President Trump ran as a populist during the 2016 campaign
and promised to restore greatness to America.
President Trump ran on a populist agenda, much like that of FDR and JFK
while Hillary Clinton ran on an agenda of the status quo. The American people rejected the status quo
in 2016 and now the status quo is attempting to force their antiquated agenda
on Trump.
The War on Drugs was the brainchild of the duopoly and the
result has been the birth of drug cartels, the poppy wars in Afghanistan, the
current opioid epidemic and must be ended.
It’s time for the duopoly to get out of the way and let Trump advance
America into the 21st Century.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not on the Trump Train, he
is running on a parallel track of the failed drug policies of the past 60
years. America has evolved and
recognizes the medicinal miracle that is cannabis. The duopoly has refused to evolve and wants
to continue the failed policies of the past 60 years, not because they believe
it will now work, but because there’s too much money in it.
After trying every trick in the failed GOP playbook to
derail Trump during the 2016 election the GOP decided to infest the Trump
Administration with the same old stale members of the GOP and try to force
Trump to board their antiquated, chugging, smoke spewing coal train. Now the Chris Christie-led “Opioid Commission”
has released their state-of-the-art answer to tackling the big Pharma and War
on Drugs created opioid crisis. From Washington Post:
Excerpt:
White House opioid commission to Trump: ‘Declare a national emergency’
on drug overdoses
The President's Commission on
Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis issued a preliminary report on
Monday stating that its “first and most
urgent recommendation” is for the president to “declare a national emergency under either the Public Health
Service Act or the Stafford Act...”
The commission, led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, states that the goals of
such a declaration would be to “force Congress to focus on funding” and to
“awaken every American to this simple fact: if this scourge has not found you
or your family yet, without bold action by everyone, it soon will…”
In 2015, according to Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention figures,
heroin deaths alone surpassed gun homicides for the first time. More than
33,000 people died of opioid overdose, with another 20,000 dying from other
drugs. A recent federal study found that prescription painkillers are now more widely
used than tobacco.
Prescription overdose deaths began
to rise in the mid-2000, following aggressive marketing and
widespread prescribing of the drugs starting in the late 1990s. In
response, state and federal authorities began cracking down on prescription
opiate availability, introducing
“abuse-deterrent” formulations, tighter prescribing guidelines and
operations targeting “pill mills” that made the drugs widely available…
But in response to these interventions, many painkiller abusers appear to have switched to illicit
street drugs. As prescription painkiller deaths started to fall, heroin overdoses increased dramatically. The
latest development has been the emergence of powerful synthetic opiates like
fentanyl, which are sometimes mixed with heroin with fatal consequences for
unsuspecting users.
Let me get this straight, today’s crisis was the result of
prescription drug overdoses which began in the late 1999’s with big Pharma’s “aggressive
marketing and widespread prescribing of the drugs” which led to an increase in
the deaths of patients from overdoses. Congress,
in order to stop the prescription drug deaths, went after the doctors who
prescribe the drugs rather than after big Pharma who produced and marketed the
drugs.
Instead of prohibiting big Pharma from advertising opioids
like they prohibited big tobacco from advertising, they criminalized
prescribing opioids which drove law abiding addicted citizens into the streets to
buy opioids. So what is the
recommendation from the commission? From
The Atlantic:
Excerpt:
A government opioid commission
chaired by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has called for President Trump to declare a state of emergency in
dealing with the opioid epidemic, which now kills more than 100 Americans daily…
They recommend changes to law
enforcement, such as arming all police
officers with naloxone, a medication that reverses opioid overdoses, and
improving the detection of fentanyl at the border.
Because most heroin addicts start
with prescription painkillers, they recommend improving training on painkiller
prescribing for doctors and forcing
state prescription-tracking programs to share their information by July 2018.
Finally, the report urges the closing of several loopholes around medication-assisted
recoverytreatment for addicts.
The report recommends that states
be granted waivers to allow federal Medicaid
funds to reimburse treatment in facilities with more than 16 beds, and that
all treatment facilities offer
medication-assisted treatment, such as buprenorphine. Some providers
believe these drugs don’t constitute true recovery or sobriety…
Regulators, they write, should fine health plans that violate
mental-health parity laws, meaning they illegally restrict mental-health or
addiction benefits to a greater degree than physical health benefits. Finally,
the commission suggests relaxing medical
privacy laws so that the families of addicted patients can get updates on
their relative’s medical status.
Really, that’s it?
Seems to me the commission is recommending the status quo, money and
drugs. But what do you expect from the
same old failed duopoly policies. Why
not try something new? From Motley Fool:
Excerpt:
Is Cannabis The Solution to America's Terrifying Opioid Crisis?
The FDA took an unprecedented step
Thursday in an attempt to curb America's opioid abuse crisis, but that doesn't
mean medical cannabis will be more seriously considered as an alternative to the highly addictive and deadly
drugs…
On Thursday, the Food and Drug
Administration took an unprecedented step in an attempt to finally stem that
lethal and expensive tide. Specifically, the FDA requested that Endo
Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ENDP)voluntarily remove its opioid pain medication, reformulated Opana ER
(oxymorphone hydrochloride), from the market. If Endo refuses this request, the FDA plans to withdraw the drug's
approval.
This hard line stance comes after a review of Opana ER's
post-marketing data that revealed a
shift from nasal to injected routes of abuse after the drug's reformulation.
As an added kick in the pants, this uptick in injection abuse was also tied to
a serious outbreak of HIV and hepatitis C infections among users, according to
the agency.
As Opana ER provided about 4% of Endo's annual revenues last year, the
drugmaker's shares dropped by as much as 13% in afterhours trading on the back
of this news. But the arguably more pressing issue is the FDA's questionable
decision to go as far as removing an approved pain medicine from the market due
to its wholly unintended use by some patients -- especially since there is no clear-cut replacement
for individuals who suffer from chronic pain that doesn't respond to other
medications.
Where available, medical cannabis is already being used
to treat a variety of conditions, including chronic pain. Most importantly, though, a recent study found that medical
cannabis use was associated with a jaw-dropping 64% decrease in opioid use,
a sizable decrease in unwanted side effects stemming from prescription
painkillers, as well as a healthy uptick
in quality of life among the study's participants. The researchers also
noted that patients were essentially substituting
cannabis for their prescribed opioid-based drugs in large numbers.
Do you really think that a commission headed up by Chris
Christie is seriously looking for answers to the opioid crisis? This is the New Jersey Governor who told his constituent
he would let his toddler daughter die from deathly seizures rather than sign a
bill that legalized medical marijuana.
AG Sessions revival of the War on Drugs is outdated, misguided
and dangerous and will accelerate the opioid crisis. From Scientific America:
Excerpt:
Science Calls Out Jeff Sessions on Medical Marijuana and the
"Historic Drug Epidemic"
Rolling back protections from
federal interference in state legalization laws could worsen the opioid overdose crisis
Amid a drug crisis that kills 91
people in the U.S. each day, Attorney
General Jeff Sessions has asked Congress to help roll back protections that
have shielded medical marijuana dispensaries from federal prosecutors since
2014, according to a letter made public this week.
Those legal controls—which bar Sessions’ Justice Department from
funding crackdowns on the medical cannabis programs legalized by 29 states and
Washington, D.C.—jeopardize the DoJ’s
ability to combat the country’s “historic drug epidemic” and control
dangerous drug traffickers, the attorney general wrote in the letter sent to
lawmakers.
The catch, however, is that this epidemic is one of addiction and
overdose deaths fueled by opioids—heroin, fentanyl and prescription
painkillers—not marijuana. In fact, places where the U.S. has legalized
medical marijuana have lower rates of opioid overdose deaths.
A review of the scientific
literature indicates marijuana is far less addictive than prescription
painkillers. A 2016 survey from University of Michigan researchers, published
in the The Journal of Pain, found that chronic
pain suffers who used cannabis reported a 64 percent drop in opioid use as well
as fewer negative side effects and a better quality of life than they
experienced under opioids.
In a 2014 study reported in JAMA
The Journal of the American Medical Association, the authors found that annual opioid overdose deaths were about 25
percent lower on average in states that allowed medical cannabis compared
with those that did not…
Session’s congressional letter,
which was dated May 1, was obtained by Massroots.com and also confirmed and
reported by The Washington Post on Tuesday. The letter urges lawmakers to
remove the legal impediment that keeps his office from spending cash on
interfering with state medical marijuana programs, a safeguard for dispensaries
formally called the Rohrabacher–Farr Amendment.
That provision expires at the end of September, and would have to
be renewed to remain the law of the land—a
timeline that guarantees medical marijuana will be discussed in Congress in the
coming months.
Mr. President, AG Jeff Sessions is a danger to America and a
danger to your agenda. Mr. President you
ran on a populist agenda and told the American people you would help fight the
opioid epidemic you never ran on resurrecting the War on Drugs. We believed you. Kraig Moss, the father of a boy who died of an
opioid overdose sold everything he had to get you elected believed you.
The recent shakeups at the White House were needed and now a
complete strip down and cleanup is vital in order to begin the rejuvenation of
American policies in order to Make America Great Again. America will never be great again if you do
not drain the swamp that has permeated your administration. Make America great again, abandon the 60
years of the duopoly’s failed drug policies; fire AG Jeff Sessions.
America needs a new party that is completely divorced from
the duopoly that has waged a chemical and financial war against the American
people. Through the duopoly’s complete
control over the electoral process they have made it impossible for a viable
third party to offer real change in America.
The president is supposed to be the head of the party and yet the GOP
congress is frantically working to stymie President Trump’s agenda. It is time to really drain the swamp with a
new third party dedicated to that purpose.
When Senator John McCain returned to congress from his sick
bed to vote on the Obamacare repeal bill, that was just a bait and switch. As a matter of fact, McCain betrayed his
president on the Obamacare repeal bill.
Why you might ask? Because
members of congress receive a $10,000 dollar taxpayer paid subsidy to pay for
their Obamacare, a perk that was awarded by congress to themselves, while the
American people suffer with high premiums, low coverage and massive fines if
they fail to carry insurance they can’t afford to use. But that’s about to end. From The Trumpet@Hillary is 44:
Excerpt:
Think what we write about below is
wrong? Wrong. Look at what we suggest President Trump do to congressional
exemptions from ObamaCare and the ObamaCare subsidies issue litigated against Barack Obama’s illegal subsidies as determined
to be so by the courts. Check out this most important “tweet” from President
Donald J. Trump:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
If a
new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies
and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!
Ram ObamaCare exactly as written in
law down the GOP congressional throat. Ram ObamaCare exactly as written in law down those who enjoy illegal subsidies the
courts have struck down but not yet implemented – then watch as they
realize ObamaCare is an Obamination. Enforce ObamaCare as written into law and
watch the health insurance system collapse. Ram ObamaCare down every Obama
Dimocrat’s throat…
There is also a petition to remove
the exemption Congress illegally received from Barack Obama to protect our servants who think they are our masters
from having to get on ObamaCare.
Mr. President, drain the swamp. Start a “Drain the Swamp Party” in time for
the 2018 midterm election. After the
Obamacare repeal kabuki dance, the Senate got down to their real agenda of
hamstringing President Trump’s ability to conduct his foreign policy. The Senate voted nearly unanimously to usurp
Trump’s presidential powers. From
LaRouchpac:
Excerpt:
Russia Sanctions Bill Based On Numerous Frauds
July 28, 2017 (EIRNS)—The Russian sanctions section of the
Iran-Russia-North Korea sanctions bill, H.R.3364, which the U.S. Senate gave
its final approval to by a vote of 98-2 yesterday and sent to the White House,
is a full-scale assault on Trump,
openly putting nearly the entire Congress on the record as backers of the of
the fake Russia-gate (proven false by the VIPS report), and willing to back the ongoing coup by the
British assets in the press, the intelligence community, and Wall Street.
The bill is based on numerous frauds, among them, the assertion
that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. It cites in the
findings section the Jan. 6, 2017 intelligence "assessment"—the one
that was presented as a consensus of the intelligence community as a whole but
turned out to have been composed by a
hand picked group of analysts from only threeof the 17 intelligence agencies—that claimed that "Russian
President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the
United States presidential election…"
With respect to congressional
review, the bill provides that if the
president wishes to lift sanctions—in the language of the bill, actions
that either significantly alter or don’t alter U.S. foreign policy—he must submit a report to the Congress
which will then be the subject of hearings in the relevant committees, and then a resolution of disapproval or
approval "may" be originated in either house, subject to
limited debate and then presidential approval or veto. It appears that there’s no requirement on the part of the
Congress to even respond with a resolution, if it chooses not to, and
therefore, if the Congress doesn’t act, the president can’t do anything.
Basically the Russia sanctions bill awards congress powers
that supersede that of the Executive.
Drain the swamp, President Trump.
For the 2018 midterm election start a “Drain the Swamp Party” to run
against the Democrats and Republicans. But
the Senate wasn’t finished with their dirty deeds and undermining President
Trump.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions in collusion with congress
recused himself from the faux Russian meddling in the US presidential election investigation. In doing so he opened the door for the deeply
corrupt Justice Department political appointees to name a Special Investigator
with unlimited powers to delve into every nook and cranny of Donald Trump’s
entire life and the lives of anyone he or his family has ever had contact
with.
Before the war profiteering millionaire congress left for
their five week summer vacation they usurped the president’s power to make
recess appointments and issued a threat to the president in the event he
decides to fire Sessions. From The Hill:
Excerpt:
Senate GOP steps up defense of Sessions
Senate Republicans are getting more aggressive in fighting back at
President Trump’s attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says there will be “hell to pay” if
Sessions is fired, while Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, warned he won’t
hold hearings to confirm a successor to Sessions…
Senate Republicans also quickly slammed the door on the possibility
that Trump could use recess appointment powers to get around Grassley. “I don’t think it’s going to happen,” said
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, who said Republicans will hold pro-forma sessions
every few days to block Trump from making recess appointments. “If we
have to stay in session to protect Sessions, we’d do so,” he said…
If the chamber convenes every few days — even for a few minutes —
then it is not, technically, on recess and, therefore, the president cannot make recess appointments…
The use of pro forma sessions to
block recess appointments isn’t unusual…
What’s unusual here, is that Republicans
are vowing to use the tactic to thwart a president from their own party.
Republicans are acting partly out of friendship to Sessions but
also out of concern that Trump may be
laying the groundwork to fire Robert Mueller, the special counsel who is
leading the investigation of possible collusion between Russian agents and
Trump’s inner circle of family and advisers…
Graham warned that such a move could provoke a constitutional
crisis. He is working on legislation would require judicial review of any
presidential decision to fire a special counsel to determine whether it
complied with the law. He predicted it
would have a large number of Republican and Democratic co-sponsors.
“Any effort to go after Mueller
could be beginning of the end of the
Trump presidency unless Mueller did something wrong. Right now I have no
reason to believe Mueller is compromised,” Graham warned.
Drain the swamp, Mr. President. Fire AG Sessions and fire Inspector
Mueller. Both parties are corrupted
beyond repair and if you need further proof that the parties are utterly
corrupt to a treasonous degree read this article from National Review:
Excerpt:
Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Pakistani IT
Scammers
There’s more than bank fraud going on
here. In Washington, it’s never about what they tell you it’s about. So
take this to the bank: The case of Imran Awan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s
mysterious Pakistani IT guy, is not about bank fraud. Yet bank fraud was the
stated charge on which Awan was arrested at Dulles Airport this week, just as
he was trying to flee the United States for Pakistan, via Qatar.
That is
the same route taken by Awan’s wife, Hina Alvi, in March, when she suddenly
fled the country, with three young daughters she yanked out of school,
mega-luggage, and $12,400 in cash. By then, the proceeds of the fraudulent $165,000 loan they’d gotten from the
Congressional Federal Credit Union had been sent ahead. It was part of a
$283,000 transfer that Awan managed to wire from Capitol Hill. He pulled it off
— hilariously, if infuriatingly — by pretending to be his wife in a phone call
with the credit union.
Told that
his proffered reason for the transfer (“funeral arrangements”) wouldn’t fly,
“Mrs.” Awan promptly repurposed: Now “she” was “buying property.” Asking no more questions, the credit union
wired the money . . . to Pakistan. As you let all that sink in, consider
this:
Awan and his family cabal of fraudsters had access for years to the e-mails and
other electronic files of members of the House’s Intelligence and Foreign
Affairs Committees.
It turns
out they were accessing members’ computers without their knowledge,
transferring files to remote servers, and stealing computer equipment —
including hard drives that Awan & Co. smashed to bits of bytes before
making tracks. They were fired in
February. All except Awan, that is. He
continued in the employ of Wasserman Schultz, the Florida Democrat, former DNC
chairwoman, and Clinton crony…
This is
not about bank fraud. The Awan family swindles are plentiful, but they are just
window-dressing. This appears to be a
real conspiracy, aimed at undermining American national security. At the
time of his arrest, the 37-year-old Imran Awan had been working for Democrats
as an information technologist for 13 years…
Congressional-staff
salaries are modest, in the $40,000 range. For some reason, Awan was paid about four times as much.
He also managed to get his wife, Alvi, on the House payroll . . . then his
brother, Abid Awan . . . then Abid’s wife, Natalia Sova. The youngest of the
clan, Awan’s brother Jamal, came on board in 2014 — the then-20-year-old commanding an annual salary of $160,000… for their IT “work,” the Pakistani family has
reeled in $4 million from U.S. taxpayers since 2009.
That’s
just the “legit” dough. The family business evidently dabbles in procurement fraud, too. The Capitol
Police and FBI are exploring widespread
double-billing for computers, other communication devices, and related
equipment…
The Daily
Caller has also discovered that the
family, which controlled several properties, was involved in various suspicious
mortgage transfers. Abid Awan, while working “full-time” in Congress, ran a
curious auto-retail business called “Cars International A” (yes, CIA), through
which he was accused of stealing money
and merchandise…
In civil
lawsuits, they are accused of
life-insurance fraud… Democrats now
say that any access to sensitive information was “unauthorized.” But how hard
could it have been to get “unauthorized” access when House Intelligence Committee Dems wanted their staffers to have
unbounded access?...
They
started arranging the fraudulent
credit-union loan in December, and the $283,000 wire transfer occurred on
January 18. In early February, House security services informed
representatives that the Awans were suspects in a criminal investigation. At
some point, investigators found stolen
equipment stashed in the Rayburn House Office Building, including a laptop
that appears to belong to Wasserman Schultz and that Imran was using.
Although
the Awans were banned from the Capitol computer network, not only did Wasserman Schultz keep Imran on staff for several
additional months, but Meeks retained Alvi until February 28 — five days
before she skedaddled to Lahore. Strange thing about that: On March 5, the FBI
(along with the Capitol Police) got to Dulles Airport in time to stop Alvi
before she embarked. It was discovered that she was carrying $12,400 in cash.
As I pointed out this week, it is a
felony to export more than $10,000 in currency from the U.S. without filing a
currency transportation report.
It seems
certain that Alvi did not file one: In connection with her husband’s arrest
this week, the FBI submitted to the
court a complaint affidavit that describes Alvi’s flight but makes no mention
of a currency transportation report. Yet
far from making an arrest, agents permitted her to board the plane and leave
the country, notwithstanding their stated belief that she has no
intention of returning…
Did the
swindling staffers compromise members of Congress? Does blackmail explain why
were they able to go unscathed for so long? And as for that sensitive
information, did the Awans send American
secrets, along with those hundreds of thousands of American dollars, to
Pakistan? This is no run-of-the-mill bank-fraud case.
Drain the swamp, Mr. President. Leave the GOP and start your own party in
time for the 2018 midterm election. Mr.
President you were elected by disaffected Democrats, Republicans and
Independents. We the people rejected
both parties in 2016 and chose you to turn this Titanic around. The two parties have defied the will of the
people and used our intelligence agencies to usurp power from the
president. From Information ClearingHouse:
Excerpt:
Trump Faces Down the CIA and Co-Opts the Pentagon on Syria
“Donald Trump has taken the
strangest, messiest route imaginable towards fulfilling his campaign pledge to curtail Washington’s urge to regime change,
and to ease tensions with Russia.”
It is also likely that Trump’s gaggle of White House generals, led
by Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis and national security advisor
H.R. McMaster, have kept the Pentagon in check, preventing a reprise of the
mutiny that sabotaged President Obama’s cease-fire and intelligence-sharing
agreement with Russian forces in Syria, on September 17 of last year. In a
blatant rebellion against civilian authority, U.S. warplanes killed 100 Syrian
soldiers at Deir Ez-Zor, allowing ISIS to overrun half the city.
The next week, with Secretary of
Defense Ash Carter at his side, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Joseph
Dunford told the Senate Armed Services Committee, “The U.S. military role will
not include intelligence sharing with the Russians." The Pentagon had “punked” lame duck President Barack Obama and his
secretary of state, John Kerry.
Donald Trump took note, and surrounded himself with generals before
setting foot in the White House, perhaps to shield his presidency from
falling prey to its own “Seven Days In May”-type scenario…
Trump this summer defied the War Party and its corporate media mouthpieces,
negotiating a cease-fire with the Russians in several regions of Syria, to be
followed by additional truces, and ending the CIA’s not-so-covert role as
Grandmaster of Islamic Jihad. It seemed...unreal…
The demons at the Washington Post and the New York Times have only one
explanation for all earthly phenomena, including the termination of the
CIA’s jihadist overseer duties in Syria: Trump is “colluding” with the
Russians. The Times moaned that “the decision is bound to be welcomed by the
Russians.” The WP whined that “the
Russian government had long opposed the program, seeing it as an assault on its
interests.”
Neither paper is concerned that the CIA project violates international laws
against unprovoked attacks on sovereign nations, as well as U.S. laws
against giving material assistance to al Qaida, a prime beneficiary of CIA
weapons, or that half a million Syrians have died, as a result.
Despite his apparent vow of
semi-silence on the CIA front, Trump could not resist a Twitter retort. “The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the
facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels
fighting Assad,” he wrote, effectively declassifying the now-defunct (are we
sure?) CIA terror campaign.
Drain the swamp Mr. President. The two parties have morphed into one War
Party with the goal of removing you from office. Drain the swamp, leave the GOP and form a
“Drain the Swamp Party”. We will stand
with you Mr. President, drain the swamp.
Take your fight to the American people, announce that you are starting a
“Drain the Swamp Party” and appoint an independent staff to organize it before
the 2018 election. We have your back Mr. President, drain the
swamp.
After sixteen years of illegal wars across the globe, the
world is finally sick of America's millionaire congress and is turning to
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin for leadership. America’s wars against resource rich, cash
poor sovereign nations have reduced the world’s most sacred ancient treasures to
rubble and left the global economy on the verge of collapse. This millionaire congress has succeeded in
bombing America into the Stone Age, while Russia has continued to thrive. Now the world wants a Putin led revolution.
In order to fund the military industrial complex that many
of our members of congress benefitted from, our infrastructure is almost beyond
repair. From Veterans Today:
Excerpt:
Tale of Two Nations: Russia vs USA Economic Prospects
Taking the extraordinary USA and EU
economic sanctions against Russia and low oil prices since 2014 into account, Russia’s economic outlook looks excellent
going forward while that of Trump’s America looks bleak, to put it mildly…
The growing poverty in America since the beginning of the 1970’s
was as a deliberate economic policy
consequence of Wall Street policies and notably so after the decision to
abandon the Bretton Woods Gold Exchange Standard in 1971…
While the United States over the past five decades has been tearing down its
once prospering cities, infrastructure and industry, Russia is building up
its national economy on an advanced technological basis with some of the most
creative scientific and engineering minds on Earth…
In the United States debts are soaring and the slums and homelessness are
spreading, hidden behind United
States’ Potemkin Village ultra-wealthy
gentrified urban areas like Manhattan in New York City or Washington D C and
its wealthy suburbs…
Total private household debt in the United States today is over $12 trillion for
combined home mortgage debt, college loans, car debt, credit card debt. That’s
a huge burden weighing on the growth potential of the US economy.
Add to this the exponential growth
of the US national debt, now just under $20 trillion, and it becomes
clear that the campaign rhetoric of the Trump Presidency to “make America
Great Again” requires emergency economic measures and effective and
well-thought-through Chapter 9 type bankruptcy-reorganization of the
nation’s debt in order to allow the United States to again become a real
manufacturing economy not merely a financial speculator in debt.
In 1980, at the start of the “debts
don’t matter” irresponsibility of the Reagan-Bush era, the level of Federal debt was a very manageable 30% of
GDP. By the end of Bush Senior’s
term in January 1993, it stood at more than double or 63% of GDP. It was beginning to “matter,” but Wall Street and bond
traders loved it.
When George W. Bush, took office in 2001 it had fallen back to 54%
through no fault of Bush but rather to Baby-boomer demographics. From there US national debt took off like a ballistic
missile, doubling by March 2017 to more than 104% of GDP today,
just a whisker below a staggering $20 trillion…
The situation for the EU countries is only slightly better. The
Eurozone countries have an average of 90% debt to GDP, far beyond the 60%
ceiling of the Maastricht Treaty. In Greece it stands at 179 % , followed by
Italy at 133 %, Portugal at 130 %, Cyprus at 107 % and Belgium at 106 %...
By contrast Russia’s state debt is almost miniscule at 13% of GDP in 2016, the
US dollar equivalent at present exchange rates of $190 billion. Inflation is
currently measured between 4-5%...
Russia’s Central bank reserves today are more than healthy. In
addition to a major restocking of its gold reserves the total reserves today
stand at $406 billion, higher than in 2014 when it stood at $385 billion.
Russia faces nothing remotely comparable in terms of such a debt
prison…. The very advanced military technology that Russia’s intervention
into the Syria war has demonstrated to the world confirms that Russian science and technology are world-class, and often far more…
An instance of the kind of
innovation and technology potential of this policy of supporting high-tech
manufacture drawing on Russia’s
extraordinary military aircraft experience is the rollout this May of the first
test flight of Russia’s Irkut MC-21 narrow-body commercial jet.THE
DEVELOPMENT REPORTEDLY SENT SHOCK WAVES THROUGH THE BOARDROOMS OF BOEING AND
AIRBUS.
The Irkut MC-21 has the widest
fuselage of any narrow-body jet in the market giving more passenger comfort compared with the “sardines-in-a-can”
passenger space on comparable Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 models. More
attractive, especially for many developing markets in the Middle East and Asia,
is the fact its price is some 15%
below the A320...
Another sector of infrastructure
manufacturing excellence from Russia is the
extraordinary development of Russia’s United Wagon Company… the highly
sophisticated new cutting-edge rail car
factory of United Wagon’s Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant in 2012 at a
cost of almost $1 billion. Since then United
Wagon has grown to be a major world-class builder of advanced specialized rail
wagons, and is larger than any European freight wagon producer with 22,000
wagons a year…
Truly prospects for a dynamic, economically growing Russian real economy
today are more positive than at any time in the past two centuries or
more…
I can’t help but feel it would do
our world far more in terms of the good to end
with the silly losing wars everywhere and return to building up our nations and
civilization. The energy of war is a no-brainer. Building up is exciting,
as China and increasingly Russia realize.
Here in America, the millionaire congress has just passed an
almost trillion dollar annual budget for more war while
America is on the precipice of a banking collapse that will dwarf the banking
collapse of 2008. From Geopolitics:
Excerpt:
What Must Be Done Before Another Bank Crash Hits
The warning of another, devastating Europe-U.S. banking crash before the end of
this year, raised by EIR in May and by a meeting of European Parliamentarians
in early July, is becoming an emergency danger. It requires a mobilization of
actions to stop it.
The Italian banking system, which has just suffered three major
bank bailouts combined with “bail-ins” of unlucky savers, is trying to raise
capital it cannot raise, to prevent a potential collapse which could take
Germany’s banks down with it. U.S.-based
banks have $2 trillion of exposure to that looming collapse of bad debt and
worse derivatives, centered in London.
Those Wall Street banks, unpunished and bailed out since 2008, have
rapidly built up bubbles of corporate debt and commercial real estate
derivatives larger than the mortgage-debt bubbles which blew out back then; and
default rates and bankruptcy rates are now rising sharply in those bubbles…
President Trump’s policy of cooperation with Russia and China, for
peace and mutual benefit, is right, and must be defended against all the
attacks on him for it. But it will not survive the chaos of another
trans-Atlantic financial crash…
Action must be mobilized rapidly,
ultimately by the American people and their organizations.
First, the Glass-Steagall separation of commercial from investment
banking must be reinstated, with
beginning effect immediately, to break up Wall Street’s gigantic speculative
casinos.
Since the Glass-Steagall Act began to
be torn down 50 years ago, Wall Street’s
banks and funds — with their most
dangerous operations always in London! — have been a succubus on the
economy, which can’t grow without financial crashes, and since the 2008 crash
can’t grow at all. The Glass-Steagall breakup must start now, to prevent the
threatening new bank crash.
Then, credit must be issued from a national credit institution… The purpose is high-technology
investments in new, more productive infrastructure to replace the crumbling
sinews of the U.S. economy, raise productivity and create productive employment
again. It cannot and will not be done by private investment. President
Trump must learn this, and the Wall Streeters around him like the Treasury
Secretary, have to go.
A great expansion of the United States space exploration program will drive
this revival, as the President had stated in a television message to the
American people in March…
Then, the President’s intent to cooperate with China and Russia will become
a tremendous benefit, especially from the great “win-win” building project
— Beijing’s New Silk Road across Eurasia and Africa. Let such high-speed rail corridors, for example, be built across North
America. The United States is potentially a full partner in the Belt and
Road Initiative.
First Wall Street, in both the
Congress and the Administration, must be beaten and broken up, to
prevent it from permanently destroying what remains of American industrial
economy and scientific capability.
Amen, Lyndon LaRouche that is exactly what Russia has been
doing, but our millionaire congress will never allow state owned anything. They have spent over fifty years privatizing
profits and dumping the losses on the American people. With Russia-phobia reaching a fevered pitch
in our millionaire owned media and our millionaire congress won’t allow
President Trump to bring any sanity back to our foreign policy. Our millionaire congress are just a bunch of
cave men. From The Hill:
Excerpt:
GOP-controlled Congress nears legislative triumph — on Russia
The House on Tuesday is poised to
pass legislation limiting the
president’s ability to unilaterally lift sanctions on Russia, which the
Trump administration initially opposed…
Republicans and Democrats in both the House and Senate are expected to come together to pass a
bipartisan package imposing stiffer sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea
that has stalled for weeks. The delays triggered Democratic accusations that
the Trump administration was trying to kill the legislation to curry favor with
Russia…
While prior administrations of
both parties have lobbied against various sanctions bills — citing the need for freedom from the
legislative branch to make diplomatic decisions— the ongoing Russia
controversies have created a perception problem for the White House. In the end,
the GOP-led House and Senate pushed hard
to move this bill despite major concerns
from the administration…
House Republicans aren’t expected to be able to send top
legislative priorities they campaigned on, such as healthcare or tax reform, to
Trump’s desk before leaving for the
August recess at the end of this week.
Instead, one of the biggest legislative accomplishments
slated to become law this year will be a measure constraining Trump. It
could also lead to more frostiness in the relationship between the U.S. and
Russia…
In addition to establishing new
sanctions on the three countries, the
bill grants Congress the power to block Trump from lifting sanctions.
Trump, who vowed during the campaign to have a friendlier relationship
with Russia than his predecessors, issued a tweet Sunday complaining about
the “phony Russian Witch Hunt.” Five minutes later, without specifically
mentioning the Russia investigations, Trump wrote, “It’s very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the
line on my back, do very little to protect their President.”
President Trump, you are not the Republicans’ president,
they have infested your administration with the most backward cavemen available
in the millionaire GOP congress. They
are the source of the leaks and must be removed from your administration before
it is too late. While they were passing
this strait jacket legislation, Iraq is “seeking ‘substantial’ Russian military
& political presence in Iraq.” From
Veterans Today:
Excerpt:
Baghdad seeking ‘substantial’ Russian military & political presence
in Iraq – vice-president
Russian military and political presence in Iraq would bring balance to
the whole Middle Eastern and North African region, Nouri al-Maliki, the
Iraqi vice-president, said during his visit to Moscow.
“It’s well known that Russia has historically strong relations
with Iraq, therefore we would like Russia to have a substantial presence in our
country, both politically and militarily,” al-Maliki said during his
meeting with the speaker of Russia’s upper house of parliament, Valentina
Matviyenko.
“This way, a balance would be
established that would benefit the
region, its peoples and its countries,” he added…
The vice president said that Baghdad wants to boost relations with
Moscow as it believes “in Russia’s
role in solving most of the key international issues as well as
improving stability and balance in our region and worldwide…”
“Today we need Russia’s greater involvement in Iraqi affairs, especially in the energy field. Now
when we are done with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), Iraq needs
investments in energy and trade,” he said.
Everyone knows that ISIS was a CIA creation and there can be
no peace in Iraq until the U.S. is kicked out and banned from returning. The Russian sanctions congress just passed
are in response to the phony baloney DNC hacking which has been debunked over
and over. From Consortium News:
Excerpt:
Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’
Evidence
In a memo to President Trump, a
group of former U.S. intelligence
officers, including NSA specialists, cite new forensic studies to challenge the claim of the key Jan. 6
“assessment” that Russia “hacked” Democratic emails last year…
Forensic studies of “Russian
hacking” into Democratic National Committee computers last year reveal that on
July 5, 2016, data was leaked (not
hacked) by a person with physical access to DNC computers, and then
doctored to incriminate Russia.
After examining metadata from the “Guccifer 2.0” July 5, 2016
intrusion into the DNC server, independent cyber investigators have concluded
that an insider copied DNC data onto
an external storage device, and that
“telltale signs” implicating Russia were then inserted.
Key among the findings of the
independent forensic investigations is the conclusion that the DNC data was
copied onto a storage device at a speed that far exceeds an Internet capability
for a remote hack. Of equal importance, the forensics show that the copying and
doctoring were performed on the East coast of the U.S. Thus far, mainstream media have ignored the findings of these
independent studies…
VIPS member William Binney, a former Technical Director at the National
Security Agency, and other senior NSA “alumni” in VIPS attest to the
professionalism of the independent forensic findings.
The recent forensic studies fill in
a critical gap. Why the FBI neglected to perform any independent forensics on
the original “Guccifer 2.0” material remains a mystery – as does the lack of any sign that the “hand-picked
analysts” from the FBI, CIA, and NSA, who wrote the “Intelligence Community
Assessment” dated January 6, 2017, gave
any attention to forensics.
That is the problem, Trump can’t trust the millionaire
congress nor can he trust the intelligence agencies packed with their
surrogates. Now that congress has passed
legislation annulling the president’s power to make decisions on foreign policy
Trump needs to play hardball and fire the GOP turncoats in his
administration. From LaRouche.pub:
Excerpt:
Are They All Simply Crazy—Or What?
July 16—Under the cover of exposing Russian collusion with the Trump team,
the entire political establishment in the United States is committing total
self-destruction. Why? Why choose to go down in flames with a transparent lie—Russian meddling in the election—when
everyone now knows that it was the Democratic National Committee which meddled
against Bernie Sanders? And meddled on behalf of Hillary and against Trump,
along with CNN, in coordination with a British-Atlantic spy matrix that
includes MI-6, Fusion GPS, and CrowdStrike—along
with operatives such as Christopher Steele, John Brennan, and James Comey?...
CNN has dragged its ratings down below those of “Nick at Night” on
cable television. The New York Times is shrinking into nothingness before
our eyes; the only thing growing is its reputation for war-mongering and lies.
What is the Washington Post now, but a
public utility for leaking intelligence agents, with a slogan which is
fitting only for a Greek tragedy’s self-fulfilling prophecy—“Democracy Dies in
Darkness…”
Along with NBC, and the other main networks, they are all committing a sort of suicide, repeating lie after
lie, night after night—all while the American people suffer under the policies
which the networks have endorsed for the last 20, if not the last 50 years…
Those policies included the deindustrialization program of the
1970s—Wall Street’s greenie, pro-drug, anti-technology policy. Remember 18%
interest rates? …It was in the late 1970s when our nation’s aging
infrastructure required a new platform of low-interest credit. Instead, we got the Savings and Loan
scandal and the takedown of U.S. industry.
However, it was the last twenty
years that saw the blatant neglect of our nation’s industry and population—in
other words, a total disregard for
the nation’s long-term survival—turned into a policy of psychotic terror. Beginning with the phony impeachment coup
run against Bill Clinton—who in 1998
threatened to change the global financial system back towards an industrial
orientation as Lyndon LaRouche advised him—the terror has only increased….
Then comes George W. Bush, with
zero political power or mandate. That is, no political control over a
population as the economic system blows out underneath their feet. And not just long-term survival, but their
short term survival has now become threatened.
Thus comes 9-11—a British-Saudi provocation intended to
allow installation of a dictatorship—just as Lyndon LaRouche had warned in
January, 2001, that some such provocation would ensue… Cultural hysteria was invoked, not unlike the
1960s, but this time for war.
Police-state measures were introduced. A program of perpetual war was
launched against all nations that could oppose a global financial dictatorship—including targeting the nuclear powers,
Russia and China…
The system is again about to burst—a system of debt and corruption on
Wall Street, already ten times bigger than in 2000. By September of 2008,
the system is in total disintegration; Cheney is threatening martial law. The $20 trillion plus bailout begins—all under
the eye of British agent Barack Obama.
Obama, unbeknownst to most of his supporters, was chosen to be the next President by this fascist coup,
specifically because he would continue the Bush legacy—the fascist police
state, the perpetual war regime, and the non-stop bailout of Wall Street’s
crime system…
Donald Trump, who first ran against the Bush legacy in the Republican
Party, and then against the Obama faction in the Democratic party, was, in
fact, running a Presidential campaign against the fascist coup first
launched against Bill Clinton and brought to full power through the
British/Saudi orchestrated 9-11 attack…
So—what does this have to do with the massive Russian collusion story
the mainstream media can’t stop talking about—even while a majority of even the Democratic Party voters don’t buy
it?
The Wall Street system of massive debt, fraud, and crime, is now
ten times bigger than in 2008—and that’s a hundred times larger than in 2000!..
We are at revolutionary breakdown
of the system, and the only solution is
the adoption of a higher principle of mode of operations, in accord with the
creative and immortal legacy of mankind.
So what is our millionaire congress’ answer to the impending
destruction of America? From Geopolitics:
Excerpt:
US Mulls Sending Arms to Kiev, ‘not provocative’ | US Envoy to Ukraine
When somebody else is doing it, it’s an aggression. But when it is
the US that is moving arms around, it’s perfectly fine. Grown ups tend to
insult and degrade themselves, just to get what they don’t have the right to.
Washington is considering sending “defensive” weapons to Ukraine,
US special representative Kurt Volker says. He insists the potential move, long
desired by Kiev, would not be “provocative.” It comes as Moscow warns against
fueling Ukraine’s civil war.
In an interview with the BBC on
Tuesday, Volker, who was appointed by
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as the US special representative for
Ukraine negotiations in July, said that US authorities are pondering whether to
ship armaments to Kiev.
Noting that the discussion is
currently focused on “defensive weapons, ones that would allow Ukraine to
defend itself and to take out tanks, for example,” Volker argued that such
supplies “would actually to help [sic]”
Kiev fend off alleged encroachments from Moscow.
Sheesh that’s just nutty.
Is there no one in the Pence selected Trump Administration that Trump
can trust? Trump needs to clean house
and fast. If our millionaire congress
goes on their August recess he can fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and
replace him with Trey Gowdy, fire Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replace
him with ex-congressman Ron Paul. Fire UN
Rep. Nikki Haley and replace her with Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. If he were to fire and replace during the
August recess he could replace them without congressional approval.
The world is sick of sixteen years of illegal wars across
the globe and has found a compassionate, intelligent leader in Vladimir
Putin. Trump saw this early on and has
been hamstrung by a corrupt, fraudulent congress and court system. Our warring millionaire congress has bombed
America back to the Stone Age and there is only one way out. Trump must repeal and replace his own Pence
selected administration, if he doesn’t America is doomed. Trump must usher in a new revolution for
America and recruit like-minded individuals wherever he may find them.
Congress and the intelligence agencies didn’t want Donald
Trump to be elected president and used every tool at their disposal, especially
the intelligence agencies and the media to upend his campaign. Against all odds the American people
prevailed and elected Donald Trump.
Once Trump was elected, instead of congress working with
Trump to pass an agenda selected by the people, congress devised a plan to
impeach Trump before he even took office.
The CIA has superseded the presidential powers and launched an agenda of
its own with the consent of congress for unending wars draining the America
treasury and leading the world into physical and financial Armageddon.
In collusion with congress and British intelligence, the CIA
has hatched a plan to destroy Donald Trump and the American people. From Geopolitics:
Excerpt:
Three Factions of the CIA that Control the World
Every American is a target in the CIA’s domestic espionage war
whether they know it or not. The bullets are digital and only a key stroke away
from being fired at you. This is clearly
evidenced in the current internal conflicts of the 17 federal intelligence
agencies that have arisen from the new Russian “Trump blackmail” scandal and
the DNC hacking scandal that was an attempt to derail the presidential
election.
These scandals happen again and
again and involve warring federal agencies who are theoretically supposed to be
protecting Americans… Instead, there is open warfare between the three
different factions of the CIA and their
enemies who are considered the “lesser agencies…”
The CIA overrides all other intelligence agencies because it can
always pull the “international security” card from its sleeve and trump the
lesser agencies which only have the lower priority “national security…”
Essentially, the president of the United States currently conducts “international”
warfare without the U.S. Congress, Supreme Court, or U.S. citizens even knowing
those wars exist. The president can also wage all types of war secretly
within U.S. borders because Obama changed the National Defense Authorization
Act, with congressional approval, to give him those powers… The president now holds more power than ever
and these powers are unconstitutional, illegal, and unethical…
It is scary enough to know that
under the auspices of “national security,” the president can seize all assets
in America under these new powers. But scarier than this is that the CIA can still trump the president under
the auspices of “international security…”
The power of the CIA was
demonstrated with the recent scandal of “fake news” about President-elect Trump
being blackmailed by Russia. The fake
dossier of “evidence” was brought into this country from Britain through the
CIA…
Scary stuff but that is what President Trump and the
American people are up against. What’s
even worse is that is the people that Obama put in charge of the CIA had
conflicts of interest in that they served in the British intelligence agency and
begs the question, where do their loyalties lie. For instance James Clapper, who Obama put in
charge of all the intelligence agencies who has repeatedly lied under oath
before congress has led the charge against President Trump.
Clapper currently controls an annual budget of around $75 billion
and was a former British private spy but
could not figure out that the recent fake news propaganda against Trump was
complete garbage. Yes, fellow patriots, you read this correctly. A man who is
in charge of a $75 billion a year intelligence budget with a professional spy
background couldn’t see through the CIA’s attempt to smear Trump’s integrity.
But We the People armed with our
independent truth media saw through it in a New York minute…
Ultimately, James A. Clapper (known liar and globalist) controls all
intelligence in America YET has demonstrated himself to be an enemy of America.
After gaining the highest security clearances in America, Clapper then
worked for GeoEye, was on the board of three government contractors, worked for
Detica (British military intelligence), BAE Systems, SRA International and Booz
Allen Hamilton…
He demonstrated his true nature
when he left the services of America and
worked for British and international private spy agencies, spying on America
and using his security clearances as weapons against America… When the intelligence is false, as it has
been since Clapper was appointment by Obama, America can more easily be sold
out to transnational, international, and globalist interests…
America is surrounded by CIA control and the Washington D. C. is
besieged with CIA swamp monsters… Bush
Jr. followed in the footsteps of his father and did everything his dad told him
to do – even though he was not smart enough to understand the orders. Bush Jr.
kept the same Neoconservatives and Vulcans in his cabinet as Clinton and Bush
Sr. had appointed…
Bush Jr. and Sr., Bill and Hillary
Clinton, and Obama are all the same party – CIA Globalists pushing for the New
World Order which was Bush Sr. greatest dream…
Comey is a very good example of
what has been the revolving door of CIA operatives in the government. Comey is an ex-CIA intelligence operative
who works for the Bush-CIA… Comey, Brennan, and Clapper provide the
intelligence for the president, the military and all agencies in the U.S.
government…
Fake news about the DNC election hacking, nonsense about Trump
being blackmailed by Russia, and Homeland Security’s pathetic attempts to hack
into voter databases have all been a
smoke screen to distract from Obama’s personal war in Syria…
Clapper, Brennan and Comey were happy to agree that 17 intelligence
agencies all agreed to these false flag attempts at perception management.
All these ridiculous attacks on Trump have backfired and instead have shown a
glaring light on the corruption, collusion, globalism, and Anti-American
disposition of the three factions of the CIA…
Trump has become enemy number one for all three factions of the CIA
because he stands against globalism and promotes the rule of law. The CIA
factions thought they were above the law and had become so lax in their gross
misuse of power that they are in “shock and awe” at the victory of Trump’s
anti-globalism, anti-New World Order platform…
The biggest dog of war, Republican John McCain pushed the
fake dossier that British Intelligence prepared for James Clapper to bring down
Donald Trump. From McClatchy News:
Excerpt:
John McCain faces questions in Trump-Russia dossier case
Sen. John McCain faces questions in a defamation lawsuit about
leaks leading to publication of the now-infamous dossier that alleged Donald
Trump’s campaign had connections to Russian operatives, McClatchy has learned.
The dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and
his London firm, Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd., amounted to a collection of
uncorroborated reports of collusion gathered as political research for sale to
Trump’s opponents. It proved explosive when published by online news site
BuzzFeed on Jan. 10.
Now, two lawsuits — one in the
United States and a second in the U.K. — are being brought by lawyers for
Aleksej Gubarev, a Cyprus-based Internet entrepreneur whom Steele’s Russian
sources accused of cyber spying against
the Democratic Party leadership.
According to a new court document
in the British lawsuit, counsel for defendants Steele and Orbis repeatedly point to McCain, R-Ariz., a
vocal Trump critic, and a former State Department official as two in a
handful of people known to have had copies of the full document before it
circulated among journalists and was published by BuzzFeed…
In recent congressional testimony, ex-FBI Director James Comey, fired by Trump
amid a widening probe, acknowledged
receiving the dossier from McCain on Jan. 6.
The Democratic Party elite has conspired with McCain many
times on behalf of the war party. Any
real liberals were purged from the Democratic Party a long time ago and now
there is nothing left but a bunch of faux liberal lunatics who serve only
themselves. From Black Agenda Report:
Excerpt:
Democrats Gone Mad: The Year of Living Stupidly
“The corporate media’s standing among the
public erodes by the day.”
For more than a year now, the collective U.S. ruling class,
with Democratic Party and corporate media operatives in the vanguard, has frozen the national political
discourse in a McCarthyite time warp…
Clearly, the Trump White House has
been crippled by the tsunami that never ebbs, but the Democrats have not been strengthened in the process, and the corporate
media’s standing among the public erodes by the day. A poll conducted last
month showed majorities of voters want Congress to ease up on Russia
investigations and get to work on healthcare, terrorism, national security, the
economy and jobs...
Sixty-two percent of voters say there is no hard evidence of White
House “collusion” with Russia, and 64 percent think the investigations are
hurting the country. “That two out of three Americans believe the
so-called ‘mainstream’ press is full of ‘fake news’ -- including a majority
of Democrats…”
The Russiagate blitzkrieg, designed to delegitimize Trump and demonize
Vladimir Putin, has exacerbated an
already existing crisis of legitimacy for the entire U.S. political system…
The only unequivocal winner is the bipartisan War Party, which has used
the manufactured crisis to drench the nation in anti-Russian hysteria –
worse than back in the bad old days of the Red Scares…
So insane have the Democrats become, that we are probably better
off with war powers effectively in the hands of Donald Trump, than with California’s
Barbara Lee, the only member of Congress that voted against the invasion of
Afghanistan in 2001.
She was in her “right mind” then,
but no longer. Trump’s willingness to
talk with the leader of Russia, in Hamburg, infuriated Rep. Lee, who tweeted:
“Outraged by President Trump’s 2 hr. meeting w/Putin, the man who orchestrated
attacks on our democracy. Where do his loyalties lie?” A better question is: When and where did Lee join the War Party?
The dogs of war at U.S. intelligence agencies have led the charge
against Trump since they encamped at Hillary Clinton’s campaign
headquarters, last year. The spoiled oligarch was not trusted to maintain the
momentum of the U.S. military offensive begun by Barack Obama in 2011, with the unprovoked war against Libya.
The state of war must be preserved, whatever the cost to the empire’s domestic
institutions.
Skilled in the arts of regime change, the spooks joined with their
longtime partners in corporate media propaganda, to foment a “color
revolution” at home. Barbara Lee is a recent recruit.
“The Lords of Capital effectively shut the Democrats down decades ago.”
Although the Democrats will
ultimately harm themselves with the electorate by folding into the War Party, it
suits the purposes of party leadership and the fat cats that finance them. The ruling class has nothing to offer the
people except the total insecurity of gig-jobs and austerity…
They can campaign as if there
really is a clash of ideas about the organization of society, but they must
propose nothing that fundamentally conflicts with the steady consolidation of wealth and power by the oligarchy (the
American one, not the Russians). That
goes for Bernie Sanders, too. Heard anything about single payer from
him, lately?
Glen Ford is right, “the dogs of war at U.S. intelligence
agencies” have led the charge against President Trump. Our corrupt politicians, like John McCain
keep feeding the war beast with trillions of our tax dollars and no oversight
whatsoever. McCain has been the latest
Vietnam Vet to be diagnosed with brain cancer from his exposure to Agent
Orange. While McCain has enjoyed the
luxury of the kind of healthcare only available to the rich and famous, he has
repeatedly denied that same care to other veterans who suffer from the wars
McCain supports. From Phoenix New Times:
Excerpt:
John McCain's Fame is Based on His POW Status, But He Has Abandoned
Fellow Veterans
If you want to know what it's like
to be a veteran in John McCain's home state, stop by the Justa Center in
downtown Phoenix… On any given day, about half the participants are veterans. There's a special unit reserved for
veterans at the shelter, but the waiting list is long, so many vets sleep in a parking lot euphemistically called "the
overflow." Justa gives them a mailing address, a place to shower,
access to the Internet and phone, lockers to store their belongings.
When Ritchey, a Methodist minister,
started the program — which operates on
about $260,000 a year, all private donations — one of the first things he
did was call the local office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to get
some help for the vets. It took a year
for anyone to show up. And in three years, Ritchey says, the VA has yet to
place a single Justa Center vet in housing. There are programs in town that offer housing for veterans, but they've
got to prove they're employed…
Almost all his clients have
diabetes; many have dementia. Add
untreated depression and post-traumatic stress disorder and you have a bad
situation, particularly when you have to battle the VA's bureaucracy.
Ritchey regularly finds vets napping on the floor by the Coke machine; the
sleeping area is too dark and claustrophobic, they tell him.
Bobby Collins, 59, is a homeless
Vietnam vet who shows up at Justa from time to time. He's been waiting for a
benefits check from the VA for eight months. Collins was shot in the throat in Vietnam, and his leg is full of
shrapnel. He's got two Purple Hearts, but he didn't claim his medical
benefits for years — he didn't need to; he had steady jobs as a welder and a
carpenter. Then, last Thanksgiving, he came to Phoenix and couldn't find work,
and quickly found himself homeless. Now he needs the money.
Collins says he's working hard to
not be bitter, but when he arrived in Phoenix and saw what few services there
were for him as a veteran, he was mad at
John McCain. "I have a lot of
respect for Senator McCain as a war hero," he says, but "I would never vote for a veteran who
lets veterans in his state be treated this way."
Veterans groups are finally
speaking out about their frustration with McCain, who rides on his reputation
as a war veteran while sitting on a long
record of opposing legislation that would benefit vets… On the campaign trail, he pledges
support. Listening to him, you'd think
he's been the veterans' greatest champion. An examination of his record
both in Washington, D.C., and Arizona just doesn't bear that out…
The senator didn't support a measure that would have closed tax loopholes
to fund improvements at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington,
D.C., though he surely must have wished he had when he saw the stories last
year that documented deplorable conditions at the hospital. He has voted against help for victims of
post-traumatic stress disorder. He has voted against programs to provide
housing to low-income and special-needs veterans. He did not support the latest
GI Bill.
While John McCain has tirelessly worked for funding of the military
industrial complex, his work for veterans’ funding is abysmal. The millionaire Senator has access to the
best healthcare in America reserved for the elite and receives a $10,000 a year
taxpayer subsidy for Obamacare. While
military vets suffer from slashed funding for their medical care the money
trough for expanded, endless wars is refilled by McCain and his cohorts in the
Senate every year. From The Hill:
Excerpt:
Senate panel passes $700B defense policy bill
The Senate Armed Services Committee
unanimously passed its $700
billion version of the annual defense policy bill, the committee announced
Wednesday.
The bill, broken down into $640
billion for the base defense budget and $60 billion for a war fund, follows the
funding levels Chairman John McCain
(R-Ariz.) has pushed for months and flies past the administration’s budget
request…
The Trump administration requested
a $603 billion base defense budget and $65
billion for the war fund, known as the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO)
account. In addition to going beyond
the administration’s request, the Senate version now stands in contrast to the
House version of the bill.
The House Armed Services Committee
on Wednesday is marking up a $696.5 billion version of the bill. That version
is broken down into $621.5 billion for the base and $75 billion for OCO.
Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) for months argued for a $640 billion base budget alongside McCain, but late
last week agreed to lower his bill’s top line to match up with an emerging
budget deal in the House.
In the Senate version, the extra
money would go toward 6,000 more
soldiers in the Army than requested by the Pentagon, as well as 1,000 more
Marines than requested.
It would also authorize 24 more F-35s than requested by the administration,
broken down in 14 more F-35As, four more
F-35Bs and six more F-35Cs. In total, 94 F-35s would be authorized.
The bill would also provide 10 more F/A-18s than requested, for a total
of 24. And it would add $5 billion
for shipbuilding above the request, for a total of 13 ships.
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), ranking member of the committee, commended the bill as an “important step”
but said Congress still needs to repeal the Budget Control Act, which has
hampered defense funding…
The bill would also authorize the
Defense secretary to establish the Asia-Pacific Stability Initiative, a program conceived by McCain to better
address threats in that region, including North Korea and China.
THE BILL WOULD ALSO AUTHORIZE
4,000 MORE VISAS FOR THE SPECIAL IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM for Afghans
who helped U.S. troops.
That is insane, almost a trillion
dollars for endless war passed UNANIMOUSLY while congress wants to slash a half
trillion dollars from Medicare and give tax cuts to the rich. The war party is America’s enemy. So much for Bernie Sanders being a champion
for the people. If congress wants to
charge someone with treason they should look within their own body.
This bill plows even more cash into
an engorged defense bill that goes directly into the CIA through its Overseas
Contingency Operations, a completely unaccountable war funding slush fund when
war hasn’t been declared. This is insane
especially given that President Trump has now ordered the end of funding
terrorists in Syria end.
With congress passing an almost trillion dollar annual war
budget the CIA needs a Wall Street tycoon schooled in the corrupt practice of
theft to run the agency’s budget. Mike
Pompeo is not a friend to Trump, neither is he loyal to America. He is hiring his longtime partner in crime
Brian Bulatao to oversee the CIA slush fund.
From NBC News:
Excerpt:
CIA's New "Mayor" Comes From Finance Firm, Not Intelligence
World
Brian Bulatao, a private equity investor from Dallas, is slated to
become the No. 3 official at the CIA, according to current and former
intelligence officials.
The job has traditionally, but not always, been filled by career intelligence officers. It is not subject to
Senate confirmation.
The position has long been known as
"executive director," but CIA Director Mike Pompeo is changing the title to "chief operating
officer." The executive director has been called the CIA’s
"mayor," responsible for the internal workings of the agency that
employs an estimated 20,000 personnel worldwide.
Bulatao is no stranger to Pompeo, the former Kansas congressman who
was named director by President Trump. The two were West Point classmates,
graduating in 1986, and later business
partners, according to officials…
Pompeo and Bulatao were among several West Point alumni who in 1998
founded Thayer Aerospace, a Wichita
machining company. The firm received financing from a venture capital company funded by the Koch brothers, according
to a 2011 story in the Washington Post.
The company was sold in 2006 and
Bulatao moved on to executive roles at a packaging company before entering
private equity in 2010. He is currently
a senior adviser at Highlander Partners, L.P., a Dallas-based investment firm
that claims more than $1 billion in assets under management.
America has become unhinged.
Members of congress serve the CIA not the American people. No politician can be elected without the
express consent of the CIA; at least that was the way it was until Trump. Donald Trump didn’t need the CIA’s slush fund
to get elected. Donald Trump cannot be
bought, tempted with vices nor bribed.
He is a threat to the status quo. Congressional members now “serving” in Trump’s
administration are not his friends, especially Mike Pompeo, Jeff Sessions and
Mike Pence. From Paul Craig Roberts:
Excerpt:
Trump Cannot Improve Relations With Russia When Trump’s Government and
the US Media Oppose Improved Relations
President Trump Has Been Contradicted by His Own Government, Which
Has Lined Up Against Him in Favor of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National
Committee, and the Russophobic Presstitute Media that serves the
military/security complex and the neoconservatives…
On the same day that President
Donald Trump said “it is time to move forward in working constructively with
Russia,” and the day after he said “I had a tremendous meeting yesterday with
President Putin,” the ignorant, stupid,
Nikki Haley, who Trump appointed as US UN Ambassador, publicly contracted her
president, forcefully stating: “we can’t trust Russia and we won’t ever
trust Russia…”
Joining Nikki Haley was Trump’s Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.
Tillerson, allegedly a friend of Russia, is also working overtime to worsen
relations between the two nuclear powers by publicly contradicting the President of the United States, thereby making it
clear that Trump is barely even a cipher…
There is no one in “his” government that supports him. Every one of
them works to undermine him. And he sits there and Twitters… “His” administration is staffed with
violent Russophobes. Wars can be the only outcome…
Trump is beginning to see what a serious mistake it was to
trust Mike Pence with the selection of his cabinet. If Trump really wants to drain the swamp he
must start with his own cabinet and remove the swamp scum brought in by
Pence. Trump has already said he regrets
the appointment of the lunatic Jeff Sessions as his Attorney General.
Under Robert Mueller’s FBI banks conducted massive terrorist
and drug cartel money laundering operations in history with no one being
prosecuted. Deutsche Bank who was fined
$41 million in March for money laundering has agreed to hand over Trump’s
banking records to Robert Mueller. According to Bloomberg News, "A settlement on the Russian mirror trades with the U.S.
Department of Justice is still outstanding."
The appointment of special investigator, Robert Mueller who
is a lifelong Deep State handmaiden and Comey crony, ensures Trump is going to
be either impeached or assassinated. If
either happens, it will be a death blow to the American people.
The CIA controlled GOP and DNC, through its Election
Integrity Commission will ensure the American people never again choose their
president or even their congress for that matter. For that is the logical conclusion to congress
and the CIA’s unhinged war against Trump and American people.
