930s, which witnessed the waning authority of great-
flourishing. Third Turning decades such as the 1990s, the power alliances and a new willingness by authoritarian
1920s and the 1850s are notorious for their cynicism, bad regimes to act with terrifying impunity.
manners and weak civic authority. Government typically
shrinks, and speculative manias, when they occur, are In social trends, the two decades also show parallels:
delirious. falling rates of fertility and homeownership, the rise of
multi-generational households, the spread of localism and
Finally, the Fourth Turning is a “Crisis” community identification, a dramatic decline in youth
period. violence (a fact that apparently has eluded the president),
and a blanding of pop youth culture. Above all, we sense a
This is when our institutional life is reconstructed from the growing desire among voters around the world for leaders
ground up, always in response to a perceived threat to the to assert greater authority and deliver deeds rather than
nation’s very survival. If history does not produce such an process, results rather than abstractions.
urgent threat, Fourth Turning leaders will invariably find
one — and may even fabricate one — to mobilize We live in an increasingly volatile and primal era, in which
collective action. Civic authority revives, and people and history is speeding up and liberal democracy is weakening.
groups begin to pitch in as participants in a larger As Vladimir Lenin wrote, “In some decades, nothing
community. As these Promethean bursts of civic effort happens; in some weeks, decades happen.” Get ready for
reach their resolution, Fourth Turnings refresh and the creative destruction of public institutions, something
redefine our national identity. The years 1945, 1865 and every society periodically requires to clear out what is
1794 all capped eras constituting new “founding moments” obsolete, ossified and dysfunctional — and to tilt the
in American history. playing field of wealth and power away from the old and
back to the young. Forests need periodic fires; rivers need
Just as a Second Turning reshapes our periodic floods. Societies, too. That’s the price we must
inner world (of values, culture and pay for a new golden age.
religion), a Fourth Turning reshapes our
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If we look at the broader rhythms of history, we have objectives in such a war are likely to be
reason to be heartened, not discouraged, by these trends. defined very broadly.
Anglo-American history over the past several centuries has
experienced civic crises in a fairly regular cycle, about At the end of the 2020s, the Fourth Turning crisis era will
every 80 or 90 years, or roughly the length of a long climax and draw to a close. Settlements will be negotiated,
human life. This pattern reveals itself in the intervals treaties will be signed, new borders will be drawn, and
separating the colonial Glorious Revolution, the American perhaps (as in the late 1940s) a new durable world order
Revolution, the Civil War, and the Great Depression and will be created. Perhaps as well, by the early 2030s, we
World War II. Fast-forward the length of a long human life will enter a new First Turning: Young families will rejoice,
from the 1930s, and we end up where we are today. fertility will rebound, economic equality will rise, a new
middle class will emerge, public investment will grow into
America entered a new Fourth Turning a new 21st-century infrastructure, and ordered prosperity
in 2008. It is likely to last until around will recommence.
2030. Our paradigm suggests that
current trends will deepen as we move During the next First Turning, potentially the next
toward the halfway point. “American High,” millennials will move into national
leadership and showcase their optimism, smarts,
Further adverse events, possibly another financial crisis or credentials and confidence.
a major armed conflict, will galvanize public opinion and
mobilize leaders to take more decisive action. Rising Sometime in the late 2030s, the first
regionalism and nationalism around the world could lead millennial will be voted into the White
to the fragmentation of major political entities (perhaps the House, prompting talk of a new Camelot
European Union) and the outbreak of hostilities (perhaps moment.
in the South China Sea, the Korean Peninsula, the Baltic
states or the Persian Gulf).
Let a few more years pass, and those organization-minded
millennials may face a passionate and utterly unexpected
Despite a new tilt toward isolationism, onslaught from a new crop of youth.
the United States could find itself at war.
I certainly do not hope for war. I simply
Welcome to the next Awakening. The
make a sobering observation: Every total
cycle of history keeps turning,
war in U.S. history has occurred during inexorably.
a Fourth Turning, and no Fourth Turning
has yet unfolded without one. America’s
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New York Times Rediscovers Aggressive
Fact-Checking Just In Time To Attack Trump
By Clay Waters
February 27, 2017 | 3:00 PM EST
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Trump Supporters To Hold
'Spirit Of America' Rallies Across US
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The Republicans May Impeach Trump
By Ted Rall
February 27, 2017
Campaign Ad: Paul Ryan for President 2020. Barely one month after taking office, Trump’s approval
ratings are tumbling into territory historically belonging to
Speaker Ryan speaks into the camera. presidents mired in scandals and unpopular wars. Voters
tell the latest Quinnipiac poll Trump is dishonest and
doesn’t care about people like them. Trump’s numbers are
“Impeaching a president from my own party
within a rounding error of Richard Nixon’s during
wasn’t an easy decision,” Ryan says,
Watergate.
looking sober as footage of disgraced
former president Donald Trump departing
the White House for the last time appears. Right now, Donald Trump is constitutionally impeachable
over his temperament and his brazen violations of the
“Sometimes principle” — he pauses for a emoluments clause. But nothing will happen until he’s
half-beat — “comes before party.” politically impeachable. Trump would have to commit a
crime or mistake so colossal and irredeemable that
A full beat. mainstream voters of both parties would find him
repugnant.
“Country always comes first.”
If I’m Ryan or Cruz or some other crafty GOPer, I’m
Narrator: thinking to myself: every president screws up eventually.
But this guy Trump will definitely screw up big. Given his
“He stood tall when America needs him manic pace, his Waterloo will occur sooner rather than
most. Ready to make the tough decisions later.
when they matter most. Paul Ryan for
President.” Whatever form it takes — provoking a war, crashing the
economy, corruption, one authoritarian move too far,
Trump-haters want Democrats to push for impeachment. conspiracy and obstruction of justice — the inevitable
Setting aside the Dems’ congenital cowardice and the Trumpian disaster leaves House and Senate Republicans
arithmetic — a minority party can’t impeach anyone — the with a stark choice. Defend him or stand back silently, and
real danger to Trump is his nominal Republican allies. Trump drags the Republican Party along with him as he
flames out. Or they can throw him under the bus.
On the surface, Congressional Republicans appear to have
been shocked and awed by the president’s surprise victory Remember, they never liked him in the first place.
and ideologically aligned with a Trump Administration
whose hard-right cabinet is prepared to grant every item on Plan B is far more appealing. Becoming the party of
the GOP’s wish list. But you don’t have to look hard to see impeachment at a time when impeachment is popular
that the pre-November split between the party’s old guard transforms crisis into opportunity, allowing Republicans to
(Ryan, John McCain, Mitch McConnell) and the Trump cleanse their Trump-era sins (trying to repeal the
insurgency remains. increasingly well-received Obamacare, paying for the
Great Wall of Mexico with deficit spending, etc.) and seize
The Donald struts the marbled corridors of the capital, his the moral high ground in one swoop. Vice President Mike
head held high like Caesar. Beneath their togas, the Pence takes the helm, steadies the ship, promotes their
senators’ sharp knives await. right-wing agenda with more grace than his former boss,
and Ryan and his buddies prepare for 2020.
This is speculation, but I bet Republicans with presidential
ambitions — Ryan, Rubio, Cruz, Paul — have already As for the Democrats, this scenario leaves the party even
grokked that Trump’s days are numbered. Odds makers more damaged than it is today. If they leave the task of
agree. Whoever takes credit for bringing down a feared deposing a wounded Donald Trump to the Republicans,
and reviled leader will rid themselves of a rival and reap they’ll likely never recover.
rewards up to and including the highest office in the land.
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Still seething over the DNC’s shabby treatment of Bernie Dems could dodge this looming catastrophe by declaring
Sanders, the progressive base would consider the party all-out war against the president. For example, Democratic
completely discredited and hopelessly moderate for failing lawmakers could shut down Congress, and thus deny
to lead the charge against Trump. Swing voters, and not a Trump his entire agenda, by denying a quorum — i.e.,
few Democrats, will give Team Ryan credit for their failing to show up until the president agrees to resign.
integrity in taking down one of their own. I can imagine There are many ways to obstruct. But creating a
the Warren wing forming a new Progressive Party, leaving constitutional crisis would require balls — something in
the Democrats at less than half its current level of support. short supply among Congressional Democrats.
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Trump To States
With Recreational Pot: Drop Dead
Ryan Mcmaken
02/24/2017
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US House Intelligence Chair Calls
Trump Russian Ties Investigation 'Witch Hunt'
© REUTERS/ Carlos Barria - US
02:32 27.02.2017(updated 05:16 27.02.2017)
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Stein Rips Into CNN, NYT,
'Looking For A Scandal' From Trump 'Every Day'
By Kristine Marsh
February 27, 2017
Every day they are looking for a scandal. They are turning
the woods upside down looking for a scandal. They are
hoping, I think, to do what they did to Nixon a long time
Economist and former speechwriter for Richard Nixon, ago. And I still haven't found any real scandals.
Ben Stein, appeared on CNN Newsroom last Saturday,
where he slammed the media for making Trump a Stein told Keilar that “all over the country” an “awful lot
“punching bag” and “looking for a scandal” from the of people” see the media as an “unelected aristocracy”
president on a daily basis. Stein told CNN’s Brianna who are “dumping all over the mainstream of America,” so
Keilar, Trump was in good company:
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but I think this general idea that the evidence of it at all. I think with the greatest respect, and I
press can just hack and hack and hack appreciate you pointing things out where I was mistaken,
away at the president, that he's but with the greatest respect,
expected to sit there and take it, is not a
sound idea. this is a guy they are just smearing,
smearing, smearing all the time. I don't
After Keilar pushed back that the media did cover some blame him for wanting to fire back at
positive stories on Trump, Stein pointed that these “one or them. If he were as smooth as Ronald
two” stories were outweighed by “hundreds” of negative Reagan, he would handle it more
ones, such as the recent accusation by the media that smoothly. But no one, again, will ever
Trump was anti-Semitic. be as smooth as Ronald Reagan.
“They are trying to undo him basically
STEIN: That's one or two of hundreds of stories, most of before he even gets started,” Stein
which are extremely negative. And God bless you for slammed. “I think it's just extremely
doing the positive stuff, but look at the way they slammed unfortunate.”
him for not covering immediately the desecration of the
Jewish cemetery outside St. Louis. I mean, this is a guy, He added:
and look at the way the media is endlessly playing him off
as an anti-Semite. This is a guy, who has a Jewish son-in-
law. His own daughter went and converted to Judaism. "The country has real problems and for
Who’s never been quoted saying a single anti-Semitic them to be focusing on trying to bring
word, and they’re constantly slamming him as being a down this guy before he’s even gotten
racist or a white supremacist or something without any started is a serious mistake,” he stated.
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Trump Gets Ready For His Biggest Sell Yet
The White House Hopes The President's First Prime-Time Address Will
Reframe His Turbulent First 40 Days In A Different Context.
By Shane Goldmacher
02/27/17 05:04 AM EST
But Trump will step onto the dais Tuesday night with
historically weak approval ratings for a new president,
battling leaks both from within and about the White House
and a heavy chip on his shoulder about media coverage of
his early presidency that he has decried repeatedly as “fake
news.”
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create jobs that’s what I want out of the White House. “It could be ad-libs,” one senior White
Help me create jobs,” McAuliffe said. House adviser said, “Welcome to my
world.”
An infrastructure package and tax reform require
congressional action, and are expected to be part of his As Trump’s approval ratings have plumbed new lows for a
speech Tuesday. new president, he has lashed out at the media for its
coverage.
So far, Trump has signed only five bills in law, and the
most notable ones unwound two President Obama-era “They are the enemy of the people,” Trump
regulations, nothing compared to the sweeping $800 said Friday. “Because they have no
billion stimulus package Obama signed in his first month sources, they just make them up when
eight years ago. there are none.”
In some ways, Trump’s early blitz has been the reverse of Over the weekend, Trump announced he would not attend
Obama’s tenure, which began with a heavy push on the White House Correspondents Association dinner and
Capitol Hill and ended after Democrats lost congressional on Friday White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer barred
majorities with his pledge to govern almost unilaterally some outlets, including POLITICO, the New York Times
with a “pen and a phone.” and CNN, from attending an off-camera briefing in a break
with tradition that spurred protests.
Trump, despite Republican control of the House and
Senate, has begun with his pen and phone, signing But Trump, a ravenous consumer of the daily clips printed
executive actions and calling up world leaders in a out for him and cable news, is also seeking to repair some
dramatic reset of American foreign policy from Asia to the relationships. On Tuesday, the day of his speech, Trump
Middle East to North America. will lunch with network television anchors, a White House
tradition, while expanding the invitation list to include new
“He has shaken up the world of channels. And on Monday, the president will meet in the
international diplomacy,” said former United evening with representatives of regional television stations,
Nations Ambassador John Bolton, who has in an effort to better penetrate local broadcasts.
been considered, though not appointed to,
multiple Trump administration posts, “and I Count Bannon among the pessimists on that outreach
think it needs to be shaken up.” making any difference.
Now comes the harder part: pushing the rest of his agenda “It's not only not going to get better. It's
through Capitol Hill. In addition to repealing Obamacare, going to get worse every day,” he said at
pushing an infrastructure package and tax reform, Trump CPAC, his first public appearance since
is expected to talk about a reinvestment in the armed entering the White House.
forces that he said at CPAC would amount to “one of the “We have a team that’s just grinding it
greatest military buildups in American history.” He's also
through on what President Trump promised
expected to talk more about the border and immigration, the American people,” Bannon said. “And
his signature issue on the campaign. the mainstream media better understand
something: All of those promises are going
Trump being Trump, his staff is inevitably preparing for to be implemented.”
the unexpected.
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Trump Claims Obama Is “Behind”
Protests Against Him And White House Leaks
“I Think President Obama’s Behind It, Because His People Are Certainly
Behind It. And Some Of The Leaks Possibly Come From That Group.”
Michelle Broder Van Dyke , Francis Whittaker , Jessica Simeone - Buzzfeed News Reporters
Originally Posted On Feb. 27, 2017, At 10:31 P.M. Updated On Feb. 28, 2017, At 6:47 A.M.
In an interview that aired Tuesday morning on Fox and He said that the money would come from a
Friends, Trump was asked if he believed Obama was “revved-up economy,” adding that it would
organizing recent protests across the country, including a be a “whole new ball game” if he could
series of raucous GOP town halls. increase GDP growth to “three or four
percent.”
“I think he is behind it,” Trump replied. “I
also think it’s politics.” He also said he would “do things with other countries”
where the US would “ask for a form of reimbursement” for
military assistance.
Trump said he believed Obama’s “people” are behind
“some of the leaks, which are really very serious, because
they’re very bad in terms of national security.”
The president also said his Twitter use isn’t “venting” and
that he uses the medium, in part, to go around the
“dishonest media” in an attempt to get his message out
without his meaning being altered.
Trump has been vociferous in attacking media outlets he
“I have so many millions of people, it allows perceives to be hostile to him in recent weeks, and has
me to give a message without necessarily branded a number of outlets “fake news”. However, he has
having to go through people where I’m been vocally supportive of Fox and Friends’ coverage,
tweeting that it was “great” earlier this month.
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Billionaires Disagree With Trump Voters Over
Immigration, Say America Is Great
By Timothy P. Carney (@Tpcarney)
2/27/17 12:53 PM
The interview is worth a read. The billionaires' approach to Harvard Professor George Borjas has put out a study
immigration is interesting. finding that immigration generally helps the economy
while hurting low-wage people, largely by driving down
At one point Goldberg asks Buffett, "You're wages.
not a big wall guy, I guess?"
Buffett and Gates are smart. I'm sure they get this. So I'm
Buffett laughed "No!" and sang the praises of immigrants sure they also understand why the Atlantic's headline,
like Albert Einstein and former Intel CEO Andy Grove.
"Buffett and Gates: America Is Already
"The quality of immigrants," Buffett said, Great, Thanks to Immigrants"
"the motivation of immigrants, this is what
has contributed to the greatness of the will elicit more guffaws than reflection from immigration
country." critics.
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Trump’s Travel Ban Receives Another
Blow From Court, Case Won’t Be Put On Hold
Published Time: 27 Feb, 2017 19:19Edited Time: 27 Feb, 2017 20:03
The ruling comes just hours after it was revealed that the
president of UEFA, football’s governing body in Europe,
said that Trump’s “America first” policies, including the
temporary travel ban, could harm the United States’ bid to
hold the 2026 World Cup.
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“It will be part of the evaluation, and I am populist decisions, then the World Cup
sure it will not help the United States to get cannot be played there. It is true for the
the World Cup,” Aleksander Ceferin told United States, but also for all the other
the New York Times. “If players cannot countries that would like to organize a
come because of political decisions, or World Cup.”
.
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Second House Conservative Won't Back Trump's
Obamacare Replacement
by Tyler Durden
Feb 27, 2017 7:01 PM
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Leaked Audio Reveals Anti-Trump
Forces Manufacturing Hostile Town Hall
Peter Hasson - Reporter, Associate Editor
12:38 AM 02/27/2017
Leaked audio from an anti-Trump protest group meeting Matthew Schoenberger, of New Orleans, shouts a question at
reveals activists with anti-Trump group Indivisible plotting Republican U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy during a town hall meeting in
how to best manufacture a hostile environment at a town Metairie, Louisiana, U.S. February 22, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan
Bachman – RTSZW2O
hall with Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy in Breaux Bridge,
Louisiana on Friday. “Game plan number one is to fill as many
seats as we can, right? If it’s all of us in
The audio, obtained by local radio station KPEL, reveals a there and the poor people of Breaux Bridge
coordinated effort to create the public impression that are sitting behind us, well then tough luck
Cassidy’s support for Trump is unpopular with his for them,” said one organizer, identified by
constituents. The activists, who describe themselves as KPEL as James Proctor. His “poor people”
liberals in the audio, can be heard strategizing how to best comment drew laughs from the other
turn a local town hall into a political victory. (RELATED: activists.
Democrats Behind Mexico City Demonstration Against “If we can arrange it so he doesn’t hear one
Tillerson) sympathetic question–great. That only
magnifies our impact,” Proctor said.
The activists split up into an “inside team” — tasked with
occupying “as many seats as we can” and an “outside KPEL identified Proctor as the leader of Indivisible
team,” whose job was to “give [the media] the coverage Acadiana, a local branch of the national Indivisible
they want” before joining the others inside. Activists were organization, which has organized hostile Republican town
instructed to dress like conservatives and leave at home halls all around the country. (RELATED: Anti-Trump
“any signifier that you’re a liberal” in order to blend in Protesters To Begin Soliciting Tax-Deductible
with constituents. Donations)
The leftist activists strategized how best to “dominate” the “The Indivisible Guide does say that when
question-and-answer section of the town hall and keep you start to lose the meeting, that’s when
anyone “sympathetic” to Cassidy from asking a question. you boo and hiss,” one unidentified activist
can be heard saying. “Right, I was going to
The audio also reveals the activists laughing about “the say that,” another activist replied. Local
poor people of Breaux Bridge” — local constituents — news outlet The Advertiser reported that
who might get stuck behind them. Local news coverage of members of the crowd “frequently
the town hall said that “many attendees were turned away” interrupted, expressing disagreement with
from the town hall due to “capacity restrictions.” some of Cassidy’s positions and shouting
out their own questions.”
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“The outside team will join the inside team that event booed the name “Jesus” during the opening
in the hall after media coverage,” Proctor prayer.
states at one point. “So what we’ll do is
we’ll try to dominate enough, because– One woman can be heard on the audio saying she was in
remember, the camera people especially contact with the national Indivisible organization, a
are looking for some ‘b-roll’ and some statement that Indivisible Acadiana denied over email after
quotes.” this article was published, claiming they:
“They’ve got three or four things to cover
that day, this is just one of them,” Proctor “were not in direct contact with the national
said of media covering the town hall. “So group but “were in direct contact with some
we make sure we give them the coverage Indivisible groups in the Louisiana area
they want, and then everyone breaks and who are also constituents of Senator
goes inside.” Cassidy.”
Congressional Republicans have faced a wave of hostile
Video from outside the event posted on YouTube shows town halls in recent weeks, due in part to the work of
protesters chanting, Indivisible and other leftist groups. (RELATED: Leader
Of Portland Anti-Trump Protests Charged With
“Love not hate, that’s what makes America Sexually Abusing Minor)
great.”
Indivisible recently partnered up with Organizing for
One woman appears to be reading the chant from a script. Action, the activist group aligned with former President
Obama, NBC News reported earlier this month.
Additionally, Indivisible announced the formation of a
new non-profit, designed to help fund the group’s efforts
with tax-deductible donations.
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CIA Paid $600 Million To Wapo
To Publish Trump Disinformation
By Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Posted On February 27, 2017
Conservativedailypost.com reports:
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Control the Washington Post and you “Amazon’s offer wasn’t the low bid, but it
control the message; the MSM and the won the CIA contract anyway by offering
“agenda.” advanced high-tech ‘cloud’ infrastructure.”
“The Post is unquestionably the political
paper of record in the United States, and So how is at a time government should be pinching
how it covers governance sets the agenda pennies due to the increasing national debt, the CIA passed
for the balance of the news media,” over lower bidders for the contracted services?
journalism scholar Robert W. McChesney
revealed to Altenet.org in a December The answer tracks back to the infamous blocking of the
investigative article. WikiLeaks website by Bezos’s company Amazon Web
Services (AWS), a service Bezos personally and publicly
“Citizens need to know about this conflict of
interest in the columns of the Post itself,” brags is the most advanced and best high-tech “cloud”
he added. infrastructure on the market.
In the same article, a statement released by the Public “WikiLeaks was booted from Amazon’s
Institute of Advocacy quoted McChesney as saying: webhosting service AWS. So, at the height
of public interest in what WikiLeaks was
publishing, readers were unable to access
“If some official enemy of the United the WikiLeaks website,” reported watchdog
States had a comparable situation — group Fair in 2013.
say the owner of the dominant
newspaper in Caracas was getting $600
million in secretive contracts from the So why did AWS give WikiLeaks the boot? Most likely at
Maduro government — the Post itself the bequest of the CIA, whom Bezos has been doing
would lead the howling chorus impaling business with since 2013 when the $600 million contract
that newspaper and that government for was awarded to AWS. Bezos also has close ties to the
making a mockery of a free press. It is Clintons and backed Hillary in her failed run for the
time for the Post to take a dose of its presidency, both in the 2008 primary campaign and in
own medicine.” 2016 as the Democrat nominee.
If this alliance between the CIA and Bezos isn’t illegal, Bezos also publicly voices open contempt for President
then it is certainly unethical and displays a huge conflict of Trump, and his policies. He recently was behind the
interest while also exposing the corruption existing within Washington challenge to Trump’s 90-day immigration ban
the MSM. The main sources of news and information and threatened suit himself in an email to his employees,
Americans sought and believed, until the rise of alternative as was reported on this site.
media outlets.
Bezos, without any reference to stock holders input or lack
Alternative sources of information the MSM bash and of agreement, said he will put the full resources at Amazon
attempt daily to discredit as “fake news,” when “fake,” to defeat the policy and implied his mission of taking
misleading and sometimes right out lies being spread down President Trump.
across social media come out of the MSM and pseudo
extremist left-wing sites erected simply to misinform and It was Bezos’s Washington Post that first leaked
confuse the American voter. documents and led the charge to discredit Trump’s
national security advisor cabinet pick. General Michael
Many Facebook pages and websites that have “popped” up Flynn was forced to resign due to the unverified
over the past several years whose resources and money are information touted in the “leaks.” Flynn was cleared by the
being funded by George Soros’s well oiled “Media FBI of any wrongdoing in those leaks. But the damage was
Matters” machine. Just one of many “nonprofit” already done.
organizations extending from his Open Society
Foundation. In recent days, it has been revealed the CIA has full
intention of attempting a coup to remove Trump from
Soros also has imbedded ties to many MSM outlets office, even though “The Donald” was democratically
including The New York Times, the Associated Press, NBC elected by American voters in a free election.
and ABC and here it is again, the Washington Post.
Readers are urgently encouraged to research Soros, his And it appears in the CIA is in conspiracy with Bezos’s
history and his worldwide organizations. plan to use the Washington Post to achieve a mutual goal:
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to disrupt and destroy President Trump and
his administration. A goal that has no
regard or concern for national security or
the safety and well-being of American
citizens.
In an exchange of tweets on Feb. 15, John Schindler, Which begs a bigger question than the unethical alliance
former NSA analyst and national security columnist for the between the CIA, Bezos and his Washington Post:
Observer answered a question asking what he thought was
going on at the NSA right now. Schneider responded, Could Trump be impeached? Of is he in
citing a friend in the intelligence community reference to danger of befalling the same fate as
Trump: President Kennedy? Being a previous “anti-
establishment” president, Kennedy sought
to disengage from the Vietnam conflict and
dissolve the Federal Reserve, but was
assassinated.
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Enforcing The Law Against
Human Trafficking - Trump: 1,500 Busts In 1 Month,
Obama: Less Than 400 In 1 Year
Tim Brown
February 27, 2017
Well, executive orders are not all that are taking place in and internationally. He gave further confirmation when he
the Trump administration. There's actual enforcement of said:
the law too. According to new reports, President Donald
Trump's administration has overseen 1,500 busts of sex “Dedicated men and women across the
trafficking in one short month compared to less than 400 in federal government have focused on this
one year under Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah. for some time as you know -- it’s been
much more focused over the last four
Recently, Trump spoke about human trafficking and said it weeks.”
was going to be a priority in his administration.
Trump’s press conference was barely a blip in the
mainstream media and the massive arrests have been
almost completely ignored by the MSM altogether. Here’s
a rundown of some of the massive sex trafficking rings
that have been broken up since Trump took office.
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Dave Jolly at Constitution.com reminds us of why the conference was the stage for Y-PEER, a
Obama administration just wasn't that tough on human United Nations Population Fund initiative
traffickers. announced that youth need to have more
sexual and reproductive rights including the
"Were you aware that Barack Obama and right to choose (aka – abortion). While the
his administration supported legalized statement does not define or specify an
prostitution with prostitutes as young as 10- age limit for youth, the standard used by
years-old?" wrote Jolly. the United Nations in all of its dealings
defines them as ages 10-24."
"Obama and his administration fully
supported many of the United Nations
Now, I wonder if Donald Trump's administration will be
efforts to impose their will on our nation
looking into the Pizzagate scandal. Several sites have
and others around the world," he added.
claimed that many of these arrests are related to Pizzagate.
"One of those initiatives took place in 2011
As of yet, I've heard no official word, but it would not
at the United Nations Youth Conference
surprise me.
which was held in New York City. The
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Trump Seeks "Historic" $54 Billion
Increase To Defense Spending
By Tyler Durden
Feb 27, 2017 12:17 PM
As observed earlier in the day, as part of the leaked include proposed changes on tax policy or mandatory
preliminary Trump budget, the president was set to unveil spending.
major spending increases for US defense offset by cuts to
federal agencies, and other non-defense sectors. And on To offset the defense spending increase, the White House
Monday morning, the first details emerged, including that is seeking corresponding cuts of $54 billion in non-defense
the boost to defense spending is expected to be about 10%, categories, including "large spending cuts" to foreign aid,
or some $54 billion, and will be revenue neutral, offset by the EPA, the State Department and safety programs. The
cuts in non-defense areas, and will not "add a dime to the official also added that most agencies would see funding
deficit." As Trump said, he is seeking a "historic increase" reductions.
in military spending.
“Most federal agencies will see a reduction
"This budget will be a public safety and as a result," the official said, with cuts
national security budget," Trump told state falling most heavily on “lower priority”
governors at the White House. "It will programs as well as foreign aid. When
include an historic increase in defense asked where the extra $54 billion will be
spending to rebuild the depleted military of spent, the official said “predominantly it will
the United States of America at a time we go to the Pentagon,” but declined to name
most need it," he said. specific offices.
One of the officials cited by Reuters said Trump's request According to The Hill, the budget will fundamentally alter
for the Pentagon included more money for shipbuilding, the spending rules known as the sequester brokered in a
military aircraft and establishing "a more robust presence 2013 deal between President Obama and Congress. That
in key international waterways and chokepoints" such as agreement set a cap on discretionary spending across the
the Strait of Hormuz and South China Sea. federal government, which affected defense and non-
defense spending equally.
A second official said the State Department's budget could
be cut by as much as 30 percent, which would force a The punchline: according to the White House, the budget,
major restructuring of the department and elimination of at least as it stands right now, won't add a dime to the
programs. Some defense experts have questioned the need deficit, suggesting that if only for the time being, the
for a large increase in U.S. military spending, which dramatic debt-funded spending spree remains on hold.
already stands at roughly $600 billion annually. By
contrast, the United States spends about $50 billion
According to the WSJ, the Trump administration said the
annually on the State Department and foreign assistance.
funding request will show that Mr. Trump is following
through on promises he made during his campaign to boost
The White House will send federal agencies their proposed military spending and put “America First,” a campaign
2018 budget allocations at noon Monday, according to an theme he sounded in his inaugural address last month. It
Office of Management and Budget official. The official isn’t clear how the offsetting cuts will allow him to also
provided no specific details during a call with reporters make good on promises to ramp up funds for border
about the rest of the budget, including the baseline figure security, infrastructure and veterans’ health care.
being used for the cuts or over what period they would be
made. The initial blueprint of the president’s budget will For now we await more details. As the NY Times reported
be released in mid-March, and the administration’s entire
ovenright, Trump's plan which is a collaboration between
fiscal proposal is expected later in the spring.
budget director, Mick Mulvaney; NEC director Gary
Cohn; and Steve Bannon, is meant to make a "big splash"
The outline due next month will include only targets for and has been carefully timed to come the day before the
discretionary spending programs, which represent around president's address to Congress.
one-third of total federal spending. The blueprint won’t
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Trump To Propose 10 Percent Spike In
Defense Spending, Major Cuts To Other Agencies
By Abby Phillip And Kelsey Snell
February 27, 2017 At 3:26 PM
The Post’s Robert Costa explains why President Trump’s campaign Saying they need more information before they can offer specifics,
pledge to “protect” entitlement programs may expose a rift between Feb. 27, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House
the White House and congressional Republicans. (Bastien Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) slammed President Trump's
Inzaurralde/The Washington Post) plans to propose a federal budget that cuts funding to almost all
federal agencies, aside from the military. (Reuters)
President Trump will propose a federal budget that would “We are going to do more with less and
significantly increase defense-related spending by make the government lean and
$54 billion while cutting other federal agencies by the accountable to the people,” he said. “We
same amount, an administration official said. can do so much more with the money we
spend.”
The proposal represents a major increase in federal
spending related to national security, while other priorities, The White House did not specify how Trump’s budget
especially foreign aid, would face massive reductions. would address mandatory spending or taxes, promising
that those details would come later. The vast majority of
According to the White House, the defense budget would federal spending comes from programs Trump can’t touch
increase by 10 percent. Trump also will request $30 billion with his budget. Social Security costs totaled about
in supplementary military spending for fiscal 2017, an $910 billion last year, and Medicare outpaced defense
administration official said. spending with a total cost of $588 billion. Medicaid,
interest payments on debt and miscellaneous costs made
up an additional $1.2 trillion.
But without providing specifics, the administration said
that most other discretionary spending programs would be
cut to pay for it. Officials singled out foreign aid, one of White House officials declined to answer questions about
the smallest parts of the federal budget, saying it would the president’s priorities on a host of other fiscal issues,
face “large reductions” in spending. including infrastructure improvements and plans to pay for
a wall between the United States and Mexico. Mick
Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and
It is the first indication of spending priorities by the new
Budget (OMB), emphasized that the priorities outlined
administration, with the president set to arrive on Capitol
Monday do not reflect policy on broader fiscal issues,
Hill on Tuesday night for a speech to a joint session of
which he said will be addressed later.
Congress. But the full budget negotiations between Trump
and Congress will not be complete for many months.
“We are taking his words and turning them
into policies and dollars,” Mulvaney told
In a statement at the White House on Monday morning,
reporters. “A full budget will contain the
Trump said that his budget would put “America first” by
entire spectrum of what the president has
focusing on defense, law enforcement and veterans using
proposed.”
money previously spent abroad.
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Republicans in Congress expect that the details released
this week will be the first elements of a broader budget that
will be rolled out next month. The Trump administration is
expected to release a pared-down “skinny budget” the
week of March 13 and a fuller list of requests by the end of
March or early April, said multiple Republican
congressional aides who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss the process.
“Infrastructure, we’re going to start Philip Rucker and Ana Swanson contributed to this report.
spending on infrastructure — big.”
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Obama Scheme To Sabotage
Trump Admin With High Profile Moles Exposed?
Kristinn Taylor
Feb 27th, 2017 5:06 Pm
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Among their other duties, Price and Ahmed helped manage like Rumana Ahmed is a big part of what makes America
Rhodes’ “echo chamber” to market Obama’s policies. great.”
Former CIA analyst Price explained to the Times
magazine how he manipulated American public opinion The patriotism of Muslim Americans like
from his desk in the White House. The Obama NSC relied Rumana Ahmed is a big part of what
on “compadres” in the media to proliferate its message, makes America great.
Price said. https://t.co/civBazg09g
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) February 23,
“I will reach out to a couple people, and you 2017
know I wouldn’t want to name them — “
Rhodes also retweeted several postings of tweets
Smith contacted Trump officials who contradicted the promoting Ahmed’s op-ed including former Obama
Atlantic’s claim that Ahmed was “not a political administration colleague Dan Pfieffer, NBC journalist
appointee.” The officials told Smith that Ahmed was Andrea Mitchell who commented, “This is disturbing on
indeed a political appointee to the NSC and applied late in so many levels”, and radio host Questlove Gomez among
the Obama administration’s tenure to ‘burrow’ in as a civil others.
service employee. Ahmed was approved just days before
she quit.
Rhodes praised Bush administration holdovers in his
retweet of Pfeiffer, saying,
Smith also reports sources said Ahmed did not actually
work all her eight days at the Trump administration, that
she took off several days and only worked four days. “Would also note some of Obama admin’s
best natsec staffers were Bush NSC vets:
@brett_mcgurk @kellymagsamen Elissa
Price claimed in his Post op-ed politics had nothing to do Slotkin, Doug Lute…”
with his resignation,
Would also note some of Obama admin's
“To be clear, my decision had nothing to do best natsec staffers were Bush NSC vets:
with politics…” @brett_mcgurk @kellymagsamen Elissa
Slotkin, Doug Lute…
https://t.co/F1eMNboAxL
Days after publication, the Post was forced to add a
correction to the top of Price’s op-ed noting he donated — Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) February 23,
$5000 in 2016 to the presidential campaign of Trump’s 2017
Democratic Party rival Hillary Clinton and the party.
Robert Spencer, writing at FrontPage, questioned how
“Clarification: This column should have someone tied to a Muslim supremacist organization was
included a disclosure of donations made by cleared for a national security position at the White House.
author Edward Price in support of 2016
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary … Before she went to work for the Obama
Clinton. In August, Price gave a total of administration, she was an officer of
$5,000 to the Clinton campaign and the George Mason University’s Muslim
Democratic Party.” Students Association (MSA). According to
Discover the Networks, the “was
Rhodes promoted on Twitter both op-eds by his former established mainly by members of the
staffers. He retweeted without comment Price’s tweet of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in January 1963
his Post op-ed. at the University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign. Nyack College theologian
I resigned from @CIA last week. I wrote Larry A. Poston writes that ‘many of the
about why in the @washingtonpost: founding members of this agency [MSA]
https://t.co/HXJhRCkw3O were members of, or had connections to,’
the Muslim Brotherhood or Jamaat-i-
— Ned Price (@nedprice) February 20, Islami.” The MSA is “a radical political force
2017 and a key lobbying organization for the
Wahhabi sect of Islam, telling students that
Rhodes praised Ahmed when he posted her Atlantic op-ed America is an imperialist power and Israel
to Twitter, saying, “The patriotism of Muslim Americans an oppressor nation. MSA speakers
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routinely spew anti-Semitic libels and justify came up, they were told, but there was no
the genocide against the Jews which is deal.
promoted by Islamic terrorist organizations
like Hamas and Hezbollah and by the Asked not to be named discussing delicate
government of Iran.” communications. That’s a good one. Let me translate:
What’s more, “a 1991 Muslim Brotherhood internal The officials don’t want you to know who they are because
document — titled ‘An Explanatory Memorandum on the they are corrupt —
General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America’ —
which named MSA as one of the Brotherhood’s 29
(a) FISA intercepts are classified, so disclosing them to the
likeminded ‘organizations of our friends’ that shared the
press is a crime;
common goal of destroying America and turning it into a
(b) by revealing the Flynn–Kislyak conversation to the
Muslim nation. These ‘friends’ were identified by the
press, the “officials” inform the Russians that whatever
Brotherhood as groups that could help teach Muslims ‘that
countermeasures they are taking against U.S.
their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in
surveillance have failed, assuring that the Russians will
eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from
alter their tactics, making the job of our honorable
within and
intelligence agents more difficult; and
(c) the FBI’s investigative powers are not supposed to be
“sabotaging” its miserable house by their put in in the service of a political party’s effort to
hands … so that … God’s religion [Islam] is advance a partisan storyline, like “Putin hacked the
made victorious over all other religions.’” election.”…
It is hard to imagine how someone who had served as an The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo wrote two
officer in an organization dedicated to “eliminating and weeks ago about the Obama administration’s efforts to
destroying the Western civilization from within” would so sabotage the Trump administration, Former Obama
quickly be appointed to the National Security Council, but Officials, Loyalists Waged Secret Campaign to Oust
that was Barack Obama’s America. The Trump Flynn.
administration is indeed setting a strikingly different tone,
one that Rumana Ahmed finds unacceptable. Her The abrupt resignation Monday evening of White House
dissatisfaction and departure from the NSC are good national security adviser Michael Flynn is the culmination
reason for every patriotic American to applaud.” of a secret, months-long campaign by former Obama
administration confidantes to handicap President Donald
Former Chief Asst. U.S. Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy Trump’s national security apparatus and preserve the
wrote a lengthy article at the National Review about the nuclear deal with Iran, according to multiple sources in
Obama administration’s abuse of national security and the and out of the White House who described to the
FBI in its efforts to take out Trump’s (now resigned) Washington Free Beacon a behind-the-scenes effort by
National Security Advisor Gen. Mike Flynn and hamstring these officials to plant a series of damaging stories about
the nascent Trump administration. Flynn in the national media.
…although Trump has made disturbingly flattering The effort, said to include former Obama administration
remarks about Putin, there is no evidence his campaign has adviser Ben Rhodes—the architect of a separate White
given or promised Russia any actual accommodation in House effort to create what he described as a pro-Iran echo
exchange for Putin’s favor. Democrats hope to erase this chamber—included a small task force of Obama loyalists
problem by finding something, anything, that could be who deluged media outlets with stories aimed at eroding
spun as a quid pro quo. Obviously, they hoped the Flynn– Flynn’s credibility, multiple sources revealed.
Kislyak conversation would answer their prayers. No such
luck. As the Times puts it: The operation primarily focused on discrediting Flynn, an
opponent of the Iran nuclear deal, in order to handicap the
Obama officials asked the FBI if a quid pro Trump administration’s efforts to disclose secret details of
quo had been discussed on the call, and the nuclear deal with Iran that had been long hidden by the
the answer came back no, according to Obama administration.
one of the officials, who like others asked
not to be named discussing delicate Insiders familiar with the anti-Flynn campaign told the
communications. The topic of sanctions Free Beacon that these Obama loyalists plotted in the
months before Trump’s inauguration to establish a set of
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roadblocks before Trump’s national security team, which (CA) chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee
includes several prominent opponents of diplomacy with on Intelligence) told me Monday night that this will not
Iran. The Free Beacon first reported on this effort in end well.
January…”
“First it’s Flynn, next it will be Kellyanne
Bloomberg’s Eli Lake wrote of the abuse of national Conway, then it will be Steve Bannon, then
security by Obama officials, The Political Assassination it will be Reince Priebus,” he said. Put
of Michael Flynn. another way, Flynn is only the appetizer.
Trump is the entree.”
Lake identified the ultimate target of the operation as being Will Congress investigate Barack
President Trump. Obama, Ben Rhodes and others in this
unprecedented abuse of power to
In the end, it was Trump’s decision to cut Flynn loose. In sabotage national security and the
doing this he caved in to his political and bureaucratic Trump administration?
opposition. (Representative Devin Nunes, the Republican
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Wikileaks Busts McCain In Russian Cash Treason Before
Russian Ambassador Died (VIDEO)
By: Barry Soetoro
Date: February 27, 2017
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Risk Bounces After Trump Promises To Start "Spending
On Infrastructure Big", But Warns On Tax Plan
By Tyler Durden
Feb 27, 2017 10:09 AM
With the dollar sliding on rising fears Trump may For now algos heard "big" when it comes to Trump's plans
disappoint in his address to Congress tomorrow evening, and loved it, and the result was a spike in both the USD...
moments ago the dollar spiked, and risk assets rebounded
after headlines hit from Reuters and Bloomberg in which
Trump previewed what he would say, saying he would
have a "big statement" on infrastructure in his Tuesday
speech, adding that "we're going to start spending on
infrastructure big."
However, fading the optimistic tone, Trump also warned Of note, the biggest rebound is in the infrastructure and
that his tax plan would be released only after Obamacare is construction sectors, rising on renewed hopes of an
tackled, and health plan costs are known: infrastructure stimulus.
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Antifa Domestic Terrorists
Announce Plans To Disrupt March 4 Pro-Trump Rallies
Jim Hoft
Feb 27th, 2017 8:55 Pm
Antifa terrorists rioted in Washington DC on Inauguration Day. In Berkeley, the events are specifically being organized by
Over 200 leftists were indicted on felony rioting charges. (Andrew members of the Alt-Right, connected to groups like the
Marcus photo)
‘Proud Boys.’
Antifa domestic terrorists announced their plans to disrupt
the March 4th pro-Trump rallies. Repost everywhere Let Berkeley know they
are not alone pic.twitter.com/k8cTriktGu
— Rich Black (@boldandproper) February
17, 2017
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Trump Pushes For
Massive Budget, Staff Cuts At EPA
Michael Bastasch
9:07 PM 02/27/2017
Trump’s plan to cut EPA’ budget 24 percent mirrors “We are taking his words and turning them into policies
recommendations given to him by the agency transition and dollars,” Mulvaney said.
team. That plan advised cuts outside of state and tribal
grants, which make up about 43 percent of EPA’s budget.
The EPA did not respond to TheDCNF by the time of
publication.
In that case, EPA will have to cut 24 percent from its $4.6
billion budget for federal programs, payroll and contracts.
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The Resurrection Of Armageddon
Paul Craig Roberts
February 27, 2017
http://www.strategic-
“The lights upon us are dimming. We have
culture.org/news/2017/02/27/president-trump-decries-new-
been more or less abandoned by a press
start-treaty.html
that proves incapable of informing us in
anything approaching a disinterested
fashion. As suggested, either the media are Obama’s one trillion dollar upgrade of the US nuclear
Clintonian liberals before they are arsenal is likely to get a boost from Trump.
newspapers and broadcasters, or they are
servants of power before they serve us.”
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After one month in office the goal has changed from The reason that there is still life on earth after more than a
reduced tensions with Russia to greater tensions. Greater half century of nuclear weapons is that American
tensions might soon be upon us. There are plans to occupy presidents and Soviet leaders worked together to reduce
part of Syria with US troops in order to prevent Syria with tensions. During these decades, there were numerous false
Russia’s help from reuniting the country. alarms of incoming ICBMs. However, because the
leadership of both countries were working together to
http://www.globalresearch.ca/rand-corporations-plan-for- avoid nuclear conflict, the warnings were disbelieved both
dicing-up-syria/5577009 by the Soviets and Americans.
Part of Syria is to go to Turkey, part to the Kurds, and Today the situation is vastly different. The last three US
Washington will keep a chunk. This way Washington can presidents, and now apparently Trump also, worked
keep the turmoil going forever. The Russians brought this overtime to increase tensions between the two nuclear
problem on themselves. Ever hopeful for Washington’s powers. Moreover, it was done in ways that convinced the
cooperation against ISIS, Russia dallied in cleaning out Russian government that Washington is completely
ISIS. The prospect that Trump would work with Russia as untrustworthy. The ongoing vicious lies about the Russian
part of better relations assumed that Trump would actually connections of Trump and his associates are so obviously
be in charge, which has turned out to be delusional. false as to be laughable, but the Russians are seeing that
the falsity of the charges notwithstanding, Trump’s
It is difficult to know if the new Trump regime is more National Security Adviser has fallen and Trump himself
Iranophobic than Russophobic. The Trump regime’s might be next.
inclination to jettison the Iran agreement and reopen the
conflict means more conflict with Russia. Washington’s In other words, the Russians are observing that in America
continued provocations of both Russia and China will facts are not relevant to outcomes. The Russians have
dispel any lingering Russian expectations of better already experienced this with regard to themselves with
relations with Washington. the lies about Putin, the Ukraine, Georgia, and Russian
intentions toward Europe. Putin is routinely called a
“thug,” “murderer,” “the new Hitler” by US politicians,
It is bizarre to see the liberal-progressive-left allied with
presstitutes, and the Democratic Party’s candidate in the
the warmongers against Trump. As the neoconservatives
pull nuclear Armageddon out of the grave that Reagan and recent presidential election. Ranking US generals describe
Gorbachev put it in, the American left demands the Russia as the “principal threat to the US.” NATO
commanders assert that the Russian Army could occupy
impeachment of the president whose goal was better
the Baltics and/or Poland at any moment. These
relations with Russia. Once the champion of the working
nonsensical accusations and predictions suggest to the
class, the left now champions Identity Politics. Trump’s
Russians that the West is preparing its populations for an
goal of jobs for the working class leaves the leftwing cold.
The left wants to destroy the “Trump deplorables,” which attack on Russia.
the left describes as “racist, misogynist, homophobic, gun
nuts.” In Identity Politics, every identity is a victim except In such a tense state of affairs, how will false alarms be
the oppressor identity—white heterosexual males. interpreted? Will Americans convinced that Putin and
Russia are evil incarnate believe the false alarms this time?
Where then is the opposition to the neoconservative Will Russians convinced that they have been set up for
ideology that is driving US foreign policy toward world attack believe them this time?
hegemony? There are a few of us, but we are being cast as
“Putin agents.” In other words, those who have sufficient This is the extreme risk to which the insane
intelligence to understand that Washington is not going to neoconservatives, the idiot liberal-progressive-left, the
achieve hegemony over Russia and China or even Iran, but greedy military/security complex, and the aggressive
is likely to provoke nuclear war by trying, are relegated to generals have exposed life on earth.
the traitor class.
And the few voices warning of the risk are dismissed as
“Russian agents.”
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‘America First’ Is A
Mantra for Unilateral Aggression
Wayne MADSEN
27.02.2017
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