Showing posts with label #Nancy Pelosi. Show all posts
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Sunday, January 6, 2019

Deep State’s Nancy Pelosi like the Reverend Henry Kane in Poltergeist leads Democratic Party to its death



“Now, hold on to yourselves. There's one more thing: a terrible presence is in there with her. So much rage, so much betrayal - I've never sensed anything like it. I don't know what hovers over this house, but it was strong enough to punch a hole into this world and take your daughter away from you. It keeps Carol Anne very close to it, and away from the spectral light. It lies to her - it says things only a child can understand. It has been using her to restrain the others. To her, it simply is another child. To us, it is the Beast.” ~ ~ Tangina Barrons about the Beast (Reverend Henry Kane).        

They’re back.  The same leadership in the Democratic Party that led the party into the putrid caverns of the Deep State that led to their near extinction in 2008, Pelosi and her lieutenants have returned with their revolting agenda of austerity for the American people in order to spend trillions on endless war.  Pelosi’s first tenure as Speaker of the House was an abject failure for the American people.  Pelosi is the Deep State’s Reverend Kane, reveling in the suffering and destruction she and her cohorts exact on the American people and feeding off the energy of the newly elected Democrats in congress.  From World Socialist Website:


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US House Democrats reaffirm right-wing program of austerity, bipartisanship

The 116th Congress opened Thursday with a nearly unanimous vote by the Democrats in the House of Representatives reaffirming their commitment to austerity by adopting a rules package which includes a “pay as you go” provision, requiring any increased spending on social programs or tax cuts to be offset by equivalent budget cuts or tax increases. The Democrats took control of the House for the first time in eight years following November’s midterms while the Republicans increased their majority in the Senate.

The new rules were moved by Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi who was re-elected to the position of Speaker of the House earlier in the day, giving her effective control of its legislative agenda. Pelosi became the first woman to be elected Speaker when she held the position from 2007 to 2011. As Speaker, she is now second in line of succession for the presidency behind Vice President Mike Pence.

Pelosi’s great “achievement” in her first stint as Speaker was the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, aimed at shifting much of the burden of paying for health insurance from businesses and the government onto the backs of workers.  In 2007, she worked closely with her top aides, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip James Clyburn, to block any efforts to impeach President George W. Bush and ensure an unending stream of funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hoyer and Clyburn have been returned to those positions for the 116th Congress.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy congratulates Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi…

The House passed two bills on Thursday which would reopen the government. However, the bills, modeled on legislation passed by the Republican-controlled Senate last year, must win Senate passage again in the new legislative session. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he will not allow action on the House legislation because Trump has already declared he will not sign it since it does not include his demand for border wall funding…

Indeed, her first speech as Speaker was an olive branch to the right-wing within her own party as well as to the Republicans in Congress, singling out for praise Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and calling for bipartisanship, meaning an even further shift to the right by the Democratic Party.

Pelosi was elected in a carefully orchestrated vote Thursday afternoon with the support of all but 12 Democratic representatives. The vote came after weeks of horse-trading and backroom deals in which Pelosi had to agree to a four-year term limit to win over a dozen members, mainly on the right wing of the Democratic caucus, who had threatened to block her election.

Among those who voted for Pelosi were Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, both members of the pseudo-left Democratic Socialists of America faction of the Democratic Party. That they both cast their votes for Pelosi’s right-wing promise of bipartisanship, and Tlaib for a rules package which commits the House to austerity, shows that their association with socialism is entirely false, meant only to misdirect youth and workers who are looking for a genuine alternative to capitalism, and trap them within the Democratic Party.

Newly elected CIA Democrats made up a significant portion of those who did not vote for Pelosi, opposing her from the right, including former CIA officers Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Afghan war veteran Max Rose of New York.

Despite the much touted “historic” character of the newly sworn-in Congress, which will see the most female and minority representatives seated in US history, all of them go to Washington, D.C., as representatives of the capitalist class and enemies of the working class. The growing number of women, African Americans, Muslims and other minorities will do nothing to push Congress to the left.

The majority of members of Congress are millionaires and those who are not are vetted to ensure they will serve the interests of the rich and are increasingly drawn directly from the military-intelligence apparatus. The non-millionaires entering Congress for the first time will find their fortunes rising quite rapidly. The median Congressperson had a net worth of at least $1.1 million in 2015, and the figure has only continued to rise.

According to the latest data analyzed by Open Secrets, Speaker Pelosi had an estimated net worth of $100 million in 2013. Among her declared property holdings that year were a 59,000 square foot warehouse in San Francisco, worth between $5 and $25 million, and a vineyard in Napa Valley, also declared at $5 to $25 million. According to one admiring media profile, her main skill as a Democratic Party leader was as a fund-raiser, having raked in $728 million for Democratic congressional candidates since 2002.

In spite of the lies and cover-up of the 911 attacks and the lies of weapons of mass destruction by of the George Bush Administration that resulted in needless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that resulted in the deaths of millions, Pelosi put impeachment off the table.

Nancy Pelosi’s great achievements of her first tenure was to pass Obama Care scam that shifted the cost of healthcare away from Business and Government and onto the backs of the American people.  Her other great achievement was to cover up the crimes of the Bush Crime Family and push the Democratic Party to the far right stealing wealth from the American people to funnel into endless war. 

Now she is forcing austerity on the American people through “pay go” meaning any hope for Medicare for all has been vanquished.  If Medicare for all is instituted she will demand cuts to other social programs to pay for it.  Disgusting.

Kane was a reverend, possibly from the American South, who started a utopian cult in the early 19th century. However, Kane simply wanted to harvest the energy of his followers' spirits in the afterlife to gain supernatural power; despite this, Kane is shown throughout the films to be a zealot, as he does believe in certain religious values. He led his "flock" into an underground cavern under the premise that the world was about to end, but in truth, Kane simply wanted to kill his disciples and himself and then harvest their souls in death.

Yes, like the Reverend Kane in Poltergeist, Pelosi is leading her Democratic “flock” into an underground cavern where the Deep State will harvest their souls in death.  From James Howard Kunstler via Lew Rockwell:

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It’s Nancy Pelosi’s smile that gets me…oh, and not in a good way. It’s a smile that is actually the opposite of what a smile is supposed to do: signal good will and good faith. Nancy’s smile is full of malice and bad faith, like the smiles on representations of Shiva-the-Destroyer and Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec sun god who demanded thousands of human hearts to eat, lest he bring on the end of the world.

It’s not exactly the end of the world in Washington D.C., but as the old saying goes: you can see it from there! It’s out on the edge of town like one of those sinister, broken-down circuses from the Ray Bradbury story-bag, with its ragtag cast of motheaten lions, crippled acrobats, a crooked wagon full of heartbroken freaks, and a shadowy ringmaster on a mission from the heart of darkness.

The new Democratic majority congress has convened in the spirit of a religious movement devoted to a single apocalyptic objective: toppling the Golden Golem of Greatness who rules in the House of White Privilege. They’re all revved up for inquisition, looking to apply as many thumbscrews, cattle prods, electrodes, waterboards, and bamboo splinters as necessary in pursuit of rectifying the heresy of the 2016 election.

The simpleton California congressman Brad Sherman (D-30th dist.) couldn’t contain his glee, like a seven-year-old boy about to pull the wings off a fly. As soon as the Democratic majority was sworn in, he filed his articles of impeachment to impress his Wokester San Fernando Valley constituents out for deplorable blood. That was even a bit too much for Madam Speaker who reminded Sherman that some scintilla of a predicate crime was required — but surely would be available when Special Counsel Robert Mueller hurls down his tablets of accusation from on high.

As for their quarry, the Golden Golem, a.k.a. D.J. Trump, I’m not convinced that he is a mere hapless yegg waiting to be sliced, diced, and skewered. He’s POTUS, after all, and has access to quite a bit of information and expertise.  He’ll shortly have a new Attorney General on board, William Barr, who might just ask the question that has been hanging in the air like a pulsating zeppelin for two years, viz: has Mr. Mueller even paid a casual glance at the shenanigans going on all around him in the Department of Justice and the FBI lo these many many months of prosecuting Trump factotums on rinky-dink process charges?

And might all that monkey business in politicizing the agencies, and scheming to undo Mr. Trump even turn up as a footnote in that holy grail of the Mueller report awaited so eagerly by the inquisitionists?  It would be just and logical if Mr. Mueller had paid attention to the misconduct of the highest officials in the DOJ and FBI beginning in the winter of 2016, since there is an evidence trail as broad as the DC Beltway right out there in the public record.

Maybe Mr. Mueller will surprise many of us and actually include the already-documented misdeeds of his protégé Mr. Comey, Mr. Strzok, Ms. Page, Mr. Rosenstein, Mr. McCabe, Mr. Ohr, Mrs. Ohr, Mr. Brennan, Mr. Clapper, Ms. Lynch, Ms. Yates, and sundry servants of the Obamas and Clintons, involved in the government-sponsored coup attempt. They will eventually have to answer to somebody. I believe that somebody will be Mr. Barr, who will finally have the authority to ignite a counter-inquisition.

It’s important to set these matters aright, if you want to keep the constitution. Under the narcoleptic Jeff Sessions, the institutional rot turned into a possibly fatal gangrene. Did certain parties want to send patsies like George Papadopoulos to prison for a couple weeks, or break, defame, and bankrupt General Flynn under a recklessly malicious prosecution — because that was all that they had to show for two years of looking under every rock and rotten log between the Potomac River and the Kremlin? Has Mr. Mueller even noticed the established fact that Hillary Clinton supplied the inquisition with its founding, false documentary evidence?

So, let the circus begin on Capital Hill. Let them kick out the jams, as we used to say back in Woodstock era. Let Nancy Pelosi finish the work that the Democratic Party started with the election of 2016 — its own destruction as a viable political force. Let all the darkness and malice be wrung out of it so the country can return to its senses and start paying attention to things that really matter, backed by institutions that people of good faith can believe in.

Indeed, “let Nancy Pelosi finish the work that the Democratic Party started with the election of 2016 — its own destruction as a viable political force.”  Good riddance.  Pelosi and the Deep State will do anything to remove President Trump, first thing to do is to orchestrate a stock market crash and blame Trump.  On Christmas Eve, Pelosi and the Deep State sent out the following:

“It's Christmas Eve and President Trump is plunging the country into chaos. The stock market is tanking and the president is waging a personal war on the Federal Reserve — after he just fired the Secretary of Defense,” the Democratic leaders said in a statement shortly after markets closed. 

Ha ha, President Trump is “waging a personal war on the Federal Reserve” that Satanic Central Bank that demands perpetual war and suffering in order to enslave the people of the world for profit.

Satan, being Satan, has scarcely been content with a 10% tithe. As the Beatle's song says, "Be thankful I don't take it all." The economic crisis that besets the world is the brainchild of Satan and he has used deceit, intimidation and murder to bring the poor of the world to their knees. ~ THE FEDERAL RESERVE: THE TITHE TO SATAN ~ Amo Paul Bishop Roden


Excerpt:

Federal Reserve Bank Colludes with Deep State to Crash Stock Market

The FED Is the Real Enemy of the American People It’s either We the People or the Federal Reserve; there’s no room for both in a free nation.

How many times has it been said… … … That Deep State is the enemy of the people.  That the Mainstream Media is the enemy of the people.  That the C.I.A. is the enemy of the people.  That the FBI is the enemy of the people.  The NSA is the enemy of the people.  That the DOJ is the enemy of the people.   That the Democrats and RINOs are the enemy of the people.  That most of the U.S. Congress is the enemy of the people.  That the whole SES (Senior Executive Service) is the enemy of the people.  Virtually the entire Legal Class (i.e. BAR attorneys) is the enemy of the people.

Who can argue with any of these self-evident statements?  Each one is entirely true as the election of Donald Trump has revealed.  In fact, Trump tweets alone have exposed the whole bloody system for what it truly is:  THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.

However …   And it’s a HUGE however, mind you!

It’s the FED, and especially the Central Banks worldwide, that are the REAL enemy of the people.  In fact, the whole world is now witnessing just how dangerous and deadly, reckless and feckless the Federal Reserve Bank (FED) can be.

Only the initiated really understand that the FED has always been this dangerous throughout its entire existence … … … as we all watch FED Chairman Jerome Powell intentionally trigger a stock market crash in real-time.  As a matter of historical fact, every stock market crash and economic depression has been caused directly by the actions (and inactions) of the central banks … and before central banks by the large private banks that constituted the International Banking Cartel.

The many bankster institutions that make up the current Rothschild Crime Syndicate are only the latest incarnation of a draconian system of currency control and manipulation that goes back over 5000 years.  Before the Rothschild clan there was the Black Nobility of Northern Italy in the late 1200s. And way before them there was the Babylonian Brotherhood of the ancient Middle East with many other bankster entities in between.

2018: The Year the FED Exposed Itself

True to form, President Trump has once again taken to Twitter to expose the single biggest scam in world history—the utterly fake Federal Reserve System.  Truly, it doesn’t get any bigger than the Central Banking Racket.  It also doesn’t get any more perilous since it is these international banksters who have purposefully engineered every single war in modern history.

That’s just what these perennial perps do: they look for new ways of wealth creation and it just so happens that war is a really great business.  The globalists also thrive on the disaster capitalism that results after the wars.  They also take advantage of war opportunities to put into practice their primary MO — Ordo ab chao — with which to fabricate new nations and societies.

This is why there is such a chorus of disagreement with Trump’s troop pull-out from Syria and Afghanistan.  The banksters need and want war to fuel their artificially propped up perpetual war economy the world over. 

This is also why Powell has no reservations about triggering a full-blown stock market crash — IN BROAD DAYLIGHT — this Christmas.  Nowadays the banksters don’t even care that the American people see their premeditated collapse of the entire Global Economic & Financial System.

That’s right: Powell is completely unconcerned that everyone knows he is carrying out the devastation of the various markets and national economies worldwide.  The FED has always exercised this much power and influence but surreptitiously implemented their secret agendas of monetary destruction under the radar…way under.

Not so anymore as people everywhere watch Powell insidiously raise the interest rate at a time of extreme instability and increasing insecurity, great risks and growing uncertainty, as well as general fear, apprehension and anxiety permeating the global investment community.  What a ‘perfect time’ to jack up the FED interest rate!

Why, pray tell, would the FED Chair make such a stupid move?  Actually a series of stupid moves throughout 2018.  Because he’s been told to by his Deep State handlers who have been coerced by their International Banking Cartel masters, that’s why.  Powell is Deep State’s inside man to execute the nuclear option—aka an engineered stock market crash!

As FED Chairman, Powell, himself, has no real power… it’s all perceived power.  In fact the POTUS can fire him in a heartbeat if he feels the necessity to do so. See: “Legally the President can fire the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under a specified cause” but Deep State would have us believe otherwise… 

“If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.”
― Henry Wallace

Yes as stated in the previous article, “war is really great business”… This is why there is such a chorus of disagreement with Trump’s troop pull-out from Syria and Afghanistan.  The banksters need and want war to fuel their artificially propped up perpetual war economy the world over.  From Veterans Today:

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Syria Withdrawal Infuriates Satanists and New World Order Agents

“Let’s have no more wars for Israel,” said Mark Dankof. The vast majority of Americans, including this writer and the people at Veterans Today, will agree completely. Perhaps 2019 is the time for the American people to tell the regime in Tel Aviv that "we ain't gonna take it anymore."

New World Order agents, Satanists, and ethnic cleansers are in panic because Trump announced a withdrawal of American troops from Syria.[1] Abe Greenwald of the Neocon magazine Commentary immediately wrote an article entitled, “Yes, Our Unpopular Wars Are Worth It.”[2]

Satanist Max Boot wrote in the Washington Post that “Trump’s surprise Syria pullout is a giant Christmas gift to our enemies.”[3] Why is Trump pulling out of Syria? Well, Boot has a logical answer:

“Why would Trump do this now? Who knows? Given that he is acting at odds with his advisers, this is clearly not the result of a normal policy-review process. This is the Trump Doctrine in operation: Trump does whatever he wants. It could be based on what he had for breakfast — or there could be something more sinister going on.”[4]

Boot will never tell us that the vast majority of Americans never wanted US troops in Syria in the first place. But his crazy assessment has reached a critical mass among the Neocon and Zionist cabal. Zionist puppet and ethnic cleanser Lindsey Graham said: “Withdrawal of this small American force in Syria would be a huge Obama-like mistake.”[5] Graham continued to say:

“We’re going to hold the administration accountable for this decision. If Obama had done this, all of us would be going nuts because it’s such a bad idea. The job of the Congress is to hold the executive branch accountable. He’s the commander in chief, but he needs to be held accountable for his decisions. And I want hearings as soon as possible.”[6]

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen declared: “I’m very disappointed. What I heard when I was in Syria was that while the fight against ISIS was going very well, that there were ISIS fighters who were going underground. And so I think, if we leave, we leave an opportunity for them to come back. And we also cede influence to Iran and Russia and [President Bashar] Assad in Syria in a way that would not be good for the United States.”[7]

Marco Rubio concurred with those assertions, saying that the “decision to pull out of Syria” is “a major blunder.” This major blunder, he continued, “will hunt America for years to come. It will have grave consequences for the US & Israel & great benefit for ISIS, Iran & Hezbollah.”

NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. People like Graham and Rubio haven’t met a war they didn’t like. But the fundamental problems with these crazy assertions are myriad, too much to detail here. First of all, both the United States and Israel have been supporting ISIS and other terrorist groups throughout the Middle East, most particularly Syria.

Keep in mind that it was Israeli ambassador Michael Oren who posited unequivocally that Israel was more willing to support terrorists and “bad guys” in Syria than to allow the Assad government to thrive and survive.[8]

Second, Satanists like Graham never count the cost of perpetual wars in the Middle East! As the Watson Institute at Brown University has calculated, the United States has already SPENT NEARLY SIX TRILLION DOLLARS ON PERPETUAL WARS in the Middle East since 9/11/.[9] Couldn’t they spend that money on rebuilding America? Couldn’t they use it to pay the average person a living wage?

Satanists have never lack funding for perpetual wars, but they always complain that they do not have adequate funding for social security, education, health care, and more importantly, for giving the average American a living wage.

One last point is that it was Assad, Iran, and Russia that have been fighting real terrorist cells in Syria, not the United States or Israel. In short, although Trump is crazy and unpredictable, he was right when he said he wanted to pull US troops out of Syria. Let’s just hope that he keeps his promise this time.

But decent Americans, as my dear friend and colleague Mark Dankof has pointed out, need to apologize to the precious people in Syria. “We’re putting the Saudi regime and the Israeli regime on notice,” said Dankof. “They are no longer under leading us” to one perpetual war after another in the Middle East.

Let’s have no more wars for Israel,” said Dankof. The vast majority of Americans, including this writer and the people at Veterans Today, will agree completely. Perhaps 2019 is the time for the American people to tell the regime in Tel Aviv that “we ain’t gonna take it anymore.”

How sick is that?  Like “Israeli ambassador Michael Oren posited unequivocally, Israel was more willing to support terrorists and “bad guys” in Syria than to allow the Assad government to thrive and survive.”  Bashir Assad is the elected President of Syria and beloved by the Syrian people.  The American people truly do, need to apologize to the precious people in Syria.  But more than that we need to clear out the rat hole in our government. 

Father Merrin: Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. We may ask what is relevant but anything beyond that is dangerous. He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that - do not listen  ~ The Exorcist

Election after election the same evil agents of the beast returns.  From Stephen Lendman:

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New Congress, Same Old Dirty System

Changes from one US electoral cycle to the next leave what’s most important the same or worse – the 116th Congress to prove no different from earlier ones in recent decades, notably since the neoliberal 90s.  The NYT saying “(t)he congressional freshman class of 2019 is best described in superlatives” is way over-the-top, typical Times mumbo-jumbo rubbish.

The 111 new House and Senate members, a 21% turnover from the 115th Congress, left GOP and undemocratic Dem agendas unchanged – new faces in the crowd, same old dirty politics, same endless wars of aggression, same neoliberal harshness, same crackdown on fundamental freedoms, same fantasy democracy.

The Times’ hoopla about “insurgent progressives” in the new Congress perhaps to make a difference is utter nonsense. GOP and undemocratic Dem dark forces control both houses, the way it’s always been.  Newcomers are powerless, most easily controlled to go along or be targeted by well-funded challengers next election. Anyone diverging from dirty business as usual is vulnerable to being defeated next time around.

That’s how the system works. Progressivism is a dirty word in both houses, along with peace, equity, and justice.   Obama’s “Change we can believe in” and “Yes We Can” were empty slogans. Cheerleading his election in November 2008, the NYT ludicrously called it “a national catharsis…an embrace (for) change…a breakthrough” for better times to come.

Endorsing his candidacy pre-election, the self-styled newspaper of record called him “the right choice” to be president, “putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change…to (find) solutions to this nation’s problems.”  Throughout his tenure, he partnered with Wall Street in looting the federal treasury. He force-fed neoliberal harshness on ordinary people when economic stimulus was needed.  He served privileged interests exclusively at the expense of most others, the nation’s vulnerable harmed most.

He bragged about bombing seven countries in eight years, waging war in Afghanistan, Pakistan (the AfPak war), Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia.  His destructive agenda belied his empty slogans, including:

“Forward”, “Greater Together”, “Betting on America”, “We Don’t Quit”. “Winning the Future”, “We Can’t Wait”, “An America/Economy Built to Last”, “A Fair Shot”

He let economic depression conditions fester for ordinary Americans, unemployment exceeding 20% throughout his tenure, underemployment affecting the vast majority of US workers…  Obama was more a jobs destroyer than creator, his tenure marked by lies, damn lies, and more of them. The great Black hope betrayed his own people most of all.

So did the vast majority of congressional Republicans and Dems, including phony progressive Bernie Sanders, a card-carrying dirty business as usual politician, pretending otherwise – voting 98% of the time with undemocratic Dems.  Like most others in Congress, he promised one thing and did another most often. He’s America’s most popular con man, his soul for sale at the right price.

His rhetorical advocacy for working Americans and young people is hollow – notably in lockstep with the US imperial agenda, one-sided support for Israel, the Wall Street owned and controlled Fed, while pretending to be independent, socialist and progressive – in name only.  He’s the most prominent congressional member touting progressive credentials his voting record spurned.

At least most congressional freshmen can be expected to operate the same way – going along to get along, supporting their party’s leadership to further their political careers.  Most self-styled congressional progressives have a disturbing habit of advocating publicly for one thing, then quietly going another way.  Even RT got it wrong, falsely claiming the Dem “party’s new progressive wing (sic) is challenging the establishment on spending measures and climate action.”

When push comes to shove, their voting record will show they’ll go along with party leaders on most issues – including endless US wars of aggression, neoliberal harshness, and governance of, by, and for its privileged few exclusively…   

The next two years may be some of the most politically disruptive and stormy in US history. Whatever happens won’t slow America’s war machine, nor its service to Wall Street and other corporate favorites.   Ordinary Americans have few allies in Washington. They’ll likely fare worse, not better, under the 116th Congress – dirty business as usual continuing, overriding the general welfare, the way it’s been for decades.

Yes, indeed there is no difference from one election to the next, like Dr. Lendman says “Changes from one US electoral cycle to the next leave what’s most important the same or worse – the 116th Congress to prove no different from earlier ones in recent decades.”  The beast remains and anyone that believes there is a difference between the two parties, or three for that matter is delusional.  Just like in the Exorcist:

FATHER KARRAS:  I think it would be helpful if I gave you some background on the different personalities Regan has manifested. So far, there seems to be three.

FATHER MERRIN:  There's only one.

Like Father Merrin says “there’s only one” that being the beast.  In the Poltergeist it was the Reverent Henry Kane but in the real world today it is the Deep State.  The Deep State has many handmaidens in our government that transfer power back and forth but nothing ever changes.  This time the keeper of the Crypt is Nancy Pelosi.  America needs an Exorcist, let’s hope that President Donald finds one fast.


Friday, November 16, 2018

Which country’s interests do the Deep State’s foreign policy serve, certainly not America’s




Quotes by Contemporary Experts on the USS Liberty


A number of Johnson administration, military, and intelligence community officials – all of whom had access to classified materials regarding the attack – have commented on the conclusions they reached concerning the attack…

Members of Congress

Craig Hosmer, then-U.S. Representative:

"Whatever the reason for the attack, it was an act of high piracy. Those responsible should be court-martialed on charges of murder, amongst other counts. The Israel Government should pay full reparations to the United States and indemnities to the families of the Americans killed." —Craig Hosmer, then-U.S. Representative, on the floor of the House of Representatives, 29 June 1967

*Adlai Stevenson III, former United States Senator:

"Those sailors who were wounded, who were eyewitnesses, have not been heard from by the American public. . . [Their story] leaves no doubt but what this was a premeditated, carefully reconnoitered attack by Israeli aircraft against our ship." —US Senator Adlai Stevenson III in interview with Wm. J. Small, UPI, for publication September 28, 1980

James Abourezk, former United States Senator

"The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that they were. There is no other incident--beyond Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty--that shows the power of the Israeli Lobby by being able to silence successive American governments. Allowing the lies told by the Israelis and their minions in the U.S. is disheartening to all of us who are proud of our servicemen." —James Abourezk, United States Senate, 1973-79

*Paul Findley, former U.S. Congressman:

"Certain facts are clear. The attack was no accident. The Liberty was assaulted in broad daylight by Israeli forces who knew the ship's identity. ...THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES LED A COVER-UP so thorough that years after he left office, the episode was still largely unknown to the public -- and the men who suffered and died have gone largely unhonored." —Paul Findley, They Dare to Speak Out, Lawrence Hill & Co., 1985, p166

Military Officials

Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, US Navy (Ret.):

“The ship was clearly identified, not only by its unique configuration but by a very large U.S. flag that was flown at the time. The weather was calm and the visibility was excellent. During this unprovoked attack 34 U.S. Navy men were killed and 171 wounded.

Nevertheless, to this day the American public does not know why the attack took place and who was involved overall. “In my opinion, the United States government and the Israeli government must share responsibility for this cover-up.

Commander William McGonagle, Captain, USS Liberty:

After more than two hours of unremitting assault, the Israelis finally halted their attack. One of the torpedo boats approached the Liberty. This same torpedo boat crew had been circling the ship, machine-gunning anyone who stuck his head above decks, AS WELL AS THE LIFEBOATS THE CREW HAD PUT OVER THE SIDE.

What had changed? The Israeli government knew that US aircraft carriers had just launched aircraft to come to Liberty's aid AND THE ATTACK WAS QUICKLY CALLED OFF. The Israeli government called the US Embassy and said that they had made a "mistake."

A torpedo boat officer asked in English over a bullhorn: "Do you need any help?"

The wounded commander of the Liberty, Captain William McGonagle, instructed the quartermaster to respond emphatically: "FUCK YOU."


America’s midterm election results are in and it has been decided, warmongering Zionist Republicans and warmongering Zionist Democrats have won.  If Nancy Pelosi returns as the Speaker of the House, it is assured nothing will change.  Pelosi has already vowed to work with Republicans when it comes to continuing America’s trillion dollar Israeli directed foreign policy. 

However Pelosi sternly threatened that in areas where they do not agree, i.e. domestic policy, she will fight hard for incremental, meaningless changes.  The election is a joke because there is no opposition party.  Any time a progressive populist manages to win an election in spite of the Democratic establishment’s road blocks, the elitists vote for the same old, tired, bought off leadership that have controlled the party for the last 35 years.  The Democratic voters have no say.

On the contrary, Republicans rotate younger members with absolute unwavering loyalty to the GOP’s Zionist agenda into leadership positions giving a false face of change.  All the while, the American people have zero, zip, nada to say about the agenda that will be smashed down upon their heads.   From Russia Insider:

Excerpt:

Israel Wins the Midterms
No matter who is elected Israel comes first

Judging from the mainstream media, Israel was not a major issue in the midterm election but it sure did come up a lot when candidates for office were wooing Jewish or Evangelical voters.

To cite only one example, Florida Congressman Ron DeSantis criticized his opponent Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum during their gubernatorial race for receiving support from the Dream Defenders, a group favoring Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, and giving a speech welcoming members of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to his city.   

DeSantis claimed in a video clip that “I can find anti-Semites around him, but it’s almost like ‘we don’t want to discuss that.’”  DeSantis, who sponsored the 2013 Palestinian Accountability Act which called for the withholding of U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority until it recognizes Israel as a Jewish state, charged that Gillum would not be a “friend” of Israel…

DeSantis boasted about his presence in Jerusalem when the U.S. Embassy was moved to that city in May and has promised as governor to visit Israel’s illegal settlements on the West Bank, which he refers to by the preferred Israeli usage as “Judea and Samaria.” He threatens critics that “If you boycott Israel, the state of Florida will boycott you.”

One might note at a minimum that for Ron DeSantis and ambitious slimeballs like him it is all about Israel due to their own political self-interest, with nothing actually in the mix for either Florida or the United States. The uninformed public buys into the narrative because it doesn’t know any better thanks to the media’s heavy slant in favor of Israel, allowing uncritical support for the Jewish state to continue under the radar unchallenged.

DeSantis, a former U.S. Navy lawyer, has demonstrated that he reveres Israel even more than his former comrades in arms. In his congressional district there are a number of survivors of the U.S.S. Liberty, which was attacked in international waters by Israel on June 8, 1967, killing 34 crewmen and injuring 171 more. They report that DeSantis has been completely unsympathetic to their requests that a commission of inquiry finally be convened to determine what actually happened on that day.

In fact, Americans have never had the option of voting on the “special relationship” that Israel enjoys with the United States as no Congressman would dare run against it lest they be smeared in the media and find themselves running against an extraordinarily well funded opponent benefitting from large donations coming from out of state sources.

The list of prominent politicians “taken down” by Israel is lengthy, and includes Cynthia McKinney, *Adlai Stevenson III, *Paul Findley, Chuck Percy, William Fulbright, Roger Jepsen, and Pete McCloskey.

It is particularly ironic that as the midterm campaigns were drawing to a close there appeared some serious investigative journalism that demonstrates precisely how Israel and Jewish groups corrupt the political process in America to provide virtually unlimited support for anything and everything that the despicable Benjamin Netanyahu and his gang of war criminals seek to do.

 How the process has succeeded is best illustrated by the current Israeli government’s policy of “mowing the grass” in Gaza where it is using army snipers to kill unarmed Palestinian protesters. Washington not only does not protest against the in-your-face war crime, it aids and abets it with U.S. Ambassador David Friedman justifying the military response as measured and appropriate…

To be sure, the groundbreaking book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, which appeared in 2007, pulled no punches in describing how the Israel Lobby operates in the United States. It also made clear that the relationship with Israel serves no United States national interest whatsoever and exists solely because of the corruption of the political system and the media by principally Jewish individuals and groups that are dedicated to that task…

That’s right the American people have never had a vote as to whether they want to continue a special relationship with Israel, a relationship the serves no national interest whatsoever.  The American people have never been given the facts that surround the deliberate cover-up of the murderous attack on the U.S.S. Liberty. 

The American government is rife with politicians whose first loyalty is to Israel and it has cost the American people dearly, last count around $21 trillion.  Any politician who dares to question that relationship is as good as dead.  It seems the only occupant of the current political world with the courage and will to stand up to the Israeli stranglehold on our government is First Lady Melania Trump.  From Ron Paul Institute:

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Melania Trump Kneecaps Top Bolton Aide

Hooray for First Lady Melania Trump! In a refreshingly - and shockingly - frank statement, the relatively quiet First Lady has issued a statement through her spokeswoman today making it clear that top National Security Council aide Mira Ricardel needs to hit the bricks.

Ricardel, Deputy National Security Adviser under John Bolton, is said to have "berated people in meetings, yelled at professional staff, argued with the first lady and spread rumors about [Defense Secretary] Mattis." But denying NSC resources to the First Lady in support of Melania Trump's recent trip to Africa may have been the last straw. That and her tussling with the First Lady's staff over seating assignments on the Africa-bound plane.

According to, Stephanie Grisham, the First Lady's spokeswoman, "It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House."

In the Kremlinology of White House power watching, what is most interesting about this dust-up is that Ricardel is firmly in the Bolton wing and has repeatedly clashed with White House Chief of Staff Kelly and Defense Secretary Mattis.

While it is currently unclear whether Ricardel has actually been fired, the reported move by the First Lady marks her most public foray into personnel issues. Is the First Lady looking out for President Trump's flank as second-tier neocon attack dogs nip at his ankles? We can only hope so!

What does that mean for the NSC's top dog? Might the days of John "Regime Change" Bolton be numbered as President Trump's National Security Advisor? We can only hope!  Last month Bolton's chief of staff, Fred Fleitz, unexpectedly resigned his position after just a couple of months on the job. Bolton has described Fleitz as "a longtime friend and adviser." Adding that, "he's been a valuable member of the National Security Council team."

Fleitz claimed that he decided to ditch his powerful position at the right hand of National Security Advisor Bolton because he was promised the top job at the relatively minor neoconservative think tank, Center for Security Policy. Insiders claim Fleitz's hardline neoconservative views, particularly his previously stated position that Islamic Sharia was "creeping" worldwide, had been a political liability to the White House.

Why the move on Ricardel by Melania? The First Lady only became a permanent US resident two years after the neocons pushed President Clinton into an unprovoked attack on her native former Yugoslavia. Is it possible the quiet Melania has retained memories of what monsters they are and is now determined to rid the Trump Administration of those scheming murderers? We shouldn't slip too deeply into this fantasy, but if that is your intent, Madame First Lady, please allow us to provide you with our top ten pink slip recommendations...

Bravo our wonderful First Lady, you are truly a magnificent asset to your husband, our President Donald Trump.  The daggers pointed at your husband are long and dangerous.  Those around him are traitors of the worst kind, they have no loyalty to America or Americans.  Their awards are not American awards but awards for betraying America.  From Global Research:

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John Bolton Wins “Defender of Israel” Award From Zionist Lobby Group That Helped Appoint Him

The ZOA, Bolton’s enthusiastic sponsor, led the campaign to remove former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster from his post after railing against McMaster’s “anti-Israel” positions, most notably his support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran nuclear deal.

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) recently awarded U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton the “Defender of Israel Award” during its annual awards dinner, which took place in New York on Sunday night…

Though Bolton has received several awards from the Israel lobby in the past, due to his fervent promotion of Zionism and Israeli government policy, this more recent award is notable, as the ZOA is largely responsible for Bolton’s appointment as National Security Adviser within the Trump administration…

However, McMaster had also earned the ire of American Zionists for allegedly referring to Israel as an “occupying power” and acknowledging the existence of Palestine — as Zionists at ZOA and like-minded organizations support a revisionist history of the creation of the Israeli state that asserts that Palestine as a state never existed prior to Israel’s establishment in 1948.

Bolton’s Past Advocacy for Israel at US Expense Heralds Dangerous New Era in Geopolitics

Leaked emails reported on by MintPress earlier this year revealed that ZOA’s campaign to remove McMaster soon won the support of Trump’s top political donor, Zionist billionaire Sheldon Adelson. It was later revealed that Adelson had been instrumental in placing Bolton in the position McMaster vacated, as Bolton had long been a confidant of the politically influential casino magnate and Adelson had previously lobbied Trump – then president-elect – to include Bolton in his cabinet.

President Trump vowed to usher in an America First agenda when he campaigned for president.  Trump’s initial cabinet members such as McMaster and Tillerson showed a real commitment to that end.   The Republican and Democratic elites couldn’t allow that to stand so they launched the Mueller Investigation to disrupt the Trump presidency.  Make no mistake, those strings were pulled by the Israeli lobby.  From Mint Press:

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Now Biggest Donor in all of US Politics, Sheldon Adelson Brings an Israel First Agenda to Washington

Adelson’s massive expenditures in federal elections this cycle are being made because he believes that Republican control of the House and the Senate is vital to maintaining right-wing and pro-Zionist policies and his influence in Washington and at the White House.

WASHINGTON – According to publicly available campaign finance data, Sheldon Adelson – the conservative, Zionist, casino billionaire –is now the biggest spender on federal elections in all of American politics. Adelson, who was the top donor to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Republican Party in 2016, has cemented his role as the top political donor in the country after giving $55 million in recent months to Republicans in an effort to help the party keep its majority in both houses of Congress.

Adelson’s willingness to help the GOP stay in power is likely born out of his desire to protect the massive investment he placed in the party last election cycle. In 2016, the Republican mega-donor gave heavily to the Trump campaign and Republicans, donating $35 million to the former and $55 million to the top two Republican Super PACs — the Congressional Leadership Fund and the Senate Leadership Fund — during that election cycle.

Adelson’s decision to again donate tens of millions of dollars to Republican efforts to stay in power is a direct consequence of how successfully Adelson has been able to influence U.S. policy since Trump and the GOP rode to victory in the last election cycle.

A New York Times article on Adelson, titled “Sheldon Adelson Sees a Lot to Like in Trump’s Washington,” notes that Adelson “enjoys a direct line to the president.” Furthermore, Adelson and Trump regularly meet once a month “in private in-person meetings and phone conversations” that Adelson has used to push major changes to U.S. policy that Trump has made reality — such as moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and cutting aid to Palestinian refugees, among others…

The fact that Adelson is “pleased-as-punch” with Trump’s performance as president should hardly come as a surprise, given that the president has fulfilled his campaign promises that were of prime importance to Adelson, while many of his other campaign promises – namely those that were populist or anti-war in nature – have rung hollow…

As previously mentioned, The New York Times recently noted that the cutting of aid to Palestinians, the U.S.’ removal from JCPOA, and the Jerusalem embassy move all resulted from private in-person meetings and phone conversations between Adelson and Trump.

Adelson has also been successful in stocking the Trump administration with politicians he has long supported as well as his confidantes. Adelson-supported appointees include Nikki Haley, long-time recipient of Adelson campaign funds who now serves as U.S. ambassador to the UN; Mike Pompeo, former CIA director who has advocated for bombing Iran and now serves as secretary of state; and John Bolton, a close confidante of Adelson, who is now national security adviser.

Adelson was also instrumental in removing Pompeo and Bolton’s predecessors, Rex Tillerson and H.R. McMaster, from their respective posts, owing to their support for JCPOA and their alleged “anti-Israel” positions. Speculation has recently grown that Secretary of Defense James Mattis may share their fate for similarly opposing Adelson’s positions.

Yet, upon closer examination, these Adelson-driven personnel and policy moves enacted by Trump seem to merely be the foundation for the so-called “Adelson agenda,” a set of convergent goals that could potentially result in thousands of deaths in the Middle East and embroil the U.S. in yet another regime-change war.

While Adelson’s top-donor status has allowed him unprecedented access to the Trump administration and has resulted in dramatic changes to U.S. policy, there is every indication that the worst is yet to come…

As an example, during the negotiations that eventually led to the Iran nuclear deal, Adelson publicly advocated for a U.S. nuclear attack on Iran without provocation, so the U.S. could “impose its demands [on Iran] from a position of strength.”

More specifically, Adelson’s “negotiation” plan involved the U.S. dropping a nuclear bomb in the middle of the Iranian desert and then threatening to drop “the next one […] in the middle of Tehran” to show that “we mean business.” Tehran, Iran’s capital, is home to nearly 9 million people with 15 million more in its suburbs. Were Tehran to be attacked with nuclear weapons, an estimated 7 million would die within moments…

With the Trump administration now applying “maximum pressure” to Iran, Adelson’s vision for engaging the Islamic Republic is of critical importance. For instance, if this “maximum pressure” campaign — currently a combination of draconian sanctions, bullying Iran’s trading partners, and covert CIA-driven regime-change operations — ultimately fails, Adelson is likely to push Trump towards more drastic “negotiation” tactics in order to force Iran into a “new treaty” designed by and for pro-Israel interests that seek to eliminate Iran as a regional player…

Beyond the fact that Adelson’s unprecedented influence on U.S. politics is set to create much more instability than past policies he has promoted, lies another unsettling truth: for less than $150 million — pocket change for such a plutocrat Adelson has effectively bought the presidency and Congress…

Indeed, crossing Adelson — as shown by the high-profile firings of McMaster and Tillerson — has its steep price, and obeying Adelson now seems to be the most essential step that Trump and other Republicans must follow to stay in power.

AMERICANS, MEET YOUR NEW, UNELECTED OVERLORD — Sheldon Adelson — because, as long as the U.S. political system is “hostage to his fortune,” he’s not going anywhere.


“Americans, meet your new unelected overlord” indeed.  Sadly there was great hope in America when Donald Trump and his “Make America Great Again” agenda went to Washington.  Trump has been hijacked by the Adelson coalition in congress and if he dares to veer from the Adelson agenda, the Mueller investigation will be used to remove him from power.  Adelson’s agenda includes undoing the very basic tenants in place from the beginning of this nation.  From Strategic Culture:

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US Threatens Pullout from UPU and ITU, Which Survived Hitler but Not Trump

The United States is threatening to withdraw from two international organizations that survived World Wars I and II but may not survive the retrogressive neo-conservative foreign policy of Donald Trump. The world’s third-oldest international organization, the Universal Postal Union (UPU), founded in 1874 in Bern, Switzerland, has been informed by Washington of the US withdrawal. The United States became, under the administration of President Ulysses Grant, a founding member of the UPU.

The Trump administration, notably the rabidly-rightwing White House trade adviser, Peter Navarro, is upset over foreign government subsidies for certain postal authorities, most notably that of China, which reduces international parcel mailing costs to manufacturers and consumers. Rather than negotiate revised postal rates, through the auspices of the UPU, which was established to standardize the world’s postal system, Trump plans to leave the organization.

The Trump White House is also threatening US withdrawal from the second-oldest international organization, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), established by the International Telegraph Convention in Paris in 1865. The United States joined the ITU in 1908, during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt. The two presidents – Grant and Roosevelt – who ushered the United States into the UPU and ITU, respectively, were Republicans.

Trump’s beef with the ITU is over the organization’s management of the international radio frequency spectrum and its movement toward managing international data bandwidth. Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) members, notably FCC chairman Ajit Pai and member Michael O’Rielly, both of whom are owned and operated by America’s communications giants -- including AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast -- who want private industry, not government agencies, to set the rules for radio spectrum and bandwidth governance…

The candidate dropped for RRB chair was board vice-chair Joanne Wilson, nominated by Barack Obama in 2014 to the board’s second-ranking position…

The Trump administration has threatened to cut off funding of the ITU, a move tantamount to withdrawal, unless the ITU selects Doreen Bogdan-Martin, a favorite of the scandal-ridden US Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, to be the next BDT director…  Bogdan-Martin… had the backing of the George W. Bush administration for various positions at the ITU…

The UPU's main responsibility is to set standards for electronic data interchange (EDI), mail encoding, postal forms, international reply coupons, international postal money orders, and meters between postal authorities. It also strives to ensure that member states adhere to uniform flat rates for mailing letters to any location around the world…

The UPU also sets regulations for the sending of biologically perishable materials via international post and the handling of both hazardous materials and disease-bearing items that could pose a danger to postal workers…

The Trump administration also announced the US withdrawal from UNESCO, EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 31, 2018. The United States maintains the horrible distinction of being the only UPU member where the postal system was used, during the George W. Bush administration, to distribute a biological warfare agent – anthrax.

The consequences of US withdrawal from the UPU will be felt immediately. According to UPU deputy director-general Pascal Clivaz, upon termination of American membership in the treaty, Americans will no longer be able to send or receive letters or packages to and from UPU member states, including Canada and Mexico.

The UPU will no longer share special codes with the US Postal Service (USPS) that are necessary to send and receive international mail. The only mechanism to send and receive international mail will be via more expensive private delivery services, such as FedEx and UPS.

Although belligerent nations in World War II conducted extensive wiretapping of international telegraph and telephone lines and radio connections, phone calls and telegrams could still be sent between major world capitals because the ITU’s standards continued to be maintained. Seamless digital communications may no longer be the case if the Trump administration, unlike Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, or Imperial Japan, abandons the ITU and its radio frequency management and standards criteria.

The UPU and ITU survived Adolf Hitler, but not Donald Trump. That is a legacy for which every American should feel nothing but shame and everlasting remorse.

There are winners and losers for every decision the U.S. President makes.  Seems to me the big losers in Trump pulling out of the UPU effective December 31 will be the American people.  The huge winners will be FedEx and UPS who will be able to charge anything they want to ship outside the US because there will be no alternatives available.  Postal workers will only be able to accommodate domestic mail services resulting in massive layoffs and loss of jobs, jobs, jobs. 

Is that what Americans voted for when they elected Donald Trump?  Did Americans vote for an even more bloated military budget and cuts to Social Security and Medicare?  From Rolling Stone:

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Trump’s Defense Spending Is Out of Control, and Poised to Get Worse

Using a time-honored trick, a bipartisan congressional panel argues we should boost the president’s record defense bill even more

A bipartisan commission has determined that President Trump’s recent record defense bill is insufficiently massive to keep America safe, and we should spend more, while cutting “entitlements.”

The National Defense Strategy Commission concluded the Department of Defense was too focused on “efficiency” and needed to accept “greater cost and risk” to search for “leap-ahead technologies” to help the U.S. maintain superiority.

The panel added that Defense is “not where most of the money is.” It said Congress should be focused on “domestic entitlement programs” and “interest payments on the national debt” as sources of savings…  The report even contains a graph that shows defense spending crawling sadly along the floor of the spending X-axis as mighty mandatory “entitlements” soar to great heights.

This is the same Department of Defense with a serious existing accounting problem. In 2016, before Trump was elected, its Inspector General said he could not properly track $6.5 trillion in defense spending. A later academic study claimed the number was $21 trillion, looking at the years 1998-2015.

Trump originally asked for over $730 billion in defense spending for Fiscal Year 2019, and last spring a budget setting spending at $716 billion passed 85-10 in the Senate. This would have meant an $82 billion spending hike, an increase that by itself was larger than the entire defense budget of every country on earth, save China.

Trump later called for an across-the-board budget cut of 5 percent, leaving the amount of the defense budget in confusion. He still claims he wants $700 billion. Whatever the final amount turns out to be, it will be massive — about 10 times the size of Russia’s defense budget, and four times the size of China’s.

The National Defense Strategy Commission was created as part of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. It’s section 942 in this bill, and it requires that the majority and minority committee chiefs for Armed Services in both the House and the Senate to each name three people to the panel.

Eric Edelman, who was the senior policy official in the Defense Department from 2005-2009, chairs the panel. The co-chair, appointed by Democrat Adam Smith of Washington, is Admiral Gary Roughead, who was named chief of Naval operations in 2007 and now sits on the board of Northrup Grumman…

To recap: While spending record sums on a defense bill, Congress allocated still more money to a panel of current and former defense specialists whose purpose seems to have been to write a report asking for more money… 

We regularly hear that our weapons systems are old, outdated and placing troops in harm’s way. It’s an ancient political device and it usually works…  This appeal to national consumerist shame — we can’t be seen in public driving something old! ­— is effective. On a policy level, such appeals are usually couched in terms of needing to make American “hard power” a more “credible” foreign policy tool…

So instead of looking honestly at where we do and do not need to spend, the military mostly looks at existing weapons systems — even ones that work pretty well — and focuses on how long it’s been since we unveiled jazzy re-designs. That allows the endless cycle of patronage and political contributions to stay in place.

This is why we continue to spend on projects like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, an infamous boondoggle that projects to cost over a trillion dollars over the life of the program. Even our president could see through it, once. Shortly after his election, Trump blasted the F-35 program as “out of control” and promised to save “billions” on it.

Then Trump met with Lockheed Martin chief executive Marilyn Hewson, and the president appeared to warm to the F-35. Among other things, he seems to believe “stealth” means the plane is literally invisible:

TRUMP: We buy billions and billions dollars worth of that beautiful F-35. It’s stealth, you cannot see it. Is that correct?

HEWSON: That’s correct, Mr. President.

Before long, Trump was speaking of the weapon in almost erotic, Conan The Barbarian-esque tones:

Now when our enemies hear the F-35’s engines, when they’re roaring overhead, their souls will tremble and they will know the day of reckoning has arrived.

Politicians inevitably fall in love with weapons and weapons-makers. They tend to have less interaction with the people we’re blowing up overseas, or with those who just want us to spend relatively more on schools and medicine. The Pentagon has a powerful lobby; the anti-Pentagon, not so much.

Along with jet fighters, the U.S. is spending a fortune trying to upgrade its aircraft carrier fleet. Trump is adding ships like the unfortunately named U.S.S. Gerald Ford.  According to the Project on Government Oversight, the Ford now projects to cost $12.9 billion, or about 25 percent above original estimates.

Moreover, because it is replacing the proven technology of “steam catapults” with a new, glitchy “digital catapult,” it may take a while before the Ford class even matches the capability of the existing Nimitz carriers.

The Pentagon doesn’t just spend money; it spends a lot of money asking for more money. And it has many friends in politics and the media to help them along. Its people may not be great at preparing for the next war, but, they know how to keep their budgets high, and they’re at it again.

The more things change the more they stay the same.  It didn’t take long for Trump to abandon his campaign promises of jobs, jobs, jobs.  Now the midterm election results are mostly in and we are in the “rubber hits the road” portion of the election where the two parties undo the election results through leadership assignments.  From OpEd News:

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The "Pelosi Problem" Runs Deep

Nancy Pelosi will probably be the next House speaker, a prospect that fills most alert progressives with disquiet, if not dread. But instead of fixating on her as a villain, progressives should recognize the long-standing House Democratic leader as a symptom of a calcified party hierarchy that has worn out its grassroots welcome and is beginning to lose its grip.

Increasingly at odds with the Democratic Party's mobilized base, that grip has held on with gobs of money from centralized, deep-pocket sources -- endlessly reinforcing continual deference to corporate power and an ongoing embrace of massively profitable militarism.

Pelosi has earned a reputation as an excellent manager, and she has certainly managed to keep herself in power atop Democrats in the House. She's a deft expert on how Congress works, but she seems out of touch -- intentionally or not -- with the millions of grassroots progressives who are fed up with her kind of leadership.

Those progressives should not reconcile with Pelosi, any more than they should demonize her… There is much to counter at the top of the party. Pelosi still refuses to support single-payer enhanced "Medicare for all."

As on many other issues, she -- and others, such as the more corporate-friendly House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer -- are clinging to timeworn, Wall Street-friendly positions against powerful political winds generated by years of grassroots activism.

Increasingly, such leadership is isolated from the party it claims to lead. Yet the progressive base is having more and more impact. As a Vox headline proclaimed, more than a year ago, "The stunning Democratic shift on single-payer: In 2008, no leading Democratic presidential candidate backed single-payer. In 2020, all of them might." The Medicare for All Caucus now lists 76 House members.

Any progressive should emphatically reject Pelosi's current embrace of a "pay-go" rule that would straitjacket spending for new social programs by requiring offset tax hikes or budget cuts.

Her position is even more outrageous in view of her fervent support for astronomical military spending. Like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (who was just re-elected to his post), Pelosi went out of her way last winter to proclaim avid support for President Trump's major increase in the already-bloated Pentagon budget, boasting: "In our negotiations, congressional Democrats have been fighting for increases in funding for defense."

Whether our concerns involve militarism, social equity, economic justice, civil liberties, climate change or the overarching necessity of a Green New Deal, the Democratic Party must change from the bottom up…

During the Obama years, by deferring to top-tier party leaders, many in the Progressive Caucus showed themselves to be unreliable advocates for progressive causes when push came to shove -- during the 2009 health care debate, for example… 

While the governing body of the party, the Democratic National Committee, gave ground this year on such matters as internal party democracy (disempowering superdelegates in the process), senior Democrats have retained a firm hold on such powerful mechanisms as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)…

Yeah, so much for the progressive movement in the Democratic Party.  There will be no change, there will be no justice for the Americans murdered, maimed and brutalized aboard the U.S.S. Liberty.  America’s midterm election results are in and it has been decided, warmongering Zionist Republicans and warmongering Zionist Democrats have won. 

Pelosi will return as Speaker to continue the work of Paul Ryan and the corporatist agenda.  Pelosi isn’t the only slap in the face of the Democrats who voted for a change, there’s the Senate minority leader too.  From TheIntercept:

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Chuck Schumer Caved to Facebook and Donald Trump. He Shouldn’t Lead Senate Democrats.

IT WASN’T Donald Trump who said he opposed the nuclear deal with Iran because “we will be worse off with this agreement than without it,” while lying about the contents of that deal.

It wasn’t Mike Pence who said that “since the Palestinians in Gaza elected Hamas … to strangle them economically until they see that’s not the way to go makes sense.”

It wasn’t John Bolton who voted for the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2002, saying that Saddam Hussein was engaged in a “vigorous pursuit of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons.”

It wasn’t Mike Pompeo who said, “It’s easy to sit back in the armchair and say that torture can never be used. But when you’re in the foxhole, it’s a very different deal.”

It wasn’t Stephen Miller who responded to the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris by suggesting “a pause may be necessary” in the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States.

It wasn’t Betsy DeVos who joined a group of finance industry executives for breakfast only a few weeks after the 2008 financial crash and told them, “We are not going to be a bunch of crazy, anti-business liberals.”

Forget the hawks, blowhards, and kakistocrats of the Trump administration. You know who made all these statements? It was Chuck Schumer.

Yes, the fourth-term Democratic senator from New York has a long history of making really right-wing and rancid remarks. Yet on Wednesday morning, Schumer was re-elected as minority leader by acclamation in a closed-door meeting of Senate Democrats. They didn’t even bother to vote on it.

By Wednesday evening, though, the New York Times had published a blockbuster investigation into Facebook, which reminded us how Schumer, in the words of my colleague Glenn Greenwald, “has long been the embodiment of everything sleazy, legally corrupt, corporatist and craven in Washington.”

What did the Times say about the newly re-elected Senate minority leader?

In at least one instance, the company also relied on Mr. Schumer, the New York senator and Senate Democratic leader. He has long worked to advance Silicon Valley’s interests on issues such as commercial drone regulations and patent reform. During the 2016 election cycle, he raised more money from Facebook employees than any other member of Congress, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Mr. Schumer also has a personal connection to Facebook: His daughter Alison joined the firm out of college and is now a marketing manager in Facebook’s New York office, according to her LinkedIn profile.

In July, as Facebook’s troubles threatened to cost the company billions of dollars in market value, Mr. Schumer confronted [Sen. Mark] Warner, by then Facebook’s most insistent inquisitor in Congress.  Back off, he told Mr. Warner, according to a Facebook employee briefed on Mr. Schumer’s intervention. Mr. Warner should be looking for ways to work with Facebook, Mr. Schumer advised, not harm it. Facebook lobbyists were kept abreast of Mr. Schumer’s efforts to protect the company, according to the employee.

To be clear: The leader of the Senate Democrats tried to bully a fellow Democratic senator to “back off” from investigating a company where his daughter works and which gives him more money than any other member of Congress. Why isn’t this a bigger story? How is this not a resigning issue?

Remember, there are, as of right now, 47 elected Senate Democrats. Almost any of them — with the glaring exception of the pretend-Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia — would do a better job of leading the party than Schumer.

As I argued earlier this week, the next two years in U.S. politics will be a 24/7 battle for the future of American democracy; a relentless fight against fascism, racism, and white nationalism. Are we really expected to believe that Schumer will be the leader of the #Resistance in the Senate ? Don’t make me laugh…

In February 2018, Trump signed off “on the biggest budget the Pentagon has ever seen: $700 billion.” Schumer’s response? “We fully support President Trump’s Defense Department’s request,” his office announced.

In May 2018, Trump moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, in defiance of the international community. Schumer’s response? “In a long overdue move, we have moved our embassy to Jerusalem,” he declared, adding: “I applaud President Trump for doing it.”

In August 2018, prior to the Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Trump nominated a bunch of new judges to fill vacancies in a number of federal district courts. Schumer’s response? As Vox reported, the Senate minority leader “reached an agreement late Tuesday with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to fast-track the confirmations of 15 Trump-nominated judicial picks...” 

Man, I think I’m going to be sick.  What Pelosi and Schumer and their cadre of dinosaurs fail to understand is that the Democrats won in spite of them, not because of them.  They are despicable and don’t’ deserve the support of any Democrats.

Which country’s interests do the Deep State’s foreign policy serve, certainly not America’s.  The only thing that can change the status quo would be an educated, activated electorate, or perhaps a quiet, genteel First Lady with the ear of the President to steer the country into a new direction.  Let’s hope Melania wins out and the President truly drains this putrid, bi-partisan swamp.