It’s all about the Benjamins - Weapons makers behind Ukraine, Impeachment and Assassination of Soleimani

US foreign policies are a vast sales-promotion scheme, for America’s billionaires, who crave to control Russia, above all...  How much more can the world take?  How much death and destruction is enough?  What level of evil and destruction, is enough?  Do we need more?  How much more money do the top 1% need?  How many billions will it take?  ~ Veterans Today

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. ~ Major General Smedley Butler USMC in his speech delivered in 1933

It’s all about the Benjamins baby.  The 911 attacks, the endless regime change wars, the impeachment of Donald Trump, the assassination of Soleimani, it’s all about the Benjamins baby.  The United States government and all its cabinets serve only the interests of Wall Street’s war industry who then fill the coffers of the politicians and think tanks.  Through insider trading, campaign contributions, under the table payoffs and quid pro quo weapons deals, the interests of the American people are of no concern to politicians of either party.   What is good for America is never a consideration.

While America plunges deeper and deeper into despair due to crushing debt, hopelessness, homelessness, addiction, joblessness, and polluted disrepair, the politicians ignore America’s plight shoveling trillions more into endless regime change wars on behalf of their billionaire Zionist overlords.  America has been continuously lied to by the congressional and media servants of the Defense Industry. 

From Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to almost 20 years of “winning the war in Afghanistan”, from regime change in Libya to the assassination of General Soleimani none of it was to make America safer, to the contrary.  It was all to endanger America providing an excuse to plow trillions annually into the coffers of the weapons industry.  It’s all about the Benjamins baby.  From Strategic Culture:

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New York Times Reveals America’s Weapons-Makers Drive Trump-Impeachment

A remarkably non-propagandistic news-report, in the New York Times, by Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman and Mark Mazzetti, included powerful evidence that the impeachment-effort against US President Donald Trump is motivated, in part if not totally, by a desire by US Senators and Representatives — as well as by career employees of the US Departments of Defense, State Department, and other agencies regarding national defense — to increase the sales-volumes of US-made weapons to foreign countries.

Whereas almost all of the contents of that article merely repeat what has already been reported, this article in the Times states repeatedly that boosting corporations such as Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Boeing, and Northrop-Grumman, has been a major — if not the very top — motivation driving US international relations, and that at least regarding Ukraine, Trump has not been supporting, but has instead been trying to block, those weapons-sales — and creating massive enemies in the US Government as a direct consequence.

The article, issued online on Sunday, December 29th, is titled “Behind the Ukraine Aid Freeze: 84 Days of Conflict and Confusion”, and it quotes many such individuals as saying that President Trump strongly opposed the sale of US weapons to Ukraine, and that,

In an Oval Office meeting on May 23, with Mr. Sondland, Mr. Mulvaney and Mr. Blair in attendance, Mr. Trump batted away assurances that [Ukraine’s current President] Mr. Zelensky was committed to confronting corruption. “They are all corrupt, they are all terrible people,” Mr. Trump said, ACCORDING TO TESTIMONY IN THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY.

In other words, Trump, allegedly, said that he didn’t want “terrible people” to be buying, and to receive, US-made weapons (especially not as US aid — FREE OF CHARGE, A GIFT FROM AMERICA’S TAXPAYERS)…

Clearly, the standard line in the US-and-allied media, that the February 2014 overthrow and replacement of Ukraine’s democratically elected Government was a ‘democratic revolution’, instead of a US coup, is based on blatant lies, and THE US-IMPOSED COUP-REGIME THERE IS STILL IN FORCE, AND HAS BEEN PERPETRATING AN ETHNIC CLEANSING in order to be able to remain in power.

In fact, the current Ukrainian President, Volodmyr Zelensky, is the self-described “business partner” of, and was brought to power by, the brutal Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoysky, who helped the ‘former’ “Social Nationalist’ (National Socialist or Nazi) Arsen Avakov, plan and execute on 2 May 2014 the burning-alive inside the Odessa Trade Unions Building, of dozens or perhaps over a hundred people who had been printing and distributing leaflets against the coup.

For the New York Times, in its ’news’-report — even this article that’s less prejudiced than most of mainstream US ’news’-reporting is — to simply presume that Trump had no valid reason for asserting what he did against Ukraine’s present (the Obama-installed) Government of Ukraine, constitutes merely anti-Trump (and pro-Obama) propaganda, on their part, and it would be more appropriate in an editorial or op-ed from them than in an alleged news-article, such as here…

Kurt Volker, the US special representative for Ukraine, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a Tuesday hearing. “I think it’s also important that Ukraine reciprocate with foreign military purchases from us as well, and I know that they intend to do so.”

The assistance comes at a pivotal moment for Ukraine’s newly minted president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a popular comedian who won a landslide victory in April. Zelensky has made ending the Russian-backed insurrection in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region his top political priority…

In other words: Volker was saying that Ukraine’s Government would follow through with America’s war against Russia, next door to Ukraine, and that therefore, US taxpayers should pay for Ukraine’s purchases of US-made weapons, such as from Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

HE WAS SAYING THAT MILKING US TAXPAYERS TO BOOST THOSE US CORPORATIONS’ PROFITS IS GOOD, NOT BAD.

He was saying that Ukraine is on US taxpayers’ dole, as if the Obama-installed, rabidly anti-Russian, Ukrainian Government is a charity-case which is the US Government’s business (and not merely those private stockholders’ business), and that therefore, Trump should continue Obama’s policy toward Ukraine, of using Ukraine in order ultimately to place on Ukraine’s border with Russia, missiles against Moscow, right across that border.              

“THIS IS IN AMERICA’S INTEREST,” MR. BOLTON ARGUED, according to one official briefed on the gathering.

“THIS DEFENSE RELATIONSHIP, WE HAVE GOTTEN SOME REALLY GOOD BENEFITS FROM IT,” MR. ESPER ADDED, noting that most of the money was being spent on military equipment made in the United States.

AMERICA’S WAR AGAINST RUSSIA IS DESIGNED TO ENRICH INVESTORS IN US ‘DEFENSE’-CONTRACTORS.

Isn’t it clear, then, what was actually behind 9/11, and behind America’s invasion of (instead of merely Special-Forces operation regarding) Afghanistan in 2001, and invasions of Iraq in 2003, and of Libya in 2011, and of Syria in 2012-now, etc., and coup against Ukraine in 2014?..

US foreign policies are a vast sales-promotion scheme, for America’s billionaires, who crave to control Russia, above all. Trump won’t buck them. Instead, he’s continuing Obama’s policy on Ukraine.

When is enough, enough?  How much more can the world take?  How much death and destruction is enough?  What level of evil and destruction, is enough?  Do we need more?  How much more money do the top 1% need?  How many billions will it take? 

When is enough, enough indeed?  Soleimani was assassinated to stop Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia peace talks which would put a dent into the extremely grotesque profits of the weapons manufacturers, thus putting a dent in the cash flow to think tanks and members of congress. 

Congress and the Defense Industry are not willing to cede control of Iraq back to the Iraqi people, there’s too much money to be made.  The US has done nothing to repair the war damage in Iraq and has no interest in doing so.  For the weapons manufacturers, Iraq is a springboard to war in Iran and to continue forever wars of regime change.  From The Grayzone:

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Iraqi PM reveals Soleimani was on peace mission when assassinated, exploding Trump’s lie of ‘imminent attacks’

The Trump administration claimed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was planning “imminent attacks” on US interests when it assassinated him. That lie was just destroyed, but not before countless corporate media outlets transmitted it to the public.

Desperate to justify the US drone assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted that Washington had made an “intelligence-based assessment” that Soleimani was “actively planning in the region” to attack American interests before he was killed.

President Donald Trump justified his fateful decision to kill the Iranian general in even more explicit language, declaring that Soleimani was planning “imminent attacks” on US diplomatic facilities and personnel across the Middle East.

“We took action last night to stop a war,” Trump claimed. “We did not take action to start a war.”

Trump’s dubious rationale for an indisputably criminal assassination has been repeated widely across corporate media networks, and often without any skepticism or debate.  At a January 3 State Department briefing, where reporters finally got the chance to demand evidence for the claim of an “imminent” threat, one US official erupted in anger.

“Jesus, do we have to explain why we do these things?” he barked at the press.

Two days later, when Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi addressed his country’s parliament, Trump’s justification for killing Soleimani was exposed as a cynical lie.   According to Abdul-Mahdi, he had planned to meet Soleimani on the morning the general was killed to discuss a DIPLOMATIC RAPPROACHMENT THAT IRAQ WAS BROKERING BETWEEN IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA.

Abdul-Mahdi said that Trump personally thanked him for the efforts, even as he was planning the hit on Soleimani – thus creating the impression that the Iranian general was safe to travel to Baghdad…

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“I was supposed to meet Soleimani at the morning the day he was killed, he came to deliver me a message from Iran responding to the message we delivered from Saudi to Iran” Iraqi PM said.

8:02 AM - Jan 5, 2020 · Iraq

SOLEIMANI HAD ARRIVED IN BAGHDAD NOT TO PLAN ATTACKS ON AMERICAN TARGETS, BUT TO COORDINATE DE-ESCALATION WITH SAUDI ARABIA. Indeed, he was killed while on an actual peace mission that could have created political distance between the Gulf monarchy and members of the US-led anti-Iran axis like Israel.

The catastrophic results of Soleimani’s killing recall the Obama administration’s 2016 assassination of Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansur, a Taliban leader who was eager to negotiate a peaceful end to the US occupation of Afghanistan. Mansur’s death wound up empowering hardline figures in the Taliban who favored a total military victory over the US and triggered an uptick in violence across the country, dooming hopes for a negotiated exit.

Since Soleimani’s assassination, Iraq’s parliament has voted to expel all US troops from the country and Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has sworn to exact a “severe revenge” on the “the criminals who have stained their hands with [Soleimani’s] and the other martyrs’ blood…” 

Trump, for his part, tweeted a litany of gangster-like threats, promising to destroy Iranian cultural sites if it retaliated and pledging to sanction Iraq “like they’ve never been before” if it ousted US troops…

Trump’s treacherous assassination has brought the US closer to war than ever before against a country more militarily potent than any adversary it has faced since the Korean War. And as with the failed US invasion of Iraq, Washington’s casus belli for triggering this conflict was based on falsified intelligence SOLD TO AMERICANS BY ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS, AND ON A PLIANT BELTWAY MEDIA ACTING AS THEIR MEGAPHONE.

With its claim of “imminent attacks,” the Trump administration has essentially re-mixed Condoleeza Rice’s 2003 warning that “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”

Back then, the US attacked a sovereign state to rid it of WMD that did not exist. This time, it killed the second-most important Iranian official to prevent a killing spree that was not on the way. AND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS KNEW THEY WERE LYING.

In fact, Pompeo pitched assassinating Soleimani to Trump several months ago, well before any attacks were “imminent.” And in the wake of the general’s killing, a US official revealed to the New York Times that the NSA had intercepted “communications the United States had between Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and General Suleimani showing that the ayatollah had not yet approved any plans by the general for an attack.”

But the preponderance of evidence exposing Trump’s basis for killing Soleimani as a titanic lie has not generated the same level of media interest as the lie itself…

No president in recent history has been despised more viscerally by the Beltway press corps than Trump. Nearly everything he says is met with disdain and suspicion, even when he is telling the truth.  But when Trump and his administration attempt to lie the public into war against a designated evildoer, a swath of the corporate media responds with reflexive trust, then shrugs when the lie is exposed in broad daylight.

It’s all about the Benjamins baby.  If there is any doubt that the illegal assassination of Soleimani was based on starting World War III for Wall Street and the weapons industry then look at Wall Street’s reaction.  From Mint Press:

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Military Contractors Raytheon, Lockheed Martin See Stock Prices Soar Amid Iran Crisis 

War. Motown singer Edwin Starr claimed it was nothing but a heartbreaker and good news only for the undertaker. But another group rubbing their hands at increased tensions with Iran are military contractors, who saw their stock prices soar at the increased chance of conflict.

Lockheed Martin, famous for its fighter planes, helicopters and missiles, saw its stock price spike to over $416, a jump of seven percent almost overnight. Other defense corporations like Raytheon and General Dynamics saw similar increases in their companies’ value. Meanwhile, Northrop Grumman saw a nine percent rise in its share price, as the stock market rushed to buy a piece of a highly profitable company.

On January 3, the United States carried out a successful assassination attempt of Lt. General Qassem Soleimani via drone, as the Iranian officer and statesman left Baghdad airport to join a peace mission between Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi revealed that President Trump had personally thanked him for organizing peace efforts, even as he was planning the assassination attempt, giving him the mistaken belief that the U.S. gave its blessing to the event and would not attack the Iranian General.

Soleimani, respected and admired as a capable and dynamic soldier, was widely considered to be one of the most powerful and influential men in Iran behind Ayatollah Khamenei. The move is almost universally expected to increase tensions in the Middle East, prompting potential wars or other “chaos…”

However, economist and co-founder of the Center for Economic Policy Research Dean Baker pointed out that Lockheed Martin’s stock went up by over two percent and Northrop Grumman by nearly four percent on Thursday, THE DAY BEFORE SOLEIMANI’S KILLING.

“Looks like a lot of people should go to jail,” he remarked, suggesting THERE WAS SOME SERIOUS INSIDER TRADING AFOOT. (MintPress recently spoke to Baker about how pharmaceutical corporations are withholding life saving drugs from the public for profit...)

THE BIGGEST BENEFICIARIES OF AN UNFAIR STOCK MARKET ARE OFTEN POLITICIANS, whose portfolios, for decades, have done far better than is statistically plausible. Using the financial disclosures of politicians, Professor Alan Ziobrowski of Georgia State University found that members of the House earn “abnormal returns” on their stocks, outperforming the market by six percentage points.

Senators, in higher office than House members, perform even better, “showing some of the highest excess returns ever recorded over a long period of time, significantly outperforming even hedge fund managers,” in Ziobrowski’s study’s words. “IT’S NOT RATIONAL TO ASSUME THAT THEY ARE JUST PLAIN DUMB-LUCKY,” he concluded. In the five years to 1998, senators’ stock portfolios beat the market by an average of 12 percent a year.

The global wave of right-wing populism has been very good for weapons producers. Despite presenting himself as an antiwar candidate, Trump has greatly increased the military budget and expanded the U.S. role in Yemen. More than half of all discretionary spending goes to the military, with America spending almost as much on arms as the rest of the world combined, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

The president often likes to remind the country that the stock market is at an all time high. Military contractors are among the best performing of those; Yahoo! Finance notes that if you had bought Northrop Grumman stock five years ago, you would have seen a 146 percent gain today. Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, nine of the ten largest weapons manufacturers saw their stock prices increase immediately after Conservative Boris Johnson defeated socialist antiwar candidate Jeremy Corbyn in December’s General Election.

The recent rocketing of military contractors’ stock values highlights the growing contrast between the profit motive of capitalism and human survival. So often, what is bad news for the world is good news for the military-industrial complex.

It’s all about the Benjamins baby.  More than half of discretionary spending goes to the military and by attrition directly into the pockets of the members of congress.  No wonder the members of congress approve a trillion dollars a year for military spending.  Members of congress make no money off of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, infrastructure spending, education spending, etc.  What interest do they have in funding programs to promote human dignity and general well-being? 

Where is the fourth estate?  Why are the media not asking tough questions, demanding iron clad proof before sending our troops to die in some god-forsaken country?  Where are the Pentagon Papers?  Where is Deep Throat?  Oh yeah, todays’ Pentagon Papers are called the Afghanistan Papers.  From the Guardian:

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Afghanistan papers reveal US public were misled about unwinnable war

Interviews with key insiders reveal damning verdict on conflict that cost 2,300 US lives

Hundreds of confidential interviews with key figures involved in prosecuting the 18-year US war in Afghanistan have revealed that the US public has been consistently misled about an unwinnable conflict.

Transcripts of the interviews, published by the Washington Post after a three-year legal battle, were collected for a Lessons Learned project by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (Sigar), a federal agency whose main task is eliminating corruption and inefficiency in the US war effort.

The 2,000 pages of documents reveal the bleak and unvarnished views of many insiders in a war THAT HAS COST $1TN (£760BN) AND KILLED MORE THAN 2,300 US SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN, WITH MORE THAN 20,000 INJURED. Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians have died in the conflict.

The documents have echoes of the Pentagon Papers – the US military’s secret history of the Vietnam war that were leaked in 1971 and told a similarly troubling story of the cover-up of military failure.

Negotiations are taking place between the Trump administration and the Taliban as the US debates whether to withdraw 13,000 troops who remain in Afghanistan.  The interviews were collected, beginning in 2014, in addition to Sigar’s regular audits to identify what could be learned from successive policy failures in Afghanistan.

While many of the failures of the war in Afghanistan have been exposed by Sigar’s work, often in highly technical reports, the cache of interviews offers an easily accessible fly-on-the-wall account.  In his own damning intervention John Sopko, the head of Sigar, told the paper the assessments contained in the project suggested that “the American people have constantly been lied to”.

Two major claims in the documents are that US officials manipulated statistics to suggest to the American public that the war was being won and that successive administrations turned a blind eye to widespread corruption among Afghan officials, allowing the theft of US aid with impunity…

In one scathing assessment Douglas Lute, a lieutenant general who served as the White House Afghan war tsar during the George W Bush and Barack Obama administrations, told interviewers in 2015: “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan – we didn’t know what we were doing.”

Speaking frankly, like other interviewees, on the understanding that what he was saying at the time was confidential, he added: “What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.  “If the American people knew THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS DYSFUNCTION … 2,400 LIVES LOST.”

In another interview Jeffrey Eggers, a retired Navy Seal and White House staffer for Bush and Obama, said: “WHAT DID WE GET FOR THIS $1TN EFFORT? WAS IT WORTH $1TN?”  “After the killing of Osama bin Laden, I said that Osama was probably laughing in his watery grave considering how much we have spent on Afghanistan...”

“What did we get for this $1tn effort and was it worth $1tn?” Indeed.  Is America safer?  Is Afghanistan better off than before?  Why are the media nothing more than war cheerleaders?  The recent revelations that the Pentagon knew the war in Afghanistan was unwinnable and lied about it to prolong the wars was received a yawn from the corporate media.  Why?  From The Intercept:

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TV PUNDITS PRAISING SULEIMANI ASSASSINATION NEGLECT TO DISCLOSE TIES TO ARMS INDUSTRY

SINCE FRIDAY, a loud chorus of voices has appeared in the media to celebrate President Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, a move that has sparked renewed tension in the Middle East, a new deployment of U.S. forces, and predictions of increased military spending.

Many of the pundits who appeared on national television or were quoted in major publications to praise the president’s actions have undisclosed ties to the defense industry — the only domestic industry that stands to gain from increased violence.

Jack Keane, a retired Army general, appeared on Fox News and NPR over the last three days to praise Trump for the strike on Suleimani. “The president acted responsibly,” Keane said during an appearance with Fox News host Lou Dobbs. “It should have happened a long time ago.” Keane has worked for military companies, including General Dynamics and Blackwater, and currently serves as a partner at SCP Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in defense contractors.

Van Hipp, chair of the lobbying firm American Defense International, which represents more than two dozen defense contractors — including Raytheon, Palantir, and General Atomics, the manufacturer of the MQ-9 Reaper drone used in the Suleimani slaying — published an opinion column on Fox News’s website praising Trump and suggesting increased pressure on the Iranian government.

David Petraeus, the retired general who once commanded U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, was quoted by multiple outlets in support of the slaying. “This is a very significant effort to reestablish deterrence,” he told Foreign Policy. On Public Radio International, Petraeus declared that “this particular episode has been fairly impressively handled,” and praised the Trump administration for moving “to shore up our defenses and our offensive capabilities.” He also appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Petraeus, notably, works for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co., the investment firm with holdings in several major defense contractors that is reportedly moving to “build up its defense portfolio at a time when military budgets are skyrocketing.”

John Negroponte, a former State Department official who now serves as vice chair of the defense and aerospace lobbying firm McLarty Associates, appeared on Fox News to dispute the claim by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that the strike represented a threat of war. “I think it’s an act of self-defense,” countered Negroponte.

Jeh Johnson, former Homeland Security secretary in the Obama administration, appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to offer measured support, countering progressive critics who have claimed that the strikes lacked legal and congressional authorization…

Johnson joined the board of directors of Lockheed Martin, one of the largest defense contractors in the world, in 2017. The part-time position pays him $310,000 a year in cash and stock awards, according to disclosures. NONE OF THE DEFENSE CONTRACTING TIES WERE DISCLOSED ON AIR FOR KEANE, HIPP, NEGROPONTE, PETRAEUS, OR JOHNSON…

In the immediate aftermath of the assassination, stock prices for major defense contractors soared on the expectation of further conflict. The Trump administration has won more than $130 billion in additional Pentagon spending, but analysts expect a renewed push for even greater levels of weapons spending.

One key area for military growth in government defense spending could be the Overseas Contingency Operations fund, a special account used to fund wartime operations. The OCO had been largely frozen in place and expected to flatline in the 2021 budget.

The OCO account “was likely on a lower trajectory over the next several years. We doubt that’s the case now,” the Cowen Group’s Roman Schweizer wrote in a memo to investors on Friday. “The U.S. will likely increase deployments of forces to the region in coming weeks and could make additional strikes depending on Iran’s response.”

It’s not the first time defense contractor pundits have failed to disclose their vested stake in the military policies they advocate…  Keane, for instance, was tapped by the contractor AM General to pressure lawmakers to support a plan to purchase new Humvee vehicles from the company rather than refurbish older models.

Former military leaders play a decisive role in shaping public opinion around military escalation. In the buildup to the Iraq War, the Pentagon maintained a secret effort to deploy former generals and other high-ranking officials on television news programs to drum up support for the invasion. The New York Times, which reported on the communications campaign, noted that the military pundits maintained financial ties to defense contractors, a financial stake in the war policies they sought to promote.

Yes folks, it’s all about the Benjamins.  Whether it was the 911 attacks, the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the overthrow of the Libya government, the death squads currently marauding across South America, the overthrow of the government of Ukraine, the impeachment of President Trump or the illegal Assassination of General Soleimani or the endless regime change wars, it’s all about the Benjamins.  When will the American people ever learn?  It’s all about the Benjamins.

Nancy Pelosi Keeper of the Status Quo Crypt warns peace-maker Trump is a danger to humanity

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”-- Sinclair Lewis.

Speaker Pelosi believes it is her God-given duty to correct the egregious error the American people made in 2016 when they chose Donald Trump as their leader, President of the United States of America.  In spite of every impediment put before him by the DNC and the Never-Trumpers, Donald Trump managed to convince the American people they needed a change.  Donald Trump tapped into the anger and pain of the American people after sixteen years of financial enslavement under the Bush/Cheney-Obama/Biden regimes of endless war enriching Wall Street Bankers and crushing austerity for the American people. 

Invoking her Devine calling as a Catholic, Pelosi declared President Donald Trump a threat to humanity.  According to Pelosi, unless she and her fellow Christian crusaders remove Trump from office, the American people are doomed to repeat the scurrilous, egregious mistake they made in 2016 and reelect Donald Trump as president. 

The most urgent threat to the status quo that Crypt Keeper Pelosi sees, is Donald Trump’s desire for peace with Russia and China and failure to provoke nuclear war with Russia via Ukraine.  For temporarily withholding congressionally approved weapons of war disguised as “aid” to Ukraine, Pelosi has called President Trump a threat to humanity.  From Zero Hedge:

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Pelosi: "Civilization Itself Is At Stake" If Trump Wins Re-Election

Nancy Pelosi has ludicrously claimed that “civilization itself is at stake” if President Donald Trump wins re-election.  The Speaker of the House made the comments during a town hall on CNN last night.  “Civilization as we know it today is at stake in the next election, and certainly, our planet,” said Pelosi.  “The damage that this administration has done to America, America’s a great country. We can sustain. Two terms, I don’t know,” she added. 

The remarks followed Pelosi’s outburst yesterday when she snapped at a reporter, telling him, “don’t mess with me!”  The notion that civilization itself is at risk if Trump wins a second term in office is of course completely absurd.  After more than three years, Democrats still refuse to accept that they lost the 2016 election.

They have gone from screaming in the streets to seriously claiming that humanity as we know it will cease to exist if Trump wins re-election.  Trump Derangement Syndrome knows no bounds.

Somehow to Pelosi and her “Christian Crusaders” peace is more of an existential threat to the world than bombing the bejesus out of countries across the globe leaving depleted uranium to cause a generation to suffer horrific birth defects.  According to Pelosi, Trump’s peace-making efforts are more evil than destroying clean water treatment plants in countries like Iraq, selling weapons of mass destruction to hostile nations like Saudi Arabia to indiscriminately kill the people of Yemen or supporting the CIA created ISIS to kill, enslave and destroy the people of Syria. 

For Crypt Keeper Pelosi, it’s all about the children, you know children like the “Dreamers” not children in the nations that the Military Industrial Complex with trillions in American taxpayer dollars awarded by Pelosi and her crusaders, have been turned into steaming hellholes from war.  From the Intercept:

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IRAQI CHILDREN BORN NEAR U.S. MILITARY BASE SHOW ELEVATED RATES OF “SERIOUS CONGENITAL DEFORMITIES,” STUDY FINDS

MORE THAN A decade and a half after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, a new study found that babies are being born today with gruesome birth defects connected to the ongoing American military presence there. The report, issued by a team of independent medical researchers and published in the journal Environmental Pollution, examined congenital anomalies recorded in Iraqi babies born near Tallil Air Base, a base operated by the U.S.-led foreign military coalition. According to the study, babies showing severe birth defects — including neurological problems, congenital heart disease, and paralyzed or missing limbs — also had corresponding elevated levels of a radioactive compound known as thorium in their bodies.

“Doctors are regularly encountering anomalies in babies that are so gruesome they cannot even find precedents for them.”

“We collected hair samples, deciduous (baby) teeth, and bone marrow from subjects living in proximity to the base,” said Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, one of the study’s lead researchers. “In all three tissues we see the same trend: higher levels of thorium.” Savabieasfahani, who has authored studies on the radioactive footprint of the U.S. military presence in Iraq for years, says that the new findings contribute to a growing body of evidence about the serious long-term health impact of U.S. military operations on Iraqi civilians. “The closer that you live to a U.S. military base in Iraq,” she said, “the higher the thorium in your body and the more likely you are to suffer serious congenital deformities and birth defects.”

The new study piles onto a growing wealth of knowledge about severe ill effects of the U.S. military on the environments in which it operates. All industrialized military activity is bad for ecological systems, but the U.S., with its enormous military engaged in activities spanning the globe has a particular large environmental footprint. Not only does the U.S. military lead the world in carbon output, but its prodigious presence around the globe leaves a toxic trail of chemicals that local communities have to deal with, from so-called burn pits on bases releasing poisonous smoke to the radiation of depleted uranium rounds mutating the DNA of nearby populations…

“The radioactive footprint of the military could be cleaned up if we had officials who wanted to do so,” said Savabieasfahani. “Unfortunately, even research into the problem of Iraqi birth defects has to be done by independent toxicologists, because the U.S. military and other institutions are not even interested in this issue.”

Saint Pelosi prays for President Trump, even as she and her crusaders in congress protect big Pharma from responsibility for creating the opioid epidemic that plagues America.  She protects the Wall Street’s trillion dollar for-profit healthcare industry and Big Pharma’s enormous profits while American children die.

130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. The United States makes up around 4% of the world population, yet uses over 80% of the global supply of opioids. From 1999 to 2017, more than 400,000 people have died in the United States from overdoses related to opioids.

Crypt Keeper Pelosi and the so-called Christian crusaders in congress support sanctioning any country that puts the needs of their people above the wants of Empire causing death and destruction in places like Venezuela without the slightest whiff of hypocrisy as they call President Trump “a threat to humanity.”  Really Speaker Pelosi, who is the real threat to humanity??? 

Where was Nancy Pelosi’s concern for the planet when George W. Bush unleashed “Shock and Awe” on Iraq after lying to the world about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction?  Where was Pelosi’s concern for the planet when Obama unleashed a living hell on Libya, which under Gadhafi was the richest African country providing healthcare for its citizens, free oil and gas, and the highest quality of life in the region?  God help the next country to “earn Pelosi’s love” for their children.  From Europa:

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CIA COUP TOPPLES PEOPLE POWER IN BOLIVIA

Internationally recognized as a CIA sponsored coup, elected Bolivian President Evo Morales courageously avoided civil war by stepping down. The ousted president has now been offered asylum by Mexico.  Any doubts as to the cause and effect of the regime change can be monitored by Western media that is now applauding the overthrow of yet another popular and successful Latin American leader.

Former leader of Ecuador Rafael Correa said the resignation of Bolivian President Evo Morales was the result of a coup d’etat and that events could have ended in worse violence if the socialist leader had not resigned.  ‘Of course, there was a coup d’etat.’ As he explained that such insubordination of the armed forces cannot exist in a constitutional state of law or democracy. ‘If Evo Morales did not resign, there would have been a bloodbath because there was no public order,’ he said.

In the footsteps Libyan Muammar Gadhafi, also overthrown by US musclemen, the Libyan leader had restored universal suffrage, shared the nation’s prosperity, raised living standards and education to its highest ever level, eliminated taxes, controlled the Libyan National Bank, and curbed corruption. All advances in Bolivia will now be lost as the talons of American eagles and vultures sink into the now decaying corpse of Bolivia.

Not Defending, Attacking

Other Latin American nations hold their breath wondering who will be next. Venezuela is edgy, Brazil is expressing concern, Uruguay are watching developments whilst Washington DC is watching them.  The concern is such that Latin America, like Europe, is looking to ways to reduce the de facto colonisation of their nations by the Washington DC-based Zionist hydra.

Mexico says it has so far received welcomed 20 fleeing government personalities to the Mexican official residence in La Paz, Bolivia. 

US Special Envoy Elliott Abrams, tasked with the cultural and fiscal colonisation of ‘America’s back yard’, will now feel encouraged to try another wave of violent coups in Latin America not seen since the ’70s-’80s.

Bolivia’s first native leader Evo Morales is distinctly not the flavour of the month in Washington DC and Wall Street. The popular will leader, despite his dirt-farmer background, army career and education, famously lifted 3 million Bolivians out of poverty.

During his tenure, Evo Morales made Bolivia the region’s fastest-growing economy by retrieving assets earlier transferred to the US-dominated industrial, service and banking corporations.  He introduced land reform, distributed more fairly gas supplies, and raised the quality of life for his nation’s indigenous Indian peoples and of course all citizens.

BUT, HE ALSO COMMITTED THE SIN OF EJECTING US MILITARY BASES AND RESTORING NATIONAL DIGNITY AND PRIDE. HIS BIGGEST CRIME WAS HIS BEING INDIGENOUS AND ENDING THE PREVIOUSLY EXISTING APARTHEID.

My, my.  Where is Crypt Keeper Pelosi’s love for the children of Iraq and Libya?  Why isn’t Crypt Keeper Pelosi condemning the CIA for destroying Iraq and Libya?  Suffer the children as Crypt Keeper Pelosi gives a wink and a nod to torture and murder of the children of Iraq and Libya.  Anywhere in the world where a government leader removes the Wall Street interests raping and pillaging their country, they become a prime candidate for Crypt Keeper Pelosi’s form of Catholic Democracy.  From The Grayzone:

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Every single member of US Congress approved crushing sanctions on Nicaragua 

After defeating a violent US-backed coup attempt, Nicaragua’s elected government faces the NICA Act. The bill aims to force the Sandinistas from power by ratcheting up economic despair.

Every single member in both chambers of the US Congress approved legislation that will impose sanctions and financial restrictions on Nicaragua in an explicit effort to weaken its government.

Known as the NICA Act, the bill is now on its way to the desk of President Donald Trump, who will almost certainly sign it into law. Its passage was spearheaded by neoconservative lawmakers centered around the Miami lobby of right-wing Latin American exiles dedicated to eradicating any iteration of socialism in the Western hemisphere.

The United States has spent decades trying to topple Nicaragua’s government, now led by the left-wing Sandinista movement. In April, US-backed opposition figures launched an unsuccessful and exceedingly violent coup attempt in the Central American country — one of the last bastions of leftist politics in an increasingly right-leaning Latin America.

The newly approved Nicaraguan Investment and Conditionality Act (NICA) will give the US president the authority to impose targeted sanctions on Nicaraguan government officials, former officials, or people purportedly “acting on behalf of” Managua.  The bill also seeks to prevent international financial institutions from providing “any loan or financial or technical assistance” to Nicaragua’s government.

The NICA Act enjoyed bipartisan support, but the campaign behind it was largely led by neoconservative Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, with help from Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Ros-Lehtinen and Cruz met for a Facebook live this December 13 to celebrate the bill’s passage.

In June, these three right-wing Cuban-American lawmakers gathered with young leaders of the Nicaraguan opposition in Washington, DC.  The NICA Act encourages the US government to increase assistance to anti-government “civil society in Nicaragua, including independent media, human rights, and anti-corruption organizations” and to “support the protection of human rights and anti-corruption advocates in Nicaragua.”

The legislation also suggests that political negotiations should BE “MEDIATED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NICARAGUA,” which has for decades supported violent right-wing forces in the region.  This October, leaked audio revealed the Catholic Church’s auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Baez, conspiring with the opposition to oust Nicaragua’s elected president, Daniel Ortega…

In September, the NICA Act was combined with a remarkably similar bill from Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez: the Nicaragua Human Rights and Anticorruption Act, which imposed additional sanctions on Nicaraguan government officials.  Menendez – a Cuban-American whose legal defense from corruption charges was bankrolled by the pro-Israel lobby – joined his neoconservative colleagues in referring to Nicaragua’s democratically elected president, Daniel Ortega, as a “dictator” who leads a “regime.”

Ortega — who voluntarily stepped down from power after losing an election to a US-backed right-wing oligarch in 1990 — won his third presidential term in 2011 with 62 PERCENT of the vote, in what international observers recognized was a fair election. Even the staunchly anti-Sandinista New York Times admitted at the time that Ortega had widespread support…

The chaos unleashed by last summer’s coup attempt has badly bled Nicaragua’s economy, plunging growth from a steady five percent to almost zero and eliminating tens of thousands of jobs. With the NICA Act, the US and its local proxies are hoping that exacerbating the economic desperation even further will bend a largely non-compliant Nicaraguan population to their will.

This is what happens when a powerful country like America allows their politicians to be bought off by foreign interests.  The horrors unleashed on Latin America by Cuban-American Zionist politicians who are funded by Vulture Capitalists like Paul Singer and Sheldon Adelson.  How is destroying the countries of Bolivia and Nicaragua in the American people’s interests?

Ahh yes, Pelosi and her “Christian crusaders” allow Vulture Capitalists to fund congressional campaigns to pack our government with toadies beholding to their Zionist funders.  Pelosi’s loyalties lie not with America but with vultures like Paul Singer.  Singer not only destroys entire countries like Argentina but has destroyed entire American cities for profit.  From Fox News:

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The death of Sidney, Nebraska: How a hedge fund destroyed 'a good American town'

SIDNEY, Neb. – Major Republican donor Paul Singer has very few fans in this town of 6,300 people, where 80 percent of voters backed Donald Trump in 2016.  “I hope Paul Singer is proud of what he did,” Tim O’Connell, a local lumberyard owner, told Tucker Carlson Tonight. “I don’t know how he sleeps at night.”

O’Connell and many other residents are still suffering from the loss of sporting goods retailer Cabela’s, which kept its headquarters in Sidney until it merged with Bass Pro Shops in 2017.  The town’s mayor, Roger Galloway, told Tucker Carlson Tonight that the merger cost Sidney 2,000 jobs.

The sale of Cabela's to Bass Pro Shops was announced in 2016, a year after Singer’s Elliott Management disclosed an 11 percent stake, and said Cabela’s should explore a possible sale. Cabala’s was profitable at the time, but in mid-November 2015, Elliott Management “stated that they believed the Company should be sold through a public auction process” and that if they didn’t engage in the sales process, the hedge fund "was prepared to take further steps with respect to the Company,” according to securities filings.

After the sale announcement, the stock price surged and Singer’s hedge fund cashed out within a week. Elliott Management reportedly made at least $90 million.  “They got in there to get the business sold and the business was sold, so they took it and ran,” Damien Park, managing partner at consulting firm Hedge Fund Solutions, told the Omaha World-Herald in October 2016.  “They made a fortune, so they’re happy.”

The residents of Sidney, however, were left without the town’s major employer.  One former employee, speaking on condition of anonymity due to fear of retribution, said, “I cried the second I got the phone call. I couldn't help it. I bawled.”  Galloway noted that “Cabela’s was the keystone employer in town. Everything, not everything, but most things revolved around that.”

Securities filings reveal that Cabela’s co-founder and chairman Jim Cabela initially opposed a sale of the company without an assurance that the Sidney headquarters would stay open.  O’Connell, the lumberyard owner, told us that Singer “ruined Sidney.” 

“Like I said, it was a good American town, a good solid USA town and [he] just destroyed it.”

Before the merger, O'Connell's lumberyard did great business. But over the past two years, just one new home has been built in Sidney, he said.  City official Melissa Norgard told Tucker Carlson Tonight, “We were going to build a new housing subdivision to meet housing needs ... instead, we are working our tails off to try to figure out a way to survive.”

Tucker Carlson Tonight found the proposed subdivision.  It’s full of empty lots. The houses were never built.  Local residents told Tucker Carlson Tonight that it’s hard for them to leave the town as housing values have collapsed.

Despite all of this, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., has never commented on what happened to Sidney. Tucker Carlson Tonight reached out to his office to see if the senator has ever remarked on the Cabela’s merger and received no response. No comments are available online.

Sasse, like many other Republicans, is a recipient of Singer’s cash. The hedge fund owner gave the maximum donation to Sasse’s 2014 campaign.  In 2016, Singer was the second biggest donor to Republicans.  Elliott Management declined to comment on the record when reached by Tucker Carlson Tonight.

That was just one city out of thousands in America that have been destroyed by Hedge Funds that contribute to the political campaigns of Crypt Keeper Pelosi and her ilk. 

So Crypt Keeper Pelosi, don’t cry for the children of the world and humanity that you perceive threatened by the reelection of President Donald Trump.  It is you and your ilk the world should fear being returned to power in the 2020 election.  From Tom Luongo:

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Pelosi’s Love is Everyone’s Tragedy

Nancy Pelosi is a bitch. And in saying that I’m actually being sexist against female dogs, since every one of them I’ve ever met is a higher quality individual than Pelosi.  So, my apologies to dogs everywhere.

Just when you thought this power-mad harpy couldn’t sink any lower she responds to a simple question from a reporter with the kind of lame, stuttering virtue-signaling that has become her signature move, to attack when confronted with the truth.

This screed is a masterclass in diversion and doublespeak. Her self-righteous anger is a dead giveaway that she was lying about her motivations for proceeding with this impeachment while scolding the CSPAN reporter who asked the question called her out on it like an impudent child. 

If there is one thing Nancy Pelosi hates it is being called a liar.  She’s the ultimate keeper of the status quo, of the political order as she sees it and she has determined it shall be.

But she damns herself by wrapping herself in the false flag of her Catholicism. The false flag of her love for humanity. She is so desperate to deflect away from the truth that she does, in fact, hate the president and all that his election represents, she uses that to debunk the idea that she can hate anyone.  You know, except for all those unborn children that she advocates murdering or the people overseas she spends zero time stopping from being bombed by the administration.

This coming from the woman whose own daughter described her as capable of cutting off your head and not know you’re bleeding.  So, we all have to suffer because of this outrageous woman’s all-consuming love for humanity? That’s what she’s trying to sell now?  In a word, yes.

The mask slipped when she had to run back to the podium to look into the camera and unconvincingly proclaim her love of children. And that she’ll fight anyone who gets in her way, clutching her rosary the entire time. 

Yup, that’s love all right.

The tough broad act plays well with the bi-coastal shitlib set but the rest of us just look at her and shake our heads wondering who in the holy hell does she think she’s fooling with this stuff?

Please, I’ve seen more believable acting in your average 1990’s porn flick.

That thin veneer of compassion masks a cold and cruel calculation and psychopathology which is abhorrent to anyone with any shred of a soul left.  The sad truth is that Pelosi in her near-dementia might actually now believe some of this stuff she’s spouting.

Here she does a CNN Town Hall in which she parrots the current climate hysteria saying that civilization itself depends on removing Donald Trump from the White House.  Even if this is true, and this is how she sees herself, acting out of a love for humanity rather than her own narrow interests, then she’s simply a classic villain archetype who is willing to break a few eggs to make her omelette.

And Pelosi, like the people she ultimately represents, are telling us that they will ‘love us all to death’ to achieve their goals. It’s the most sick and twisted form of manipulation possible.

She’s morphed from the tough broad from San Francisco to the epitome of Toxic Femininity, the over-bearing mother archetype. And any threat to her power will be met with the cruelest counter-attack.  She’s Nurse Ratchet with Botox.  And Donald Trump is her R. P. McMurphy.

And in every way Pelosi knows that she’s locked in an existential battle for control over the future of America. She knows that she’s been tasked with delivering results on destroying Trump and if she doesn’t she’ll be cast aside…  But Pelosi is an order-taker not an order-maker in the hierarchy of political dominance.

And the call has come from above her pay-grade to sell this climate hysteria as the way to keep the program on track to finish the globalist’s dream of universal serfdom for us and perpetual power for them.  That’s your tell that Pelosi simply does what she’s told. It’s her job to sell whatever it is she’s been told to sell…

In her heart she knows this impeachment process is a sham. She knows the premise is faulty and the results for the Democratic Party will be catastrophic. She can see the poll numbers.  But in her single-mindedness to save the world from itself, Pelosi will do everything she can to force us wayward and mentally-ill citizens back into her institution because her cause is righteous.

That’s why it’s now a life or death struggle to get rid of Trump. That’s why she’s willing to sell Climate hysteria and that’s why she lost her mind when asked the simplest of questions which she could have brushed off with a wave and a “No.”  Her vehement denial is her admission of guilt. For a moment, Speaker Ratched lost control and the results were a glimpse into the depths of her evil.

Make no mistake about it, Crypt Keeper Pelosi wants to punish American people for voting President Trump into office.  Just like the NICA Act Pelosi and her Christian Crusaders have enacted to “exacerbate the economic desperation to bend the non-compliant Nicaraguan populations to their will” Pelosi wants to use maximum pressure to force the noncompliant American population to return power to the oligarchs she and her colleagues represent.    

Like Tom Luongo said, “Pelosi will do everything she can to force us wayward and mentally-ill citizens back into her institution because her cause is righteous.”  The entire impeachment circus is designed to force the American people back onto the Empire’s reservation.  Under the mis-management of Crypt Keeper Pelosi, the Democratic Party has turned into a fascist regime hell-bent on destroying the American people on behalf of the oligarchs she serves.  From Op-Ed News:

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The Great American Shakedown

The Democratic Party and its liberal supporters are perplexed. They presented hours of evidence of an impeachable offense, although they studiously avoided charging Donald Trump with impeachable offenses also carried out by Democratic presidents, including the continuation or expansion of presidential wars not declared by Congress, exercising line-item veto power, playing prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner to kill individuals, including U.S. citizens, anywhere on the planet, violating due process and misusing executive orders.

Because civics is no longer taught in most American schools, they devoted a day to constitutional scholars who provided the Civics 101 case for impeachment. The liberal press, cheer-leading the impeachment process, saturated the media landscape with live coverage, interminable analysis, constant character assassination of Trump and giddy speculation. And yet, it has made no difference. Public opinion remains largely unaffected.

Perhaps, supporters of impeachment argue, they failed to adopt the right technique. Perhaps journalists, by giving voice to opponents of impeachment -- who do indeed live in a world not based in fact -- created a false equivalency between truth and lies. Maybe, as Bill Grueskin, a professor at the Columbia University Journalism School, writes, impeachment advocates should spend $1 million to produce a kind of movie trailer for all those who did not sit through the hours of hearings, to "boil down the essentials of the film" and provide "a quick but intense insight into the characters, setting the scene with vivid imagery -- to entice people to come back to the theater a month later for the full movie." Or perhaps they need to keep pounding away at Trump until his walls of support crumble.

The liberal class and the Democratic Party leadership have failed, even after their defeat in the 2016 presidential election, to understand that they, along with the traditional Republican elites, have squandered their credibility. No one believes them. And no one should.

They squandered their credibility by promising that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would, as claimed by President Bill Clinton, create 200,000 new, well-paying jobs per year; instead, several million jobs were lost. They squandered it by allowing corporations to move production overseas and hire foreign workers at daily wages that did not equal what a U.S. unionized worker made in an hour, a situation that obliterated the bargaining power of the American working class.

They squandered it by allowing corporations to use the threat of "offshoring" production to destroy unions, suppress wages, extract draconian concessions and push millions of workers into the temp and gig economies, where there are no benefits or job security and pay is 60% or less of what a full-time employee in the regular economy receives.

They squandered it by forcing working men and women to take two or three jobs to support a family, jacking up household debt to $13.95 trillion. They squandered it by redirecting wealth upward, so that during the Clinton administration alone 45 percent of all income growth went to the wealthiest 1%.

They squandered it by wiping out small farmers in Mexico, driving some 3 million of them off their lands and forcing many to migrate in desperation to the United States, a human tide that saw the U.S. right wing and President Trump direct mounting rage toward immigrants.

They squandered it by turning our great cities into urban wastelands. They squandered it by slashing welfare and social service programs. THEY SQUANDERED IT BY SUPPORTING ENDLESS, FUTILE WARS THAT HAVE AN OVERALL PRICE TAG OF BETWEEN $5 TRILLION AND $7 TRILLION.

They squandered it by setting up a surveillance system to spy on every American and then lying about it. They squandered it by catering to the big banks and gutting financial regulations, precipitating the 2008 economic meltdown. They squandered it by looting the U.S. Treasury to bail out banks and financial firms guilty of massive financial crimes, ordering the Federal Reserve to hand over an estimated $29 trillion to the global financiers responsible for the crash.

They squandered it by not using this staggering sum instead to provide free college tuition to every student or universal health care, repair our crumbling infrastructure, transition to clean energy, forgive student debt, raise wages, bail out underwater homeowners, form public banks to foster investments in our communities at low interest rates, provide a guaranteed minimum income and organize a massive jobs program for the unemployed and underemployed, whose ranks are at least double official statistics. They squandered it by cutting child assistance programs -- most drastically during the Clinton administration -- resulting in 16 million children going to bed hungry every night.

They squandered it by leaving over half a million Americans homeless and on the streets on any given day. They squandered it by passing laws that keep students burdened by massive college loan debt that has climbed to $1.4 trillion, debt they cannot free themselves from even if they declare bankruptcy.

They squandered it by militarizing police and building the world's largest system of mass incarceration, one with 25% of the world's prison population. They squandered it by revoking due process and habeas corpus. They squandered it by passing massive tax cuts for the rich and for corporations, many of which -- such as Amazon -- pay no federal income tax, ballooning the federal deficit, now at $779 billion and climbing.

They squandered it by privatizing everything from intelligence gathering to public education to swell corporate bank accounts at taxpayer expense. They squandered it by permitting corporate money -- an estimated $9.9 billion will be spent this presidential election cycle on political advertising -- TO BUY POLITICIANS IN A FORM OF LEGALIZED BRIBERY THAT SEES CORPORATE LOBBYISTS WRITE LEGISLATION AND CREATE LAWS. They squandered it by doing nothing to halt the looming ecocide.

The problem is not messaging. The problem is the messenger. The mortal wounds inflicted on our democratic institutions are bipartisan. The traditional Republican elites are as hated as the Democratic elites. Trump is vile, imbecilic, corrupt and incompetent. But for a largely white working class cast aside by austerity and neoliberalism, he at least taunts the elites who destroyed their communities and their lives.

The shakedown that Trump clumsily attempted to orchestrate against the president of Ukraine in the hope of discrediting Joe Biden, a potential rival in the 2020 presidential election, pales beside the shakedown orchestrated by the elites who rule over America's working men and women.

This shakedown took from those workers their hope and, more ominously, their hope for their children. It took from them security and a sense of place and dignity. It took from them a voice in how they were governed. It took from them their country and handed it to a cabal of global corporatists who intend to turn them into serfs.

This shakedown plunged millions into despair. It led many to self-destructive opioid, alcohol, drug and gambling addictions. It led to increases in suicide, mass shootings and hate crimes. This shakedown led to bizarre conspiracy theories and fabrications peddled by a neofascist right wing, deceptions bolstered by the lies told by those tasked with keeping the society rooted in truth and verifiable fact. This shakedown led to the end of the rule of law and the destruction of democratic institutions that, if they had continued to function, could have prevented the rise to power of a demagogue such as Trump.

There is zero chance Trump will be removed from office in a trial in the Senate. The Democratic Party elites have admitted as much. They carried out, they argue, their civic and constitutional duty. But here again they lie. They picked out what was convenient to impeach Trump and left untouched the rotten system they helped create. The divisions among Americans will only widen. The hatreds will only grow. And tyranny will wrap its deadly tentacles around our throats.

Yes, indeed.  This is what Crypt Keeper Pelosi’s mis-leadership has done to America.  The Democratic Party no longer exists.  Crypt Keeper Pelosi killed it when she became Speaker of the House.  She purged the party of its democratic values and turned it into a fascistic regime.  The Democratic Party of Crypt Keeper Pelosi despises the American people and sees us as slaves to do her bidding.

Don’t pray for our children Crypt Keeper Pelosi, don’t pray for President Donald Trump.  Pray for your own putrid, rotten soul, and pray for your soulless Democrats that they may see the error of their ways.  Your rotting soul was revealed when you attacked that journalist who asked if you hate President Trump.  Your nasty response dripping with contempt showed just who you really are, a nasty, vile, contemptible oligarch leading a dead soulless party.  

Impeachment: It’s all about the 911 cover up, Deep State embeds in CIA/NSA and State desperate to protect Bush/Obama Administrations’ failed foreign policy

From the impeachment testimony one thing is clear, the embeds in the NSA, State Department, and Executive Branch want Trump impeached for refusing to continue the failed foreign policy of Bush/Cheney and continued by Obama/Biden.  At issue is their deeply seated hatred of all things Russia and their disgust with presidential candidate, now President Donald Trump and his stated foreign policy.  Candidate Trump repeatedly stated his desire to normalize relations with Russia endangering the trillion dollar per year Pentagon budget to fight against nonexistent “Russian aggression.”  Trump’s foreign policy threatened the very livelihoods of the Deep State embeds in the CIA/NSA and State Department whose lucrative salaries have made them rich.

The impeachment of President Donald Trump was set in progress before he was ever elected President.  When candidate Donald Trump decimated the fable that President George W. Bush kept America safe after the 911 attacks by massive military spending and massive domestic surveillance, his fate was sealed.  Trump went where no politician was allowed to go, “Bush should have kept America safe BEFORE the 911 attacks.”

In 2001 after being in office only 7 months, W. Bush languished on a month-long vacation in Crawford, Texas as the intelligence community ran around desperately with “their hair on fire” warning that Bin laden was determined to launch a major attack on US.  Bush ignored all the warnings and simply couldn’t be bothered.  From Slate.com:

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The Out-of-Towner

While Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard.

In an otherwise dry day of hearings before the 9/11 commission, one brief bit of dialogue set off a sudden flash of clarity on the basic question of how our government let disaster happen.

The revelation came this morning, when CIA Director George Tenet was on the stand. Timothy Roemer, a former Democratic congressman, asked him when he first found out about the report from the FBI’s Minnesota field office that Zacarias Moussaoui, an Islamic jihadist, had been taking lessons on how to fly a 747. Tenet replied that he was briefed about the case on Aug. 23 or 24, 2001.

Roemer then asked Tenet if he mentioned Moussaoui to President Bush at one of their frequent morning briefings. Tenet replied, “I was not in briefings at this time.” Bush, he noted, “was on vacation.” He added that he didn’t see the president at all in August 2001. During the entire month, Bush was at his ranch in Texas. “You never talked with him?” Roemer asked. “No,” Tenet replied. By the way, for much of August, Tenet too was, as he put it, “on leave.”

And there you have it. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has made a big point of the fact that Tenet briefed the president nearly every day. Yet at the peak moment of threat, the two didn’t talk at all. At a time when action was needed, and orders for action had to come from the top, the man at the top was resting undisturbed.

Throughout that summer, we now well know, Tenet, Richard Clarke, and several other officials were running around with their “hair on fire,” warning that al-Qaida was about to unleash a monumental attack. On Aug. 6, Bush was given the now-famous President’s Daily Brief (by one of Tenet’s underlings), warning that this attack might take place “inside the United States…”

And now, we learn today, at this peak moment, Tenet hears about Moussaoui. Someone might have added 2 + 2 + 2 and possibly busted up the conspiracy. But the president was down on the ranch, taking it easy. Tenet wasn’t with him. Tenet never talked with him. Rice—as she has testified—wasn’t with Bush, either. He was on his own and, willfully, out of touch.

Yes, Tenet should have been fired and relieved of all duties and Rice should have been charged with lying under oath.  Tenet’s only job was to make sure America was safe, but like Bush he too was on vacation.  Tenet was actually a traitor, meeting regularly with Saudi foreign nationals.  It was Tenet who handed the torch to his buddy John Brennan who served under Obama.  From 911 Truth:

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CIA Director George Tenet Facilitated 9/11

After becoming Director of the CIA (DCI) in 1997, George Tenet did what Louis Freeh had done after his appointment as FBI Director. He began to cultivate close personal relationships with the rulers of Saudi Arabia. Like Freeh, Tenet grew especially close to Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the United States. Bandar and Tenet often met at Bandar’s home near Washington yet Tenet did not share information from those meetings with his own officers who were handling Saudi issues at the Agency.

The CIA’s Saudi specialists only learned about Tenet’s dealings with the Saudi authorities inadvertently, through their Saudi contacts. It seems that Tenet was operating within a network that surpassed the interests of the American public. Therefore the unsolved crimes of 9/11, attributed largely to young men from Saudi Arabia, should be considered in light of Tenet’s actions.

As Deputy Director for the CIA, in 1996, Tenet had worked to install one of his closest friends and confidants, John Brennan, as CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia. Brennan is now the DCI but, in his previous role, Brennan often communicated directly with Tenet, avoiding the usual chain of command. At the time, as an apparent favor to the Saudis, CIA analysts were discouraged from questioning Saudi relationship to Arab extremists.

The unusual relationship that both George Tenet and Louis Freeh had with Saudi intelligence (and George H.W. Bush) recalls the private network that was created in the mid-1970s to accomplish covert actions though means of proxies. This private network included disgruntled CIA officers who had been fired by President Carter, as well as the group known as The Safari Club, and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)…

The BCCI network grew, with the blessing of DCI George H.W. Bush, through the guidance of the Safari Club, which needed a network of banks to help fund proxy operations, including off-the-books operations required by the CIA. This private network was utilized in the arming of the Mujahideen, the precursor to al Qaeda.

For Tenet’s treachery George W. Bush award Tenet the Presidential Medal of Freedom making a mockery of the award.

Guess the Presidential Medal of Freedom has basically become the Deep State Medal of Freedom as Obama awarded the medal to George H.W. Bush and Joe Biden.

After Trump quashed the Deep State’s excuse for exonerating George W. Bush’s total incompetence leading up to the 911 attacks, Trump went on to decimate the Deep State’s concocted fairy tale about Obama’s superior intellect that negated any need for experience.  Obama’s college transcripts, which have been sealed and hidden from the American people, had revealed a mediocre student with family ties to the CIA who had been groomed by none other than the Deep State’s Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Trump was not persona non grata having acquired the hatred of the Deep State’s loyal servant John Brennan.  Trump even toyed with the idea of unsealing the sealed records of who was responsible for the 911 attacks so the 911 families could be compensated.  The embeds in the CIA and FBI are virulently opposed to that happening and are fighting Trump to keep the records sealed in order to protect themselves.

Even before President Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for president, the Deep State embeds had begun their dirty work in Ukraine to ensure that if Trump were to be elected president, the groundwork for impeachment was laid.  The Trump Administration would be infested the Deep State operatives ensuring the deadly status quo put in place by Bush/Cheney and Obama/Biden remained.  From Aletho News:

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What Republicans Must Ask the Whistleblower

The whistleblower needs to be front and center in the impeachment proceedings on TV. Here’s why.

As the latest public spectacle unironically displaces daytime soap operas, the picture is starting to become clearer. The people testifying aren’t there to save America. They are a group of neo-somethings inside the administration who disagreed with Trump’s Ukraine policy and decided to derail it.

The plan was unlikely intended to lead to impeachment when things began to move back in May, after then-Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was fired. Contrary to the president’s policy the taxpayers paid her to represent, she had her own, and promoted confrontation with Russia over Ukraine and sought more military aid.

Bill Taylor was then installed as a figurehead in the embassy and Ukraine policy was taken away from hardliners at the State Department and NSC and handed over to America’s favorite knucklehead, Rudy Giuliani, and the inexperienced, Trump-appointee, Gordon Sondland.

The bureaucracy called a Code Red. They were needed on that wall to stand against Russia. It seemed easy enough. Ukraine was off most of the public’s radar, so some Op-Eds, Trump’s men nudged aside, and the mini-coup over Ukraine policy would have worked. John Bolton, who could have stepped in and told everyone to return to their seats or no snack time, was agog at the amateur efforts by Giuliani, and certainly no fan of a less robust Ukraine policy anyway.

Things got out of the group’s hands when Democrats, desperate for something to impeach on after Russiagate imploded, seized on the objections over Ukraine policy as slightly more than the nothing they otherwise had (the alternative was resurrecting the Stormy Daniels-Michael Avenatti-Michael Cohen sleaze fest.)

An objection over policy and who would run it was transformed into a vague smatter of quid pro quo based on that July 25 phone call, using a whistleblower’s undergrad-level prank “complaint” as the trigger.

And that’s why the whistleblower is very relevant. He knows nothing first-hand himself (neither does anyone else, see below, but someone had to go first) admitting in his complaint all his information is second hand. He is not anonymous; Google “who is the whistleblower” and you too can know everything official Washington and the media already know about him, back to his college days. So no one needs to fret about his safety, and no one needs to ask him any questions about the July 25 call.

Here is the question the whistleblower must be asked: how did this jump from policy disagreements among like-minded people (you, Vindman, Taylor, et al) to claims of an impeachable offense? Who engineered that jump? Was it Adam Schiff’s staffers who first met with the whistleblower?

Schiff lied about that contact. Or was it a partisan D.C. lawyer who has been trolling Twitter since Trump’s election looking for someone to hand him raw material he’d lawyer into a smoking gun (an organization he is connected with had mobile billboards advertising for whistleblowers circling the White House, the Capitol, the Pentagon, the CIA and the National Security Agency to try to attract clients)?

Did the whistleblower make himself into a pawn, or was he made into a pawn? The answer is very important because at this point how the whistleblower came to be at the ground zero of electoral politics tells us if this is a legitimate impeachment or a political assassination…

The popular impression is men like the whistleblower, Bill Taylor, and Alex Vindman are non-partisan, and there is some truth to that. They came up through a system which strongly emphasized service to the president, whomever that is. But it would be wrong to equally claim they are policy agnostic; in fact, likely quite the opposite.

They see themselves as experts, and in Vindman’s case, a native son, who know better. That’s why they were hired, to advise, and under Obama their advice (for better or worse, they wanted to bring us to war with Russia) was generally followed.

They knew they knew better than the Orange Clown who somehow ended up in the Oval Office and ignored them. They knew he was wrong, and talked and texted about it among themselves. That’s OK, normal even. But it appears they came to see Trump not just as wrong but as dangerous. Add in some taint of self-interest on Trump’s part, and he became evil…

With their testimony focused mostly on their disagreements with Trump’s Ukraine policy, and their own intellectual superiority, it seems such proclamations of conscience have more to do with what outcomes and policy the witnesses support and less to do with understanding that without an orderly system of government with a functioning chain of command all is chaos.

The Trump-deranged public is overlooking the dark significance of serving officials undermining the elected president because of policy disagreements.  They hate Trump so much they are tolerating insubordination, even cheering it. Now that’ll bite America back soon enough. You don’t join government to do whatever partisan thing you think is right; you serve under a system and a chain of command…

So let’s hear from the whistleblower and all the witnesses about that, not their second hand knowledge of Trump’s motivations, but their first hand knowledge of their own motivations.

Americans in government and military are mostly decent people. Unlike some who hold power in banana republics, they are unlikely to be convinced to undermine the president for personal gain. But give them a crusade, tell them they are heroes Mueller failed to be, and they will convince themselves anything is justified.

Those impure motivations are what transformed the witnesses now driving impeachment from being dissenters to insubordinate, into convincing themselves they needed to make a stand. Vindman gives it away, saying he twice “registered internal objections about how Mr. Trump and his inner circle were treating Ukraine,” out of what he called a “sense of duty.” Duty to what?

The not very anonymous whistleblower is only 33-years-old, but of the mold. Ivy League, CIA, language guy, a Ukraine specialist who found himself and his knowledge embraced by Obama and Biden — the right guy in the right place — UNTIL HE WAS SET ASIDE BY TRUMP WITH NEW POLICY.

Taylor fancies himself the last honest man, shepherding U.S.-Ukrainian policy through rough waters, having been ambassador to Ukraine 2006-2009. Yovanovitch was a partisan, representing her own vision, not that of the elected leadership, because she was sure she knew better after her years at State. Best and the brightest. They were professional, seasoned dammit, look at their resumes! The uniform!

If they came to being whistleblowers and then players in politics honestly, then were simply side-slipped into becoming pawns, they should be quietly retired, this generation’s Colin Powell. But if they are agent provocateurs, they need to be fired. That’s why we need to talk to the whistleblower, to understand that difference.

That’s for them, now for us. If this all was just a hearing on bad policy planning and what happens when knuckleheads like Rudy Giuliani get involved, it would make interesting history. If this was a long-overdue review of U.S. relations with Ukraine, it would be welcome. But as an attempt to impeach the president, it is a sordid, empty, brazen, political tactic hardly worthy of the term coup.

It sets a terrible example of what we will tolerate from the bureaucracy if we hate the incumbent president enough. It opens the door to political opportunism, and informs real would-be insubordinates how to proceed more effectively. It signals chaos to our allies and opens opportunity to our enemies.

There’s a fine line between necessary dissent and wicked insubordination, between conscience and disobedience, but there is a line and it appears to have been crossed here. The attack is no longer on policy, on which Taylor and Vindman may lay some claim, it is on the president and only the voters should have that say.

Peaceful transition of power in America after an election my ass.  But then peaceful transition of power was blown up in 2000 when the Deep State’s George W. Bush lost the election and Deep State operatives in the Republican Party with a nod from Deep State Democrats violently stopped the vote recount in Florida.  Deep State operatives violently protested outside Vice President Al Gore’s residence in the Naval Observatory screaming for the Gore Family to get out of “Dick Cheney’s House.”

The incoming Bush/Cheney Administration violently cracked down on protestors and rounded them up and shoved them into caged areas called “free speech zones” out of the vision of George W. Bush.  The passing of the “Help America Vote “the right way” Act” the codified into law paperless, unverifiable vote tallying machines and insane redistricting to subvert the will of the voters.    That status quo has remained since the overthrow of the American government December 12, 2000. 

When President Trump upset the Deep State apple cart and won the election on a platform of ending a war-based economy and rebuilding America, the fix was in.  That fix being impeachment.  The people you saw testifying before the impeachment committee are Deep State operatives who have been in charge of maintaining the status quo their livelihoods depend on. 

The ever-wars promoted by these “civil servants” have bankrupted America and left our homeland rife with drug addiction, completely decimated infrastructure and an electorate on the verge of civil war.  But the mantra of the lunatics is “ever-war means never having to say you’re sorry.”  They believe, as Churchill said “Success is the ability to move from one failure to another without loss of enthusiasm.”  From RT:

Excerpt:

Iraq invasion ‘Godfather’ berates Trump for not thinking of NEXT WAR in Syria

Unreconstructed neocon Paul Wolfowitz has slammed President Donald Trump for ‘abandoning’ the Kurds, insisting the US will need them next time there’s a war in Syria. Trump’s blunder, then, is thinking wars can “end.”

The man once described by CNN as “the heart and soul of the Iraq war” points out in an op-ed in the New York Times on Thursday that decades of meddling in the Middle East have made the US some friends in the region – namely, the Kurds. Casting them aside, he says, will make future meddling much more difficult.

The failed war’s mastermind reminds Trump that because the US’ Kurdish and Arab allies were gracious enough to serve as cannon fodder in the fight against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq, the US lost just six soldiers, compared to 11,000 from the US-backed opposition. A less belligerent mind might see this as exploitation, rather than alliance – but friendship means never having to say “sorry I turned your homeland into a hotbed of sectarian conflict.”

When the next war comes around – and Wolfowitz assures us there will be a next war – the US will be sorry it spurned its Kurdish friends, he warns. The inveterate warmonger calls Trump short-sighted for viewing all engagement in the Middle East through the lens of the Iraq and Afghanistan quagmires, and holds up a failed Shiite uprising against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as a cautionary tale of what happens when the US isn’t lurking in the shadows ready to play World Police at the drop of a shell – but glosses over the fact that every war Wolfowitz has backed in his lengthy career has ended with the “liberated” country all but turned to dust.

IN WOLFOWITZ’S VIEW, THERE IS NO “RIGHT” WAY TO LEAVE A WAR. “Walking away from [the Middle East] has a way of sucking America back in,” he warns – as if the power vacuum he warns will develop in the absence of a firm American hand to guide backward local politicos is an actual literal vacuum, capable of sucking American troops through space. The only way to prevent this is to prop up US “allies” at the helm of these countries and surround them with American “advisers” so they don’t make the mistake of listening to their people.

But even as he warns against allowing power vacuums to develop, he tears into former President Barack Obama for not backing the Syrian opposition’s efforts to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, lamenting that a bit of support in the right place could have “toppled the regime…with little risk to Americans.” Apparently, some power vacuums are more dangerous than others.

Wolfowitz admitted in 2013 that the Iraq War was a disaster, but insisted this was only because he wasn’t actually its “architect,” all CNN plaudits aside – he had wanted Iraqi leadership from the start, rather than the embarrassingly colonialist look of having American “viceroy” Paul Bremer running the show. 

Americans would still be behind the scenes pulling the strings, however – he has bemoaned the lack of “leadership qualities” in Iraqi politicians as recently as 2017, insisting the US must maintain a presence in the country to keep it from “going to hell literally.” For a man who spends so much time mouthing platitudes about democracy, HE IS WILDLY ALLERGIC TO SELF-RULE BY MIDDLE EASTERN PEOPLES.

Had the Bush Administration simply done things according to his plan – adopted the properly colonialist model of backing one group of Iraqis against the others – everything would have been peachy.

That complete lack of insight has made Wolfowitz one of the loudest cheerleaders for any and all wars since his tenure. He was a big fan of invading Libya, and wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal begging Trump to bomb Syria (which Trump did).

It’s astonishing that any serious politician still listens to the man who infamously promised in 2003 that the Iraqi people “would greet [American troops] as liberators,” obviating the need for a heavy troop presence in the country.

Trump’s repeated attempts at leaving Syria have all crumbled in the face of opposition from the entrenched interests that Wolfowitz represents. But if he stops even trying to pull Americans out of the region, Wolfowitz will be right – these wars will keep happening.

Yep the Zionist traitors installed in every government agency by Bush/Cheney never left.  They have been running a shadow government covertly financed by American taxpayers and banking cartels.  The CIA/FBI, State Department and congress itself are corrupt beyond the point of redemption and must be completely eradicated.  From Strategic Culture

Excerpt:

Rethinking National Security: CIA and FBI Are Corrupt, but What About Congress?

The developing story about how the US intelligence and national security agencies may have conspired to influence and possibly even reverse the results of the 2016 presidential election is compelling, even if one is disinclined to believe that such a plot would be possible to execute.

Not surprisingly perhaps there have been considerable introspection among former and current officials who have worked in those and related government positions, many of whom would agree that there is urgent need for a considerable restructuring and reining in of the 17 government agencies that have some intelligence or law enforcement function.

Most would also agree that much of the real damage that has been done has been the result of the unending global war on terror launched by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, which has showered the agencies with resources and money while also politicizing their leadership and freeing them from restraints on their behavior.

If the tens of billions of dollars lavished on the intelligence community together with a “gloves off” approach towards oversight that allowed them to run wild had produced good results, it might be possible to argue that it was all worth it. But the fact is that intelligence gathering has always been a bad investment even if it is demonstrably worse at the present.

One might argue that the CIA’s notorious Soviet Estimate prolonged the Cold War and that the failure to connect dots and pay attention to what junior officers were observing allowed 9/11 to happen. And then there was the empowerment of al-Qaeda during the Soviet-Afghan war followed by failure to penetrate the group once it began to carry out operations.

More recently there have been Guantanamo, torture in black prisons, renditions of terror suspects to be tortured elsewhere, killing of US citizens by drone, turning Libya into a failed state and terrorist haven, arming militants in Syria, and, of course, the Iraqi alleged WMDs, the biggest foreign policy disaster in American history.

AND THE BAD STUFF HAPPENED IN BIPARTISAN FASHION, under Democrats and Republicans, with both neocons and liberal interventionists all playing leading roles. The only one punished for the war crimes was former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou, who exposed some of what was going on.

Colonel Pat Lang, a colleague and friend who directed the Defense Intelligence Agency HUMINT (human intelligence) program after years spent on the ground in special ops and foreign liaison, thinks that strong medicine is needed and has initiated a discussion based on the premise that the FBI and CIA are dysfunctional relics that should be dismantled, as he puts it “burned to the ground,” so that the federal government can start over again and come up with something better...

On the domestic front, he cites his personal observation of efforts by the Department of Justice and the FBI to corruptly “frame” people tried in federal courts on national security issues as well as the intelligence/law enforcement community conspiracy to “get Trump…”

But the fundamental problem may not be with the police and intelligence services themselves. There are a lot of idiots running around loose in Washington. Witness for example the impeachment hearings ludicrous fact free opening statement by House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (with my emphasis) “In 2014, Russia invaded a United States ally, Ukraine, to reverse that nation’s embrace of the West, and to fulfill Vladimir Putin’s desire to rebuild a Russian empire…”

Another former intelligence community friend Ray McGovern has constructed a time line of developments in Ukraine which demolishes the establishment view on display in Congress relating to the alleged Russian threat. First of all, Ukraine was no American ally in 2014 and is no “critical ally” today.

Also, the Russian reaction to western supported rioting in Kiev, a vital interest, only came about after the United States spent $5 billion destabilizing and then replacing the pro-Kremlin government. Since that time Moscow has resumed control of the Crimea, which is historically part of Russia, and is active in the Donbas region which has a largely Russian population.

It should really be quite simple. The national security state should actually be engaged in national security. Its size and budget should be commensurate with what it actually does, nothing more. It should not be roaming the world looking for trouble and should instead only respond to actual threats.

And it should operate with oversight. If Congress is afraid to do it, set up a separate body that is non-partisan and actually has the teeth to do the job.  If the United States of America comes out of the process as something like a normal nation the entire world will be a much happier place.

America is anything but a normal nation at this time.  The only way to return to normalcy is to remove the traitorous Zionist war mongers from our government and turn them over to the international criminal court.  The coup in Ukraine has cost the lives of thousands and continues to this day with the “military aid” we supply being used against the Russian speaking people of Ukraine.  What about the “rule of law” the Democrats and “never Trump Republicans” speak of?  From Information Clearing House.

Excerpt:

Imperialism and the Rule of Law

Watching the Trump impeachment hearings, one hears again and again the phrase, ‘the rule of law’ uttered with great solemnity.  The phrase is followed very closely by another slogan, ‘fighting corruption’.  The American public is told by the congressional democrats on the House Judiciary Committee that in effect, impeaching President Trump is an imperative action needed to set an example to the world that the United States upholds ‘democracy’ and the ‘the rule of law’. 

Furthermore, the public is told that U.S. policy in the Ukraine is designed to counter ‘Russian aggression’ and reverse the ‘Russian invasion’ of that beleaguered country.  That no such ‘aggression’ or ‘invasion’ has taken place is irrelevant to democrats and republicans alike.

 Several questions should be asked by way of examining the political rhetoric currently being used to justify U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine.  FIRSTLY, was the 2014 U. S. sponsored coup d’état of President Victor Yanukovych an example of upholding democracy?  

SECONDLY, was supporting ultra-rightwing and neo-Nazi shock troops in the 2014 Maiden uprising as did U.S. senator John McCain an example of respecting the rule of law?   

THIRDLY, was the intervention undertaken by Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt into the domestic political affairs of Ukraine that resulted in the selection of that government’s pro-Western Yatsenyuk leadership in the wake of the coup an example of democratic governance? 

FOURTHLY, was placing the Ukraine in debt to the IMF to the tune of $18 Billion and requiring that the government slash its national gas subsidies thereby contributing to a 50% increase in gas prices an example of exercising the rule of law? 

FIFTHLY, is funding a war in the Ukraine that has cost the lives of an estimated 13,000 people by delivering military aid to the pro- Western Kiev government an example of the United States promoting democracy and human rights?

 In effect, the answer to all of the above questions is ‘yes’ if we mean the law of the imperialist jungle.  The answer is ‘no’ if we mean international and constitutional law.  U.S. imperialism is above the law in the latter sense.  Imperialist diplomacy is conducted by gangsters who routinely make offers to other leaders that cannot be refused.  Yanukovych was deposed after refusing to take loans from the IMF. 

His replacement, the Ukrainian businessman and oligarch, Petro Poroshenko, had no such qualms.  The popular Ukrainian actor and hapless new President Volodymyr Zelensky is left to pick up the pieces of a broken state wrecked by war, neo-liberal privatization and the attendant oligarchical corruption that flows in its wake.

Since the 911 attacks Americans have been brutalized by the banks and insurance companies and driven into bankruptcy.  Our infrastructure is almost beyond repair and no end to the carnage in sight.  However members of congress, their families and staffers are now mostly millionaires.  How does that happen? 

There’s millions to be made in wars, with almost zero oversight of where the money goes. The destruction of the World Trade Center was a controlled demolition, so was the financial collapse of 2008.  Trillions in savings, pensions and stocks went from ordinary people’s portfolios into the coffers of predatory lenders, banking cartels and bailouts.  From Washington Examiner:

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Hunter Biden-linked company received $130M in special federal loans while Joe Biden was vice president

An investment firm linked to Hunter Biden received over $130 million in federal bailout loans while his father Joe Biden was vice president and routed profits through a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, according to federal banking and corporate records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.

Financial experts said the offshore corporate structure could have been used to shield earnings from U.S. taxes.  Rosemont Capital, an investment firm at the center of Hunter Biden’s much-scrutinized financial network, was one of the companies approved to participate in the 2009 federal loan program known as the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF.

Under the program, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Bank issued billions of dollars in highly favorable loans to select investors who agreed to buy bonds that banks were struggling to offload, INCLUDING BUNDLED COLLEGE AND AUTO LOANS.

According to federal records, 177 firms participated in TALF, many of them well connected in Washington or on Wall Street. FOR INVESTORS, THERE WAS LITTLE RISK AND A HIGH CHANCE OF REWARD. The Federal Reserve funded as much as 90% of the investments. If the bonds were profitable, the borrowers benefited. If not, the department agreed to take over the depreciated assets with no repercussions for the borrowers.

“It's very complicated to become qualified as a TALF borrower or as a TALF fund, if you will,” Carol Pepper, a wealth management specialist, told Forbes in 2009. “But that's an example of where, if you can get into a TALF fund, you can benefit from this government program.”

Under the terms for the program, any U.S. company looking to invest in select categories of bonds was eligible to apply for the loans. However, the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve maintained the “right to reject a borrower for any reason,” and the internal selection process was criticized by some lawmakers as opaque and open to corruption.

“How can my constituents in Vermont get some of that money? Who makes the decisions? Do you guys sit around in a room — do you make it? Are there conflicts of interest?” Sen. Bernie Sanders asked Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke at a March 3, 2009, Senate hearing. “Do you have to be a large, greedy, reckless financial institution to apply for these monies?”

JOE BIDEN WAS A KEY ADVOCATE FOR THE FINANCIAL BAILOUT, which was approved under the Bush administration and expanded under President Barack Obama. He delayed his Senate resignation in January 2009 to cast his final vote to increase funding for the Troubled Asset Relief Program before taking office as vice president.

“These guys are not the most likable guys in the world,” Biden said about the banks and hedge funds aided by the government intervention. "But here are the facts ... Had we not bailed out the largest bank institutions in the world, there would have been a flat-out depression.”

One of the firms that benefited was Rosemont Capital, a company led by Hunter Biden’s business partners, Chris Heinz and Devon Archer. The firm received the loans at a crucial time for Hunter Biden. The younger Biden had stepped down from his lobbying business in late 2008, reportedly due to pressure on his father’s vice presidential campaign.

Biden, Heinz, and Archer incorporated Rosemont Seneca Partners in Delaware on June 25, 2009. The “alternative investment and market advisory firm” was an offshoot of Rosemont Capital, which held a 50% stake in the new venture. Rosemont Seneca and Rosemont Capital shared the same office address in lower Manhattan and the same New York phone number, according to Securities and Exchange Commission documents.

Three weeks after Rosemont Seneca was incorporated, a subsidiary of Rosemont Capital, called Rosemont TALF SPV, received $23.5 million in federal loans through the TALF program. THIS INCLUDED $13.4 MILLION TO INVEST IN STUDENT LOANS AND $11.1 MILLION TO INVEST IN SUBPRIME AUTO LOANS. Over five months, the company received a total of $130 million from the program in multiple installments for investments in subprime credit cards and residential mortgages.

“This is a great example of the suspicion of many Americans that these bailouts were used to benefit connected insiders while ordinary Americans went broke,” said Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at the National Legal and Policy Center, an organization that was critical of TALF at the time.

Although the government stopped issuing the loans at the end of 2009, the names of the well-connected borrowers and investors were later released — prompting new criticism from lawmakers and the press. In April 2011, Rolling Stone reported that millions in TALF loans had been issued to the wife of Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack, Miami Dolphins owner H. Wayne Huizenga, and Wall Street titan John Paulson, DUBBING THE PROGRAM “WELFARE FOR THE RICH...”

“It has been estimated that each year corporations and wealthy individuals avoid approximately $100 billion in U.S. taxes through the use of abusive and illegal tax shelters,” wrote Sanders in a letter to Bernanke. “Why would the Fed lend to material investors located in the Cayman Islands?”

Federal Reserve records show Rosemont Capital was one of the companies that set up an offshore limited partnership, called “Rosemont TALF Investment Fund LP,” to participate in the TALF program. The fund was incorporated in the Cayman Islands on May 14, 2009, and dissolved on Nov. 14, 2014, according to corporate records in the British territory. The fund was managed by a Delaware-based subsidiary of Rosemont called “Rosemont TALF GP,” SEC records show.

Another investor in Rosemont’s TALF fund, called “Rosemont TALF Opportunities Fund II,” was also based in the Cayman Islands. Additional Rosemont TALF investors included two Greek shipping magnates, a California class action attorney and a financial trust based in Liberia.

Tax experts said the Cayman Islands were a popular location at the time for hedge funds and corporations to set up subsidiaries in order to avoid paying certain U.S. taxes. Didier Jacobs, a senior policy adviser at Oxfam America who focuses on international finance, said an estimated $2.7 trillion was parked in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens prior to the U.S. tax reform in 2017…

“It seems like a pretty basic ask that any recipient of these TALF loans would act in certain ways. And one of those ways would be to not organize their businesses to avoid taxes in the Caymans,” said Gardner.

Joe Biden was one of the biggest proponents of bankruptcy protection for banks legislation that enslaved a generation of young people with non-dischargeable student loan debt.  While serving as Vice President, Joe Biden and his family became very rich off of war and bank bailouts.  Barack Obama who entered the White House in 2008 supposedly with student loan debt became very rich as well.  Obama was installed as president by Wall Street Banks who laundered over $300 million dollars into his presidential campaign in October of 2008.  In return Obama would oversee the bank bailouts.  Not only did no one on Wall Street get charged fraud, but Obama bailed out the corrupt bankers, bonuses and all.  When Obama left the White House he received $65 million dollars laundered through a publishing house for his “memoirs.”  The American people didn’t fare so well.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump understood the anger, outrage and pain that was bubbling up in the American psyche.  Trump spoke to the unfairness and the injustice that was commonplace in America, where billionaires buy politicians in return for tax cuts, bailouts and government contracts.  In America there is one set of laws for the American people and one set of “get out of jail free” cards for the rich. 

Trump called out billionaires like Jeff Bezos who owns the monopoly Amazon and the CIA funded Washington Post.  It was those billionaires and their bought and paid for politicians and spooks that decided to destroy Trump and those that supported him.  Now their dirty deeds and self-dealing are being exposed.  From Epoch Times:

Excerpt:

Court Filing: Obama Holdover Heading Office Under Investigation for ‘Illegally Leaked’ Classified Document

The Obama holdover heading the Pentagon office reportedly under investigation by the U.S. attorney who is conducting the criminal probe of the Trump–Russia investigation was accused of leaking a classified document, in a recent court filing for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.

According to a Nov. 21 report by independent journalist Sara Carter, U.S. Attorney John Durham is questioning personnel in the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA). ONA awarded about $1 million in contracts to FBI informant Stefan Halper, who appears to have played a key role in alleged U.S. intelligence agency spying on 2016 Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.

In addition, however, a court filing indicates that ONA’s director, James H. Baker, “is believed to be the person who illegally leaked the transcript of Mr. Flynn’s calls” to The Washington Post. Specifically, the filing states, “ONA Director Baker regularly lunched with Washington Post Reporter David Ignatius.”

The filing adds that Baker “was Halper’s ‘handler’” at ONA. Moreover, according to the court filing, the tasks assigned to “known long-time operative for the CIA/FBI” Halper “seem to have included slandering Mr. Flynn with accusations of having an affair with a young professor (a British national of Russian descent).”

Baker didn’t respond to a request for comment by The Epoch Times as of press time.

The filing notes that Flynn’s defense team has requested phone records for then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, likewise in order to confirm contacts with Ignatius. The filing singles out records for Jan. 10, 2017, when, according to the filing, “Clapper told Ignatius in words to the effect of ‘take the kill shot on Flynn.’”

Clapper didn’t respond to a request for comment by The Epoch Times as of press time.

The Pentagon’s current inspector general has already found that Baker’s office “did not maintain documentation of the work performed by Professor Halper or any communication that ONA personnel had with Professor Halper.” As a result, according to the inspector general, ONA staff “could not provide sufficient documentation that Professor Halper conducted all of his work in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.”

Acting Pentagon Inspector General Glenn A. Fine in November 2017 started an investigation into charges that Baker retaliated against a whistleblower who red-flagged “rigged” contracts, including Halper’s. Another $11 million in contracts under scrutiny went to the Long Term Strategy Group (LTSG), which is run by a schoolmate of Chelsea Clinton, whom she has referred to as her “best friend.”

According to the whistleblower’s attorney, “Baker’s interest was his awareness of the LTSG-Clinton connection; his presumptive desire to exploit that to his advantage in the event of a Clinton election win; and the fact that contractors like LTSG served as a lucrative landing pad for ONA retirees.” 

The attorney charged that Baker’s claims about the whistleblower were “demonstrably false,” calling Baker “partisan and highly vindictive...” 

Raising additional questions, a 2016 report further revealed that the ONA had failed to produce the top-secret net assessments the office was established to conduct for more than 10 years, even with a yearly budget approaching $20 million.

Baker was named as ONA director on May 14, 2015, during the Obama administration. A contemporaneous report called his appointment “part of a wave of new Pentagon personnel moves in recent days, senior-level officials who will outlast President Obama’s final term in office…”

The House Judiciary and Oversight committees—which interviewed almost two dozen witnesses—concluded in December 2018 that the Obama Justice Department treated Trump and Clinton unequally, affording Clinton and her associates extraordinary accommodations, while potentially abusing surveillance powers to investigate Trump’s associates…

Jacqueline Deal, president of LTSG, wrote in an email to The Epoch Times: “My colleagues and I began performing work in support of the Office of Net Assessment during the George W. Bush administration, over a decade before the office’s current director was appointed. … None of the awards received by LTSG from the Department of Defense resulted directly or indirectly from the actions or influence of Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. Any statement or implication otherwise is false.”

The entire purpose of the Russia-gate/Ukraine-gate impeachment is to preserve the 911 cover up.  The attack was perpetrated by the CIA/NSA and State Department Zionist traitors in order to subjugate the American people to slaves of unending wars.  From State of the Nation:

Excerpt:

9/11 FACT: The Pentagon Was Hit By A Cruise Missile From The U.S. Military Arsenal

The Whole World Has Waited For 13 Years For 9/11 Truth And Justice.

Nations Everywhere Plead With The US Citizenry To Take Back Their Country.

Why?

Because the very same people who are responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks continue to conduct false flag operations across the planet, starting new wars and bringing armed conflicts to once peaceful lands.

The shadow government controlling the USA has used the pretext of 9/11 to wage wars wherever they are in competition for resources, especially oil and gas reserves, oil and gas conduits, oil refineries and sea ports.

The same unelected criminal cabal routinely uses the overwhelming US military capability to shock and awe any defenseless nation which presents an attractive geopolitical advantage.  Likewise, they invade countries at will that disobey their orders or attempt to go their own way.

How are the same people, who pulled off the 9/11 INSIDE JOB, still in power? !  They’re still being paid by US taxpayers or collecting government pension funds or covered by state-run health insurance programs.

This state of affairs is no longer acceptable, not that it ever was.

Only the American people can demand the justice due to the 125 unfortunate souls who perished in the Pentagon on 9/11.  As well as to the thousands of office workers who died in the Twin Towers.

WHO was killed in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and WHY?  Isn’t it time to seriously investigate 9/11 truth so that the real perpetrators can be brought to justice?  Especially when those same misguided individuals are still running the country.

If not now … WHEN?

If not us … WHO?

If not here in the land of the free and the home of the brave … then WHERE?

Indeed, this impeachment is all about the 911 cover up by the CIA/NSA and State Department and their hijacking of the American government.  Americans must take back their government from the Zionist traitors who have seized control of the levers of power and used American military might to destroy not only America, but countries and peoples across the world. 

Let this Zionist backed impeachment be the bridge too far.  Let this Zionist backed impeachment show the world once and for all that Americans are a good and decent people whose government has been seized from them under the guise of a war on terror.  These Zionist backed terrorists must be excised from the American government and be brought to justice once and for all.  God help us because we no longer know who we can trust but one thing is for sure, we cannot trust those pushing this impeachment hoax for they are the terrorists among us who will keep the world in a constant state of war.