In spite of the massive amount of suffering the American
people are going through, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and Senate
Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell dismissed congress for their annual month-long
August vacation. The government ordered
shutdown has resulted in over 20 million jobs lost many never to return.
The last emergency package expired the day before congress
left for vacation leaving millions facing eviction, foreclosure, hunger,
inability to pay for necessities like phones and car payments as well as being left
with the responsibility to educate their children. But congress just couldn’t be bothered, off
they went.
Due to the government imposed quarantine there has been a
huge spike in depression, alcoholism and drug addiction plaguing the American
people. Many have suffered and died from
delayed medical treatment or surgeries.
Many with addictions have suffered from prohibition of in-person AA
meetings, psychiatrist appointments and physical contact and interaction.
For those who have lost their insurance due to job loss,
Nancy Pelosi’s answer is for congress to make sure those insurance premiums are
paid. For those who fall between the
chasm-sized cracks, you’re on your own.
One would think any decent government under these circumstances
would at least entertain the idea of universal healthcare instead of our Wall
Street profit driven nightmare that the American people have had to endure for
generations. Ahh, but one would be
wrong, congress just can’t be bothered.
However, rain or shine or dead of night, there’s one thing the corrupt congressional/military/media industrial complex really, really cares about, it is defeating and removing Donald J. Trump from office. So desperate are they to remove Trump that nothing else matters, not Covid, not job loss, not cities burning to the ground, not hunger and homelessness, for those congress just can’t be bothered. From Revolver News:
Excerpt:
Neocons Levy False Attacks on Trump to Distract From Hideous Waste of
Blood and Treasure Overseas
For the past two days, the press and the entire political
establishment have crawled out of the fetid swamp to launch one of their most
deranged attacks yet on President Trump. They’ve accused him of the grave
offense of ridiculing America’s fallen soldiers.
This attack has only one goal. They do not want you, dear reader, to
actually think deeply about who has really used and abused American’s bravest
soldiers. The answer, unambiguously,
is our utterly failed ruling class. America’s corrupt ruling class
has recklessly sacrificed the precious blood of our brave warriors not for the
betterment of America, but for the enrichment of Washington.
The claim, as reported by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic, is this:
When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne
American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute
decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service
wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.
Trump rejected the
idea of the visit because he feared his
hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American
war dead, according to four people
with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day.
In a conversation with senior
staff members on the morning of
the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled
with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to
the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers”
for getting killed.
…
On Memorial Day 2017, Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery, a
short drive from the White House. He was accompanied on this visit by John
Kelly, who was then the secretary of homeland security, and who would, a short
time later, be named the White House chief of staff. The two men were set to visit Section 60, the 14-acre area of the
cemetery that is the burial ground FOR THOSE KILLED IN AMERICA’S MOST RECENT
WARS.
Kelly’s son Robert is buried in Section 60. A first lieutenant in the
Marine Corps, Robert Kelly was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan. He was 29. Trump
was meant, on this visit, to join John Kelly in paying respects at his son’s
grave, and to comfort the families of other fallen service members. But according to sources with knowledge of
this visit, Trump, while standing by Robert Kelly’s grave, turned
directly to his father and said, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
[The Atlantic]
There is, of course, no evidence that this ever happened. Goldberg
cites only unnamed sources who have refused to go on the record. Plenty
of on-the-record people deny it. Even Donald Trump’s mortal enemy, John Bolton,
denied the charge.
Jeffrey Goldberg, who
wants to tar Donald Trump as hostile to the troops, has far more of a claim to be
the mortal enemy of the American people. As a major neocon
propagandist, Goldberg pushed false claims and false narratives to drag the
United States into the disastrous War in Iraq.
In 2002, Goldberg published an award-winning article pushing the false
narrative that Saddam Hussein was in kahoots with Al Qaeda. In another
article, he furthered the false idea that Hezbollah and Saddam Hussein might be
aligned, and Hezbollah would act as an Iraqi proxy in the event of war.
Hezbollah, as a Shiite militia backed by Iran, actually hated Saddam.
Goldberg was one of the Iraq war’s chief cheerleaders and enablers.
Today, it’s obvious that war was a tragic waste. Thousands of our bravest, most patriotic Americans were killed or
horrifically maimed. To ask what
those soldiers died for is not mockery.
It is an essential question, one whose answer should fill all Americans with
overwhelming rage against the corrupt, permanent ruling class.
Goldberg
also accuses Trump of not wanting veteran amputees to participate in his 4th of
July military parade. Aside from the fact that this is almost assuredly
vicious calumny, a far more worthy question would be why America has so many veteran
amputees (almost 1,700 from Iraq and Afghanistan combined).
The answer, of course, is people like Jeffrey Goldberg: Leaders who
through vanity, stupidity, and dishonesty drove America into far-off wars
that didn’t serve the country’s interests, and then perpetuated them for years
with no plan for actual victory.
Trump is fighting to conserve American blood and treasure, while
Goldberg and his allies are fighting to throw more of it down the drain in
pointless and endless foreign wars. At
his perch as chief propagandist at The Atlantic, Goldberg has done nothing but
agitate for more endless wars.
In 2016, Goldberg helped ignite the Russia hoax, calling Trump a
Putin puppet because he didn’t see why U.S. troops should act as human shields
for European states that are unwilling to defend themselves. In 2019,
Goldberg profiled former Defense Secretary James Mattis in a piece meant to shame Trump for trying to bring U.S. troops home
from Syria.
Just this past year the ruling class whose interests Goldberg so assiduously
represents pushed a dubious intelligence leak to try to undermine America’s
withdrawal from Afghanistan, a
withdrawal that arguably should have happened 18 years ago.
The D.C. swamp doesn’t want you
thinking about the blood and treasure wasted on these ruinous conflicts. They don’t want you to think about the
billions of dollars they have siphoned off of the massive defense contracts
necessary to fund these endless foreign conflicts.
And they most assuredly don’t want you to think about the countless
brave patriots ripped away prematurely from their families and communities.
Instead, they’re desperate to distract Americans with ridiculous claims about
what the President supposedly said two years ago. The American people will not
fall for their dirty tricks in November.
Trump’s response to the anonymous Pentagon allegations was anything but defensive. In true Trump form, The Donald exposed the military industrial complex for the parasites they are. From La Rouche.pub:
Excerpt:
Trump Insists ‘We’re Getting Out of the Endless Wars,’ Leaving Pentagon Bigwigs Disgruntled
Sept. 8, 2020 (EIRNS)—President
Donald Trump made pointed remarks yesterday opposing “endless wars,” calling for bringing “our soldiers home,” and blasting the military-industrial complex
for wanting to prolong wars.
He spoke at a Labor Day press
conference. The further, unspoken background
to his charges, includes elements in military and civilian networks backing
actual insurrection. This was addressed directly, and denounced, Sept.
5, by Col. Richard Black (ret.), at the Schiller Institute international
conference (see separate slug).
Trump said to the reporters,
“Biden ... sent our youth off to
fight in these crazy endless wars.
It’s one of the reasons the military—I’m not saying the military is in love
with me; the soldiers are. The top
people in the Pentagon probably aren’t because they want to do nothing but
fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and
make the planes and make everything else stay happy.
But we’re getting out of the
endless wars.... And I said,
‘That’s good. Let’s bring our soldiers back home. Some people don’t like to
come home. Some people like to continue to spend money.’ One cold-hearted globalist betrayal after another, and that’s
what it was.”
Trump’s comments sparked
outrage from across the political spectrum from neo-conservative Bill Kristol
to California Democrat Ted Lieu. CNN’s Ryan Brown called Trump’s remarks “an unprecedented public
attack by a sitting U.S. president on the leadership of the U.S. military.”
At the very least, Brown and the others glaringly ignored the most obvious facts of life: the well-known
revolving door between the military and defense establishment on one
side and the defense industry, through which retired officers and former
senior defense officials take jobs with defense contractors for salaries
several times their retired pay.
Between 2008 and 2018, at
least 380 high-ranking Pentagon officials were hired by top defense contractors
after leaving public office, including 25 generals, 9 admirals, 43
lieutenant generals and 23 vice admirals, according to a report by the Project
On Government Oversight (POGO), reported recently by RT.
These howling critics were in turn
reminded by journalist Glenn Greenwald and conservative journalist Mollie
Hemingway of President Gen. (ret.) Dwight
Eisenhower’s warning about the military-industrial complex in his farewell
speech to the nation in 1961.
These reporters tweeted about this.
Trump then re-tweeted their information. Hemingway wrote in one of her tweets. “Trump’s words today about the military
industrial complex’s power in the Pentagon evoke Eisenhower’s warning of same
in his 1961 farewell address. Worth rereading today as that complex runs
its information op.” Hemingway included a link to the text of Eisenhower’s
address hosted by Yale Law School.
Nothing that ails the American people can be cured without
ending the endless wars that have robbed a generation of a chance to attain the
American dream of finding a decent life-sustaining job. The ruling class do not concern themselves
with the suffering of the masses. While
congress languished on yet another lengthy paid vacation at their palatial
summer homes the plight of the American hardly entered their psyche.
What did occupy their attention with an immediacy and urgency that were missing when discussing an emergency financial aid for the American people, was the opportunity to use the pandemic to overthrow the elected government of Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela. From Mint Press:
Excerpt:
Why is the US Government Using Stolen Cash To Pay Doctors in Venezuela?
The US government is using cash stolen from the Venezuelan government
as part of a hearts and minds campaign on behalf of opposition figure Juan
Guaidó.
Venezuelan doctors currently
fighting COVID-19 are receiving funding from an unlikely source: U.S. backed coup leader Juan Guaidó.
Health workers, who sometimes earn less than $20 per month, are receiving $100
dollars monthly from the self-declared
president of Venezuela.
Where is Guaidó getting all this money from? The U.S. government,
who, in turn, is using the billions of dollars it has confiscated from
Venezuela to fund his latest political stunt.
The right-wing opposition inside Venezuela announced it was planning on
distributing more than $18 million to the country’s 62,000 health professionals
over the next three months; around $300 per person.
The money for the campaign
comes from Venezuelan government assets and accounts in the United States,
which the Trump administration has frozen as part of its ongoing war
against the government of Nicolas Maduro, although it has not been disclosed
exactly where from, only that it has
come from Venezuelan “sovereign funds.”
Part
of that war has meant recognizing Guaidó — a previously virtually unknown politician
— as the legitimate president of Venezuela. Economic warfare against the country began in earnest under President Obama, who declared and
redeclared a formal state of emergency across the United States due to the
“unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security” Venezuela
supposedly posed.
However, the sanctions regime was drastically ramped up by President Trump,
who has time and again declared his intention to overthrow Maduro. Sanctions
have led to a near total worldwide blockade of Venezuela, with any company or
nation trading with it cut off from the lucrative U.S. market.
Trump has blocked the importation of lifesaving cancer and diabetes
medicines, as well as medical instruments, leading to an estimated 100,000
deaths according to former UN Special Rapporteur Alfred de Zayas.
Declared illegal by the United
Nations, the sanctions have also stopped Venezuela exporting its primary
product: oil. Due to the threat of
U.S. sanctions, insurance companies have refused to work with Venezuelan oil
companies, and without insurance, oil tankers cannot enter foreign ports. The result of the sanctions has been
economic devastation for the country.
Since January 2019, Guaidó has attempted five separate, unsuccessful
coups against the government, all with vocal U.S. backing. Though he is
presented in Western media as a progressive social-democrat, or even a
socialist, his party’s platform of mass privatization would be more reasonably
compared to that of General Pinochet’s Chile.
A leaked contract between Guaidó and U.S. mercenary Jordan Goudreau
that stipulated that the ex-Green Beret would oversee the creation of a private
death squad, ruthlessly putting down any dissent to his rule in the
event of a successful coup, also suggests a more than passing resemblance to
Latin American style fascism. Four more organizers of the botched May coup were
arrested in Colombia last week.
While Guaidó enjoys
overwhelming support from both Democrats and Republicans (despite Trump
labeling him “the Beto O’Rourke of Venezuela” for his vapidity), he
is not a popular figure inside his own country, unable to go anywhere without
crowds of enraged people forming.
Despite receiving a standing ovation from both parties at Trump’s State
of the Union address in February, when he flew back to Caracas after a tour
of the West, he was accosted by airline staff, pelted with trash from onlookers,
covered in beer and other, less pleasant liquids and chased into his car to
shouts of “traitor,” “murderer” and “fascist” from travelers.
THIS INCIDENT WAS UNIRONICALLY DESCRIBED IN THE WESTERN PRESS AS BEING
“GREETED BY A THRONG OF CHEERING SUPPORTERS.” Recent polls from
opposition-sympathetic pollsters show he
has the backing of between three to four percent of Venezuelans, depending on
the wording of the question.
Groomed from a young age by the U.S. government, Guaidó first came to
public attention as a leader in the U.S.-backed student protests of 2007.
Since then he has continually flown back and forth between Caracas and
Washington for meetings, training, and negotiations.
With a flailing economy and a weak
currency, a $10 monthly stipend for health workers currently battling the
COVID-19 outbreak will certainly be a huge benefit to them. While the country’s initial coronavirus response
successfully kept out a pandemic, returning immigrants helped spread the
disease to the point where the country is experiencing around 1,000 new daily
cases, with 460 total deaths nationwide.
While the crisis has worsened, it is orders of magnitude better than
neighboring countries such as Ecuador and Bolivia, where the country’s
neoliberal rulers have let the pandemic rage almost unabated. Meanwhile, U.S. favorite Brazil has the second highest
number of deaths of any country, at nearly 130,000, its president Jair
Bolsonaro continually downplaying and denying the virus’ lethality, despite
contracting it himself. We are “at the mercy of a deranged lunatic. This is no
exaggeration,” wrote independent outlet Brasil Wire, despairing at his actions.
With a hotly-contested election
coming up in November, many commentators on both right and left are warning of
foreign interference. Venezuela, too,
has its own elections this winter, Maduro inviting international observers from
the U.N. and E.U. to oversee the vote, and pardoning over 100 opposition
figures involved in political violence and coups.
Still, those who are so
outraged at the prospect of potential foreign meddling in domestic affairs
appear unconcerned with the U.S.’ latest attempt to bribe the Venezuelan
population into supporting regime change with its own government’s (stolen)
money.
So, just like they are doing in Venezuela, the CIA is using
the excuse of the pandemic in order to overthrow the elected government in
America using the money that has been stolen from US taxpayers through
“pandemic relief.” It is the perfect
ruse for stealing money for covert activity.
In Venezuela the CIA’s puppet president Guido was given
money by for “… a contract between Guaidó and U.S. mercenary Jordan Goudreau
that stipulated that the ex-Green Beret would oversee the creation of a private
death squad, ruthlessly putting down any dissent to his rule…”
So who are Antifa?
Who are Black Lives Matter? Are
they the equivalent to the U.S. mercenary Jordan Goudreau’s “creation of a
private death squad, ruthlessly putting down any dissent to the systemic
corruption of ruling class?”
There was a caller into C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program some
time ago who made such a salient point.
Although the subject was abortion, it pertains to what is happening
today.
C-span caller June 30th
“These callers who love the unborn and hate the born. God said, “How can you claim to love that which you have not seen and hate that which you do see?” Right now we have Black Lives Matter. How many of them are out there trying to make provisions to take care of the born? No, but they can take away food stamps and care for the living but they love the unborn. That’s hypocrisy.”
“Again,
how can you claim to love that which you have not seen and hate that which you
do see?”
He’s so right. So what is it that Antifa and Black Live Matter want? Are they demonstrating against the genocide of black lives in America’s war zones of Yemen, or Iraq, or Syria, or Venezuela, or and of the multitude of nations devastated by the CIA? Or, is this the CIA bringing a color revolution to America? From PaulCraig Roberts:
Excerpt:
America’s Color
Revolution
I have provided
evidence that the military/security complex, using the media and the Democrats,
intends to turn the November election into a color revolution… The
CIA is very experienced at color revolutions, having pulled them off in a
number of countries where the existing government did not suit the CIA.
As we have known since CIA Director John
Brennan’s denunciations of President Trump, Trump doesn’t suit the CIA either. As
far as the CIA is concerned, Trump is no different from Hugo Chavez, Nicolas
Maduro, Charles de Gaulle, Manuel Zelaya, Evo Morales, Viktor Yanukovych, and a
large number of others.
Russiagate was a coup that failed, followed
by the failed Impeachgate coup. Faced with Trump’s reelection and the
realization that upon reelection Trump will be able to deal with the treason against
him, the Deep State has decided to take him out with a color revolution.
The evidence of a
color revolution in the works is abundantly supplied by CNN, MSNBC, New York
Times, NPR, Washington Post and numerous
Internet sites funded by the CIA and the foundations and corporations through
which it operates, all of which are committed to Trump’s ejection from the
Oval Office.
The American public does not realize the
extent to which the institutions of a free society have been penetrated and
turned against freedom. All of these media organizations are establishing
the story in the mind of Americans that Trump will not leave office when he
loses or steals the election and must be driven out.
Emails are arriving from readers in the UK
and Europe reporting that the British and European media are at work preparing
the acceptability of the CIA’s color revolution against President Trump…
The scenarios for
what the American, British, and European media assume to be a necessary color
revolution to drive Trump from office are:
Trump loses the election, refuses to leave
office and must be dislodged or democracy is lost.
Trump wins the election by fraud and must be
dislodged or democracy is lost.
The scenarios do not accommodate Trump actually winning the election by the vote of the people. That outcome is outside the possibilities. According to the media, Trump can only lose or steal the election.
With Antifa and Black Lives Matter now
experienced in violent protests, they will be unleashed anew on American cities
when there is news of a Trump election victory. The media will explain the
violence as necessary to free us from a tyrant and egg on the violence, as will
the Democrat Party. The CIA will be certain that
the violence is well funded.
Trump, isolated in
his own government, which has failed to bring charges against the Obama regime
officials who tried to frame the President of the United States and drive him
from office—Barr and Durham represent
The Establishment, not the President or law—will be cut off from Twitter,
Facebook and from the print and TV media.
All Americans and
the world will hear is that Trump lost and must go or Trump won by vote fraud
and must go. It will be impossible for Trump or anyone to refute the charges…The CIA, the National Endowment for
Democracy, Radio Liberty, etc., have used color revolution against others who
stood in the way of the American National Security State. Only Maduro has
survived them. So far.
The Secret Service cooperated with the CIA
and the Joint Chiefs in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
What is a reelected President Trump going to do when the Secret Service refuses
to repel Antifa and Black Lives Matter when they breach White House
Security? There is no doubt whatsoever that the Secret Service is penetrated by
the CIA. How else could President
Kennedy have been assassinated?
American Democracy is on the verge of being
ended for all times, and the world media will herald the event as the successful
overthrowing of a tyrant.
Indeed, as Dr. Roberts points out there are “numerous Internet sites funded by the CIA and the foundations and corporations through which it operates, all of which are committed to Trump’s ejection from the Oval Office.” One of those foundations is the Atlantic Council who recently held a workshop for top spooks. So who is the Atlantic Council? Looking at the “connections and funding” section of Wikipedia this is what I found:
Excerpt:
The Atlantic Council
Connections and funding:
The Atlantic Council has, since its inception, stated it is a
nonpartisan institution, with members "from the moderate
INTERNATIONALIST WINGS OF BOTH PARTIES" in the United States.[9]
Despite its connections, the Council is by charter independent of
the U.S. government and NATO, A REGISTERED 501(C)(3) NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.[2]
In September 2014, Eric Lipton
reported in The New York Times that
since 2008, the US organization had received donations from more than
twenty-five foreign governments. Lipton reports that a major donor
Bahaa Hariri complained to the Council about the founding head of the Rafik
Hariri Center for the Middle East calling
the overthrow of Mohammed Morsi in Egypt a military coup. Four months later, the founding head
resigned from her position.[10]
In 2014, The Atlantic Council produced a report promoting the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) -- a proposed
trade-accommodation agreement between the European Union and the U.S. -- with the financial backing of FedEx, who
were simultaneously lobbying Congress directly to decrease transatlantic
tariffs.[11]
In 2015 and 2016, the three
largest donors, giving over $1 million USD each, were US
millionaire Adrienne Arsht (executive vice chair[12]), Lebanese billionaire
Bahaa Hariri (estranged brother of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri[13]),
and the United Arab Emirates.[14][15] THE
UKRAINIAN OLIGARCH RUN BURISMA HOLDINGS DONATED $100,000 PER YEAR FOR THREE
YEARS TO THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL starting in 2016.[16] The
full list of financial sponsors includes many military, financial, and
corporate concerns.[17]
THE LEADING DONORS IN 2018
WERE FACEBOOK AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.[18] A report by the Center
for International Policy's Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative of the
top 50 think tanks on the University of Pennsylvania's Global Go-To Think Tanks
rating index found that during the
period 2014-2018 the Atlantic Council received the fourth-highest amount of
funding from outside the United States compared to other think
tanks, with a total of more than US$12
million from donors that included eighteen European nations, the European Union
itself, NATO, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.[19]
Well now that we know who the Atlantic Council is and who funds them, let’s see what went on during the recent soirée they hosted for America’s top spooks. From Mint Press:
Excerpts:
Patriot Act Coauthor Michael Chertoff Touts More Election Security as
Federal ID System Looms
Calls to overhaul the legacy bureaucratic systems of the U.S. with
cutting-edge AI-driven mass tracking and surveillance technologies are
intensifying AT THE TOP ECHELONS OF
THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE WITH ALL EYES ON THE 2020 ELECTION.
Keeping in line with the trend of
governance consolidation taking place among current and former members of the
American political establishment, such
as the recent lovefest between ex-president George W. Bush and liberal elites,
Michael Chertoff, once Bush’s DHS Secretary and coauthor of the Patriot
Act along with two of his DHS peers sat DOWN AT AN EVENT HOSTED BY THE ATLANTIC
COUNCIL ON WEDNESDAY TO CALL FOR A “STEPPED-UP RESPONSE TO ELECTION THREATS.”
Janet Napolitano and Jeh Johnson,
both former DHS secretaries under Obama, joined Chertoff IN ENDORSING
THE FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF A REPORT PUBLISHED BY THE HOST’S Scowcroft
Center for Strategy and Security, titled “Future DHS Project.”
The study was sponsored by the Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC), a military
intelligence contractor with close ties to Michael Chertoff’s D.C.-based
security advisory firm, the Chertoff Group, and Century Link; a
defense telecommunications contractor, which was just awarded a disputed $1.6
Billion contract to manage core network and access services for the
DoD.
The trio of former DHS heads warned that “Russia, China and Iran are
actively interfering in the 2020 U.S. elections,” as outlined in an
assessment issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
in August, which reportedly contains “detailed evidence” of the alleged
interference.
Janet Napolitano, who last June stepped down as President of the
University of California where she was directly implicated in the creation of a
$175 million secret slush fund, said that the intelligence on Russian
interference was “quite clear” and urged Trump to ramp up international
sanctions and “deterrence.”
CHERTOFF, FOR HIS PART, DISMISSED
THE PRESIDENT’S ABILITY TO DO ANYTHING about the purported Russian
interference because of “credibility issues”
and instead called for state and municipal authorities across the country to
implement voting security measures themselves, such as new “OPTIONS FOR VOTERS
TO CAST BALLOTS.”
A Federal ID to save us all
At a Virtual Collaboration Event that was taking place simultaneously and
organized by the FedID, “the U.S. Government’s annual identity conference since
1995,” Gay Gilbert of the Department of
Labor’s Office of Unemployment Insurance (OUI) delivered her remarks about the “perfect storm” for a federal ID
system.
Gilbert, a 10-year veteran of the OUI, is in charge of processing
unemployment insurance claims, which skyrocketed as a result of the
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act from an average
200,000 claims per week to over six million a week, REFERRED TO THE BILL AS AN “AMAZING MAGNET FOR FRAUDSTERS…”
Cyber Command Gets New
Surveillance Powers Under Guise of Battling Election Meddling
US Cyber Command and the Pentagon are availing themselves of the
Russian meddling narratives and added a few others to justify the creation of a cyberwar army with international and
domestic capabilities via the National Guard.
The severe strain imposed by pandemic-response LEGISLATION AND A
STALLED ECONOMY ON U.S. BUREAUCRATIC
INSTITUTIONS IS OPENING THE DOOR FOR PRIVATE SECTOR companies like SAIC and
Century Link, owered to undertake the
massive overhaul of its ‘legacy’ systems to integrate emerging cloud-based, AI-governance
and security structures...
The solution to these problems, they assert, is a new federal identity
management system underpinned by a federal digital ID, which Benji
Hutchinson, vice president of NEC Corp., believes is a trend that began in the
aftermath of 9-11, that is now reaching critical velocity as a result of
“pandemic things.”
The cost of chaos
A FEDERAL ID SYSTEM COMES HAND IN HAND WITH A FEDERAL POLICE FORCE,
WHICH IS NOW IN THE OFFING AS CALLS TO “DEFUND THE POLICE” ARE dovetailing perfectly with efforts to implement
an AI-driven mass surveillance apparatus by people like former Google and
Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt, who heads the National Security Commission on
Artificial Intelligence NSCIA and who also,
along with other Silicon Valley billionaires, funds organizations like the
“bipartisan” New America, which looks to confront “the challenges caused by
rapid technological and social change and seizing the opportunities those
changes create.”
As Defense Bill Divides Senate,
the Pentagon Shows a Crack in the Armor
The post 9-11 reality of the Department of Homeland Security may be
coming to an end, but what lies ahead for the national security state?
Among those opportunities, apparently, is the 2020 U.S. presidential
election, which another “bipartisan” organization, “convened” by New
America senior fellow Rosa Brooks, called the Transition Integrity Project
(TIP), has been “war-gaming” the election since its inception.
As Whitney Webb reports, TIP
produced several “scenarios” in their table-top exercises about what would take
place should there be a contested election or a Trump victory. In all outcomes, CHAOS ENSUES AND A NUMBER
OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL MEASURES ARE TAKEN BY THE “NEVER TRUMPER” NETWORKS IN BOTH
PARTIES TO GUARANTEE A BIDEN PRESIDENCY.
The “perfect storm” Gilbert talked
about could very well spill over into the streets of America as election-day
nears AND THE PANDEMIC-INDUCED COMA, THAT AFFLICTS THE AMERICAN ECONOMY WILL,
no doubt, leave the most vulnerable
among us in a precarious situation with only the POWER TO ACCEPT WHAT IS
OFFERED BY THE EVER-ENCROACHING TENTACLES OF THE BURGEONING TECHNOCRATIC STATE
COMPOSED OF MEMBERS OF THE ‘UNIPARTY’.
Betting on all horses
Pandemic things also figured in
Chad Wolff’s “State of the Homeland” address at DHS headquarters on this same,
eventful day. The acting head of DHS
praised Donald Trump’s “decisive and rapid action” over the nation’s COVID-19
response, which “led to our federal government to pursue a whole-of-America
response.”
Political rhetoric aside, Wolf echoed the same “concerns” presented
by his predecessors at the Atlantic Council’s event in regards to the
challenges presented by “new aggressive tactics” targeting the United States
“through cyber and economic means…”
Former Google and Alphabet CEO, Eric Schmidt now chairs the U.S.
Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Advisory Board, in addition to his
chairmanship of the NSCAI, is leading the charge to implement an AI-driven mass
surveillance system, motivated by a desire to maintain U.S. technological
hegemony in the 21st century. Like Gilbert and NEC’s Hutchinson, SCHMIDT HAS FOUND THAT THE CORONAVIRUS
CRISIS HAS REMOVED MANY OF THE “OBSTACLES” PREVENTING ITS IMPLEMENTATION.
Indeed, Schmidt is well-positioned to take advantage. The Trump
administration has suffered from a “failure of direction, a failure of
leadership at pretty much every level of our government,” Schmidt declared last week on a podcast.
A data analytics company he backed
and where he is also a board member, WAS
HIRED BY THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN BACK IN APRIL 2019. Civis Analytics is comprised of
a “group of engineers and statisticians,” LED BY OBAMA’S 2012 CAMPAIGN
ANALYTICS CHIEF, DAN WAGNER, WHO WERE “CREDITED WITH PRODUCING OBAMA’S
SURPRISING 5 MILLION-VOTE MARGIN OF VICTORY,” according to Bloomberg.
Just like in Venezuela where years of CIA/US sanctions have
brought the people to their knees, the expected outcome is for the people to
just accept whatever horrific deal the CIA offers through their puppet
Guido.
The same is happening in America where the CIA/US has shut
down the entire economy then failed to offer relief before going on
vacation. Now they seem to believe that
because the systemically corrupt congress failed to provide relief for the
suffering American people before their vacation, the American people will
accept whatever table scraps are offered upon Pelosi’s return, blaming Trump
for their misery.
So just what is the choice of foreign policy that is laid before the American people? From Consortium News:
Excerpt:
Voting in a De-Facto Military State
Between Biden and Trump, U.S.
voters have no alternative to our anxious empire’s lawless conduct abroad.
What are we in for on the foreign
policy side come Nov. 3? Whoever wins
this election, Joe Biden or Donald Trump, the answers before us are grim.
For those who vote, the choice lies between a mentally impaired restorationist and a paralyzed captive of what some of
us call the Deep State.
Think about this. The illiberal
liberals, the only kind there are now, advertise Nov. 3 as the most decisive election
in generations. This assertion is questionable even in the domestic context,
but that is another conversation. As to the direction of U.S. foreign policy,
there is no question: Between Biden and
Trump, we are at bottom offered no alternative to our anxious empire’s conduct
abroad.
Lawlessness, war and more war, destructive interventions in the name of
righteous humanitarianism: We have no one but ourselves to blame for what
will confront us in the four years to come. The divisive, nonsensical distractions
of identity politics, “intersectionalism,” and all such narcissistic
preoccupations carry a cost: No word is
spoken among “progressives” about America’s imperial adventures. The lives of our countless victims abroad
do not matter. The structures of power remain unchallenged.
This election is indeed of great
significance, in my view. Given the
absolute absence of any check on Washington’s projection of hegemonic power,
known politely as “global leadership,” it will force a question upon us it
is long past time to pose: Do Americans live under a de facto military
government?
Tenuous Civilian Control of
Pentagon
Anyone who thinks this suggestion
is extreme should consider how tenuous civilian control of the Pentagon has
been for many years. The defense industries bought Capitol
Hill long ago — this is documented fact, however seldom acknowledged.
The military-industrial complex’s power over the executive is just as real but
less defined, and it has been especially apparent since Trump began his
presidential campaign in 2015.
Foreign policy took up several
important planks in Trump’s platform, readers may recall. He campaigned promising to reduce the military’s presence abroad, end
our wars of adventure, ease NATO into the history books, and make a
constructive relationship with Russia out of the unnecessary hostilities Barack
Obama and Hillary Clinton, his secretary of state, left behind. These positions
won him votes.
THEY WON HIM ENEMIES, TOO. A bevy of top national security officials
and retired generals published open letters in The New York Times calling Trump
a threat to national security. Michael Hayden, a retired general AND FORMER
CIA DIRECTOR, SUGGESTED IN FEBRUARY 2016 THAT THE MILITARY WOULD REFUSE TO
FOLLOW ORDERS IF TRUMP WERE ELECTED AND PURSUED HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISES.
Foiled Incumbent
Unsurprisingly, we have seen
virtually no progress toward Trump’s objectives since he took office in January
2017. The Pentagon and the national
security apparatus have ignored, circumvented, or otherwise subverted his
orders to withdraw troops from foreign theaters, notably Syria and now Germany.
Relations with Russia have dramatically worsened. NATO still pretends it has
a function in the post–Soviet era.
These failures have three
causes.
One, Trump is surrounded
by people vigorously, ideologically opposed to his foreign policy goals, chief
among them John Bolton, briefly his national security adviser, and Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo. The only way to explain these appointments is to assume they
were forced upon him. Trump, after all,
doesn’t refer to the State Department as “the Deep State Department” for no
reason. He is telling us something about his circumstances.
Two, Trump has proven impossibly erratic, saying
one thing and doing another or doing one thing and later on saying another. This
reflects his ignorance of the policymaking process and his near-complete lack
of an intellectual framework through which to judge events and formulate
strategies to sustain his objectives. Deal
making in the fashion of a New York real estate developer simply doesn’t do it.
Three, Trump is
far too conscious of his image. This prompts him to cave when the Pentagon or
the spooks defy or circumvent him. In
spring 2017, when the military contradicted his early efforts to deescalate in
Syria, Trump entered his “my generals, my military” phase, saying he granted
the Pentagon “total authorization” to act as it saw fit. With
after-the-fact capitulations such as this, Trump has made himself a pushover
for the hawks and Deep Staters who surround him.
There are a couple of things
working in Trump’s favor. He’s to be credited for sticking with his
original policy goals, even if they lie around him in ruins at this point. A second term might give him a
chance to begin cleaning house and installing people who reflect his
objectives.
In July Trump nominated Douglas MacGregor, a retired Army colonel, to
replace loyalist Richard Grenell as ambassador to Berlin. MacGregor, like
Grenell, is entirely on Trump’s page: He favors a reduced military footprint in
the Middle East, a peace deal with the North Koreans and altogether a foreign
policy to replace what now amounts to a military policy. A severe critic of NATO’s advance toward Russia’s borders, McGregor
called the alliance a “zombie” in remarks made public last year.
But let us avoid mistaken
judgments. First of all, a Situation
Room stuffed to the rafters with Doug MacGregors is unlikely to bring the
hamstringing of our 45th president to an end should Trump win a second term.
The Deep State is also broad, and it has been both for a long time.
Second, when Trump took office a
few of us argued that he was a peculiar messenger but held out the promise of a
renovated foreign policy. I was among the erring. After three and some years, I don’t think Trump has the grounding or
consistency to get any such thing done. Washington is simply too much for him.
More of the same under a second
Trump term is my call — a muddled White House at odds with itself, no
worthwhile shift in policy permissible. Russian President Vladimir Putin
recently offered a pithy take on Trump and his people, as recounted by Pepe
Escobar, the peripatetic free-lancer for Asia Times: “Negotiating with Team Trump is like playing chess with a pigeon: The
demented bird walks all over the chessboard, shits indiscriminately, knocks
over pieces, declares victory, then runs away.”
I do not know the veracity of
Escobar’s account, but it will make four more messy, dangerous years if this is
anything like what we have to look forward to should Trump carry the vote a few
months from now. Through all the fog,
“his generals” will remain “totally authorized.”
Biden & Renewed
Interventionism
There will be no such fog should
Biden win in November, no ambiguity in his foreign policy plans. Biden promises a straight-ahead return to
the policies that prevailed under Obama and Obama’s predecessors: a reclamation
of “global leadership,” a renewed emphasis on interventions we justify, per
usual, by casting ourselves as humanity’s archangels.
The wars and occupations will grind on, the extravagant Pentagon
budgets will remain, the reigning Russophobia will remain. Biden is already well on board with the
emergent Sinophobia.
The thought of a Biden presidency
reminds me of the succession that followed the death of Leonid Brezhnev as the
Soviet leader in 1982. The befuddled Yuri Andropov, who succeeded him, was a
fill-in who came straight from the taxidermist and lasted 15 months. Biden is
our Andropov. The take-home here: Those
around Biden are the ones to watch, as they will have disproportionate power
over policy. This will be a replay of the George W. Bush administration, to
strike another comparison.
Team Biden’s foreign policy
advisers are vast in number. Foreign Policy counts more than 2,000 of them,
organized into 20 working groups covering specific issues — arms control,
defense, intelligence, humanitarian missions, and so on —and geographies:
Europe, the Middle East, East Asia. These
people come from consultancies, think tanks, the State Department, academia.
There is a heavy layer of Obama administration holdovers and, of course,
Pentagon bureaucrats, some quite senior.
It is those to whom these groups
report who count. Biden’s inner circle
appears to include Jake Sullivan (Obama loyalist, apostle of American
exceptionalism), Antony Blinken (Obama man, Russophobe), Susan Rice (warmonger,
Russophobe, liar in public), Samantha Power (the humanitarian interventionists’
Joan of Arc), Nicolas Burns (State vet, “global leadership” hack), and Michele
Flournoy (Pentagon careerist, hawk). These
are joined, let us not forget, by the scores of anti–Trump Republican
warmongers who have recently colonized the Democratic Party.
There are a threat and two
certainties here. This election could
end up opening the way for the U.S. eventually to become in fact what it has
long been in effect — a one-party state. The foreign policy consensus the
Biden camp now represents could solidify to the consistency of granite. This
should frighten all of us — more, in the long run, than the Trump regime’s
evident and many ineptitudes.
In addition, this will be an
administration more thoroughly wedded to the military than Trump’s first term
has proven. At least with Trump there was contention, bureaucratic warfare,
infighting, objection. There will be none between the Biden White House and the
Pentagon.
Is there somebody to vote for on
Nov. 3? Is any vote a vote for generals?
There isn’t going to be a presidential election in November, there is going to be a war. The pain of this war, like all wars will be heavily borne on the innocent citizens. Donald Trump isn’t taking on Joe Biden, he’s taking on the systemically corrupt congressional/military/media complex and the shadow government it spawned. The House has returned this week from their month-long vacation, rested, tanned and refreshed. Now Pelosi going to play hardball to get a Coronavirus relief package through. From Tom Luongo:
Excerpt:
Pelosi’s Choice: Steal the Election or Be Destroyed
I’ve learned a few things about
politics by watching my goats over the years. Herd queens have to be beaten to
step aside. They won’t give up status willingly. I saw this first hand when a vicious
challenge ended with a broken horn, humiliation and blood. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a tough old goat who is clearly making
her last stand, facing the toughest fight of her political career.
Congress is at a crossroads over a
stimulus package before the election.
Pelosi has run out of good choices to force the Republicans into another bad
deal, which is her trademark move.
Internal squabbling and strategic
missteps has her charting a most dangerous path. The House returns to session today facing an
impasse over another stimulus bill which see both sides entrenched in their
positions. Just under two months until
the election, however, the big question
is, “Who has the leverage?”
Pelosi always fronts that she’s on
top of things. She rules House Democrats with an iron fist and somehow always
manages to win these confrontations. But
this time may be very different. Why? This
time she has no leverage. This time the Republicans have the upper
hand. Even Bloomberg had to admit that the situation is not in Pelosi’s
favor, while talking about all of her options.
Among the unlikely events that
could now break the deadlock: President Donald Trump changing tack amid alarm
about poll numbers, a sudden reversal of
economic indicators that have recently trended upward, and Pelosi or Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell facing a revolt by their own vulnerable,
moderate members.
It isn’t that the economic
situation is good. It is that there is simply no justification for continued abject
panic over COVID-19 to keep people on the dole.
Public opinion has turned against Pelosi and the Democrats
in places where they pushed too hard. PEOPLE
WANT THEIR LIVES BACK AND FOR THE LOOTING AND RIOTING TO END.
Now they are faced with a stark
choice: hope the polls are right and Joe Biden will be president on November
4th or challenge the election if they aren’t.
Neither of those choices leave
Pelosi with any option to cave to Senate Republicans, especially as Mitch
McConnell gave his people the opportunity to vote for something last week to
take back to the voters. All
Chuck Schumer could do is filibuster.
It’s clear Pelosi’s strategy has been to allow destruction in
battleground states and blame Trump for it. This was their cover story for
forcing the Republicans to bail out failing Blue States whose economies were
already in trouble regardless of the COVID-19 lockdowns. States like California
and Illinois need massive bail outs to survive.
Hell, California needs a lot more
than money at this point… Pelosi
is now the villain in this political psycho-drama and all she’s doing is
playing to her base, which is dwindling in real terms.
Once talks break down
completely and there is no hope of a deal, Trump will unlock some of the
Treasury’s massive $1.57 trillion checking account as emergency spending while
campaigning on Pelosi’s heartlessness.
It’s terrible economics but good
politics. Pelosi can’t fold because she’ll lose control of the House. An internal struggle for leadership will
emerge which she won’t survive, no matter how tough she thinks she still is. Horns break. So do ribs. The Squad is out
for her head.
Trump can’t fold because this is
his opportunity to break the Democrats and show faith in the American people
that they know who’s at fault for their misery.And as long as there is no signs
of stress in the global banking system, which according to the Fed’s latest
balance sheet reports there isn’t, Trump
and Mnuchin have no need to cave to Pelosi’s ridiculous demands.
She’s already come down from $3.6
trillion to around $2 trillion. Trump has rolled back his offers thanks to
improving economic statistics playing even harder ball with her. Pelosi is finally facing a Hobson’s Choice: Cave and lose her power base within the
party, hold firm and lose the election. Since
they are prepared to challenge the results in any event, in her
mind, this is no choice at all.
Yawza, that’s not the only ugly fruit of their evil labor that
the corrupt congress/military/media complex is facing. Their “Ace in the Hole” Coronavirus lock-down
is being mightily challenged as unconstitutional. From Jon Rappoport:
Excerpt:
Covid update: The grand Ohio legal case for our time, against kings on
their thrones
The news is coming fast, the
implications are titanic.
On Monday, I wrote about Thomas
Renz, the Ohio lawyer who is taking on a case for a set of plaintiffs, against
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and the state of Ohio.
The charge: DeWine has created
massive damage through lockdowns and other “containment measures” designed to
stop the spread of the purported coronavirus. Against DeWine, attorney Renz
has mounted a legal case to defeat
both Constitutional violations AND gross scientific fraud.
Update: A crucial part of this case
is the DISCOVERY process. Attorney Renz and his colleagues would have
the opportunity to sit down with key players in the COVID operation and grill
them, in great detail, on matters of fact and science.
Imagine Fauci, Birx, Redfield in
the room having to answer very probing questions UNDER OATH.
And the discovery proceedings
would be made public, as they happen. Renz would be filing periodic
reports with the court.
Another factor. The Ohio court, as part of its verdict,
could grant PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE RELIEF. This means it could order the governor
of Ohio to cancel the State of Emergency—thereby ending all orders and
“containment measures” connected with the Emergency. No lockdowns, no mandatory
masks, no mandatory distancing.
Yes, I’m aware that nothing is a
slam-dunk in the judicial system. Fingers crossed. But this is a chance, an opportunity, a ray of light, a practical and
real possibility. Further, attorney
Renz’s case is a model and a template for other lawyers, in other states and
countries, who want to file similar cases.
When a government declares an Emergency, it must explain and justify it
on the facts, not on lies and deceptions. Otherwise… The Constitution no
longer exists. The Law no longer exists. In their place, there is a reversion to a
time of arbitrary edicts, handed down from kings and their wise ones who
must not be doubted or challenged.
On what rational basis has Governor Mike DeWine taken away the freedom
of citizens? Where is his evidence? What is the quality of that evidence,
beyond the mere claim that “experts are always right”? In his law suit against Governor DeWine,
attorney Renz takes up big questions:
·
What are the REAL COVID case and death numbers?
·
How much flim-flam has been deployed to cook
those numbers?
·
What is the underhanded definition of a COVID
case?
·
Why is the PCR test useless?
·
Can a strip of RNA stand in for a virus that
isn’t defined?
·
Is this a pandemic or is it just “another flu
season?”
These are just a few of the many
questions attorney Renz raises in his lengthy Ohio court filing. He has
shocking answers. They do not depend on the news or the assumed primacy of the
Coronavirus Task Force or a sitting president or a presidential candidate or a
political party or governors. The
answers don’t depend on what Governor DeWine thinks or what he has been told.
You could compare this case to a
proceeding in which the evidence of a law-enforcement lab is challenged purely
on the merits of its findings. The name of the lab doesn’t matter. The
government agency which houses the lab doesn’t matter. The so-called reputation
of the lab doesn’t matter. What matters
is a searchlight centering on fact and truth.
The serious nature of the Ohio proceeding is magnified, because at
stake is the freedom of many, many citizens. Their liberty, as enshrined in
basic Law, is on the line.
We’re at a crossroads. This case
and what happens to it are of vital importance.
Attorney Renz is asking for a jury trial. Citizens would be empaneled
to listen to a profound and detailed UNCOVERING of evidentiary fraud, on a
truly massive scale. And then this
jury would hear how the fraud is leveraging the lockdowns and the destruction
of businesses and lives, and the removal of freedom.
This case puts its arms around the
immediate future of the country, the
Constitution, the basic concept of Law, the difference between a jury and a
King, and whatever still remains of 1776.
This case dives into the difference between claims of science, and
science, and who controls the distinction.
Winning this one would expose a scientific fraud so solid, so dense, the
whole world would see an iron curtain of a century’s duration exploding in
front of their eyes.
Victory requires one imperative:
follow the Law.
CODA…BREAKING… More good news: federal judge declares Pennsylvania
governor’s COVID restrictions unconstitutional.
Bricks are falling out of the walls of the American imprisonment—
CBS News, Pittsburgh: “U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV, an appointee of President Donald Trump, sided with the plaintiffs. Stickman wrote in his ruling that the [Pennsylvania] Wolf administration’s pandemic policies have been overreaching, arbitrary and violated citizens’ constitutional rights…”
FOX News: “The ruling found that [Pennsylvania Governor] Wolf’s restrictions that required people to stay at home, placed size limits on gatherings and ordered ‘non-life-sustaining’ businesses to shut down were unconstitutional.”
In this case, the judge made his ruling strictly on Constitutional
grounds. His conclusion is worth reading:
The Constitution cannot accept the concept of a ‘new normal’ where the
basic liberties of the people can be subordinated to open-ended emergency
mitigation measures. Rather, the
Constitution sets certain lines that may not be crossed, even in an emergency.
Action taken by Defendants [Governor Wolf] crossed those lines. It is the duty
of the Court to declare those actions unconstitutional. Thus, consistent with
the reasons set forth above, the Court will enter judgement in favor of
Plaintiffs.”
NO emergency is so great that it
supersedes individual liberty and freedom.
Even if the science underlying the
official response to COVID were true (which it decidedly is NOT), it wouldn’t
justify tearing away Constitutional and natural freedoms. The resistance to tyranny is
alive.
A million peaceful protestors in
Berlin; 460,000 bikers riding into Sturgis, South Dakota, where Governor Kristi
Noem has never locked down; numerous other protests the mainstream press
refuses to cover; the new groundbreaking
Ohio lawsuit filing I’ve been covering; untold millions of people who know what
a sham and a crime the whole COVID operation really is…
Lights are coming on and the wind
has changed direction.
The lights are coming on and the wind has changed direction
indeed. Trump is not running for reelection
as president against Joe Biden. President
Trump is taking on the systemically corrupt congressional/military/media
complex. Imagine the Ohio Coronavirus lockdown court
case, tried live in front of the American public with a jury made up of regular
American citizens.
Imagine the experts being cross examined on their
science. Imagine other scientists being
called to refute them. How do you prove
there was a justification to impose an unconstitutional shutdown of the economy
that has ruined untold lives?
This isn’t going to be an election, this is going to be a war. At this point the ball appears to be in Trump’s court. This will be Trump vs. systemic congressional/military/media corruption and it will be a fight to the death.
