Media in a panic as Donald Trump continues dismantling the juggernaut this time it’s the lying liar media weasels

In an unprecedented attack on an elected American president, America’s lying liar media weasels were in overdrive during Donald Trump’s first week as President of the United States.  The week started with the media tweeting out that Donald Trump removed the bust of revered civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office and placed it in storage.  This was a lie.  The tweet was retracted but only after it had been retweeted thousands of times.  The purpose of the false report was to incite racial hatred against President Trump. 

As Trump called for an investigation of “voter” fraud, claims that the GOP has been making for years in order to pass racially discriminatory voter elimination laws, the media in unison screamed “liar.”  After a week of continual media attacks against the fledgling Administration, one of Trump’s top advisors, Steve Bannon wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times calling the media the “opposition party.”  From Paul Craig Roberts:

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The Media Is Now The Political Opposition

Stephen Bannon Is 100% Correct—The Media Is Now The Political Opposition

Bannon is correct that the US media—indeed, the entire Western print and TV media—is nothing but a propaganda machine for the ruling elite. The presstitutes are devoid of integrity, moral conscience, and respect for truth… 

Who else but the despicable Western media justified the enormous war crimes committed against millions of peoples by the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes in nine countries—Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Palestine, and the Russian areas of Ukraine?

Who else but the despicable Western media justified the domestic police states that have been erected in the Western world in the name of the “war on terror”?

Along with the war criminals that comprised the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes, the Western media should be tried for their complicity in the massive crimes against humanity.

The Western media’s effort to sustain the high level of tension between the West and Russia is a danger to all mankind, a direct threat to life on earth. Gorbachev’s warnings are correct. Yet presstitutes declare that if Trump lifts the sanctions it proves that Trump is a Russian agent. It is paradoxical that the Democrats and the liberal-progressive-left are mobilizing the anti-war movement to oppose Trump’s anti-war policy!

By refusing to acknowledge and to apologize for its lies, euphemistically called “fake news,” the Western media has failed humanity in a number of other ways…  By taking the role of the political opposition to Trump, the media has discredited itself as an honest critic on topics where Trump needs criticism, such as the environment and his tolerance of oppressive methods used by police. The presstitutes have ended all chance of improving Trump’s performance with reports and criticism.

Trump needs moderating on the environment, on the police, and on the war on terror. Trump needs to understand that “the Muslim threat” is a hoax created by the neoconservatives and the military/security complex with the complicity of the presstitutes to serve the hegemony agenda and the budget and power of the CIA, Pentagon, and military industries. If the US stops bombing and slaughtering Muslims and training and equipping forces to overthrow non-compliant Muslim governments such as Syria, Iraq, and Libya, “the Muslim threat” will disappear.

Maybe Trump will add to his agenda breaking into hundreds of pieces the six mega-media companies that own 90% of the US media and selling the pieces to seperate independent owners who have no connection to the ruling elites. Then America would again have a media that can constrain the government with truth rather than use lies to act for or against the government.

Amen brother Roberts.  President Trump also requested and received the resignations from a slew of war criminals at the State Department, including Victoria (F*&K the EU) Nuland.  The State Department officials were a treasure trove of unnamed sources for the New York Times and the Washington Post.  From Counter Punch:

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The Anonymous Blacklist Promoted by the Washington Post Has Apparent Ties to Ukrainian Fascism and CIA Spying

Last month, the Washington Post gave a glowing front-page boost to an anonymous online blacklist of hundreds of American websites, from marginal conspiracy sites to flagship libertarian and progressive publications. As Max Blumenthal reported for AlterNet, the anonymous website argued that all of them should be investigated by the federal government and potentially prosecuted under the Espionage Act as Russian spies, for wittingly or unwittingly spreading Russian propaganda…

What the Washington Post did in boosting an anonymous blacklist of American journalists accused of criminal treason is one of the sleaziest, and most disturbing… things I’ve seen in this country…  The WaPo is essentially an arm of the American deep state; its owner, Jeff Bezos, is one of the three richest Americans, worth $67 billion, and his cash cow, Amazon, is a major contractor with the Central Intelligence Agency. In other words, this is as close to an official US government blacklist of journalists as we’ve seen—a dark ominous warning before they take the next steps.

Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s Morning Joe has warned Donald Trump that he must cave and bow to the media, because the media always wins. “Taking on the press like that, it always works badly.  The press always wins, Washington always wins.  You figure out how to work with them or you’re going to get crushed.”  Scarborough continues “I said the same thing to the Obama Administration, I’ve said it to every administration and some people get it some don’t.”

Yes Joe, some people get it some people don’t.  From Poynter:

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Obama to the press: ‘America needs you’

President Obama praised the press as central to democracy Wednesday in a final "farewell" that was part ironic homage to the media and part admonition to the incoming Trump administration.

Democracy "doesn't work if we don't have a well-informed citizenship...America needs you, and democracy needs you," he said, before taking questions in a final press conference that followed a final speech last week in Chicago.

It was a premeditated (and well-signaled) pre-emptive shot at President-elect Donald Trump, whose views toward the press were at times openly hostile during the campaign. As his inauguration approaches Friday, Trump's shots at the media (mostly via Twitter) have persisted.

Obama underscored the need of a free press to "cast a critical eye on the powerful. You'd done it, for the most part, in ways that I could appreciate for fairness, even if I didn't always agree with your conclusions. Having you in this building has made this place work better. It keeps us honest, made us work harder."

So Obama says the press has cast a critical eye on the powerful.  He says the media weasels have kept his administration honest and made them work harder, really???  From Mint Press:

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Trump Is Anti-Environment, But So Was Obama

While the incoming Trump administration shows a callous disregard for the environment, liberals have conveniently forgotten that some of the most disastrous environmental and public health crises in U.S. history have occurred on President Obama's watch.

It’s rather easy, and undoubtedly necessary, to lambast President-elect Donald Trump and his team of corporate parasites who will soon head nearly every key agency in the U.S. government…

Indeed, it wasn’t Trump, but President Barack Obama, who held the reins of the federal government and did nothing while drinking water contamination poisoned the people of Flint, Michigan. It was Obama who expanded offshore oil drilling while paying lip service to environmental responsibility in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill — a 2010 disaster which continues to wreak havoc on the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystem. It was Obama who signed off on new oil pipelines, approving the construction of the equivalent of 10 Keystone pipelines between 2010 and 2015 alone. Oil and gas shipments by rail continued under his watch…

These are just some examples of the countless other irresponsible policies. Forgive me if I don’t offer the liberals a post-consumer recycled handkerchief for their eco-friendly crocodile tears.

Obama: Owner of the water crises 

And while Obama did eventually make an appearance in Flint to pose for photos and, in typical Obama fashion, deliver an emotionally charged but politically vacuous speech, he has done almost nothing to address the underlying problem in Flint. With one word, one executive order, Obama could have brought the power of the presidency down on Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and other public officials who are directly responsible for the crisis. But he never did, preferring instead to deliver the kinds of hollow platitudes that have become his trademark.

It is rather striking that more than a year after the Flint crisis came to public attention while Obama was finishing another round of golf or shoring up his “Commander-in-Cool” image with interviews for Vice and “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” the full scope of the crisis is now becoming clear.

In a shocking examination published on Dec. 19 by Reuters, researchers found that nearly 3,000 communities had recorded lead poisoning rates double those in Flint, with more than 1,100 of them showing elevated levels of lead in the blood that were at least four times higher than in Flint…

Such findings would undoubtedly be scandalous were it not for a corporate media more interested in political wrangling and Trump’s latest tweets than in covering the full scope of a story that amounts to intergenerational economic and physical oppression. For it is the poor and working class communities, most of which were formerly industrial cities, where the problem of lead poisoning is at its worst.

These communities are often predominantly comprised of people of color and immigrants who are disproportionately affected by this level of federal, state, and municipal neglect.

Yes, Obama took Joe Scarborough’s advice and learned to work with the press, good job.  What is more dangerous that a lack of a free press?  A monopolistic fake press.   Throughout the Bush/Obama Administrations the media has continually blamed every attack on “radical Islamic terrorists” a term made up in order to justify perpetual war.  

The attacks on the Pulse Night Club and the San Bernardino, which according to terrorism experts were false flags, were used to demonize immigrants of Muslim descent.  The Boston Marathon attacks were committed by Muslims who, the Russian Government had warned the American government, had been radicalized but were allowed to return to the US anyway.  Some believe the government knew they were planning an attack and allowed it in order for a police state mentality to take hold.

The GOP constantly talked about keeping radical Islamic terrorists out of the country but never really planned to, it was just to enable trillions of dollars to go to the military industrial complex and line their own pockets as well.   It is unfortunate that Trump took them literally and has imposed a religious litmus test on the seven countries that Bush/Obama have bombed.  Let’s hope some cooler heads prevail. Trump’s hold is for 120 days, let’s hope with new people at the State Department he will get better information and lift this ban.

Hopefully Donald Trump will take Dr. Paul Craig Roberts’ advice and break the media up into hundreds of pieces instead of six mega-media companies owning 90% of the US media.   “Then America would again have a media that can constrain the government with truth rather than use lies to act for or against the government.”  In the meantime, the media in a panic as Donald Trump continues dismantling the juggernaut this time it’s the lying liar media weasels who have morphed into the political opposition party.

By Patricia Baeten

GOP in a panic as Donald Trump begins dismantling the juggernaut starting with “voter” fraud

After years of the GOP falsely claiming “voter” fraud in the form of felons voting, illegal aliens voting, people voting in more than one state, and using those claims to codify into law ALEC’s (American Legislative Exchange Council) “voter” fraud laws.  Election fraud not voter fraud is rampant in America and has disenfranchised possibly millions of voters. 

There have been claims that due to Motor Voter, the law that allows employees of the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) to register people to vote when they are issued a drivers’ licenses, have registered ineligible voters and illegal aliens allowing them to vote.  However having a Republican president launch an investigation into the GOP’s much repeated allegations of voter fraud is a good thing. From Anti Media:

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(ZHE) Having stunned the media with his Monday night announcement before members of Congress during a private reception that Trump only lost the popular vote due to vote fraud, the president refused to back down the next day, when on Tuesday the White House said Trump stands by his belief that millions of people voted illegally in the U.S. election.

“The president does believe that,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters. The press secretary said the president had said “3 to 5 million people could have voted illegally, based on the studies that he’s seen” although he did not quote the studies.

Fast forward to Wednesday morning when anyone who wondered if Trump would let go of this particularly sensitive issues which attacks the legitimacy of his presidency, got their answer with a series of two tweets by the President, who shortly after 7am said that he will request a probe into US voter fraud to resolve the ongoing back and forth once and for all:

“I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and even, those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time). Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!”

The Republican Party of California is planning on suing the state for voter registration fraud.  From Breitbart:

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California Republicans: Online Registration Allows Voter Fraud

The California Republican Party is considering taking legal action to force the State of California to adopt a more secure system for online voter registration, alleging that the current system is too lax and allows for potential voter fraud.

The California GOP has not produced evidence that any voter fraud actually took place through online registration in 2016. Recently, President-elect Donald Trump claimed that “millions” of people had voted illegally nationwide, and said there had been incidents of voter fraud in California, among other states.

“The [California] secretary of state’s website does not track the IP addresses of the people who register to vote,” Harmeet Dhillon, a former state party official, told the Los Angeles Times. “You could literally register hundreds or thousands of people from the same computer …

California’s voting system, however, has been technologically backward for many years. A Pew study in 2014 ranked California 49th out of the 50 states in election administration. The system of online voter registration dates to 2012, well within the scope of the study…  The poor job that the Golden State does in managing voter databases and other election data is ironic, given the fact that the state’s high technology industry leads the world, and that Silicon Valley is a global hub of innovation in database management.

The task of managing voter registration in California is complicated by the fact that the state is home to a high proportion of the nation’s illegal aliens, some of whom volunteered openly for the Hillary Clinton campaign to register others to vote.

Senator Ron Johnson, the Republican Senator from the dismal Dairyland, Wisconsin where numerous courts have found the redistricting maps drawn by Republicans unconstitutional doesn’t feel voter fraud should be a priority.  Obviously Johnson, as well as Speaker Paul Ryan and Chief of Staff and former head of the GOP, Reince Priebus, all from Wisconsin, are quite pleased with the current “voter” fraud meme that has served them well.  Of course they don’t want in investigation into “voter” fraud.  From The Atlantic:

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Trump Abandons the Secret Code of 'Voter Fraud'

In telling an anecdote about alleged illegal votes, the president broke one of the unwritten rules of his party.

There’s a long history of using false claims of voter fraud to justify voter suppression. The practice has enjoyed a resurgence as of late, especially since the Supreme Court weakened federal oversight of voting laws in 2013, states like North Carolina and Texas have used trumped-up charges of voter fraud to implement voting laws and voter ID that have since been determined to be racially discriminatory.

These arguments exist within a tradition of using the specter of fraud to legally suppress votes on a racial basis. But for decades that tradition has relied on a wink and a nod—openly stating the discriminatory intent of laws that had the clear effect of disenfranchisement could be legally troublesome. The dog whistle is the key.

Just days into his term, President Donald Trump opened a new chapter in this long history, using the White House pulpit to make claims of massive voter fraud, and calling for changes in voting law. But in relaying an anecdote to congressional leaders intended to support his wholly unsubstantiated claims of millions of fraudulent votes from undocumented immigrants, Trump directly referred to the perceived ethnicity and nationality of suspect voters, instead of actual suspicions of fraudulent acts. In doing so, Trump broke the longstanding taboo of relying on racial insinuation to carry the implied threat of suppression.

For years the Republican establishment with complicity has cried “voter” fraud and have convinced a large segment of the electorate that our elections are rigged.  From Politico:

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Poll: 41 percent of voters say election could be ‘stolen’ from Trump

The American electorate has turned deeply skeptical about the integrity of the nation's election apparatus, with 41 percent of voters saying November's election could be "stolen" from Donald Trump due to widespread voter fraud.

The new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll -- conducted among 1,999 registered voters Oct. 13 through Oct. 15 -- shows that Trump’s repeated warnings about a “rigged” election are having effect: 73 percent of Republicans think the election could be swiped from him. Just 17 percent of Democrats agree with the prospect of massive fraud at the ballot box.

The DNC has claimed that “election” fraud is rampant and a number of investigations by investigative reporters and lawsuits against the GOP’s redistricting maps and held up by the courts have proven there is rampant election fraud.  The GOP has disenfranchised millions of voters through redistricting, repressive voter ID laws, cross check, caging lists and a number of other nefarious ALEC written laws.   It is estimated that millions of voters who vote for the Democrats have been illegally scrubbed from the voting rolls.  From The Federalist:

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Nearly Half Of Democrats Think The 2016 Election Was ‘Rigged’

After spending weeks attacking Trump for highlighting voter fraud, Democrats have completely changed their tune when it comes to "rigged" elections.

Nearly half of Democrats think the 2016 presidential election was “rigged,” according to a new poll released this week by YouGov. The poll found that a whopping 42 percent of Democrats believe the election was rigged. Only 58 percent of Democrats responded that Donald Trump was “legitimately” elected on Nov. 8.

The Democratic belief that the 2016 presidential election was rigged in President-elect Donald Trump’s favor is especially ironic given the myriad attacks on Trump for suggesting that voter fraud could potentially swing an election. Just weeks before the election the Washington Post‘s Philip Bump declared in the headline of one of his articles that Trump’s “voter fraud claims are ridiculous.” Vox claimed that Trump’s voter fraud claims were “baseless” and “based on a lie.”

Whether the investigation Trump has ordered will examine election fraud remains to be seen.  But the bottom line is American voters don’t trust either party and don’t believe in the integrity of our elections.  Since President Trump has called for an investigation into the election process in America, the establishment is fighting back, with many in the media calling Trump a liar.  Reuters has reported that “The announcement drew rebukes from both Republicans and Democrats who said the Republican president's unsubstantiated claims of large-scale fraud could undermine voting rights efforts as well as confidence in the new U.S. chief executive.”

I guess this goes under the category of be careful what you wish for, both parties are scared to death what the investigation will uncover.  One thing is for sure, GOP and DNC are in a panic as Donald Trump begins dismantling the juggernaut starting with “voter” fraud. 

By Patricia Baeten

The Trump Inaugural Speech: This American carnage stops right here

Today, January 20^th, 2017 is the day that America begins becoming great again.  The dark days of the Bush/Obama imperialist intervention and removal of elected leaders ends.  Sixteen years of wars, death and destruction across the globe that have left America’s people destitute and homeless are over.  The skies have parted and the sun has shown through, it’s over.  Donald Trump’s inaugural speech focused on the “forgotten” American people, our President Trump said “"this American carnage stops right here and stops right now."  

Melania Trump is now our First Lady and she looked radiant and the beautiful first family reported for duty to serve America.  Our sixteen year nightmare is over.  President Trump’s inaugural speech was magnificent, but as expected the CIA controlled media, like a slasher in a B rated movie has savaged President Trump’s speech as too gloomy. Not cheery enough like prior presidents.  So let’s look at what Donald Trump had to say.

“For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have bore the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered but the jobs left and the factories closed.”

From Open Secrets:

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Millionaires’ Club: For First Time, Most Lawmakers are Worth $1 Million-Plus

For the first time in history, most members of Congress are millionaires, according to a new analysis of personal financial disclosure data by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Of 534 current members of Congress, at least 268 had an average net worth of $1 million or more in 2012, according to disclosures filed last year by all members of Congress and candidates. The median net worth for the 530 current lawmakers who were in Congress as of the May filing deadline was $1,008,767 — an increase from the previous year when it was $966,000. In addition, at least one of the members elected since then, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), is a millionaire, according to forms she filed as a candidate. (There is currently one vacancy in Congress.)

Last year only 257 members, or about 48 percent of lawmakers, had a median net worth of at least $1 million.

Sheesh, nice job if you can get it.  But how did the people fare during that time period?  From Fortune Magazine:

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The Death of the Middle Class Is Worse Than You Think

From Brexit to Donald Trump, if there's anything that current events tell us, it's that the man on the street is angry and wants change.

A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, with the chilling title "Poorer than their Parents: Flat or Falling Incomes in Advanced Economies," shows just why this is the case. According to the paper, the trend in stagnating or declining incomes for middle class workers is not just confined to the United States, but is a global phenomenon hurting workers across the wealthy world.

The report found that as much as 70% of the households in 25 advanced economies saw their earnings drop in the past decade. The study tracked income brackets, not individual households, from 2005 to 2014. That compares to just 2% of households that saw declining incomes in the previous 12 years.

The authors estimate that this means that "while fewer than ten million people were affected [by flat or falling incomes] in the 1993-2005 period, that figure exploded to between 540 million and 580 million people in 2005-2014."

“The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs. And while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.”

From Strategic Culture:

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Biden in Kiev on US Regime-Change Victory Tour

US vice president Joe Biden flew into Kiev this week to celebrate the anniversary of the Maidan protests that led to the overthrow of Ukraine’s government.

With arms waving and his wife in tow, as he stepped off Air Force One, the spectacle was tantamount to an unctuous victory lap for American regime change in the former Soviet republic.

The fact that Biden’s son, Hunter, was also appointed as a board member of Ukrainian gas company Burisma since the regime took over adds a certain personal dimension to the American celebrations of this coup.

The next US planes to follow Biden’s will be loaded with weapons and other non-lethal munitions, as earlier this week Washington announced for the first time that it is to start supplying the Kiev regime with military hardware. Those weapons are to include anti-tank and air defence systems, sniper rifles and machine-guns.

“At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens. Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families and good jobs for themselves.  These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public…”

“Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation.  An education system flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.”

From Word Press:

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Charter schools: “There’s gold in them thar schools!”

How to Get Rich From Public Schools (Without Actually Educating)

There’s gold in them thar schools!  Don’t believe me?

When you drive by an inner city school, it doesn’t exactly look like the Taj Mahal. Does it? Even relatively upscale suburban schools wouldn’t be mistaken for a house on MTV Cribs. And some of those fly-by night charter schools look more like prisons than Shangri-La.

But I’ve got it on good authority that there’s $1.3 trillion available for someone who knows how to take it.  That someone is Harold Levy, an expert on how to get rich through school privatization…  “For-profit education is one of the largest U.S. investment markets, currently topping $1.3 trillion in value,” according to the Website for one of his master classes for rich investors.

Wooo-weee! That’s a lot of money!  To put it in context, that’s more than 10 times the amount the federal government spends on education per year…  Lend money to a for-profit company to build a new charter school. If you do it just right, you’re almost guaranteed to double or triple your money in seven years.

“And the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.  We are one nation, and their pain is our pain.”

From Mint Press:

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US War In Afghanistan Is Fueling Global Heroin Epidemic & Enabling The Drug Trade

MINNEAPOLIS — The “War on Drugs” and the “War on Terror” are more intertwined than that media and our elected officials would like us to think.  And this became full front and center when the U.S.-led global crusades overlapped in Afghanistan, leaving in their wake a legacy of death, addiction and government corruption tainting Afghan and American soil.

In the U.S., the War in Afghanistan is among the major contributing factors to the country’s devastating heroin epidemic.  Over 10,000 people in America died of heroin-related overdoses in 2014 alone– an epidemic fueled partly by the low cost and availability of one of the world’s most addictive, and most deadly, drugs.

Despite our promises to eradicate the black market, the U.S. actually enables the illegal drug trade. As journalist Abby Martin writes, the U.S. government has had a long history of facilitating the global drug trade: In the 1950s, it allowed opium to be moved, processed and trafficked throughout the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia while it trained Taiwanese troops to fight Communist China. In the 80s, the CIA provided logistical and financial support to anti-Communist Contras in Nicaragua who were also known international drug traffickers.

“For many decades we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry, subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military.  We've defended other nations' borders while refusing to defend our own.”

From NPR:

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U.S. Troops Arrive In Poland, But Will Trump Keep Them There?

The 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, from Fort Carson, Colo., has begun moving into Poland as part of the biggest U.S. military deployment in Europe since the end of the Cold War.  It's part of an Obama administration effort to deter perceived growing Russian aggression in Eastern Europe. The Kremlin isn't happy.

"These actions threaten our interests, our security," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "Especially as it concerns a third party building up its military presence near our borders. It's not even a European state."

And we've spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.  We've made other countries rich while the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon.”

From Orlando Sentinel:

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Trump voter: He won't let U.S. become a Third World country

For 52 years, I have been grateful to live a life of health, wealth and happiness in the United States.

I was born in India, a Third World country, and emigrated here. Most nations in Asia and Africa are "developing" or Third World nations, each with a thin veneer of world-class people. Beneath the top of each, however, is a cesspool of injustice, corruption, poverty and callousness. Anybody with money, muscle and influence is effectively above the law…

Some developing nations purport to be democracies, but in reality, establishment elites — typically rich people and members of the military-industrial complex — rule. They have no inhibitions about grabbing money or power. To these ends, they deploy a two-pronged strategy: First, a loyal vote bank is created and nurtured, so their candidates get elected year after year. Second, they control the news media, which 24-7 paint a rosy image of the elites and their country. Any opposition is squashed by media blitzes of innuendoes, allegations and propaganda — all false.

Based on my firsthand experience with a Third World country, I forsee that the United States is on the track for Third World status.

“The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world. But that is the past, and now we are looking only to the future.”

From World Socialist Website:

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Detroit housing crisis deepens with county tax foreclosure auction

Thousands of Detroit and Wayne County residents fear eviction in the coming months in what could be one of the biggest dislocations of low-income residents to result from the Wayne County treasurer’s yearly tax auction. The latest tax auction started only weeks after Wayne County Circuit Chief Judge Robert Colombo Jr. ruled in September on a lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union filed in July against the county. The ACLU lost its bid for a moratorium on tax foreclosures on owner-occupied homes in Detroit…

Underlying the case brought against the Wayne County Treasurer’s office was Detroit’s illegal over-assessment of taxes underlying each plaintiff’s tax debt. While Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has acknowledged the city overcharged residents, his Corporation Counsel Melvin “Butch” Hollowell, invoked the terms of the Detroit bankruptcy to reject the claims and support the county in the suit.

The plan of adjustment was enacted in 2014 as the culmination of the Detroit bankruptcy conspiracy. Enacted with the collaboration of the unions, the Obama administration, bond holders, the banks and the courts, it was used to legitimatize attacks on city workers, privatization of city services, and the illegal looting of pensions of Detroit city workers and retirees.

Yes, the CIA controlled media is apocalyptic about Donald Trump’s inaugural speech that the Wall Street Journal called “nationalistic” and the New York Times described as “an agenda of big-government nationalism” as if that is a bad thing.  Well wake up folks, we are seeing Regime Change in America.  From Information Clearing House:

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Regime Change Comes Home: The CIA’s Overt Threats against Trump

The norms of US capitalist democracy include the election of presidential candidates through competitive elections, unimpeded by force and violence by the permanent institutions of the state…  These norms are no longer operative.  During the election process, and in the run-up to the inauguration of US President-Elect Donald Trump, fundamental electoral institutions were challenged and coercive institutions were activated to disqualify the elected president and desperate overt public pronouncements threatened the entire electoral order…

In recent times, elected officials in the US and their state security organizations have often intervened against independent foreign governments, which challenged Washington’s quest for global domination.  This was especially true during the eight years of President Barack Obama’s administration where the violent ousting of presidents and prime ministers through US-engineered coups were routine – under an unofficial doctrine of ‘regime change’…

Their overt attack on US electoral norms then turned into a bizarre and virulent anti-Russia campaign designed to paint the elected president (a billionaire New York real estate developer and US celebrity icon) as a ‘tool of Moscow.’  The mass media and powerful elements within the CIA, Congress and Obama Administration insisted that Trump’s overtures toward peaceful, diplomatic relations with Russia were acts of treason.

Well I guess haters are gonna hate, but it’s too late President Trump has reported for duty.  Trump is going to dismantle the American government and rebuild the entire structure that was put in place in 1943 when President Harry Truman agreed to the formation of the CIA.  President Trump will be the greatest President in American history because like Trump said “this American carnage stops right here, right now.”

By Patricia Baeten

The Bush Family, the CIA and the British Empire’s war on Donald Trump

It was the best of times and it was the worst of times, the best of times for the Bush Crime Family and the worst of times for America.  The Bush Family played a large part in the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency and has ruled America since 1947.  The recent CIA leaked “report” on Donald Trump’s depravity in Russia was prepared by an ex-British spy and given to the Democratic Party after Trump won the GOP nomination away from Jeb! Bush ending the Bush reign of terror. 

John McCain does the Bush Family’s dirty work

According to Patrick Buchanan, the report was then funneled to John McCain who passed it on to the Republican FBI Director, James Comey.

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Trump's Enemies See an Opening

“Fake news!” roared Donald Trump, the work of “sick people.”

The president-elect was referring to a 35-page dossier of lurid details of his alleged sexual misconduct in Russia, worked up by a former British spy. A two-page summary of the 35 pages had been added to Trump’s briefing by the CIA and FBI — and then leaked to CNN.

This is “something that Nazi Germany would have done,” Trump said. Here, basically, is the story.

During the primaries, anti-Trump Republicans hired the ex-spy to do “oppo research” on Trump, i.e., to dig up dirt.

The spy contacted the Russians. They told him that Trump, at a Moscow hotel in 2013, had been engaged in depraved behavior, that they had the films to blackmail him, and that Trump’s aides had been colluding with them.

When Trump won the nomination, Democrats got the dossier and began shopping it around to the mainstream media. Some sought to substantiate the allegations. None could. So none of them published the charges.

In December, a British diplomat gave the dossier to Sen. John McCain, who personally turned it over to James Comey of the FBI.

Damning dossier was a hoax

Zero Hedge is now reporting that the report was actually a hoax, but in the age of fake news no verification is required before attempting to destroy people’s lives, especially people on Trump’s team.

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4Chan Claims To Have Fabricated Anti-Trump Report As A Hoax

In a story that is getting more surreal by the minute, a post on 4Chan now claims that the infamous "golden showers" scene in the unverified 35-page dossier, allegedly compiled by a British intelligence officer, was a hoax and fabricated by a member of the chatboard as "fanfiction", then sent to Rick Wilson, who proceeded to send it to the CIA, which then put it in their official classified intelligence report on the election.

Here is 4Chan's explanation of how the story came to light:

>/pol/acks mailed fanfiction to anti-trump pundit Rick Wilson about trump making people piss on a bed obama slept in

>he thought it was real and gave it to the CIA

>the central intelligence agency of the united states of america put this in their official classified intelligence report on russian involvement in the election

>donald trump and obama have both read this pol/acks fanfiction

>the cia has concluded that the russian plans to blackmail trump with this story we made up

just let that sink in what we have become.

Fake reporter given unlimited access to W. Bush White House

To understand just how egregious this “fake news” really is we need to go back to the George W. Bush Administration planting a “fake” reporter in their press briefings.  Remember Jeff Gannon of Talon News who always was the go to guy to lob “fake news” questions to George Bush to make him look good?  From Washington Blog:

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All-time most ridiculous ‘crisis actor’: President Bush’s gay male prostitute, Jeff Gannon, acting as White House ‘objective professional media’ to pimp US Wars of Aggression

President George Bush, Jr. used a crisis actor as a very friendly White House reporter to pretend the US War on Terror was legitimate policy to a crisis rather than obvious unlawful War of Aggression all began on lies known to be false as they were told.

As I wrote in 2010, George Jr. used gay male prostitute, Jeff Gannon, to act for two years that the US faced a crisis of terrorism in front of the world’s media.

This is the most ridiculous use of a crisis actor: a US president’s gay male prostitute lover with zero press credentials entering the most elite media assignment at the White House to act that the “War on Terror” is real rather than staged.

Most Americans are unaware that this gay male prostitute was allowed over 200 visits to the Bush White House between 2003 and 2005 with a “press pass” issued by White House leadership. According to Secret Service public records of check-in and check-out dates and times (here and here), most of the prostitute’s visits included several hours of time before and/or after press conferences, 32 times on days without press conferences, and 14 visits without checking-out in apparent overnight stays at the White House residence of Mr. Bush.

Secret Service would ordinarily declare a security emergency and conduct a full search of the White House if their records indicated a person hadn’t checked-out at the end of a press conference. Apparently, this protocol wasn’t enacted because Mr. Gannon had permission to spend the night.

Jeff Gannon’s employment was gay male prostitution; he had no previous experience as a journalist and no association with any media when he began attending White House press conferences. Jeff Gannon’s gay male website had multiple photos of his fully-naked shaved body, and advertises to prospective clients that his penis is eight inches in length and circumcised.

The White House is the most difficult press conference in the world to attend, and only open to the most credentialed professionals from major media, yet Mr. Gannon received special White House permission without any connection to any media.

Comedians do the job of reporters

Where was the FBI and the CIA when a “fake reporter” who was a real prostitute was given unlimited access to the press room and White House and the President of the United States’ residence?  How can the reports prepared by the CIA be trusted?  How is it that America has to rely on comedians to deliver “real investigative” reports?

George W. Bush wasn’t the first Bush to use “fake news” reports to bring America into war.  George Bush Sr. also used “fake news” to sell the nation on his Iraq War.

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President George Bush, Sr. used one crisis actor and two outrageous lies for his unlawful war on Iraq in 1990:

Crisis actor Nayirah, the daughter of Kuwait’s ambassador to the US, lied that she was a hospital volunteer and saw Iraq soldiers murder 312 infants by stealing incubators and throwing the infants onto the floor.

Papa Bush and then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney lied that US satellite photos showed Iraq military massed at the Saudi Arabian border ready to attack. These photos have never been shown due to claims of “national security,” while commercially available satellite photos show zero Iraq military presence.

Trump banned from Britain

The Bush Family could not have pulled off these capers without the assistance of the British Empire.  Margaret Thatcher was there to assist George Sr. and Tony Blair provided the “sexed up” British intelligence that was used to sell America on war with Iraq.  The British Empire under David Cameron attempted to derail Donald Trump campaign by banning Trump from Britain on “fake charges” clearing the way for Jebby Bush.

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Banned in Britain? Parliament debates keeping Trump out

Britain's Parliament held a boisterous debate Monday on a proposal to ban Donald Trump from the country in a rebuke of his call to block Muslims from entering the United States.

The topic drew plenty of support from the British lawmakers, who don't actually have the power to ban anyone. The debate did allow members of Parliament to vent their frustrations about Trump's comments…

Trump raised the ire of British Prime Minister David Cameron after last month's terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif., by proposing to keep Muslims out until more rigorous security checks are in place. The Republican presidential hopeful also lashed out at the city of London, saying it has become so "radicalized" that police fear for their lives.

It is no secret that the Bush Family was irate when Donald Trump took on Jeb during the primary and dispelled the “fake news” that George W. Bush kept America safe on his watch.  With the Bush ties to the CIA any report such as that of the golden showers coming from the CIA leaks should be viewed with a high degree of skepticism.  From The Horn News:

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Bush’s revenge! GOP’s plot to stop Trump

Ever since the dawn of the television era, it has been every major presidential candidate’s best friend.  I’m talking about the post-convention bounce…  Unfortunately, that’s not going to be Donald Trump’s convention experience. Not by a longshot.

Sure, there will be plenty of unhinged, left-wing nutjob protesters who will find their way to Cleveland for the convention, looking to cast a pall over it.  But they’re not Trump’s biggest problem. It’s actually the GOP establishment that is trying to guarantee that the Republican National Convention will be a circus of negative publicity, much of it damaging to Trump…

It is now a near certainty that there will be a push at the Republican National Convention to strip Trump of the nomination through a rules change. Before Trump even makes his first appearance at the podium, his campaign will be trying to contain the damage from this unprecedented coup d’etat.

If that wasn’t bad enough, a series of high-profile Republicans have announced that they are skipping the convention completely, mostly to protest Trump. Just the short list includes the entire Bush family, Mitt Romney, Arizona Sen. John McCain, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, and many, many more.

As many as eight Republican Senators may miss the convention. And these no-shows are going to generate a constant current of negative media coverage, even during Trump’s better convention moments.

Trump can’t trust spooks with his life

Is it any wonder that Donald Trump has his own security detail?  With all of America’s spy agencies leaking damning lies about Donald Trump prior to his inauguration, he’d be crazy to put his life in the hands of the Secret Service.  Look at what happened to Ronald Reagan when a mentally ill man with ties to the Bush Family attempted to assassinate him.  Who would have benefitted from a Reagan death?  Bush Sr. that’s who.  So the media is attempting to shame Trump into relieving his private security from their duties.  From Vanity Fair:

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WILL PRESIDENT TRUMP KEEP HIS OWN PRIVATE SECURITY FORCES?

“It’s playing with fire,” one former Secret Service agent says.

Whether you believe Donald Trump should be taken seriously but not literally, or vice versa, there is no doubt the president-elect has his authoritarian tics—filling his Cabinet with generals and billionaires; promising to “open up libel laws” to make it easier to sue journalists; not giving a single press conference since the election and musing that he might do away with daily press briefings; giving his adult children prominent positions within his White House transition team; suggesting that post-campaign “victory rallies” could become a staple of his presidency.

Then there are the habits that tend toward the authoritarian, such as Trump’s penchant for surrounding himself with his own private security forces—ex-cops and retired F.B.I. agents whose loyalty has earned them an unprecedented position of power alongside the Secret Service.

Politico reports that Trump, who had hired his own private security and intelligence teams to work alongside the Secret Service during the campaign, will be keeping “at least some members” of those teams.

Seems very prudent to me.  So hang on America, we only have a week to go and our new President will be in the White House.  But Trump hasn’t been resting on his laurels, he’s already hard at work.  His nominees will be approved and he can roll up his sleeves and undo the sixteen horrible years of the Bush/Obama/CIA fiasco. 

January 20, 2017 will be the day Americans got their country back.  The Trump wrecking ball will smash the GOP into bits and rebuild it into the once great party of Theodore Roosevelt.  Bring out the champagne and ring in the New Year, Happy Days are here again.  The Bush Family, the CIA and the British Empire’s war on Donald Trump will be lost.

By Patricia Baeten

Trump vs. CIA’s media lies

Quote:  "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director, cited by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy

The Sunday morning media talking heads had a synchronized message:  force Trump surrogates to say that the CIA’s “intelligence” report proves unequivocally that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a cyber-attack on the US election.  This is in spite of legions of ex-intelligence officers debunking these claims by the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper who has lied under oath before congress in the past.  From US News:

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Lock Him Up? Lawmakers Renew Calls for James Clapper Perjury Charges

Some lawmakers reacted to the long-expected resignation announcement from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Thursday by wishing him an eventful retirement, featuring prosecution and possible prison time.

The passage of more than three years hasn’t cooled the insistence in certain quarters that Clapper face charges for an admittedly false statement to Congress in March 2013, when he responded, “No, sir" and "not wittingly” to a question about whether the National Security Agency was collecting “any type of data at all” on millions of Americans.

About three months after making that claim, documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the answer was untruthful and that the NSA was in fact collecting in bulk domestic call records, along with various internet communications.

To his critics, Clapper lied under oath, a crime that threatens effective oversight of the executive branch.

Quote:  "For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government.... I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations." --former President Harry Truman, 22 December 1963, one month after the JFK assassination, op-ed section of the Washington Post, early edition

The fact that the media is demanding President-elect Trump take the word of James Clapper as gospel that Vladimir Putin hacked the DNC computer to assist Trump in getting elected, is absolutely outrageous.  There has been no evidence to-date that Putin had anything to do with the hacking, or that hacking even occurred.   

Quote:  "The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination." – Voltaire

However, even more shocking is Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer intimating to Rachel Maddow that the CIA is plotting against President-elect Donald Trump for questioning their veracity.  From The Hill:

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New Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump is “being really dumb” by taking on the intelligence community and its assessments on Russia’s cyber activities.

“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.

“So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this...”  Schumer said that as he understands, intelligence officials are "very upset with how [Trump] has treated them and talked about them."

Did New York Senator Chuck Schumer just say that the CIA is plotting against the President of the United States?  I wrote about the CIA’s threats against the American government in April of last year:

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Count Down to WWIII - The Bush Crime Family and the CIA Controlled Presidential Election

The CIA controls the duopoly in America and therefore controls the delegates who appoint the nominees for President of the United States of America.  What is happening in the 2016 election process is the unveiling of how dangerous and disgusting the CIA controlled process has become.

World War III has begun, it began when the American government was overthrown in 2000 and George W. Bush, son of George H.W. Bush the 41st President of the United States and former Director of the C.I.A. was installed as President.  To understand how we have come to this horrific point in time, one needs to review where it began.  From Sonic:

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Summary Of The Bush Crime Family* History

The most blatant initial historical record is when Grandpa Prescott Bush and some of his cronies tried to entice General Smedley Butler to muster enough World War I veterans to take over the Presidency of The United States in 1933.

Then again, in 1942 (a year after the U.S. joined World War II), Prescott Bush and this same cabal -- in their drive toward fascism -- were finally forced by the "Trading With the Enemy Act" to terminate their extensive business dealings with Hitler.

After WWII, this American branch of the Nazis didn't lose the war, they just transformed the battleground. They expanded their "connections" with Hitler's intelligence networks from The War into the formation of our own CIA.

It is also this same group that President Eisenhower opaquely identified as the "Military Industrial Complex," in his dark farewell speech to us. Later, it was Poppy George H.W. Bush who sat on a boat (named Barbara) off-shore and directed the Cuban Bay Of Pigs fiasco.

As a direct consequence of that largely unsolicited action, John Kennedy banished him and his CIA brothers from his administration, albeit only temporarily, as George H.W. Bush, then an active CIA agent, was later photographed in Dealey Plaza that sunny November day in 1963. 

From FDR to today, the Bush Crime Family and their fixated core of corporate fascists have, using unbridled corporate power, been tightening their grip on the throats of the American political, legal, economic and media systems…

Quote:  As terrible as it is to live in a nation where the press in known to be controlled by the government, at least one has the advantage of knowing the bias is present, and to adjust for it. In the United States of America, we are taught from birth that our press is free from such government meddling. This is an insidious lie about the very nature of the news institution in this country. One that allows the government to lie to us while denying the very fact of the lie itself.—What really happened

What is happening in America today is a culmination of years of the CIA infiltrating and condensing media as part of the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird.  From What Really Happened:

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MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA

Who Controls the Media?  Soulless corporations do, of course…  It is beginning to dawn on a growing number of armchair ombudsmen that the public print reports news from a parallel universe - one that has never heard of politically-motivated assassinations, CIA-Mafia banking thefts, mind control, death squads or even federal agencies with secret budgets fattened by cocaine sales - a place overrun by lone gunmen, where the CIA and Mafia are usually on their best behavior…  This unlikely land of enchantment is the creation of MOCKINGBIRD.

It was conceived in the late 1940s, the most frigid period of the cold war, when the CIA began a systematic infiltration of the corporate media, a process that often included direct takeover of major news outlets…  With or without the cooperation of local governments, Frank Wisner, an undercover State Department official assigned to the Foreign Service, rounded up students abroad to enter the cold war underground of covert operations on behalf of his Office of Policy Coordination.

Philip Graham, __a graduate of the Army Intelligence School in Harrisburg, PA, then publisher of the Washington Post., was taken under Wisner's wing to direct the program code-named Operation MOCKINGBIRD. 

"By the early 1950s," writes former Village Voice reporter Deborah Davis in Katharine the Great, "Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all, according to a former CIA analyst…"  Early MOCKINGBIRD influenced 25 newspapers and wire agencies consenting to act as organs of CIA propaganda.

But what is even more shocking is the dismissal by the Sunday morning talking heads of the failure of the FBI to stop the Fort Lauderdale airport shooter who shot 13 people.  From the Business Insider:

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The suspect in the Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting was known to the FBI

The man authorities believe shot 13 people, five of them fatally, at Fort Lauderdale International Airport on Friday was known to the FBI prior to carrying out the massacre, an FBI official said during a news conference Friday night.

FBI spokesman George Piro said the suspected assailant, 26-year-old Esteban Santiago, walked into an FBI office in Anchorage, Alaska, in November 2016 claiming voices in his head were telling him to join ISIS.  ISIS videos were apparently found on his computer, NBC's Pete Williams reported, citing federal officials.  

Piro, the FBI spokesman, said Santiago was taken into custody by local police in Anchorage and sent to a medical facility for an evaluation…  Santiago, who was born in New Jersey but moved to Puerto Rico with his family when he was 2 years old, served in Puerto Rico's National Guard and was deployed to Iraq in 2010… 

Santiago received a "general discharge" from the National Guard in August for "unsatisfactory performance," a lieutenant with the Alaska National Guard told CBS.  His aunt, who lives in New Jersey, told reporters that Santiago had started acting strangely when he returned from Iraq, and about a month ago "lost his mind…"

Santiago flew Delta from Anchorage, Alaska to Fort Lauderdale via Minneapolis-St. Paul on Thursday night, NBC reported. He arrived in Fort Lauderdale late Friday morning, which is when he apparently he used a gun he had checked into his luggage to carry out the massacre in the baggage claim area of Terminal 2.

Why wasn’t Santiago placed on a “no fly” list?  The failure of the FBI to stop terror attacks appears to be the “new normal” as far as the media is concerned.  It’s absolutely shocking that the billionaire owned media is far more interested in undermining President-elect Trump than in reporting on the failures of America’s intelligence agencies.  Not long ago I wrote in my blog about another terrorist known to the FBI who shot up the Pulse nightclub in another city in Florida, Orlando.

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Our Orwellian Government is stoking up the rhetoric pointing fingers at each other for not using the term, radical Islamists.  Don’t be fooled, the rhetoric is to divert our limited attention span from acknowledging the real terrorists in the American government.  The Orlando gunman was employed by a British based security contractor who was in charge of airport security at the three airports involved in the 911 attacks.  From Washington Blog:

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The shooting in Orlando on June 12th demonstrated features that were present in many recent terrorist acts. For example the suspect was quickly killed and the official account immediately attempted to blame the attacks on Islam. However, as with most terrorist suspects in the U.S., Omar Mateen had been closely followed by the FBI. He also worked for a company suspected of engaging in prior terrorist events. 

Mateen was well known to the FBI. In fact the Bureau had interviewed him several times and had evaluated his potential for terrorism on at least three occasions. This fact is noteworthy considering that both before 9/11, and since then, FBI leaders appear to have facilitated or manufactured terrorist acts. 

Although U.S. authorities claim that Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS “in the midst of the attack,” Mateen’s family were surprised at the claim that he had any connection to a radical terrorist group. In fact, they said he was not particularly religious…  Mateen’s employer, G4S, has some interesting links to previous terrorist events. And it benefits from terrorism. 

Mateen worked for the British company G4S since 2007. Throughout that time, G4S has been what people might call a private, special operations military outfit. It is said to be three times the size of the British military. In 2012, a G4S employee was charged with making a bomb threat at the Olympics. Similar bomb threats were connected to G4S in 2013 and May 2016. 

Previously called Securicor, G4S PROVIDED SECURITY AT ALL THREE AIRPORTS AFFECTED BY THE 9/11 ATTACKS. Securicor/G4S had bought Argenbright Security—the 9/11 airport security firm—just nine months before the 9/11 attacks. The company later ran operations at Guantanamo Bay…

No one at the FBI appears to have been disciplined or even investigated for their failure to stop the Orlando nightclub attack.  These failures of the intelligence community are of no interest to the American media and that is criminal.  The media’s refusal to question the intelligence selectively fed to them is a greater threat to democratic elections than any alleged hacking or leaking.

Don’t forget, it was James Comey, the FBI Director who derailed Hillary Clinton’s campaign and it is he who should be answering questions before congress for election tampering.  From National Memo:

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Ethical Questions Surround FBI Director’s Decision On Email Probe

With a tweet that trumpeted “Case reopened,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) set off a sustained roar of hyperbole about Hillary Clinton’s emails. As chair of the House Oversight Committee, Chaffetz and seven other Republican committee chairs — along with the ranking Democrats — received a very brief letter on Friday from FBI Director James Comey.

In three paragraphs, he informed them that while looking into “an unrelated case,” his agents had found “emails that appeared to be pertinent” to the Clinton server investigation. He had directed investigators to look at the emails, he wrote, and determine their significance…  Contrary to Chaffetz’s excited tweet, the FBI director’s letter did not indicate that the bureau has “reopened” its investigation of Clinton.

The emails in question were not found on Hillary Clinton’s email server, although some or all of them may be merely copies of emails previously examined by the FBI.  Those emails did not represent evidence intentionally withheld by Clinton from the FBI.  And there was no indication that those emails had prompted Comey to reconsider his July recommendation against prosecution, or his related conclusion that there was “no intentional misconduct” in the handling of evidence by Clinton and her lawyers…

But to protect himself, Comey decided to disclose the emails’ existence to the Congressional committee chairs within a day after learning of them himself, knowing that the Republicans would instantly exploit and distort that information for partisan purposes. (He knows that because Republican leaders distorted the facts to defame him.) Certainly he had no legal obligation to reveal the existence of the emails before he knew anything about them.

The FBI has been hunting the Clintons for over thirty years, first dispatching 200 agents to comb through every trailer park in Arkansas to dig up dirt on President Bill Clinton and most recently the partisan investigation of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails by Republican Director James Comey.

James Comey, who served in the Justice Department of George W. Bush, was appointed Director of the FBI by Barack Obama.  During Comey’s time in the Bush Administration, millions of e-mails were destroyed illegally, for which there was no FBI investigation.  From Newsweek:

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THE GEORGE W. BUSH WHITE HOUSE ‘LOST’ 22 MILLION EMAILS

For 18 months, Republican strategists, political pundits, reporters and Americans who follow them have been pursuing Hillary Clinton’s personal email habits, and no evidence of a crime has been found. But now they at least have the skills and interest to focus on a much larger and deeper email conspiracy, one involving war, lies, a private server run by the Republican Party and contempt of Congress citations—all of it still unsolved and unpunished.

Most troubling, researchers found a suspicious pattern in the White House email system blackouts, including periods when there were no emails available from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. “That the vice president’s office, widely characterized as the most powerful vice president in history, should have no archived emails in its accounts for scores of days—especially days when there was discussion of whether to invade Iraq—beggared the imagination,” says Thomas Blanton, director of the Washington-based National Security Archive.

Perhaps Mr. Comey himself should be investigated for his possible participation in the scrubbing of the White House e-mails that took place in the Bush Administration.  But I digress. 

On this Monday, there are some in the media who are patting themselves on the back and claiming that President-elect Trump has finally caved and accepts the CIA’s claims that Putin hacked the election resulting in Trump’s win.  Really?  Did Trump accept the thin gruel proffered by the CIA as evidence?  From Steve Lendman:

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Does Trump Now Accept the Phony Russian Hacking Claim?

Since his Friday intelligence briefing, he hasn’t refuted his earlier assessment, debunking the notion. I check his tweets daily to see what he's saying.  No Russian hacking occurred. No evidence proves it. Yet on Fox News Sunday, his incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said otherwise, accepting the fake news report as factual.

Was he speaking for himself alone? Or was he also stating what Trump now believes? The president-elect hasn’t said either way since Friday so it’s unknown… 

Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray acted as an intermediary between one or more Democrat party insiders, passing on leaked DNC and John Podesta emails to WikiLeaks.  Interviewed on RT (Russia Today), he called Friday’s intelligence community report “hilarious…devoid of evidence…” 

“It seems such a mockery of what we’ve had, which is weeks and weeks of assertion without evidence. And it was so totally devoid of evidence, that I thought it must be a joke.”  Its “assertions…are factually untrue.” Its contents are “built on nothing.”  “The report asserts, for example, that President Putin must have ordered the hacking. It doesn’t say that the hacking of the election or influencing actually happened…”

It’s intentionally provocative, wanting Trump’s election delegitimized, adversarial relations toward Russia continued, increasing the risk of US-initiated confrontation.  Murray correctly said a report this obviously fabricated could only have been issued, knowing Western media would support it unquestionably.

No sensible person would buy the rubbish in it. Media scoundrels accepting it are the same ones buying phony accusations about nonexistent Saddam’s WMDs in the run-up to US-led aggression, the same ones one-sidedly supporting Hillary, the same ones still bashing Trump.  What it all comes down to is wanting America’s imperial agenda continued - responsible for endless wars on humanity at home and abroad.

Heavy pressure is on Trump to maintain the status quo or risk removal from office by impeachment or more sinister means.

As the hearings to confirm Trump’s cabinet commence, the media continues to push the false narrative that Russia hacked the US election and the FBI’s investigation of Hillary’s e-mail reveal criminality.  The only thing we can believe from the mainstream media is, anything they say is a lie.  

The biggest lie of all is America has a free press that works as a watchdog for the people.  The watchdog is dead and has been replaced with a CIA trained lapdog.  The next four years will be a battle of Trump vs. the CIA’s “intelligence.”

By Patricia Baeten

Update:  Anatomy of a lie