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February 2017
FIRST EDITION
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CONTENTS
Trump’s Travel Ban Plainly Excludes Countries Tied To 93% Of All US Terrorism
“Muslim Ban” Media Lie Leads To Enraged Mob Of Mindless Left-Wing Zombies Physically Attacking Trump
Supporter In Broad Daylight
50 Members Of The Republican Study Committee Implore Trump: “Fire The IRS Chief”
Obama Bombed 5 Out Of 7 Countries Trump Banned -- Media Didn't Care
SURPRISE! Muslim Brotherhood Behind Anti-Trump Airport Protests (VIDEO)
BLM Anti-Trump Protest In Seattle: ‘We Need To Start Killing People’
EXCLUSIVE – Islamic State Supporters React Angrily to Trump’s Temporary Refugee Halt
Trump Aide Calls Immigration Order A 'Massive Success Story'
Why The Cold War Between Tech CEOs And Trump Is About To Go Nuclear
Trump Defends Travel Ban: 'This Is Not About Religion'
Kellyanne Conway Rages Against "Misinformation" Over Trump's Immigration Order Resistance From Within:
When Trump Does Something Right, We Must Back Him As With The Executive Order Ban On Muslims Entering The
US
President Bannon?
Trump’s Bloodless Coup Against America’s Enemies From Within
New Rasmussen Poll Reveals Silent Majority Approves Of Immigration Ban
Obama Moves to Undermine Trump Presidency After Only 10 Days
The Left Is Self-Destructing
Temper Tantrum: USA Today Columnist Demands Brady End Friendship With Trump
Trump Files With FEC For 2020 Election Bid, Outmaneuvers Nonprofit Organizations
Trump Authorizes Congress To Pursue Criminal Charges Against Hillary
BREAKING: Trump Just Ordered Gowdy And Chaffetz Back On Clinton Case To “Go After Everything”
Anti-Trump State Department Staff Oppose His Entry Into America
Progressives Ready All-Out Assault On Trump's Supreme Court Pick
President Trump Exposes McCain And Graham For Trying To Start Word War III
Trump Fires Acting Attorney General For Refusal To Enforce 'Extreme Vetting' Order
US CODE - Trump's Ban Is Absolutely Constitutional
America Don’t Be Fooled. “Fake Tears” Schumer And Nancy Pelosi Have A History Of Killing Muslims
Trump Set To Pull U.S. Out Of The Paris Agreement Within Days
A Jarring New Level Of Confrontation And Conflict Hits Washington
Anti-Trumpism Still Raging
Hackers Took Down D.C.’S CCTV System For A 48-Hour Span Leading Up To Trump’s Inauguration, Demanded
Ransom
Judge Jeanine: 'Impressive' Gorsuch Has the Right Credentials & Temperament
On Friday, the world erupted in chaos after President As the Daily Caller reports:
Donald Trump signed an Executive Order suspending
entry into the United States for people traveling from Iran, In 2006, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, a
Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. naturalized American citizen born in
Tehran, Iran, plowed a Jeep into a crowd of
These seven countries originally came from the Obama people on the campus of the University of
administration and were labeled as “countries of concern.” North Carolina at Chapel Hill “to punish the
government of the United States.” No one
“There were further travel restrictions died in the attack. Nine people were
already in place from those seven injured, but none of them seriously. Taheri-
countries,” Sean Spicer said Sunday on azar was arrested and now resides in
ABC’s “This Week.” “What the president prison.
did was take the first step through this In 2016, Somali refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan injured 13
executive order of ensuring that we’re people — none critically — when he drove a Honda Civic
looking at the entire system of who’s into a group of people on the campus of Ohio State
coming in, refugees that are coming in, University. Artan then got out of his car and stabbed
people who are coming in from places that people with a butcher knife. Police on the scene then shot
have a history or that our intelligence and killed him.
suggests that we need to have further
extreme vetting for.” Also in 2016, Dahir Adan, a Kenya-born Somali
immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen, armed himself
Trump is simply building off of restrictions the Obama with a pair of steak knives and entered the Crossroads
administration already put in place in 2015 on certain Center shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Adan then
travelers who had visited Iran, Iraq, Sudan, or Syria on or stabbed — and punched — 10 people. Victims who were
after March 1, 2011. Libya, Somalia, and Yemen were hospitalized were all released by the next day. An off-duty
added to the list only months after the original limitations. police officer shot and killed Adan inside a Macy’s store.
So, all Trump did was temporarily ban those countries Taheri-azar, Artan and Adan are the only three Muslims
instead of merely keeping the current restrictions. from the seven nations covered by Trumps’ executive
order to commit terrorist acts in the United States since
Sounds reasonable, right? Well, if we look at the bigger September 2001.
picture, and the history of these seven countries —
especially in regards to terrorism — something very fishy Out of the 43 people who carried out terrorist attacks on
appears. US soil, only three of them came from the seven countries
on Trump’s list — the other 40 terrorists came from
Those seven countries have never countries who were not banned.
produced a terrorist in the United States
who has ever caused the death of a This handful of attacks on American soil
single American. Yes, you read that hardly justifies restricting the travel from
correctly. these countries once we look at the
countries Trump did not ban — who are
Only seven percent of all terrorist-related acts in the responsible for 93% of all terrorism in
United States have originated from people in those the United States causing death on a
countries, and not a single one of them has killed a US massive scale.
citizen.
During the same period those three terrorists mentioned Saudi Arabia is responsible for the
above attempted to cause harm to Americans, 40 terrorists death of 2,369 Americans — they are not
from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, the United Arab on the list.
Emirates, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Nigeria, Afghanistan,
Lebanon, and Guinea wreaked havoc in America. Trump also has holdings in Egypt, whose citizens killed a
total of 162 Americans. Trump Marks Egypt and Trump
However, people from those countries are still welcome to Marks Egypt LLC are the President’s business dealings in
apply for U.S. visas and travel permits. this country, who, conveniently, is also absent from his
list.
So why is it that all these other countries were left off the
ban list when it is common knowledge that they are Another country, who is also absent from Trump’s list is
responsible for the overwhelming majority of the terrorism the United Arab Emirates. Trump’s organization has a
within the United States? plethora of holdings in this country, including a licensing
and management deal in Dubai for two golf courses and a
Well, if we zoom out again, we can a propose a potential whole neighborhood of luxury villas currently under
reason for Trump conveniently leaving these known construction.
producers of terrorism off the list.
A total of 314 Americans were killed by UAE citizens
Trump, being the international businessman that he is, has between 1975 and 2015, according to CATO.
business holdings worldwide. None of those holdings are
in those seven banned countries. On the other hand, Trump also does business in Turkey as he currently
however, licenses his name to two luxury towers in Istanbul. As
we’ve reported many times in the last year, Turkey has
Trump holds major business stakes in repeatedly been caught aiding the Islamic State through
several of the countries absent from this protecting their oil routes as well as providing them
list. sanctuary and even training.
As the Free Thought Project previously reported, during As the debate of immigration and border walls heats up, it
his campaign, Trump registered eight companies tied to is important for those on both sides to have all the
hotel interests in Saudi Arabia alone. In case you’ve been information available to make sound decisions. Please
under a rock for the last 17 years, the majority of hijackers share this article so that those who are ignoring these facts
on 9/11 came from Saudi Arabia. And, last year, the can see the truth.
federal government declassified a 28-page report, detailing
the fact that they covered up the Saudi Arabian
government’s role in the attacks on 9/11.
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“Muslim Ban” Media Lie Leads To Enraged Mob Of
Mindless Left-Wing Zombies Physically Attacking Trump
Supporter In Broad Daylight
By: Mike Adams
Date: January 30, 2017
Conformity is diversity
Hatred is tolerance
Consensus is fact
A few years ago, John Koskinen, head of the Internal In his letter, Walker reintroduces the same issue to the
Revenue Service when it was being weaponized by the 115th Congress. He also heavily criticizes the IRS for
Obama White House to target conservative organizations “improperly targeting conservative groups,” and for failing
seeking tax-exempt status ahead of the 2012 election, to “demonstrate that officials have definitively ceased
repeatedly gave false and incomplete testimony to a series targeting conservative groups.” He is attempting to build
of congressional committees trying to get to the bottom of on last year’s failed impeachment attempt that was
the scandal. launched by the House Freedom Caucus, the Washington
Examiner reported.
And now, dozens of Republican lawmakers in the House
want President Donald J. Trump to do what the Congress “The consideration of the impeachment of
itself could not: IRS Commissioner John Koskinen in the
House in late 2016 was a clear indication
that Congress and the American people
Fire him.
have no confidence in Commissioner
Koskinen or his ability to discharge his
As reported exclusively by the Washington Examiner, 50 duties,” Walker wrote.
members of the House Republican Study Committee, a
group of the most conservative members of Congress,
But that was then; when the nation was hyper-focused on
want the new president to terminate Koskinen’s
the presidential race, the House Freedom Caucus
employment at the IRS – and as soon as possible.
attempted to force House Speaker Paul Ryan to pursue
impeachment, but as he struggled to keep the Republican
Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., is expected to make the majority together, he pleaded with conservatives to wait
request as chairman of the RSC, after quietly, but urgently, until after the election to focus on personnel changes at
circulating a letter inside the GOP conference to garner IRS.
support.
Unwilling to wait, on Dec. 5, Freedom Caucus Chairman
Though Trump has already nominated most of his Cabinet, Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, introduced a privileged resolution on
he has remained silent thus far on the fate of the IRS and the House floor in an attempt to force an impeachment
its embattled chief. But conservatives are gunning hard for vote. It failed due to a lack of leadership
Koskinen after the way he allowed his agency to be hyper- support. (RELATED: Keep up with the latest on the
politicized by the previous administration. (RELATED: Trump administration at WhiteHouse.news)
Find out just how the bureaucracy is targeting average
Americans today at BigGovernment.news)
AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for Ryan, said the
opposition to the effort had more to do with a scheduling
“You have the authority to remove conflict.
Commissioner Koskinen,” Walker says in
his letter to the president, adding that “we
“It would have triggered automatic the case for Koskinen’s impeachment.
consideration lasting into next year, filling “When Congress issues a subpoena,
up weeks of floor time and crippling our compliance is not optional. Imagine if a
ability to hit the ground running on Trump taxpayer failed to comply with an IRS
administration confirmations and summons or subpoena, what would they do
Obamacare repeal,” she said in a to you?”
statement at the time.
See his opening remarks below:
But now, after a month of 2017, Republicans still have not
voted on a measure to repeal Obamacare, and Koskinen
still has his job. So Walker’s letter is the first to try to
change that; if he’s not successful, Koskinen could stay on
at the IRS until November 12, 2017.
Trump banning these people from America is bad, Obama bombing these people is good.
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Where were the George Soros funded organizations Did Schumer openly weep when the Obama administration
protesting the "nearly 100 attacks" that have occurred since was "duped into attacking Somali troops" and killed 22 of
2009 in Yemen "resulting in the deaths of hundreds of them in an air strike late last year?
militants, but also many civilians?"
It's fine for the Nobel Peace Prize
Did Chuck Schumer shed a tear for the 62 Syrian troops winning President to bomb these people
killed and 100 more wounded that the Obama in their own countries, but for President
administration "accidentally bombed" in 2016? Trump to temporarily prevent them from
traveling to our country to keep America
safe is "un-American" and "un-
constitutional."
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SURPRISE! Muslim Brotherhood Behind Anti-Trump
Airport Protests (VIDEO)
Jim Hoft
Jan 30th, 2017 10:54 am
Six years ago Barack Obama banned It appears radical Muslim Brotherhood
refugees from Iraq from entering the US activists are behind the anti-Trump
for six months. protests.
Democrats said nothing.
CNN has video proof that Muslim Brotherhood
This weekend Donald Trump signed an executive order to sympathizers are organizing these “fake travel ban”
protests.
refuse refugees from seven terrorist states.
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BLM Anti-Trump Protest In Seattle:
‘We Need To Start Killing People’
Justin Caruso
3:32 PM 01/30/2017
During an anti-Trump protest in Seattle this weekend, an “Fuck white supremacy, fuck the U.S.
activist associated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) empire, fuck your imperialist ass lives. That
movement took to the megaphone to voice her support for, shit gotta go.”
among other things, “killing people,” and “killing the
White House.” At 1:50 in the video clip, she goes,
While she said that, another protester can be heard saying, “And we need to start killing people. First
“Burn it!” off, we need to start killing the White
House. The White House must die. The
White House, your fucking White House,
She also says, “White people, give your fucking money,
your fucking Presidents, they must go!
your fucking house, your fucking property, we need it
Fuck the White House.”
fucking all,” as another protester responds “reparations!”
“Pay the fuck up, pay the fuck up. It ain’t
just your fucking time, its your fucking
money, and now your fucking life is
devoted to social change,” she said.
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EXCLUSIVE – Islamic State Supporters React Angrily to
Trump’s Temporary Refugee Halt
By Aaron Klein And Ali Waked
30 Jan 2017
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“IS Will Live Forever” wrote: “Trump and Last November, a car-ramming and mass stabbing attack
(Vladimir) Putin the Crusaders’ hatred for was carried out at Ohio State University by Somali refugee
Islam is conspicuous and their policies only Abdul Razak Ali Artan, who was reportedly inspired by
prove it. The war against the Crusaders IS.
began and will end with their defeat. We
are at the end of times, and what times In 2013, ABC News first revealed that two years earlier,
they are – the times of the oppressed the State Department imposed a freeze over the processing
mujahedeen on the face of the earth. The of Iraqi refugees for six months. The halt was the result of
wisdom of Allah will allow the mujahedeen the discovery of two al-Qaida members admitted as
and the oppressed to rise up and cut off the refugees from Iraq who were living in Bowling Green,
heads of Crusaders… and whoever Kentucky and who had admitted to targeting U.S. troops in
supports them among those who falsely Iraq. The network at the time also cited FBI agents
claim to be Muslim.” conceding that
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Trump Aide Calls
Immigration Order A 'Massive Success Story'
By Rebecca Savransky
01/30/17 07:45 AM EST
The official also called for the media to stop its "false, During the Sunday briefing, one of the officials sought to
misleading, inaccurate, hyperventilating" coverage of the clarify some pieces of the order, saying that green card
"fractional, marginal, minuscule percentage" of travelers holders are "exempt" from the order.
who were "set aside for further questioning" under the
order. “Some of the confusion stemming from the
green-card issue is just semantic in
nature,” the official said. “I think some of
The order was drafted with help from "several of the top the confusion stems from the semantic
immigration staff on Capitol Hill," the official said. debate about the meaning of the word
'exemption.' Again, internally, we've been
The official also said the ban was put into place without clear on this from the beginning, and we've
warning because waived people through.”
"everybody here can use their imaginations The official also said the implementation of the order had
to imagine 25 reasons that wouldn't make been "done seamlessly and with extraordinary
sense from a security standpoint, a professionalism."
management standpoint, from just an
airport-safety standpoint, you name it."
.
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Why The Cold War Between Tech CEOs
And Trump Is About To Go Nuclear
By Tyler Durden
Jan 30, 2017 6:35 PM
Over the weekend, openly defiant CEOs, particularly The bottom line is that tech CEOs fear
among the tech sector, expressed their displeasure with Trump will single them out for outsourcing
Trump's Friday executive order temporarily banning jobs or shut down the so-called H-1B visa
refugees and limiting travel from seven Muslim countries, program they use to hire high-skilled
with both words and deeds, among which the following foreign employees for crucial engineering
(summary courtesy of Axios): and technical jobs.
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*** outsourcers, primarily from India, who run
the technology departments of large
Which is why if a news report about Trump's next corporations with largely imported staff.
imminent executive order is accurate, “If firms are using the program for cheap
labor, I think it will affect them and they will
the simmering cold war between the have to pay workers more,” said Ron Hira,
tech CEOs and Trump is about to an associate professor at Howard
nuclear. University. “If tech firms are using the
program for specialized labor, they may
Bloomberg reports that the Trump
find there are more visas available.”
administration has drafted an executive
order aimed at overhauling the work-visa
programs technology companies The Trump administration did not respond to a request for
depend on to hire tens of thousands of comment on the draft. The proposal is consistent with the
employees each year. president’s public comments on pushing companies to add
more jobs to the U.S., from auto manufacturing to
technology.
If implemented, the reforms could force wholesale changes
at India companies such as Infosys Ltd. and Wipro Ltd.,
and shift the way American companies like Microsoft It’s not clear how much force the executive order would
Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. recruit talent. have if it is signed by the president. Congress is also
working on visa reforms and the parties will have to
cooperate to pass new laws. Zoe Lofgren, a Democratic
Companies would have to try to hire
congresswoman from California, introduced a bill last
American first and if they recruit foreign
week to tighten requirements for the H-1B work visa
workers, priority would be given to the
program.
most highly paid.
The draft of Trump’s executive order covers an alphabet "My legislation refocuses the H-1B program
soup of visa programs, including H-1B, L-1, E-2 and B1. to its original intent – to seek out and find
The first is a popular program with technology companies the best and brightest from around the
and is aimed at allowing them to bring in high-skill world, and to supplement the U.S.
workers when they can’t find local hires with the workforce with talented, highly-paid, and
appropriate skills. The legislation caps the number of highly-skilled workers,” Lofgren said in a
people who can enter the U.S. annually at 85,000, statement.
including those with undergrad and master’s degrees. Meanwhile, as Bloomberg adds, India’s
technology companies, led by Tata
The average salary of an H-1B worker at Consultancy Services Ltd, Infosys and
Apple is reportedly more than $100k. Wipro, have argued they are helping
corporations become more competitive
“Our country’s immigration policies should by handling their technology operations
be designed and implemented to serve, with specialized staff.
first and foremost, the U.S. national
interest,” the draft proposal reads,
They also contend the visa programs allow them to keep
according to a copy reviewed by
jobs in the U.S. and that if they have to pay more for staff,
Bloomberg. “Visa programs for foreign
they will handle more of the work remotely from less
workers … should be administered in a
expensive markets like India. Trump, however, see things
manner that protects the civil rights of
differently.
American workers and current lawful
residents, and that prioritizes the protection
of American workers -- our forgotten “Inspections and investigations in the past
working people -- and the jobs they hold.” have shown no cases of wrongdoing by
Indian IT services companies, which have
The foreign work visas were originally always been fully compliant with the law,”
established to help U.S. companies recruit said R Chandrashekhar, president of
from abroad when they couldn’t find Nasscom, the trade group for India’s
qualified local workers. But in recent years, information technology sector. “The
there have been allegations the programs industry is open to any kind of checks in
have been abused to bring in cheaper the system, but they should not cause any
workers from overseas to fill jobs that hindrance to the smooth operation of
otherwise may go to Americans. The top companies.
recipients of the H-1B visas are
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The proposed Trump order is also aimed at bringing more companies. That may accelerate a shift to new kinds of
transparency to the program. services, such as cloud computing and artificial
intelligence, said Raja Lahiri, partner at the Mumbai-based
It calls for publishing reports with basic partner at consultancy Grant Thornton India
statistics on who uses the immigration
programs within one month of the end “The visa challenges are not going to go
of the government’s fiscal year. The away easily,” he said. “They will continue to
Obama Administration had scaled back be a challenge for Indian IT companies.”
the information available on the
programs and required Freedom of But while the pain for India will be acute, it will be Silicon
Information Act requests for some data. Valley that may be most impacted, as suddenly its favorite
source of cheap, skilled labor is eliminated. How it will
Whatever specific changes are implemented, they are responds remains to be seen.
likely to add to the expenses for India’s technology
.
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Trump Defends Travel Ban:
'This Is Not About Religion'
Mon Jan 30, 2017 6:50AM
After exposed Obama, Bush, and Clinton's previous and Yemen. It does not specify Muslims. The indefinite
anti-immigration actions amid the backlash against hold on Syrian refugees will affect Christians and Muslims
President Trump's executive orders, administration senior alike.
adviser Kellyanne Conway appeared on CNBC this
morning and was visibly angry at the "information As Tim Carney at the Washington Examiner points out, the
underload" from the mainstream media and bullhorn- largest Muslim-majority countries in the world
touting, crying politicians. are not named in the Executive Order.
"The media and politicians have an More countries may be added to the moratorium in the
obligation to calm the public [with facts] days to come, as the Secretary of Homeland Security has
about what this policy does, and more been instructed to complete a 30-day review of nations that
importantly does not, do... this is why don’t provide adequate information for vetting visa
[Trump] has to tweet, so that the media applicants.
will cover the tweet [facts]"
It’s also noteworthy that the ban is not absolute.
It's pretty clear Conway's frustration is growing (and who Exceptions for “foreign nationals traveling on diplomatic
can blame her)... visas, North Atlantic Treaty Organization visas, C-2 visas
for travel to the United Nations, and G-1, G-2, G-3, and G-
4 visas” are expressly made in the order. The Departments
of State and Homeland Security can also grant exceptions
on a “case-by-case basis,” and “when in the national
interest, issue visas or other immigration benefits to
nationals of countries for which visas and benefits are
otherwise blocked.”
4. Obama banned immigration from Iraq, Most of the legal arguments against Trump’s order
and Carter banned it from Iran. summarized by USA Today are entirely specious, such as
attacking him for “banning an entire religion,” which the
“Fact-checking” website PolitiFact twists itself into knots order manifestly does not do. Critics of the order have
to avoid giving a “true” rating to the absolutely true fact a political opinion that it will in effect “ban Muslims,” but
that Jimmy Carter banned Iranian immigration in 1980, that’s not what it says. Designating specific nations as
unless applicants could prove they were enemies of the trouble spots and ordering a pause is entirely within the
Khomenei theocracy. President’s authority, and there is ample precedent to
prove it.
One of Politifact’s phony talking points states that Carter
“acted against Iranian nationals, not an entire religion.” As It should be possible to argue with the reasoning behind
noted above, Trump’s Executive Order is precisely the the order, or argue that it will have negative unintended
same – it does not act against an “entire religion,” it names consequences, without advancing hollow legal arguments.
seven countries. Of course, this is America 2017, so a wave of lawsuits will
soon be sloshing through the courts.
As for Barack Obama, he did indeed ban immigration from
Iraq, for much longer than Trump’s order bans it from the 7. This Executive Order is a security
seven listed nations, and none of the people melting down measure, not an arbitrary expression of
today uttered a peep of protest. Richard Grenell summed it supposed xenophobia.
up perfectly in a Tweet:
Conway stressed the need to enhance immigration security
from trouble spots in her “Fox News Sunday” interview.
French also addressed the subject in his post:
That is why the order grants discretion to We’re being effectively told by the theatrical class to
the State Department to issue case-by- tolerate a certain amount of Islamic terrorism because their
case exemptions for “religious persecution, feelings would be hurt by the tough measures we need
“or when the person is already in transit protest ourselves from a tough enemy. But this time,
and denying admission would cause undue President Trump is proving tough enough to push our
hardship.” security up into the top priority.
.
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Resistance From Within:
Federal Workers Push Back Against Trump
By Juliet Eilperin, Lisa Rein And Marc Fisher
January 31, 2017
The signs of popular dissent from President Trump’s Then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates at the Justice
Department on May 15, 2015. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington
opening volley of actions have been plain to see on the Post)
nation’s streets, at airports in the aftermath of his refugee
and visa ban, and in the blizzard of outrage on social
At the Justice Department, an employee in the division that
media. But there’s another level of resistance to the new
administers grants to nonprofits fighting domestic violence
president that is less visible and potentially more
and researching sex crimes said the office has been
troublesome to the administration: a growing wave of
planning to slow its work and to file complaints with the
opposition from the federal workers charged with
inspector general’s office if asked to shift grants away
implementing any new president’s agenda.
from their mission.
Less than two weeks into Trump’s administration, federal
“You’re going to see the bureaucrats using
workers are in regular consultation with recently departed
time to their advantage,” said the
Obama-era political appointees about what they can do to
employee, who spoke on the condition of
push back against the new president’s initiatives. Some
anonymity for fear of retaliation. Through
federal employees have set up social media accounts to
leaks to news organizations and internal
anonymously leak word of changes that Trump appointees
complaints, he said, “people here will resist
are trying to make.
and push back against orders they find
unconscionable.”
And a few government workers are pushing back more
openly, incurring the wrath of a White House that, as press
The resistance is so early, so widespread and so deeply felt
secretary Sean Spicer said this week about dissenters at the
that it has officials worrying about paralysis and overt
State Department, sends a clear message that they “should
refusals by workers to do their jobs.
either get with the program, or they can go.”
Asked whether federal workers are dissenting in ways that
At a church in Columbia Heights last weekend, dozens of
go beyond previous party changes in the White House,
federal workers attended a support group for civil servants
Tom Malinowski, who was President Barack Obama’s
seeking a forum to discuss their opposition to the Trump
assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights
administration. And 180 federal employees have signed up
and labor, said, sarcastically:
for a workshop next weekend, where experts will offer
advice on workers’ rights and how they can express civil
disobedience. “Is it unusual?” There’s nothing unusual
about the entire national security
bureaucracy of the United States feeling
like their commander in chief is a threat to
U.S. national security. That happens all the
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time. It’s totally usual. Nothing to worry employees can register opposition without fear of reprisals.
about.” The channel, formed in 1971, has been used to raise policy
objections to the Vietnam War and other conflicts. Several
The permanent bureaucracy, the backbone of the federal hundred employees signed the dissent cable objecting to
government and the bulwark against many presidents’ Trump’s refugee policy.
activist intentions, is designed to be at least a step removed
from the crosswinds of partisan politics. Secretaries of state have taken the dissent channel so
seriously that they have altered policies in response to
But for years, many conservatives have argued that the complaints. In 2002, then-Secretary Colin Powell presided
federal bureaucracy is stacked against them, making it over the awarding of a prize for “constructive dissent” to
harder for them to get things done even when they control an employee who had pushed back against a deputy
the White House, Congress or both. secretary.
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“federal workers are now extremely In any administration, one man’s principled resistance is
concerned . . . federal workers are used to another’s outrageous defiance. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.),
seeing the political winds change direction.” Trump’s nominee for attorney general, said in 2015 that it
is the obligation of a federal worker to stand up against
Workers at some agencies say they have seen no sign of improper orders.
opposition. At the Education Department, which Trump at
one point suggested be dismantled, one official said the In a confirmation hearing for Yates, Sessions said:
new administration has been surprisingly agreeable: no
major changes in policy, no troubling directives. “You have to watch out, because people
will be asking you do to things you just
“We’ve been, I think, heartened by how need to say no about.” Like any CEO, with
things are going here,” the official said. a law firm — sometimes the lawyers have
to tell the CEO: ‘Mr. CEO, you can’t do
But the level of worry is particularly high at places such as that. Don’t do that.’”
the Environmental Protection Agency. The head of that
agency’s union got an email Tuesday from a local union Presidents appoint the heads of agencies and a few
leader asking for guidance on what to tell workers to do officials at the top of each department, but the great
majority of those who implement any administration’s
“if they receive an illegal order from agenda are civil servants who enjoy legal protections
management.” meant to encourage them to blow the whistle on fraud and
corruption.
The union representing scientists and other EPA
employees is exploring the formation of a fundraising arm Short of formal whistleblowing, workers are finding small
to “defend federal scientists we anticipate will be ways to express their opposition. At the Justice
disciplined for speaking out or for defending scientific Department, some career civil servants asked their bosses
facts,” particularly about climate change, said Nicole whether they were allowed to protest their new president
Cantello, vice president of Local 704 of the American by marching or contacting a member of Congress. The
Federation of Government Employees, which represents answer was yes, if they did so on their own time and in
EPA workers in the Chicago area. their personal capacity.
John O’Grady, a career EPA employee who heads a The day after the November election, the department’s
national council of EPA unions, said Trump’s firing of ethics office said workers could wear clothing that
acting attorney general Sally Yates on Monday night after contained a political message. One lawyer who had worn a
the Obama-era holdover had refused to implement Hillary Clinton T-shirt beneath another layer of clothing
Trump’s refugees ban said that once the advice was issued,
“sends kind of a chilling effect through the “I took the layer off.”
agency. I’m afraid at this point that many
federal employees are just fearful for their In the past few days, protest accounts have popped up on
jobs, and they want to keep their heads social media from employees at several agencies. An
down.” immunologist who formerly worked at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention created what he called a
Two Twitter feeds, @altUSEPA and
“resistance page,”@viralCDC, for CDC employees to post
@ActualEPAFacts, have attracted more
than 200,000 followers and call themselves vaccine and public health information that workers believe
part of “the Resistance.” They appear to be the Trump administration may seek to remove from public
run by outside activists, rather than agency view.
employees.
There has been no freeze on communications at the CDC,
Top EPA officials have tried to reassure anxious said spokeswoman Kathy Harben.
employees. In an email to employees, Don Benton — a top
Trump adviser to the EPA — insisted that media reports of Similarly, a Twitter account protesting Trump’s policies
crackdowns on public speech and scientific autonomy has popped up in the Defense Department. Using the
were handle @Rogue_DoD, a service member has tweeted
everything from Defense Department documents warning
“just not accurate. . . . Changes will likely about the effects of climate change to an opinion piece
come, and when they do, we will work accusing Trump of insufficient consultation with Defense
together to implement them.” Secretary Jim Mattis.
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Career staff members in at least five departments said they about climate change. The rogue tweeter won more than
are staying in close contact with Obama administration 60,000 followers before park officials regained control of
officials to get advice on how to handle Trump initiatives the account.
they consider illegal or improper.
Social media accounts have popped up to defend the
Former labor secretary Thomas Perez, who also headed the Smithsonian Institution and the National Endowments for
Justice Department’s civil rights division under Obama, the Arts and the Humanities. Employees at some
said he has not been in contact with his former employees Smithsonian units have been reminded that policies
but is working to mobilize grass-roots opposition. prohibit them from using their work devices to post
political comments.
“We’re mindful of our ethical
responsibilities,” said Perez, who is running “We don’t intend to change the way we do
for chair of the Democratic National things,” said Smithsonian Secretary David
Committee. “We’re also mindful that we’re J. Skorton. “That’s not out of a sense of
in an existential crisis.” defiance, it’s not out of a sense of not
wanting to be accountable, it’s out of a
While many federal workers have begun to consider sense of believing in the mission of the
avenues of dissent only since the inauguration, others had Smithsonian, which is to do research and
been preparing for weeks. In the last days of Obama’s share information with the public.”
tenure, several departments catalogued data and reports
and got them into the hands of allies outside the Academics have debated for years whether bureaucracies
government. inevitably grow to a point where they, as political scientist
Michael Nelson of Rhodes College put it, “ineluctably
The use of social media as outlets for worried government overpower” their political masters.
workers has spread through much of the bureaucracy.
After Trump complained about the National Park Service “Time and time again,” he wrote, “major
using Twitter to compare the crowd sizes at his efforts to make administration more
inauguration with the far larger assembly at Obama’s responsive to political control have had the
gathering in 2009, a gag order temporarily silenced the opposite effect. It is enough to chasten
official social media account. even the boldest reformer if, like the
sorcerer’s apprentice, his every assault on
In response, an ex-employee at Badlands National Park his tormentors doubles their strength.”
who still had access to its Twitter feed started posting facts
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Neocons McCain & Graham V. Trump
On Muslim Immigration Suspension
By Stephen Lendman
1-30-2017
In office barely over a week, Trump’s full domestic and President I will find ways to help all those
geopolitical agenda remains to unfold, despite a disturbing who are suffering.”
first few days warranting criticism.
Fact:
Russophobe, neocon, uber-hawk Senators John McCain
and Lindsey Graham have been around forever - in Targeting individuals in designated
Congress since 1987 and 1995 respectively, urging one countries for their faith spurns compassion.
war of aggression after another. Both represent a clear and They’re human beings in need, not
present danger to freedom. terrorists.
“America has always been the land of the The best way, maybe the only way, to keep
free and home of the brave. We will keep it America safe is to stop attacking other
free and keep it safe, as the media knows, countries aggressively, ones posing no
but refuses to say.” threat to anyone.
“To be clear, this is not a Muslim ban, as His order is all about politics, unrelated to
the media is falsely reporting. This is not border and national security protection.
about religion - this is about terror and
keeping our country safe. There are over Fact:
40 different countries worldwide that are
majority Muslim that are not affected by this The way to show “tremendous feeling” for
order. We will again be issuing visas to all long-suffering Syrians is by ending support
countries once we are sure we have for terrorists attacking them, along with
reviewed and implemented the most ordering a halt to US and allied warplanes
secure policies over the next 90 days.” bombing the country’s infrastructure and
government sites.
“I have tremendous feeling for the people
involved in this horrific humanitarian crisis Fact:
in Syria. My first priority will always be to
protect and serve our country, but as “(H)elp(ing) all those who are suffering”
requires ending US wars of aggression,
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instituting policies treating everyone “Ultimately, we fear this executive order will
equitably at home and abroad, strictly become a self-inflicted wound in the fight
observing rule of law principles, and against terrorism. At this very moment,
working cooperatively with all nations. American troops are fighting side-by-side
with our Iraqi partners to defeat ISIL.”
Here’s the McCain/Graham statement:
“But this executive order bans Iraqi pilots
“Our government has a responsibility to from coming to military bases in Arizona to
defend our borders, but we must do so in a fight our common enemies. Our most
way that makes us safer and upholds all important allies in the fight against ISIL are
that is decent and exceptional about our the vast majority of Muslims who reject its
nation. apocalyptic ideology of hatred.”
It is clear from the confusion at our airports “This executive order sends a signal,
across the nation that President Trump’s intended or not, that America does not
executive order was not properly vetted.” want Muslims coming into our country. That
is why we fear this executive order may do
“We are particularly concerned by reports more to help terrorist recruitment than
that this order went into effect with little to improve our security.”
no consultation with the Departments of
State, Defense, Justice, and Homeland Fact:
Security.”
McCain and Graham represent the worst of
“Such a hasty process risks harmful US governance - hard-right, extremist,
results. We should not stop green-card militant, ruthless, contemptuous of
holders from returning to the country they fundamental rights at home and abroad.
call home.”
Fact:
“We should not stop those who have
served as interpreters for our military and Criticizing Trump’s immigration order
diplomats from seeking refuge in the ignores the imperial horrors both senators
country they risked their lives to help.” support, deplorable US domestic policies
exclusively serving monied interests at the
“And we should not turn our backs on those expense of most others, along with police
refugees who have been shown through state enforcement laws, tyranny by any
extensive vetting to pose no demonstrable standard.
threat to our nation, and who have suffered
unspeakable horrors, most of them women McCain, Graham and most others in Congress should
and children.” clean up their own act before criticizing others.
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Conway: Inconvenience For 1% Of Travelers
'Small Price To Pay' For Security
© REUTERS/ Mike Segar US
04:09 30.01.2017(Updated 04:29 30.01.2017)
Trump’s senior counselor Kellyanne As for those detained upon arrival, she explained that their
Conway said on Sunday while situations will be handled on a case-by-case basis via a
commenting on the president’s routine screening process and if there is no threat, then
executive order barring immigration they can expect to be released in due course.
from select Muslim-majority countries
that the chaos it caused was “a small White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus also defended
price to pay” for the safety of the way the order was being implemented, saying
Americans. without sudden implementation, people intending to harm
Americans would be able to move up their travel in order
Conway defended the ban in an interview with Fox News to get into the country before the "grace period" was over
saying that it shouldn't be regarded as an administration
failure even though it triggered mayhem at many airports, Trump on Friday signed an executive order temporarily
including the detention of travelers with legitimate papers. suspending immigration from seven predominantly
The adviser pointed out that the number of those detained Muslim countries: Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Libya
at US airports was relatively small. and Yemen. The order also suspends the flow of Syrian
refugees into the country and halts all refugee resettlement
Trump's advisor said, in the US for 120 days as the administration reviews the
vetting process.
"325,000 people from overseas came
into this country just yesterday through our On Saturday, a federal judge in New York issued an
airports. You're talking about 300 and emergency stay on implementation of Trump's order. In a
some who have been detained or are tweet published several hours later, the US president
prevented from gaining access to an signaled that he will fight to keep the order in place.
aircraft in their home countries and must
stay for now."
"Our country needs strong borders and
extreme vetting, NOW," Trump said
Conway emphasized that that is only 1 percent of those
in the tweet. "Look what is happening
who arrived, and that this sacrifice is incomparable
all over Europe and, indeed, the
with the grief of the children whose parents were killed
world — a horrible mess!"
in the 9/11 attacks. (Most of the perpetrators of the 9/11
.
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Trump Slams McCain, Graham:
"Stop Trying To Start World War III"
By Tyler Durden
Jan 30, 2017 5:04 AM
Shortly after Senators McCain and Graham issued their those refugees who have been shown through extensive
"joint statement on President Trump's Executive Order vetting to pose no demonstrable threat to our nation, and
on immigration"... who have suffered unspeakable horrors, most of them women
and children.
U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham
(R-SC) released the following statement today on the “Ultimately, we fear this executive order will become a self-
President’s executive order on immigration: inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism. At this very
moment, American troops are fighting side-by-side with our Iraqi
partners to defeat ISIL. But this executive order bans Iraqi pilots
from coming to military bases in Arizona to fight our common
enemies. Our most important allies in the fight against ISIL are
the vast majority of Muslims who reject its apocalyptic ideology of
hatred. This executive order sends a signal, intended or not, that
America does not want Muslims coming into our country. That is
why we fear this executive order may do more to help terrorist
recruitment than improve our security.”
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No One Talks Of The Diseases
Muslims & Hispanics Have
By Patricia Doyle PhD
1-30-2017
Hello Jeff – Brazil has Yellow Fever now spreading and Africa now
has several countries with active Cholera outbreaks. And
Trump is trying to stop this influx of refugees into the let us not forget Chagas spreading locally in Texas and
US...many carrying infectious diseases. Where are the Louisiana due to influx of illegal Latinos from Mexico and
news media on the amount of AIDS-infected Somalians Central and South America. Florida now has Leprosy
who admit that they find raping women and children to be spreading there due to refugees and illegals
perfectly fine. It's a crime they commit at home all the time
and it's something they will continue to do in Europe...and Insanity? No, it's not Donald Trump…it
in your town USA as well. is insanity on the part of the elitist
bankers and media.
Why not put a health stop on all incoming refugees?
Syrians have Leishmaniasis and other diseases and Yemen Patty
and Haiti have Cholera. Is a nation not allowed to protect
itself from infectious diseases? Since when do refugees See the DISEASE MAP at
take preference over American citizens in America? PROMEDMAIL.ORG
Jeff, you have to check out the Promed health map and http://www.healthmap.org/en/
note the clusters of diseases in Europe and elsewhere in
heavily muslim-invaded areas. http://www.promedmail.org/
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These 'Rogue' White House Accounts Are Just Liberal Bait
We All Want To Believe Things We Already Agree With.
By Luke O'Neil
Jan 30, 2017
Indeed.
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"rogue" government resistance accounts that have flooded
Twitter since Trump took office. The trend began last
week, when the National Park Service found themselves at
odds with the president after retweeting two posts that
were critical of him and, more importantly, the size of his
inauguration crowd. Soon thereafter, the administration
reportedly ordered the Parks Service, and other
government agencies, to temporarily curtail their social
media use.
It is also, like many others before it, almost certainly fake.
It comes amidst a veritable gold rush of so-called "alt-" or
.
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Nobody Is Listening
To Your Nonsense Anymore! (Video)
By Voice Of Reason
Monday, January 30th, 2017
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Trump's unilateral moves, which have drawn the ire of extreme vetting, which we should have had in this
human rights groups and prompted protests at US country for many years."
airports, reflect the President's desire to quickly make
good on his campaign promises. But they also The policy team at the White House developed the
encapsulate the pitfalls of an administration largely executive order on refugees and visas, and largely
operated by officials with scant federal experience. avoided the traditional interagency process that
would have allowed the Justice Department and
It wasn't until Friday — the day Trump signed the order homeland security agencies to provide operational
banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries guidance, according to numerous officials who spoke to
for 90 days and suspending all refugee admission for CNN on Saturday.
120 days — that career homeland security staff were
allowed to see the final details of the order, a person Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and
familiar with the matter said. Department of Homeland Security leadership saw the
final details shortly before the order was finalized,
The result was widespread confusion across the government officials said.
country on Saturday as airports struggled to adjust
to the new directives. In New York, two Iraqi nationals Friday night, DHS arrived at the legal interpretation that
sued the federal government after they were detained at the executive order restrictions applying to seven
John F. Kennedy International Airport, and 10 others countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and
were detained as well. Yemen — did not apply to people with lawful permanent
residence, generally referred to as green card holders.
In Philadelphia, a Syrian family of six who had a visa
through a family connection in the US was placed on a The White House overruled that guidance overnight,
return flight to Doha, Qatar, and Department of according to officials familiar with the rollout. That
Homeland Security officials said others who were in the order came from the President's inner circle, led by
air would be detained upon arrival and put back on a Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon. Their decision held
plane to their home country. that, on a case by case basis, DHS could allow green
card holders to enter the US.
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Separately, a person familiar with the matter said career involved in the process were able to make decisions
officials in charge of enforcing the executive order were about who to talk and inform about this.
not fully briefed on the specifics until Friday. The
officials were caught off guard by some of the Bannon and Miller were running point on this order and
specifics and raised questions about how to handle giving directives regarding green cards, according to a
the new banned passengers on US-bound planes. Republican close to the White House.
Regarding the green card holders and some of the But even after the Friday afternoon announcement,
confusion about whether they were impacted, the person administration officials at the White House took several
familiar with the matter said if career officials had known hours to produce text of the action until several
more about the executive order earlier, some of the hours after it was signed. Adviser Kellyanne Conway
confusion could have been avoided and a better plan even said at one point it was not going to be released
could be in place. before eventually it did get sent out.
Administration officials also defended the process Administration officials also seemed unsure at first who
Saturday. They said the people who needed to be was covered in the action, and a list of impacted
briefed ahead of time on the plane were briefed and that countries was only produced later on Friday night, hours
people at the State Department and DHS who were after the President signed the document at the
Pentagon.
.
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When Trump Does Something Right, We
Must Back Him As With The Executive Order
Ban On Muslims Entering The US
By Patricia Doyle Phd
1-30-2017
Hello Jeff - We must support Trump when his actions are Israelis have not taken in ONE SINGLE MUSLIM
correct for the the safety and well-being of the American 'REFUGEE.' Yet they can protest America for trying to
people. slow the invasion here? Well, i guess it has to do with the
PROFIT that Israeli Jewish 'refugee relocating companies'
I cannot believe the anti-Trump protests at airports and are making in the US and elsewhere. They are relocating,
across the nation. Trump is trying to prevent the historic for big money, Muslim 'refugees' who ultimately rape and
killing and terror events which are a major part of muslim kill people in EVERY host country they are moved into.
'culture'. Imposing even a 90 day ban on incoming The day when Israel takes in a Muslim refugee then I
muslims from murder and terror states like Somalia Iraq might not be so upset by their protest of America and Mr.
& Sudan is strictly logical and represents a bare minimum Trump.
of common sense. What are White Americans thinking of
protesting someone who is making good on part of his Of course, the segment of the US population protesting
promises to the voters to protect them from terrorist and working hard to get these savages into the US are the
butchery? These Muslims want to kill us and subjugate out lawyers. They are at airports protesting and helping get
culture to theirs. They have defiled Europe and Australia the Muslim travelers released and into the US to walk
already. Their history is horrifying in its sheer death and among us, infect us and ultimately destroy us.
violence.
When the next terror event happens, we have only
One man complained that his Iraqi fin ace was only 21 ourselves to blame for allowing the invasion of the West to
and therefore could not possibly be a terrorist. Is he continue.
joking? There have been scores of female suicide bombers
and facilitators of terror in many, many countries. Austria What is the sense of building a wall on the taxpayer dole
just stopped a terror event planned by a 12 year old. when Americans will protest and do their best to see to it
Americans wanted this ban especially on refugees coming that 'refugees' and illegals get to circumvent it? Anyone
from these countries but now the lame liberals are out in protesting Trump's anti-Muslim anti-'refugee' anti illegal
force protesting Trump when he does something to stop policy has no right to complain when the unthinkable
the influx of terror and save their lives. There are either happens. When someone in their family os raped and
being paid by globalist communist Soros or there are given a death sentence of AIDS, or some other disease.
completely insane…just like those Germans who have they have no right to complain. We tried to warn them.
taken these savages into their homes with catastrophic Look to Europe.
rapes and murders resulting.
Patty
What made me laugh was the protest in Israel. Israel is
protesting our muslim ban and President Trump when the
.
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President Bannon?
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
JAN. 30, 2017
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Trump’s Bloodless Coup Against
America’s Enemies From Within
By DCwhispers
Posted On January 30, 2017
Consider the names: blackout against the United Nations. Trump and his inner
circle hold little respect and even less trust for the
Flynn, Priebus, Tillerson, Mattis, Sessions, Zinke, monolithic globalist institution.)
Kelly, Coats, Pompeo, Kushner, Bannon, Conway,
Pence, and Priebus, among others.
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New Rasmussen Poll Reveals
Silent Majority Approves Of Immigration Ban
By Tyler Durden
Jan 30, 2017 8:25 PM
While vocal, and often violent, disaffected Hillary Like most issues, support for the immigration ban was
protesters may get a lot of media attention, a new heavily split along party lines with 82% of Republicans
Rasmussen poll out today reveals that the silent supporting the executive order versus only 34% of
majority of Americans, men and women who don't have Democrats and 53% of Independents.
time to protest 24 hours a day because they actually go to
work to provide for their families, support Trump's The refugee ban is supported by 82% of
temporary immigration ban from 7 mostly-Muslim Republicans and 59% of voters not
countries in the Middle East and Africa. In fact, per the affiliated with either major party.
new poll, 57% of likely U.S. voters actually approve of Democrats are opposed by a 53% to
the ban while only 33% were opposed. 34% margin.
A new Rasmussen Reports national The numbers are nearly identical for the temporary ban on
telephone and online survey finds that 57% visas from these seven terrorist-plagued nations.
of Likely U.S. Voters favor a temporary
ban on refugees from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Men and women are in general
Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen until
agreement on both measures. Younger
the federal government approves its voters are slightly less supportive than their
ability to screen out potential terrorists elders are.
from coming here. Thirty-three percent
(33%) are opposed, while 10% are Blacks oppose both bans more than
undecided. whites and other majority voters do.
Similarly, 56% favor a temporary block
on visas prohibiting residents of Syria, As we pointed out earlier (see "Is A Constitutional Crisis
Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Imminent In The Wake Of Trump's Immigration Ban?"),
Yemen from entering the United States the ACLU, flush with $24 million in donations from just
until the government approves its ability this weekend alone, has vowed to fight Trump's
to screen for likely terrorists. Thirty-two immigration ban all the way to the Supreme Court on
percent (32%) oppose this temporary ban, grounds that it targets people of a certain religion, in direct
and 11% are undecided. violation of the First Amendment.
This survey was taken late last week prior to the weekend That said, many legal scholars have
protests against Trump’s executive orders imposing a four- asserted that Trump's immigration ban will
month ban on all refugees and a temporary visa ban on stand up against Constitutional tests, with
visitors from these seven countries. GWU professor Jonathan Turley saying the
ban can't be viewed as a "Muslim ban"
given the "vast majority of Muslims
around the world are not affected by the
limitations placed on these seven
countries.”
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Judges might interpret the order as targeting people from which, at least according to Rasmussen, is a fight he's
countries where “jihadist sentiments” are common, he said. winning.
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Obama Moves to Undermine
Trump Presidency After Only 10 Days
Chris Menahan
Jan. 30, 2017
With regard to comparisons to President Obama's foreign While President Trump restricted travel from seven
policy decisions, as we've hard before, the President countries you labeled as dangerous, you bombed 5 out of
fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating the 7 and actively killed people in those nations, including
against individuals because of their faith. innocent civilians.
President Trump's travel ban is not a You don't have the moral high ground.
Muslim ban and does not "discriminate
against individuals because of their President Trump is trying to protect America from the
faith." refujihadists you helped flood this nation with who are
going on stabbing sprees left and right.
Obama knows this, that's why he simply used vague
language to imply it. This election was a repudiation of everything you believe
in. Take a clue from former president Bush and shut the
hell up and get out of our politics.
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The Left Is Self-Destructing
Paul Craig Roberts
January 30, 2017
The mindlessness is unbearable. Amnesty International The easiest and surest way for the Trump administration to
tells us that we must “fight the Muslim ban” because stop the refugee problem, not only for the US but also for
Trump’s bigotry is wrecking lives. Anthony Dimaggio at Europe and the West in general, is to stop the wars against
CounterPunch says Trump should be impeached because Muslim countries that his predecessors started. The
his Islamophobia is a threat to the Constitution. This is not enormous sums of money squandered on gratuitous wars
to single out these two as the mindlessness is everywhere could instead be given to the countries that the US and
among those whose worldview is defined by Identity NATO have destroyed.
Politics.
The simplest way to end the refugee
One might think that Amnesty International should be problem is to stop producing refugees.
fighting against the Bush/Cheney/Obama regime wars that
have produced the refugees by killing and displacing This should be the focus of Trump, Amnesty, and
millions of Muslims. For example, the ongoing war that Dimaggio.
Obama inflicted on Yemen results in the death of one
Yemeni child every 10 minutes, according to UNICEF.
Is everyone too busy hating to do anything sensible?
Where is Amnesty International?
Immigration is not a right protected by the US The liberal/progressive/left will end up discrediting all
Constitution. Where was Dimaggio when in the name of critics, thereby empowering those to whom the
“the war on terror” the Bush/Obama regime destroyed the liberal/progressive/left are most opposed.
civil liberties guaranteed by the US Constitution? If
Dimaggio is an American citizen, he should try
immigrating to the UK, Germany, or France and see how
far he gets.
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Temper Tantrum: USA Today Columnist
Demands Brady End Friendship With Trump
By Curtis Houck
January 30, 2017 | 1:46 PM EST
If only Armour would have been like this during any of the
scandals or missteps during the Obama administration.
Not after this weekend, when the country boiled over in For all of the negative talk, she flipped the script by
rage and indignation at Trump’s decision to turn holding up the failed San Francisco 49ers quarterback:
America’s back on refugees. Not after this season, when
Colin Kaepernick was pilloried from coast to coast for If Brady needs an example of how that’s
trying to draw attention to the shortcomings of our done, he can look at Kaepernick.
country.
From the day his national anthem protest became public in
And not when he’s about to command the NFL’s biggest August, Kaepernick has been open, available and
stage. consistent with his opinion. It has not been a popular one;
as the protests spread across the league, the San Francisco
Recapping the left’s complaints about Trump’s campaign, 49ers quarterback was portrayed as anti-American, anti-
military and anti-police – all of which he denies.
Armour whined that Trump’s “doubled
down on his hatred in his first week as He’s had insults, slurs and worse directed at him. He was
president” and went DEFCON 1 worrying blamed for the drop in TV ratings early in the season. One
that, supposedly, the American people are person last week even tried to say Trump’s election was
“angry and frightened” that “the ideals partly the result of Kaepernick’s protests.
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It would have been easy for Kaepernick to brush off Regardless of whether he was duped into
questions or say he’d rather talk about football, as Brady being a prop or is genuinely friends with
has done. Instead, he’s been eloquent in detailing his Trump, Brady inserted himself into the
concerns over police brutality in minority communities. national firestorm. He can’t be surprised
He’s sparked conversations and reflection in NFL locker that people want to know more. And now
rooms and beyond. expect more.
Armour concluded by proving that while liberals shout In short, this should be none of Armour’s (or anyone
about wanting the government out of their bedrooms, they else’s) business.
are interested in who you speak to:
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Trump Files With FEC For 2020 Election Bid,
Outmaneuvers Nonprofit Organizations
William Craddick
January 30, 2017
A document from the Federal Elections Commission could theoretically affect the results of the 2020 U.S.
(FEC) indicates that Donald Trump took steps last week to Presidential Election without running the risk of losing
outmaneuver nonprofit organizations, leaving them unable their nonprofit status. The move effectively bars interest
to officially campaign against him over the next few years groups from creating nonprofits which they could funnel
of his Presidency. money into for the purposes of opposing Trump’s
initiatives. This will likely create chaos for political
Filed on January 20th, 2017, the letter states that, while not opponents of Trump such as George Soros, who has sunk
an official announcement for reelection, Donald Trump significant amounts of money into various nonprofit
has filed an FEC Form 2 in order to “ensure compliance groups with the intent of opposing Trump’s government.
with the Federal Election Campaign Act.” This is an How 501(c)(3) organizations will comply with the FEC’s
unprecedented, although legal, move for the President to regulations when participating an actions which qualify as
make. Barack Obama did not file for his 2012 re-election political speech remains to be seen.
bid until April 2011. Having filed (even if not formally
announcing a bid) as a candidate, Trump would be able to The move is consistent with Trump’s campaign promises
coordinate with PACs and other similar organizations. to reduce the financial influence of private special interest
groups on Washington.
More importantly, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations would
no longer be able to engage in “political speech” which
.
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Trump Authorizes Congress To
Pursue Criminal Charges Against Hillary
By Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Posted On January 31, 2017
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BREAKING: Trump Just Ordered Gowdy And Chaffetz
Back On Clinton Case To “Go After Everything”
Posted by Matthew Bernstein
Feb 1, 2017
The case? Hillary put the entire nation in jeopardy with her Chaffetz said that the conversation between President
decision to use a private email server, delete thousands and Trump and himself took place after the 2017 GOP retreat
thousands of emails despite being told not to, and involved in Philadelphia. This was also his second time ever
the State Department in several pay to play schemes speaking with the president in person.
through her Clinton Foundation.
The Utah Republican spoke to the committee saying,
“Just because there was a political election Also, one of Hillary and Bill Clinton’s global foundations
doesn’t mean it goes away.” He also called was shut down mere months after she lost the election.
the classified emails that surfaced on the That is just further proof that she was using it as a way to
server “the largest breach of security in the get political favors. Now that she isn’t in office, how can
history of the State Department.” she promise those favors?
If you couple that with all the WikiLeaks emails that had Not to mention that Hillary’s other foundation is still being
come out during the days leading up to the election, you investigated by the FBI in several different states. There is
can clearly see that Hillary was using this to gain a a lot going on for the former Secretary of State, and
political advantage. A lot of people that were donating to absolutely none of them are any good for her. I wouldn’t
her Foundation did so because she had promised some sort be surprised if the FBI placed charges against her for her
of political favor. “charity.”
Again, she put the security of the country at risk because Share this article to show that President Trump has just
of her decision to use a private server. Not only did she do given Chaffetz the ability to go after what he wants. That
that, but she actively tried to say that it wasn’t a big deal as means that Hillary Clinton is finally finished and justice
other people had done that, like Colin Powell. will prevail. Trump did say that he was going to restore
law and order to the country. Going after someone that put
No, Powell used a personal email account that was used the nation in danger is a good way to start.
for unclassified materials, like lunch runs or anything
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Anti-Trump State Department Staff
Oppose His Entry Into America
By Stephen Lendman
1-31-2017
It’s more about politics as usual than “protecting the nation SBU: Trump’s EO “will increase anti-
from foreign terrorist entry into the United States.” American sentiment.” It’ll be
“counterproductive.”
On January 30, a draft letter supported by over 100 career
foreign service officers and other diplomats expressed Fact: Indeed! It’ll make more enemies than friends abroad.
opposition to Trump’s action - headlined “SENSITIVE It’ll do nothing to make America safer.
BUT UNCLASSIFIED (SBU).”
SBU: “We have a special obligation to
“(I)t runs counter to core American values maintain an immigration system that is as
of nondiscrimination, fair play, and free as possible from discrimination, that
extending a warm welcome to foreign does not have an implied or actual religious
visitors and immigrants,” it said. tests, and that views individuals as
individuals, not as part of stereotyped
Fact: These and similar values are important, ones groups.”
America consistently spurns at home and abroad, waging
endless wars on humanity. Fact: US immigration was never free and fair, favoring
Western Europeans, white Christians from inception, Jews
SBU: The EO “will not achieve its stated post-WW II over other religious faiths, largely demeaning
aim of to protect the American people from people of color.
terrorist attacks by foreign nationals
admitted to the United States.” State Department staffers against Trump’s action should
either resign or carry out their duties as ordered by
Fact: True enough! State-sponsored terrorism is a superiors.
homeland threat, not violence from refugees or other
foreign nationals. Either way, they’re free to express their views. America’s
First Amendment is endangered, but it’s still the law of the
land.
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Progressives Ready All-Out Assault
On Trump's Supreme Court Pick
By Seung Min Kim And Edward-Isaac Dovere
01/31/17 05:09 AM EST
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has already conceded that And while conservative forces are already putting the
he believes President Donald Trump won't pick a "mainstream" finishing touches on a $10 million ad blitz targeting red-
candidate. | AP Photo
state Senate Democrats who will come under enormous
pressure to back Trump’s nominee, People for the
Progressive groups will mount a multi-phase effort against American Way is readying a television ad campaign of its
President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, own as a counterbalance.
targeting specific Democratic and GOP senators and
preparing a broader assault on Republicans to pressure
“There will be resources available to make
them against blowing up the filibuster — even as some
the case,” said Marge Baker, the group’s
Senate Democrats pledged Monday to block Trump’s pick.
executive vice president. “This is a fight
that we’re going to be in, in an absolutely
Leaders of key groups have been meeting privately to serious way.”
coordinate strategy for the past month, and have already
begun to talk protest plans in senators’ home states and at
The advocates contend they have both the progressive
the Supreme Court in Washington, with early
energy to pressure Democrats to hold the line, and enough
conversations about fundraising and advertising underway.
of a buffer in a Democratic caucus of 48 members to lose
several while still being able to block a nominee.
They are still outraged by the Republican blockade of
Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland last year
“There is a lot of energy in the progressive
but are trying to cast their own opposition as different —
space to say, ‘This seat was stolen from a
particularly as Trump already has issued a series of
Democratic president, period. It was grand
executive orders that have prompted court challenges
larceny,’” said Brad Woodhouse, president
nationwide.
of Americans United for Change.
“Democrats in the Senate, and
Foremost is Trump’s far-reaching and controversial progressives and liberals who care about
executive order to ban immigrants from several the unprecedented nature of that theft by
predominantly Muslim nations, a directive sure to be a Republicans, shouldn’t roll over for Donald
focus in the coming Supreme Court fight. Trump and his Supreme Court pick.”
“There is now an urgency to oppose Along the way, they’re hoping to drive a major wedge
anyone who won’t be a powerful check on between Republicans in the Senate, many of whom are
the Supreme Court against the executive wary of blowing up the filibuster completely, and Trump,
branch excesses and impulses,” said Nan who’s made clear that’s what he wants if Democrats don’t
Aron, founder and president of the Alliance confirm his nominee.
for Justice. “I would predict that there will
be a huge outcry if the nominee cannot
“I don’t advocate taking the same approach
demonstrate that he or she could be
that GOPers took to Garland (in refusing
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meetings, hearings and votes),” said one Though the advocacy groups insist they are not simply
former Obama White House official. “I’d trying to go tit for tat over the obstruction of Garland,
advocate for close, intense scrutiny at there’s little doubt that the lingering frustration over how
every stage of the process — which I think Obama’s final nominee was treated has permeated thinking
will eventually lead just about every Dem to among many Democrats.
oppose the nominee and likely at least
some GOPers.” “That’s how we see this,” one Democratic
senator said of the Garland blockade. “The
For months, groups such as the Alliance for Justice and anger, we feel it in our stomach.”
People for the American Way have done extensive
research on the nearly two dozen judicial candidates whom Whenever the Supreme Court fight begins in earnest,
Trump named during his campaign, with special focus Democrats won’t be hungry for help from the outside.
recently on names that have popped up more frequently —
such as Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Thomas
The Constitutional Responsibility Project, organized by
Hardiman and 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge
former Obama aides last year to push for Garland’s
Neil Gorsuch, two jurists reportedly at the top of the pack.
confirmation, will be reconstituted at the offices of
SKDKnickerbocker, with Sheila O’Connell, most recently
The pro-abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice Chris Van Hollen’s 2016 Senate campaign manager,
America has also been distributing its own research on coming on board.
where potential nominees stand.
The opposition-research group American Bridge is
A broad array of liberal groups, including People for the preparing a full-research, rapid-response and video-
American Way, The Leadership Conference on Civil and tracking operation to “expose the nominee as too
Human Rights, Alliance for Justice Action Campaign, and conservative and out of step with mainstream Americans,”
Center for American Progress Action Fund, have said Kevin McAlister, a spokesman for the group.
organized a protest for Tuesday night at the steps of the
Supreme Court against Trump’s nominee, who’ll be
And End Citizens United, a political action committee that
announced earlier that evening.
advocates for campaign finance reform, is readying a
national grass-roots campaign that will push its 3 million
Senate Democrats — who are also waging a political fight members to flood senators with calls, emails and petitions,
over Trump’s executive orders and Cabinet nominees — as well as a digital advocacy effort, spokesman Adam
for the most part have tried to reserve judgment until the Bozzi said.
president actually unveils his pick. Democrats have been
insisting on a so-called mainstream nominee, although
All that is to counter the expected assault and pressure
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has conceded
from conservatives, who backed the Senate GOP’s nearly
that he believes Trump won’t pick such a candidate.
yearlong blockade of Garland but now expect Democrats
to fall in line.
Still, Democrats are almost sure to face a massive level of
pressure from the base to hold the line against Trump’s
Schumer “said it’s hard for him to imagine a
pick.
nominee … from President Trump who
Senate Democrats could support,” Senate
“They need to fight like hell and do all they Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
can to confirm only someone who is fair said Monday. “We don’t even have one yet.
and an independent judge who can serve I hope we can get past that and get down
as a check to this president,” said Ellen to our serious work.”
Buchman, executive vice president for field
and communications at the Leadership
Conference for Civil Rights.
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President Trump Exposes McCain
And Graham For Trying To Start Word War III
Neocon Warmongers Have Long Pushed Policies
That Could Start World War Three
By Alex Thomas -
01.31.2017 @5:15 PM EST
(INTELLIHUB) — After the neocon duo of Senators John definition of the Rhino Republicans that Americans voted
McCain and Lindsey Graham publicly criticized his against in droves during the last election.
executive order on immigration from the Middle East,
President Trump took to Twitter to destroy the noted It is also blatantly obvious why McCain would come out
warmongers. against Trump’s executive order as he has been personally
working against the Trump Administration since before the
Responding to a joint statement by the Senators, Trump president-elect was even inaugurated.
noted that they were both failed presidential candidates
before ridiculing them for their long history of being weak In what led many to label him an actual traitor, McCain
on immigration. was the person who personally handed the disinformation
dossier on Donald Trump to the FBI in what was a direct
action against the incoming president designed to help
leftist opposition.
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Trump Fires Acting Attorney General For Refusal To
Enforce 'Extreme Vetting' Order
Published Time: 31 Jan, 2017 02:24Edited Time: 31 Jan, 2017 12:58
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who served under
President Obama, tweeted support for Yates after her
termination.
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US CODE - Trump's Ban
Is Absolutely Constitutional
1-31-2017
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America Don’t Be Fooled. “Fake Tears” Schumer And
Nancy Pelosi Have A History Of Killing Muslims
How Many Muslims Were Killed In Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya? Guess Which
Democrats Supported The Killing?
Alex Christoforou
January 31, 2017
They cry over Trump’s executive order to enforce 1998: Saddam has engaged in development of WMDs.
Obama’s immigration act from seven Muslim majority August 2011.
nations. 2002: No question Saddam has WMD. October 2008
Voted NO on removing US armed forces from
Afghanistan. March 2011.
They scream that the ban is undermines “American
values” and is “evil”.
Pelosi on the destruction of Libya (via The Hill)…
Do we need to go over the numbers as to how many people
of Muslim faith were killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the White
and Libya? One million, five million? House violated neither the Constitution nor the War
Powers Resolution when it launched military operations in
the war-torn African nation in March without Congress’s
“Fake Tears” Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are endorsement.
anything but sympathetic toward Muslims.
“The limited nature of this engagement
Their voting record in Congress and the Senate show two allows the president to go forward,” Pelosi
Democrats who have a history of supporting destructive told reporters at the Capitol. “I’m satisfied
wars in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, while pushing that the president has the authority he
for sanctions against Iran and Syria…sanctions with the needs to go ahead.”If we had boots on the
sole purpose of creating unrest and suffering. ground … then that’s a different story,”
Pelosi added. “I don’t think they should
Most of the countries mentioned above, are part of the list stop the support that they’re giving to
of seven countries on the immigration executive order that NATO to stop the humanitarian disaster.”
“Fake Tears” Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are so torn up
over. Key Democrats were supporting US action to prevent the
impending humanitarian catastrophe in Libya…
Democrat Senator from NY, “Fake Tears”
Chuck Schumer: March 23, 2011 – Nancy Pelosi:
Voted YES on designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards “Acting upon the United Nations Security
as terrorists. September 2007. Council’s resolution to use ‘all measures
Voted YES on $86 billion for military operations in Iraq necessary’ to protect the Libyan people
& Afghanistan. October 2003. and the Arab League’s call for a no-fly-
Voted YES to authorize force in Iraq. October 2002. zone, the United States joined the
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international community in preventing an human rights of those seeking to exercise
imminent humanitarian crisis in Libya. their voices, then we will do everything we
Actions taken by the international can to send the strongest message
community have already prevented possible to that nation’s leadership that this
Qaddafi from implementing his threat to behavior is beyond the pale and not without
‘show no mercy’ to his own people, consequence,” Schumer said.
including those living in the city of
Benghazi.” Nancy Pelosi on supporting up the removal of Assad in
“Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical Syria (via The Hill)…
and biological weapons. There’s no
question about that.” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said
–Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Nov. 17, 2002 Friday that it was time for the United States to “take it to
the next step” in Syria in response to possible chemical
weapons use, although she said that did not include putting
“Fake Tears” Schumer on Syria sanctions (via USA “troops on the ground.”
Today)…
“I myself think that we have tolerated for
Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are too long all of the assaults on the Syrian
pushing the Syrian Human Rights people made by its own government,”
Accountability Act, which would bar Pelosi told reporters. “I think we have to
officials in President Bashar Assad’s take it to the next step. That does not mean
regime implicated in human rights abuses troops on the ground.”
from traveling to or doing business with the
United States and ban companies from
selling weapons or sensitive technology to House members leaving the briefing said that Kerry had
the Syrian government. discussed the potential steps the U.S. could take.
“Syria continues to show it has no desire to “The secretary laid out what some of those
curb the bloody crackdown that has options would be,” said Rep. Brad
become synonymous with Assad’s regime,” Sherman (D-Calif.). “It’s everything from
Schumer said. “We must do everything diplomatic opposition to Assad, to
that we can to make it clear to Assad supporting refugees, to cash for groups,
that his time is up.” to weapons for groups, to a no fly zone
“If Syria won’t willingly change its brutal — all of those are on the table.”
approach and continues to violate the
.
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Trump Set To Pull U.S. Out Of
The Paris Agreement Within Days
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt To Replace Ebell
By Caleb Stephen -
01.31.2017 @8:51 AM EST
Myron Ebell, the former head of Trump’s Environmental The agreement, adopted by 194 countries last December, is
Protection Agency (EPA) transition team — a position he a successor to the Kyoto Protocols.
held until Trump’s inauguration — said the U.S. would
pull out of the Paris agreement within a matter of days. Ebell, who helped direct the EPA’s transition after the
Republican real estate tycoon was elected in November
Trump, a climate change skeptic who has previously called until he was sworn in on January 20, said it was difficult to
climate change a hoax created by China, campaigned on a predict the timing of any action because government
pledge to boost the U.S. oil and gas drilling and coal departments are still in transition.
mining industries by slashing regulation.
Ebell currently serves as the Director of Global Warming
He had promised to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement and International Environmental Policy at the Competitive
which aims to curb global warming — a nonexistent issue Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington.
based on scientific data.
Trump appointed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt,
Ebell said the President was determined to undo the who has led 14 lawsuits against the EPA, to replace Ebell
policies of the Obama administration including as the agency’s administrator, although a vote on his
unraveling Obama’s climate action plan and defunding nomination has not been scheduled yet.
U.N. climate change work, The Independent reported. The
.
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A Jarring New Level Of Confrontation
And Conflict Hits Washington
By CARL HULSE
JAN. 31, 2017
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How ready remained an open question. Most in Congress, When Democrats were clashing with President George W.
regardless of party, take their role seriously as members of Bush, there was a general expectation of how things would
a coequal branch of government and they don’t take well go and the realization that both sides understood their
to being kept out of the loop on matters for which they will roles. Over eight years of the Obama administration, the
be held to account. two parties settled into a predictable pattern of
Republicans opposing the president and Democrats trying
In other corners of the establishment, the reaction to the to find a way around it. Despite frequent visits to the brink
first days of the Trump era was not nearly as enthusiastic of crisis, the adversaries tended to find a resolution before
as that of Ms. McMorris Rodgers. One usually plugged-in the damage was beyond repair.
Republican consultant who didn’t want to be identified
picking a fight with the new president said a continuation With the Trump team, no one as yet is sure what to
of the turmoil would quickly call into question the basic anticipate, leaving nerves jangled and people wondering
competency of the new administration. He noted that what is next — a rollback of gay legal protections (denied
despite being in the middle of past Supreme Court by the White House), or a move against the young
confirmation fights, he surprisingly had not heard from the undocumented immigrants in the so-called Dreamers
White House for ideas on how to handle the coming one. program? What about a clash with Iran or an embrace of
Russia?
Senator Angus King, an independent from Maine who is
part of the Senate Democratic Caucus, called the executive Mr. Trump and his team seem in some ways to be enjoying
order on immigration a “disaster” and pointed to Mr. the confusion they have come to create.
Trump’s reliance on an extremely tight circle of advisers.
“We’re going to be changing a lot of — a lot
“This president, you know, he listens to a of the rules,” the president exclaimed
very narrow group of people, and as we’ve Tuesday at a White House meeting with
learned this weekend, can make some very pharmaceutical executives.
bad decisions,” Mr. King said in an
interview on CNN. “We need to get some His comments were aimed at what to do about drug
people around him as quickly as possible development and pricing. But they seemed to imply so
who can rein in those impulses like what much more, keeping Washington on edge.
we saw this weekend.”
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Anti-Trumpism Still Raging
By Stephen Lendman
1-31-2017
Nationwide street protests following Trump’s entry into In 2011, House and Senate Democrats supported Obama’s
America order are more about him than his EO. Are pro- six-month ban on Iraqi asylum-seekers - on the phony
Hillary dark forces behind them? pretext of preventing possible domestic terrorist attacks.
Was Obama appointee, acting Attorney General Sally On Sunday, top House judiciary, homeland security and
Yates, part of it. Agree or disagree with his action, she foreign affairs committee members demanded an
refused to enforce it, a legitimate cause for dismissal, a “emergency” meeting with DHS in a letter sent to
White House statement saying: Secretary John Kelly, saying:
She “betrayed the Department of Justice by “As ranking members of the committees of
refusing to enforce a legal order designed jurisdiction for matters of immigration,
to protect the citizens of the United States. border security, and admission of refugees,
This order was approved as to form and we write to you on an emergency basis to
legality by the Department of Justice Office request a meeting to discuss the
of Legal Counsel.” implementation and guidance concerning
the Executive Order.”
“Tonight, President Trump relieved Ms.
Yates of her duties and subsequently A DHS statement said
named Dana Boente, US Attorney for the
Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as “(w)e are committed to ensuring that all
Acting Attorney General until Senator Jeff individuals affected by the executive
Sessions is finally confirmed by the Senate, orders, including those affected by the
where he is being wrongly held up by court orders, are being provided all rights
Democrat senators for strictly political afforded under the law.”
reasons.”
“We are also working closely with airline
Militantly anti-Trump Senate Minority Leader Chuck partners to prevent travelers who would not
Schumer blasted Trump’s EO. His over-acting was be granted entry under the executive
inexcusable. Referencing the Statue of Liberty, he said orders from boarding international flights to
the US. Therefore, we do not anticipate
“(w)e will not let this evil order extinguish that further individuals traveling by air to
that great torch.” the United States will be affected.”
“(T)his order is against what we believe in Separately, Kelly said green card holders are exempt from
in America…We will not let this evil order Trumps’s EO.
make us less American. We will fight it with
everything we have and we will win this For good or ill, it stands. Congressional Democrats don’t
fight.” have enough votes to rescind it. “Methinks thou dost
protest too much” applies to their ranks.
Though the order was all about politics, not its stated
purpose, it’s far short of “evil.” Where’s Schumer’s Led by House and Senate minority leaders Pelosi and
outrage over the real thing - endless imperial wars he Schumer respectively, congressional Dems intend an
supports, Wall Street favoritism he champions, along with upcoming rally outside the Supreme Court against
force-fed austerity harming millions and homeland police Trump’s EO.
state repression?
A combination protest/candelight vigil is planned, joined
The defining feature of Congress is hypocrisy. House by local refugees as convenient props.
Democrats are preparing legislation to overturn Trump’s
EO - a nonstarter given GOP Speaker Paul Ryan’s Democrat party outrage is all about anti-Trumpism,
opposition and Trump’s certain veto if legislation reaches unrelated to his EO - part of a persistent plot to
his desk. The effort is pure grandstanding, nothing else. delegitimize him and undermine his agenda.
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Hackers Took Down D.C.’S CCTV System
For A 48-Hour Span Leading Up To
Trump’s Inauguration, Demanded Ransom
Officials And Others Unsure Of What May Have Taken Place
During A Massive Citywide CCTV Outage
By Shepard Ambellas -
01.31.2017 @2:11 PM EST
(INTELLIHUB) — Between the dates of Jan. 12 and Jan. stand down ordered on police body cameras during the
15, for about a 48-hour span, 70% of the CCTV cameras in Inauguration, as reported by Intellihub on Jan. 18.
Washington D.C. were rendered useless by hackers adding
an element of uncertainty in regards to what may have Furthermore, a report by TendMicro.com details how
taken place in and around D.C. just days before Donald
Trump’s Inauguration.
“Ransomware is a type of malware that
prevents or limits users from accessing
Secret Service and city officials said that cyber attackers their system, either by locking the system’s
used ransomware to infect nearly 130 of 187 network screen or by locking the users’ files unless
storage devices linked to the city’s closed-circuit camera a ransom is paid. More modern
network, disallowing the storage of any incoming imagery ransomware families, collectively
data also while simultaneously requesting a ransom to be categorized as crypto-ransomware, encrypt
paid. certain file types on infected systems and
forces users to pay the ransom through
According to the city’s Chief Technology Officer official certain online payment methods to get a
Archana Vemulapalli, the attack prompted city officials to decrypt key.”
willingly take the entire CCTV network offline by
removing all related software, later forcing a reboot of Additionally, ant to point out that ransomware prices can
each site independently, which left at least a 48-hour be set to any amount and are often requested in
window of opportunity for criminal activity to take place cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
without being recorded.
1RedDrop.com reports:
Although city officials claim that the hack appeared to be a
“localized” extortion attempt, one must question what The most alarming part about all this is that
group or agency is actually responsible and what attackers ransomware is now being sold under the
intentions really were. ransomware-as-a-service model, similar to
a lot of cloud computing offerings. Under
Vemulapalli said that on the day of Jan. 12 D.C. Metro this model, ransomware can be purchased
Police noticed that four camera pods were not properly and deployed even by people with no
functioning and reported their findings to the technology hacking experience. The buyer then
office (OTCO), who later identified the devices to be commits to give the seller a percentage of
infected with ransomware thus prompting a “citywide the “take”, usually set at 40%.
sweep,” as reported by the Washington Post.
One of the most active ransomeware groups today is
Police Chief fill-in Peter Newsham addressed the hack Cerber, which actually offers a “ransomware for
publically and said that there was ‘no known significant dummies” type of package that provides the buyer with all
impact’ as a result of the hack, but an active open the resources they need. That makes Cerber potentially far
investigation may suggest otherwise as it was admitted that more dangerous than any other hacking group, including
city officials took the cameras offline themselves, Locky, which operates with just one person, or threat
ultimately creating a window of opportunity for illicit actor, and doesn’t sell or share its methods with anyone.
activity to occur undetected which also dovetails with the
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The Herjavec Group published a report titled business, forensic investigation, restoration
“Hackerpocalypse: A Cybercrime Revelation” which and deletion of hacked data and systems,
maintains that by the year 2021 “cybercrime will cost the and reputational harm.”
world in excess of $6 trillion annually” and is growing
rapidly. All of which will create a vast market for individuals,
corporations, and governments to defend against cyber
The report mentions how crime which is
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Judge Jeanine: 'Impressive' Gorsuch Has the Right
Credentials & Temperament
January 31, 2017
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President Trump:
Nationalist Capitalism, An Alternative To Globalization
Trump Is A Market Realist Who Recognizes That Military Conquest Is
Costly And, In The Contemporary World Context,
A Losing Economic Proposition For The US.
By James Petras
January 31, 2017
During his inaugural speech, President Trump clearly and “Hear these words! You will never be
forcefully outlined the strategic political-economic policies ignored again.” Trump’s own words portray
he will pursue over the next four years. Anti-Trump the ruling class ‘as pigs at the trough’
journalist, editorialists, academics and experts, who appear (Financial Times, 1/23/2017, p. 11)
in the Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post
and the Wall Street Journal have repeatedly distorted and Trump’s Political-Economic Critique
lied about the President’s program as well as his critique of
existing and past policies. President Trump emphasizes market negotiations with
overseas partners and adversaries. He has repeatedly
We will begin by seriously discussing President Trump’s criticized the mass media and politicians’ mindless
critique of the contemporary political economy and promotion of free markets and aggressive militarism as
proceed to elaborate on his alternatives and its weaknesses. undermining the nation’s capacity to negotiate profitable
deals.
President Trump’s Critique of the Ruling Class
President Trump’s immigration policy is closely related to
The centerpiece of Trump’s critique of the current ruling his strategic ‘America First’ labor policy. Massive inflows
elite is the negative impact of its form of globalization on of immigrant labor have been used to undermine US
US production, trade and fiscal imbalances and on the workers’ wages, labor rights and stable employment. This
labor market. Trump cites the fact that US industrial was first documented in the meat packing industry,
capitalism has drastically shifted the locus of its followed by textile, poultry and construction industries.
investments, innovations and profits overseas as an Trump’s proposal is to limit immigration to allow US
example of globalization’s negative effects. For two workers to shift the balance of power between capital and
decades many politicians and pundits have bemoaned the labor and strengthen the power of organized labor to
loss of well-paid jobs and stable local industries as part of negotiate wages, conditions and benefits. Trump’s critique
their campaign rhetoric or in public meetings, but none of mass immigration is based on the fact that skilled
have taken any effective action against these most harmful American workers have been available for employment in
aspects of globalization. Trump denounced them as “all the same sectors if wages were raised and work conditions
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were improved to permit dignified, stable living standards This resonated with a huge sector of the working class and
for their families. was spoken before an assemblage of the very architects of
four decades of job-destroying globalization. ‘Carnage’
President Trump’s Political Critique carried a double meaning: Widespread carnage resulted
from Obama and other administrations’ destruction of
domestic jobs resulting in decay and bankruptcy of rural,
Trump points to trade agreements, which have led to huge
small town and urban communities. This domestic carnage
deficits, and concludes that US negotiators have been
failures. He argues that previous US presidents have was the other side of the coin of their policies of
signed multi-lateral agreements, to secure military conducting endless overseas wars spreading carnage to
three continents. The last fifteen years of political
alliances and bases, at the expense of negotiating job-
leadership spread domestic carnage by allowing the
creating economic pacts. His presidency promises to
epidemic of drug addiction (mostly related to uncontrolled
change the equation: He wants to tear up or renegotiate
synthetic opiate prescriptions) to kill hundreds of
unfavorable economic treaties while reducing US overseas
military commitments and demands NATO allies shoulder thousands of mostly young American’s and destroy the
more of their own defense budgets. Immediately upon lives of millions.
taking office Trump canceled the Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP) and convoked a meeting with Canada and Mexico to Trump promised to finally address this ‘carnage’ of wasted
renegotiate NAFTA. lives. Unfortunately, he did not hold ‘Big Pharma’ and the
medical community responsible for its role in spreading
Trump’s agenda has featured plans for hundred-billion drug addiction into the deepest corners of the economically
devastated rural America. Trump criticized previous
dollar infrastructure projects, including building
elected officials for authorizing huge military subsidies to
controversial oil and gas pipelines from Canada to the US
‘allies’ while making it clear that his critique did not
Gulf. It is clear that these pipelines violate existing treaties
include US military procurement policies and would not
with indigenous people and threaten ecological mayhem.
However, by prioritizing the use of American-made contradict his promise to ‘reinforce old alliances’
(NATO).
construction material and insisting on hiring only US
workers, his controversial policies will form the basis for
developing well-paid American jobs. Among the most outrageous example of the mass media’s
hysteria about Trump’s New Economy is the systematic
The emphasis on investment and jobs in the US is a and vitriolic series of fabrications designed to obscure the
grim national reality that Trump has promised to address.
complete break with the previous Administration, where
We will discuss and compare the accounts published by
President Obama focused on waging multiple wars in the
‘garbage journalists (GJ’s)’ and present a more accurate
Middle East, increasing public debt and the trade deficit.
version of the situation.Truth and Lies: Garbage
Journalists and Arm Chair Militarists
Truth and Lies: Garbage Journalists and Arm Chair
Militarists
The respectable garbage journalists of the Financial Times
claim that Trump wants to ‘destroy world trade’. In fact,
Trumps has repeatedly stated his intention to increase
international trade. What Trump proposes is to increase US
world trade from the inside, rather than from overseas. He
seeks to re-negotiate the terms of multilateral and bilateral
trade agreements to secure greater reciprocity with trading
partners. Under Obama, the US was more aggressive in
imposing trade tariffs that any other country in the OECD.
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Trump’s opposition to ‘globalization’ has been conflated billions on sanctions and military spending – especially
by the garbage journalists of the Washington Post as a dire fomenting the violent putchist regime in Ukraine. Obama’s
threat to the ‘the post-Second World War economic order’. policies promoting the violent seizure of power in Ukraine,
In fact, vast changes have already rendered the old order Syria and Libya were motivated by his desire to overthrow
obsolete and attempts to retain it have led to crises, wars governments friendly to Russia – devastating those
and more decay. Trump has recognized the obsolete nature countries and ultimately strengthening Russia’s will to
of the old economic order and stated that change is consolidate and defend its borders and to form new
necessary. strategic alliances.
The Obsolete Old Order and the Dubious New Early in his campaign, Trump recognized the new world
Economy realities and proposed to change the substance, symbols,
rhetoric and relations with adversaries and allies – adding
At the end of the Second World War, most of Western up to a New Economy.
Europe and Japan resorted to highly restrictive
‘protectionist’ industrial and monetary policies to rebuild First and foremost, Trump looked at the disastrous wars in
their economies. Only after a period of prolonged recovery the Middle East and recognized the limits of US military
did Germany and Japan carefully and selectively liberalize power: The US could not engage in multiple, open-ended
their economic policies. wars of conquest and occupation in the Middle East, North
Africa and Asia without paying major domestic costs.
In recent decades, Russia was drastically transformed from
a powerful collectivist economy to a capitalist vassal- Secondly, Trump recognized that Russia was not a
gangster oligarchy and more recently to a reconstituted strategic military threat to the United States. Furthermore,
mixed economy and strong central state. China has been the Russian government under Vladimir Putin was willing
transformed from a collectivist economy, isolated from to cooperate with the US to defeat a mutual enemy – ISIS
world trade, into the world’s second most powerful and its terrorist networks. Russia was also keen to re-open
economy, displacing the US as Asia and Latin America’s its markets to the US investors, who were also anxious to
largest trading partner. return after years of the Obama-Clinton-Kerry imposed
sanctions. Trump, the realist, proposes to end sanctions
Once controlling 50% of world trade, the US share is now and restore favorable market relations.
less than 20%. This decline is partly due to the dismantling
of its industrial economy when its manufacturers moved
their factories abroad.
The Garbage Journalists claim that Trump has adopted a Trump is not a ‘protectionist’, nor is he opposed to ‘free-
new bellicose stance toward China and threatens to launch trade’. These charges by the garbage journalists are
a ‘protectionist agenda’, which will ultimately push the baseless. Trump does not oppose US economic imperialist
trans-Pacific countries closer to Beijing. On the contrary, policies abroad. However, Trump is a market realist who
Trump appears intent on renegotiating and increasing trade recognizes that military conquest is costly and, in the
via bilateral agreements. contemporary world context, a losing economic
proposition for the US. He recognizes that the US must
Trump will most probably maintain, but not expand, turn from a predominant finance and import economy to a
Obama’s military encirclement of China’s maritime manufacturing and export economy.
boundaries which threaten its vital shipping routes.
Nevertheless, unlike Obama, Trump will re-negotiate Trump views Russia as a potential economic partner and
economic and trade relations with Beijing – viewing China military ally in ending the wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan
as a major economic power and not a developing nation and Ukraine, and especially in defeating the terrorist threat
intent on protecting its ‘infant industries’. Trump’s realism of ISIS. He sees China as a powerful economic competitor,
reflect the new economic order: China is a mature, highly which has been taking advantage of outmoded trade
competitive, world economic power, which has been out- privileges and wants to re-negotiate trade pacts in line with
competing the US, in part by retaining its own state the current balance of economic power.
subsidies and incentives from its earlier economic phase.
This has led to significant imbalances. Trump, the realist, Trump is a capitalist-nationalist, a market-imperialist and
recognizes that China offers great opportunities for trade
political realist, who is willing to trample on women’s
and investment if the US can secure reciprocal
rights, climate change legislation, indigenous treaties and
agreements, which lead to a more favorable balance of
immigrant rights. His cabinet appointments and his
trade.
Republican colleagues in Congress are motivated by a
militarist ideology closer to the Obama-Clinton doctrine
Trump does not want to launch a ‘trade war’ with China, than to Trumps new ‘America First’ agenda. He has
but he needs to restore the US as a major ‘exporter’ nation surrounded his Cabinet with military imperialists,
in order to implement his domestic economic agenda. The territorial expansionists and delusional fanatics.
negotiations with the Chinese will be very difficult
because the US importer-elite are against the Trump Who will win out in the short or long term remains to be
agenda and side with the Beijing’s formidable export- seen. What is clear is that the liberals, Democratic Party
oriented ruling class.
hacks and advocates of Little Mussolini black shirted street
thugs will be on the side of the imperialists and will find
Moreover, because Wall Street’s banking elite is pleading plenty of allies among and around the Trump regime.
with Beijing to enter China’s financial markets, the
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Obama Actually Committed More Religious
Discrimination Than Any That Trump Is Accused Of
Where Was The Outrage Against The Obama Administration? Where Is
The Outrage Against The People Protesting Against Trump?
By Ron A. Y. Rich —— Bio And Archives
January 31, 2017
Note the contrast with the policies of the Trump The contrast is even greater in Israel proper. There were an
administration, where the ban on immigrants from certain estimated 34,000 Christians in the area now encompassed
ISIS-infested countries makes no mention of religion and by Israel in 1949; now there are an estimated 150,000,
does not take religion into account. It is clearly based on constituting approximately 9% of the Israeli Arab
an attempt to prevent potential or actual terrorists from population, and 2% of the total Israeli population.
infiltrating our country. The hypocrites of the left also
conveniently fail to note that the 7 Arab countries singled Under Jordanian rule, Christians were forbidden to
out for the ban are precisely the identical Arab countries purchase land and houses, and many were persecuted,
singled out for extra careful security measures by the tortured, and murdered because of their religion.
Obama administration, so on top of everything else, the
leftists and others who focus on the 7 Arab countries The Palestinian Authority notoriously denies Jewish
singled out by Trump are hypocritical in their outrage. historical ties to Jerusalem, but they not as notoriously, but
equally despicably, deny Christian ties to Jerusalem as
The Unites States State Department even under Obama well.
found that Christians in more than 60 countries face
persecution from their governments or the surrounding
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Bethlehem and Nazareth used to be populated by In Nigeria, thousands of Christians were denied schooling,
Christians in the majority. After Jordanian control and clean water, heath care, and ultimately their very lives.
now Palestinian Authority control, they are in the minority.
Saudi Arabia tortures and murders Muslims who convert
Three quarters of the Christians who used to live in to Christianity as a matter of course, and is not exactly a
Bethlehem now live abroad. Many of Jerusalem’s haven to Christians unfortunate enough to have been born
Christians now live in Australia. Chile alone has become there.
the home to 30,000 Christians who used to live in Israel
and Jordan. The atrocities against Christians may be worst in Syria, but
they continue in one way or another in many parts of the
In 2002, a la Hamas in Gaza, Muslims took over the world. Yet, coming back to our opening paragraph, the
Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and fired at Israeli Obama Administration only permitted ½ to 1% of the
soldiers from it, knowing that Israel tries to avoid firing at Syrian refugees who were Christian to enter the United
religious holy places and civilians. States, vs. 99 to 99.5% Muslims, which is a far more direct
and outrageous implementation of discrimination based on
In the recent fighting, 100,000 Christians fled from Mosul religion than anything proposed or implemented by the
, and for the first time in almost 2,000 years, virtually none Trump Administration.
are left. How many of the anti-Trump protestors are
protesting? How many did Obama let into America? Where was the outrage against the Obama Administration?
Where is the outrage against the people protesting against
Trump?
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Despite Majority Of Americans In Favor Of Trump
Immigration Policy, 900 State Department Staff Dissent
By Tyler Durden
Jan 31, 2017 6:15 PM
Just yesterday we noted that, according to a Rasmussen White House spokesman Sean Spicer
poll, while the vocal, and often violent, disaffected Hillary said on Monday he was aware of the
protesters may get a lot of media attention, the silent memo but warned career diplomats that
majority of Americans, men and women who don't have they should either "get with the program
time to protest 24 hours a day because they actually go to or they can go."
work to provide for their families, support Trump's
temporary immigration ban from 7 mostly-Muslim Seems these 900 folks may soon suffer the same fate as the
countries in the Middle East and Africa. acting Attorney General who decided to publicly announce
her defiance of Trump's immigration order just yesterday.
Now, Reuters/Ipsos, the pollsters who mastered the
application of the Democrat "oversample" in the months
leading up to the presidential election last November, is
out with another poll that confirms the Rasmussen results,
namely that the silent majority of Americans agree with
Trump's immigration ban. Per Reuters:
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Report: Russian Spy Linked To Trump “Golden Showers”
Dossier Mysteriously Found Dead
Piper McGowin
January 31, 2017
As The Daily Sheeple previously reported, just before the Although foul play was initially suspected and for overtly
inauguration, an unsubstantiated 35-page dossier of “intel” obvious reasons, later reports have apparently suggested
discussing Trump in compromising sexual situations the man simply died of a heart attack (in the back of his
involving prostitutes and pee came out, supposedly car?), leading to the further suggestion of an assassination
originating with a former British MI6 agent who received cover up.
the info it contained from a Russian KGB agent.
The speculation is that Erovinkin was murdered by the
If you play along with this story, now its being reported Kremlin according to the now outed former MI6 spy
that the Russian source of the info given to the British spy Christopher Steele who remains in hiding since the dossier
has been found dead under mysterious circumstances. became public.
As reported by The Telegraph: There is still no proof to back up any of the claims made
within the dossier, which evidence suggests was just a
Oleg Erovinkin, a former general in the 4chan prank on the CIA.
KGB and its successor the FSB, was found
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Trump Regulatory Freeze Halts $180 Billion
Of Proposed Obama Rules, New Study Shows
By Tyler Durden
Jan 31, 2017 5:25 PM
On his first day in office, President Trump instructed Chief Efficiency Standards for Air Conditioners: $12.3 billion
of Staff, Reince Priebus, to send a memo to all executive in total costs
agencies imposing a regulatory moratorium that effectively Efficiency Standards for Furnaces: $9.2 billion in total
froze all pending rules and regulations proposed by the costs
Obama administration on their way out of Washington Hospital and Critical Access Reform: $5.7 billion in total
D.C. Now, accorded to a new study from the American costs
Action Forum, that simple one-page memo from Priebus Efficiency Standards for Uninterruptible Power
potentially saved Americans $180 billion. Supplies: $4.6 billion in total costs
According to American Action Forum (AAF) Shockingly, while tiny compared to the $180 billion price
research, this memo put a hold on $181 tag of his new regulations, Obama did offer up $1.9 billion
billion in total regulatory costs, of cost savings tied to a new energy efficiency rule and a
including $17 billion in annual costs, reorganization of the Food Stamp Program, among other
and 5.5 million hours of paperwork. things.
This moratorium freezes 22 rulemakings with annual costs There are some regulations the Trump Administration
above $100 million and 16 measures with more than $1 might consider allowing soon.
billion in long-term costs.
There are at least 18 recently-finalized
or still-proposed measures that reduce
compliance burdens.
Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications: $108 billion in The revised SNAP rule aims to cut 40.5
total costs million hours of paperwork and save
$286 million annually.
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The rule has an effective date of March 7, 2017, so it could Frankly, we find it shocking that America has managed to
fall under criteria three of the moratorium, but after a operate for the past 11 days without these parting
review, the measure could be a good candidate to keep. regulatory gifts from the Obama administration.
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US Diplomats Draft ‘Dissent Memo’
To Denounce Trump’s Ban: Report
Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:52AM
“This ban ... will not achieve its stated aim Demonstrators protest against US President Donald Trump and his
to protect the American people from administration's ban of travelers from 7 countries by Executive
terrorist attacks by foreign nationals Order, during a rally outside the US Supreme Court in Washington,
admitted to the United States,” the draft DC, January 30, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
reads.
Trump has come under immense pressure from politicians
After signing the executive order on Friday, Trump said and rights groups to rescind the ban. Protests have also
his administration was seeking to keep what he called been held inside and outside the US.
“radical Islamic terrorists” out of the US.
Major Republican figures like Senators John McCain and
Under the new measure, citizens of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lindsey Graham have also criticized the ban, creating
Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia are banned from further confusion in Washington.
entering the US for at least 90 days while Syrian refugees
are blocked indefinitely. Other refugee admissions will Unaffected by the attacks, Trump fired the acting attorney
also be halted for 120 days. general, Sally Yates, after she defied the rule.
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‘Media Against Trump - Trump Card In His Hands’
Published Time: 31 Jan, 2017 15:56
They are also violent. The left has always been extremely
violent since the days of the French revolution… That is
concerning. I frankly don’t exactly know what they hope
to achieve – Soros and the rest of the people, who are
organizing this. It seems to me it bothers every normal
person, closing up traffic and that sort of thing. These are
The immigration freeze applies to Iran, Iraq, Libya, not intended to persuade anyone, but rather to intimidate…
Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen and will remain in force
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RT: US mass media has been attacking Trump even before
he was elected. What’s your take on that? Will it affect his
Presidency somehow?
LR: First of all, having the media against him is one of the
trump cards in his hand. It is very good for him, because
Americans don’t by and large, by the vast majority, as a
RT: There are some people who say that they are not matter of fact, don’t trust the media, don’t like the media.
particularly anti-Trump, but anti this policy he is putting So the fact that the media are so openly one-sided has hurt
in place. them, and I would say helped Trump. They are purveyors
of fake news…
LR: That may very well be the case, but, in my
experience, there is virtually 100 percent overlap. So it is We need new media. Of course there are new media. There
not only anti-Trump… But just the fact that they call it a are new websites, and new publications, but they are not
“Muslim ban": it is not a Muslim ban. We know there are part of the ‘ancient’ old media. There is a replacement
50 majority Muslim countries in the world; that [ban] going on. The old media are worried about their futures.
applies to seven. I don’t think by the way, that it is a tragic They see their TV ratings going down; their circulation of
coincidence, but all these countries have been bombed their publications going down. My guess is they know they
either by Clinton, Bush, Obama, or all three of them. are through. How long will this process take: five years –
These people demonstrating – they couldn’t have cared more, less? I don’t know. There is a new day coming in
less about that. This [ban] they freak out about – I don’t terms of media. It is a very good development for America
think it is about Muslims, I don’t think it is about and the whole world.
immigration – it is about power, it is about control. These
are the same people, who wanted to shut up anybody who
doesn’t agree with their PC agenda…
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Insanity: Democratic Senator
Wants Open Borders And More Gun Control
Pushes “Absolutely No Screening” Process For Incoming Refugees
By Alex Thomas -
01.31.2017 @9:07 PM EST
(INTELLIHUB) — The liberal freak out over President appeared on CNN and suggested more
Trump’s executive order targeting 7 countries with a gun control would keep the U.S. safer than
temporary travel ban has reached new heights with almost President Trump’s immigration suspension.
every news outlet dedicated to attacking the order and Like Murphy, Friedman focused on “assault
hysterically spreading disinformation to the American weapons,” claiming the focus should be on
people. barring persons on the terror watch list
from buying such guns.”
Now, during an appearance on MSNBC, Senator Chris
Murphy (D-CT) has revealed that the left not only doesn’t
support Trump’s order, but actually wants literally no
screening process for incoming refugees.
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Trump Administration Freezes Out
CNN From Interviews And Staff Appearances
The White House Has Refused To Send Its Surrogates Onto CNN Shows,
Effectively Icing Out CNN From Trump Administration Press Coverage.
Alex Christoforou
February 1, 2017
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“not going to sit around and engage actually get something right.”
with people who have no desire to
.
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Petraeus: World Order
Under 'Unprecedented Threat'
By Rebecca Kheel
02/01/17 10:46 AM EST
Retired Gen. David Petraeus warned lawmakers on clash of civilizations, with America at war
Wednesday that the world order created in part by the against Islam,” Petraeus said Wednesday.
United States in the 20th century is under “unprecedented “We must not let them do that; indeed, we
threat from multiple directions,” pointing to Russia, China, must be very sensitive to actions that might
Islamist extremists and cyber threats. give them ammunition to use in such an
effort.”
Those threats are compounded by an America whose
“resolve about its defense has become somewhat Petraeus also warned that adversaries such as Russian
ambivalent,” he added. President Vladimir Putin are seeking to encourage
American ambivalence about its defense and institutions
“Americans should not take the current such as NATO.
international order for granted,” Petraeus
said at a House Armed Services “President Putin, for instance, understands
Committee hearing. “It did not will itself into that, while conventional aggression may
existence. We created it. Likewise, it is not occasionally enable Russia to grab a bit of
naturally self-sustaining. We have land on its periphery, the real center of
sustained it. If we stop doing so, it will fray gravity is the political will of the major
and, eventually, collapse." democratic powers to defend Euro-Atlantic
institutions like NATO and the EU,”
Petraeus, former director of the CIA, spoke at a hearing Petraeus said. “That is why Russia is
about the “state of the world.” tenaciously working to sow doubt about the
legitimacy of these institutions and our
entire democratic way of life.”
Many of Petraeus’s remarks hinted at pushing back against
statements and policies from President Trump, who had
considered Petraeus as a candidate for his secretary of Trump has said he wants to improve relations with Russia
State. and has called NATO obsolete.
In speaking about the threat from extremists, Petraeus Former CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin, who
stressed that the majority of Muslims who reject spoke at Wednesday's hearing alongside Petraeus, also
extremism are the "most important ally" in fighting the warned about the difficulty in dealing with Russia.
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al Qaeda.
“There is nothing at all wrong with aiming
His comments come amid continued backlash at Trump’s for an improved relationship with Russia,
executive order banning travel from seven Muslim- but the U.S. must be aware that Russia
majority countries for 90 days, suspending all refugees for calculates its interests in a cold-eyed
four months and halting Syrian refugees indefinitely. clinical way and Washington will have to be
equally dispassionate in dealing with
Putin,” he said. “Historically, when Russia
Critics have called the order a Muslim ban and said it plays
encounters weakness or hesitation, it
into extremists’ narrative that the West is at war with
demands more, then blames the opponent
Islam.
for escalation when the opponent resists —
then calls for discussions, which it uses to
“We must also remember that Islamic consolidate its gains. Deals don’t come
extremists want to portray this fight as a easily.”
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White House Press Briefing Room “Skype Seats”
Filled, Intellihub, Other Alt Media, Denied
What Gives?
By Shepard Ambellas -
02.01.2017 @9:22 AM EST
So why would the White House even let CNN through the
door? And what makes CNN, for example, more worthy
than Intellihub or even a video blogger like Mark Dice,
Jennifer Boyer/Flickr who has also informally requested a White House press
pass on several occasions?
(INTELLIHUB) — It looks like there will not be any
“Skype seats” made available for the alternative media in
the White House press briefing room anytime soon as
some agencies and bloggers formally requested.
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Obama, Hillary, Schumer, And Trump: Will The Real
Enemies Of The Moslem World Please Stand Up
By Eric Sommer
February 1, 2017
Beijing. the invasion of Afghanistan, and the Iraq war which killed
up to a million Moslems and turned countless others into
It’s heart-sickening to see the U.S. corporate media refugees. His regime also sponsored the secret black-site
fawning over war criminals posturing as humanitarian prisons in Europe where Moslem’s were tortured.
friends of Moslem refugees and immigrants when their
wars of aggression have killed hundreds of thousands of Obama, who has said he is ‘heartened’ by the public
Moslems, destroyed their societies, and turned enormous protests against Trumps order, continued Bush’s wars in
numbers into the refugees they now claim to care for. Afganistan and Iraq, producing thousands of additional
Moslem deaths and large numbers of refugees. He also
Contrary to their widely-reported public statements of launched the U.S-led military support of the terrorists who
sympathy for Moslem immigrants or refugees, Hillary, destroyed the government of Libya, causing the deaths of
Obama, Schumer, and other U.S. political figures whose tens of thousands of Libyan Moslems, and converting the
wars have devastated Moslem countries are among the last previously relatively peaceful and secular country into a
people on Earth who can claim friendship for Moslems or battle ground between terrorist militias. Large numbers of
refugees.. refugees subsequently fled the country in order to survive.
Obama also greatly accelerated the use of drones, begun
under Bush, to assassinate Moslems who he and his
Trump’s presidential order – which they claim to be
advisors lablelled as ‘terrorists’ in countries ranging from
outraged by – applies to the predominantly Islamic
Pakistan to Africa, without anything resembling a trial or
countries of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and
Yemen, the very countries which their own wars have laid legal due process.
waste to. The order bars entry of refugees awaiting U.S.
resettlement for 120 days. Syrian refugees are forbidden It should also be noted that the Obama administration
to enter the U.S. until further notice. It also bars the deported 2.5 million immigrants, more than the total
citizens of the seven countries from entering the U.S. with number deported by all previous presidents combined.
ordinary visas for a 90 day period. His administration also determined that immigrant children
as young as three had no right to a lawyer and must appear
by themselves in court.
A 2015 UN report states that there are 63.5 million
refugees compelled to flee impoverished and warfare
riddled countries. This is the largest number of refugees in Hillary Clinton – while serving as Obama’s secretary of
human history. A large proportion of them are Moslems state – orchestrated the anti-Libyan propaganda campaign
fleeing the societies rendered non-functional by U.S.-led and the subsequent aerial bombardment of Libya by U.S.-
military invasions, interventions, and use of Jihadist led air forces which enabled the terrorists on the ground,
proxies in the Middle East and North Africa, with over one mis-labeled as fighting for human rights, to overturn the
million left dead. Virtually all of the Democratic and Libyan government. She also supported the use of drones
Republican party political figures now professing for international assassinations of Moslems based on
sympathy for Moslem immigrants and refugees were labeling particular individuals as ‘terrorists’ without trials
supporters of these criminal wars. or any proper legal steps.
It’s important to state – and it should be emphasized – that Charles Schumer, democratic party leader in the U.S.
we are dealing with actual war criminals here. These are Senate, was widely shown a few days ago in corporate
individuals who have orchestrated military aggression and media with crocodile tears for Moslem refugees and
invasions against Moslem countries and peoples which immigrants. But along with Barack Obama, Joseph Biden,
have never attacked the U.S. or any other country. and Hillary Clinton, he previously voted for Bush’s ‘secure
fence act’ of 2006 and supported the Iraq war and the other
wars which have devastated predominantly Moslem
Bush launched the fake ‘War on Terror’ used by himself
and later by Obama to justify their wars. Bush instigated countries.
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Human rights, or the lives of Moslems, can have little or generals, billionaire, and extreme right-wing ideologues,
nothing to do with the concerns of such people. Their all of who received overwhelming support and votes from
concerns are based on their political positions in the U.S., the Democrats and Republicans alike in the U.S. Senate.
their fear of the growing political awakening of American Nor did Obama, Hillary, or Bush make any public
workers, and the desire of the military-security and finance objections to his cabinet choices.
capital and giant corporate groups, including oil
companies, which they represent to recruit skilled foreign With only a few days as president, Trump has not – so far
workers and maintain ‘friendly’ relations with forces in the – killed large numbers of Moslems. His real immediate
middle East willing to help the U.S.military drive to gain crime in the eyes of U.S. political elites – which has
total control of the oil-rich region. suddenly earned him enemies in both parties – is that his
overtly anti-democratic and authoritarian measures,
As for Trump, his policies are really an extension of the including his anti-immigrant policies, have ‘taken the
war crimes and anti-immigrant policies of those who mask off’ and revealed what those elites themselves really
preceded him. He has loaded his cabinet with military are and what the U.S. state has really become.
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New Study Reveals Shocking Information About Trump’s
Voter Fraud Claims (VIDEO)
By Michael Depinto [THE VOICE OF REASON]
Date: February 01, 2017
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Mr. Trump’s unverified accusation to congressional databases of aliens and deceased
leaders this week, as reported by The Washington Post, has individuals. Why is the left afraid to
sent the issue skyward. even ask the questions? The jig is up.”
He apparently was referring to all types There does not appear to be any concerted postelection
of fraud, such as the “dead” voting or effort by states to take on the daunting task of checking
multiple votes from the same person. voter rolls and ballots to verify citizenship. In some states,
But the thrust of his estimate appears to no ID is required to register and vote.
be that illegal immigrants and
noncitizens carried the popular vote.
He returned to the issue Thursday in Philadelphia, where Mr. Richman relies on a one-of-a-kind poll: the
he spoke to congressional Republicans mapping this year’s Cooperative Congressional Election Survey. Every two
legislative calendar. years, a consortium of 28 universities produces a detailed
report on voters and their views based on polling by
“We also need to keep the ballot box safe YouGov.
from illegal voting,” the president said.
“And, believe me, you take a look at what’s Tucked inside the lengthy questionnaire is a question on
registering, folks. Take a look at what’s citizenship status: A significant number of respondents
registering. We are going to protect the anonymously acknowledged they were not citizens when
integrity of the ballot box, and we are going they voted.
to defend the votes of the American citizen,
so important.”
Three professors at Old Dominion
The mainstream media reacted to Mr. University — Mr. Richman, Gulshan A.
Trump’s assertion with derision. Liberal Chattha and David C. Earnest — took
pundits said there is no evidence of these answers, did further research and
fraud. extrapolated that of a 19.4 million
CNN’s Jake Tapper called it “a stunning estimate of adult noncitizens, about
allegation for which the White House is 620,000 were illegally registered to vote
providing no evidence. And there is a in the 2008 presidential election. Using
reason they are providing no evidence other measuring tools, they said, the
— there is no evidence. It is not true.” actual number of noncitizen voters
could be as low as 38,000 and as high
Esquire.com said, “The most bizarre lie as 2.8 million.
of Donald Trump’s presidency so far is
his claim of widespread voter fraud in The U.S. Census Bureau reported in 2012 that there are 22
an election he won.” million noncitizens in the country. The group comprises
illegal immigrants and people in the U.S. legally on a visa
But conservative activists say the liberal media are or permanent resident green card. Of this 22 million, 20
ignoring evidence — that noncitizen voting is illegal and, million were 18 or older, the U.S. voting age requirement.
thus, fraud. They say the Justice Department in the Obama
administration was more concerned with preventing states Conservatives have long suspected that
from cleansing rosters of dead and inactive voters than in Democrats are tacitly encouraging
mounting any investigation into fraud. illegal immigrants to vote. Liberal
leaders have created “sanctuary cities”
“Most voters are never asked for voter ID, so it is across the nation that refuse to work
dishonest to suggest that with the tens of millions of illegal with federal immigration enforcement
and legal aliens here, there is no voter fraud,” said Tom authorities.
Fitton, who heads the conservative watchdog group
Judicial Watch. “If the key Old Dominion study results on President Obama was asked during the campaign last year
the 2008 election are applied to 2016 — 1.41 million if illegal immigrants had anything to fear from federal
aliens may have voted illegally, with 1.13 million voting authorities if they voted in the presidential race.
for Democrats.”
“Many of the millennials, Dreamers,
“A federal voter fraud investigation is undocumented citizens — and I call them
long overdue,” Mr. Fitton said. “It would citizens because they contribute to this
be a simple matter of analyzing voter country — are fearful of voting,” he was
registration databases against federal asked on a Latino YouTube channel. “‘So if
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I vote, will Immigration know where I live? with his questionable assertion that
Will they come for my family and deport voter rolls are off limits to federal
us?’” investigators.
“Not true, and the reason is, first of all, The WikiLeaks dump of Clinton
when you vote, you are a citizen yourself,” campaign manger John Podesta’s
Mr. Obama said. “And there is not a emails contained one message on
situation where the voting rolls somehow directing immigrants to vote. He said
are transferred over and people start immigrants should obtain driver’s
investigating, etc. The sanctity of the vote licenses and then attest at a polling
is strictly confidential.” place that they are U.S. citizens.
Some conservatives interpreted Mr.
Obama’s answer as a go-ahead signal,
.
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A Daily Web Page Summary Of The Dirty Lies, Glaring Omissions,
Half Truths & Globalist Bias Of The NY Times Front Page Headlines
"All The News That Sulzberger's Propaganda Rag Saw Fit To Distort"
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It's amazing, isn't it? We meant that line about OM being
omitted from Sports & Obituaries as a wise-crack. But
with today's poop-pie about the "controversy" over the
New England Patriots football team's owner (Robert
Kraft), head coach (Bill Belichick) and the star-player /
Quarterback (Tom Brady) all being "friends of Trump"
appearing in the SPORTS section, we can now say that
only the Obituaries Section remains "Trump-free" -- and
let's pray that it stays that way! The Slimes has truly
become a caricature of itself now. Let's see what
tomorrow's crossword puzzles bring!
McCarthy -- Cohn – Trump
A 5 letter word for evil that starts with a 'T' and ends with
a 'P'. Hmmm.
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Patriotic Patriots? Tom Brady -- Bill Belichick --
Robert Kraft --- oh, the bloody "controversy!"
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Pair Arrested In London Over Crippling Cyber Attack On
Washington DC's CCTV Network Just Days Before
Trump Was Sworn In As President
A British Man And A Swedish Woman, Both 50, Were Arrested In London
The Pair Were Suspected Of Being Involved In A Hack Which Brought Down CCTV
More Than 120 CCTV Cameras In US Capital Went Dark Days Before Inauguration
By Mail Online Reporter
Published: 20:57 EST, 1 February 2017 | Updated: 02:23 EST, 2 February 2017
Two suspected hackers have been arrested in London by
detectives investigating a crippling cyber attack which Donald Trump waves to the crowds after being sworn in as
brought down Washington DC's CCTV cameras eight days President. The cyber attack brought down many of the
before the inauguration of President Donald Trump. CCTV cameras in Washington a week before his
inauguration
The Sun reported that police swooped on a house in
Streatham, south London last month after the US It was believed the cyber attack could have been a dry run
government reported 123 of 187 security cameras in for another attempt on January 20, the day of the
Washington went offline, amid fears it may be linked to an inauguration.
attempt on Trump's life.
But Brian Ebert, a Secret Service official, told the
Just hours before the 45th President was sworn in, a 50- Washington Post the safety of the Trump family and the
year-old British man and a Swedish woman, also 50, were general public had never been in jeopardy.
detained by the National Crime Agency.
The security bill for President Trump's inauguration was at
least £75million, with 25,000 armed police and National
Guardsmen turning the city into a fortress.
The NCA said the man and the woman were arrested on
January 19 and bailed until April 2017.
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Trump Admin Cracks Down
On #Fakenews By Icing Out CNN
Ryan Saavedra
Feb 1st, 2017 1:22 Pm
From Politico:
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Trump’s Travel Ban Doesn’t Target Muslims,
He Has ‘Sovereign Right’ To Impose It – Emirati FM
Published Time: 1 Feb, 2017 16:51
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For his part, FM Lavrov said that Russia could support the “There have been ideas of creating some
idea, but only with the agreement of the Syrian areas where an alternative Syrian
government and close cooperation with it. The FM pointed government could sit, and use those areas
out that Washington’s initiative is markedly different from for regime change,” Lavrov said.
that which has been proposed by other Western partners.
.
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White House Blackballs CNN; Refuses
To Send Surrogates On "Fake News" Network
By Tyler Durden
Feb 1, 2017 2:25 PM
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Trump’s National Trade Council
Director Calls TTIP Dead
By Stephen Lendman
2-1-2017
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership “We need to manufacture those
(TTIP) is TPP’s counterpart - both measures constituting components in a robust domestic supply
assaults on personal freedoms. chain that will spur job and wage growth.”
They empower profit-making over human Germany is the dominant EU country, the world’s 4th
health, welfare, labor rights, digital freedom largest economy (after America, China and Japan), an
and virtually all other consumer protections. exporting powerhouse, 2nd largest to China, taking full
advantage of low euro valuation.
Interviewed by the Financial Times on Tuesday, Trump’s
chief trade advisor, Peter Navarro, called the euro an “The German structural imbalance in trade
“implicit Deutsche Mark.” with the rest of the EU and the US
underscores the problem,” Navarro
Accusing Germany of currency manipulation, he said its claimed. He called the Brexit vote the death
undervaluation gives the country an advantage over its knell of a US/EU deal.
main trading partners, calling its policy a major problem in
negotiating a US trade deal with European countries - He supports an import tax, retaliation likely to follow from
pronouncing TTIP dead. affected countries, if implemented.
“It does the American economy no long- “I worry about the actual impact America’s
term good to only keep the big box trade deficit in goods is having on our rates
factories where we are now assembling of economic growth and income growth,”
‘American’ products that are composed he said.
primarily of foreign components,” he said.
America’s 2016 trade deficit was a whopping $666 billion
- up from $531.5 billion in 2015.
.
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Lawsuits Pile Up Against Trump
Travel Ban And Anti-Sanctuary City Executive Orders
Published Time: 1 Feb, 2017 05:09Edited Time: 1 Feb, 2017 10:48
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Donald Trump Versus Google
And The Shadow Government
Author: Phil Butler
01.02.2017
Pichai and his handlers Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric
Schmidt had best consider the other side of this Trump
coin. Half of America vehemently supported Donald
Trump for many of the reasons Silicon Valley and Wall
Street seem to hate him. “Half” of three hundred million
people either buy or do not buy products of these
companies. Furthermore, Mr. Trump holds the toilet
flusher on a vast information network now, and
information network that can eradicate corporate misdeeds
Google, the mega-tech giant that did everything possible to ultimately. I think Google execs had better consider who
see Hillary Clinton in the White House may be “over” they were in bed with during the Obama administration,
soon. Per news from Bloomberg, President Donald who they betrayed, and what shady deals were made. Even
Trump’s executive order on limiting immigration from on the “up and up” Trump and the hordes sick unto death
some countries has decimated the world’s biggest name in of the 1% rabble, can create initiatives to compete with
search. Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai has Google and the others. In fact, I would not be surprised if
raised his hands in despair. Trump is not already at this. Google needs a competitor,
and so do the others.
When are Google, Facebook, Microsoft and the cabal of
ultra-liberal money machines going to give the rest of us a Maybe this is the whole point. What if the technocrats and
break? This is what I have to say about Pichai’s Hollywood set were so in bed with Washington that their
grandstanding on Mr. Trump’s decree to temporarily stop greatest fears are come true? What if the inevitable
people from seven Muslim nations from entering the US “swamp draining” sees them down the tubes? Now that
for 90 days. Now Google expects the world at large to explains a lot of liberal tooth gnashing and George Soros
believe it runs off the brain power of rocket scientists from rallies, doesn’t it? It also explains the whining and crying
Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya? that is now stretched so thin. Google cannot be operated
While the US president takes the wise road toward vetting without its brilliant Syrian and Libyan geniuses. Just for
who comes and goes from Muslim nations, Sundar Pichai fun, I searched Google’s 73,329 employees on LinkedIn
makes use of owned mainstream media to register still for people in these countries. Guess how many I found in
more protests. Yes, the new socialists in America are led Libya? None and none in Syria, Somalia, Sudan either.
by the likes of top Googlers and Bill Gates wannabes, we From Yemen there is a Googler named Rashad AL-
all know this. But this is thick indeed. Khmisy, who is manager of Google Developer Group
(GDG) Sana’a, Yemen. He’s also associated with
Once again a mysterious insider who refused to be named Greenpeace, so I am sure they will be drafting press
leaked “facts” Google employees affected by the releases soon, as should Jimmy Wales and Wikimedia
Homeland Security moves of Friday. Already Google and Foundation. Interestingly, I found this Googler active at
the others have their legal eagles all over the situation. TEDxSanaa, and sponsored by none other than USAID
Bloomberg also reported on Facebook Inc. Chief and the Yemen Kuwaiti Bank (YKB). Granted AL-Khmisy
Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg voicing his “concern” seems harmless enough even after some scrutiny, and not
over Mr. Trump’s moves, and Microsoft Corp. made a even the 20 or so Iranian people attached to Google seem
securities filing on cautioning investors that immigration like head choppers to me. What is alarming is how Google
restrictions “may inhibit our ability to adequately staff our seems to be setting up a kind of “sanctuary” ecosystem
inside the United States. The Bloomberg headline, “Google
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Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order” came to my Facebook profile to call me a traitor. And this,
screams this. With Mr. Trump confronting so-called right in front of my wife, kids, friends, and so on. Imagine
“sanctuary cities” where Hillary Clinton voters rule, now it what that means, for a higher up in Seattle to just come out
appears those that profited most from US taxpayers and and assail somebody for a moderate view on Russia and
customers now want a new kind of civil war. It’s almost as Putin. But things are getting worse, CNN and other
if there is a shadow government running in the mainstream media are in knock-down-drag-out war with
background. the new president over who is lying. Clearly CNN and the
others have presented us all with “Fake News” out the
I’ll tell you what my friends, if these technocrats are wazoo these last years. Unsubstantiated allegations fly
running a shadow control cabal in the background, today like silica in a sandstorm. Now this from Google,
President Trump needs to smack them down hard, and Microsoft, and Facebook. I hope President Trump shows
smack them down now. I’ve watched these people America once and for all just who’s been misleading
consume innovation, ideas, and resources like firewood the whom.
last 20 years. Just the other day a Google product manager
Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, exclusively for the online
magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
http://journal-neo.org/2017/02/01/donald-trump-versus-google-and-the-shadow-government/
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Blame Obama, Not Trump:
Twitter Trolls Pelosi For Yemen Policy Memory Loss
Published Time: 1 Feb, 2017 11:04Edited Time: 2 Feb, 2017 12:45
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In a separate incident on Monday outside the Supreme
Court, Pelosi also overheard on her mic encouraging
Congressman Andre Carson to “tell them you’re a
muslim.”
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US Code Allows For Banning
Refugees With Diseases
By Patricia Doyle
2-1-2017
Hello Jeff - I found this looking for CDC laws that would keep list, regulatory changes can be made to alter the disease
immigrants and refugees out of the US due to infectious list.
diseases.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and
The President can issue EOs on the list of diseases as well. CDC are removing HIV infection from the list of diseases
that keep non-U.S. citizens from entering the United
Leprosy, TB, AIDS, etc How come the US is not using the list States. General information about the change is provided
below on this page... i.e. TB, Diphtheria Leprosy etc? below:
What was the process for removing HIV from the list and
We know that refugees with TB, Leprosy, Diphtheria, STDs have when will the change take effect?
all been allowed in. Even Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers have been
allowed in and some brought into the US by the CDC planes. HHS published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
Trump needs to close this door to infected refugees and illegals. on July 2, 2009 explaining the proposed changes in the
Federal Register and seeking public comment on those
Patty changes. The proposed rule was based on the science that
HIV is not spread through casual contact. A public
Categories comment period was open until August 17, 2009. These
public comments were considered in making the final
Any of the following diseases: active tuberculosis, policy decision. After the comment period closed, CDC
infectious syphilis, gonorrhea, infectious leprosy, carefully reviewed over 20,000 public comments. Most
chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma comments supported the rule as proposed.
inguinale, and HIV infection. (HIV infection will be
removed on January 4, 2010) The final rule was published on November 2, 2009 in the
Federal Register. After the 60-day waiting period required
Quarantinable diseases designated by any Presidential by federal guidelines, the final rule will go into effect on
Executive Order. The current list of diseases includes January 4, 2010.
cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague,
smallpox, yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic fevers, severe Before the effective date of January 4, 2010, what changes
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and influenza caused will take place for non-U.S. citizens with HIV infection
by novel or re-emergent influenza (pandemic flu). who wish to enter the United States?
General Questions and Answers Until the final rule is in effect on January 4, 2010, non-
U.S. citizens who have HIV cannot come to the United
Final Rule Removing HIV Infection from U.S. States unless granted a waiver by the Department of
Immigration Screening: Homeland Security. Also, all those applying for an
immigrant visa will have to be tested for HIV infection
Immigrants and refugees must undergo a medical exam as during the immigrant medical exam until January 4, 2010.
part of the immigration process for entry into the United
States. The exam includes screening for any illness defined Under the new rule, effective on January 4, 2010, HIV
as a communicable disease of public health significance. testing will no longer be required as part of the immigrant
All of these diseases can be easily spread between people. medical exam. In addition, waivers will no longer be
Those immigrants and refugees found to have these needed for HIV infection.
diseases may not enter the United States.
What diseases prevent non-U.S. citizens from coming to
The screening process, along with this list of diseases the United States?
which can prevent entry into the United States, are
outlined in federal regulations written by the Centers for Diseases that can prevent entry to the U.S. fall into three
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). If new diseases categories:
emerge or as more is learned about diseases already on this
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Any of the following diseases: active tuberculosis, It is mainly spread through behaviors which involve the
infectious syphilis, gonorrhea, infectious leprosy, exchange of bodily fluids during sex or sharing of needles.
chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma
inguinale, and HIV infection. (HIV infection will be HIV is not a new virus in the United States. Currently, it’s
removed on January 4, 2010) estimated that more than 1 million Americans are living
with HIV. It is important to remember that any risk posed
Quarantinable diseases designated by any Presidential by people with HIV is not a result of their nationality. The
Executive Order. The current list of diseases includes risk of spreading HIV is only increased when a person
cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague, engages in specific behaviors, such as having unprotected
smallpox, yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic fevers, severe sex or sharing needles.
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and influenza caused
by novel or re-emergent influenza (pandemic flu). Why are HHS and CDC removing only HIV infection
when other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are still
Diseases reportable as a public health emergency of on the list of diseases that prevent entry?
international concern to the World Health Organization
under the International Health Regulations of 2005. These Legislation passed in July 2008 removed language from
diseases currently include: polio, smallpox, SARS, the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) related to HIV.
pandemic flu and other public health emergencies of This original text had mandated that HIV infection be on
international concern. the list of diseases that can keep people from coming to the
United States. The decision to remove HIV infection from
HIV infection will be removed as a communicable disease the regulations is because of this change in law and the
of public health significance effective January 4, 2010. At science of how HIV is spread. In the United States, HIV
that time, HIV infection will not be used to keep people infection is passed between adults almost solely through
from entering the United States. unprotected sex with someone who has HIV or by sharing
needles or syringes used by someone with HIV. HIV is not
Who is affected by the rule change? spread through casual contact.
Those who are not U.S. citizens will no longer be denied CDC continues to review the list of diseases in the
entry to the United States based on their HIV status. This regulations. If CDC seeks to remove other STDs in the
would include: immigrants (including those in the United future, it will do so through the federal rulemaking
States applying for change of status to lawful permanent process.
resident), refugees, and those seeking asylum. This also
includes temporary visitors for school, work or pleasure. Why does the law require 60 days before the final rule can
go into effect?
Why did CDC remove HIV infection from the list of
diseases that can prevent non-U.S. citizens from entering The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
the United States? requires a 60-day waiting period for any rule that has a
major economic impact. An economic analysis has shown
When the regulation preventing non-U.S. citizens from that this rule will have a major national economic impact.
entering the country was created in 1987, far less was Thus, this rule meets the OMB guidelines for the 60-day
known about how HIV infection is spread and what puts waiting period.
people at risk for HIV. Health experts now know that HIV
is not spread through casual contact like hugging or The 60-day waiting period will begin on November 2,
shaking hands. Nor is HIV spread through the air, food or 2009. Thus, the final rule will go into effect on January 4,
water. In the United States, HIV infection is passed 2010.
between adults almost solely through unprotected sex with
someone who has HIV or by sharing needles or syringes Where can I find out more about the new rule?
used by someone with HIV. Removing HIV infection from
the list of illnesses that prevent entry to the United States is For more information about the new rule, or to view the
based on this improved knowledge of the risk of spreading rule in its entirety, please visit the Final Rule Removing
the disease. HIV Infection from U.S. Immigration Screening page.
Will the rule change increase the risk that average For more information on HIV, please see
Americans will contract HIV? http://www.cdc.gov/hiv.
Allowing non-U.S. citizens with HIV infection into the NOTICE: This web page is archived for historical
United States will not pose a risk to the public’s health purposes and is no longer being maintained or updated.
through casual contact. HIV infection is preventable and is The information is accurate only as of the last page update.
not spread through casual contact or day-to-day activities.
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Donald Trump ‘Upset And Angry’ Over Refugee Deal
Discussed With Malcolm Turnbull
Claire Bickers, Staff Writers, News Corp Australia Network
February 2, 2017 9:20am
US President Donald Trump has continued his public call made by our PM,” Mr. Carr told 7.30
stoush with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull host Stan Grant.
by declaring he needs to make “tough phone calls” because
“I think it’s a reminder to Australians that
nations are taking advantage of America.
America is different, America has changed.
America is declaring it’s America first from
At a speech in Washington DC overnight, Mr. Trump said now on. That’s a quote from the
the world was in trouble but he was “going to straighten it inauguration speech by the President. And
out”. I just think it’s healthy if we absorb that fact.
Everyone supports this alliance in
“When you hear about the tough phone Australia, there’s a consensus on that. It’s
calls I’m having, don’t worry about it,” Mr. one of the pillars of Australian foreign
Trump told the audience. “Just don’t worry policy but it’s not the be all and end all of
about it. Australia’s international character. That’s
“They’re tough. We have to be tough,” he the point I’m making.”
said. “It’s time we have to be a little tough
folks.
“We are taken advantage of by every
nation in the world virtually. “It’s not going
to happen anymore.”
BOB CARR SAYS ROBUST CHAT IS ‘HEALTHY’ Former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr says the spat between
Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull is “healthy” for Australia. Picture:
Colin Murty The Australian
Former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr believes the
highly charged telephone call between Mr. Trump and Mr.
Turnbull is “healthy” for Australia. Mr. Carr, who served as Labor’s Minster for Foreign
Affairs from March 2012 to September 2013, said
Australia did not have a special relationship with
Speaking on ABC TV’s 7.30, Mr. Carr said Mr. Trump’s
American as many assumed.
rudeness on the call between the two leaders and his
“highly offensive tweet” that followed was a reminder that
Australia was simply another alliance partner with the “Stan, take that point on the notion that
USA. somehow we’ve got the most special
relationship with America in the world,” the
former NSW Premier said.
Mr. Carr also said President Trump’s “unprecedented rude
treatment” was also a reminder of Australia’s status as an “I could easily give you a list of 20 countries
independent nation. that hold that belief. America is the proud
possessor of an alliance system, it’s one of
“This is a healthy thing for Australia, the the things that distinguishes the US and
response of Donald Trump to the phone advantages it over any other contenders for
global leadership. And it’s useful if
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Australians understand that Poland, for “This was the worst call by far,” he is
example, would regard itself as having quoted as saying.
every bit a special a relationship with the
“This is the worst deal ever.”
US as Australia. That Barack Obama on
his farewell tour to Europe was talking
about Germany as America’s most It is understood the President complained that he was
important partner in the world. In Britain, “going to get killed” politically and accused Australia of
the Trans Atlantic Alliance is regarded as seeking to export the “next Boston bombers”.
the apostles’ creed.
At one point, Turnbull suggested that the two leaders move
“We have to be practical about the alliance.
on from their impasse over refugees to discuss the conflict
It is not the only path of our international
in Syria and other pressing foreign issues.
personality. And if this rude dismissal of the
representations by an Australian PM
altogether legitimate representations by But President Trump demurred and ended the call, making
President Trump serves to remind it far shorter than his conversations with Shinzo Abe of
Australians of that great truth, then it’s a Japan, Angela Merkel of Germany, François Hollande of
good and healthy thing.” France or Putin of Russia.
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump hit back on Twitter after CNN’s White House Correspondent Jim Acosta also
details of his shocking phone call with Prime Minister tweeted today that according to one of his sources,
Malcolm Turnbull were revealed, slamming the refugee President Trump pulled the phone away from ear and
deal as ‘dumb’. wanted to get off the call.
In the scathing tweet, he said: Sky News Australia sources also claimed today that
President Trump “yelled” at Mr. Turnbull in the heated
exchange.
“Do you believe it? The Obama
Administration agreed to take thousands of
illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I
will study this dumb deal!”
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TURNBULL WON’T REVEAL DETAILS
He backed this statement up during an interview with Turnbull - I'm not going to comment on conversation with Trump
3AW radio, saying he was “disappointed” about the leak
but some information had not been accurate.
He said the deal had always proceeded on the basis that the A spokesperson for the US Embassy in Canberra said this
United States would do security checks on any individual afternoon President Trump would honour the refugee
that would be resettled in the US, as was their right. agreement.
Mr. Turnbull also refused to comment on the conversation “President Trump’s decision to honour the
earlier at a press conference. refugee agreement has not changed and
Spokesman Spicer’s comments stand,” the
spokesperson said.
“I’m not going to comment on a
conversation between myself and the “This was just confirmed to the State
President of the United States other than Department from the WH and on to this
what we have said publicly,” he said. embassy at 13.15 Canberra time.”
“You can surely understand the reasons for
that. I appreciate your interest, but it’s But in a statement provided to ABC today, the White
better that these things - these House press office confirmed President Trump might still
conversations are conducted candidly, torpedo the deal made between Mr. Turnbull and President
frankly, privately. If you see reports of Obama.
them, I’m not going to add to them.”
“The President is still considering whether
The details come as the White House and US State or not he will move forward with this deal at
Department are sending mixed messages on whether this time,” the statement read.
President Trump will still honour a deal with Australia to
resettle refugees in the US. Meanwhile, a statement from the State Department appears
to contradict the message coming out of the White House.
Today, the White House confirmed President Trump has
not made a final decision on whether to honour a refugee “Out of respect for close ties to our
deal with Australia. Australian ally and friend, we will honour
the agreement to accept some refugees
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from resettlement centres on Nauru and
Papua New Guinea,” a State Department
official said in a statement provided to the
ABC.
“Any refugees coming to US shores would
only come to the United States in
accordance with the recently signed
executive order.”
Mr. Rucker also told the ABC he and his colleague Greg
Miller had been briefed on some of the exact quotations
from the Trump-Turnbull phone call by senior US
officials.
“He was going to make changes and he
Mr. Rucker said sources had told him President Trump’s was going to blow up the system, literally,
phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin was and disrupt what he sees as a world order
much longer. that is failing the world and making it more
dangerous and less safe.
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“And so he doesn’t really care so much that “I think Mr. Turnbull needs to confirm or
Australia is an ally over many, many years. deny the accuracy of that report.
“What he cares about is the refugee policy “He made it clear that he had a
that ... he views as dangerous for the constructive discussion and that the
United States. refugee deal, which Labor supports, was
“So he didn’t let diplomatic niceties get in on track.
the way of how he felt about that refugee “But now it appears another different
policy.” version of the same conversation has
emerged. I just say to Mr. Turnbull, ‘talk
ASSURANCES ON RESETTLEMENT DEAL straight to the Australian people. Tell us
what’s going on’.”
Mr. Turnbull told reporters in Canberra yesterday “We want to see the refugee deal happen,
President Trump had given an assurance that the deal but clearly President Trump and his people
would go ahead in their phone conversation on Sunday. are saying one thing happened in this
conversation, which is completely at odds
“The Trump administration has committed with what Prime Minister Turnbull has told
to progress with the arrangements to the Australian people. They both can’t be
honour the deal, if you like, that was right and I think it’s in the interests of the
entered into with the Obama Australian people for Mr. Turnbull just to be
administration,” Mr. Turnbull said. straight with the people and tell us what’s
really going on.”
“That was the assurance the president
gave me when we spoke on the weekend.”
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refugees from Central America in exchange for the US Fe bruary 1, 2017: Media reports the White House has
resettling people currently on Nauru and Manus Island as backtracked on a promise to honour the refugee deal with
part of a one-off agreement. Australia, saying President Trump is still considering
whether it will go ahead. Mr. Turnbull says he’s confident
January 27, 2017: President Trump signs an executive it will be given the green light.
order on immigration, banning citizens from seven
majority Muslim countries from entering the United States February 2, 2017: Media reports President Trump
for 90 days and halting all refugee resettlement for 120 reportedly blasted Mr. Turnbull during a phone
days. conversation, calling the refugee resettlement agreement
the “worst deal ever”. Mr. Turnbull doesn’t comment on
January 29, 2017: White House Press Secretary Sean the conversation, instead saying he is assured the deal will
Spicer says he will honour pledge to resettle 1250 refugees still go ahead.
from Nauru and Manus Island during a 25-minute
conversation with Mr. Turnbull despite his executive order
on immigration.
.
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Trump Threatens
UC Berkeley Funds Over Breitbart Protests
AFP
February 2, 2017
Los Angeles (AFP) - US President Donald Trump from the state of California and tuition fees, as well as
threatened Thursday to withdraw federal funds from UC grants and government and private contracts.
Berkeley after violent overnight protests against a planned
appearance by a controversial editor of conservative news - Budget shortfalls -
website Breitbart.
About half of research at Berkeley is funded by the federal
Hundreds of students and other protesters chanting "shut government, according to the university website. Berkeley
him down" smashed windows at the University of however has been struggling in the past years with budget
California campus, set wooden pallets on fire and threw shortfalls and spending deficits.
fireworks and rocks as police in full riot gear responded
with tear gas.
Yiannopoulos, who is the Breitbart technology editor, is
known for his provocative social media posts and was
banned from Twitter in July for fueling abuse directed at
"Ghostbusters" actress Leslie Jones.
"If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free The British journalist is a vocal supporter of Donald
speech and practices violence on innocent Trump -- nicknaming the US president "Daddy" during his
people with a different point of view - NO election campaign -- and has become one of the faces of
FEDERAL FUNDS?" Trump wrote on America's "alt-right" movement.
Twitter Thursday.
Similar protests at the University of California at Davis
Trump's top political adviser Stephen Bannon is the former last month also forced the cancellation of speeches by
chairman of Breitbart News. Yiannopoulos and former pharmaceutical executive Martin
Shkreli.
UC Berkeley is one of the top public universities in the
United States. Its operating costs are funded by money
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The events at Davis and Berkeley were organized by "Although we object strenuously to
conservative student groups. A similar invitation to speak Yiannopoulos’s views — he advocates
at UCLA was rescinded and Berkeley was to be the last white supremacy, transphobia and
stop of his tour. misogyny — it is rather his harmful conduct
to which we call attention in asking for the
Officials at the three University of California campuses cancellation of this event," read one of the
stressed that they did not invite Yiannopoulos or endorse letters.
his ideas but were committed to free speech.
They cited as one example an incident in December at the
More than 100 UC Berkeley faculty members had signed University of Milwaukee where Yiannopoulos -- a gay
two letters sent last month to the school's chancellor, crusader against "political correctness" -- openly mocked a
urging him to cancel the event. transgender student, displaying her name and photo on
screen.
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Pundits Stunned After Trump Hangs
Up On Australia Prime Minister, Slamming "Dumb Deal"
By Tyler Durden
Feb 2, 2017 11:21 AM
First, the AP reported that according to a transcript of a Vladimir Putin and Mexican President
phone call between the presidents of the US and Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, had angrily told him
Trump threatening to send US troops to Mexico if it was that the call was "the worst so far".
unable to stop the "bad hombres down there." Then, in a
separate report from the Washington Post, Trump labeled a
refugee swap deal with Australia "dumb" on Thursday
after a Washington Post report of an acrimonious
telephone call with Australia's prime minister, replete with
alleged "yelling" and which Trump hung up after just 25
minutes, that has threatened a rift in ties between the two
ally nations.
It said the call had been scheduled to last an hour but As reports of the conversation hit headlines on both sides
Trump cut it short after 25 minutes when Australian Prime of the world, Trump tweeted shortly before midnight in
Minister Malcolm Turnbull tried to turn to subjects such as Washington:
Syria. Turnbull told reporters the call with Trump at the
weekend had been frank and candid but refused to give "Do you believe it? The Obama
further details. Administration agreed to take thousands of
illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I
"I do stand up for Australia. My job is to will study this dumb deal."
defend Australian interests," the former
Goldman employee said in Melbourne. The deal in question is a controversial agreement that
Turnbull refused to confirm the Post report Australia agreed with former President Barack Obama late
that Trump, who had earlier spoken to last year for the United States to resettle up to 1,250
world leaders including Russian President asylum seekers held in offshore processing camps on
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Pacific islands in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. In return, given it," Turnbull said. "I make Australia’s
Australia would resettle refugees from El Salvador, case frankly, powerfully, forthrightly and
Guatemala and Honduras. The swap deal is at odds with hopefully persuasively when I deal with
Trump's executive order last week that suspended the U.S. other leaders."
refugee program and restricted entry to the United States
for travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, According to Reuters, the apparent breakdown between
including Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Washington and Canberra that has developed over the
resettlement deal could have serious repercussions.
Australia and the United States are among the five nations
that make up the Five Eyes group, the world's leading
intelligence-sharing network.
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Sedition: Media Promotes Idea
Of A Military Coup To Remove Trump From Office
Corporate Media Promoting The End Of American Democracy
By Alex Thomas
02.01.2017 @7:43 PM EST
(INTELLIHUB) — In yet another astonishing attack on in the United States of America: a military
the very legitimacy of the Trump presidency, multiple coup, or at least a refusal by military
high-profile news outlets have published an article that leaders to obey certain orders,” writes the
floats the idea of using the military to remove Trump from Georgetown Professor.
office.
Brooks continues,
Writing for Foreign Policy, Georgetown University
professor and Schwartz senior fellow at the New America “For the first time in my life, I can imagine
Foundation, Rosa Brooks discusses three ways that the plausible scenarios in which senior military
left believes they may be able to remove the rightfully officials might simply tell the president: “No,
elected president from office. sir. We’re not doing that,” to thunderous
applause from the New York Times
Brooks first touches on the ludicrous idea of impeaching editorial board.”
Trump for literally nothing more than intelligence agency
disinformation and political differences. She then moves Shockingly, the article by Brooks was not only published
on to the played out idea of using the 25th Amendment to in Foreign Policy but also republished by Yahoo News
remove the president which would require his entire where it appeared on their highly trafficked home page.
cabinet turning against him. Make no mistake, this is a concerted effort to push the idea
of a military coup against Trump.
Finally Brooks gets to the more sinister idea being pushed
in leftist circles which would amount to the end of This is also a clear example of the thinking going on
American democracy as we know it and the beginning of within the establishment when it comes to their public goal
using military force to remove leaders that parts of the of removing Trump from office. When Steve Bannon calls
country disagree with. the media the opposition party, this is exactly what he
means.
“The fourth possibility is one that until
recently I would have said was unthinkable
.
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Left-Wing Journalist: Violence Against
“Racists” To Stop Trump Should Be Tolerated
“When Richard Spencer Was Punched, It Was A Cathartic Moment”
By Paul Joseph Watson -
02.01.2017 @3:58 PM EST
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respond to words with a fist and think it’s people you hated, now you’re justifying
proportional?” said one respondent. physical violence. This will not end well for
any of us,” commented another.
“In the political sphere the refusal to
condemn those who employ violence as
means of squashing dissent is equivalent To witness the regressive left now brazenly embracing
to condoning it,” added another. violence and domestic terrorism is chilling but not that
surprising given their increasingly close alliance with
“Remember when you guys said calling Islamists, to the point where ISIS is now working to recruit
someone a liar on the internet was far-left activists because the two groups broadly share the
cyberviolence? First you tried to silence same goal.
.
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The Deep State In The Age Of Trump
Just How Far Are The Forces Of Machiavellian Supremacy
Within The Deep State Willing To Go?
By Sartre -
02.01.2017 @8:57 AM EST
Politics as usual, especially the party version of With the long ongoing hubbub at the Central Intelligence
Republicans and Democrats is the latest endangered Agency, what better example of the deep state is there to
species to hit the bone yards of extinction. Now, that does examine the conflict within? In case you missed the memo,
not mean that competing power factions have all merged peel back the layers on the onion, CIA director John
into a collegial stew of some imaginable melting pot. No Brennan is a Muslim convert? Understanding this
the literal power behind the government that embeds the background puts Glenn Greenwald, not exactly a fan of
deepest recess of manipulated reality still maintains and Trump, essay The Deep State Goes to War With President-
uses their influence and coercion force to remain in Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer, in
control. What actual effect Donald Trump will have to even a greater relevance.
break the connections that keeps the deep state in charge
can only be judged with the passage of time. Some contend “But cheering for the CIA and its shadowy
that Trump is actually an integral component of an elitist allies to unilaterally subvert the U.S.
fraternity of financial magnates that sit at the table of the election and impose its own policy dictates
deep state. on the elected president is both warped
and self-destructive.
Well, assessing the appointees to his cabinet concludes that For months, the CIA, with unprecedented
talented and accomplished achievers often have
clarity, overtly threw its weight behind
accumulated great wealth. Those who condemn capable
Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and sought to
people, out of hand, because of their money acumen are defeat Donald Trump. In August, former
fools who reside in their fantasy theories. Much like the 68 acting CIA Director Michael Morell
House Democrats, who boycotted the Trump inauguration, announced his endorsement of Clinton in
their irrelevancy in the actual mix of shaping world affairs the New York Times
approaches the insignificance and lack of credibility from
the Corporatist Mass Media. In general, Clinton defended and intended
to extend the decades long international
In the era of Trump America First, how will divergent military order on which the CIA and
cliques and kindred insiders react, respond or cooperate Pentagon’s preeminence depends, while
with the new sheriff in town? The strange concept of Trump — through a still-uncertain mix of
conducting affairs in a beneficial national interest has not instability and extremist conviction —
been tried in well over a century. So when the Hill posed a threat to it.”
reported that the Trump team prepares dramatic cuts
Presenting a different perspective Charles Hugh Smith
“Overall, the blueprint being used by offers a simple, yet succinct definition of the deep state:
Trump’s team would reduce federal
spending by $10.5 trillion over 10 years”, “It is the unelected government that
can only be viewed as a promising sign. continues making and implementing policy
regardless of who is in elected office.”
Notwithstanding, budgets do not translate directly into
political influence or clout. Consequently, understanding He goes on to ask: Does a Rogue Deep State Have
the raw nature of power in this artificially concocted Trump’s Back?
construct that claims that globalization is the only course
for human endeavors requires an examination of a state “Given my thesis of a profound disunity in
within a state. the Deep State, and the emergence of a
progressive element hostile to neocons and
neoliberalism (including Wall Street), then
it’s not much of a stretch to speculate that
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this rogue Deep State opposed to neocon- “Stone is intelligent and witty, and it is often
neoliberalism has Trump’s back, as a new jarring to listen to him as he turns from a
administration is pretty much the only hope sober analysis of politics to bizarre
to rid the nation’s top echelons of the conspiracy theories. He is a frequent guest
neocon-neoliberal policies that have driven on Alex Jones’s Infowars radio show,
the U.S. into the ground. where he recently alleged that he was
Rather than being the bad guys, as per the poisoned by unspecified enemies in the
“deep state,” his term for American
usual Liberal world-view, the Armed Forces
intelligence operatives. He told me that the
may well play a key role in reducing the
utterly toxic influence of neocon-neoliberals C.I.A. invented the allegations of Russian
hacking and an influence campaign to help
within the Deep State.
elect Trump directed by Vladimir Putin
If you have wondered why academics like because the agency wanted to go to war in
Paul Krugman and the CIA are on the Syria.
same page, it’s because they are simply
“The C.I.A. has their assessment,” he said,
facets of the same structure. Krugman is a
emphasizing the last word. “Assessment
vocal neoliberal, the CIA is vocally neocon:
two sides of the same coin. I invite you to means guess. The President-elect hasn’t
been shown proof because there’s no proof
study the chart above with an open mind,
to be shown. The deep state needs to get
and ponder the possibility that the Deep
over it. Their candidate lost. They wanted a
State is not monolithic, but deeply divided
wider proxy war in Syria, and Trump is not
along the fault lines of Wall-Street-
Neocons-Neoliberals and the progressive for war. He is for détente.””
elements that rightly view the dominant
neocon-neoliberals as a threat to U.S. Nations always seek to develop their clandestine spying
national security, U.S. global interests and networks. No rational citizen would argue to eliminate
world peace.” intelligence acquisition on foreign countries or competing
interests. However, the progression of the deep state has
This viewpoint might stretch the boundaries of normally been fostered and enhanced by many elements in society.
accepted interpretations, since the establishment has Most have little respect for the constitutional separation of
seldom before needed to worry about an “Outsider” powers delineated in the U.S. Constitution.
gaining the Presidency of the United States. In light of the
desperate meltdown from intelligence agencies using their Espionage was a major factor in George Washington’s
unconvincing assets in the fake news media, a struggle for victory in the American Revolution. Conversely, the CIA
the heart and soul of America is being played out between has empirically established that the forces of imperium
the propaganda press and the real truth tellers. have maintained control over the rightful authority of our
nation going back to the Allen Dulles era.
So when President Trump Visits CIA:
Donald Trump’s appointee, Mike Pompeo will become the
next DCI. It falls to him to defang the snake from making
“I Am So Behind You”,
policy. The role of intelligence is to gather, analyze and
interpret information. Black bag, covert wars and
the natural response is why does Ex-CIA chief Brennan overthrowing governments has no place under the auspice
labels Trump ‘despicable’? Well, the struggle of a band of Yale Skull and Bones internationalists.
demonstrates that the vision of the establishment is in a
total panic to save their imperial empire, while Trump’s
mission is to apply a nationalistic policy that is The CIA must be restricted to providing superior and
diametrically in opposition to the globalists that thrive on accurate briefings to the President. The military command
continued conflict. needs to be placed in charge of any clandestine operations
that strictly follow an America First standard. Arrogant
civilians who profess to be connoisseurs of spy craft have
When the deep state makes policy, the system destroys any proven to be dilettantes of Operation Gladio
semblance of legitimacy. warmongering.
Just how far are the forces of Machiavellian supremacy Pompeo would be well served if he would listen and heed
within the deep state willing to go to eliminate opposition the wisdom of two ex-CIA patriots, Michael Scheuer and
to their power? When a lapdog publication like The New Ray McGovern. Of course their counsel on the Middle
Yorker runs a feature ROGER STONE VERSUS THE East would conflict with Jared Kushner love affair with
“DEEP STATE”, you know that the cover-up can no Israel. This example illustrates the complex twists that
longer be contained or kept from the American public. complicate the feuds within the deep state.
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Based upon the early direction in the Trump The deep state is the establishment which runs rough shot
administration, the deep state money changers will not be over the lackeys in Congress who must beg for money for
challenged. Regretfully, the shadow governance is too re-elections. The entire executive branch of agencies and
widespread and entrenched to be removed in one executive departments has bred collectivist toadies among their ranks
action. This fundamental abdication of recognizing the of the welfare state. And the esquire class has perverted the
eternal enemy of the Republic will undermine any positive rule of law to mean whatever absurd pronouncement of
attempts that revolve around the edges. equity that the courts dictate. The deep state hates the
populist will of loyal Americans.
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If Americans Truly Cared About Muslims,
They Would Stop Killing Them By The Millions
Submitted By Glen Ford
Wed, 02/01/2017 - 14:17
Americans welcome only token numbers of people from “The diplomatic ‘rebellion’ of last
countries devastated by U.S. wars of aggression. Donald summer sought to pressure the Obama
Trump’s current ban on travelers affects nations that were administration to join with Hillary
already targeted by President Obama, “a perfect example Clinton and her ‘Big Tent’ full of war
of the continuity of U.S. imperial policy in the region.” hawks to confront Russia in the skies
The memo from State Department “dissenters” contains over Syria.”
“not a word of support for world peace, nor a hint of
respect for the national sovereignty of other peoples.”
Ironically, the State Department “dissent channel” was
established during one of those rare moments in U.S.
If Americans Truly Cared About Muslims, They history when “peace” was popular: 1971, when a defeated
Would Stop Killing Them by the Millions U.S. war machine was very reluctantly winding down
By BAR executive editor Glen Ford support for its puppet regime in South Vietnam. Back then,
“Since 2001, war has been normalized in lots of Americans, including denizens of the U.S.
the U.S. -- especially war against government, wanted to take credit for the “peace” that was
Muslims.” on the verge of being won by the Vietnamese, at a cost of
at least four million Southeast Asian dead. But, those days
In the most dramatic expression of insider opposition to a are long gone. Since 2001, war has been normalized in the
sitting administration’s policies in generations, over 1,000 U.S. -- especially war against Muslims, which now ranks
U.S. State Department employees signed on to a memo at the top of actual “core American values.” Indeed, so
protesting President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on much American hatred is directed at Muslims that
people from seven predominantly Muslim countries setting Democrats and establishment Republicans must struggle to
foot on U.S. soil. Another recent high point in dissent keep the Russians in the “hate zone” of the American
among the State Department’s 18,000 worldwide popular psyche. The two premiere, officially-sanctioned
employees occurred in June of last year, when 51 hatreds are, of course, inter-related, particularly since the
diplomats called for U.S. air strikes against the Syrian Kremlin stands in the way of a U.S. blitzkrieg in Syria,
government of President Bashar al Assad. wrecking Washington’s decades-long strategy to deploy
Islamic jihadists as foot soldiers of U.S. empire.
Neither outburst of dissent was directed against the U.S.
wars and economic sanctions that have killed and The United States has always been a project of empire-
displaced millions of people in the affected countries: Iran, building. George Washington called it a “nascent empire,”
Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Rather, the Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from
France in pursuit of an “extensive empire,” and the real
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Alexander Hamilton, contrary to the Broadway version, sanctions backed up by the threat of annihilation. It kills
considered the U.S. to be the “most interesting empire in people by the millions, while allowing a tiny fraction of its
the world.” The colonial outpost of two million white victims to seek sanctuary within U.S. borders, based on
settlers (and half a million African slaves) severed ties their individual value to the empire.
with Britain in order to forge its own, limitless dominion,
to rival the other white European empires of the world. “The mega-hyper-empire must
Today, the U.S. is the Mother of All (Neo)Colonialists, masquerade as its opposite: a
under whose armored skirts are gathered all the aged, benevolent, “exceptional” and
shriveled, junior imperialists of the previous era. “indispensible” bulwark against global
barbarism.”
“The United States has always been a
project of empire-building.” Donald Trump’s racist executive order directly affects
about 20,000 people, according to the United Nations High
In order to reconcile the massive contradiction between Commissioner on Refugees. President Obama killed an
America’s predatory nature and its mythical self-image, estimated 50,000 Libyans in 2011, although the U.S.
however, the mega-hyper-empire must masquerade as its officially does not admit it snuffed out the life of a single
opposite: a benevolent, “exceptional” and “indispensible” civilian. The First Black President is responsible for each
bulwark against global barbarism. Barbarians must, of the half-million Syrians that have died since he
therefore, be invented and nurtured, as did the U.S. and the launched his jihadist-based war against that country, the
Saudis in 1980s Afghanistan with their creation of the same year. Total casualties inflicted on the populations of
world’s first international jihadist network, for subsequent the seven targeted nations since the U.S. backed Iraq in its
deployment against the secular “barbarian” states of Libya 1980s war against Iran number at least four million -- a
and Syria. bigger holocaust than the U.S. inflicted on Southeast Asia,
two generations ago -- when the U.S. State Department
In modern American bureaucratese, worrisome barbarian first established its “dissent channel.”
states are referred to as “countries or areas of concern” --
the language used to designate the seven nations targeted But, where is the peace movement? Instead of demanding
under the Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 signed a halt to the carnage that creates tidal waves of refugees,
by President Obama. President Donald Trump used the self-styled “progressives” join in the macabre ritual of
existing legislation as the basis for his executive order demonizing the “countries of concern” that have been
banning travelers from those states, while specifically targeted for attack, a process that U.S. history has color-
naming only Syria. Thus, the current abomination is a coded with racism and Islamophobia. These imperial
perfect example of the continuity of U.S. imperial policy in citizens then congratulate themselves on being the world’s
the region, and emphatically not something new under the one and only “exceptional” people, because they deign to
sun (a sun that, as with old Britannia, never sets on U.S. accept the presence of a tiny portion of the populations the
empire). U.S. has mauled.
The empire preserves itself, and strives relentlessly to The rest of humanity, however, sees the real face of
expand, through force of arms and coercive economic America -- and there will be a reckoning.
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‘What The F*** Chuck’: Thousands Of
Angry Protesters Scream Outside Schumer’s Home
Samantha Chang
February 1, 2017
“He’s talking the talk on social media, but is Meanwhile, conservatives grabbed their popcorn and
he walking the walk?” Cambra Moniz- enjoyed the spectacle as the left ate its own and wallowed
Edwards asked. “What the f–k, Chuck?!” in more childish protests.
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One person summed it best when he urged protesters to
keep whining while Trump keeps winning.
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CONFIRMED:
Russian Cyber Spies Charged With Passing Secrets To US
Russia Confirms Cyber Spies Held On Treason Charges For Passing
Secrets To US, But Denies They Hacked DNC Or Podesta,
And Repeats Denial Of Russian Involvement In
Publication Of DNC And Podesta Emails.
Alexander Mercouris
February 2, 2017
In any case, no matters of this sort can have any relation to It is now confirmed that – as I have been saying all along –
such absurd insinuations [about hacker attacks] or, as we the individuals have been arrested for passing on
have already said, we categorically deny any assertions information to a foreign power, which – as I also
about the possible complicity of the Russian side in any speculated – is confirmed to be the US. The official
hacker attacks Russian news agency TASS quotes a lawyer familiar with
the case as follows
This must be true. As I have written previously, claims
that the individuals who have been arrested were involved No CIA is mentioned in the case. It is only the country that
in hacking Podesta and the DNC are inconsistent with the is mentioned. Yes, the talk is about America, not about the
treason charges which have been brought against them. CIA
The claims that they were look very much like
disinformation (bold italics added)
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This is not a denial that the CIA was the US agency with It seems as if the Russian media talk about the Shalta-
which the arrested individuals are supposed to have been Boltai group was all wrong. Conceivably it was
in contact. All that the lawyer is saying is that the CIA is disinformation deliberately spread by the FSB to conceal
not referred to in the charges. However he explicitly the actual direction of the inquiry. More likely it was
confirms that the country with which the arrested simply someone’s mistaken guess.
individuals were in contact was the US.
Whilst this information has finally resolved some of the
Lastly the lawyer has poured cold water over the claims mysteries about the case – we now know definitely that at
that the individuals arrested had some connection to the least two FSB officers and a cyber specialist have been
Shaltai Boltai group. arrested in Moscow charged with passing on secrets to the
US – the theory that these individuals were a source for the
The lawyer rejected media reports that leader of the US intelligence community’s claims about Russian
Shaltay Boltay hacker group Vladimir Anikeyev was interference in the US election remains for the moment
among the suspects in the criminal case. “It does not speculation.
follow from official documents that Anikeyev and the
Shaltay Boltay group are mentioned in this criminal case,” We will no doubt find out more shortly even though what
the lawyer said, declining to disclose other details of the is clearly shaping up to be a major spy trial will be held in
case. private, as such trials usually are in most countries, not just
in Russia.
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Researchers: Fake News
Did Not Alter Election Results
By Charles Hartwell
2 Feb 2017
As social media sites like Facebook and Snapchat move to Although fake news stories in Trump’s favor were shared
eliminate “fake news” reports from their sites, researchers more times (30 million compared to 8 million for Hillary
from Stanford and New York Universities say Americans Clinton), the authors of the report had determined that
can be sure of one thing: the phenomenon did not affect these stories still did not reach enough voters nationwide to
the results of the presidential election. change the election results.
The new study released last month investigated the “The average American saw and
influence that fake news may have had on President remembered 0.92 pro-Trump fake news
Trump’s victory. stories and 0.23 pro-Clinton fake news
stories, with just over half of those who
NYU economics professor Hunt Allcott and Stanford recalled seeing fake news stories believing
economics professor Matthew Gentzkow led the research. them,” the authors wrote. But, “for fake
The pair ran a series of tests to determine which fake news news to have changed the outcome of the
articles were circulated, how much of it was circulated, election, a single fake article would need to
and the amount of voters that believed the stories to be have had the same persuasive effect as 36
true. television campaign ads.”
Once they gathered an assortment of fake news stories, The observers’ work also revealed that a majority of voters
Gentzkow and Allcott used fact-checking resources in were capable of accurately deciding whether or not a news
order to verify that these stories were fake. They then story was true. They concluded that an insignificant
conducted a post-election survey that consisted of 1,200 number of American voters casted their final decision
voters. based on false information.
Participants were asked what their primary or “most “In summary, our data suggest that
important” source of 2016 election news was. Next, they social media were not the most
were presented with a list of true and false news stories, important source of election news, and
and asked two questions concerning each individual story. even the most widely circulated fake
The first was whether or not the participant remembered news stories were seen by only a small
seeing the story. The second question asked whether or not fraction of Americans,” the study
they believed the story. concludes.
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U.S. Eases Restrictions On Cyber-Security
Sales To Russian Spy Agency
Doug Stanglin , USATODAY
Published 12:29 P.M. ET Feb. 2, 2017
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Trump administration appeared to be going to "extreme In the latest case, some U.S. companies had expressed
lengths" to put Russian interests above the United States. concern that the sanctions would limit their ability to sell
electronics to Russia. The FSB has control over imports to
"Allowing U.S. companies to do business Russia of devices with encryption technology.
with the Russian intelligence service (FSB)
rewards Russia for its nefarious behavior Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to
and emboldens Putin to act out in the make a statement on the decision, TASS reported.
future," he said.
"First we need to understand what it is all
The Trump administration's starts and fits over about," Peskov said, according to TASS. "If
other policies, such as the recent travel ban, complicated we turn to the rocket engines matter, we
efforts to assess the meaning of the move by Treasury. will see that our U.S. counterparts never
impose sanctions that could damage their
In the past, sanctions have been modified, for example, own interests."
when the Obama administration eased sanctions on Iran in
its landmark 2015 nuclear deal because the language of the Contributing: Donovan Slack in Washington; John Bacon
act inadvertently included a ban on the sale of medical in McLean, Va.; he Assocaited Press
devices using nuclear medicine.
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Trump Vows To Repeal Political Limits On Churches
Thursday, 02 Feb 2017 10:48 AM
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President Barack Obama, have been bolstered by Trump's Trump's Supreme Court pick this week was also
win. In a letter last year to Roman Catholics, Trump considered a positive sign.
pledged,
A favorite of conservatives, Neil Gorsuch serves on the
"I will defend your religious liberties and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where he sided with
right to fully and freely practice your Hobby Lobby and the Little Sisters of the Poor when they
religion, as individuals, business owners mounted religious objections to the Obama
and academic institutions." administration's requirement that employers provide health
insurance that includes contraceptives.
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Soros Insider Demands Military Overthrow Trump
Ex-Obama Official Tied To Soros-Funded New America Foundation
Clifford Cunningham | Infowars.Com
February 2, 2017
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The Trump Show
By Kim Codella
February 2, 2017
I think I understand President Trump. family. We all repeat the show’s catch phrases like “clean
coal” “free and fair” and my favorite “keep its mouth
He isn’t mad. He doesn’t have an Alt-Right-Nazi agenda. shut.” My 85-year-old father and I haven’t laughed
He doesn’t have a new form of Tourette’s that kicks in two together like this since watching Carol Burnett when I was
minutes after one begins to speak. This is all just part of a kid (thanks Mr. President). I’ve cried too. The “Real
the “Trump Show” -on and off the air since the late Housewives” and “Walking Dead” can’t hold a Gucci
1970’s. Rebranded the “The President Trump Show” the purse or a flesh-eating zombie to this circus.
star’s persona has changed little during his journey from
real estate mogul/T.V. celebrity to candidate and now The President Trump Show’s success is that it does
arriving @POTUS. something no televised program has ever been able to do –
it can reach out from the screen, grab your job, your
This is the wildest and most successful television-variety health, your life, the people you love, the country you love,
show to hit the airwaves, period. Running 24/7, this one people you haven’t met but empathize with and then slap
has it all: money, beauty, power, sex, espionage, torture, you upside the head with them (even “The Kardashians”
misogyny, racism, vulgarity, stupidity and the possibility can’t do that).
of thermonuclear war -all in HD and broadcast live. This
show is much better than that hippy dippy “West Wing.” The question for me and for you is, how long will we stay
tuned before we want to change the channel?
I hate “The President Trump Show” but it’s the best thing
on T.V. and its ratings are through the roof. I watch it Shows get cancelled you know.
every day and talk about it with coworkers, friends and
.
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“We Need To Start Killing People.. We Need To Start
Killing The White House – Seattle Social Justice Warrior
Caught On Tape Threatening Violence And
Demanding Reparations
By Mac Slavo -
02.02.2017 @4:39 PM EST
We recently warned that America is about to see If you’re white, it’s time you started kicking some of your
unprecedented protests and rioting from coast to coast. hard-earned wealth her way, including your cash and your
house:
But don’t take our word for it.
White people… give your fucking
A social justice warrior involved in the Seattle street money… give your fucking house…
protests tells you everything you need to know about what your fucking property… we need it
the future holds and lends further evidence to the notion fucking all… you need to reparate black
that America sits on the precipice of widespread civil and indigenous people right now…. Pay
unrest. the fuck off… it ain’t just your fucking
time.. it’s your fucking money…
The woman, who also claims to be a pre-school teacher,
implies that it’s time for extreme measures, including but Watch the her full speech (and then be sure to register your
not limited to killing people, starting at the White House. kids with her pre-school):
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The Left Openly Embraces Domestic
Terrorism, Calls For Military Coup Against Trump
Trump Opposition Now Using Violence, Threats Of Military Coup
By Alex Thomas -
02.02.2017 @4:39 PM EST
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coup, or at least a refusal by military To recap, multiple anti-Trump propagandists are openly
leaders to obey certain orders,” wrote the pushing the idea of a military coup at the exact same time
Professor. as violent protesters are silencing free speech on campuses
throughout the country. Make no mistake, this is truly an
information war for the future of the country.
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A Psychological Divide:
Irrationality, Psychopathy And Trump’s Cult
By Ken Levy
February 2, 2017
Polls show that around 40% of the electorate approve of The rational-irrationality hypothesis would certainly
Donald Trump’s first week and a half in office; 60% do explain Trump’s penchant for childish Tweets, heavy-
not. This is not a mere partisan divide; it is a psychological handed domination, farfetched conspiracy theories, and
divide as well. Most of the 60% simply cannot understand “alternative facts.” For example, Trump might very well
how Trump’s faithful 40% can continue to support him. be lying about widespread voter fraud merely to instigate
an investigation into voter fraud that will itself pave the
So far, Trump has confirmed every bad impression he way toward even more voter suppression in the 2018 and
created during the election: that he is reckless, autocratic, 2020 elections. Still, for the most part, Trump just seems to
mendacious, confrontational, gratuitously insulting, be too impulsive and, as demonstrated by his clumsy
obsessed with his popularity and image, cruel to refugees manner of speaking, too simpleminded to be this
and immigrants, dangerously intent on disrupting both the calculating.
federal government and long-standing international
relationships, suspiciously friendly toward Putin, and Instead, a more plausible hypothesis is that Trump just
oblivious to the appearance of corruption or hypocrisy. enjoys lying for its own sake. He takes great pleasure – a
“duping delight” – in making up facts that suit his
What is so baffling about Trump’s supporters is that they immediate purposes and then using his Twitter account
continue to stand by him when they were so uncharitable and the mainstream media to disseminate them.
and hateful toward Pres. Obama and Hillary for far less
serious transgressions. In addition to being unfair, their Pathological lying is just one of twenty attributes that Dr.
attitude is fundamentally irrational. Robert Hare incorporated into his “Psychopathy Checklist-
Revised” (PCL-R), a list designed for psychologists to
Irrationality is defective reasoning; it generally involves evaluate whether patients suffer from the mental illness of
drawing the wrong inference. The usual causes of psychopathy. (Psychopathy overlaps significantly with
irrationality are alcohol, drugs, ignorance, intense “Anti-Social Personality Disorder” in the fifth version of
emotions, and motivated belief. All of these contribute to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
abnormal and often self-destructive behavior. For our (DSM V)). The other nineteen attributes are glib and
purposes, motivated belief is the most important. People superficial charm, grandiose self-worth, need for
stimulation or proneness to boredom, conning and
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manipulativeness, lack of remorse or guilt, shallow affect, countries. Over the past several years, they have been
callousness and lack of empathy, parasitic lifestyle, poor indoctrinated by Fox News, alt-right/alt-fact websites, hate
behavioral controls, promiscuous sexual behavior, early radio, their parents, their friends, Republican politicians,
behavior problems, lack of realistic, long-term goals, and Trump himself into thinking that they, not the targets
impulsivity, irresponsibility, failure to accept responsibility of Trump’s venom, are the real victims; that the “other” is
for own actions, many short-term marital relationships, entirely to blame for all of their misery, fear, and
juvenile delinquency, revocation of condition release, and deprivation.
criminal versatility.
In her brilliant and disturbing book The Cult Next Door:
As evidenced by his public behavior over the last forty A True Story of a Suburban Manhattan New Age Cult,
years, and especially since June 2015, Trump clearly Elizabeth R. Burchard documents her own journey into,
satisfies most of these attributes. In addition to his and eventual escape from, a cult led by Dr. George
hyperbolic self-praise, pathological lying, and many racist Sharkman. Ms. Burchard explains how many perfectly
and misogynistic remarks, Trump has committed many moral, rational, and high-functioning individuals may be
acts that range from shady to criminal: he “stiffed” many easily manipulated and exploited by a charismatic
independent contractors, spearheaded the fictitious individual. The cult leader’s ploy is to seek out gullible,
“Birther” conspiracy against Pres. Obama, donated timid, or anxious individuals; convince them that he has all
$25,000 to Florida State Attorney General Pam Bondi’s the answers; continue to repeat these answers; and play to
campaign just days before she “coincidentally” terminated their sense of self-superiority by demonizing everybody
an investigation into fraud allegations against Trump who doesn’t subscribe to his system. Since June 2015, this
University, engaged in self-dealing with the Trump has been Trump’s playbook, and it has proven to be very
Foundation, bragged to Billy Bush about sexually effective – so effective that he is now occupying the
assaulting women, allegedly engaged in perverted sexual highest office in the country and issuing one toxic
behavior during a visit to Moscow in 2013, admitted to executive order after another to make good on his
engaging in voyeuristic behavior backstage at the Miss campaign promises.
Universe pageants, appears to be profiting from his public
office by refusing to divest himself of his businesses, and While many predict that Trump’s followers will eventually
still refuses to reveal his tax returns, which suggests that he be disillusioned and abandon the “Trump Train,” their
is trying to conceal tax evasion, corruption, and/or prediction is naively optimistic. Cults don’t operate
questionable financial ties to other countries. rationally; cult members do not change their core beliefs
and behavior on the basis of facts and evidence. Instead,
Given this lengthy record, his first week and a half in they blindly follow their leader wherever he and his inner
office (described above), and Dr. Hare’s PCL-R checklist, circle decide to go.
Trump seems to be a psychopath. Why, then, do 40% of
the electorate still support him? And what does their If the 60% who do not support Trump want to avoid
enthusiasm for an apparent psychopath say about them? calamity, they need to start talking not merely about how
to resist Trump and win the 2018 elections but also how to
Individually, most of Trump’s supporters are probably not de-program millions of people. Unfortunately, as Ms.
psychopaths. But the collective group is psychopathic. Burchard’s book demonstrates, this task is much easier
Whether they believe Trump’s lies or not, they are all too said than done. Once the mass of Trump’s supporters fell
enthusiastic about his victimizing others – for example, under his bizarre spell, they were lost to reason. And
government officials, Obamacare beneficiaries, women reason is pretty much the only tool left in the reasonable
around the world who need healthcare from facilities that majority’s arsenal.
provide abortions, and refugees from many Muslim
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Twitter Now Working Directly Against
Trump White House, Donating Money To The Left
Social Media Giant Openly Funding Anti-Trump Operations
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Schumer And Leadership Team
Refuse To Meet With Gorsuch
Kerry Picket - Reporter
3:55 PM 02/02/2017
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Dem Boycott Foiled Again! GOP Senate Overrides Crybaby
No-Shows And Approves Trump’s Pick To Head EPA
Michael Dorstewitz
February 2, 2017
If their stunt didn’t work the first time, what made them
think it’d work if they gave it one more try?
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On Wednesday, Democrats got burned when Treasury
secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin and Health and Human
Services secretary nominee Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., were
approval by the Senate Finance Committee. The
Democratic members were a no-show.
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Donald Trump 'Yelled At Australian PM
During "Worst Ever" Phone Call About Refugee
Swap Deal - Then HUNG UP'
Malcolm Turnbull Denied The President Slammed The Phone Down
Saying The Conversation Ended Cordially - And He Insisted The US Will
Honour Obama's Refugee Deal
Bysteve Robson & Chris Kitching
13:20, 2 FEB 2017
The call was scheduled for an hour but Trump cut it short
after just 25 minutes when Turnbull tried to discuss topics
such as Syria, the Post reported.
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Twitter users have speculated that this picture shows Trump giving Trump is pictured during the phone call with Turnbull
Turnbull the finger during the angry phone call (Photo: Twitter) (Photo: Getty)
Turnbull said on Thursday he had spoken "candidly" and Trump took to Twitter to add more fuel to the controversy
"frankly" with Trump, but would not confirm that the by tweeting: "Do you believe it? The Obama
President had berated him and cut the call short. Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal
immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb
deal!"
He said: "I do stand up for Australia. My job is to defend
Australian interests."
The saga continued when Turnbull then felt the need to
respond further and he appeared live on several radio
But sources told Sky News Australia the Aussie PM
shows in Australia.
believes Trump is a "bully" and that "to combat a bully,
you need to bully back".
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"I make Australia's case frankly, powerfully, forthrightly
and hopefully persuasively when I deal with other
leaders."
The Turnbull call came less than a day after Trump had
sparked confusion in Australia after saying it would apply
"extreme vetting" as part of the refugee resettlement deal.
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Trump was joined by Chief Strategist Steve Bannon (right) In return, Australia would resettle refugees from El
and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn (Photo: Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Getty)
Turnbull would not comment on the contents of the call
other than to say he believed the resettlement deal
remained in place.
"If you see reports of them, I'm not going to add to them,"
he told reporters in Melbourne.
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In A Shift, Trump Warns Against New Israeli Settlements
As Netanyahu Plots Major Expansion
By Elliot Hannon
February 2, 2017
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Lawmakers Urge Trump to Remove Strategist Bannon
From National Security Council
© AP Photo/ Evan Vucci US
06:35 02.02.2017
Keith Ellison, Judy Chu and Barbara Lee signed the letter
to Trump calling for removal of Brannon from his current
position.
"We strongly denounce Mr. Bannon’s
inclusion in the Principals Committee and
standing invitation to attend National
Security Council meetings and demand you
[Trump] immediately undo this politicization
of America’s national security," the letter
stated on Wednesday.
White House chief strategist Steven On Saturday, Trump signed an executive order
Bannon should be immediately removed to reorganize the NSC, which added Bannon as a
from the US National Security Council permanent member.
(NSC), seven Democratic Congressmen
said in a letter to President Donald US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee
Trump. ranking member Adam Smith said on Monday the
Congress would have to think twice about any
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Congressmen Cedric recommendations it gets from the NSC due to the
Richmond, Mark Pocan, Michelle Grisham, Raul Grijalva, reorganization ordered by Trump.
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House Votes To Overturn Obama Gun Rule
By Tim Devaney
02/02/17 04:09 PM EST
Supporters of the rule said the step was necessary to keep The Senate must approve each of these measures with a
guns away from people with mental disorders like simple majority before they are sent to President Trump to
schizophrenia and severe anxiety. sign.
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US To Develop System Ensuring
Immigrants Embrace American Values - Trump
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19:17 02.02.2017
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Republicans Impatient With
Anti-Trump Civil Servants
By Ben Kamisar
02/02/17 05:11 PM EST
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That same day, White House press secretary Sean Spicer responsibilities, which are to faithfully
dismissed an internal State Department dissent document execute the laws that have been passed,”
that pushes back against Trump’s immigration executive Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), a frequent
order. Nearly 1,000 diplomats reportedly signed the Trump critic during the campaign, told The
memo. Hill.
“We need to rein in these independent
“They should either get with the program or agencies and make them accountable to
they can go,” Spicer said. He followed the president again, regardless of who the
up on Wednesday by explaining that while president is.”
all Americans have a right to speak their
mind, it’s their job to help the president Some Republicans floated questions about whether
enact his agenda. dissenting employees could be violating the federal Hatch
Act by using their official positions for political action.
Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, whose Northern But while there were sporadic calls for punishment, most
Virginia district includes a significant number of civil lawmakers wouldn’t speculate as to what the best form of
servants, told The Hill that concerned federal employees recourse should be.
are reaching out to his office.
“To express political overtones by a
Dozens of social media accounts purporting to belong to government employee I would think
spurned agency staffers have popped up to muddy the violates the Hatch Act, and I would think
administration’s message. The unverified accounts that anyone who has begun this process
appeared after Trump administration clamped down on should go through a procedure consistent
multiple agencies’ social media activity in response to the with a violation of the Hatch Act,”
National Park Service retweeting a photo comparison Sessions, the Texas lawmaker, said.
showing that Trump’s inaugural crowd was smaller than
former President Obama’s. “It concerns me, and I think it should be
looked at and adjudicated as necessary to
the rules of the department.”
This week, a Washington Post report described a civil
servant support group in Washington, noting that 180
employees are expected to attend a workshop Democratic lawmakers that spoke to The Hill were united
around the dissenting civil servants, framing their
opposition to Trump’s policies as protected speech that’s
“where experts will offer advice on workers’ about less about politics and more about protecting the
rights and how they can express civil missions of federal agencies.
disobedience.”
“People in civil service are committed to
For all the talk about civil servants and their consciences, what they believe the mission of their
though, Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) thinks the issue is agency is—they have a conscience and
simple. they have the ability to speak up,” said
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), a longtime
“I don’t think it’s rocket science. All they member of Democratic leadership.
have to do is do their job,” Flores said.
“We have free speech in this national and
“If they don’t want to do their jobs, they they are, from the depths of their own
should get another job.” conscience, talking about what they thing is
the right thing.”
GOP lawmakers say that civil service dissent isn’t about
free speech. When asked by The Hill what she thought of Republican
worries that dissent could set a dangerous precedent for
“We should have more debate in this employees looking to frustrate a president’s agenda,
country. Now that’s a different thing than if DeLauro responded,
you have a job to serve the president in the
executive branch and advance his “Generally, this White House worries me.”
.
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Resistance From Within:
Federal Workers Push Back Against Trump
By Juliet Eilperin, Lisa Rein And Marc Fisher
January 31
The signs of popular dissent from President Trump’s Then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates at the Justice
Department on May 15, 2015. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington
opening volley of actions have been plain to see on the Post)
nation’s streets, at airports in the aftermath of his refugee
and visa ban, and in the blizzard of outrage on social
At the Justice Department, an employee in the division that
media. But there’s another level of resistance to the new
administers grants to nonprofits fighting domestic violence
president that is less visible and potentially more
and researching sex crimes said the office has been
troublesome to the administration: a growing wave of
planning to slow its work and to file complaints with the
opposition from the federal workers charged with
inspector general’s office if asked to shift grants away
implementing any new president’s agenda.
from their mission.
Less than two weeks into Trump’s administration, federal
“You’re going to see the bureaucrats using
workers are in regular consultation with recently departed
time to their advantage,” said the
Obama-era political appointees about what they can do to
employee, who spoke on the condition of
push back against the new president’s initiatives. Some
anonymity for fear of retaliation. Through
federal employees have set up social media accounts to
leaks to news organizations and internal
anonymously leak word of changes that Trump appointees
complaints, he said, “people here will resist
are trying to make.
and push back against orders they find
unconscionable.”
And a few government workers are pushing back more
openly, incurring the wrath of a White House that, as press
The resistance is so early, so widespread and so deeply felt
secretary Sean Spicer said this week about dissenters at the
that it has officials worrying about paralysis and overt
State Department, sends a clear message that they “should
refusals by workers to do their jobs.
either get with the program, or they can go.”
Asked whether federal workers are dissenting in ways that
At a church in Columbia Heights last weekend, dozens of
go beyond previous party changes in the White House,
federal workers attended a support group for civil servants
Tom Malinowski, who was President Barack Obama’s
seeking a forum to discuss their opposition to the Trump
assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights
administration. And 180 federal employees have signed up
and labor, said, sarcastically:
for a workshop next weekend, where experts will offer
advice on workers’ rights and how they can express civil
disobedience. “Is it unusual?” There’s nothing unusual
about the entire national security
bureaucracy of the United States feeling
like their commander in chief is a threat to
U.S. national security. That happens all the
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time. It’s totally usual. Nothing to worry employees can register opposition without fear of reprisals.
about.” The channel, formed in 1971, has been used to raise policy
objections to the Vietnam War and other conflicts. Several
The permanent bureaucracy, the backbone of the federal hundred employees signed the dissent cable objecting to
government and the bulwark against many presidents’ Trump’s refugee policy.
activist intentions, is designed to be at least a step removed
from the crosswinds of partisan politics. Secretaries of state have taken the dissent channel so
seriously that they have altered policies in response to
But for years, many conservatives have argued that the complaints. In 2002, then-Secretary Colin Powell presided
federal bureaucracy is stacked against them, making it over the awarding of a prize for “constructive dissent” to
harder for them to get things done even when they control an employee who had pushed back against a deputy
the White House, Congress or both. secretary.
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“federal workers are now extremely In any administration, one man’s principled resistance is
concerned . . . federal workers are used to another’s outrageous defiance. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.),
seeing the political winds change direction.” Trump’s nominee for attorney general, said in 2015 that it
is the obligation of a federal worker to stand up against
Workers at some agencies say they have seen no sign of improper orders.
opposition. At the Education Department, which Trump at
one point suggested be dismantled, one official said the In a confirmation hearing for Yates, Sessions said:
new administration has been surprisingly agreeable: no
major changes in policy, no troubling directives. “You have to watch out, because people
will be asking you do to things you just
“We’ve been, I think, heartened by how need to say no about.” Like any CEO, with
things are going here,” the official said. a law firm — sometimes the lawyers have
to tell the CEO: ‘Mr. CEO, you can’t do
But the level of worry is particularly high at places such as that. Don’t do that.’”
the Environmental Protection Agency. The head of that
agency’s union got an email Tuesday from a local union Presidents appoint the heads of agencies and a few
leader asking for guidance on what to tell workers to do officials at the top of each department, but the great
majority of those who implement any administration’s
“if they receive an illegal order from agenda are civil servants who enjoy legal protections
management.” meant to encourage them to blow the whistle on fraud and
corruption.
The union representing scientists and other EPA
employees is exploring the formation of a fundraising arm Short of formal whistleblowing, workers are finding small
to “defend federal scientists we anticipate will be ways to express their opposition. At the Justice
disciplined for speaking out or for defending scientific Department, some career civil servants asked their bosses
facts,” particularly about climate change, said Nicole whether they were allowed to protest their new president
Cantello, vice president of Local 704 of the American by marching or contacting a member of Congress. The
Federation of Government Employees, which represents answer was yes, if they did so on their own time and in
EPA workers in the Chicago area. their personal capacity.
John O’Grady, a career EPA employee who heads a The day after the November election, the department’s
national council of EPA unions, said Trump’s firing of ethics office said workers could wear clothing that
acting attorney general Sally Yates on Monday night after contained a political message. One lawyer who had worn a
the Obama-era holdover had refused to implement Hillary Clinton T-shirt beneath another layer of clothing
Trump’s refugees ban said that once the advice was issued,
“sends kind of a chilling effect through the “I took the layer off.”
agency. I’m afraid at this point that many
federal employees are just fearful for their In the past few days, protest accounts have popped up on
jobs, and they want to keep their heads social media from employees at several agencies. An
down.” immunologist who formerly worked at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention created what he called a
Two Twitter feeds, @altUSEPA and
“resistance page,”@viralCDC, for CDC employees to post
@ActualEPAFacts, have attracted more
than 200,000 followers and call themselves vaccine and public health information that workers believe
part of “the Resistance.” They appear to be the Trump administration may seek to remove from public
run by outside activists, rather than agency view.
employees.
There has been no freeze on communications at the CDC,
Top EPA officials have tried to reassure anxious said spokeswoman Kathy Harben.
employees. In an email to employees, Don Benton — a top
Trump adviser to the EPA — insisted that media reports of Similarly, a Twitter account protesting Trump’s policies
crackdowns on public speech and scientific autonomy has popped up in the Defense Department. Using the
were handle @Rogue_DoD, a service member has tweeted
everything from Defense Department documents warning
“just not accurate. . . . Changes will likely about the effects of climate change to an opinion piece
come, and when they do, we will work accusing Trump of insufficient consultation with Defense
together to implement them.” Secretary Jim Mattis.
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Career staff members in at least five departments said they about climate change. The rogue tweeter won more than
are staying in close contact with Obama administration 60,000 followers before park officials regained control of
officials to get advice on how to handle Trump initiatives the account.
they consider illegal or improper.
Social media accounts have popped up to defend the
Former labor secretary Thomas Perez, who also headed the Smithsonian Institution and the National Endowments for
Justice Department’s civil rights division under Obama, the Arts and the Humanities. Employees at some
said he has not been in contact with his former employees Smithsonian units have been reminded that policies
but is working to mobilize grass-roots opposition. prohibit them from using their work devices to post
political comments.
“We’re mindful of our ethical
responsibilities,” said Perez, who is running “We don’t intend to change the way we do
for chair of the Democratic National things,” said Smithsonian Secretary David
Committee. “We’re also mindful that we’re J. Skorton. “That’s not out of a sense of
in an existential crisis.” defiance, it’s not out of a sense of not
wanting to be accountable, it’s out of a
While many federal workers have begun to consider sense of believing in the mission of the
avenues of dissent only since the inauguration, others had Smithsonian, which is to do research and
been preparing for weeks. In the last days of Obama’s share information with the public.”
tenure, several departments catalogued data and reports
and got them into the hands of allies outside the Academics have debated for years whether bureaucracies
government. inevitably grow to a point where they, as political scientist
Michael Nelson of Rhodes College put it, “ineluctably
The use of social media as outlets for worried government overpower” their political masters.
workers has spread through much of the bureaucracy.
After Trump complained about the National Park Service “Time and time again,” he wrote, “major
using Twitter to compare the crowd sizes at his efforts to make administration more
inauguration with the far larger assembly at Obama’s responsive to political control have had the
gathering in 2009, a gag order temporarily silenced the opposite effect. It is enough to chasten
official social media account. even the boldest reformer if, like the
sorcerer’s apprentice, his every assault on
In response, an ex-employee at Badlands National Park his tormentors doubles their strength.”
who still had access to its Twitter feed started posting facts
.
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Glaring NYT Hypocrisy
By Stephen Lendman
2-2-2017
The self-styled newspaper of record notoriously features catastrophic refugee crisis, and unspeakable human
biased reporting and fake news, not the real thing on misery.
virtually all issues mattering most.
Earlier Times reports lacked outrage about devastating
It’s one-sided anti-Trumpism is disgraceful, abandoning a wars waged by the Clintons, Bush/Cheney and Obama -
fair and balanced assessment of his campaign rhetoric, including genocidal sanctions on Iraq, responsible for the
pledges and agenda so far in office. deaths of 5,000 children under age five monthly.
There’s plenty to criticize if done accurately and Only Trump is singled out for criticism. The hypocrisy is
responsibly. There’s also room for praising what he gets obvious.
right. He’s only been in office two weeks, his full agenda
yet to unfold. A separate Times report blasted his “dark view of Islam.”
In stump speeches and other comments, he referred to its
His executive order suspending entry into America was radicalized elements, wanting Islamic extremists kept out
deplorable, targeting six Muslim nations, banning entry of America.
from a seventh, Syria, indefinitely on the phony pretext of
preventing domestic terrorist attacks from all seven. Washington has had a “dark view” of Islam for time
immemorial, portraying Muslims irresponsibly as violent,
Supplying armored vehicles to anti-Syria terrorists, gun-toting terrorists, especially since the 1990s, notably
masquerading as moderates, is a prescription for continued post-9/11.
war, not resolution.
It’s not something new under Trump. Obama bombed
Failing to denounce US-installed Ukrainian putschists, seven Muslim countries, waged imperial wars in multiple
waging war on their own people suggests no relief for theaters, exceeding the worst of Bush/Cheney.
beleaguered Donbass residents.
So far, Trump’s bombing is confined to drone wars,
Approving a commando raid on Yakla village, Yemen, warranting justifiable criticism, especially if he fails to end
resulting in the massacre of defenseless men, women and imperial conflicts still raging, an unlikely prospect, making
children was indefensible. So is continuing drone war on him a war criminal like his predecessors.
the devastated country and elsewhere.
Criticizing him while failing to demand accountability for
Times criticism of last Sunday’s raid ignored its support high crimes committed by the Clintons, Bush/Cheney and
for all US imperial wars, waged on countries threatening Obama is glaring hypocrisy - longstanding at The New
no one, responsible for millions of casualties, a York Times.
.
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Trump Declares War On 9/11 Gatekeeper CNN
By IWB
Published February 2, 2017 · Updated February 3, 2017
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'WAKE UP & JOIN THE RESISTANCE': Sarah Silverman
Calls For A Military Coup To Overthrow President Trump
Comedian Sarah Silverman appeared to call for a military coup in a tweet Wednesday night
'WAKE UP & JOIN THE RESISTANCE. ONCE THE MILITARY IS W US FASCISTS GET
OVERTHROWN. MAD KING & HIS HANDLERS GO BYE BYE,' she wrote
The tweet was published as protests turned violent in Berkeley, California over a speech planned by
far-eight Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos
During the primaries, Silverman supported Sen. Bernie Sanders, before backing Sec. Hillary Clinton
against Donald Trump
By Ashley Collman For Dailymail.com
Published: 12:56 EST, 2 February 2017 | Updated: 17:23 EST, 2 February 2017
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Silverman's tweets were not well received by conservatives During the presidential campaign, funnywoman Silverman
and Trump supporters on Twitter got serious about politics - becoming an outspoken
supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Yiannopoulos, a 32-year-old right-wing provocateur, is a Protests in Berkeley, California against far-right editor Milo
vocal supporter of Trump and a self-proclaimed internet Yiannopoulos turned violent
troll whose comments have been criticized as racist,
misogynist, anti-Muslim and white supremacist. He was
banned from Twitter after leading a harassment campaign
against 'Ghostbusters' actress Leslie Jones.
President Trump further leads the United States into the professor at Harvard, where Neil Gorsuch
depths of fascism in his selection of Neil Gorsuch as the would eventually attend law school.
replacement for the late Antonin Scalia on the U.S.
Supreme Court. In the early 1980s, while attending the Gorsuch's early flirtation with fascism complements other
elite Jesuit-run male-only Georgetown Preparatory school fascist tendencies by the Trump administration, including
in Washington, DC, Gorsuch founded the "Fascism its disregard for the Constitution and Bill of Rights. On
Forever Club." Gorsuch served as president of the club February 2, Trump attended the annual National Prayer
until his graduation in 1985. At the time he was attending Breakfast in Washington, DC, which is sponsored by the
the prep school, Gorsuch's mother, Anne Gorsuch, served secretive Fellowship Foundation led for decades by the 88-
as the administrator of the Environmental Protection year old Douglas Coe. The foundation traces its origins to
Agency under Ronald Reagan. a Seattle Methodist minister named Abraham Vereide,
who advanced anti-labor fascist politics in the post-World
Gorsuch entry in the 1985 Georgetown Prep School War I years. Vereide's anti-union and pro-business prayer
yearbook breakfast group, a cover for fascist policy-making, soon
went nationwide.
Anne Gorsuch was a harbinger for the anti-environmental
Scott Pruitt, Trump's pick to head the EPA. As EPA In 1989, Coe, who Hillary Clinton once called her
administrator, Gorsuch attempted to quash the Clean Air "spiritual mentor," said,
Act while she smoked two packs of Marlboros a day. She
died from cancer in 2004. Although the type of cancer was "Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler were three
never disclosed, Gorsuch died at the Aurora Medical men. Think of the immense power these
Center in Aurora, Colorado, which has top ratings for lung three men had... But they bound
cancer treatment. themselves together in an agreement . . .
Jesus said, 'You have to put me before
The Fascism Forever Club was billed as an anti-faculty other people. And you have to put me
group opposed to what it considered were "left-wing" before yourself.' Hitler, that was the
faculty members. demand to be in the Nazi party. You have
to put the Nazi party and its objectives
ahead of your own life and ahead of other
people."
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Democrats Fuming
Over Gorsuch Backed Him In 2006
By Cody Derespina
Published February 02, 2017
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Schumer also has been a leading voice of the Gorsuch strong, independent Justice on the Court,”
opposition. Schumer said in a statement.
“Judge Gorsuch has repeatedly sided with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Wednesday
corporations over working people, noted the dozen sitting Democrats who once backed
demonstrated a hostility toward women’s Trump's nominee.
rights, and most troubling, hewed to an
ideological approach to jurisprudence that “He’s a widely respected jurist who
makes me skeptical that he can be a deserves the nomination to be voted upon,”
Spicer said.
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US Eases Sanctions Against Russia
By Tyler Durden
Feb 2, 2017 12:13 PM
Just moments ago, when reporting on the latest Putin Also related to “transactions necessary and
comment involving the recent flaring up of violence in ordinarily incident to comply with rules and
Eastern Ukraine, we said that "the biggest question regulations administered by, and certain
remains unanswered: actions or investigations involving, the
FSB,” according to Treasury website.
what side of the Ukraine-Russian
conflict will the new US State Cited by Tass, Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry
Department under Rex Tillerson side Peskov has declined to make a statement on the United
with, and will Trump slam the alleged States’ decision.
Russian violence as his predecessor
was so quick to do on virtually every "First we need to understand what it is all
single occasion." about," Peskov said. "If we turn to the
rocket engines matter, we will see that our
We may have just gotten the answer, because moments US counterparts never impose sanctions
ago the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets that could damage their own interests."
Control, under Rex Tillerson, posted a Russia-related
general license notice on its website, according to which While this initial de-escalation of sanctions against Russia
US authorities eased sanctions against Russia’s Federal may or may not give John McCain an aneurysm, it will
Security Service - the successor agency to the USSR's certainly lead to a vocal outcries by Democrats and the
KGB - pertaining to licenses and permits for information media against Rex Tillerson - whose proximity to Putin is
technology products in Russia. well-known - and of course, president Trump, accusing
them of immediately going soft on Russia, and leading to
According to the license, even further sanctions elimination between the US and
Russia, thus alienating Europe, whose relations with
"all transactions and activities" with Moscow remain as icy as anything observed under the
participation of the Russian Federal Obama administration.
Security Service, prohibited earlier by
executive orders of the US President, The full Treasury general license notice is on next page.
are authorized with certain exceptions.
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Trump Threatens To Pull U.C. Berkeley Funds After
Violent Protesters Cancel Yiannopoulos Speech
By Tyler Durden
Feb 2, 2017 2:33 PM
In the latest crackdown by less than tolerant liberals "We shut down the event. It was great.
against free speech, on Wednesday night hundreds of Mission accomplished," a protester told
protesters at University of California in Berkeley smashed CNN.
windows, set fires and clashed with police as they forced a
controversial "alt-right" speaker to cancel his appearance
at the liberal-leaning institution.
"Obviously it’s a liberal campus so they It was not immediately clear if any algos were confused by
hate any libertarians or conservatives who the Trump tweet and interpreted it as referring to interest
dare to express an opinion on their rates or the Fed's hiking plans.
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Michael Savage Cautions Trump About Inner Circle
'Godfather Of Trumpmania' Says 'Too Much, Too Soon'
February 2, 2017
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Google Cozies To Trump But Calls For His Impeachment
It Publicly Cozies Up To Trump While Privately
Calling For His Impeachment
By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times –
Thursday, February 2, 2017
ANALYSIS/OPINION: And yet, like any firm, Google needs to make money, and
it’s benefited from peddling soft influence in the nation’s
Google, or rather its parent company Alphabet, got used to capital. Now that a new sheriff is in town, Google needs to
dominating Washington under President Barack Obama’s at least pretend to play nice — or all be lost.
rule. Perhaps, that’s why they’d like to see President
Donald Trump impeached. Alphabet cut ties with the Podesta Group, the Democratic-
leaning lobbying arm run by John Podesta, the brother of
“Some of us may need to adopt Pence 2017 bumper Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, Bloomberg News
stickers,” Google’s cofounder Sergey Brin joked at a reported. It’s also sponsored GOP outreach parties in
company sponsored anti-Trump protest — the biggest Washington, working with the conservative The
demonstration from a Silicon Valley corporation this week Independent Journal Review to connect with conservative
— in response to Mr. Trump’s controversial immigration lawmakers, The New York Times detailed.
executive order.
In a lengthy Forbes profile on Mr. Trump’s son-in-law
More than 2,000 Google employees attended the protest on Jared Kushnar, Mr. Schmidt lavished on the praise, saying
Monday, with it becoming a trending topic on Twitter with Mr. Kushnar was
the hashtag #GooglersUnite. The rally came 24 hours after
Google donated $2 million to the ACLU and Immigrant “the biggest surprise of the 2016 election,”
Legal Resource Center, to help fight Mr. Trump’s and that “best I can tell, he actually ran the
executive order, which was matched by $2 million in campaign and did it with essentially no
donations from Google employees. resources.”
The week prior, Google lawyers flooded the California But, coming from a man who Mrs. Clinton has described
office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, demanding she oppose as her “longtime friend,” who helped design her
Sen. Jeff Sessions’ confirmation as attorney general. campaign’s voter targeting software, and from a company
that was accused of rigging its search results to favor Mrs.
After investing millions ingraining itself within the Obama Clinton throughout the 2016 contest, all of that may be too
White House, Google is suddenly on the outside looking in much for the Trump team.
with the Trump administration — and it clearly has Google
rattled — protesting Mr. Trump in private, and then Google has denied it ever manipulated its
publicly trying to cozy up with him the next. “autocomplete” function to steer users
toward a search for “Hillary Clinton crime
Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO and chair of reform” when searching “Hillary Clinton
Alphabet, has traveled to Trump Tower a least twice to crimes,” and “Hillary Clinton India” instead
meet with the president and his team, but hasn’t made any of “Hillary Clinton indictment.”
real progress.
Still, there’s no doubt, Google’s culture — and profits —
Maybe that’s because last week — before Mr. Trump were deeply rooted within the Obama administration, and
signed his immigration order — Mr. Schmidt told Google would continue under Mrs. Clinton.
employees that the Trump administration is
When Mr. Obama looked to open Cuba, Google was there
“going to do these evil things as they’ve offering to expand internet access. It also jumped into save
done in the immigration area and perhaps the blundering healthcare.gov website, and capitalized on
some others.” providing its fiber into low-income urban neighborhoods.
When Google was the target of a Federal Trade
Commission investigation for anti-competitive practices,
Google’s corporate mantra is “don’t be evil.”
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the government closed the case without any charges — second-largest source of donations by any single U.S.
although similar ones have been made overseas and are company, with Microsoft being number one.
ongoing.
At the Federal Communications Commission, Google
Megan Smith, a former Google vice president, was Mr. seemed to have free reign. It’s currently looking to get into
Obama’s chief technology officer, with the Campaign for the cable set-top box business, as well as get spectrum —
Accountability, a nonprofit watchdog organization, that was reserved for broadcast companies — to offer Wi-
identifying 258 more instances of so-called revolving door Fi services.
activity between Google and the Washington
establishment. Johanna Shelton, Google’s director of “It seems that whatever Google wants,
public policy, visited Obama’s White House more than any Google gets from [the FCC],” a broadcast
other corporate lobbyist, the watchdog found. industry lobbyist told TV Newscheck last
year. Another one added: “What’s
Before Mr. Obama took office, Google spent almost no frustrating is this gut reaction among
money trying to peddle political influence, now it’s a regulators that if Google says something,
behemoth. It spent more than $15 million in lobbying in it’s good, but if a traditional media company
2016, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, says something, it’s questionable.”
compared with $2.8 million in 2008. During Mr. Obama’s
2012 reelection campaign, Google employees were the Well, all of that may be ending.
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Media Launches "Full Frontal"
Cover Attack On Trump Administration
By Tyler Durden
Feb 2, 2017 5:55 PM
Notice a theme here?
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
-(Insert hastily drafted, legally dubious, economically destabilizing executive order here
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TIME - Steve Bannon, The Great Manipulator
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The Economist - An insurgent in the White House
Just lucky that America voted for this man Cover what matters in people’s lives and provide
through the constitutionally-defined them the facts they need to make better decisions.
electoral process and that a majority of Get out into the country and learn more about how
Americans agree with his executive orders. people live, what they think, what helps and hurts
them, and how the government and its actions
Perhaps these magazines above should follow Reuters appear to them, not to us.
lead:
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Democrats Plot Protests At Trump's Speech To Congress;
Will "Refuse To Shake Hands"
By Tyler Durden
Feb 2, 2017 11:36 AM
The sore losers of the Left, after refusing to attend Trump's chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus; Judy Chu
inauguration, have apparently decided to double down on (Calif.), head of the Congressional Asian Pacific American
their childish behavior by plotting a number of protests at Caucus; and David Cicilline (R.I.) and Jared Polis (Colo.),
Trump's upcoming address to Congress. According to The the co-chairman of the LGBT Equality Caucus.
Hill, House Democrats are rallying behind a plan to make
the newly-elected President's first address to Congress as Unfortunately, the childish behavior doesn't end there as
uncomfortable as possible by inviting guests they say will other Representatives are encouraging Democrats to avoid
be harmed by his policies, including ethnic minorities, shaking hands with Trump as he walks down the aisle to
LGBT people, undocumented immigrants and the take the podium.
disabled.
“It is our hope that their presence in the Some liberals are also eyeing another form of protest
House Gallery will remind President during the speech: When Trump walks down the center
Trump that he is not the arbiter of aisle of the House chamber on the way to the dais, they’re
patriotism,” reads the letter. “This hoping no Democrats scramble to get in the picture for the
country belongs to all of us, and his traditional handshake.
rhetoric of intolerance will not stand.”
“We want to send a strong message to the “We have to have a higher standard,”
[president] that he cannot push these Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) said.
communities aside, and he cannot change “For sure I will not be nearby,” Rep.
the fabric of this country,” they wrote. Filemon Vela (D-Texas) echoed.
"Instead of celebrating the very diversity
that makes our country a beacon of Of course, the sore losers of the left argue that their
inclusion and equality, he has chosen to protests are justified because Trump’s campaign rhetoric
vilify, bully and alienate women, has been combative from the very start, and he’s brought
immigrants, people of color, people with that approach with him to the White House.
disabilities, and people of differing
faiths,” the Democrats wrote in their letter. That said, we wonder whether those
“His rhetoric emboldens those who seek a same sore losers would admit that
scapegoat for the challenges this country Obama telling Republicans they would
faces.” have to "sit in the back of the bus" was
also "combative?" Also, who was it that
Amazing that Trump was able to launch a full assault on said, "elections have consequences and
such an overwhelming percentage of the population yet I won?"
still win a national election.
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Here Is The "Open Letter" Google, Apple, Facebook And
Others Are Sending To Donald Trump
By Tyler Durden
Feb 2, 2017 9:28 AM
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Review of Politics, Economics, Constitution, Law and World Affairs by Attorney and Doctor Orly Taitz
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Trump: 'Nothing Off The Table' On Iran
© AFP 2016/ Brendan Smialowski - US
21:35 02.02.2017(Updated 02:57 03.02.2017)
A top Ayatollah aide slammed the On January 20, the White House updated its website
“inexperienced” US President over to indicate that a "state-of-the-art" missile defense system
“useless” threats issued by National for adversaries Iran and North Korea would be a top
Security Adviser Michael Flynn priority for the Trump administration.
on Wednesday. Flynn made a highly
unusual appearance at the White House
As part of Trump's promise to put "America
media briefing to "put the Iran on notice."
first," the US will "pursue the highest level
“This is not the first time an inexperienced of military readiness," the White House
person has threatened Iran,” said Ali Akbar said. America will need "every asset at its
Velayati, senior adviser to Grand Ayatollah disposal" to fulfill Trump's vow that "We
Sayyed Ali Khamenei. Tehran has cannot allow other nations to surpass our
continued testing nuclear-capable missiles military capability."
despite the nuclear arms deal signed
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Billionaire Financier Soros
Continues To Fund Anti-Trump Protests
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Artists Around The World Respond
To Donald Trump Becoming USA’s President
Creative Minds Are Illustrating What Many Are Feeling As They
Contemplate A Donald Trump Presidency
The dust of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election is just Regardless of your thoughts on America’s President, the
beginning to settle, and as it does, artists around the world unique and artistic ways people are depicting on Donald
are illustrating what many are feeling as they contemplate Trump’s successful campaign are not to be missed.
a Donald Trump presidency. The business tycoon’s
policies apparently won over a large percent of the United Following are 40+ caricatures created by artists around
States, but there are many around the world who are not the world, who have more to ‘say’ about his status of
looking forward to witnessing what results from his President than can be put into words:
leadership, due to the many brash, bigoted, and ruthless
statements he’s made in the past.
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John McCain Urges President Trump To Escalate Conflict
In Ukraine, By Sending Lethal Weapons
To Neo-Nazi Forces
Alex Christoforou
February 3, 2017
Via MishTalk…
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since the conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014. Russia
has denied backing the separatists, but Western officials
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Trump To Sign Executive Orders
Undoing Dodd-Frank, "Fiduciary Rule"
By Tyler Durden
Feb 3, 2017 10:41 AM
On Friday, President Donald Trump plans to sign an “Americans are going to have better
executive action to scale back the 2010 Dodd-Frank choices and Americans are going to have
financial-overhaul law, in a sweeping plan to dismantle better products because we’re not going to
much of the regulatory system put in place after the burden the banks with literally hundreds of
financial crisis. The order won't have any immediate billions of dollars of regulatory costs every
impact. But it directs the Treasury secretary to consult with year,” White House National Economic
members of different regulatory agencies and the Financial Council Director, and former Goldman
Stability Oversight Council and report back on potential president, Gary Cohn said in an interview
changes. with The Wall Street Journal. “The banks
are going to be able to price product more
"There are quite a few things that we could efficiently and more effectively to
do on Dodd-Frank ... that we think will have consumers.”
fairly immediate and dramatic impact," the
official said, including personnel changes at
regulatory agencies and additional
executive orders.
Trump blamed the political establishment Democrats and consumer groups have pushed for tighter
and Wall Street banks for leaving behind controls on banks and other lenders, particularly after the
many Americans and vowed to break up subprime mortgage crisis that helped fuel the global
both. Those promises have already been financial crisis. But Cohn said that many of the postcrisis
called into question as he has filled his rules haven’t solved the problems they were supposed to
administration with members of Congress be addressing. He said, for example, that there still isn’t a
and Wall Street executives, including Mr. solid process to safely wind down the collapse of a giant
Cohn, who retired as president of Goldman faltering financial company or to ensure that those firms
Sachs Group Inc. to join the Trump have access to short-term liquidity.
administration.
Adding to the potentially difficult optics for “I’m not sitting here saying we want to go
Mr. Trump, he will sign the actions on the back to the good old days,” Cohn said. “We
same day he meets with a group of have the best, most highly capitalized
business executives, including J.P. Morgan banks in the world, and we should use that
Chase & Co. Chief Executive James Dimon to our competitive advantage,” he added.
and BlackRock Inc. CEO Laurence Fink. “But on the flip side, we also have the most
Asked about the potential political highly regulated, overburdened banks in
pushback because of his Wall Street past, the world.”
Mr. Cohn said the administration’s goal of
deregulating financial markets “has nothing Cohn also laid out a road map for how the Trump
to do with Goldman Sachs.” administration plans to target new financial rules. He said
the Treasury Department would lead an effort to overhaul
“It has nothing to do with J.P. Morgan,” he mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
said. “It has nothing to do with Citigroup. It which were put into government conservatorship after the
has nothing to do with Bank of America. It crisis. He also said that the White House wouldn’t need a
has to do with being a player in a global change in the law to redirect the mission of the Consumer
market where we should, could and will Financial Protection Bureau, created by the 2010 law and
have a dominant position as long as we which governs things like mortgage and credit-card rules.
don’t regulate ourselves out of that.” (Please see related article on B10.)
The changes Cohn described are sure to face a fight from He suggested the White House could influence the mission
consumer groups and Democrats, who say postcrisis of the bureau, set up as an independent agency, by putting
regulations are protecting average borrowers and investors a new person at its helm to replace Richard Cordray, the
from abusive practices, while making the financial system agency’s director. Asked about potential changes at the
more resilient and bailouts less likely. agency, he said, “Personnel is policy.”
This path also may create political problems for Mr. ***
Trump, whose campaign was successful in swaths of the
Midwest where homeowners were hit hardest by the
housing crash sparked by the financial crisis. Trump said repeatedly during the presidential campaign
that the Dodd-Frank overhaul law was preventing banks
from lending, which he said made it harder for consumers
Meanwhile, asked about the potential political pushback to access credit and get the economy to grow. Financial
because of his Wall Street past, in his WSJ interview Cohn analysts have had mixed views on this assessment. Some
said the administration’s goal of deregulating financial believe that low demand from consumers has hurt the
markets “has nothing to do with Goldman Sachs.” ability of banks to lend, and low interest rates have hurt the
returns banks make on these loans. But smaller banks have
“It has nothing to do with J.P. Morgan,” he said they are dealing with a crush of new regulations
said. “It has nothing to do with Citigroup. It spurred by Dodd-Frank, something regulators have
has nothing to do with Bank of America. It struggled to address.
has to do with being a player in a global
market where we should, could and will Cohn didn’t specify how all of these regulations should be
have a dominant position as long as we rewritten, but he said that financial markets have made
don’t regulate ourselves out of that.” Cohn their own corrections and that the environment that fueled
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the financial crisis no longer existed. He said, for example, “We don’t want to do it an unregulated
that even if mortgage restrictions are rolled back, it doesn’t way,” he said. “We want to do it in a smart,
mean that there would be another boom in the subprime regulated way.”
lending market. That is because, he said, those loans can’t
be securitized and sold like they were before the financial Translation: we want our bubble, we want to be able to
crisis because the market for those products isn’t the same. securitize, package and sell it, we want to offload risky
exposure to momentum-chasing retail investors and,
potentially, widows and orphans.
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Trump Ghost Looms Over EU
Summit As Leaders Push Back
By Patrick Donahue And John Follain
February 3, 2017, 5:13 AM CST February 3, 2017, 6:39 AM CST
U.S. President Donald Trump loomed over a better we can maintain our trans-Atlantic
Mediterranean gathering of European leaders, who used relationship.”
the meeting Friday to hit back at the new administration
that has upended trans-Atlantic relations by dismissing the U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May, the EU leader who has
European Union’s validity. met with Trump, briefed the group on the new
administration, along with Merkel and Hollande, who have
“It is unacceptable that there be, through a spoken with him by phone. As British and EU negotiators
certain number of statements by the brace for Brexit, Merkel and May were locked in
president of the United States, a pressure conversation as the leaders made their way to Valletta’s
on what Europe must be or what it must not baroque St. John’s Co-Cathedral, home to Caravaggio’s
be,” French President Francois Hollande masterpiece, "The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist."
told reporters Friday at the EU summit in
Valletta, Malta. Defending Europe
As the EU grapples with the region’s biggest migration The German leader, who has emerged as the bloc’s pre-
crisis since World War II, Britain’s impending exit and eminent counterweight in defending Europe’s liberal,
how to hold the group together in an increasingly uncertain democratic order, last week condemned Trump’s executive
world, several leaders showed themselves annoyed by the order halting the influx of refugees and blocking
new U.S. president’s biting remarks about the viability of immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries
the EU project, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this into the U.S. Heading into an election year, Merkel is
year. likely to be pressured to take a tougher stance with Trump
as her Social Democratic challenger enjoys a sharp boost
Laying bare the tensions, Ted Malloch, who says he’s been in polls.
interviewed for the role of U.S. ambassador to the EU,
lashed out at the 28-member bloc in an interview with Trump “is playing with the security of the Western world,”
Bloomberg TV on Friday. Following Trump’s lead, he Martin Schulz, Merkel’s opponent in the September
encouraged other member states to hold referendums election, told Spiegel Online.
similar to the U.K., which voted last year to leave the bloc.
In Malta, European Commission President Jean-Claude
‘Overly Complex’ Juncker said the EU is not “threatened” by Trump, “but I
The EU “is an overly complex fairly bloated do think there’s room for explanations because sometimes
bureaucratic organization,” Malloch said. I have the impression that the new administration does not
“Its ambitions have basically overstepped know the European Union in detail,” he told reporters.
its capabilities, so the question really is
what the European member states want to Other leaders were less diplomatic. Austrian Chancellor
see for that European Union.” Christian Kern tied the influx of more than a million
refugees into Europe over the past two years to U.S.
As the presidents and prime ministers filed into the Grand military incursions in the region.
Master’s Palace in the capital Valletta for their first
meeting, German Chancellor Angela Merkel struck a “There’s no doubt America shares a
calmer tone, urging the leaders to more forcefully tackle responsibility for the refugee flows,” Kern
the EU’s problems in defining any new relationship with said.
the U.S.
Dalia Grybauskaite, the president of Lithuania, which
“Europe has its own destiny in its hands,” borders Russia and has taken a dim view of Trump’s
Merkel told reporters. “The clearer we are, friendlier relations with the Kremlin, wryly noted the
how we define our role in the world, the president’s penchant for taking to Twitter for policy
pronouncements.
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“With tweet diplomacy we don’t need any told Bloomberg Television.
bridges, so we just tweet," Grybauskaite
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Mainstream Media Doubles Down On Hypocrisy: Opposing
Trump Is ‘Necessary,’ But Opposing Obama Was Treason
By: Robert Jonathan
Date: February 03, 2017
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With A Stroke Of The Pen, Donald Trump Will Wave
Goodbye To The Dodd Frank Act
By Editor
February 3, 2017
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Now that Trump’s In Office, Media Suddenly Concerned
with US Military Killing Civilians
Matt Agorist
February 4, 2017
Fast forward to last weekend. The aforementioned civilian deaths are only during the last
6 months of 2016, and are from Syria, only.
Following in his predecessor’s footsteps, reports from
Yemen indicate that as many as 10 women and children As Trump now takes the helm, the same media who
were killed in a raid authorized by Donald Trump. During covered for Obama’s slaughter in the Middle East, are now
this raid, the 8-year-old granddaughter of Nasser al- all of the sudden interested in exposing that same
Awlaki, who was also the daughter of Anwar Awlaki was slaughter.
shot in the neck and died after suffering for two hours,
according to Nasser al-Awlaki.
When Obama approved a CIA drone strike in Yemen that
killed al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman,
This is the 8-year-old girl killed in US raid in mainstream corporate media was all but silent. The fact
Yemen, Arabic media reports that the president ordered a strike on an American citizen
https://t.co/nPlWh6LqE3 with no due process and killed his teen son in the process
US killed her teen American brother too — was but a blip on the news cycle — including FOX
pic.twitter.com/QP0TsgdIfq News.
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January
29, 2017
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Now, however, the same Praetorian guard who protected Iran is playing with fire – they don't
Obama and Hillary Clinton during the WikiLeaks fiasco is appreciate how "kind" President Obama
plastering headlines of Trump killing civilians all over the was to them. Not me!
internet.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
February 3, 2017
Of course, this does not lessen the crimes of Trump.
However, what it does do is highlight just how easily And, just like Obama’s supporters did, Trump’s supporters
controlled people are by the media — on both sides. are cheering him on — even the ones who chastised the
left for failing to call out war crimes after Obama took
Those of us who watched this madness unfold in 2009, office.
were blown away by the once ‘antiwar left’ now approving
of torture and extrajudicial killings — literally overnight The fact of the matter is Iran has never caused harm to the
— because their guy was in power. United States. In fact, Iran hasn’t attacked another country
in over 200 years! And somehow, the US considers them a
threat?
Do not think for one minute that the mainstream media has
all of the sudden found their conscience and began to
question war. In fact, it is quite the opposite. The actions
of Trump are now being used to stoke divide in the United
States so people are too busy arguing to notice they are
being fleeced to kill more brown people for profit.
These wars have been the plan since before 9/11 and will
continue until they are defunded and the criminals behind
them exposed — or until, they are finished. But don’t take
When Obama killed children in the Middle East, the right our word for it, listen to 4-start general, and previous
was quick to denounce him while the left continued Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, Wesley Clark.
praising him. Now, the exact same scenario is playing out,
again, right before our eyes.
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Buzzfeed Sued For
Defamation Over Trump Dossier 'Fake News'
By Tyler Durden
Feb 4, 2017 7:25 PM
BuzzFeed (as well as editor in chief Ben Smith and former "We have redacted Mr. Gubarev's name
British spy Christopher Steele) faces a new lawsuit over from the published dossier, and
its publication of an unverified dossier of claims against apologize for including it,” BuzzFeed
President Trump and others, McClatchy reported Friday spokesman Matt Mittenthal told POLITICO
evening. In response to the lawsuit, Politico reports that in a statement.
BuzzFeed issued an apology on Friday evening
(presumably admitting to publishing 'fake news'). CNN Money and McClatchy were the first news
organizations to report on the existence of the lawsuit
against BuzzFeed. (You can read Gubarev's full
defamation complaint against Buzzfeed here.)
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professional reputation in tatters. His The lawsuit, filed in London and Fort Lauderdale,
wife has found herself a target of online Florida, seeks unspecified damages, according to The
harassment and the family’s personal Hill, and says BuzzFeed’s story has been viewed nearly 6
security has been compromised." millions times.
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Enemies Within: President Trump
Is In Extreme Danger
By: Mike Adams
Date: February 04, 2017
Please allow me to superficially review how extensive the John Lewis is a member of the Progressive Caucus which
treason to the Republic is. This will be followed up by a is a front group for the Communist Party. Lewis is not
stunning revelation as the end of the article. alone, but his actions and allegiances speak to his lack of
commitment to the Republic and most importantly, the
Treason In Our Midst Constitution of The United States.
Was anyone else bothered by the fact the large body count With these associations and his continual efforts in
of Democratic Congressmen who did not attend the dividing the country, this Congressman should resign. Our
Inauguration. These unpatriotic Congressmen were led by country has reached its saturation point with treason from
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its public officials. Lewis has lost all credibility. Fromer Alikhan, an openly devout Sunni Muslim, has
Congressman, Alan West, has identified 80 of these openly participated in a Muslim Public Affairs
Congressman as belonging to front groups for either the Council fundraiser titled “Be the Change,” in order to
Communist party or the Muslim Brotherhood, or both. support that organization’s leadership-development
programs which openly advocates for the Sharia Law
The Muslim Brotherhood Invasion of DHS and the takeover of the United States. The open support for this
White House Sharia Law intention to overthrow the U.S.
government, on the part of an American citizen, is
illegal. When such an advocate is a Federal employee in
The Deputy Chief of Staff to former Secretary of State a sensitive position this person should disqualify one from
Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin holding sensitive positions within the government.
This section is not about Muslims serving in the White Obama Administration Advisory Council on Faith-Based
House. America has no problem with this so long as they Neighborhood Partnerships, Eboo Patel
uphold their oath to protect and defend the Constitution.
This section is also not about The embarrassed and
disgraced wife of deposed Congressman, Anthony Weiner, If you were on the FBI team vetting Presidential
Huma Abedin, has undeniable family ties to the Muslim appointees, would you grant your seal of approval to the
Brotherhood. In an interview with FrontPageMag, anti- grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder, Siraj
Islamist activist and author Walid Shoebat explained that Wahhaj, who was named as a co-conspirator in the 1993
Huma’s mother, Saleha Abedin, is and was deeply World Trade Center bombing and who has defended the
involved with the Muslim Brotherhood and that Huma’s convicted WTC bombers. Well, somebody thought Eboo
brother, Hassan, is on the board of the Oxford Centre For Patel, the man in question would make a splendid member
Islamic Studies (OCIS) where he is a fellow and partners of Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based
with other board members including “Al-Qaeda Neighborhood Partnerships.
associate, Omar Naseef and the notorious Muslim
Brotherhood leader Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi; both have Additionally, Patel, himself, spoke at a Muslim Students
been listed as OCIS Trustees.” Has the FBI stopped vetting Association and ISNA Convention, while appearing on a
Federal governmental employees in highly sensitive panel, and also being partnered with Tariq Ramadan.
positions?
Ramadan is the grandson of Siraj Wahhaj, who was named
Department of Homeland Security Deputy Mayor, Arif as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade
Alikhan Center bombing and has defended the convicted WTC
bombers. Wahhaj advocates for the Islamic takeover of
America under the banner of Sharia Law.
In the publication, Discover the Networks, the editors
discuss the background as it relates to highly sensitive
All of these people combined, plus GEORGE SOROS, are
federal agency employment (e.g. DHS) and the Muslim
poised to overthrow this government and the intention, to
terrorist affiliations of Arif Alikhan. Alikhan’s resume is
do so, extends deep into every agency. Obama had 8 years
very impressive.
to plant subversive time bombs.
“Former deputy mayor of Homeland Security and
State Department Employee, Monika Wesolowski
Public Safety for the City of Los Angeles
Was responsible for derailing the LAPD’s plan to
monitor activities within the Los Angeles Muslim For the past 72 hours, I have covered the case of State
community Department employee, Monika Wesolowski. Through and
Was appointed as assistant secretary for the off-handed, unintentional comment, Monika revealed that
Office of Policy Development in Barack Obama’s State Department brochures obfuscate the presence of
Department of Homeland Security in 2009 child-sex trafficking inside the territorial boundaries of the
Became a Professor of Homeland Security and United States.
Counterterrorism in 2010.”
Now serving as a distinguished, visiting professor Since I published the two part story about Monika, I have
at the National Defense University. heard from several Federal employees who verify the
aforementioned concern and further, they make claims that
Alikhan was responsible for derailing the LAPD‘s efforts parts of our Federal government are actually involved in
to monitor radical and potentially terrorist activities within facilitating child-sex trafficking and the people’s resources
the city’s Muslim community, where numerous radical are involved.
mosques were known to have provided aid and comfort to
the 9/11 hijackers.
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The Mainstream Media’s Downplaying Of UC Berkeley
Riot Shows Complicity With Left-Wing Violence
By: Don Wrightman
Date: February 04, 2017
The media are complicit when they label the violent riots
as just protests and further downplay the severity when the
right is attacked. What would the left-wing owned media
stories look like if the situation was inverted at Hillary
Clinton’s commencement address at Wellesley College?
That would have also been blamed on right wing bigotry,
homophobia, and racism. There’s no winning against the
leftist media who continue to warp the minds of Americans
into standing up for corrupt globalist interests.
(RELATED: Read MediaFactWatch.com for more news
about the lying left-wing media.)
Milo Yiannopoulos has been attracting violent opposition Donald Trump responded to the recent riots with a threat
crowds at many of his recent speaking events. Several to cease federal funding to the university. A statement
media outlets have been heavily mislabeling him, which from UC Berkeley condemned both Milo’s presence at the
could have helped draw out the angry crowds to his recent university and his perspectives. They called him a troll and
scheduled performances. At a UC Berkeley event, Trump provocateur who aims hate speech at a wide array of
supporters were victims of violent left wing attacks. Fists groups and individuals. The university is essentially
were flying outside of the campus event, where Milo blaming Milo’s opinions and behavior for the violent
supporters were struck with flag poles and stomped while displays against Trump supporters. The worst part is that
they were down. Literal fireworks also added to the many people don’t know or understand what types of
mayhem in efforts to shut down the event. An interviewee discussions actually take place at a Milo event, they just
was also pepper sprayed while speaking with reporters. know they oppose him because the media tells them to.
Something is clearly amiss with both the violent
demonstration against free speech and the aftermath. If you don’t like Milo, the simple solution is to not show
up at his events. The attacks went far beyond just Milo;
Many people on the left-wing are speaking out about the Trump supporters were the prime targets for the rioters. If
attacks, but not in the manner you would expect; they are only the left-wing supporters could realize the façade they
standing up for the attackers. The haters are saying they are fighting for is ultimately designed to work against
don’t condone hate speech, including Berkeley’s mayor them. If funding terrorists, depopulating the planet, and
who condoned the riots as a reaction to hate speech. If only being enslaved by a one-world government sounds
they could realize how hypocritical they are. The appealing to you, then keep on rioting. The media will
mainstream media have been legitimizing these anti-right continue to stand against Donald Trump and his supporters
wing demonstrations for almost two years. (RELATED: every at every chance possible. (RELATED: Find more
Find real news headlines hourly at Censored.news) Donald Trump news at Trump.news)
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Berkeley Mayor Sides With The Unhinged Left-Wing
Terrorists, Blaming Milo For The Violence
By: Don Wrightman
Date: February 04, 2017
Arreguin released a statement acknowledging that the Yiannopoulos has said he would like an apology,
protesters had damaged property and resorted to violence presumably from both the city and the university, however
in opposition to Milo’s scheduled appearance, albeit he that’s not expected to come any time soon. President
said it was only a “small minority.” Donald Trump condemned the riots and threatened to
cease funding to the university due to their response to the
He also said that the rioters “provided the incident.
ultra-nationalist far right exactly the images
they want to use to try to discredit the vast “If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free
majority of peaceful protestors in speech and practices violence on innocent
Berkeley…” people with a different point of view — NO
FEDERAL FUNDS?” tweeted President
Arreguin failed to address that Trump supporters were Trump.
being viciously attacked by leftist Oakland thugs toting
anarcho-communist flags. 1,500 protesters reportedly (RELATED: Read Conservative.news for more
showed up to the UC Berkeley event, ten percent of whom conservative news.)
were reportedly there to incite the riots.
.
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Trump Doubles Down Against Judge's Order: Asks "What
Is Our Country Coming To?"
By Tyler Durden
Feb 4, 2017 3:54 PM
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Judge’s Order To Block
Trump’s Immigration Travel Ban Is Ridiculous
The Judge Is Playing Games. He’s Lying.
By Jon Rappoport
February 5, 2017
He obviously doesn’t like Trump’s immigration travel ban, Next point: The judge made a number of comments to
so he’s cooking up reasons for slapping a temporary justify issuing his the TRO:
restraining order on it.
“The States are likely to suffer irreparable
A freshman in law school could point out holes in those harm in the absence of [my] preliminary
reasons big enough to drive a fleet of trucks through. relief [restraining order].”
On February 3rd, Judge James Robart That is absurd on its face. Irreparable harm? This means
issued his order (Case 2:17-cv-00141-JLR harm that can never be fixed? Come on. The Judge may as
Document 52 Filed 02/03/17 Page 1 of 7): well have said,
he temporarily restrained the federal
government from enforcing Trump’s “I’m biased. I don’t like Trump’s EO and I
immigration travel ban. don’t like him. So when I said ‘irreparable’, I
exaggerated by a few thousand miles. Ha-
The Judge’s order is absurd for several reasons. ha.”
First of all, objections to Trump’s ban were entered into The Judge wrote:
the court by the States of Washington and Minnesota, as
the “injured parties.” But Judge Robart announced his “The EO [Trump’s Executive Order limiting
decision would affect all States—the whole country— immigration] adversely affects the States’
because immigration law must be applied “uniformly” residents in areas of employment,
across the board. education, business, family relations, and
freedom to travel.”
Perhaps, but nowhere is it stated that a temporary
restraining order (TRO) issued by a judge must be applied More fluff, nonsense, and outright deception. Does the
uniformly across the whole country. Judge seriously expect us to believe that the banning of
35,000 more refugees than the 2016 federal cap is going to
Since when is a TRO the same as a law? decimate the States?
Speaking of law, no final legal/constitutional decision has (In his EO, Trump wrote:
been rendered re Trump’s Executive Order on
immigration. It’s still up for grabs. The Judge is just “I hereby proclaim that the entry of more
writing script to suit his bias. than 50,000 refugees in fiscal year 2017
would be detrimental to the interests of the
The Judge may not like Trump’s ban; clearly, he does not. United States, and thus suspend any such
The Judge may believe the ban will be overturned by a entry until such time as I determine that
higher court because it is unconstitutional. The Judge may additional admissions would be in the
think Trump is committing an immoral act. But all that is national interest.” An NPR political editor
beside the point. The only thing Judge Robart was stated: “For 2016, the cap was 85,000.”
empowered to do was issue a TRO or not issue a TRO. The difference is 35,000.)
Period.
Judge Robart wrote:
Why should he have the right to apply his TRO, not a law,
to the whole of the United States? Maybe he’s a god we “In addition, the States themselves are
haven’t been told about. If so, I’d like to see the evidence. harmed by virtue of the damage…inflicted
upon the operations and missions of their
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public universities…as well as injury to the https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3443747-Admin-
States’ operations, tax bases, and public Response-to-Ferguson-TRO.html
funds.”
4. The Judge’s granting of the temporary restraining order
Same objections as above. Judge Robart is stretching the — and granting it nationwide:
truth to the breaking point. His definition of “harm” and
“irreparable harm” are coming from his private dictionary https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3446391-Robart-
of exaggerations. He’s winging it. Order.html
Case closed. 5. The Feds’ appeal to the 9th Circuit (in San Fransisco) to
restore the Trump immigration ban:
Except it isn’t.
Comment by Washington Post:
A Judge who can take powers not granted to him, who can
invent, out of whole cloth, dire consequences where none “The government argued the district court’s
exist, is hustling the system he’s sworn to defend. injunction on Trump’s ban was ‘vastly
overbroad’ and was ‘accompanied by
Court documents for Case 2:17-cv-00141-JLR: virtually no legal analysis.'”
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/national/the-
1. Exhibit A, Trump’s Executive Order: department-of-justices-appeal-to-restore-the-trump-immigration-
ban/2320/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3438902-Executive-
Order.html
6. 9th Circuit order denying initial appeal by Feds:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/02/01/2017-
02281/protecting-the-nation-from-foreign-terrorist-entry-into-the- Comment by Washington Post:
united-states
“The 9th Circuit issues its response to an
2. Attorney General of Washington State’s complaint emergency motion filed by the Justice
asking Fed Judge for a temporary restraining order to bar Department to immediately reinstate the
Feds from carrying out Trump’s Executive Order: executive order calling for a travel ban.”
[Note: 9th Circuit schedules the Appeal to
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3442904-TRO- reconvene on Monday, Feb 6.]
Request-Ferguson-v-Trump.html
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/national/9th-
3. Feds rebuttal to the above: circuit-order-denying-initial-justice-department-
appeal/2321/
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Look At Mainstream Media’s List Of Lies After Just Two
Weeks Of Trump Administration
By DCwhispers
Posted On February 5, 2017
If there was ever any doubt how “blindsided” by the Trump Executive Order that put a
unhinged the Mainstream Media has 90-day pause on immigration from seven designated
become in its desire to damage Donald nations known to harbor and promote terrorism. When
Trump via one false news story after the Homeland Security officials call out the story as patently
other, this list makes that desire all too false, the media largely ignores that information.
clear.
**NBC, once again jumping the gun, runs with its own
There has never been a time in the “security chaos” story linked to what the NYT had
modern-era of American politics where started on the same subject. NBC claims the Trump
the media has been so exposed and Department of Justice “had no input” on the immigration
proven so corrupted by ideological pause/ban executive order. The Trump White House then
bent. Fake News does in fact exist. It’s submits a memo proving notification had been given to the
called the Mainstream Media. DOJ, who then APPROVED the immigration action days
prior to the executive order being signed by President
Trump.
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Pence: Will Use 'All Legal Means
At Our Disposal' To Reinstate Immigration Ban
Foxnews.Com
Published February 05, 2017
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Justice Department
Appeals Blocked Travel Ban
By Stephen Lendman
2-5-2017
US District Judge for the Western District of Washington “The judge opens up our country to
James Robart imposed a nationwide temporary restraining potential terrorists and others that do not
order (TRO) on Trump’s EO. He’s considering whether to have our best interests at heart. Bad
invalidate it in the coming weeks. people are very happy!”
Here’s what Trump tweeted, a blizzard of comments, an Whether hyperbole works to overturn the district court
attempt to win an appeal so his order will stand: ruling remains to be seen. Either way, his racist order can’t
be erased from the minds of affected people - millions of
“A new radical Islamic terrorist has just decent human beings, not terrorists.
attacked in Louvre Museum in Paris.
Tourists were locked down. France on Muslims traveling to America or seeking asylum or
edge again. GET SMART U.S.” refugee status pose no national security threat. Claiming
otherwise vilifies people for their faith and national origin.
“We must keep ‘evil’ out of the country.”
A Final Comment
“When a country is no longer able to say
who can, and who cannot , come in & out, Pre-dawn Sunday, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals
especially for reasons of safety &.security - rejected the Justice Department’s request for an immediate
big trouble!” lifting of the lower court’s blocked travel ban, saying:
Note: He’s largely referring to racist Israeli and Saudi The appeals court asked Washington state and Minnesota
policies, disgraceful ones the world community should to respond to its ruling on Sunday, the Justice Department
condemn. to submit a counter-response on Monday.
“The opinion of this so-called judge, which The waters remain muddied on what’s next. Legal battles
essentially takes law-enforcement away remain, perhaps joined by other states. If enough ally
from our country, is ridiculous and will be against Trump’s order, it may be doomed.
overturned!”
.
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Pelosi Demands The FBI Find
"What Russians Have On Trump"
By Tyler Durden
Feb 5, 2017 1:10 PM
Despite US allies around the world “I want to know what the Russians have
seeking partnerships with Russia (most on Donald Trump. I think we have to
recently Japan's Abe), have an investigation by the FBI into his
financial, personal and political
it appears the Democrats simply cannot let go of the last connections to Russia and we want to
meme standing between their loss in the election and a see his tax returns so we can have truth
drastic reality check on the failure of identi5ty politics. in the relationship [with] Putin, whom he
Hours after Trump's comments on Putin's killing ways, admires,” Pelosi said on NBC’s “Meet the
Press.”
Nancy Pelosi grandstanded on NBC's
'Meet The Press' that "I want to know
what the Russians have on Donald
Trump."
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Has Trump - Who Ran On An Anti-War Platform - Already
Sold Out To The Warmongers ... Or Is
He Just Playing For Leverage?
By George Washington
Feb 5, 2017 7:47 PM
Conservative Patrick Buchanan - who endorsed Trump for exchange for a broader deal with Russia
president - writes: involving cooperation against terrorism or
nuclear arms reduction. However, Trump’s
High among the reasons that many United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley on
supported Trump was his understanding Thursday vowed to continue sanctions
that George W. Bush blundered horribly in against Russia until it surrendered Crimea.
launching an unprovoked and unnecessary
war on Iraq. Brandon Turbeville says,
Buchanan expresses disappointment that Trump is already I hope I'm wrong ... and that Trump is just playing the
saber-rattling: unpredictable madman to gain negotiating leverage with
foreign powers.
It was thought he would disengage us from
these wars, not rattle a saber at an Iran Conservative Michael Rivero - a smart guy - notes:
that is three times the size of Iraq and has
as its primary weapons supplier and
I too am alarmed by Trump's rhetoric.
partner Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
But there are two factors to consider.
Former long-time Congressman Ron Paul notes that
Trump has already engaged in bombings in Yemen: The first is that Trump is still trying to win Senate
confirmation for his nominees, and Trump and the
Andrew Spannaus notes: Nominees may be saying what they know the Warmongers
in the Senate (like McCain and Graham) want to hear.
What Trump does after the confirmations will be telling.
The early Trump administration has sent
mixed signals regarding relations with
Russia. Trump’s initial comments indicated Second, if you read Trump's book, "The Art of the Deal",
that the U.S. would seek a diplomatic deal he writes that the opening bid in any negotiation should be
to reduce tensions around Ukraine, very aggressive, far beyond reasonable, then let the
including by potentially recognizing the pro- counterparty negotiate back to what you actually wanted in
Russian referendum in Crimea, in the first place. That tactic served him well in business and
he may well be using it here with Russia, China, and Iran.
.
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Trump Threatens To
Defund ‘Out Of Control’ California
By Sean Cockerham - Scockerham@Mcclatchydc.Com
February 5, 2017 7:16 PM
“If we have to, we’ll defund,” Trump said in “the money they need to properly operate.”
an interview with Fox News host Bill
O’Reilly before the Super Bowl. “We give But the president added that
tremendous amounts of money to
California, California in many ways is out of “if they’re going to have sanctuary cities,
control, as you know.” we may have to do that. Certainly that
would be a weapon.”
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Trump Can Ban ANY & ALL
'Refugees' With Diseases
By Patricia Doyle Phd
2-5-2017
Hello Jeff... I found this looking for CDC Laws that would keep The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and
immigrants and refugees out of the US due to infectious CDC are removing HIV infection from the list of diseases
diseases. that keep non-U.S. citizens from entering the United
States. General information about the change is provided
The President CAN issue EOs on the list of diseases as well. below:
Leprosy, TB etc How come the US is not using the list below i.e. What was the process for removing HIV from the list and
TB, Diphtheria Leprosy etc We know that refugees with TB, when will the change take effect?
Leprosy, Diphtheria, STDs have all been allowed in. Even Viral
Hemorrhagic Fevers have been allowed in and some brought into HHS published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
the US by the CDC planes. Trump needs to close this door to on July 2, 2009 explaining the proposed changes in the
infected refugees and illegals. Federal Register and seeking public comment on those
changes. The proposed rule was based on the science that
Patty HIV is not spread through casual contact. A public
comment period was open until August 17, 2009. These
Three Categories public comments were considered in making the final
policy decision. After the comment period closed, CDC
Any of the following diseases: active tuberculosis, carefully reviewed over 20,000 public comments. Most
infectious syphilis, gonorrhea, infectious leprosy, comments supported the rule as proposed.
chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma
inguinale, and HIV infection. (HIV infection will be The final rule was published on November 2, 2009 in the
removed on January 4, 2010) Federal Register. After the 60-day waiting period required
Quarantinable diseases designated by any Presidential by federal guidelines, the final rule will go into effect on
Executive Order. The current list of diseases includes January 4, 2010.
cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague,
smallpox, yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic fevers, severe Before the effective date of January 4, 2010, what changes
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and influenza caused will take place for non-U.S. citizens with HIV infection
by novel or re-emergent influenza (pandemic flu). who wish to enter the United States?
General Questions and Answers Until the final rule is in effect on January 4, 2010, non-
U.S. citizens who have HIV cannot come to the United
Final Rule Removing HIV Infection from U.S. States unless granted a waiver by the Department of
Immigration Screening Homeland Security. Also, all those applying for an
immigrant visa will have to be tested for HIV infection
Immigrants and refugees must undergo a medical exam as during the immigrant medical exam until January 4, 2010.
part of the immigration process for entry into the United
States. The exam includes screening for any illness defined Under the new rule, effective on January 4, 2010, HIV
as a communicable disease of public health significance. testing will no longer be required as part of the immigrant
All of these diseases can be easily spread between people. medical exam. In addition, waivers will no longer be
Those immigrants and refugees found to have these needed for HIV infection.
diseases may not enter the United States.
What diseases prevent non-U.S. citizens from coming to
The screening process, along with this list of diseases the United States?
which can prevent entry into the United States, are
outlined in federal regulations written by the Centers for Diseases that can prevent entry to the U.S. fall into three
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). If new diseases categories:
emerge or as more is learned about diseases already on this
list, regulatory changes can be made to alter the disease Any of the following diseases: active
list. tuberculosis, infectious syphilis, gonorrhea,
infectious leprosy, chancroid,
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lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma Allowing non-U.S. citizens with HIV infection into the
inguinale, and HIV infection. (HIV infection United States will not pose a risk to the public’s health
will be removed on January 4, 2010) through casual contact. HIV infection is preventable and is
not spread through casual contact or day-to-day activities.
Quarantinable diseases designated by It is mainly spread through behaviors which involve the
any Presidential Executive Order. The exchange of bodily fluids during sex or sharing of needles.
current list of diseases includes cholera,
diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague, HIV is not a new virus in the United States. Currently, it’s
smallpox, yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic estimated that more than 1 million Americans are living
fevers, severe acute respiratory syndrome with HIV. It is important to remember that any risk posed
(SARS), and influenza caused by novel or by people with HIV is not a result of their nationality. The
re-emergent influenza (pandemic flu). risk of spreading HIV is only increased when a person
engages in specific behaviors, such as having unprotected
Diseases reportable as a public health sex or sharing needles.
emergency of international concern to the
World Health Organization under the Why are HHS and CDC removing only HIV infection
International Health Regulations of 2005. when other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are still
These diseases currently include: polio, on the list of diseases that prevent entry?
smallpox, SARS, pandemic flu and other
public health emergencies of international Legislation passed in July 2008 removed language from
concern. the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) related to HIV.
This original text had mandated that HIV infection be on
HIV infection will be removed as a communicable disease the list of diseases that can keep people from coming to the
of public health significance effective January 4, 2010. At United States. The decision to remove HIV infection from
that time, HIV infection will not be used to keep people the regulations is because of this change in law and the
from entering the United States. science of how HIV is spread. In the United States, HIV
infection is passed between adults almost solely through
Who is affected by the rule change? unprotected sex with someone who has HIV or by sharing
needles or syringes used by someone with HIV. HIV is not
Those who are not U.S. citizens will no longer be denied spread through casual contact.
entry to the United States based on their HIV status. This
would include: immigrants (including those in the United CDC continues to review the list of diseases in the
States applying for change of status to lawful permanent regulations. If CDC seeks to remove other STDs in the
resident), refugees, and those seeking asylum. This also future, it will do so through the federal rulemaking
includes temporary visitors for school, work or pleasure. process.
Why did CDC remove HIV infection from the list of Why does the law require 60 days before the final rule can
diseases that can prevent non-U.S. citizens from entering go into effect?
the United States?
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
When the regulation preventing non-U.S. citizens from requires a 60-day waiting period for any rule that has a
entering the country was created in 1987, far less was major economic impact. An economic analysis has shown
known about how HIV infection is spread and what puts that this rule will have a major national economic impact.
people at risk for HIV. Health experts now know that HIV Thus, this rule meets the OMB guidelines for the 60-day
is not spread through casual contact like hugging or waiting period.
shaking hands. Nor is HIV spread through the air, food or
water. In the United States, HIV infection is passed The 60-day waiting period will begin on November 2,
between adults almost solely through unprotected sex with 2009. Thus, the final rule will go into effect on January 4,
someone who has HIV or by sharing needles or syringes 2010.
used by someone with HIV. Removing HIV infection from
the list of illnesses that prevent entry to the United States is Where can I find out more about the new rule?
based on this improved knowledge of the risk of spreading
the disease. For more information about the new rule, or to view the
rule in its entirety, please visit the Final Rule Removing
Will the rule change increase the risk that average HIV Infection from U.S. Immigration Screening page.
Americans will contract HIV?
For more information on HIV, please see
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv.
.
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News Pooper Scooper:
When Fake News Is Just Dog Doo
Author: Phil Butler
05.02.2017
Michael Weiss, a Daily Beast editor and lap dog for Putin “Tulsi Gabbard’s Fascist Escorts to
hating Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky is yapping Syria”;
and wagging his tail again from the latest morsel he’s
pooped onto the media landscape. “Has Putin Poisoned “AD FOR HIMSELF Donald Trump
Another Opponent?” – it’s another monotonous foray Celebrates Himself, Proclaims His
into utter nonsense for the moronic Beast reader to smell. Inaugural Day a National One of
Sorry, this guy is just that aggravating and just that ‘Patriotic Devotion”;
transparent. I honest to God hope he tries to punch me in “U.S. Spies Warn Trump and GOP:
the nose if we ever meet. This is how badly he and others Russia Could Get You Next”;
have soiled journalism the last few years. The fact
Russia’s Long History With Honey
Vladimir Kara-Murza is a coordinator for Khodorkovsky’s
Traps—They Didn’t Start With Donald
nongovernmental organization, Open Russia, which Weiss
Trump” –
also evangelizes for, is reason enough for Putin to be the
arch villain again. Oh boy.
and the list goes on and on and on and on without a whiff
of proof and only the telltale smell of a killer’s propaganda
For those of your detecting a familiar stench, it should not
pully to show (Mikhail Khodorkovsky allegedly ordered
surprise you that Senior democratic U.S. lawmakers just
enemies murdered as Yukos Oil king).
expressed their support for the activist (and by association
his Russian mob boss), should come as no surprise. Having
urged the new administration of President Donald Trump A disciple of the self-proclaimed socialist, Marxist and
to smell this “doo doo” too, the message is as obvious as a an anti-totalitarian journalistic zealot Christopher
sticky-smelly-brown-gob on the bottom of your shoe. Hitchens, Weiss envisions himself as some sort of British
Weiss even evokes a magical tweet from loser Hillary intellectual from the radical left. But Weiss is nothing
Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine. more than an opportunist like Hitchens was, an
unscrupulous man who targets political celebrity and easy
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targets to get his fame and his paycheck. His benefactor condemnation of the brave Congresswoman Tulsi
the Kremlin’s leading critic-in-exile Khodorkovsky was Gabbard’s trip to Syria recently, attempting to besmirch
described by Britain’s Lord John Browne as basically her by virtue of her guides in Syria. Weiss barks like an
“spooky-scary”. As for Weiss, James Carden profiled him investigative journalist, in order to discredit Gabbard. This
perfectly with: is in stark contrast to Weiss’ 2013 doggy style co-
authoring of a The Atlantic piece with Elizabeth O’Bagy
“Given his past association with the Henry that advocated regime change in Syria. What Weiss never
Jackson Society, in his work as an errand- told anybody was that O’Bagy was a paid consultant for an
boy for Christopher Hitchens and the NGO working to provide military weapons to the Syrian
Khodorkovsky family, and as a high profile rebels and overthrow Assad, the Syrian Emergency Task
editor/contributor at the Daily Beast and Force (SETF).
CNN, Weiss has established himself as the
leading neocon propagandist of his Finally, the Silverstein story suggesting that Radio Free
generation.” Liberty once sponsored Khodorkovsky’s online magazine
The Interpreter is only slightly surprising. Weiss is the
The Daily Beast, CNN, Newsweek, most people don’t typist behind that anti-Putin pro-globalist rag, but what is
understand fully just how dangerous these media portals surprising at the moment is that President Trump has not
and the psychopaths representing them are. An article by withdrawn funding for the Cold War dinosaur Refl.org.
Richard Silverstein with the lead; Maybe he will read this story after I Tweet him? Of
passionate idealists, I know many including myself. But
the gulf the separates well intentioned and opinionated
“How Daily Beast Editor, Michael Weiss Helped Send
journalists and these stray curs getting people killed is
Iranian-American to Torture Chambers of Evin
Prison” portrays Weiss and his rabies stricken pack are wide indeed. I think it’s time for a media dog catcher to
like. A final point of focus here is best illustrated in Weiss’ round them up, or at least hand out a pooper-scooper to the
public.
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Trump Is Legally, By Law, Permitted To Ban & Boot
Illegal Aliens On Mental & Physical Health Grounds
By Patricia Doyle PhD
2-5-2017
It is time to get out the pen and write up an EO (also the While a common cold won't stop you from being admitted
right of the President of the US) to use certain diseases to to the U.S. with a visa or green card, more serious
keep infected immigrants and refugees out of the US. communicable diseases might, as well as disorders that
might cause you to harm yourself or others.
The laws already exist on the books and certain new
diseases and old deadly diseases like Chagas should be Anyone applying to visit or reside in U.S., whether on a
added. temporary visa or a permanent green card, must prove that
he or she does not present a health risk to the general
Time to get serious on immigration and the danger to the public. These requirements are known as health-related
public health of the people of the US. grounds of inadmissibility.
Once again… You might not be allowed to enter or remain in the United
States if you:
I hope Trump will implement health related grounds for
inadmissibility to the US. This includes not only have a communicable disease of public health
communicable diseases but also mental health conditions significance
that make an immigrant a danger to themselves or others lack required vaccinations
as well as a history of drug abuse or addiction. have or have had a physical or mental disorder that
causes you to engage in behavior that might be
I would hope they include a propensity to rape as a related harmful to yourself or others, or
grounds for inadmissibility to the US. have a history of drug abuse or addiction.
Please check out the website below for more information Even if you have never been diagnosed with an alcohol- or
on health related grounds of inadmissibility to the US as drug-related health issue, a record of alcohol- or drug-
well as physical or mental grounds of inadmissibility to the related arrests (a DUI, for instance) or criminal offenses
US. can result in your being found inadmissible on health
grounds.
Donald Trump should also use this information as means
of stopping all immigration until we can determine the There are waivers available for all health-related grounds
people who are allowed into the US are of no danger to of inadmissibility except drug abuse and addiction.
America.
How Your Health-Related Inadmissibility Will Be
I do not believe those from a society that tolerates rape and Discovered
practices rape frequently are going to make a good future
American…ever. I also think any refugee or immigrants Health-related inadmissibility issues are typically
to the US who iareaccused of rape or convicted of rape discovered when immigration officials review either your
should be (castrated) and deported immediately. answers to questions about your health in your visa or
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green card application forms, the results of your threatening to kill someone), or damage to major property.
immigration medical examination (required for every Mental illness alone without any harmful behavior will not
immigrant—that is, permanent resident—visa or green make you inadmissible.
card, and for some temporary visitors), criminal and court
records you submit with your application, and any other Even if you no longer have a harmful disorder, you may
documents or information you provide at interviews and still be inadmissible if the disorder is likely to reoccur.
inspections. And even if you have no prior diagnosis or record of any
disorders, a history of crimes such as assaults and domestic
You will need to answer questions regarding your health violence involving alcohol and drugs could result in a
on almost any application you might submit, whether it’s referral for a mental examination and ultimately a finding
for a temporary (nonimmigrant) or an immigrant visa. The of inadmissibility.
questions you see on the forms asking about your history
of communicable disease, substance abuse, and physical A record of alcohol-related offenses, or any other evidence
and mental disorders all pertain to your potential of alcohol abuse, like driving while under the influence,
inadmissibility on health-grounds. may lead to a referral to a physician to determine whether
you have and alcohol-related mental or physical disorder
What to Expect During the Medical Examination causes harmful behavior. Anything more than a single
drunk driving arrest or conviction may result in a referral
In an immigration medical examination, the physician will to a physician.
most likely review your medical record, vaccinations,
chest x-rays, and laboratory results, and perform a physical Drug Abuse and Addiction
examination. If you are applying from outside the U.S. to
enter and reside permanently, you must undergo a medical Related Ads
examination by a physician certified by the Department of
State. If you are already residing in the United States and
A history of drug abuse or addiction will bar you from
applying for permanent residency (adjustment of status),
entering the U.S. on health grounds. Drug abuse is broadly
you will need to attend a medical examination by a
defined to mean anything beyond mere experimenting. In
physician certified by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration general, experimenting is considered just one use.
Services (USCIS). Anything beyond one non-medical use of a controlled
substance will be considered drug abuse. Normally, the
The physician will prepare a report summarizing his or her physician giving the medical examination will administer a
medical findings for the immigration authorities. drug test only upon deciding that it is necessary in the
individual person’s case.
Communicable Disease Ground of Inadmissibility
If you have any drug- or alcohol-related arrests or
The list of communicable diseases that bar people from convictions on your record, consult with an immigration
entering the United States, which is kept by the U.S. attorney before applying for a U.S. visa or residency.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC), continues to grow. These items on your record may also make you
The list includes a number of quarantinable diseases (such inadmissible on criminal or controlled substance
as cholera, plague, smallpox, and yellow fever), as well as trafficking grounds.
leprosy, tuberculosis, and pandemic flu. Recently HIV and
other sexually transmitted diseases (such as chancroid and Vaccinations and Inadmissibility
gonorrhea) were removed from this list.
Applicants for green cards or immigrant visas (but not
The physician conducting your medical examination (if temporary visas) are required to have vaccinations against
any) will ask you about certain diseases depending on what a number of diseases, including influenza, measles,
countries you’ve lived in or traveled to. The physician will mumps, and rubella. (See the USCIS Web page on
also examine your medical history, blood test, and chest x- “Vaccination Requirements” for the full list.) The
rays for traces of communicable diseases. influenza vaccine will be required only if you are entering
the United State during flu season, generally between
Physical or Mental Disorder Ground of Inadmissibility October and March of each year.
Having a physical or mental disorder that creates behavior Bring your vaccination records to your immigration
harmful to property, safety, or public welfare can make medical examination: If you show the physician the proof
you inadmissible. Harmful behavior is defined as of your past vaccinations, you can avoid getting them
psychological or physical injury to the applicant or another again, and paying for them! The physician will determine
person (such as a suicide attempt or pedophilia), a threat to which vaccines are appropriate for your age.
health or safety (such as driving while intoxicated or
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Internationally adopted children under the age of ten are I would hope they include a propensity to rape as a related
not required to have vaccinations before they enter the grounds for inadmissibility to the US.
United States. However, they will be required to have their
vaccinations completed within 30 days of arrival. Please check out the website below for more information
Vaccinations that are against your religious beliefs will not on health related grounds of inadmissibility to the US as
be required. well as physical or mental grounds of inadmissibility to the
US.
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-health-
issues-can-make-you-inadmissible-the-us.html Donald Trump should also use this information as means
of stopping all immigration until we can determine the
PS Jeff... people who are allowed into the US are of no danger to
America.
I hope Donald Trump will implement health-related
grounds for inadmissibility to the US. This includes not I do not believe that a society who tolerates rape and
only communicable diseases but also mental health practices rape frequently is going to make a good future
conditions that make an immigrant a danger to themselves American. I also think any refugee or immigrant to the US
or others as well as a history of drug abuse or addiction. who is accused of rape or convicted of rape should be
deported immediately.
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Supreme Court To Make
Landmark Ruling On ‘Voiding The Election’
By Baxter Dmitry
Posted On February 5, 2017
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President Trump Shuts Down
Anti-Putin Hysteria With One Simple Question
Trump Realizes It's Time For America To Get Off Its (Very) High Horse
Richard Brandt
Sun, Feb 5, 2017
A few thoughts:
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10 Magazine Covers That Expose
The Liberal Left’s Propaganda Movement
Alex Christoforou
February 5, 2017
Yesterday The Duran published a piece on German The Der Spiegel cover is in fact a sign of the hysteria and
magazine, Der Spiegel’s cover showing Trump as some hyperbole that has developed around the person of Donald
sort of crazed ISIS style Jihadi. Trump. If things are not yet quite as bad as they have been
with the Western media’s coverage of Putin, it shows that
It’s obvious that the cover went too far when displaying its they are heading in the same direction.
hate for President Trump, but the cover’s purpose, and
ultimate goal, is shared among many neo-liberal left and Der Spiegel is one of many magazine covers (listed below)
neocon right publications… that are openly calling for the removal of President Trump.
to remove Trump from the Office of The recent events in UC Berkeley over
POTUS. the weekend show that their message is
To compare even indirectly and in a cartoon cover Donald resonating with a very violent and
Trump’s ‘travel ban’ Executive Order with the murderous destructive liberal left contingent.
barbarism of ISIS and of other Jihadis is not merely
ridiculous; it is also deeply offensive.
Der Spiegel is one of many establishment media magazines calling for "Resistance" against President Donald Trump
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Bloomberg Businessweek
This was Bloomberg’s way of commenting on Trump’s executive orders.
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Mother Jones
Left-wing Mother Jones tears a strip off Trump with the call to action: “Rise Up”.
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The New Yorker
The Statue of Liberty’s extinguished flame smolders promotes fear and doom.
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The Atlantic
The image of what a Trump presidency looks like, with the tagline “How to Build an Autocracy.”
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The Economist
Are they sending a message to the anarchists on the left?
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Time
Stephen Bannon of Breitbart News, in a Machiavellian stare.
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Harper’s
“A Resister’s Guide” to the Trump Presidency. Not subtle at all.
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Newsweek
A call to California, the Golden State, to resist the Trump administration.
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The Advocate
The LGBT magazine says it’s “time to panic.” For what reason? Trump supports LGBT rights.
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Kremlin Says It Wants Apology
From Fox News Over Putin Comments
Reuters
February 6, 2017
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Trump Administration To Get To The Bottom Of Who
Leaked Transcripts Of His Private Phone Calls –
And What Should Happen Next
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 06, 2017
In the first case, a transcript of Trump’s conversation with “That’s troubling and I think the president
the Mexican president, Eduardo Peta Nieto, was leaked, has asked the team to look into this
but was done in such a way as to clearly misrepresent the because those are very serious
context. As noted by The Associated Press, Trump implications,” he said, adding that calls
allegedly threatened U.S. military intervention into Mexico were “candid” but respectful, and that even
in order to take care of “bad hombres” if that country the two governments were refuting some of
couldn’t do it. It wasn’t clear who Trump meant when he what’s been reported.
referred to bad hombres, but you can take your guess – it’s
likely to mean the drug cartels, the human smugglers, or As The National Sentinel noted in reporting on the leaks:
both. (RELATED: Find out how they’re fooling us today
at Hoax.news) Okay, so it’s obvious that there are
elements within our government that are
But then the AP went on to note that Mexican officials hostile to the current administration. …
denied there was ever any seriousness to Trump’s “threat,” These kinds of attempts at sabotaging the
and in fact, they reported just the opposite: Trump presidency will not go away, and in
fact, you should probably count on them
Eduardo Sanchez, spokesman for Mexico’s getting even more intense as our billionaire
presidential office, denied the tone of the president seeks to fulfill his campaign
conversation was hostile or humiliating, pledge to “drain the swamp.” The swamp’s
saying it was respectful. inhabitants – in the Congress, in the
“It is absolutely false that the president of bureaucracy and in the donor class – are
the United States threatened to send not going to simply go away quietly.
troops to Mexico,” Sanchez said in an
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The only way to prevent further sabotage in the future is to certainly don’t appreciate the manner in which he gets
dramatically reduce the amount of bureaucracy – as in, get things done. They, like the rest of the political and media
rid of many of the careerists who are dead-set against this establishment, have never seen or met or had to deal with
president primarily for the reason that he wants to any U.S. president like Trump, and probably never will
eliminate their jobs. (RELATED: Trump is dedicated to again.
cutting red tape and bureaucracy – learn more at
BigGovernment.news) That aside, their job is to serve the American people by
serving the president, who was duly elected. In the
Beyond that, careerist bureaucrats – particularly in the meantime, Trump is likely to keep some staffers extremely
State Department, which is inhabited by Left-wing Ivy busy hunting down those who leaked the intimate details
League foreign policy types who have a very liberal of his government. These won’t be the last leaks.
worldview and a certain way of doing things – simply do
not share Trump’s “America first” vision. And they
.
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Apple, Google, Uber Join Fight
Against Trump Travel Ban
By AP
6 Feb 2017
The companies filed briefs late Sunday with a federal However the companies, in their court filing, said Trump’s
appellate court saying the Trump executive order hurts executive order would destroy the entrepreneurial spirit
their businesses. that fuels American businesses.
In their court filing with the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Immigrants make many of the nation’s greatest
Circuit Court of Appeals, a total of 97 companies said discoveries, and create some of the country’s most
Trump’s travel ban innovative and iconic companies,” the court filing said.
“hinders the ability of American companies “The experience and energy of people who
to attract great talent; increases costs come to our country to seek a better life for
imposed on business; makes it more themselves and their children_to pursue
difficult for American firms to compete in the ‘American Dream’_are woven
the international marketplace.” throughout the social, political, and
economic fabric of the nation.”
The travel ban would prompt businesses to build
operations outside the United States, said the companies.
The long list of enterprises looking to join the fight against
.
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Trump Seeking “State Of Emergency”
To Limit Rights Of All Americans
Not A Brain Among Them, Simple As That
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
February 6, 2017
Trump lied.
The “Muslim Ban” carried a covert agenda, to move
forward the attack on constitutional guarantees put in place Bush created and Obama allowed out of cowardice the
after 9/11 by targeting “legal residents” as a steppingstone Department of Homeland Security to establish, illegally
to very real martial law. according to the ACLU, a “virtual concentration camp”
zone at America’s airports where no laws exist at all
The war here has always been domestic, hardly against the including right to counsel, cruel and unusual punishment,
violent “alt-right” bombers and school shooters and the search and seizure or protections to the press.
occasional rogue Muslim, usually brought into the US by
the CIA or controlled by another agency. Think “Fort The DHS picked me up and began rifling through my
Hood” where a Bush transition team psychiatrist went on a cloud based email and documents, based on me being a
shooting spree or the Gabby Giffords shooter, part of a US member of the press, in order to find sources for leaks on
Army “pre-enlistment conditioning experiment.” US government biological and chemical warfare programs
in Georgia, not the state. This is typical, the DHS recently
This isn’t “fake new,” but documented fact, suppressed but put a former prime minister of Norway into detention
documented. because he had visited Iran, as a Prime Minister of
Norway, a NATO country mind you. Yes, they were crazy
No, the real goal here is simple, use the under Obama and are now worse.
legal loophole of America’s airport
“black sites” to strip rights from legal As was reported today in the Washington Post, the DHS, at
residents who enjoy nearly full their airport “black sites,” and they very much that, these
constitutional protections, and set a are nasty places, have seized passports and other
precedent for a permanent “State of documents from permanent legal US residents and
Emergency” that limits rights of all destroyed them.
Americans.
Nobody has this right except that the DHS has become a
Truth is such a rare commodity, I should start selling it. law upon itself and the American people had, until now,
Giving it away degrades it, or so I am told. simply allowed laws and justice, based on the 9/11
incident and its aftermath, and to be truthful, the real
The entire ban thing is a scam. Every effort, by the real disaster was the rigged 2000 election. 9/11 was a “given,”
best minds in the world, to attribute some intellectual a New Pearl Harbor planned as early as 1997, to forward
ability, simple brain power or even economic acumen to the neocon and Israeli agenda of permanent war in the
Trump and those around him, have turned up nothing. Middle East as cover for world organized crime, but I
digress.
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Trump is the neocon and Israeli agenda and we await the The issue isn’t so much the nations on the list but the fact
next carefully staged outrage, particularly after the court that Trump said he was willing to extend the list to
smackdown Trump received after trying to erase the Paksitan (India?), Saudi Arabia and Egypt as well, perhaps
constitution without slaughtering a few thousand even China. Other administration hacks, as a form of
Americans first. He should have paid attention to last humor, have suggested Australia be added.
time. Now back to the seized and destroyed documents:
The US is competing for top level technology people from
Now the court demands they be replaced, no we aren’t around the world to support not only economic growth
kidding. Green cards, visas, passports were physically here but our defense industry. We work on DARPA
seized or “submitted” based on days of no food, no sleep projects that are dependent on technologies where the US
and continual threats and physical intimidation. is way behind. Iran leads in physics over the US and we
have long recruited their folks, now blocked, to support
In every American airport that accepts overseas flights, the important energy programs for the US Navy among other
DHS detains and interrogates American citizens, the agencies and organizations.
majority of whom are on lists because a prime DHS
contractor uses off the shelf social media collection It goes much further but suffice it to say that the US has a
software and their names came up discussing politics or huge, $8bn I know of personally, black budget to recruit
criticizing the government. and employ top technology workers from banned or
“under threat of ban” nations for “in the pipeline”
Go read that one again, this is exactly where Customs and technologies to keep our defenses credible.
Immigration, part of DHS, gets their terror lists, gleaned
from Facebook posts, Google searches and comment Tech is out there that blinds our satellites, can bring down
boards. our planes, disable our ships, track our submarines and
hack any part of any of those systems and is not
As a defense contractor partnering with firms in Canada, continually used simply because it would be an act of war
Egypt and Qatar, I was given copies of this “classified” and the US is being “kicked to the curb” anyway by its
software. It is garbage and I was embarrassed to be crazy politics and shabby economy.
involved with it. Egypt wanted to use it to round up the
remaining Muslim Brotherhood folks, software really It is bad enough that most of our military programs are
written to single out potential buyers for Ford F150 trucks. patched together Carter era technology. Our satellites
can’t spot 12,000 ISIS fuel trucks in a row that can be seen
This is the same crap, and there are no special algorithms with a $30 spotting scope from the surface of Mars.
applied, that the CIA and DHS use to create their “enemies
lists” that include the names of what we are told include The US can no longer track nuclear material even at its
over 8 million Americans, singled out for “extreme own ports, much less being peddled around the world.
vetting” and surveillance of their electronic existence by
the NSA. The only reason the Trump “State of Emergency” and
habeas corpus challenge failed, which may also be
I think the number is closer to 25 million. considered “martial law,” is that defense and tech
industries were never consulted as to impact and threw
Let’s go back to the main subject for a second. The court their considerable power and cash against what was a
understood what was going on, but the press seems to be poorly considered power grab.
either blind, bought off or stupid. Trump’s entire program
and Bannon is the real Trump and is even dumber. Karl Quite frankly, congress, now crippled by having so many
Rove is a bright guy, twisted and morally corrupt but not paid off by Sheldon Adelson and Betsy DeVos, will never
stupid. Bannon is not Rove, this is an empty hat. be able to get the truth. What is needed is for Bannon to
be called in and questioned as to what he was thinking and
I have never seen so many people who look close to death if he was advised to do this.
in my life, with the exception of Betsy DeVos, the East
Grand Rapids “Stepford Wife.” The entire administration It is vital for the survival of the US for whoever was
sits at some level of dementia with Trump well past responsible for trying to push through a stealth martial law
Reagan in that department. executive order to be found and dealt with.
Has he commented on the Bowling Green Massacre yet? If it was Bannon himself, remedies need to be found,
Inquiring minds want to know. isolating his influence and removing Trump and Pence
from any governing and command functions.
.
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Trump Implodes
As Constitutional Crisis Explodes
By Allen L Roland, Phd
February 6, 2017
The Ultimate Reality Show – President-Elect Donald “Here is something to keep you awake
Trump Is Now Prime Time at night: Your future, and the future of
the world, now rests in the hands of a
“On some great and glorious day the plain tiny team of zealots and opportunistic
folks of the land will reach their heart’s hacks in the White House who prefer to
desire at last, and the White House will be rule the country by edict and
“alternative facts” while ignoring the
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courts, leaving Congress out of the
loop, purging seasoned officials from
the government and targeting the
independent media. Yes, there was an
election, but this feels more like a coup”
~ David Horsey, LA Times
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Trump Says Mexican President 'Has Got A Problem' With
Cartels, Slams California 'Sanctuary State' Push
Foxnews.Com
Published February 06, 2017
While McConnell may be right, there is evidence that The issue of voter fraud, properly stated, involves the type
would suggest voter fraud prevented Trump from winning of systematic Democratic Party fraud that eludes detection
the popular vote, as well as the electoral vote. precisely because Democratic Party politicians and
election officials take active steps to encourage illegal
voting that they have no intention of reporting,
Democratic Party operatives and their supporters in the
investigating or prosecuting.
Democratic Party-sympathetic main stream media
originally crafted and advanced this meme in a transparent
effort to ward off all responsible efforts to enact the type of Truthfully, we need look no further than the 2016
Voter ID laws that would largely rule out or dramatically Michigan recount demanded by Green Party candidate Jill
reduce the possibility of systematic Democratic Party voter Stein find clear evidence of systematic Democratic Party
fraud. voting fraud.
Today, while no American can board an airplane today 2016 Michigan recount finds voter fraud in Detroit
without showing TSA employees a valid government-
issued ID, the far-left screams “voter suppression” and In the Michigan recount, instead of swinging the election
brings lawyers affiliated with the Democratic Party to to Clinton, the recount found evidence of massive voter
court to litigate every time efforts are made to pass voter fraud in Wayne County, pointing to Democratic Party
ID laws. voter fraud in Detroit, where Michigan’s largest city in
Michigan’s largest county had voted overwhelmingly for
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Clinton, as noted by Roger Stone in his recent book, Non-citizens and felons vote
Making of the President 2016, on pages 296-298.
In 2016, an investigation in Virginia by the public Interest
Stone reported voting machines in more than one-third of Legal Foundation, PILF, and the Virginia Voter’s
all Detroit precincts registered more votes that the number Alliance, VVA, showed that in a small sample of the eight
of people recorded having voted. Virginia counties responding to the investigators’ public
inspection requests, 1046 illegal aliens were found
Overall, state records showed 10.6 percent of the precincts registered to vote.
in the state’s 22 counties could not be recounted because
Michigan state law bars recounts for unbroken precincts or “The problem is most certainly
precincts submitting ballot boxes with broken seals. exponentially worse because we have no
data regarding aliens on the registration
The Detroit news reported the problems were the worst in rolls for the other 125 Virginia localities,”
Detroit where officials could not recount votes in 392 the Virginia investigators concluded. “Even
precincts, or nearly 60 percent of the total, with two-thirds in this small sample, when the voting
of these precincts having too many votes. history of this small sample of alien
registrants is examined, nearly 200 verified
ballots were cast before they were
The newspaper further noted Hillary Clinton
removed from the rolls. Each one of them
overwhelmingly prevailed in Democratic-controlled
is likely a felony.”
Detroit, while Republican President-elect Donald Trump
won Michigan by only 10,704 votes, or by 47.5 percent to
47.3 percent. In 2016, Virginia’s Democratic Governor Terry
McAuliffe, a long-time Clinton associate, cleared 13,000
Virginia felons to vote in the presidential election, after the
The voting fraud found in Detroit as a result of the 2016
State’s Supreme Court struck down his earlier “sweeping
Michigan recount suggests recounts in the Democratic-
order” automatically restoring many felons’ voting rights
controlled precincts in other rust-belt cities, including,
in a move that would have provided clearance for some
Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, as well
206,000 Virginia felons to vote, despite their criminal
Newark, New Jersey, bear rigorous recount investigations
records as murders, rapists, sex offenders, kidnappers,
to see if similar patterns of Democratic Party voting fraud
child abusers, arsonists, drug traffickers, and other
can be validated.
dangerous criminals, as noted by Breitbart in an article
published on Aug. 22, 1016.
A study published by the Pew Center on the States in
February 2012, entitled “Inaccurate, Costly, and
In April 2015, McAuliffe vetoed House Bill 1315, a state
Inefficient: Evidence That America’s Voter
law that would have required jury commissioners to retain
Registration System Needs an Upgraded,” documented
individuals not qualified to serve as jurors for reasons that
that approximately 24 million – one of every eight – voter
would also disqualify them from voting, including finding
registrations in the United States are no longer valid or are
out that a prospective juror was not a citizen of the United
significantly inaccurate, with more than 1.8 million
States.
deceased individuals listed as voters, and approximately
2.75 million people with registrations in more than one
state.” In August 2011, the Fairfax County Electoral Board
notified the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern
District of Virginia in Alexandria, as well as the Public
While the Pew Center on the States does not prove that
Integrity Section of the Criminal Division of the Justice
voter fraud caused someone to vote for all the deceased on
Department in Washington, of possible voter fraud by non-
voter registration rolls, or that a large proportion of those
citizens.
registered in more than one state voted in more than one
state, the 2016 presidential election provides evidence
Democrats in various states have exploited registration An Electoral Board study conducted in conjunction with
problems that could be solved with a Voter ID system at the Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles discovered that
the center of rigorous enforcement of voting laws 278 registered voters, when they got their drivers licenses,
throughout the United States. admitted they were not U.S. citizens. Almost half of them,
117, were subsequently found to have registered to vote
and to have voted in Virginia.
The lack of rigor in U.S. voting registration rolls is
unlikely to be rectified as long as the Democratic Party
resists every and all efforts to enact for voting the type of The Public Interest Legal Foundation studied a case where
Voter ID laws that the TSA demands for those seeking to 86 non-citizens registered to vote in Philadelphia since
board commercial aircraft in the United States. 2013, with almost half (46) known to have voted in at least
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one recent election, asked for their names to be removed in more than one state. The videos also demonstrate how
from voter registrations. difficult it is to get your name removed from the voter
registration rolls after you have moved, and how easy it is
Research indicated Philadelphia makes no effort to to get an absentee ballot to vote in a second state, even if
proactively remove from voter registration rolls non- the second state is registered in a different name than the
citizens or incarcerated felons that are ineligible to vote person’s current legal name.
under Pennsylvania law.
One video demonstrated states like North Carolina that do
“Election fraud, whether it’s phony voter not require voter ID how easy it was for illegal immigrants
registrations illegal absentee ballots, shady non-citizens to vote, or for persons to vote after showing
recounts or old-fashioned ballot-box up at a voting poll after stealing the identity of registered
stuffing, can be found in every part of the voters who are dead. Also exposed by O’Keefe’s
United States, although it is probably undercover video cameras were students voting for Obama
spreading because of the ever-so-tight in the state where they were attending college, as well as
divisions that have polarized the country voting by absentee ballot in their home state.
and created so many close elections
lately,” concluded journalist John Fund in
his 2004 book entitled “Stealing Elections.”
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Trump Says White House Leaks
Coming From Obama Admin Holdovers
Kerry Picket - Reporter
10:30 AM 02/06/2017
President Donald Trump looks on following a swearing-in ceremony Trump described the media stories of what seemed to be
for Defense Secretary James Mattis at the Pentagon in Washington,
January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria contentious interactions between him and the two foreign
leaders as misreported, and contended that he actually had
President Donald Trump pointed the finger at Obama “positive” conversations with both men.
administration holdovers at the White House and National
Security Council for leaking information about private Leaks relating to the new White House have gone to
phone conversations he had with leaders of Australia and mainstream media outlets that Trump has blasted in the
Mexico. past for treating him unfairly including: the New York
Times, The Washington Post, NBC and the Associated
Press.
.
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China Protests To US
Over New Iran Sanctions
Mon Feb 6, 2017 10:19AM
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‘We Are Not Killers,’
Republican Bigwigs Rage Against Trump
Mon Feb 6, 2017 9:50AM
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (left), President Representative Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice
Donald Trump (center), and Senator Marco Rubio President Dick Cheney, also weighed in on the issue by
calling Trump’s comments "deeply troubling and wrong."
US President Donald Trump has come
under fire from Republican figures for
defending Russian President Vladimir
Putin and acknowledging that there are
“a lot of killers" in the US government.
Meanwhile, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who ran an Putin and Trump talked over the phone in late January,
unsuccessful presidential bid against Trump, accused Putin discussing a wide range of issues, including the situation in
of poisoning his opponents. the Middle East, Palestine, and Iran’s historic nuclear deal.
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Dem Rep Waters: Trump ‘Investigation’ Underway;
Evidence Not Required For Impeachment
By Pam Key
6 Feb 2017
Monday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” when asked about her investigation in the Senate Intelligence yes, in the House
comments last week stating that her “greatest desire” you have investigations going on in several places in
would be to impeach President Donald Trump, Rep. several ways. This man is questionable. and what I’m
Maxine Waters (D-CA) said investigations had “already saying is, because we are suspicious, many of us about
started” and that some of the investigation leads to the who he is, where he came from, what his actions are and
“possibility of impeachment.” all of his conflicts and this business of loving Putin and the
Kremlin so much, we have to find out more about him.
Partial transcript as follows: And some of that I think leads to the possibility of
impeachment. And I think that’s legitimate to say given
everything we know at this point.
BALDWIN: You are making news today saying Donald
Trump’s actions are leading himself to possible
impeachment. Explain to me why you are going there two BALDWIN: I understand on the investigation. But you
weeks into his presidency. know, you do have to find evidence before using such a
huge word, such a tremendous word as the I word, the I in
impeachment.
WATERS: First of all, just let me say these are not
normal times. We have a president who is creating chaos
and division. So many questions about his conflict of WATERS: No, no, no. no, no, no. Let me tell you what
interest. Lies about whether or not he separated himself you are saying is this. You are saying that you don’t
from the businesses he claimed he would separate ordinarily hear members of Congress who would do what
himself from. Not showing his tax returns. Putting his arms I’m doing, who began to talk about impeachment because
around Putin, defending Putin, working with the Kremlin. I they would fear that perhaps they were not going to get
want to know, and a lot of people want to know was there the information other people would think they are acting
collusion between Putin and the Kremlin and this too hastily.
president as they hacked our DNC and our DCCC and
some of us. We want to know how deep does that go. BALDWIN: Two weeks, congresswoman. The man has
been in the Oval Office two weeks.
BALDWIN: Congresswoman, what’s the evidence. forgive
me for jumping in, but what is the evidence that would WATERS: It doesn’t matter how long it is. Do you know
lead to impeachment here? anybody that said on television yesterday that and said
that Putin was a great leader. When he was asked about
WATERS: That’s what I’m telling you. We have him being a killer he said so what. There are other killers,
investigations that have already started. There is an and said that there were killers in the United States. Don’t
you think that’s unusual?
.
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America’s Delusional —
Lightning Far More Likely To Kill You
Than Foreign Terrorists
Justin Gardner
February 6, 2017
Among the actions Trump has taken since inauguration Of course, none of these people, including U.S.-born Omar
day, nothing has stirred more controversy than the travel Mateen who killed 49 people at an Orlando nightclub,
ban. This executive order, titled ‘Protecting the Nation would have been affected by the travel ban.
from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,’
blocked entry of citizens from seven Muslim-majority
The irrational fear over foreign terrorists killing Americans
nations, suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program,
is even more absurd when we consider five seemingly rare
and indefinitely suspended the entry of Syrian refugees.
types of accidents that are far more likely to kill —
As we reported earlier, the order excluded the countries
responsible for 93 percent of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil – Parachuting accidents, being buried
including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt – which also alive, lightning strikes, drowning while
happen to be countries where Trump has business ties. taking a bath, and choking on food.
The Trump team understands how easy it is to play on It goes back to a phenomenon called the availability
fears about foreign terrorist attacks, and seem to be heuristic, first uncovered by psychologists in 1973, which
immersed in it themselves (Flynn, Bannon, etc.). However, states:
like the baseless travel ban, Islamophobia is not grounded
in reality. “[A] person evaluates the frequency of
classes or the probability of events by
In fact, an American is more likely to be killed by a U.S.- availability, i.e., by the ease with which
born attacker such as Dylann Roof, who murdered nine relevant instances come to mind. In
people in an African-American church, or Robert Dear, general, availability is correlated with
who killed three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic, ecological frequency.”
then they are to be killed by a foreign-born Jihadist- This matters because more and more, people construct
inspired attacker. their view of the world through the media they consume,
which constantly pushes fear about Muslims.
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“This is why Americans have also, since four-year period were committed by
the early 2000s, thought that the crime rate Muslims, while 81 percent of terrorists
was increasing, when in reality it was on TV news were portrayed as Muslim.”
decreasing — until violence in Chicago and
a handful of other cities started pushing it Interfaith strife and interethnic conflict are far more
up. profitable than a real analysis showing that Muslims and
foreign terrorists actually pose an extremely small threat to
Scholars call the product of it-bleeds-it-leads news cycles Americans. This not only benefits mainstream media but
and violent entertainment Mean World Theory. Since the also the military-industrial complex, which always needs a
average kid sees 8,000 dramatized murders by the time bogeyman to justify outrageous levels of military spending
they turn 12, they take the world to be more violent than it and interventions in the Middle East.
actually is.
The Trump administration appears to be doubling down on
It’s the same case with Muslims, terrorism, and the this dangerous, false narrative. Recent reports are that team
consequent Islamophobia. In an analysis of network and Trump intends to
cable news shows from 2008 and 2012, communications
scholars Travis Dixon and Charlotte Williams found that “revamp and rename a U.S. government
Muslims were greatly overrepresented as terrorists; program designed to counter all violent
ideologies so that it focuses solely on
they cite FBI stats finding that just 6 Islamist extremism.”
percent of terrorist acts in a separate
.
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Donald J. Trump And The Deep State, Part 1
Peter Dale Scott
February 6, 2017
***
Photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from geralt / Pixabay, US
Government / Wikimedia, Ipankonin / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0),
Geek3 / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0), MesserWoland / Wikimedia
On February 3, 2017, the Wall Street Journal reported
(CC BY-SA 3.0), Unknown / Wikimedia and US Government / President Trump’s plans to pave the way for a broad
Wikimedia. rollback of the recent financial reforms of Wall Street.[1]
Although no surprise, the news was in ironic contrast to
When the uninitiated think of the “Deep State,” they tend the rhetoric of his campaign, when he spent months
to imagine a group of men getting together in a room, denouncing both Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton for their
smoking cigars and plotting world domination. But the links to Goldman Sachs, even when his campaign’s
Deep State is not one coordinated network of people Financial Chairman was a former Goldman Sachs banker,
controlling the government from the shadows. Steve Mnuchin (now Trump’s Treasury Secretary).
Instead, it refers to individuals and groups that have the Trump was hardly the first candidate to run against the
resources to shape the direction of the world to their banking establishment while surreptitiously taking money
benefit and don’t hesitate to make use of them. At times, from big bankers. So did Hitler in 1933; so did Obama in
the interests of different factions of the Deep State collide. 2008. (In Obama’s final campaign speech of 2008, he
That often happens when the direction of the world is attacked “the greed and irresponsibility of Wall Street.”[2]
rapidly changing, as is the case now after the election of But it was revealed later that Wall Street bankers and
Donald Trump. financial insiders, chiefly from Goldman Sachs, had raised
$42.2 million for Obama’s 2008 campaign, more than for
Nobody knows this better than Peter Dale Scott, the any previous candidate in history.)[3]
foremost expert on the US Deep State. Below, you will find
a new introduction to the paperback version of The However, Trump’s connections to big money, both new
American Deep State: Big Money, Big Oil, and the (often self-made) and old (mostly institutional) were not
Struggle for U.S. Democracy, Updated Edition (copyright only more blatant than usual; some were also possibly
2017), (with permission of the publisher, Rowman & more sinister. Trump’s campaign was probably the first
Littlefield. All rights reserved). This is Part 1 of a two-part ever to be (as we shall see) scrutinized by the FBI for
series. “financial connections with Russian financial figures,” and
even with a Russian bank whose Washington influence
Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat, Professor was attacked years ago, after it was allegedly investigated
of English at the University of California, Berkeley, co- in Russia for possible mafia connections.[4]
founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies program at
Berkeley, poet, and 2002 recipient of the Lannan Poetry Trump’s appointment of the third former Goldman
Award. executive to lead Treasury in the last four administrations,
after Robert Rubin (under Clinton) and Hank Paulson
(under Bush), has reinforced recent speculation about
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Trump’s relationship to what is increasingly referred to as It has also evolved. As I noted in The American Deep
the deep state. That is the topic of this essay. State, (p. 14), the deep state “is not a structure but a
system, as difficult to define, but also as real and powerful,
But we must first see what is really meant by ‘the deep as a weather system.” A vigorous deep state, like America,
state”. encompasses dynamic processes continuously generating
new forces within it like the Internet — just as a weather
system is not fixed but changes from day to day.
What Is Meant by the Deep State?
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Association of Manufacturers) against the financial- Frank Act reforming Wall Street, and (according to the
oriented (e.g. the Council on Foreign Relations), two Times) a lifting of the 40-year-old ban on export of US
different sources of wealth.[16] oil.[19]
A decade later Trump has revived the slogan of “America Many were also “tied to networks of ideological donors
First!”, and vowed to reconsider both NATO and who, on the left and the right alike, have sought to
multilateral trade. Both factions are still there today; but, fundamentally reshape their own political parties” — on
as we shall see, both now have international connections. the one hand the twice-yearly anti-tax seminars hosted by
the Kochs, and on the other “the Democracy Alliance, a
American Politics and the Increase in Wealth Disparity network of liberal donors who have pushed Democrats to
move aggressively on climate change legislation and
progressive taxation.”[20]
Mayer’s helpful overview overlooks the alarming increase
in wealth disparity since 1980 and especially in the last
decade. Ten years ago, when I published The Road to 9/11, Once again, a division in the American public was being
I noted that 225 billionaires owned as much as the bottom fomented and funded by an old division within Big Money
fifty percent of people in the world, and I repeated Kevin — roughly speaking, between those Trilateral Commission
Phillips’ warning that progressives, many flourishing from the new technologies
of the global Internet, who wish the state to do more than
at present about problems like wealth disparity, racial
“As the twenty-first century gets underway, injustice and global warming, and those Heritage
the imbalance of wealth and democracy in Foundation conservatives, many from finance and oil, who
the United States is unsustainable…. want it to do even less.
Either democracy must be renewed, with
politics brought back to life, or wealth is
likely to cement a new and less democratic We see this ideological split even among the top eight US
regime— plutocracy by some other super billionaires in 2016, four of whom (Bill Gates, Jeff
name.”[17] Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison) have made
their fortunes from the Internet and want the present US to
progress more or less along its recent course. Warren
In 2010, only three years later, that indicator of disparity
Buffett (once number one, now number three) endorsed
had risen up the pyramid from 225 billionaires to 43; and Hillary Clinton early on, “while calling for increased taxes
today the figure has shrunk still further to eight.[18] on the country’s highest wage earners.”[21] Deeply
dissatisfied with the status quo were numbers seven and
eight, the Koch brothers, who “have fortunes largely
drawn from fossil fuels,” and have “poured money into
fighting solar.”[22]
Left to right: Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill
Gates. Photo credit: Oracle PR / Flickr (CC BY 2.0), National
Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution / Flickr CC
BY-NC 2.0), JD Lasica / Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) and US Department
of the Treasury / Flickr.
Warren Buffett. Photo credit: Fortune Live Media / Flickr (CC BY-
NC-ND 2.0)
As The New York Times reported in October 2015, just 158
families supplied half of the early money that had already
poured into the 2016 campaign, and 138 of these families The Kochs assembled a donor network of fellow
supported Republican candidates. Sixty-four of these 138 mavericks, many of whom were distinguished by private
families made their fortunes in finance, mostly in hedge ownership of their businesses, and many (Jane Mayer
funds, private equity or venture capital. A further pointed out) “had serious past or ongoing legal
seventeen families were wealthy from energy, mostly oil problems.”[23] In early 2015 their organization revealed
and gas. What both these two groups were seeking was that it would spend $889 million leading up to the 2016
lower taxes and also deregulation: repeal of the Dodd- presidential contest. As USA Today reported, this
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unprecedented sum, “unrivaled for an outside organization, as being among “the most dishonest human beings on
represents more than double the nearly $400 million the Earth.” But while attacking the Washington establishment,
Republican National Committee (RNC) raised and spent he is clearly reflecting the dissident big money faction of
during the 2012 presidential election cycle.”[24] This huge the deep state, no longer as marginal as it was in the era of
organized flow of outside funds has contributed greatly to the John Birch Society and later Goldwater.[30]
the weakening of party discipline in Congress, especially
among Republicans. As the campaign and pre-inaugural preparations
progressed, it became clearer that Trump, no stranger to
Throughout the campaign, the Kochs and Trump (whose the world of big money, had brought the old big money
chief backer was another maverick billionaire, Robert camp into his campaign, as well as the new. In January
Mercer) were apparently at arm’s length from each other. 2017 Trump nominated to be his SEC Chairman Jay
Vanity Fair suggested in September that at that time the Clayton, a Sullivan & Cromwell partner who in the past
Kochs were has represented Goldman Sachs and other big banks in
Wall street superdeals.[31]
“in direct opposition to the Mercers,” in a
“civil war that threatens to tear the party Clayton is the fourth former Goldman-related Trump
apart” — even though, starting around nominee for the new administration, all of them chosen
2011, the Mercers had been donating “at under the eyes of Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K.
least $1 million a year to the Koch Bannon, himself a former Goldman banker who moved on
network.”[25] to become a Tea Party coordinator and executive director
at the alt-right Breitbart News. (Bannon once promised to
Whatever the tensions, it was clear after the election that build “an insurgent, center-right populist movement that is
Trump in his transition team had “surrounded himself with virulently anti-establishment.”[32] It took only 10 days in
people tied to the Kochs.”[26] Soon the Trump nominee the White House to make it clear that Bannon had “rapidly
for Education Secretary was Betsy DeVos, another major amassed power in the West Wing, eclipsing chief of staff
billionaire contributor to the Koch donor list. (Betsy’s Reince Priebus.”) [33]
brother Erik Prince, famous as the founder and owner of
the notorious private army Blackwater, was quietly Undoubtedly Trump entered politics as a maverick real
advising the Trump transition team on matters related to estate investor and TV star, funding the early stages of his
intelligence and defense.)[27] campaign himself. But as his campaign grew, he came to
reach out more and more to Wall Street financing, notably
And Trump’s CIA Director is Mike Pompeo, formerly a from Robert Mercer, the co-CEO of hedge fund
Koch-sponsored congressman “who was so closely Renaissance Technologies,[34] Then Trump named as his
entwined with the climate-change denying Koch brothers campaign’s Finance Chairman Steve Mnuchin, formerly of
that he was known as the ‘congressman from Koch.”[28] Skull and Bones and Goldman Sachs.[35]
(The new administration has reportedly instructed the
Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate As many predicted, Mnuchin later became Trump’s
change page from its website.)[29] nominee for Treasury Secretary, which could make him
the third former Goldman executive to lead Treasury in the
last four administrations, after Robert Rubin and Hank
Paulson. In addition, Trump has named Gary Cohn, former
president of Goldman Sachs, as his chief economic advisor
and Director of the National Economic Council.[36]
David Koch and Charles Koch Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr Meanwhile, just as Trump expanded his financial base to
(CC BY-SA 2.0) and Fortune Brainstorm TECH / Flickr (CC BY- all elements of big money, so Wall Street, as it always
NC-ND 2.0). does, ensured it had good connections to both of the final
candidates. After Mnuchin joined the Trump campaign,
Since his election, Trump has attacked the U.S. Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs
intelligence agencies for leaking information, and reporters
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announced in October 2016 his support of Hillary But I may be the only author showing the extent to which
Clinton.[38] the Turkish deep state, when first exposed in 1996, both
overlapped with the American deep state and revealed its
All of this complexity calls for further reflection on the dark underside.
nature of the deep state.
The Turkish term “deep State” (deren devlet) was coined
after the so-called Susurluk incident, a 1996 car crash
whose victims included the deputy chief of the Istanbul
Police Department, a Member of Parliament, and Abdullah
Çatlı, an international heroin trafficker and killer recruited
by the Turkish police for “special missions” and paid in
heroin while he was officially being sought by the Turkish
authorities for murder.[43]
Besides myself, Philip Giraldi and Mike Lofgren have also Photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from Minestrone /
Wikimedia, David Benbennick / Wikimedia and Abdullah Çatli /
recognized that “the term was actually coined in Turkey, Twitter.
and is said to be a system composed of high-level elements
within the intelligence services, military, security,
The second is that the international deep state connection
judiciary, and organized crime.”[41] A more precise
revealed at Susurluk was partly criminal: the sanctioned
definition is that of Hugh Roberts:
para-state activities with Çatlı were financed by billions of
dollars in profits from drug smuggling; just as the CIA in
The notion of the deep state … originated in Turkey, Laos and elsewhere utilized a protected drug traffic to
where it connoted not merely the secretive apparatuses of finance its covert operations in Burma, Thailand, Laos, and
the state such as the police and intelligence services but Afghanistan.[45] Çatlı, a convicted drug trafficker with a
above all the shady nexus between them, certain politicians special Turkish passport, was himself part of this post-
and organised crime.[42] Gladio international network:
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Çatlı, according to Yalçın and Yurdakal, what in this book I call a “deep event,” like similar events
visited Miami in 1982 in the company of a in the United States, such as the John F. Kennedy
known Gladio agent (and Italian neo-Nazi) assassination. Nearly all western accounts of the car crash
and was considered to be “under the overlook the claim that it was not an accident but an
protection” of the CIA.[46] intended assassination.[48] Moreover the Turkish deep
state was later suspected in the Turkish coup attempt of
(The Gladio agent was Stefano delle
Chiaie, who had his own connections to Ergenekon in 2007,[49] and its one-time parent, the US
state-sponsored terrorist activities in Italy, deep state, in the failed military coup of July 2016.[50]
to the World Anti-Communist League or Both of these coup attempts reveal elements of what I
WACL, and more specifically to death mean by deep events.
squads working for the Operation Condor
murder operation in Latin America, Not just in Turkey, but also in the United States, respected
sponsored by the right-wing dictatorships in authors have linked the deep state to what I call (pp. 98,
the region.[47] The CIA had its own 119) “structural deep events,” unsolved mysterious events
shadowy connections to all three, as well that affect the political system of the country.[51] As I
as to Gladio.) write, there have been a series of charges that, if
substantiated, would seem to link Trump not only to an
The third feature of the Susurluk event is that it was and element of the American deep state, but also to an element
remains a largely inscrutable intelligence-related event, or of the Russian deep state.
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[32] Conor Friedersdorf, “The Radical Anti-Conservatism of Stephen
organisation and had played a key role in the bloody events of the period
Bannon,” Atlantic, August 25, 2016.
1976-80 which paved the way for the military coup d’état of September
1980” (“Turkey’s pivotal role in the international drug trade, Le Monde
[33] Josh Dawsey, Eliana Johnson and Annie Karni, “The man behind diplomatique, July 1998).
Trump? Still Steve Bannon,” Politico, January 29, 2017,
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/donald-trump-steve-bannon-
[44] Desmond Fernandes and Iskender Ozden, “United States and NATO
234347.
inspired ‘psychological warfare operations’ against the ‘Kurdish
communist threat’ in Turkey”. Variant. 12,
[34] “How One Family’s Deep Pockets Helped Reshape Donald Trump’s https://web.archive.org/web/20060614080445/http://www.variant.random
Campaign By Nicholas Confessore Aug. 18, 2016 state.org/12texts/Fernandes.html; Daniele Ganser, NATO’s Secret
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/us/politics/robert-mercer-donald- Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (New York:
trump-donor.html?_r=0 Frank Cass, 2005), 241.
[35] Bloomberg BusinessWeek, August 31, 2016, [45] Hakan Aslaneli and Zafer F. Yoruk, ‘Traffic Monster’ reveals state-
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-08-31/steven- mafia relations”. Hürriyet, November 7, 1996; Scott, American War
mnuchin-businessweek When Mnuchin was Financial Chairman of the Machine, 4-6, etc.
Trump campaign, his counterpart at the RNC was Lew Eisenberg, his
father’s old partner at Goldman Sachs.
[46] Ryan Gingeras, Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of
Modern Turkey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 228; citing
[36] Pam Martens and Russ Martens, “Here’s How Goldman Sachs Soner Yalçın and Doğan Yurdakul, Reis: Gladio’num Türk Teriçisi
Became the Overlord of the Trump Administration,” Wall Street on (Istanbul: Doğan Kitapeilik, 2007), 152-56.
Parade, January 9, 2017, http://wallstreetonparade.com/2017/01/heres-
how-goldman-sachs-became-the-overlord-of-the-trump-administration/
[47] Scott, American War Machine, 20; cf.p.30: In Italy “Stefano delle
Chiaie was eventually accused of involvement in the Piazza Fontana and
[37] Jeffrey D. Sachs, The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Bologna bombings as well as the Borghese coup.” The Condor Operation
Virtue and Prosperity (New York: Random House, 2011), 117. (about which I will say more) was responsible for the 1976 murder in
Washington of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier.
[38] Zeke Faux, “Goldman CEO Blankfein ‘Supportive’ of Clinton for
Pragmatism,” [48] HRFT Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Human Rights Report –
TİHV, en.tihv.org.tr/wp-
content/uploads/2015/…/Ra1998HumanRigthsReport.pdf, 39. In
Bloomberg, October 22, 2016, addition, no one has yet fully explained why one of the fake passports
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-22/goldman-ceo-
found in Çatlı’s possession was in the name “Mehmet Özbay”, an alias
blankfein-supportive-of-clinton-for-pragmatism. used fifteen years earlier by Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turk who in 1081
attempted to kill Pope John Paul II (Peter Dale Scott, American War
[39] “Deep state in the United States,” Wikipedia, Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_States. The five to Afghanistan [Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010],
authors are Philip Giraldi, Bill Moyers, David Talbot, Mike Lofgren, and 19; Ryan Gingeras, Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern
myself. Turkey [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014], 228.
[40] Scott, The American Deep State, 14-15, 30-35, etc.) The Pentagon, [49] Dexter Filkins. “The Deep State,” The New Yorker, March 12, 2012,
unmentioned by Wikipedia, is hard to classify. Although the Department http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/03/12/the-deep-state:
of Defense is part of the official state and headed by a cabinet member, it “Prosecutors maintain that Ergenekon is the deep state itself—not merely
contains within it the NSA, which simultaneously reports to the Director a cabal of reactionary officers within the military but a shadow
of National Intelligence. Other Pentagon agencies, such as DIA and government that aims at making Turkish democracy permanently
JSOC, also deserve to be classified with the deep state. unstable.”
[41] Mike Lofgren, The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the [50] Tim Arango and Ceylan Yeginsu, “Turks Can Agree on One Thing:
Rise of a Shadow Government (New York: Viking, 2016), 5. I see no U.S. Was Behind Failed Coup,” New York Times, August 2, 2016,
further references in Lofgren’s book to organized crime; his notion of the https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/world/europe/turkey-coup-
deep state focuses primarily on the Beltway agencies. erdogan-fethullah-gulen-united-states.html?_r=0.
[42] Hugh Roberts, The Hijackers.” London Review of Books, July 16, [51] On page 47 I speak of “a deep event, by which I mean an event
2015, http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n14/hugh-roberts/the-hijackers, a review predictably suppressed in the media and still not fully understandable.”
of Jean-Pierre Filiu, From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab
Counter-revolution and Its Jihadi Legacy (Oxford : Oxford University
Press, [2015]).
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In Their Own Words: Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Leaders Say
They Want To Make America ‘Ungovernable’
Peter Hasson - Reporter, Associate Editor
9:23 PM 02/06/2017
These protesters say they will do whatever it takes to keep Police and firefighters stand near a limousine which was set ablaze
Trump from enacting his agenda, and many of them have during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump on the
sidelines of the inauguration in Washington, D.C., U.S., on January
shown a willingness to destroy public property, assault law 20, 2017. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
enforcement officers and inflict violence upon their fellow
citizens.
D.C.’s inauguration weekend violence was believed to be
mostly the work of a group calling themselves DisruptJ20,
Inauguration Day provided a hint of what to expect from which began planning to disrupt the inauguration and
the far left during Trump’s presidency: well-organized destroy property weeks in advance.
.
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Rep. Maxine Waters: Trump
Must Be Impeached Because Putin Invaded Korea!
Written By Daniel Mcadams
Monday February 6, 2017
It is often not fully understood just how ignorant most US And the fact that he is wrapping his arms around Putin
Representatives are when it comes to the finer details of while Putin is continuing to advance into Korea -- I think
foreign policy. Members get their news from an even that he is leading himself into that kind of position where
narrower pool of information than many Americans, who folks will begin to ask, what are we going to do? And the
are by and large abandoning the mainstream media. They answer is going to be, eventually, we've got to do
read the Washington Post or they rely on their staffers, something about him. We cannot continue to have a
who read the Washington Post. Most Members enjoy being president who's acting in this manner. It's dangerous to the
considered experts in the issues upon which they are United States of America.
voting, but the fact is they are very poorly informed.
Watching the video, the word "Aleppo" was thrown at her
However, there are gradations of moderately badly from the press corps when she couldn't remember where
informed to "whaaat??!?? Did she really say that???" badly she was (falsely) accusing Putin of killing innocent women
informed. and children.
Those are the murky waters we often navigate when we But what was a real attention-getter was
sample the wit and wisdom of Rep. Maxine Waters, a 13 her accusation that President Trump must
term Democrat from Los Angeles. be impeached because President Putin
invaded Korea. The conspiracy theorists
In a press conference last Friday, Rep. Waters did not angry about Hillary's loss have invented all
disappoint. Asked by the media why she called for the manner of bizarre explanations accusing
impeachment of President Trump when he has not yet been Putin of masterminding the Trump victory,
a month in office, Rep. Waters replied, but thus far no one has accused Putin of
invading Korea.
"I am not calling for the impeachment yet.
He's doing it himself." She meant "Crimea" you might say. Don't be so sure.
Members should be given a blank map whenever they talk
She continued: with presumed authority about anywhere abroad. They
should be forced to find the place they are about to start
Let me just say the statement I made was a talking about before the microphone is switched on. If they
statement in response to questions and can't, they shouldn't.
pleas that I am getting from many citizens
across this country. What are we going to Watch for yourself:
do? How can a president, who is acting in
the manner that he's acting, whether he's
talking about the travel ban, the way that
he's talking to Muslims, or whether he's
talking about his relationship to Putin, and
the Kremlin -- and knowing that they have
hacked our D-triple-C -- DNC, and
knowing that he is responsible for
supplying the bombs that killed innocent
children and families in, um – in, um– yeah,
in Aleppo.
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Is The Trump Administration Already Over?
Paul Craig Roberts
February 6, 2017
Hopes for the Trump administration are not burning were also unleashed by the Obama/Hillary overthrow of
brightly. Trump’s military chief, Gen. Mattis, is turning the democratically elected government of Ukraine. All
out to be true to his “mad dog” nickname. He has just terror is associated with Washington and Israel.
declared that Iran
The fact of Washington’s overthrow of Ukraine’s
“is the single biggest state sponsor of government is incontestable; yet large numbers of
terrorism in the world.” brainwashed Americans think Russia invaded Ukraine, just
as they believe the fake news that Iran is a terrorist state.
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201702041050338034-
mattis-iran-terrorism/ The last time Iran initiated a war of aggression was in the
last decade of the 18th century when Iran reconquered the
He has declared Russia to be the number one threat to the Caucasus and Georgia, which Iran soon lost to Russia.
US.
Iran in our time has done no offense except to refuse to
He has threatened intervention in China’s territorial affairs. submit to being a Washington vassal state.
I was wrong. I thought Gen. Mattis was a reasonable Additionally, Iran, and Syria rescued by the Russians, are
choice as he rejects the efficacy of torture, and, according the only states in the Muslim world that are not US puppet
to Trump, convinced Trump that “torture doesn’t work.” states and mere vassals that are nothing in themselves, no
Apparently Mattis cannot reach beyond this realization to independent foreign policy, no independent economic
higher geo-political realizations. Trump needs to fire policy. Only Iran and Syria have independent policies.
Mattis who has placed the Pentagon in the way of normal
relations with Russia. Iran is a large country endowed with substantial energy
resources. Iran has a long history going back to ancient
There is no evidence in the behavior of Iran, Russia, and times of independence and military prowess. Today Iran is
China to support Gen.Mattis’ views. His definition of essential to Russia as a buffer to the US created jihadism
threat is the neoconservative one—a country capable of that neoconservatives plan to export to the Muslim areas of
resisting US hegemony. This is a convenient threat for the the Russian Federation. Consequently, Iran is the most
military/security complex as it justifies an unlimited inopportune of targets for Trump if he wishes to restore
budget in order to prevail over such “threats.” It is this normal, non-threatening relations with Russia. Yet his mad
hegemonic impulse that is the source of terrorism. dog Pentagon chief recklessly makes threatening
statements alleging Iran to be a “terrorist state.”
If truth can be spoken, there are only two countries in the
world with hegemonic aspirations—Israel and the US— Do we see Israel’s hand at work in the threats against Iran?
and they are the sources of terrorism. Israel terrorizes Iran and Syria are the only countries in the Middle East
Palestinians and has done so for about 70 years. The US that are not American puppet states. Syria’s army has been
terrorizes the rest of the world. hardened by combat, which is what Syria’s army needs in
order to stand up to US-backed Israel. Both Syria and Iran
All known Muslim terrorists are creations of the US are in the way of Israel’s Zionist policy of Greater Israel—
government. Al Qaeda was created by the Carter from the Nile to the Euphrates. For the Zionists, Palestine
administration in order to confront the Soviet occupation and Southern Lebanon are merely the beginning.
of Afghanistan with jihadism. ISIS was created by the
Obama/Hillary regime in order to overthrow Gaddafi in Israel has successfully used the corrupt British and now the
Libya and then was sent by the Obama/Hillary regime to corrupt Americans to reestablish themselves on lands from
overthrow Assad in Syria, as Trump’s national security which God evicted them. This doesn’t speak well of the
advisor, Gen. Flynn, former director of the Defense intelligence and morality of the British and US
Intelligence Agency revealed on TV. The Ukrainian neo- governments. But what does?
nazis assaulting the republics of Donetsk and Luhansk
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We are also hearing from Mattis and from Tillerson threats If not, more war is inevitable.
to intervene in China’s sphere of influence. Trump’s
appointees appear to be unable to understand that there can For twenty-four years—eight years of the criminal Clinton
be no improvement in relations with Russia if the Trump regime, eight years of the criminal Bush regime, eight
regime has Iran and China in its crosshairs. years of the criminal Obama regime—the world has heard
threats from Washington that have resulted in the death
Is there any prospect that the Trump administration can and destruction of millions of peoples and entire countries.
develop geo-political awareness? Is the tough-talking The Trump administration needs to present a different
Trump administration tough enough to overthrow the Washington to the world.
power that Zionist Israel exercises over US foreign policy
and the votes of the US Congress?
.
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The House Should Start
Impeachment Against Trump Now
By Norman Solomon, Opinion Contributor
02/06/17 11:21 AM EST
Much of the public is eager for the impeachment of violation of the Constitution gained added strength over
President Trump. A poll last week found that 40 percent of the weekend when The Associated Press reported:
Americans already “support” impeaching him, and the
same survey — by highly regarded Public Policy Polling “New documents confirm that President
— found that another 12 percent are “not sure.” Donald Trump retains a direct tie to his
business interests through a revocable
From the outset of his presidency, Trump has been trust now being overseen by one of his
violating the U.S. Constitution in a way that we have not adult sons and a longtime executive of the
seen before and should not tolerate. It’s time for members Trump Organization.”
of Congress to get the impeachment process underway.
What’s more, AP reported,
The Constitution states that to start impeachment
proceedings, a document or “resolution calling for a “Trump is the sole beneficiary of the
committee investigation of charges against the officer in Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, which is
question” must be introduced in the House of tied to his Social Security number as the
Representatives. Such a move would have been taxpayer identification number, according
appropriate from the moment that Trump became to documents published online by the
president. investigative nonprofit ProPublica. And
Trump can revoke the trust, which was
As documented in depth on the amended three days before his
ImpeachDonaldTrumpNow.org website — where more inauguration, at any time.”
than 600,000 people have already signed a petition for
impeachment — the president continues to violate two Members of Congress should initiate an impeachment
“emoluments” clauses in the Constitution. One prohibits process because of two clear provisions in the
any gifts or benefits from foreign governments, and the Constitution.
other prohibits the same from the U.S. government or any
U.S. state. The Foreign Emoluments Clause says:
To uphold the bedrock principle that no one should be “[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or
above the supreme law of the land, a resolute member of Trust under [the United States], shall,
the House must now take the lead in introducing a without the Consent of the Congress,
resolution to get impeachment rolling. That process is accept of any present, Emolument, Office,
necessarily difficult — and essential. or Title, of any kind whatever, from any
King, Prince, or foreign State.”
Former White House counsel John Dean, who served
President Nixon from 1970 to 1973, told The Atlantic And the Constitution’s Domestic Emoluments Clause (also
magazine: known as the Presidential Compensation Clause), which
cannot be waived by Congress, says:
“I don’t think Richard Nixon even comes
close to the level of corruption we already “The President shall, at stated Times,
know about Trump.” receive for his Services, a Compensation,
which shall neither be encreased nor
Since that interview with Dean three weeks ago, we’ve diminished during the Period for which he
been learning more about Trump’s unconstitutional shall have been elected, and he shall not
corruption as president. The case that Trump is in flagrant receive within that Period any other
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Emolument from the United States, or any A crucial test for democracy is whether people in high
of them.” places can violate the law with impunity. For democracy in
the United States, the biggest danger is unchecked
In addition, a House committee’s impeachment probe presidential ability to violate the Constitution.
should also investigate whether President Trump is
violating the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge In a speech on the House floor last Thursday that spelled
Act of 2012 (STOCK Act). One of the few federal ethics out some of Trump’s extreme conflicts-of-interest, Rep.
statutes that specifically include the president, the STOCK Mark Pocan (D-WI) closed with a cogent reference to the
Act — among other provisions — prohibits the president fact that Congress can
from (1) using nonpublic information for private profit,
and from (2) intentionally influencing an employment “even explore the power of impeachment.”
decision or practice of a private entity solely on the basis
of partisan political affiliation.
Let the exploration begin.
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White House Publishes List Of 78 Terror Attacks That The
Media 'Ignored' - Including Orlando, San Bernardino,
Bataclan And Nice Truck Attack
Trump's Administration Compiled A List Of 'Underreported' Attacks Monday Night
It Included Large Massacres In Orlando, Brussels, France And Istanbul
The List Was Released After Trump Told Troops That Terror Attacks Are Happening 'All
Over Europe' But They're Not Being Covered By The 'Very, Very Dishonest Press'
'There’s A Lot Of Instances Where I Don’t Think They’ve Gotten The Coverage It
Deserved,' Said White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer
He Indicated That The President May Have Been Thinking Of Foiled' Attacks, In Addition
To Murderous Assaults
Spicer Also Claimed The Press Was Unfairly Covering The President's Travel Ban -
Something Trump Brought Up Monday In A Tweet
For The Full List Of The 78 Terror Attacks Named, Scroll To The Bottom
By Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent For Dailymail.Com
And Cheyenne Roundtree For Dailymail.Com
Published: 18:10 EST, 6 February 2017 | Updated: 07:04 EST, 7 February 2017
The White House has released a list of 78 terror attacks Trump's claims that the media was 'very, very dishonest'
that the press had 'ignored' following President Donald on Monday night (pictured)
Trump's claims that the media was 'very, very dishonest'.
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Among the attacks named was the Nice, France, truck The Bataclan concert hall was attacked in Paris, France. In
massacre (pictured) which killed 84 civilians and injuring the fatal attack 130 people lost their lives and many more
more than 300 people on July 2016 were injured on November 13, 2015
One of the biggest terror attacks over the past two years President Donald Trump claimed Monday that terror
took place in France, with the Bataclan theatre attack in attacks are happening 'all over Europe' but they're not
Paris and the Nice truck massacre, both of which were on being covered by the 'very, very dishonest press.'
the list.
Before the list was published the president did not provide
The Orlando, Florida nightclub shooting was widely any examples as he made the claim in front of troops
covered in the news for being a terror attack and a hate stationed at MacDill Air Force base in Tampa, Florida.
crime in June 2016. It left 49 people dead and wounded 53
more. His press secretary, Sean Spicer, told reporters aboard Air
Force One, 'There’s a lot of instances where I don’t think
The mass shooting and attempted bombing in San they’ve gotten the coverage it deserved.' He did not name
Bernardino, California was also included on the roster, the one, either.
December 2015 attack ended with 14 dead and 22
wounded. 'We’ll provide a list later,' he asserted, indicating in the
gaggle that the president may have been thinking of foiled'
The list of 78 occurrences of terror attacks were worldwide attacks, in addition to murderous assaults.
and included who was the subject of the attack and named
the persons involved. On it's face, it wasn't obvious what attacks Trump was
referring to when he hit the media with the broadside at
CNN reporter Jim Acosta said it was a 'head scratcher” as MacDill.
his news organization was reportedly one of the first to see
the list after it was labeled 'fake news' by Trump in His senior counselor, Kellyanne Conway, had accused the
December. press last week, on MSNBC, of ignoring a terrorism-driven
massacre that was found to never have occurred.
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up. Spicer insisted later that there are 'a lot of instances,'
however, that are being 'underreported.'
The mass shooting and attempted bombing in San The president's spokesman went on to claim that the press
Bernardino, California, killed 14 people in December was unfairly covering Trump's travel ban, something the
2015 president had brought up earlier in a tweet.
Speaking to U.S. Special Forces and U.S. Central His senior counselor, Kellyanne Conway, had accused the
Command soldiers, he said, 'We're up against an enemy press last week of ignoring a terrorism-driven massacre
that celebrates death and totally worships destruction. that was found to never have occurred. She told Fox she
You've seen that. ISIS is on a campaign of genocide,
committing atrocities across the world. 'misspoke' and meant to say 'terrorists'
'Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to Spicer invoked Trump's gripe in his session with reporters
strike our homeland as they did on 9/11, as riding Air Force One later.
they did from Boston to Orlando to San
Bernardino, and all across Europe,' he
said. 'You've seen what happened in Paris 'I think sometimes the polls don’t reflect
and Nice. All over Europe, it's happening.' what you see on the media,' he said. 'You
see a wide degree of support for the
president’s policies to protect this country,
He at that point added: to create jobs, to grow the economy. And
yet a lot of those stories and success that
'It's gotten to a point where it's not even he’s had – in a mere two and a half weeks
being reported. And in many cases the in office – aren’t exactly covered to the
very, very dishonest press doesn't want to degree to which they should be.'
report it. They have their reasons, and you
understand that.' A CNN/ORC poll released Friday showed that 53 percent
of Americans oppose the president's plan, which also
The president moved on without calling attention to any suspended America's refugee program for 120 days,
specific terrorist attack he believes the media is covering however.
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Hours earlier a CBS News poll found 51 percent don't like from Reuters/Ipsos, Rasmussen Reports, Public Policy
Trump's approach. Polling and YouGov/Huffington Post.
The CNN and CBS polls surveyed Americans in phone The Rasmussen poll, which was limited to likely voters,
calls, as did a Gallup poll. All three showed majorities showed a 52-43 gap in Trump's favor.
opposing the policy.
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This is the second page of the terror attack list the White House claims that the media had 'ignored'
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This page of the report includes the Nice, France, massacre where at least 129 people were killed when a truck drove through a crowd
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Some of the incidents on the list included attacks where no causalities happened
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The dates of the attack are from September 2014 to December 2016
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The most recent attack named was in Berlin where a terrorist drove a truck into a Christmas market
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Brussels, Belgium: March 2016, At least 31 killed and
Top 12 Deadliest Terror Attacks Named 270 wounded in coordinated bombings at Zaventem
Airport and on a subway train
On White House's List Dhaka, Bangladesh: July 2016, 22 killed, including one
Hasanah, Egypt: October 2015, 224 killed in downing American and 50 wounded after hours-long siege using
of a Russian airliner machetes and firearms at holy Artisan Bakery
Paris, France: November 2015, At least 129 killed and Tunis, Tunisia: March 2015, 21 tourists killed, including
approximately 400 wounded in series of shootings and 16 westerners, and 55 wounded in shooting at the
IED attacks Bardo Museum
Istanbul, Turkey: June 2016, 45 killed and San Berandino, California, US: December 2015, 14
approximately 240 wounded at Ataturk International killed and 21 wounded in coordinated firearms attack
Airport Kabul, Afghanistan: June 2016, 14 killed in suicide
4.Orlando, Florida, US: June 2016, 49 killed and 53 attack on a bus carrying Canadian Embassy guards
wounded in shooting at a nightclub Berlin, Germany: December 2016, 12 killed and 48
Sousse, Tunisia: June 2015, 38 killed and 39 wounded wounded by individual who drove truck into a crowded
in shooting at a beach frequented by westerners market
Istanbul, Turkey: January 2016, 12 German tourists
killed and 15 wounded in suicide bombing
.
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Klein: The Left’s Latest Desperate Tactic –
Smear Trump As ‘Mentally Ill’
By Aaron Klein
6 Feb 2017
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Last week, U.S. News and World Report ran a story titled, The campaign to question Trump’s mental health may
“Temperament Tantrum: Some Say President Donald have an ultimate goal in mind.
Trump’s Personality Isn’t Just Flawed, It’s
Dangerous.” Last Month, Will Rahn, political
correspondent and managing director of
The article quotes John D. Gartner, described as a politics for CBS News Digital wrote a
commentary piece at CBSNews.com titled,
“practicing psychotherapist who taught “An Obscure Way To Oust An American
psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins President.”
University Medical School,” claiming Trump
is “dangerously mentally ill and He pointed to the 25th Amendment as a way to declare a
temperamentally incapable of being president unfit for command:
president.”
Regardless of whether Trump is suffering
Gartner’s quotes have since been picked up by numerous from some kind of mental ailment, the
news media outlets in order to question Trump’s emotional Constitution does provide a manual for
health. what to do in case of presidential incapacity
in the form of the 25th Amendment. In
The Independent newspaper featured a story that also particular, a provision within Article 4 of the
questioned Trump mental stability, titled, “’Malignant amendment lays out how a president can
narcisissm’: Donald Trump displays classic traits of mental be forced to surrender his powers should
illness, claim psychologists.” The piece cited mental health he be ruled unable to fulfill his duties.
professionals commenting on Trump’s alleged narcissism.
Rahn conceded the procedure, which would require action
The article partially drew from a New York Daily News from the vice president, is highly unlikely:
story published last week titled, “President Trump
Exhibits Classic Signs Of Mental Illness, Including There’s a lesson there for Mike Pence,
‘Malignant Narcissism,’ Shrinks Say.” should he ever take a look at Article 4 and
start thinking it might be wise to ascend to
“Narcissism impairs his ability to see the presidency a little early: failing in that
reality,” Dr. Julie Futrell, a clinical effort would end his career, not to mention
psychologist, told the newspaper while the careers of the secretaries who sign up
pointing out that she never actually treated to help him. That alone is a powerful
Trump. incentive to avoid using the law.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman,
So while it’s plausible that this president could be removed
who has no medical degree, weighed in on
from office for reasons of mental illness, it’s still
Trump’s health status, tweeting that the
exceptionally unlikely he would. And, in any event, Mr.
president is “obviously mentally ill.”
Trump would have to get a whole lot weirder than he’s
been already before anyone could start seriously thinking
An American first: a president who was obviously about Article 4.
mentally ill the moment he took office. Thanks, Comey
Last week, Breitbart News reported Rosa Brooks, a former
https://t.co/FuZbCy5DxQ Obama administration official, outlined four ways to “get
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January rid” of Trump, including declaring him mentally unfit for
24, 2017 command or carrying out a military coup.
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Fact Check: No Arrests From 7 Nations
In Travel Ban? Judge In Seattle Was Wrong
By ERIC TUCKER - The Associated Press
Originally Published February 6, 2017 At 11:15 Am Updated February 6, 2017 At 11:41 Am
Just last October, an Iraqi refugee living in Texas pleaded In addition to the cases from last fall, for instance, two
guilty to attempting to provide support to the Islamic State men from Iraq were arrested in Kentucky in 2011 and
group, accused of taking tactical training and wanting to convicted on charges that they plotted to send money and
blow himself up in an act of martyrdom. In November, a weapons to al-Qaida.
Somali refugee injured 11 in a car-and-knife attack at Ohio
State University, and he surely would have been arrested
They were never accused, though, of plotting attacks on
had he not been killed by an officer.
the U.S. Last week, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway
wrongly cited their case as a “Bowling Green massacre,”
The judge, James Robart, was correct in his larger point which never happened.
that the deadliest and most high-profile terrorist attacks on
U.S. soil since 9/11 — like the Boston Marathon
All told, Kurzman said, 23 percent of Muslim Americans
bombings and the shootings in Orlando, Florida, and
involved with extremist plots since Sept. 11 had family
San Bernardino, California — were committed either by
backgrounds from the seven countries.
U.S. citizens or by people from countries other than the
seven majority-Muslim nations named in Trump’s order.
.
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Nasty Truth About Budweiser’s Anti-Trump Ad Comes
Out… Get Their OWN History Totally Wrong
Independent Journal Review
February 6, 2017
The truth behind the Anheuser-Busch ad shown during The author then pointed out what didn’t appear to be true
Super Bowl LI is not quite what the company would like about the story — at least from anything he’s ever read
viewers to believe. about Busch’s journey.
In fact, the story behind the ad, which tells the tale of For starters, Busch never traveled up a river on a raft with
Adolphus Busch, was reportedly more fiction than truth. a black man likened to a character in Mark Twain’s
“Huckleberry Finn.” Busch also didn’t arrive in America
In a pre-Super Bowl interview, William Knoedelseder, poor; he was from a fairly wealthy family.
author of “Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-
Busch and America’s Kings of Beer,” said what he Finally, Busch probably didn’t face the kind of
thought of the ad, and in doing do exposed a weakness of discrimination depicted in the ad, either. Knoedelseder said
the left — namely the urge to make a political point by that it was highly unlikely that Busch encountered people
resorting to falsification. yelling at him when he arrived.
“It’s got wonderful production values, it’s Lastly Knoedelseder said Busch didn’t come to the country
very expensive and, I think, very effective to become a brewer. He didn’t even like beer and preferred
— and mostly fiction,” he told Slate. wine.
Take a look at the ad: Knoedelseder pointed out that despite the misleading ad,
Busch’s story is an inspiring one that the company uses to
play up its heritage.
Knoedelseder said the ad had some truth to it, such as the H/T Independent Journal Review
fact that a man named Adolphus Busch did exist, he came
to New Orleans from Germany and he partnered
with Eberhard Anheuser.
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Trump Is Right:
Bushes, Clinton, Obama 'All Killers'
Mon Feb 6, 2017 7:29PM
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Relentless NYT
War On Trump & Russia
By Stephen Lendman
2-6-2017
Fact: Russia threatens no other nations, hasn’t attacked Fact: He bombs terrorists, not civilians in Syria. He
any - in contrast to forever US imperial wars, responsible doesn’t eliminate political opponents, journalists or anyone
for millions of casualties Times reports never explain. else at home or abroad. He supports rule of law principles.
US policies are polar opposite.
Fact: Putin is a preeminent world leader, overwhelmingly
supported by Russians, a world peace and stability The Times:
champion - polar opposite a long line of warrior US
presidents, perhaps Trump the latest though it’s too soon to “There’s no doubt that the United States
know. has made terrible mistakes, like invading
Iraq in 2003 and torturing terrorism
The Times criticized Trump’s comments aired Sunday on suspects after Sept. 11.”
Fox News, taking issue with US imperial policies, saying
Fact: The same imperial agenda before Washington’s
“it’s better to get along with Russia than 2003 war on Iraq targeted the country in 1990-91, the
not.” former Yugoslavia throughout the 1990s, Somalia, and
Afghanistan, followed by endless wars on Libya, Syria,
It was refreshing to hear a US president level criticism Yemen, Donbass aiding Kiev putschists, and partnering
where it’s long overdue, even without elaboration, while with Israeli wars on Palestine.
saying he’d like to get along with his Russian counterpart.
Not according to The Times, ludicrously saying: Fact: The Times supports all US wars of aggression. In the
run-up to Bush/Cheney’s war on Iraq, it ran daily front-
“Asserting the moral and political page feature stories - virtual Pentagon press releases,
superiority of the United States over Russia manipulating public sentiment for war.
has not traditionally been a difficult
maneuver for American presidents.” Fact: Endless US war still rages against Afghanistan since
beginning in October 2001 - a nation having nothing to do
“But rather than endorsing American with 9/11.
exceptionalism, Mr. Trump seemed to
appreciate Mr. Putin’s brutality - which Fact: All US wars since WW II were and continue against
includes bombing civilians in Syria and, his nations posing America no threat - unexplained by
accusers allege, responsibility for a trail of America’s “newspaper of record,” supporting imperial
dead political opponents and journalists at lawlessness instead of denouncing it.
home - and suggested America acts the
same way.” The Times:
Fact: As usual, The Times has things backwards. America “American drone strikes against extremists
is a ruthless hegemon, waging war on humanity, unable to in Afghanistan and Pakistan…have
claim moral superiority on most every geopolitical and sometimes killed civilians.”
domestic issue.
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Fact: It’s virtually always. Few so-called high-value been driven by the desire to promote
targets are killed. Noncombatant civilians comprise the freedom and democracy…”
vast majority of casualties.
Fact: All of the above is utter rubbish! America’s agenda
Fact: US drone wars constitute naked aggression against is all about achieving unchallenged global dominance by
nations posing no threat to America - except what brute force - endless wars waged to achieve its objectives,
Washington invents to justify the unjustifiable. democracy verboten at home and abroad, fundamental
freedoms fast disappearing.
The Times:
The Times:
“(N)o American president has done what
Mr. Putin has done in silencing nearly all …”Trump has shown little support for
independent media, crushing dissent, America’s traditional roles as a champion
snuffing out Russia’s once-incipient of universal values like freedom of the
democracy, invading Ukraine, interfering in press and tolerance.”
the American election - apparently on Mr.
Trump’s behalf - and trying to destabilize Fact: American “values” threaten life on earth. If a way
Europe.” isn’t found to stop its war on humanity, perhaps we’re all
doomed.
“At least in recent decades, American
presidents who took military action have
.
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Google Emerges As Financial Sponsor
Behind Tech Giants' Anti-Trump Crusade
By Tyler Durden
Feb 6, 2017 10:34 PM
Earlier today, we explained why billionaire Democrat, and The rest of the story is familiar, as per our earlier report,
Clinton supporter, George Soros is the likely source of only instead of only 97 companies, the list has since grown
funding behind the rapidly spreading - and costly - Trump to 128.
"Muslim Ban" lawsuits.
The tech companies emphasized the economic and social
Moments ago, we found the other "source of funds" contribution made by immigrants in their arguments filed
missing link in the ongoing anti-Trump executive order Sunday in the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The
campaign. As Bloomberg reports, the company footing bill companies support a lawsuit by the states of Washington
for the legal brief signed by more than 120 mostly tech and Minnesota seeking to stop Trump’s executive order.
companies that oppose President Donald Trump’s Apple Inc., Airbnb Inc., Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp.,
executive order on immigration, is none other than the Tesla Inc. Intel Corp., Lyft Inc., Netflix Inc., Snap Inc. and
Company which offered Hillary Clinton its "strategic plan" Uber Technologies Inc. are among the technology
to help Democrats win the election, and track voters, and companies that participated. Businesses beyond the tech
which hired former Clinton Foundation CEO, Eric industry who signed on include Levi Strauss & Co. and
Braverman: Google (technically, its parent company yogurt maker Chobani.
Alphabet).
“Immigrants make many of the Nation’s
greatest discoveries, and create some of
the country’s most innovative and iconic
companies,” the brief states. “America has
long recognized the importance of
protecting ourselves against those who
would do us harm. But it has done so while
maintaining our fundamental commitment
to welcoming immigrants—through
increased background checks and other
controls on people seeking to enter our
country.”
Eventually, the funding - which should be a nominal
matter for most of the tech giants who are on a crusade to So far Trump has been uncharacteristically quiet in his
keep cheap H1-B workers - may end up being distributed: interaction with the rebellious tech giants, whom he invted
other companies have offered to fund a share of the fee, one month ago to the Trump Tower as president-elect to
Bloomberg writes, and Alphabet, which coordinated the lay the ground rules for interaction. Frankly, it would be a
effort, plans to accept the offers. However, for now it's surprise, if he let the growing rumble of Silicon Valley
only Alphabet who is paying Washington, D.C.-based law discontent continue without at least opining about it on
firm Mayer Brown LLP to handle the friend-of-the-court twitter at least once. For now, however, Trump is more
brief. focused on making the choice for America clear: either
you are with my executive order, or if there is a terrorist
attack, blame the judicial system as he once again tweeted
just moments ago.
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Furious California Leaders Slam "Cruel, Unconstitutional"
Trump Over Threat To Pull Federal Money
By Tyler Durden
Feb 6, 2017 10:13 PM
In a narrative more befitting of kindergarten, and certainly known as sanctuary cities, and de Leon's bill, if passed and
not grown adults (politicans are exempt), one day after signed into law by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown,
from Trump warned he would defund California if the would effectively extend such rules to the entire state.
state passed a bill to make itself a de facto
“I think it’s ridiculous. Sanctuary cities, as
"sanctuary state", saying the state was "out you know, I’m very much opposed to
of control", furious state leaders have sanctuary cities. They breed crime, there’s
responded that, drumroll, they are not "out a lot of problems,” Trump said.
of control." “If we have to, we’ll defund,” Trump said in
an interview with Fox News host Bill
Hoping to make their case stron, state politicans pointed at O’Reilly before the Super Bowl. “We give
their balanced budget and high jobs numbers in the latest tremendous amounts of money to
dustup between the populist Republican and the California, California in many ways is
progressive state. Quoted by Reuters, the state's top out of control, as you know.”
Democrats called Trump "cruel" and his proposals
unconstitutional, after the businessman-turned-politician Trump told O’Reilly that he didn’t want to defund a state
threatened to withhold federal funding from the most or a city and would like to give them “the money they need
populous U.S. state if lawmakers passed a bill protecting to properly operate.”
undocumented immigrants. "President Trump's threat to
weaponize federal funding is not only unconstitutional but
emblematic of the cruelty he seeks to impose on our most But the president added that “if they’re
vulnerable communities," state Senate Pro Tem Kevin de going to have sanctuary cities, we may
Leon, a Democrat from Los Angeles, said in a statement have to do that. Certainly that would be
on Monday. a weapon.”
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Where Were Protests Against
Other Presidents Who Said The Same Things?
Op-Ed By Catherine J. Frompovich
February 6, 2017
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[3], France [4], the Netherlands, and other EU countries In my opinion, presidents stating that PEO powers are
[5] due to extremists – not peaceful people of the Muslim within the U.S. Constitution really don’t know what they
faith – who obviously want to harm those whom they refer are talking about, but press to possess the ultimate in one
to as Infidels and to dismantle or overtake their countries man autocratic rule, something really not within the U.S.
and cultures? How can we tell the difference? Good Constitution and our founding documents.
question!?
However, there is the U.S. Code of Laws
and in 8 U.S. Code § 1182 – Inadmissible
Aliens, it states,
Whenever the President finds that the
entry of any aliens or of any class of
aliens into the United States would be
detrimental to the interests of the United
States, he may by proclamation, and for
such period as he shall deem
necessary, suspend the entry of all
aliens or any class of aliens as
immigrants or nonimmigrants, or
Paris covered in rubbish as migrants live on the streets. Source [4] impose on the entry of aliens any
restrictions he may deem to be
That criminal activity, I believe, is what all U.S. citizens appropriate.
should be realizing is what the current PEO of so much
consternation is really about preventing, and yet not fully https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182
understood by soft-hearted, well-meaning liberal
Americans, in my opinion. All the EU countries that
didn’t vet refugees more closely now are paying a In reality, President Trump is
tremendous social price. Do we want that in the USA? UPHOLDING the U.S. laws regarding
aliens even though many may not agree
with his findings.
Wikipedia has an interesting take on PEOs, which I think
readers ought to check out here. Personally, I’m on record,
Personally, I think civics classes and courses should be
and have written articles about, PEOs being “one man
mandated for all students at every grade level up to
rule,” which should be eliminated and deconstructed, as I
graduation so that we, as a country, can have well
really don’t see where in the U.S. Constitution “one man
informed activists, voters and citizens, not fly-by-the-seat-
rule” was given.
of-their-pants reactionaries who are manipulated by a
propagandizing press, in my opinion.
That was the very thing the Founding Fathers (and
Mothers, too) were intent on avoiding because of their
I hope this can help to bring some sense of reasoning as to
rebellion against King George III of England [6], whom
why there should be more and better tolerance among
they felt was a tyrant. Why would they ever have given
political parties and their constituents, specifically those
“one man rule” powers in the founding documents of the
who have lost what they thought was ‘due’ them, because
new republic they were fighting so desperately to create?
political tolerance has been the real American way.
That doesn’t make sense, does it?
References:
[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/19/5-facts-about-the-muslim-population-in-europe/
[2] https://muslimstatistics.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/sweden-77-6-percent-of-all-rapes-in-the-country-committed-by-muslim-males-
making-up-2-percent-of-population/
[3] https://muslimstatistics.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/europes-muslim-rape-epidemic-cologne-is-every-day/
[4] http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/video-shows-scenes-from-the-apocalypse-with-paris-streets-covered-
in-rubbish-as-migrants-camp-out/news-story/660b5d6a84037244b0f91a2c4eb9ae31
[5] http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-list-of-european-countries-reporting-rape-crisis-from-migrants-is-rising-dangerously/
[6] http://www.history.com/topics/british-history/george-iii
.
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#Nullify2016: Rosie O’Donnell Pushing To Void Election
Results Due To Russian Hacking, Group Claims
Scotus Will Consider Writ This Month
PIPER MCGOWIN-thedailysheeple.com /
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Saw this after Rosie O’Donnell, who called for both Supreme Court Justices had two readings
martial law to stop the inauguration and for Donald Trump of our emergency motion but it was
to be involuntarily held for a psych eval, Tweeted it out to unfortunately denied. Gratefully, Justice
her nearly one million fans (and even pinned the Tweet to Ginsburg has put our writ of mandamus on
the top of her account). the docket for response in February. We
await a response from the defendents at
It’s a Go Fund Me page set up to attempt to raise $35,000 this time.
to nullify the 2016 election results on the basis of Russian
hacking.
It’s authors claim that Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg has Where do We go From Here?
put their writ of mandamus on the docket for response this
month: Our Primary concern is that allowing this corruption to
stand will corrode our precious Democracy beyond repair
UPDATE January 29, 2017:
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and strip us of our most valuable rights as American non-tainted election is the least we can expect of our
Citizens. democracy.
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Remember this is exactly the talking point coming out of
the CIA a few months back, first with former CIA Bob
Baer on CNN saying,
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Nullify 2016 Election,
Revote
Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it Here are the answers to some questions you might want to
for granted. know:
~Barack Obama
1. Who we are?: We are a group of concerned citizens who
We are receiving funds here to support the effort to were aghast and dismayed at the obvious and reported
nullify the 2016 vote. theft of our election. 17 governmental agencies have
stated that the Russian government, with Putin guiding
As most sentient beings now know, 17 agencies of our them, purposefully attacked our country by successfully
government have reported that the Russians interfered attacking our election. There is ample evidence that
with the 2016 vote. A democracy cannot stand without actual votes were changed including but not limited to:
a free and fair election. This election was clearly not
free and fair. If the American people can no longer removal of hundreds of thousands of names from voter
believe in the voting system, our democracy has rolls in specific precincts, resulting in less of those
collapsed. votes being validated
probable actual hacking of machines, as indicated by
We were told that we would not be able to formulate a evidence of a virus which could be used even if
plan and get the writ to court... We did. machines not connected to the internet and is likely still
on our voting machines.
We were told the Federal Courts would not hear our a history of similar or same attacks on other countries
Writ... They did. where citizens rose up and demanded a new vote
We were told we could not get it to the Supreme Additionally, evidence of Russian collusion with our
Court... We did. current administration is massive and obvious. A brief list
of only some of the problems include:
We were told we could not get it heard by a Justice...
We did. Congressional statement that: The newly-released
declassified report from the Office of the Director of
And our Writ and other motions are now on the SCOTUS National Intelligence provides evidence that confirms
docket! Russian hacking and meddling in order to influence the
outcome of the 2016 electoral process. It includes hard
Our group is growing. The outcries to Nullify and Void evidence from our nation’s top national security
this Election and call for a REVOTE later in 2017 are agencies that Putin personally ordered an "influence
growing. Please join us! campaign" aimed at helping Donald Trump win the
election.
YES WE CAN! But we need your support! 11 prominent Russian figures related to this election
debacle killed in Russia, presumably by the Russian
We collect funds for the following items: government, since the election
Documentation which reveals that not only does Mr.
Preparation of lower court and SCOTUS documents. Trump likely owe the Russian mob hundreds of millions
of dollars, but that the Russian government has
Attorney fees. compromising information on him. Kompromat.
Close, longstanding relationships between Trump, his
Transportation and other costs associated with case. family, Putin’s family and girlfriend, and Russian
operatives dating back to the 1980’s.
Miscellaneous fees associated with case, which are Open, public admissions by classified former FBI
substantial. operative that a segment of FBI was involved in what
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they referred to as a “counter coup” by placing Trump expenses for court hearings. Supreme Court attorney
in office. James Bopp states a case in front of the Supreme Court
A $500 billion dollar oil deal between Exxon and Putin, can run anywhere from $250,000 to in the millions in legal
put on hold by Obama sanctions after Russian invasion fees alone. We feel strongly that to ask a single or small
of Ukraine to obtain royalty-free use of Ukraine’s group of attorneys to bear the cost of this is unreasonable
pipeline, is set to be back on target after Trump and has caused us great difficulty. Even if an attorney
nominated the ex-CEO of Exxon and close Putin friend firm will do this case pro bono, expenses alone could run
to the Secretary of State position. He is poised to stop in the large 10’s of thousands of dollars. At this time, our
the sanctions and pour massive wealth into Russia and fund is no where near those figures. We do have
Putin’s bank accounts. attorneys interested in taking the case. Finances are an
The appearance of a bribe to unleash the sanctions in issue. We can continue the case pro se [meaning, filing
the form of a massive, massive payout of 19% of a top as a citizen without attorney], but obviously legal
Russian oil company. The sale of 19.5% of this assistance would be critical.
company did occur just as the leaked documents
predicted. The ownership and transfer of these stocks 4. Who will be receiving the funds raised by this campaign?
are mired in secrecy. Funds received here, minus fees and taxes, will be used
entirely for the above stated purpose. Right now, fees are
It is more than apparent our government has been attacked paying off the debt we have incurred. After that debt is
by a hostile foreign entity. Free and fair elections are not paid off, they will go, as indicated above, to legal costs,
only the hallmark, but the foundation of our democracy. If expenses and travel.
we do not set this right, our democracy is over.
5. How you intend to get the funds to those in need?: Right
2. What is my relationship to the parties these funds are now, I have personally sustained the entire cost of this
raised for?: This group of citizens, numbering in the project, putting me in debt. I did it gladly, with the hope
dozens, has supported the movement of one of several that others feel the same as we do. Obviously, this faith in
cases filed around the United States, to the Supreme the human spirit and the citizens of this country is being
Court to be heard. Some of us are plaintiffs (as I was in realized.
one of the cases) and many of us are just volunteering
and working on this case. My personal role was to We are heartened by the thousands and thousands of
guarantee payment of costs unless and until such funds people who are standing up for our country in any way
could be raised. they can. We are moved by the donations of $5 and $10
from people who love our country but can scarcely afford
3. How will the funds will be spent and used in the future?: it. We know, deeply, how much this means to us all. Keep
Our initial fundraising efforts went towards court fees educating people that a revote is "Legally Possible,
which were substantial. Each filing cost hundreds of Morally Mandated". This is a way to solve our growing
dollars. Each printing of documents ranged from $100 to problems in a legal, moral, and peaceful manner.
$2700. And there were many. This account, at that time,
was fully vetted by the staff of GoFundMe for accuracy. Thank you from our hearts, to yours...
After initial costs were raised (as of this week) additional
monies will go to support both legal fees and travel
.
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'Failing' New York Times
Is "Disturbed" At Trump-Putin "Bromance"
By Tyler Durden
Feb 7, 2017 8:30 AM
'The Editorial Board' of the so-called 'failing' New York There’s no doubt that the United States has made
Times has returned fire in the ongoing battle with terrible mistakes, like invading Iraq in 2003 and torturing
President Trump and The White House. In an op-ed, the terrorism suspects after Sept. 11... American drone strikes
newspaper's editors proclaimed that against extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan, for
instance, have sometimes killed civilians.
"Trump seemed to appreciate Mr.
Putin’s brutality" and that the president But quickly returns to 'values' shifting away from 'facts'...
"suggested America acts the same
way... showing little support for Since taking office, Mr. Trump has
America’s traditional roles as a shown little support for America’s
champion of universal values." traditional roles as a champion of
universal values like freedom of the
The New York Times begins... press and tolerance.
The bromance between President In fact, as he has worked to cut Mr. Putin slack, Mr.
Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Trump has bashed allies and laid the groundwork for an
Russia, long a source of puzzlement aggressive campaign that could lead to conflict with Iran,
and alarm in the West, has gotten even which the Pentagon has ranked behind Russia as a threat.
more disturbing.
And then starts a whole new narrative - that President
Following Trump's reply to Bill O’Reilly when the Fox Trump will be responsible for the renewed carnage that
News host asserted that Putin is “a killer.” looms in Ukraine...
"There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of Mr. Trump’s obsequiousness toward the
killers. What, you think our country is so Russian leader and his administration’s
innocent?" confusing policy is emboldening both
sides in Ukraine. Last week, the conflict
And ths lit the fuse under NYTimes editors... between the Ukrainian military and
Russian-backed separatists reignited.
Asserting the moral and political
superiority of the United States over This perhaps explains President Trump's raging tweet this
Russia has not traditionally been a morning...
difficult maneuver for American
presidents. But rather than endorsing
American exceptionalism, Mr. Trump
seemed to appreciate Mr. Putin’s brutality
— which includes bombing civilians in Syria
and, his accusers allege, responsibility for
a trail of dead political opponents and
journalists at home — and suggested
America acts the same way.
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AP Fact Check On Travel Ban-Halting Judge Is
Incomplete, Watered-Down
By Tom Blumer
February 7, 2017 | 11:53 PM EST
Given its usual tendencies, I suppose we should be grateful group, accused of taking tactical training and wanting to
that the Associated Press deigned to fact-check federal blow himself up in an act of martyrdom. In November, a
judge James Robart at all. Somali refugee injured 11 in a car-and-knife attack at Ohio
State University, and he surely would have been arrested
The AP's Eric Tucker reported on Monday that the had he not been killed by an officer.
Western Washington District Court judge's claim — that
no arrests of foreign nationals have occurred since 9/11 ... (Judge James Robart) asked a Justice Department
from the seven countries which had been subject to lawyer how many arrests of foreign nationals from the
President Trump's temporary travel ban before the judge countries have occurred since 9/11. When the lawyer said
halted it — was "wrong." So far, so good. But Tucker later she didn't know, Robart answered his own question: "Let
seriously watered down that evaluation to "not quite right," me tell, you, the answer to that is none, as best I can tell.
and he never genuinely quantified how incredibly wrong You're here arguing on behalf of someone that says we
Robart really was. have to protect the United States from these individuals
coming from these countries and there's no support for
The AP reporter also decided that his fact check would be that."
a good opportunity to take a swipe at Trump adviser
Kellyanne Conway over an error she had acknowledged Charles Kurzman, a sociology professor at the University
three days earlier. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, says his research shows no
Americans have been killed in the U.S. at the hands of
Here are key paragraphs from Tucker's report, with the people from the seven countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya,
bolded items identifying the contradictions: Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen — since Sept. 11.
AP FACT CHECK: No arrests from 7 But it's not quite right to say no one
nations in travel ban? Nope from those nations has been arrested or
accused in an extremist-related plot
The federal judge who halted President while living in the U.S.
Donald Trump's travel ban was wrong in
stating that no one from the seven
On Monday, Byron York at the Washington Examiner,
countries targeted in Trump's order has
detailed just how "not quite right" Robart's contention was:
been arrested for extremism in the
United States since the 2001 terrorist
attacks. Judge James Robart, of the U.S. District
Court for the Western District of
Washington State, believes there is no
basis for President Trump's executive order
temporarily suspending non-American
entry from seven terrorism-plagued
countries.
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Devos Confirmed As Education Secretary After Pence
Casts First Ever VP Tiebreaking Vote
By Tyler Durden
Feb 7, 2017 12:35 PM
As previewed earlier, in a vote that many had expected — Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) February
would end up deadlocked 50/50 in the Senate, moments 7, 2017
ago the confirmation vote for Trump's Education Secretary
The broken tie by @VP Pence to confirm
candidate Besty DeVos was indeed tied in the Senate after
@BetsyDeVos marks the 1st time a VP has
two Republicans - Collins and Murkowski voted against -
broken a tie for a cabinet nom in the history
which then prompted Vice President Mike Pence to cast of the Senate.
the first ever tie-breaking vote for a cabinet nominee in
Senate history, in the process confirming DeVos as — Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) February
America's new Secretary of Education. 7, 2017
BREAKING: Vice President Mike Pence Prior to the vote, Chuck Schumer made a failed 11th-hour
casts the tie-breaking vote to confirm Betsy plea Tuesday morning for a third Republican to buck
DeVos as education secretary DeVos and sink her nomination.
https://t.co/cMTPTl9Qpv
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February “It’s the Republican side demanding a vote
7, 2017 for an unqualified candidate,” the Senate’s
top Democrat said. “I hope against hope
that another Republican will have the
The last time a VP broke a tie in the Senate was 2008, courage … [to] join us.”
when then-Vice President Dick Cheney voted on a tax
adjustment plan.
Schumer suggested Republicans are privately saying they
wish Trump picked someone else, calling DeVos a
And Pence is on the Senate floor, “negative trifecta.”
preparing to break the 50-50 tie.
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) February Democrats forced a rare all-night session to try to rally
7, 2017 public support behind their opposition to DeVos’s
BREAKING: Senate CONFIRMS nomination, including protesting outside of the Capitol
@BetsyDeVos to be Pres Trump's Sec of with progressive groups. In retrospect it was all for
Education, 51-50, after @VP Pence came nothing.
to Capitol to break the 50-50 tie.
And another piece of historical trivia: DeVos just got the
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) February
most “no” votes of any education secretary in history.
7, 2017
As expected, @BetsyDeVos was confirmed Betsy DeVos just got the most “no” votes of
51-50, with @VP Pence breaking the tie. any education secretary in history
GOP 'NO' VOTES: https://t.co/Ls7a7GB5KW
pic.twitter.com/nb8wfaKwK5
Collins
Murkowski — Kevin Schaul (@kevinschaul) February
7, 2017
DEM 'YES' VOTES:
None.
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Trump Is Stronger Than National Polls Suggest
By David M. Drucker (@Davidmdrucker)
2/7/17 12:06 AM
While his national numbers aren't good, Trump is much Across the state, support for Trump's executive order
stronger in the states that could decide the outcome of the pertaining to immigration from seven predominantly
midterm elections, according to Republican operatives Muslim countries was higher among likely voters than
who have reviewed polling produced since New Year's support for president personally.
Day. For now, that suggests Democrats are less likely to
benefit from the president's struggles nationally than has In Columbia, approval for the executive order was 23
been the case in past election cycles. percent, 4 points higher than the college town rated
Trump's job performance. In Kansas City, the action
Like Trump's loss of the national popular vote, Republican received a 45 percent approval, 3 points above the
operatives say the president's high disapproval numbers are president's job approval, and in St. Louis, the order faired 1
being driven by dissatisfaction with his leadership in point better. The margins were similar in the state's other
progressive, high-population metro centers, like Chicago, main media markets.
Los Angeles, and New York.
"He is a disaster for sure. Funny thing is,
The midterm elections, however, are going to be fought on back home, it's just not that way," a
Senate battlegrounds that include red states like Missouri Republican insider from Missouri said,
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comparing the perception of Trump In other words, Trump isn't any worse off today,
nationally versus states like his. politically, than he was on Election Day.
Michael Meyers, a Republican strategist who has "Generally Obama enjoyed higher ratings
conducted some initial polling across multiple states, said on anything touching on him personally, but
he has seen the same phenomenon elsewhere. He declined support for his specific policies, often
to elaborate because the survey data is proprietary. lagged in comparison," Meyers said.
"Trump is the opposite. Some people may
But Meyers, referring to Republican voters generally, not not approve of him personally, but they are
just Trump's loyal base, said there are no signs of erosion showing stronger support for his proposals
of support for the president among GOP voters. and policy ideas."
Meanwhile, liberals are as mad at him as ever, while
skeptical independents are in a wait-and-see mode.
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Cotton And Trump Plot Crackdown On Legal Immigration
The Push Could Trigger A Fight Between The Business
And Populist Wings Of The GOP
By Seung Min Kim
02/07/17 05:04 AM EST - Updated 02/07/17 10:43 AM EST
Overlooked in Donald Trump’s campaign crusade against Cotton’s new legislation, being formally proposed Tuesday
illegal immigration was his vow to crack down on legal with Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and detailed exclusively
immigration, too. with POLITICO in advance of its release, swings an axe at
the nation’s green-card system by eliminating several
Now, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a reliable Trump ally, is avenues for U.S. citizens and permanent residents to
taking steps to execute that part of the president’s sponsor family members for green cards.
immigration vision — and it could provoke a showdown
between two competing ends of the GOP: the working- Right now, U.S. citizens and permanent residents can
class populists led by Trump and the establishment sponsor a variety of family members, including spouses,
Chamber of Commerce wing. parents, siblings and married adult children. Cotton and
Perdue’s plan would allow only spouses and unmarried
The outspoken, 39-year-old Cotton has written the first in minor children to get green cards, although they would
what may be a series of bills to revamp the nation’s permit visas for aging adult parents whose American
immigration system. Cotton will start off with legislation children are their caretakers — a population Cotton
being unveiled Tuesday that will dramatically slash the expects will be modest.
number of immigrants who can obtain green cards and
other visas every year. The bill also dumps the diversity visa lottery, which allots
about 50,000 visas per year for citizens of countries that
The conservative rising star is poised to step into the role traditionally have low rates of immigration to the United
being vacated in the chamber by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R- States. And it would limit refugees to 50,000 annually —
Ala.), who has long preached the economic virtues of in line with levels outlined in Trump’s controversial
restricting legal immigration in favor of U.S. citizens — a executive order.
view disputed by business-friendly Republicans who have
pushed for a more expansionist immigration policy. "Sen. Cotton and I are taking action to fix
Sessions is set to be confirmed as attorney general this the shortcomings in our legal immigration
week. system," Perdue said. "Returning to our
historically normal levels of legal
"Donald Trump was the only one who saw immigration will help improve the quality of
that most Americans don’t like our current American jobs and wages."
immigration system,” Cotton said in an
interview with POLITICO on Monday. “This All told, the number of legal immigrants allowed into the
is just the area of politics where I think United States under the bill — named the Reforming
leaders and elites are most disconnected American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE)
from the people. Not just Republicans but Act — would plummet by 40 percent in the first year and
in both parties, in business, in the media, in by 50 percent over a decade, according to analysis by
the academy, culture and so forth." Cotton’s aides.
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Advocates of reduced immigration are delighted. his first two weeks in office. The Trump administration is
also entertaining new orders to curb legal immigration
"With the introduction of this bill, Sen. programs such as the H-1B visa prized by the tech
Cotton has made it clear that he's stepping industry.
not necessarily into the shoes, but onto the
platform where Sessions' shoes have Cotton didn’t address employment-based green cards or
been," said Roy Beck, the president of related visas in his latest measure, noting that the laws
NumbersUSA, which calls for less governing those issues are more complicated and “touch
immigration. "This is beyond anything that more entrenched interests.” He also declined to say
Sen. Sessions ever did." directly whether he is open to expanding the pool of
85,000 H-1B visas allotted per year.
Cotton says his legislation is the first step in revamping the
current immigration system from one based on family ties “There are obviously abuses of the H-1B
toward a more skills-oriented one, a move that visa program. I think those abuses need to
Republicans generally support. But the intraparty collision be addressed before we even consider
comes with Cotton’s push to tighten the number of low- expanding the program,” Cotton said. “That
skilled foreign workers into the country. said, if the evidence demonstrates that say,
software companies need PhDs with
“For too long, our immigration policy has computer science degrees and they’re
skewed toward the interests of the wealthy going to pay them a wage that’s in the top
and powerful: Employers get cheaper 1, top 5, top 10 percent of local wages, I’m
labor, and professionals get cheaper open to that kind of evidence.”
personal services like housekeeping,”
Cotton wrote in a December New York Mark Krikorian, whose Center for Immigration Studies
Times op-ed. “We now need an supports restricting the number of immigrants here, says
immigration policy that focuses less on the Cotton has been a rarity among Republicans in that he
most powerful and more on everyone else.” consistently raised issues surrounding legal immigration in
addition to the more oft-discussed debate over illegal
His arguments, however, run counter to research that show immigration.
immigrants are a net boon to the economy, from the high-
skilled foreigners coveted by the tech industry to “He’s relatively young, he’s a rock star
employees who work at hotels, restaurants and in among lots of conservatives, combat
agriculture. The so-called Gang of Eight bill passed by the veteran, the whole thing,” Krikorian said.
Senate in 2013 crafted a new “W” visa program that would “And so for him to be the one to carry the
allow up to 200,000 low-skilled guest workers in the standard of immigration reduction really
country per year. does give it legitimacy.”
“Economists overwhelmingly think that The prospects of a full-blown immigration debate such as
immigration is good for the economy. the one that consumed Congress four years ago appear
That’s not just true at the high-skilled, but unlikely, for now. But Cotton said if Trump calls on
low-skilled level,” said Jeremy Robbins, the lawmakers to advance immigration legislation, such as a
executive director of the Partnership for a security and enforcement bill, that could be an opportunity
New American Economy, the pro-reform to put forward his plan.
group led by former New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg. Cotton’s allies extend beyond the White House, to the
Justice Department — where Sessions will be able to wield
Robbins, who regularly meets with GOP lawmakers, significant power over immigration in his new job.
added:
“There’s only one Jeff Sessions. He’s not
“There is overwhelming support in replaceable,” Cotton said during the
Congress for the idea of immigration as an POLITICO interview. “But Sen. Sessions
economic driver, including in the correctly realized that most Americans
Republican conference.” want immigration levels at most, to stay the
same, and more likely, to decrease
But arguments from the other end of the Republican Party because it does have a negative impact on
are rising in potency, particularly with Trump in the White jobs and wages.”
House, which has put out a flurry of executive actions in
.
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Travel-Ban Judge Makes Decision Based On Whopping Lie
One Mainstream-Media Outlet Exposes Serious Gaffe
Leo Hohmann
Updated: 02/07/2017 At 10:04 PM
“WASHINGTON — The federal judge who As it turns out, Robart was the one basing his decision on a
halted President Donald Trump’s travel ban fiction.
was wrong in stating that no one from the
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Trump’s order bars citizens of the seven countries from The problem got so bad in Minnesota with Somali refugees
entering the U.S. for 90 days, all refugees for 120 days and and their sons being recruited by ISIS that the federal
indefinitely halts refugees from Syria. government under Barack Obama approved grants for a
pilot program that emphasized teaching Somali youth how
Robart, a George W. Bush appointee, halted the not to succumb to the terrorist recruiters by getting
enforcement of Trump’s order nationwide pending involved in soccer or the arts.
appeals. The case has been appealed to the Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals, and is expected to make a fast track to As WND pointed out in a story Sunday and the AP
the Supreme Court. acknowledged Monday, Somali refugees also carried out
knife attacks against civilians at a mall in St. Cloud,
Robart, ruling in a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general Minnesota, on Sept. 17, injuring 10, and at Ohio State
of Washington state and Minnesota who sought to stop the University on Nov. 28, injuring 11.
order, said the states
So Robart either has a short memory, does not read the
“have met their burden of demonstrating news, or was deliberately whitewashing the facts in an
that they face immediate and irreparable attempt to strike down Trump’s executive order.
injury as a result of the signing and
implementation of the Executive Order.” Pamela Geller, editor in chief of the Geller Report and
president of American Freedom Defense Initiative, said
He said the order adversely affects residents of the two Robart’s decision, if upheld, smacks directly at the
states in areas of education, employment, education and sovereignty of the United States and strips the president of
freedom to travel. Dozens of corporations such as his constitutional authority to protect the nation.
Microsoft, Expedia, Apple, Google, E-Bay, Amazon,
Starbucks and others claim to be suffering damages by the “The media doesn’t care about the truth. It
executive order. only cares about demonizing Trump. To
report Robarts’ lie would interfere with their
The essence of their claims is that they are quest to destroy Trump, Trump’s ban, and
suffering economically, which may be the the dawn of a new, glorious era in Trump
case since these companies benefit from America,” Geller told WND. “The travel ban
hiring cheap immigrant labor from Muslim is legal: it is clearly set out in American law
countries. that the president has the right and
responsibility to bar people from entering
Almost every president since the advent of modern air the country for national security reasons.”
travel has implemented bans on travel from various nations
for various reasons. President Obama enacted a six-month She said it is indicative of how “traitorous the left has
ban on refugees from Iraq in 2011 after it was revealed that become that they are so angry and rioting about this.
two Iraqi Muslims resettled in Bowling Green, Kentucky,
were sending weapons and cash to al-Qaida in Iraq. They “And the judges who have blocked the ban
were arrested, tried, convicted and are serving time, are no better. Even those appointed by
unbeknownst to Judge Robart. G.W. Bush represent the failed
establishment that is trying desperately to
President Jimmy Carter implemented a travel ban on hold on to its power, continue to further the
citizens from Iran after the Shah was deposed and students cause of globalist socialist internationalism,
seized the U.S. Embassy in 1979. and keep the U.S. from defending itself.”
Dozens of Somali refugees have been involved in terror Limbaugh: Robart issued political, not legal opinion
plots, including more than 40 of which left the country to
join ISIS, al-Shabab or al-Qaida, the FBI has confirmed. Rush Limbaugh, on his show Monday, said Robart
Andrew Luger, the U.S. attorney for Minnesota, even “is not a conservative,” that he was
admitted in April 2015 that “We have a terror recruitment appointed by George W. Bush likely as part
problem in Minnesota” involving the Somali refugee of a game of “horse trading” with Sen. Patty
community in that state. His comment came at a press Murray of Washington state.
conference after six Somali refugees were charged with
trying to leave the country to board flights to Turkey, from Robart once praised Black Lives Matter in a lawsuit
where they planned to hop across the border to Syria and against police in Seattle.
join ISIS.
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Limbaugh said Robart did not even attempt to decide the refugees their religion when they claim
case based on legal principles, choosing instead to base his they’re fleeing religious persecution.”
opinion on an assumption about Trump’s motive for
implementing a “Muslim ban.” Obama effectively banned Christians from Syria
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Madonna - “I’ve Given A Lot Of Thought
To Blowing Up The White House”
By Frosty Wooldridge
2-7-2017
During the Obama inauguration eight years ago, not one One lady held a placard,
conservative, Republican, Libertarian, Democrat or
“If Trump’s not Hitler, I am a moron!”
independent violently demonstrated in the streets, burned
cars, yelled obscenities or smashed windows.
Actress Meryl Streep, much beloved lady of America,
spoke against Trump at the Golden Globes while ignoring
U.S. Senators and Congressional House members praised the fact that four African-American teens beat, cut and
the new African-Kenyan-American president as a new day violated a Caucasian mentally disabled boy for five hours
for racial peace in America.
while they featured it on Facebook—that very same day.
During the Trump inauguration, last month, millions Social media created a hash-tag, “He’s not
demonstrated against his presidency before it began. my president” that received 180,000 likes
Demonstrators fought police, burned cars, smashed within hours.
windows, yelled obscenities and threatened violence
toward the new president. In the bastion of free speech, University of California at
Berkley, last weekend, students threw steel racks through
Singer Madonna screamed her invectives, windows while starting fires in the streets because they
refused to hear the speech of a conservative speaker.
“I’ve given a lot of thought to blowing up the
White House.” In other words, they violently opposed our 1 st Amendment
rights to free speech. That kind of behavior occurs in
Actress Ashley Judd yelled, dictatorships.
“I’m a nasty woman and I say Trump’s a
Hitler with a toupee!” This week, I personally saw a video where Senator
Schumer (D-NY) stood in front of an audience to lead a
Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), said, chant,
“I don’t look at Trump as a legitimate “Dump Trump, Dump Trump, Dump
president.” Trump.”
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) said, Have you ever heard of a Banana Republic?
“This man is questionable. And because
This kind of violent anti-American behavior reminds me
we have suspicions -- many of us -- about
that none of the name callers, demonstrators or hoodlums
who he is, where he came from, what his
marching through our streets understands that we live in a
actions are, and all of his conflicts ... we
Constitutional Republic. The person with the most
have to find out more about him and some
of that leads to the possibility of Electoral College votes wins. Even with the potential for
impeachment." millions of illegal alien votes in her favor, Hillary Clinton
lost.
At first, I thought she spoke about how Barack Obama
slipped into the White House without anyone knowing his Writer John Porter from Arkansas said,
true identity, (which, by the way, we still don’t know), but “I have been for quite some time honestly
instead, she railed against Trump. trying to understand why, and to make
some sense of the terrible, senseless and
A group of students threatened to “moon” the entrance of sometimes tragic display of people in their
Trump Towers in protest to the new president’s election. destructive pillaging, looting, burning of
automobiles and destruction of other
Actress Sarah Silverman said, property, including businesses and college
campus structures, and of course
“We need a violent coup!” physically attacking other fellow Americans
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in various cities all across this nation. I'm death or decapitated for exercising free speech. Muslim
sure some of the participants are men don’t tolerate any kind of a voice by any woman.
apparent crazed individuals still smarting
and upset over the results of our As America Continues Endless Immigration, We All
presidential election. But it has now Face A Rough Ride
become apparent and recognized by most
that a great number of these people are
As fragmented and fractured as we stand today, each year,
masked and/or hooded thugs, paid
we import 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants without
professional demonstrators, being financed
pause. That continued act of Congress dooms us to this:
by George Soros and other groups for the
purpose of disrupting, not only the agenda “Diversity within a nation destroys unity and
of our new president, but more importantly leads to civil wars,” said social scientist
and dangerously so, the very system of Garret Hardin. “Immigration, a benefit
government we have in this country.” during the youth of a nation, can act as a
disease in its mature state. Too much
Fellow American, I can tell you this: I have traveled internal diversity in large nations has led to
through countries that lack the rule of law. I witnessed violence and disintegration. We are now in
human misery that few Americans understand. I’ve the process of destabilizing our own
watched human misery on a level that tears at my heart, country. The magic words of destabilizers
years later. I’ve seen where brutal dictators and ruling are ‘diversity’ and ‘multiculturalism’.
class despots kill citizens without blinking an eye. In Saudi
Arabia and that region, they ‘honor kill’ 20,000 women President Trump presents a springboard (excuse) for all the
annually via Islamic law. They kill gays for being gay. demonstrators. In reality, the majority of Americans voted
They cut little girls. They chop peoples’ heads off and for him to protect them from Islamic terror, drugs coming
stone women to death for being a woman. up from the Mexico and enforcing our borders by stopping
all illegal immigration. He needs to rescind the 1965
To all the women who marched in favor of Muslim Immigration Reform Act along with his other Executive
immigration last week in light of Trump’s ban to secure Orders in order to save us from multicultural chaos and
our safety: if they understood that those same Muslims, if total breakdown of our nation.
they gained a majority in our country, would subject them
to Sharia Law, which means they would all be stoned to ##
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Soros Teams Up With Attorneys
Challenging Trump Immigration Order
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00:26 07.02.2017(Updated 03:10 07.02.2017)
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Over 15 State Attorney Generals
File Amicus Brief Against Trump Travel Ban
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01:24 07.02.2017(Updated 01:28 07.02.2017)
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60 Minutes Coverup Piece On
Muslim Parasites Living High On The Backs
Of Taxpayers While Americans Suffer
By Frosty Wooldridge
2-7-2017
Sunday, January 29, 2017, “60 Minutes” featured Bill Mississippi (27%) and New Mexico (27%) had the
Whittaker reporting on a Syrian Muslim family landing in highest rates of children in households without
America to start a new life. The family, part of a 12,000- consistent access to food.
member family of refugees imported into America in 2016,
enjoys unending welfare afforded by American taxpayers. In 2016, the top five states with the highest rate of
food-insecure children under 18 were Mississippi, New
We’re talking millions upon millions of dollars spent to fly Mexico, Arizona, Alabama, and Arkansas.
them over here, feeding them, housing them, educating
them, giving them transportation, giving them medical A whopping 48 million Americans subsist on food stamps
care, paying for their utilities and more---with no end in and other welfare because they cannot obtain jobs. Every
sight as to welfare paid for by your tax dollars. refugee that arrives displaces an American from a job.
Every refugee that arrives costs Americans hard money out
While their “puff” piece attempted to show our of their pockets with no return, whatsoever.
compassion, it failed to report on the enormous cost to
American taxpayers in the decades to come: their birth A mind numbing 60,000 to 100,000 military veterans lack
rates, their chain-migrated relatives and their living on jobs, lack homes and lack medical care in the United
American welfare to the tune of billions. States. What about the needs of our country, our vets and
our citizens?
All of that without reporting that American citizens taking
a back seat to immigrants’ needs. One out of four African-Americans lacks a job at a living
wage. Along with that, three out of four African-American
In fact, “60 Minutes” didn’t report on the horrific costs of children arrive out of wedlock and live with single mothers
saving those refugee families when our American families on welfare and entrenched in poverty. Why not “save” our
suffer much greater. Take these realities into citizens rather than refugees?
consideration:
America features 1.5 million homeless How about the fact that our country stands eyeball deep in
citizens languishing in this country 24/7. $20 trillion of debt? How do you get your arms around the
They inhabit cardboard huts in the alleys of fact that Congress tries to save the refugees when it can’t
every major city in America. They stand on save itself? We pay over $40 million monthly in interest of
street corners begging for money and food. the national debt because Congress can’t and won’t act
They face alcohol and drug addiction. They responsibly.
face psychological displacement. In my city
of Denver, 10,000 homeless sleep on Do you realize that 13,000,000 (million) American
steam grates nightly to stay warm or cuddle children live below the poverty level with no hope of
under the loading docks. It’s sickening to escaping the inner city projects? Is it too unreasonable to
see them on nights when the temperatures apply those moneys being spent for refugees to go for our
drop to -10 degrees F. own children?
www.FeedingAmerica.org states: Understand this fact: the citizens of the third world birth
80,000,000 (million) more babies into the world annually,
13.1 million children lived in food-insecure households net gain, without end. They refuse to be responsible for
in 2016. their birth rates, but they don’t mind migrating to first
world countries to save themselves. Where do we flee once
Twenty percent or more of the child population in 30 we’re overwhelmed with population?
states and D.C. lived in food-insecure households in
2016, according to the most recent data available. Today, Chicago stands as a killing zone for African-
Americans with murders every day of the year and into the
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hundreds annually. Maybe we should take care of our (billion) annually for immigrants. (Source:
citizens with jobs, housing, education and hope. www.TheSocialContract.com) When does that stop when
you see our $20 trillion debt price tag?
Why must we save the rest of the world while our own
citizens suffer as much or greater than refugees? At some point soon, we must stop all immigration. We
can’t afford it and we’re deeply in debt. It’s fracturing and
While our cities face horrific infrastructure breakdown and fragmenting our country into ethnic group chaos, cultural
our nation faces sociological breakdown and cultural suicide and environmental degradation. We can’t keep
displacement from endless immigration, at what point do doing this to ourselves.
we apply the brakes on immigration?
Write 60 Minutes and invite them to do a segment on
Now? Or 100,000,000 (million) more refugee immigrants American citizens being destroyed by endless refugee
by 2050? Reality check: the United Nations discovered immigration both legal and illegal as they swarm into our
that 100,000,000 (million) people of the world would love country: start with 9/11, Boston Marathon, Orlando, White
to immigrate to America tomorrow if they enjoyed a visa Cloud, Garland, Ohio State, San Bernardino, Ft.
and plane ticket. Can we save the world? Lauderdale, Dearborn, Miami, honor killings and more yet
to come.
Not a chance! Why are we taking in all those immigrants
when we can’t take care of our own citizens’ needs? Give Email them: 60M@cbsnews.com
me one reason that could stand the test of common sense
for accepting and paying millions and billions for refugees. ###
Our taxpayer dollars already pay out $113,000,000,000.00
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US Sheriffs Offering Trump
Full Backing of Immigration Policies
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55% Of Europeans Agree With Trump:
"Muslim Immigration Should Be Banned"
By Tyler Durden
Feb 7, 2017 11:58 AM
President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban citizens According to a new Chatham House survey of more than
of seven Muslim-majority states from entering the US for 10,000 people from 10 European states, we now know
90 days, and temporarily freeze all refugee arrivals what people think about migration from mainly Muslim
(including Syrians indefinitely), has been interpreted countries, and as Chatham House notes,
widely as an attempt to curtail the inward migration of
Muslims, which Trump and his supporters argue pose a "the results are striking and sobering."
threat to national security. It has also been challenged They suggest that public opposition to
legally, and today a showdown between the DOJ and a San any further migration from
Francisco Court of Appeals is scheduled for 6pm, at which predominantly Muslim states is by no
point the Trump order may be formally rejected, forcing means confined to Trump’s electorate in
Trump to engage the Supreme Court. the US but is fairly widespread.
While the Trump order has unleashed a firestorm of legal In the survey, carried out prior President Trump’s
retaliation in the US, Trump’s policy has also generated a executive order was announced, respondents were given
backlash among some of Europe’s leaders. Angela the following statement:
Merkel’s spokesman said the chancellor had ‘explained’
the Geneva Convention to the president in a phone call ‘All further migration from mainly
discussing the order, while London Mayor Sadiq Khan Muslim countries should be stopped’.
argued that the invitation to the president for a state visit to
Britain in 2017 should be withdrawn until the ban is
rescinded. Meanwhile, leaders of Europe’s populist parties, They were then asked to what extent did they agree or
including Geert Wilders, Nigel Farage and Matteo Salvini, disagree with this statement.
have heaped praise on Trump.
Overall, across all 10 of the European
countries an average of 55% agreed that
all further migration from mainly Muslim
countries should be stopped, 25%
neither agreed nor disagreed and 20%
disagreed.
And while the political elite's positions are clear, a more Public opposition to further migration
relevant question is where does the public in European from Muslim states is especially intense
countries stand on the specific issue of Muslim in Austria, Poland, Hungary, France and
immigration. Belgium,
Surprisingly, there is evidence to suggest that both Trump despite these countries having very different sized resident
and Europe's right-wing parties reflect an underlying Muslim populations. In each of these countries, at least
reservoir of majority public support. 38% of the sample ‘strongly agreed’ with the statement.
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With the exception of Poland, these countries have either the statement and around a quarter are less supportive of a
been at the centre of the refugee crisis or experienced ban. Opposition is also more prominent among ‘left
terrorist attacks in recent years. It is also worth noting that behind’ voters, with nearly two-thirds of those who feel
in most of these states the radical right is, to varying they don’t have control over their own lives supporting the
degrees, entrenched as a political force and is looking to statement. Similarly, 65% of those Europeans who are
mobilize this angst over Islam into the ballot box, either at dissatisfied with their life oppose further migration from
elections in 2017 or longer term. Muslim countries. There is also some evidence that public
opposition crosses political boundaries, with three-quarters
The polls also reveal how, across Europe, opposition to of those who self-classify themselves as on the right of the
Muslim immigration is especially intense among retired, political spectrum and more than a third of those on the left
older age cohorts while those aged below 30 are notably supporting a halt.
less opposed. There is also a clear education divide. Of
those with secondary level qualifications, 59% opposed These results echo other similar surveys exploring attitudes
further Muslim immigration. By contrast, less than half of to Islam in Europe. In a Pew survey of 10 European
all degree holders supported further migration curbs. countries in 2016, majorities of the public had an
unfavorable view of Muslims living in their country in five
countries: Hungary (72%), Italy (69%), Poland (66%),
Greece (65%), and Spain (50%), although those numbers
were lower in the UK (28%), Germany (29%) and France
(29%).
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UC Berkeley Riots Organizer
Has No Regrets, Plans More Violent Actions
The Hard-Left Are Going To War
By Alex Thomas -
02.07.2017 @7:04 PM EST
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Anti-Donald Trump: War Propaganda
By Thierry Meyssan
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Our previous articles concerning President Trump have support of the Mexican government of the time. Beyond the
caused some fierce reactions from our readers. Some of fashionable rhetoric about «walls» and «bridges»,
them have been wondering about the naïvety apparently reinforced border systems only work when the authorities of
displayed by Thierry Meyssan despite the warnings issued both sides agree to make them operational. They always
by the international Press and the accumulation of negative fail when one of the parties opposes them. The interest of
signals. Here is his response, well-reasoned as always. the United States is to control the entry of migrants, while
the interest of Mexico is to prevent the import of weapons.
Two weeks after his investiture, the Altantist Press None of that has changed. However, with the application of
continues with its work of disinformation and agitation the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
against the new President of the United States of America. transnational companies have delocalised, from the United
Trump and his new collaborators are multiplying States to Mexico, not only non-qualified jobs (in conformity
declarations and gestures which are apparently with the Marxist rule of «the tendency of the rate of profit to
contradictory, so that it is difficult to understand what is fall (TRPF)», but also qualified jobs which are performed by
going on in Washington. under-paid workers («social dumping»). The appearance of
these jobs has provoked a strong rural exodus,
destructuring Mexican society, on the model of what
happened in 19th century Europe. The transnational
companies then lowered wages, plunging part of the
Mexican population into poverty – which now only dreams
of being correctly paid in the United States itself. Since
Donald Trump has announced that he intends to remove
the US signature from the NAFTA agreement, things should
return to normal in the years to come, and satisfy both
Mexico and the United States [1].
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In order to hobble this policy, the friends of Mrs. Clinton Finally, the clean-up of international institutions has also
and Mrs. Nuland have relaunched the war against the begun. The new ambassador to the UNO, Nikki Haley, has
Donbass. The important losses they have experienced requested an audit of the 16 «peace-keeping» missions.
since the beginning of the conflict have led the Ukrainian She has made it known that she intends to put an end to
army to withdraw and put paramilitary Nazi militia in the those which seem to be inefficient. From the point of view
front line. The combats have inflicted heavy civilian of the United Nations Charter, all such missions will be
casualties on the inhabitants of the new popular Republic. audited without exception. Indeed, the founders of the
Simultaneously, in the Near East, they have managed to Organisation had not foreseen this type of military
deliver tanks to the Syrian Kurds, as planned by the deployment (today, more than 100,000 men and women).
Obama administration.
The UNO was created to avert or resolve conflicts between
In order to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, Donald Trump is states (never intra-state conflict). When two parties
looking for a way to help to eject President Petro conclude a cease-fire, the Organisation may deploy
Porochenko. He therefore received at the White House the observers in order to verify the respect of the agreement.
head of the opposition, Ioulia Tymochenko, even before he But on the contrary, these «peace-keeping» operations are
accepted a phone call from President Porochenko. aimed at enforcing the respect of a solution imposed by the
Security Council and refused by one of the two parties
In Syria and Iraq, Donald Trump has already begun involved in the conflict - in reality, it is the continuation of
operations in common with Russia, even thought his colonialism.
spokesperson denies it. The Russian Minister for Defence,
who had imprudently revealed it, has ceased to say In practice, the presence of these forces only makes the
anything on the subject. conflict last longer, while their absence changes nothing.
So the troops of the United Nations Interim Force
Concerning Beijing, President Trump has put an end to US (UNIFIL) deployed at the Israëlo-Lebanese border, but
participation in the Trans-Pacific Treaty (TPP) - a treaty only on Lebanese territory, do not prevent either Israëli
which had been conceived in order to inhibit China. military operations or military operations by the Lebanese
During the period of transition, he received the second Resistance, as we have already seen many times. They
richest man in China, Jack Ma (the businessman who serve only to spy on the Lebanese on behalf of the Israëlis,
confirmed - «No-one has stolen your jobs, you spend too thus prolonging the conflict. In the same way, the troops of
much on war»). We know that their discussions touched on the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, or
the possible adhesion of Washington to the Asian UNDOF, deployed at the demarcation line in the Golan
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). If this were to be have been chased away by Al-Qaïda, without that
the case, the United States would agree to cooperate with changing anything at all in the Israëlo-Syrian conflict.
China rather than hindering it. They would participate in Putting an end to this system means returning to the spirit
the construction of two Silk Roads, which would make the and the letter of the Charter, renouncing colonial
wars in Donbass and Syria pointless. privileges, and pacifying the world.
In matters of finance, President Trump has begun the Behind the media controversy, the street demonstrations,
dismantling of the Dodd-Frank law which attempted to and the confrontation between politicians, President Trump
resolve the crisis of 2008 by averting the brutal collapse of is holding his course.
the major banks («too big to fail»). Although this law has
some positive aspects (it’s 2,300 pages long), it establishes Translation
a guardianship of the Treasury over the banks, which Pete Kimberley
obviously hinders their development. Donald Trump is
also apparently preparing to restore the distinction between
deposit banks and investment banks (Glass-Steagall Act).
[1] “Behind the bipartisan wall”, by Manlio Dinucci, Translation Anoosha Boralessa, Il Manifesto (Italy) , Voltaire Network, 28 January
2017.
[2] “Donald Trump Inauguration Speech”, by Donald Trump, Voltaire Network, 21 January 2017.
[3] “Germany and the UNO against Syria”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Al-Watan (Syria) , Voltaire Network, 28
January 2016.
[4] “Trump – enough of 9/11!”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 24 January 2017.
[5] “Donald Trump winds up “the” organization of US imperialism].]”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Anoosha Boralessa, Voltaire
Network, 31 January 2017.
[6] “General Flynn’s Proposals to Reform Intelligence”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Anoosha Boralessa, Contralínea (Mexico) ,
Voltaire Network, 1 December 2016.
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Nigel Farage:
The European Parliament Is Terrified Of Trump
Nigel Farage Defends President Trump's Travel Order During
Speech At European Parliament
By VNN
February 7, 2017
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Trump Administration Apparently
Heading For War As Iran Dumps U.S. Dollar,
Brandon Turbeville - Activist Post
February 7, 2017
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“Adding together President Trump's call to the United States (or Israel) could portray its operations as
the Saudi king, where they discussed Iran's taken in sorrow, not anger, and at least some in the
"destabilizing" actions, and a pre-emptive international community would conclude that the Iranians
war authorization bill languishing in the US “brought it on themselves” by refusing a very good deal.
House, the current danger of a US strike on Ironically, it is admitted by the authors of the report that
Iran is just an accident -- or a false flag – the Iranians are not governed by lunatics intent on nuking
away,” writes McAdams. the world but by entirely rational players. Still, they move
forward with a number of options for attacking Iran. It
Flynn was head of the DIA at the time when the now should thus be obvious to anyone reading this report that
famous memo was produced explaining the fact that Saudi the US, NATO, and Israel are uninterested in peace with
Arabia, Turkey, and other Gulf States as well as the United Iran and are entirely focused on war and Iranian
States were supporting terrorism in Syria and Iraq and that destruction.
Russia, Syria, and Iran were fighting it. The memo also
described the plan and support for creating a “salafist “The so-called "Iran deal," introduced
principality” in the east of Syria and West of Iraq, the during the administration of US President
precise location where ISIS created its caliphate. For this Barack Obama, represents precisely this
reason, Flynn cannot claim ignorance as to whom is "superb offer," with Flynn's accusations
actually supporting terrorism and who is fighting it. serving as the "turn down" ahead of the
"sorrowful" war and attempted regime
The Path To Persia change the US had always planned to
target Tehran with,” writes Tony Cartalucci
The plan for a Western or a Western/Israeli attack on Iran, of Land Destroyer Report.
along with the theatre of alleged US-Israeli tensions
leading up to a strike and outright war, has been in the The report continues to discuss the citations that could be
works for some time. For instance, in 2009, the Brookings used for an attack on Iran, clearly stating its intentions to
Institution, a major banking, corporate, and military- create a plan to goad a non-threatening nation into war. It
industrial firm, released a report entitled “Which Path To states,
Persia? Options For A New American Strategy For
Iran,” in which the authors mapped out a plan which The truth is that these all would be challenging cases to
leaves no doubt as to the ultimate desire from the Western make. For that reason, it would be far more preferable if
financier, corporate, and governing classes. the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as
justification for the airstrikes before launching them.
The plan involves the description of a number of ways the Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the
Western oligarchy would be able to destroy Iran including more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the
outright military invasion and occupation. However, the United States would be. Of course, it would be very
report attempts to outline a number of methods that might difficult for the United States to goad Iran into such a
possibly be implemented before direct military invasion provocation without the rest of the world recognizing this
would be necessary. The plan included attempting to game, which would then undermine it. (One method that
foment destabilization inside Iran via the color revolution would have some possibility of success would be to ratchet
apparatus, violent unrest, proxy terrorism, and “limited up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran
airstrikes” conducted by the US, Israel or both. would retaliate overtly, or even semi-overtly, which could
then be portrayed as an unprovoked act of Iranian
Interestingly enough, the report states that any action taken aggression.)
against Iran must be done after the idea that Iran has
rejected a fair and generous offer by the West has been The question of the Israeli role in the possible attack
disseminated throughout the general public. The report against Iran is also mentioned by Brookings. In fact, in the
reads, chapter entitled, “Allowing or Encouraging An Israeli
Military Strike,” Brookings not only outlines a potential
…any military operation against Iran will likely be very strategy but essentially admits that the US-Israeli tension
unpopular around the world and require the proper being hyped in the Western media is nothing more than a
international context— both to ensure the logistical farce. It says,
support the operation would require and to minimize the
blowback from it. The best way to minimize international ..the most salient advantage this option has over that of an
opprobrium and maximize support (however, grudging or American air campaign is the possibility that Israel alone
covert) is to strike only when there is a widespread would be blamed for the attack. If this proves true, then the
conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected a United States might not have to deal with Iranian
superb offer—one so good that only a regime determined retaliation or the diplomatic backlash that would
to acquire nuclear weapons and acquire them for the wrong accompany an American military operation against Iran. It
reasons would turn it down. Under those circumstances, could allow Washington to have its cake (delay Iran’s
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acquisition of a nuclear weapon) and eat it, too (avoid reassertion of national sovereignty, and a much more
undermining many other U.S. regional diplomatic serious announcement that Iran will dump the U.S. dollar.
initiatives). While Iran would have been much better suited to respond
to the Trump travel ban in the same way the Russians
Why Iran? responded to Obama’s idiotic expulsion of Russian
diplomats, it seems American sabre rattling will do nothing
now but encourage Iran’s population to possibly look
There are a number of reasons why the United States and
the NATO imperial army would like to see Iran destroyed toward more “hardliners” in terms of elected government.
over the coming years. Geopolitical reasons are, of course, By hardliners, we mean politicians who campaign on an
Anti-American platform and who take a more stern
front and center.
approach to foreign affairs. After all, those who have
argued that the United States can be reasoned with are
On one level, the Israeli connection stands as one obvious slowly being proven wrong. The question then becomes
reason the United States has maintained an anti-Iran whether or not the collision course the United States wants
posture for nearly two decades. Iran not only stands as a to set out on becomes a path Iran unwittingly follows.
regional opponent to the whims and aims of the Israeli
settler state, but it also bankrolls and supports one of the
The Trump Administration’s false labeling of Iran as the
greatest forces of opposition to Israel directly due to its
biggest sponsor of terrorism, ignoring the fact that Iran is
close proximity and the militia’s military prowess. Indeed,
Israel was humiliated by Hezbollah in front of the world in one of the most important players in the fight against ISIS
2006. Thus, if Iran is destroyed, Hezbollah goes with it and and Sunni Islamic extremism in the Middle East as well as
the fact that American ally Saudi Arabia is perhaps the
two of Israel’s biggest and most effective opponents
biggest purveyor of terrorism in the world, tells everyone
disappear from the game board.
what we need to know going forward – the plan to destroy
Iran is marching forward without a hitch in another
The United States also sees Iran as an opponent due to example of seamless transition.
Iran’s resistance to the Anglo-American insistence on
global hegemony of its “western” system of financial and
Lastly, for the Trump apologists, we would ask “Does the
corporate overseers in a plantation owned by a world
possibility that Trump has no control over his own military
oligarchy. Iran stands in opposition to the Western system
because it refuses to engage in a system private central and foreign policy seem like a more palatable option?” At
banking as well as corporate and private financier this point, having a President opposed to war is largely
meaningless if he cannot do anything to stop it. Of course,
domination of its society and culture. Maintaining its own
Trump’s rhetoric throughout the political campaign was
national bank has long been a source of irritation for Wall
clearly anti-Iranian of the fanatical variety so the
Street and City of London vampires eager to sink their
possibility that Trump is actually anti-war, at least in terms
fangs into the blood supply of every nation on earth. In
addition, Iran has recently announced that it will be of Iran, is extremely unlikely. In fact, it is so unlikely as to
dropping the U.S. dollar for some other currency or basket no longer warrant consideration.
of currencies beginning March 21, a sure sign that a
Western war of aggression is most definitely on the That being said, we must immediately begin to mobilize to
horizon. oppose the Trump administration war posturing towards
Iran and do whatever we can to prevent the current
Iran also remains a close Russian ally and the last domino situation from shifting towards an actual physical war.
Whatever positive elements of the Trump administration
that needs to fall before the great Anglo-American army
there may be must be prevailed upon to stop this madness.
can march forward directly into Russia and break the
At the same time, we must be prepared to demonstrate,
largest country in the world into “manageable” parts.[1]
oppose, strike, and otherwise refuse to participate in
Once Iran is destroyed, Russia will be largely isolated and
left to face the NATO alliance which has been slowly anymore imperialistic wars should that agenda actually
take shape. Aside from the obvious moral issues of
surrounding Russia over the last two decades.
bombing and destroying a nation of innocent people for a
geopolitical agenda, war with Iran is a step toward war
Conclusion with Russia and World War Three and, at the very least,
another vast waste of American treasure and the lives of
So far, the Iranian response has been marked by unwise military service personnel. It must be stopped at all costs.
mirror bans of American travelers, an entrenchment and
[1] Brzezinski, Zbigniew. The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives. Basic Books. 1997. Pp. 202.
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Trump Was Right:
CBS Admits They Did Not Cover
24% Of 78 Listed Islamist Terror Attacks
The Trump White House On Monday Released A List Of 78
Terror Attacks The Press Did Not Adequately Cover.
Jim Hoft
Feb 7th, 2017 9:45 Pm
CBS News admitted they did not cover 24% of the terrorist
attacks – at all.
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Trump’s Accidental Truth
Will Take Him Down
By John Eskow
February 8, 2017
“Do you know why they hate Americans everywhere?” into millions of bonds stamped Good For One Free
Lenny Bruce used to cheerfully riddle his audiences, Abortion On Demand. But come next payday, whaddaya
drawing on his years as a Navy gunner’s mate in occupied think that big lunk, America, goes and does? Yep! He
Europe during World War II; “because we fucked their falls for the same old badger game! What a goofball!
mothers for candy bars, Jim.” (Note the deft jazz-noir
usage of “Jim” as a kind of early “dude” equivalent—but, Well, not under Trump! “Those days are over, folks,” he
more specifically, a kind of “slow-on-the-uptake dude.” As assures us, wallowing in the lie; but then two days later—
in: “what the hell else would you expect,” Jim?) his defenses weakened by sleeplessness and too much
vanilla ice cream– he accidentally drops a truth-bomb that
This portrait of America as a stubbly, amoral GI slithering horrifies Jake Tapper and Brent Scowcroft alike: “what,
through the ruins of older civilizations, trading cigarettes you think we’re so innocent,” he says, RE Putin’s murders,
and Hershey Bars and nylons for sex—and ripping “you think we don’t have killers?”
everyone off on the exchange rate—is one that would still
be immediately recognized by people all over the globe. How revealing that the gatekeepers of the American
Just switch “mothers” to “sovreignty” and “candy bars” to narrative are attacking Trump for his offhand truth, not his
“military-industrial profiteering,” and they’d recognize us perpetuation of the L’il Abner lie. Brent Scowcroft knows
anywhere—the Dope-For-Guns Dealer, the One Who Rigs better than most of us just how plentiful—and how
the Game, the Napalm Capitalist. The more countries you vicious—our hired killers are; all the more important to
visit, the more you realize that’s how the world sees us. shout down the very idea that we employ them (and train
them and reward them, and have done so for my entire
But not Americans themselves: we’ve convinced ourselves lifespan.)
that we’re exactly the opposite!
Yes, Trump has violated even the Democratic Party
“America is taken advantage of by every nation on earth, version of the Too-Kind Narrative–which, coming from
virtually,” said Donald Trump, but he was only codifying, the Democrats–is almost too limp and colorless to even
in his trademarked nitwit way, a series of messages remember: Hillary Clinton’s teeth-grindingly-bad mantra
drummed into us for years from all corners of the media, that—oh Christ, the mind can barely spit it back up:
and from politicians of every stripe: we’re just too darn
bighearted for our own darn good! This is Uncle Sam as a “America is great because America is
big palooka, a barefoot, brawny L’il Abner, innocent to big good.”
city ways, who’s constantly preyed on by greasy hustlers
who con him out of his Friday pay and funnel it all into America is great, because America is good.
social justice programs for African lesbians.
Linger for a moment on that hideous sanctimony, that
And so America expects to be coddled and cooed-to and language of death, every dreary syllable etched in
petted all day long, to be tongue-bathed and baby- nothingness; marvel at the exact, focus-group-tested
powdered dry by the rest of the world. We demand to be amounts of piety, flag-pride and tactical dramatic voice-
adored, not only because we’re exceptionally hush (a favorite technique of Reagan’s, later much
exceptional—if we do say so ourselves!– but because advanced by Barack Obama); millions of dollars of PR
we’re also just so—what’s that word again?—so…kind! research, compressed into one tiny but superpowerful
America scrimps and sacrifices and works its fingers to the nugget of horseshit.
bone and wears patched-up hand-me-down trousers, just so
we can nobly give all our savings away to tiny, shabby rat- America is great because–
infested Eastern European countries with names we can’t
pronounce. Worse yet, once our hard-earned billions–still Why don’t you take that line on the road, Ms. Clinton, and
moist with the sweat of our foreheads– are parachuted see how it plays in other parts of the world?
down onto foreign soil, they are immediately converted
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Tell it, for example, to Ezekechial, the driver/janitor/pastor Tell it to the victims of the Clinton-sponsored coup in
from Congo. He can describe for you the Great America’s Honduras.
stunning display of its Goodness back in 1964, when the
CIA kidnapped and brutally murdered Patrice Lumumba, Maybe it’s poetic justice: when Trump goes down, it won’t
part of a nonstop rape-and-robbery crime spree that be for a lie; it’ll be for one of his rare but intolerable truths:
America has perpetrated on Africa since well before JFK. that we ain’t no L’il Abner. Of course, what Lenny Bruce
proclaimed with shame, Donald Trump sees as a good
“–because America is good.” trade, or what he might call a “win-win:”
Tell it to any Southeast Asian lived through the Viet Nam We fucked their mothers for candy-bars,
War. Jim…”
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Trump Offers To “Destroy Career” Of Texas State Senator
At Meeting With National Sheriffs’ Assoc.
By: News Editors
Date: February 08, 2017
threw directly under the bus saying that he didn’t take the
president’s offer to destroy the senator literally.
Reached later by The Dallas Morning News, Eavenson Two Texas senators have offered
declined to identify the lawmaker that he inadvertently legislation this year to require
conviction before someone’s assets
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could be seized. Sen. Konni Burton, a Never a dull moment in the Trump White House…
Republican who often pushes civil-liberties
legislation to protect personal information
and property, was a fierce critic of Trump
during the campaign. She and Sen. Juan
“Chuy” Hinojosa, a McAllen Democrat,
have formed an unlikely team pushing this
asset forfeiture legislation.
Hinojosa said he didn’t believe he was
the target of Eavenson’s comments. But
he said he wasn’t concerned about
Trump’s promise to wreak havoc on a
senator’s career.
“I don’t know the sheriff,” Hinojosa said.
“Quite frankly, I don’t pay much
attention to what Trump says anymore.”
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Piers Morgan: Biased Media
Need to Show Trump ‘More Respect’
By Kyle Drennen
February 8, 2017 | 4:42 PM EST
During an appearance on Fox News Monday night, former were people lower down the food chain
CNN host Piers Morgan offered a stunning rebuke to the perhaps who didn't have such scruples and
media, calling out them out for being “in the tank of who were absolutely, I think, determined
Hillary Clinton” during the 2016 campaign and openly that Trump wouldn’t win.”
hostile to President Trump after “their candidate didn’t
win.” He then demanded that press show the commander- He reminded viewers that early on
in-chief “more respect.”
“CNN and all the other networks were
Morgan, a self-avowed liberal, declared: racing to give him [Trump] as much air time
as they could possibly give him. This, of
“...Donald Trump's main beef with the course, fueled the monster.” “And then
media, which is that it’s a two-way when the moment came when they
street, this question of respect and thought, ‘Oh, God, hang on, he might
honesty. And he has felt for quite some actually win,’ then rather like Dr.
time, I think, that a lot of people in the Frankenstein, they thought, ‘We’ve got to
mainstream media, for want of a better kill him off,’” Morgan added.
phrase, are absolutely determined to
bring him down. And I think he’s got a Singling out the New York Times for its particularly slanted
point, I think some of them absolutely coverage of the race, Morgan scolded the “supposed paper
are.” of record”:
“And they were in the tank for Hillary “So for The New York Times and others
Clinton, their candidate didn't win, and now to be saying, ‘Oh, poor us,’ you know,
now they are utterly determined to bring ‘We’re the innocent parties here, Donald
the Trump presidency crashing down.” Trump is annihilating the media and
breaking down the First Amendment and
After host Tucker Carlson pointed to evidence of collusion so on.’ It's pretty rich, I think, given the way
between CNN and the Democratic Party throughout the that they themselves conducted
2016 presidential campaign, Morgan conceded: themselves as the supposed paper of
record.”
“I think the vast majority of people that work
at CNN, particularly the anchors, do have Morgan concluded:
great integrity....But I definitely think there
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“So I think that there is fault on both this question of respect and honesty. And
sides here. I think that it is dangerous he has felt for quite some time, I think, that
and toxic, and I think that the media a lot of people in the mainstream media, for
have got to start showing President want of a better phrase, are absolutely
Trump a bit more respect. And he, in determined to bring him down. And I think
turn, and his White House operation, have he’s got a point, I think some of them
got to show the media a bit more respect. absolutely are. And they were in the tank
And they’ve all got to move on.” for Hillary Clinton, their candidate didn't
win, and now they are utterly determined to
Here is a transcript of the February 6 exchange: bring the Trump presidency crashing down.
So you have a war between the media and
9:00 PM ET the White House, the like of which I’ve
certainly never seen before. And it's pretty
dangerous all around.
TUCKER CARLSON: With each passing day, the war
between the press and the President grows more intense. CARLSON: So I think there’s a difference,
Today, the president tweeted this, though, between having a perspective and
stating it clearly – as you do, as I try to –
and in a subterranean way that’s cloaked
“The failing NEW YORK TIMES writes total
from public view coordinating with a
fiction concerning me. They have gotten it
political party. So we learn on WikiLeaks
wrong for two years, and now are making
the Donna Brazile story, as you know,
up stories & sources!” Then this morning
where she got the debate questions ahead
he tweeted this, “Any negative polls are
of time. We also found out that the DNC
fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC
research director was consulted by CNN
polls in the election. Sorry, people want
for questions to ask Ted Cruz. A Clinton
border security and extreme vetting.”
staffer implied that the politics producer at
CNN was, quote, “a friend and an ally.” And
Well, one media outlet with a particularly antagonistic then you have the chief political analyst at
relationship toward the President is CNN, the Cable News CNN emailing John Podesta and saying,
Network, which labeled Trump – which Trump, rather – quote, “You are a TV star, I've been in
labeled fake news more than once. Piers Morgan is editor- GOP hell.” I mean, it really seems like there
at-large with DailyMail.com. He is the former face of is a special connection between CNN – not
CNN. And by the way, he won Celebrity Apprentice back just all media, but CNN – and that party.
when a certain future president was its host. He joins us Did you notice that when you worked
now from L.A. Piers Morgan, thanks for joining us. there?
MORGAN: Well, to be honest and to be fair
PIERS MORGAN: Pleasure. That just
to CNN, I spent four years there, I think the
shows what good judgment he has, right?
vast majority of people that work at CNN,
CARLSON: Yes. And I always forget that, particularly the anchors, do have great
but what a cool thing to have on your CV. integrity and I don't think they want to be
So I remember well when you were the party to any of this kind of stuff. But I
face of CNN. I watched your show a lot. I definitely think there were people lower
didn’t always agree with you but I always down the food chain perhaps who didn't
thought you were straightforward. If you have such scruples and who were
thought something, you just kind of put it absolutely, I think, determined that Trump
out there and said it. So you left three wouldn’t win.
years ago, since then, thanks to WikiLeaks,
we’ve learned a lot of detail about CNN
colluding with the Democratic Party during
this election. Were you shocked by it?
MORGAN: I was a bit, yeah. I mean, I don't
know how directly involved CNN were, but I
do know that when you look at what
happened with Donna Brazile and some of
the other characters involved, it stank,
frankly. And you know, it brought to light, I
think, Donald Trump's main beef with the
media, which is that it’s a two-way street,
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And bear in mind the history of this. From the moment that
Donald Trump decided to run, you know, he was, for about CARLSON: Well, it’s certainly within
four or five months, the only gig in town. CNN and all the bounds, I think, for news organizations to
other networks were racing to give him as much air time as call out politicians on statements that are
they could possibly give him. This, of course, fueled the false. And I think Trump has made a few
monster. And then when the moment came when they and I don't have any problem with reporters
thought, saying, “Whoa, wait a second, prove what
you say.” But it’s the orientation that shocks
“Oh, God, hang on, he might actually win,” me. It does seem like a lot of journalists
then rather like Dr. Frankenstein, they see their role not as to report the news, but
thought, “We’ve got to kill him off.” But by as to affect the outcome of an election. Has
then, Trump, the nominee, was gone. He that changed in the decades you’ve been in
was off and racing around America and he the business?
became unstoppable. MORGAN: Yeah, look, I mean, in Britain for
example, we have a very free press and
And I noticed in the last few months of that campaign it you have papers which are very obviously
got more and more virulent. You know, papers like The partisan to political parties, be on the left
New York Times, frankly, I thought were a complete and the right. And it's pretty balanced down
disgrace. They weren't even pretending to be anything but the middle, there are as many left-wing
in the tank for Hillary Clinton. And I found that, as a papers in Britain as there are right-wing. In
journalist, pretty obscene to watch actually. So for The America, what I don't like, is this pretense
New York Times and others now to be saying, from papers like The New York Times that
somehow that they are completely beyond
“Oh, poor us,” you know, “We’re the any reproach when it comes to their
innocent parties here, Donald Trump is coverage. That they are completely neutral.
annihilating the media and breaking down They’re not neutral.
the First Amendment and so on.”
I remember in the middle of the campaign, picking up a
It's pretty rich, I think, given the way that they themselves New York Times and reading it from cover to cover. There
conducted themselves as the supposed paper of record. were 11 different stories and letters and comment op-ed
pieces about Donald Trump in that one edition of The New
York Times. Every single one of them was hostile to
So I think that there is fault on both sides here. I think that
Trump, including four out of four letters. Now, come on!
it is dangerous and toxic, and I think that the media have
That is not a coincidence.
got to start showing President Trump a bit more respect.
And he, in turn, and his White House operation, have got
to show the media a bit more respect. And they’ve all got (...)
to move on.
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"In 26 Years, I've Never Seen Anything Like This" White
House Leaks Reportedly Reveal Trump Team Turmoil
By Tyler Durden
Feb 8, 2017 5:09 PM
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“It’s a disgrace that they leaked because Leaks relating to the new White House
it’s very much against our country,” have gone to mainstream media outlets
Trump told Fox News Sunday, accusing that Trump has blasted in the past for
“Obama people” in civil service treating him unfairly including: the New
positions for the leaks. York Times, The Washington Post, NBC
and the Associated Press.
“It’s a very dangerous thing for this
country,” he added noting that these
individuals were still being sought out and Ron Kaufman, who worked in George H.W. Bush’s White
replaced. House in the late 1980s and early 1990s, argued that the
Trump administration’s leaks are par for the course for a
Trump described the media stories of what seemed to be young administration.
contentious interactions between him and the two foreign
leaders as misreported, and contended that he actually had “There’s always leaks,” Kaufman said.
“positive” conversations with both men. “Every president in history has said the
press hates me and there’s too many
leaks.”
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America-Hating Alt-Left Admits They Want To Make
Country “Ungovernable” To Disrupt Trump
And Create Anarchy
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 08, 2017
Well, now we know the answer to that question, and it “We don’t ask permission or put our faith in
comes to us from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. electoral politics, instead, we use our
bodies to stop the smooth operation of the
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system we oppose,” the group’s website “We won this night. We will control the
says, referencing the efforts of Black Lives streets. We will liberate the land. We will
Matter’s to shut down highways as one way fight fascists. We will dismantle the state.
to disrupt. Further, the organization is clear This is war,” the tweet says. (RELATED:
that it seeks to be “an ungovernable force Keep up with our widening political
this winter.” discourse and divide at CivilWar.news)
Another web site, Ungovernable 2017, which is filled with Without question our country is more divided today than at
vile and false characterizations about Trump and the any time since the Civil War. An entire political party –
United States in general, pledges, the Democratic Party – exists to do the bidding of real
fascists, communists, and socialists. Traditional America,
“As we resist, we will create new governing rooted in constitutional republicanism, is being assaulted.
institutions, new economic relationships, Patriots will be needed to win the day at some point, but
and new ways of being human.” the coming conflict must be blamed on the Alt-Left
provocateurs who are using phony narratives and outright
There are splinter factions springing up as well. A tweet lies as a reason to create anarchy.
dated Feb. 1 from “Occupy Oakland” features a picture of
“protestors” carrying banners reading, “This is War,” and
“Become Ungovernable.”
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D.C. Whispers Report On Republican Delay Of Trump
Agenda Confirmed In Real Time
By DCwhisper
Posted On February 8, 2017
48-hours earlier, D.C. Whispers went live with the lawmakers in safe districts have never
following headline: dealt with such severe blowback.”
Ryan Works With Pelosi & Schumer To Stall Trump And here is the D.C. Whispers report which included very
Economic Recovery pertinent information on the very same subject made
public 48-hours before the Politico piece:
Some (foolishly) doubted the story’s legitimacy. Today,
Drudge went with this related headline: “…The first evidence of this tactical delay
on the part of Ryan to ensure nothing
REPUBLICANS FEAR FOR SAFETY AS getting done remains the D.C. status-quo,
OBAMACARE PROTESTS GROW is to declare almost all
attention/energy/focus will be on dealing
with “fixing” Obamacare.
Pay attention to the wording. Watch “repeal
and replace” become secondary to “fixing.”
Ryan intends to initiate a patch-work
approach that will take up a great deal
of legislative time, receive significant
media attention, but in the end, get little
actually accomplished by of way of
“repeal and replace.” In the meantime,
the delay in such critical components of the
Trump economic recover plan – namely
sweeping tax reform, will be further
The Drudge story links to a just-published Politico delayed.
Article outlining how fearful Republicans have become In effect, Paul Ryan and his cadre of
over the “repeal of Obamacare” backlash: Establishment Republicans will do to
Trump what they rarely appeared willing to
“…Also discussed at the closed-door do against Barack Obama – namely use
conference meeting was how to engage the power of the legislature to contain a
Democratic constituents to ensure they feel president’s agenda.”
they’re being heard. After Reichert (R-
Wash.) spoke about the security side,
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) stood up to
talk about how to engage constituents in a
“congenial” manner.
…The presentation was particularly
important, those in attendance said,
because it’s not just the most politically
vulnerable, moderate members being
targeted by protesters. Conservatives have
also seen Democratic activists show up at
events, including one recently hosted by
Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.), who ousted former
Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Many of these DEVELOPING…
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Trump Savages Sen. Blumenthal
For Lying About Fighting In The Vietnam War
Published: February 9, 2017
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Tom Perez Apologizes For Telling The Truth,
Showing Why Democrats’ Flaws Urgently Need Attention
Glenn Greenwald
February 9 2017
For the last five years, the face of the DNC was the living,
breathing embodiment of everything awful about the party:
the sleazy, corrupt corporatist, and centrist hawk Debbie
Wasserman Schultz, who — as a result of WikiLeaks’
publication of DNC emails — had to resign in disgrace
after she got caught engaging in sustained cheating in
order to ensure that Hillary Clinton would be the party’s
nominee.
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bitterness many of them harbor toward the DNC’s operative. And, most importantly of all, he will change
behavior and the party’s centrist, neoliberal, pro-war nothing of substance: ensuring that the same policies,
policies. rhetoric, and factions that have prevailed continue to do so,
all while protecting the power base of the same people
But then panic erupted among the Democratic who have run the party into the ground.
establishment. It began when Israeli-American billionaire
Haim Saban — the largest single funder of both the
Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign — smeared
Ellison as “an anti-Semite and anti-Israel individual” and
said his election “would be a disaster for the relationship
between the Jewish community and the Democratic Party.”
In the minds of D.C. mavens, you can’t have someone as
chair of the DNC who is disliked by billionaire funders.
That is the Democratic Party.
It’s not hard to see why the Obama and Clinton circles
want him to run the party instead of Ellison. He’s
acceptable to big donors. He has proven himself loyal to
the party establishment’s agenda. He is a reliable party
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An even more illustrative episode occurred late
Wednesday. Perez was in Kansas campaigning for votes
from county leaders and was asked about the need for the
party to retain the support of the Sanders contingent. Perez
unexpectedly blurted out a truth that party functionaries to
this day steadfastly bury and deny even in the face of
the mountain of evidence proving it. This is what Perez
said:
He quickly slinked onto Twitter with a series of tweets to That is the template that has driven the Democratic Party
retract what he said, claim that he “misspoke” (does into a ditch so deep and disastrous that even Vox
anyone know what that word means?), apologize for it, and acknowledges it without euphemisms. That is the template
proclaim Hillary Clinton the fair and rightful winner: that has alienated voters across the country at all levels of
elected office and that enabled the Donald Trump
presidency. And it is the template that Democratic Party
establishment leaders are more determined than ever to
protect and further entrench by ensuring that yet another
detached, lifeless functionary who embodies it becomes
the next face of the party.
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Activist Leftist Court Rules
Against Trump Travel Ban, Ignores Actual Law
Appeals Court Rules Against Ban Aimed At Keeping Country Safe
By Staff Writer -
02.09.2017 @7:30 PM EST
(INTELLIHUB) — A federal appeals court has ruled that when you consider the fact that one of the three judges on
the United States will remain wide open to incoming the panel has been publicly supported by leftist
refugees after rejecting a move by the Trump organizations in the past.
administration to reinstate the controversial travel ban.
“Judge Michelle T. Friedland, who is on the
In an unsurprising move considering the courts open leftist three-judge panel that will rule on President
leanings, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at
lower court’s stay of President Trump’s travel ban stopping terrorists from traveling to the
targeting seven countries would remain in place. United States, won the ACLU of Southern
California’s LGBT Award in 2009,
For his part, Trump immediately Tweeted his plan to take according to the Democratic Sen. Patrick
this issue to the Supreme Court due to his belief that our Leahy of Vermont,” reported CNSNews.
national security is directly at stake.
Additionally, the ruling by the appeals court appears to
have been helped along by tech giants Facebook, Google,
and Microsoft who filed court papers in favor of ruling
against the ban.
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Interview With Jim Rogers:
Macro Outlook In The Trump Era
Interview By Erik Townsend
February 9, 2017
Please note this was transcribed to best of the ability of the All of these things are wonderful, wonderful things and if he
transcriber and may have minor errors. Please refer to the can do it Eric, wow things are going to be great.
podcast itself to clarify anything.
But Mr. Trump has also said he's going to have trade war
Erik: Joining me next is a man who needs no introduction, with China, Mexico, Japan, Korea a few other people that
investing legend, Jim Rogers. Jim when you appeared on he has named. He swore that on his first day in office he
this program one year ago, Macro Voices was brand new. would impose 45% tariffs against China. He's been there
We had no name, no reputation and no following yet three weeks, two or three weeks and he hasn't done it yet
despite having no regular audience following at that time, but he still got it in his head I'm sure or maybe he's just
that one interview remains our most popular show ever with another politician like all the rest of them. He says one thing
more than half again as many listener downloads as our and he doesn't mean it at all but he does have at least three
next most popular interview with fund manager Hugh people in high levels in his group who are very, very keen to
Hendry much more recently. So congratulations on your have trade wars with China and other people.
top billing status and I have no doubt that you'll set a new
record today. If he does that Eric, it's all over. I mean history is very clear
that trade wars always lead to problems, often to disaster,
Jim: Eric I think I should hang up now, while I’m ahead, are sometimes even to real war, a shooting war. So I don't
you kidding. With a record like that and an introduction like know, I'm not sure Mr. Trump knows. He said so many
that I want to stop while I'm ahead. things and many of the things are contradictory. Now if he's
not going to have trade wars with various people then
Erik: Well before we let you go let's start with equity markets chances are for a while happy days are here.
then because when we spoke a year ago you and I were
both very concerned about markets being overvalued. You Erik: When we spoke last year, you anticipated even more
went out of your way to say that you didn't know whether it strength for the U.S. dollar and as is usually the case the
would happen in 2016 or 2017or 2018 but you felt that market has proven you right. But you were careful to say
significant downside was ahead for the markets eventually. that it's not because the true fundamentals were bullish but
rather – you went out of your way to emphasize – that
And if I look back just six months ago a lot of industry people would continue to buy dollars because they didn't
luminaries, whether we think about guys like Ray Dalio, know what else to do. And you thought that it could even
Stan Druckenmiller, Carl Icahn, these guys were all casting turn into a bubble.
bearish views for a lot of the same reasons that you and I
were. So how have your views evolved a year later. Do you still
think the dollar has much higher to go and if so how much
Then Donald Trump was elected president and suddenly all higher from here?
of these guys turned super bullish. Ray Dalio seems to be
backing away from that enthusiasm in the last week or two Jim: I still own the dollar, the dollar fortunately is having a
but the fact remains that some super talented people all correction now. You know all bull markets need corrections.
turned bullish, super bullish after the election. Forgive me Corrections are good. I haven't sold any. I may have even
Jim, I'm just not seeing the logic to this are you? bought more for all I know I still see the same thing that
whatever happens in the world there is going to be some
Jim: Well yes and no. Mr. Trump said he's going to do some turmoil somewhere along the line we're already seeing it in
wonderful things. He's going to cut taxes which is always some places. The Euro’s still having its own version of
great for any society, any country. He said he's going to turmoil. It’s going to have a lot more this year.
rebuild the infrastructure which America desperately needs
and is good for America. He says he's going to bring home So the dollar is going to be “a safe haven.” As we discussed
the three trillion dollars, U.S. dollars which American last year Erik, it is not a safe haven but it is perceived as a
companies have overseas. safe haven and in fact for some countries it is a safe haven
compared to say the Euro or other currencies.
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So I still own the dollar. The fundamentals have only gotten The signs will be pretty clear, they're pretty simple signs
worse but the fundamentals have gotten worse everywhere they've been around for hundreds of years, thousands of
except maybe Russia. So I still own the U.S. dollar. years. I just hope I'm smart enough to recognize them and
have the insight to interpret them properly.
Erik: Some people have suggested that the strength in the
U.S. dollar could cause so many problems for emerging Erik: We also spoke last year about the 35 year bond bull
markets that we might eventually see something - let's call it market. You emphasized that you didn't know for sure how
like a Plaza Accord version 2.0 – where governments long it could go on but you said that it was certain to end
around the world conspire to intentionally weaken the dollar sooner or later. In the year since we've spoken quite a few
to prevent or contain those adverse effects. industry luminaries have come out and declared that the 35
year secular bull market in bonds is over.
Do you think that that's a possibility? Do you see that
coming and is that something far out on the horizon or Jeff Gundlach made that call to his credit almost on the very
something that could happen soon, how do you see that? day that remain so far at least the bottom in yields in the top
and price. Bill Gross has said that if we saw a 10 year
Jim: I've been around long enough to know that anything is treasury move over 2.6% a yield that would be the signal in
possible no matter how weird it may sound in fact it weirder his mind that says a secular bear market is underway. Ray
it sounds the more like it's probably going to happen. I doubt Dalio has said that the credit cycle is played out.
if it’s going to be a Plaza Accord this time around it's more
likely that the dollar is going to go higher and higher on its What you said last year was that you were short junk bonds
own volition for some of the reasons we discussed. It will get but you thought at that point – a year ago – it was too early
too high so it will cause serious credit problems for some to make a short call on treasuries. What's your take now? Is
people, a lot of people borrowed a lot of dollars. It will also it time to go short U.S. treasuries or is it still wait and see?
make many American companies less competitive.
Jim: Well all those guys are smarter than I am so I don't
So it's going to go too high, may turn into a bubble, at which know. I any way am not short bonds at the moment
point I hope I'm smart enough to sell it because at some certainly it would have been a good trade last summer as
point the market forces are going to cause the dollar to you pointed out that the bonds made a high, interest rates
come back down because people are going to realize, oh made a low, long term rates made a low. They have rallied
my gosh, this is causing a lot of turmoil, economic problems since.
in the world and it's damaging the American economy. At
that point the smart guys will get out. I hope I'm one of But for my money right now as we speak in February of
them. 2017 everybody is bullish on long term U.S. government
bonds. I've been around long enough Eric to know that when
Erik: You said last year that you were long dollars and could everybody is on the same side of the boat, I better run to the
easily see a bubble forming. But you went on to say that other side.
you could not imagine still owning dollars in ten years’ time.
So now we're down to nine years. Do you still see that this So I am not shorting government bonds. I am shorting junk
has to come to an end? Do you see any sign posts or any bonds still if and when the mood changes and people are
anything on the horizon that would tell us – you mentioned less skeptical and bonds go down and everybody starts
just a moment ago that you hope you're one of the guys saying, oh, bonds cheated me, she lied to me, they lied
who’s smart enough to get out in time – what signals would then I might be ready to short bonds again because we're
you be looking for to tell you when the time is that the dollar certainly in the process of making a top. When that top
rally has played out and the blow off top is in or whatever it comes, I don't know, I'm smart, I'm a very, very, very bad
may be and it's time to get on the other side of the trade? market timer as you know I'm a very, very bad short term
trader. So you should ask those other guys to get your
Jim: If it turns into a bubble, all bubbles look the same no timing.
matter what country, what period of history, what assets,
now everybody's screaming to buy, they’re screaming that Erik: Let's come back to the junk bonds. You and I were
it's different this time, you don't understand, you old man, both short junk last we spoke a year ago. I'm still holding
you just cannot understand why everybody needs to under that position today it sounds like you are too and it was quite
own dollars. So the signs will always be there. profitable actually for a few months after we spoke but since
then we've given back some profits.
Signs along the way will be some of the things I mentioned.
You'll start seeing bankruptcies by companies or countries Is there room to think that maybe we stayed in the trade too
that are over extended in U.S. dollars and since the dollar is long or is this just a pullback? It’s hard for me, obviously the
going higher they cannot repay their debts. You will see recovery in energy prices has helped junk bonds but I can't
American companies and American balance of trade getting believe this is over yet. How do you see it?
worse because of the high dollar.
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Jim: Well I happen to agree with you a 100%. The very fact big enough that there is no entity to bail it out. So the bailout
that I'm still short junk bonds it means that the timing is doesn't happen something else happens and if the
wrong. I know when interest rates start going up again something else is a U.S. sovereign bond crisis I mean holy
permanently when the bull market really does come to an cow Jim U.S. treasury bonds are pretty much the safe haven
end and the interest rates, government bonds, interest rates asset in the central bank reserve assets of the entire globe.
are going to go very, very high Erik, very high if I told you So if you have a crisis in unserviceable U.S. debt where the
how high you would probably hang up now and not listen to U.S. government cannot pay its bills and that means that
me anymore. But in 1981 interest rates – short term interest U.S. treasuries no longer have that safe haven value what
rates in America – were over 20%, bonds were yielding happens at that point?
over – long term bonds – was yielding over 15%.
Jim: Well Eric I suggest that you do a little more research
We've had these long, long bull and bear markets in bonds although I don't think you need to because you’re very
in the United States and we probably will again. So when knowledgeable but if you do a lot of research and become
interest rates go higher the junk bonds are going to get knowledgeable about what's going on in the world you're
destroyed both by interest rates and by credit defaults going to get very, very worried and if you get very, very
because many of them are in fact junk, the companies are worried you're going to - I hope – get prepared because
not great creditors and they're going to pay the price. we're going to have the worst economic problems we've
had in your lifetime or my lifetime and when that happens a
Erik: I want to come back to that whole point of interest lot of people are going to disappear.
rates going much higher. I couldn't agree more with you in
terms of fundamentals that they should move higher. But I In 2008 Bear Stearns disappeared, Bear Stearns had been
can't help but say, “hey wait a minute in 1981 the U.S. was around over 90 years. Lehman Brothers disappeared.
nowhere close to 20 trillion dollars of national debt” and now Lehman Brothers had been around over 150 years. A long,
that we are it seems to me if you were to go back to long time, a long glorious history they’ve been through
historically normal interest rates, even a 6% 10 year yield wars, depression, civil war they've been through everything
never mind 20%, how could that happen without and yet they disappear.
bankrupting the government because it can't service its debt
and what I'm trying to get my head around is if it can't So the next time around it's going to be worse than anything
happen, does that mean that the interest rates can't go we've seen and a lot of institutions, people, companies even
higher or does it mean they do go higher and the countries, certainly governments and maybe even countries
government can't service its debt and it leads to a major are going to disappear. I hope you get very worried.
fiscal crisis.
Erik: I am very worried Jim and it leads into my next
Do you think that when we get to the point where the natural question because you are such an astute student of history
market forces want to push interest rates higher that and you understand longer term trends and I look at-- of
governments will somehow contain them in order to keep course Donald Trump has been elected president of the
their debts serviceable or do you think it means that United States, the U.K. has voted to exit the European
governments are headed towards defaults and bankruptcy Union, there are movements underway which could lead to
when we get to the point where interest rates return to their referenda in several other European countries that could
historical norms? lead to more countries abandoning the E.U.
Jim: I'm sorry, why do you think governments cannot go So as a history student Jim, what is this global rise in
bankrupt? It's happened throughout history. The norm is for populism and rejection of government authority around the
governments to go bankrupt over in the extended periods of world telling us, it almost feels like we're headed down the
time including the countries which are on top. road to revolution and things are about to come unglued am
I exaggerating to think it's that bad?
After the First World War a hundred years ago U.K. was the
richest most powerful country in the world there was no Jim: Well let's just talk about some of the things that‘s going
number two, well I can remember when the U.K. went to happen in a next couple of years and then I think we can
bankrupt two generations later, three generations later draw further conclusions. They're going to be more
could not sell long term debt I.M.F. had to bail them out. movements in Europe for instance for countries to split up
and for countries to leave the E.U.
You're not old enough to remember when the French were
like that or the Spanish or the Dutch, everybody has been on You mentioned France before, there are people in France
top – well not everybody – but many people have been on who want to split the country and people in Italy, Spain,
top one time or another they've all gone bankrupt. Why do Belgium who want to split those countries. They are now
you think people cannot go bankrupt? going to be encouraged by the fact that Brexit was
successful. The Scots are going to have another election
Erik: Oh, I don't think they can't go bankrupt. I guess what I about the possibility of leaving the U.K.
don't see is, there's no I.M.F. to bail out the U.S. The U.S. is
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Whether these things happen or not Erik I don't know yet, I So where do we stand in this big picture Jim, are we actually
have views but who cares, but we're certainly going to have headed towards war or does it start as a trade war or does
the ongoing turmoil that these movements are alive and well it actually begin as a shooting war? What issues in advance
and will be very active and vocal and visible for a while. are on your radar screen in terms of important signposts
that will tell us where this whole situation is headed?
Now let's presume for a moment that some of them are
successful, well if the European Union starts breaking up or Jim: Well as we've discussed before, whenever things are
the Euro starts breaking up, that's going to throw a spanner bad and things are going wrong people look for somebody
in a lot of people's works because nobody's really sort of to blame. They always throughout history wherever we are,
planned on that. whichever country we're discussing the first people blamed
are always the foreigners. They have different colour skin,
Most of the bonds, the Euro bonds, none of them, very few different languages, different religions, different food, they
of them now have any provision for what happens if there is smell bad, their food smells bad I cannot tell you how many
no Euro. I mean Italy owns several billion dollars’ worth of times I've heard people talk about how, “oh those people,
bonds. Suppose Italy pulls out of the Euro and they their food smells bad and they smell bad too.”
suddenly say OK we're going to pay you back in Lira, well
that's going to confuse a lot of people and cause a lot more So it's very easy it's always happened that way to blame the
turmoil. foreigners for better or for worse it seems it is happening as
you point out in the U.S. again but it's also happening in
You have the same sorts of movements in Asia not nearly other places in Germany, France, Italy many places they're
as powerful or as vocal yet but you have the same sorts-- in blaming the foreigners already again it's even happening in
the United States there's a movement now for California to Singapore to some extent where I live nothing like in Europe
withdraw from the U.S. and by the way in the U.S. a lot of at the moment.
people would like to see California leave the U.S. So it may
work both ways. And as you rile up against the foreigners most countries
historically have closed off one way or the other they close
So when you start having bear markets as you I’m sure well their borders, they close their economies and when you
know one bad thing happens and another bad thing close the economy it leads to economic problems and
happens and these things snowball just like in bull markets sometimes eventually if you get into real serious trade wars
good news comes out then more good news comes out the it leads to bankruptcy and even worse.
next thing you know you're five or six or seven years into a
bull market. It's rare and I don't think ever in history that one country has
started a trade war and the other country says, “oh well
Well bear markets do the same thing and so we have a lot of that's too bad but we're not going to do anything we're just
bad news on the horizon. I haven't even gotten to war. I going to sit here and let you hit us again and again and
haven't even gotten to trade war or anything like that but you again.” No the other countries retaliate that’s the way
know things do go wrong. human beings are.
Erik: Well that was my next question is we spoke a year ago So if country X. starts a trade war then country Y. hits back
about a topic that most people don't feel comfortable talking and then country X. hit's back and country Y. hits back and
about but I think you and I recognize that it's probably the the next thing you know countries C and D and E are
most important question there is, which is history teaches involved as well and everybody's suffering and then as
us that when economic conditions are like they are now economies get worse more and more things happen more
usually it leads to war either a trade war or a shooting war and more discrimination more and more blame and then
and you were outspoken last year in saying that when you eventually bullets start flying.
have an economic superpower of yesteryear that starts to
become stagnant or even begins to decline and you So no I don't like at all what I see happening. There are
suggested that the U.S. had certainly started to become many analogies to previous periods in history before the
stagnant if not an actual decline that that has almost always First World War and this sort of thing started happening
lead to war. certainly before the Second World War this sort of thing
started happening. It's been common throughout history.
You went on to observe that it's easy to stir people up by
blaming foreigners for all of our woes. Now those probably And these wars when they start they usually-- in 1914
sounded like crazy words to a lot of people last year but look nobody, nobody could conceive of war and then the next
at where we are now a year later we have an immigration thing you knew, there was war and everybody said don't
ban against seven countries that seems to be heating up as worry it'll be over by Christmas, well six months later
one of the most contentious and heated both legal and everybody was saying, how did we get into this war? How
political battles in U.S. history. do we get out of this war? It's absurd. It's ludicrous etc.
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And that's been the case for most wars, if you go back and rhetoric up and keep throwing more and more accusations
look, some bureaucrat throws his weight around the next and so the State Department has done that.
thing you know another bureaucrat throws his weight around
and the next thing you know 20 year old kids are shooting I know that before the illegal coup Obama, Bush everybody
at each other instead of drinking beer together and was trying to be friends with the Russians rightly so, cold
everybody is suffering. war had ended long ago, the Russians wanted to be friends
with America. We didn’t need NATO anymore. Who needed
So no, am I worrier? I'm very worried and I know enough the Cold War etc. all the money we were spending on some
history to know that these things have often led to real war. of these arms manufactures and soldiers so until the illegal
Certainly you know we just had a president who won the coup took place we were all trying to be great friends you
Nobel Peace prize of all things, well he started more wars remember George Bush said I looked him in the eye and
probably than most presidents in American history. America he's a man I can admire and work with etc.
seems to have a penchant for war and they seem to like to
get involved. So now of course the Democrats especially since they lost
the election are trying to blame it on the Russians. It's
Erik: Well that certainly is true on a related note to that let's unfathomable to me how the Russians could have
talk for a minute about U.S. Russian relationships. The determined the outcome of the elections. Maybe they
Democrats would have us believe that Donald Trump did not planted a story a two but so what? It's inconceivable to me
win the election but actually evil Russian agents hacked to that the Russians could influence much less determine the
the election and undermined American democracy election.
effectively throwing the election to Donald Trump.
I think if we start having investigations of the illegal voting
Nancy Pelosi even demanded just this past week that the I'm afraid we're going to find more for the Democrats than
F.B.I. should launch a major investigation to figure out what for the Republicans places big cities in America won't name
information the Russians are holding on Donald Trump in names but so far the few investigations that have taken
order to blackmail him into bowing to their wishes. place we find that the voting irregularities are in big cities
which are Democratic strongholds.
President Trump on the other hand continues to reiterate
that he has no ties to Russia, no business deals in Russia, Erik: Let's move on to precious metals next last year you
no personal relationship with the Russian government, never said you owned gold and you weren't selling it. But you
talked to Putin, doesn't know Putin and so on and so forth. were also quick to say that you weren't buying any more
either. You thought that better buying opportunities might
And he's been particularly outspoken in saying that getting still lie ahead and you were holding off until they
along with Russia is a good thing not a bad thing. That materialized. What's the update on your outlook for precious
America should strive to get along with Russia. That he metals in the months and years ahead?
hopes to get along with Putin even though he says that he
doesn't know him. President Trump has suggested that it’s Jim: Same way, I still own it. I'm not buying anymore. If gold
the Democrats who are trying to start World War three with more or less went up or went down, I suspect gold today is
all of their anti-Russian rhetoric and accusations. where it was back then, maybe a little higher, maybe a little
lower. I'm still sitting and watching. I want to own more gold.
Now you're the history and world affairs guru Jim, are the I want to own more silver but I want to own it at a lower
Russians really the bad guys here or are they being price which I expect.
scapegoated in order to facilitate an American political
rhetoric campaign against the president? Now Erik I repeat I’m the single worst market timer in the
world. So gold may not go down ever again. If it does, I
Jim: Well I do know that during the last administration, Mr. hope I'm smart enough to buy more if it doesn't, I own some.
Obama's administration as you probably remember we
started, we tried to pull of an illegal crew in Ukraine, we got Erik: Well I'll repeat what I said one year ago which is, I
caught at it, what's her name, Victoria Nuland, whatever the don't believe you're the world's worst market timer. I think
woman’ name the State Department they have there you're actually a little bit better than that as evidenced by
several pieces of evidence where we know she tried to your 4200% and seven years track record when you were
instigate an illegal coup then of course the Russians running your fund. But let's move on from there.
outsmarted us and so the State Department started blaming
it on the Russians and the hype against the Russians has Jim: Just a little bit, that was a long time ago and second of
gotten bigger and bigger ever since after we started-- or all it was ten years it wasn’t seven years but it doesn't
tried to start, tried to instigate the illegal coup Crimea and matter. I mean it's not that important. It was a long time ago.
Ukraine.
Erik: OK well I still will add a little bit more credence than
So yes we are certainly at fault to some extent and obviously you take credit for to your abilities in the markets. Let's
you then, when you're caught you've got to keep the move on to another topic that you mentioned last time which
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is you described the desire of governments to outlaw cash But we seem to have people cheering in the streets for this
because that of course allows governments much more Jim. It seems like most people are duped into believing that
control over the financial system. They can impose negative this loss of freedom is a good thing. The government’s
interest rates do all sorts of other things and control fighting terrorism and we're going to be safer as a result of
everyone's finance. forfeiting our freedoms.
Needless to say, those were very prescient words so many What does history teach us, is this part of a cycle, is there a
government officials and academics have come out in the reason that people are reacting this way because certainly
last year particularly from Harvard University, Ken Rogoff a in other times in history people have been willing to die in
professor there, calling for an outright ban on cash in favour order to avoid losing their freedoms but they're almost
of purely electronic currency systems. The European Union cheering the government on in taking freedoms away now.
has already floated proposed new regulations that would What's going on here?
limit cash transactions.
Jim: Well history shows that people always would like a little
Jim where's all of this headed and what's in store for more safety and a willing to “give up some things for more
markets as governments continue to wage war against safety and security.” Benjamin Franklin said well anybody
cash? who would give up some freedoms for security is going to
wind up with neither security nor freedom and they deserve
Jim: Governments are always looking out for themselves to lose both and of course that's the way it is.
first and it's the same old thing you know Eric this has been
going on for hundreds of years. The Indians recently did the I’m not the first to realize that people who are rising to
same thing they withdrew 86% percent of the currency in become dictators start taking away freedoms first in
circulation and they have now made it illegal to spend more Germany they took away the guns, they wouldn’t let people
than, I think it's about $4000 in any cash transaction. In have guns in Germany and lots of places have done that or
France you cannot use more than, I think it's a €1000. things like that.
Many countries are already doing this. Some states in the In America now you and I probably remember when we
U.S. you cannot make cash transactions above a certain were kids, you had to have a search warrant, now they can
amount. Governments love it. Then they can control you. If just break your door down if they have what they consider
you want to go and buy a cup of coffee they know how enough good reasons, they don't even have to go to the
many you drink, where you buy them etc. if they can all put court and get a search warrant anymore.
it into electronic formats and they will the world is all going
electronic. My children will probably never go to a bank So it's already happening and if you said to somebody that
when they're adults, maybe never go to a post office maybe you know they could break your door down they say they’re
even never to a doctor or rarely to a doctor when they're not going to break my door down I’m not a terrorist or a drug
adults. dealer, well that's how it all starts people say it's OK but then
the next thing you know they're breaking your door down
So the Internet and the computers changing everything that too.
we know, money can certainly be easily converted to
computers not today because there are still, some people So it's already happening do I like it? No I don't like it but I'm
who don't have computers and the system is not ready it but not the first-- what was his name Goebbels the German
it can be done and when it's done the governments are who said if you say something to people enough times they
going to be very, very happy they going to say they're doing believe it no matter how absurd it is and you and I have
it for our own good Eric, this is not them, this is for our certainly seen it in the news in America you say something
good. That they're doing this, but it’s coming and it's going enough times people believe it and it becomes politically
to be a whole different world in which we live. Probably we correct and then you can’t even say something that's not
are not going to have as many freedoms as we have now politically correct in America any more.
even though we are already losing our freedoms at a
significant pace. Erik: Jim you have achieved some utterly amazing things in
your life when most people think about going for a ride on a
Erik: Well and I'm curious on your perspective on that motorbike they're imagining a trip around town. You literally
because what fascinates me, I agree with you completely, rode your motorcycle around the entire planet while being
we are losing our freedoms at a very rapid pace. If I followed by a film crew and of course that story was
imagined human beings in a free society and a society that chronicled in your first book Investment Biker.
celebrates freedom, losing those freedoms I would envision
a lot of people under tyranny whining and complaining and When you decided to take your new wife for a drive in the
groaning about how horrible it was that the tyrants, their countryside you had a custom Mercedes built and you took
overlords were controlling them. a trip through 116 countries that story of course forming the
basis for your second book Adventure Capitalist.
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Jim if I'm correct you're going to be turning 75 this October
that's three quarters of a century on this planet is there Jim: My Chinese is non-existent but when I show videos or
anything left that you haven't done that you still want to do? when I put them on the stage in front of Chinese audiences
Is there any goal that you have and what have been the they always gasp, I mean they just gasp out loud because
most rewarding and interesting experiences in your life? they're so shocked at how good the Mandarin that my little
girls speak is.
Jim: Right now Erik I am having a wonderful adventure. I’ve
got two little kids. I never wanted children when I was-- all So that goal, I moved to Asia to make sure my children
my life and advised people not to have children, I explained spoke good Mandarin and know Asia that part has worked.
that children were a horrible waste of time, money, energy. I It will not make them successful Erik, just because you
was never going to be so foolish as top ruin my life by speak English and Mandarin will not make you successful
having children like all those saps who had children. but if they're working in a Chinese restaurant at least they're
going to be the maître D. instead of the dishwasher. So
Well I was totally wrong Eric. I had my first child when I was hopefully they will have some kind of future.
60 my second when I was 65 and it is absolutely
extraordinary, these two little girls. I hope that everybody Erik: That sounds really exciting. I can't wait to hear about
listening at this who has not had children goes home today what adventures you take them on. But before we close
and starts working on having children. Take a day off if you your latest book is called Street Smarts. Please tell our
have to, you probably shouldn’t take a day off these days listeners what that book is about and what they can expect
these are difficult times but go home for lunch have a lunch to learn from reading it?
hour with children, you cannot believe how much fun and
what a great adventure it is. Jim: Well my agent and my publisher came to me and said,
why don’t you do a book on how you got from Alabama
Now I think in my case it's probably better that I had children today you are in Asia with two girls, two little children
later. If I'd had them when I was 20 or 30 or 40 or speaking Mandarin how did all this happen there must be a
something it would have been a disaster for me for the good story you’ve written a few stories about things. Why
mother for the children. But everybody has to figure that out don't you put it all together and I said nobody would care,
and do it at their own time but this is the most wonderful nobody would be interested but to make a long story short I
adventure that I’ve had so far. did it many people tell me it's the best book that I've done
so far, I certainly enjoyed it, it puts a lot of things together.
So you ask what I'm doing next, what I'm doing next is these
two little girls right now and when they get older I want to I’m certainly glad that I did it so that my children will know if
take them to some more adventures but they’re too young nothing else in the future it's a memoir if you will. I’m a little
right now. embarrassed to use that term about anything with me but
yes it's a memoir.
Erik: Well I must say it has been exciting for me having
heard your story, following your work, reading your books Erik: Well I certainly enjoyed reading it and I can't wait to
over the years. I remember hearing those first stories of your read the next book about the adventures that you take your
decision to have children and your desire that they grow up daughters on.
in an environment where they could learn to speak fluent
Mandarin and so forth. So Jim thanks again for another fantastic interview. We
really appreciate it and Patrick Ceresna and I will be back
Watching your daughter's YouTube channel and seeing her as Macro Voices continues right here at macrovoices.com.
interview you in perfect fluent Mandarin. It's fascinating to
watch the realization of your goals and I would note that her [End of interview]
Chinese is a lot better than your Chinese is Jim and mine as
well.
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The Reason The Elite Hate Trump So Much Is Because He
Is Opposed To The One World Agenda Of The Globalists
By Michael Snyder
February 9th, 2017
The truth, of course, is that it runs much deeper than that. As you can see, even the New York Times uses the term
Ultimately, the elite hate Trump because he is opposed to “globalists” to describe these elitists.
their demonic one world agenda. Many among the elite are
referred to as “globalists” because their eventual goal is to At one time you would have been considered a
unite the whole world under a single planetary system. “conspiracy theorist” is you spoke of “globalists”, but at
These globalists truly believe that they know better than all this point the elite are not even trying to put up a facade
the rest of us, and they want to impose their way of doing any longer.
things on every man, woman and child on the entire planet.
And of course Donald Trump made opposition to
So they get really angry when Donald Trump talks of globalism one of the central themes of his campaign, and it
“building a wall” or establishing a travel ban from certain really struck a chord all across America. As Dr. Jim
countries because they eventually want a world without Garlow noted in an article that went viral just before the
any borders at all. election, Trump’s opposition to globalism was one of the
key things that set him apart from Hillary Clinton…
And they get really angry when Donald Trump says that he
wants to pull the United States out of international trade
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Trump opposes globalism. Hillary thrives “It’s basically saying ‘We are going to
on it. Globalism is far more than organize the world in a way that
“geographical” or “eliminating national establishes an artificial consensus.’ It’s
borders and boundaries.” It is spiritual and not enough to say it’s undemocratic. It’s
demonic at its core. Few—very few— threatening; it’s almost demonic. It is a
understand this. This is quite likely one of world organized independently of
the main reasons why Trump is hated. Do people’s fundamental religious
your homework on this one. Think convictions,” Rabkin said.
“principalities and powers.” Serious.
Extremely serious. I think that when Rabkin chose the word “demonic” that
he was right on point.
The reason why the threat of globalism is so serious is
because if a single global system is ever established there The global elite have already had a tremendous amount of
will be no escape from it. success in promoting values, systems and laws that are
“anti-Christian” around the globe.
Just think about it – where could you go to escape a
government that literally rules the entire world? The globalists control the mainstream media, they control
Hollywood, they control our education system and they
These globalists are completely convinced that if they control most of our politicians.
could just get control of everyone and everything that they
could establish some sort of environmentally-friendly They thought that they were almost ready to move into the
socialist utopia where war and poverty are eradicated. But final stages of their agenda, but then Donald Trump
in order to do that, they would need to be in a position to happened.
micro-manage the lives of every single person on the
planet.
For the moment, the momentum toward a one world
system has been stopped cold.
In their minds it would not be tyranny, but for those of us
that love freedom that is precisely what it would be.
But that doesn’t mean that the globalists will stop trying.
Just because Trump won the election does not mean that
The globalists want a one world government, a one world they are going to roll over and die.
economy and a one world religion. Those of us that are
Christians know that the Bible speaks of a time when this
The elite are going to use all of the resources at their
will happen, but even many that are not Christians are
disposal to try to destroy Trump, even if that means
deeply concerned about what the globalists are pushing
creating a tremendous amount of chaos.
for. Just consider the words of George Mason University
Law School Professor Jeremy Rabkin…
If you study the globalists, you will quickly discover that
one of their favorite tactics is to create order out of chaos.
George Mason University Law School Professor and
So in the months ahead I think that it is quite likely that we
author of the 2004 book The Case for Sovereignty: Why
may see quite a bit of chaos as the globalists attempt to get
The World Should Welcome American Independence their program back on track.
Jeremy Rabkin argues that globalism fundamentally stands
at odds with democratic forms of government.
But if we understand what they are doing, we will be able
to see through their games. So let’s keep shining a light on
In a Tuesday CP interview, Rabkin, a Jew, these globalists, because they always prefer to operate in
expressed his distaste for Donald Trump. the darkness.
But on globalism, he said, “beyond that it is
not democratic, there’s something about it
that is a little creepy, a little uncanny.”
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'Poor Fact-Checking, Flat-Out Fabrication'
Leads To Daily Mail Ban By Wikipedia
© Photo: Pixabay - Europe
17:08 09.02.2017(Updated 17:24 09.02.2017)
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Thanks for Man of the Match guys, look "Essentially it's a community decision and a
forward to keep doing it! @ManUtd #MUFC decision which the English Wikipedia editor
community has taken and actually this was
— Paul Pogba (@paulpogba) November 6,
first discussed as an issue back in 2015,"
2016 Lucy Crompton-Reid, chief executive
of Wikimedia UK said.
Actor George Clooney issued a statement in 2014, after the
"It is the community that's come to a
tabloid suggested "religious tensions" existed between him
consensus decision that the Daily Mail can't
and his wife Amal Clooney's mother.
be used as a reliable source on Wikipedia.
That will affect some 12,000 links,
"The Daily Mail has printed a completely but obviously they won't be changed
fabricated story about my fiancee's mother overnight," she added.
opposing our marriage for religious
reasons, none of the story is factually true,"
The ban means editors of the online encyclopedia will be
Clooney wrote in USA Today.
asked to find alternative sources when the Wikipedia entry
relates to the newspaper or one of its writers.
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Globalists Cornered As President Trump Exposes Their
Lies, Corruption And False Narratives
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 10, 2017
As reported by Life Site, a newly produced video perfectly In that speech, Bush laid out the new globalist vision, in
frames the context for which Trump is so reviled by the which the United States he fought for at age 18 would be a
globalist Left. “Nothing else can explain the massive US partner, and its people little more than a means of
and international howling and vicious, non-spontaneous, financing their own destruction.
‘spontaneous’ demonstrations that have been taking place
in many cities and nations,” the website noted. Globalism, by its very nature, is the redistribution of
wealth – nothing more and nothing less. It is the taking of
The video is below: assets from certain people, certain nations, and giving it to
other people in other lands who, in turn, will spend money
on the goods, products and services owned and controlled
by the globalists.
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depletion of our military. We’ve defended they can lead and dominate. They want to take away every
other nations’ borders while refusing to level of self-governance and replace it with top-down,
defend our own. And spent trillions and iron-fisted authoritarian rule where dissent is not permitted
trillions of dollars overseas while America’s and interdependence among nations is entrenched.
infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and
decay. We’ve made other countries rich Trump wants to empower ordinary Americans again. It’s
while the wealth, strength and confidence obvious that he has faith in the ingenuity and
of our country has dissipated over the entrepreneurial spirit that he himself employed to become
horizon. One by one, the factories a billionaire. He is a believer in opportunity because he
shuddered and left our shores, with not knows that opportunities drive societies to progress, and
even a thought about the millions and progress drives further ingenuity. (RELATED: Keep up
millions of American workers that were left with the globalist plan to split America at CivilWar.news)
behind. The wealth of our middle class has
been ripped from their homes and then
The video ties together several concepts and constructs of
redistributed all across the world, but that is
the new world order:
the past, and now we are looking only to
the future.
Population control
Trump has a completely different vision for America, and How the issue of “climate change” is being used to
it’s a vision for all Americans, not just certain economic destroy capitalism and implement population control
groups and certain demographics: policies (which a UN official recently admitted was true)
The so-called “mainstream media” is nothing short of a
propaganda tool for the NWO crowd
We are assembled here today issuing a
Replace American-style freedoms and constitutional
new decree to be heard in every city, in
government with Marxism/Communism (because those
every foreign capital, and in every hall of
two political ideologies require near-complete reliance
power, from this day forward, a new vision
by the masses on government)
will govern our land, from this day
Replace Christianity and other religions with secular
forward, it’s going to be only America
love of the state
first. America first. Every decision on
trade, on taxes, on immigration, on
foreign affairs will be made to benefit The election of Trump was just what America and the
American workers and American world needed to stop the Alt-Left globalists in their tracks.
families. We must protect our borders from But as we have seen with the perpetual protests and
the ravages of other countries making our endless challenges to Trump’s lawful authority, the
products, stealing our companies, and globalists control many levers of power. And they aren’t
destroying our jobs. [Emphasis added] simply going to give up all the progress they have made.
The globalists don’t want that; they want a global Backing Trump is not simply a political decision anymore.
government they can control. They don’t want empowered If you value your freedom and America’s future, you’ll do
individuals like our founding fathers did; they want sheep it so save yourself and your progeny from a meager
existence in a globalist hell.
.
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Trump On New Immigration Policy Announcement:
‘You’ll See Something Next Week’
"The Constitution Isn’t Just For Citizens Anymore ..."
By Charles Campbell
February 10, 2017 At 12:48pm
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‘See You In Court':
Trump’s Travel Ban Put On Hold By
The 9th Circuit Court
Article By Connor Sephton From News.Sky.Com
Date: February 10, 2017
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In its arguments, the Justice Department had insisted that Mr. Trump’s executive order had been temporarily
the President had the constitutional power to restrict entry suspended nationwide by Judge James Robart in Seattle
to the US – and that the courts should not attempt to last week.
second-guess his determination that such measures were
needed to prevent acts of domestic terrorism. Following that ruling, the President branded Mr. Robart’s
ruling as “ridiculous” – and described him as a “so-called
The judges said: judge”.
“On the one hand, the public has a Sky’s US Correspondent Hannah Thomas-Peter said: “As
powerful interest in national security and in Donald Trump’s tweet indicates, he is likely to be utterly
the ability of an elected president to enact furious about this ruling.
policies. And on the other, the public also
has an interest in free flow of travel, in “It will embarrass a man who ran on a
avoiding separation of families, and in promise to act quickly and decisively on
freedom from discrimination.” matters of ‘national security’.
“It will sting even more that he has been
thwarted by his country’s court system –
full of the kind of grey-haired establishment
figures he railed against during his
insurgent campaign.
“Donald Trump is at his most unpredictable
when angry or backed in to a corner – and
now, he is both these things.”
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How The Trump Regime Was
Manufactured By A War Inside The Deep State
Source: Nafeez Ahmed
Published: February 10, 2017
His chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has completely The act is a direct product of a global systemic crisis, but is
restructured the National Security Council under unilateral a short-sighted and ill-conceived reaction, pre-occupied
presidential authority. While Bannon and his Chief of Staff with surface symptoms of that crisis. Unfortunately, those
Richard ‘Reince’ Priebus now have permanent seats on the hoping to resist the Trump reaction also fail to understand
NSC’s Principals’ Committee, the Director of National the system dynamics of the crisis.
Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
are barred from meetings except when requested for their
All this can only be understood when we look at the big
picture. That means the following: we must look a little
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more closely at the individuals inside Trump’s Trump’s nominee for Commerce Secretary is Wall Street
administration, the wider social and institutional networks veteran Wilbur Ross. He’s a billionaire financier who
they represent, and what emerges from their being invests in buying and selling companies in distressed
interlocked in government; we must contextualize this industries, and who made his early fortune as a fund
against two factors, the escalation of global systemic crisis, manager at the Rothschild Group.
and the Trump regime’s ideological framing(s) of that
crisis (both for themselves, and for public consumption); Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s Treasury Secretary, is a former
we must connect this with the impact on the transnational partner at the global investment bank Goldman Sachs, a
Deep System, and how that links up with the US Deep hedge fund manager and, until his nomination, a board
State; and we must then explore what this all means in member of the Fortune 500 financial holding company,
terms of the scope of actions likely to be deployed by the CIT Group. He’s also a member of the Yale University
Trump regime to pursue its discernable goals. secret society, Skull and Bones.
This investigation will allow us to establish a ground state Vincent Viola is Trump’s nominee for Army Secretary.
on which to build a meaningful strategy of response that He’s a billionaire, former chairman of the New York
accounts for the full systemic complexity of our Trumpian Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), and current chairman of
moment. Virtu Financial, a high-frequency trading firm.
So the first step to diagnosing our Trumpian moment is to Linda McMahon is Trump’s Small Business
see who is leading it. We’ll begin by looking at a cross- Administrator. She’s a co-founder and former CEO of
section of some of Trump’s most prominent nominations WWE, which is now valued at around $1.5 billion, and
and appointments. married to billionaire WWE promoter Vincent McMahon.
“That would be more business people with Trump’s crack team of money monsters is clearly not
no public-sector experience than have ever planning on acting in the interests of American workers —
served in the Cabinet at any one time,”, they will instead do what they know best: use the
concludes Pew Research Center. considerable power of the American state to break down as
many regulatory constraints on global banking finance as
Betsy DeVos has been nominated for Education Secretary. possible, with a special view to privilege US banks and
She’s a billionaire married to the Amway conglomerate. corporations.
Trump’s administration has not just been bought by Wall Zinke’s philosophy is basically ‘drill, baby, drill’. That’s
Street. It’s been bought by the oil, gas and coal industries. why he’s taken over $300,000 in campaign donations from
oil and gas companies that want to accelerate drilling
Rex Tillerson is Trump’s Secretary of State, and former across public lands.
chairman and CEO of giant oil and gas conglomerate
ExxonMobil. As the world’s largest oil major of all, Mike Catanzaro is Trump’s nominee for Special Assistant
ExxonMobil is the de facto king of fossil fuel interests. for Energy and the Environment. He is also a climate-
Tillerson has close business ties with Russian president denying lobbyist for the oil and gas industry, working for
Vladimir Putin, and has previously headed up the joint US- Koch Industries, America’s Natural Gas Alliance
Russian oil company Exxon Neftegas. (ANGA), Halliburton, Noble Energy, Hess Corporation,
and many others. Early on in his career, he was Deputy
Tillerson is a friend of Igor Sechin, who heads up the Policy Director of the 2004 Bush-Cheney presidential
military security services faction of the Kremlin known as campaign.
‘Siloviki’. ExxonMobil also had intimate ties with Saudi
Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates under The fossil fuel freaks want to burn all the oil, gas and coal
Tillerson. In any case, Trump has richly rewarded they can, at any cost — and they are willing to dismantle
Tillerson for services rendered — 91% of the $1.8 million whatever environmental protections stand in their way.
donated to federal candidates by ExxonMobil’s PAC under
Tillerson for this election cycle, went to Republicans.
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the US military, and numerous allied militaries around the 2 scientists about the danger of climate change driven by,
world. in his own words, “the effect of greenhouse gases on
humans, plants and animals.” He later underwent an
Exxon-like about-turn, illustrated by Breitbart’s rampant
opposition to the idea that the burning of fossil fuels by
human civilization is intensifying climate change.
The Koch brothers, who made their fortune investing in Bannon’s list of interviewees for the proposed film is like
fossil fuels, now have a direct line to America’s premiere a Who’s Who of far-right bigotry. Two of the most well
national intelligence agency. Now that’s what you call a known names included Walid Phares, who advised Trump
coup. on his national security team during the presidential
campaign, and Robert Spencer. Both are connected to the
Washington DC-based Center for Security Policy (CSP), a
far-right think tank run by former Reagan defense official
Frank Gaffney, where they appear regularly as guests on
CSP’s ‘Secure Freedom’ radio podcast run by Gaffney.
Phares is also a senior fellow at the Foundation for the
Defense of Democracy.
Steve Bannon was founding executive chair of Breitbart Gaffney thus has a significant degree of ideological
News, “the platform of the alt-right” according to Bannon influence on the Trump regime. He has appeared at least
himself. Breitbart is widely known for its publication of 34 times on Bannon’s Breitbart radio program. His work
“racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic material.” has also been cited in speeches by Michael Flynn, Trump’s
Bannon himself is also a prolific film producer, and has national security advisor.
made or contributed to a range of xenophobic films.
Alarmingly, Gaffney has disturbing connections to full-
Before his rise to media mogul status, though, Bannon blown neo-Nazi groups across Europe, such as the Danish
spent a brief time as acting director of the Biosphere 2 People’s Party (DPP) and the Vlaams Belang (VB) in
experiment, an effort to create a self-sufficient ‘closed Belgium.
system’ environment survivable by a small group of
people from 1993 to 1995. At the time, Bannon appeared But he simultaneously has close ties to the US military-
to share and strongly support the concerns of the Biosphere industrial complex. In 2013, CSP tax records showed that
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the CSP had received funding from six of America’s But this connects senior Trump officials to a grim history
biggest aerospace and defense contractors, namely Boeing of neo-Nazi agitation in the US. Tanton received large
($25,000); General Dynamics ($15,000); Lockheed Martin sums of early money for FAIR from the Pioneer Fund, a
($15,000); Northrup Grumman ($5,000); Raytheon pro-Nazi grant-giving organization which funded
($20,000); and General Electric ($5,000). The CSP has a eugenics — the discredited ‘science’ of ‘racial hygiene’.
particularly close relationship with Boeing, the second Tanton’s various anti-immigrant platforms received money
largest defense contractor in the world, which still provides from the Pioneer Fund as late as 2002. According to a
Gaffney’s group with “general support.” study in the Albany Law Review, the Pioneer Fund had
direct ties to Nazi scientists, and its founding directors
Michael Reilly, who has been Director of Federal Budget were Nazi sympathizers. One of them had even travelled to
and Program Analysis at Boeing since 2010, was Germany in 1935 to attend a Nazi population conference.
previously Gaffney’s Vice President for Operations at the
CSP. Stephen Miller is a senior policy advisor to Trump. He
previously worked as communications director for Jeff
These incestuous ties with the US private defense sector Sessions in his senator’s office, and crafted the strategy to
comprise one prime reason that fully 22 officers or defeat a bipartisan immigration reform bill in 2013. During
advisors of Gaffney’s CSP ended up having appointments his university days, he worked closely with the neo-Nazi
in the George W. Bush administration. leader Richard Spencer, who coined the term “alternative
Right” as a new way of capturing a movement about white
Senator Jeff Sessions is Trump’s Attorney General. racial identity.
Gaffney’s CSP awarded Sessions the annual ‘Keeper of
the Flame’ award in 2015. Sessions has previously Miller denies having worked closely with Spencer when
expressed sympathies for the Ku Klux Klan. He has they were at university together as members of the Duke
closely associated with far-right anti-immigrant Conservative Union. According to Spencer, Miller helped
organizations founded by John Tanton, a driving force in him with fundraising and promotion for an on-campus
America’s white nationalist movements. In 1993, Tanton debate on immigration policy in 2007. The event featured
declared: Peter Brimelow, who runs the white nationalist website
Vdare.com, which regularly publishes articles by neo-
Nazis. Miller’s relationship with Spencer at this time has
“… for European-American society and
been confirmed by email correspondence between Spencer
culture to persist requires a European-
and Brimelow.
American majority, and a clear one at that.”
Yet Trump’s new Attorney General is known for It’s perhaps worth noting that the inspiration for Tanton’s
frequently quoting from Tanton’s groups, showing up at neo-Nazi sympathies were, ostensibly, environmental
their press conferences, and has even received recognition concerns. In a recent article he admits,
and campaign contributions from them.
“my initial interest in curtailing immigration
The John Tanton connection opens up a can of worms. was motivated by a longstanding concern
Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s Counsellor, is also connected for the environment.”
to Tanton. Her polling firm was previously contracted by
Tanton’s anti-immigration platform Federation for From 1971 to 1975, Tanton was chair of the National
American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Population Committee of one of America’s oldest
environmental organizations, the Sierra Club. His theory
was that immigration drives unsustainable population
Numerous other officials involved in the Trump team —
growth, which then drains resources and harms the
Lou Barletta, Kris Kobach and Julie Kirchner — have
direct organizational ties to Tanton’s FAIR. environment. The environmental crisis, from Tanton’s
point of view, is a population problem — specifically, a
problem of too many people. Part of dealing with that
means cracking down on immigration — this, ironically, in
a nation founded on immigration.
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The Murdoch connection has other alarming ramifications.
Since 2010, Murdoch has been an equity-holding board
member of the American energy firm, Genie Oil & Gas.
He had teamed up with Lord Jacob Rothschild, chairman
of Rothschild Investment Trust (RIT) Capital Partners, to
buy a 5.5% stake in the corporation then worth $11
million.
Genie Oil & Gas has two main subsidiaries. One of them,
Afek Oil & Gas, operates in Israel and is currently drilling
in the Golan Heights, which under international law is
recognized as Syrian territory. The Golan was captured by
Israel from Syria in 1967, and unilaterally annexed in 1981
with the introduction of Israeli law to the territory. The
other Genie subsidiary, American Shale Oil, is a joint
project with the French major Total SA, and operates in
Colorado’s Green River Formation.
Anton has played a major role in attempting to cajole and “The peaking of world oil production
convince conservatives, through various anonymous presents the US and the world with an
writings in conservative publications and behind-the-
enormous challenge. Aggressive action
scenes networking, of the necessity of voting Trump to
head off the crisis of conservative decline amidst the must be taken to avoid unprecedented
apocalyptic failures of liberalism. economic, social and political costs.”
Rupert Murdoch has a direct line to the Trump White This may well reveal much about the crisis-perceptions of
House through Michael Anton, but it’s one the News Corp those who influence the Trump regime.
owner has gone to pains to build personally. Murdoch and
his wife Jerry Hall were hosted for dinner by Trump at his Trump’s administration has been further augmented by a
golf course in Scotland in June 2016. Later Murdoch was man with especially extensive ties to the US Deep State:
seen visiting Trump Tower in November 2016. Murdoch is Henry Kissinger.
set to have significant influence on Trump, who reportedly
asked the Fox News owner to recommend his top preferred Since December 2016, Kissinger, the notorious former
candidates to chair the Federal Communications Secretary of State convincingly accused of complicity in
Commission.
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war crimes by the late Christopher Hitchens — who has National Security Council from 1970 to 1976. In that
played direct advisory roles in both the preceding Bush capacity, she played a lead role in working on Kissinger’s
and Obama administrations — has become Trump’s notorious and originally classified 1974 National Security
unofficial foreign policy guru. Kissinger was a secret Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM200). The document
national security consultant to President Bush, and under advocated that population growth in poorer countries was
Obama was directly involved in the US National Security the principal threat to US overseas security and other
Council’s chain-of-command. interests, especially by endangering US access to “mineral
supplies”.
He now appears to be intimately involved in the evolution
of Trump’s foreign policies toward China and Russia. His
firm, Kissinger Associates, has for some years played a
central role in easing the passage of numerous US
corporations into lucrative Chinese investments.
Kissinger’s critical role in developing Trump’s eastward Energy interests linked to Murdoch believe in an imminent
facing strategy was revealed by the German tabloid, Der social, economic and political crisis due to peak oil.
Bild, which obtained a document from the Trump
transition team. The document confirmed Kissinger’s role Most Trump teamsters see their task as saving the fossil
as the key mastermind brought in to craft a way to rebuild fuel industries from crises external to them, and now all
relationships with Russia. Kissinger’s plan would include ostensibly tend to deny the gravity of the industry’s
lifting US economic sanctions — paving the way for a environmental impacts.
potentially lucrative partnership between American and
Russian oil and gas companies — and recognizing Russia’s
ownership of the Crimea. All are worried about the profits of their friends in Wall
Street.
Kissinger’s advice on China policy, however, is not yet
A large number of Trump team associates have ties to John
fully known. Writing in the South China Morning Post,
Tanton, whose proto-Nazi views are rooted in an eugenics-
inspired belief that the environmental crisis is due to too
Pepe Escobar argues that Kissinger’s many non-white people.
record suggests that Trump will deploy “a
mix of ‘balance of power’ and ‘divide and
And now Trump’s national security team draws on the
rule’. It will consist of seducing Russia
parallel views of the old Nixon era Kissinger team
away from its strategic partner China;
keeping China constantly on a sort of red concerning the threat of overpopulated poor countries
alert; and targeting Islamic State while undermining US access to the world’s food, energy and
continuing to harass Iran.” raw materials resources — for which the solution could be
to ‘cauldronize’ countries of strategic interest.
Kissinger’s ‘unofficial’ advisory role in the Trump regime
is solidified through the direct influence of one of his These crisis-perceptions, however, are not grounded in
longtime acolytes. systemic insight: but are refracted through the narrow
lenses of self-serving power. The crises are relevant only
insofar that they represent a threat to their interests. But
K.T. McFarland, who is to work under Michael Flynn as most importantly, their ensuing beliefs about how to
Trump’s Deputy National Security Adviser, was an aide to
Henry Kissinger during the Nixon administration on the
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respond to these crises end up being retracted through the crimes encourages favours, payoffs, and
ideological framework of the conservative-liberal polarity. eventually systemic corruption. The
phenomenon of ‘organized crime’ arises:
entire criminal structures that come to be
tolerated by the police because of their
usefulness in informing on lesser
criminals.”
“A deep political analysis notes that in This was privately acknowledged by US State Department
practice these efforts at control lead to the planners working in partnership at the time with the
use of criminal informants; and this Council on Foreign Relations:
practice, continued over a long period of
time, turns informants into double agents
“If war aims are stated, which seem to be
with status within the police as well as the
concerned solely with Anglo-American
mob. The protection of informants and their
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imperialism, they will offer little to people in criminal enterprises, drug trading, smuggling, legal
the rest of the world… Such aims would businesses, and so on”, most of which is recycled into
also strengthen the most reactionary Western economies through money laundering via
elements in the United States and the mainstream financial institutions:
British Empire. The interests of other
peoples should be stressed, not only those “It is a vital element of the cash flow of
of Europe, but also of Asia, Africa and Latin these economies.”
America. This would have a better
propaganda effect.”
But the problem goes further. As the primary medium of
exchange for this criminal economy is the US dollar, the
The number of people that died in the course of this latter’s role as the world reserve currency has cemented a
forcible integration of former colonies across Asia, Africa, structural situation in which the economic power of the US
South America and the Middle East into the orbit of an Treasury has become conditional on the economic
emerging US-UK dominated global economy, is immunity of transnational criminal networks, who
astonishing. systematically use US dollars for criminal transactions:
The greater the stock of dollars held abroad, the greater the
In his book, Unpeople (2004), British historian Mark source of revenue for the US Treasury.
Curtis offers a detailed breakdown of the death toll at
approximately 10 million — a conservative under-estimate, These examples illustrate how the US Deep State operates
he qualifies. American economist Dr. JW Smith, in his as the chief regulator of a global Deep System, in which
Economic Democracy (2005), argues that globalization seemingly legitimate international financial flows have
was: become increasingly enmeshed with transnational
organized crime, powerful corporate interests who control
“… responsible for violently killing 12 to 15 the world’s fossil fuel and raw materials resources, and the
million people since WW II and causing the privatization of the military-industrial complex.
death of hundreds of millions more as their
economies were destroyed or those
countries were denied the right to
restructure to care for their people… that is
the record of the Western imperial centers
of capital from 1945 to 1990.”
So rather than being a nationalist ‘insurgency’ against the However, what they are actually doing is accelerating the
corporate globalist ‘Deep State’, the Trump regime decline of the American Deep State and the disruption of
represents a white nationalist coup by a disgruntled cross- the global Deep System.
Slide from lecture at Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University (Ahmed)
The Trump faction is correct that there is a crisis in US jobs at home, and to adopt more protectionist trade policies
power, but they fail to grasp the true nature of the crisis in to protect American industries and manufacturing.
its global systemic context.
The immediate reality here is that Trump’s money
Each grouping within the Trump faction, and the elite monsters are keenly aware that conventional neoliberal
social and institutional networks they represent, has its American economic and financial policies are no longer
own narrow understanding of the crisis, framed from working: Under Obama, for instance, the median
within the ideological parameters of its own special household income saw its first significant increase since
interests and class position. the 2007–8 recession in 2015, rising by 5.2%. In real
terms, though, little has changed. Median household
Each grouping suffers serious epistemological limitations income is at $56,516 a year, which when adjusted for
which mean they are not only incapable of grasping the inflation, is 2.4% less than what it was at the turn of the
systemic nature of the crisis and its impacts, but they hold millennium.
self-serving views about the crisis which tend to project
their insecurities onto all sorts of Others. So while Obama managed to create over a million new
jobs, purchasing power for the working and middle classes
For instance, the ongoing failure to lift the US economy hasn’t increased — it’s actually decreased. Meanwhile,
into a meaningful recovery is framed by the Trump faction although the poverty rate dropped by 1.2% in 2015, the
as due to not putting ‘America first’ in trade relations. overall trend since the 2007 crash has seen the number of
Trump’s plan is to boost infrastructure investment to create
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poor Americans increase from 38 million to 43.1 million As the London-based development charity ActionAid
people. showed in a 2013 report, a more realistic poverty measure
lies between $5 and $10 a day. World Bank data shows
But this problem goes beyond Obama — it’s systemic. that since 1990, the number of people living under $10 a
day has increased by 25 percent, and the number of people
living under $5 a day has increased by 10 percent. Today,
Over the last century, the net value of the energy we are
4.3 billion people — nearly two-thirds of the global
able to extract from our fossil fuel resource base has
inexorably declined. The scientific concept used to population — live on less than $5 a day.
measure this value is Energy Return on Investment
(EROI), a calculation that compares the quantity of energy So really, poverty has worsened in the Age of Progress.
one extracts from a resource, to the quantity of energy used And now the unsustainability of this equation is coming
to enable the extraction. home to roost even in the centres of global growth, where
wealth is most concentrated.
There was a time in the US, around the 1930s, when the
EROI of oil was a monumental 100. This has steadily As of mid-2016, the GDP of Europe has been stagnant for
decreased, with some fluctuation. By 1970, oil’s EROI had over a decade, and the US has reached a GDP growth rate
dropped to 30. Over the last three decades alone, the EROI of 1.1 percent, nearly the same as its population. This
of US oil has continued to plummet by more than half, means that the US has actually experienced no average
reaching around 10 or 11. increase in “per capita wealth”, according to SUNY’s
Charles Hall.
According to environmental scientist professor Charles
Hall of the State University of New York, who created the To maintain this semblance of economic growth, we are
EROI measure, global net energy decline is the most using ingenious debt mechanisms to finance new economic
fundamental cause of global economic malaise. Because activity. The expansion of global debt is now higher than
we need energy to produce and consume, we need more 2007 pre-crash levels. We are escalating the risk of another
energy to increase production and consumption, driving financial crisis in coming years, because the tepid growth
economic growth. But if we’re getting less energy over we’ve managed to squeeze out of the economy so far is
time, then we simply cannot increase economic growth. based on borrowing from an energetically and
environmentally unsustainable future.
And this is why there has been an unmistakeable
correlation between long-term global net energy decline, And that growth-by-debt mechanism is also occurring
and a long-term decline in the rate of global economic within the oil industry, which has amassed two trillion
growth. There is also an unmistakeable correlation dollars worth of debt that, in the context of the chronic oil
between that long-term decline, the rise in global price slump, means the industry is not profitable enough to
inequality, and the increase in global poverty. generate the funds to ever repay its debt.
The self-styled liberal faction of the Deep State has Both pro- and anti-Trump factions of the Deep State are in
convinced itself that capitalist growth helped halve global denial of the fact that this escalating crisis is due,
poverty since the 1990s, but there’s reason to question that. fundamentally, to the global net energy decline of the
That success rate is calculated from the World Bank world’s fossil fuel resource base.
poverty measure of $1.25 a day, a level of very extreme
poverty. But this poverty measure is too low. In a time of fundamental systemic crisis, the existing
bedrock of norms and values a group normally holds onto
While the numbers of people living in extreme poverty has maybe shaken to the core. This can lead a group to attempt
indeed halved, many of those people are still poor, to reconstruct a new set of norms and values — but if the
deprived of their basic needs. A more accurate measure of group doesn’t understand the systemic crisis, the new
poverty shows that the number of poor worldwide has construct, if it diagnoses the crisis incorrectly, can end up
overall increased. blaming the wrong issues, leading to Otherization.
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Donald Trump Has Signed More Executive
Actions In Two Weeks Than Any Other President
The Republican Has Signed Eight Orders And 12 Memoranda,
Rolling Back Progress On Minority Rights, Climate Change
And Financial Regulation
Rachael Revesz New York @Rachaelrevesz
February 10, 2017
If Mr. Trump continues at his present pace, he will sign
1,040 actions this year, which would be almost four times
as many as Mr. Obama signed throughout his entire time in
office.
Mr. Trump tweeted in July 2012 that Mr. Obama was Mr. Trump has worried critics that he is rolling back rights
flexing his Presidential muscle too much and too early on for women, LGBT members, people of colour and is
in his term. dismissing climate change.
"Why is Barack Obama constantly issuing The Republican’s re-instating of the Mexico City Policy,
executive orders that are major power banning aid to foreign organisations that even talk about
grabs of authority?" he asked. abortion, his orders to build the Dakota Access and the
Keystone XL Pipelines, as well as his request to build the
Ronald Reagan, who Mr. Trump has often modelled wall along the border, are just three of the 20 orders. He
himself on, did not sign any in the first two weeks in has also ordered a review of all the Obama-era regulations
office. on the financial and investment industry which were put in
place after the 2008 credit crisis.
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The latest three orders, signed Thursday, outline the His cabinet has been described as the wealthiest - a
mandate of the newly sworn-in Attorney General Jeff collective worth of $81. billion - and the least educated in
Sessions, the longtime senator from Alabama who was modern American history. A total of 17 cabinet picks
once deemed too racist to serve as a federal judge. They alone have more wealth than a third of American
include enforcing existing laws and creating new ones to households. Mr. Trump’s campaign pledge to "drain the
crack down on drug cartels, illegal immigration and violent swamp" of Washington DC compared to Mr Obama’s
crime, as well as invest more power in the police. cabinet, which was around $7.7 billion less rich than that
of successor’s.
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McCarran-Walter Act Trump Stands
Solidly On Law To Ban Terrorists By Frosty Wooldridge
2-10-2017
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restrictions; average immigrants whose numbers were not and the Virgin Islands, to add Guam. Persons born in these
supposed to exceed 270,000 per year; and refugees. territories on or after December 24, 1952 acquire U.S.
citizenship at birth on the same terms as persons born in
The Act allowed the government to deport immigrants or other parts of the United States.
naturalized citizens engaged in subversive activities and
also allowed the barring of suspected subversives from A 1962 guideline explained procedures under the Act:
entering the country. It was used to bar members and
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
former members and "fellow travelers" of the Communist
requires an alien to apply for a petition for
Party from entry into the United States, even those who
naturalization. This form may be obtained from
had not been associated with the party for decades.
any office of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, a division of the Department of Justice,
This video showing Muslims marching in Chicago recently or from any court authorized to naturalize aliens.
that read, “Death to America”, shows you why Trump
needs to enforce this precious McCarran-Walter Act. Today, more than ever, we need to keep Muslims out of
our country. That march in Chicago with the banner
https://quantumliberty.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/chicago “Death to America” indicates the trauma of our future as to
-muslims-protest-in-massive-force/ Muslim immigrants.
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Democrats Are Winless Against GOP And Trump, Despite
Their Bravado After The November Elections
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 10, 2017
As reported by The Washington Times, the closest Yes, and that’s because Republicans have never so
Democrats got to beating Trump and the Republicans was vehemently opposed Democratic presidential Cabinet
in failing to confirm Trump’s nominee for Education picks, purely for political reasons. When Republicans do
secretary, Betsy DeVos. A pair of Republican senators, seek to deny, it’s obstructionism; when Democrats do, it’s
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, standing up for what’s right. Yet if most of the country
who each received thousands in campaign funds from a agreed with that assessment, Democrats would be in
teachers union, defected from the 52-member GOP power. (RELATED: Keep up with the conservative agenda
majority and cast ballots against confirming DeVos. This at Conservative.news)
action left a 50-50 tie, which meant that Vice President
Mike Pence, as president of the Senate, had to act as the “What we are showing is whether it is in
tie-breaker. DeVos, who believes in school choice, was Congress or it is in peaceful protests, or
confirmed after Pence cast his vote for her. (RELATED: whether it is courts, lawsuits, whether it is
How’s the Trump administration doing? Find out at online, we are not going to just go away
Whitehouse.news) quietly when somebody is hurting our
values and hurting our people and hurting
But hey, Democrats sure have tried awfully hard. In recent our country,” Kaine whined, never
days Democrats rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court mentioning how Cabinet picks are akin to
building in Washington, D.C., to protest Trump’s very “hurting people” and “hurting the country.”
legal and constitutional order banning the issue of visas to
persons from seven failed or failing countries infested with The Senate certainly does not have to consent to a
terrorist groups and activities. They have also thrown up president’s Cabinet and federal court picks, but it’s been
unprecedented stalling tactics to put off confirmation of customary for both parties to allow a president wide
many of Trump’s Cabinet picks, “forcing record delays latitude in naming whom he wants to serve with him.
and denying him his team,” the Times reported.
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Democrats now no longer respect that custom because they That has not been lost on Senate Majority Leader Mitch
lost so badly in 2012, 2014 and again in 2016. McConnell of Kentucky, who told the Times that some
Democrats “are kind of embarrassed by the whole show.”
House Democrats have fared no better in thwarting the
president or the GOP agenda, which, granted, has been “At some point here, you’ve got to wonder
modest thus far. On Wednesday they kicked off a three- about dysfunction and fatigue beginning to
day retreat in nearby Baltimore, Maryland where they will set in. And I predict that will happen
chart their course moving forward. But already we’ve seen sometime in the near future and we’ll get
the party latch on to the violent domestic terrorism taking back to a more normal kind of operating
place around the country, and frankly, that’s not going to style,” he said.
do Democrats any favors moving forward.
Indeed.
.
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The New York Times Is Now
Lobbying FOR The Muslim Brotherhood
Establishment’s Favorite Paper Goes To Bat For Muslim Brotherhood
By Staff Writer -
02.10.2017 @4:51 PM EST
(INTELLIHUB) — The establishment paper that has spent organization. Its branches often have tenuous connections
months attacking the very idea of America first is now to the original movement founded in Egypt in 1928.
actively lobbying and promoting the Muslim Brotherhood
after President Trump indicated he may designate the So a newspaper that broadly attacks all Trump supporters
group as a terrorist organization. as the “alt-right” and possible racists wants Americans to
treat the Sharia promoting Muslim Brotherhood with
In a bizarre piece by the Times editorial board, the paper nuance? This is yet another clear example of the American
attacks the President for considering a terror designation corporate media openly promoting the agenda of non-
that the likes of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and UAE have Americans over actual citizens.
already done.
The Times also seemingly purposefully ignores the
The newspaper claims that designating the Brotherhood as documented goals of the Muslim Brotherhood in their
terrorists, transparent lobbying for the group. The fact of the matter
is, the Brotherhood openly seeks to establish a worldwide
“would be seen by many Muslims as Islamic caliphate that would be based on Sharia Law.
another attempt to vilify adherents of Period, end of the story, that is their STATED goal.
Islam,”
As Breitbart’s Aaron Klein noted,
before pushing yet more disinformation in claiming that
Trump and his advisers are promoting an “exaggerated” “While many Brotherhood wings reject the
vision of America under attack. use of violence as a strategic tactic,
preferring instead a sophisticated
Such an order, now under consideration, would be seen by gradualist strategy to achieve their aims,
many Muslims as another attempt to vilify adherents of the Brotherhood has spawned terrorist
Islam. It appears to be part of a mission by the president organizations – most notably Hamas – that
and his closest advisers to heighten fears by promoting a adhere to its philosophy of a world order
dangerously exaggerated vision of an America under siege based on Islam. The Brotherhood was also
by what they call radical Islam. a central player in the so-called Arab
Spring, revolutions punctuated by violence
across the Arab world.”
The struggle against extremism is complex, and solutions
must be tailored both to the facts and to an understanding
of the likely consequences. Since 1997, the secretary of Klein also destroyed the disinformation being pushed by
state has had the power to designate groups as foreign the Times about the Muslim Brotherhood being a “political
terrorist organizations, thus subjecting them, as well as organization” that democratically represents millions of
people and businesses who deal with them, to sanctions, Muslims throughout the world.
like freezing their assets. President Barack Obama resisted
adding the Brotherhood to that list. “Addressing the Brotherhood’s support for
the electoral process and purportedly
There are good reasons that the Brotherhood, with millions becoming a political organization, an
of members, doesn’t merit the terrorist designation. Rather extensive report on the Brotherhood by the
than a single organization, it is a collection of groups and Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism
movements that can vary widely from country to country. Information Center at Israel’s Center for
While the Brotherhood calls for a society governed by Special Studies explained the group’s use
Islamic law, it renounced violence decades ago, has of some tools of democracy to advance the
supported elections and has become a political and social aim of achieving a world ruled by Sharia
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law, which is by definition anti-democratic,” organization while at the same time spending most of each
Klein continued. day attacking all things Trump and any indication that
America is being put first.
To recap, the New York Times editorial board is now
openly lobbying the United States government to keep the Is the countries paper of record actually now Pro-Muslim
Muslim Brotherhood from being designated a terrorist Brotherhood and Anti-America first?
.
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GOP Bill Would Gut EPA
By Timothy Cama
02/10/17 11:25 AM EST
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Ninth Circuit Court
Now Demands It Be Protected From Itself…
By Sundance
Posted On February 10, 2017
Oh, the winning… it’s often too funny. The Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals is now independently, on its own
impetus, requesting an internal vote on a full panel en banc
hearing to review its own decision.
Wait, wha… huh? Yes, that’s the 9th circuit requesting its
own judicial membership ruling to be reviewed by the
entire larger 9th circuit appeals court panel. Ya think
maybe they recognize they just jumped head-first into
showcasing their own insufferable moonbattery…
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It’s a classic representative example of the Ninth Circuit and Judge Robarts decision will be
overturned and all of the protestation from the left will
‘be careful what you wish for, because you have been for naught.
just might get it‘.
In the interim of the slow case proceeding, ANY instance
Currently, thanks to the ridiculous political judicial of violence and terrorism provides President Trump the
opinion of the 9th Circuit, the entire professional left and opportunity to use his bully pulpit -and Twitter- to hang
Democrat party are on display trying to block President the occurrence, foreign or domestic, like a millstone
Trump from protecting the American people. As a direct around the neck of Democrats up for elected office in
consequence they own any negative outcomes, including 2018.
any act of terrorism, that might happen in the next several
months. There is no downside on the domestic security agenda for
President Trump; however, the Democrats are fraught with
Why would President Trump remove that political fear that something might just happen. Ultimately, THIS,
liability? If he’s smart, and he’s proven he is way beyond the politics behind the entire construct, is the reason for the
smart, he won’t. ninth circuit tonight asking for an en banc hearing of their
own judicial ruling.
Behind the scenes, and unrelated to the judicial ruling,
President Trump can use his cabinet team to construct Smile, you’re worth it.
immigration and visa review policy that accomplishes the
security goal. The Attorney General (Sessions), DHS
(Kelly) and State Department (T-Rex) can execute
departmental policy objectives under existing legal
authority.
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Did The Judges Lie: New Report Finds 72 Terrorists Came
From Countries Covered By Trump Ban
By Tyler Durden
Feb 11, 2017 11:29 PM
The federal judge who halted President 72 individuals from the seven countries
Donald Trump's travel ban was wrong in covered in President Trump's vetting
stating that no one from the seven executive order have been convicted in
countries targeted in Trump's order has terror cases since the 9/11 attacks.
been arrested for extremism in the
United States since the 2001 terrorist In June 2016 the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration
attacks. In fact, as a new report finds, 72 and the National Interest, then chaired by new Attorney
individuals from the seven 'mostly General Jeff Sessions, released a report on individuals
Muslim countries' covered by President convicted in terror cases since 9/11. Using open sources
Trump's "extreme vetting" executive (because the Obama administration refused to provide
order have been convicted of terrorism government records), the report found that 380 out of 580
since 9/11. people convicted in terror cases since 9/11 were foreign-
born. The report is no longer available on the Senate
website, but a summary published by Fox News is
available here.
As AP first reported, during a hearing in Seattle last week, The Center has extracted information on 72 individuals
Judge Robartasked a Justice Department lawyer how many named in the Senate report whose country of origin is one
arrests of foreign nationals from the countries have of the seven terror-associated countries included in the
occurred since 9/11. When the lawyer said she didn't vetting executive order: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,
know, Robart answered his own question: Syria, and Yemen. The Senate researchers were not able to
obtain complete information on each convicted terrorist, so
"Let me tell, you, the answer to that is it is possible that more of the convicted terrorists are from
none, as best I can tell. You're here these countries.
arguing on behalf of someone that says
we have to protect the United States The United States has admitted
from these individuals coming from terrorists from all of the seven
these countries and there's no support dangerous countries:
for that."
Somalia: 20
And now, having denied President Trump's appeal,
Yemen: 19
claiming his policy "would cause irreparable injury,"
Iraq: 19
would cause irreparable injury, it seems the entire
Syria: 7
premise of the seven "mostly muslim" nations' mostly-
peaceful, non-terrorist ways are in doubt as The Center for Iran: 4
Immigration Studies shows that... Libya: 2
Sudan: 1
Total: 72
A review of information compiled by a
Senate committee in 2016 reveals that
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According to the report, at least 17 Finally, we reminder readers that while Charles Kurzman,
individuals entered as refugees from a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina-
these terror-prone countries. Chapel Hill, says his research shows no Americans have
been killed in the U.S. at the hands of people from the
Three came in on student visas and one arrived on a seven countries - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan
diplomatic visa. and Yemen - since Sept. 11,
At least 25 of these immigrants it's not quite right to say no one from
eventually became citizens. those nations has been arrested or
accused in an extremist-related plot
Ten were lawful permanent residents, and four were illegal while living in the U.S.
aliens. 23 percent of Muslim Americans
involved with extremist plots since Sept.
These facts stand in stark contrast to the 11 had family backgrounds from the
assertions by the Ninth Circuit judges seven countries.
who have blocked the president's order
on the basis that there is no evidence So Judge claims ZERO but in fact the number is 72...
showing a risk to the United States in Those darn 'alternative facts' are such trouble... or is it
allowing aliens from these seven terror- racist, sexist, mysoginist, and bogoted when the liberal
associated countries to come in. judiciary is fact-checked?
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Report: Sears, KMart Remove Trump Line Of Home
Furnishings From Websites
By Katherine Rodriguez
11 Feb 2017
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How Obama Is Scheming
To Sabotage Trump’s Presidency
By Paul Sperry
February 11, 2017 | 12:52pm
When former President Barack Obama said he was Far from sulking, OFA activists helped organize anti-
“heartened” by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a Trump marches across US cities, some of which turned
message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, Obama into riots. After Trump issued a temporary ban on
has an army of agitators — numbering more than 30,000 immigration from seven terror-prone Muslim nations, the
— who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of demonstrators jammed airports, chanting:
his historic presidency. And Obama will command them
from a bunker less than two miles from the White House. “No ban, no wall, sanctuary for all!”
In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post- Run by old Obama aides and campaign workers, federal
presidency, Obama isn’t just staying behind in tax records show “nonpartisan” OFA marshals 32,525
Washington. He’s working behind the scenes to set up volunteers nationwide. Registered as a 501(c)(4), it doesn’t
what will effectively be a shadow government to not only have to disclose its donors, but they’ve been generous.
protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming OFA has raised more than $40 million in contributions and
administration and its popular “America First” agenda. grants since evolving from Obama’s campaign
organization Obama for America in 2013.
He’s doing it through a network of leftist nonprofits led by
Organizing for Action. Normally you’d expect an OFA, in IRS filings, says it trains young activists to
organization set up to support a politician and his agenda develop “organizing skills.” Armed with Obama’s 2012
to close up shop after that candidate leaves office, but not campaign database, OFA plans to get out the vote for
Obama’s OFA. Rather, it’s gearing up for battle, with a Democratic candidates it’s grooming to win back Congress
growing war chest and more than 250 offices across the and erect a wall of resistance to Trump at the other end of
country. Pennsylvania Avenue.
Since Donald Trump’s election, this little-known but well- It will be aided in that effort by the Obama Foundation,
funded protesting arm has beefed up staff and ramped up run by Obama’s former political director, and the National
recruitment of young liberal activists, declaring on its Democratic Redistricting Committee, launched last month
website, by Obama pal Eric Holder to end what he and Obama call
GOP “gerrymandering” of congressional districts.
“We’re not backing down.”
Obama will be overseeing it all from a shadow White
Determined to salvage Obama’s legacy, it’s drawing battle House located within two miles of Trump. It features a
lines on immigration, ObamaCare, race relations and mansion, which he’s fortifying with construction of a tall
climate change. brick perimeter, and a nearby taxpayer-funded office with
his own chief of staff and press secretary. Michelle Obama
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will also open an office there, along with the Obama grassroots organizing force this country
Foundation. has ever seen.”
Critical to the fight is rebuilding the ravaged Democratic The 55-year-old Obama is not content to go quietly into
Party. Obama hopes to install his former civil rights chief the night like other ex-presidents.
Tom Perez at the helm of the Democratic National
Committee. “You’re going to see me early next year,”
he told his OFA troops after the election,
Perez is running for the vacant DNC chairmanship, “and we’re going to be in a position where
vowing, we can start cooking up all kinds of great
stuff.”
“It’s time to organize and fight . . . We must
stand up to protect President Obama’s Added the ex-president:
accomplishments,” while also promising,
“We’re going to build the strongest “Point is, I’m still fired up and ready to go.”
.
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Why Couldn’t Paul Ryan
Be One Of The Good Guys?
By Pamela Williams
Published February 11, 2017 · Updated February 13, 2017
Remember when Paul Ryan set Trump up before he won Disregard the now-repeated claims by GOP lawmakers
the Presidential election? He told him he would meet with regarding how “tough” it is to dismantle Obamacare.
him at a gathering, but at the last minute he canceled, Remember, they have been running on dismantling
humiliating Trump? Trump had made some unbecoming Obamacare for YEARS. They have promised to do so.
comments which made many turn against him. However, They have raised campaign cash from small donors saying
in the political arena, that does not usually turn they would do so. Since Obamacare became law,
Presidential supporters against the candidate. Republicans have been demanding it be repealed and
replaced.
Ryan calls off plans to campaign with Trump; GOP-ers
rush to distance themselves. And yet, now these same Republicans are claiming to have
no plan, no idea on how to proceed with doing just that
It was a bad beginning for Trump, and it was his own fault, after voters have given them all of Congress and the White
but it also gave us a glimpse into the GOP and Paul Ryan’s House to do so.
intentions against Trump. Then when Trump became
President Trump, Paul Ryan seemingly warmed up to him. And it’s the same delay/it’s too hard/complicated tactic
They were to work together on changing Obamacare and these GOP elites intend to continue using for much of the
putting Trump’s intentions into actions. However, Trump agenda. If Donald Trump is to have any chance of
consider the following: overcoming all of Washington D.C. and the media elite, he
needs YOU, the American people to afford him the chance
“…The first evidence of this tactical delay to do so. For if there is one thing the D.C. elite fear most,
on the part of Ryan to ensure nothing it’s seeing their political careers sent packing.
getting done remains the D.C. status-quo,
is to declare almost all
Paul Ryan has entered into a secret
attention/energy/focus will be on dealing
alliance between himself and other
with “fixing” Obamacare.
Establishment Republicans in the
Pay attention to the wording. Watch “repeal House as well as Nancy Pelosi and her
and replace” become secondary to “fixing.” activist brigade of Democrats. This
Ryan intends to initiate a patch-work alliance also extends to Senate Minority
approach that will take up a great deal Leader, Chuck Schumer, and a mix of
of legislative time, receive significant Senate Republicans and Democrats as
media attention, but in the end, get little well.
actually accomplished by of way of
The primary goal? Delay Donald
“repeal and replace.” In the meantime,
Trump’s agenda. See the economy
the delay in such critical components of the
remain stagnant. Fill seats with
Trump economic recover plan – namely
moderate (spineless) Republicans come
sweeping tax reform, will be further
2018, and declare the Trump agenda
delayed.
dead thereafter.
In effect, Paul Ryan and his cadre of In the meantime, Trump’s White House continues to push
Establishment Republicans will do to
and prod some semblance of “get it done” from House and
Trump what they rarely appeared willing to
Senate Republicans. Mr. Trump is attempting to keep the
do against Barack Obama – namely use
negotiations going, while watching as a wave of anti-
the power of the legislature to contain a
Trump media continues, which in turn is weakening the
president’s agenda.”
resolve of Republicans like Ryan who once again, think
the media is an accurate portrayal of overall public
It is something that is hard to face, because right now sentiment. They have already forgotten that if that were
President Trump needs the support of the GOP, and there true, Trump would never have won a primary, would never
is no excuse he is not getting it.
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have won the GOP nomination, and would never have won But Trump also clearly means his promises on trade and
the presidency. immigration, too — which has other industries nervous.
As of this moment, the single greatest impediment to the The absence of any big supply-siders in the president’s
America-first agenda voters across the nation chose in the economic team is further cause for concern, as is the way
form of Donald Trump is not Nancy Pelosi, or Chuck the White House has taken to talking about “tax relief”
Schumer. It’s Republican Speaker of the House, Paul rather than “tax reform.” The hunger for some details —
Ryan. will the cuts be retroactive to Jan. 1? — adds to the
uncertainty, which is always bad for business.
Bad news: Congress is putting tax cuts on the back burner
for now — a big risk. In conclusion, please realize President Trump is being set
up by his own people. We have to continue to speak about
House Speaker Paul Ryan says lawmakers will focus first this to everyone.
on replacing .?.?. er, “repairing” ObamaCare and on
President Trump’s infrastructure plans, and only take up
tax bills sometime in the spring.
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Chaffetz Accuses Paid Protesters Of Being "Shipped In" To
Cause Chaos At Republican Townhalls
By Tyler Durden
Feb 11, 2017 1:50 PM
On Thursday night, a Utah Town Hall meeting hosted by "You could see it online a couple days
the Republican Chair of the House Committee on before, a concerted effort in part to just
Oversight, Jason Chaffetz, came under attack from a mob cause chaos," the Utah Republican said
of angry protesters who disrupted the meeting, demanding Friday. "Democrats are in disbelief that
that he "do his job." they have nothing but flailing and
screaming to deal with this."
This was not the first time a republican town hall meeting
turned ugly after a swarm of liberal protesters caused
chaos: last week republican congressman Tom McClintock That such strong anti-Trump sentiment is coming from one
was forced to get a police escort after a town hall in of the most Republican states in the country is surprising,
California turned angry over Obamacare repeal. The said Tim Hagle, a University of Iowa political science
SacBee said that many of the protesting participants professor and an active member of the GOP.
"identified themselves as liberal Democrats "The fact that it's happening in Utah as well
and progressives, while party registration in as a lot of places signals there are a lot of
McClintock’s district is solidly Republican." people on the left who are still angry and
energized," Hagle said. "They're saying
So, overnight, Chaffetz shot back, and told KSL that the they want to be heard."
raucous reception he received at Thursday evening's town
hall meeting was "bullying and an attempt at That, or as Chaffets suggests, it is merely a repeat of the
intimidation" from a crowd opposed to President Donald well-organized protests in which a core group of paid,
Trump's election. More importantly, the republican professional activists was carted around the country to
accused paid interests (here the name of George Soros has various republican events, and used as an anchor to
been heard frequently in recent months) of orchestrating generate tension and violence.
the rising protests and violence at Republican townhalls.
Chaffets said the crowd that filled the auditorium at As KSL adds, the relentless jeering at his and other recent
Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights and spilled congressional town halls around the country comes as
over into a protest outside, protests continue over Trump's policies. Those protests
include the women's marches held around the world that
included people brought in from other drew thousands of demonstrators to the Utah Capitol on
states to disrupt the meeting. the opening day of the 2017 Legislature last month. As
reported last month, an Ex-WSJ reporter found George
"Absolutely. I know there were," he said, Soros had ties to more than 50 "Partners" of the Women’s
suggesting it was "more of a paid attempt March, suggesting that the billionaire Clinton-supporter is
to bully and intimidate" than a reflection the mastermind behind this rising wave of protests.
of the feelings of his 3rd District
constituents. Asked who would foot the bill to fill the audience with
outside agitators, Chaffetz said, "do some reporting" and
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described how one participant made it a point to say he vehemence that we have not seen
was not being paid by a national Democratic organization. before," he said. "We're just seeing this
continued escalation of discontent by the
*** side that isn't in charge."
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Memorandum For The President – Warning On A Violent
American Spring, Eight Actions For Donald Trump To
Make America Great Again
Robert Steele
February 11, 2017
way you free Members from foreign and financial
community bribery and blackmail.
3. Create the non-profit educational Trump Channel
backed up by an Open Source Agency. Clear the
existing press area in the White House, turn that into
Trump Studios, and offer a daily fireside chat as well as
short daily briefs by your principals in turn on each
threat, each policy, each budget – bypass the fake
news media, educate the public, and use PollMole to
see what 200 million think on a Presidential
Dashboard.
4. Unleash the FBI, with NSA support, against the
Robert David STEELE Vivas
Deep State. You may have already started this, the
Republican and Democratic Party pedophiles are the
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Achilles heel. We can isolate 500 other embedded
traitors (financial, religious, ideological) in 90 days.
WARNING: You have 30 days to settle the country. A
violent “American Spring” looms. There are four things you can do to be the greatest
President in modern history.
You are under attack on three fronts:
1. Diversify your senior team – adding Cynthia
1. The Extreme Left & the controlled “fake news” MSM McKinney and Dennis Kucinich – and Ralph Nader and
2. US Neo-Conservatives led by Dick Cheney, funded by Jesse Ventura in some capacity – will strangle the
foreigners extreme left and open up the middle. Take your
3. The Deep State of entrenched senior officials diversified team on the road – 50 states in 30 days.
combined with Senators and Representatives being 2. Organize a Grand Strategy Summit, televised for
blackmailed and bribed to betray the Republic. public consumption – the ultimate reality show. The last
one was done in 1953 by Ike Eisenhower. Address all
You are not under attack from Iran or Russia – all high level threats and all Cabinet policy domains in
your existential fights are right here. context of achieving a balanced budget.
3. Organize a Revenue Summit, televised for public
There are four things you need to do immediately consumption, in which you invite Dr. Edgar Feige of
in order to survive: Wisconsin to brief his idea of an Automated Payment
Transaction Tax that allows you to eliminate all other
1. Switch out Preibus and Flynn — smart choices for taxes, especially income taxes. This fractional tax puts
the transition, they are undermining you now, Tillerson the tiny burden where it should be: on Wall Street
and Mattis probably agree they both need to go. You instead of Main Street. Allow the public to scrutinize the
need a loyal Chief of Staff who can manage alternatives you have been considering. You will be a
complexity, and a National Strategy Advisor with hero.
balance. 4. Invite every citizen in debt to sign a Debt
2. Introduce the Electoral Reform Act of 2017 and Renunciation Pledge on a non-profit website,
demand that it go through – this is the only way you will authorizing you to negotiate, on their behalf, a
survive the looming demise of the Republican Party; reduction of the three trillion dollars in student debt,
the only way you legitimize your accidental 27% elderly medical debt, and small business and family
presidency with a majority of the public; and the only credit card debt. This will connect you to 150 million or
more citizens and empower you against Wall Street.
.
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Trump Not Pro-Russia, Says
Its Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman
By Stephen Lendman
2-12-2017
Profiles in courage are absent in Washington, especially on “(T)he new administration has not
geopolitical issues, notably on relations with Russia. published its foreign policy concept,”
Zakharova explained. “I do not know
In January, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria whether it has been formulated or not.”
Zakharova said Trump is not pro-Russia. She distinguished
between Russophobe Hillary Clinton and Trump’s more “There is nothing in the public space, nor
responsible comments, calling getting along with Russia a have we received any details via diplomatic
good thing. channels.” It’s holding things up. It’s vital to
address this.
He clearly prioritized combating ISIS, and by inference
international terrorism. “The new administration should begin by
developing a global or, conversely, a
“This gives certain hope, because it indeed regional doctrine, a foreign policy concept,
is a challenge, a threat that we all are a vision of its foreign policy - either regional
facing,” Zakhavova explained. or general - and then the first diplomatic
contacts can begin and take place,” said
During a February 9 press briefing, she blasted US- Zakhavova.
dominated NATO for “prefer(ring) to deal with virtual
(disconnected from reality) and nonexistent threats.” “Then we can start cooperating as is usual
diplomatic practice. Thus far, no contacts of
Russia poses none, not now or earlier against any nation. this kind have occurred.”
Western and Middle East supported terrorism is real, a
scourge vital to eliminate. Even with a “new guy” in charge, how Tillerson described
himself to State Department personnel day one on the job,
So far, Russia is the only world power actively combating he should have by now contacted his counterparts in key
it. countries like Russia and China.
“Obama made numerous statements on Trump has been speaking with foreign leaders almost
fighting international terrorism,” said daily, including Putin and China’s Xi Jinping.
Zakharova.
US relations toward Russia are adversarial. Obama
Instead he supported it while waging regional war. plunged them to a new low in decades, including baseless
Trump’s comments are well-known, his intentions yet to accusations of US election hacking, and piling on illegal
unfold. sanctions solely for political reasons.
After three weeks in office, he’s yet to wage war on Fence-mending won’t come easily or at all if Trump
terrorism as promised, except for a botched Yemeni raid, doesn’t follow through responsibly on campaign rhetoric.
massacring civilians, destroying a village, showing US Russia is ready to work actively with Washington in areas
policies remain hostile to peace and stability. Continuing of mutual interest - no US overtures made so far.
drone attacks, largely killing civilians, indicate nothing
changed so far. Cooperative relations require someone promoting it “from
the other end,” Zakharova stressed.
Zakhavova said Russia had no contacts with the State
Department. Putin and Trump spoke, not Tillerson and Bipartisan relations are deplorable because of hostile
Lavrov, a first step to initiating regular dialogue on mutual Obama policies. It’ll be a while before Trump’s intentions
interests. are known.
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To Hell With "The First 100 Days"
By Jim Kirwan
2-12-2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcd-yvudYSg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1uofQTG9TA Once the leadership of America lost the benefit of men that
had actually gone to war, and profited from the horror of
What's missing in these two videos is that the oil in their assignments - the whole nation lost any real
question goes not to Americans but to foreign powers. perspective when it comes down to what must be done to
avoid the coming global-nightmare. Trump has been one
Veterans Stand Ground With Pipeline Protesters At of the worst of the worst having completed the evil-circle
Standing Rock of giving the United States Away to the Azkenazi Jews of
Israel: Under the guise of selecting qualified people, when
5min Video in fact this was a coup on the global-stage and we must
stop it and TRUMP - before either of them goes any
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rsAyaSdkJc further.
In Trumps' case there are several unexplored questions The blood-line ties to the Azkenazi-Jews has been clear
about his supposed ability to govern over anything except from the start, but too many people wanted to give him a
his own corporations. Most of this was clearly outlined in chance to show us his true colors well now that we've
the video below: begun to detect his real loyalties and because of that
Trump must be charged for what he's trying to do to the
United States.
Trump is the Swamp:
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Trump is not what he claims to be he's a coward something called the United States Marine
pretending to be a leader and what he's already done to the Corp, went to Tripoli and massacred them.
government far outweighs any of the small stuff he's still Why has our new faux-leader not
fooling around with—with no actual-reality at the end of suggested something similar to end the
the day. Israeli created forces that have been
raising nothing but hell for the last 16
He needs to call the leadership of both of the dead political (some say 69) YEARS?
parties into the White House and sit them down, in the Instead Donald wants to give Israel total
Oval Office. He needs to explain clearly that the law of the control over Jerusalem, which has always
land allows him to do what he is doing regarding who can been a universal city, at least throughout
come into this place and who can be kept out: He needs to the modern age but now Israel wants it:
follow that up by explaining, in the very simplest of terms, And Donald wants to please the cowardly
because those fake leaders are seriously mentally bastards that never fight their own fights
challenged - that both of their so-called parties are dead ever. Because every time they've tried to
now, and they won't be coming back. He needs to start do their own aggression's - they've had
giving them the orders that we would give - if it were ours their asses severely kicked, which is why
to do in the first place. And by the way TRUMP needs to the US does all their fighting for them but
obliterate the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals - because it in the meantime we need to cut off all
doesn't serve the United States it is a wholly owned funding to Israel, and let these impostors
LBGTQ organization that only serves the enemies of the pay for everything they want to do without
United States, and no one else. any more help from us.
Of Course: I won't be holding my breath on
And as for that list of nations that needs to be kept out: these thoughts either, but one way or
That should have Saudi-Arabia on top, along with Israel, if another some of the above is going to have
his list of disapproved lawless-states is to be complete. to be begin to come true or there won't be
Of course I'm not holding my breath! a world left to inhabit any longer - for
anyone to live in any more.
When the world had a problem with “global
piracy” The United States created
kirwanstudios@outlook.com
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The CIA Is Going After The Most Important
Man In The Trump Administration
Central Intelligence Agency STILL Targeting Key Trump Allies
By Alex Thomas -
02.12.2017 @5:26 PM EST
(INTELLIHUB) — In the months after the stunning retaliation for Townley’s skepticism of the intelligence
election of Donald Trump, the CIA, with help from other community as a whole.
intelligence services, waged a public battle against the
president-elect through the anonymous release of “Both sources said the CIA did not offer
disinformation to the establishment backed mainstream much explanation for why Townley’s
media. request for so-called “Sensitive
Compartmented Information” clearance
Now, almost a month into the Trump presidency, these was rejected. But the sources said that
attacks are apparently continuing with the target being one Flynn and his allies believe it was
of the most important people in the entire Trump motivated by Townley’s skepticism of the
Administration. intelligence community’s techniques —
sentiments shared by Flynn,” the Politico
In yet another Friday night surprise, Politico reported that report continued.
the Central Intelligence Agency had denied a security
clearance for a top deputy of new national security adviser That’s right, the CIA is now directly attacking the very
Michael Flynn due to his outspoken criticism of the ability for Michael Flynn to do his job as the national
secretive intelligence agency. security adviser, all because of his outspoken criticism of
intelligence agency tactics and disinformation pushed for
“A top deputy to national security adviser the benefit of the establishment.
Michael Flynn was rejected for a critical
security clearance, effectively ending his While CIA attacks on Trump as a whole are obviously
tenure on the National Security Council and important, this shocking new information is possibly the
escalating tensions between Flynn and the worst yet, especially when you consider who Flynn is and
intelligence community,” read the Politico what he stands for within the Trump administration.
report.
“The move came as Flynn’s already tense Flynn has a long history of directly targeting the so-called
relationships with others in the Trump “new world order” and is now seeing the repercussions for
administration and the intelligence his work attacking the globalist elite. Even more
community were growing more fraught after important, Flynn has shown a key willingness to listen to
reports that Flynn had breached diplomatic alternative media voices instead of simply pushing the
protocols in his conversations with the establishment narrative on each and every issue.
Russian ambassador to the United States.”
Consider this. Michael Flynn’s son has even tried to
The deputy, senior director for Africa Robin Townley, was expose PizzaGate and remains in contact with certain
informed by the CIA that they had rejected his request for people in the alternative media which is something the
the elite security clearance needed to work on the National CIA is obviously aware of.
Security Council despite the fact that Townley is a former
Marine intelligence officer who has long maintained a top Make no mistake, there is a war going on within the
secret-level clearance. government over the direction of this country and
President Trump seems to be surrounded by enemies on
According to the Politico report, new CIA director Mike every side. Now, those working against the country itself
Pompeo approved the rejection which was most likely in are targeting one of the most important men next to the
new president.
.
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Top Trump Aide Says White House
Has 'Enormous Evidence' Of Voter Fraud
By Joseph Weber
Published February 12, 2017
Trump has argued since November that voter fraud cost North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows told reporters at the
him the popular vote, which he lost to Democratic recent Republican retreat in Philadelphia that he’s aware of
presidential nominee Hillary Clinton by several million instances of voter fraud in his congressional district but
ballots. However, the White House has yet to provide was uncertain about the extent.
evidence, at least publicly, to support the argument.
Miller said Sunday that Kansas Secretary of State Kris
“This morning, on this show, is not the Kobach has evidence of vote fraud in his state.
venue for me to lay out all the evidence,”
Miller said. “But I can tell you this: Voter “I suggest you invite Kris Kobach onto your
fraud is a serious problem in this country.” show, and he can walk you through some
of the evidence,” Miller said.
The issues of voter and voter-registratration fraud came
into play again last week after a closed-door meeting with And last week, a Mexican national was sentenced to eight
senators and former New Hampshire GOP Sen. Kelly years in prison for voter fraud in Texas. The woman’s
Ayotte, who with Trump lost that state on Election Day. lawyer suggested that people in that region believing
Trump's claims about election rigging led to the conviction
Trump purportedly said in the meeting that thousands of and harsh sentencing, calling it the “800-pound gorilla" in
people were brought from Massachusetts to New the jury box.
Hampshire to “illegally” vote.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Miller said Sunday that he has worked on election
campaigns in New Hampshire and that the situation is
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Could Reince Be On His Way Out As Chief Of Staff?
Alex Pfeiffer - Reporter
6:05 PM 02/12/2017
The opening weeks of the Trump administration have been work, how the communications operations
described as tumultuous by many, potentially leaving work. He botched this whole immigration
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus’ head on the rollout. This should’ve been a win for
chopping block. Donald, not two or three weeks of negative
publicity.”
Chris Ruddy, founder of Newsmax Media and one of
President Trump’s friends, said Sunday on CNN that the The Newsmax founder and Trump confidante
subsequently seemed to back off his harsh criticism of
“White House is showing not the amount of Priebus and tweeted,
order that we need to see. I think there’s a
lot of weakness coming out of the chief of “Reince just briefed me on new WH plans.
staff.” Impressive! CNN today my personal view.”
After his comments on CNN, Ruddy told The Washington A potential replacement for Priebus is New Jersey Gov.
Post, Chris Christie, who was one of the first key Republicans to
back Trump and previously headed the president’s
“I’ve gotten three text messages from transition team before being forced out by Jared Kushner.
sitting Cabinet members praising my Like Ruddy, the New Jersey governor has called the roll
appearance. They realize this whole out of Trump’s travel ban botched and placed blame on the
government depends on this chief of staff.” president’s staff.
The significance of Ruddy’s comments are compounded Christie appeared on CNN Sunday and wouldn’t deny that
by his tweet that he spoke at length with President Trump he recently spoke to Trump on the phone. The New Jersey
at Mar-a-Lago Saturday night. governor said that he would be open to joining the Trump
administration, although he “intends” to join the private
“It’s my view that Reince is the problem. I sector in a year after his term is over.
think on paper Reince looked good as the
chief of staff — and Donald trusted him — Roger Stone, a Trump confidante, told The Daily
but it’s pretty clear the guy is in way over Caller that he doesn’t think Christie will replace Priebus as
his head,” Ruddy told The Post. “He’s not chief of staff. Christie is reportedly scheduled to have
knowledgeable of how federal agencies lunch with Trump at the White House Tuesday.
.
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US Spies Withholding Intel From White House
Because They Know Russia Is Listening: Report
David Ferguson
12 Feb 2017 At 22:11 ET
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Comedian Tom Arnold Says Hillary
‘Begged’ Him To Release Trump’s Racist Rant Video
By Emily Saul
6:12 Am, February 13, 2017
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Sarah Silverman Mistakes
Construction Markings For Swastikas
By Daniel Nussbaum
13 Feb 2017
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— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) WAKE UP & JOIN THE RESISTANCE.
February 13, 2017 ONCE THE MILITARY IS W US
FASCISTS GET OVERTHROWN. MAD
The comedian — who was one of Vermont Sen. Bernie KING & HIS HANDLERS GO BYE
Sanders’s earliest and most vocal celebrity supporters BYE❤❤❤❤ https://t.co/Y2WZbL012A
before rallying behind eventual Democratic nominee — Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman)
Hillary Clinton in the general election — has continued to February 2, 2017
speak out in opposition to President Donald Trump.
Shortly after the election, the comedian wrote on Twitter
Earlier this month, Silverman suggested that the U.S. that for many of Clinton’s supporters, the outcome of the
military could help Americans overthrow the Trump race felt like the Great Depression of the 1930s, only
administration. worse.
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'Swastikas' Uncovered By Sarah Silverman
Turn Out To Be Utility Markings
Chris Menahan - Informationliberation
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CNN Never Learns, Publishes More
Fake News About Phony ‘Trump Dossier’
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 13, 2017
A supposed follow-up to the now legendary — CNN has not confirmed whether any
“Trump dossier” that was found to be content relates to then-candidate
complete garbage when it was published in Trump.
full last month by Buzzfeed, then followed
— US intelligence officials emphasize the
up by CNN. [For the record, a Russian
conversations were solely between
cyber-firm named in the dossier has filed a
foreign nationals, including those in or
defamation suit against Buzzfeed and the
tied to the Russian government,
former ‘British intelligence agent’ that CNN
intercepted during routine intelligence
has placed so much trust in because it’s
gathering.
complete BS.)
— Officials who spoke to CNN cautioned
Per the breathless CNN report: they still have not reached any
judgment on whether the Russian
government has any compromising
For the first time, US investigators say they
information about the President.
have corroborated some of the
communications detailed in a 35-page — Officials did not comment on or
dossier compiled by a former British confirm any alleged conversations or
intelligence agent, multiple current and meetings between Russian officials and
former US law enforcement and US citizens, including associates of
intelligence officials tell CNN. As CNN first then-candidate Trump.
reported, then-President-elect Donald
Trump and President Barack Obama were
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— One of the officials stressed to CNN No one could verify any of it. And
they have not corroborated “the more apparently, they still can’t. But now,
salacious things” alleged in the dossier. suddenly, we’re supposed to believe
that….something, somewhere, said by
Nothing. And nothing. And….nothing. someone…might be true, even if it has
nothing at all to do with the president of the
CNN reached out to White House Press Secretary Sean United States. (RELATED: What are ‘they’
lying about today? Find out at
Spicer for a comment, and he had exactly the right
Disinfo.news)
response:
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Mainstream Media Propagandists
Blindly Circulating More Trump Fake News,
This Time About The President’s Father
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 13, 2017
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Not only did Fred Trump never run for NYC the only fact-based news organizations in operation these
mayor, he also never had any test days. The old-guard, Left-wing establishment media
videos/commercials made. continues to discredit itself with fake reports, fake news,
and fake data because it is inundated with Alt-Left hacks
The Post finally figured that out. The paper said the ads posing as reporters and editors who believe their own false
were created by a company called Historical Paroxysm, narratives about our president. They made up their own
which portrays “found footage from alternate reality: Trump isn’t a racist, he isn’t a homophobe, he’s
realities.” (RELATED: See how else they’re trying to fool not a misogynist, and he’s no bigot, but because these
us at Hoax.news) idiots have convinced themselves Trump is all of these
things, they continue to get it wrong when it comes to
covering him and his presidency.
“In other words, they create archival-
looking footage mirroring alternate
histories,” the Post reported. The fake ads And that’s not going to change, by the way. Lying and
were posted to Twitter and Vimeo in making things up about conservatives and Republicans is a
October; they’ve since been taken down. badge of honor for the Alt-Left and its Democratic Party.
Pathetic as that sounds, it’s true; how much would you
It should be obvious by now who the real media is and wager that Kessler won’t be fired, fined or punished in any
who are the pretenders: The alternative media, like us, are way by his employer, the Post, for his fact-checking
blunder?
.
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JOURNO-TERRORISM: New York Times Now Openly
Aiding And Abetting Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 13, 2017
This, just as new reports say that elite Hamas fighters are
joining the ranks of ISIS.
A good rule of thumb for the Trump But none of this matters to The Times, whose editorial
administration to use when determining board today advocates for America’s enemies just like it
foreign policy is to oppose everything did in the 1930s, when it failed to believe that Hitler’s anti-
that The New York Times says is a good Semitism was real, and soft-pedaled his rise to power as “a
idea. new moderation.”
That’s because The Times’ editorial board, editors and Relying on the well-worn but monumentally incorrect
reporters don’t have Trump’s – or America’s – best theory that if the West identifies and calls radical Islamic
interests in mind. terrorism by its name then that only inspires more
terrorism because it creates an atmosphere of “racism” in
As noted by Breitbart Jerusalem’s Aaron Klein, in recent the Middle East, The Times has warned against designating
weeks The Times has been running editorials and stories the Brotherhood as a terrorist group.
pushing the Trump administration not to place the Muslim
Brotherhood on the State Department’s list of terrorist The paper also claims that the designation
organizations. “appears to be part of a mission by the
president and his closest advisers to
But, as Klein notes, the group has a long, long history of heighten fears by promoting a dangerously
promoting Islamic rule and implementing it in any way exaggerated vision of an America under
possible, including through the use of terrorism: siege by what they call radical Islam.”
“The Muslim Brotherhood openly seeks That’s an interesting characterization, given that The Times
to establish a worldwide Islamic actually published an “Explanatory Memorandum” this
caliphate based on Sharia law. While week that was written by a member of the Muslim
many Brotherhood wings reject the use of Brotherhood in 1991, and involved “eliminating and
violence as a strategic tactic, preferring destroying the Western civilization from within,” with
instead a sophisticated gradualist strategy emphasis on conducting operations within the United
to achieve their aims, the Brotherhood States.
has spawned terrorist organizations –
most notably Hamas – that adhere to its And still the pinheads at The Times advocate on behalf of
philosophy of a world order based on the Brotherhood. Are these people just stupid, or are they
Islam. The Brotherhood was also a central traitors? You be the judge.
player in the so-called Arab Spring,
revolutions punctuated by violence across But it’s clear that The Times is no longer America’s “paper
the Arab world.” [Emphasis added] of record,” because the election of Trump to the
presidency proved once again that the bulk of Americans
outside of California are patriotic and are craving a re-
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institution of constitutional government, law, order and The goal of the Muslim Brotherhood is the replacement of
border protection that would help prevent infiltration by American democratic republicanism and constitutionalism
terrorist forces intent on doing us harm. (RELATED: Who with authoritarian Sharia law, where women are
is trying to destroy our society today? Stay informed at considered second-class citizens, gays/lesbians/
Collapse.news) transgenders/etc. are jailed or killed, and there is a singular
religious belief and philosophy tolerated: Islam.
They have even said as much – and still a major American
newspaper refuses to acknowledge the danger. Rather, they From a newspaper that allegedly champions the rights of
accuse our president and, by default, those of us who minorities, women and the persecuted, the very last thing
support him, of allowing racism to motivate policy (the 90- the journo-terrorists on the NYT editorial board should
day travel ban, for instance, that has been allowed to support is a group that stands in opposition to those
become a political football when it should not have been). principles.
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With Trump In The White House, Democrats’ Goal Is Now
To Make Government As Inefficient As Possible …
So Far, They’re Succeeding
By: Jayson Veley
Date: February 13, 2017
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Caught On Tape: Trump Crashes Mar-A-Lago Wedding
With Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
by Tyler Durden
Feb 13, 2017 8:51 PM
Trump's weekend golf getaway with Japanese Prime for which he noted they had "paid him a fortune." Per
Minister Shinzo Abe to Mar-A-Lago (a.k.a. "The Winter CNN:
White House") is getting increasingly bizarre by the
second. Earlier today we wrote about Richard DeAgazio, "I saw them out on the lawn today," Trump
a 72-year-old Palm Beach businessman, said of the bride and groom Saturday, who
were standing nearby. "I said to the Prime
Trump supporter, actor and Mar-A-Lago Minister of Japan, I said, 'C'mon Shinzo,
member, who decided post selfies to let's go over and say hello.' "
Facebook with the "Nuclear Football" "They've been members of this club for
then proceeded to effectively live blog a long time," Trump said of the
Trump and Prime Minister Abe's newlyweds. "They've paid me a fortune."
reaction to an international crisis
involving a North Korean missile launch
(see "Random Mar-A-Lago Guest Posts
Selfie With "Nuclear Football" Briefcase").
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Trump Mulling Early White House
Staff Shakeup, Aides Say
Mon Feb 13, 2017 2:45PM
Trump, according to his aides, has asked specific questions US President Donald Trump and White House Chief of Staff Reince
Priebus (front) are seen in the Oval Office after the signing of an
from his friends and allies about how Spicer is handling executive order and a presidential memorandum in the White House
himself behind the podium. February 3, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
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An issue where Trump feels his advisers have let him The president has complained about "how his people didn't
down the most is his controversial executive order banning give him good advice" and how he should have waited to
citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering sign the order instead of "rushing it like they wanted me
the United States. to."
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Memo To The Angry Leftists At Wapo:
You’ve Become America’s Newest Hate Group
And Trump Isn’t Going Anywhere
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 13, 2017
It is apparent that the longer President Donald Trump is in Parker also tried to use what was clearly a pre-planned
office, the more unhinged these people will become. Let’s “protest” of a town hall meeting held by Rep. Jason
face it, they just can’t come to grips with the fact that their Chaffetz, R-Utah, to ‘prove’ there is widespread discontent
candidate was so compromised, so thoroughly corrupt and to Trump and his conservative/Republican agenda.
so incredibly uninspiring she was trounced in an electoral Understand that Chaffetz won his district by nearly 50
landslide by a billionaire businessman and former reality points, but now suddenly we’re supposed to believe there
TV host. Delicious! is so much hate and discontent for him just two months
later, and over the repeal of Obamacare, of all things (a
It’s that shame and utter embarrassment – remember, most new Harvard Kennedy School of Government poll
of these geniuses laughingly wrote Trump off early on and reaffirms most Americans do not like it and want it
predicted he would also lead to the demise of the repealed).
Republican Party – that drives their anger now. Frankly,
it’s quite comical to observe. (RELATED: Conservatism is Given that Soros money has been
alive and well – discover the truth at Conservative.news) spread around to groups protesting
Republicans all over the country,
The hate is especially pervasive at the discredited Parker’s reliance on these new town hall
establishment press, who outed themselves as fake news protests as “evidence” of a
factories during the recently concluded election cycle and “groundswell of opposition” to the
have only ratcheted up their anti-Trump hate since he took president is comical.
office.
Parker even tried to make the argument that Trump has
The Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker is emblematic of assaulted civil liberties, open government and religious
the anguish-induced mental breakdown of the Left: A freedom. It was hard to hold back the laughter at this point.
recent piece of hers is so detached from reality that you
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She doesn’t seem to get it that enforcing immigration laws Don’t you feel dumb?
is not a violation of “civil rights,” considering that people
who are in our country illegally don’t have the same rights You should.
as Americans.
No, Trump’s disputed executive order is a ban on
That she mentions “Trump” and “open potential terrorists even the Syrian president
government” in the same sentence is a sick acknowledges are real. Granted, not all Muslims are
joke after eight years of the least terrorists,
transparent government in the history of
the country under Obama, as one of
but aside from the Soros-paid thugs
Parker’s own colleagues at the Post has
beating people up and burning private
even said.
property in the U.S.,
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Now “The Terminator” Supports Letting Terrorists Into
Our Country, Saying Trump’s Travel Ban
“Makes Us Look Stupid”
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 13, 2017
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To The ‘American’ Companies Dropping Trump
Merchandise, You Don’t Deserve Him As President
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 13, 2017
“My daughter Ivanka has been treated so The fact is, this president – if he’s allowed to implement
unfairly by Nordstrom,” Trump tweeted, as his policies and he’s not blocked by angry Left-wing haters
reported by Business Insider. “She is a – will become the greatest thing for businesses since
great person — always pushing me to do Reagan economic revolution in the 1980s.
the right thing! Terrible!”
White House spokesman Sean Spicer laid Unlike his two-time presidential loser rival, Hillary
it out plainly – Nordstrom’s decision was a Clinton, Trump actually has a lot of business experience
“direct attack on his policies and [Ivanka’s] and knows what needs to be done to make it easier for
name.” businesses to survive and thrive.
None, of course, because Left-wing liberal thought makes The CEOs of these retailers don’t deserve a president like
no sense. It’s baseless, hypocritical, empty, and devoid of Donald Trump. They deserve someone like President
reality. Only jerks would make a political statement Obama, whose big-government policies and “regulations
against the one person who could help them thrive again. first” approach to government have put dozens of retailers
These fools are alienating more than half the country with behind the financial eight ball. Remember Obamacare, you
their childish gestures, and in the age of the online idiots?
.
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Media Drives Flynn Through Trump’s Cabinet Like Wedge
Media Attempts To Brand National Security Adviser As Russian Cutout
By Shepard Ambellas -
02.13.2017 @12:05 PM EST
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters
Goes Bonkers On Camera, Again. (VIDEO)
By: The Voice Of Reason
Date: February 13, 2017
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Wapo Fact Check:
Letting A Few Terrorists Into The
Country Is No Big Deal
Rachel Stoltzfoos - Reporter
2:06 PM 02/13/2017
A Washington Post “fact check” of a Trump administration planning a terrorist attack or terrorism-
statement turned into a bizarre defense of foreign- related activities,” she advises.
born terrorists Monday.
Ye He Lee also mischaracterizes the source of the list,
The White House is using a list of 72 immigrants attributing it entirely to the Center for Immigration
arrested on terror-related charges in the U.S. since 9/11 to Studies, when in fact the list originates from a Senate
defend Trump’s immigration ban. All 72 are from the committee on immigration, which compiled it last year
seven countries covered by the ban, and 33 of them were based on open-source documents. (RELATED: At Least
convicted of serious terror crimes. Hoping to downplay 15 ‘Citizen Terrorists’ Also Legal Immigrants)
and discredit these findings, WaPo fact checker Michelle
Ye Hee Lee ends up defending the convicts, and making Brushing aside the 33 immigrants convicted on terror
the dubious assertion that letting a few terrorists into the charges ranging from material support to terrorists abroad,
country just isn’t a big deal. to gruesome plots planned in the U.S., to possession of
explosives or missiles, Ye Hee Lee claims the White
She defends an Iranian immigrant convicted of trafficking House doesn’t have enough evidence to justify its claim
heroin into the country on behalf of Hezbollah, noting he that immigrants from these countries pose a potential terror
did not actually plan a terror attack on U.S. soil, as though threat.
anything short of detonating a bomb constitutes a star
resident. “Miller cited this research to say that
several dozen people from the seven
“In one 2013 case, Siavosh Henareh, was countries identified in the executive order
sentenced to prison for conspiring to import were involved in ‘all different kinds of
heroin into the United States,” she wrote. terroristic activity,'” she writes, referring to
“Henareh was one of three defendants senior policy adviser Stephen Miller. “But
charged in connection to trafficking of upon closer examination of the cases on
drugs and weapons on behalf of the list, it becomes clear that his statement
Hezbollah.” went too far. In fact, this is pretty thin gruel
on which to make sweeping claims about
Oh yeah, and his two friends were trafficking weapons for the alleged threat posed to the United
the terror group as well. Nothing to see here. States by these seven countries, especially
because the allegations often did not
concern alleged terrorist acts in the United
Another guy is written off as non-threatening by Ye Hee
States.”
Lee, because he and his friends wired $200,000 to a group
they thought was Hezbollah, but was actually an under-
cover agent. Because they only thought they were sending Whether or not allowing 30 plus would-be terrorists into
money to terrorists, but no real terrorists were involved, the country constitutes “thin gruel” for the White House
she puts them in the non-threatening category. policy argument is obviously a matter of opinion.
Nevertheless, Ye Hee Lee rates the use of the figure as
“mostly false,” apparently because not all 72 people on the
“It’s important to note that being convicted
list fit into the category of terrorist as defined by The
of material support [to terrorists] is not
Washington Post.
always evidence that the person was
.
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CIA Publicly Honors Massive
Terrorist State — Proving Whose Side They’re On
By Claire Bernish -The Free Thought Project
February 13, 2017
In a statement paraphrased by Arab News, Bin Nayef vowed Saudi Arabia would continue to fight
terrorism, and noted the Kingdom has thwarted a number
of terrorist attacks, even against ally nations — though he
“the crown prince said the award didn’t elaborate on the nature of these alleged attacks.
represents international recognition of the
Kingdom’s anti terrorism efforts under the
directives of King Salman.” “We are surrounded by areas of conflict,
and we were the first affected by terrorism
from various sources, but we are equipped
The irony of any Saudi winning an award for combating to combat terror in any place and under
terrorism is staggering — particularly given revelations any circumstances,” the crown prince
found last year in emails leaked by Wikileaks showing the claimed.
U.S. political establishment has been well aware Saudi
Arabia funds and supports the Islamic State. “The Kingdom has been keen to combat
terrorism based on its conviction that
“While this military/para-military operation terrorism has no identity and no religion,
and from its belief that the terrorists are
is moving forward, we need to use our
diplomatic and more traditional intelligence committing these acts stemming from their
assets to bring pressure on the deviant ideologies and evil thought,” bin
Nayef asserted. “All negative religious,
governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia,
which are providing clandestine financial political and social ideologies that use
and logistic support to ISIL and other religion as a tool throughout human history,
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do not reflect the absolute truth about As bin Nayef stated,
religion.”
“Combating terrorism requires a joint
While his statement certainly sounds legitimate, for the international effort at all levels; financially,
crown prince to dismiss Saudi Arabia’s support for the intellectually, militarily and through the
world’s enemy number one, Islamic State terrorists — not media. This should be coordinated and
to mention the Kingdom’s horrendous human rights conducted in accordance with the UN’s
record, thanks to Wahhabist Islam — is the epitome of covenants and laws including particularly
hypocrisy. the principle of sovereign equality.”
Hypocritical, but not surprising — and certainly far from Riyadh had grown somewhat disillusioned with the
shocking on the part of the of the CIA. administration of former President Barack Obama, which
appeared hesitant to engage in the Syrian civil war.
If the United States government were actually fighting the Relations chilled further upon a highly-criticized
terrorism it claims to be, Saudi Arabia should not have international deal to lift sanctions on Iran, which agreed
received a dime of support in funds or arms once its ties to not to pursue nuclear weapons — a deal Pompeo has
the Islamic State became common knowledge among the denounced.
political powers-that-be. Of course, Washington already
ignores the exacting human rights abuses the Saudis All hypocrisy on terrorism apparently aside, Bin Nayef
commit against their own people under a twisted seemed optimistic about the future shared goals of the two
amalgamation of monarchy, government, and religion. nations, saying,
Nevertheless, the pantomiming continues — the U.S. “Our relationship with the United States is
pretends to fight terrorism while arming and funding historical and will continue to succeed.”
terrorists, and the Saudis do the same — each turning blind
eyes to the other’s indiscretion and hypocrisy.
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NSC Staffers Purge Social Media
Of Anti-Trump Posts, Fearing Reprisals
Saagar Enjeti - Reporter
9:51 AM 02/13/2017
National Security Council (NSC) career staffers are “They ran all of these executive orders
purging their social media accounts of any past anti-Trump outside of the normal construct,” one
sentiments, the New York Times reports. official told Foreign Policy in late January.
The effort reflects a deep distrust of career
The purge comes amid increased suspicion among NSC NSC officials, and others within the
political appointees that career officials are leaking key bureaucracy, who the White House fears
details of the Trump administration’s possible courses of will leak plans to the media.
action. These White House political appointees reportedly
call these leaks the “insider threat” and are considering The NSC also experienced an exodus of career officials
monitoring the phone calls and emails of career staffers. prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration, with
many officials saying they did not want to work for him.
The White House was reportedly incensed by leaks within
the NSC of plans by Secretary of Defense James Mattis to “Career people are looking get out and go
have U.S. sailors board an Iranian ship in international back to their agencies and pressure is
waters to search for contraband headed to Houthi rebels in being put on them to get them to stay,” a
Yemen. Mattis set aside the operation after the plans U.S. official told The Guardian in
leaked. December.
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Trump Replaces Flynn With Boss
Of Super Secret Surveillance Contractor
Kurt Nimmo
February 13, 2017
Mike Flynn’s out. He resigned as Trump’s advisor this The secretive project was discovered through a WikiLeaks
evening after a chorus of calls for him to step down for an disclosure in 2012 after emails were hacked from Strafor,
alleged relationship with the Russians. This fits the often described as a shadow version of the CIA.
narrative used by Democrats since the election: Putin and
the Russians influenced the vote somehow, although TrapWire uses a series of surveillance cameras around the
nobody can tell us how exactly. Trump and his supporters country and also abroad to detect “suspicious behavior.”
are in league with them, according to the narrative. The system is reportedly located in every high-value target
in New York City.
Flynn will be replaced by retired Gen. Keith Kellogg.
The system is sold to local law enforcement. From RT:
Kellogg has an interesting history. In addition to his
disastrous mismanagement of the Coalition Provisional PrivacySos reports that a website
Authority in Iraq, Kellogg was president of Abraxas, a maintained by the US Homeland Security
wholly owned subsidiary of Cubic Corporation. Cubic Department’s Federal Emergency
provides diversified systems and services to the Management Agency (FEMA) includes
transportation and defense markets worldwide, according TrapWire as a product for sale to law
to MarketWatch. enforcement agencies and first responders.
It’s there that the background and
In 2006, The LA Times reported on Abraxas: operational concept of the system are
described in detail and direct curious
In the burgeoning field of intelligence customers to AbraxasCorp.com for more
contractors, an especially aggressive information. When a link to the URL is
upstart is Abraxas Corp., a privately held clicked, the banner at the top of the
company that has assembled a deep roster developer’s homepage described Abraxas
of CIA veterans to handle a wide range of as “A Cubic Company.” On the FEMA
clandestine assignments — including page, the product information is detailed as
secret work for an elite team of provided directly by Abraxas Applications.
overseas case officers.
Sounds pretty much like a CIA front organization
The company was founded by a group of former high- operation.
ranking agency employees, led by Richard “Hollis” Helms,
a longtime overseas officer in the Middle East and onetime If Kellogg replaces Flynn, we can undoubtedly expect an
head of the CIA’s European division, and Richard Calder, expansion of the surveillance state and its associated
who was the agency’s deputy director for administration. industries.
Abraxas is right down the street from the CIA. In late 2015, Trump said in an interview he tends “to err on
the side of security” and restoring parts of the Patriot Act
The company occupies an unmarked, third-floor office that have been amended would “be fine.”
suite in McLean, Va., two miles from CIA headquarters. It
has mainly specialized in providing veteran operatives and Trump’s CIA director, Mike Pompeo, introduced
reports officers for positions in overseas stations and at legislation to block the USA FREEDOM Act in 2015. The
CIA headquarters. act enacted on June 2, 2015 restored in modified form
several provisions of the Patriot Act, which had expired.
Abraxas is responsible for TrapWire, a tech company that
develops a homonymous predictive software system
designed to find patterns indicative of terrorist attacks.
.
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Corporate America Setting Up
"War Rooms" To Prep For Potential Trump Tweets
By Tyler Durden
Feb 13, 2017 10:30 PM
Once the tweet was sent, Mr. Vazin called Messrs. Lentz
and Nagata to discuss the statement he would craft, as
the company’s stock began to inch downward. The auto
maker posted its response on Twitter less than two hours
later.
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Facebook Scrubs Videos Of
Comedian Calling For Trump’s Assassination
By Bre Payton
February 13, 2017
He says he’s not the only one whose videos the social
network selectively deleted. Others reportedly complained
Comedian Eddie Griffin encouraged audience members on Twitter that Facebook had purged their videos of
to assassinate President Trump during a standup comedy Griffin’s disturbing monologue.
routine in Dallas, Texas on Friday, but Facebook doesn’t
want you to know that. Facebook has a history of biased treatment of conservative
media and topics that lean towards a conservative view of
Ben Ferguson, a radio show host who attended the show at the world. Last year, a group of employees who managed
the American Airlines Center, told The Federalist that the social network’s “trending topics” side bar revealed
Griffin made references to late President John F. they would routinely suppress conservative news or topics
Kennedy’s assassination, saying: of interest to conservatives. Facebook subsequently
eliminated the trending topics team after a storm of
criticism following that revelation.
“Ya’ll took out one president, you need to
take out another.”
The most frustrating part for Ferguson is that because he
“Ya’ll need to put Trump into a convertible recorded the video via Facebook Live, he has no hard copy
and take him out, or better yet, the driver of Griffin’s rant saved. Two of Ferguson’s other videos of
should take him out,” he continued. the comedy show remain on his Facebook page.
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NOT Crazy: Trump Didn’t Get Punked By
China’s Leader, He May Have Just Avoided World War III
By: JD Heyes
Date: February 13, 2017
In short, he thinks China is not as stable as it appears, and It appears that Trump has taken that path in patching up
that additional aggravation by the United States could push the rocky start with his Chinese counterpart. And isn’t that
the Chinese leader to the brink. (RELATED: Stay current a much better path?
on the biggest threats to U.S. security at
NationalSecurity.news)
For all of Trump’s detractors who portray him as some
out-of-control lunatic with his fingers on the nuclear
“Xi…really can’t handle the economy, trigger, our president may have just made the best
which is totally messed up,” Pieczenik said. decision he could have in order to avoid ratcheting up
“There’s a huge outflow of cash that’s tensions in the short term. Even though Taiwan is
going into the United States and obviously an independent nation (and deserves to be
elsewhere. He has a major devaluation of recognized as such), the last thing Trump wants is to leave
the yuan (China’s currency). He has the Chinese president with little choice but to lash out
companies that are so corrupt that they’re militarily in an effort to detract from his country’s internal
making up numbers for the bonds that problems while at the same time rallying his people.
they’re selling in the trillions of dollars. And
he has political unrest.”
How’s that for not being the crazed, egomaniacal
caricature he’s made out to be?
.
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Media Panic As White House Lets Lesser Known Outlets
Ask Questions… NYT ‘Reprimands’ Reporter
For Calling Melania ‘Hooker’
By IWB
Published February 13, 2017 · Updated February 14, 2017
The mainstream media isn’t liking the new set up at the “At a party last night, a Times reporter who
White House: Lesser name news outlets are being called does not cover Washington or politics,
on during press briefings, rather than the old, established referred to an unfounded rumor regarding
bellwethers. Melania Trump,” the newspaper said in a
statement. “The comment was not intended
During his press conference with Canadian Prime Minister to be public, but it was nonetheless
Justin Trudeau, President Donald Trump called on two completely inappropriate and should not
news outlets: WJLA a local ABC news affiliate, and the have occurred. Editors have talked to the
Daily Caller. Both failed to ask him about the fate of his reporter in question about the lapse.”
national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn, who has
been marred in a controversy that he spoke to Russian http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/new-york-times-
authorities before Mr. Trump took office. reporter-reprimanded-hooker-comment-melania-trump-
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And the mainstream media immediately pounced – saying
Mr. Trump was picking favorites in order to avoid Archbishop says it’s amazing ‘how hostile
questioning on Mr. Flynn. press is’ to Trump
“By handpicking reporters, Trump manages Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput told a radio
to get through a news conference without talk show host Monday that he believes fewer than 25
being asked about Flynn,” New York Times percent of those working in the “mainstream … elite”
reporter Peter Baker lamented on Twitter – media have religious faith, and expressed surprise at what
failing to mention that all U.S. presidents he termed was media hostility to President Trump.
handpick reporters.
“It’s just amazing to me how hostile the
Bloomberg’s Angela Greiling Keane helped him clarify. press is to everything the president does,”
Chaput told the California-based Hugh
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/13/mains Hewitt, a Catholic conservative.
tream-media-whines-trump-calls-less-establish/ “I don’t want to be partisan in my
comments here, but it seems to me if we
New York Times Reporter Reprimanded for “Hooker” are really serious about our common
Comment About Melania Trump responsibilities, we support the president,”
Chaput said, “whether we accept
The comment became public knowledge on Monday after everything he stands for or not, and wish
supermodel Emily Ratajkowski stated that she heard what him success rather than trying to
was said and was outraged over it. undermine him.
“The elite, of course, kind of pooh-pooh
A New York Times reporter has been reprimanded by the religious faith … very deliberately,” Chaput
paper for a comment made about first lady Melania said. “It is important to us not to desire to
Trump. be a part of that with the elite, to the point
that we give up our faith.”
The reporter made the comment on Sunday during a New
York Fashion Week event. The newspaper did not identify
the name of the staffer.
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He did not offer any data to support his contention that http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Chaput-says-amazing-
news media are markedly less religious than the general how-hostile-media-are-to-Trump.html
public — an idea Hewitt proposed to him.
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Keith Kellogg: 5 Fast Facts You Need To Know
By Brendan Morrow
Published 12:20 Am EST, February 14, 2017
Updated 12:41 Am EST, February 14, 2017
Keith Kellogg has been named acting national security “We could not have picked a better person
advisor following the resignation of Michael Flynn. to command this great division today than
Keith Kellogg,” Lieutenant General Jack
Flynn resigned on Monday amid reports that he had Keane said when Kellogg was given this
spoken with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about Russia command. “He’s a great soldier, a leader of
sanctions, despite Flynn repeatedly claiming that he never uncommon good judgment, a proven
did so. Kellogg is serving in the interim until a new adviser combat veteran and has earned the
is named, although he’s also reportedly on the shortlist to reputation of being one of the Army’s
be Flynn’s permanent replacement. Up until premier trainers.”
today, Kellogg’s position was as executive secretary of the
National Security Council. Kellogg later rose to the rank of lieutenant general. He told
The Fay Observer in 1997 that
Here’s what you need to know about Keith Kellogg.
“Since I was a little kid all I ever wanted to
1. He Is a Retired U.S. Army General Officer do was be in the military. When I was a
tyke. I don’t know why. I happened to pick
up on it and always want to do it.”
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After the invasion of Iraq, Keith Kellogg served as chief working with the talented CACI
operating officer for the Coalition Provisional Authority, professionals in this arena.”
the transitional government of Iraq established in March
2003 and dissolved in June 2004. Kellogg has worked for a number of intelligence
contractors, including Analex Corp. and Abraxas, the latter
Kellogg also worked as chief of staff to L. Paul Bremer III, of which Wikileaks revealed in 2010 was the source of
leader of the Coalition Provisional Authority who was software used by the U.S. government for surveillance.
appointed by President George W. Bush in May 2003. Kellogg also worked for Oracle Corporation, where he ran
the homeland security solutions division.
In 2003, Kellogg told The Los Angeles Times that his job
at the CPA was to ensure discipline and speed throughout “When I decided to leave the military, I
the organization. realized that the skills I acquired there were
transferable to the commercial world both
“I’m the guy who’s supposed to make the in leadership and the information
trains run on time,” he said. technology field,” Kellogg told The
Washington Post.
In addition, Kellogg formerly served as the director of
command, control, and communications for the Joint 4. His Wife, Paige, Is Also a Former U.S. Army Officer
Chiefs of Staff for the Pentagon, where he worked on
“network centric warfare,” according to The Nation.
“CACI has demonstrated outstanding “[Paige] said, ‘This is serious stuff. You get
commitment to national priorities, and the on an airplane. You don’t worry about me,'”
company is vigilant in its steadfast Kellogg said.
dedication to clients who protect the
nation,” Kellogg said in a statement at the
time of his hiring. “This is the type of Kellogg went on to say that he didn’t see his family again
environment in which I have served for another eight months, when Iraq was driven out of
throughout my career, and in which I want Kuwait.
to continue serving. I look forward to
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5. He Was Added to Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy months, Kellogg frequently appeared on cable news to talk
Team in March 2016 about Donald Trump’s campaign promises.
Keith Kellogg became one of Donald Trump’s national He also said that Donald Trump has the temperament to be
security advisors in March 2016. In the subsequent commander-in-chief and that he is a “change candidate.”
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Poof! Flynn Is Gone
Just As Fast As He Came, He Has Gone
By Lexi Morgan -
02.14.2017 @12:19 AM EST
WASHINGTON D.C. (INTELLIHUB) — President Flynn’s replacement will be Ret. Army Gen. Keith
Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Michael Kellogg, 72, who has already been abruptly appointed by
Flynn resigned Monday night just after the Justice the Trump Administration as the National Security Adviser
Department advised White House officials that Flynn (acting).
could easily be blackmailed by the Russians after
exposing his vulnerability to them over the phone.
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“because of the fast pace of events” he
managed to “brief the Vice President-elect
and others with incomplete information”
pertaining to phone conversations Russian
Ambassador.
Flynn left a resignation letter which listed why he Trump’s personal stance on the issue is currently
resigned. In the letter, Flynn wrote that unknown.
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Trump Responds To Flynn Resignation:
"The Real Story" Here Are The Illegal Leaks
By Tyler Durden
Feb 14, 2017 9:47 AM
Donald Trump's anticipated, if so far unofficial, reaction to conversation, which will then shift the spotlight to Trump's
the Flynn resignation hit moments ago when the president own allegations of close ties with the Kremlin.
tweeted in response to the brewing scandal that
Furthermore, Trump now faces backlash within the GOP
"The real story here is why are there so as well, with John McCain saying moments ago that Gen.
many illegal leaks coming out of Flynn's resignation
Washington? Will these leaks be
happening as I deal on N. Korea etc?" "is a troubling indication of the dysfunction
of the current national security apparatus."
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Deep State Leak Campaign Brings
Down National Security Advisor Michael Flynn
Dan Wright
14 Feb 2017
All the stories claimed to be predicated on information While there is no doubt Flynn’s troubled relationship with
from national security officials and other insiders. Vice President Pence was a factor, it is downright
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irresponsible to not note that Flynn had many enemies Director of the DIA at the time of the
within the deep state, including those in a position to leak memo’s drafting and former Senior
information to the press to take him down. Intelligence Officer for the Joint Special
Operations Command (JSOC), Michael
That the Russian call is not a coincidence. Former Flynn, has repeatedly affirmed the
intelligence officers like John Schindler have claimed report’s accuracy in public statements.
(without evidence) that Flynn is a Kremlin agent. The New But now, for the first time, a CIA
York Times reported there was an investigation into perspective has been offered: former CIA
Flynn’s trip to Russia in 2015 by the Department of Deputy Director Michael Morell recently
Defense. took to Politico to weigh in on controversy
surrounding the now declassified 2012
memo, which further warned that “the
Some of the leaks almost certainly came from the CIA,
Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI
which has had a long running feud with Flynn that goes
are the major forces driving the insurgency
back to the Obama Administration and Flynn’s time as
in Syria” and that “the West, Gulf countries,
head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Flynn was
and Turkey support the opposition.”
ultimately fired by President Obama, but not before DIA
created a now notorious 2012 memo that blamed the CIA
for the rise of ISIS. As Shadowproof discussed with former CIA officer John
Kiriakou recently, there is a raging power struggle going
on between the CIA and President Trump. Flynn was
The memo became a major point of conflict with Flynn,
certainly one of the CIA’s major targets, but hardly their
who affirmed it, while former CIA Director Mike Morell
only one.
attempted to discredit it:
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CIA Broke The Law
To Take Out Its Critic General Flynn
By Thomas Lifson
February 14, 2017
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Chaffetz Investigating Security
Protocols At Trump's Mar-A-Lago Resort
By Barnini Chakraborty
Published February 14, 2017
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Gee, Remember When Obama Literally Whispered Into
Russia’s Ear? (VIDEO)
By DCwhispers
Posted On February 14, 2017
And yet, there was no such outrage for this moment when
then-President Barack Obama leaned into then-Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev, and whispered he would have
“more flexibility” to work with Russia after the 2012
Election. It was a message Medvedev promptly indicated
would be delivered to Putin.
.
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Anti-Trump
Campaign Claims First Victim
From Stephen Lendman
2-14-2017
Late Monday evening, National Security Advisor Michael “Unfortunately, because of the fast pace of
Flynn was sacked - ostensibly for discussing US sanctions events, I inadvertently briefed the Vice
on Russia with its US ambassador Sergey Kislyak before President Elect and others with incomplete
Trump’s inauguration, then providing Vice President information regarding my phone calls with
Pence with “incomplete information” about their the Russian Ambassador. I have sincerely
conversation. apologized to the President and the Vice
President, and they have accepted my
Flynn was a scoundrel media target like various other apology.”
administration officials. Last month, he denied discussing
sanctions with Russia’s ambassador. Flynn was targeted for not being anti-Russia. He believed
both countries should work together cooperatively to
Acting Attorney General/Obama administration holdover resolve issues of mutual interest, especially in combating
Sally Yates taped his conversation, information then terrorism.
leaked to the media, indicating sanctions were discussed.
Trump fired her for failing to enforce his immigration He called the emergence of ISIS and al-Nusra the result of
order. calculated policy decisions, not happenstance. He
criticized Obama officials for bashing Russian anti-
The 1799 Logan Act, amended in 1994, prohibits terrorist operations in Syria.
unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign
governments - considered an attempt to influence bilateral Media scoundrels disgracefully portrayed him as a Russian
relations. agent. He participated in an RT conference on the occasion
of its first ten years of international broadcasting, meeting
The act remained unused since passage. No felony action Vladimir Putin at the time.
against Flynn is likely. Because the measure’s language is
so broad, legal experts suggest it’s unconstitutional. Hostile Democrats want nonexistent Trump ties to Russia
Historically it’s been used more as a threat than and Putin investigated. Is America’s intelligence
justification for prosecution. community spying on its president, part of a longstanding
campaign to delegitimize him, now wanting him
Alleged Logan Act violations occurred in nearly all US undermined, perhaps ahead of wanting him impeached and
administrations. No prosecutions or convictions followed, removed from office - a very disturbing state of affairs.
just one indictment in 1803, involving a Kentucky
newspaper article, arguing for forming a separate nation in The Saker calls what’s going on an anti-Trump “color
western America allied to France. No prosecution revolution.” I’ve called it an attempted coup d’etat to
followed. delegitimize and undermine him. Forcing Flynn out over a
telephone conversation doing no harm suggests Trump’s
In his resignation letter, Flynn said his omission was betrayal, according to The Saker, “an act of abject
unintentional, stating: cowardice,” instead of supporting his national security
point man and going after Flynn’s accusers.
“In the course of my duties as the incoming
National Security Advisor, I held numerous Has Trump surrendered to America’s neocon infested deep
phone calls with foreign counterparts, state? Will he abandon efforts to improve relations with
ministers, and ambassadors.” Russia? Will he maintain hostility toward China, Iran,
Venezuela and other independent states?
“These calls were to facilitate a smooth
transition and begin to build the necessary Will he continue supporting terrorism instead of combating
relationships between the President, his it? Is America’s imperial agenda safe in his hands? Will he
advisors and foreign leaders. Such calls still be targeted for removal anyway?
are standard practice in any transition of
this magnitude.”
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Like GW Bush and Obama, Pence is a pushover, an ideal It now appears dashed on the rocks of Flynn’s ouster. Dirty
frontman for dark interests running America, assuring business as usual won. Millions of long-abused Americans
disturbing continuity. lost.
Possible Trump administration change, under the best of Note: Trump named retired army general Joseph Kellogg,
circumstances, benefitting ordinary Americans was always Jr. as acting national security advisor. Reports indicate
wishful thinking. Admiral Robert Harwood will likely replace him.
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Did The CIA Just Stage A
Micro-Coup Against Trump Administration?
By Brandon Turbeville
February 14, 2017
In 2017, there has yet to be a single shred of evidence that Even taking all the other accusations into consideration,
the Russians hacked or influenced anything to do with the such as the dinner with Putin, Flynn’s alleged crimes pale
American elections or American policy, foreign or in comparison to what is considered business as usual in
domestic. Regardless, the corporate media piranhas have a Washington. After all, where was the outcry regarding
new carcass to chew on in their race to remind Americans Hillary Clinton’s obvious and only thinly veiled financial
of the big Russian bogeyman, drum up support for war in relationship with China and Saudi Arabia when she was
the Middle East and Ukraine as well as Russia itself, and acting Secretary of State? If Clinton could maintain her
to curtail virtually all rights and free speech under the position within the State Department amid all the clear
guise of “national security” and Russophobia. evidence of her own scandals, then why is Flynn being
held to a much higher standard?
But what did Flynn actually do that was so wrong? His
discussion with the Russian ambassador was nothing close Indeed, American politicians have, for years, violated the
to a scandal. He did nothing that would be interpreted as Logan Act by meeting with and actively planning policy at
undercutting the Obama Administration’s aggression nor such global confabs like the Bilderberg Meeting without
did he even say that Obama’s sanctions would be removed one word from the U.S. government or the mainstream
once Trump was in office. In fact, all he did was state that media.
the Russians should not overreact to America’s current
state of aggression because a new administration was soon So again, the question must be asked . . .
to take over. A hint? Yes. A violation of the law or a
scandalous act? Hardly.
What Is Behind Michael Flynn’s Resignation?
The New York Times then goes on to argue that Trump “either Trump hasn’t found the necessary
himself was more concerned with Flynn’s actions independence and he’s been driven into a
becoming a focal point of controversy than actual risks to corner … or Russophobia has permeated
national security or any real lawbreaking or perhaps that he the new administration from top to bottom.”
was more angry that Flynn lied to Vice President Pence
regarding the nature of the call and the statements made in
it. But it doesn’t seem like Donald Trump to be overly First, it should be noted that Kosachev’s statement is the
concerned with controversy. It’s simply not in his statement of a Russian lawmaker and not the official
character. After all, his entire campaign was built on statement of the Russian government, i.e. the Kremlin.
controversy. So why is Flynn really out? However, Kosachev’s statement is illuminating to say the
least.
To be clear, Michael Flynn should have long ago been
fired from his position as National Security Advisor. His There are, indeed, four possibilities here, two of which are
radical obsession with Iran and his obvious crazed mentioned by Kosachev.
determination to go to war with the Persian nation is
reason enough to ensure that he never gets near any The first possibility is that, simply put, we are witnessing
position that would allow him to influence the U.S. yet another seamless transition of power and that the same
government toward yet another imperialistic war of anti-Russian, pro-imperialist policies will continue to be
aggression in the Middle East. However, merely implemented in a Trump administration just as they were
suggesting to Russia that, perhaps, when the new in the Obama administration, albeit in a “conservative,”
administration takes over, the U.S. might not continue to “Republican” version.
pursue a policy of World War Three is not necessarily
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The second possibility is that, as Kosachev pointed out, company that has assembled a deep roster
perhaps Donald Trump is finding out that he is nothing of CIA veterans to handle a wide range of
more than a figurehead for a well-entrenched and well- clandestine assignments — including
established Deep State and that he has no real control over secret work for an elite team of
events. It is also quite possible that elements within the overseas case officers.
Deep State, amply represented in Trump’s cabinet, are
The company was founded by a group of
taking the reins and steering the wagon in another former high-ranking agency employees, led
direction, independent of anything Trump has to say. This, by Richard “Hollis” Helms, a longtime
of course, is assuming that Trump is actually working for overseas officer in the Middle East and
the benefit of the American people, a highly implausible onetime head of the CIA’s European
assumption to say the least but still worth considering division, and Richard Calder, who was the
since it has happened several times in the past. agency’s deputy director for administration.
A third possibility is that we are simply witnessing a new Abraxas is right down the street from the CIA.
act in a carefully scripted theatre; partly designed to further
the agenda of anti-Russian pro-war sentiment under Neo-
Con/Republican cover and partly designed to reinforce the The company occupies an unmarked, third-
anti-Russian narrative being peddled mostly by the Left floor office suite in McLean, Va., two miles
until there is a clear synthesis of delusion that Russia is the from CIA headquarters. It has mainly
natural enemy of the United States and a threat to our way specialized in providing veteran operatives
of life. and reports officers for positions in
overseas stations and at CIA headquarters.
Lastly, there is the possibility that we are witnessing an
intelligence community micro-coup against the Trump Abraxas is responsible for TrapWire, a tech company that
administration, eliminating Michael Flynn as the first shot develops a homonymous predictive software system
over the bow. Whatever the nature of Trump in this designed to find patterns indicative of terrorist attacks.
scenario, there is the very real possibility that there are two
factions in the American government and that an internal The secretive project was discovered through a WikiLeaks
civil war is taking place. disclosure in 2012 after emails were hacked from Strafor,
often described as a shadow version of the CIA.
Admittedly, we could also be seeing a mixture of any
number of these possibilities taking shape before our eyes. TrapWire uses a series of surveillance cameras around the
country and also abroad to detect “suspicious behavior.”
Who Replaces Flynn? Who Replaces The The system is reportedly located in every high-value target
in New York City.
Replacement?
The system is sold to local law enforcement. From RT:
At the moment, it appears that Flynn will be replaced with
retired Gen. Keith Kellogg. Kurt Nimmo of Another Day
PrivacySos reports that a website
In The Empire, summarizes Kellogg’s history which is
maintained by the US Homeland Security
questionable to say the least. In his article, “Trump
Department’s Federal Emergency
Replaces Flynn With Boss Of Super Secret Surveillance
Management Agency (FEMA) includes
Contractor,” Nimmo writes,
TrapWire as a product for sale to law
enforcement agencies and first responders.
Kellogg has an interesting history. In It’s there that the background and
addition to his disastrous mismanagement operational concept of the system are
of the Coalition Provisional Authority in described in detail and direct curious
Iraq, Kellogg was president of Abraxas, a customers to AbraxasCorp.com for more
wholly owned subsidiary of Cubic information. When a link to the URL is
Corporation. Cubic provides diversified clicked, the banner at the top of the
systems and services to the transportation developer’s homepage described Abraxas
and defense markets worldwide, according as “A Cubic Company.” On the FEMA
to MarketWatch. page, the product information is detailed as
provided directly by Abraxas Applications.
In 2006, The LA Times reported on Abraxas:
Sounds pretty much like a CIA front organization
In the burgeoning field of intelligence operation.
contractors, an especially aggressive
upstart is Abraxas Corp., a privately held
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If Kellogg replaces Flynn, we can undoubtedly expect an compromising position” and thought that
expansion of the surveillance state and its associated Pence had a right to know that he had
industries. been misled, according to one of the
officials, who, like others, spoke on the
In late 2015, Trump said in an interview he tends “to err on condition of anonymity to discuss
the side of security” and restoring parts of the Patriot Act intelligence matters.
that have been amended would “be fine.”
As former Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich pointed
Trump’s CIA director, Mike Pompeo, introduced out, it is important to remember that a phone call from the
legislation to block the USA FREEDOM Act in 2015. The incoming National Security Advisor to the President-elect
act enacted on June 2, 2015 restored in modified form of the United States was “intercepted” by the intelligence
several provisions of the Patriot Act, which had expired. community and then given to the media for dissemination.
This is an incredibly important piece of the puzzle,
demonstrating that the entire affair is clearly part of an
What is even more frightening, however, is the fact that,
intelligence operation.
according to a “senior administration official” quoted by
the Associated Press, Trump is also considering former
disgraced General and CIA Director, David Petraeus for “What’s at the core of this is an effort by
the post. Petraeus is a man of an intelligence pedigree of some in the intelligence community to
epic proportions, despite having been burned by a Mata upend any positive relationship between
Hari type operation. Petraeus is an eager warmonger with the U.S. and Russia,” Kucinich said.
roots so deep in the intelligence community, a Petraeus “And I tell you there’s a marching band and
appointment would no doubt please the Deep State. Chowder Society out there. There’s gold in
them there hills,” he said. “There are
The Method of The Controversy – Intelligence people trying to separate the U.S. and
Community Behind The Resignation Controversy Russia so that this military industrial intel
axis can cash in,” Kucinich added.
While virtually every mainstream outlet is joining in the
hysteria regarding Flynn’s resignation, a fact that is, in and Kucinich also stated
of itself, reason enough to suggest a coordinated campaign,
it is also important to note that the “leaks” of the “There’s a game going on inside the
conversation was originally printed in the Washington intelligence community where there are
Post, an outlet that has long been known as a “leak outlet” those who want to separate the U.S. from
for the CIA. In fact, it was the acting Attorney General left Russia in a way that would reignite the
over from the Obama administration, Sally Q. Yates, who Cold War.”
issued the warning to the Trump administration regarding “What’s going on in the intelligence
Flynn’s statements and conversation with the Russian community with this new President is
ambassador. unprecedented. They’re making every
effort to upend him. Who know what the
Even more so, the attack on Flynn was initiated before truth is anymore?”
Trump ever took office. During the last days of the Obama
“There’s something very wrong here in the
Administration, CIA Director John Brennan and James
intelligence community,” he said.
Clapper, the Director of the Office of National
Intelligence, two individuals who were instrumental in
cocking up the ridiculous “Russian Election Hacking” When asked what Donald Trump should do, Kucinich
scandal and its evidence-bare reports were involved in answered,
monitoring Flynn’s conversation and arguing that his
appointment would be a potential risk to national security “First of fall, he has to get a hold of his own
and the Trump administration. As the Washington Post intelligence apparatus. You know? This
writes, isn’t a joke. This is a serious matter. If he
doesn’t get control of where the
In the waning days of the Obama information’s coming from, he’ll never know
administration, James R. Clapper Jr., who the truth, the American people won’t know
was the director of national intelligence, the truth and we can be set at war with
and John Brennan, the CIA director at the almost any country. Be very careful is my
time, shared Yates’s concerns and warning this morning.
concurred with her recommendation to
inform the Trump White House. They Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
feared that “Flynn had put himself in a
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Conclusion countries are at an all-time low, a power struggle within
the power structure is likely to carry many Americans
At the end of the day, the resignation of Michael Flynn and down the drain with it. If there is no power struggle,
the controversy surrounding it is clearly the result of a however, and all of this is mere theater, there is
coordinated intelligence operation that determined, from undoubtedly a reason that Americans are being allowed to
day one, to remove Flynn from his position. This much is view a thinly veiled CIA ouster of a Presidentially-
clear. The reason why, however, is much less obvious. appointed advisor. While we may not know the specifics
Flynn was and still is a dangerous rabid Neo-Con of the reason just yet, we do know that it will only further
warmonger and an obsessive anti-Iran fanatic. But having the agenda of the Deep State and put every American
the CIA oust a member of the President’s cabinet because citizen at risk.
the organization finds him unpalatable is a new low for the
United States. The CIA has, ever since its creation, If there is a civil war in the power structure of the U.S.
functioned as the enforcement arm of the Deep State government, it is imperative that Americans do not resort
within the U.S. government but rarely are its actions so to taking sides, especially against one another. It is time
public. the American people allow cooler heads to prevail and use
this incident as a wake-up call so that they realize just who
When corruption becomes public and when even the is in control of the direction of their country, i.e. the Deep
formalities of democracy begin to disappear, the situation State. Americans must turn their sights away from each
becomes incredibly dangerous. As social and domestic other and toward those who are attempting to manipulate
tensions continue to boil and foreign relations with other them. The future of the United States literally depends on
their ability to do so.
.
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Trump, GOP Lawmakers Eye
'Illegal' Leaks In Wake Of Flynn Resignation
Published February 14, 2017
“The real story here is why are there so "If [the Flynn conversation] was picked up
many illegal leaks coming out of inadvertently, then that would have had to
Washington?” have been approved by someone in the
last administration to actually unmask his
name so that the FBI or intelligence
officials knew who it was on the other end
of the phone talking to the Russian
ambassador," Nunes told Fox News. "If, in
fact, the press reports are right, someone
made the decision to deliberately listen to
General Flynn's phone calls and that is, I
think, unprecedented, unwarranted and
flat-out wrong."
Flynn echoed that point. Asked Tuesday morning whether
the leaks were targeted, coordinated and possibly a Nunes said he is going to
violation of the law, Flynn told Fox News:
“be asking the FBI to do an assessment of
“Yes, yes and yes.” this to tell us what's going on here because
we cannot continue to have these leaks as
Flynn resigned following reports that he had spoken with a government."
the Russian ambassador about sanctions, after having
apparently given Vice President Pence “incomplete Senate homeland security committee Chairman Ron
information” on the issue. Pence, based on that Johnson, R-Wis., told Fox News that “somebody in the
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nebulous intelligence community” would have had access "… Flynn's departure does not end
to the Flynn discussions. questions over his contacts with the
Russians, which have been alleged to have
“Who tapped the phones, who was begun well before December 29,” Rep.
listening to it, who leaked it? I think those Adam Schiff, D-Calif., top Democrat on the
are legitimate questions to ask,” he told House intelligence committee, said in a
Fox News on Tuesday. “Leaks of this statement. “These alleged contacts and
nature are incredibly damaging to America any others the Trump campaign may have
… and we need to look into it.” had with the Kremlin are the subject of the
House Intelligence Committee's ongoing
investigation. Moreover, the Trump
A congressional source told Fox News they believe the
administration has yet to be forthcoming
intelligence was known to a small circle of Obama
about who was aware of Flynn's
administration officials and appointees at the end of last
conversations with the ambassador and
year, including some working within the intelligence
whether he was acting on the instructions
community -- and the leaks were targeted and coordinated
of the president or any other officials, or
to undermine the administration.
with their knowledge."
House Democrats, meanwhile, want to know more about
the nature of Flynn’s contact with Russia.
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Deep State Shows They Control
National Security With Michael Flynn Resignation
The Deep State Has At Last Revealed Themselves To Be Even
Higher Than The U.S. National Security Advisor And The
President Of The United States...
By Rahul Manchanda, Esq.
February 13, 2017
The Deep State does not ever want Even former CIA Director James Clapper got a “free pass”
peace with Russia, or a respite in their by this Deep State when he, under full oath, openly and
interventionist wars overseas. overtly LIED to the entire United States Congress and
Senate when he stated that NSA Surveillance was not
They have thus far lobbed “softballs” at President Donald comprehensive and was not listening in on each and every
Trump, such as with their control over the Mainstream American citizen’s phone calls, emails, faxes, and other
Media’s relentless attacks on Donald Trump, his character, communications, 24/7, 365 days a year.
his nominee choices, his vision, his America-first policies,
and other decisions that he has made. This was a bald faced and abject lie, as revealed by
whistleblower Edward Snowden, and even worse, since it
The Deep State has also used their thoroughly corrupted was under oath in front of the entire U.S. Congress and
Judiciary at their disposal to thwart and sabotage Donald Senate, was complete and total PERJURY – this was not just
Trump’s executive orders, with their corrupted judges an impeachable offense, but one that can send you to jail
stockpiled in the federal, state and local courts for literally for a thousand years.
the past at least 28 years all the way from President George
Herbert Walker Bush starting in 1988, to Bill Clinton, to Yet James Clapper was allowed to walk, given a free pass
George W Bush, and then through Obama all the way until – why?
2016.
Because James Clapper was a total stooge and errand boy
The U.S. Congressional and Senatorial gridlock for the American (and now Global) Deep State, and did
established by the Deep State has also stood in Trump’s exactly what they told him to do, whenever they told him
way, but they were relatively easier to manage and move to do it, even when his actions were antithetical to the
around for the Great Deal Maker (and Twitter interests of the American people, or the rest of the people
communicator), Donald Trump. of the world.
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This was his reward for faithfully carrying the Deep save his job, went off on a half-cocked rampage on live
State’s water. national television when he stated “we are hereby putting
Iran on Notice!”
Now, with the forced resignation of General Michael
Flynn from his National Security Advisor position, the This was an obvious attempt to appease the most fringe
message from the Deep State to President Donald Trump is elements of the Israeli government – but someone within
crystal clear: the Deep State did not care about catering to the most
extreme Israelis – because the Deep State has other plans
The Deep State is fully in control, fully in for Israel, Iran, and the rest of the Middle East – possibly
charge, and we can even casually throw World War 3 by and between purposefully created,
out your most important and sensitive cultivated, and funded radical Islam and radical Zionism,
appointment in your cabinet and as predicted and described by 33rd Degree Freemason
administration to date – and so you Albert Pike in the late 1800s?
better do exactly what we tell you to do,
whenever we tell you to do it, and Well, now with the forced ejection of the rational and
exactly in the manner that we prescribe. reasonable peacemaker Michael Flynn, the prospect of
World War 3 has become that much closer.
Only a few weeks ago, in what is now obvious in
hindsight, Michael Flynn in a fit of feverish desperation to
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