Well, it’s been an exciting first month. We’re now in the second month and I’m hoping this posting will be enough for the next 2 months, but we’ll see.
The prior thread is here:
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2017/02/15/month-one-of-trump/
With other related topics here:
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/trumps-40-to-1-over-cnn-decline-of-media-company-reach/
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2017/02/24/harassing-town-halls-and-police-on-side/
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2017/02/18/trump-campaign-stop-in-melbourne-fl-that-is/
After Flynn was scalped, now we have Sessions getting a recuse haircut. Trump and team need to learn that it is a bad idea to feed the aligators… (It is illegal in Florida, and for a reason. If fed, they keep coming back for more…)
The Concern Trolls are out in force fretting about all things Russian:
“Are you now, or have you ever been, anywhere near a Russian?”…
Frankly, I just don’t get it. Russia didn’t “hack the election” (though they did assist in publication of the DNC et. al. emails, I’d wager). We The Deplorables voted for the guy we wanted, and got him. End of story.
I’m still not seeing what is so horrible about Russians. They are basically just Europeans. Only without the Soros Globalist Agenda…
That must be it. Soros has paid for a vendetta on Putin and all things Russian as retaliation for being kicked out of Russia by folks with clue.
Shumer The Camera Hog is four walling on the news. I’ve stopped watching the news…
(It was either that, or losing a few pounds from inability to stomach anything but Scotch…)
The POTUS Trump gave a spectacular State Of The Trump speech to congress. A CNN Poll (so their audience with all their biases and propaganda layered on daily) gave it a 78% Approval rating. The CNN Talking Heads looked green and “bracing themselves” when they had to read that out over the air… Couldn’t happen to a better batch of folks.
So it goes.
Musings from the Chiefio 
There are many many people that still do not have a clue about Trump.
Some seem to think a president should go to finishing school and major in etiquette.
Reading some about the behavior of previous presidents might be a good use of their time.
Yes some of LBJ’s antics would be a good place to start.
One could say that the “Beast” is earning his name as he tromps on or trumps the Liberal Progressive agenda.
It remains to be seen if he will earn the sobriquet of “Wise Old Man” from the rest of us?…pg
So far, I am very pleased with his performance.
By 1 April 2017 I hope to publish a new paper to celebrate the Centennial of Paul K Kuroda’s birth with additional evidence that the National Academy of Sciences betrayed the public after nations and national academies of sciences were united under the UN on 24 OCT 1945.
I recommend A blended Canadian whiskey as a change of pace.
You need to watch Jeff Sessions on TV. He has a twinkle in his eye.
My guess is that the “Fake News” about Russia is about to backfire. The Dems have nothing to offer “We The People” but identity politics and character assassination.
If there is a problem for Donald Trump it is his spineless, lilly livered “Friends” in the GOP. It used to be Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Lindsay Graham and John McCain. Now we have Darryl Issa and his bunch of hyenas. Introducing a “New Order of Things” is really difficult:
QUOTE
And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them. Thus it happens that whenever those who are hostile have the opportunity to attack they do it like partisans, whilst the others defend lukewarmly, in such wise that the prince is endangered along with them.
Nicolo Machiavelli (1469 – 1527), The Prince, Chapter VI
UNQUOTE
The people who did well under the old conditions control the media, large corporations, banks, academia, trade unions, unelected bureaucrats etc. For the last 40+ years the USA has been run for the benefit of the people who run the country.
The people who will do well under Trump’s “New Order of Things” are the workers who have been betrayed by both major political parties, the inhabitants of inner cities ravaged by crime and the rest of the “Forgotten People”.. Somehow Trump must transform the GOP into the “Worker’s Party” controlled from the “Bottom Up” rather than the “Top Down”.
It won’t be easy but if the GOP leadership fails to deliver on the promises that Trump made to the American people we need to replace them with folks who will.
The new Interior Secretary made an impressive entrance on his first day on the job.
(Gail you will like this!)
http://www.faithfamilyamerica.com/trump_s_new_interior_secretary_makes_most_epic_entrance_into_d_c_ever
GRIN….
There appears to be a little more organization behind the childish games in the Congress and Senate.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/03/obama_organizing_for_action_and_the_death_throes_of_the_democratic_party.html
http://therightscoop.com/listen-mark-levin-reveals-the-scandal-that-he-says-everyone-is-missing/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4275758/Obama-officials-raced-spread-preserve-Russia-info.html
This will take careful handling or it may not end well
I would make sure whoever replaces Sessions in this matter let it be known that they will expand the Russian election interference investigation by also focusing on the Russian/Clinton/Giustra deal and any Clinton/Russian meetings that took place during that timeframe. BTW, why doesn’t Trump unseal Obama’s college transcripts?
Ah, but while the YSM continues their selective amnesia, the Alt Media does report real news. Sucks to be Claire McCaskil! The democrats still have not learned they no longer own the news.
Source of National Security Breach Identified – Leaker is David Laufman of DOJ
Phil says ….The democrats still have not learned they no longer own the news.”
Oh yes they have and they are moving to censor the media they do not control.
David Seaman and now Milo for example. Hillary already singled out Breibart and others such as Drudge were told they were going down. link
Oh, and to ad insult to injury… Fake News Watch – Washington Post Hires Paid Mouthpiece of Dictators, John Podesta UNBIASED??? Of Course…… NOT.
“…Saudi Arabia has over 26 firms working for it, far more than any other country, including Russia….” Well that explains the Muslim Brotherhood USA and Huma.
@Gail
You (respectfully) disagree with me, and then prove my point!
They “think” they can eliminate the media they do not like! Want to talk to the Chinese about that? They have a ton more experience, and they still have not mastered it. And theirs is a closed shop.
They WANT to control the media, and they THINK they can. But they DO NOT. Anyone with a keyboard and thought can run rings around the YSM and the democrats.
“Speech Restrictions Will ALWAYS Be Enforced Assymetrically
March 3, 2017, 9:43 am
One of the larger problems with speech restrictions is that they will always be interpreted and enforced asymmetrically. Don’t believe me? Consider this tweet from the Left during the Obama Administration:”
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2017/03/speech-restrictions-will-always-be-enforced-assymetrically.html
And irony in action
“When Government Picks Winners, It Mostly Chooses Losers”
“Energy statists on the Left today are trying to get rid of coal-fired electricity generation in this country (due to climate concerns). But one thing that few people remember is that a significant reason we have so much coal-fired electricity generation in this country is that energy statists on the Left in the 1970’s mandated it. I kid you not:
The Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act (FUA) was passed in 1978 in response to concerns over national energy security. The 1973 oil crisis and the natural gas curtailments of the mid 1970s contributed to concerns about U.S. supplies of oil and natural gas. The FUA restricted construction of power plants using oil or natural gas as a primary fuel and encouraged the use of coal, nuclear energy and other alternative fuels. It also restricted the industrial use of oil and natural gas in large boilers.”
And more
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2017/03/when-government-picks-winners-it-mostly-chooses-losers.html
Brent Bozell on twitter regarding the Sessions political hit job regarding the Russian Ambassador.
Seems the meeting was at the request of the Obama administration???
More on the above:
http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/obama-administration-arranged-sessions-first-meeting-russian-ambassador-fmr-doj
ANother democrat caught in a Russian lie – http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/03/03/awkward-pause-nancy-pelosi-denies-meeting-sergey-kislyak-however-photo-reveals-she-has/
They really are too stupid for words.
“If I could have done so in good conscience, I would have been pleased to demonstrate my integrity, and immediately silence the criticism, by getting off the case. Since I believe there is no basis for recusal, I cannot. The motion is Denied.”
http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-sessions-recusal/89919/
interesting look at sessions recusal of russia probe
GOD VERSUS CO2 BY STEVE FINNELL
Can God’s control over climate and weather be modified, or amended by made-made CO2 emissions? Is it possible to void the miracles of God by the actions of man-made CO2 emissions?
Genesis 7:12 The rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights. (NASB)
Could controlling man-made CO2 emissions have prevented forty days of rain and the great flood? Of course not.
Jonah 4:8 When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.” (NASB)
Would it have been possible for Jonah to be spared the scorching wind if men had controlled their man-made CO2 emissions? Certainly not.
Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.”(NASB)
Can restricting man-made CO2 emissions determine cold, heat, the temperature in summer and winter. Can man-made CO2 emissions control the seasons. No it cannot.
If men who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ believe that man-made CO2 emissions can control weather, climate, and seasons, then, why would anyone look to them for spiritual guidance concerning salvation?
Psalms 148:8 Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word; (NASB)
This fulfills God’s word, what does man-made CO2 fulfill?
Job 1:16 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them , and I alone have escaped to tell you.” (NASB)
If men would have restricted their CO2 emission, could they have prevented God from destroying Job’s sheep, and servants? No, of course not.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. (NASB)
No amount of man-made CO2 modifications, can cause or prevent the earth from be burned up.
Revelations 20:14-15 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Men need to stop worrying about the false doctrine of man-made global warming and start being concerned about the warming of the lake of fire.
How to get your name written in the book of life.
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2. Confession: Romans 10:9
3. Repentance: Acts 3:19
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@Larry:
Looks like that “Obama Did it” has hit the YSM news this morning, who are dissing it. Trump has tweeted that Obama had him wire tapped.
It’s going to be an interesting weekend…
Lots of noise and fluff this morning on that issue, nice article in National Review about the possibility that FISA was misused for political purposes by those not constrained by ethics.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap
From twitter:
David MackVerified account @davidmackau
Statement just in from @BarackObama spokesman on Trump wiretap claims
Penelope Craft @PWCrafty 1h1 hour ago
@Shark_Bee @davidmackau @jonfavs It says Obama didn’t order it, and never interfered w DOJ. Doesn’t rule out that DOJ asked FISA for warrant
Given the Obama administrations record for pushing the envelope in several areas including wiretaps and surveillance this charge is not at all unreasonable.
Just asking for a friend – would Eric Holder or Valerie Jarrett be considered White House officials?
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/14/183810320/justice-department-secretly-obtains-ap-phone-records
From Twitter:
Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸Verified account @Cernovich 51 minutes ago
Obama used the IRS to target political opponents (Tea Party).
Why wouldn’t he use DOJ to target Trump?
Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸Verified account @Cernovich 1 hour ago
Obama prosecuted more journalists under the Espionage Act more than all previous administrations combined. Of course he spied on Trump.
Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸Verified account @Cernovich 1 hour ago
Why do Trump’s tweets outrage the media more than Obama’s sending journalists to prison? What is WRONG with the media?
Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸Verified account @Cernovich 1 hour ago
Mike Cernovich
🇺🇸 Retweeted Michael B Dougherty
“The White House” never ordered a tap is lawyer speak for, “DOJ did.” Notice the lack of a total denial from Obama. This is treasonous!
Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸Verified account @Cernovich 1 hour ago
Obama SPIED on journalists, no outcry from the opposition media. Amazing how that works.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/23/correspondents-association-concerned-government-too-aggressive-in-tracking.html
http://classicalvalues.com/2017/03/the-leaks-are-getting-interesting/
Death throes of the Democrats:
http://classicalvalues.com/2017/02/a-progressive-speaks/
I just note in passing that “Obama never ordered a tap” does not preclude Obama politely asking if a direct report would consider it a nice thing to do… and could a report be ready by Tuesday were it done… Hey, these folks are the party of “what is is”…
Did President Obama Spy On Donald Trump? | True News
I believe this Zerohedge article is well worth the read.
Last was Stefan Molyneux – this is the Still Report… Trump – Obama Wire Tapped Trump in Last Month of Campaign
This Zero Hedge article is well worth the read.
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So you’re saying that now it comes down to who sits on the FISA court, how big is their shredder, and are documents numbered and binary image archived…
Oh, and maybe who sits on the court that oversees the FISA court…
Other considerations, is such an announcement might also serve to “smoke the rats out” or prod a whistle blower to come forward. Make a major announcement like this and then watch who has urgent meetings with whom, who is suddenly busy and not taking calls, who is having late night shredding parties etc.
A third possibility is an illegal leak of wire taps through back door sources, remember Sid Blumenthal Hillary’s go to trouble shooter was feeding her classified info almost in real time from 3 letter agency sources that have never been adequately investigated.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/09/06/sidney-blumenthal-reading-top-secret-nsa-reports/
If a tap existed it might have been an illegal tap outside formal channels by partisan players or even private security folks hired through the HRC channels with multiple layers of obfuscation, or even a foreign intelligence service favorable to the globalist cause leaking info into the campaign infrastructure via Sid B. or others.
It will be very interesting to see who “protests too much” and who sits on their hands etc.
Also we have data captures through the digital media giants who were clearly on side with HRC and Obama who might have “intercepted” text messages, phone meta data etc. or even foreign Press like the news organizations out of the UK who got caught red handed hacking celebrity cell phones.
There is a long list of suspects here that do not necessarily fall under the formal wire tap laws.
@EMSmith:
Many apologies about the double posting.
For some reason it had appeared that WordPress had eaten the first formatted Zero Hedge article, hence the repost.
[Reply: No worries. The first one was in SPAM (who knows why) and when that happens it just seems to have disappeared. The other one was already up, but I fished the second one out anyway. -E.M.Smith ]
And then there’s this:
It will be interesting to see if the Left decides to Burn Obama to limit damage to the globalists, I could see a scenario where he ended up going to jail and they create an instant Liberal Martyr and in the same stroke paint Trump with the brush of a run away dictator who locks up his opponents, solidifying their claim he is a Nazi figure.
I guess it depends on who has what on who and how exposed the big money behind Obama is.
We are getting into Machiavelli / Rasputin (Valarie Jarettes’ nick name) 101 palace intrigue here – No telling where this could go given the current mood of the country, and the professionally offended class.
IMHO they hatched the plan to try to paint Trump as Russian Influenced from the start and were trying for the setup all along. From Hillary and her “Puppet” jab (that Trump tossed back at her) clear to now. The problems was that there was no ‘there, there”. So kept escalating. Doing the trap on Sessions of arranging for him to meet the ambassador (wonder what listening devices were in use for that…) and on and on. Once really ‘into it”, they forgot to be careful about themselves and their actions being uncovered. Hubris all the way. So went for the wire tap.
Then they lost the election… and now they are still trying the same playbook, but without the “cover” of office. So needed to finish getting Sessions out of the way so an Obama person would be running any investigations involving “Russians”… Almost made it, too…
At this point, any investigation needs a non-Democrat to avoid Obama issues. (ANYONE who has been picked by Obama or even had private meetings with him needs to recuse themselves… Tit, meet tat…)
Larry: “It will be interesting to see if the Left decides to Burn Obama to limit damage to the globalists, I could see a scenario where he ended up going to jail and they create an instant Liberal Martyr and in the same stroke paint Trump with the brush of a run away dictator who locks up his opponents, solidifying their claim he is a Nazi figure.”
There are ways the Deep State could make HWSRN a martyr tomorrow, if ya know whudda mean, Vern. Blame Trumpsters and no need for something damaging to slip out during court proceedings.
By the way from twitter :
John Schindler Retweeted
JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUAL 3 hours ago
#FLASH UPDATE – 4 hrs ago Alex Oronov, another Russian with ties to Trump is now dead.
That’s 8… that we know of.
Now I have no idea if this is valid and who might be cleaning up the mess (Russia, Soros the Russian Mob . . .) But given how many folks Putin has put out of circulation it might be most anything or anybody for any reason — only time will tell.
From twitter:
Stefan Molyneux Retweeted
WikiLeaksVerified account @wikileaks 7 minutes ago
Obama has a history of tapping & hacking his friends and rivals https://wikileaks.org/nsa-201602/ #NSA #PRISM #Merkel #Sarkozy #BanKiMoon #WTO #Trump
LD here is another one to add to the list.
https://realclimatescience.com/2017/03/if-you-like-your-traitorous-lying-democrats-you-can-keep-your-traitorous-lying-democrats/
Governer Howard Dean.
LD here is another one.
https://realclimatescience.com/2017/03/if-you-like-your-traitorous-lying-democrats-you-can-keep-your-traitorous-lying-democrats/
Democrat Governer Howard Dean.
One more view on the Trump Tweets about possible politically motivated “wire taps”
http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/03/some-curious-language-in-both-trumps-wiretap-accusation-and-obamas-defense/
@Larry:
And people call me over the top about security on phones and networks….
My next phone likely to be a home made encrypting phone… unless the PGP folks get a product out I like first… Prism via Microsoft sucking up Skype and more…
well Nokia I think it was, is re-issuing a dumb phone, (text and calls only) all they need to do is add high quality encryption.
Here it is:
https://www.dezeen.com/2017/02/16/nokia-rumour-relaunch-3310-mobile-phone-design-technology-news/
The web never forgets:
Another bit of hanky-panky by the Obama administration using the Justice department to extort money out of banks and specifying that they pay their penalties to 3rd party leftest groups rather than give the money to the Federal Treasury. This sounds like something that could be terminated with an executive order pending action by Congress to make it illegal to do anything with such penalty payments other than transfer it to the general fund.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/01/gop-wants-to-eliminate-shadowy-doj-slush-fund-bankrolling-leftist-groups.html
It is just appalling all the ways the Obama administration seeded corruption into the major executive branch departments (DOJ, IRS etc.) If the Media would report on this aggressively the public would be up in arms over these ethical failures.
Is that where the bank fines went; to leftist advocacy groups. Certainly that must be illegal already?
I think this post on “Tips” should really be here.
llanfar says:
6 March 2017 at 1:37 pm
Former AG Loretta Lynch Calls For Political Violence? Stefan Molyneux
Interesting turn near the end when he notes that under POTUS Trump child trafficing/sex arrests have gone up 45x. What does Lynch know that she’s calling for violence?
https://www.teaparty.org/hillary-tipped-off-trump-wiretap-tweeted-one-week-prior-election-222285/
So my question is:
IF there were no surveillance, from where did Hillary get the information about a “server linking the Trump organization”?
(Who went looking and using what authority, if any, I don’t know)
Then, what great secrets were being exchanged by Trump and The Russians?
Hotel marketing SPAM!
https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/04/the-truth-about-trump-s-secret-server-and-russia/
Golly, a major hotel chain marketing their product to international bankers… the horrors… /sarc;
Dear Donald:
Having problems with leaks? Need the Department Of Justice to get in line with your agenda? I have a modest suggestion: Announce “The Clinton Plan” and that you will be modeling your behaviour on that of Bill Clinton. Then fire their collective asses.
http://www.independentsentinel.com/bill-clinton-ordered-firing-all-republican-u-s-attorneys/
Just sayin’…
Interesting twist to the computer security / political dirty tricks stories.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-06/russian-hackers-said-to-seek-hush-money-from-liberal-u-s-groups
Also on the tapping story
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/445504/obama-camp-disingenuous-denials-fisa-surveillance-trump
Interesting observation here about the possible true motivation for the Presidents tweets over the weekend — maneuver the Democrats into destroying their own story line about Russian hacking of the election.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445522/russian-election-hacking-fbi-not-investigating-trump-campaign
Trick or Tweet!
On the issue of protest violence
https://www.dangerandplay.com/2017/03/06/based-stick-man-and-the-lefts-normalization-of-political-violence/
https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/based-stick-man-legal-defense-fund
@Larry
My bet is the Clintons. That is their trademark. Tit for tat. Trump agrees not to go after Hillary, and the cli-mafia takes care of the witnesses. ;-)
Interesting back story here regarding the Clintons and the campaign.
“Based stick man”? What a name…
It looks like all his charges are weapons charges. While several mention pepper spray, it looks like they are “and other stuff too” laws. So most likely the “weapon” is the stick.
So his “crime” is doing the job of the police when they just stood around… OK…
How to avoid this:
First, hockey gear includes light weight arm and shin guards that would go nicely under loose clothing. Strictly defensive.
Second, a hard hat or motorcycle helmet is “just a hat”.
Third, gas mask purely defensive.
Now the hard bit. From karate class “Every block is a strike and every strike is a block”. Using your protective grear, you only “block” attacks. To the face if needed…
Advanced bits: from Aikido… anyone who advances gets a counter grab, push then pull spin and drop, optional karate side kick to whatever is exposed… spin… NEXT!
No weapons. No attacking posture. Always slowly retreating and clearly “under attack”…
I think someone needs to start a class…
Trump is awesome. He makes it look easy…………..even effortless.
He undermined the media, Barack Obama, the “Deep State” and globalists generally with four tweets on a Saturday while these folks were resting.
Now we need his “Friends” in the GOP “leadership” to wake up and turn this into a Tsunami.
While the YSM fixates on trivia such as Kelly Ann Conway making herself comfortable in the oval office the Alternative Media needs to fixate on Obama’s Spygate.
I still haven’t figured out where in the heck the “based” part of that name came from, anyone have a clue?
His arrival was absolutely inevitable as long as the Antifa and the police continue their charade. The question is will the next rally have a phalanx of similar “defenders” of the tribe?
The good news is his defense attorney can rack up about 30 videos to demonstrate a need for defensive tactics and dress if you go to a “peace full” pro Trump rally.
I hope he gets a 100k defense fund.
Well somehow I truncated my name to just L (was in a hurry)
(By they way EM – check moderation queue my previous miss named post went there)
Interesting observation about the recent hubbub regarding Trump being tapped.
This makes perfect sense to me, and would explain a whole lot. Lets just suppose that Obama (or Clintons) had a completely black (no pun intended) project to bug Trump that was completely off book (ie officially it did not exist). In that case the official leadership at CIA, NSA, and FBI could ernestly say how silly it is for any one to suggest the former President bugged Trump during the election cycle.
If they were too clever by half and thought they could fool the Secret Service monitoring methods using advanced techniques (like being able to shut off the bugs when a sweep was happening) but something went wrong and their super magic extra special sauce bugging system was not as fool proof as they thought and it got discovered by the Secret Service when they were doing routine checks or just accidentally tripped over it while doing some sort of maintence (oh look what is this odd gizmo in the Presidents phone??)
One of the secondary possible consequences of trying to find leaks by giving selected info to certain people would be accidentally outing something else. For example following the leaks and the exposure does not follow the pattern of release you would expect if the people were actually leaking but some other common denominator cropped up. Then you start looking for unusual vectors for the information not at the people you suspect were the leakers.
Oops forgot the link
http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/ex-secret-service-agent-media-missing-wiretap-story-point/
All this talk of FBI and FISA court and all ignores one key point.
The NSA reports only to the Executive as a military branch. The Commander In Chief can just issue them orders.
Now season with FISA court orders that basically say tap everyone you think is a risk…. the FISA court usually issues orders for large groups and classes not individuals.
From the wiki per NSA:
So was there a FISA court order to bug folks “suspected of being Russian foreign agents” or “communications with Russian Government” so no new order needed? Or did O as Commander In Chief just call up the NSA and ask them to provide what they already have?
No FISA court order was needed for the NSA to set up PRISM and start collecting ALL data transmissions globally, including domestic. They buggered computers, operating systems, routers and more at the manufacturer and without any probable cause needed. The goal being “total information awareness”. Emphasis on total…
So why bother with FISA and the FBI when you have a secret supplier who reports to you?
This might need a new topic — Major Wikileaks release summary of the juicy bits.
philjourdan l
You (respectfully) disagree with me, and then prove my point!
………..
The Progressives are trying. Does not mean they will succeed. (Sorry if I did not make myself clear. I see red at the overt attacks on our Constitutional rights.)
Oh and while Twatter is censoring, Milo, conservatives and Trump’s feedback from supporters, they ALLOW calls for assassinating a sitting president!
SICK! Twitter Allows Graphic Assassinate Trump and Pence Account
All this talk of ‘wire tapping’ is somewhat passe. The TLAs do not have someone in a janitor’s boiler suit surreptitiously attaching crocodile clips and trailing wires to an exchange in the basement. The NSA quite literally is capturing everything then ‘on their honor’ not releasing it until FISA. This is the opening para of an article:
“There’s an interesting article in the current New York Review of books (predictably, a book review) detailing the history of the National Security Agency, that shadowy power-behind-the-power to which we surrender much of our privacy. That in itself is interesting, but I found the introduction a bit shocking: the NSA is constructing a datacenter in the Utah desert that they project will be storing yottabytes of surveillance data…….
====snip====
The more salient question is, of course, what are they storing that, by some estimates, is going take up thousands of times more space than all the world’s known computers combined? Don’t think they’re going to say; they didn’t grow to their current level of shadowy omniscience by disclosing things like that to the public. However, speculation isn’t too hard on this topic. Now more than ever, surveillance is a data game. What with millions of phones being tapped and all data duplicated, constant recording of all radio traffic, 24-hour high definition video surveillance by satellite, there’s terabytes at least of data coming in every day.”
This is described later as
https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/01/nsa-to-store-yottabytes-of-surveillance-data-in-utah-megarepository/
So just a friendly call to the military NSA from the commander in chief asking for information is all that is required. It need not even go through FISA. That commander in chief now could be 45 not 44 so the boot is now on the other foot. Is this why people are all moving into the same accommodation so no need of telecoms?
A bit more on the splash back that the Progressives are getting from their own decades long misbehavior in high office.
(ie don’t play with fire unless you want to get burned)
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445548/democrats-unintended-consequences-media-collusion-partisan-overreach
They are raising funds for the ‘Based Stick Man’
Terrific: $37,000 Raised for ‘Based Stick Man’ Legal Defense Fund – Defender of Trump Supporters
A guy on Gateway Pundit in that article was already giving instructions on how to organize defence…
FIRST you get your lawyers lined up…
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
A few interesting items on the Trump wire tapping.
First off Fire at Trump tower — Cleaning out the bugs???
Officials say ‘suspicious’ fire at Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York was caused by faulty machinery in a room
Summary of Media Articles Discussing Obama’s FISA Warrants To Monitor Candidate/President Trump…
Here’s the List: More Than a Dozen Proven Victims of Obama’s Many Wiretaps
40 Secret Service Agents Dove Into My Records Illegally” – Chaffetz | Obama / Wiretapping-{PLOT THICKENS} https://twitter.com/rejialex7/status/838807141691576320
Chaffetz is NOT someone I would want to anger.
Various Democrats outing themselves.
Deep State Update: Harry Reid’s October Letter Shows He Likely Knew of FBI Wiretap of Trump — Senate Minority leader, Harry Reid sent him [Comey] a blistering open letter, accusing the FBI of withholding ‘explosive information’ linking Trump and his advisors to the Russian government…. “I wrote to you months ago calling for this info to be released to the public”.
Hillary tweeted this a week before the election: “Computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking the Trump organization to a Russian-based server.” Looks like she was expecting something to come of the wiretapping, thinking Trump was as dirty as she was and in her excitement she made it clear that she knew that Obama Admin was wiretapping candidate Trump.
Maxine Waters, the gift that keeps on giving… (Remember the Ukrainian Prime Minister spoof)
Flashback – Maxine Waters Brags About Obama’s Extensive Database On Everyone (VIDEO)
Actual video of Lynch calling for ‘blood in the streets’
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2017/03/watch-fmr-ag-loretta-lynch-alludes-to-blood-and-death-on-streets-says-rights-being-rolled-back-video/
And guess what?
Attorney General Lynch Signed Off on ALL FISA Applications to WireTap Trump — OOPS…
@Larry, I think that NR doesn’t get it. Trump is brash and pugnacious. Sloppy and rash he is not. Trump is a sharp negotiator, and it shows. Reagan had some of the same qualities.
Trump was well aware that his voters were mainly blue collar and geared his words and rallies towards them and not the elitist snobs. These gave the YSM a completely false picture of Trump.
Trump’s hobby is reading contracts for crying out loud!
‘nough said.
Yes their normalcy bias forces them to attribute things that they don’t understand to carelessness or ignorance rather than a well honed instinct for triggering the opponent to paint themselves in a corner then force them to run across the wet paint.
More coming out on the new wikileaks release — this is going to be big!
https://www.apnews.com/4112d8fe79ec4cae8391359973382ac7/WikiLeaks-publishes-CIA-trove-alleging-wide-scale-hacking
I imagine stock prices for certain smart device companies are about to crash, and lots of folks will get a wakeup call that all that magic gadgetry has a price in lost privacy.
More comment on Obama administrations history of misusing intelligence assets for partisan purposes.
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2017/03/07/trump-is-right-obama-monitored-the-communications-of-political-opponents/
From a gateway Pundit comment….
Link via Drudge:
Wikileaks: CIA ‘Stole’ Russian Malware, Uses It to ‘Misdirect Attribution’ of Cyber Attacks
http://russia-insider.com/e…
Everyone knew it. Now we have proof.
“Fingerprints” are meaningless.
It’s now clear that the CIA is able to “pose” as “Russian hackers” whenever it so chooses.
Just something to think about.
All allegations of “digital fingerprints” left behind by Russian hackers must now be dismissed as either fake or meaningless:
http://russia-insider.com/en/wikileaks-cia-stole-russian-malware-uses-it-misdirect-attribution-cyber-attacks/ri19134
Video of highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X86zK4IJiwc
An interesting comment:
Doesn’t matter if it is true or not, this is the type of stuff that goes viral and makes people hate and fear their government… NOT GOOD.
And it is already hitting twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/Vault7?src=hash
From Time: Congress Can Remove Donald Trump From Office Without Impeaching Him
They REALLY REALLY want him out of office don’t they?
I thought the YSM attacks on Bush and Shrub were bad but this is completely over the top.
Methinks that the ‘opposition’s loud, Chicken Little like, or Boy who cried ‘Wolf’ like use of ‘mentally ill/unstable’, are akin to the “lady doth protest too much” and will backfire on them, bigly.
Just a thought but I wonder if at the time 45 issued that tweet, he already knew supporting evidence was about to appear as the spooks were going into defensive mode? However, yet again unfortunately, we have the real working CIA workers being painted with the same brush as the politicized sub-groups which is totally unfair.
” Hillary’s Podesta trousered $170K from Russian bank to fight against US sanctions”
http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2017/03/hillarys-podesta-trousered-170k-from-russian-bank-to-fight-against-us-sanctions.html
More on leaks etc
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/158110404781/wiretapping-word-thinking
Via
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/03/wikileaks-relea.html
Don’t forget the pedophile rings…
There is nothing concrete to report but this is some of the skuttlebutt:
http://victuruslibertas.com/2017/03/more-exclusive-info-from-dhs-insider/
Given the domestic spying, and Wiener’s laptop plus Epstein’s island, I would not be surprised if there is a lot of dirt.
@Larry:
Yes, it needs a new heading / topic. I’m busy for the next 5 hours or so, then will have time. I also need to at least make a casual look at some of it to know what to put in the topic. Don’t know if I can get that done before the topic has gone OTT… Maybe I’ll just put up a skeleton…
As they say “That’s gonna leave a mark”…
Since he’s now outing sources and methods, I doubt Assange will last long. It’s a very bad idea to embarrass and cause pain to an organization that does assassinations for a living… He’s one walk on the patio under a clear drone filled sky away from a light VX shower…
Pingback: Wikileaks CIA Methods dump of 7 March 2017 | Musings from the Chiefio
Topic Hat Rack for CIA / Wikileaks here:
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/wikileaks-cia-methods-dump-of-7-march-2017/
May 29th, 2016 Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager Not Sure If Trump Offices Are Being Bugged
The YSM suggestion is the bugging was by Trump.
Another confirmation from a former insider at NSA regarding surveillance of Trump prior to the election.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-03-07/nsa-whistleblower-bill-binney-says-trump-is-absolutely-right-about-wiretap-claims
@Gail – Yes, I agree they are trying. Sorry for my misunderstanding. If it was not so serious, their attempts would be laughable. Twitter and facebook can censor all they want. But the message still gets out. And that makes those who rely on only the YSM look like fools when they try to use it outside of their safe spaces.
No problem Phil,
I don’t always communicate well.
The Trump ‘Smoking Gun’ has finally been found by the Democrats!!!
HOLD THE PRESSES!
Trump tower restaurants serve Russian dressing when requested….
@Gail – Re: digital fingerprints
Everyone who is in the business knew that the supposed “fingerprints” they were using to blame the Russians were totally bogus. But to the layman, that seemed like damning evidence (and you can see the ignorant using that crutch throughout the forums). What Wikileaks did is make it common knowledge from a most reputable source – the CIA. Right now, Wikileaks is acting like the alternate media – exposing the lies of the YSM.
Phil,
That is why I read here even though I am ‘Computer Challenged’
The keyword of course is “fingerprints” which was used intentionally to give the feeling that the evidence was completely damning.
On an old topic related to all this the IRS “just found” 6000+ documents on the IRS targeting of the Tea Party. Law suits anyone?
http://freebeacon.com/issues/two-years-later-irs-locates-6924-documents-related-tea-party-targeting/
Judicial watch and the CIA
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/judicial-watch-sues-cia-unclassified-report-russian-election
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Fruit Of The Democrat Tree
By Kate on March 8, 2017 10:33 AM | 7 Comments
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
VP Candidate Tim Kaine, October 20, 2016: “You’ve got to accept the results of this election, win or lose. That’s the pledge we made. Hillary stood on the stage in the first debate and said, ‘Of course I’m going to accept the results of the election.”
Twin Cities Pioneer Press, March 7, 2017 – Linwood Michael Kaine, 24, and four others were arrested on suspicion of second-degree riot after the “March 4 Trump” rally in St. Paul
Categories:
Categories: Drain The Swamp, Shootin’ At The Moonbats, The Tolerant Left, You Might Be A Liberal ”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/03/fruit-of-the-de.html
I hate to be dumb and out of the loop. What does YSM mean? Google doesn’t help.
@andrewsjpYellow Journalism by the Main Stream Media is the Yellow Stream Media.
YSM invented here by the council of wise elders. 8-) …pg
@andrewsjp; first seen and explained here;
.https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/0-00154-of-usa-cranky-in-d-c/
YSM writing yellow journalism by urinalists…
So, fingerprints is a metaphor for “set of stuff that is indicative of a particular attack or characteristic of a particular person” … like my tendency to use ellipsis … but just like that, or starting sentences with “so,” anyone can copy it and pose…
So it’s not a very good metaphor…
Muddy footprints would be more accurate…
Per the “bugging”: When all sigint is being collected all the time anyway, just what IS a bug?
From Twitter:
@andrewsjp Yellow Stream Media is produced by Urinalists.
BTW Those names are now moving through the blog-o-sphere. I have seen them at other websites.
Larry Ledwick says: @ 9 March 2017 at 6:52 am
Can you forward that to Sundance? (I am still blocked)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/e-mail-request-guidelines/
EMAIL:
TheLastRefuge@reagan.com
Gail I posted it in today’s open thread which will be seen by a lot of people at the same time.
I’ve never posted over there before, so waiting for moderation.
From twitter:
Bill MitchellVerified account @mitchellvii 5 minutes ago
US Intelligence Officer Lt Col Tony Shaffer: NSA Officials Who Hated Clintons Hacked DNC and Gave Emails to WikiLeak
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/03/us-intelligence-officer-lt-col-tony-shaffer-americans-who-hated-clintons-hacked-dnc-and-gave-emails-to-wikileaks/
This raises an interesting possibility I had not really considered, – – –
That we are seeing an internal battle between NSA and CIA. Suppose the CIA is fully on board with the Clinton/Obama politicization and the old hands at NSA are not? ( I quite frankly have not segmented out who is doing what to whom within the intelligence agencies [ I just am not very good at that sort of political infighting and intrigue ] so I might have the who’s who wrong but you get the drift)
Are we seeing a turf battle between CIA, NSA, and FBI? (maybe with the FBI caught in the middle since it is not clear to me if Comey is on the Clinton’s side given past associations but his actions just before the election set the table for her down fall – – maybe he is just playing self interested politics trying to stay out of the cross fire if the big boys are duking it out in the back room)?
The Toronto Sun has this item, commenting on a senior Iranian official claiming they have a covert guerilla army inside the US already and they are actively working with other countries like Mexico and Argentina which have issues with the US..
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/03/08/iranian-official-boasts-of-guerilla-movement-within-the-us
@Larry:
Yes, and their Guerilla (“little war”) Army is named the DNC… Notice how fully it forcefully pushes for wide open gates to Islamists from any and all countries?… Including those where we have an active war… (likely at Soros’s request, IMHO).
Per FBI vs NSA vs CIA vs 14 others:
I think there is a “5th Column” or three also.
1) Those insiders who can no longer abide with their conscience. Snowden, for example.
2) Those insiders who are agents of other powers. The 3 Islam Brothers with root access to congress.
3) Outsiders working to undermine and set agency on agency. (China mostly, but maybe Russia and certainly Iran. Who else? EU? Merkel and Germany have ’cause’.)
4) And more… Folks like “Frenemies” in the UK and Israel. “Allies” looking to shift things to their POV.
Good luck trying to sort out all those currents and cross currents.
In general, the NSA likes to play with signals intelligence and cool tech and doesn’t seem to think much about the who or why of it. Just hoover up all you can, neatly sort it, and crack into anything locked. The Geek Squad of spying. They think they are “special”, and in many ways they are.
Also in general, the CIA likes to play Spy vs Spy. MOSTLY focused outside the country, but with lots of crossover now that we have Millions of foreigners living inside the border all the time with a few more millions entering every year or three. They like physical stuff more (interrogations, break-ins, agents, flipping agents, etc.) but have ventured into the SigInt business (despite directions not to…) and have been caught out at it. Could be an insider at the CIA not liking orders to violate the law directly. Could be NSA folks “noticed” what was happening and decided to “one up” the rival to reclaim the turf. Nobody but them will know.
F.B.I. is in theory only to do domestic policing. BUT, since they catch the flack for ANYTHING that happens inside the USA, they are a bit jumpy anytime things go bump. So don’t like it when someone says a “wiretap” was done as it is in theory their turf, but they know other folks are running rampant. So bleat “It wasn’t done!” when the truth is “He did it!!! -> NSA GUY” but they can’t say that without finding their dirty laundry in the wind… (When you hack everything possible for SigInt, do you really think they skip the FBI offices?…) They also don’t want to admit that they are not up to the job and that the other agency has taken the turf, laws be damned.
So how would I speculate this falls out?
NSA has collected phone calls and computer traffic from Trump and Trump Tower. It’s just what they do. They collect everything on everyone if at all possible.
The DNC and Obama started planning for a Russia Did It story line / attack on Trump, back mid-election (or maybe earlier) and started setting things up that way (like scheduling the Russian Ambassador to meet Sessions). PERHAPS asking the (politically controlled) CIA to help plant some bits of “evidence”.
CIA wanted to get into the Spy VS Spy with Russia some more, so went looking for Trump / Russia dirt. This likely tripped over the NSA guys and they had a bit of a stare off in the phone closet or at the telco… or their two white vans were fighting for the same good parking space each morning. NSA didn’t like the CIA on their turf, nor the way the CIA was being used to choose the next POTUS.
Someone (could be CIA Rebel With A Conscience, or NSA guy, or even real Russian) hacks DNC and leaves “Russian Fingerprints”. As this is harmful to Hillary, I suspect it was NOT the CIA proper. As it was “old kit”, I doubt strongly it was the Russians OR the NSA. My best guess is outsider agency, or a Conscience driven actor. BUT could be the NSA peeing in the CIA soup vis the Russia-Did-It con. Make it just bad enough it looks like a hack job by the CIA or at the minium like the CIA was incompetent, thus setting up a “you and him” fight of CIA and Obama)
NSA (or potentially a CIA insider who can’t sleep anymore due to seeing himself / herself as a criminal) decides they’ve had enough with CIA acting outside the law on SigInt, so spill to Wikileaks.
F.B.I. says “Never Happened!” and “Not on Our Watch” as they are supposed to be stopping it (Trump hacks and Russians in the USA and CIA in the USA and…) ’cause they can’t admit the alternatives. Comey is just doing duck and cover and political suck-up; while wondering how he got so far in over his head so fast when he just wanted to be Top Cop.
CIA is now Royally Pissed and trying to figure out who to fry (or ship to a nice waky-waky morning cup of coffee in a foxhole in Syria between two lines that both want them dead…) Likely going to be a bit shell-shocky for a few months, so don’t poke them… or even shout loudly into your phone ;-)
Putin is having a nice spa, and directing that American TV News be regularly recorded for his nightly post-dinner party, and asking if the FSB knows anything about it that isn’t in the news, and could they provide a summary of the Wikileaks each morning? The head of the FSB is asking for a summary from his staff tailored so he can claim they did it, even if they didn’t…
At its core, the problem is the supreme Anti-American attitudes of Hillary and Obama mixed with their utter contempt for the rule of law; when that runs smack into agencies who are staffed with folks who strongly believe in America and the rule of law. The strain is just too much (for the individuals and for the Agencies) and things break down, or just break. Nudged on by outside Agencies for sure, but we’ve withstood that rot for generations. Until the rot comes from the top. It reaches the same point as the society at large reached when they voted for Trump:
I don’t care what happens to me anymore. I don’t care if it destroys the {nation | agency | government | society}. This is so fundamentally wrong and evil it would be better to just break it all down and destroy it and start over than to let this run to completion.
Thus the: “Sure Trump is a bull in the china closet. But he is OUR bull in THEIR china closet.” vote.
I think something very similar is happening inside the CIA and NSA. “Sure this will damage the Agency. But given the evil they are doing, it is damage to THEIR Agency, not My Agency of before.”.
Root causes fairly clear (the Hillary and Obama Show with Soros as Puppeteer) but exact script murky and individual actors opaque.
How will it end? No idea. But I’d love to see: Trump roto-rooters both the NSA and the CIA and Comey finds a new job; IFF Trump has the time to do it while the alligators of the swamp are setting a dinner table for him… (as main course…) He needs a 100% purge of DNC folks from the Justice Department, staff it with his folks, then turn it loose on the Agencies of all nations, and especially Soros and his minions (like Obama, Hillary, et. al.) via RICO.
Meanwhile, I’m just going to be watching the show and enjoying it all. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of folks. Just wish it wasn’t where all my tax dollars go to die. So much good could be done with them instead of this crap.
Thanks Larry, The mods may alert Sundance and see that it gets it’s own page.
Excellent write-up, EM. Exactly so.
E.M….
Gail it just got past moderation a little while ago but is buried a bit in the older posts, will have to see what happens.
Gail, maybe a lot like
https://goo.gl/images/kEHXjw
Snicker…
Actually you have to wonder what dirt Putin has on Soros and Clinton that they are working so hard to keep Putin and Trump far apart….
The head of the EPA’s environmental justice program resigned
Bummer dude – I will just sulk in the corner for – – – Oh wait I am done – See ya!
http://www.youngcons.com/surprise-look-who-just-suddenly-resigned-and-its-all-thanks-to-trump/
From a quote within the article Larry noted:
Hmmm. Wonder which minority community Mustafa Ali represented (remember that Mo’s cousin/son-in-law was named Ali). [For some reason the song “I’m My Own Grandpa” is going through my head right now…].
Well this is going to get interesting!
Malik Obama on twitter posted a picture of B.H. Obama II Kenyan birth certificate.
Have no clue if this is legitimate but it is going to create a stir I am sure.
Love the foot print.
Tony Heller had that up early this morning but the twitter link had already gone dead…. IMAGINE THAT!
Rather an interesting bit. Supposedly Stanley Ann was at Washington Univ. 15 days after the birth but she might have been taking correspondence courses INSTEAD.
Obama was supposedly born: August 4, 1961
So the University of Hawaii could not make up their mind whether Stanley Ann was at school in the fall of 1960 or the fall of 1961. (Looks like someone corrected the dates in the second correspondence to match the public story line.)
Take a very close look at the University of Washington. The FALL just after Obama was born is listed as
EXTENTION/CORRESPONDENCE/AP Credit: 20.0
While the spring shows 10 credits earned.
At the very bottom you have
UW CREDITS EARNED 10.0
EXTENSION CREDITS 20.0
TRANSFER CREDITS 8.0
Stanley Ann WAS NOT AT Univ of Washington just after Obama was born!
Here is the URL: http://theobamafile.com/_images/AnnaUWashington.jpg
@Larry – I saw the story (BHO II). What is amusing is that it is more historically accurate than the copy Obama has been pushing for the past 8 years!
Time to get some more popcorn!
On the employment front:
http://nation.foxnews.com/2017/03/08/trumps-first-full-month-office-sees-biggest-jobs-gain-years-report
Interesting observations about the cycle of history and how the stage has been set for turmoil and angry citizens being primed to push back against the government by its pattern of behavior.
https://politicallyshort.com/2015/06/21/requiem-for-an-american-dream/
Well the other shoe finally dropped in the Justice department, per Twitter:
Fox News AlertVerified account @foxnewsalert 35 minutes ago
PROSECUTORS PINK-SLIPPED: Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked for resignations of 46 remaining US Attorneys
The origin of the NSA. EO 12333
http://classicalvalues.com/2017/03/reagan-did-it/
Larry Ledwick says:
10 March 2017 at 6:15 pm
Re: Franklin.
Sessions is a big fan of asset forfeiture. It operates exactly as Franklin described in item X.
The Trump Administration is full of Trojan Horses.
Gail Combs says:
9 March 2017 at 3:39 pm
Can you forward that to Sundance? (I am still blocked)
You too? I got banned for my Drug War obsession. They are “Social Conservatives” and believe the Government should be the guardian of personal morality. i.e. vices should be crimes.
Forgetting completely the lessons of Alcohol Prohibition. So much for “conservatives” being students of history.
@M. Simon & Gail:
Well, welcome to your home away from home…
I block obvious spam, folks who can not be polite (I don’t care what they espouse) and darned near little else. (Though for full disclosure: Attacking the host or other participants via attacks “to the person” is a clear class of “not being polite”> So don’t call me an ass-hole, say my ideas have the fragrance of the bowl about them and all is good ;-)
Gail Combs says:
7 March 2017 at 9:22 pm
Don’t forget the pedophile rings…
There is nothing concrete to report but this is some of the skuttlebutt:
http://victuruslibertas.com/2017/03/more-exclusive-info-from-dhs-insider/
I’m skeptical of that whole line. So far nothing out of the ordinary has been done. I have seen rumors that Mike Pence’s best friend is one of the pedos. But only rumors.
Also – anonymous sources – how can you be sure that “Angie” hasn’t added to or altered or made up the whole thing? I’d give it some credence when there are visible waves. Also – the VL site has an anti-Jew bias.
BTW the pedo stuff is a long time intel trick for compromising targets. It used to be simple adultery or drug use was enough. Or being gay. Now something more is required. But is it as wide spread at high levels as advertised? Maybe.
E. M.
You have the best comment section of almost any place on the ‘net that is political. Heavy on resources. Light on fluff. So an atta boy to the commenters as well.
I’m glad you moderate the way you do.
Robert Steele on #PedoGate
http://victuruslibertas.com/2017/02/previous-cia-agent-gives-vl-inside-info-on-unrig/
He mentions over 450 arrests. But a significant number of those arrests are of ordinary Johns and hookers. So right off the bat he is exaggerating. And his “I got my information from reading around” is not very persuasive. I only watched the first 8 minutes. The interview was published on 17 Feb 2017.
Very interesting article which tries to explain the real agenda behind much of the legal manipulation which took place during the Obama administration. Short version it was the legal rape and plunder of the populace through a convoluted maze of laws, regulations and built in kick back systems.
It was basically a huge rip off operation (not a big surprise) but the author explains who the system was set up to work.
http://beltwaytimes.com/obama-pulled-off-heist-century/
Larry Ledwick says:
11 March 2017 at 12:39 am
Did you know that under Bush II (at least) HUD was laundering Drug Money? Catherine Austin Fitts broke the story.
You can read some bits of it here: https://www.spartareport.com/2016/04/trillion-dollar-drug-war-scam/
Or do some searching.
Without that money laundering (the cut for the banks is 30% aprox.) the financial system would collapse. Normally the excesses in the system are wrung out by depressions and bank and business collapses. That has been disallowed for the banks (and GM and Chrysler) this time around.
Well at least now the globalist meme is going public.
from twitter – these two tweets came out just 13 minutes apart.
Free BeaconVerified account @FreeBeacon 2 minutes ago
.@billclinton: People Who Want Nation-States Are ‘Actually Trying to Institutionalize Division Within Borders’ http://goo.gl/05x6oV
The above short link points to this url
http://freebeacon.com/politics/bill-clinton-people-want-nation-states-trying-institutionalize-separatism-division/
Fox NewsVerified account @FoxNews 15 minutes ago
Rosenberg: The last time…countries were moving in the same direction toward nationalism it led to the greatest World War in human history
WND posted their 2009 investigation into the supposed Obama Birth certificate from Kenya. Apparently this is flash back to a prior release of this document.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/malik-obamas-kenyan-birth-certificate-for-brother-is-fake/
Note I have no clue if this is real but just showed up on twitter:
It says Nanch Pelosi was just taken in handcuffs from her office by Secret Service
http://newyorkfeed.org/2017/03/breaking-nancy-pelosi-just-taken-office-handcuffs/
This is either a huge bogus news item, or very big news, more to follow I am sure.
A couple other outlets are picking up the story but details included in the stories seem a bit fishy, at this point. Name of Secret Service source sounds bogus (troll).
As I suspected it appears to be a totally bogus report, only 3 or so really fringe sites picked it up, and a couple mentions on forms and then deafening silence. Wording of the announcement was suspect from the get go.
Interesting article which talks about how the major media missed the train on the last election by putting too much importance on the opinion of folks just like them and not enough on folks from other corners of the country.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/there-really-was-a-liberal-media-bubble/?ex_cid=story-twitter
Includes a link to a resource I had never heard of – apparently a news aggregation site used by journalists.
http://www.memeorandum.com/
Might be interesting to watch it for a while.
Interesting from CNN about “anger” due to the firing of the Democratic appointment lawyers at the Justice department.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/10/politics/us-attorneys-resignation/
Apparently they are upset getting out of the blue pink slips like most average workers get.
Given the political sabotage and back biting going on, a no notice clean sweep is the best way to avoid (or minimize) the departing attorneys from leaving little Easter egg surprises for the new administration.
The Urinalists are getting nasty…
Gateway Pundit Reporter ACCOSTED, HARASSED — Screamed At in White House Press Room: “Nazi… White Supremacist!”
The Gateway Pundit reporter is gay and considering filing charges. I certainly hope he does. It will be instructive to see what White House Urinalists tell the truth and who lie to cover up for FOX radio Jon Decker. There were two assaults reported by Lucian.
“Jon Decker is a board member of the White House Press room… “
FOX radio contacts:
Phone: 212-301-5439
E-mail: foxnewsradio@foxnews.com
Write: FOX News Radio
1211 Ave. of the Americas 18th floor
New York, NY 10036
This should be interesting – one of the US attorneys is refusing to resign.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/323537-obama-appointed-us-attorney-in-ny-refusing-to-submit
Larry
There is a really scary video online showing Pelosi Galore at various news conferences. They ask the question if she is insane or not??? I couldn’t watch more than a minute….cue the eerie sound effects….
there are so many; start here if you dare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRSAx8d0Pnk
No thanks no need to watch, I firmly believe she is nutty as a fruit cake and probably in early stages of some sort of mental deterioration disease. To say some of the stuff she says with a completely straight face you would have to completely Looney Tunes nuts or the most audacious con artist in history.
@Larry:
Since she represents “my TV area” we get to see her on TV news far more than I can take without medication… She has some disorder, but I’m not sure which one. “Deer in Headlights” syndrome when questioned… “Anger Management Issues” when not getting her way. and more…
okay Larry, Here ya go. Enjoy All!
Here is Dennis Miller on Pelosi Galore
extremely funny in my humble opinion
@M. Simon – “The Trump Administration is full of Trojan Horses.”
Please explain further.
All the folks put in place by Obama, Hillary, and Neocons / Bush… How many pro-Trump small government folks work in D.C.? Feel free to use both fingers and toes since he has a cabinet now… /sarc;
E.M.
FYI and comment
“White House backpedals on President Trump’s wiretapping allegation against Obama”
http://www.couriermail.com.au/business/work/kellyanne-conway-says-surveillance-is-possible-with-microwaves-that-turn-into-cameras/news-story/13204fc91c6e7b1548f8f3e67cce6865
@Another Ian:
You Do know that the Russians used microwaves to bug the US Embassy? They had given a nice carved wooden plaque to the ambassador. Inside was a simple metal strip. The wood vibrated the strip, and it was measured via microwaves. That was maybe 30? years ago. Technology is better now.
Millimeter wave (nearly microwave and would likely be called microwave by non-technical folks) can be used to image through things, like clothing and window shades….
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/steve-bannon-voter-fraud-criminal-investigation-donald-trump-adviser-white-house-a7626721.html
Here is the post that was in part verified:
http://www.madcowprod.com/2016/09/28/stock-fraud-drug-trafficking-alt-right/
Have a look at madcow there is a lot more stuff.
philjourdan says:
13 March 2017 at 1:51 pm
Trojan horses – people not loyal to him.
From twitter:
Game on with the tax returns:
Fox NewsVerified account @FoxNews 8 minutes ago
.@TuckerCarlson on @POTUS tape: “If someone stole the biggest news story of the year out of your office, you might want to find out how.”
Bill MitchellVerified account @mitchellvii 17 minutes ago
Trump could sue MSNBC and put them out of business, but who would notice?
dwnewsVerified account @dwnews 18 minutes ago
The @WhiteHouse says President @realDonaldTrump made more than $150 million in income in 2005 and paid $38 million in income taxes that year
Stefan MolyneuxVerified account @StefanMolyneux 24 minutes ago
In 2014, The New York Times legally PAID NO TAXES and received a tax refund of $3.6 million despite earning a $29.9 million pretax profit.
Jim AcostaVerified account @Acosta 48 minutes ago
WH responds to MSNBC report on Trump tax returns: “you know you are desperate when you willing to violate the law…”
So big announcement they had his tax returns.
Someone mailed them to NBC (note absolutely no proof where they came from of via who).
The White House dumps the key bits of the info, showing he paid 25% tax rate on 150 million in earnings (that’s a higher rate them most average Americans, and far higher than major corporations like GE and the New York Times which often get refunds back on millions of earnings by working the system)
Net result scoop stolen, possible major law suite if criminal violation in releasing confidential records, and folks are comparing NBC’s “scoop” to Geraldo opening of Al Capone’s vault (ie one of the biggest media jump the shark moments in history for scoop reveals).
They played their hand DJT gets the next move. – suit, ridicule, major distraction that buries meme about the Obama care repeal and replace, criminal charges or investigation.
I need more popcorn.
From twitter:
The Beltway Times @beltwaytimes 3 minutes ago
We now know this:
In 2015, @BarackObama paid a 19.6% tax rate
In 2013, @SenSanders – 13.5%
In 2005, @realDonaldTrump – 25%
Thanks, @maddow!
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/324016-wh-releases-trump-tax-info-ahead-of-msnbc-report-made-150m-in-2005
Note according to this article in The Hill, his losses reported in 1995 ($916 million loss) were big enough that it could have allowed him to pay no taxes for the next 18 years (until 2013), so NBC just proved that he did not take that total deduction and paid taxes anyway in 2005.
From twitter:
The Beltway Times @beltwaytimes 7 minutes ago
We here at @beltwaytimes would like to thank @MSNBC, and @maddow for sewing up #Trump2020. Ahead of schedule, under budget, and over taxed.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-14/msnbcs-non-story-trump-made-150-million-paid-25-effective-tax-rate
He also paid more in taxes than Comcast
http://ctj.org/corporatetaxdodgers/tax-dodgers.php?id=67
The Beltway Times Retweeted
Jeremy Nolt @RealJeremyNolt 18 minutes ago
Rachel Maddow just proved that Hillary lied to the American people when she said Trump didn’t pay his taxes. #ThankYouMaddow #TrumpTaxReturn
From twitter:
Stefan MolyneuxVerified account @StefanMolyneux 6 minutes ago
BREAKING: Rachel Maddow has Trump’s 1995 tax return leaked in October by the New York Times.
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SalenaZito Retweeted
Michael McDonald @meadabawdy 16 minutes ago
@GaltsGirl @SalenaZito Real gnus:
E.M.
A comment at
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/03/rachel-maddow-t.html
“What Maddow and the fine folks over at MSNBC actually managed to do was get part of a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return. Which was already 12 years old. And which the White House had already released.
And which the Wall Street Journal had already reported on – a year ago.”
So “Everythings up to date in Kansas City” and a few other places by the look of it
Article in Politico about the palace intrigue atmosphere in the Trump administration due to recent events and a perception that embedded Obama supporters are out to get the Trump administration.
It has created a “Moscow Rules” environment ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moscow_rules ) for the incoming administration where they are spending a lot of energy trying to figure out who they can trust, and being very leak conscious which of course tends to strangle internal communication.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-white-house-paranoia-236069
@M Simon says:
14 March 2017 at 3:23 pm
Thanks for the explanation. I agree.
Interesting suit by Judicial Watch, it will be fun to see if they find any shoes behind the curtain when this finally all gets sorted out.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/the-blog/jw-files-lawsuit-obamas-illegal-russia-leaks/
Embarrassing numbers for Bernie Sanders:
Proof – Monsanto is poisoning America. Evidently the herbicide alone doesn’t do it. It is the herbicide plus the not so “inert” ingredients.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-14/court-docs-prove-monsanto-collusion-epa-kill-cancer-study-admits-cant-say-roundup-do
“Climate-Dollar bragging is over: funding goes underground to avoid “climate-axe”.
http://joannenova.com.au/2017/03/climate-dollar-bragging-is-over-funding-goes-underground-to-avoid-climate-axe/#comments
“Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/03/is-there-nothin-291.html#comments
And comments
And
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/03/curiouser-and-m.html
“Apropos of nothing… “former Obama spokesman @Robt_Gibbs is head of communications for McDonald’s.” “
Try link again.
Draining the trough.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-presidential-budget-2018-proposal/
Sorry, computah says ‘no.’
Well this is interesting when the left is throwing around the charge that Trump et al are Nazis.
http://www.dw.com/en/did-hollywood-collaborate-with-the-nazis/a-37960549
The American Progressive Movement was in love with all things Fascist and embraced the Nazi movement in the early years. Mussolini was invited over and widely celebrated in Hollywood (all the right parties, don’t you know…) and he even had a Cameo in a movie. Note he has a “Filmography” here:
http://www.imdb.com/filmosearch?sort=user_rating&explore=title_type&role=nm0615907&ref_=nmbio_ql_flmg_3
That includes “Chasing Through Europe” in 1929 where he is one of the Visits they make, in 1927 he is listed as the “Star” of “Duce” , but I think it might be the 1936 “100 Days Of Napoleon” that was filmed when he was brought over to Hollywood for a party… (though it has an “original title” in Italian) or maybe the “Chasing…” one where he has a real credit. There is also a 1923 “Eternal City” as well. Then a bunch of “Documentaries” which more more what you get for non-celebrated politicians…
From Chasing:
So Hollywood just loved all things National Socialist … right up until too many of their friends and relatives started getting killed… Then there was a HUGE script re-write as the USA got into the war, and a big “clean up of history” after the war; when USA “Progressives” (having become closely associated with “Socialists” and the “National Socialists”) decided to corrupt the meaning of Liberal and hide under it as cover (thus leading to “Liberal” now being a pejorative in much of the USA, but not in Australia / Europe).
Exactly when did the bloom come off the rose? Probably varied over the years with different factions of Hollywood. Certainly by the 1940s… Would make an interesting story for someone to write up.
Looks like about 1935 per here: http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p6_weber.html
Gee… Maybe Serioso is right about the New York times… ;sarc/
Birds Of A Feather as fellow Progressives?…
Re-writing history one song at a time?…
Or maybe it was between 1935 and 1939 that the final turn happened.
I’ve done a casual search to try and figure out when the party / filming happened, but that bit of history has been largely erased – rewritten – buried and is hard to find. I once had a great article about it, with photos of the set, but that link was not saved and I can’t find it again. Oh Well.
Chicago fascist history 1933
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balbo_Monument
Interesting reddit thread, comments are a microcosm of the shift in politics this year and how the Democrats and media have probably set themselves back 30 years or more. They have literally created an entire generation of young people determined to break them.
Drat forgot the link:
Larry Ledwick says:
19 March 2017 at 12:40 am
A lot of “democrats” are livid that Obama didn’t keep his implied promise about cannabis.
I wrote about that during the election season. https://www.hotgas.net/2016/10/clinton-losing-anti-prohibition-voters/
You will note that Trump seems to be doing his best to hold to his promises. Lest the same sort of dissatisfaction derail him.
I think the era of “20 years of no action to keep the issue alive” may be ending.
”
They Were Just Putin You On
By Kate on March 20, 2017 5:17 AM | 17 Comments
They don’t need no stinking evidence…
Key Democratic officials are clearly worried about the expectations that have been purposely stoked and are now trying to tamp them down. Many of them have tried to signal that the beliefs the base has been led to adopt have no basis in reason or evidence. […]
But on Wednesday night, Morell appeared at an intelligence community forum to “cast doubt” on “allegations that members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.” ”
More at
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/03/they-were-just-.html
The thing that fascinates me is just the depth and breadth of the lying being pushed, and now uncovered, yet the core of the Democratic Party seem oblivious or uncaring. Just amazing.
I am supposed to be vilified if, in the workplace, I say “like what you’ve done with your hair.” or worse, notice a new outfit; yet Donna Brazil can violate all standards of journalism and lie on national TV and that’s OK; while thugs beat up plain old folks for wanting to attend a lecture on campus and the campus Administration approves.
Frankly, I’ve been struggling to figure out what to say about it; it is so basically wrong and crazy.
I have had the same feeling EM. it is just beyond my comprehension that folks can be so obtuse and willfully ignorant of opposing views and the fact that every story has 2 or more sides. It takes work to consistently misconstrue every single story or comment and read into it agendas that simply do not but cannot exist.
On that same note, we have this link from Mcclatchy. I find it funny that they have jumped to the conclusion that all the efforts to get out the message for Trump by actively linking news stories that supported Trump had to be a malicious campaign. It is like a lot of his supporters did not even exist or did not make a conscious effort to push stories that countered the lies of the mainstream media.
His supporters refused to be shouted down, and adopted Trump’s own strategy of sucking the air out of the media message of the day by swamping it with other messages. They were simply incapable of maintaining a coherent drumbeat of disinformation as a result.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article139695453.html
This was a grass roots campaign of average computer users getting sick and tired of media manipulation by CNN, MSNBC, Snopes etc. to hide or misdirect peoples attention from important topics. As a result a lot of us (myself included) made a point of posting counter responses to stories that were clearly engineered by the major media to twist the narrative and provide a smoke screen of nonsense claims and shield Clinton from dealing with legitimate questions about her health and the corrupt cohort of supporters she surrounds herself with.
In he past I would have just shook my head and went on, but this year when I saw such obvious misdirection I made a point of making counter point arguments and posting links.
Even if they were ridiculed or ignored, the perception that everyone agreed with the misdirection had to be destroyed. That sort of obfuscation can only succeed if the other side stays silent.
So this time we refused to be silent or get shouted down and confronted the media machine and beat it at its own game.
This article raises an interesting question:
http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/limbaugh-dems-hysterical-cant-deal-with-defeat/
What is the end stage of this sort of insane expectation setting and then let down?
Do the Democratic power players turn on each other and eat their own to try to protect their own reputation?
or
Do the rank and file folks who bought into that story line go ballistic like when a cop is acquitted of a shooting and try to tear the country apart?
If the latter is the case the Dems have a tiger by the tail and don’t know how to let go. In the mean time they are in a full court press effort to find something to hang their charges on.
It will be very interesting to watch this historic scene develop. No telling what black swan events are lurking in the wings which might push it in an unexpected direction.
Latest Murdoch in Oz
http://www.couriermail.com.au/business/work/donald-trump-fbi-investigation-could-hacker-bring-down-president/news-story/a3f1ae446a5ccf5ff2cb63c28633d4fe
And from SDA
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/03/whos-russian-wh-1.html#comments
The “Morning Murdoch”
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/donald-trump-tweets-v-fbi-facts-on-russian-influence-in-us-election/news-story/9de93053409da256fdc5ae2639d1faca
Larry Ledwick says:
21 March 2017 at 3:17 am
I keep reminding Democrats about the effect of what they are currently doing had on the electorate of 1972. They don’t care to listen.
Brown Shirt tactics don’t work well in America.
Re: the health care bill.
It is interesting that a gang of libert6arian Republicans is actually doing the will of the Republican electorate. Rand Paul. Justin Amash. etc.
Rand Paul is running for President. If he wins he will do better than Trump because he has allies in Congress.
No Quarter has been taken off line.
http://classicalvalues.com/2017/03/no-quarter-blog-and-twitter-feed-deleted/
In my opinion it came after he stated that British GCHQ spies on American citizens. Politico has more on that story.
So if he is gone does that mean what he said was true?
The whole problem for the Democrats is not who stole the e-mails.
The problem is the e-mails told the truth.
Note the almost total lack of coverage of any of the emails info in the MSM.
@A.C. Osborn:
Yup. What I call “Negative Space Analysis” – what ought to be, but isn’t. It can speak volumes if you listen carefully… It shouts “Dig HERE!!!”.
@Simon:
“That which power suppresses is that which told an unpleasant truth. -E.M.Smith”
Not always, but very often. What enrages the powerful is often what they fear most, and that is far too often a truth they wanted buried. Thus the use by the more clueful of the “non-denial denial” or the artful deflection. The attempt at making it a negative space. In which case I refer you to the above comment… while the least clueful just bury the messenger with the message…
Between digging furiously into anything oppressed, and searching the negative spaces, you can pretty much paint a picture of what is being fought and hidden, without ever seeing a bit of it….
(Then you need to prove up your image so as to avoid petty fantasies…)
Indubitably, EM, indubitably. What we are seeing here is almost a carbon copy of the “ClimateGate” leak. Leak, I say, boy, leak, It wasn’t a hack, er, crack. If you connect a server to the internet and it is wide open, why would you think the stuff there won’t leak? /rhetorical. Just as the YSM didn’t discuss the contents of the ClimateGate stuff, they didn’t discuss the contents of the Podesta and others, leaks. Instead, they just hollered: “HACK, HACK, HACK!!!!!” as a means of distracting people from the real news.
Also, in my opinion, the “Russians are Coming!!!!!” stuff is simply hilarious, except that it is a disinformation/psyops campaign. Right now Russia isn’t our enemy. Why do the denizens of Washington DC, today, push this line? /rhetorical. Joe McCarthy was correct and Russian records showed it. That’s why the Left never forgave Nixon, a fellow who mostly agreed with them.
And now we see the start of a slow walk back that Maaaybeee Trump was actually monitored prior to the election, but golly gee we were not really monitoring “him” he just sort of happened to be there. (fade to clip of vaudeville actor with straw hat and cane doing the old soft shoe and circus music in the background)
http://bigstory.ap.org/8f45d6141e4e4cce86024af85841a9f7
From twitter
Fox News AlertVerified account @foxnewsalert
SURVEILLANCE CONFIRMED: Rep reveals ‘incidental collection’ of Trump team communications
Politico carrying the same item:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/devin-nunes-donald-trump-surveillance-obama-236366
Now the important question is did Nunes chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, get a green light to let this shoe drop because it was clear the hatchet job on Trump was going to fail or because the investigation (Gowdy) was asking questions no one wanted to answer?
Nunes is a Republican but I don’t know if he was in the “Never Trump” tribe.
His position just 3 days ago was 180 degrees out, so somebody clued him in to something he either did not know or did not want to divulge.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/nunes-wiretaps-trump-236227
Reading between the lines it seems to me that they decided the FBI was stonewalling the Congressional investigation on this. I guess we will know if the administration expresses full confidence in him and the FBI Director suddenly decides he wants to spend more time with his family.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/03/14/never-trump-republicans-join-call-for-select-committee-to-investigate-russia-and-trump/
This morning’s Murdoch
http://www.couriermail.com.au/business/work/donald-trump-will-get-himself-out-of-office-soon-senator-dianne-feinstein-says/news-story/7695c24e67f1f0ca70927eac3199b730
Reading those last links, all I can say is:
Never have so many, tried so hard, to make something out of nothing.
“It’s Not Wiretapping When The Democrats Do It”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/03/its-not-wiretap.html#comments
From twitter
Bill MitchellVerified account @mitchellvii 3 minutes ago
More
So the IC “incidentally” spied on Trump and “incidentally” disseminated it around DC and “incidentally” said he lied when he caught them.
Interesting article in the Observer, how ever he is missing one blatantly obvious alternate explanation. Russia may have been sending a signal to the globalists that it would do what ever it had to do to break their game. If Europe, and the US and other major countries ever coverge on global government with Russia an outlier it is clear Russia would see that as an existential threat. Therefore blatantly intervene to stop Hillary and her globalist agenda and do it so openly that hopefully the self absorbed globalists would notice.
As I see it, Putin was not so much “helping Trump” as he was making a “do what ever is necessary, at all cost” effort to stop Hillary and another 4-8 years of Obama’s drift toward global governance.
http://observer.com/2017/03/fbi-nsa-congressional-session-trump-putin-kremlin/
will obama, jarrett, rice, rhodes be held accountable?
Klayman letter:
Click to access 170321-Final%20Whistleblower%20Letter.pdf
Similar observation in the Washington Examiner by Bob Woodward
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bob-woodward-obama-officials-possibly-facing-criminal-charges-for-unmasking-scheme/article/2618185
The Smaller Government Branch Of The Republicans Won Big
That Klayman letter looks to be absolute dynamite, but how does he get it out to the public when Congress and the MSM are ignoring it?
Has he sent it to Trump himself?
Per Klayman:
47 hard drives and 600 million pages of CIA / NSA stuff? That’s gonna leave a mark… Strange that it isn’t getting much air play on the news…
One presumes someone skilled enough in the art to get a contract at both the NSA and CIA and to smuggle out 47 hard disks worth of stuff, is also skilled enough to have created copies in deep hiding and set up a ‘dead man switch’ on their release. (Personally, were I in that circumstance, I’d have one set depot’ed with the Lawyer, one in a safe deposit box in another name in another country, key held by someone only connected with my pseudonym there, or only with a ‘friend of a friend’, one set with a ‘trusted but slightly remote’ family member – like a cousin or 2nd Niece, and maybe one set in “Mayonnaise Jars” under a neighbors porch ;-)
Perhaps deliver an encrypted set to Wikileaks with the key on a “send if not stopped” server where I have to check in every year to block it somewhere in the cloud.
No idea the veracity of the claims, but it sure is looking to me like the morality paradox is starting to bite the Agencies.
“Morality Paradox” is what I term the dilemma that kept me from turning in my C.I.A. application. They were recruiting at my University and were one of the few places non-boring who wanted to hire Economists. I had a ‘thing’ for languages, have adventure seeking behaviour, and was an Economist by training. Also jumped out of airplanes and knew explosives chemistry, among other things… So I took their application and filled it out.
Then spent 2 days just looking at it. All about ONE question:
“Have you ever used Marijuana” ….
OK, do they want me to answer truthfully, and demonstrate my morality and adherence to the oath signed at the bottom? Or does that flag me as naive and inflexible of moral response when they want skills at being, um, “flexible”?
I realized I would spend the rest of my life dealing with such questions and with that “morality paradox” where they would demand absolute morality to THEM and zero morality to The Other; and sorting out when to be moral and when not would be a constant “issue”. I also realized that I’m not perfect, and at some point I would “get it wrong”; depending one ‘with whom’ that could be a Very Bad Thing. So I did not turn in my application.
(Later I found out they would only accept accurate disclosure on the applications, figuring they wanted moral up front and could teach you to lie to The Other later – or so I was told – and that the Econ folks mostly just sat at dull desks in back rooms in Virginia analyzing various countries, their economies, and how to destabilize them if desired. I figure I’d likely have spent a decade studying somewhere like Ghana since I’d done a paper on it in school. Hey, required to analyze a country so I chose the smallest one with the least economy to analyze ;-) Got a good grade too, partly, I think, as it was not one of the countries most people picked ;-) I think I’d have been less than happy spending ever day reading the news from Ghana and pondering economic destruction…)
So I never became a CIA agent. (Nor after 9-11 when I sent my resume to both them and NSA – seems they were flooded with resumes then…) Oh Well. Their loss.
So they have this “Morality Dilemma”. They hire moral people, then task them to do immoral things. At some point, for some of those moral people, doing those immoral things will become intolerable. Mostly, I suspect, when they are applied “To Us” instead of to “The Other”. At that point, their selection for moral actors will start to bite them; as it is presently doing. It is easier to demonize The Other than The Family and Self. At some point the mask falls off and the schizo division falls and the person “flips” to a whistleblower.
That, IMHO, is the Morality Dilemma faced by The Agencies.
FWIW, one of my favorite movies is Grosse Pointe Blank. The protagonist is a professional government assassin and in one scene, when explaining why, says that during his military psych screening he “showed a certain ‘moral flexibility’…” That scene always stuck with me as one that properly fingered what would be needed to be particularly good at the Black Arts…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119229/
FWIW, there are times I have a little regret about not sending in my CIA application. I think I likely could have worked my way out of the desk job and into something more interesting. Not the full on Bond thing, but maybe being a “Tourist with clue” visiting places and people and understanding places. Hanging out at a local cafe (perhaps near an embassy) and getting a sense of the people and their masters. Providing that street understanding you can’t get via Google Earth or satellites. (Lord knows our appointed Ambassadors can’t provide it, being political shills, and most of our citizens can’t see the other guy’s culture or point of view worth beans).
Oh Well. Most “Agency” folks don’t get to do that kind of stuff and are either back room boys or are ex-military in the field. The Israelis know how to field accidental tourists, folks with a plausible back story who just ‘fit in’ places and report home. They had one assassination squad in a hotel (caught on the elevator camera) who just looked like a couple of old retired tourists. Nobody expects Ma and Pa Kettle to be Mossad.
Oh Well. I made my choice on the Morality Dilemma and it was likely for the best. Answering yes would likely have gotten me dumped as unreliable (given the era) and answering no would likely have gotten me dumped as lying (despite them needing that skill). The only reality of merit is that they ought not to have bothered with that particular question as it is irrelevant to the job. (Once hired, you could sort those who “have” into undercovers for drug related things and the “nots” into work where drugs are not likely to be encountered.) Instead, they seem to have selected for lots of Morality and little “A Certain Moral Flexibility” and the result is that today those inside are coping with their own Morality Dilemma and finding morality in leaking…
More from SDA
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/03/its-not-wiretap-2.html
From twitter: (Hmm which thread to put this in)
Molly McKewVerified account @MollyMcKew
Kremlin threatens to leak everything on Obama admin if leaks continue from DC. The rabbit hole gets deeper and deeper
=============
Looks like Russia is ready to push back against the Russia did it narrative.
I think we file this under “shot across the bow”
Related on the issue of the media constantly claiming Trump’s support is collapsing. It is only collapsing if you look at urban polls that under sample rural voters, and over sample Democratic voters. Just like the election polls they are dumb founded because they actually are buying their own propaganda.
http://nypost.com/2017/03/25/dont-believe-trumps-approval-ratings/
On the Antifa protest front we have this on twitter:
Mike Cernovich
🇺🇸 Retweeted
Gavin McInnesVerified account @Gavin_McInnes 2 hours ago
Gavin McInnes Retweeted
⚡️ Right Scoop
You can tell when someone is being punched for the first time in their lives. It’s usually someone who says “punch them in the face” a lot.
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Right Scoop
⚡️ @trscoop
Brawl breaks out between Trump and anti-Trump protesters in Huntington Beach, CA
http://therightscoop.com/brawl-breaks-out-between-trump-and-anti-trump-protesters-in-huntington-beach-ca/
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I think the pot is beginning to simmer
Memo to AntiFa — don’t start a fight you can’t win.
Reuters coverage of the Bolsa Chica State Beach confrontation.
(by the way EM that translates to Girl Bag according to google translate, not sure what to make of that??) There are so many inappropriate jokes just sitting there waiting to be made – (perhaps in the dialect it has a different meaning that its literal translation)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protests-idUSKBN16X009
From twitter — referring to an MSNBC Today show segment
Mike Cernovich
🇺🇸 Retweeted
Tennessee @TEN_GOP 3 hours ago
This is big! Hillary Clinton covered up child trafficking investigation at the State Department.
Unfortunately I can’t find the original feature and can’t link to the twitter video snip.
For those that have twitter access:
Kind of a weird week this week. When PDT first put out his tweet about Obama, I recoiled at it. Even if it was true, you shouldn’t just do that sort of thing (to my mind). But he’s been vindicated, and there can’t really be a doubt that he knew when he tweeted. This was not speculation on his part.
He spelled it out to an incredulous Tucker Carlson just prior to his Louisville? rally, that towards the end of the week there would be something and then probably something else the week after that. He wasn’t to know that the hearing would be postponed until next week, and yet if the “smoking gun” comes out about the definitive proof of Obama administration spying, he will have been absolutely on target. I mean, I don’t care how much three dimensional chess he plays, he’s not psychic.
I’m wondering if the documents showing Obama collusion to delegitimise Trump, and the Wikileaks CIA revelations aren’t one and the same documents, just from different ends. Wikileaks coming from the long term goal of bringing down the CIA altogether (they owe no allegiance to PDT), and the House Intelligence docs coming from the short term expedient of vindicating PDT, plus getting to the bottom of the “Russian” farrago.
With three of the main people who have been “unmasked” asking to be allowed to testify before the committee, it’s likely that the result will be NO evidence of collusion, NO evidence of Russia influencing the elections, other than through ordinary social discourse, but prima facie proof that Obama/Clinton plotted to delegitimise not just his candidacy, but his transition and presidency as well.
And the thing is, none of this would have happened if he didn’t tweet what he did. If embarrassing information had turned up otherwise, the whole thing would have been buried, like the Michigan vote count, but PDT raising the stakes the way he did, made that impossible. That’s beyond the Prince, or the Art of War, into a whole new realm altogether. Particularly when you see what he and his team had to endure in the interim.
But then there was the Obamacare replacement, in which he seemed to have invested a fair amount of political capital, and yet he seemed somewhat relieved, in a sense, when it didn’t go through. Was that the underlying intention all along? Give himself the moral high ground to be able to say he tried it the conventional way, with the added bonus that if it went through, he could post extra savings against the Budget bill.
But if it didn’t, he could get on with what he really wanted to do, tax reform. And be bolder about it as well. Has there ever been a time when a dominant party failed to pass two pieces of legislation, one after the other? Not only that, he has set a marker, and stuck to it, that he is only willing to go so far. He’s willing to lose a battle to win the overall war. It wouldn’t surprise me if he goes for all of the funding for the wall in this first budget.
And anyway, nothing about phase 1 not getting passed, stops him from going on to phase 2, the gutting of all the regulations that add to the cost of Healthcare. He can do it under the aegis of trying to protect the American people from the worst of the collapse of Obamacare. He can bring out Executive Orders to put an overall shape to what he wants to do with healthcare and embarrass the GOP into adopting it legislatively. Or face the wrath of the electorate.
The only thing I’d be worried about is the extra delay that being diverted by Repeal and Replace has introduced. Getting companies to repatriate their funds back to America, the taxes from which alone would more than seed his infrastructure bill, with the rest of the money providing the actual capital to fund it overall, would be a major win for his overall strategy. That gets moderately and semi-skilled people into work and off entitlements. It creates higher skilled jobs into which all the newly employable ex-bureaucrats can work at. And now you’re into virtuous circle territory.
So hear I was, all settled down with my old antenna books ( including an ARRL handbook) thinking I’d take a shot at a unified antenna understanding…
and along comes all this juicy stuff…
Sometimes I think I’ll never get anything done. Sigh.
OK, so the summary is that the Trump Supporters have “adapted” (yes, I’ve been watching Star Trek Voyager and ‘adapting shield harmonics’…) and now are prepared to defend themselves. Not really a surprise. I’d now show up a rally having practiced a kata or two before hand and with a ‘sturdy’ sign pole or my “old guy cane”… or mayb an umbrella… depending on weather…
Then the dirt on the Clintons is actually getting dug up a little.
And Russia decides to stir the pot with a “Hey, you want to talk dirt? We can talk dirt…” slap on the face of the Dims… Shades of “more flexibility after the election”…
So do my refresh on antenna theory, or down the political rabbit hole… I think I’ll turn on the news while I read some more about antennas and then assess again in a couple of hours.
I think I also need to lay in a supply of “salty snacks” and “beverages”… ;-)
Sigh.
It’s the weekend, so none of the USA stations has news since no news happens on the weekend. Reruns, stories canned days ago, happy talk, infomercials.
The international channels (A.J., RT, Sky, France24) all focused on the London attack (since nothing important is happening in the USA, after all, it’s the weekend here…so no news…)
I guess maybe it will show up on Monday as “yesterday’s news”…
Heck, even Newsmax has a canned show running.
Like you said nothing interesting happens on weekends in the US.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/03/party-girl-malia-obama-freaks-accosts-white-house-correspondent-lucian-wintrich-exclusive-ny-club/
http://nypost.com/2017/03/25/huma-abedin-is-giving-marriage-with-anthony-weiner-another-try/
(don’t want him to spill the beans – so keep him happy any way you can??)
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-trump-rally-20170325-story.html
@Larry:
Boca chica means beach (or ‘little mouth’ semi-literally) and chica can mean little (for a feminine noun) so I’d figure the ‘bag’ was really ‘sack’ like in cul-de-sac and it meant ‘little indentation’ or small bay.
This page seems to have a copy of the MSNBC coverup story:
http://www.knowyourleak.com/NBC-Hillary-Clinton-Covered-Up-Child-Trafficking-Investigation-At-The-State-Department-1028300.html
Oddly, many of the videos showing the anti-Trump folks fighting / attacking MAGA folks would not play on the Mac… Didn’t say “not found”, just would not play. I’ll try later on another machine…
It was clear from the one that DID play that the Maga folks came with “the right attitude”. They now know to expect pepper spray and attacks, and are prepared to defend / counter attack as needed.
Was especially fond of the “4 arrests, 3 for illegal use of pepper spray”. Looks like those Police knew to do their job…
And yes, I finished reading my 4 antenna books… (just a quick skim / refresher)
I also note in passing: In some of those pictures and videos, it looks like the usual flimsy flat 1 inch by 3/16 inch flag sticks have been replaced by more sturdy 1 inch dowels…
Wonder which side has more “be prepared” Scouts and Military & Police membership? I noticed one guy with what looked like a new PFC haircut and then there was that ‘Blue Lives Matter” sign… Wonder how many cops would arrest someone for “crowning an attacker” with their Blue L.M. sign?…
I suspect a fair number of folks have “self appointed” to be the front line… I know I’d be up near the front. I’m big and with some martial arts training, even if a long time ago, and I don’t intimidate worth a damn… Besides “60 something attacked by punk in all black” makes a good headline ;-)
@Paul H.: https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2017/03/03/trump-months-2-and-3/#comment-81225
I suspect The Donald was letting Ryan run with this one to test him, and to get brownie points for playing with The Party Leadership; now he can “remind” them anytime they say it must be their way, not his…
Were I Trump, I’d do that on something medium to big, so they burn their creds not mine; then I’d bank it. He chose a “Knight Fork” to do it. (Win-win) Either it passed, and the check box gets ticked, or it fails and he banks a cudgel for future use inside the party AND hangs Obamacare directly on the Dimocrats… His cost? A few folks trying to paint it as some kind of horrible setback and setting themselves up for further underestimation of him.
IMHO, he picked the right one to let the Leadership fall on it’s own sword over. Let them and the Dems fight that tar baby while he keeps on draining the swamp and doing MAGA…
The Clinton/child trafficking video is from 2013, apparently.
Sorry, didn’t mean to publish the vid again. The youtube page has this:
Published on Mar 25, 2017
Flashback to June 11th, 2013 when NBC was reporting real news… Hillary Clinton was never a progressive liberal, she was never a feminist, she never cared about anyone but herself.
If you copy the video URL and paste into browser, it will take you to the page instead.
Roger Stone and Guccifer 2.0 …
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article140454238.html
E.M.Smith says:
25 March 2017 at 5:36 pm
If you need people with ambiguous morality look for people who were victims of child abuse.
In fact if we really cared about making a significant dent in criminality in general we wold do as much as we could to eliminate child abuse.
When I was hanging with a MC gang I never met one gang member (of those who would talk about it) who wasn’t a victim of child abuse.
Every time I hear the major media prattling on about how Trump made a terrible mistake and is withdrawing in panic over the ACA replacement I think of the clip in the Movie Top Gun where they are critiquing one of the dog fight exercises and Jester says:
(direct parapharase I can’t find the clip)
Don’t push a bad position, better to break off and then re-engage with better position.
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Larry Ledwick
“Better to retire and save your aircraft than push a bad position.”
Video
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b7de4457-0239-45c1-81b3-8da33a1bbc3f
“Better to retire and save your aircraft than push a bad position.”
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/embed/b7de4457-0239-45c1-81b3-8da33a1bbc3f?autoplay=false
Knight Fork
http://www.chessfornovices.com/chessknightfork.html
Another NSA whistle blower talks about possible NSA surveillance on executive, legislative and judicial branches. Original source is The Blaze so take with the appropriate grains of salt.
http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/breaking-nsa-whistle-blower-says-trump-congress-supreme-court-were-all-spied-on
There are at least 3 Agencies with known attempt to gather EVERYTHING over at least 25 years; and there are still people who doubt EVERYONE is under surveillance to some degree?
Oh, the naivety…
To paraphrase an old radio reporter….
(For what it’s worth, I figure I’m up to 4 files in Agencies just based on known interactions with folks… but possibly more, and not counting the dragnets for Total Information Awareness; and I’m not even important.)
https://www.vevo.com/watch/rockwell/somebodys-watching-me/USMV30400012
Funny thing is that I remember this song being much older.
I know that I’m getting old. I haven’t totally lost my mind. Yeah, that song’s from the 1980s. The video was made later.
Dear congress (and political commentators in the media) Please watch this video (several times)!
With a little effort you can understand how our government is organized and why it is organized the way it is.
http://www.chicksontheright.com/judge-neil-gorsuch-explains-bill-rights-foundering-fathers-swell-pride/
Podesta may have failed to disclose Russian connected stocks in his disclosure forms.
It will be interesting to see how the Trump administration plays this.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/26/exclusive-john-podesta-may-have-violated-federal-law-by-not-disclosing-75000-stock-shares/
Today’s Murdoch
“Trump’s wiretapping mystery deepens”
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/breaking-news/senate-panel-to-question-trump-soninlaw/news-story/7d5e142a3c0f3391a1b04f368e552e39
Oh my! I can’t say what I want to say but – – – –
http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/chelsea-clinton-flips-out-over-trump-hat-on-lincoln/?cat_orig=us
@Larry:
Back in the ’70s I was crew on a hot air balloon. There was a Kenedy-Wanna-Be California senator? named John Tunney? who was touring (likely for photo ops, and with various security and suckup attendants). He got in the balloon and while the prep for lift off was proceeding demonstrated his profound grasp of physics by seriously asking:
“So what holds it up? Is it the hot air?”
Here’s your sign…
No, Mr. Tunney, it’s the invisible jet engine and pixie dust…
Never met such a profoundly idiotic and clueless person with such positional authority (at least until Pelosi started getting a lot of air time… but I’ve never actually met her). In my (maybe) 3 or 4 minutes of contact time I resolved to stay as far as possible away from him and his ilk for the rest of my life… The Stupid just oozed from every pore and was flung like poo every time his mouth opened. His “security’ staff looked pained to be in his presence and I’d guess they had to rotate often… They did manage to avoid eye rolls, but only by having a frozen expression and constantly looking away whenever he began to speak… (as we were in a modestly remote empty field, it wasn’t like they were scanning the crowd – and the slight ‘wince’ on some phrases was well hidden as long as they were looking away…)
My impression of most politicians since has confirmed that a large fraction of them have zero clue how anything actually works (having been steered into people focused majors and away from those things that you hire people to do….) and that most of them, at most, could get through private tutoring enough to attend daddy funded law school where a small ‘endowment’ would assure graduation… And all that so taxed their ability that they had zero time for actual world experiences, and being shielded by rich parents into limited gated enclaves further stunted their growth.
You can easily spot the few with real world experiences (like the medical doctors – say Rand Paul) as they actually make sense when they talk…
Chelsea impresses me as being of the class that has never actually done anything. Even the book she is pushing had a guest writer co-author with actual experience in the field. I do wonder why it wasn’t just flat out ghost written, but likely they figured that would be so obviously impossible that they paid extra to get her some borrowed credibility…
Compare to Ivanka. Dad had her driving bulldozers and working construction sites. I’d wager she can do her own photoshop work too and likely sewed her first self designed clothes then made the first ads… In a pinch, I’d rather have her on my team than Chelsea any day…
“If you were concerned that the current pandemic of derangement spreading around the nation in response to the election of Donald Trump was fading into the background, fear not… ”
Link at
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/03/its-going-to-be-1.html#comments
“As Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere quipped in the 1960s, when he was accused by the US of running a one-party state, ‘The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them’.”
Politicians are the HS cheer leaders of life. They have one asset – they are glib. They know it and therefore feel no need to “work” to get what they want.
The difference between Chelsea and Ivanka is the latter is not a politician. The former has never been anything but.
Trump slams freedom caucus.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-30/trump-slams-freedom-caucus-we-must-fight-them
A bit more detail on the intelligence info provided to Nunez regarding pre-election monitoring of the Trump organization. As noted other locations these were incidental collections related to foreign persons trying to establish connections to Trump prior to the election. The issue was that this info was widely distributed in the Obama administration and the identities of the Trump contacts were poorly or not masked so that it was easy to figure out who was being contacted.
Secondarily to that it appears that these bits of information were used to drive a campaign of leaks and innuendo implying improper contacts for political gain by the Obama and Clinton insiders.