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CONTENTS
The Good That Trump Could Do xxx
The Dem Communist-Socialst Plan To Harass And Destroy Everything Trump Does To Make America
Great Again - This Confirms Everything We Have Predicted xxx
"Russia Did It" – The Last Stand Of Neoconservatism xxx
NYT Hypes Phony Claim Of Russian US Election Hacking xxx
A Loser’s Malice: What’s Behind Obama’s Attacks on Putin xxx
Ron Paul: What’s Missing From The Russian Hack Argument? xxx
Putin Mocks Democrats As "Shameless Losers", Says Russia Alone Believed In Trump's Victory xxx
Obama Vows To Prove The Unprovable xxx
Wikileaks Has Denied Russia Was Source For DNC Leaks 5 TIMES – Media Still Refuses To Report It xxx
Obama’s Halloween Scare: Temperamentally Unfit President Threatened War With Russia xxx
The 'Triggered' 12 Days Of Trumpian Christmas xxx
Newt Gingrich: Donald Trump’s Twitter Foreign Policy Is ‘Brilliant’ xxx
Person of the Year 2016: The Russian Hacker xxx
Newt Gingrich Says Trump Will Repudiate Up To 70% Of Obama’s Executive Orders xxx
What Happens To A Russia Hacking Story When Someone Checks The Evidence? xxx
Trump Picks Zionist Zealot As International Negotiator xxx
Exit, Hope & Change – The Obama Post-Mortem xxx
CNN Whines Over Trump No-Show At Press Conferences xxx
Post-Truthers, Bullshiters And Politics xxx
Trump And The Phantom Of Democracy xxx
Pardon The Interruption: Clinton Allegation May Force Obama To Act; Clinton To Admit xxx
The Fifth Element xxx
Oh The Irony: While Blaming Trump For “Arms Race,” Obama Signs Momentous “Star Wars II”
Space-Based Weapons Defense Bill xxx
Will Obama Pardon Clinton? And If He Does, Will She Accept? xxx
Big Surprise: Media Betting Obama Will Pardon Hillary Clinton Before He Leaves The White House xxx
They Hate You! CNN Admits That Media Thinks Trump Supporters Are Deplorable Racists xxx
Tripwires For The Trumpsters xxx
Russia "Tired Of Obama Lies About Hackers", Vows Response To Any New Sanctions xxx
The Diplomacy Of Donald J. Trump xxx
Mole Reveals Terrorist Group’s Violent Plans For Donald Trump’s Inauguration xxx
Unprecedented Security Measures Planned For Trump’s Swearing-In Ceremony xxx
Hillary Hacked (Up) The Election xxx
Rachael Maddow’s Newest Anti-Trump Conspiracy Theory Lacks Teeth, Derailed By Kellyanne Conway xxx
It’s Time To Prosecute George Soros xxx
OUTRAGEOUS: Election Hacks Traced Back To Obama’s Department Of Homeland Security xxx
George Soros Conjures Hitler In Attack On 'Ascendant Populists', Warns "Democracy Is Now In Crisis" xxx
The Coup Against Trump And His Military-Wall Street Defense xxx
What Is Henry Kissinger Up To? xxx
Video Game “Mr. President” Based On Non-Stop Assassination Attempts On Donald Trump xxx
Trump Claims US Presidential Transition Not Going Smoothly, Blames Obama xxx
Bombshell: Court Rules Trump ‘Required By Law’ To Pursue Clinton xxx
Trump’s Inauguration To Be Met With Massive Civil Disobedience xxx
Anti-Trump Comics By “Triggered” Feminists Are “An Act Of Political Resistance” xxx
Obama’s Christmas Gift To Trump: A Ministry Of Truth xxx
Reducing Inequality In The Age Of Trump xxx
FBI, DHS Release Report On Russia Hacking xxx
Report On ‘Russian Hacking’ Offers Disclaimers, Barely Mentions Russia xxx
10 Reasons Trump Won't Lead A Nuclear Renaissance xxx
Russia Sanctions? Trump Says US Needs To ‘Get On With Our Lives’ Instead xxx
Dem AGs Warn Trump Against Repealing Obama’s Climate Rule xxx
‘Historic & Impressive’: Britain’s Ambassador To US Breaks Silence On Trump Election xxx
MSM Shouldn’t Cover Trump's Tweets, Forcing Him To Rely On Media To Communicate – CNN Anchor xxx
Putin Says He Won’t Deport U.S. Diplomats As He Looks To Cultivate Relations With Trump xxx
Shock: Joint FBI-Homeland Security Report Fails To Prove Russians Behind Clinton Leaks xxx

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Obama Incites Second Cold War With Russia, Acts On Unproven Allegations xxx
Trump’s Tweets Take A Turn For The Worse xxx
Trump And Israel’s Anti-Semitic Zionists xxx
Russians Attack ‘Political Corpse’ Obama xxx
FBI, DHS Russia Report Begins With Giant Disclaimer 'Providing No Warranties of Any Kind' xxx
A Storm Is Coming xxx
Trump Mocks CNN, NBC; Praises Putin: "Great Move On Delay - I Always Knew He Was Very Smart" xxx
No Expulsion for American Diplomats;Putin Invites Their Kids to a Kremlin Holiday Party xxx
US Must ‘Make The Russians Feel Pain’ Says John Bolton xxx
Ex-CIA Agent On Report Tying Russia To Election Hacking: ‘Absolutely No Evidence’ xxx
Report On Russian Hacking: ‘Case Of Fake News & Propaganda’ xxx
DHS-FBI Report Against Russians is Crap — Our Own Traitors, Not the Russians, Are the Real
Enemy, Faking Evidence – UPDATE 17 xxx
2016: The Year Washington Lost Its Mind
Fake News: CNN Lied About Russian Retaliation Against American Children
In France, Even Le Fig Gets It: "Putin Makes A Mockery Of Obama's Sanctions"
McCain Says Russian Cyber Attacks Against US An 'Act Of War'
'Holds No Water': How Obama Invented 'Russian Hackers'
FBI-DHS Report On Alleged Russian Hacking Does Not Even Claim To Be Accurate
Obama Failed To Prove Alleged Russian Cyberattacks Impacted US Election
Experts Destroy White House ‘Proof’ Of Russian Hacking
WaPo Bashes Trump On Russia
Trump’s Praise for Putin’s Moral High Ground Exposed Obama’s Vindictiveness
Wow! Former NSA Employee Behind Russia Wikileaks Conspiracy Theories Was Caught Sending Dick
Pics Online xxx
Warning To Trump: Don’t Approve GMO, Pesticide, FDA Horror Show You Are Incompetent
On These Vital Subjects Don’t Plunge Ahead, Stop Thinking About Jobs, Jobs, Jobs For Two Seconds xxx
Trump Wishes 'Happy New Year' To All, Including His 'Many' Rudderless 'Enemies'
Donald Trump Promises Hacking Surprise On 'Tuesday or Wednesday'
Trump Questions Claim Of Russia Hacking DNC, Says He ‘Knows Things Other People Don’t’
Trump Says Computers Aren't 'Safe,' Has Information About Russia Hacking Claims
Putin Congratulates Trump, Ignores Obama In New Year Statement
If There Really Was Evidence Of Russian Hacking, The NSA Would Have It
Trump Spokesman On Russia: President –Elect Is Winning
Trump’s Twitter ‘Freaks the Mainstream Media Out’ - Future Oval Office Spokesman
Washington Warmongers Make 11th Hour Attempt To Start A War With Russia
Consigned To The Memory Hole: The Content Of The DNC Leaks
Assange To Hannity: Source For Wikileaks Was Not Russian Government
Wapo Wants Trump Standing For What It Opposes
Alabama Band To March At Inauguration, Igniting Controversy
Traitor? Hillary Clinton Approved Arms Sales, Including Chemical Weapons, To Terror Supporting
Countries After They Paid Her Off xxx
Political Retribution? Trump Press Sec Questions Russia Sanctions, Brings Up Unanswered ‘China Hack’
Will Trump Lift US Sanctions On Russia?
Here’s What Russia Had To Say About Obama, Hacking Accusations And US Sanctions
Trump To ‘Repeal A Lot’ Of Obama’s Actions: Top Aide
Trump Warns Against Blaming Russia For US Election Hacking
10 Ways That Donald Trump Could Try To Reverse The Curse That Obama Has Put On America
Trump's Self-Inflicted Policy Failures
Trump Is Exactly Where The Elites Want Him
How Smart Is That?
Trump Vs The Media
Were RT And Drudge Taken Down So Government Could Control Anti-Russia Narrative?
Turmoil Overshadows First Day Of Republican-Controlled Congress
Washington Post Admits Its 'Russians Hacked A US Utility' Story Was 'Fake News'
Trump Wins Again: House GOP Reverses On Ethics Office Overhaul
CNN Mocked For Using Screengrabs From Fallout 4 In Russian Hacking Story
Trump Targets Healthcare Reform: "Obamacare Just Doesn't Work, And It's Not Affordable"
Trump Reveals "Very Strange" Delay In Russian Intelligence Briefing
Globalist George Soros Claims Trump Is A “Would-Be Dictator” Who Threatens The New World Order
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Trump Flexes Power Over GOP
Schumer Adopts Trump Slogan: GOP Wants To 'Make America Sick Again'
Schumer Promises To Block Trump’s Supreme Court Pick
Women's March On Washington Is Poised To Be The Biggest Anti-Trump Demonstration
Wikileaks Offers $20,000 Reward To Catch Obama Admin Destroying Documents
Sean Hannity Interviews Assange: Full
You’re Being Lied To!
The 'News Media' In This Country Is Completely Controlled
WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived
Fake News Russian Hacking Accusation Persists
Trump to Take Action Against Obama Executive Orders ‘On Day One’ - Pence
President-Elect Trump Endorses Rand Paul’s ‘Audit The Fed’ Bill
Trump Sides With Assange, Casting Doubt On US Intel Case On Hacking
Poll: Trump Election Pushes Confidence In US Economy To Post-Recession High
BUSTED: FBI Never Even Examined The DNC Servers Over Allegations Of Russian Hacking
Democrats Scramble To Convince And Prevent Their Own From Joining Trump’s Team
Trump Aims To Cut The Neocon Deep State Off At The Knees
Democrats See A Rich Future For US Under Trump, Now Attempting To Block Him From Profiting From It
Are Violent Left-Wing Anarchists Plotting Major Disruptions During Trump’s Inauguration?
Twitter Pulpit: Trump Already Breaking Mold Of The Presidency
FBI Didn’t Examine DNC Servers Russia Wrongfully Accused Of Hacking
What's Inside? Obama Gets Report On Russia Hacking, As Republicans Spar On Claims
Hacked or Leaked?
The "Russian Hacking" Story Changes Again
Trump Picks Former Sen. Coats As Director Of National Intelligence
Trump's Cabinet and Top Officials: Appointees and Likely Candidates
Email Headache Returns: New Clinton Messages Show Passwords, Schedules Flowed Freely
Trump Says US Media Lies About Relationship With Assange Over Russia
Russian Cyberattacks Against US An 'Act Of War' Says McCain
Neocon John McCain Accuses Russia Of An Act Of War
Hacker Guccifer Calls US Allegations Against Russia 'Fake Cyber War'
Attempted Coup Against Trump Continues
Key Takeaways From Intelligence Community Testimony On Alleged "Russian Hacking"
New Twist On Fake News Russian Hacking Story
Donald The Reformer: Trump To Revamp 'Politicized' US Intelligence Agencies
Joe Biden: Obama Administration Secretly 'Retaliated' Against Supposed Russian Hacking
Clapper: RT Reporting On US Problems Part Of 'Multifaceted' Russian Campaign To Undermine Elections
Donald Trump 'Orders Barack Obama's Ambassadors To Resign Posts' In Unprecedented Move
US Corporate Press Selectively Publicizes Disagreements Between CIA, President
Trump To Get Briefing, Intel Report Says US Identifies Go-Betweens Who Gave Emails To Wikileaks
Trump Says Focus On Russian Hacking Is A ‘Political Witch Hunt’
Another Embarrassment: NYT Issues An Awkward Confession After Caught Flip-Flopping
Glenn Greenwald On Wikileaks, Russian Hacking, And Distrusting Legacy Media And U.S. Intel (Reason Podcast)
New Intelligence Report Adds No Evidence Of "Russian Hacking"
U.S. Spy Report Blames Putin For Hacks, But Doesn’t Back It Up
'It Is Over': Congress Certifies Donald Trump's Victory xxx
Tour De FARCE: US Intel Report On Russian “Interference” A Hilarious Parade Of Paranoia
Politics… Zero Evidence… Just Rehashed Delusional Conspiracy Theories xxx
Lead U.S. Intelligence Agency Admits Wikileaks’ Democratic Emails Are Authentic
US Intel Report Confirms Wikileaks Data On DNC, Clinton Contain No Forgeries
Why The DNC Emails Were Leaked Not Hacked
Propaganda Intended To Incite Americans: John McAfee On ‘Russian Hacking’ Claims
The Governor Of Vermont Is An Idiot
Here Is The US Intel Report Accusing Putin Of Helping Trump Win The Election By "Discrediting"
Hillary Clinton xxx
Background To Assessing Russina Activities & Intentions in Resent US Elections
ARS Technica: White House Fails To Make Case That Russian Hacking Tampered With Election
Trump Says US Intel Has 'Absolutely No Evidence' Hacking Affected Election
The Surveillance State Did Not Disappear With The Trump Victory: “It Is Still Lurking And Completely
Intact” xxx
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MSM Biased In Favor Of Clinton, Now Blindly Supports ‘Russian Hack’ Reports – Wikileaks Envoy
Campaign To Impeach Trump
This Is A Coup: The Homeland Security Takeover Of US Elections
Will Trump Defy Expectations & Be A Peace President
The Soft Coup Collapses – Blackmail Revealed – What Next?
US Report On Nonexistent Russian Hacking Made Its Intelligence Community A Laughing Stock
Priebus Says Democrats To Blame For Email Hack, Thinks Trump Accepts Intel Findings
US Aristocracy Panics That Maybe Trump Is Serious
Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day
Here’s How Goldman Sachs Became The Overlord Of The Trump Administration
Trump Must Expose Obama’s Abuses Of Power
Michael Moore Announces ‘100 Days Of Resistance’ Against Trump Presidency
Declassified US Intelligence Report On Russia: A Critical Review
Senate Minority Leader Gleefully Warns Trump That CIA Will Go After Him!
The World Is “Fake News”
Obama Regime Moves To Federalize Elections
Does Trump Now Accept The Phony Russian Hacking Claim?
The Op: Unelected Agents Now Infiltrating ‘Critical Infrastructures’
Is Delegitimizing Trump Prelude To Ousting Him Once In Office?
President Trump To Bypass The Lying Mainstream Media And Report Directly To The American Voters
Streep’s Anti-Trump Rant Debunked: The Ravings Of A Hollywood Faker xxx
Sorry, Meryl But That Hypocritical Anti-Trump Rant Was Easily The Worst Performance Of Your
Career (Apart From That Time You Gave A Child Rapist A Standing Ovation) xxx
Assange Blasts 'Embarrassing' ODNI Report, Says 'No Evidence' Given
US Intel Agencies Try To Strong-Arm Trump Into War With Russia
‘Insider Leaks, Not Russian Hacking’: CIA & MI5 Veterans Discuss ODNI Report On RT
Democrats Are Playing With Fire On Russia xxx

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The Good That Trump Could Do
By Robert Parry
December 23, 2016

Exclusive: Despite fears about the many negatives from a However, assuming that the neocon/liberal-hawk
Donald Trump presidency, one positive could be his establishment fails to stop Trump from escaping Official
shattering of the monopoly that neocons and liberal hawks Washington’s foreign policy “group thinks,” the new
now hold over U.S. foreign policy, says Robert Parry. president could radically reorder the way the U.S.
government approaches the world.
Americans and the world have valid reasons to worry
about Donald Trump’s presidency, given his lack of Lost Opportunity
experience and his refusal to recognize that his loss of the
popular vote should moderate his emerging domestic Eight years ago, President Barack Obama had a similar
policies. But Trump also could do some good things. opportunity but chose to accommodate the
Establishment and empower the neocons and liberal hawks
Particularly, Trump could break the death grip that by appointing his infamous “team of rivals”: Republican
neoconservatives and their “liberal interventionist” tag- Robert Gates as Defense Secretary, liberal-hawk Hillary
team partners now have locked around the throat of U.S. Clinton as Secretary of State, and leaving in place
foreign policy. President George W. Bush’s military high command,
including neocon-favorite Gen. David Petraeus.

Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally in


Prescott Valley, Arizona. October 4, 2016. (Flickr Gage Skidmore) Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton on May 1, 2011, watching developments in the Special Forces
raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Neither played a particularly
Trump owes little to these “regime change” advocates prominent role in the operation. (White House photo by Pete Souza)
since nearly all of them supported either other Republicans
or his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. And the few who For doing so, Obama won applause from the editorial and
backed Trump, such as John Bolton and James Woolsey, op-ed writers but he doomed his presidency to a foreign
have been largely passed over as Trump assembles his policy of continuity, rather than his promised change. Only
foreign policy and national security teams by relying on the edges did Obama resist the neocon/liberal-hawk
mostly on a combination of outsiders and outcasts. pressures for war and more war, such as his decision not to
bomb Syria in 2013 and his negotiations with Iran to
Obviously, there remains much uncertainty about what prevent it from building a nuclear weapon in 2014.
foreign policy direction a President Trump will take and
the neocons/liberal-hawks in Congress are sure to mount a But Obama bowed down more than he stood up. He let
fierce battle to defeat or intimidate some of his nominees, Secretary Clinton push a neoliberal economic agenda by
particularly Exxon-Mobil chief executive Rex Tillerson for supporting oligarchic interests in Latin America, such as
Secretary of State because of his past working relationship the 2009 Honduran coup, and extend the neocon “regime
with Russian President Vladimir Putin. change” strategy in the Middle East, with the brutal

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overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and covert
support for rebels in Syria.

Even after the original “team of rivals” was gone at the


start of his second term, Obama continued his pathetic
efforts to appease the powerful, such as Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by undertaking a
submissive three-day tour of Israel in early 2013 and
cozying up to the Saudi royals with trips to the kingdom
despite intelligence that they and their Gulf state allies
were financing Al Qaeda and Islamic State terrorists.

Though Obama would eventually boast about the rare


moments when he defied what he called the Washington Couple walking along the Kremlin, Dec. 7, 2016.
“playbook” of relying on military options rather than (Photo by Robert Parry)
diplomatic ones, it was a case of the exception proving the
rule. The rule was that Obama so wanted to be accepted by Nevertheless, despite his early promises of transparency
Washington’s well-dressed and well-heeled establishment and openness, he oversaw an administration that ruthlessly
that he never ventured too far from what the editorialists at suppressed government whistleblowers and bought into the
The Washington Post and The New York Times deemed neocon/liberal-hawk manipulation of the American people
permissible. via “perception management” or what NATO likes to call
“strategic communications.”
Still, the neocon/liberal-hawk establishment continued to
scold America’s first African-American president for not Obama then sat back passively as his Democratic Party
doing everything that the “smart people” demanded, such sought to replace him with Hillary Clinton who had done
as escalating the U.S. role in the “regime change” war in as much as anyone to turn his beloved motto of “change”
Syria or fully arming Ukraine’s military so it could more into the sad reality of “more of the same.”
efficiently slaughter ethnic Russian rebels on Russia’s
border.
I’m told that Obama privately had grave doubts about
Clinton but he did nothing to encourage alternative
Power Consolidated Democratic candidates, like Senators Elizabeth Warren or
Sherrod Brown, to take on the money-churning Clinton
In the end, however, Obama did nothing to alter Official machine.
Washington’s balance of power on foreign policy. Indeed,
over his eight years, the neocons and liberal hawks Because of Obama’s miscalculations and timidity, he now
consolidated their power, essentially banishing the once- will have to take part in the painful and humiliating
relevant “realists” from establishment circles and smearing process of handing over the keys to the White House to a
the few anti-war and independent voices as fill-in-the- man who launched his national political career by pushing
blank “apologists,” maybe even “traitors” deserving FBI the racist canard that Obama was born in Kenya.
investigation.
Trump’s Challenge
It now is clear that if Hillary Clinton had won, the drive to
silence any dissent against the neocon/liberal-hawk
But the question after Jan. 20 will be whether Trump has
orthodoxy would have escalated. The recently revealed
the guts and tenacity to enact some of the “change” that
strategies for isolating and punishing dissident Web sites
Obama promised. Particularly, will Trump stay the course
took shape before the Nov. 8 election, not afterwards.
in challenging the neocon/liberal-hawk establishment that
rules the roost of Washington’s foreign policy?
The U.S. government also continues programs to throw
tens of millions of dollars to contractors whose job it is “to
Can Trump withstand the barrage of slings and arrows that
counter Russian propaganda,” code words for going after
will zero in on him if he rejects the neocons’ “regime
and harassing Web sites and other news outlets that
change” ambitions and if he presses for a détente with
question U.S. State Department propaganda.
Russia to resolve the Ukraine crisis and to present a united
front against Islamic terrorism?
For historians, there may be a reasonable debate about
whether Obama was an enthusiastic supporter of these
If Trump moves in those directions – pulling back on the
anti-democratic policies or was simply too eager to please
New Cold War with Russia and ending the coddling of
the Establishment to resist them.
Saudi Arabia over its covert backing of jihadists across the

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region – he could finally put the U.S. government on a If Israel gets its way and further expands Jewish
more rational track for achieving its national interests. settlements in Palestinian territory, it will be jettisoning the
longstanding false hope for a “two-state solution.” That
means Israel will have to either become a blatantly
“apartheid state,” holding Palestinians as stateless or
second-class citizens, or accept a “one-state solution,”
granting both Jews and Arabs equal rights, arguably the
most logical and humane answer to the Israeli-Palestinian
dilemma.

In other words, if Trump takes on Saudi Arabia – finally


recognizing its role as the principal state sponsor of
terrorism – and sweeps away the “two-state solution”
which has been a liberal excuse for doing nothing to
resolve the Israel-Palestine mess for years, he could be
clearing a path to a saner U.S. policy toward the region,
Saudi King Salman bids farewell to President Barack Obama at Erga not one dictated by the likes of Israeli Prime Minister
Palace after a state visit to Saudi Arabia on Jan. 27, 2015. (Official Netanyahu and Saudi King Salman.
White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Obviously, the powerful neocons and their “liberal


One of Official Washington’s favorite “group thinks” has
interventionist” sidekicks would not sit idly by and accept
been that Iran is the “chief sponsor of terrorism,” a
such a radical challenge to their preferred options in the
formulation favored by Israel and Saudi Arabia – as part of
region, i.e. more “regime changes” for countries that get
their anti-Shiite alliance – but it is clearly a lie. Yet, to take
on the Saudis over their real leading role as state sponsors onto the Israeli-Saudi “enemies list.”
of terrorism, Trump would have to take on the Israelis, a
daunting prospect. And, it is certainly possible that President Trump would
retreat when he confronts the Establishment’s fury that
would surely come. However, if he follows through on this
In that regard, Trump’s choice of lawyer David Friedman,
a staunch supporter of right-wing Israeli settlers, to be U.S. course of action, he might finally shatter the
neocon/liberal-hawk monopoly over Official Washington’s
ambassador to Israel has been viewed as a major
bloody foreign policy. And the world and the American
concession to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, but it
people might find that a very positive thing indeed.
could be a decidedly mixed blessing.

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The Dem Communist-Socialst Plan To Harass And
Destroy Everything Trump Does To Make America Great
Again - This Confirms Everything We Have Predicted
Forwarded By Thomas Buyea
Florida News Service
12-23-2016

Update from Public Citizen It’s nice, I guess, that the president of the United States
might not be distracted by picking bathroom tiles for his
Thomas, hotels.

Here’s the strategy: But the conflicts of interest from his global empire remain.

 We will uncover the corruption in everything Donald That means Trump will continue to have the conflicts from
Trump does. business operations in more than 20 countries around the
world. He will continue to have the conflicts from owning
 We will call out Trump’s wholesale handover of our a luxury hotel just a few blocks from the White House that
government to Big Business. diplomats openly state they will patronize to curry his
favor. And he will continue to have the inescapable, all-
 We will expose Trump for his complete and utter encompassing conflicts from business holdings that give
betrayal of populist promises he made as a candidate. him a direct financial interest in policy matters from
consumer protection to taxation, bankruptcy to labor
 We will organize people around the country to stand up rights.
to Trump’s hate and lies.
We’re not letting go of this issue, and it’s not going away.
 We will make sure our allies in the U.S. Senate block
passage of an extremist corporate agenda that would That’s because these conflicts really will pervade
sacrifice hard-won health and safety protections, basic policymaking in the administration. The more we can point
norms of justice and equality, and our planet’s it out, the more we can show that Trump is making a
sustainability to further enrich the corporate class. mockery of his campaign promises to root out corruption,
cronyism and insider dealing.
 And, whenever we can, we will sue to block Trump’s
Last week — in close consultation with Public Citizen —
unconstitutional power grabs.
Senator Elizabeth Warren announced that she will
introduce legislation when Congress reconvenes that
Read on for much more about how this will unfold.
would require Trump to sell his businesses.
STARTING NOW
We’re going to mobilize public support around that bill.
We expect to get all Democratic senators to co-sponsor,
We continue to pound Trump for his unprecedented
and we will challenge Republicans — many of whom are
conflicts of interest.
also uncomfortable with Trump’s global entanglements —
to sign on as well.
Trump canceled the news conference (Will he ever hold
one again?) where he was supposedly going to unveil his
Meanwhile, Congress will reconvene at the beginning of
“solution” to the conflicts. But we know from Trump’s
January and very quickly plunge into hearings on Trump’s
tweets that he intends only to end his involvement in day-
atrocious, Robber Baron-esque cabinet picks and agency
to-day operations — while retaining a full ownership stake
appointments.
in his corporate empire.
We’ll launch an edgy, dynamic and deeply researched
In countless media interviews, we’ve been crystal clear
“Corporate Cabinet” website revealing the business
about the acid test for Trump’s conflicts of interest: Will
connections and profound revolving-door problems
he sell his business, yes or no?
surrounding Trump’s selections.
Now we know the answer is no.
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Trump — who ran against Goldman Sachs by name as a On Saturday, January 21 — the anniversary of the
candidate — has selected a Goldman Sachs veteran (and disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court ruling — Public
foreclosure king) as his Treasury Secretary, Goldman Citizen will sponsor a massive teach-in in Washington,
Sachs’ president as his number two economic advisor and D.C. We are coordinating with a major women’s march the
a Goldman Sachs-alumni-turned-racist-business-mogul as same day, and we are enlisting dozens of organizations to
his chief White House strategist. join as co-sponsors.

To run the Labor Department, Trump has tapped a fast- With parallel events around the country and streaming of
food tycoon whose companies have racked up a record of keynote speeches to homes and meetings across the nation,
labor law violations and who opposes raising the minimum the teach-in will educate, galvanize and mobilize countless
wage, ensuring overtime pay for millions of workers and Americans to prepare for the four years ahead.
providing sick leave.
Barn-blazing speakers at the teach-in will:
Trump’s choice to run the Environmental Protection
Agency has actually sued that very agency to block  Identify the threat to women’s rights.
implementation of arguably its most important program
ever, the Clean Power Plan, which would reduce  Explain the likely repression against immigrant and
dangerous greenhouse gas emissions. Muslim communities.

The pick to run the Pentagon left the military and promptly  Expose the planned giveaways to Corporate America.
landed on the boards of directors of General Dynamics,
one of the largest defense contractors, and Theranos, the  Above all, we’re going to launch a serious conversation
disgraced biotech firm beleaguered by allegations that it about what it means to have a democracy in America
lied about its purported breakthrough blood testing — for there is no functioning democracy when people
technology. must sign a religious-based registry, when people fear
to exercise the right to assemble because of the
Last but certainly not least, Trump has named Rex prospect of deportation, when millions of voters are
Tillerson — CEO of Exxon Mobil, the sixth largest blocked from the polls because of suppression tactics,
corporation on Earth — who has no foreign policy or when billionaires and Big Business can decide who
experience but deep ties to Russia, as his Secretary of gets elected and what they do once in power.
State.
The teach-in will facilitate people from around the country
Through cutting-edge reports, social media, newspapers, joining together in their communities to plan additional
radio and TV, and much more, we’re going to highlight organizing campaigns and protests. And it will be part of a
this rogues’ gallery’s history of law-breaking, how their broader process of developing an all-out, full-fledged,
corporate ties will corrupt policymaking, and how their nationwide popular protest movement against the Trump
reactionary views will harm everyday Americans. regime.

We’re going to work with Senate allies to make sure tough FIRST 100 DAYS
questions are asked at confirmation hearings.
We know that the Republican Congress and the new
We’re going to mobilize our hundreds of thousands of president, both, plan to swing their wrecking balls
supporters, and work in connection with allies, to demand immediately.
senators vote down this corporate cabinet.
We’ll be ready.
We don’t have illusions about this work. Most of these
people will be confirmed, no matter their disqualifications. One top priority of congressional Republicans will be to
But in having the fight, we will show thatwe won’t undo various end-of-term Obama initiatives — exploiting
succumb to the corporate takeover of our government. And a legislative ploy held over from the Newt Gingrich era
we’re going to erode Trump’s base of support, as we show that forbids the filibuster. This could enable them to
again and again that he is drawing on a wellspring of override:
connected cronies, in total defiance of his campaign
commitments.
 A safeguard that would help prevent mechanical
failures like the one that led to the BP Deepwater
INAUGURATION Horizon oil disaster.
On Friday, January 20, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in
 Nutrition labeling standards and promotion of healthy
as the 45th president of the United States.
food in public schools.

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 New limits on air pollution from trucks on our nation’s It’s obviously going to take years to win single-payer, but
roadways. we are indeed going to win.

 Sick leave for government contractors. Meanwhile, we anticipate a series of rapid-fire executive
orders and executive actions from Trump right after he
 A prohibition on rip-off clauses that deny consumers takes office.
the right to join together in cases against Big Banks.
Our expectation is that some of these actions will be
 And much, much more. unlawful.

Congressional Republicans and Trump want to claim they If that expectation is borne out, we expect to be in court
are just eliminating “red tape.” within days seeking rulings to block Trump’s plans.

We’re going to make it very clear in human terms what is BEYOND


at stake. We’ll be ready with victims of corporate
wrongdoing to explain the consequences of rolling back After bracing through the whirlwind of the first hundred
these protections. And we’ll be ready to explain which days, Washington will settle into a more normal rhythm.
corporate interests are benefiting from each rollback.
We’re going to see the Trump administration try to undo
Did Trump voters really put him in office to make it important rules and programs adopted by the Obama
impossible for victims of Wells Fargo’s fraudulent administration, in areas from consumer protection to labor
practices to sue the bank? rights to clean air.

That’s the kind of question we’re going to make sure is Undoing older rules will require the Trump administration
asked in Congress and in the media, over and over again. to go through the formal rulemaking process. That will let
us mobilize the public to defend recent gains and to submit
With sufficient mobilization, we hope we can block some our own evidence about why existing rules should stay in
of the rollback agenda. place.

Either way, we’re certain we’re going to make it politically In many cases, if the Trump government moves in the face
painful, with lasting effect. of evidence of the need for consumer and other regulatory
protections, we will be able to sue to stop them.
We also anticipate some important legislation to move in
the first hundred days, including a so-called budget Which is exactly what we plan on doing.
reconciliation resolution, which is expected to be the
vehicle through which the Affordable Care Act is repealed, On the legislative side, we expect Congress to move
in whole or in part. through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s agenda, aiming
to undo as much of Dodd-Frank as possible, cutting taxes
Having voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act literally on the super-rich and corporations, limiting the rights of
dozens of times, congressional Republicans still don’t have victims of corporate wrongdoing, slashing the budgets of
a real plan for how they would replace it. Almost certainly, regulatory agencies, making it more difficult to prosecute
millions of Americans will lose insurance coverage that corporate crime, undermining worker rights and more.
they now have. They may even try to cut Social Security and privatize
Medicare.
We’re going to highlight the human cost of this cruel and
ideologically driven taking away of health care coverage. We don’t plan on letting any of that happen.

We’re also going to elevate and escalate our demand for With allies, we’re going to make sure that Senate
the only real solution to the chronic health insurance Democrats filibuster and block all of these disastrous
problem in this country — an expanded and improved proposals.
Medicare-for-All single-payer system.
We’re going to mobilize people across the country to
For all its positive aspects, we know that the Affordable protest an agenda designed to enrich the already mega-
Care Act was flawed by the compromise at its inception: wealthy and immiserate everyone else.
the decision to permit the for-profit health insurance
industry to maintain its control. We know that single-payer We’re going to identify regular people who can articulate
is the only way to ensure coverage for all Americans and plainly and powerfully how these Big Business plans will
to rein in soaring health care costs. have very real and terrible consequences for their families
and communities.
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We’re going to paint a picture with high-definition clarity Across the country, three-quarters of voters want to
of how Republican support for these proposals is direct maintain or strengthen environmental standards.
payback to major campaign donors.
83% of Americans, including three out of four
And we’re going to ask again and again and again: Republicans, favor empowering Medicare to negotiate
drug prices.
Did the populist Trump supporters really vote to empower
Big Banks to rip off consumers? And “with near unanimity,” reports The New York Times,
“the public thinks the country’s campaign finance system
Did those voters really want corporate criminals given a needs significant changes.”
get-out-of-jail free card?
The way to appeal to both the Trump populist voters and
Did they want to see Medicare benefits cut and control of voters who stayed home is with a populist economic and
the program handed over to private insurers? political agenda that speaks to the real and felt needs of
disempowered voters of all parties.
There’s no question that we’ll have a defensive orientation
over the next several years. We’re going to have to fend That’s a path forward that gives us a hopeful way out of
off the most corporate and extremist agenda in memory. our gloomy present circumstances, that offers us the
prospect not just of stopping the horrible Trump agenda
But we’re also going to push for an aggressive, progressive but reorienting our country to the far-reaching changes we
agenda: winning single-payer health care; breaking up the really need.
Big Banks; expanding Medicare and Social Security;
putting corporate criminals in jail; raising the minimum That’s our plan.
wage; curtailing Big Pharma monopolies; overturning
Citizens United; and more. In scale and scope, it’s as ambitious as anything we’ve
ever proposed.
Those are the policies that America needs, that America
wants. It’s doable, if we all pitch in.

Because in spite of the election results, Americans are in If you can, please donate today. No ! Not to these people ?
fact extraordinarily united in support of very progressive
policies. For example: Thank you.

Three-quarters of Americans support a steep rise in the Onward,


minimum wage.
Robert Weissman
Four out of five voters, including three-quarters of
Republicans, want to expand — not just maintain, but President, Public Citizen
expand — Social Security.
.

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"Russia Did It" –
The Last Stand Of Neoconservatism
by Tyler Durden
Dec 23, 2016 2:00 AM

Via GEFIRA, with covert operations funding and/or arming local groups
in Libya, Syria,Tunisia Egypt, Georgia, and Ukraine.
In 1992, at the end of the Cold War, an
American political scientist infamously
proclaimed "the end of history:" liberal Neocon adherents took over the US state
democracy and the capitalist system has department, and their grip on it was
won, the rest of the world will eventually strengthened by the appointment of Barack
embrace western ideas as superior to theirs Obama as assistant to Victoria Nuland,
because only they are able to provide peace Secretary of State for European affairs, wife
and prosperity. of Robert Kagan, who is in turn a top Neocon
ideologist alongside Paul Wolfowitz.
This line of reasoning has since become the West’s dogma
in international relations, and so under the pretext of They also created the narrative spread and reinforced by
spreading human rights and parliamentary democracy all the mainstream media, which expose the alleged crimes of
over the world the West perceives itself to be on a mission. non-cooperating regimes in Syria, Russia and Libya, while
For a while, it worked. Most of Eastern Europe readily ignoring the anti “democratic” behavior by friendly
embraced Western democracy and capitalism and even dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia’s kings.
Russia seemed to follow.
The mission however never changed. What changed is
Some intellectuals brought it to a new level: the rest of the the mood of Western citizens about the government
world will have to embrace capitalism and liberal changes and state-building projects of the Western
democracy voluntarily or else they will be forced to. It was leadership; as the economic and human cost grew
the birth of neoconservatism in the United States and it endlessly, the Western public opinion has become fed up
would spread across the Atlantic. The Neocon vision had with interventionism around the world.
other implications, listed in the likewise infamous
“Wolfowitz Doctrine”, and these are: The British Labour party was the first to face the
malcontents: Blairites are being ousted in favour of anti-
 American supremacy, which translates into active NATO, sworn pacifist Jeremy Corbyn.
prevention of the formation and rise of any power that
could challenge it; Then Donald Trump won the US election with his
“America First” i.e. a policy of “non-interventionism and
 unilateral intervention; protectionism”, defeating Hillary’s hawkish one, publicly
endorsed by Kagan and Wolfowitz; Sarkozy and Juppè
 pre-emptive action; were defeated in the primaries in France by Fillon, who is
advocating the end of the trade war against big bad
 undermining Russia, by taking out from its sphere of Neocon target Russia.
influence the former Soviet countries which had not
embraced western values yet, like Ukraine; The Neocon-backing Western establishment
is facing political upheaval all over Europe
 forcing the Muslim world to accept the Israeli state on and the US.
the latter’s conditions.
These revolutions are not mere popular movements.
By the 2000s, Neocons had taken over the Republican Trump’s election is the handing over of power from one
Party in the US and the Labour Party in the UK and could influential group to another because a part of the
count on allies in Italy (Berlusconi) and Spain (Aznar). In establishment has become fully aware of the problems
the following decade, Neocon ideology spread virulently, Europe and the US are facing.
substituting for the failed experiment of military
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After a fourteen-year war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq Party leaders believe they can regain control
the bloodshed spilled over into the streets of Paris and with some harsh words directed at the
Berlin. Muslim community on the one hand and
unprecedented austerity measures dished
The killing of civilians in the streets in Europe out to the French population on the other.
was not supposed to happen after the
eradication of Al Qaeda and the alleged In the US there are people like Richard Haas, president of
elimination of its leader Osama Bin Laden. the Council on Foreign Relations, who are strongly
advocating a change in the Middle East policy. Haas
Or should we rather say European insanity is spilling over, would like to see America using its diplomatic and military
as the European establishment is simultaneously bombing power for gaining influence in South East Asia and deal
a country and importing the country’s inhabitants? What with nations rather than tribes in Syria; he would also
do the Western leadership expect to have on their hands? rather the US restored order at home than resolve the
problems in Mosul and Fallujah in Iraq or Sirte in Libya.
Meanwhile Russia is reemerging as a more
successful international actor. The Neocon world peaked and is now crumbling at record
speed. And what is the Neocons’ reaction?
China has become a production hub, building its own
financial institutions and will become more and more A failure to topple governments may have
independent of the US and European financial systems. been taken into account, but the electoral
defeats in the West were unexpected.
In 2015 China launched its alternative CIPS
for the SWIFT system, which had been for In a bid that looks like a mix of anger and desperation the
more than 30 years the center of international Neocon machine is using the US State Department and the
financial transactions. mainstream media to mount a gigantic offensive putting
the blame for its own failures on the battered Russia: so
The rapid and dramatic demographic changes cannot without having much evidence, neocons created a narrative
continue unnoticed by the establishment. that Russia has helped Donald Trump win the elections.

The white population in the United States has But of course, why stop there? Thus Neocon Blairite
decreased from 79.6 percent in 1980 to 61.9 remnants in the UK are joining the crowd and claim that
percent in 2014.
“Russian hackers caused Brexit’’.
The percentage of Latino Americans has risen from 6.4
percent to 17.3 percent over the same period, while both What else? Gustav Gressel of the European Council on
the African American and Asian American populations Foreign Relations claims that Russian secret services
have gone up. Europe is facing a multicultural quagmire (rather than European open borders refugee policy) are
and downward spiral of violence. The African and Muslim behind the epidemic of sexual assaults committed by
communities are hostile to Western societies and openly migrants in Germany7) attempting to weaken
threatening to kill Westerners in endlessly numerous music Merkel’s credibility for the next year election. Whenever
videos posted on the internet. something doesn’t go according to plan for the Western
establishment, it’s Russia’s fault.
The German establishment is in a complete
state of denial, and the French Republican Expect to see more.
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NYT Hypes Phony Claim
Of Russian US Election Hacking
By Stephen Lendman
12-23-2016

The accusation is absurd on its face. It’s part of relentless Russian hacking was meant to help elect
Russia bashing, along with pressuring Trump against Mr. Trump.”
normalizing relations and cooperating with Putin in
combating (CIA created and sponsored) terrorism. Fact: The White House, DNI, DHS, CIA, NSA and FBI
lied claiming Russian interference.
Not a shred of evidence suggests Moscow interfered in
America’s political process in any way. None exists. Fact: Putin clearly prefers a friendly US president instead
Otherwise it would have been presented weeks ago. of hostile one, risking possible nuclear war. He didn’t
interfere in America’s political process to help Trump
Last month, the White House declared the November defeat Hillary.
election “free and fair from a cybersecurity perspective.”
So why investigate nonexistent Russian hacking? Times editors:

At his week-ago press conference, Obama lied claiming “Unless Mr. Trump’s team actually colluded
with the Russian government, it would be in
“(T)he Russians were responsible for his interest to support congressional
hacking the DNC.” He promised “serious Republicans in seeking an independent,
consequences” if Putin didn’t “cut it out.” comprehensive investigation.”

Was assassinating Moscow’s ambassador to Turkey, “Any other position would suggest that he
Andrei Karlov, what he had in mind, a likely false flag has something to hide or simply doesn’t
attempt to undermine Putin/Erdogan ties, maybe more care about the integrity of America’s
hostile actions to follow? elections.”

On December 22, NYT editors continued hyping phony Are Times editors calling Trump a Kremlin agent?
claims of Russian US election hacking, urging an Previous Times articles called him a “useful (Kremlin)
investigation to hold its government responsible for what idiot” and “Russian poodle.”
never happened, saying:
Democracy in America is pure fantasy. US elections are
Trump farcical when held. Duopoly power wins every time.

“will assume office next month dogged by Deep state dark forces control things. Is Trump strong-
the question of whether a covert ploy by willed enough to go his own way? Will he keep campaign
the Russian government had a decisive promises or break them?
effect on his election.”
Will he stick to what he said earlier, calling charges of
“…American voters deserve as many Moscow US election interference “ridiculous?” Will he
details as can be ascertained about normalize Russia/US ties for the sake of world peace and
Russia’s role in the campaign…The stability?
intelligence agencies concluded that the
In a few weeks, we’ll begin finding out.

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A Loser’s Malice:
What’s Behind Obama’s Attacks on Putin
Michael Jabara CARLEY
23.12.2016

Relations between Russian president Vladimir Putin and


US president Barack Obama are poisoned and irretrievably
damaged. It’s therefore a good thing that Obama is leaving
office on 20 January. Bad US-Russian relations are of Western cartoonists so often ridicule Obama as out of his depth in
course nothing new. Since the Anglo-American war comparison to Putin
against Iraq in 2003, the US-Russian relationship has been
headed downhill. For Obama, it appears that everything What on earth is Mr. Obama talking about? Intimidate the
has gotten personal. The US president often acts like a press? The Moscow newspapers and television media are
petulant adolescent, jealous of a high school rival. You loaded with «liberals». Many Russians call them «fifth
know, the kid who does everything better than he does. columnists». They are «people with ‘more advanced’
The lad takes it badly and won’t let it go. He challenges his worldview[s] who do not tolerate ‘Russian propaganda’
nemesis to some new contest at every opportunity only to themselves», according to one colleague in Moscow. But
lose again and again. That’s got to be hard on the ego. Mr. Putin tolerates them and pays them no mind.
Between Obama and Putin there have been many such
encounters. Nor can it help that western cartoonists so «Lock up dissidents… discriminate against people»? What
often ridicule Obama as out of his depth in comparison to alternate reality does Mr. Obama live in? Doesn’t produce
Putin. anything people want to buy? The United States buys
rocket engines that it does not now produce at home.
Let’s consider Obama’s remarks at his last press Maybe the Americans, a Russian commentator joked, can
conference on Friday, 16 December. «The Russians can’t use high tech trampolines to get into space and do without
change us or significantly weaken us», said Obama: «They Russian technology.
are a smaller country. They are a weaker country. Their
economy doesn’t produce anything that anybody wants to In an interview the previous day with the American
buy, except oil and gas and arms. They don’t innovate». National Public Radio Obama ranted about Putin. It must
This was insulting both Putin and his country, but not have been a rehearsal for his press conference. «This is
enough apparently for Obama. «They [the Russians] can somebody, the former head of the KGB», said Obama,
impact us if we lose track of who we are. They can impact «who is responsible for crushing democracy in Russia…
us if we abandon our values. Mr. Putin can weaken us, just countering American efforts to expand freedom at every
like he’s trying to weaken Europe, if we start buying into turn; is currently making decisions that's leading to a
notions that it’s okay to intimidate the press, or lock up slaughter in Syria». What stupefying hypocrisy; what utter
dissidents, or discriminate against people because of their nonsense. Putin was a lieutenant colonel in the KGB, but
faith or what they look like». never its head, and he certainly has not «crushed
democracy in Russia». He even treats his political

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opposition with respect compared to Obama who dismisses country than the United States. How deplorable to speak of
president-elect Donald Trump as some kind of Russian the liberation of E. Aleppo as «a slaughter in Syria».
Manchurian candidate. The Russians, according to Obama,
interfered in the US presidential elections, and helped
defeat fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton. They hacked the
Democratic National Committee’s hard drive and passed
thousands of emails to WikiLeaks, although, according to
others, an outraged Clinton insider leaked the cache of
embarrassing emails. Obama has dismissed that
possibility. The Russians did the hack, he insists , and
Putin must be held personally responsible.

Remember 2013, when the US government started a propaganda


campaign about Syrian chemical weapons and warned of «red lines»
that could not be crossed?

Obama’s frustrations began several years ago. Remember


back in 2013, when the US government started a
propaganda campaign about Syrian chemical weapons and
warned of «red lines» that could not be crossed?
Apparently, the US government came within an ace or two
of launching massive air attacks on Syria. Putin intervened
and the Syrian government gave up its chemical weapons,
removing the US pretext for intervention. The print media
had a field day showing Putin helping Obama out of a
In Syria, the United States and its NATO and regional vassals are
waging a war of aggression against the legitimate government in
corner of his own making. All the while, Putin kept urging
Damascus, backing jihadist terrorists Russian-US cooperation against the jihadists in Syria,
trying to draw the United States away from its ruinous
Where’s the evidence? In Moscow, an angry Putin policies. To no avail. Who then acted with greater
challenged Obama to put up or shut up. This is a hard thing statesmanship, Putin or Obama?
for Obama to do. The Russians, he says, «counter
American efforts to expand freedom at every turn». One
wonders where that would be. In the Ukraine where the
United States and European Union backed and guided the
coup d’état against the democratically elected Ukrainian
government? Or in Syria where the United States and its
NATO and regional vassals are waging a war of
aggression against the legitimate government in Damascus,
backing jihadist terrorists? How many democratic
governments or popularly supported political movements
has the United States plotted against or destroyed since
1945? The list is long, including the 1996 Russian
presidential election.
In 2013, when the US government started a propaganda campaign
about Syrian chemical weapons, Putin intervened and the Syrian
Obama directly raised the issue of Syria during his NPR government gave up its chemical weapons, removing the US pretext for
interview. The liberation of E. Aleppo from Al-Qaeda and intervention. The print media had a field day showing Putin helping
other jihadists has infuriated the west. To the everlasting Obama out of a corner of his own making.
shame of France, the Eiffel Tower was darkened to mourn
the defeat of Al-Qaeda. The Mainstream Media (MSM) is Temporarily thwarted in Syria, the United States opened
up in arms. Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, Palestinian and Iraqi up a new front on Russia’s southern frontier in the
militias have helped the Syrian Arab Army to cleanse Ukraine. It backed the coup d’état in Kiev and turned a
Aleppo of jihadist terrorists, and thwart the United States blind eye to the fascist vanguard, which kept the new
and its vassals. This is what galls Obama, being Ukrainian junta in power. «The fascists are just ‘a few bad
outmanoeuvred by a lesser man than he and a lesser apples’», officials said in Washington, thinking that NATO

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had scored a great victory in getting its hands on responsible without a shred of evidence. In fact, the
Sevastopol so it could kick the Russian Black Sea fleet out available evidence points to the Kiev junta as the guilty
of its traditional home base. party, but the MSM paid no attention. It ran an
orchestrated propaganda campaign leading to harder
You have to give credit to Obama; he was ambitious, sanctions against Russia intended to sabotage the Russian
aiming for a big prize and the humiliation of Russia and its economy and break the Russian government.
president. Again, he was thwarted not so much by
President Putin but by the Russian people of the Crimea Obama and his advisors again miscalculated. The Russian
who immediately mobilised their local self-defence units government instituted its own sanctions against the EU,
backed by «polite people», Russian marines stationed in and looked for other sources of supply or replaced foreign
Sevastopol, to kick out the Ukrainians with scarcely a shot imports with Russian products. «We can do without Polish
fired. They organised a referendum to approve entry into apples and French cheese», most Russians thought.
the Russian Federation. Reunification was quickly «Liberals» sulked over the loss of their camembert, but
approved by a huge majority and celebrated in Moscow. that’s a small price to pay for Russian independence.
Putin gave a remarkably candid speech, explaining the Obama was outsmarted again by Russians who, he insists,
Russian position. «NATO remains a military alliance,’ he can’t innovate. As for the EU, it suffered huge economic
said, «and we are against having a military alliance making losses because of sanctions at American behest in a classic
itself at home right in our backyard or in our historic case of shooting oneself in the foot. It’s getting to be a
territory. I simply cannot imagine that we would travel habit; the EU has again renewed its sanctions against
to Sevastopol to visit NATO sailors. Of course, most Russia.
of them are wonderful guys, but it would be better to have
them come and visit us, be our guests, rather than the other
way round».

The EU has suffered huge economic losses because of its anti-Russia


sanctions at American behest in a classic case of shooting oneself in the
foot.

Whilst the Ukrainian crisis dragged on, Obama had to turn


his attention back to Syria. In the autumn of 2015, Putin
ordered Russian aerospace and naval forces to intervene on
behalf of the hard-pressed Syrian government which asked
for assistance against the western-backed jihadist invasion.
«NATO remains a military alliance,’ he said, «and we are against
The tide of battle slowly turned. Again, Obama was caught
having a military alliance making itself at home right in our backyard off guard; again, the US plan to overthrow the Syrian
or in our historic territory», Putin said government was thwarted by Obama’s nemesis. The
United States tried bogus truces to allow its jihadist
It all happened so quickly, Obama must have looked on, mercenaries to refit and resupply. At first, the Russians did
dumbfounded, sputtering with angry frustration at having not seem to catch on, accepting American proposals as
been outmanoeuvred by Crimean Russians who knew a genuine. They had to learn the hard way, but they did
thing or two after all about «innovating» and defending eventually. The liberation of E. Aleppo, although
their land. Russians in the eastern Ukraine also resisted, overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of Palmyra, is
taking up arms to defend themselves against Kiev’s fascist another blow to Obama’s policies and to his fragile ego.
battalions.
No wonder the US president is lashing out at Putin,
That was too much. Putin became Obama’s nemesis. The publically insulting him and his country. No wonder the
US president struck back with economic sanctions, which MSM is up in arms. How could this «weaker… smaller
his European vassals quickly endorsed. When Malaysian country» outsmart the all-powerful Mr. Obama and the
Airlines, MH17, was shot down over the eastern Ukraine, great US Hegemon?
Obama and the EU at once accused Putin of being
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the abundant resources of it western adversaries. Russians
learned early on to innovate. The fox has to make its way
in a world full of dangerous wolves.

What Obama must hate most of all is Putin’s exposure of


US support for Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. Who
indeed is responsible for the «slaughter» in Syria? Obama
calls it fighting for democracy. «Airstrike democracy»,
Putin once derisively replied. «Do you realise what you
have done?» Putin asked at the UN in 2015, shocking the
MSM. Obviously not, if one is to judge by Obama’s
remarks of the last few days. He’s still the obsessive
adolescent with doubts about himself and in over his head
against a real statesman. Thank heavens Obama is on his
How could this «weaker… smaller country» outsmart the all-powerful way out the door of the White House. It’s not a minute too
Mr. Obama and the great US Hegemon?
soon. Olliver Cromwell’s famous remark in 1653 to the
Rump Parliament seems apposite. «You have sat too long
Like the USSR before it, Russia has always had to pursue for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say;
a politique du faible, a poor man’s policies, never having and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!»
.

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Ron Paul: What’s Missing
From The Russian Hack Argument?
| The Ron Paul Institute | Ronpaulinstitute.Org
December 23, 2016

Secretary Clinton. Have you noticed that there’s never any


mention or concern about Secretary Clinton having a
private server in her home? If anything, that server would
have made it much easier for Russia (or anyone else) to
know what was going on with our government. I discuss
this, our CIA’s shenanigans, and much more below:

Without any proof or evidence being presented that Russia


interfered with our election, we’re just seeing political
grandstanding at this point by both President Obama and
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Putin Mocks Democrats As "Shameless Losers", Says
Russia Alone Believed In Trump's Victory
By Tyler Durden
Dec 23, 2016 3:12 PM

Covering numerous topics, from foreign politics to the the system against Bernie Sanders. Instead of
Russian budget, the price of oil, sports doping allegations apologizing, they began to look for people to
as well as the US election during his annual end-of-year blame."
news conference, Russian president Vladimir Putin
slammed the US Democratic party saying Putin added that the question of who hacked the U.S.
Democratic party was not important, but that the hacks
"the party that is called the Democrats has revealed that public opinion in the United States was
clearly forgotten the original meaning of that being manipulated.
name" and added that "the use of
administrative resources (by the Democrats) Putin also mocked the "archaic" U.S. electoral system,
is absolutely shameless." which he said "is a problem" and that it’s up to U.S. people
to sort it out, however he conceded that the "U.S. is great
country, will draw conclusions from vote."

He continued the rout saying "outstanding figures in


American history from the ranks of the Democratic Party
would likely be turning in their graves. Roosevelt certainly
would be. They (the Democrats) are losing on all fronts
and looking elsewhere for things to blame. In my view Putin also spoke about Trump, lauding the President-elect
this, how shall I say it, degrades their own dignity. You for his win, and said it was no surprise. “Right up to the
have to know how to lose with dignity." end, nobody believed he would win — except us." He
credited Trump’s victory to his ability to keep his “finger
Continuing his barrage against the Democratic Party, Putin on the pulse of the mood of society" adding that Trump
said it is "losing on all fronts" and that it is wrongly trying “went all the way, even though no one believed that he
to blame President-elect Donald Trump's victory on would win, apart from you and me."
external factors.
The Russian president said on Friday he wanted
"You need to learn how to lose gracefully," he constructive relations with the United States under
said. President-elect Donald Trump.

He added that "losers always look for someone to blame, Putin also acknowledged his own rising support among
but they should first of all look at themselves. Republican voters in the US: “I don’t put it down to me,
the fact that a large part of Republican voters support the
Putin then said that Russian president,” he said. “It means that a large part of
the American people have the same idea of how the world
"the most important thing is what was should be, of our common dangers and problems.”
revealed. It's not like people invented this
information - what they reported is true. It Additionally, Putin addressed Trump's comments about the
showed how the Democratic Party manipulated need to boost the U.S. nuclear arsenal, saying they were
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perfectly normal. Trump's comments, made in a tweet on ON INFLATION
Thursday, seemingly in response to Putin's own comments
earlier in the day. But Putin said he was surprised by the "This year (inflation) will be significantly less than
fuss Trump's tweet had caused and how it had been linked 6 percent ... most likely in the region of 5.5
to his own statements about Russia's plans to modernize its percent – this is a record low inflation rate, and
own nuclear arsenal. gives us cause to expect that we will be able to
reach our target and very soon get to inflation of
Putin said on Thursday Russia's military was "stronger 5 percent and then 4 percent."
than any potential aggressor". He made clear on Friday he
did not regard the United States as a potential aggressor. ON THE BUDGET DEFICIT

"I was a bit surprised by the statements from some "The budget deficit will be a bit bigger .. 3.7
representatives of the current U.S. administration who for percent. In my view this is an absolutely
some reason started to prove that the U.S. military was the acceptable amount because, among other
most powerful in the world," said Putin. reasons, we have preserved a positive external
trade balance – more than 70 billion dollars (and)
"Nobody is arguing with that." we have preserved our reserves ... the central
bank's gold and forex reserves have even grown,
*** and are now a little over 385 (billion dollars).
Judging by that measure everything is fine. It's a
Other highlights from the Putin press conference via good safety margin."
Reuters:
ON OPEC AND OIL PRICES
ON DONALD TRUMP AND THE MILITARY
"We think that in the second half of 2017 the
"In the course of his election campaign he surplus of oil in the market will disappear and the
(Trump) spoke about the necessity of oil price will stabilize. We are counting on a
strengthening the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and stabilization (of prices) at today’s level."
strengthening the armed forces. There's nothing
unusual here. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised "It (Russian oil production cuts agreed with
by the words of certain other official OPEC) will be a smooth reduction that will hardly
representatives of the current administration who affect our overall output. This is perfectly
have for some reason set about proving that the acceptable to us, and we are counting on a rise
armed forces of the United States are the most in prices, which has already happened ... a
powerful in the world. No-one disputed that." difference in the oil price of $10 will mean extra
revenues to the budget of 1.75 trillion rubles
"If anyone is unleashing an arms race it's not us ($28.65 billion) and an extra 750 billion rubles of
... We will never spend resources on an arms income for oil companies, despite lower output.
race that we can't afford." So at the end of the day everyone ends up
winning.”
ON PARTICIPATION IN ELECTIONS IN 2018
ON DOPING
"When the time is ripe (I’ll say). I will look at what
is happening in the country and in the world, and "In this area transparency is absolutely essential
based on the results of what we have done and ... Undoubtedly there is a certain political element
what we can do the decision will be made on in all these issues. Sport should be cleansed,
whether I will participate in upcoming elections along with culture, of any sort of politics. Sport
for the Russian president." and culture are things that should unite people
and not divide them."
ON THE ECONOMY
ON UKRAINE AND CRIMEA
"(Economic) growth is happening thanks to
certain sectors of the economy – machine "I am sure that sooner or later there will be a
building, chemicals, manufacturing and normalization of relations with Ukraine, and it (a
agriculture." bridge between Russian and Crimea) will be very
beneficial to the development of Russia-Ukraine
"We saw some economic growth in November ... relations and future commercial and
This year we will probably have minus 0.5-0.6 humanitarian links."
percent (economic growth)."
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ON PENSIONS ON ALEPPO

"All the necessary money is in place next year so "The president of Turkey and the leaders of Iran
we can from Feb.1 increase pensions in line with (also) played a huge role in this (managing the
the rate of inflation in 2016." situation around Aleppo). I don’t know if this will
sound immodest, but without our participation it
would have been impossible."
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Obama Vows To Prove The Unprovable
Posted by Stephen Lendman
Date: December 24, 2016

Fact: Leaks from disenchanted Democrats


opposed to Hillary’s candidacy supplied
information to WikiLeaks – insiders, not foreign
sources.
Fact: Obama knows this, yet lied anyway,
claiming nonexistent hacks.
Fact: Whenever his so-called investigation is
completed, he’ll provide no credible evidence of
what didn’t occur, just rubbish claiming
otherwise, most likely nothing, claiming
“classified” information won’t be released.

A long ago disgraced US president appears part of an


Obama barely stopped short of blaming Putin for what
ongoing coup attempt to deny Trump the office he won – a
happened, saying “not much happens in Russia without”
terrifying scenario heading for full-blown tyranny if a way
his involvement.
isn’t found to stop it.
Neither he or anyone in his government or serving it in any
If successful, things will never be the same again. Be
way interfered in America’s election. The charge is absurd
scared. Be very scared. Get involved to save the remnants
on its face.
of remaining freedoms before they’re gone and it’s too
late.
It would be laughable if not for its serious implications –
an attempt to stoke confrontation with another nuclear
At his yearend press conference, the last one of his
super-power, along with full-blown homeland tyranny if
presidency, he vowed to prove the unprovable, saying:
the coup plot succeeds.

“We will provide evidence that we can safely


Obama:
provide, that does not compromise sources and
methods. But I’ll be honest with you, when you’re
talking about cybersecurity, a lot of it is classified “Our goal continues to be to send a clear
and we are not going to provide it, because the message to Russia or others not do this to us
way we catch folks is by knowing certain things because we can do stuff to you.”
about them that they don’t want us to know.” Fact: His goal is heading things closer to war on
“The intelligence I’ve seen gives me great Russia, along with denying Trump the office he
confidence in their assessment that the Russians won, wanting losing candidate Hillary installed as
carried out this hack – the hack of the DNC and president, the way fascist dictatorships work.
the hack of John Podesta.”
After his press conference, he left for a Hawaii vacation
Fact: Obama lied like he always does. No US
while parts of the world he set ablaze burn, likely
election hacking occurred – not by Russia or
advancing the anti-Trump coup plot, the likes of which
anyone else.
never happened in America before.
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Wikileaks Has Denied Russia Was Source For DNC Leaks
5 TIMES – Media Still Refuses To Report It
By Claire Bernish -
12.25.2016 @11:49 PM EST

That Russian hackers somehow compromised the U.S. Nevertheless, corporate presstitutes continue
presidential elections to install Donald Trump so fits the hyperbolically echoing the establishment’s Red Scare
political establishment’s preferred narrative, any propaganda, ignoring entirely the person most familiar
information to the contrary — even from the mouths of with the leaks — the person who founded and runs
people with direct knowledge — has been brutally Wikileaks — has categorically denied the source has any
criticized, and even labeled “fake.” connection to Russia.

While certain unnamed officials in the CIA — and the Assange’s claims are backed by close
once-illustrious Washington Post and New York Times — associate and former British Ambassador
might implore Americans to believe shady Russian to Uzbekistan Craig Murray, who knows the
government actors hacked into the email systems of the source and told the Daily Mail, “Neither of
Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton [the leaks] came from the Russians. The
campaign chair John Podesta, they have yet to offer a source had legal access to the information.
shred of evidence to back this claim. The documents came from inside leaks,
not hacks.”
On December 9, the Post published a flagrantly Murray told the Guardian the CIA’s
propagandic ‘report’ — so devoid of verifiable claims are pure “bullshit,” and, flatly,
information, it’s a wonder any editors approved its “They are absolutely making it up.”
publication — titled “Secret CIA assessment says Russia
was trying to help Trump win White House,” which In a blog post excoriating the mainstream press and
claimed CIA and U.S. Intelligence officials had reached a neoliberal Democrats for pushing anti-Russia propaganda
consensus about Russians hacking the election. beyond the limits of any believability, Murray wrote,

That story, quickly parroted by the Times, fell apart under “I have watched incredulous as the CIA’s
cursory scrutiny, particularly as its otherwise vehement blatant lie has grown and grown as a media
tone contradicted itself, stating: story – blatant because the CIA has made
no attempt whatsoever to substantiate it
“The CIA presentation to senators about […]
Russia’s intentions fell short of a formal
U.S. assessment produced by all 17 “A little simple logic demolishes the CIA’s
intelligence agencies. A senior U.S. claims. The CIA claim they ‘know the
official said there were minor individuals’ involved. Yet under Obama the
disagreements among intelligence USA has been absolutely ruthless in its
officials about the agency’s persecution of whistleblowers, and its
assessment, in part because some pursuit of foreign hackers through
questions remain unanswered.” extradition. We are supposed to believe
that in the most vital instance imaginable,
an attempt by a foreign power to
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has repeatedly destabilise a US election, even though the
denounced vapid claims the Russians hacked Democrat CIA knows who the individuals are, nobody
systems and forked over the documents for publication. is going to be arrested or extradited, or (if
Breaking with the publishing outlet’s strict standards of in Russia) made subject to yet more
not divulging any identifying details about sources, banking and other restrictions against
Assange says the emails were not hacked by outside agents Russian individuals? Plainly it stinks. The
— rather an inside source with access leaked the anonymous source claims of ‘We know
information to Wikileaks.
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who it was, it was the Russians’ are Wikileaks duly noted it “has published
beneath contempt […] more than 650,000 documents about
Russia & president Putin, most of which
“The continued ability of the mainstream
is critical”
media to claim the leaks lost Clinton the
election because of ‘Russia’, while still
never acknowledging the truths the leaks — a fact utterly ignored, if not purposely suppressed, by
reveal, is Kafkaesque.” corporate media and Clintonites hell bent on forcing
Americans to believe the false Russian hacking allegation.
But if the media and public aren’t satisfied with Murray’s
first-hand knowledge, Assange’s own denials expose the Even before then, in August, the publishing outlet tweeted,
disingenuity of this anti-Russia scaremongering. “US intelligence: No connection between Russians and
WikiLeaks,” citing an article by Glenn Greenwald for The
On December 15, the Wikileaks founder emerged in an Intercept. In the August 8 piece, Greenwald noted,
interview with Sean Hannity — just as the Democrats
ratcheted up McCarthyite tactics — telling the host “When WikiLeaks published thousands of
definitively, DNC emails shortly before the Democratic
Convention, which ultimately forced the
resignation of four top officials, it was
“Our source is not the Russian
government.” instantly asserted that it was The Russians
who gave them those emails (even though
“In other words, let me be clear,” Hannity The Washington Post cited an intelligence
replied. “Russia did not give you the official as saying that ‘the intelligence
Podesta documents, or anything from community . . . has not reached a
the DNC?” conclusion about who passed the emails to
“That’s correct,” Assange stated. WikiLeaks’ and ‘We have not drawn any
evidentiary connection to any Russian
intelligence service and WikiLeaks —
This only reiterated what he’d told Australian journalist
none’).”
John Pilger in a 25-minute interview special by Dartmouth
Films:

“The Clinton camp has been able to


project a neo-McCarthyist hysteria that
Russia is responsible for everything.
Hillary Clinton has stated multiple times,
falsely, that 17 US intelligence agencies
had assessed that Russia was the source
of our publications. That’s false – we can
say that the Russian government is not
the source.”

In September, Wikileaks tweeted a response to a New York


Times hit piece titled, “How Russia Often Benefits When
Julian Assange Reveals the West’s Secrets” — which
has, incidentally, since been removed from the NYT
website — blasting the once-illustrious outlet’s threadbare
Insistence the DNC and Podesta documents found their
accusation:
way to Wikileaks courtesy of The Russians has no
foundation of truth, so it’s necessary to emphasize what’s
“The only hard news in the article is that really going on in that accusation — and why it’s being
‘American officials say Mr. Assange and heralded so broadly, despite the evidentiary deficit.
WikiLeaks probably have no direct ties
to Russian intelligence services.’”
When the pieces do not align — when something is so
illogical it defies explanation — it’s imperative to ask, cui
In fact, according to the Times article, the finding of no bono?
direct ties is presented as an“emerging consensus” —
suggesting much of the Intelligence Community agrees
Who has what to gain from neo-McCarthyite propaganda
there isn’t a Russian connection.
emptily smearing Wikileaks and Julian Assange?

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In actuality, it serves a dual purpose. An accusatory tone Russians were hard at work pulling strings, writing checks,
implied against Russia and President Vladimir Putin and hacking the system behind the scenes.
furthers the U.S.’ foreign policy goals, which, at present,
include deposing the government of Syrian President Americans fed up and sick of corruption and an established
Bashar al-Assad — backed diplomatically and militarily system benefiting just the corporate and political elite paid
by Russia. Screaming, ‘The Russians did it!’ also handily attention — and voted the only way their consciences
distracts from the indisputably damning content the would allow — even though Donald Trump certainly
documents revealed about Hillary Clinton, her intricate comes with his own share of controversy.
network of loyalists, the Democratic Party, collusion with
mainstream presstitutes, and — frankly — their blatant
Wikileaks is telling you The Russians didn’t
attempt to rig the 2016 presidential election.
hack anything — but someone equally fed
up with that corruption handed over the
That attempt, of course, laughably backfired because a evidence of it to nail the coffin in that
diligent, honest independent and alternative media reported chapter of U.S. history.
on Wikileaks stunning disclosures — not because The
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Obama’s Halloween Scare:
Temperamentally Unfit President
Threatened War With Russia
By Wayne Madsen
12-25-2016

If one wishes to believe NBC News’s «exclusive» report, The only proof that the CIA and its contractors could offer
President Barack Obama almost delivered the Halloween up was that a group of hackers, known as «Fancy Bear»,
scare of all time on October 31, 2016, just a week before used an Android smart phone application developed by a
he accused Donald Trump of being «temperamentally Ukrainian artillery officer to target Soviet-era D-30
unfit» to be commander-in-chief. Howitzers that was purloined and re-purposed by the
Russian military intelligence directorate against DNC
On Halloween, Obama activated the White House's «Red computers. Even Hollywood movie producers would reject
Phone» which is not a phone but a Washington to such a script as too silly for film audiences to take
Moscow «hot line» communications link that was seriously.
originally a teletype connection, then a fax, and, finally,
email that provides a direct line to the Russian President The Fancy Bear operation was concocted by a company
in the Kremlin - and informed the Russian president that if called CrowdStrike, co-founded by a Russian-American
alleged Russian hacking of computers tied to the U.S. named David Alperovitch, who just also happens to be a
election did not stop, the United States would respond with senior fellow at the CIA-linked Atlantic Council. News
«armed conflict» against Russia. articles about CrowdStrike strongly suggest it exists to
ratchet up cyber-war tensions with Russia, China, and
Not since another fateful October, the Cuban Missile Crisis North Korea based on hyped-up network security
of 1962, had the United States come so close to an all-out «vaporware» products being sold at top dollar prices to
war with Russia. However, in the case of President John F. tech-ignorant government customers.
Kennedy, the presence of Soviet offensive nuclear-tipped
missiles in Cuba were cited in U-2 photographic Obama sent his war message to Russia based on his
intelligence presented publicly by U.S. ambassador Adlai «Fancy Bear» intelligence over a special email channel to
Stevenson before the United Nations Security Council. In reduce the risk of nuclear war resulting from cyber-
the case of Obama, the only intelligence he possessed that security threats. The cyber-security email link was
alleged Russia was behind hacking Democratic National installed in 2013 as part of the hot line network linking by
Committee (DNC) computers was a Secret report, not satellite the Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers in
released to the public, ginned up by Obama's Sunni Washington, DC and Moscow. Little did the architects of
Wahhabi-crazed Central Intelligence Agency director John the nuclear hot line realize that it would one day be used to
Brennan. proffer a «Fancy Bear» scenario that could have led to
nuclear war.
Obama, according to NBC News, warned Putin personally
against hacking Democratic Party computers during the G- Obama was acting upon the policies crafted by the neo-
20 meeting in China in September. When Obama, conservative Cold Warriors who continued to dominate his
obviously urged on by Brennan, felt the Russian hacking administration’s diplomatic and intelligence infrastructures
was continuing, he sent a stark message over the Red as they had those of George W. Bush. These same neocon
Phone to the Kremlin, in part stating, «International law, circles saw hope in the presence on the Trump team of the
including the law for armed conflict, applies to actions in arch-neocon war hawk John Bolton, Bush’s Senate-
cyberspace». While Obama and Brennan continue to rejected ambassador to the United Nations.
refuse to present to the public the contents of the CIA's
Secret report alleging Russian hacking of the DNC, they Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post, a fierce neocon
had no problem revealing that Obama almost pushed the critic of Trump during and after the presidential campaign,
nuclear trigger on Russia. Only a madman would resort to wrote of her wish for Trump to follow the advice of Fred
such action based on the flimsiest of intelligence from the Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute, a member of
Cold War-era troglodyte Brennan. the infamously-neocon Kagan family and brother-in-law of
Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and
Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, the architect of Obama’s
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«color revolutions» in Ukraine and Macedonia. Kagan and foreign policy establishments should encourage anti-
believes that Russia’s worst «sin» has been to «redraft the Russian protests by Islamic groups at Russian diplomatic
global order» laid down by the United States and NATO missions in the Middle East and elsewhere. The paper
following the fall of the Soviet Union. appeared heartened by the assassination of the Russian
ambassador to Turkey and the outbreak of protests by
Kagan, Rubin, Nuland, and others in their neocon circle of Islamist groups at Russian missions in Istanbul, Beirut, and
war mongers hope that Trump will confront Russia Kuwait. The Journal wrote the killing of the Russian
militarily, as Napoleon Bonaparte had done in the 19th ambassador «was glorified throughout the region».
century. The neocons are not very good students of history,
as the fate of Napoleon’s foray into Russia is well-known The neocons would relish in the United States encouraging
to even the most basic reader of European history. At the jihadist groups to target Russian interests in the Middle
very least, Kagan has called on Trump to set the clock East and elsewhere as they did during the Cold War when
back to the Cold War era of Washington challenging they nurtured jihadist groups to fight the Soviet armed
Russia militarily in all the world’s hotspots: The Middle forces in Afghanistan. That gambit led directly to the
East, Asia, and Africa. In another tip of the hat to the Cold creation of the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and other terrorist
War, Kagan recommends that Trump refuse to recognize groups. This would represent a turning back of U.S. policy
the retrocession of Crimea, the result of an overwhelming to the late 1970s and 1980s, an era that represents the
popular referendum favoring such retrocession, «no matter halcyon days for the war-mongering neocons.
how permanent it seems to have become».
The White House continues to insist that Obama's
That same line of thinking could be adopted by Russia, Halloween war message to Putin sunk in, since the alleged
which could announce that it recognizes the independent hacking is claimed to have ceased on November 8,
Kingdom of Hawaii, regardless of its forced annexation to Election Day. However, DNC acting chair Donna Brazile
the United States in 1898. If the neocons want to return to claims the hacking continued on and past Election Day. If
19th century big power politics, so can Russia. If the Brennan and his fellow war-mongers had actual evidence
United States wants to continue to recognize Crimea as that Russia had been behind the hacks, then why do they
part of Ukraine, Russia can recognize Hawaii as an continue to insist that the hacking stopped on November 8,
independent state and permit the «Hawaiian Kingdom when Brazile clearly claims they had not? The easiest
Government» to establish an embassy in Moscow and explanation is that the Russian government was not the
accredit a Hawaiian government ambassador-in-exile. source of the computer hacking events and they were being
While such a dramatic measure might have been carried out by some other party or were invented by the
considered necessary had Hillary Clinton and her neocon «Fancy Bear» fabulists at CrowdStrike. Perhaps some
war hawks won the U.S. presidential election, Trump’s oft- interests wanted an Election Day war to begin with Russia,
stated desire for much improved relations with Russia which would mean a declaration by Obama of a national
should render moot such extreme diplomatic state of emergency and a postponement of the election, as
countermeasures. had occurred in New York City on September 11, 2001,
the previous time the Red Phone was used by the White
So far, Trump does not seem inclined to listen to the House.
parasitical neocons who have infested every recent U.S.
administration since Ronald Reagan’s. Trump would be Had Obama authorized a military strike on Russia on
wise to seek the counsel of those of his advisers who are Election Day, the civilian U.S. government would have
not even remotely supportive of neocon dogma. morphed into the secret government where the Federal
Emergency Management Agency and the Department of
Trump will face the problem of cleaning house of the Defense's Northern Command would have replaced the
neocons currently embedded in the CIA and State U.S. Congress and the courts as the government of the
Department. The neocon newspaper-of-record, The Wall United States. It is likely that there would have never been
Street Journal, has let it be known that the U.S. intelligence an election, let alone a president-elect Trump.

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The 'Triggered' 12 Days
Of Trumpian Christmas
By Tyler Durden
Dec 25, 2016 7:30 PM

It's been quite a year...

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Newt Gingrich: Donald Trump’s
Twitter Foreign Policy Is ‘Brilliant’
“We Might As Well Get Used To It.”
Daniel Marans
12/25/2016 10:27 Am ET

He also defended Trump’s decision to announce the new


nuclear weapons policy over Twitter.

“On the tweeting thing, let me just suggest


if I might, we might as well get used to it,”
Gingrich said. “This is who he is, it’s how
he’s going to operate ― whether it’s
brilliant or stupid.”
“Do you think it’s brilliant or stupid?”
Wallace asked.
“I think it’s brilliant because first of all he’s
able very quickly, over and over again, to
The Washington Post/Getty Images - Former House Speaker Newt set the agenda,” Gingrich responded.
Gingrich, an informal adviser to Donald Trump, spoke approvingly
of the president-elect’s apparent desire to restart a nuclear arms
race. Trump tweeted on Thursday that the U.S. “must greatly
strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich praised the style time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.”
and substance of Donald Trump’s suggestion for a new
nuclear arms race, calling the president-elect’s use of The comments shocked nuclear arms control experts since
Twitter to make major policy pronouncements “brilliant.” it appeared to break with a decades-long bipartisan
consensus on the need to reduce nuclear arsenals through
Gingrich, an informal Trump adviser, told “Fox News international cooperation.
Sunday” host Chris Wallace that the longstanding U.S.
policy of reducing the number of its nuclear weapons has Trump’s transition team had insisted that the president-
“failed.” He claimed that it has enabled former Cold War elect was referring to modernizing the arsenal, rather than
foes China, North Korea and Russia to rebuild or expand expanding it. However, Trump reportedly said otherwise to
their capacities. Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,”
when she sought clarification about the statement from
“There are a number of steps [Russia him on Friday.
is] taking to be a war-fighting capability,”
Gingrich said. “We have to, candidly, “Let it be an arms race,” Trump allegedly
overmatch that.” said. “We will outmatch them at every pass.
And outlast them all.”
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Person of the Year 2016:
The Russian Hacker
Robert Bridge
Edited time: 26 Dec, 2016 15:58

Devin Nunes, House Intelligence Committee


Chairman, requested a briefing with US intelligence
agencies - the FBI, CIA, Office of the Director of National
Intelligence and NSA - to update the lawmakers on these
explosive findings. Incredibly, all of the agencies declined
his request.

The refusal to brief Congress’s most-senior committee was


called “unusual” by Fox.

Nunes, flabbergasted by the snub,


suggested the failure of the Intel agencies
In the past year, the world was introduced to a suspect for to provide irrefutable evidence of Russian
all seasons and purposes; an interloper so slippery he has hacking was due to the “manipulation of
yet to be positively identified. Yet, like Sasquatch, Loch intelligence” in the quest of particular
Ness and UFOs, we know he is out there, lurking, and "political purposes."
laughing at us all.

In dark, smoke-choked rooms across the vast expanse of


11 time-zones that is Putin's Russia are brooding
Dostoyevskian characters consumed with one overriding
objective: Hacking Hillary Clinton’s email server in a
brazen attempt to strike at US democracy and deliver
Russia-friendly demagogue Donald J. Trump to power.
Yes, Clinton made the task easier by using her home
computer to send classified messages, but this should not
lessen our appreciation for these provocateurs.

It has been a long and thankless road for the Russian


hacker. Whenever he is mentioned, it is in the hushed Imagine that! US government agencies – and possibly the
tones of secret sources behind the closed doors of some media as well - working behind the scenes for “political
windowless government agency, and reported in media of purposes” amid the most hotly contested presidential
dubious repute. But Russians have to take their fame and election in recent memory.
notoriety where they can get it these days.
Rep. Peter King, another member of the House
"It is the assessment of the intelligence Intelligence Committee, sounded a bit like a crazed
community that Russia's goal here was to... conspiracy theorist when he told Fox News:
get Trump elected," an anonymous US
official briefed by another anonymous “It’s almost as if people in the intelligence
official told the Washington Post. "That's community are carrying out a
the consensus view." disinformation campaign against the
president-elect of the United States…”
However, a chorus of skeptical voices questioning this
“consensus view” was heard not just in Moscow, but in But let’s be fair here. Just because there appears to be a
Washington as well, where officials are demanding some lack of forensic evidence to incriminate the Russian
props to support the flimsy Russian hacking script. hackers, is that any reason to deny them their 15 minutes
of fame? Was there any proof that Barack Obama was
qualified for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, just 11 days after
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entering office and at the very same time America was of their own conspiracy theory that Russian hackers were
bogged down in two wars? No, there wasn’t. But that the real perpetrators.
didn’t stop the Norwegian Committee from bestowing
their top prize on America’s first black leader. Nor did it
magically turn Obama into a peace-loving president, for
that matter.

So why should the Russian hacker be denied a trophy due


to a tiny technicality called evidence? Instead of splitting
hairs over minor details, we should consider the huge
service this unwashed gang of provocateurs rendered to the
United States in (the latter's) eternal quest to keep the
illusion of democracy alive and kicking.

Had it not been for the sudden emergence of Russian


hackers on the US political scene, the American “There was no indication that any insider
voter would have been needlessly troubled by 20,000 was involved in this,” an anonymous
hacked emails from the Democratic National Convention source told Newsweek. “Every indication is
that revealed some rather unsavory things. this was a remote attack from a foreign
government—the Russians.
For example, how the DNC worked behind the scenes to
support Hillary Clinton’s nomination as the Democratic “This is a very sophisticated actor," the
presidential candidate over that of Bernie Sanders, the nameless source continued. "This is not
one guy political analysts say could have given The some kid coming in and downloading
Donald a run for his money on the rocky road to the White documents and handing them to
House. somebody.”
And it gets worse. Well, there you have it. Case closed. No possible way that
some “kid” with a painful conscience could have been the
In October, yet another batch of freshly leaked emails to source of the leaked emails. Much easier to just pin the
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta showed that blame on Russian hackers, who actually had little or
interim DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile, who also nothing to gain from such hijinks.
moonlighted as a CNN contributor, fed debate questions to
Clinton that would be asked during a CNN-moderated Perhaps Newsweek should have rung up Henry Kissinger,
debate. Here was political intrigue on a scale that made 93, for his view on the Russian hacker story. They may
Watergate look like a Saturday afternoon parking ticket by have been surprised.
comparison.
When asked on 'Face the Nation' what he made of
And it gets worse still. Much worse. allegations that the Russians tried to get involved in the US
presidential elections, the Washington warhorse said:
On July 10, 2016, Seth Rich, 27, Director of Voter
Expansion at the DNC, was shot and killed about a block "I can't quite understand what their purpose
from his home in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of would be because in all of the polls Hillary
Washington, D.C. Since Rich worked in the voter database Clinton was far ahead. They could not have
division, he would have been privy to DNC’s data had information on the polls that others did
materials – including emails. Coincidence? Was his death not have. And then to antagonize the
due to a robbery gone wrong in a shady part of town, as president-to-be (Clinton) by getting into
police suggest? Maybe. open support of the opponent doesn't make
any sense to me... "
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in an interview to
Dutch television, set off conspiracy alarms when he
refused to confirm or deny whether Rich was the
WikiLeaks’ source of the DNC emails. But he did
announce a $20,000 reward in the young man’s murder
case.

Beyond that, the murder of Seth Rich in connection to the


leaked/hacked DNC emails has been relegated to the realm
of conspiracy theory by the US mainstream media, in favor

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Newt Gingrich Says Trump Will Repudiate
Up To 70% Of Obama’s Executive Orders
© AP Photo/ Pablo Martinez Monsivais US 05:39 26.12.2016(updated 05:48 26.12.2016)

little bit of legalized — I mean, the smart lawyers,


but they'll turn it around," former US House of
Representatives Speaker Gingrich said in an
interview with Fox News on Sunday.

Gingrich added, that it seemed to him that Obama was


starting to understand that his legacy was on the verge of
disappearing.

On Tuesday, in a bid to permanently ban oil drilling in


most of the US Arctic waters and large portions of the
Atlantic Ocean, Obama and Canadian Prime Minister
Former US House of Representatives Speaker and Trump's Justin Trudeau said in a joint statement that the United
transition team vice chairman Newt Gingrich claimed States has banned new oil and gas drilling in the Chukchi
Sunday that the president-elect will abolish majority of the and Beaufort Seas, while Ottawa will not pursue drilling in
outgoing US President Obama's executive orders. Canada’s Arctic waters.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Trump will abolish some 60-70 On November 8, Trump won the US presidential election
percent of the executive orders issued by the outgoing US by gaining a major electoral lead over his rival,
President Barack Obama, Gingrich, unofficial Trump’s Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The inauguration of
adviser, said. the US president-elect will take place on January 20.
During the election campaign Trump repeatedly pledged to
"And at 60 percent or 70 percent of his cancel or change a vast number of Obama’s decisions.
[Obama’s] executive orders, almost all of which
will be repudiated by Trump. The things he's
done this week can be turned around. It takes a

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What Happens To
A Russia Hacking Story
When Someone Checks The Evidence?
It Falls Apart
Mark Nicholas
Mon, Dec 26, 2016

Now, he says the confidence level has


changed to high. The increase comes
from the finding by CrowdStrike that a
Ukrainian-developed Android
application, used to simplify targeting
data for the D-30 howitzer, was
contaminated with a version of APT 28
malware.

The logic: If the malware implant within the application


was used to collect positioning data about Ukrainian
artillery units, who else could be in the market for it but
the GRU? Ominously, the CrowdStrike report says:
Vladimir Putin hacked the US election. We all know that.
Part of the reason why we know that is that an internet
security firm which stands to gain tons of publicity has "Open source reporting indicates that
said so. Ukrainian artillery forces have lost over
50% of their weapons in the 2 years of
conflict and over 80% of D-30 howitzers,
The same firm has also claims the pro-Russian hacking
the highest percentage of loss of any other
group Fancy Bear is run by the sinister Russian military
artillery pieces in Ukraine's arsenal."
intelligence, the GRU, and had hacked Ukraine army
artillery during the civil war in eastern Ukraine:
The inference is that the Russians hacked the app used to
target the D-30, and so the howitzers were mostly
But so far, the only evidence pointing to Russian
destroyed.
government involvement comes from cybersecurity
companies that have studied Advanced Persistent Threat
28, a hacker collective that has attacked many targets over Except as Leonid Bershidsky, a Putin-critic in a self-
the years -- including the DNC in 2016. imposed exile from Rusia since 2014, found there isn't
actually any evidence of that:
That evidence is best summarized in a 2014 blog post by
the security firm FireEye. APT 28 attacks governments Then there's the issue of the targeting
and militaries hostile to Russia or strategically important software itself. Yaroslav Sherstyuk, the
for it. APT 28 appears professional and well-financed. Ukrainian military officer who developed
APT 28 uses Russian in its malware. The malware is the application, reacted angrily on
compiled during working hours in the Moscow time zone. Facebook to the CrowdStrike report,
saying he never published the software
on any public forums and encouraging
CrowdStrike, the firm that detected the fellow Ukrainian servicemen to keep
DNC hack, calls APT 28 Fancy Bear. using the latest version of his app.
Until recently, the company's founder,
Dmitri Alperovitch, said he had "medium Via Facebook Messenger, he told me
level confidence" that the group was run that he didn't believe an infected version
by the GRU, Russia's military of the app even existed. "This is a hoax
intelligence service. to scare everyone and make us go back
to the old methods of targeting fire," he

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wrote. A CrowdStrike spokesperson did they obtain it directly from known
not respond when I asked if it had developers such as Sherstyuk. If I can
contacted Sherstyuk. He said it hadn't. contact him directly, so can Ukrainian
artillery officers seeking to improve
The spokesperson, Ilina Dimitrova, wrote that their performance in battle.
Hence, it's hard for me to believe that
"it is indisputable that the app has been this infected app -- found somewhere on
hacked with Fancy Bear malware -- we the internet and likely never used by
have published the indicators related to it Ukrainian soldiers -- offers evidence
and they have been confirmed by others in tying the GRU to APT28.
the cybersecurity community." CrowdStrike
said that it found the infected app "in limited Indeed, why would Ukraine servicemen be downloading
public distribution on a Russian language, targeting apps from dodgy online forums?? Even if an
Ukrainian military forum." infected version of the targeting app ever existed there is
I doubt anyone in the Ukrainian military absolutely no evidence it was ever even downloaded by
would download software for targeting Ukrainian artillery crews, much less installed and then
artillery fire from a forum. Typically, exploited by Russians to reveal their location.

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Trump Picks Zionist Zealot As
International Negotiator
By Stephen Lendman
12-26-2016

Jason Greenblat is Trump’s executive vice president and


chief legal officer - an orthodox Jew, educated at the He supports a two-state solution - impossible to achieve
Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, Yeshiva University with Israel controlling over 60% of West Bank land,
and NYU’s School of Law. claiming East Jerusalem as its exclusive capital, while
settlement expansions continue on stolen Palestinian land.
He and David Friedman, another zionist zealot Trump
picked as ambassador to Israel, served as his legal advisors He favors stick, not carrot diplomacy, saying Washington
on the Jewish state while campaigning. “need(s) to lay down the law and explain that the
(Palestinians are) not going to get the benefits they get
They support unlimited settlement expansions and from the United States unless they come to the table.”
annexation of Palestinian land, policies putting peace
further out-of-reach than already. “I think they need to say: ‘Over the course of the next
period of time, we will continue to provide funding, but in
In his role as Trump’s international negotiations order to do that you need to do X, Y and Z, set concrete
representative, Greenblatt will oversea future goals, and if you don’t, we need to start tapering off the
Israel/Palestinian peace talks, relations with Cuba and funding’ and see what happens.”
trade agreements.
In other words, either agree to Israeli demands or be
He once performed guard duty at a West Bank settlement, severely punished - hardly a prescription for responsible
armed with an M-16 assault rifle - unclear if ever used to peace talks.
wound or lethally shoot a Palestinian.
Trump and his dual point representatives on Israel one-
Trump earlier called him “a person who truly loves Israel.” sidedly support its interests at the expense of fundamental
His background is real estate law and Trump business Palestinian rights.
interests, not diplomacy.
The reject the notion of Israel as an occupying power,
His main information sources are daily email alerts, turning reality on its head. Commenting on Greenblatt’s
AIPAC materials, and a weekly Jewish radio program - appointment, Trump said “I don’t think I can find better.”
one-sidedly supporting Israel. He has no Palestinian
contacts, he explained.
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Exit, Hope & Change –
The Obama Post-Mortem
Submitted by Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com
Dec 26, 2016 6:30 PM

By now, anyone in this country still of sound mind knows And when forced to act by egregious behavior, they made
that Barack Obama presided through eight years of deals that let banking executives off-the-hook while their
remarkable continuity - of changeless conditions that left companies shelled out fines that amounted to the mere cost
a great many hopeless. As the days of his tenure dwindle, of doing business. It happened again and again. The poster
what do we make of the departing 44th president? boy for this kind of “policy” — or just plain racketeering
— was Jon Corzine, the head of the commodities
He played the role with cool-headed decorum, but that brokerage MF Global, whose company looted
raises the question: was he just playing a role? From the “segregated” customer accounts to the tune of nearly a
get-go, he made himself hostage to some of the most billion dollars in the fall of 2011. Corzine was never
sinister puppeteers of the Deep State: Robert Rubin, Larry prosecuted and remains at large to this day.
Summers, and Tim Geithner on the money side, and the
Beltway Neocon war party infestation on the foreign Another signal failure in the money realm was
affairs side. I’m convinced that the top dogs of both these Obama’s response to the 2010 Citizen United Supreme
gangs worked Obama over woodshed-style sometime after Court decision, which declared that the alleged legal
the 2008 election and told him to stick with the program, “personhood” of corporations entitled them to exercise
or else. “free speech” by giving as much money as they wanted to
political candidates for election. Big business no longer
What was the program? had to just rent congressmen and senators, they could buy
them outright with cash.
On the money side, it was to float the banks and the
whole groaning daisy chain of their dependents in A conservative Supreme Court made the call, but Obama
shadow finance, real estate, and insurance, at all costs. could have acted forcefully in the face of it. The former
Hence, the extension of Bush Two’s bailout policy with constitutional law professor-turned-politician could have
the trillion-dollar “shovel-ready” stimulus, the rescue of marshaled a response in his Democratic Party-controlled
the car-makers, and a much greater and surreptitious multi- congress to draft legislation, or a constitutional
trillion dollar hand-off from the Federal Reserve to amendment, that would properly redefine the personhood
backstop the European banks with counter-party of corporations. It should be obvious, for instance, that
obligations to US banks. corporations, unlike human citizens, do not have duties,
obligations, and responsibilities to the public interest; by
legal charter they have only to answer to their shareholders
In April of 2009, Obama’s new SEC appointees, strong-
and boards of directors. How does this confer the kind of
armed by bank lobbyists, pushed the Financial Accounting
Standards Board (FASB) into suspending their crucial political free speech “rights” that the court allowed them to
claim? And how did the Obama and his allies in the
Rule 157, which had required publically-held companies
legislative branch roll over to allow this disgraceful affront
to report their asset holdings based on standard market-
to the constitution to stand? And how is that almost
based valuation procedures — called “mark-to-market.”
nobody in the mainstream press or academic law even
After that, companies like Too-Big-Too-Fail banks could
just make shit up. This opened the door to the pervasive pressed these issues? Thanks to all of them, we’ve set up
accounting fraud that allowed the financial sector to the primary means for establishing a fascist Deep State: the
official marriage of corporate money and politics.
pretend it was healthy for the eight years that followed.
The net effect of their criminal fakery was to only make Anything goes and nothing matters.
the financial sector artificially larger, more dangerously
fragile, and more prone to cataclysmic collapse. Finally, in foreign affairs, there is Obama’s mystifying
campaign against the Russian Federation. The US had
an agreement with Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union
Another feature of life on the money-side of the Obama
that we would not expand NATO if they gave us a quantity
presidency was that nobody paid a personal price for
of nuclear material that was in danger of falling into
financial misconduct. This established the basic ethos of
questionable hands in the disorder that followed the
Obama-era finance: anything goes, and nothing matters.
All the regulators looked the other way most of the time. collapse. Russia complied. What did we do? We expanded

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NATO to include most of the former eastern European the downfall of the legitimate Syrian government under
countries (except the remnants of Yugoslavia), and then Bashar al-Assad. We apparently still favored foreign
under Obama, NATO began holding war games on relations based on creating failed states — after our
Russia’s border. For what reason? The fictitious notion experience in Iraq, Somalia, Libya, and Ukraine. President
that Russia wanted to “take back” these nations — as if Obama completely muffed his initial attempt at
they needed to adopt a host of dependents that had only intervention — the “line-in-the-sand” moment — and then
recently bankrupted the Soviet state. Any reasonable decided to send arms and money to the various Salafist
analysis would call these war games naked aggression by jihadi groups fighting Assad, claiming that our bad guys
the West. were “moderates.” Meanwhile, Russia stepped in to prop
up Assad’s government, apparently based on the idea that
Then there was the 2014 US State Department- the Middle East didn’t need yet another failed state. We
sponsored coup against Ukraine’s elected government castigated Russia for that.
and the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych. Why?
Because his government wanted to join the Russian-led The idiotic behavior of the US toward Russia in these
Eurasian Customs Union instead of an association with matters led to the most dangerous state of relations
European Union. We didn’t like that and we decided to between the two since the heart of the Cold War. It
oppose it by subverting the Ukrainian government. In the culminated in the ridiculous campaign this fall to
violence and disorder that ensued, Russia took back the blame Russia for the defeat of Hillary Clinton. And
Crimea — which had been gifted to the former Ukraine here we are.
Soviet Socialist Republic (a province of Soviet Russia) one
drunken night by the Ukraine-born Soviet leader Nikita I didn’t vote for Hillary or Donald Trump (I wrote-in
Khrushchev. What did we expect after turning Ukraine David Stockman). I’m not happy to see Donald Trump
into another failed state? The Crimean peninsula had been become president. But I’ve had enough of Mr. Obama.
part of Russia for longer than the US had been a country. He put up a good front. He seemed congenial and
Its only warm water naval ports were located there. They intelligent. But in the end, he appears to be a kind of
held a referendum and the Crimean people voted stooge for the darker forces in America’s overgrown
overwhelmingly to return to Russia. So, President Obama bureaucratic Deep State racketeering operation.
decided to punish Russia with economic sanctions. Washington truly is a swamp that needs to be drained.
Barack Obama was not one of the alligators in it, but
Then there was Syria, a battleground between the he was some kind of bird with elegant plumage that
different branches of Islam, their sponsors (Iran and Saudi sang a song of greeting at every sunrise to the reptiles
Arabia), and their proxies, (Hezbollah and the various who stirred in the mud. And now he is flying away.
Salafist jihad armies). The US “solution” was to sponsor
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CNN Whines Over Trump No-Show At Press Conferences
The Establishment Media Is Freaking Out
By Caleb Stephen
12.26.2016 @8:02 PM EST

(INTELLIHUB) — It seems to me that CNN — the I say forget about trying to regain public confidence. It’s
‘Clinton News Network’ — is getting very bored or too late…. it’s too late. Move over and make way for the
frustrated — I’d say a combination of both. Fifth Estate because it’s coming and it’s already much
bigger and better than the establishment.
Have a read of their latest whimpering:
When you lose people’s trust, it will take a lifetime to
Since getting elected, Donald Trump has regain it. But this time, I don’t think anyone will give the
tweeted about America’s nuclear arsenal, mainstream media another chance. The entire 2016 fake
the competency of American intelligence news narrative failed spectacularly and that was the final
agencies and trade with China. But he has straw that convinced the American people that the
not taken sustained questioning about mainstream media has lost all credibility.
anything in a live, impromptu news
conference. We’re left to speculate about Too bad there’s no press conferences to harvest
what he really means, what it’s based on, information and then sensationalize and misconstrue it. We
and where he’s taking us. live in 2016 – soon to be 2017. Press conferences are a
thing of the dying mainstream media living in the past. I
I think the key is pretty much found in the last sentence. say: bring on the future.
Speculation. That’s exactly why Trump doesn’t want to
have anything to do with CNN and their equally libelous What’s wrong with Trump producing YouTube videos
associates. That’s exactly why only 6% of Americans trust addressing the American people directly, unedited and
the mainstream media. Because the media lies, they uncut? What’s wrong with Facebook posts and tweets that
fabricate stories, they hyperventilate, they sensationalize, give the American people the message that Trump – not
they genuflect, fawn, gush and then cry when their the mainstream media – wants to them to hear?
candidate loses.
I see the use of social media to disseminate a message as
You see, the establishment media is absolutely freaking being just perfect. Independent journalists like myself and
out right now. They fear that they will lose their jobs over all the great folk at Intellihub and other independent news
the next four years because there will be no press agencies can have easy access to this information without
conferences to turn up to, their liberal amounts of relying on the mainstream media to bring us the stories.
speculation will make their ratings plunge further and the
populations distrust will go from 6% to zero percent. CNN even admits this. They said

Despite trying very hard not to betray their nervousness, I “technology empowers everyone to
know their shaking in their boots right now. consume or disseminate information
anywhere, anytime.”
“We know that the public does not trust the
media. That is a huge problem, and news But no, they won’t have any of that. The corporate
organizations need to think hard about controlled press views the Fifth Estate — the use of social
what it will take to regain public media platforms as a massive threat – a very dangerous
confidence,” the article says. threat — to their operation. That’s why they’re panicking
big time. That’s why they creating the ‘fake news’
See? They even acknowledge the public’s distrust of the narrative to attack independent journalists like myself and
mainstream media establishment as being a “huge agencies as a whole like Intellihub, Breitbart, WND and
problem.” But that’s not our problem. It’s not the public’s Infowars.
problem. It’s their problem.
Ceasing the facilitation of press conferences like I said
before would cause them to lose their jobs, their staff sizes
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would shrink and they would have less sensational stories name and said everyone at CNN was a liar, and CNN was
to report on. [a] network of liars,” the source said.

After all, press conferences are about the person behind the “Trump didn’t say [NBC reporter] Katy Tur by name, but
microphone delivering the message he or she wants to talked about an NBC female correspondent who got it
deliver to the public. The mainstream media’s job is to wrong, then he referred to a horrible network
bring that to the public as intact as practically possible. correspondent who cried when Hillary lost who hosted a
But, no, the mainstream media doesn’t do that. Instead debate — which was Martha Raddatz, who was also in the
they liberally edit, they put words in people’s mouths, they room.”
take words out of context and they put their own cultural
Marxist, liberal, leftist slant to the narrative. The stunned reporters tried to get a word in edgewise to
discuss access to a Trump administration.
Trump’s been fed up with CNN’s lying, fabrication, fake
news production and their laughable cheerleading of And if we rewind back to August, The Week reported:
Hillary Clinton throughout the 2016 election campaign. So
have the American people and probably many other people
Donald Trump has a lot of feelings about CNN. So many,
around the world.
in fact, that on Monday afternoon the Republican
presidential nominee was firing off tweets slamming the
Flashback to November and just weeks after Trump won network at a rate of more than one tweet per minute. In just
the election, he addressed these liars at a media summit five minutes, Trump had tweeted six times — all about
and gave them the dressing down that they deserved. New CNN:
York Post reported:

Donald Trump scolded media big shots during an off-the-


record Trump Tower sit-down on Monday, sources told
The Post.

“It was like a f***iing firing squad,” one source said of the
encounter.

“Trump started with [CNN chief] Jeff Zucker and said, “I


hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you
should be ashamed,'” the source said.

“The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and


anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing
the access they would get to the Trump administration, but
instead they got a Trump-style dressing-down,” the source
added.

“The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and


anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing
the access they would get to the Trump administration, but
instead they got a Trump-style dressing-down,” the source
added.

A second source confirmed the fireworks.

“The meeting took place in a big boardroom and there


were about 30 or 40 people, including the big news
anchors from all the networks,” the other source said.

“Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room of liars, the


deceitful, dishonest media who got it all wrong.’ He
addressed everyone in the room, calling the media
dishonest, deceitful liars. He called out Jeff Zucker by

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And while Monday’s tweetstorm may have set a new
record for Trump’s rate of CNN-bashing tweet output, it’s
far from the first time he’s made the network the target of
a trademark Trump Twitter tirade. Last month alone, he
tweeted about CNN nine times. Here’s a look. Becca
Stanek

Trump’s simply giving them back their own medicine.


He’s keeping them at an arms length to teach them a
valuable lesson that they need to learn.

The mainstream media chose to be biased against Trump


during his election campaign so why should they expect
him to give them more ammunition to fire back at him?
The mainstream media has chosen to lie, fabricate, distort,
sensationalize, hype up stories and insult their viewers’
intelligence and they’re suffering the consequences for it.

As Alex Jones said in a Facebook Mentions livestream


today in addressing the mainstream media’s lies and
fabrication, “nobody wants to hear you.”
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“Everybody sees through you… that’s why you want to shut us (alternative media) down,” he said.
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Post-Truthers, Bullshiters And Politics
By Kenneth Surin
December 27, 2016

deviates from the truth, the bullshitter may sometimes say


something that, perchance, happens to be correct.

Politics is replete with post-truthers/bullshitters. The most


notable current example is of course the Orange Man.
The more serious media organizations made initial
attempts to fact check Trump, but soon gave up. There is
a stubborn free-associative quality to his pronouncements
that renders fact checking irrelevant. How many different
things has he said about his putative Mexican Wall, almost
none of which can be lined-up, in terms of coherence or
factual compatibility, with his other statements about the
This is the time when the major dictionaries disclose their Wall?
“word of the year”. In 2016, two candidates were awarded
this designation, namely, “surreal” and “post-truth”. If Trump is the master post-truther/bullshitter, the pioneer
in this regard was undoubtedly Ronald Reagan. His
It is easy to say, as many media outlets have done, that the testimony at the Iran-Contra hearings was a farrago of
election of the Orange Man and the Brexit vote were bullshit. Reagan was clearly senile, but in any event, it
surreal. But in truth they were not. Both reflected a kind was impossible to say, from his statements at the hearing,
of “backlash” politics, and given that so many people have what he thought he was up to during Iran-Contra.
been screwed by neoliberal governments for decades, there
is absolutely nothing surreal about these two outcomes.

The only thing surreal about the US presidential election is


the choice of the two candidates who contested the final
vote– one a megalomaniacal chancer who looted his own
“charitable” foundation to pay for portraits of himself, the
other a craven opportunist with no deep convictions except
for her entitlement to rule. Both are crooked and
avaricious.

What is surreal, then, is how a country with so millions of


highly talented and deeply compassionate people could not
come up with alternatives to these two hideously flawed Reagan’s confusion seemed boundless. Yes, he was sure
candidates. Yes, there was Sanders and Stein, but they he couldn’t remember detail X; No, he wasn’t sure if he
never stood a chance. Moreover, both were problematic could remember X; He might have remembered X in the
as candidates. past, but alas couldn’t remember X now; He was sure he
never had the slightest notion of what X was about; He
When it comes to “post-truth”, a clarification is needed. might at one time have had an inkling of what X was
The “post-truther” is not the liar, or even the habitual liar. about, but today his recollection couldn’t confirm this; and
For as Harry G. Frankfurt points out in his well-known On so forth. His testimony went on and on in this vein.
Bullshit, the liar still exists in a relation to the truth,
because he or she must negate or contradict the truth in Being a post-truther/bullshitter serves a politician well in
order to tell a lie. one respect– when coupled with the ability to manipulate
the media, this kind of politician finds it relatively easy to
Instead, the “post-truther” is akin to Frankfurt’s bullshitter, summon the “Teflon” effect. Both Reagan and Trump are
that is, someone who is indifferent to any concern for the cases in point.
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The UK’s master post-truther and Teflon politician is the seemed to move around with a greater fixity of purpose,
ex-Prime Minister “Dodgy Dave” Cameron. When the and in any event his America is that of the horse and
leaked Panama Papers revealed he had family wealth carriage.
stashed away in off-shore tax havens, every explanation he
provided diverged in seemingly random ways from the “America”, a fevered mélange of banalities, howlers, and
previous ones. Fact-checking became moot– Dodgy Dave spot-on observations, has more in common with the
seemed clueless about what he actually believed about his impressionistic American cameos provided by Sartre, de
family fortune. Beauvoir, Camus, and Genet, than it has with the measured
comprehensiveness of de Tocqueville’s text. Like the
Bullshitting has an important self-cancelling dimension. former group of writers, Baudrillard misunderstood
Seemingly, the bullshitter intends this or that, but once America, but somehow also got a great deal of it right.
embarked upon the bullshitting enterprise, the discernible
clues to this intention evaporate. What was Reagan Baudrillard’s spellbound revulsion at what he encounters
intending during Iran-Contra? What was Dodgy Dave in the US— i.e. “the great hologram” with its “‘tactile,
Cameron intending to convey about his stashed-away fragile, mobile, superficial culture” – captures in nuce a
family fortune? Who the hell knows? certain mood, and for me it is a mood reflective in crucial
ways of the America to be found, or rather projected in the
At this point, all that becomes available are appearances, Freudian sense, in the persona of the Orange Man.
and these are crucial.
Baudrillard’s “America” has no people, or at any rate, he
Reagan oozed a kind of “aw shucks” sincerity in his does not mention them. He confronts a vast and empty
honey-toned cadences, and the expensively educated landscape, which his critics say was perfect for a jaundiced
multi-millionaire “posh boy” Cameron somehow exudes Parisian who wanted to populate this purported barrenness
an authoritative panache even when he is talking piffle. with his own postmodern imaginings or ravings, in a way
akin to those imperialists whose fantasies about “empty
Enough words have been spilled about Donald Trump to continents” abetted so conveniently their conquests of
render extraneous anything I might say about his politics. those supposedly empty spaces.

Or rather, his anti-politics, since as a quintessential post- Nothing however could be further from the truth.
truth politician Trump has any variety of radically
contingent positions on this or that issue, some making Baudrillard’s America is empty precisely because it is a
very little sense (even to Trump himself, one suspects). bottomless receptacle or hologram for unrealities or
And yet all of this nonetheless partakes of the political. surrealities (though Baudrillard himself opts for the pomo
term “hyper-reality”, there being for him no decisive way
Far more interesting is the conjuncture which supports the nowadays of contrasting reality with anything that may be
form of consciousness bearing the name “Donald Trump”, posed against it). This hyper-reality allows the talentless
and the similar forms constitutive of those who support Kardashians the sway they have, makes it possible for
him. rapacious plutocrats to profess a thoroughly bogus concern
for “ordinary people” and “hardworking families”, and
dragoons Americans into supporting futile global wars in
Thinking about the above led me to revisit Jean
the name of “freedom”, and so on.
Baudrillard’s extended essay “Amerique”, which can
however be mistaken for a coffee table book, published in
1986, with the English version “America” appearing in Baudrillard, had he been around today, would probably
1989. Part travelogue (albeit of the instant snapshot have a rejoinder to his numerous American critics: anyone
variety), part philosophical disquisition in the French who can’t see that Trump is an absolute post-truth phony,
aphoristic tradition, “America” itself unsurprisingly makes in fact merely confirms what Baudrillard wrote about the
no pretense at being a successor to Alexis de Tocqueville’s land of “futuristic primitives”.
masterpiece, though this has not saved blurb writers from
the mistake of aligning the two. For the American future desired by Trump’s supporters is
really that of a dead past, that is, a past in which whites
In his American sojourn, Baudrillard spends a lot of time held sway, when slavery and Jim Crow existed, and when
driving around aimlessly, or seemingly so, and his white low-skilled workers still managed to earn a living
America is very much that of the 1980s barouche sedan, wage. Their longed-for future is this past they now say
those monsters on wheels, or so it must have seemed to they have lost.
someone coming from the land of the deux cheveaux, with
side mirrors containing the inscription “objects in the A dead past, certainly, but still living inasmuch as, with the
mirror may be nearer than they appear” which somehow aid of Fox News and the rightwing radio chat shows, it
fascinates Baudrillard. By contrast, de Tocqueville continues to haunt white Americans and animate their
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nightmares and compensatory fantasies of a manifest It was a rib-tickling moment to see the “made in China”
(white) destiny. labels on the self-professed patriot Trump’s own line of
clothing, since there is of course an obvious connection to
This putative loss of America’s “greatness” isn’t, or won’t be made between America’s loss of “greatness” and what
be, due to the US’s internal multiculturalism and its such labels have been portending for the US’s economic
matching politics, that is, to immigrants, welfare well-being since the late 1970s.
recipients, wearers of hijabs and turbans, gays, lefties,
trade unionists, environmentalists, abortion rights activists, Away then with Trump, and the Clintons and Bushs who
urban blacks, proponents of Black Lives Matter, are his pale substitutes, and in with Baudrillard (and
vegetarians and vegans, peaceniks, believers in evolution, Marx). To quote the author of “America”:
gun control advocates, those in favour of universal
healthcare, members of Occupy, practitioners of yoga, etc., “America is powerful and original; America is violent and
but rather to that good old-fashioned staple known as the abominable. We should not try to deny either of these
falling rate of profit. aspects, nor to reconcile them”.

The loss of “greatness” so trumpeted by the Orange Man, There is no official American politics today capable of
and the hysterical white nationalism declared as the acknowledging the force of this proposition– it’s much
remedy for it, is in fact a screen for the social and easier to have a post-truther/bullshitter president-elect
economic depredations accompanying this falling rate of blame Mexicans and Muslims for the country’s
profit and all its associated mechanisms, such as job- predicament.
offshoring, the casualization of work, growing
precariousness as social safety nets are dismantled,
Republican boots placed on the necks of union members,
and so forth.
.

Drain the Swamp – Washington: lobbyists, corruption, campaign finance and pay-to-play.

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Trump And The Phantom Of Democracy
By Nozomi Hayase
December 27, 2016

After the Electoral College vote, the Trump presidency is facilitated this process. His bombastic comments hit
now official. While denial and blame games continue, this jackpot high ratings for the corporate media and rhetoric
was not a foreign government coup d’état. The truth is that not bound by fact was not only tolerated, but was actively
democracy in America has been rotten to the core for promoted with their shortsighted mentality of profit at any
decades. It is meddled with by corporate lobbyists, Big cost.
Pharma, Big Oil and Wall Street –those who are addicted
to money and power. WikiLeaks and the Democratizing Power of the
Internet
American democracy is hollowed out, veiled with a loud
media echo chamber, bringing feigned solidity to its There are a few facts that are not fully understood
emptiness. Out of this vacuum emerges a madness for regarding the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Buried by
power. U.S. politics is a contest for those who are driven much of corporate media’s distortion that deflects the real
by insatiable hunger of the most callous, cunning and issues, many seem unable to dig deeper. This year’s
manipulative members of society. election was an unprecedented phenomenon. This is not
only because the lesser evil game was fought between two
In this system, only people who lack empathy and have an of the historically most disliked candidates, but also
ability to advance self-serving agendas without concerns because of the role played by a new actor from outside of
for others can rise to the top. The results of this year’s the U.S. electoral arena. Days before the election, a Forbes
presidential election simply means that this person who article acknowledged the significance of WikiLeaks’ DNC
many saw as ‘unfit to be president’ was better suited to emails, calling them a “Holy Grail of understanding of
play this dirty game than his opponent, Hillary Clinton. U.S. electoral politics.” It noted how “few understand the
importance of WikiLeaks in the eventual writing of the
Ascent of Trump history of presidential politics.”

Trump, a perceived outsider, seemed to appear out of WikiLeaks has shown how elections in the existence of a
nowhere. The former producer of the American game truly free press will never be the same as before. U.S.
show The Apprentice sniffed the vulnerability of politics sponsored by corporate masters creates a milieu of
disfranchised Americans who are continually betrayed by deception, lies and fraud that is fraught with corruption.
the establishment. He then quickly moved in for the kill, These power and money driven politicians can only thrive
turning the electoral arena into a new Reality TV. in secrecy. When their actions are exposed, like Hillary’s
highly paid Goldman Sachs speeches, crafted public
images that suck the masses into their illusions of grandeur
With social media as a hunting ground, this new
tend to shatter. Contrary to liberal’s hysterical rants of
Republican contender made direct connection with his
‘Russia hacked the election!’, the defeat of the Clinton
audience, pouring out his charm and grooming them with
dynasty was a testimony to the power of transparency.
fake promises. Deploying words as weapons of control, he
managed to garner favorable reactions from his followers.
His language cast a magic spell on his supporters where WikiLeaks, the world’s first global 4th estate, which
any contradictory remarks and bombastic lies he made operates outside of any government was birthed on the
bypassed critical examination. Emotions triumphed over Internet. It showed the potential for emancipation
reason and under the grip of irrational logic, facts no unleashed by this Net. Much of the force of
longer seemed to matter. With a chameleon-like ability to democratization on the Internet is being subverted to create
shape-shift and say whatever his voters wanted to hear, he mass surveillance and censorship. Yet at the same time, its
was able to create a mirage and ensnare the populace into effect of empowering ordinary people cannot be denied.
his grandiose fantasy.
In fact, Bernie Sander’s campaign was built on social
What was the press, as a supposed watchdog of power media’s grassroots organizing. With independent
doing during this Trump’s uncanny rise in popularity? campaign funding, this virtually unknown senator from
Mainstream media did nothing to prevent it and instead Vermont successfully sparked the idea of socialism and

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raised issues of Wall Street corruption, economic injustice dictate what is real through filtering any views that
and poverty at a national level. Sander’s largest support challenge the official narrative. In the end, this fake news
came from millennials. It was these natives of the Internet article was debunked, with Wapo issuing a correction on
that galvanized his political revolution. that story shortly after its publication. What this has shown
is the publisher’s false authority and the establishment’s
Fake News and Fake Authority desperate attempt to reassert their shrinking legitimacy to
keep people under their sphere of influence.
Democrats appear to be disconnected with this new reality
of the Internet’s bottom up spontaneous crowd gathering From Regime Change to Game Changer
or even worse are acting as an adversary to it. This was
shown in their reactions to the corruption revealed in the The election is over and liberal’s hope to stop the rise of
DNC email database and later to Trump’s winning of the demagoguery is lost. The president elect began recruiting
election. some of his rich buddies into his cabinet. Recently, he
convened a group of Silicon Valley tech leaders to invite
On the second day of the Democratic National Convention, them into his new ‘construction project to rebuild
hundreds of Sanders delegates who learned from America’. As this void of American democracy is being
WikiLeaks documents about mainstream media’s collusion filled with more blatant patronage networks, new
and the DNC’s rigging of the primary walked out in insurgencies of civic power are also arising. The potent
protest. Chanting “This is what Democracy looks like!”, and creative power of the Internet is already here. Those
they vowed not to go with Hillary. This crisis of the who have experienced it will not easily succumb to the
American political system opened up an opportunity for reality being handed down to them from the teetering
real democracy. But then, Bernie turned away, urging his Trump Tower.
supporters to nominate Hillary and sided with the deeply
corrupt Democratic Party. His failure to seize this Just as the power of the Internet can be used by the
historical moment helped throw the election to Trump, oligarchic class to corral the masses, it can also be used to
who the Clinton campaign had portrayed as a ‘pied piper empower the people, through its open network. When the
candidate’. liberating force of a free net is claimed by citizens to create
movements across borders, linking diverse struggles, it can
After all this came the Fake News explosion. Some give all a chance to not only change a regime, but to
established liberal media, freaked out by the country change the game altogether.
quickly turning red in this Republican takeover created a
new red scare. On November 24, an article in The One game changer is WikiLeaks. With the creative use of
Washington Post made wild accusations that Russia was technology, this Internet of the media built a robust
engaging in propaganda during the election to spread ‘fake network that is resistant to censorship, making it possible
news’ in favor of Trump. The anonymous site that claimed for the organization to be free from state and corporate
to have identified these fake news sites that the author influence, allowing it to truly serve the interests of the
cited in the article, was shown to be nothing but a black list people. It has gained its own credibility through a perfect
that labels anyone who challenges the official narrative as record of authentication of documents and rigorous
untrustworthy. scientific journalism that publishes full and verifiable
archives. Despite mainstream media’s smearing of the
Despite U.S. Intelligence Chief James Clapper’s claim that organization, public opinion polls indicate that Americans
intelligence agencies lacked strong evidence for strongly approve WikiLeaks’ Podesta leaks.
WikiLeaks’ connection with an alleged Russian
cyberattack, it was way easier for progressives to ignore Another democratic tool that is available to people
facts and spread paranoia, blaming the loss of Clinton on everywhere is cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. With this new
anyone but themselves. invention, ordinary people now have power to create their
own money and peer-to-peer networks that are not
In the age of the Internet, fake news can easily be intermediated by any governments, banks or corporations.
manufactured and spread. Yet, at the same time it can be Just as WikiLeaks distributes free speech beyond borders
quickly shut down with countering views that surround and lets truth be discovered through each individual’s
them. Also, in this new environment, traditional media has participation, with Bitcoin, free speech becomes an app
lost its monopolizing power to disseminate information. that can be downloaded from anywhere by anyone and
They no longer can claim themselves to be the sole values are created through people transacting freely,
purveyor of truth. In the case of The Washington Post’s verified by a consensus of equal peers.
fake news scandal, The Intercept and Matt Taibbi of
Rolling Stone quickly denounced and challenged its claim, In Your Nothingness, We Find the All
halting the spread of this fake news report. Social media
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On January, 20 2017, Trump will be sworn in with the truth, involving the question of who will define our human
Oath of Office. The White House will become his new reality. This war is now full on, yet mostly brewing
executive boardroom. With United States Incorporated, the beneath the radar. Just before Christmas, President Obama
Constitution may be slowly shredded off from his business quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense
contract. With the president elect’s proposal on Twitter to Authorization Act. This included the ‘Countering
give penalties, including jail time or loss of citizenship for Disinformation and Propaganda Act’, which was presented
burning the American flag, coupled with his recent call for to help counter foreign enemy propaganda, yet is actually a
the expansion of nuclear weapons, many are rightfully McCarthy era-style censorship law.
fearful of the future.
In this war on the people, independent media that
Yet, wars and destruction of civil society are already publishes voices of dissent are being punished. They are
happening around the world. Crackdown on cash and now being called Russian agents, spies or traitors by this
schemes of demonetization are taking place in countries increasingly authoritarian state. Those who create an exit
like Venezuela and India. When faced with the reality of from this oligarchic rule by bringing truth from outside
their national currencies quickly disappearing or losing national party political lines will likely be branded as
value, people are waking up to the fact that these claimed terrorists.
values are fake and that they are not backed by real
economic activity or anything of true value. More and We live in a time when traditional authority and leaders
more people are seeing bubbles pumped up by toxic assets have failed us and there is vacuousness in this space where
and fraud of financial engineering that rent-seeks earnings a center used to hold. In the story of Faust, Goethe wrote
of hard working people and creates money out of thin air. about a universal man following his thirst for knowledge.
In this journey, Dr. Faust meets Mephisto (the devil) who
In his speech “Currency Wars and Bitcoin’s Neutrality”, tried to trick and tempt him to come under his control. In
technologist and author Andreas Antonopoulos spoke of the scene A Dark Gallery, Faust told Mephisto, “In your
how “cash is being eradicated around the world as a Nothingness I hope to find my All”. He then took the key
scourge.” He then pointed out how governments are and entered into this mysterious unknown.
waging currency wars against other countries and their
own people in order to benefit from a crisis they artificially Our quest for real democracy invokes this thirst for
created. He emphasized how governments and central knowledge. It invites us all to enter into the realm of
banks can’t win this game, because “cash is something that Nothingness. We no longer want to believe; we want to
we can create, electronic cash, self sovereign cash, digital know. We will no longer blindly accept a world conceived
cash – Bitcoin.” He then noted how this math-based by a few elites. Now, in this chaos and abyss that we are
Internet of money offers an exit from this old world of descending into, we may be able to find the real source of
currency wars. He alerted the Bitcoin community that as our own legitimacy. With a knowledge that springs from
the battle intensifies, those who create a new infrastructure deep within, we are able to penetrate the deception of those
as an exit from nation-state gated economies, and those who seek to control us and recognize their emptiness. In
who point to this exit will be called traitors, criminals, thug their nothingness, we will find the creative power that has
and terrorists. always been there, power that can bring life back to this
phantom of democracy.
This war on cash and censorship with Fake News memes
are attacks on our fundamental freedoms. It is a battle for
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Pardon The Interruption: Clinton Allegation May Force
Obama To Act; Clinton To Admit
By David Weisberg, Contributor
12/27/16 01:00 PM EST

tenure as secretary of state ended Feb. 1, 2013, so it is


possible that the statute of limitations will not run until
Feb. 1, 2018, more than a year after Mr. Trump takes
office.

What looks like one question—will the president pardon


Mrs. Clinton?—turns out, on analysis, to be two. The first
question is: Would Mrs. Clinton wish to receive a pardon?

That question seems to be a proverbial no-brainer. Surely,


any person who had been in federal government would be
eager to receive a presidential pardon, because it
Executive orders barring offshore drilling in most U.S. eliminates even the possibility of federal prosecution. That
Arctic waters; an abstention at the U.N. permitting the looks like all upside and no downside.
Security Council to declare all Israeli settlement activity to
be illegal and an obstacle to peace; the possibility of But there is a downside, and it isn’t trivial. A pardon must
further action at the U.N. to formalize the administration’s be accepted by the person who is pardoned if it is to
comprehensive vision of a two-state solution to the effectively stymie any prosecution.
Israeli/Palestinian conflict—Pres. Obama is sprinting, not
jogging, to the finish-line.
Furthermore, there is solid legal precedent that acceptance
of a pardon is equivalent to confession of guilt. A U.S.
In dashing through his last few weeks in Supreme Court case from 1915 called Burdick v. U.S.
office, will one of Pres. Obama’s final establishes that principle; it has never been overturned.
acts be to pardon Hillary Clinton for any
violations of federal law she might have
If acceptance of a pardon by Mrs. Clinton would amount to
committed while she was secretary of
confession of guilt, would she nevertheless accept it? A
state?
multitude of factors would go into her decision.

It’s an interesting and complex question.


She, together with her attorneys, would have to decide how
likely it is that the Trump administration would prosecute
We should first note that the Obama administration’s her, and, if they did decide to prosecute, how likely it is
decision not to prosecute Mrs. Clinton would not bind the they would be able to prove she had committed crimes.
Trump administration. Until relevant statutes of limitations
have expired, she could still be prosecuted by the new
Since being elected, Mr. Trump has been remarkably
administration. It is possible in my opinion for Clinton to
warm towards the person he used to call “crooked
be prosecuted for either her improper handling of
Hillary.” But how confident could Mrs. Clinton be that the
classified information on “home brew,” or allegations of
Justice Department, under a Trump administration, would
“pay to play” arrangements between the secretary of state
not prosecute?
and donors to the Clinton Foundation, which could
constitute bribery.
Prosecutorial decisions are supposed to be independent of
political considerations, so Mr. Trump’s recent friendliness
The statute of limitations for most federal crimes is five
should not be controlling once the new Attorney General is
years from the commission of the offense; that would
in office.
apply to the two categories relevant to Mrs. Clinton. Her
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If Mrs. Clinton believes prosecutors might be able to make In addition to calculations regarding his legacy, Pres.
a strong case against her, the value to her of a pardon Obama and Mrs. Clinton surely have developed over many
increases. If she is confident that any case against her years, both as opponents and as teammates, a personal
would be weak or even futile, the pardon has less value. relationship. If Mrs. Clinton were to ask Pres. Obama for a
pardon, how would that personal relationship play into his
If Mrs. Clinton decides that, everything considered, she response? I cannot say.
would prefer to receive a pardon, she would no doubt be
able to convey that message to Pres. Obama, and then the Days after Mr. Trump won the election, the White House
ball would be in his court. Thus, the second question is: press secretary was asked by Jordan Fabian of The Hill
Would Pres. Obama grant Mrs. Clinton’s request for a whether Pres. Obama would consider pardoning Mrs.
pardon? Clinton. He carefully avoided a direct answer.

From Pres. Obama’s perspective, the decision to grant or Instead, the press secretary said that, in cases where Pres.
withhold a pardon is a political and a personal one. Legal Obama had granted pardons,
considerations do not directly arise.
“[w]e didn’t talk in advance about those
Like all presidents at the end of their terms, he is decisions.” He also expressed hope that
concerned about the “legacy” he leaves for history. Does the new administration would follow “a long
he want his legacy to include a pardon of the secretary of tradition in this country of people in power
state who served under him during the entirety of his first not using the criminal justice system to
term in office? exact political revenge.”

Because acceptance of a pardon amounts to a confession of Of course, there is also a long tradition in this country that
guilt, the acceptance by Mrs. Clinton would, to a degree, no one is above the law, no matter how high a position in
besmirch both Mrs. Clinton and also Pres. Obama. After government he or she might have formerly occupied.
all, Mrs. Clinton was Pres. Obama’s secretary of state. If
she was committing illegal acts as secretary, it happened So, those are the main considerations that would go into
literally on his watch. deciding a very complex question. It’s time for all of us to
show our hands.
On the other hand, if the new administration were to
prosecute and convict Mrs. Clinton of crimes committed I’m saying yes, he will pardon her. Can you beat that?
while she was secretary, that might be an even greater
embarrassment for Obama post-presidency.
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The Fifth Element
By Jim Kirwan
12-27-2016

LIFE ~ EXISTENCE
The Four Universal Elements consist of Water, Air,
Earth & Fire.
The 20th of January is on a Friday and it looks like the
When these four elements are combined they form the Trump administration will have to work through the
life, that is the Fifth Element. weekend just to create this list of individuals, that must be
LIFE; unless we prosecute the TRAITORS now. publicly named and vetted before the nations' business can
go forward.
A list of 1,000 traitors must be waiting for the new This means Trump's team will have to start
administration to act upon, as soon as the oath of Office with all current members of the congress,
has been administered. In the first tier of the list should be both the House and the Senate, all current
the key players in both the George W. Bush and the members of the Obama administration and
Obama administration's who were complicit in the the former members of the Bush
attempted overthrow of the constitution and the United administration: Yes, that is one hell of a
States. This will include all members of congress who long list but that's because we haven't
gave their sworn allegiance to Israel, over their supposed prosecuted anyone for Treason for roughly
allegiance to the United States of America going all the five decades.
way back to 2001.
Here's the current problem
Technically, as this number alone includes all members of
the 535-club, after each of their 'elections' that were held Aiding and Abetting: Every aspect of the Media and
for congress which would by itself clearly exceed the first government has been involved in deceiving the public
One-Hundred Traitors. There are also the five members of about everything that's happened politically & culturally
the Supreme Court that broke the law when they illegally throughout the world. To get to those most culpable in this
intervened in the 2000 election, to appoint Bush Jr. as the global take-down, the list of traitors needs to reflect all key
President over Gore that criminal act was how this entire players across the board.
masquerade actually began
If the Trump administration can successfully identify the
This public act of treason was never disputed by the members of the previous government's clearly, then those
congress, by either political party, or by the public at the prosecutions can go forward—because all the
time: Therefore everything that flowed directly from that investigations have been done; all that's missing are the
act of public treason - is what placed every act committed arrest, prosecution and convictions of the criminals. The
by the entire Bush Jr. administration, as being totally problem of course is that most of those that are clearly
unlawful. This includes all the wars that were illegally guilty are or were inside government organizations.
declared, (because only Congress can declare WAR in the
United States) consequently all WARS since 2000 have This includes the Department of Justice, the prosecutor's at
been and still are unconstitutional. every level who failed to act, the FBI, the State
Department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Department of
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Defense, NSA, CIA, DHS, DEA, BLM, (ICE) Immigration If the Trump Administration clearly identifies the key
& Customs, the entire illegal-network of NGO's, along players publicly, and their connections to the Clinton
with Soros and of course everyone in The Department of Foundation, then Trump's new cabinet can begin do their
Immigration. The American Connections to the UN, the jobs. Then most of the rest of these massive crimes can
entire Bush government, that set this all up, and the Obama each find their own place as Trump begins to “Drain the
government that tried, but failed, to overthrow this nation. Swamp from Day One”

The Good News If humanity is to survive then “LIFE” must again become
the focal point for everything that we allow our
government's to do supposedly “in our names”.
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Oh The Irony: While Blaming Trump For “Arms Race,”
Obama Signs Momentous “Star Wars II” Space-Based
Weapons Defense Bill
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge
December 27, 2016

As AP reports,

One struck the word “limited” from


language describing the mission of the
country’s homeland missile defense
system. The system is said to be designed
to thwart a small-scale attack by a non-
superpower such as North Korea or Iran.
A related provision calls for the
Pentagon to start “research,
development, test and evaluation” of
space-based systems for missile
defense.
As politicians and mainstream media blast Trump’s
apparently incendiary tweet regarding nuclear arms, none Together, the provisions signal that the US will seek to use
other than President Obama just signed legislation that, advanced technology to defeat both small-scale and large-
by striking a single word from longstanding US nuclear scale nuclear attacks.
defense policy, could heighten tensions with Russia and
China and launch the country on an expensive effort to That could unsettle the decades-old
build space-based defense systems. balance of power among the major
nuclear states.
Oh the irony… Following Trump’s tweet…
Huge bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress
approved the policy changes over the past month, with
virtually no public debate.

Although the White House had earlier criticized the


changes, it stopped short of threatening a veto. On Friday,
Obama signed the legislation.

Leading defense scientists said the idea that a space-based


system could provide security against nuclear attack is a
The mainstream media has lambasted the president-elect fantasy…
for “endangering the world” and “starting another nuclear
arms race.” “It defies the laws of physics and is not
based on science of any kind,” said L.
However, that same mainstream media David Montague, a retired president of
appears mute in their response to what missile systems for Lockheed and co-chair
President Obama just did… of a National Academy of Sciences panel
that studied missile defense technologies
The National Defense Authorization Act, a year-end policy at the request of Congress.
bill encompassing virtually every aspect of the US “Even if we darken the sky with hundreds
military, contained two provisions with potentially or thousands of satellites and interceptors,
momentous consequences. there’s no way to ensure against a
dedicated attack,” Montague said in an
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interview. “So it’s an opportunity to “To do this would cost just gazillions
waste a prodigious amount of money.” and gazillions,” Coyle said. “The
technology isn’t at hand – nor is the money.
He called the provisions passed by Congress “insanity, It’s unfortunate from my point of view that
pure and simple.” the Congress doesn’t see that.”

Republican Congressman Trent Franks, who introduced He added:


and shepherded the policy changes in the House, said he
drew inspiration from former president Ronald Reagan’s “Both Russia and China will use it as an
Strategic Defense Initiative of the 1980s, which was excuse to do something that they want to
intended to use lasers and other space-based weaponry to do.”
render nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete.”
Finally, when asked whether the country could afford it,
Known as “Star Wars”, the initiative Franks replied:
cost taxpayers US$30 billion, but no
system was ever deployed. “What is national security worth? It’s
priceless.”
Philip E. Coyle III, a former assistant secretary of defense
who headed the Pentagon office responsible for testing and Priceless indeed.
evaluating weapon systems,
So who is “starting an arms race?”
described the idea of a space-based
nuclear shield as “a sham”.
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Will Obama Pardon Clinton?
And If He Does, Will She Accept?
By David Weisberg, Contributor
12/27/16 01:00 PM EST

Executive orders barring offshore drilling in most U.S. But there is a downside, and it isn't trivial. A pardon must
Arctic waters; an abstention at the U.N. permitting the be accepted by the person who is pardoned if it is to
Security Council to declare all Israeli settlement activity to effectively stymie any prosecution.
be illegal and an obstacle to peace; the possibility of
further action at the U.N. to formalize the administration's Furthermore, there is solid legal precedent that acceptance
comprehensive vision of a two-state solution to the of a pardon is equivalent to confession of guilt. A U.S.
Israeli/Palestinian conflict — President Obama is Supreme Court case from 1915 called Burdick v. U.S.
sprinting, not jogging, to the finish line. establishes that principle; it has never been overturned.

In dashing through his last few weeks in office, will one of If acceptance of a pardon by Clinton would amount to
Obama's final acts be to pardon Hillary Clinton for any confession of guilt, would she nevertheless accept it? A
violations of federal law she might have committed while multitude of factors would go into her decision.
she was secretary of State?
She, together with her attorneys, would have to decide how
It's an interesting and complex question. likely it is that the Trump administration would prosecute
her, and, if it did decide to prosecute, how likely the
We should first note that the Obama administration's administration would be able to prove she had committed
decision not to prosecute Clinton would not bind the crimes.
Trump administration. Until relevant statutes of limitations
have expired, she could still be prosecuted by the new Since being elected, Trump has been remarkably warm
administration. It is possible, in my opinion, for Clinton to towards the person he used to call "Crooked Hillary." But
be prosecuted for either her improper handling of how confident could Clinton be that the Justice
classified information on her "home brew" email server or Department, under a Trump administration, would not
allegations of "pay to play" arrangements between the prosecute?
secretary of State and donors to the Clinton Foundation,
which could constitute bribery. Prosecutorial decisions are supposed to be independent of
political considerations, so Trump's recent friendliness
The statute of limitations for most federal crimes is five should not be controlling once the new attorney general is
years from the commission of the offense; that would in office.
apply to the two categories relevant to Clinton. Her tenure
as secretary of State ended Feb. 1, 2013, so it is possible If Clinton believes prosecutors might be able to make a
that the statute of limitations will not run until Feb. 1, strong case against her, the value to her of a pardon
2018, more than a year after Donald Trump takes office.
increases. If she is confident that any case against her
would be weak or even futile, the pardon has less value.
What looks like one question — will the president pardon
Clinton? — turns out, on analysis, to be two. The first If Clinton decides that, everything considered, she would
question is: Would Clinton wish to receive a pardon?
prefer to receive a pardon, she would no doubt be able to
convey that message to Obama, and then the ball would be
That question seems to be a proverbial no-brainer. Surely, in his court. Thus, the second question is: Would Obama
any person who had been in federal government would be grant Clinton's request for a pardon?
eager to receive a presidential pardon, because it
eliminates even the possibility of federal prosecution. That
From Obama's perspective, the decision to grant or
looks like all upside and no downside.
withhold a pardon is a political and a personal one. Legal
considerations do not directly arise.

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Like all presidents at the end of their terms, he is Days after Trump won the election, the White House press
concerned about the legacy he leaves for history. Does he secretary was asked by Jordan Fabian of The Hill whether
want his legacy to include a pardon of the secretary of Obama would consider pardoning Clinton. He carefully
State who served under him during the entirety of his first avoided a direct answer.
term in office?
Instead, the press secretary said that, in cases where
Because acceptance of a pardon amounts to a confession of Obama had granted pardons, "[w]e didn’t talk in advance
guilt, the acceptance by Clinton would, to a degree, about those decisions." He also expressed hope that the
besmirch both Clinton and also Obama. After all, Clinton new administration would follow "a long tradition in this
was Obama's secretary of State. If she was committing country of people in power not using the criminal justice
illegal acts as secretary, it happened literally on his watch. system to exact political revenge."

On the other hand, if the new administration were to Of course, there is also a long tradition in this country that
prosecute and convict Clinton of crimes committed while no one is above the law, no matter how high a position in
she was secretary, that might be an even greater government he or she might have formerly occupied.
embarrassment for Obama post-presidency.
So, those are the main considerations that would go into
In addition to calculations regarding his legacy, Obama deciding a very complex question. It's time for all of us to
and Clinton surely have developed over many years, both show our hands.
as opponents and as teammates, a personal relationship. If
Clinton were to ask Obama for a pardon, how would that I'm saying yes, he will pardon her. Can you beat that?
personal relationship play into his response? I cannot say.

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Big Surprise: Media Betting Obama Will Pardon Hillary
Clinton Before He Leaves The White House
Melissa Dykes
December 27, 2016

guilt. It was established by a 1915 U.S. Supreme Court


case, Burdick v. U.S. which has never been overturned. In
other words, if Hillary takes the pardon, she’s admitting
she committed at least one crime she committed and needs
to be pardoned for.

Then again, is it even likely Trump is actually going to


prosecute Hillary anyway? Pretty much as soon as he won,
he announced that he no longer planned to. Even Weisberg
points out,
A lot of us figured this was coming, but now the
“Since being elected, Mr. Trump has been
mainstream media is predicting the obvious in print.
remarkably warm towards the person he
used to call ‘crooked Hillary’.”
In a piece by contributor David Weisberg over at The Hill,
he declares that Obama will make sure to pardon Hillary
It’s been speculated Trump’s promise not to prosecute was
Clinton
part of the phone call ensuring Hillary would concede.
Then again, they’d been pretty good friends for the two
“for any violations of federal law she might decades leading up to the election.
have committed while she was secretary of
state.”
Weisberg goes on to say he thinks Obama’s pardon for
Hillary is forthcoming. Why not. The White House won’t
Weisberg writes: deny the option is being considered, even though, again,
Trump has come out to say he does not plan to prosecute
We should first note that the Obama Hillary anyway.
administration’s decision not to prosecute
Mrs. Clinton would not bind the Trump Obama’s pardon of Hillary will probably be worded a lot
administration. Until relevant statutes of like (if not exactly like) Ford’s Pardon of Richard Nixon:
limitations have expired, she could still be
prosecuted by the new administration. It is
Now, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD,
possible in my opinion for Clinton to be
President of the United States, pursuant to
prosecuted for either her improper handling
the pardon power conferred upon me by
of classified information on “home brew,” or
Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution,
allegations of “pay to play” arrangements
have granted and by these presents do
between the secretary of state and donors
grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto
to the Clinton Foundation, which could
Richard Nixon for all offenses against the
constitute bribery.
United States which he, Richard Nixon,
has committed or may have committed
The statute of limitations for most federal crimes is five or taken part in during the period from
years from the commission of the offense; that would January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.
apply to the two categories relevant to Mrs. Clinton. Her
tenure as secretary of state ended Feb. 1, 2013, so it is
Hillary’s pardon will be just as ambiguously worded, to
possible that the statute of limitations will not run until
make sure and cover anything and everything (and there’s
Feb. 1, 2018, more than a year after Mr. Trump takes
a lot to cover).
office.

As projected, it’ll likely be dated for her entire tenure as


Apparently, however, there is legal precedent for the
Secretary of State, too.
acceptance of a pardon being equal to an admission of
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They Hate You! CNN Admits That Media
Thinks Trump Supporters Are Deplorable Racists
Corporate Media Now Openly Admitting Their True
Feelings About Millions Of Americans
By Alex Thomas -
12.27.2016 @11:50 PM EST

During a segment on the much maligned networks show


“Wolf” guest host Jake Tapper, in the midst of a discussion
about Hillary Clinton’s infamous “basket of deplorables”
comment, revealed that many within the mainstream media
structure agreed with her.

“I don’t think there’s any story that


demonstrates the divide between the
people who report on politicians and the
voters, than that story, because a lot of us,
our reaction was, okay, she got the number
right but a lot of them are deplorable, a lot
of them are racist,” Tapper declared.

CNN talking head and noted anti-Trump zealot Jake Donald Trump registered over 60 million votes
Tapper has revealed what many long ago figured out – the nationwide. One has to wonder just how many Hillary
actual people who work for the corporate media directly Clinton and her supporters in the corporate media believe
and fully hate tens of millions of Americans. are deplorable.

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IT’S OVER! Wikileaks Just Revealed Who Leaked
Hillary’s Emails! This Is TERRIBLE News For Her!
By Admin
December 27, 2016

ulian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, and his very close


confidant former British ambassador Craig Murray just
confirmed TRUMP IS RIGHT! (h/t Craigmurray.org)

Murray backed up Assange’s claim, saying:

“THERE IS NO RUSSIAN INVOLVEMENT IN THE


LEAKS OF EMAILS SHOWING CLINTON’S
CORRUPTION…I KNOW WHO LEAKED
THEM…I’VE MET THE PERSON WHO LEAKED
THEM, AND THEY ARE CERTAINLY NOT
RUSSIAN.”

If you’ve kept up with the news the past week, all you’ve
“AS JULIAN ASSANGE HAS MADE CRYSTAL
heard is the left whining and crying about how Russia
CLEAR, THE LEAKS DID NOT COME FROM THE
hacked the DNC and leaked Hillary’s e-mails thus costing
RUSSIANS. AS I HAVE EXPLAINED COUNTLESS
them the election.
TIMES, THEY ARE NOT HACKS, THEY ARE
INSIDER LEAKS – THERE IS A MAJOR DIFFERENCE
Their only “proof” of a Russian hack was an unnamed CIA BETWEEN THE TWO.”
source, but of course the mainstream media is just running
with it anyway. The FBI maintains there is no evidence
Russia was responsible.

This is just an attempt by Hillary and the media to de-


legitimize Trump’s presidency.

JULIAN ASSANGE JUST BROKE HIS SILENCE…SEE


BELOW:

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(That was Assange a few weeks ago)

That’s right. The person responsible for the email leaks is a


Clinton insider that apparently hates her so much they
were willing to risk their life to expose to the world just
how terrible she and the rest of the Democrats truly are. If
there is one thing Hillary is good at it’s making enemies,
and this time she pissed off the wrong person!

Wikileaks has a 100% accuracy rating. NO ONE can deny


that. Who is more honest, Julian Assange or Barack
Obama/Hillary Clinton? I think you know the answer.
Assange as just said said the source responsible for the
DNC and Clinton e-mails leaks is NOT A RUSSIAN
HACKER, that’s it’s actually a Clinton insider who
despises the Clintons!
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Tripwires For The Trumpsters
By Ralph Nader
December 28, 2016

The Trumpsters are coming to town—led by a failed federal minimum wage? Similar conflicts exist with the
gambling czar, corporate welfare king and major tax new Secretary of State—Exxon Mobil CEO Rex
escapee—and they are hell bent on unmaking Washington, Tillerson—with that company’s far flung concessions and
D.C. investments around the world. People who got rich in
business and leave to serve public office tend to go back
With all three branches of government dominated by into the business world from whence they came.
Republican members of Congress and Republican
appointees—due to a mixture of abysmal deficiencies in Fourth, Trump’s nominees are for the most part confirmed
the Democratic Party and the interloping luck of the role-players in radical corporate-statism. They can talk a
atavistic Electoral College—the wrecking crew of Trump’s good game against crony capitalism or corporate welfare,
nominees to high cabinet and other positions brings with it but the soaring stock market, including defense industry
a host of politically perilous baggage. stocks, signal that Wall Street likes the Trump team. This
is not exactly what many of Trump’s supporters expected
First, the Trumpsters have vowed to dismantle various after November 8.
government programs. They are determined to severely
limit the protection of labor, replace public schools with Trump promised a bigger military budget, corporate tax
taxpayer-funded vouchers for private schools, and drop cuts and fewer regulatory health and safety protections for
regulatory protections in the health, safety and consumers, workers and the environment. With a
environmental fields, among others. Acting without the Republican-dominated Congress he may achieve these
requisite legal authority is of little concern to Mr. Trump. objectives, but they will be accompanied by rising deficits,
more inflation, and the cost of preventable human
Having sworn in their oaths of office (to “faithfully casualties.
execute the laws of the land,”), they will find themselves
quickly sued, exposed in the mass media and opposed by Fifth, the maximum peril Trump’s administration brings to
the law-abiding civil service. It will be a whistleblower’s the country could come from its extreme hubris with
field day. Trump will have serious trouble binding himself regard to its military aggressiveness overseas. Trump has
to the rule of law and the Constitution. picked three retired generals well-suited to advance
Empire’s constantly boomeranging attacks in whichever
Second, the Trumpsters will establish more secretive country in Asia and Africa they choose. Certainly
government, led by their very secretive boss (note his President Obama, presently conducting wars in numerous
refusal to reveal his incriminating tax returns); too much countries without Congressional declaration, has opened
secrecy always gets government officials in trouble sooner the door to these unconstitutional adventures.
or later, from legal trouble to media trouble to citizen
revulsion over the resultant corruption scandals. Heavily The Trump military and national security team is not
staffed with militarists and corporatists, the incoming looking for peace treaties or strategies that avoid the
Trump regime will be hostile to open democratic processes spread of stateless terrorism around the world.
and vulnerable to governing by cover-ups.
One major terror attack on the U.S. and Trump becomes a
Third, since most of the top nominees are wealthy with warring, civil-liberties destroying monster of over-
many financial interests, they stand accused of conflicts of reaction, forsaking and crowding out other priorities and
interest, even as they divest assets and place them in so- necessities that a mature society must address.
called blind trusts.
With his megalomaniacal, easily bruisable ego, his
How can the restauranteur and fast-food chain magnate, impulsive middle-of-the-night tweets against opponents,
Andrew Puzder, the next Secretary of Labor, escape being and his unwillingness to absorb critical facts with
seen as conflicted when he has opposed labor unions and reflection and prudence, we cannot trust his judgement to
has opposed increases to the stagnant $7.25 per hour

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serve the best interest of the people, especially given his rant. This is not a man who can learn from the bitter
belligerent advisors raising dangerous risks on the horizon. lessons of history.

Nothing short of a robust organization of wise and And citizens from all walks of life—left and right—need
experienced, retired military, national security and to defend our democracy, our civil liberties, and the health
diplomatic officials, who served under both parties, and safety protections that at their best made our country a
supported by adequate resources and media access, can model for so many other countries.
have a chance to slow down what can become a deadly
momentum of brute force and troop expansion overseas. See my book, Breaking Through Power: It’s Easier
than We Think for more information on how citizens can
Enlightened billionaires have to step up to make this fight Trump administration excesses.
happen before a likely unleashing of Trumpian rage and
.

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Russia "Tired Of Obama Lies About Hackers",
Vows Response To Any New Sanctions
By Tyler Durden
Dec 28, 2016 12:16 PM

As Washington prepares to unleash new sanctions on And Russia has pre-emptively warned of retaliation...
Russia, it appears Putin won't take this laying down.
The outgoing US administration still
If U.S. adopts new sanctions against hopes to finally have time to do
Russia, govt in Moscow will resort to something else for bad relations with
counter-measures, Russia, and so she brought down.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warns in With clearly inspired leaks in the American media have
a website statement. once again trying to scare the extension of anti-Russian
sanctions measures "diplomatic" and even sabotage against
As we detailed previously, the delay in our computer systems. And this last "Christmas greetings"
sanctions against Russia have come from from the Obama team, already preparing for eviction from
Obama's inability to take unilateral the White House cynically want to present as a reaction to
actions under current laws. certain "cyber attack from Moscow."

While Obama previously signed an executive order that Frankly, we are tired of the lies about
would allow him to freeze the assets in the United States of the "Russian hackers", which continues
people overseas who have engaged in cyber acts, to flow into the United States from the
very top.
it only applies to actions that have
threatened U.S. national security or The Obama administration has launched six months ago,
financial stability. this misinformation in an attempt to play up the desired for
himself a candidate in the November presidential election,
and not achieving the desired, looking for an excuse for
Further, per a "senior administration official," use of the
existing law would require: their own failure, and with a vengeance is played on
Russian-American relations.
(1) actual election infrastructure to be designated as
'critical infrastructure' and But the truth of the provocation
(2) the administration to prove that such infrastructure was orchestrated by the White House,
actually "harmed," conditions which the National sooner or later will still come out.
Security Council say have not been met.
Yes, it's already happening. How else to December 8
reported the US media, the State of Georgia State
Secretary Brian Kemp he said that the authorities in the
region followed where came hacker attack on its electronic
system of vote counting shortly after the election.

Footprints led to the computer at the US


Department of Homeland Security.

This information quickly tried to cover up the stream of


new anti-Russian charges that do not contain a single
proof.

It only remains to add that if


Washington really takes new hostile
steps, it will get the answer.
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This also applies to any action against Russian diplomatic the bilateral relations, but the story is unlikely to forgive
missions in the United States, which immediately her behavior on the principle of "after us the deluge."
ricocheted on US diplomats in Russia. Perhaps the Obama
administration is quite indifferent to what will happen to In other words, Europe is about to get screwed again.

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The Diplomacy Of Donald J. Trump
By Mel Gurtov
December 28, 2016

business dealings, his refusal to establish a blind trust or


divest his financial holdings, and his absolutist belief that
“the president cannot have a conflict of interest,” we may
never know whether or not he is using his position to
further “the brand” and his personal fortune.

Here’s What Trump Has Said and Done

China: Trump broke with longstanding precedent again


when he held a telephone conversation with Taiwan’s
president Tsai Ing-wen, the first conversation between two
leaders since the 1979 US recognition of the PRC and
breaking of ties with Taiwan. Contrary to Trump’s
insistence that “The President of Taiwan CALLED ME”
Oblivious to Tradition and Good Sense to offer congratulations, official Taiwan sources said the
call had been arranged in advance. Supporting that view, a
Those of us who appreciate the unconventional have to Washington Post report said the call “was planned weeks
have second thoughts after watching Donald J. Trump in ahead by staffers and Taiwan specialists on both sides,
action. All the more so when it comes to the conduct of according to people familiar with the plans.” In fact,
foreign affairs, in which Mr. Trump is a novice. Defying Trump’s pro-Taiwan advisers said they deliberately
convention, which calls for the president or president-elect wanted to send China a message that the old Taiwan policy
to call on the State Department for advice and talking might change if China’s policies on currency, US
points, and on the intelligence community for daily investments in China, the trade deficit, North Korea, and
briefings, Trump at any time might decide to pick up the the South China Sea did not change. Trump underscored
phone and chat with a foreign leader, might Tweet an that message by publicly questioning the one-China policy
opinion, or might make an off-the-cuff remark about a that has guided US-China relations for 40 years. (“I don’t
controversial issue. Trouble is, any of these acts might run know why we have to be bound by a One China policy
directly counter to ongoing US foreign policy. You can’t unless we make a deal with China,” he said.) Leverage, or
flatter a dictator, interject comments about another blackmail?
country’s domestic affairs, praise one country at the
expense of another, or bring family into high-level During his campaign, Trump had harsh words for China—
meetings without consequences. Trump has done all these, and in doing so revealed very limited understanding of
and more, and as president seems determined to continue Chinese motivations, not to mention reliance only on
the practice. himself for his views of China. He said then what he has
said now, that if China doesn’t behave as he sees fit, he
Such practices only make sense when understood in terms will authorize trade and currency sanctions. After all, who
of Trump’s “art of the deal” approach to diplomacy. And needs China?
“the deal” must be taken literally, since Trump clearly sees
doing the nation’s business as being equivalent to doing But if Trump now intends to put China on notice, China is
his personal business. Protecting the environment, also putting Trump on notice. The Chinese press has
promoting human rights and social justice, and carried stories indicating that although positive US-China
strengthening international law have no place in the deal. relations are most important to Chinese leaders, further
steps that are contrary to the “One China” principle will be
Trump Organization hotels and golf courses outside the resisted. The press has also reported various negative
US, and Trump’s financial portfolio (Goldman Sachs, views of US society and politics today, with the suggestion
Apple, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and other international that the US has become weak and divided in the course of
firms ), spell conflicts of interest in capital(ist) letters. this electoral cycle. If the idea of Taiwan independence,
Given Trump’s lack of transparency on his taxes and which most concerns Chinese leaders, actually takes shape
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under Trump, we can expect that China’s pushback will be Britain: Trump told the British prime minister, Theresa
very strong. The recent incident in South China Sea waters May, “If you travel to the U.S., you should let me know,”
in which a Chinese vessel picked up a US Navy unmanned an offhand invitation that came only after he spoke to nine
research drone (later returned) may be just a preview. other leaders. He later compounded it by saying on Twitter
that Britain should name the anti-immigrant leader Nigel
Trump’s Taiwan gambit is reminiscent of George W. Bush Farage its ambassador to Washington, a startling break
early in his presidency, when he expressed strong support with diplomatic protocol.
for Taiwan and authorized a major arms sale. But before
long Bush accepted the One China policy of his Israel: Trump just can’t wait to show Benjamin Netanyahu
predecessors and backed off from a shift on Taiwan. It’s just how pro-Israel (i.e., pro-settlements, anti-UN) he can
not clear that Trump will do the same. (The House recently be. He and “Bibi” are of one mind about the irrelevance of
passed a defense authorization bill that called for the a just solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. So when the
secretary of defense to approve annual “senior military US for the first time failed to reject a UN Security Council
exchanges” with Taiwan.) Trump may just be testing the resolution critical of Israeli settlements in occupied
waters, but more likely is that he believes he can pressure Palestine–the US abstained–Netanyahu went ballistic and
China into making concessions. He’ll find that Beijing Trump followed. Mind you, Obama had only recently
does not respond well to pressure tactics or blackmail. And pledged $38 billion in military aid to Israel over the next
that will leave Taiwan out to dry, vulnerable to Chinese 10 years–a huge increase, considering that from the 1967
threats. June War to 2015, total US military exports to Israel came
to $34 billion–in hopes Netanyahu would halt further
Philippines: Then there’s Trump’s talk with Rodrigo illegal settlements. Trump will no doubt resume the
Duterte of the Philippines, which ended with an invitation practice of giving aid without conditions. His nominee as
to visit the US and Duterte’s later statement that Trump ambassador to Israel, a strong supporter of the settlements,
endorsed the anti-drug crackdown. According to Duterte, will see that Israel gets whatever it wants.
Trump was “quite sensitive” to the Philippines’ drug
problem and was handling it “the right way.” That was not Japan: When Trump met Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in
Obama’s view, of course. Duterte’s crackdown on drugs New York shortly after his election, only one other
has caused more than 2000 deaths and several hundred American was in the room: his daughter Ivanka. Trump
surrenders by users and traffickers. Obama’s criticism of apparently did not consult with the State Department for
Duterte for trampling on civil liberties and engaging in talking points. For all we know, Trump may have
vigilante justice while suppressing drug trafficking is what reiterated his view during the campaign that Japan should
got Philippines-US relations off track. shoulder more of its defense burden, leaving open the
possibility of Japan’s producing nuclear weapons.
Left unsaid is Trump’s considerable real estate interest in
the Philippines, an interest that clearly will conflict with Pakistan: Trump’s phone call with Prime Minister Nawaz
his presidency. As reported in the Washington Post, a Sharif showed total disregard for the sensitive issues that
newly built Trump Tower condominium outside Manila, mark US relations with his government, including relations
which Trump’s sons visited for ceremonies to mark its with India, involvement of Pakistan’s intelligence services
completion, is operated by a top official in the Duterte in support of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and Pakistan’s
government: nuclear weapons program. According to the Pakistani
government, Trump told Sharif that he was “a terrific guy”
“The man writing millions of dollars’ worth of checks to who made him feel as though “I’m talking to a person I
the Trump family is the Duterte government’s special have known for long.” He described Pakistanis as “one of
representative to the United States. To argue that these the most intelligent people.” When Sharif invited Trump to
payments will be constitutional if they are paid to the visit Pakistan, the president-elect replied that he would
Trump children, and not to Trump personally, is absurd. “love to come to a fantastic country, fantastic place of
This conflict demands congressional hearings, and could fantastic people.” Trump’s team would not confirm or
be an impeachable offense.” deny Pakistan’s account.
Turkey: Similarly, the Post also reported, Trump has
business interests in Turkey, and conveyed compliments Kazakhstan: Trump’s penchant for cozying up to dictators
from a “close friend” of his to Turkey’s leader, Recep (except China’s) shows that he will follow an unfortunate
Tayyip Erdogan. That association, supplemented by US foreign policy tradition. His call with President
Michael Flynn’s involvements with Turkey, could lead Nursultan A. Nazarbayev is indicative: As usual, Trump
Trump to reverse US policy and expel the cleric, now failed to mention that country’s repressive politics.
residing in Pennsylvania, whom Erdogan believes is Nazarbayev has ruled Kazakhstan since 1989, initially as
responsible for the recent coup attempt. head of the Communist Party before independence. He
won his fifth election in April 2015 with about 97 percent
of the vote. The Kazakh government claimed that Trump
lavishly praised Nazarbayev’s leadership, citing “fantastic
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success that can be called a ‘miracle.’” More intelligently, and other weapons in the context of a much larger military
Trump apparently also praised the Kazakh government’s budget.
surrender of the nuclear arsenal it inherited from the
Soviets. In Conclusion

Russia: Trump’s love affair with Vladimir Putin remains Let’s remember one thing about all these forays into
one of the most bizarre stories in international affairs, foreign policy: Trump has still not been inaugurated. Thus,
though I can’t quarrel with the goal of a reset in relations. he is trying to make policy while still a private citizen and,
But the terms of a reset are critical. Since the start of in all the cases above, without a secretary of state or
Trump’s campaign, he has endorsed Putin’s strong defense. His recent pronouncements on nuclear weapons,
leadership (stronger than Obama’s, Trump said), avoided Russia, Israel, China, and the United Nations—all via
criticism of Russian interventions in Ukraine and the Twitter or telephone, and thus without benefit of expert
Crimea, agreed with Putin on focusing on ISIS in Syria, advice or questions from the press corps—not only reveal
and—most extraordinarily—rejected the consensus view a preparedness to make significant, high-risk departures
of the intelligence community on Russian hacking of the from longstanding US policy. They also subvert the
US elections. Furthermore, Trump and his future secretary country’s leadership, making it appear that Trump is
of state, Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, have large already in charge. President Obama is fighting back by
business interests in Russia. Now Trump has embraced the executive action. But shouldn’t he also pick up the phone
idea of a nuclear arms race; Putin has said “nyet,” but to firmly remind Trump who’s in charge?
Trump’s bravado gives him license to push for more nukes
.

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Mole Reveals Terrorist Group’s Violent
Plans For Donald Trump’s Inauguration
By Michael Depinto
Posted On December 28, 2016

In the video below, I go into further detail about what


#DisruptJ20 has planned, and I ask that you share this post
with others in the alternative news media to see if together
we might be able to somehow find a way to counteract this
blatant act of domestic terrorism, because clearly Obama’s
Department of Injustice has no plans to disrupt the group’s
very public and well orchestrated plans for chaos and
violence before they commence.

Black’s Law Dictionary 9th Edition defines an “ACT


For anyone who hasn’t already heard, several different far- OF TERRORISM” as:
left activist groups including but not limited to Rising Tide
North America, Showing up For Racial Justice, and of The use or threat of violence to intimidate
course the ever-popular Black Lives Matter are actively or cause panic, esp. as a means of
engaged at this very moment in various stages of planning affecting political conduct. On the
for a violent uprising on Donald Trump‘s Inauguration #DisruptJ20 website, the group is very
Day. clear about why they’re planning to use
violence to cause chaos.
In a recent article that can be found at ipatriot.com,
President-elect Trump’s close friend Roger Stone The website says:
confirmed precisely what I’ve been warning about since at
least this past June. Stone says that one of his undercover “From day one, the Trump presidency will
operatives was recently able to infiltrate a J-20 Committee be a disaster. #DisruptJ20 will be the start
planning session, which is the committee responsible for of the resistance. We must take to the
helping the #DisruptJ20 movement “create a sense of streets and protest, blockade, disrupt,
crisis” both in Washington D.C., and elsewhere around the intervene, sit in, walk out, rise up, and
country during the President-Elect’s Inauguration. So far, make more noise and good trouble than
the operative has revealed the following: the establishment can bear.”

At approximately 12:30, and immediately These far-left radical groups are planning the textbook
after the inauguration, a group of activists definition for acts of domestic terror. The sheer insanity of
plans to begin marching from the it all, is that the major social media giants obviously have
McPherson Square area, and moving in the no problem with the group continuing to recruit ever larger
direction of Columbus Circle, harassing numbers of people willing to commit acts of violence
inaugural visitors in multiple waves along using their platforms, and I’m willing to bet there’s no
their route as the visitors exit out of metro active plan in place for law enforcement to stop this
stations. movement dead in its tracks before trouble begins.
At the same time, another group of activists
is tasked with harassing Secret Service Let’s not forget, “Captain Hope and Change” claimed the
Members who will be working checkpoints intelligence communities were allegedly able trace election
along the National Mall, and then another cyber-hacking across the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the
group will be using drums to break up the Russians, but we’re supposed to believe they aren’t
program when necessary. There are also capable of tracing who the organizers of this movement
plans to launch a pirate radio broadcast, planning violence are, so forces could be dispatched to
and the group is said to be considering arrest their plans before they ever commence? Give me a
using aerial drones loaded with rockets to break!
attack the parade.
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C.I.A. Links Top Hillary Donor George
Soros to Terrorist Bombing

At this point there are several items that cannot be stressed


enough. First of all, as I explained in a post back on
October 13th, all signs seem to be pointing toward Trump
being led directly into a serious (and potentially violent)
no—win scenario. Despite the fact that Black Lives Matter
failed to achieve its goal during the DNC and RNC
conventions this summer, recall what was revealed when
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson’s email
account was hacked back on June 10th. He wrote the
following in an email to one of his fellow BLM activists:
As I explained in the video above, this whole situation has
George Soros’ fingerprints all over it. Roger Stone’s “If we can get both conventions shut down
informant claims the groups plans to meet January 6-8 for for messing over Bernie, and for racist
street medical training, then on January 8th they plant to Trump, then we can get Martial Law
meet to finalize plans for their operation, and on January declared so Obama can stay in office…”
14, they are training their shock troops for violence.
Finally, January 14-22, they plan to converge on Those are not my words, and that’s not some crazy
Washington in an effort to paralyze the city. “conspiracy theory.” Those were the exact words of one of
the leaders of Black Lives Matter, which happens to be a
First of all, that operation sounds extremely well George Soros funded group, and with Soros being one of
organized, which means it’s extremely well funded, and the wealthiest men on the planet, that means Black Lives
that suggests that you can bet the farm that long time Matter and their agenda have some of the deepest pockets
Clinton and Obama ally George Soros is the one pulling all on earth.
the strings behind the scenes. After all, let’s not forget
what Soros said back in September: Second, whether or not Black Lives Matter will manage to
cause so much chaos and violence that Martial Law has to
Western Society Must Fall Before One be declared, or whether or not Obama is forced to delay
World Government Can Be Established. the inauguration because a state of public emergency
requires Martial Law are NOT the issues people should be
focused on.
Furthermore, Soros has a long and distinguished track
record just within this campaign cycle alone of causing
trouble. The following are just a few examples: At the bottom of this post, I provide links to previous posts
that contain almost 2,000 pages of government documents
that prove Martial Law is VERY possible, regardless of
Charlotte Riots Show Hallmarks Of George
what the ill-informed out there think, however that’s NOT
Soros Operation (Video)
the point.
The Clock Is Ticking Before the U.S.
Devolves Into an Armed Revolt (Video) The point is that there are multiple far-left, well-funded,
radical groups promising to bring violence, just like they
Leaked Docs Show How Soros Continues have been promising for months now (and as I’ve been
to Massively Reshape US Elections (Video) warning about for months), so regardless of what people
want to call the chaos, anyone who has not made
Leaked Memos Show Soros Responsible preparations for an emergency situation the way Obama
For Social Media Censorship (Video) himself told the country to on May 31st, is putting
themselves and their loved ones at risk.
Soros Funded BLM Promising Chaos at
Both DNC and RNC Conventions

Trump Protesters Admit Answering


Craigslist Ad – Soros Paying $16/hr to
Protest (Video)

Exposed: BLM Twisted Plans To Escalate


Chaos Forcing Martial Law (Video)

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Unprecedented Security Measures
Planned For Trump’s Swearing-In Ceremony
© Ap Photo/ Pablo Martinez Monsivais Us 09:39 28.12.2016(Updated 09:57 28.12.2016

ever before," Roy Blunt, the chair of the


congressional committee, told The New
York Times on Tuesday.

The newspaper said two to three million of Donald


Trump’s supporters are expected to turn up for the solemn
ceremony at the Capitol. Washington authorities in charge
of public lands have already received 23 requests to hold
events both for and against the president.

Over 3,000 police officers and some 8,000 National


According to media reports, a security planning committee has its
hands full preparing for Donald Trump’s swearing-in that is Guards will handle crowds and control the traffic in the US
expected to be held in Washington amid massive protests. capital during the event, with further 5,000 military
personnel on active duty to be deployed for ceremonial
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A security planning committee has capacities, the outlet said.
its hands full preparing for Donald Trump’s swearing-in
that is expected to be held in Washington amid massive The newspaper estimates that over three dozen law
protests, local media reported citing sources. enforcement, intelligence and military agencies will be
tasked with providing security to the president as well as
"What the intelligence community says thousands of dignitaries at the event. The measures are
estimated to cost the nation more than $100 million.
publicly is what they say privately, and that
is more threats from more directions than
.

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Hillary Hacked (Up) The Election
By Jon Rappoport
December 28, 2016

 Made relatively few personal appearances. Don’t count Hillary out. She’ll spend the
 Spouted empty generalities. next four years at a Swiss longevity clinic
 Collapsed after 9/11 Memorial. with Huma and make another run in 2020.
 Ignored jobless states. Her campaign theme will be “unity.”
 Never spoke out against Globalists (being one herself).
 Used her Foundation to collect billions in pay-for-play The media have a serious case of red-ass. They have to
schemes. blame somebody for their ineptitude, bias, and lack of
 Broke federal law with her personal email server. professionalism. They coached the losing team. They
 Thought she was divinely entitled to occupy the Oval sacrificed every shred of their (pretended) objectivity and
Office. bet the house on Hillary. They had no idea how to deal
 Read the NY Times (whose writers kept claiming she with Trump.
was way ahead in the race).
 Couldn’t sway significant number of voters outside New
The hard political Left are poor losers. They have a long
York and California.
history of being losers. They’ve made it a virtue, and they
 Destroyed Libya.
call it socialism and Globalism.
 Lied about Benghazi.
 Remained silent about scandalous content in leaked
emails. “Hey, let’s face it. We’re a bunch of losers.
 Is still married to Bill. Let’s elevate that into a system that will
 Giggled about defending rapist of young girl give everybody everything for nothing. Let’s
make that into a winner. It’s our only option.
We’ll call it universal love. And we
And she now claims all these factors=Russia hacked the
privileged ones, among the losers, can
election.
parlay our act into million-dollar homes and
fat bank accounts. That’s our political
Which is like saying a 20-car pileup on philosophy.”
the I-5 was caused by a hippopotamus
living under the surface of Mars.
In the process, their leaders align themselves with the hard
political Right, who want endless wars of Empire.
Other than that, she was perfect.
If there’s a shred of a thread of a whisper of a possibility
In the language of pop psychology, the entirety of major that the fast-talking hustler cowboy Trump won’t pursue
media are her enablers. And they’re going down, as they such wars, he must go away, no matter how. Because what
fabricate more and more unhinged tales about the election. makes America great is conquest and creating endless
enemies.
It’s like this: a farmer’s young boy plays with matches and
burns down the barn. Cops, fire fighters, paramedics, and And anyway, shoulda coulda woulda Hillary is the first
reporters gather at the scene. The boy is standing there uncrowned female president of the United States, and she
with singed hair, more packs of matches in his pockets, stands as a symbol of hope for women everywhere, about
and a print-out of instructions on how to set fire to whom she cares as much as the hippopotamus living under
structures. Everyone is talking about a mysterious arsonist the surface of Mars cares about the 20-car pileup on the I-
who most certainly walked on to the property, torched the 5.
barn, and walked away.

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Rachael Maddow’s Newest Anti-Trump Conspiracy Theory
Lacks Teeth, Derailed By Kellyanne Conway
‘Anyone Who Effects Trump’s Bottom Line Is In
Fact Paying The President’
By Shepard Ambellas -
12.28.2016 @1:52 PM EST

elect over her newly concocted conspiracy theory in which


Maddow suggests that a foreign government

“could rent out Trump hotel suites at the


Trump Hotel in Washington,” which would
essentially count as a payoff to Trump “who
is the primary owner of the corporation.”

[…] it’s money for him, Maddow proclaimed.

Maddow went on to say,

(INTELLIHUB) — President-elect Donald J. Trump has “Anybody who wants to, any foreign
country, anyone, can now have the option
to basically pay money to the American
“accountants and lawyers and protocol
President by doing favors to this business
offices literally working around-the-clock to
that he owns.”
make sure that everything that needs to be
done for a man who has been so brilliant
and so successful in business […]. Trump Maddow then aimlessly spewed,
is making sure that he “is sufficiently
disentangled for him to take his job as “corruption is corruption,” which Conway
president and focus on that one-hundred- countered, calling Maddow’s statement
and-ten percent,” Kellyanne Conway told “attenuated.”
MSNBC’s Rachael Maddow Thursday, “If you want to give money to the president,
after Maddow pushed the old ‘conflict of the American President, we have never
interest’ narrative against Trump for had a way to do that before,” Maddow said.
wanting to privatize big banks, also having
an obvious ownership stake in his various “No foreign government has had a way to
hotels. do that before. The American people,
special-interests, haven’t had a way to
The bottom line is that the stock market has been funnel money to the American President
“booming” and that a lot of the investors seem “to like the […].”
fact that Donald Trump will be the next president,”
Conway said. Maddow then haphazardly stated that anyone who
“effects” Trump’s “bottom line” is in fact “paying the
‘The stock market is up to 20,000, about president” in a roundabout way, despite the fact that
twenty percent since the day he was Trump has been openly moving toward total transparency
elected.’ and the personal disentanglement of his businesses, which
the general public and Trump supporters alike are very
aware of.
Soon after, Maddow, a self-proclaimed liberal who has
also been touted as “the creme de la creme of leftist
ideologues at MSNBC,” went on to attack the President- To Trumps credit Conway put Maddow in her place by
saying,
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“[…] please don’t leave people the financially benefit — that a foreign country
impression that the money goes into could funnel money — and I was like ding,
Donald Trump’s pocket. He employs tens- ding, ding [verbal sound of alarm bells] we
of-thousands of people worldwide. […] He had a Secretary of State that did exactly
said he will do whatever is necessary to that and Americans didn’t like it. She
comply with the law [and] protocol.” [Hillary Clinton] used the State Department
as a concierge for foreign governments to
Conway then went on to rip Maddow a new one by dump money into the foundation. Her
demonstrating how former Secretary of State Hillary husband gets a million bucks over in
Clinton funneled money through the Clinton Foundation Russia to give a speech at UNT” and he
which likely trickled up to the current sitting president in also gave up “twenty percent of our
some instances. uranium rights.”

“The fact is that, Rachel, you just said that After her colossal defeat Maddow went on to whitewash
we’ve never had a president that could the Clinton Foundation’s “pay-to-play” issues before
ending the segment shortly after with her guest Conway.

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It’s Time To Prosecute George Soros
By: Don Wrightman
Date: December 28, 2016

including, but not limited to, the mail, telegraph,


telephone, radio, or television, with intent —

(1) to incite a riot; or

(2) to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or


carry on a riot; or

(3) to commit any act of violence in furtherance of a


riot; or

In cities across the United States, mobs of rioters have (4) to aid or abet any person in inciting or participating
been illegally blocking streets and freeways, setting fires, in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of
throwing Molotov cocktails, injuring police officers, violence in furtherance of a riot….
destroying property, and defacing public buildings with
graffiti. The rioters have been chanting “not my president.” Shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more
Donald Trump however, will surely be their president. In than five years, or both.
Portland, Oregon, progressive democrats have been at the
epicenter of most of the violent action directed toward the
The definition section of 18 U.S. Code §
President-elect. There was a strange phenomenon in
2102 defines the crime of rioting this way:
Portland though, most of the Portland rioters that were
arrested were not registered to vote. A large percentage of
the mob appeared to be professional, paid protesters. (a) As used in this chapter, the term “riot” means a
public disturbance involving (1) an act or acts of
violence by one or more persons part of an
There were advertisements for paid anti-Trump protesters
assemblage of three or more persons, which act or
on Craigslist. This is most likely how the majority of the acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or
rioters ended up causing trouble on the streets. Cities shall result in, damage or injury to the property of any
where Craigslist advertisements were recruiting paid anti- other person or to the person of any other individual or
Trump protesters include Seattle, Portland, Chicago, (2) a threat or threats of the commission of an act or
Pittsburgh, Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, New York and acts of violence by one or more persons part of an
more. These protests were not organic and would not have assemblage of three or more persons having,
occurred without organizational efforts. This includes individually or collectively, the ability of immediate
hundreds of busses that were used to transport thousands execution of such threat or threats, where the
of protesters, many of which came from out of state. performance of the threatened act or acts of violence
would constitute a clear and present danger of, or
“Many of the anti-trump paid protesters would result in, damage or injury to the property of any
violated state laws against rioting and other person or to the person of any other individual.
inciting the riots,” says William Jasper of
TheNewAmerican.com. There is also a It is unlikely that the co-conspirators who financed and
federal law prohibiting the same crime. The planned the riots will be prosecuted, since financiers of the
rioters can be charged under Title 18 U.S. anti-Trump “not my president” movement are some of the
Code 2101. Democratic party’s biggest donors. George Soros is at the
top of the riot financiers list, but he is a huge piggy bank
The code states as follows: for Obama and Clinton. Over the past few decades, George
Soros has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into
(a) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce organizations and schemes aimed at empowering global
or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, government through the United Nations. Soros seeks to
destroy our constitutional limitations on government.
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Soros is responsible for many violent, illegal and unethical boost the refugee migration plan. He is also behind many
rent-a-crowd actions and movements. This includes the other illegal activities, including voter fraud, inciting riots,
aforementioned anti-Trump’ rioters, which have been and instigating violence at Trump rallies. Trump actually
organized by Soros funded groups such as MoveOn.org, had to cancel one rally because Soros had way too many
Planned Parenthood, and Black Lives Matter. The racial people on the inside — and it wasn’t going to be pretty.
turmoil that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri was Soros
funded. Wikileaks emails show that Soros funded the George Soros has been above the law for way too long
UN/Obama scheme to flood the United States and Europe now. It is time that he be held accountable for funding
with un-vetted Muslim “refugees”. Soros also funded an criminal activity.
August 28th protest in Washington, D.C. earlier this year to
.

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OUTRAGEOUS:
Election Hacks Traced Back To Obama’s
Department Of Homeland Security
By: JD Heyes
Date: December 28, 2016

showed us how this happened,” Kemp


said. “We need to know.”

Not coincidentally, the hacks occurred during a time when


DHS was attempting to convince states they needed the
Obama administration to help them monitor their
electronic balloting to help guard against ‘Russian
hacking.’

It just so happens that Georgia was one of the primary


states DHS had approached.

The first hack occurred on Feb. 2, the following day after


Georgia’s voter registration deadline passed. The next
In an unbelievable development that ought to outrage attack took place just a few days before the SEC primary.
every single American, election officials in Georgia are
essentially accusing the Obama administration of Then another attack came in May, one day before
attempting to hack into the state’s electronic balloting Georgia’s general primary; two more followed in
machines in what appears to be a naked political ploy. November, the day before and the day after the Nov. 8
general election.
This is a no-kidding red alert political emergency, and it
cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Someone needs to be held to account
for this – are you listening, Mr.
As reported by WSBTV in Atlanta, the Georgia secretary of President-elect?
state, Brian Kemp, is demanding answers from the
Department of Homeland Security after election officials “It makes you wonder if somebody was
there traced nearly a dozen hacking attempts back to the trying to prove a point,” Kemp told the local
agency. news, adding that his systems’ firewall held
up and the balloting was never breached.
Kemp, in an interview with the local news, said he was
“mad as hell” after what he described as a massive Indeed. It should also make us wonder just what laws were
cyberattack on the state’s electronic balloting network violated and, more importantly, who ordered these
were traced back to a DHS IP address. cyberattacks on an American state’s electronic balloting
system.
“It’s outrageous to think about our own
federal government is doing this to us,” he “We’re demanding answers to some of
said. these questions, you know? Are they doing
this to other states? Was it authorized or
During the interview a visibly frustrated Kemp confirmed not? Who ordered this? Why is it being
attacks of varying levels on his agency’s network over the done and why weren’t we notified?” Kemp
previous 10 months, all of which were traced back to DHS said, adding that he has sent a terse letter
Internet Service Provider addresses. to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson demanding
answers.
“We’re being told something that they think
they have it figured out, yet nobody’s really Sounds like the Obama administration has been working
on their fake post-election narrative,
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“The Russians hacked the election for “First it was an employee in Corpus Christi,
Trump!” for months now. and now it’s a contractor in Georgia,” Kemp
said.
As for DHS, Kemp says the agency keeps changing its
story. This is outrageous, to say the least. The incoming Trump
administration should look into this immediately; draining
the D.C. swamp will involve rooting out all of the
corruption buried deep within the federal bureaucracy.

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George Soros Conjures Hitler In Attack On 'Ascendant
Populists', Warns "Democracy Is Now In Crisis"
Authored By George Soros, Originally Posted At Project Syndicate
Published: December 28, 2016

supposed to look after the interests of


the electorate, and others where the
rulers sought to manipulate their
subjects to serve the rulers’ interests.

Under Popper’s influence, I called the first kind of society


open, the second, closed.

The classification is too simplistic. There are many degrees


and variations throughout history, from well-functioning
models to failed states, and many different levels of
Well before Donald Trump was elected President of the
government in any particular situation. Even so, I find the
United States, I sent a holiday greeting to my friends that
distinction between the two regime types useful. I became
read:
an active promoter of the former and opponent of the
latter.
“These times are not business as usual.
Wishing you the best in a troubled
I find the current moment in history very
world.”
painful. Open societies are in crisis, and
various forms of closed societies – from
Now I feel the need to share this message with the rest of fascist dictatorships to mafia states –
the world. But before I do, I must tell you who I am and are on the rise.
what I stand for.
How could this happen? The only explanation I can find is
I am an 86-year-old Hungarian Jew who became a US that elected leaders failed to meet voters’ legitimate
citizen after the end of World War II. I learned at an early expectations and aspirations and that this failure led
age how important it is what kind of political regime electorates to become disenchanted with the prevailing
prevails. versions of democracy and capitalism. Quite simply, many
people felt that the elites had stolen their democracy.
The formative experience of my life was
the occupation of Hungary by Hitler’s After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US emerged as
Germany in 1944. the sole remaining superpower, equally committed to the
principles of democracy and free markets. The major
I probably would have perished had my father not development since then has been the globalization of
understood the gravity of the situation. He arranged false financial markets, spearheaded by advocates who argued
identities for his family and for many other Jews; with his that globalization increases total wealth. After all, if the
help, most survived. winners compensated the losers, they would still have
something left over.
In 1947, I escaped from Hungary, by then under
Communist rule, to England. As a student at the London The argument was misleading, because it ignored the fact
School of Economics, I came under the influence of the that the winners seldom, if ever, compensate the losers.
philosopher Karl Popper, and I developed my own But the potential winners spent enough money promoting
philosophy, built on the twin pillars of fallibility and the argument that it prevailed. It was a victory for believers
reflexivity. in untrammeled free enterprise, or “market
fundamentalists,” as I call them. Because financial capital
I distinguished between two kinds of is an indispensable ingredient of economic development,
political regimes: those in which people and few countries in the developing world could generate
elected their leaders, who were then enough capital on their own, globalization spread like
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wildfire. Financial capital could move around freely and did not feel rich enough to take on any additional
avoid taxation and regulation. obligations. When European finance ministers declared
that no other systemically important financial institution
Globalization has had far-reaching economic and political would be allowed to fail, German Chancellor Angela
consequences. It has brought about some economic Merkel, correctly reading the wishes of her electorate,
convergence between poor and rich countries; but it declared that each member state should look after its own
increased inequality within both poor and rich countries. In institutions. That was the start of a process of
the developed world, the benefits accrued mainly to large disintegration.
owners of financial capital, who constitute less than 1% of
the population. After the Crash of 2008, the EU and the
eurozone became increasingly
The lack of redistributive policies is the dysfunctional.
main source of the dissatisfaction that
democracy’s opponents have exploited. Prevailing conditions became far removed from those
But there were other contributing prescribed by the Maastricht Treaty, but treaty change
factors as well, particularly in Europe. became progressively more difficult, and eventually
impossible, because it couldn’t be ratified. The eurozone
I was an avid supporter of the European Union from its became the victim of antiquated laws; much-needed
inception. I regarded it as the embodiment of the idea of an reforms could be enacted only by finding loopholes in
open society: an association of democratic states willing to them. That is how institutions became increasingly
sacrifice part of their sovereignty for the common good. It complicated, and electorates became alienated.
started out at as a bold experiment in what Popper called
“piecemeal social engineering.” The leaders set an The rise of anti-EU movements further
attainable objective and a fixed timeline and mobilized the impeded the functioning of institutions.
political will needed to meet it, knowing full well that each
step would necessitate a further step forward. That is how And these forces of disintegration received a powerful
the European Coal and Steel Community developed into boost in 2016, first from Brexit, then from the election of
the EU. Trump in the US, and on December 4 from Italian voters’
rejection, by a wide margin, of constitutional reforms.
But then something went woefully
wrong. Democracy is now in crisis. Even the
US, the world’s leading democracy,
After the Crash of 2008, a voluntary association of equals elected a con artist and would-be
was transformed into a relationship between creditors and dictator as its president. Although
debtors, where the debtors had difficulties in meeting their Trump has toned down his rhetoric
obligations and the creditors set the conditions the debtors since he was elected, he has changed
had to obey. That relationship has been neither voluntary neither his behavior nor his advisers.
nor equal. His cabinet comprises incompetent
extremists and retired generals.
Germany emerged as the hegemonic power in Europe, but What lies ahead?
it failed to live up to the obligations that successful
hegemons must fulfill, namely looking beyond their I am confident that democracy will
narrow self-interest to the interests of the people who prove resilient in the US. Its
depend on them. Compare the behavior of the US after Constitution and institutions, including
WWII with Germany’s behavior after the Crash of 2008: the fourth estate, are strong enough to
the US launched the Marshall Plan, which led to the resist the excesses of the executive
development of the EU; Germany imposed an austerity branch, thus preventing a would-be
program that served its narrow self-interest. dictator from becoming an actual one.

Before its reunification, Germany was the main force But the US will be preoccupied with internal struggles in
driving European integration: it was always willing to the near future, and targeted minorities will suffer. The US
contribute a little bit extra to accommodate those putting will be unable to protect and promote democracy in the
up resistance. Remember Germany’s contribution to rest of the world. On the contrary, Trump will have greater
meeting Margaret Thatcher’s demands regarding the EU affinity with dictators. That will allow some of them to
budget? reach an accommodation with the US, and others to carry
on without interference.
But reuniting Germany on a 1:1 basis turned out to be very
expensive. When Lehman Brothers collapsed, Germany
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Trump will prefer making deals to The same is likely to happen in the
defending principles. European election season in 2017 in the
Netherlands, Germany, and Italy.
Unfortunately, that will be popular with his core
constituency. In France, the two leading contenders are close to Putin
and eager to appease him. If either wins, Putin’s
I am particularly worried about the fate of the EU, which is dominance of Europe will become a fait accompli.
in danger of coming under the influence of Russian
President Vladimir Putin, whose concept of government is I hope that Europe’s leaders and citizens alike will realize
irreconcilable with that of open society. Putin is not a that this endangers their way of life and the values on
passive beneficiary of recent developments; he worked which the EU was founded. The trouble is that the method
hard to bring them about. He recognized his regime’s Putin has used to destabilize democracy cannot be used to
weakness: it can exploit natural resources but cannot restore respect for facts and a balanced view of reality.
generate economic growth. He felt threatened by “color
revolutions” in Georgia, Ukraine, and elsewhere. At first, With economic growth lagging and the
he tried to control social media. refugee crisis out of control, the EU is
on the verge of breakdown and is set to
Then, in a brilliant move, he exploited undergo an experience similar to that of
social media companies’ business the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
model to spread misinformation and Those who believe that the EU needs to
fake news, disorienting electorates and be saved in order to be reinvented must
destabilizing democracies. do whatever they can to bring about a
better outcome.
That is how he helped Trump get elected.
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The Coup Against Trump
And His Military-Wall Street Defense
By James Petras
December 28th, 2016

A coup has been underway to prevent President-Elect While similarities abound, the on-going coup against
Donald Trump from taking office and fulfilling his Trump in the United States occurs within a very different
campaign promise to improve US-Russia relations. This power configuration of proponents and antagonists.
‘palace coup’ is not a secret conspiracy, but an open, loud
attack on the election. The coup involves important US Firstly, this coup is not against a standing President, but
elites, who openly intervene on many levels from the street targets an elected president set to take office on January
to the current President, from sectors of the intelligence 20, 2017. Secondly, the attempted coup has polarized
community, billionaire financiers out to the more marginal leading sectors of the political and economic elite. It even
‘leftist’ shills of the Democratic Party. exposes a seamy rivalry within the intelligence-security
apparatus, with the political appointees heading the CIA
The build-up for the coup is gaining momentum, involved in the coup and the FBI supporting the incoming
threatening to eliminate normal constitutional and President Trump and the constitutional process. Thirdly,
democratic constraints. This essay describes the brazen, the evolving coup is a sequential process, which will build
overt coup and the public operatives, mostly members of momentum and then escalate very rapidly.
the outgoing Obama regime.
Coup-makers depend on the ‘Big Lie’ as their point of
The second section describes the Trump’s cabinet departure – accusing President-Elect Trump of 1) being a
appointments and the political measures that the President- Kremlin stooge, attributing his electoral victory to Russian
Elect has adopted to counter the coup. We conclude with intervention against his Democratic Party opponent,
an evaluation of the potential political consequences of the Hillary Clinton and 2) blatant voter fraud in which the
attempted coup and Trump’s moves to defend his electoral Republican Party prevented minority voters from casting
victory and legitimacy. their ballot for Secretary Clinton.

The Coup as ‘Process’ The first operatives to emerge in the early stages of the
coup included the marginal-left Green Party Presidential
In the past few years Latin America has experienced candidate Dr. Jill Stein, who won less than 1% of the vote,
several examples of the seizure of Presidential power by as well as the mass media.
unconstitutional means, which may help illustrate some of
the current moves underway in Washington. These are In the wake of her resounding defeat, Candidate Stein
especially interesting since the Obama Administration usurped authority from the national Green Party and
served as the ‘midwife’ for these ‘regime changes’. rapidly raked in $8 million dollars in donations from
Democratic Party operatives and George Soros-linked
Brazil, Paraguay, Honduras and Haiti experienced coups, NGOs (many times the amount raised during her
in which the elected Presidents were ousted through a Presidential campaign). This dodgy money financed her
series of political interventions orchestrated by economic demand for ballot recounts in selective states in order to
elites and their political allies in Congress and the challenge Trump’s victory. The recounts failed to change
Judiciary. the outcome, but it was a ‘first shot across the bow’, to
stop Trump. It became a propaganda focus for the neo-
conservative mass media to mobilize several thousand
President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton were
Clintonite and liberal activists.
deeply involved in these operations as part of their
established foreign policy of ‘regime change’. Indeed, the
‘success’ of the Latin American coups has encouraged The purpose was to undermine the legitimacy of Trump’s
sectors of the US elite to attempt to prevent President-elect electoral victory. However, Jill Stein’s $8 million dollar
Trump from taking office in January. shilling for Secretary Clinton paled before the oncoming
avalanche of mass media and NGO propaganda against
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Trump. Their main claim was that anonymous ‘Russian “…at a time and place of our choosing”.
hackers’ and not the American voters had decided the US
Presidential election of November 2016! Obama also pledged to send more US troops to the Middle
East and increase arms shipments to the jihadi terrorists in
The Big Lie was repeated and embellished at every Syria, as well as the Gulf State and Saudi ‘allies’.
opportunity by the print and broadcast media. The Coincidentally, the Syrian Government and their Russian
‘experts’ were trotted out voicing vitriolic accusations, but allies were poised to drive the US-backed terrorists out of
they never presented any facts and documentation of a Aleppo – and defeat Obama’s campaign of ‘regime
‘rigged election’. Everyday, every hour, the ‘Russian Plot’ change’ in Syria.
was breathlessly described in the Washington Post, the
New York Times, the Financial Times, CBS, NBC, ABC, Trump Strikes Back: The Wall Street-Military Alliance
CNN, BBC, NPR and their overseas followers in Europe,
Asia, Latin America, Oceania and Africa. The great Meanwhile, President-Elect Donald Trump did not
American Empire looked increasingly like a ‘banana crumple under the Clintonite-coup in progress. He
republic’.
prepared a diverse counter-attack to defend his election,
relying on elite allies and mass supporters.
Like the billionaire Soros-funded Color Revolutions, from
Ukraine, to Georgia and Yugoslavia, the ‘Rainbow Revolt’ Trump denounced the political elements in the CIA,
against Trump, featured grass-roots NGO activists and pointing out their previous role in manufacturing the
‘serious leftists’, like Jill Stein.
justifications (he used the term ‘lies’) for the invasion of
Iraq in 2003. He appointed three retired generals to key
The more polished political operatives from the upscale Defense and Security positions – indicating a power
media used their editorial pages to question Trump’s struggle between the highly politicized CIA and the
illegitimacy. This established the ground work for even military. Active and retired members of the US Armed
higher level political intervention: The current US Forces have been key Trump supporters. He announced
Administration, including President Obama, members of that he would bring his own security teams and integrate
the US Congress from both parties, and current and former them with the Presidential Secret Service during his
heads of the CIA jumped into the fray. As the vote recount administration.
ploy flopped, they all decided that ‘Vladimir Putin swung
the US election!’ It wasn’t just lunatic neo-conservative
Although Clinton-Obama had the major mass media and a
warmongers who sought to oust Trump and impose Hillary
sector of the financial elite who supported the coup, Trump
Clinton on the American people, liberals and social
countered by appointing several key Wall Street and
democrats were screaming ‘Russian Plot!’ They demanded corporate billionaires into his cabinet who had their own
a formal Congressional investigation of the ‘Russian cyber allied business associations.
hacking’ of Hillary’s personal e-mails (where she plotted
to cheat her rival ‘Bernie Sanders’ in the primaries). They
demanded even tighter economic sanctions against Russia One propaganda line for the coup, which relied on certain
and increased military provocations. The outgoing Zionist organizations and leaders (ADL, George Soros et
Democratic Senator and Minority Leader ‘Harry’ Reid al), was the bizarre claim that Trump and his supporters
wildly accused the FBI of acting as ‘Russian agents’ and were ‘anti-Semites’. This was were countered by Trump’s
hinted at a purge. appointment of powerful Wall Street Zionists like Steven
Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary and Gary Cohn (both of
Goldman Sachs) to head the National Economic Council.
The coup intensified as Trump-Putin became synonymous
Faced with the Obama-CIA plot to paint Trump as a
for “betrayal” and “election fraud”. Russian agent for Vladimir Putin, the President-Elect
named security hardliners including past and present
As this approached a crescendo of media hysteria, military leaders and FBI officials, to key security and
President Barack Obama stepped in and called on the CIA intelligence positions.
to seize domestic control of the investigation of Russian
manipulation of the US election – essentially accusing
The Coup: Can it succeed?
President-Elect Trump of conspiring with the Russian
government. Obama refused to reveal any proof of such a
broad plot, citing ‘national security’. In early December, President Obama issued an order for
the CIA to ‘complete its investigation’ on the Russian plot
and manipulation of the US Presidential election in six
President Obama solemnly declared the Trump-Putin weeks – right up to the very day of Trump’s inauguration
conspiracy was a grave threat to American democracy and on January 20, 2017! A concoction of pre-cooked
Western security and freedom. He darkly promised to
‘findings’ is already oozing out of secret clandestine CIA
retaliate against Russia,
archives with the President’s approval. Obama’s last-ditch
effort will not change the outcome of the election. Clearly
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this is designed to poison the diplomatic well and present Putin. Trump’s appointment of hardline economic
Trump’s incoming administration as dangerous. Trump’s plutocrats who are deeply committed to shredding social
promise to improve relations with Russia will face programs (public education, Medicare, Social Security)
enormous resistance in this frothy, breathless hysteria of could ignite the anger of his mass supporters by savaging
Russophobia. their jobs, health care, pensions and their children’s future.

Ultimately, President Obama is desperate to secure his If Trump defeats the avalanching media, CIA and elite-
legacy, which has consisted of disastrous and criminal instigated coup (which interestingly lack support from the
imperial wars and military confrontations. He wants to military and judiciary), he will have to thank, not only his
force a continuation of his grotesque policies onto the generals and billionaire-buddies, but also his downwardly
incoming Trump Administration. Will Trump succumb? mobile mass supporters (Hillary Clinton’s detested ‘basket
The legitimacy of his election and his freedom to make of deplorables’). He embarked on a major series of
policy will depend on overcoming the Clinton-Obama- ‘victory tours’ around the country to thank his supporters
neo-con-leftist coup with his own bloc of US military and among the military, workers, women and small business
the powerful Wall Street allies, as well as his mass support people and call on them to defend his election to the
among the ‘angry’ American electorate. Trump’s success presidency. He will have to fulfill some of his promises to
at thwarting the current ‘Russian ploy’ requires his the masses or face ‘the real fire’, not from Clintonite shills
forming counter alliances with Washington plutocrats, and war-mongers, but from the very people who voted for
many of whom will oppose any diplomatic agreement with him.
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What Is Henry Kissinger Up To?
Paul Craig Roberts
December 28, 2016

The English language Russian news agency, Sputnik, country in the Western Alliance that has an independent
reports that former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger foreign and economic policy is the US.
is advising US president-elect Donald Trump how to
All of us need to understand that although Trump has been
“bring the United States and Russia closer elected president, the neoconservatives remain dominant in
together to offset China’s military buildup.” US foreign policy, and their commitment to the hegemony
of the US as the uni-power remains as strong as ever. The
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201612271049024500- neoconservative ideology has been institutionalized in
kissinger-trump-russia/ parts of the CIA, State Department and Pentagon. The
neoconservatives retain their influence in media, think
If we take this report at face value, it tells us that tanks, university faculties, foundations, and in the Council
Kissinger, an old cold warrior, is working to use Trump’s on Foreign Relations.
commitment to better relations with Russia in order to
separate Russia from its strategic alliance with China. We also need to understand that Trump revels in the role
of tough guy and will say things that can be misinterpreted
China’s military buildup is a response to US provocations as my friend, Finian Cunningham, whose columns I read,
against China and US claims to the South China Sea as an usually with appreciation, might have done
area of US national interests. China does not intend to
attack the US and certainly not Russia. ( http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46103.htm ).

Kissinger, who was my colleague at the Center for I do not know that Trump will prevail over the vast
Strategic and International studies for a dozen years, is neoconservative conspiracy. However, it seems clear
aware of the pro-American elites inside Russia, and he is at enough that he is serious about reducing the tensions with
work creating for them a “China threat” that they can use Russia that have been building since President Clinton
in their effort to lead Russia into the arms of the West. If violated the George H. W. Bush administration’s promise
this effort is successful, Russia’s sovereignty will be that NATO would not expand one inch to the East. Unless
eroded exactly as has the sovereignty of every other Trump were serious, there is no reason for him to
country allied with the US. announce Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as his choice for
Secretary of State. In 2013 Mr. Tillerson was awarded
Russia’s Order of Friendship.
At President Putin’s last press conference

( http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46100.htm ), As Professor Michel Chossudovsky has pointed out, a


global corporation such as Exxon has interests different
from those of the US military/security complex. The
journalist Marat Sagadatov asked if Russia wasn’t already military/security complex needs a powerful threat, such as
subject to forms of foreign semi-domination: “Our the former “Soviet threat” which has been transformed into
economy, industry, ministries and agencies often follow the “Russian threat,” in order to justify its hold on an
the rules laid down by international organizations and are annual budget of approximately one trillion dollars. In
managed by consulting companies. Even our defense contrast, Exxon wants to be part of the Russian energy
enterprises have foreign consulting firms auditing them.” business. Therefore, as Secretary of State, Tillerson is
The journalist asked, motivated to achieve good relations between the US and
Russia, whereas for the military/security complex good
“if it is not time to do some import relations undermine the orchestrated fear on which the
substitution in this area too?” military/security budget rests.

Every Russian needs to understand that being part of the Clearly, the military/security complex and the
West means living by Washington’s rules. The only neoconservatives see Trump and Tillerson as threats,
which is why the neoconservatives and the armaments
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tycoons so strongly opposed Trump and why CIA Director that if he renewed the arms race, the Soviets would win,
John Brennan made wild and unsupported accusations of because the Soviets controlled investment and could
Russian interference in the US presidential election. allocate a larger share of the economy to the military than
Reagan could.
The lines are drawn. The next test will be whether Trump
can obtain Senate confirmation of his choice of Tillerson Reagan did not believe the CIA’s claim that the Soviet
as Secretary of State. Union could prevail in an arms race. He formed a secret
committee and gave the committee the power to
The myth is widespread that President Reagan won the investigate the CIA’s claim that the US would lose an arms
cold war by breaking the Soviet Union financially with an race with the Soviet Union. The committee concluded that
arms race. As one who was involved in Reagan’s effort to the CIA was protecting its prerogatives. I know this
end the cold war, I find myself yet again correcting the because I was a member of the committee.
record.
American capitalism and the social safety net would
Reagan never spoke of winning the cold war. He spoke of function much better without the drain on the budget of the
ending it. Other officials in his government have said the military/security complex. It is more correct to say that the
same thing, and Pat Buchanan can verify it. military/security complex wants a major threat, not an
actual arms race. Stateless Muslim terrorists are not a
Reagan wanted to end the Cold War, not win it. He spoke sufficient threat for such a massive US military, and the
trouble with an actual arms race as opposed to a threat is
of those “godawful” nuclear weapons. He thought the
that the US armaments corporations would have to
Soviet economy was in too much difficulty to compete in
produce weapons that work instead of cost overruns that
an arms race. He thought that if he could first cure the
boost profits.
stagflation that afflicted the US economy, he could force
the Soviets to the negotiating table by going through the
motion of launching an arms race. “Star wars” was mainly The latest US missile ship has twice broken down and had
hype. (Whether or nor the Soviets believed the arms race to be towed into port. The F-35 has cost endless money,
threat, the American leftwing clearly did and has never got has a variety of problems
over it.)
( http://www.stopthef35.com/pentagon-f-35-wont-have-a-
Reagan had no intention of dominating the Soviet Union or chance-in-real-combat/ )
collapsing it. Unlike Clinton, George W. Bush, and
Obama, he was not controlled by neoconservatives. and is already outclassed. The Russian missiles are
Reagan fired and prosecuted the neoconservatives in his hypersonic. The Russian tanks are superior. The explosive
administration when they operated behind his back and power of the Russian Satan II ICBM is terrifying. The
broke the law. morale of the Russian forces is high. They have not been
exhausted from 15 years of fighting without much success
The Soviet Union did not collapse because of Reagan’s pointless wars against women and children.
determination to end the Cold War. The Soviet collapse
was the work of hardline communists, who believed that Washington, given the corrupt nature of the US
Gorbachev was loosening the Communist Party’s hold so military/security complex, can arms race all it wants
quickly that Gorbachev was a threat to the existence of the without being a danger to Russia or China, much less to
Soviet Union and placed him under house arrest. It was the the strategic alliance between the two powers.
hardline communist coup against Gorbachev that led to the
rise of Yeltsin. No one expected the collapse of the Soviet The neoconservatives are discredited, but they are still a
Union. powerful influence on US foreign policy. Until Trump
relegates them to the ideological backwaters, Russia and
The US military/security complex did not want Reagan to China had best hold on to their strategic alliance. Anyone
end the Cold War, as the Cold War was the foundation of attempting to break this alliance is a threat to both Russia
profit and power for the complex. The CIA told Reagan and China, and to America and to life on earth.
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Video Game “Mr. President” Based On Non-Stop
Assassination Attempts On Donald Trump
Kristan T. Harris | American Intelligence Report
December 28, 2016

The games official steam account states the games


synopsis as:

“Liberal media has rigged the election and


tarnished his glowing public image, now
they are trying to end his life. You need to
leap, flip, fling, roll, and many other verbs
to get in between Rump and certain death.
If Rump dies, Who is going to pay for your
Netflix sub? How are you going to pay for
your lifetime of student loans or over
inflated medical bills? Where will you get
A new controversial video game called Mr. President the money for another dumb physics
claims to be a “great video game,” featuring body guard game? YOU BETTER SAVE THE MAN
Dick Johnson, who is continuously diving in front of OR YOU DON’T GET THE MONEY! It is
bullets to protect soon to be Presidential candidate Ronald your American duty to protect, serve, and
Rump. live by the mighty dollar, because money is
the only true sign of someone’s worth.”
The developer states their game is based on the
On the website oceanofgames, Mr. President highlights the
“most hated presidential candidate of all main features of the game as:
time Ronald Rump.”
 It’s a great action adventure game.
Obviously the name Ronald Rump is a play-on-words to  It is based on most hated presidential candidate.
represent President Elect, Donald Trump. The character  You are playing the role of a bodyguard.
depicted even looks like Trump.  You must protect him so that you can get the money.

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Trump Claims US Presidential Transition Not Going
Smoothly, Blames Obama
© AP Photo/ Pablo Martinez Monsivais US 18:06 28.12.2016

Obama has repeatedly stated his priority of a smooth


US President-elect Donald Trump claimed he was trying to disregard
"the many inflammatory" statements and roadblocks laid by Obama, transition to the next presidential administration.
but did not provide details on the difficulties facing his transition
team. However, Trump has recently criticized the Obama
administration's decision to abstain from a UN Security
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The administration of US Council condemning illegal Israeli settlements in the West
President Barack Obama is not facilitating a smooth Bank, allowing the resolution to pass.
transition of power, President-elect Donald Trump said on
Wednesday. Trump on Wednesday continued to criticize the UN
abstention, reiterating an earlier pledge that things would
be different regarding Israel after he takes office next
"Thought it was going to be a smooth month.
transition — NOT!" Trump said on his
official Twitter account. On Tuesday, Labor Secretary Tom Perez said the Trump
transition team's inquiries into government agencies were
illegal after the team asked the Energy Department for a
The president-elect claimed he was trying to disregard "the list of employees focusing on climate change.
many inflammatory" statements and roadblocks laid by
Obama, but did not provide details on the difficulties
facing his transition team.

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Bombshell: Court Rules Trump
‘Required By Law’ To Pursue Clinton
Law 'Strictly Limits Circumstances Under Which Records Can Be
Removed From Federal Custody'
By Baxter Dmitry
Posted On December 28, 2016

unlawfully took with them when they left the


State Department.”

WND reports:

A lower court had said the dispute was


moot, even though the current secretary of
state, John Kerry, failed to comply with the
Federal Records Act in trying to recover the
A federal appeals court has ruled that Clinton emails.
Donald Trump’s U.S. attorney general,
which will be Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.,
will be required by law to intervene in Judicial Watch explained that according to the law,
the case of Hillary Clinton’s use of an
unsecured, private computer server in “If an agency head becomes aware of ‘any
her home for classified information. actual, impending, or threatened unlawful
removal … or destruction of records,’ he or
The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the she ‘shall notify the Archivist … and with
District of Columbia states clearly that the law requires the assistance of the Archivist shall initiate
it, rejecting the Obama State Department’s excuses for action through the attorney general for the
failing to ask the attorney general, as the law requires, to recovery of records.‘”
pursue the recovery of the Clinton emails.
The appeals court ruled:
The conclusion came in a lawsuit brought by Judicial
Watch, operating with the slogan “nobody is above the “Appellants sought the only relief provided
law”, that is seeking to retrieve Clinton emails that were by the Federal Records Act – an
not released to the public. enforcement action through the attorney
general. But nothing the department did
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the courts (either before or after those complaints
were filed) gave appellants what they
wanted. Instead of proceeding through the
“seem to be fed up with the Obama attorney general, the department asked the
administration’s refusal to enforce the rule former secretary to return her emails
of law on the Clinton emails.” voluntarily and similarly requested that the
“Today’s appeals court ruling rejects the FBI share any records it obtained. Even
Obama State Department’s excuses though those efforts bore some fruit, the
justifying its failure to ask the attorney department has not explained why shaking
general, as the law requires, to pursue the the tree harder – e.g., by following the
recovery of the Clinton emails,” he said. statutory mandate to seek action by the
“This ruling means that the Trump Justice attorney general – might not bear more still.
Department will have to decide if it wants to It is therefore abundantly clear that, in
finally enforce the rule of law and try to terms of assuring government recovery of
retrieve all the emails Clinton and her aides emails, appellants have not ‘been given
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showing that the requested enforcement However, he didn’t rule out legal steps that would be
action could not shake loose a few more recommended by the Department of Justice.
emails, the case is not moot.”
The three judges on the appeals court panel were Robert
Judicial Watch brought the case in May 2015 when the Wilkens, Stephen Williams and Brett Kavanaugh.
State Department refused to take action after Kerry was
notified of the “unlawful” removal of the Clinton emails. It was also reported only weeks ago that Judicial Watch
was asking a court to rule that the State Department should
The appeals court decision reverses a lower court’s release a number of emails it specifically has withheld
decision to dismiss the case and sends it back for further because they pertain to government “misconduct.”
work.
There are about 30 known emails being withheld for
The Daily Caller pointed out that the decision is various reasons, including “deliberative process” and
“work product,” which are exemptions to requirements
“offering President-elect Donald Trump an that public records be available.
opportunity to intervene in the controversial
case.” Judicial Watch argues the emails should be released
because
“The court provides a new opening to
Trump and his attorney general designate,
Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions. A “Clinton’s email practices at the State
congressional vote confirming Sessions Department constitute misconduct.”
could occur as early as Jan. 10, but Senate
Democrats indicated they will put up a stiff The original FBI investigation into Clinton’s email scandal
fight to defeat the nomination.” concluded in July without charges, even though FBI chief
James Comey said Clinton had been “extremely careless,”
Kerry had simply refused to refer the case to the attorney sending national security information through an
general “as federal law requires,” the report said. unsecured private email server.

“Instead, he allowed State Department A little more than one week before the election, emails
officials to pick and choose which emails were found on a laptop computer to which both Hillary
could be withheld and released to the Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her estranged husband,
public.” former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who was being investigated
in a sexting case, had access.
After suggesting during the presidential debates that
Clinton would end up in jail over her behavior, Trump Comey informed Republican members of Congress he
stated that prosecuting her for the email scandal was not a needed to time review the new information, but two days
priority. before Election Day he announced the conclusion he
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Trump’s Inauguration To Be
Met With Massive Civil Disobedience
Various Grassroots Groups And Prominent Figures Around The
Country Are Preparing For Massive Demonstrations To
Disrupt Donald Trump's Jan. 20 Inauguration.
By Ian Greenhalgh
December 29, 2016

From Jan. 14 to 16, the group will hold a series of


workshops and teach-ins aimed at helping people learn
how to organize, mobilize and deal with the potential legal
issues that may arise.

“We don’t ask permission or put our faith in


electoral politics, instead, we use our
bodies to stop the smooth operation of the
system we oppose,” their website explains.

The group is supported by the D.C. Welcoming


Committee, a diverse and loose collective of activists from
all over. While they are advocating peaceful, safe and fun
resistance – which will include parties throughout the
Telesur streets – they nevertheless stress the importance of bold,
Trump’s Inauguration To Be Met With Massive Civil
direct action at the street level in order to see real change.
Disobedience
“Rather than using the democratic process
Donald Trump may have won the
as an alibi for inaction, we must show that
presidency, but if the throngs of
no election could legitimize (Trump’s)
demonstrators across the country who
agenda,” reads their statement. “If there is
oppose him have their way, his Jan. 20
going to be a positive change in this
inauguration will be fraught with
society, we have to make it ourselves,
disruption and massive civil unrest.
together, through direct action.
Working under the hashtag #DisruptJ20, one grassroots
While there will be two main permitted spaces for
group is already working on a series of decentralized direct
demonstrations on Jan. 20 at McPherson Square and
actions “that will shut down the Inauguration ceremonies”
Columbus Circle beginning at different times of the day,
and will “paralyze the city (of Washington, D.C.) itself,”
another non-permitted, “anti-capitalist march” is also being
according to their to call-to-action, posted on their website.
hatched. More details will be announced as the days
approach.
“From day one, the Trump presidency will
be a disaster. #DisruptJ20 will be the start
To deal with what they expect to be massive numbers of
of the resistance. We must take to the
people marching, partying and engaging in civil
streets and protest, blockade, disrupt,
disobedience all at once, organizers are looking into all the
intervene, sit in, walk out, rise up, and
logistical issues that this could entail. They have therefore
make more noise and good trouble than
set up a page for anyone with expertise and willing to help
the establishment can bear. The parade
to contact them.
must be stopped. We must delegitimize
Trump and all he represents.”

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“We are putting together all of the Though the group’s main convergence points will be in
infrastructure needed to support mass Washington, D.C., they are calling for people to meet all
protests, including a convergence space for over the country and even in embassies around the world.
the week, mass housing, a legal collective,
a medic collective, food, and security.” “Our allegiance is not to ‘making America
great again,’ but to all of humanity and the
The group joins other prominent voices which have called planet. #DisruptJ20,” their call-to-action
for massive mobilizations against Trump, particularly on concludes.
his inauguration day, which include filmmaker Michael
Moore, Seattle socialist council member Kshama Sawant
and former Democrat presidential nominee and
independent Virginia Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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Anti-Trump Comics By “Triggered”
Feminists Are “An Act Of Political Resistance”
Posted By Daisy Luther
Date: December 29, 2016

When you think of “political resistance” what comes to They sure showed him.
mind? For me it’s things like this:
It’s a special issue of a quarterly comics anthology
 Marches and protests. called Smoke Signal, published by Gabe Fowler. Fowler
 Civil disobedience. asked Françoise Mouly, the art director of The New
 Fiery speeches. Yorker, to edit the special edition full of the artistic
 Op-Eds so powerful that they make others responses to the election of Trump by female and LGBTQ
reconsider their opinions. artists. Mouly enlisted the assistance of her daughter,
 Boycotts. Nadja Spiegelman, who put together this website.

But it in all of my thoughts about political resistance, According to an article on the Huffington Post that was
drawing a picture of being rained on by penises never dramatically titled, “The Radical, Feminist Comic Book
occurred to me as a way to stand strong against a We Need To Survive A Trump Presidency ” the
president. But according to Nadja Spiegelman, anthology was an effort to address “the issues pressing to
those triggered and threatened by the election.”
“…constant and immediate reaction
through pictures is a necessary form of President Obama wanted to take my guns, but never did I
political resistance.” feel “triggered and threatened.” I’m really having a lot of
trouble wrapping my brain around these emotionally
Apparently, that’s just me, though. fragile responses.

Feminists do things differently. I was very unhappy about the thought of a Hillary Clinton
presidency, but if she had won, I would have continued
doing what I did when Obama was president. (And I didn’t
There’s a new feminist comic book called Resist that is
like him either.) I would have lived my life without the
loaded with images that women have drawn in an act of shadow of doom and depression hanging over me, I would
resistance against President Donald Trump.
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have written commentary, and I would have continued to Anyway, back to the comics by feminists.
be a happy, productive person. Get over it already. You’re
being a bunch of wusses. Could you possibly be any more 30,000 copies of the angsty book will be given away on
dramatic and ridiculous? Inauguration Day.

Here are some screenshots of some of the “cartoons.” I


couldn’t describe this stuff in a million words.

Via Instagram

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Obama’s Christmas Gift To Trump:
A Ministry Of Truth
By Thomas Knapp
December 29, 2016

No, it’s not quite that, at least in theory, but the prospect
shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. And in some ways it’s
actually worse.

Even given the regrettable decline in Americans’ vigilance


against threats to our rights over the last few decades,
straightforward, openly admitted political censorship
would provoke widespread and likely effective resistance.

Instead, the CFDAPA sets aside $160 million over two


years to, among other things, “support local independent
media to refute foreign disinformation and manipulation in
On the Friday before Christmas — the kind of time their communities.” That is, to bribe local media to publish
politicians pick to do things they hope you won’t notice — Washington’s disinformation and propaganda instead of
US president Barack Obama signed the 2017 National disinformation and propaganda from foreign sources. Not
Defense Authorization Act. an entirely new project — the Office of National Drug
Control Policy has been paying Hollywood to lie to us
Along with the usual terrible, horrible, very bad, no good about marijuana for decades now.
NDAA stuff (all the little mandates involved in continuing
to operate the most irresponsibly bloated and expensive The CFDAPA’s purpose is to set the federal government
military machine on the planet), this NDAA included an up as the plenary arbiter of truth and to marginalize any
ugly little Christmas gift for incoming president Donald and all narratives that don’t accord with whatever line gets
Trump: The Countering Foreign Disinformation and pushed out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It’s Orwell’s
Propaganda Act. Ministry of Truth in drag.

The CFDAPA (yes, I’m going to give that mouthful an Overt censorship might not be far behind. Facebook and
acronym) started out as a separate piece of “bipartisan” Twitter are already cooperating with the US government in
legislation introduced by US Senators Rob Portman (R- “countering Islamic State Disinformation and
OH) Chris Murphy (D-CT). It got rolled into the NDAA Propaganda.” And remember that only a only a year ago,
for the same reason Obama signed it on the Friday before a Donald Trump publicly called for “closing” parts of the
holiday weekend. That is, to minimize public attention and Internet used for recruitment by the Islamic State.
mute criticism. CFDAPA isn’t just bad on its own merits — it’s also
tailor-made for abusive expansion by an unbridled chief
Some of the more overheated responses to the CFDAPA executive.
paint it as a scheme allowing the federal government to
“outlaw” media outlets that don’t toe the government’s Repeal of this abomination should be 2017’s policy
line: Just wave a magic wand, declare an impertinent blog priority number one for freedom-loving Americans.
to be “foreign disinformation and propaganda,” shut the
blog down, and maybe drag the blogger off to Gitmo for a
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Reducing Inequality In The Age Of Trump
By Josh Hoxie
December 29, 2016

That’s less than the basic cost of living in every major city
in the country.

While unemployment has gone down, work force


participation has too. Student debt continues to rise, each
year a new record.

Meanwhile, wealth continues to concentrate into fewer and


fewer hands. Massive loopholes in the tax code for
millionaires and billionaires are creating a system the New
In a lot of ways, 2016 was a big year for reducing
York Times called a “private tax system for the wealthy.”
inequality.
CEO pay has continued to rise into the stratosphere at the
nation’s biggest banks and corporations.
Five states raised their minimum wage through citizen-led
ballot initiatives. A job-killing free trade agreement, the
Unfortunately, Donald Trump has made plenty clear that
TPP, was blocked as a result of massive public
he isn’t serious about reversing these trends.
demonstrations against it.

If Trump moves forward with the policies he described


More recently, the city of Portland, Oregon passed the first
during his campaign, his administration will further slash
ever municipal-level check on runaway CEO
taxes on the wealthy, remove the Wall Street regulations
compensation, a tangible step several other cities and states
designed to prevent another financial crash, and do nothing
will likely follow.
for workers’ wages.
These were just a few of the many victories that those who
If his rhetoric wasn’t enough to convince the public he
care about reducing the gap between the richest and the
wasn’t serious about addressing inequality, his cabinet
rest of us can claim this year. They also point the way
should. A collection of billionaires, Goldman Sachs
forward for how we might continue this pivotal work in
bankers, and adherents to the utterly debunked trickle-
the age of Trump.
down economics theory will now be in charge of our
biggest economic decisions.
Outgoing president Barack Obama once called the need to
address rising income inequality the defining challenge of
So if we can’t expect the Trump administration to work to
our time. History books will surely credit his
stem rising inequality, how will we move forward?
administration for helping to lift the nation out of the worst
recession in recent history (one driven largely by reckless
Wall Street bankers), but much work remains. The victories of 2016, which involved organizing at the
state and local levels to lift up workers and expand
opportunities for all, show the type of innovative
A recent study, “The Fading American Dream,” shows that
campaigns we’ll need. There are no illusions that change
social mobility has been declining for decades. Kids born
will come from Washington — the new team in town has
in 1940 had a 92 percent chance of earning more money
made clear they’re not interested.
than their parents. The odds for kids born 40 years later
dropped down to 50-50 — a figure that continues to drop
precipitously for millennials and children born today. That’s no reason to sit back and wait for another election.
Progress can come from working within our own
communities to push forward smart ideas that don’t need a
While things are better now than they were in 2008,
sign-off from Congress or Trump.
economic conditions are still trying for working class
families. The federal minimum wage remains stagnant at
$7.25 an hour, and just $2.13 an hour for tipped workers. That work should start now. It remains, after all, the
defining challenge of our time.

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FBI, DHS Release Report
On Russia Hacking
By Katie Bo Williams
12/29/16 03:02 PM EST

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) indicators of compromise and malicious
on Thursday released a joint report detailing how federal infrastructure identified during the course of
investigators linked the Russian government to hacks of investigations and incident response,” read
Democratic Party organizations. a statement.

The document makes clear reference to the hacks of the The report identifies two Russian intelligence groups
Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary already named by CrowdStrike and other private security
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, though it does firms.
not mention either by name.
The Federal Security Service, or FSB, is the main
The 13-page report provides technical details regarding successor to the KGB — once headed by Russian
tools and infrastructure used by Russian civilian and President Vladimir Putin.
military intelligence services to “compromise and exploit
networks and endpoints associated with the U.S. election, The FSB is thought to be behind the hacking group known
as well as a range of U.S. Government, political, and as APT29. A more traditional, long-range intelligence
private sector entities.” (See the entire report below.) agency, the FSB lurked on the DNC systems for over a
year.
The report, known as a “Joint Analysis Report” or JAR,
refers to the Russian hacking campaign as “Grizzly The GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service, is thought
Steppe.” to be behind the second group that infiltrated the DNC,
known as APT28. APT28 is also believed to have
It comes as part of a slate of retaliatory measures against breached Podesta’s emails.
Russia issued Thursday by the Obama administration in
response to the hacks, and expands on a joint statement Despite their overlapping targets, the two agencies have
issued by the two agencies in October, formally attributing different missions in the cyber realm.
the attacks to Russia.
APT28 is thought to be the group
In the October statement, officials described the hacks and responsible for “doxxing” the DNC and
subsequent publication of stolen emails on WikiLeaks as Podesta by allegedly providing the stolen
an attempt to “interfere” with the U.S. election that is missives to WikiLeaks to publish.
“consistent with the Russian-directed efforts,” but
provided no evidence to support their assessment. Both organizations gained access to the DNC through
targeted spearphishing campaigns, in which the hackers
President-elect Donald Trump has denied that Russia was tricked targeted users into clicking bogus links that either
involved in the hacks, and Obama has been under pressure deployed malware or directed them to a fake webmail
to provide proof. domain hosted on Russian infrastructure.

Private security firms provided more detailed forensic APT28 was able to use harvested credentials to then gain
analysis, which the FBI and DHS said Thursday correlated access and steal content, according to the report. This
with the IC’s findings. likely led “to the exfiltration of information from multiple
senior party members.”
“The Joint Analysis Report recognizes the
excellent work undertaken by security “The U.S. Government assesses that
companies and private sector network information was leaked to the press and
owners and operators, and provides new publicly disclosed,” the report says.
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The report also states that Russian intelligence operatives Democratic party following the election, “including one
continued to launch spearphishing attacks on the launched ... just days after" the vote.

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Report On ‘Russian Hacking’
Offers Disclaimers, Barely Mentions Russia
Published Time: 29 Dec, 2016 22:44Edited Time: 30 Dec, 2016 11:44

Accompanying the report was a joint statement by the FBI,


Department of Homeland Security and the Director of
National Intelligence, explaining that the

“activity by Russian intelligence services is


part of a decade-long campaign of cyber-
enabled operations directed at the US
government and its citizens.”

As the White House and Treasury Department announced


new sanctions against Russia over the alleged hacking of
US elections, the FBI and Homeland Security released a
report that offered supposed proof amid an abundance of
disclaimers.

Given the incongruous name of “Grizzly Steppe,” the Joint


Analysis Report (JAR) on “Russian malicious cyber
activity” issued by the FBI and the DHS National
Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center
(NCCIC) on Thursday begins with the following
The actual words “Russia” and “Russian” are mentioned
disclaimer:
only three times, with just 11 instances of “RIS” – a
custom, catch-all acronym standing for “Russian
“The Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Services” without naming any. Both the FSB
(DHS) does not provide any warranties of – Russia’s equivalent of the FBI – and the GRU, Russia’s
any kind regarding any information military intelligence, were put on the US sanctions list on
contained within.” Thursday.

“The US Government confirms that two


different RIS actors participated in the
intrusion into a US political party,” says the
JAR, identifying the two as APT28 and
APT29.

There is no indication anywhere in the document that these


two groups are in any way connected with the Russian
intelligence services, however.

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The JAR does not actually say so,
however.

Nor does the JAR note anywhere that it was


CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company hired by the DNC
to investigate the June 2016 data breach, that accused
APT28 and APT29 – which they named “Cozy Bear” and
“Fancy Bear” – of being Russian government entities.
CrowdStrike has never offered any proof for this assertion,
which the JAR merely repeats without attribution.
Even when detailing the efforts of the two purported
hacker groups, the report uses vague and noncommittal
language. For example, the actual political party allegedly
hacked by the two groups is never identified:

“In summer 2015, an APT29 spearphishing


campaign directed emails containing a
malicious link to over 1,000 recipients… In
the course of that campaign, APT29
successfully compromised a US political
party.”
“In spring 2016, APT28 compromised the In addition to CozyBear and FancyBear, the 13-page
same political party,” the report continues. report includes a list of more ridiculous names for alleged
“Using the harvested credentials, APT28 Russian hacker groups, such as CakeDuke,
was able to gain access and steal content, CrouchingYeti, Energetic Bear, EVILTOSS,
likely leading to the exfiltration of OLDBAIT, and SEADADDY.
information from multiple senior party
members. The US Government assesses The second half of the report is focused on mitigation
that information was leaked to the press strategies, from backing up one’s data and changing
and publicly disclosed.” passwords to information-sharing with the government and
giving Homeland Security access to networks for
This could be referring to emails and documents of the “voluntary assessments” of vulnerabilities.
Democratic National Committee, which were made public
by Guccifer 2.0 and WikiLeaks – both of whom have An appendix to the report lists hundreds of IP addresses
categorically rejected any claim of Russian hackers being and code the authors say are “used by Russian civilian and
responsible. It could also refer to WikiLeaks publishing military intelligence services.” While some of the
emails from the private account of Hillary Clinton’s addresses are in Russia, others are in the US, and none of
campaign chairman John Podesta, over the course of a the data actually points to Russian involvement.
month prior to the November 8 election.

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10 Reasons Trump Won't Lead
A Nuclear Renaissance
Submitted By Leonard Hyman & William Tilles Via Oilprice.Com,
Dec 29, 2016 9:00 AM

Donald Trump in the White House and Theresa May in 10 and Texas, will temporarily displace more large central
Downing Street. They will open the door to more nuclear station power generation, forcing more units to “cycle”.
spending, no doubt. Prime minister May has already given Nuclear plants are less well suited for this duty.
a green light to Britain’s most expensive energy project, a Flexibility and load following may become more highly
heavily subsidized nuclear power station at Hinkley Point. valued than base load. This also reflects a change in
Based on the most recent federal budgeting approvals, we the electric industry itself. The former command and
expect that no U.S. nuclear weapons programs will want control or paternalistic relationship between utility and
for funds. consumer is changing. At a minimum consumers are
dictating how their energy is produced, agreeing for
But, despite all the post-election example to pay premiums for “greener” forms of
industry euphoria, should we anticipate electricity. In other words, nuclear has something to sell
a full renaissance for U.S. commercial in the base load market, but that market may be in
nuclear power? decline.
4. Power markets. Neither U.S. nor UK power markets
will support unsubsidized or non-mandated new
Is that just a bridge too far, so to speak? Let's look at the
generation. To the extent that the U.S. wholesale
what will go into some of these decisions.
power markets remain both deregulated and regulated
in parts, this is also a negative for new nuclear
1. Need for the product. With no growth in the market for capacity. Deregulated power markets, both here and in
electricity, the industry needs new power plants only to the UK, aren’t permitting wholesale prices high enough
replace old ones and to decarbonize output in order to to finance new gas fired capacity much less new
mitigate global warming. The Trump administration has nukes. Regulators will want a cost benefit analysis
declared an end to the so-called war on coal, which before approving a new nuclear facility. Basically, this
makes it less likely that the electric industry will have to means that a new nuclear project in order to proceed
close old coal fired generating stations soon and it has will need a subsidy of one sort or another. A carbon tax
categorized global warming as a hoax, which removes would do the job even better. But what GOP politician
an excuse to build non-carbon producing nuclear units. would vote for that tax, especially if some of their
The nuclear industry will need another rationalization constituents view the issue of global warning as a
for expansion. hoax?
2. Economics. Nuclear power looks like an expensive 5. Nuclear as infrastructure. As currently built, nuclear
means of producing base load electricity with projects require a large contingent of well paid labor
significant known risks and ongoing waste and massive amounts of steel and concrete. A handful
storage/disposal issues. A new 1,000 MW nuclear plant of qualified engineering firms, the usual suspects, also
ordered today for 2025 in service would cost about $10 build other infrastructure and one can only think that
billion. New renewables can produce power at no these politically connected firms can lobby for nuclear
higher a cost per kwh, without the same long projects as hard as they lobby for new bridges or
construction schedule and need to build so large a unit. highways. Nuclear construction then could play a role
A new base load gas fired unit of the same size as a component of the as part of the infrastructure
capacity could be completed in a few years and cost program needed to boost the economy. The problem,
one fifth as much per MW and produce at a lower cost however, is that nuclear infrastructure has some
per kwh. Producing a commodity like electricity at a drawbacks.
relatively high price in a competitive market is not a 6. Resilience needed. Infrastructure should be resilient
winning business strategy. Nuclear has to offer and anti-fragile. In battle, would we rather attack our
something else. enemy in a swarm formation as part of a horde of
3. Base load generation. Nuclear plants run as base thousands or ponderously approach the fields of honor
load units, something renewables cannot do -- at least as a monolithic “death star”. The former is anti-fragile.
not until economical energy storage comes into the The latter, as we all know from the movies (no spoiler
picture-- because of the intermittency of their output. intended), is powerful but most definitely fragile. The
Still, renewables, particularly wind in the U.S. midwest “enemy” here approaches from two sides: technological
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obsolescence (which is slowly confronting all central 10. Nuclear for defense. Defense spending may crowd
station power generators) and simple obsolescence out civilian needs.Themilitary already plans to
from a harsher operating environment. In plain terms, modernize its nuclear warfare capability over
stuff just wears out faster. It’s a riskier business that’s comingdecades. In fact, if we think about where
for sure. nuclear power as an energy source has worked best, it
7. Investor-owned operators needed. The two major is in military-maritime applications, things like
U.S. electric utilities with an outsized presence in submarines and arctic icebreakers. If a nuclear
nuclear power, Entergy and Exelon, could be accident on a naval vessel at sea occurs resulting in all
characterized as the Dogs of the UTY, thanks to their hands lost--that is clearly a tragedy. If Indian Point
less than stellar stock performances. EDF, the builder goes full metal Fukushima, rendering significant parts
of the new British station, almost didn’t get to a positive of Westchester County, NY uninhabitable, we don’t
decision on the new plant due to a revolt on the part of even have the adjectives much less the liability
concerned directors. Do investors want more nuclear coverage. We also doubt that military applications will
power? Probably not without subsidies or guarantees. take a back seat in the new administration. Beyond
8. Coastal locations needed. One problem with that, there are two big nuclear related projects in the
commercial nuclear power is not that it produces U.S.: completion of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste
expensive electricity via fission, but that its voracious repository in Nevada and construction of a vitrification
need for cooling water requires mostly coastal or facility at the Hanford, WA site now holding significant
riparian sites. Ignore the technology for a moment. amounts of highly radioactive materials in less than
Rising seas, hurricanes, storm surges and the like perfect circumstances. More than likely, the military,
could render an ever broader swath of coastline Yucca and Hanford will absorb the lion’s share of new
unsuitable for infrastructure of any sort. Even if the nuclear-related infrastructure monies.
Trump administration sees no issues, property and
casualty insurors as well as and bond investors might. Without a rationale rooted in decarbonization or in
9. Using nuclear subsidies as corporate welfare. New shortage of alternative fuels or energy sources, the new
York and Illinois both launched programs best administration in the U.S. can only make a weak case for
described as Welfare for the Nuclear Elderly. It’s heart- commercial nuclear power. If it will not embrace direct
warming to see such generosity just prior to the holiday subsidies (which the incoming Congress may be reluctant
season aimed at aging, uneconomic nuclear plants. to do as a matter of principle), the administration may have
This sounds to us like a job creation/preservation a hard time finding private partners for nuclear projects.
program for rural areas (where high paying jobs are
scarce) masquerading as an environmentally
But it can, and probably will, make a
beneficial, carbon mitigating proposal. There is nothing
strong case for completing the huge
inherently evil about subsidizing private sector jobs in
nuclear tasks already on the
the electric utility industry. We just wish they’d drop the
government’s plate. That spending
low carbon fig leaf as a rationale or change the market
could boost the economy just as much
so it pays for the supposed virtues of nuclearinstead of
as putting up new nuclear power
making this a political handout. But note that handouts
stations.
to old nukes do not encourage the building of new
ones.
.

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Russia Sanctions? Trump Says US Needs
To ‘Get On With Our Lives’ Instead
Published Time: 29 Dec, 2016 07:45Edited Time: 29 Dec, 2016 12:58

The diplomat added that, given Trump’s promise to


reverse up to 70 percent of Obama’s executive orders,

“the latest restrictions that hamper our


cooperation are very likely to be part of
those 70 percent,” as cited by RIA Novosti.

His statement comes amid media reports that the incoming


administration may take steps towards mending
Washington and Moscow’s badly bruised relationship.
According to German magazine Bild, Trump is looking to
lift sanctions on Russia, as has been recommended by
Responding to reports that the Obama administration
American political heavyweight Henry Kissinger.
wants to slap Russia with new sanctions for allegedly
interfering in the 2016 election, President-elect Donald
Trump said the US needs to “get on with our lives,” as The article adds that Kissinger, who was secretary of state
“nobody knows exactly what’s going on.” and national security advisor during the Nixon
administration, has “clear ideas” about the future relations
of the two nuclear superpowers.
Donald Trump once again contested allegations put forth
by the US intelligence community claiming that Russia
orchestrated hack attacks to disrupt the Democratic Party’s The outgoing Obama administration and the Democratic
activities. On Wednesday, Republican Senator Lindsey camp maintain that ‘Russian hack attacks’ were
Graham (R-South Carolina) said during a trip to Latvia’s instrumental in undermining popular support for Hillary
capital, Riga, that Moscow should expect new sanctions Clinton and paving the way to Trump’s victory. Earlier in
for allegedly interfering in the 2016 election. December, Barack Obama threatened Russia with covert
and public payback, which he said would be carried out in
a “thoughtful, methodical way” and could come at any
Asked by reporters if imposing the sanctions would make
time.
any sense, Trump replied:

On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed


“I think we ought to get on with our lives. I
Obama’s intention, saying the outgoing president reserves
think that computers have complicated
lives very greatly. The whole age of
computer has made it where nobody knows “the right to respond to Russia at the place
exactly what’s going on.” and time and manner of his choosing…
Believe me, it will be his choosing.”
Though Trump said he wasn’t familiar with Graham’s
remarks, he did note: For his part, Trump has dismissed the bizarre allegations
that Moscow tried to interfere in the 2016 US presidential
elections as “conspiracy theory.”
“We have speed. We have a lot of other
things, but I’m not sure you have the kind
of security that you need. But I have not The claims that Russia was behind the DNC hack have
spoken with the senators and I certainly will also been disputed by CIA and NSA veterans, who wrote
be over a period of time.” in mid-December that

Moscow hopes that the new sanctions may be lifted by the “harder evidence of a technical nature
incoming Trump administration, the Russian Foreign points to an inside leak, not hacking – by
Ministry’s special envoy Andrey Krutskikh said on Russians or anyone else.”
Thursday.

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The group called Veteran Intelligence Professionals for “were, in fact, not hacked,”
Sanity stressed in a memo that
but leaked to WikiLeaks
“given what we know of NSA’s existing
capabilities, it beggars belief that NSA and other sites that subsequently published them. In turn,
would be unable to identify anyone – WikiLeaks urged Obama to
Russian or not – attempting to interfere
in a US election by hacking.” “submit any Putin documents” to them
so they can “be authenticated to our
It said the emails contained in the Democratic Party standards if he wants them to be seen
servers as credible.”

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Dem AGs Warn Trump Against
Repealing Obama’s Climate Rule
By Timothy Cama
12/29/16 11:07 AM EST

The letter came in part as a response to advice from West


Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R), the
leading litigator fighting the Clean Power Plan.

Morrisey and other Republican state attorneys general told


Trump earlier this month that he should issue an order on
his first day in office instructing the EPA to stop working
to enforce the rule, and then take other long-term steps to
fully repeal it and make sure a future president can’t
reinstate it or a similar regulation.

A group of Democratic state attorneys general is warning Repealing the rule was one of Trump’s main energy policy
President-elect Donald Trump against repealing the Clean promises on the campaign trail. He has nominated Scott
Power Plan, saying it would lead to more lawsuits. Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general and another leading
challenger of the Clean Power Plan, to head the EPA.
The group, led by New York Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman (D) and representing 14 states and five But Schneiderman and other Democrats said repeal would
localities, wrote Thursday that it is in Trump’s best interest be a bad idea.
to preserve Obama’s climate change rule for power plants
and continue defending it in federal court.
“Following such a course would be ill-
conceived and contrary to law,” they wrote.
They stopped short of threatening to sue Trump if he tries Among the Democrats’ arguments are that
to unwind the rule, but guaranteed him that someone the legality of the rule has not been settled,
would sue. an executive order cannot repeal a
regulation and Trump ought to consult with
“We advocate that you reject misguided stakeholders about the impact of repeal
advice that the Clean Power Plan be first.
discarded; advice that, if followed, would
assuredly lead to more litigation,” they Most in the coalition are participating in the current
wrote. litigation to defend the Obama administration, and many
“Instead, we urge you to support the have sued previous administrations to force stronger
defense of this critically-important rule and environmental protections.
the implementation of its carefully
constructed strategies to reduce emissions
from the nation’s largest sources.”
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‘Historic & Impressive’:
Britain’s Ambassador To US Breaks
Silence On Trump Election
Published time: 28 Dec, 2016 16:42Edited time: 30 Dec, 2016 12:54

Supporters of Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump


© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Britain’s ambassador to the US has broken his silence on


US President-elect Donald Trump’s election to the White
House, hailing it as an

“historic and impressive win like no other in


history."

Sir Kim Darroch was caught in a diplomatic row last


month when Trump tweeted that former UKIP leader
Nigel Farage would do a “great job” as UK ambassador to
the US and that “many people” would like to see him in
the role.

Downing Street dismissed the suggestion, saying it is for


Britain to decide who serves as ambassador.

“There is no vacancy,” a Downing Street


spokesperson said. “We already have an
excellent ambassador to the US.”

In a bid to smooth relations with Trump, Darroch, writing


in the Washington Post, praised Trump’s victory.

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“Donald Trump has captured the “Some steps Britain and the United States
presidency in a historic and impressive win will take together. Trade, for example, is an
like no other in history,” he wrote. issue that no country can address alone.
“There will, of course, be disappointment “When we leave the European Union,
felt by those for whom the results did not Britain will use the strength and size of our
go the way they hoped. That is the nature economy to forge new and dynamic trading
of our democratic systems… Now is the relationships, with old allies and new
time to move forward together and partners, including the United States, our
embrace the opportunity ahead.” biggest trading partner.
“The United States and Britain will continue
Darroch says both Trump and UK Prime Minister Theresa to work ever more closely to provide
May have vowed to build on the legacy of good relations security to each other. As partners who
set by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. share intelligence and technology, we do
more together than any two countries in the
"In their phone calls so far, Trump and world.”
British Prime Minister Theresa may have
made clear that the special relationship Darroch’s comments come just weeks after Farage visited
between Britain and the United States is the Republican President-elect for a third time. According
stronger than ever.” to the Telegraph, senior US Republican figures believe
Farage could be given an informal role advising Trump on
In his article, Darroch called for a new post-Brexit trading US/UK relations.
deal between the US and UK.
May is yet to meet Trump, and is believed to have only
spoken to him briefly on the phone.
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MSM Shouldn’t Cover Trump's Tweets, Forcing Him To
Rely On Media To Communicate – CNN Anchor
Published Time: 28 Dec, 2016 11:33Edited Time: 30 Dec, 2016 11:15

“Listen, I’m not a news executive. But if I


were, I would say I would not cover his
tweets,” Lemon said on-air on Tuesday.
Lemon said that if the media were to stop covering
Trump's tweets, he would be forced to hold a press
conference because
“he hates being ignored.”
Trump's media bashing began long before he won his bid
for the White House, with the billionaire often tweeting
that the news industry was

US President-elect Donald Trump has largely ditched the “rigging the election.”
“distorted” media, opting to communicate through Twitter
rather than press conferences and interviews. But CNN
anchor Don Lemon said the media facilitates that by
choosing to cover his tweets.

The leader-in-waiting hasn't held a press conference since


winning the presidential election and regularly takes to
Twitter to criticize the media landscape, using adjectives
ranging from
In addition to traditional mainstream media, he has also
“crooked” to “dishonest.” lashed out against Twitter, Facebook, and Google for
allegedly
“burying the FBI criminal investigation of
[Hillary] Clinton.”

Even Saturday Night Live found itself a target of his


criticism, despite the show's reputation for making fun of
just about anyone who has ever set foot in the public eye.

However, Trump's choice to refrain from speaking to most


news outlets, particularly left-leaning ones, is largely
related to the industry's decision to give his tweets media
coverage, according to Lemon.

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NewsMax Media CEO Christopher Ruddy believes Trump “...Most of the establishment media, almost
has plenty of reasons to take issue with the mainstream all of it, has made a decision that they hate
media. Donald Trump and they will oppose him at
every turn, I think you'll never see it stop,”
“Everybody talks about ‘fake news’, but the he told CrossTalk's Peter Lavelle.
real problem in America is biased news,”
Ruddy told RT's CrossTalk program last The editorial boards of several mainstream media outlets
week, adding that Trump is being publicly endorsed Trump's opponent Hillary Clinton
“victimized” by the media. during the election campaign, including USA Today, which
claimed the Republican candidate was
Ruddy's thoughts were echoed by Republican lobbyist Jack
Burkman, who believes the mainstream media will “unfit for the presidency.”

“never stop attacking Trump...” It was the first time in the newspaper's 34-year history that
its board had ever taken sides in a presidential race.

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Putin Says He Won’t Deport U.S. Diplomats As He Looks
To Cultivate Relations With Trump
By Andrew Roth
December 30 At 8:01 AM

anti-Russia agony. RIP,” Russian Prime


Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote Friday on
Twitter.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in a statement


carried by the Interfax news service, called for 31
employees of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and four
diplomats from the U.S. Consulate General in St.
Petersburg to be declared “persona non grata” and forced
to leave the country.

The Post's Karen DeYoung looks at the implications of the latest


measures taken by the Obama administration against Russia and its
interference in the U.S. election. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The
Washington Post)

MOSCOW — In a rare break from the diplomatic tradition


of reciprocal punishment, Russian President Vladimir
Putin said Friday he would not deport U.S. diplomats in a
tit-for-tat response to U.S. hacking sanctions, as Russia
looks to cultivate relations with the incoming
administration of President-elect Donald Trump.

“We won’t create problems for American The announcement culminates months of vigorous internal debate
over whether and how to respond to Russia’s unprecedented election-
diplomats,” Putin said in a statement year provocations, ranging from the hacks of the Democratic
released by his press service Friday National Committee to the targeting of state electoral systems. (The
afternoon, adding that Russia retained the Washington Post)
right to punish U.S. diplomats in the future.
He said he would “plan further steps for Further, he suggested the Russian government ban the use
restoring the Russian-American of a vacation cottage, or dacha, on the outskirts of Moscow
relationship based on the policies enacted often used for holiday receptions and a warehouse in the
by the administration of President Donald Russian capital used by diplomatic staff.
Trump.”
“We hope that these proposals will be
The surprising decision came just hours after the Russian considered as quickly as possible,” Lavrov
Foreign Ministry suggested that Putin expel 35 U.S. said, portraying the response as
diplomats and close two properties used by the U.S. symmetrical to the U.S. measures. “Of
Embassy in Moscow as part of a growing diplomatic course, we cannot leave such acts
slugfest over Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. unanswered; reciprocity is a diplomatic law
presidential election. in international relations.”

The measures were suggested one day after President Lavrov also denied accusations made by U.S. intelligence
Obama announced he would expel 35 Russian agencies that Russian state-backed hackers had leaked
diplomats from the United States and order the closure of information about former presidential candidate Hillary
Russian-owned facilities on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and Clinton in order to sway the election in favor of her
on Long Island in New York believed to have been used opponent, President-elect Donald Trump.
for intelligence purposes.
Russian politicians and officials have been sounding off
“It is regrettable that the Obama for the last day on how to respond to the Obama
administration, which started out by administration’s sweeping measures against Russia, the
restoring our ties, is ending its term in an largest mass expulsion of diplomats since the United States

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expelled 51 Russian diplomats in 2001 for spying. Putin’s Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Dmitri
spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, promised Friday that Russia’s Lovetsky/AP)
response would
But other Russian officials have suggested hedging the
response, so as not to antagonize the incoming Trump
“cause serious discomfort to the American
administration, which Moscow has hoped will be more
side.”
amenable to its interests. They, like Medvedev, have
sought to focus blame for the new sanctions on the Obama
administration, which is in its final month.

"Countermeasures, which are typically


mandatory, should be weighted in this
case, considering the known circumstances
of the transitional period and the possible
response of the U.S. president-elect," said
Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the
foreign affairs committee of Russia’s upper
house of parliament.
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Shock: Joint FBI-Homeland Security Report Fails To Prove
Russians Behind Clinton Leaks
By Alexander Mercouris -
12.30.2016 @12:51 AM EST

https://www.us-cert.gov/tlp. Reference Number: JAR-16-


20296 December 29.

After this unpromising beginning, the report — which goes


by the frankly weird title “Grizzly Bear” — provides a
summary that reads as follows:

Previous JARs have not attributed


malicious cyber activity to specific countries
or threat actors. However, public attribution
of these activities to RIS is supported by
technical indicators from the U.S.
Intelligence Community, DHS, FBI, the
Joint report by FBI and Department of private sector, and other entities. This
Homeland Security into Russian determination expands upon the Joint
hacking allegations derided as ‘childish’ Statement released October 7, 2016, from
by IT experts; fails to prove Russians the Department of Homeland Security and
behind Clinton leaks. the Director of National Intelligence on
Election Security. This activity by RIS is
part of an ongoing campaign of cyber-
In conjunction with U.S. President Obama’s enabled operations directed at the U.S.
announcement of new sanctions against Russia, the FBI government and its citizens. These cyber
and the Department of Homeland Security have published operations have included spearphishing
a 13 report into the Russian hacking allegations. campaigns targeting government
organizations, critical infrastructure entities,
I think it is fair to say that a mountain has moved and think tanks, universities, political
produced a mouse. To get a sense of the absurdity, organizations, and corporations leading to
consider that the report actually begins with a the theft of information. In foreign countries,
Disclaimer. (bold italics added) RIS actors conducted damaging and/or
disruptive cyber-attacks, including attacks
DISCLAIMER: This report is provided “as on critical infrastructure networks. In some
is” for informational purposes only. The cases, RIS actors masqueraded as third
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) parties, hiding behind false online personas
does not provide any warranties of any designed to cause the victim to misattribute
kind regarding any information the source of the attack. This JAR provides
contained within. technical indicators related to many of
these operations, recommended
DHS does not endorse any commercial product or service mitigations, suggested actions to take in
referenced in this advisory or otherwise. This document is response to the indicators provided, and
distributed as TLP:WHITE: information on how to report such incidents
to the U.S. Government.
Subject to standard copyright rules,
TLP:WHITE information may be distributed Note that the report is solely concerned with hacking. It
without restriction. does not discuss who provided the DNC or Podesta
material to Wikileaks, it does not say that Russian
Intelligence carried out the hacking to influence the
For more information on the Traffic Light Protocol, see outcome of the U.S. Presidential election, and nor does it
say that Russian intelligence did this in order to swing the
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election to Donald Trump — all questions concerning Frankly it looks like padding, made to make the report
which the FBI is known to have doubts. On the contrary, it look longer and more substantial than it actually is.
is careful to say that it is the U.S. government (ie. the
Obama administration), not the US intelligence community Even the Guardian has been forced to
or the FBI or the Department of Homeland Security, which admit that this is thin stuff.
assesses that the Russians passed the DNC and Podesta
material on to Wikileaks for onward publication in the Security experts on Twitter criticised the government
media report as too basic. Jonathan Zdziarski, a highly regarded
security researcher, compared the joint action report to a
 The U.S. Government assesses that information was child’s activity center.
leaked to the press and publicly disclosed. (bold italics
added) Tom Killalea, former vice-president of security at Amazon
 The report provides no evidence that the hacking was and a Capital One board member, wrote:
the work of Russian intelligence agencies. It merely
states it as a fact
“Russian attack on DNC similar to so many
 The U.S. Government confirms that two different RIS
other attacks in past 15yrs. Big question:
actors participated in the intrusion into a U.S. political
Why such poor incident response?”
party.
If this is the sum total of the evidence upon which the
The two “actors” in question are the two groups of hackers
Obama administration is claiming that the Russians were
known as Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear. As I have pointed
behind the leak of the DNC and Podesta emails, and that
out previously, the claim that these two groups of hackers
they did this to swing the election to Donald Trump, then
act for Russian intelligence has so far been based purely on
this “evidence” in no way does that. Indeed if anything
inference, with no hard facts behind it.
what the report shows is how confected this whole scandal
actually is.
There is nothing in this report that changes that, or which
substantiates this claim, and nothing in the report that
I would add that the complete absence of enthusiasm on
remotely resembles a hard fact to support it. On the
the part of the FBI and the Department of Homeland
contrary as the paragraph I have quoted above shows, the
Security for the Obama administration’s attempts to use
claim is still based purely on inference . That the claim is
the claims of Russian hacking for its own political ends
entirely inferential, and may be based on completely false
shines through the whole report. Anyone with experience
reasoning, is it turns out also the opinion of an expert in
of such reports can spot it immediately. This is very much
this field.
a report produced to order, which does the absolute
minimum it can get away with in order to appear to
The rest of the report — which is to say nearly all of it — comply with the order.
is taken up with technical information intended to confirm
the existence of the hacking — something which no-one
Interestingly the NSA, the branch of US intelligence which
denies happened — and various suggestions for ways to
has presumably the greatest expertise in the area, and
mitigate against such hacking in the future. Whilst this is
which has the most information about it, is not a co-author
no doubt helpful, it is hardly the issue under discussion.
of this report. I wonder why?
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Obama Incites Second Cold War With Russia,
Acts On Unproven Allegations
Obama Admin Propaganda Machine Now Running Full Bore
By Caleb Stephen -
12.29.2016 @9:20 PM EST

(INTELLIHUB) — Outgoing President Barack Obama has


ordered the expulsion of 35 suspected Russian spies and https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/status/8145641272302
imposed sanctions on two Russian intelligence agencies 71489
over unsubstantiated allegations that they were involved in
hacking during the 2016 presidential election. Kremlin press-secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Obama’s
actions were the manifestation of “an unpredictable and
Branding the diplomats as “intelligence operatives,” the even aggressive foreign policy,” but was quick to say there
US State Department said they had just 72 hours to leave would be no need to rush with counter measures against
the country. Washington.

U.S. intelligence agencies claim Russia was behind hacks Allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian
into the Democratic National Commitee (DNC) ahead of President Vladimir Putin personally directed efforts to
the Nov. 8 presidential election. Intelligence officials also intervene in the U.S. election process by hacking mostly
say that the Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Democrats have made tensions between the two world
Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in a landslide victory. powers boil over.

However, Obama administration has failed to produce any “These actions follow repeated private and
hard evidence that Russia was behind any of the hacks and public warnings that we have issued to the
has instead resorted to malevolent speculation and Russian government, and are a necessary
unfounded conclusions. and appropriate response to efforts to harm
U.S. interests in violation of established
international norms of behavior,” Obama
The Russian Embassy in London has responded on Twitter
by saying Obama was engaging in “Cold War deja vu.” said in a statement from vacation in Hawaii.

It is very apparent that Obama wants to start another Cold


“President Obama expels 35 (Russian)
War with Russia before he leaves the Oval Office and
diplomats in Cold War deja vu. As
Trump takes over. Obama is essentially attempting to
everybody, incl “American) people, will be
achieve what Hillary Clinton failed to do: go to war with
glad to see the last of this hapless Adm.,”
Russia.
tweeted the official Russian embassy in
London.
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[Bullshit – Hit Piece]

Trump’s Tweets Take A Turn For The Worse


By Andrew Levine
December 30, 2016

“deplorable,” reasons. Only a few were overtly racist,


however. They weren’t even all white.

Even so, most Trump voters did want to hold onto the
privileges that come with white skin. And if they were
descendants of immigrants who came from Europe long
ago, as the vast majority of them were, they wanted to
secure the privileges that status provides as well.

It hardly mattered that the lost world they yearned for is


more imagined than real. For them, “history is bunk,” just
as Henry Ford said; and nostalgia trumps reality every
time.

Even so, before long, most of them are bound to figure out
that they have been had; that what they got is not what
they voted for. They are easy marks, but they are not
stupid.
That Donald Trump is erratic, emotionally immature, and
stunningly ignorant is hardly news. Neither is his
fondness for communicating with the world via Twitter. And, while circumstances have made them desperate, they
What could be more fitting? One hundred forty characters are no more reckless than anyone else; no more likely than
are all that he can string together, and all his thoughts Hillary voters to put loaded guns in the hands of troubled
deserve. children.

Lately, though, there is news about the Donald — not just Therefore, as increasingly alarming tweets exude out of
because everything a President-elect does is newsworthy, Trump Tower – calls for a new arms race and for massive
but also because his tweets have taken a turn for the worse: additions to America’s nuclear arsenal — it is sure to dawn
from merely worrisome to downright alarming. on them that turning the entire juggernaut, nuclear and
conventional, over to a thin-skinned, egotistical real estate
mogul with the emotional maturity of a teenager, was not
Even the fools who voted for the Donald “to make such a great idea.
America great again” must be noticing.
***
All they ever wanted was the level of social and economic
security of the years before the neoliberal (Clintonite)
turn. They wanted to live in a world in which a man This is not the place to rehearse the arguments for and
(always a man) could earn a family wage and in which against lesser evil voting – either in general or in the 2016
“the American dream,” whatever that means (it seems to election. My view is that the case against — especially
have something to do with upward social and economic when the choice was between Clinton and Trump — is
mobility) is within every good (white) American’s reach; compelling, but I won’t press the point here.
and in which troops, marching under the banner of Old
Glory, always win the wars they fight. USA, Number By now, the Clinton v. Trump election is ancient history,
One! and the “what is to be done?” questions it raised are moot.
Qhen similar issues arise again, the circumstances will be
Sore losers say Hillary lost because Trump voters were so different that there will be little point in revisiting
xenophobic and racist. Many of them were concerned debates pertinent mainly to the debacle we just endured.
about immigration — for dubious, but not entirely
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However, with the consequences of that debacle about to role model. And as a wheeler-dealer, he sees him as a
come crashing down upon the world, there is a different, formidable rival, a man with whom he can do business.
though related, question that remains timely: which of the
duopoly’s two candidates was, in fact, the lesser evil? This would mean working out mutually beneficial
Getting clear on that can be useful for getting a deeper relationships between Trump’s capitalist cronies, the
understanding of what we are in for. people Bernie Sanders called “the billionaire class,” and
the Russian oligarchs Putin favors.
Most people with views worth taking seriously would say
that the answer is obvious – that, compared to the Donald, It is an altogether unsavory prospect, but a less lethal one,
the lesser evil was Hillary. most likely, than the alternative, which was to give Hillary
and her minions have free rein, and secure the bomb
They have a point: awful as she is, Trump seemed worse, shelters tight.
even prospectively. Now that we know who Trump’s
picks for cabinet and cabinet level appointments are, he This is not certain, however, because Trump’s thinking is
seems a lot worse. And he will seem incalculably worse anything but consistent, especially in areas – like
when he starts filling lifetime appointments to the federal geopolitics — in which his ignorance is exceptional even
judiciary. for him. His appointees to key foreign policy positions —
Rex Tillerson at the State Department, for example, and
However, there was, and still is, one overwhelmingly Michael Flynn at the National Security Council – are even
important countervailing consideration that has to be less likely than the Donald to keep an overblown empire in
factored in: the likelihood that Clinton’s neoconservative decline from lashing out.
and liberal imperialist leanings — and therefore her
passion for regime change in countries that don’t tow the Perhaps, in time, consistent patterns will emerge from the
empire’s line — combined with her inveterate chaos that is about to descend upon the world. But, for
Russophobia and dislike for Vladimir Putin, would propel the foreseeable future, chaos is all there will be.
the world into a nuclear conflagration.
Thus Trump says that he wants to work with Russia to
Trump’s latest tweets make it harder than it used to be to defeat the Islamic State, but also against Russia’s main ally
be confident that he would be a whole lot better. But, even – also the most important protagonist in the anti-jihadi
in defeat, the warmongering recklessness that Clinton did struggle — Iran.
so much to instigate continues to accelerate – in both
government and media circles.
The policies of the Obama administration were
contradictory too, but at least his foreign policy tea,,
It is still more likely than not that it will slow down or during and after Hillary’s Madam Secretary days, had the
even turn around when Trump and his cronies kick the excuse that they were stepping into strategically murky
Clinton-Obama War Party out. If Trump is true to his situations. Trump plows forward into the abyss in the
word – always unlikely, but not impossible in this case – plain light of day.
America’s relations with Russia will be on a saner course;
and that will, in turn, cause the demonization of Putin and Then there is Israel-Palestine. There were moments, early
the vilification of Russia to subside. Corporate media go
in the campaign, when Trump gave the impression that he
where the power is. Therefore the scribblers and talking
wanted to deploy his vaunted deal-making artistry to fix
heads that were, and still mostly are, in Clinton’s pocket,
the Israel-Palestine problem. Despite media hype about
will be drawn into the Trumpian fold like moths to light.
how intractable that problem is, he could do it; any
American President could.
What has our politics come to when it takes a Donald
Trump to keep the Clintons and their minions from setting
Israel depends so much on American diplomatic, military
chains of events in motion that could very likely end in the
and financial support that all a President would have to do
destruction of the world, “as we know it.” How pathetic is
is make its government an offer it couldn’t refuse. The
that! reasons this hasn’t happened yet have more to do with
American than Israeli or Palestinian politics. A President
Hillary’s take on American-Russian relations is willing to stand up to the Israel lobby – a Paper Tiger, if
ideologically driven, but there is a psychological side to it ever there was one — and to Christian Zionists could bring
as well; she and Putin hate each other’s guts. Trump’s Israel along in a New York minute.
equal and opposite fondness for Russia’s leader is
grounded in psychological factors too. It isn’t just Putin’s
And, after nearly a half-century of disabling occupation, it
machismo and scorn for “political correctness” that appeals
would not take much to get the Palestinians to go along.
to the Donald. As a would-be autocrat, he sees Putin as a
Ever since the Abba Eban days, the conventional wisdom
was that the Palestinians would “never miss an opportunity
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to miss an opportunity.” In fact, just the opposite is, and several bankruptcy lawyers, David Friedman, will be the
always has been, the case. Especially now that other American Ambassador to Israel (he might as well be the
options seem foreclosed, the Palestinians would surely Israeli Ambassador to the United States) and the Trump
accept any reasonable offer, anything that would leave Organization’s chief legal advisor, Jason Greenblatt, will
them with a viable state. be his “Representative for International Negotiations.”
With those appointments and after a recent flurry of
But for Trump to deploy his “artistry” in this case, he Trumpian tweets, the Israeli settler movement is riding
would have to treat Israel like a normal country; not a high.
spoiled brat. The original Zionists would have demanded,
and expected, no less; and, insofar as they care enough to “Stay strong Israel,” the Donald tweeted,
have an opinion, this is what the vast majority of “I’m coming.” Indeed, he is.
Americans, and probably also of American Jews, want as
well. Needless to say, the alternative would have been awful as
well. Clinton is no more on the side of justice than Trump
But thanks to decades of successful lobbying, bullying, is; and, along with nearly all Democrats and Republicans,
and “campaign contributions,” major Zionist organizations she is not beyond debasing herself by displaying obeisance
have seen to it that the very idea of treating Israel like a to the Israel lobby. But Friedman and Greenblatt? That is
country among others is a non-starter. Democrats and simply absurd.
Republicans alike are as determined as ever to let the brat
get away with whatever it wants. ***

The jury is out on whether Trump rules the GOP, the party There are some who say that Trump is making
he would have inadvertently destroyed had Hillary not contradictory statements deliberately; that he is drawing on
flubbed so badly, or whether, because he needs Republican Richard Nixon’s “madman” strategy. The idea is that if
help to govern, they control him. Both could be true. your adversaries think you are crazy, they will submit to
your will out of fear of what you might do.
To the extent that Trump calls the shots, “just say(ing) No”
would be within his means. If morally reprehensible There were indeed nuclear strategists in the fifties and
bought and paid for like Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham, and sixties who were themselves crazy enough to recommend
John McCain object, all he would need to do is contrive a nihilistic recklessness. Nixon seems to have latched onto
functional equivalent of the line that made him a TV star – their ideas, proving only that a little knowledge can do a
“you’re fired.” lot of harm. There is no consolation in the thought that
Trump might be following his example.
It looks increasingly like he won’t bother with anything
like that, however – because, in this instance, Trump, or More likely, he just does not know what he is doing. Who,
rather Kushner, family values trump deal making “artistry” after all, does he want to scare into submission? Russia?
and basic common sense. The Chinese, with whom he would rather do business than
make war? Democrats? Thanks to Hillary et. al., they are
Benjamin Netanyahu seems confident of that; and although so defeated that there is no need. Republicans? It isn’t
he is not the brightest bulb on the tree, he is probably right. worth trying to frighten them either; they are already
falling all over themselves surrendering unconditionally.
The Bibster got a dash of comeuppance from the United
Nations Security Council last week, thanks to President The long and short of it just is that while Trump may be a
Obama’s decision not to block a Security Council fiendishly clever huckster and conman, as a President-elect
resolution decrying the illegality of the Israeli occupation he is in way over his head. He is floundering about now,
of lands it conquered almost a half century ago. It would and there is little chance that it will get better after he
have been better, of course, had Obama put the United moves into the Oval Office.
States on the side of justice; but, on this issue, for an
American President just to sit on the fence, leaving it to The situation is therefore dangerous indeed. The sooner,
others do the right thing, is a major advance. and more profoundly, Trump is restrained, the better off
we all will be.
Nevertheless, dealmaker Trump is crying foul, and
threatening to do all he can to turn the clock back. Insofar It Democrats were less pusillanimous, they could do to the
as he can, he will; the writing is on the wall. Donald what Republicans did to Obama; they could
obstruct his every move. Too bad that they don’t have it in
He has already appointed the vilest and most incompetent them to pull it off!
rightwing Zionists in his circle to advise him and make –
or execute – his policies on Israel and Palestine: one of his
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To the extent that they try, they should be supported of increasing numbers of never-ending wars. They could
course – provided they steer clear of the one area where hardly be more wrong.
Trump still seems less awful than Hillary. Diminishing the
power and influence of the War Party is the most urgent Trump’s wealth also derives from another asset that is a lot
task of all. rarer than political juice. Hard as it is to believe, the
Trump name is something people will pay to be associated
The problem, though, is the all-too-familiar one: that, in with.
power or out, the Clintonized Democratic Party is
effectively useless. Fortunately, it is also not essential. This is even more pathetic than the idea that wealth is a
qualification for running a country, especially one as large
For one thing, it is becoming clear that the financial and complex as the United States. If humankind has a
machinations and entanglements of the Trump future and if there are historians in it, they will look back
organization and its offshoots will land the Donald in a and marvel at the level of moral and cultural degradation
thick nest of legal trouble. these beliefs exemplify. They may even decide that what
Hillary said about how deplorable Trump supporters are,
And, in addition to all the usual corruptions, there are though ruinously impolitic, was nevertheless spot on.
Constitutional issues with which he will have to contend.
As everyone who pays attention to the news these days Tasteful displays of great wealth are rare in human history,
now knows, thanks to the emoluments clause of the but they do exist, and the world is better off for them.
Constitution, Trump will be committing an impeachable However, good taste is not what Trump is about. The stuff
offense the moment he is sworn in on Inauguration Day. he peddles is about something else: conspicuous, over-the-
top vulgarity.
If any semblance of the rule of law survives in the months
and years ahead, the courts, though full up with rightwing The phenomenon is not new; like the poor, the nouveau
and center-right judges, may be our best chance for riche, it seems, have always been with us. In fact, they
holding Trump in check. have been with us only for as long as there has been a
bourgeoisie rich enough to put on aristocratic airs.
But the battle to stop him and the horrors he will unleash
will be waged mainly within civil society. A good part of Marketable celebrity, another creation of bourgeois
it can be engaged at an individual level, without the need society, is newer still. Without mass media, the
for significant organizational backing. phenomenon could hardly exist, and thanks to social
media, there is a lot more of it nowadays than there used to
Someday, when people in the know start cashing in by be. Some substantial portion of the Trump fortune derives
writing tell-all books, we will have a better idea than we from this source.
now do of what exactly Trump was thinking when he got
into the Presidential race. One of his reasons is obvious Is it because his immigrant ancestors changed the family
already: he wanted to promote his brand. name from “Drumpf” to a name associated with winning
hands at bridge?
Wealth derives ultimately from the production of goods
and services, but, in capitalism’s current, overripe stage, No doubt, the Donald would like to think, and like others
great fortunes seldom depend directly on commerce or to think, that “Trump” is the new “Ritz.” However, the
industry. The more usual way that capitalists enrich Ritz name connotes not only luxury but also good taste;
themselves egregiously these days is by gambling with Trump’s name is associated with nothing more edifying or
financial instruments that make money out of money, aesthetically pleasing than misinformed notions of what
without adding anything except money to what Adam good taste is.
Smith long ago called “the wealth of nations.”
For the time being, many, maybe most, Trump supporters
Trump started out with a lot of money; that makes making are still in wait-and-see mode; Trump’s cabinet
more money easier. Then he increased the amount – by appointments and increasingly alarming tweets don’t faze
making deals enabled by the political influence and them. But this won’t last; before long, reality will intrude.
business connections that his father additionally Ask the Wizard of Oz; it always does.
bequeathed him.
And as the scales fall from Trump’s supporters’ eyes, the
To many Americans, raised on the Gospel of Wealth, this Trump name will change its valence – from a kind of
somehow makes the Donald qualified to lead the executive talisman useful to marketers of luxury goods, it will
branch of a government that superintends what is still the become a stigma that even the rich and heinous will want
world’s largest economy, and to be Commander-in-Chief to avoid.
of a super-power involved directly or indirectly in ever
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Trump will bring this upon himself, but we can help the everyone who consumes or utilizes anything with the
process along by doing our part to damage his brand’s Trump name should be made to bear the weight of the
reputation and therefore his bottom line. He surely cares a stigma.
lot more about that than about anything he might do under
the guise of “making America great again.” This won’t end the horror that is about to befall the world,
but it could cause Trump to back off a little, softening the
The more he worries about his ill-gotten fortune, the less blow; and, in conjunction with other forms of politicking
able he will be to focus on ways to harm vulnerable — some traditional, some new and creative — it could
populations or to turn the fate of the planet over to help create conditions in which good and decent, not
polluters and climate change deniers. Trumpian, alternatives to Clintonite politics can emerge
and flourish.
Boycotts of all things Trump are a place to start; that could
do a lot of good. Shame could do even more. Anyone and
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Trump And Israel’s Anti-Semitic Zionists
By Uri Avnery
December 30, 2016

What really got me was the applause. (traditionally friendly nations), canceled visits of foreign
statesmen, called in foreign ambassadors for a dressing-
There they were sitting at the round table, the down on Christmas day, threw around insults and
representatives of the entire world, applauding their own especially besmirched President Obama.
handiwork, the resolution they had just adopted
unanimously. The Security Council, like the Knesset, is This was obviously a stupid thing to do. The President still
not used to applause or any other spontaneous outbursts. has 21 days to go, 21 long days in which to hurt
And yet they clapped their hands like children who had Netanyahu. He could, for example, allow the passage of an
just received their Christmas gift. irrevocable UN resolution to recognize the State of
Palestine as a full member of the UN. At the moment, all
(It was indeed a day before Christmas and the first day of of official Israel is in a state of panic in anticipation of
Hanukkah, a coincidence that happens once in decades, such a move.
since the Christians use the solar calendar and the Jews
still use a modified lunar calendar.) If Netanyahu had read Machiavelli, he would have known
that you do not challenge a lion, unless you are able to kill
The delegates were deliriously happy. They had just him. Especially, I would add, a lion you have insulted and
achieved something that had eluded them for many years: wounded many times before. Even lions do sometimes get
the condemnation of a blatant breach of international law angry.
by the government of Israel.
But Netanyahu’s behavior may not be as stupid as it looks.
Consecutive presidents of the US had used their Actually, it may be quite clever. Depends on his aim.
anachronistic veto power to prevent the UN doing its duty.
Now, President Barak Obama, at the very end of his As a diplomatic strategy, it is disastrous. But as a strategy
presidency, dared to challenge the government of to win elections, it is quite sensible. Here is the great hero,
Binyamin Netanyahu, a person he detests with all his heart. the new King David, fighting for his people, facing down
the entire world. Is there anyone in Israel who can compare
And so, after years of frustration, the highest international with him?
body could adopt a resolution on Israel according to its
convictions. No wonder they behaved like schoolchildren In the bad old days of Golda Meir, one of the Israeli
let out for vacation. A vacation that may, alas, prove to be army’s entertainment bands sang a jolly song which started
short. with the words:

On the face of it, the joy was exaggerated. The resolution “The whole world is against us / But we
has almost no practical meaning. It has no teeth. don’t give a damn…”
Netanyahu could use the old oriental adage:
The band danced around to the tune.
“The dogs bark and the caravan moves
on.” For some reason, Jews derive satisfaction from a world-
wide condemnation. It affirms what we have known all the
But Netanyahu’s immediate reaction was very different. time: that all the nations of the world hate us. It shows how
He acted like a wounded animal: running berserk, special and superior we are. It has nothing to do with our
thrashing around, biting everyone in reach. own behavior, God forbid. It is just pure anti-Semitism.

Some of his reactions bordered on the ridiculous. He could Netanyahu is out-Golda-ing Golda. The old lady now
have belittled the resolution and made fun of it, as Israeli looks down on him from heaven (or up to him from
leaders have done many times before. Instead he recalled elsewhere?) with envy.
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Zioinism was supposed to liberate Israel from these old In 1939, when the Nazi danger became obvious, the
Jewish complexes. We were supposed to become a normal extreme Zionist leader Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky called
nation, Israelis instead of “exile” Jews, admired by other for a meeting of his followers in Poland. The leaders of the
nations. Seems we have not quite succeeded. Irgun underground in Palestine attended. One of them was
Abraham Stern, whose nom de guerre was Ya’ir.
But there is a great hope. Actually, a giant
hope. It has a name: Donald Trump. The meeting decided to approach the anti-Semitic
commanders of the Polish army and offer them a deal: you
He has already tweeted that after he
arm and train young Polish Jews, and we shall liberate
assumes power, everything regarding the
Palestine and transport the Polish Jews there. The officers
UN will change.
agreed and training camps were set up in Poland. World
War II put an end to the plan.
But will it? Does anyone – including himself – really know
what he has in mind? Can Netanyahu be quite sure?
With the outbreak of the war, Jabotinsky, an ardent
Anglophile in spite of everything, ordered the Irgun to stop
True, he is sending a rabid Jewish-American ultra-right all such actions and cooperate with the British. Stern
Zionist as his ambassador to Tel Aviv (or to Jerusalem, we proposed the opposite approach. His credo was: our enemy
shall see.) A person so right-wing that he makes is Britain. The war provides us an opportunity to drive
Netanyahu himself almost look like a leftist. them out. The enemy of our enemy is our friend. Adolf
Hitler is an anti-Semite, but now he is our potential ally.
But at the same time Trump has appointed as his closest
assistant a radical white racist with full anti-Semitic Stern’s approach caused a split in the Irgun. A furious
credentials. debate broke out in all the secret cells. As a 16-year old
member, I took part. Being a refugee from Nazi Germany,
Perhaps, as some believe, it depends entirely on Trump’s I rejected Stern’s thesis.
moods. Who knows what his mood will be on the morning
of the first important UN vote on Israel? Will he be Trump Stern created his own group (later called Lehi, Hebrew
the Zionist or Trump the anti-Semite? initials of Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, also known as
the “Stern gang”.) He sent an emissary to neutral Turkey,
Actually, he can be both. No problem, really. where he delivered the German ambassador a letter for
“Mr. Hitler”, offering cooperation. The Fuehrer did not
The avowed aim of Zionism is to ingather all the Jews in reply. That was, of course, before the Holocaust.
the world in the Jewish State. The avowed aim of the anti-
Semites is to expel the Jews from all their countries. Both Stern was caught by the British and “shot while trying to
sides want the same. No conflict. escape”. When the war ended, and Soviet Russia became
the enemy of Britain and the West, Stern’s heirs
Theodor Herzl, the Founding Father of Zionism, approached Stalin and offered cooperation. Stalin, whose
recognized this right from the beginning. He went to anti-Semitism was becoming more pronounced at the time,
Czarist Russia, which was governed by anti-Semites, and ignored the offer.
offered a deal: we take the Jews off your hands, you help
us to convince them to leave. That was in the heyday of During the war, one of the architects of the Holocaust was
the murderous pogroms. But the Jews who left Russia Adolf Eichmann, the SS officer who was in charge of
went en masse to America, very few to Ottoman-ruled organizing the transport of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz.
Palestine. In Budapest he established contact with a group of
Zionists, led by Israel Kastner, with whom he made a deal.
This was not a unique chapter. Throughout Zionist history, As a good-will gesture he allowed him to send a few
many attempts have been made to enlist anti-Semites to hundred Jews to neutral Switzerland.
help in the implementation of the Zionist project.
Eichmann sent one member of the group, Yoel Brand, to
Even before the Zionist movement was born, American Istanbul, with a crazy-looking offer to the Zionist
and British evangelists preached the ingathering of the leadership in Jerusalem: if the allies provided the Nazis
Jewish exiles in the holy land. They may have been with a thousand trucks, the deportation of the Hungarian
Herzl’s inspiration. However, this message of redemption Jews would be stopped.
for the Jews had a secret clause. The return of the Jews to
Palestine would allow for the second coming of Christ. But Contrary to his instructions, Brand crossed the border into
then, the Jews would convert to Christianity. Those who British-occupied Syria and was arrested by the British. The
refused would be annihilated. deportation of the Hungarian Jews – ten thousand a day –
went on.
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What was the Nazis’ purpose in this bizarre affair? My Secretary of State John Kerry will submit his detailed
own theory is that Heinrich Himmler was already practical plan for a peace agreement, including the setting
determined to dethrone Hitler and make a separate peace up of the State of Palestine. This plan would be adopted by
with the Western allies. Eichmann served his plan to the conference, and then by the UN Security Council.
establish contact with the allies. As a dyed-in-the-wool
anti-Semite, Himmler was convinced that the Jews control This would be President Obama’s parting shot. No veto.
the world.
(By the way, Kerry’s plan is almost identical with a plan
Some time after the war, in Israeli captivity, Eichmann my friends and I published in 1957, 59 years ago, called
wrote down his memories. He stated that he believed that “The Hebrew Manifesto”.)
the Zionists were the “biologically positive” element of the
Jewish race.
Blazing with fury, Lieberman compared this to the Dreyfus
Affair. Some 120 years ago, a Jewish captain in the French
Mahmood Abbas, by the way, as a student at Moscow army was falsely convicted of espionage for Germany and
University, wrote his doctoral thesis on Nazi-Zionist sent to Devil’s Island off French Guiana. He was later
cooperation. acquitted. Zionist mythology has it that Theodor Herzl,
then a Paris correspondent of a Viennese newspaper, was
Can Trump’s assistants now include rabid Zionists and so shaken by the event that he was inspired with the
rabid anti-Semites at the same time? Zionist idea.

Of course they can. The coming Paris conference, Lieberman asserted angrily,
was the Dreyfus Affair all over again, only this time
This week, our far-right Minister of Defense, Avigdor against the entire Jewish people.
Lieberman, condemned the French plan to convene (in
Paris in a few days from now) a conference on Israeli- But not to worry: Donald Trump and his anti-Semitic
Palestinian peace. The Israeli government fears that there, Zionists will put everything in order again.

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Russians Attack ‘Political Corpse’ Obama
Lawmakers Call Obama Retaliation 'Dangerous Game'
By Mikhail Klikushin
12/30/16 8:17am

“It creates additional difficulties for the


[Trump] administration to overcome later.”

Chepa’s colleague from the International Committee of


Parliament, Vladimir Dzhabarov, believes Obama was
attempting to annoy Russia “out of impotence.”

“Obama proved himself to be an arbitrary


person who happened to lead the United
States,” he said.

U.S. President Barack Obama. Mark Wilson/Getty Images Russian think-tanks and academia agree.

The silent, months-long contempt expressed by the “The goal of the 44th U.S. president is to
Russian political class toward the departing White House complicate things for the 45th one,” Gevorg
Administration was suddenly interrupted on Thursday by Mirzayan, a professor at Financial
U.S. President Barack Obama’s announcement of a new University under the Government of the
set of anti-Russian sanctions. Russian Federation, told Komsomolskaya
Pravda newspaper.
In Russian media, in the political class and among
“This is very unusual,” Mirzayan continued,
government officials, the reaction in Moscow was fierce,
“because usually when one’s political
vocal and pugnacious.
opponents from another party arrive into
the White House, the power is transferred
Obama’s decision to expel Russian diplomats—in addition with dignity. But instead of this, the current
to sanctioning a number of Russian companies and [U.S.] most important person, like a ‘mad
individuals—is nothing but evidence of the agony of the printer,’ is creating laws and decrees with
outgoing administration, Konstantin Kosachev, head of the the goal to freeze the ‘foreign affairs
International Committee of the Russian Upper House of revolution’ of the new administration. I
Parliament, said to RIA Novosti. believe that the personal antipathies of
Obama, who believes ‘Putin beat him on all
“The leaving administration has no reason fronts—including the elections’ play a role
and no political or moral right for such here.”
drastic and disruptive steps with regards to
“Obama is setting as many traps as
bilateral relations with Russia. Forgive me
possible for Mr. Trump on [the]
for being harsh, but I just cannot find other
international field,” echoed Alexander
words: this is the agony of not the lame
Domrin, a professor at the Russian High
ducks, but of political corpses,” the Russian
School of Economics.
Senator said. “[President Obama] put at
stake the U.S.’s reputation as an adequate
state that ensures policy continuity in the The idea that there was something personal about
process of change of power.” America’s new rounds of sanctions is widely shared.
Andrei Krutskikh, ambassador-at-large for the Russian
“This is really a disturbing news,” Federation, declared all accusations against Russia
responded Kosachev’s deputy, Alexei groundless—adding that the only reason for anti-Russian
Chepa. sanctions was Barack Obama’s personal hatred for
Vladimir Putin.
According to the politician, Obama’s goal was simply to
create new problems for President-elect Donald Trump—
more obstacles in building better relations with Russia.
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Others believe that Obama, like a bad what will happen with bilateral relations
tenant, is trying to ruin everything in the with Russia, but it is unlikely that history will
apartment he no longer rents. forgive the attitude based on the principle
‘let there be even flood after we are gone.’
“The outgoing U.S. Administration, in her
last days, still hopes to ruin even more the “We have been saying this all along,”
relations with Russia, forgetting, probably, Zakharova posted later in the day on
that these relations had already been Facebook, “people [who] inhabited the
brought down to the ground,” Maria White House for 8 years are not
Zakharova, an official representative of the Administration but a bunch of foreign policy
Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs said to losers, angry and primitive. Today, Obama
Lifenews. admitted this officially. The most amazing
thing is that, having not been able to write
She continued: down into the history of the Presidency any
achievements on international arena, the
Nobel Prize Laureate managed to put a fat
“They are once again trying to frighten us
blob instead of elegant dot…Today,
with the widening of anti-Russian
America, American people were humiliated
sanctions, with measures of ‘diplomatic
by their own President. Not by international
nature,’ and even with the sabotage of our
terrorists or foreign enemy’s troops. It’s a
computer systems…Frankly, we are sick
curtain time. [The] ugly show is over. The
and tired of the outright lies about ‘Russian
whole world, from stalls to the gallery, had
hackers’ that continue to pour down in the
been watching the crashing blow to the
United States from the very top. The
prestige of America and to its leadership,
Obama Administration launched this
caused by Barak Obama and his illiterate
disinformation half a year ago in an attempt
foreign policy team that opened to the
to support the position of their desired
world her biggest secret—exclusiveness
candidate for the November Presidential
was a mask for helplessness. And no
elections. Having not achieved their
enemy of the United States could have
desired outcome, now they are looking for
done worse damage.”
the justification of their failure and, doubling
their efforts, they are taking revenge on the
Russian-American relations. Russian media has taken on the issue, gloves off, with
personal attacks and open hatred toward President Obama.
“Sooner or later, the truth about this Their words are no longer carefully chosen or calibrated.
campaign will eventually come out, and it is
happening already. On December 8,
American media reported that the “Obama is playing dangerous games. He
Secretary of State of Georgia, Brian Kemp, started to crash wildly everything around
made it known that local officials tracked him,” top political commentator and pro-
Kremlin propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov
the hack that attacked his electronic vote-
counting system soon after the elections. raved on his TV show.
The traces led to a computer address
within the Department of Homeland Obama set the foundation for another colored revolution—
Security of the United States. What else we this time in America.
can talk about here? About the fact that this
[revelation] was covered with the flood of “Now, with all of his might, Obama tries to
the new accusations that had not a single spoil everything everywhere for the
evidence? President-elect Trump. And with every day,
“It must be made crystal clear for people his behavior gets worse and worse. It
[who are] in the White House now that if seems that on the eve of the
Washington will implement new hostile inauguration—January, 20—he will have
steps then it will get the [appropriate] nothing else left to do for himself but to
answer [from Russia]. It concerns all the break all the windows in the White House
acts against Russian diplomatic and to leave behind a pile [of shit] on the
representatives in the US and will steps.”
immediately bounce against the American
diplomats in Russia. [The] Obama Disclosure: Donald Trump is the father-in-law of Jared
administration, probably, does not care Kushner, the publisher of Observer Media.

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FBI, DHS Russia Report Begins With Giant Disclaimer
'Providing No Warranties of Any Kind'
Chris Menahan
Dec. 30, 2016

The FBI and DHS finally released a report on the alleged But security experts say that the document
"Russian hacking" of our election and it reads like a provides little in the way of forensic "proof" to
whole lot of nothing. confirm the government's attribution. Private
security firms — like CrowdStrike, who
From The Hill: investigated the DNC breach — went much
further, they say.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) on Thursday released a joint "The DHS statement is a restatement of already
report detailing how federal investigators linked known public information, a series of technical
the Russian government to hacks of Democratic indicators that are intended for use by
Party organizations. cybersecurity professionals in finding and
remediating APT28 malware on private sector
The document makes clear reference to the networks, and some generic advice for
hacks of the Democratic National Committee companies as to how to improve their network
(DNC) and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman security," said Matt Tait, founder of the U.K.-
John Podesta, though it does not mention either based security consultancy Capital Alpha
by name. Security.

The 13-page report provides technical details APT28 refers to one of the hacking groups
regarding tools and infrastructure used by affiliated with Russian intelligence believed to
Russian civilian and military intelligence services have infiltrated the DNC.
to “compromise and exploit networks and
endpoints associated with the U.S. election, as The U.S. report, known as a “Joint Analysis
well as a range of U.S. Government, political, Report” or JAR, refers to the Russian hacking
and private sector entities.” (See the entire report campaign as “Grizzly Steppe.”
below.)

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All the report is missing is actual evidence. Half of the 13 — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 29, 2016
pages are tips on how not to get hacked which appear to
have been included just to give the report some bulk. They say at the start the "hacks" were just phishing scams
which people fell for. They don't actually name John
The report does contain this funny disclaimer: Podesta.

Today's Obama "hacking report" has a


disclaimer. It also doesn't mention @WikiLeaks
anywhere. pic.twitter.com/GAneSo83Q2
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Overall, it's weak sauce. Certainly nothing to start a war greatly. The whole, you know, age of computer
over. has made it where nobody knows exactly what’s
going on,” Trump said Wednesday of the U.S.
It appears this is all just a ploy by Obama to put Donald allegations against Russia.
Trump into a position where he will come across as some
"Putin puppet" if he ends these stupid sanctions which Sen. John McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham, both
never should have been implemented in the first place. prominent Republicans, released a joint statement on
Obama’s announcement that echoed Ryan’s language, but
Cuckmaster supreme Paul Ryan praised Obama's stupid they did not use the moment as an opportunity to attack the
move Thursday as "overdue" and Lindsey Graham and administration as harshly as Ryan had.
John McCain said the same.
“The retaliatory measures announced by the
From Yahoo News: Obama administration today are long overdue,”
they wrote. “But ultimately, they are a small price
"Russia does not share America's interests. In for Russia to pay for its brazen attack on
fact, it has consistently sought to undermine American democracy. We intend to lead the
them, sowing dangerous instability around the effort in the new Congress to impose stronger
world," Ryan said shortly after the White House sanctions on Russia.”
announced the punishments. "While today's
action by the administration is overdue, it is an Russia actually shares America's interests more than any
appropriate way to end eight years of failed other nation on the planet. Russia is a Christian nation
policy with Russia. And it serves as a prime which rejects multiculturalism and refuses to let the
example of this administration’s ineffective Soros's of the world subvert their national interests. That's
foreign policy that has left America weaker in the the only reason they're so hated by our cosmopolitan elite.
eyes of the world."

Ryan’s evenhanded statement is notable because


President-elect Donald Trump, with whom he has had a
rocky relationship, has repeatedly dismissed the U.S.
intelligence community’s assessment that the Kremlin
interfered in the November election. The U.S. says Russian
hackers were behind the cyberattacks that led to massive
email leaks from the Democratic National Committee and
John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.

“I think we ought to get on with our lives. I think


that computers have complicated lives very

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A Storm Is Coming
By Ian Greenhalgh
December 30, 2016

a penetration of both Sputnik News and RT. Press TV in Iran


had gone through a similar process but Revolutionary Guards
purged that publication and returned it to its previous level of
prominence and quality.

For those unaware, if such a thing is


possible, America’s efforts to undermine and
control the press have long been turned on
America herself through penetration of the
BBG, the shadowy Broadcast Board of
Governors and their equally shadowy
relationship with the CIA’s black propaganda
mechanisms.

Through Booz Allen Hamilton and the State Departments USAID,


[Editor’s note: Veterans Today even played its part. When
they run the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the “White
confronted by evidence of electoral interference at every level,
Helmets” in Syria, the phony Moscow Times, Washington Post,
just like the CIA does to other countries, this time “payback” for
New York Times, Newsweek, the Daily Beast and for our friends
the US, we knew that the truth would never get out. We tried
in the UK, the Daily Mail and the Guardian.
telling the Clinton campaign that the FBI and Israel were rigging
the election, working hand in hand with fake news, voter
Feeding all is really the Mossad whose best and most defended
suppression and sophisticated “erasable” hacking.
asset has, since 2009, been Wikileaks and Julian Assange,
taking over that crown from the Murdoch organizations.
What they all wanted was to blame Russia, the traditional
“boogeyman.” This is why evidence is so thin, against Russia at
And lastly, here is another buried aspect of the Assange story. In
least. The evidence against Wikileaks, Israel and traitors in the
the early part of his British-Swedish litigation he was bonded out
US is massive but all are under FBI protection and there is no
and British Press mentioned that he was staying at an “estate”
other body that can protect the United States. Congress and the
near London. What they did not say was that it was a Rothschild
Supreme Court fell under the control of the elements that rigged
estate, and that the in-house family law firm was handling his
this election long ago, something carefully documented by VT
legal case, I suspect for free. One might have thought that would
time and time again.
have triggered a lot of interest as to why, but nary a word was
mentioned in corporate media. Now for the story... Gordon ]
The evidence was overwhelming and it would
have produced a massive amount of quality
intelligence. We had worked with the CIA on
social media monitoring and analysis
intelligence, some of us at least, in the Gulf,
and we knew that Facebook was onboard,
coordinating rumors and smears.

Other efforts must have left the trail for others that we quickly
found, straight to Tel Aviv, tied to a Netanyahu grudge and his
obsession with destroying Iran and ethnically cleansing the
Palestinian people, to hideous acts of criminality now deep in
planning between the Trump and Likudist camps.

What will or at least “should” hang them all is the trail left by
Wikileaks. The Russians, out of desperation, let Assange into
Russia Today, with other recognized foreign intelligence assets,
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Ziggy
The Age of Aquarius is upon us, or so many look
on the paradigm shift that is running shockwaves It was 2010 when CFR (Council on Foreign
across the planet. The US is retaliating against Relations) Chairman, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Russia for a rigged election but is it really Russia cited Wikileaks as an intelligence operation,
the US is after? packaged to turn the world’s hatred of
America’s Israeli “inspired” war on terror on
For those who pay attention, the recent UNSC vote, which its ear, and under the guise of
Netanyahu says was “engineered” by Obama, thoroughly “enlightenment” push the world into more
de-legitimizes Israel as an apartheid state engaged in gross frenzy and hate.
violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The US
allowed Israel to be named as a criminal state and her The real “pattern” of Wikileaks, seeded into
leadership identified as “war criminals” after decade after bland material exposing American corruption
decade of protection. Why now? and idiocy, is always the same, attacking and
smearing Israel’s enemies, particularly
For those expecting “days of wine and roses,” under new American politicians, who stand against the
US leadership, those who think a populist revolution based occupation of Palestine, the illegal
on race hatred and denegration of science and learning, settlements and ethnic cleansing or who have
love of nuclear war and oligarchical rule isn’t driven by secretly derailed the Turkish/Saudi/ISIS/Israel
unseen and even more unpleasant agendas, will never axis of terror against Iran, Iraq, Syria and,
know what hit them, perhaps literally. wait for it, the people of Ukraine, Georgia and
the Caspian Basin states as well.
Manipulated hatred and a fake narrative, fake history, fake
news, fake terrorism, fake war, fake everything, always This is the why of Brexit, why the phony “right,” seeming
with us, always creeping up on us, now has put a knife into inheritors of the tired and overused “Hitler mantle” like
our collective hearts and brains. Trump’s pro-Israeli Nazi “alt-right” in America, have been
tasked with gutting NATO and dismembering the
When the dark age comes, and I assure you it has been European Union.
here for awhile already, few will notice and fewer will
care. We are seeing this now as a handful of the world’s It isn’t just the US that is to be erased from the global
useless “fence sitting” leaders now, while in their death scene, under Trump’s isolationist policies, it goes further;
throes, take their meaningless stands. They are the ones a carefully engineered power vacuum where the only
who put us here, yes Mr. Obama, we are putting the blame players left, Russia and China, eventually become the
on you, who quietly played along. We know you knew targets themselves, seen as “easy pickings” based on their
better but we also knew that you sold out just like they all economic vulnerabilities. For instance, all that holds
did. Russia together is the heartbeat of one man.

Sanctions, diplomats sent home, wild accusations, but one


thing is known for sure – Wikileaks did it; why isn’t
anyone looking for them? Assange didn’t do it, well then,
who really is Wikileaks – why do they want a Trump
presidency and why does Wikileaks share, and listen very
carefully, all of the global political aspirations of Israel’s
Likudists.

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Putin is 64 years old but lives a healthy lifestyle and shows And neither is the truth about Wikileaks, Murdoch and
no signs of age catching up with him. With the current Israel
world situation, we can only hope he continues to enjoy
rude good health. Julian Assange, the face of Wikileaks is nothing more
than a frontman, an actor playing a role, someone to stand
As things are today, were Putin gone, and we can’t stress on the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London and
this enough, the world would descend into a dark age. read out press releases from time to time; he doesn’t even
have internet access at the embassy, that is, if he really is
living there and not being brought in for public
appearances by the British police who are supposedly
keeping him under close surveillance.

The moment Wikileaks released tens of thousands of


classified US State Department cables, way beyond
anything Hillary is accused of putting out, and absolutely
nothing was done, any suspicions about Wikileaks were
put to bed. The fix was in.

If WikiLeaks is a worldwide organization in Europe,


Canada and the US, working with Russian intelligence to
Bibi… always the finger thing with him
interfere in an American election through espionage, then
why isn’t anyone named by the FBI as being wanted or
For the past few months, Wikileaks has been
even under investigation?
a Netanyahu analog, a tool used to express
his personal rage against Kerry and Obama,
against Hillary Clinton, who blocked his every The accusations that Obama has leveled against Russia
move, who “defanged” the bogus Iron Dome leading to recent expulsions and new sanctions against
(removing the AEGIS destroyers that were the Russia, a nation state, would necessitate classifying
heart of Israel’s missile protection) and Wikileaks personnel as “non-state actors” subject to the
blocked Israel’s secret military presence in kind of retribution Assange often refers to, up to and even
Georgia and Azerbaijan aimed at bringing drone assassination.
Russia and America into a nuclear
confrontation. But nothing is ever done, not even covertly,
an area VT is uniquely capable of monitoring
[? Missing ?] including and especially, their hatred of through its networks. Quite the opposite,
Obama and Clinton – is this about Russia and Syria or, Wikileaks isn’t gone after because it doesn’t
as this week’s news has really made clear to us – that really exist. Wikileaks is a fake, more fake
the real conflict was never about Russia at all, but than even the fake news. In fact, much of the
rather, to prevent Israeli, organised crime and of Wikileaks material “leaked” during the
course, Wikileaks from turning the United States into election, was manufactured, fake emails, just
the Zionist vassal that the Alt-Right has been as Brzezinski had warned.
reminding us about for years. Now we’re going to make
our case. Who are these invisible people that make up the Wikileaks
staff? Or is it really Tel-Aviv like we said all along and
Wikileaks Wikileaks is just a nice brand name to put on Mossad
disinfo releases?

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We warned Russia Today years ago that Assange was an document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower
Israeli asset and would burn them, however, our warning Edward Snowden reveals.
was not heeded, which we took as an indication that RT
has also been infiltrated by Israel. According to the agreement, the intelligence being shared
would not be filtered in advance by NSA analysts to
After all, if Wikileaks were a real organisation carrying out remove US communications.
real leaks that do real damage to real people and even
nations, then those charged with protecting those people “NSA routinely sends ISNU [the Israeli Sigint
and nations, such as the FBI, would surely be kicking National Unit] minimized and unminimized raw
down doors and making arrests and extradition requests in collection”, it says.
order to reign them in and prevent further damage in
future. A much stricter rule was set for US government
communications found in the raw intelligence. The Israelis
However, that is not the case – The FBI is not looking for were required to “destroy upon recognition” any
any Wikileaks people. No-one is hunting them, or cutting communication “that is either to or from an official of the
off their money, or even restricting their travel, or accusing US government“. Such communications included those of
them of anything; in fact it increasingly looks like “officials of the executive branch (including the White
WikiLeaks really doesn’t exist at all and is in itself “fake House, cabinet departments, and independent agencies),
news”. the US House of Representatives and Senate (member and
staff) and the US federal court system (including, but not
Our investigation has shown us, and we said this long ago, limited to, the supreme court)”.
that the FBI cannot find Wikileaks because Wikileaks does
not exist. In reality, under a secret treaty signed by Bush This not only raises major privacy concerns for American
Jr. the NSA passes all the raw data it gathers to Unit 8200, citizens, it also means that Israel is spying on the American
a secretive Israeli intelligence organization in Tel-Aviv Congress and other high-level politicians, which explains
where it is sifted and filtered in order to find materials that how Israel is able to bribe and coerce so many – it has all
can be used for nefarious purposes and to further Israel’s the dirt on them, courtesy of the NSA.
agenda. That is how the material to be leaked under the
Wikileaks brand is mined, it is an Israeli operation enabled Also note that WikiLeaks is no longer leaking, now that the
by Israeli assets in the US intelligence and surveillance US election is over and the damage is done, instead they
agencies. are making press releases and giving advice.

The FBI, Directory Comey and Israeli Infiltration

A funny thing is happening in the MSM right now, we


are being bombarded with rhetoric about the alleged
Russian hacking of emails in order to influence the US
election; however, the silence about Wikileaks, long
identified as a Mossad operation, is deafening. Contrary to
the MSM version of events that talks solely about Russia,
the real narrative is all about Iran and Wikileaks; lurking
behind it all however, is Israel and it’s assets in the US
MSM, the FBI, the NSA, the Pentagon and elsewhere.
Leaked slide from Edward Snowden that was released by
Glenn Greenwald in new book, No Place to Hide, The FBI is at the nexus of events yet again, they were
published in May 2014. proven to be complicit in the election hacking fiasco, a role
they undertook at the behest of Israel, lead by Israeli asset
The leaked statement above shows that the signals Director Comey. Sadly, the FBI has been deeply infiltrated
intelligence exchange between the American and Israeli by Israel and that lies behind their push to blame Russia
governments has been driven almost entirely by the NSA for the hacking.
giving information to the Israelis, instead of Israel giving
information to the U.S. FBI Director Comey was put in place by Obama to clean
house, unfortunately he turned out to be an Israeli asset
That the raw data collected by the NSA is shared with and has committed treason in service of his Zionist
Israel was reported by the Guardian in September 2014: masters.

The National Security Agency routinely shares raw That the FBI has been the driving force behind the Russian
intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to hacking narrative is clear proof that Russia is being set up
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order to cover for their Israeli masters. At the same time as
they are blaming Russia, the FBI is completely ignoring
Wikileaks, another strong indicator that both organisations
are working for Israel.

There is little love lost between Obama and Bibi. In 2011


at the G20 summit in Cannes, French president Nicolas
Sarkozy in a private exchange with Obama that was
inadvertently broadcast to journalists said:
Any group working with a foreign intelligence service
against the US is guilty of sedition and espionage; “I cannot stand him. He’s a liar.” The US
furthermore, Julian Assange should now be classified as an president responded by saying: “You’re fed up
enemy combatant. However, rather than fulfilling it’s with him? I have to deal with him every day.”
responsibility to protect the US from Wikileaks, the FBI
has done nothing. Why is Obama doing it now?

Make no mistake, without the protection of the FBI and Obama is only showing the kind of leadership and
other Israeli assets in the US then Wikileaks could not judgment now, just as he is leaving office that we wished
operate nor could it survive very long. From a high level he had shown all along. Sadly, the two term limit is
Washington source: removing Obama from office just as he is becoming both
experienced and wise enough to be an effective president
…look for Comey’s history on Wikileaks and to deal with the United State’s real enemy – Israel, in
whether he covered for them or not and an appropriately severe manner.
whether he still is.
Trump, the Zionist controlled media and ‘Fake News’
Obama, Kerry and the ‘payback’ for meddling
in the US election We also know that Trump is an Israeli asset, something
he makes blatantly obvious with his bellicose support of
Obama is raging at Russia over their interference in the their policies, most recently, his denunciation of the UN
election, but isn’t Obama also raging at Israel? The real Security Council vote against the illegal Israeli settlements
retaliation by the US for the election fraud that has placed as ‘very very unfair to Israel’.
Trump in the White House is not the sanctions against
Russia, nor is it the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats. Furthermore, it is becoming increasingly obvious that not
only is he answering to a handler, Trump is also not very
Rather it is against Israel in the form of the UN Security smart.; otherwise he would not have allowed the
Council vote, the rebuke of John Kerry’s vehemently accusations of being a Russian asset to be hung around his
critical speech and other actions that will be seen in the neck, that was an idiotic move on his part and one that
next three weeks before Trump is inaugurated. The issue is greatly weakened him politically.
now “sanctions vs. settlements”.
A Storm is Coming
Obama’s move to get the USNC to vote against Israel is
the most grievous blow once could strike against a nation The doors being opened now, the accusations made
short of thermonuclear war; it is pure de-legitimisation of against Russia by Obama won’t ever go away. There can
the nation state of Israel, making it abundantly clear that never be an America election that will be trusted. Russia
the Israeli actions towards the Palestinians, not just the has been anointed with the Mark of Cain forever, not
settlements but all the other, far worse treatment since because they did it, but because someone had to be blamed
1947 are crimes against humanity. No wonder and they were the easy target.
Netanyahu has reacted furiously.

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Blaming hasn’t helped as there is no one left to do Contra gang,” never told the world what Pollard was
anything, few left to care despite the well over 60 million about.
Americans who voted for Hillary Clinton, a clear majority
of the American electorate in an election where, as Donald
Trump claims and rightly so, there was massive electoral
fraud.

Again we remind you, very little of this is


about simply Wikileaks and Podesta’s emails.
The real warnings out there were hacking
votes and the real evidence was of systems
being penetrated across the country with full
cooperation of local electoral officials,
loading malware directly into closed systems.
No recount mechanism could stand against
this.

Demonstrators hold signs of Jonathan Pollard as they


attend a protest calling for his release, outside the
President’s house in Jerusalem, where Peres met with US
congressmen, August 17, 2011. Pollard is a former civilian
intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying for
Israel. He received a life sentence in 1987, in the United
States.

Pollard accessed two main areas, the NOC (non-official


cover) agent list and key American nuclear secrets. These
were stolen, not for Israeli security, but handed over to
The puppet and his master – Bibi visits Trump earlier this year.
Netanyahu who sent them to Russia. Israel had been
Fake news has been with us, as almost all agree, forever.
spying on the US on behalf of the Soviet Union since the
It put us into a war with Spain in 1898, it put us into
1950s, an effort led by British born Zionist William Fisher,
World War I where only a few short years previous, it
better known under his cover name of “Rudolf Abel.”
allowed the overthrow of the US government by the
Abel was traded back to the Soviets in trade for U2 pilot
Rothschild banking system under Paul Warburg, when the
Francis Gary Powers but Abel or Fisher was always
constitutionally prohibited Federal Reserve System was
Israeli.
created. Nothing that happened in America after 1913
wasn’t a direct result of this abomination, which the “fake
From 1969 onward, over 1 million Russian “Jews,”
news” of the day buried on the sports pages with
many of them not Jews at all in any way, emigrated to
advertisements for buggy whips.
Israel, “payback” for Israel’s role in Soviet spying efforts,
led first by Fisher and then by Netanyahu and Pollard.
Today Netanyahu faces another criminal investigation.
This population, nearly half of whom are settled illegally
This of course is Israel trying to stop the freight train that
on the occupied West Bank, has given Netanyahu’s
has hit them. A few enlightened Israeli’s are trying to
extremist coalition total control of Israel and has created
interfere with history already written in advance. We wish
the pariah police state that has plunged the Middle East
them good luck in their efforts.
into decades of conflict.
Perhaps they might have gone after Netanyahu when he
Pollard’s material led to the capture and
used his office to promote gambling boss Sheldon Adelson
torture of 1200 CIA agents and assets around
with the Chinese government. But Adelson, with his fleet
the world, many behind the Iron Curtain, that
of 747s fueled and ready 24 hours a day, billions in world
and the virtual assurance that the Soviets
currency loaded for the day the world wakes up, bought
would win a nuclear war against the US in a
Israel long ago.
devastating “first strike.” This is what
Netanyahu did so many years ago and he is
Netanyahu began this path long ago. While under far from finished.
diplomatic cover as Israel’s Ambassador to the UN,
Netanyahu ran spy operations against the US and was the Netanyahu is a prisoner of history, his real mentor was
handler for Jonathan Pollard. The fake news, working Yuri Andropov, former KGB head, the man who
hand in hand with the traitors around Reagan, the “Iran suppressed the Hungarian uprising. It was for Andropov,
long an advocate of the destruction of the US to save the
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Soviet state, the Soviet “bolshevik/Zionist” state as many This history sets up dangerous ground for Russia and Putin
saw it, that led to the secret partnership between Tel Aviv and may well have created key vulnerabilities as well, ones
and Moscow. After all, Israel was established by that could and maybe will bring it all crashing down on us
communists and to this day is very much the “socialist when the storm hits.
paradise” that Khrushchev promised for the Russian
people so many decades ago.
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Trump Mocks CNN, NBC; Praises Putin: "Great Move On
Delay - I Always Knew He Was Very Smart"
by Tyler Durden
Dec 30, 2016 11:44 PM

If there was any confusion how president-elect Donald


Trump - who for the past few days has been urging And then just to totally infuriate the media, Trump
Americans to "get on with our lives" beyond the topic of followed up his earlier praise of Putin by slamming CNN
Russian sanctions - felt about Putin unexpectedly taking and NBC:
the "high road" and refusing to retaliate tit-for-tat to Russians are playing @CNN and @NBCNews
Obama's expulsion of Russian diplomats, he cleared it up for such fools - funny to watch, they don't have a
moments ago when at 2:41pm he tweeted: "Great move clue! @FoxNews totally gets it!
on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very
smart!" — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
December 30, 2016
Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always
knew he was very smart! While it remains unclear if Trump will eliminate the anti-
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) Russia sanctions implemented by Obama as soon as he
December 30, 2016 enters office in three weeks, we expect many more op-eds
and articles lamenting the bromance between Trump and
Or, said otherwise, "Obama is not very smart" something Putin by Jeff Bezos' blog and other "unfake" media.
which the Russian embassy in the US found amusing
enough to Retweet (in this particular case we are confident Case in point, here is Hillary Clinton sycophant John
Retweeting does mean endorsing). Harwood, who mysteriously still has a job at CNBC
following the reputation crushing Podesta email
revelations, slamming Trump's tweet as "breath-taking:
one day after POTUS sanctions Russia for criminal
interference in US election, President-elect praises Putin
as "very smart"
breath-taking: one day after POTUS sanctions
Russia for criminal interference in US election,
President-elect praises Putin as "very smart"
https://t.co/7NdvIdYB8N
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) December
30, 2016

And here come the rest:


I'm starting to sense a pattern here
pic.twitter.com/t1375M3fuH
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December
30, 2016

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No Expulsion for American Diplomats;
Putin Invites Their Kids to a Kremlin Holiday Party
Tass - Translated by Kristina Kharlova
December 30, 2016

administration of President Donald Trump," - said


Putin.

"New unfriendly steps of the outgoing US


administration we regard as provocative, aimed
at further undermining Russian-American
relations," - he said.

"This is clearly contrary to the fundamental


interests of both the Russian and American
people, given the special responsibility of Russia
and the United States for the preservation of
global security, is detrimental to the entire
complex of international relations," - the
Putin chose not to expel American diplomats from Russia President added.

Russia will not stoop to the level of "kitchen" diplomacy, "It is unfortunate that the Obama administration
said the President finishes its work in this manner, but,
nevertheless, I wish him and his family members
Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided not to expel a Happy New year, - reads the statement of the
the US diplomats from Russia in response to the new head of state. - Happy New Year to the
Washington sanctions against Moscow. President elect Trump and the American
people!"
"Russian diplomats returning home will spend
Christmas holidays [Bet Obama didn't know "I wish you all happiness and prosperity!" - said
Russian Orthodox Christmas is on January 7 - the Russian leader.
FR] with family and friends at home. We are not
going to create problems for American diplomats. The Obama administration introduced new anti-Russian
We're not going to expel anyone", - read the sanctions that have affected some of the Russian
statement of the Russian leader. companies, the FSB and Main Intelligence Directorate
(former GRU) of the Russian General staff, and its senior
Putin added that Russia will not "prevent families and management. In addition, the US authorities declared
children of diplomats from using their usual vacation persona non grata 35 Russian diplomats and
places during the New Year holidays". [Obama banned the announced the closure of two facilities owned by Russia
kids of Russian diplomats from going to their usual [used as retreats for kids of Russian diplomats - FR] in
vacation retreats in USA - FR] "Moreover, all children of the states of New York and Maryland. Washington relates
American diplomats accredited in Russia, are invited to the these steps to supposed hacker attacks on American
New Year and Christmas kids party at the Kremlin", - said political institutions, of which the current administration is
the Russian leader. accusing Russia [which exposed the DNC rigging US
election, although the US intelligence community is not
"Reserving the right to retaliate, we will not stoop 100% certain, just as with Iraqi WMD's - FR]
to the level of irresponsible "kitchen" diplomacy
and will build further steps for the restoration of FR: Earlier the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Russian-American relations, which will be based outraged by the expulsion of its employees recommended
on the policy to be conducted by the that Putin expel 35 American diplomats in a mirror
response.

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US Must ‘Make The Russians
Feel Pain’: John Bolton
Fri Dec 30, 2016 2:34PM

“I don't think they will have much impact at all,”


Bolton said on Fox News in a Friday morning
interview.
“The Russians have walked all over the Obama
administration for eight years. It's really been a
pathetic performance. So what this last burst of
activity has to do is hard to say. I do think it's
intended to try and box the Trump administration
in. I think it will fail. This is simply an executive
order,” he said.

US Republican hawk John Bolton “If President Trump decides to reverse it, it's
easy enough to do,” he added.
US Republican hawk John Bolton has
described the sanctions against Russia Bolton said that if the sanctions are meant to deter Russia,
announced by the Obama administration as then the United States must “make the Russians feel pain.”
an insufficient response for Moscow’s “attack
on our constitutional system.”
The White House said in a statement on Thursday that
there was the consensus from the US Intelligence
On Thursday, outgoing Democratic President Barack Community that Russia's intervention in the US
Obama announced a series of economic sanctions against election via cyberhacking as "unacceptable and will not be
Russia, as well as expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats, over tolerated."
allegations that it interfered in the 2016 presidential
election through cyberattacks.
"Russia's cyberactivities were intended to
influence the election, erode faith in US
The sanctions target Russia's FSB and GRU intelligence democratic institutions, sow doubt about the
agencies, four individual GRU officers, and three integrity of our electoral process, and undermine
companies who allegedly provided support to the GRU, confidence in the institutions of the US
and two Russian individuals for using cyberattacks to government," the statement said. "These actions
cause misappropriation of funds and personal identifying are unacceptable and will not be tolerated."
information.
The Obama administration has repeatedly claimed that the
Under Thursday's actions, the US also shut down two hacking attacks weeks before the election against some
Russian compounds in New York and Maryland that the Democratic organizations were carried out by Russia as
United States says are used "for intelligence-related part of Moscow’s plan to interfere in the election process
purposes." in order to sway the vote in President-elect Donald
Trump’s favor, a claim that has been rejected by Moscow.
However, Bolton, former US ambassador to the United
Nations, remained unimpressed by the Obama According to Obama, US intelligence agencies are in
administration’s harsh actions against Russia. possession of evidence that shows Russian President
Vladimir Putin supervised the hacking, which targeted the
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Democratic National Committee (DNC) and John Podesta, Moscow has rejected the US hacking accusations as
a top aide to defeated Democratic candidate Hillary “unfounded,” while calling on the Obama administration
Clinton. to provide proof of its interference in the election.

Bolton, who was once tipped to be secretary of state in the Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday
incoming Trump administration, said that decided not to expel US diplomats in reprisal for the
Obama administration's ill-advised sanctions.
“if even a piece of what is alleged about this
Russian activity is true, it is utterly unacceptable.” "We will not expel anyone," Putin said in a
“It is an attack on our constitutional system. It is statement.
not enough to say, and people should be very
careful about this, to say, well, it didn't actually Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov proposed
have an impact on the election. You know, the to expel 35 American diplomats in retaliation for the
fact that Russian efforts were incompetent or similar move by Washington.
insufficient shouldn't make us feel better,” he
added.
.

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Ex-CIA Agent On Report Tying Russia
To Election Hacking: ‘Absolutely No Evidence’
By Carey Wedler
December 30, 2016

On Thursday, the FBI and Department of Homeland “The public is looking for evidence of the
Security released a joint analysis report addressing attribution, the White House and the DHS/FBI
persistent allegations that the Russian government hacked clearly laid out that this report is meant for
the U.S. election. network defense, and then the entire discussion
in the document is on how the DHS/FBI confirms
Though, as the White House fact sheet asserts, the report that APT28 and APT29 are RIS groups that
largely consists of tips to improve cyber security and compromised a political party.”
prevent future attacks, it also appears to cite evidence
Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) actively attempted to But that’s not the only problem. As Lee points out, the
hack into U.S. systems, a campaign the government has report notes the FBI has previously refrained from naming
named “GRIZZLY STEPPE.” specific actors in joint analysis reports — but does so for
the purposes of this investigation, claiming they can
But as the media runs with the story and many outlets confirm indicators of an attack from private sector
accept the 13-page report as fact, veterans of the attribution.
intelligence community have pointed out flaws with the
FBI-DHS analysis. Yet “the GRIZZLY STEPPE report reads like a
poorly done vendor intelligence report stringing
According to Philip Giraldi, a former CIA agent, the report together various aspects of attribution without
fails to prove Russia is behind the hack. In a recent evidence,” Lee writes.
Facebook post, he asserted that
Jeffrey Carr, a cybersecurity consultant and author of
“apart from assertions of Russian activity Inside Cyber Warfare, has bluntly rejected the allegations
connected to an unnamed political party, [the contained in the report:
report] provides absolutely no evidence that the
alleged intrusions into the DNC servers were “It merely listed every threat group ever reported
anything beyond normal intelligence agency on by a commercial cybersecurity company that
probing for vulnerabilities.” is suspected of being Russian-made and lumped
them under the heading of Russian Intelligence
“In fact,” he adds, “it doesn’t even provide the Services (RIS) without providing any supporting
evidence for that.” evidence that such a connection exists.”

Further, he argues: In contrast, Lee shies away from fully disregarding the
report, issuing a “thank you
“There is no evidence of particular mal-intent that
can be traced back to the Russian government, ” to “the government operators who did fantastic
much less to Vladimir Putin. Nine of the thirteen work and tried their best to push out the best
pages of the report deal with advice on how to information.” But he also has words for those
keep your system from being hacked.” who conducted “the sanitation of that information
and the report writing.”
Robert M. Lee, a former U.S. Air Force Cyber Warfare
Operations Officer and founder and CEO of cyber security Addressing the report’s list of alleged RIS groups, Lee
firm Dragos, explains the report is confusing because it points out that the list contains both the names of hacking
states early on that its intention is to aid “defenders” of the campaigns and types of malware.
U.S. However, the report makes a point of declaring RIS
guilty, veering away from the stated public service goals. He explains “the list of reported RIS names
includes relevant and specific names such as
Lee highlights this convolution, highlighting two alleged campaign names, more general and often
groups included in the report: unrelated malware family names, and extremely

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broad and non-descriptive classification of “If I was the Chinese and I wanted to make it look
capabilities.” like the Russians did it, I would use Russian
language within the code, I would use Russian
This, like the report’s jumbled intentions, confuses the techniques of breaking into the organization,”
data. Lee explains: McAfee said. He added that “there simply is no
way to assign a source for any attack.”
“It was a mixing of data types that didn’t meet
any objective in the report and only added At least one journalist, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi,
confusion as to whether the DHS/FBI knows pointed out a similar problem. Though he acknowledges
what they are doing or if they are instead just “Grizzly Steppe” is a “sexy” name, he notes
telling teams in the government ‘contribute
anything you have that has been affiliated with “we don’t learn much at all about what led our
Russian activity.’” government to determine a) that these hacks
were directed by the Russian government, or b)
Lee also criticized the report for its failure to distinguish they were undertaken with the aim of influencing
between data gleaned from the private sector versus the the election, and in particular to help elect
public sector, noting these different types of intelligence Donald Trump.”
bear different confidence ratings.
In spite of this pushback from seasoned members of the
“[A]lways tell people where you got your data, intelligence community and the award-winning journalist,
separate it from your own data which you have a media outlets that have parroted the “Russia did it”
higher confidence level in having observed first narrative continued to do so with the recent report. Taibbi
hand, and if you are using other people’s pointed out that the New York Times headline for the story
campaign names, data, analysis, etc. explain treated the report as fact. “Obama Strikes Back at Russia
why so that analysts can do something with it for Election Hacking,” it read, though Taibbi did note
instead of treating it as random situational some outlets were careful to walk the line, “using ‘Obama
awareness,” he advises. says’ formulations” in their headlines.

He also tackles the IP addresses listed in the report, noting Ultimately, he observes problems with media outlets
simply repeating the statements of government institutions
“many (30%+) of these IP addresses are mostly and agents:
useless as they are VPS, TOR exit nodes,
proxies, and other non-descriptive internet traffic “The problem with this story is that, like the Iraq-
sites.” He explains that in order for the addresses WMD mess, it takes place in the middle of a
to be valid indicators of an attack, they “must highly politicized environment during which the
contain information around timing. I.e. when were motives of all the relevant actors are suspect.
these IP addresses associated with the malware Nothing quite adds up.”
or campaign and when were they in active
usage.” He also doubts the existence of substantial evidence
implicating Russia:
The report does not include this information.
“If the American security agencies had smoking-
In the same vein, Lee notes that while the report does gun evidence that the Russians had an
contain examples of 30 malicious files, organized campaign to derail the U.S.
presidential election and deliver the White House
“all but two have the same problems as the IP to Trump, then expelling a few dozen diplomats
addresses in that there isn’t appropriate context after the election seems like an oddly weak and
as to what most of them are related to and when ill-timed response. Voices in both parties are
they were leveraged.” saying this now.”

Other experts had more general critiques of the report. Similarly, Carr noted:

John McAfee, founder of the well-known McAfee anti- “If the White House had unclassified evidence
virus software and former Libertarian Party presidential that tied officials in the Russian government to
candidate argued that hackers from countries besides the DNC attack, they would have presented it by
Russia could have intentionally made the attack appear now. The fact that they didn’t means either that
Russian. the evidence doesn’t exist or that it is classified.”

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Of course, the opinions of experts do not wholly disprove As Edward Snowden tweeted:
the theory Russia hacked the election, and detailed
evidence is expected to be presented in a report to Few techs doubt that Russians could have a
Congress before President-elect Donald Trump takes hand in hacks, but public policy requires public
office. As Taibbi bluntly asserts, evidence. Trump can’t roll back declassification

“I have no problem believing that Vladimir Putin — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 30,
tried to influence the American election. He’s 2016
gangster-spook-scum of the lowest order and
capable of anything.” Considering 87 percent of Hillary Clinton voters now
believe with certainty that Russia hacked the election, the
Similarly, Graham Cluley, a cyber security expert based in role of the media in reporting on the U.S. government’s
the U.K., wrote in a blog post that he believes Russia was accusations has turned from critical investigation to
likely behind the attack. But as even he notes, obedient acceptance. Yet Taibbi’s comments on the news
media’s response to the report may very well apply to the
“what’s to say that that Russian server isn’t itself very government agents who released it:
under the control of hackers in an entirely
different country who are covering their tracks? “[W]e’ve been burned before in stories like this,
It’s hard to put a water-tight case together unless to disastrous effect. Which makes it surprising
you have the ‘boots-on-the-ground’ willing we’re not trying harder to avoid getting fooled
assistance of local law enforcement to properly again.”
investigate if an overseas computer is itself
acting as a proxy for someone else or not.”
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Report On Russian Hacking:
‘Case Of Fake News & Propaganda’
Edited Time: 30 Dec, 2016 16:12

not the ceasefire in Syria. It’s all going to be


about these Russians, and hacking the election
and things like that. I think this is the first stage –
this is why it was announced that the Russian
diplomats were going to be expelled,” she said.

“On the second point as well, it is a mass


expulsion – 35 diplomats being thrown out of the
country with no proof, with no sort of real
intelligence. I think that has also been done to
gain the idea, to solidify in public’s mind in
A general view of the U.S. embassy in Moscow, Russia, December 30,
America that actually Russia was involved in
2016. © Tatyana Makeyeva / Reuters hacking the election. Where has that phrase
evolved from? We don’t know. It was originally
A joint FBI and DHS report on Russia’s alleged hacking of just hacking the DNC [Democratic National
the US presidential election provides no evidence and is a Committee] e-mails. So I think it is a sort of two-
case of fake news and propaganda aimed at undermining pronged attack that has been carried out; that
the legitimacy of Trump’s win, says former MI5 has been carefully announced today to achieve
intelligence officer Annie Machon. that,” she said.

The Obama administration on Thursday imposed a set of “One further point from that in terms of trying to
unprecedented measures against Russia over its alleged solidify the fact that the Russians interfered in the
attempts to influence the US presidential campaign this democratic process of America – is part of this
year. The new sanctions were unveiled after the release of ongoing process to try to undermine the
the report by the FBI and the Department of Homeland legitimacy of the election of Donald Trump – the
Security. next president,” Machon said.

However, the document significantly lacks specifics. It Report on #Russianhacking offers disclaimers,
doesn't explain how the two hacking groups described are barely mentions Russia
linked to the Russian government.
https://t.co/TI21yNa0Wdpic.twitter.com/zv2hZcEh
RT asked whistleblower, and former MI5 intelligence qj
officer Annie Machon what she makes of the evidence.
— RT America (@RT_America) 29 декабря
“This is very much a case of fake news, shall we 2016 г.
say. It seems to serve two ends as well,” Machon
said. The Joint Analysis Report (JAR) on “Russian malicious
cyber activity” issued by the FBI and the DHS National
BREAKING: Russia will not expel anyone in response to Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center
US sanctions – Putin (NCCIC) on Thursday begins with a disclaimer which
reads:
https://t.co/g4jnxRSoFDpic.twitter.com/lL10mRBl
X9 “This report is provided “as is” for informational
purposes only. The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) does not provide any warranties
— RT (@RT_com) December 30, 2016
of any kind regarding any information contained
within.”
“On the day when the ceasefire is announced,
which has been brokered by Russia and Turkey
According to Machon, the FBI and DHS are “just covering
– this is a story that will run and run in America,
their backs.”
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“They know it’s much rubbish…they are trying to
blind people with science, but there’s no real
evidence,” she said.

“Running in parallel to this is a more serious


investigation that Barack Obama apparently
asked the CIA to carry out into this alleged
Russian hacking of the election. That report is
due to be announced no later than January 20
next year,” Machon said, adding that the timing is
“interesting” since it’s the date of President-elect
Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this
The report by the FBI and DHS doesn’t give any column are solely those of the author and do not
warranties, which “points to the fact that it is pure necessarily represent those of RT.
propaganda and they know it,” Machon told RT.

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DHS-FBI Report Against Russians is Crap —
Our Own Traitors, Not the Russians, Are the Real Enemy,
Faking Evidence – UPDATE 17
Robert Steele
December 30, 2016

Comey, James (Russians did not influence election)


Cook, Jonathan (Clinton hypocrisy, fake news, perfidy of US
false claims)
Dillon, Martin (How Israel gained control over US cyber)
Freeman, Chas (Ambassador)
Giraldi, Philip (conservative former CIA spy)
Greenwald, Glenn (Anonymous leaks are not evidence)
Lee, Robert M. (cyber-security consultant)
McGovern, Ray (retired top CIA analyst)
Murray, Craig (UK Ambassador)
Obama, Barack (Hackers didn’t sway election)
Owl (the NYPD leaks on the Abedeen emails in the Weiner
laptop)
Price, David (Reasons to be skeptical of CIA claims on Russian
I invite readers to tweet this post to @realDonaldTrump hacking)
and @seanspicer using the tweet share button at the Pieceznik, Steve (Reagan era State leader, US good guys did it)
bottom of this post. Raimondo, Justin (Stop the CIA-Saudi Coup against Donald
Trump)
UPDATE 18: Sean Spicer needs to up his game — he is Rappoport, Jon (Elector questions for CIA)
not paying attention to the authoritative voices that Rappoport, Jon (NSA as front for Israel via Narus and Verint)
strongly differ with the US intelligence community lies Scott James (Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology — no
about the evidence. When asked, as he just was on Fox — way)
he blew it — he should say Steele, Robert (former CIA spy, introduced hackers to NSA in
1993)
“We question both the competence and Stein, Jeff (CIA veterans urge caution on leaks blaming Russia)
veracity of US intelligence leaders — Taibbi, Matt (Rolling Stone)
there are too many credible Tancredo, Tom (Breitbart)
Tice, Russ (NSA whistleblower, NSA spies on all politicans
countervailing voices saying that a)
cyber-access is impossible to prove and including Obama)
b) the Russians did not leak the emails.” Whitbeck, John (Criminal insanity of US claim against Russians)

See Also:
Here is a list in alphabetical order of people saying the
Russians did not “hack” the election (just the ones cited Blum, William (CIA Killing Hope worldwide)
here at Phi Beta Iota) — links are provided so Mr. Spicer Bowden, Mark (USG knows nothing of cyber)
can do his homework and better serve Mr. Trump. Clark, Wesley (General, foreign policy coup)
Halperin, Morton (Rule 1: Lie to the president)
Assange, Julian (WikiLeaks, with Sean Hannity, Russians not the Nixon, John (CIA wrong on everything re Iraq)
source) Lewis, Charles (935 Lies)
Assange, Julian (WikiLeaks, with John Pilger Russians not the Parry, Robert (Establishment’s war on truth – fake news false
source) flag campaign)
Bamford, James (NSA author, questions official narrative, Pilger, John (Western media as mass fabrication)
Russians did not hack) Prouty, Fletcher (CIA as secret team for Wall Street)
Binney, William (created NSA system, accuses CIA) Risen, James (Greed and endless war)
Binney, William (created NSA system, at ZeroHedge) Steele, Robert (Fixing Intelligence II)
Carr, Jeffrey (cyber-security consultant) Steele, Robert (original warning letter to White House in 1994)
Cockburn, Andrew (Challenging CIA’s false assertions) Talbot, David (Devil’s Chessboard — CIA as home for Nazis)
165
Wilkerson, Lawrence (CIA lies, oligarchy controls complex) Russian International Affairs Council: The Russians Did
Zinni, Tony (General, 4% “at best”) Not “Hack” the US Election – a Few Facts from a
Former CIA Spy
The silver lining in this dark cloud is that it gives Donald
Trump all the validation he needs with respect to the UPDATE 15: Watching the sock puppets on Crap News
incompetence, incapability, and disloyalty of the US secret Network I have to say this again: the US secret world does
intelligence community. Eliminating the Office of the not know anything useful! They spend money, that’s it.
Director of National Intelligence does not go far enough — General Tony Zinni is on record as saying that he got, “at
he must create the Open Source Agency (OSA) and the best,” 4% of what he needed to know from the secret
Trump Channel; flush and then empower the FBI to go world. Then we have the recent book documenting that
after all the traitors burrowed into the US Government everything the CIA thought it knew about Iraq and Saddam
(USG), and sharply reduce the secret world, eradicating Hussein was WRONG! I have written eight books (two
the two thirds that is waste, consolidating the secret bits with Forewords by Chairman of the SSCI) and many
under a restored Director of Classified Intelligence (DCI) chapters and articles, all FAILING the secret world,
who shall have no authority over the OSA or the FBI. A which ignores eight of the ten high-level threats to
new Deputy Director for Management at the Office of humanity. Put bluntly, they don’t know jack, they just
Management and Budget (OMB) should become the new posture.
presidential oversight authority with the National
Intelligence Council (NIC), the Collection Requirements In my experience, the US secret world
and Evaluation Staff (CRES) and the OSA as “direct does not know, lies, gets it wrong, or
reports” within OMB. The lies being told by the US secret has 4% of the needed information and
intelligence “leaders” are a heaven-sent opportunity to is totally lacking in the holistic context
clean house — get rid of the traitors — and in the process, that indigenous peoples have.
destroy the Deep State and end control of the USG by Wall
Street and foreign powers. The President’s Daily Brief is CRAP. CIA still does not
know how to brief ten threats, twelve policies, and eight
UPDATE 17: Team Trump needs to a) create an demographics — across the four levels of analysis
intelligence community that actually “does” intelligence (strategic, policy, operations, acquisition). They publish
(decision-support) useful to the President, the Cabinet, and “one size fits all” CRAP. This is very much a case of the
Congress; and b) shut John Bolton down — the man is a naked Emperor, Donald Trump is coming into this with his
war-mongering idiot. eyes wide open, not — as the liars would have him enter
— blindly trusting their baloney. There are very good
Intelligence for the President–and Everyone Else reasons why one of the seven recommendations to Donald
Trump focuses on counterintelligence. It’s time we clean
On Defense Intelligence: Seven Strikes house.

The National Military Strategy: Dishonest Platitudes Former CIA Spy Has A Christmas Message For Trump

Re-Inventing National Security — Grand Strategy, Global UPDATE 14: Cyrrilic keyboard? Used to CREATE the
Reality, and a Three-Million Soldier Home-Based Army malware that was then used by SOMEONE ELSE? Are
you kidding me? Here is a table showing Russian speakers
around the world including over a million in Israel and
It merits comment that if Trump does not embrace the first
879,434 in the USA — never mind all the digital on-screen
three recommendations in the below Christmas message —
keyboard simulators. And there is no connection between
but ideally all seven — he will continue to deal with a two-
creation, utilization, and leaking. Let me say it again:
party tyranny that hates him — the Republicans cannot be
everybody including the Israelis, Chinese, and NSA has
trusted. Trump needs to mobilize the totality of voters,
been spying on US political personalities and
bury the two-party tyranny, and create a Trump Channel
organizations. No one is speaking responsibly to the fact
that bypasses the fake news corrupt media entirely (it
that the Russians did not leak any of the emails — NSA
would be two-way with issue-based polling at the
employees and an insider leaked the emails from the DNC,
Congressional district level).
Podesta fell to a singleton hacker and gave up his
password, and the NYPD confiscated the Weiner laptop.
Former CIA Spy Has A Christmas Message For Trump There is no evidence the Russians altered any vote count
on any voting machine, while there is indisputable
UPDATE 16: As published in Russia, by the Russian evidence that Hillary Clinton tampered with electronic
International Affairs Council, and probably now read by voting machines so as to steal thirteen specific primaries
both Putin (Russian version) and Trump — but keep from Bernie Sanders. Why is it that the media is not
tweeting Trump, he’s still not reading my proposal for focusing on the FACT that NSA and CIA are spying on all
dismantling the US secret world, at Fixing Intelligence II.
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US politicians including both the existing President and UNHINGED Review of Rebuttal and Broken! 2.5
the incoming President-Elect? Why is no one focusing on
the decades of regime change operations and dirty tricks UNHINGED Drone Assassination 3.3
the CIA has been responsible for, Killing Hope over 200
times to the point that many worldwide call us the
UPDATE 12: Jeffrey Carr and Robert M. Lee trash DHS-
Assassination Nation? Bottom line: neither the US secret
FBI report, no evidence. Ambassador Chas Freeman
intelligence community nor the media can be trusted to tell
trashes DHS-FBI report.
the truth. They are best ignored. We need an Open Source
Agency and a Trump Channel.
UPDATE 11: White House fails to make case that Russian
hackers tampered with election and Was Claim by
Former NSA Officer William Binney: CIA Lying About
Department of Homeland Security and FBI About Russian
Russians Hacking DNC
Hacking Fake News?

No proof Russian hacking influenced U.S. election: Trump


UPDATE 10: See All “Russians Did Not Do It” at Phi
spokesman
Beta Iota — Bamford, Binney, Giraldi, McGovern,
Pieceznik, Steele
Obama ignores evidence Russia didn’t hack DNC, Podesta
UPDATE 9: As published in Defence and Intelligence
Tancredo: Biggest Fake News Story of the Year Is Russia Norway The Russians Did Not “Hack” the US Election – a
Hacking the 2016 Election Few Facts from a Former CIA Spy. See also Matt Taibbi
in Rolling Stone, Something About This Russia Story
UPDATE 13: How to Fake Evidence and Lie to a Stinks
President. I have faked evidence for the CIA. It’s very
simple. You create fake reports as if human and signals UPDATE 8: John Bolton is the Jim Woolsey of the
assets have reported something. You can also fabricate right…and Fox News is the Crap News Network of the
documents including alleged copies of top secret right. Bill Clinton was president is 1994 when Robert
messages. The person being lied to never talks to the Steele warned the White House and called for a billion
alleged human asset (CIA does not have any of them in dollars a year (today that would be ten billion dollars a
Moscow that have not been doubled) or hears the actual year) for cyber-security — but Dick Cheney, the de facto
conversation (which is too easy to fake if you want to do president following Bill Clinton, also chose to ignore the
that — replicating specific voices is child’s play). If you acute cyber-vulnerability of all systems across the USA.
are the Israelis, you plant broadcast units (for example, in We say again: there is ZERO evidence warranting a
Qadafi’s compound, or in Moscow) and broadcast real but singling out of the Russians. Trump should ask NSA how
actually fake signals knowing the Americans will pick it is doing on blocking the Chinese riding the electrical
them up. Or you insert fake signals into the NSA database circuits into NSA’s computers (this is the real reason NSA
— a piece of cake. Or you collaborate with paid traitors in has been frantically building its own power plants the last
any given European country (Germany, for example) who few years).
will pass on the fabricated intercepts as if they were real.
Rule 1 in Washington is “Lie to the President if you can UPDATE 7: [William Binney], Creator of NSA’s Global
get away with it.” I am not backing down on this one. Any
Surveillance System Calls B.S. On Russian Hacking
evidence Donald Trump is shown is going to be, in my
Report
view, faked evidence. The Russians did not hack the
election, the Russians did not leak the emails (whose
content is acknowledged by the originators to be real). As UPDATE 6: Jim Woolsey is dissembling — he’s the
with torture and drones, the secrecy mandarins are perfect guest for the Crap News Network (CNN). Wake up
doubling down on their lies. The below two documents are call? The Air War College produced superb papers in
being published in peer-reviewed journals this month and 1993-1994 very clearly identifying the cyber-
next. I accuse the “leaders” of the US intelligence vulnerabilities in finance, power, and communications.
community of being liars and being knowingly complicit Robert Steele did the letter to the White House in 1994 co-
in falsifying evidence in order to further the objectives of signed by Winn Schwartau, Bill Caelli, and NSA’s own
the military-industrial complex and the neo-Nazi cabal that senior cyber-security engineer Jim Anderson (anonymous
is allowed to live as a parasite within the US Deep State. at the time). We were IGNORED. The US Government
Bottom line: the US intelligence community can not be has been willfully irresponsible for a quarter century.
trusted to tell the truth to the President. Instead, they spy Combine that with the FACT that NSA and CIA spy on all
on the President and strive to blackmail US politicians as a our politicians to much greater effect than the Russian ever
matter of routine. The time has come to close them down. could, and you get a hypocrisy heart-attack.
They are what makes the Deep State possible — slam the
secret world into a small box and the Deep State dies. UPDATE 5: Robert is available for media interviews.
Contact. When Trump meets with the US IC leaders next
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week they will lie to him. In addition to Fixing Intelligence actively betray the public interest on behalf of foreign
II Trump should collaborate with Congress to do deep powers.
hearings on NSA and CIA spying on US politicians, and
on Israeli and Saudi penetrations of NSA and CIA as well Israel and Saudi Arabia, not Russia, are
as the FBI and DHS. The SASC not the SSCI should do the most culpable sponsors of treason
the cyber-security hearings and at the same time, integrate within the US Government. NSA and CIA
an examination of the degree to which the FBI has been are the absolute top culprits responsible
prevented from going after 500 traitors — including for spying on — and blackmailing — US
politicians who are subject to blackmail — who undermine politicians including President Barack
our national security as well as our national economy. Obama who has been under constant
electronic surveillance since he was a
UPDATE 4: Note to Trump: US intelligence “leaders” junior Senator. NSA and CIA — and
know nothing about computers — they are being fed — as through NSA the Israelis and through
you are — falsified information from controlled CIA the Saudis — have every intimate
intermediaries. The sources are not there and neither is the moment Barack Obama has ever had,
analysis. Yes, Russia snooped. No, Russia did not leak. on tape and ready for release. Similarly,
Mike Huckabee touches on one big factor: why are we still many Senators and Congressman are
vulnerable? Because NSA refused to secure US C4I. No “on tape” and being “handled” by the
one is asking the other big question: why are NSA and Deep State.
CIA still spying on you — and all other US politicians —
with impunity? Below are a few facts and links that give the lie to the
Clinton-Brennan-Obama narrative.
UPDATE 3: What’s new and cool? Trump & Putin
showing restraint while both they and the public Were I not so committed to Truth & Reconciliation and
understand the US secret world and the US media lie for a moving on, I would call for the impeachment of Barack
living. This may be the first World War stopped in its Obama, John Kerry, Jim Clapper, and John Brennan
tracks by public intelligence. specifically, for high crimes and misdemeanors in
fomenting war with Russia on the basis of lies. I am
UPDATE 2: Original 1994 warning letter to USG that was reminded of Dick Cheney’s 935 now-documented lies that
ignored; Mark Bowden on 1st Digital World War — US led us to multiple elective wars and occupations in which
lost because USG is incompetent at everything cyber — Saudi Arabia funded our traitors and the tax-payer paid $5
willfully so. trillion to create a swath of destruction from Afghanistan
to Niger.
UPDATE 1: John McAfee: ‘I Can Guarantee You, It Was
Not the Russians’ I must emphasize, the Deep State
“owns” both the Republican and
The neo-fascist, neo-conservative coup against Donald Democratic leaderships — there is no
Trump, the accidental president, continues. General difference between the two parties, both
Wesley Clark clearly articulated the success of the first must be “put down” along with the 500
coup. Others have articulated how the Deep State controls or so bureaucrats and burrowed-in
not just the US Government, but the North Atlantic Treaty traitors that the FBI has not been
Organization (NATO), the parent of Gladio false flag allowed to go after, not least because
terrorism (which just assassinated the NATO Chief the FBI is itself compromised.
Auditor and probably the Russian Ambassador in Turkey
as well), and Germany, where Angela Merkel is planning a Here is the DHS-FBI report: DHS-FBI Crap Report on
European army and a European war against Russia rooted Russian Cyber
in illegal immigration she has encouraged and false flag
attacks in which she is complicit. FACT: In no way does this unprofessional
“high school level” report demonstrate that
Vladimir Putin is to be saluted for not expelling US the Russians “hacked” anything, least of all
officers — most known to Russia, CIA’s dirty little secret the DNC (that was NSA hacking-leaking
is that it does not have a deep bench and will lie to the and insider leaking) and Podesta (that was
President about this — when Donald Trump takes power, a singleton phishing expedition by
among his priorities must be the cleansing of the FBI someone who does not speak Russian, we
(cleaning out the pedophile, Zionist, Opus Dei, and Wall know this from their Yandex account set-
Street “protectors”) rapidly followed by a tripling of the up). As I note in the below proposed press
FBI budget and a redirection on the 500 traitors who release delivered to Jim Clapper via email
— his last opportunity to grasp what little is

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left of his integrity — there is a difference FACT: The Russians have certainly done
between hacking, leaking, and their share of cyber-snooping but in no way
manipulating. My summary for Jim Clapper does this translate into “hacking” the US
is still the best summary of what actually election — Clinton did the voting machines
happened, the other three links are the until DHS and others closed down that
best technical denunciation of the lies from options, one reason Donald Trump won
DHS-CIA-FBI, my own early summary with “accidentally,” and the Israelis did vastly
structured links, and a final link to all posts more than the Russians in their campaign
at this blog focused on the false narrative of cyber snooping, Google search
against the Russians. manipulation, Facebook censorship, and
fake news including very active slander
James Clapper: John Brennan is Fired, the CIA Report is against Donald Trump. The Israeli — and
Rescinded, the Russians Did Not “Hack” the Election Saudi — and German — day of reckoning
is coming. I pray that is rooted in Truth &
Berto Jongman: James Scott, Institute for Critical Reconciliation — my version is “everyone
gets the truth, no one goes to jail.” From an
Infrastructure Technology on John Brennan and CIA
objective point of view, there is no
Being Full of Crap…
comparison between Russian (or Chinese,
French, and German) cyber-snooping
Robert Steele: Intelligence Lies — Russians Did Not Hack against the USA — at the high-school level
Emails and Russians Did Not Hack Voting Machines — — and Israeli cyber-control. The Israelis
Media is Complicit in Massive Propaganda by “own” not just NSA, but DHS and most law
Government Against Public UPDATE 1 enforcement communications and
computing networks across the USA.
Russians (Search Results) @ Phi Beta Iota
FACT: NSA and CIA spy on US politicians Graphic: How Hillary Clinton Stole the Democratic
to a degree that no foreign service could Nomination from Bernie Sanders — and Did Not Legally
ever match. They do this with impunity. No Win the Popular Vote
one seems to have the balls to make this
an issue. This is the story of our time, along Mongoose: Hillary Clinton Electoral Fraud Confirmed by
with the pathological ineptitude of the US Stanford University — Bernie Sanders Won…
secret intelligence world, that collects
everything digital, ignores everything FadedRose: Uncounted Votes – How Clinton Stole
known by humans that is not digital, and California with the Active Complicity of Bernie Sanders?
consequently knows nothing of value to the
President, the Cabinet, Congress, or our
Worth a Look: Black Box Voting — Ballot Tampering in
military commanders — one them, Tony
the 21st Century
Zinni, is on record as saying he received,
“at best” 4% of what he needed to know
from US secret sources and methods. 4th Media: Wayne Madsen – US Counterintelligence
Locked Down to Protect Zionist Penetrations?
Robert Steele: Is Blaming the Russians a Desperate
Attempt to Cover Up US Intelligence Community Routine Berto Jongman: Zionist Mole in White House, Lewinsky
Spying on US Politicians Including the President? Audio Tapes by Mossad Used to Blackmail Clinton –Tie
in USS Liberty, Zionist Role in JFK, Saudis on 9/11
Robert Steele: Fake News as Treason — An Indictment of
CIA, NSA & Everyone Else…Russians Did Not Hack CounterPunch: An End to AIPAC, An End to Zionist
Election, This is a Coup in Progress… Subversion of US Government and US Policy?

Graphic: Tony Zinni on 4% “At Best” Gareth Porter: Obama’s False Narrative on Iran —
Zionists — and Sunni Dictators “Own” the White House
and the Black House
Tony Zinni: Background & Confirmation of the 4% “At
Best” Quote on Secret versus Open Sources
Jim Dean: Zionist Penetration of US Academia — Boycott
by ASA, Counter-Attack, Need for Religious
Intelligence for the President–and Everyone Else
Counterintelligence Most Urgent
On Defense Intelligence: Seven Strikes

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Owl: Saudi Terrorists and Zionist Terrorists — From Same Review: Gold Warriors–America’s Secret Recovery of
Jewish Roots? Yamashita’s Gold
Berto Jongman: Gold War – China Takes Philippines
Penguin: NSA = Zionists Ubber Alles Review (Guest): The Devil’s Chessboard – Allen Dulles,
the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
Review (Guest): The American Deep State – Wall Street,
Penguin: It’s Official – NSA Puts Zionist Israel Ahead of
Big Oil, and the Attack on US Democracy
USA, Compromises Official US Government
Communications in Favor of Zion Review (Guest): Pay Any Price – Greed, Power, and
Endless War
Fletcher Prouty: How CIA Really Works
Jon Rappoport: NSA as Front for Two Israeli Companies, Fletcher Prouty: The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies
Narus and Verint, Specializing in Mass Surveillance & in Control of the United States and the World
Getting Zionist Copy of Everything Danny Sheehan with Gary Null: Four Interviews – New
Reflections on The Deep State, Money, Nazis, and Murder
Review: Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy–The Life and Mike Lofgren: Anatomy of the Deep State
Murder of a Media Mogul Mike Lofgren: Inside the US Deep State — How Elites
Control Politicians and Bureaucrats — Openly
FACT: The US secret intelligence world is Mike Lofgren: War as a Business Model
the foundation for the Deep State that Robert Steele: The Two-Party Tyranny and Faux
rescued fascism after WWII — not only Intelligence as Enablers of the Deep State
exfiltrating the top Nazis and their treasures Yoda: Deep State – Satanic State – Pedophilia State
but then turning around and using the FACT: 80-90% of what we need to know in
Black Lily Fund (the gold captured in the the way of intelligence (decision-support)
Philippines, China is about to get the other can and should be derived from open
150 stashes, we only got 25) to restore source and methods. The secret world calls
fascist politicians in Germany, Italy, and Open Source Intelligence (and me, its
Japan, while funding dictators across Africa founder) “open sores.” They are absolutely
and Asia — e.g. Indonesia — willing to pay terrified that President-Elect Trump will
lip service to anti-communism. The secret focus on the one thing that Jim Woolsey
world — largely the rogue elements of the and I agree on: 75% of the secret world is
CIA and FBI — is also the facilitator for worthless, it’s budget could and should be
Deep State movement of drugs, guns, cut to $25B (Woolsey’s number) to $30B
cash, and children — the latter into (my number). An Open Source Agency
pedophilia/snuff pipelines — using (OSA) at $3B a year will not only provide
conscripted military assets on a “no the President and the Cabinet with what
questions asked basis.” The degree of they need to know across 150 topics now
depravity within the rogue elements of the ignored by the secret world, but will do so
US secret world cannot be over-stated. in tailored support to strategy, policy,
Combined with torture and drone operations, and acquisition, distinctions not
assassination, the latter with a 98% understood by the existing “one size fits” all
collateral damage or death of innocents secret intelligence world. Intelligence
rate, as well as the “gold war” against reform can be job and revenue neutral
Russia managed by CIA from 1998 to 2001 across all political boundaries; it merits
and now by George Soros and the comment that migrating from an over-
Rothschilds, and there is every reason for emphasis on technical collection that is not
President-Elect Trump to consider a deep processed to a global open source and
deep cleansing of the US secret world with overt human collection emphasis where
what we in the Latino world call “con processing is multinational and multilingual,
significancia” — with significance. It will will create thousands of jobs for normal
hurt. Leaving this cesspool of depraved people — the only losers will be the
amoral assholes intact will hurt more. beltway bandits over-charging by 50%.
Donald Trump’s toughest opponents will be
the Republican Party leadership — they
Reflections: Philosophy of Intelligence
are heavily invested in war as a business
model, they are “controlled” by the Deep
State, and they are delusional in not 2017 Robert Steele: OSINT Done Right
understanding that the next big leak is Robert Steele: Open Source (Technologies) Agency
going to bury them by name. Former CIA Spy Has A Christmas Message For Trump
Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part I – An
American Grand Strategy
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Fixing Intelligence II: Seven Precepts (PORTAL) be relied upon to tell the truth because no
one has been holding them accountable for
FACT: The era of secrecy enabling the few
telling the truth. Donald Trump may not rise
to profit from war and waste is over. The
to the occasion, but Mike Flynn, his
Internet is in its infancy — Facebook,
National Security Advisor, is acutely aware
Google, Twitter, YouTube are all censoring
of the mediocrity of both secret intelligence
alternative views while the mainstream
and the media as now owned by Wall
media continues to pump out “fake news”
Street, and also acutely aware that a
— what Noam Chomsky and Edward
Trump Channel and an Open Source
Herman so famously called “manfacturing
consent,” our schools are “weapons of Agency could change everything for the
better. The revolution has begin. I pray it is
mass instruction,” but the tide has turned.
non-violent.
Unlike WWI and WWII, both wars started
by bankers who funded both sides of each
war and used lies to turn incidents into war, Robert Steele: Throw Press Out of White House — Create
the public is smarter now. The public now the Presidential Grand Strategy, Public Communications,
understands that CIA, the NYT, and CNN & Open Source Intelligence Center (Trump Channel)
— and the others — are all crap — sock UPDATE 1: Schumer Channel Created!
puppets with zero integrity — they cannot
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2016: The Year Washington Lost Its Mind
John Wight
Published Time: 31 Dec, 2016 11:03

was thwarted in Syria, though not without huge cost and


suffering. It is a seminal defeat marked by the liberation of
Aleppo, which was followed by trilateral talks between
Iran, Russia, and Turkey with the objective of bringing the
conflict to an end.

The exclusion of the US and European powers from these


talks was hugely significant, evidence that solutions to
crises created by Western hegemonic policies are
increasingly to be found in the East rather than the West.

Protesters wearing masks of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton The election in November of Donald Trump as the 45th
and Donald Trump © Dominick Reuter / Reuters President of the United States, following in the wake of
Seismic is the only word to describe 2016, especially when Brexit, confounded a Washington political and media
describing the US-Russia relationship. establishment that had grown complacent over the years in
a bubble of self-aggrandizement in which they had become
Paraphrasing Gramsci, it was a year in which we witnessed detached from reality.
the dying of the old world and the birth of the new. By no
means, however, has the birth been painless. And nor is it Indeed, their inability to come to terms with the shock was
complete. such that rather than look to their own failures, they sought
to scapegoat Russia as the primary cause. Never mind the
Western hegemony – geopolitical, military, cultural, and millions of Americans who opted to vote for a maverick
economic – has never been so fiercely contested as it was billionaire businessman rather than a machine politician
in 2016. Surveying a year in which anti-Russian hysteria whose record has been a monument to mendacity. No,
became the new normal in Washington, London, and Paris, Trump’s election had nothing to do with them. It was all
not to mention across Eastern Europe on the part of Russia’s doing.
governments for whom Russophobia was deployed as a
convenient scapegoat to deflect from their own political In what can only be described as an insult to those voters
and economic shortcomings, we are reminded no empire and their democratic rights, no sooner had the election
ever forgives its defeats. result been announced than the forces of hell were
unleashed against Moscow, accused of hacking the DNC
If this past year was anything it was the year in which the and passing the results on to Wikileaks, whose release of
final nail was hammered into the coffin of neo- the so-called ‘Podesta emails’ provided not only the
conservatism and its masters of the universe conceit. It saw American public but also the entire world with an insight
humanity travel full circle from the starting point of the into the inner workings of what passes for democracy in
boast by US academic, Francis Fukuyama, that the demise Washington.
of the Soviet Union heralded the End of History, wherein
Western liberal democracy had triumphed and would now Just think about this for a moment. Russia, according to
reign supreme forevermore. the DNC, Clinton’s supporters, the CIA, and many more
besides, effectively forced millions of Americans to walk
Those who allowed themselves to luxuriate in this conceit into a voting booth and vote for a candidate whose
have just lived through a year of unparalleled agony and suitability for office was considered so outlandish that he
anguish, defined by the collapse of this liberal order under was ridiculed throughout both the Republican primary
the weight of the misery and despair it succeeded in process and ensuing presidential election campaign
sowing over the past decade and more at home and across thereafter.
the world.
Such a rendering is so desperate and deluded it could only
For the first time since 9/11 - when war without end was gain traction in a period of huge and momentous
declared by Western hawks in the cause not of security, transformation, such as took place over 2016, involving
democracy or human rights, but instead domination, the decline of what is and the rise of what will be. Over the
hegemony, and unipolarity - their project of regime change
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past year the resulting flux and discord succeeded in purple cloak – were sent to Constantinople, the seat of
turning rational human beings into irrational and paranoid power of the eastern half of the empire, to bring the curtain
wrecks, the very people who found themselves being down on its 1000-year history. It was proof that no empire,
swept away in the currents of historical change. regardless of its economic and military power, lasts
forever.
It was a year in which we witnessed countries responsible
for the destruction of entire countries lecturing the world Rome fell for the same reason that all empires fall over
on the meaning of democracy and human rights. Russian time – greed: greed for wealth, for power, and for
President, Vladimir Putin, was depicted as an amalgam of domination. Our time is no different. The economic crash
every James Bond movie villain this decades-long movie of 2008 was the result of greed in Wall Street and the City
franchise has unleashed. Meanwhile, rather than the largest of London, the twin engines of Western economic growth
and most populous country in Europe, with a history as and hegemony over so many decades. Allied to the
rich in culture and civilization as any on the planet, Russia triumphalism with which the demise of the Soviet Union
was reduced to a vast criminal enterprise as part of the was met in Washington and across the West in the early
same exercise in demonization. 1990s, the result was overreach.

Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always In 2016, we witnessed the culmination of what has been a
knew he was very smart! slow but inexorable decline in the West – a political order
with no answers to the crises that they in their ideological
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 30 fixation with domination and hegemony have caused.
декабря 2016 г. Blaming others rather than look in the mirror and accept
responsibility was their only answer.
It is recorded that in 476CE what was then known as the
Western Roman Empire came to an end, after a century of As the Roman philosopher Seneca reminds us, “For greed
successive ‘barbarian’ invasions finally succeeded in all nature is too little.”
bringing it to its knees. The symbols of Rome’s power – in
the form of the emperor’s imperial vestments, diadem, and Western ideologues take note.
.

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Fake News: CNN Lied About
Russian Retaliation Against American Children
© Flickr/ Ayush US 03:14 31.12.2016(Updated 10:46 31.12.2016)

The lie was rapidly debunked by a Russian Foreign


Ministry spokeswoman.

“US officials ‘anonymously informed’ their media that


Russia closed the Anglo-American School in Moscow as a
retaliatory measure,” Russian Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote of CNN’s claims on
her Facebook page. “That’s a lie. Apparently, the White
House has completely lost its senses and began inventing
sanctions against its own children.”

Zakharova accused CNN of spreading “false information


As mainstream media continues to push a narrative of citing official American sources.”
problematic “fake news,” on Thursday evening CNN
falsely accused Russia of retaliating against American On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to
children by closing the Anglo-American School of the new sanctions by “embarrassing” US President Barack
Moscow. Obama and brushing it off, stating that he will wait until
President-elect Donald Trump takes office to improve
Shortly after the announcement of new US sanctions relations between the two countries. Putin also wished
against Russia, CNN claimed that an unnamed US official Obama a happy new year, and invited US diplomats
who was “briefed on the matter” had reported to them that children to the New Year and Christmas children's parties
Moscow was closing the school. at the Kremlin.

“Russian authorities ordered the closure of the Anglo- CNN has not retracted their fake-news story or
American School of Moscow, a US official briefed on the acknowledged the error.
matter said. The order from the Russian government closes
the school, which serves children of US, British and
Canadian embassy personnel, to US and foreign
nationals,” reported CNN.

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In France, Even Le Fig Gets It:
"Putin Makes A Mockery Of Obama's Sanctions"
- Le Figaro, Translated By Tom Winter
December 31, 2016

the Russian embassy in London used a very undiplomatic


tone in a tweet graphically depicting Obama as a "lame
duck":

"Everyone, including the American people, is delighted to


see in this the last act of that hapless Administration."

What a slap for Obama! It is a maneuver that


is both clever, noble and powerful. A
Christmas miracle! No one had so humiliated
Obama.
Putin mocks Obama's sanctions.

The Russian president has refused to apply the usual


reciprocity and to expel American diplomats in return. On
the contrary, he invited their children to the Noël in the
Kremlin.

Vladimir Putin, a fan of "asymmetrical" answers, on


Friday rejected his Foreign Minister's proposal to apply the
usual reciprocity for the expulsion of diplomats. Mingling
the serious with the derisive, the Russian president
described the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats as
"Anti-Russian Agony"
"another unfriendly gesture of the outgoing
American administration" and a "provocation to Usually one of the most moderate of his administration,
further destabilize Russian-American relations." Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev described the new
sanctions as "anti-Russian agony" on his Twitter account.
Further on, he adds, contemptuously refusing to "It is sad to see that the Obama Administration, which
started its existence by restoring co-operation, ends it in an
"go down to the level of kitchens", he would
anti-Russian agony. RIP (rest in peace)."
prefer "to orient (his) policy on that of the future
Administration of Donald Trump." Any eventual In a frankly venomous tone, Foreign Ministry
retaliatory measures are postponed. Vladimir spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused American
Putin chooses to remain in the living room of the officials of having spread a hoax in which Moscow wanted
Kremlin, where, magnanimous, he invites "all the to close the Anglo-American school in Moscow by
children of the American diplomats accredited in retaliation.
Russia around the Christmas tree."
"It's a lie," she writes on her Facebook page. The
Not wanting to pass for the Moscow ogre, Vladimir Putin White House has lost its head and has started
leaves it to his lieutenants to answer "at the level of the imagining sanctions against their own children."
kitchens." As of Thursday evening, the official account of
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The latter seem to play a central role in Russian-American not be displeasing to the Kremlin, according to
relations since Moscow banned American parents from another political scientist, Mikhail Vinogradov:
adopting Russian orphans in 2012. It was the point of a
virulent anti-American campaign in the official Russian "2016 was a very successful year for Russian
media. diplomacy. The main objective has been
achieved: to spike the agenda of the Americans."
"An adroit maneuver, noble and powerful"
"Putin confirms that he is a capable politician,
The election of Donald Trump changed the situation. The perhaps the most capable in the world," Sergei
criticism is about Barack Obama and his team, but Markov enthuses dithyrambically. For this
everything is done to welcome his successor smoothly. international relations expert who faithfully
The spokesman of the Kremlin denounced to the Tass espouses the official line, the presidential
agency an American domestic intrigue in which decision not to expel American diplomats and not
to take away their dacha but instead to invite
Barack Obama is trying to "force the future their children to the Kremlin "will make headlines
Administration and the elected president to in the international media. What a slap for
adopt a model of behavior" and "deprive him Obama! It is a maneuver that is both clever,
of any decision-making capacity." noble and powerful. A Christmas miracle! No one
had so humiliated Obama. To respond to evil by
But things will not stop there, predicts political scientist goodness is the Christian spirit, the spirit of
Gleb Pavlovsky: Christmas."
"Before February, Obama will even unscrew the US diplomats can be sure that their children will receive
lightbulbs at the White House and put a dead rat the utmost attention from Russian television channels if
under the Trump bathtub." These scandals would they accept the invitation of Vladimir Putin.

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McCain Says Russian
Cyber Attacks Against US An 'Act Of War'
Sat Dec 31, 2016 10:34AM

"When you attack a country, it's an act of war,"


McCain said of the recent hackings on Ukrainian
TV while on a visit to Kiev.
"And so we have to make sure that there is a
price to pay so that we can perhaps persuade
Russians to stop this kind of attacks on our very
fundamentals of democracy," he said.

McCain and other top congressional leaders have pledged


to press legislation next year on sanctions against Russia in
addition to those announced by President Barack Obama
US Republican Senator John McCain delivers a message to the media
at the Benjamin Franklin library at the US Embassy in Mexico City
this week. The senator has criticized the recent sanctions
on December 20, 2016. (Photo by AFP) as insufficient and overdue.
Senior US Senator and former presidential
candidate John McCain says Russia's alleged However, incoming President Donald Trump has
cyber attacks against political organizations repeatedly questioned the accuracy of US intelligence
to influence the 2016 presidential election pointing to Russia’s responsibility for the hacks and has
amounted to an "act of war." said it was time to "move on."

McCain, a Republican from Arizona, has scheduled a The US claim has been rejected by Moscow. Julian
hearing for next week on foreign cyber attacks targeting Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, which published the
the US, which will also focus on Russian hacking. stolen emails, has denied that the Russian government
provided the files.
He has invited Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper, Director of the National Security Agency Mike Obama took unprecedented steps Thursday to retaliate
Rogers and Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence against alleged Russian interference in this year’s
Marcel Lettre, to next week's hearing presidential election, including expelling 35 Russian
diplomats from the US.
McCain, who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services
Committee, is one of Washington's most well-known
foreign policy hawks.

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'Holds No Water':
How Obama Invented 'Russian Hackers'
© REUTERS/ Jonathan Ernst US 12:02 31.12.2016(updated 12:24 31.12.2016)

then leaked them to the whistleblowing anti-secrecy


website WikiLeaks.

Top Democratic Party officials were quick to point a finger


at imaginary “Russian hackers” without producing any
shreds of evidence that such attacks really happened.

Immediately after the first batch of leaked documents went


public, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
released a statement claiming that the “disclosures of
alleged hacked e-mails <…> are consistent with the
methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts.”
On December 29, the United States announced a series of
measures against several Russian organizations and “Such activity is not new to Moscow — the
individuals in retaliation for Moscow’s alleged hacking Russians have used similar tactics and
into US political institutions. Washington also expelled 35 techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for
Russian diplomats and their families (about 100 people in example, to influence public opinion there. We
all) and is closing down two Russian-owned compounds in believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of
the US. these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most
officials could have authorized these activities,”
Even though the expulsion of the country’s diplomats and the statement said.
closure of its diplomatic missions traditionally entails a tit-
for-tat response, President Putin said on Friday that Russia It added, however, that even though “some states have also
will not expel US diplomats in response to Washington’s recently seen scanning and probing of their election-related
unfriendly move. systems, which in most cases originated from servers
operated by a Russian company, [DHS] is not now in a
"We will not create problems for American diplomats. We will not position to attribute this activity to the Russian
expel anyone," Putin said. “Furthermore, I invite all children of US Government.”
diplomats accredited in Russia to the Christmas and New Year
tree in the Kremlin.” Finally, just three weeks before he leaves office, President
Obama had his revenge.
He added that Russia’s further steps in restoring ties with
the United States will depend on the policy of President- Simultaneously with his decision to slap Russia with new
elect Donald Trump. sanctions and expel its diplomats, the FBI released the
results of its joint probe with the DHS, the CIA and other
Promised revenge intelligence agencies that were expected to produce
irrefutable proof of Russia’s wrongdoing and justify
Earlier this month President Barack Obama warned that Obama’s new sanctions against Moscow.
the US would “take action” against Russia for alleged
cyberattacks on Democratic Party officials who claimed Presentation
that outside meddling prevented Democratic candidate
Hillary Clinton from winning the presidency. According to the report two different Russian intelligence
groups participated in the intrusion into an unnamed US
Russia has flatly denied all accusations that it organized political party.
the hacking of email accounts of Democratic Party
officials and Clinton's campaign chief, John Podesta, and The first actor group, known as Advanced Persistent
Threat (APT) 29, entered into the party’s systems in

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Summer 2015, while the second, known as APT28, entered or deny this. But each report or analytical memo
in Spring 2016. is written for a reason. In this case the reason is
to prove Russia’s alleged influence on the US
In the summer of 2015 hackers allegedly working for presidential elections even though this whole
Russia’s civilian intelligence service sent e-mails with thing simply holds no water,” Alexei Smolin, a
hidden malware to more than 1,000 people working for the professor at the Moscow Humanitarian University
US government and political groups in a far-reaching told Sputnik.
operation to interfere with this year’s presidential election.
“Angry and ignorant losers”
The report also mentions an alphabetical list of 48 nicks of
presumed hackers and hacker groups: APT28, APT29, Maria Zakharova, a Russian foreign ministry
Agent.btz, BlackEnergy V3, BlackEnergy2 APT, spokeswoman, took to Facebook to call the outgoing
CakeDuke, etc. Obama administration "a group of foreign policy losers,
angry and ignorant.""
One of these hacker groups calls itself Tsar Team and it
looks like the Russian world “Tsar” (King) is seen as the In a scathing comment, Zakharova wrote that the outgoing
only “proof” of Russia’s alleged involvement in these president did not manage to leave any major foreign policy
cyber-attacks one can possibly find in the 13-page report. achievements as part of his legacy and instead of “putting
an elegant period” to his two presidential terms has “made
The “evidence” in the report, where Russian cyber activity a huge blot” with his decision to expel 35 Russian
is referred to as Grizzly Steppe, falls short of anything that diplomats and close two diplomatic compounds in the US.
would directly tie Russian intelligence services to any plan
meant to influence the outcome of US elections. Washington has also accused Moscow of harassing and
intimidating US diplomats and organizations working in
In an interview with Sputnik, Vice President of the Moscow.
International Association of Russian-Speaking Lawyers
Mikhail Ioffe said that even if the members of this group The list of Russian citizens targeted by the US sanctions
of hackers are Russian citizens it doesn’t mean a thing. includes the head of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate
(GRU), three of his top assistants and two Russian
“This group may include people from different countries nationals wanted in the US for using cyber-enabled means
who have a shared agenda, or they may be Russians all, to allegedly cause misappropriation of funds and personal
but this is not enough reason for introducing sanctions and identifying information.
expelling diplomats,” Ioffe said.
The US has also introduced sanctions against four other
“This is all lies and fairytales. Tracing hackers in Russian organizations, including the GRU, the Federal
today’s world is a mission impossible. You can Security Service (FSB) and three companies charged for
say they are from Africa, Australia or the allegedly assisting in cyber-attacks against US political
Antarctic and no one will be able to either confirm parties and organizations.

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FBI-DHS Report On Alleged Russian Hacking Does Not
Even Claim To Be Accurate
© AFP 2016/ Mandel Ngan Military & Intelligence 04:41 31.12.201

The report fails to note National Security Agency (NSA)


whistleblowers have said the NSA already possess full and
decisive documentation that would clearly prove the
embarrassing leaks alleged to have bene provided by the
Russians really came from sources within the Democratic
Party, Freeman added.

"It doesn’t address the fact that top NSA


whistleblowers say that the NSA possesses
records showing exactly how the emails went
The joint report by the Federal Bureau of
from the Democratic Party to WikiLeaks as it
Investigation (FBI) and Department of
tracks all electronic communications in the
Homeland Security (DHS) issued on Thursday
United States,"
to support accusations of cyberattacks by
Russia against the United States lacks any Freeman stated.
serious substance and does not even claim
to be accurate, former US Ambassador to Senior former NSA and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Saudi Arabia Chas Freeman told Sputnik. officials have even supported WikiLeaks head Julian
Assange’s insistence that the key embarrassing documents
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The report contains a to Hillary Clinton’s election campaign came from within
disclaimer and states it is being presented "as is," adding her own party, Freeman added.
the DHS does not provide warranties of any kind about the
information presented in it. The FBI-DHS report "doesn’t address the fact
that top former NSA and CIA officials (and
"It doesn’t claim that it’s accurate," Freeman stated. "It WikiLeaks) claim that these were not hacks at all
doesn’t mention WikiLeaks … not even once. In other but rather leaks by American insiders," he
words, the report does not allege that the Russians gave pointed out.
any Democratic Party or [Democratic National Committee
chairman Leon] Podesta emails to WikiLeaks." Freeman also noted the report was extremely short and
superficial.
Freeman also identified what he called "weasel words" in
the report, by which he meant qualifying terms to cover the "It is only five-and-a-half pages long with another
fact that the authors of the report knew they were making seven pages for future security
allegations that could not be supported by hard evidence or recommendations… It’s important to note what
proof. the report does not say. The report really doesn’t
say much of anything," he concluded.
"The report starts with a disclaimer, and uses weasel words
like ‘as is,’ and ‘does not provide any warranties of any On Thursday, the Obama administration also announced
kind regarding any information’." the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats and new sanctions
against six Russian individuals and five entities over
These are terms that someone who is selling something Moscow's alleged interference in the November
that is useless uses when he does not want to talk about the presidential election and harassment of US diplomats in
fact the blasted thing will not work. Russia.
Such terms were commonly used in reports of dubious Russian officials have repeatedly denied the US
credibility to protect their authors from being sued in allegations, characterizing them as absurd and laughable
courts of law for intentional misrepresentation or willful nonsense.
concealment, Freeman explained.
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The corporate mainstream media outfit New York Times in directly tie senior officers of either Russian civilian or
a report on Thursday also acknowledged that the alleged military intelligence to any plan to influence the November
evidence in the report fell short of anything that would 8 US election.

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Obama Failed To Prove Alleged Russian
Cyberattacks Impacted US Election
© AP Photo/ Andrew Harnik US 03:48 31.12.2016

"But he didn’t. Nobody’s been able to prove


anything like that."

On Thursday, the Obama administration ordered the


expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats, the closure of two
Russian diplomatic compounds and new sanctions against
six Russian individuals and five entities over Moscow's
alleged interference in the 2016 election.

However, Huckabee pointed out that Americans should


know the US intelligence community was doing
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee stated that the Obama everything it could to "try to tap into every foreign
administration has not been able to provide real evidence that
Russian President Vladimir Putin affected the results of the 2016 US
government's" cyber space.
presidential election.
On Friday, Putin said Obama’s punitive measures were
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The Obama administration provocations aimed at further undermining US-Russian
has not been able to provide real evidence that Russian relations.
President Vladimir Putin affected the results of the 2016
US presidential election, former Arkansas Governor Mike Putin later announced his decision not to expel US
Huckabee stated in an interview. diplomats from Russia. US President-elect Donald Trump
in a Twitter message praised Putin’s call as a "great
"They still try to put forward this narrative that move."
somehow Putin affected the outcome of this
election," Huckabee told FOX News on Friday.

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Experts Destroy White House
‘Proof’ Of Russian Hacking
© AFP 2016/ NICHOLAS KAMM US 23:59 30.12.2016(Updated 03:17 31.12.2016)

domestic political operation run by the White House that


relied heavily on questionable intelligence generated by a
for-profit cybersecurity firm with a vested interest in
selling ‘attribution-as-a-service,’” Carr stated.

Likewise, Robert M. Lee, a National


Cybersecurity Fellow at New America and
CEO and founder of cybersecurity
company Dragos, published a thorough
critique of the JAR, saying it “reads like a
poorly done vendor intelligence report
On Thursday, as part of the White House response to stringing together various aspects of
alleged Russian hacking, the FBI and DHS released a Joint attribution without evidence.”
Analysis Report (JAR) called “Grizzly Steppe.” While this
report was meant to prove, or at least provide evidence, — Robert M. Lee (@RobertMLee)
that the Russian government was involved in hacks of the December 29, 2016
Democratic Party, experts have stated that it “adds
nothing.” “The list of reported RIS [Russian
intelligence services] names includes
Jeffrey Carr, a cybersecurity consultant, author, and relevant and specific names such as
founder of the Suits and Spooks conference, wrote in an campaign names, more general and often
analysis that the report merely lists every threat group ever unrelated malware family names, and
reported on by a commercial cybersecurity company extremely broad and non-descriptive
suspected of having ties to Russia, labeling them “Russian classification of capabilities,” Lee wrote. “It
Intelligence Services,” without evidence that any such was a mixing of data types that didn’t meet
connection exists. any objective in the report and only added
confusion as to whether the DHS/FBI
“Unlike Crowdstrike, ESET doesn’t assign APT28/Fancy knows what they are doing or if they are
Bear/Sednit to a Russian Intelligence Service or anyone instead just telling teams in the government
else for a very simple reason. Once malware is deployed, it ‘contribute anything you have that has
is no longer under the control of the hacker who deployed been affiliated with Russian activity.’”
it or the developer who created it,”
Lee explained that it is extremely difficult to identify
whether data was sourced from the private sector or from
Carr wrote, adding, “It can be reverse-engineered, copied,
declassified government data.
modified, shared and redeployed again and again by
anyone. In other words — malware deployed is malware “It is useful to know what is government data from
enjoyed!” Carr added that if the White House had previously classified sources and what is data from the
unclassified evidence tying Russia to the DNC hack, the private sector and more importantly who in the private
evidence would have been made public by now. Since they sector. Organizations will have different trust or
have not made evidence public, he, like many other confidence levels of the different types of data and where
members of the intelligence community, believes that it is it came from,” Lee said. “Unfortunately, this is entirely
either classified or it simply does not exist. “If it’s missing. The report does not source its data at all. It’s a
classified, an independent commission should review it random collection of information and in that way, is
because this entire assignment of blame against the mostly useless.”
Russian government is looking more and more like a

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Lee, in his critique, detailed that it is important for descriptive of the RIS threats mentioned and with no
government reports to detail where data came from, and to linking to what activity would help with what aspect of the
separate private-sector information from their own data, technical data covered. It simply serves as an
which is seen to have a higher confidence level. Further, advertisement of documents and programs the DHS is
Lee stated that some of the samples were already known to trying to support. One recommendation for Whitelisting
the public, so if they were classified, “it is a perfect Applications might as well read ‘whitelisting is good
example of over classification by government mm’kay?’”
bureaucracy.” — Robert M. Lee (@RobertMLee)
December 29, 2016 Lee summed up that JAR appears to be very rushed, and
put together by multiple teams working with different data
“The DHS/FBI GRIZZLY STEPPE report does not meet sets and motivations, resulting in a very confusing non-
its stated intent of helping network defenders and instead explanation that tried to cover too much, while saying too
choose to focus on a confusing assortment of attribution, little.
non-descriptive indicators, and re-hashed tradecraft,” Lee
said. “Additionally, the bulk of the report (8 of the 13
pages) is general high level recommendations not
.

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WaPo Bashes Trump On Russia
By Stephen Lendman
12-31-2016

The neocon/CIA-connected Washington Post is frantic


over Trump wanting normalized relations with Russia, Fact: Trump wanting better relations with Russia should be
including cooperating with Putin in combating terrorism. universally praised, not denounced - perhaps the only way
to avoid confrontation between the world’s dominant
Its editors blasted him for saying nuclear powers.

“it’s time for our country to move on to bigger and Fact: WaPo and likeminded editors should be condemned
better things,” days earlier claiming the “whole for supporting continued Russia/US adversarial relations -
age of computer(s) has made it where nobody a path to eventual disaster if not reversed.
knows exactly what is going on.”
WaPo editors outrageously called nonexistent Russian US
WaPo: election hacking a “cyber-Pearl Harbor” - incendiary
hyperbole blocking out hard truths.
“No, Mr. Trump, it is not time to move on. US
intelligence agencies are in agreement about They support tougher anti-Russia measures. Maybe
‘what is going on’: a brazen and unprecedented nothing short of war will satisfy them. “Why is Mr. Trump
attempt by a hostile power to covertly sway the so dismissive of Russia’s dangerous behavior,” they
outcome of a US presidential election through asked?
the theft and release of material damaging to
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.” Why does WaPo report malicious fake news about Russia
and most everything else of importance? Why does it
“The president-elect’s dismissive response only consistently lie to readers? Why does it ban truth-telling?
deepens unanswered questions about his ties to
Russia in the past and his plans for cooperation Why does it support America’s imperial agenda, its killing
with Vladimir Putin.” machine, waging war on humanity at home and abroad?
Why does anyone waste time reading its rubbish?
Fact: The CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS and FBI blatantly lied -
knowing no Russian US electoral hacking occurred. No I have to - to critique and debunk it, to expose its
evidence suggests it, no Russian attempt to “sway” the misinformation and Big Lies, to set the record straight, to
election’s outcome. represent what journalism is supposed to be.

Fact: Information on Hillary, the DNC and John Podesta


was leaked by one or more Democrat insiders, upset over
her stealing her party’s nomination, not winning it fairly.
.

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Trump’s Praise for Putin’s Moral
High Ground Exposed Obama’s Vindictiveness
By Stephen Lendman
12-31-2016

In response to Obama’s new sanctions on Russia, illegal Accusations of Russian US election hacking are
by any standard, Trump praised how Putin handled his groundless. No evidence exists proving it. Long after
action, tweeting America’s intelligence community claimed it, Congress
has yet to be briefed.
“(g)reat move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always
knew he was very smart.” In mid-December, Senate Homeland Security Committee
chairman Ron Johnson (R. WI) said
A follow-up related tweet said
“(i)t is disappointing that the CIA would provide
“Russians are playing #CNN and @NBCNews information on this issue to the Washington Post
for such fools…they don’t have a clue! and NBC but will not provide information to
@FoxNews totally gets it.” elected members of Congress.”

Senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway called Obama’s Media scoundrels regurgitate what they’re told without due
new sanctions “a political response” at the behest of diligence checking. Congressional members, especially
“Team Hillary,” aiming to “box in…Trump” because he Republicans, might openly question administration claims
favors improved relations with Russia, getting along with without credible truth supporting them. None exists.
Putin, both leaders cooperating in combating terrorism -
anathema to neocon infested Washington. The whole sordid business was made up for reasons cited
above, Obama perhaps taking a final shot at Russia before
Obama’s 11th hour action in the waning days of his leaving office - at Trump as well by trying to delegitimize
deplorable presidency was based on fabricated claims of his election triumph.
Russian US election hacking.
So far everything tried to prevent him from becoming
It was a thinly veiled political stunt, reflecting sour grapes America’s 45th president failed. It’s unknown how he’ll
for Trump’s electoral triumph, wanting him delegitimized, govern after taking office.
along with an attempt to prevent normalization of
Russia/US relations after his tenure ends - favoring Will he be a mensch like Putin or a menace like Obama?
continued confrontation instead. Humanity holds its breath to find out.

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Wow! Former NSA Employee Behind Russia Wikileaks
Conspiracy Theories Was Caught Sending Dick Pics Online
Jim Hoft
Dec 31st, 2016 9:54 am

Oh my. John Schindler went dark on Twitter after photos of his


penis surfaced back in 2014.
John Schindler is a professor at the Naval War College
who has written conservative analyses on global security He was sending the photos to a woman (not his wife)
for Politico and Foreign Policy. online.

Schindler is also a leading conspiracy theorist who started Wikileaks posted this reminder on Friday.
the rumors that Putin was intentionally trying to bring
down Hillary Clinton through Wikileaks. Who is behind Russian conspiracy theories
about WikiLeaks? Primarily, this self-claimed
former NSA employee: https://t.co/Oq5BcoD7I7
— WikiLeaks Task Force (@WLTaskForce)
December 30, 2016
Mike Cernovich relished the news even though it
is a couple years old.
Hahahahaha! That "spy" who has talked shit on
me in the past was caught sending dick pics to
twitter women. https://t.co/9KEXHkrOIU
pic.twitter.com/QSnpQtuVgZ
He also took pot shots at Trump supporters.

Now this… — Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich)


December 31, 2016
.

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Warning To Trump: Don’t Approve GMO, Pesticide, FDA
Horror Show You Are Incompetent On These Vital
Subjects Don’t Plunge Ahead, Stop Thinking
About Jobs, Jobs, Jobs For Two Seconds
By Jon Rappoport
December 31, 2016

In a previous article on Donald Trump, I wrote: Monsanto’s director of corporate communications,


famously stated:
“I think Trump favors jobs, all jobs, and will go to
extremes to create them…He’ll find ways to allow “Monsanto shouldn’t have to vouchsafe the
the FDA to license new drugs more quickly, thus safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as
maiming and killing more Americans. He’ll cast a much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the
blind eye toward big corporate toxic FDA’s job.”
GMOs/pesticides.”
From the Federal Register, Volume 57, No.104,
I want to strengthen that warning. “Statement of [FDA] Policy: Foods Derived from New
Plant Varieties,” here is what the FDA had to say on this
First of all, the FDA isn’t being too careful in their drug matter:
approval process, as Trump team members suggest. It’s the
opposite. The FDA is in the pocket of pharmaceutical “Ultimately, it is the food producer who is
companies. The president-elect should take notice of the responsible for assuring safety.”
famous July 26, 2000, review in the Journal of the
American Medical Association, by Dr. Barbara Starfield, a This buck-passing, the direct and irreconcilable clash of
revered public-health expert at the Johns Hopkins School these two statements, is no accident. It’s not a sign of
of Public Health. incompetence or sloppy work or a mistake or a
miscommunication. It’s a clear signal the fix was in.
Starfield concluded that FDA-approved medical drugs kill
106,000 Americans a year. That would be 1.06 MILLION There was no science to back up the claim that GMOs
deaths per decade. Speeding up their drug-approval work were safe.
now, the FDA would add many MORE dead Americans to
their “credit.” My belief, at the moment, is that Trump will screw all this
up completely. His focus on jobs and the economy will
On the issue of GMO/pesticide safety, I could cite many lead him into doing grave damage—just as Obama has,
references which eradicate the official claim that these just as Hillary Clinton would have.
substances are safe. But let’s look at the primary facts
surrounding the original approval of GMO crops (and their The corporate media, their corporate experts and allies,
attendant pesticides) in the US. and their government friends have low-keyed the whole
GMO-pesticide-FDA horror show for a long time.
When you cut through the verbiage, you arrive at two key
statements. One from Monsanto and one from the FDA,
We need a president who will go against the tide.
the agency responsible for overseeing, licensing, and
certifying new food varieties as safe.
On these issues, Mr. Trump, through ignorance,
inattention, unconcern, whatever, is on the verge of
Quoted in the New York Times Magazine (October 25,
becoming a Big Pharma Big Biotech shill.
1998, “Playing God in the Garden”), Philip Angell,
.

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Trump Wishes 'Happy New Year' To All,
Including His 'Many' Rudderless 'Enemies'
Foxnews.Com
Published January 01, 2017

“They just don't know what to do,” he wrote.

To whom Trump was speaking is unclear. But he and


supporters have since Election Day argued that backers of
defeated Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
and others continue to search for excuses and others to
blame for her stunning defeat.

Trump tweeted again at midnight, wishing all Americans a


"Happy New Year."

TO ALL AMERICANS-#HappyNewYear & many


President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday wished a blessings to you all! Looking forward to a
“Happy New Year” to friends and enemies -- sort of. wonderful & prosperous 2017 as we work
together to #MAGA��
“Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies pic.twitter.com/UaBFaoDYHe
and those who have fought me,” Trump began on Twitter. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
January 1, 2017
Happy New Year to all, including to my many
enemies and those who have fought me and lost Trump has roughly 18 million Twitter followers and
so badly they just don't know what to do. Love! continues to use the social media site to bypass
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) conventional media outlets like TV and newspapers to
December 31, 2016 send unfiltered, sometime combative messages to
Americans.
He ended the tweet by wishing everybody “Love,” but not
before making sure that all those who “lost so badly” to Trump spent his New Year's Eve at his private Mar-a-Lago
him knew the New Year’s message was also intended for club in Palm Beach, Florida.
them.

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Donald Trump Promises Hacking
Surprise On 'Tuesday or Wednesday'
Rhett Jones
January 1, 2017

His assertion that he knows

“things that other people don’t know” is


particularly perplexing in light of the fact
that Trump appeared to admit he hasn’t
This is the reality that we live in now, and we all just have even been briefed on the intelligence in
to sit in it. Our President-elect likes to put on a show and question. On Thursday, the transition team
tease the news, so let’s get used to it. According to Donald released a written statement saying that he
Trump, on Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday!!! (or Wednesday) would meet with intelligence officials next
we’ll find out some stuff about hacking that we did not week to get “the facts.”
know.
Trump’s remarks come on the heels of President Obama
Trump celebrated the New Year at his Mar-A-Lago golf announcing new sanctions against Russia as retaliation for
resort in Palm Beach, Florida and yesterday evening he the alleged hacking. When Russian President Vladimir
briefly spoke with a group of reporters about the whole Putin said that he would not expel American diplomats in
alleged Russian election hacking that he has repeatedly retaliation to the sanctions, Trump called him “very
dismissed as untrue. smart.”

When asked about his doubts in regards to American So, what are the odds that Trump really does have some
intelligence analyses that claim Russians were involved in information to share that the American public previously
hacking the DNC as part of an effort to tilt the election in did not know? On the one hand, he’s lied about
his favor, Trump had this to say: announcing his plans for divesting himself from his
business interests, about releasing his taxes and about his
Well, I just want them to be sure because support for the Iraq War.
it’s a pretty serious charge, and I want
them to be sure. And if you look at the On the other hand, when Trump surrogate Rudy Guiliani
weapons of mass destruction, that was a said there was a “surprise or two” coming late in the
disaster, and they were wrong. And so I campaign last year, the FBI announced it was looking into
want them to be sure. I think it’s unfair if more Clinton emails just days later. Also, when Trump
they don’t know. And I know a lot about said that he’d keep us “in suspense” about whether or not
hacking. And hacking is a very hard thing he would accept the results of the election, he certainly
to prove. So it could be somebody else. pulled out a twist ending.
And I also know things that other people
don’t know, and so they cannot be sure of One thing’s for sure, the Russian hacking story is a big
the situation. mess that has thus far boiled down to either believing the
CIA (which lies) or believing Trump (who lies).
When a reporter asked,
Meanwhile, Donald Trump still hasn’t announced his plan
“What do you know that other people don’t to remove himself from his global business and obvious
know?” Trump responded, “You’ll find out conflicts of interest.
on Tuesday or Wednesday.”
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Trump Questions Claim Of Russia Hacking DNC,
Says He ‘Knows Things Other People Don’t’
Published Time: 1 Jan, 2017 03:58Edited Time: 1 Jan, 2017 04:02

Trump also said then that the US needs to

“move on to bigger and better things.”

The latest report by the FBI and the DHS did not reveal
any convincing evidence of the Russian government being
behind the alleged hacks, and came with a disclaimer,
saying the DHS

“does not provide any warranties of any kind


U.S. President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters as he and his wife regarding any information contained within.”
Melania Trump arrive for a New Year's Eve celebration with members
and guests at the Mar-a-lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
December 31, 2016. © Jonathan Ernst / Reuters US President-elect On Saturday, Trump was also asked about the possibility
Donald Trump said it was possible “somebody else” compromised the that he may meet with the Taiwanese president if she was
Democratic campaign’s servers as he spoke to reporters on New to visit the US after his January 20 inauguration. The issue
Year’s Eve, adding that he will reveal some previously undisclosed of Trump talking with Tsai Ing-wen appeared shortly after
facts in the coming days.
the two had a phone conversation following Trump’s
“I think it’s unfair if we don’t know. It could be election victory. The conversation appeared to contradict
somebody else,” Reuters cited Trump as telling Beijing’s “One China” policy, meaning that Taiwan should
media at his Mar-a-Lago estate as he referred to be considered part of China, which the US has upheld for
the pinning of the blame for the alleged hacks on decades.
Russia.
“I also know things that other people don’t know, “We’ll see,”
so we cannot be sure,” Trump added. “You will
find out on Tuesday or Wednesday.” Trump said about meeting Tsai Ing-wen, without
elaborating, leading US media to conclude he was leaving
He also reiterated his willingness to have “great relations” a door open to such a possibility.
with other countries, including Russia and China.
Stick to ‘one China’ policy, Beijing tells US after historic
Trump was apparently asked about his position on the call between Trump & Taiwan’s president
alleged Moscow-backed “hacking” of the Democratic
National Committee that resulted in the emergence of https://t.co/S3GrSUBmucpic.twitter.com/JyiQMT
leaks unfavorable to Hillary Clinton. While he has El44
consistently shrugged off the accusations, which also
claimed he was backed by Russia against Clinton, Trump — RT (@RT_com) 3 декабря 2016 г.
on Thursday reacted to the new sanctions against Russia
and the release of a report by the FBI and the Department Trump’s conversation with Taiwan’s leader was rebuked
of Homeland Security (DHS) with a promise to attend by Beijing and drew some criticism at home, while the
intelligence briefings to be updated on the matter. president-elect said he was simply accepting a
congratulatory call.
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Trump Says Computers Aren't 'Safe,'
Has Information About Russia Hacking Claims
22:25 01.01.2017(updated 05:38 02.01.2017

agencies handed over what they call proof of Russian


hacking into Democratic party computers to the
government and President Barack Obama expelled 35
Russian diplomats and shut down two Russian compounds.

Trump has consistently second-guessed intelligence


assessments, pointing to either flawed or disingenuous
CIA reports about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and
said he wants to be clear about the "pretty serious"
charges.

He said he intends to sit down with the heads of the


US President-elect Donald Trump used his New Year's nation's intelligence committees next week to learn more, a
Eve remarks to reporters to warn that no computer is safe statement confirmed by incoming White House Press
from hacking and to say he has information to reveal about Secretary Sean Spicer on ABC January 1.
Russia's alleged hacking into the US election in the coming
days. In the meantime, Trump said New Year's Eve,

"You know, if you have something really "I know a lot about hacking. And hacking is
important, write it out and have it delivered a very hard thing to prove, so it could be
by courier, the old-fashioned way. Because somebody else," according to The Hill. "
I'll tell you what: No computer is safe,"
And I also know things that other people
Trump told reporters at his New Year's Eve
don't know, and so they cannot be sure of
party, AP reports.
the situation," he continued. The president-
elect would not say what it was he knew,
Despite his frequent tweeting, Trump rarely uses a
but said it would be revealed "Tuesday or
computer, according to the agency.
Wednesday."
The president-elect has remained uncharacteristically
restrained during the past week, as US intelligence
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Putin Congratulates Trump,
Ignores Obama In New Year Statement
Sun Jan 1, 2017 4:26PM

Directly addressing Trump in his message released by the


Kremlin on Friday, Putin also addressed the significance of
strong ties between Russia and the US.

“Major global and regional challenges that


our countries have confronted in recent
years clearly confirm that Russia-US
relations are an important factor in ensuring
stability and security in the modern world,"
Putin said.
US President Barack Obama (L), Russian President Vladimir Putin
(C) and US President-elect Donald Trump (R) To make the situation more embarrassing for Obama, Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has also congratulated British Prime Minister Theresa May and
snubbed outgoing US President Barack former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Obama on New Year by expressing his
good wishes to President-elect Donald Even former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
Trump instead. received a New Year greeting from Putin.

In his annual New Year’s greeting to his foreign Putin had congratulated Obama and his family in a
counterparts, Putin also congratulated former US separate statement on Friday, when he addressed
Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush Washington’s new measures against Moscow.
without mentioning Obama, CNN reported Saturday.
On Thursday, Obama ordered a series of new sanctions
Putin also expressed hope that Washington and Moscow against Russia and expelled 35 Russian diplomats over
could take “real steps” to improve ties after the 45th allegations that they interfered in the US 2016 presidential
American president’s inauguration on January 20. election through cyber attacks.

The Russian head of state said he was optimistic that the Putin, however, said he was not going to retaliate and
two countries, would rather wait until Trump takes office.

“acting in a constructive and pragmatic Trump took to his Twitter after Putin’s announcement and
manner, will be able to take real steps to called the Russian president a “very smart” leader.
restore the mechanisms of bilateral
cooperation in various areas and take their Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UN
interaction in the international arena to a Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, International
whole new level.” Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde and International
Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach were among
other officials whom Putin addressed in his annual
statement.

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If There Really Was Evidence Of Russian Hacking,
The NSA Would Have It
Submitted By David Spring Via Turningpointnews.Org
Jan 1, 2017 8:10 PM

On December 29, 2016, the Hill posted an https://www.us-cert.gov/security-publications/GRIZZLY-


article discussing a 13 page report by the STEPPE-Russian-Malicious-Cyber-Activity
FBI and DHS claiming that their 13 page
report was “evidence” of Russian To see the evidence of Russian hacking first hand, I
hacking in US elections. downloaded the CSV file and converted it into a
spreadsheet. The CSV file and the XML file both
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/312132-fbi-dhs- contained the same data. Here is the XML link to this data
release-report-on-russia-hacking which can be viewed online in a web browser.

Wikileaks has repeatedly stated that the https://www.us-


source of its leaks was a disgruntled cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/JAR-16-20296.xml
Democratic Party insider.
Both files provide a list of 895 “indicators” of Russian
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4034038/Ex- Hacking. Unfortunately, nearly all of these indicators are
British-ambassador-WikiLeaks-operative-claims-Russia- simply IP addresses. In other words, it is a list of 895
did-NOT-provide-Clinton-emails-handed-D-C-park- servers from from more than 40 countries around the
intermediary-disgusted-Democratic-insiders.html world. But the list also includes a few website domain
names. (Domain names are simply the name of the website
However, President Obama issued a press such as Youtube.com). I looked up these website domain
release on December 29 2016 using the names with the the following tool which tells us who owns
DHS-FBI report to justify increasing the domain names and where they are located:
sanctions against Russia.
https://www.whois.net/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-
office/2016/12/29/statement-president-actions-response- My review of these domain names confirmed that none of
russian-malicious-cyber-activity these domain names have any relationship to Russian
government hackers. Here are the results for four of the
I therefore decided to see what the domain names provided by the DHS and the FBI as
evidence was of Russian involvement in evidence of Russian hacking:
US Elections.
ritsoperrol.ru is not in use. It is registered to a private
The Hill article linked to this 13 page government press person. The named server hosting the domain is nserver:
release as its proof of Russian hacking. ns0.xtremeweb.de. This is a German web hosting and
consulting company whose address and phone number are
https://www.us- publicly listed on their website. It is highly unlikely that
cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/JAR_16-20296.pdf Russian hackers would use a public German web host to
register and host their domain names.
The government press release written by DHS-FBI did not
mention Wikileaks in its report. Nor did the report provide littlejohnwilhap.ru is not in use and is available to be
any evidence of Russian hacking in the US elections. purchased. It is unlikely that Russian hackers would use a
Instead, the press release stated that “technical indicators” domain name like this to launch a cyber attack on the US.
of Russian hacking were in the “CSV file and XML file
attached with the PDF.” However, there was no CSV or wilcarobbe.com is taken and is not in use. It is registered to
XML file or link attached with the PDF. I was eventually Arsen Ramanov in Groznenskaya Russia. His address,
able to find these two files at this link. phone number and email address are all publicly listed. It is
highly unlikely that Russian hackers would use a domain
name that was publicly listed. Hackers are not idiots.

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one2shoppee.com is taken and is registered with maxsultan.xyz which is a fake domain name. This also
GoDaddy.com. It is not currently in use. But it is highly indicates that this is another fake corporation.
unlikely that Russian Hackers would register their domain
names with GoDaddy – which is a US server. In fact, it is 178.20.55.16 is a proxy server with no known location but
very unlikely that Russian hackers would ever use any US has been used as a TOR router exit node. A proxy server is
servers. They would only use their own servers. another name for a mirror or server used to bounce
information from one server to another in order to hide the
How did these four domain names get on a list of true location of the original server. This proxy server is
Russian hackers? It is possible that some unknown agents associated with the domain name nos-oignons.net. This
took over these domain names and may have used them for domain name was registered on December 31 2012 and is
some kind of hacking activity. However, the agents could valid until December 31 2017. In other words, whoever got
have just as easily been from the US as from Russia. In this domain name paid for its use for 5 years. But they did
fact, it is not likely that these domain names were taken registered the domain name anonymously. The website
over by Russian hackers for the simple reason that Russian associated with this server appears to be a group in France
hackers are way to smart to be using these silly tactics. promoting the TOR router. They became an association in
May 2013 – 5 months after getting the domain name. The
None of the 885 IP group currently has 5 members and it costs one Euro to join
this group. Their website was reported 9 days ago as having
addresses have any been infected with the Zues virus. This infection does not
confirmed relationship to leave tracks on server logs. So it is difficult to tell where it
Russian Government came from. Removal of this virus requires a complete
Hackers rebuild of the server. In short, some agency decided to take
out this server and then use it to make a cyber attack on
some US government agency and thus have the IP address
An IP address is simply a numerical designation for a listed on the DHS-FBI list as one of 895 indicators of
server. The 885 IP addresses listed in the DHS – FBI CSV Russian hacking.
file were even more interesting. The IP addresses were
located on servers from the US and more than 40 nations
around the world including more than 30 IP addresses Many of the IP addresses yielded the same dead end or
supposedly located in China. Here are a few of the IP otherwise highly suspicious result - meaning that some
addresses very large agency is using hundreds of servers in various
countries around the world as a front for hacking attacks. I
recently researched a series of attacks on my personal
 167.114.35.70 websites from hundreds of IP addresses using hundreds of
 185.12.46.178 servers that were supposedly located in the Ukraine. I was
 46.102.152.132 able to confirm the exact location in the Ukraine that was
 178.20.55.16 supposedly being used to launch literally thousands of
attacks on my websites. However, it is not credible that
I looked up several of these IP addresses using the anyone in the Ukraine has the millions of dollars needed to
following tool: be running hundreds of servers in a remote Ukrainian
location. Nor is it likely that anyone in rural Ukraine
http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup would even have the knowledge to take care of hundreds
of servers even if they did have the millions of dollars
needed to plow into buying these servers. Nor are they
Here are a four examples of IP addresses in the DHS-FBI
likely to have the knowledge needed to be running very
report:
complex cyber attacks. Ukraine is just not a good location
for servers. This experience convinced me that attacks
167.114.35.70 is a Canadian Corporate server specializing were being launched from other locations and were merely
in the promotion of Bitcoin. They are within a few miles of being routed through Ukraine in order to mislead people
the US border. about where the attacks were really coming from.

185.12.46.178 is a Swiss corporate server associated with Next, the CSV file provided by DHS-FBI listed the
the domain name leavesorus.com. The domain name physical location of all 885 IP addresses.
leavesorus.com is currently available to be purchased. This
indicates that this is a fake domain name and likely a fake
What is most ironic is that, only two of
corporation.
the 885 IP addresses were from servers
in Russia.
46.102.152.132 is another Swiss corporate server this one
specializing in emails and associated with the domain name
The most common location of the hacking servers was the
United States. Over 30 of the servers were supposedly
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located in China. But it is known that the NSA has the from China (or Ukraine or Mongolia) when in fact they are
ability to use satellite mirrors to hide the locations of their coming from servers located in the US.
servers – making folks believe that the attacks are coming

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Here are 50 more servers. Again, no Russians:

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Here are 50 more servers. How can servers in the US be used as evidence of Russian hacking?

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Here is another batch of 50 servers. Again, no Russians.

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Wait a Minute… Is this the Smoking Gun???

Actually, there were two Russian servers located on lines If there really was evidence
259 and 261. Here are the IP addresses. of Russian hacking, the NSA
would have it
 93.171.203.244
 95.105.72.78
Former NSA leader turned whistleblower William Binney
recently stated that if the Russians really did hack the
Here is more information about each of these: Democratic Party servers, the NSA would certainly have
real evidence (not the nonsense put out in the DHS-FBI
93.171.203.244 This is a clean broadband CSV file). Here is his quote from a December 29 2016
server located near Ufa which is a city in article by Glenn Greenwald:
Russia with one million people. It is
associated with an organization called “The bottom line is that the NSA would
Miragroup Ltd. The website is know where and how any “hacked” emails
rxbrothers.ru. Naturally, this is a fake from the DNC, HRC or any other servers
domain name which is available to be were routed through the network. This
purchased. Miragroup is actually a process can sometimes require a closer
corporation located in Great Britain. look into the routing to sort out intermediate
95.105.72.78 is another clean broadband clients, but in the end sender and recipient
server located near Ufa. The organization can be traced across the network.”
is JSC Ufanet and the website is ufanet.ru
which is a public broadband service started https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/top-secret-snowden-
in 1997. Someone apparently is using this document-reveals-what-the-nsa-knew-about-previous-
broadband service to hack the US russian-hacking/
government. Could this be the smoking gun
that the Russian government is attacking Edward Snowden has not only confirmed that the NSA has
the US? Think about it. If you were a this ability – but that he himself used an NSA program
Russian hacker, would you really use a called XKEYSCORE to monitor such attacks.
public server located in some Russian
town? I don’t think so. This is more like
evidence that some hacker was using the https://theintercept.com/2016/07/26/russian-intelligence-
local public library. hack-dnc-nsa-know-snowden-says/

Imagine someone launching a cyber attack from the Seattle Anyone with any kind of technical background in
Public library – and then our government declaring that defending against hacker attacks would understand that
they have evident that the mayor of the City of Seattle was what Binney, Snowden and Greenwald are saying is true.
responsible for the attack because “nothing happens in The evidence of their truth – most of which was supplied
Seattle without the approval of the Mayor!”. This is worse by Snowden from NSA documents – is overwhelming.
than a silly accusation. It is ridiculous. It is irresponsible.

Real Russian Hackers do not use Windows


Servers

Only three of the servers provided in the DHS/FBI report


included detailed information (despite the fact that the IP
addresses provided information on all 895 servers and that
DHS/FBI certainly have detailed information on all of the
servers). All three servers listed in the report were
Windows servers. It is highly unlikely that Russian hackers
or Chinese hackers would be using Windows servers.
Instead, all real hackers use Linux servers because Linux
servers are much more secure than Windows servers.

https://techlog360.com/top-15-favourite-operating-
systems-of-hackers/

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Conclusion Finally, for the FBI or the DHS to claim that the XML-
CSV file contains evidence or even indicators of Russian
An important research principle is to follow the money. hacking is simply a false statement. It is a perfect example
People around the world need to ask themselves who has of fake news. Any news agency promoting this claim
the money and technical ability to be running hundreds and without doing even the most basic of research that would
perhaps thousands of real servers and real IP addresses easily confirm it is false, should be listed as a fake news
from fake corporations using fake websites in fake agency.
locations in more than 40 nations around the world? What
agency has already been proven to be running mass The real question that we
surveillance on billions of people in more than 40 nations should all be asking is why
all around the world? Whose military cyber budget is more
than 10 times larger than the cyber warfare budget of the the DHS and FBI would
rest of the world combined? There is certainly an elephant destroy their reputation by
in the room – but it is not a Russian elephant. posting such a fake report?

At a televised press conference on April 2016, former Several years ago, our CIA claimed that Iraq had weapons
NSA agent, Edward Snowden asked the Russian leader of mass destruction. We now know that Iraq had no
Vladimir Putin if the Russian government engaged in mass weapons of mass destruction – meaning that we went to
surveillance of millions of people in a manner similar to war and spent over a trillion dollars on a fake report. Is this
the NSA. Putin replied that Russian law prohibited the new fake report a pretext for launching a cyber war against
Russian government from engaging in mass surveillance. Russia? Is it intended to justify increasing US military
Putin then pointed out that the Russian military budget was spending?
less than 10% of the US military budget. So even if they
wanted to engage in mass surveillance, they simply did not It is hard to say what the real purpose of
have the money. this fake DHS-FBI report is. But the fact
that this silly list of IP addresses was
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/apr/17/sn the best evidence they could provide
owden-putin-russia-surveillance-phone-in-video should be a strong indication that there
really is no evidence of Russian
People also need to ask themselves why the FBI DHS hacking. Instead, it is more likely that
chose to place their evidence in a CSV file and XML file Wikileaks is telling the truth in stating
rather than a normal document or spreadsheet. If this were that they got the emails from a
real evidence, it would have been placed directly in the disgruntled Democratic Party insider.
PDF report for everyone to read – not hidden away in a file
the general public has little ability to read.
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Trump Spokesman On Russia:
President –Elect Is Winning
Sun Jan 1, 2017 9:33PM

“I think one of the questions that we have


is, why the magnitude of this?” Spicer said.
“I mean you look at 35 people being
expelled, two sites being closed down, the
question is, is that response in proportion
to the actions taken?”

Speaking to reporters at his estate in Mar-a-Lago, Florida,


on Saturday, Trump indicated that he has information
about the Russian hacking which he would reveal on
"Tuesday or Wednesday."
US President-elect Donald Trump (L) and Russian President
Vladimir Putin
Shifting focus to another ‘influence’
US President –elect Donald Trump is
gaining wins both at home and abroad, Turning a question about Russia around, Spicer further
says his spokesman while talking about suggested that Clinton should also be probed for her role in
Russia. influencing the 2016 presidential race, referring to her
access to questions prior to a primary debate in the run-up
During an interview in a Sunday segment of ABC’s “This to the November 8 vote.
Week," Sean Spicer indicated that Russia’s announced
delay for retaliation against Washington over the expulsion
of 35 Russian diplomatic personnel is considered a victory
for the future president.

“So everyone wants to talk about the


tweets that he sends but I want to focus on
the action that he’s getting. Donald Trump’s
not president yet and he’s getting action,
successes and wins both abroad and here
at home,” said Trump’s incoming White
House spokesman.
“When are we going to start talking about
In the run-up to the 2016 vote, WikiLeaks kept releasing the other side of this? Which is: What did
batches of emails from the campaign of Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton do to influence the election?
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, as well as the Is she being punished in any way?” he
Democratic National Committee. asked. "The fact is that everyone wants to
make Donald Trump admit to certain
Democrats pointed the finger at Russia, an allegation later things… But the fact of the matter is, we’re
confirmed by the FBI and the CIA. having part of a conversation. Why aren’t
we talking about ... other influences on the
Moscow’s alleged hacking efforts in favor of the New election?”
York billionaire led to expulsion of 35 Russian diplomatic
personnel and the closure of Russia’s estates in Maryland The allegation that Clinton had been given the questions
and New York by the administration of President Barack arose from documents leaked by the WikiLeaks, too.
Obama.
“Why aren’t we talking about Hillary Clinton
getting debate questions ahead of time?

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That’s a pretty valid attempt to influence an would have been vilified. No one wants to
election," he continued. “I can tell you this, ask those questions now."
if my boss at the time, Reince Priebus, had
gotten the debate questions, and handed Spicer formerly worked for the Republican National
them off, he would have been driven out of Committee as the chief strategist and communications
this town on a stake, and Donald Trump director.
.

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Trump’s Twitter ‘Freaks the Mainstream Media Out’ -
Future Oval Office Spokesman
© AP Photo/ Steve Helber US 01:10 02.01.2017

mainstream media wrote off or took pleasure in mocking


the Republican candidate (which gave outlets like Sputnik
a lot of uncovered topics to write about), so Twitter
became Trump's platform of choice for communication.

With 18.4 million followers on Twitter and 45 million on


social media overall, his social media impact was
apparently big enough to compensate for the lack of
positive media coverage.

On December 31, Trump has posted a


tweet of New Year congratulations,
President-elect Donald Trump’s trademark practice of including those to "[his]many enemies who
reaching people in the US and around the world via his have fought [him] and lost so badly they
Twitter account has been deplored by mainstream media just don't know what to do."
on a number of occasions – yet as it seems to have already
secured him the presidential office, the tweeter-in-chief is
unlikely to go quiet any time soon, according to Sean
Spicer.

The success of Trump's use of Twitter to communicate


with people both in US and around the world "freaks the
mainstream media out," Spicer, the incoming White House
press secretary, said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

"You know, with all due respect, I think it


Spicer's "freaking out" characterization is not unfounded.
freaks the mainstream media out that he
The Independent has already called the tweet "bizarre."
has this following of over 45 plus million
The Huffington Post instead resorted to sarcasm and
people that follow him on social media; that
lecturing about "the respectful thing for the soon-to-be
he can have a direct conversation," Spicer
leader of the free world to do," complete with a pack of
said. "He doesn't have to have it funneled
other Twitter users' (expectedly negative) responses. CNN
through the media."
was more reserved, but couldn't help but leave a remark
According to Spicer, Trump will "absolutely" continue to about Trump being "not quite ready to let auld
use his Twitter even after he moves into the White House, acquaintances be forgot."
despite Trump's statements that he is going to be "very
According to Rep. Chris Collins, a New York Republican
restrained" about his Twitter use after inauguration.
who was the first member of Congress to endorse Trump,
"You know what? The fact of the matter is "Trump has his own way of communicating with
that when he tweets, he gets results," America." At the end of the day, this way of
Spicer said. communicating, if unusual, has proven to be quite
successful.
Twitter became a potent weapon for Trump during his
presidential campaign last year. Most of the US
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Washington Warmongers Make
11th Hour Attempt To Start A War With Russia
Posted By Daisy Luther
Date: January 01, 2017

consulate in San Francisco “persona non grata”, giving


them and their families 72 hours to leave the US.

The Russian government is expected to respond in turn by


expelling US diplomats.

Sanctions have also been announced against nine entities


and individuals including the GRU and FSB Russian
intelligence agencies.

Two Republicans, John McCain and Lindsey


Graham, and a Democrat, Amy Klobuchar, all voiced their
support for action to be taken against Russia for “meddling
In the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency, the with the presidential election” in November. The three are
warmongers in Washington, DC are hell-bent on causing currently stirring up trouble on a tour of NATO countries
as much chaos as possible. If they don’t manage to start a near Russia’s western border.
war with Russia before Donald Trump is sworn in, it won’t
be for lack of trying. McCain, Graham, and Klobuchar are claiming that there is
support from 99% of both Republicans and Democrats for
The Military Industrial Complex stands to profit by actions against Russia, and particularly against Vladimir
billions of dollars if this comes to fruition. War is very Putin personally.
profitable for politicians and their corporate cronies, but
for the rest of us, it would inflict a heavy toll. (If you Speaking to CNN, Graham said:
haven’t read it yet, I strongly recommend picking up a
copy of the anti-war classic, War Is a Racket by General “There are 100 United States senators. Amy Klobuchar is
Smedley Butler.) on this trip with us. She’s a Democrat from Minnesota. I
would say that 99 of us believe the Russians did this and
Today, 35 Russian diplomats were expelled from the US we’re going to do something about it,” said Graham, who
for their alleged part in tampering with the election: is planning a hearing with McCain on Russia’s
interference with US elections. “We’re going to put
The US has expelled 35 Russian diplomats as punishment sanctions together that hit Putin as an individual and his
for alleged interference into the presidential election. inner circle for interfering in our election, and they’re
doing it all over the world — not just in the United States.”
It will also close two Russian compounds used for
intelligence-gathering, in Maryland and New York, as part The claims of Russian interference were brought forth by
of a raft of retaliatory measures. the CIA, but are unsubstantiated. The FBI rebuts the CIA’s
claim and says there is no evidence to support that Russia
President Barack Obama had vowed action against Russia tinkered with the election. President-Elect Donald Trump
amid US accusations it directed hacks against the called claims of Russian interference “ridiculous.”
Democratic party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Russia will not take this lying down.
Russia has denied any involvement.
If the three members of Congress are successful in stirring
The US State Department declared the 35 Russian up conflict, Russia has said they will take action against
diplomats from the Washington DC embassy and the the US.

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Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova Should we be worried about the Russians or our own
responded in a statement: “If Washington really does take government?
new hostile steps, they will be answered.
As an un-named source told the BBC:
“Any action against Russian diplomatic missions in the US
will immediately bounce back on US diplomats in
“These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had
Russia.”(source)
weapons of mass destruction”.
The European Union still has sanctions in place against
When Lindsey Graham accuses the Russians of interfering
Russia for its 2014 annexation of the Crimea peninsula.
around the world, it sounds a bit like the pot calling the
Those sanctions target arms exporters, banks, and any
kettle black, don’t you think?
individuals the EU blames for the invasion of Ukraine.
According to the EU talking heads, the sanctions have
exacted a hard economic toll on Russia, but the Russian The US government seems to believe that they have the
government denies this emphatically. right to step into any arena they choose and that the world
at large must accept it. But at the same time, they lecture
other nations and impose sanctions, even when there is no
The current crew in DC seems intent on creating as many
proof of wrong-doing.
problems as they can for President-Elect Trump to inherit.

You have to wonder what else is planned for the last 21


days before Trump takes office.

Article syndicated from DaisyLuther.com


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Consigned To The Memory Hole:
The Content Of The DNC Leaks
Posted By Soapy
Jan 2 2017 00:18

been consigned to the memory hole. In a veritable tidal


wave of false narratives, the mainstream media has
succeeded in drowning the legacy of the leaks in (not
terribly convincing) accusations of Russian culpability.
Erased from this narrative is the fact that the highest levels
of the Democratic Party—supposedly neutral arbiters of
the candidate selection process—sabotaged the Bernie
Sanders campaign, and detest vast swaths of the
Democratic Party constituency.

The first leaks appeared on July 22nd, when WikiLeaks


released a collection of emails from the accounts of seven
Hidden from the media narrative of Russian cyber top DNC officials. The initial leaks confirmed what
sabotage is the content of the DNC leaks, and how the Sanders supporters had alleged for months, which was that
leaks revealed the arrogance and corruption of the the DNC was conspiring to sabotage the Sanders
Democratic Party elite. campaign. Emails implicated top officials such as DNC
CFO Brad Marshall, who discussed planting a media story
Amidst the blame Russia hysteria, the actual content of the about Sanders' religious beliefs in an effort to undermine
the Democratic National Committee (DNC) hacks has his campaign.

Replying to the email, DNC CEO Amy Dacey writes simply “AMEN”.
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Another email from DNC staffer Mark Paustenbach floats the idea of planting a media narrative about the Sanders campaign
being “a mess”, constantly needing to be coddled by the DNC in order to keep it afloat. Apparently without any hint of irony,
Paustenbach proposes part of this narrative would focus on how Sanders' loss can be attributed to his own mistakes rather than,
“a DNC conspiracy”.

Emails from the account of DNC chairwoman Debbie The initial document release provoked the resignations of
Wasserman Schultz confirmed the high levels of animosity Schultz, Dacey, and Marshall, in addition to
between the DNC and the Sanders campaign. Schultz communications director Luis Miranda.
writes of Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver that “He
is an ASS,” and “a damn liar”. After Schultz stepped down, the post of DNC chairwoman
passed to former Al Gore campaign manager Donna
Also of note was an “agreement” between Politico's Brazile. It was under Brazile that the second batch of leaks
Kenneth Vogel and Paustenbach to "let the DNC pre- would be released. The October 7th leaks showed that
screen one of Vogel's stories before" it was sent to his Brazile, while working as a contributor for CNN, had
editors. The idea that Vogel would allow the DNC to gained access to and given the Clinton campaign the
screen his stories constitutes a breach of journalistic ethics, debate questions prior to a Sanders-Clinton debate in
and confirms another charge by Sanders supporters who March.
alleged collusion between the mainstream media and the
Clinton campaign. Also included in the leaks was a transcript of a speech
given to union members in which Clinton railed against
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environmentalists. “They come to my rallies and they yell For her part, far from apologizing DNC chairwoman
at me and, you know, all the rest of it. They say, 'Will you Donna Brazile responded to the revelations about leaking
promise never to take any fossil fuels out of the earth ever debate questions by merely saying, “if I had to do it all
again?' No. I won't promise that. Get a life, you know...My over again, I would know a hell of a lot more about
view is, I want to defend natural gas...I want to defend cybersecurity.” Brazile has not resigned and is still DNC
fracking under the right circumstances." chair.

Maybe even more damning than the leaks themselves was In all, the leaks paint a portrait of an arrogant Democratic
the arrogant way in which DNC officials and the Clinton Party establishment which despises large swaths of its
campaign responded to them. Almost immediately after voting base and its young/Sanders aligned volunteers.
Schultz's resignation Clinton issued a statement thanking They also provide a window into how candidates who do
her “longtime friend”, and announced that Schultz had not toe the Party line are filtered out of the candidate
been appointed as her honorary campaign chair. The only selection process. As for the issue of Russian culpability, it
way to explain such a bewilderingly self-destructive act— is rendered somewhat moot when one considers that all the
guaranteed to alienate Sanders' die hard supporters—is to leaks really did is expose the dirty secrets of an
assume that Clinton was totally self-assured of an easy organization that is a central pillar of American
victory in November and/or despised large portions of the democracy. Of course, far from viewing it in that way, the
Democratic Party constituency to the point that she media and the Democratic Party establishment have begun
couldn't resist rubbing salt in their wounds. their familiar drumbeat for war. In this sense the hysteria
over Russian cyberwarfare cannot be overlooked, and I
hope to continue exploring it from different angles.
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Assange To Hannity:
Source For Wikileaks
Was Not Russian Government
Posted By Ian Schwartz
On Date January 2, 2017

repeatedly that over the last two months that our source is
not the Russian government and it is not a state party.

Hannity's full interview with Assange will air Tuesday


night at 10pm ET. More from the interview:

ASSANGE: Our publications had wide uptake by the


American people, they're all true. But that's not the
allegation that’s being presented by the Obama White
House. So, why such a dramatic response? Well, the
reason is obvious. They’re trying to delegitimize the
Trump administration as it goes into the White House.
They are trying to say that President-elect Trump is not a
In an exclusive interview with FOX News Channel's Sean legitimate President...
Hannity the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange said
Russia was not the source for the DNC and John Podesta ASSANGE: Our source is not a state party, so the answer
hacks. for our interactions is no. But if we look at our most recent
statement from the US government, which is on the 29th of
HANNITY: Can you say to the American people, December, OK, we had five different branches of
unequivocally, that you did not get this information about government, Treasury, DHS, FBI, White House presenting
the DNC, John Podesta's emails, can you tell the American their accusations to underpin Obama’s throwing out 29
people 1,000 percent that you did not get it from Russia or Russian diplomats. What was missing from all of those
anybody associated with Russia? statements? The word WikiLeaks. It’s very strange.

JULIAN ASSANGE: Yes. We can say, we have said,


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Wapo Wants Trump Standing
For What It Opposes
By Stephen Lendman
1-2-2017

In a New Year’s day editorial, WaPo discussed the conditions - Obama’s agenda complicit with
“unsupportable” and “dangerous” Trump presidency - Wall Street and other corporate favorites
seditious sounding language. responsible.

 He “pose(s) (a) threat to democratic norms and civility,” WaPo wants Trump closely watched to see if he’ll
it said - no evidence cited. “advocate policies…essential to keep America safe and to
promote peace and liberty overseas.”
 He “celebrat(ed) violence at rallies…” They were
instigated at least in part by Soros-financed anti-Trump Fact: It’s WaPo’s code language, wanting
elements. endless wars of aggression continued on
the phony pretexts of democracy building
 He “scapegoat(s) entire religions and nationalities…” and humanitarian intervention.
Wanting Muslim immigration suspended until “we can
figure out what’s going on” is disgraceful, agreed. WaPo owner Jeff Bezos has CIA ties, serving its dark
Wanting a wall on Mexico’s border, besides what’s agenda. An obvious conflict of interest exists gone
already in place, is also way over-the-top, no unmentioned.
disagreement.
The broadsheet is a virtual agency house organ. Bezos got
 He “trad(es) in lies and personal insults.” Don’t all a $600 million CIA contract for much more than Amazon
politicians? It goes with the territory. In a previous Web Services.
article, I called Obama America’s liar-in-chief.
He features information and views America’s deep state
 Trump poses “a challenge to (our) democratic wants published, while suppressing what readers most
system…” None existed from the republic’s inception. need to know.
Today, America is a plutocracy run at the expense of
ordinary people. During the political season, WaPo served as a virtual
Hillary press agent, much like the New York Times,
 WaPo wants Trump “monitor(ed) (to see) to what denigrating Trump mercilessly.
extent (he) fulfills his promise to help those who have
been bypassed by economic recovery.” Both broadsheets are laughing stocks, advocacy
substituting for what journalism is supposed to be - absent
Fact: None exists, except for America’s on their pages, fake news instead on vital issues, especially
wealthy, powerful and privileged. The great geopolitical ones.
majority of others are suffering under
protracted Main Street Depression
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Alabama Band To March At Inauguration,
Igniting Controversy
JEFF MARTIN
Associated Press
January 2, 2017

SamForay, of Chicago, was among dozens of people


commenting on the school's social media sites.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Friday


that the Talladega College Marching Tornadoes was
among 40 groups, including high school bands and
military organizations, scheduled to perform in the
parade. Some members of the Marist College band in
upstate New York, also scheduled to perform at the
inauguration, say they won't participate, a school
spokesman said Monday.
The marching band of Alabama's oldest private,
historically black liberal arts college has accepted an
invitation to perform at President-elect Donald Trump's Ron White of Atlanta, a 1997 graduate of another
inaugural parade, organizers said. historically black college, Fort Valley State University in
Georgia, said he questioned why band members from
Talladega
Talladega College's band will march at Trump's
inauguration as other historically black schools such as
Howard University, which performed at President Barack "should be playing all these patriotic tunes
Obama's first inaugural parade, said they won't be for someone who has degraded us."
marching in the Jan. 20 event.
At the same time, though, White said he respects the
"We were a bit horrified to hear of the office of the president and he hopes that Talladega's band
invitation," said Shirley Ferrill of Fairfield, does well.
Alabama, a member of Talladega's Class
of 1974. "What they should do in my opinion is play
that national anthem the best way they've
"I don't want my alma mater to give the
ever played it in their life, because you're
appearance of supporting him," Ferrill said
basically saluting the country," White said
of Trump on Monday. "Ignore, decline or
in an interview.
whatever, but please don't send our band
out in our name to do that."
The nation's historically black colleges and universities
instill in students the idea that "ignored behavior is
The move has lit up Talladega College's social media
condoned behavior," said Reese Walker of Memphis,
sites with a sharp debate about the band's decision to
who marched in the band at Mississippi Valley State
participate in the parade. Some people voiced strong
University. That's one reason he doesn't think Talladega
opposition, while others support the band's participation.
College should participate.
"After how black people were treated at
Talladega College officials haven't returned several
Trump's rallies, you're going to go and
phone calls and emails seeking comment.
shuck and jive down Pennsylvania
Avenue? For what?" Seinya SamForay
said in an interview. "What they did is a The college was founded in 1867, by the descendants of
slap in the face to other black the slaves who helped to build its first building,
universities." according to historical documents on the college's
website.

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The decision to march in Trump's inaugural parade has "We're not looking to put anybody in a
also sparked controversy at Marist College in spot that conflicts with their personal
Poughkeepsie, New York. The band will be marching, beliefs," he added.
but some of its members will be staying home, school
spokesman Greg Cannon said Monday. About six to eight Marist band members among more
than 100 have said they won't perform, Cannon said. He
"They don't want to have anything to do said there won't be any repercussions for those students,
with the inauguration or President Trump and they will still have a place in the band when it returns
and we respect that, and that's their right," from Washington, D.C.
Cannon said.
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Traitor? Hillary Clinton Approved Arms Sales,
Including Chemical Weapons, To Terror
Supporting Countries After They Paid Her Off
As Corporate Media Talking Heads Accuse Trump Of Being A Traitor,
Clinton’s Numerous Shady Dealings Are Ignored
By Alex Thomas -
01.02.2017 @11:08 PM EST

Canadian elite, to sell off American land to foreign entities


for the purpose of uranium mining.

Unbelievably, this is literally only ONE of the many


instances of obvious corruption by Hillary Clinton during
her time as Secretary of State during which she turned the
State Department into her own little pay to play operation.

Pay to play weapon transfers

In May 2015 the International Business Times published


an exhaustive investigation into Clinton’s dealings during
her tenure as Secretary of State. The report revealed that
Gage Skidmore/Flickr Hillary had approved hundreds of billions of dollars worth
of arms sales to numerous sketchy foreign governments.
(INTELLIHUB) — Over the last few weeks we have seen
leftist “journalists” openly declare president-elect Donald Unsurprisingly to those who have studied how the Clinton
Trump a traitor due to his supposed ties to Russia and their political machine works, almost all of the countries (and
“hacking” of the DNC. defense contractors involved on the other end) who
received increased weapons deals had donated to the
Laughably, these same talking heads (and the entire Clinton family foundation to the tune of over 100 million
mainstream media for that matter) have continued to dollars.
completely ignore the numerous high profile shady
dealings that failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton To be clear, we are directly talking about a transparent pay
has been involved in. to play operation that has been publicly exposed to include
hundreds of billions of dollars yet agencies tasked with
From direct connections to the handling of the Hammond prosecuting these type of crimes (the FBI in particular)
family case that involved a Russian mining company to have so far filed not even a single charge.
selling chemical weapons to terror supporting nations,
Clinton has a documented record of working with the The International Business Times reported: (emphasis
worst countries throughout the world. mine)

In late January 2016, Intellihub founder Shepard Ambellas Under Clinton’s leadership, the State
published a viral report that connected the dots between Department approved $165 billion worth of
the Hammond family, the BLM, Hillary Clinton, and a commercial arms sales to 20 nations
Russian mining company. Subsequent research by Jon whose governments have given money to
Rappoport confirmed Shepard’s reporting and brought it to the Clinton Foundation, according to an
a major TV audience on the Infowars Nightly News. IBTimes analysis of State Department and
foundation data.
In a nutshell, Hillary and her foundation were implicated
in a dastardly scheme, along with the Russian State That figure — derived from the three full
Nuclear Energy Corporation, Rosatom, and a few dubious fiscal years of Clinton’s term as Secretary
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of State (from October 2010 to September gross human rights abuses as well as a record of support
2012) — represented nearly double the for terrorists.
value of American arms sales made to the
those countries and approved by the State That’s right, as the White House and the entire corporate
Department during the same period of media continue to attack Trump over dubious claims of
President George W. Bush’s second term. Russian hacking, former secretary of state and failed
The Clinton-led State Department also Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton walks
authorized $151 billion of separate free despite openly taking donations to sell arms to rogue
Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the nations, including chemical and biological weapons.
countries that donated to the Clinton
Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent The IBT’s report continues:
increase in completed sales to those
nations over the same time frame during The State Department formally approved
the Bush administration. these arms sales even as many of the
These extra sales were part of a broad deals enhanced the military power of
increase in American military exports that countries ruled by authoritarian regimes
accompanied Obama’s arrival in the White whose human rights abuses had been
House. The 143 percent increase in U.S. criticized by the department.
arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United
compares to an 80 percent increase in Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar all
such sales to all countries over the same donated to the Clinton Foundation and also
time period. gained State Department clearance to buy
American defense contractors also donated caches of American-made weapons even
to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary as the department singled them out for a
Clinton was secretary of state and in some range of alleged ills, from corruption to
cases made personal payments to Bill restrictions on civil liberties to violent
Clinton for speaking engagements. Such crackdowns against political opponents.
firms and their subsidiaries were listed as As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton also
contractors in $163 billion worth of accused some of these countries of failing
Pentagon-negotiated deals that were to marshal a serious and sustained
authorized by the Clinton State Department campaign to confront terrorism. In a
between 2009 and 2012. December 2009 STATE DEPARTMENT
[…] CABLE published by Wikileaks, Clinton
complained of “an ongoing challenge to
In all, governments and corporations persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist
involved in the arms deals approved by financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as
Clinton’s State Department have delivered a strategic priority.”
between $54 million and $141 million to
the Clinton Foundation as well as hundreds She declared that “Qatar’s overall level of
of thousands of dollars in payments to the CT cooperation with the U.S. is considered
Clinton family, according to foundation and the worst in the region.” She said the
State Department records. The Clinton Kuwaiti government was “less inclined to
Foundation publishes only a rough range of take action against Kuwait-based financiers
individual contributors’ donations, making a and facilitators plotting attacks.” She noted
more precise accounting impossible. that “UAE-based donors have provided
financial support to a variety of terrorist
Alright so we have Hillary Clinton lining her and her groups.”
families pockets in exchange for increased arms sales to All of these countries donated to the
our allies. Pretty blatant corruption but at least they are our Clinton Foundation and received increased
allies right?!? weapons export authorizations from the
Clinton-run State Department.
Wrong.
Its almost as if she would specifically accuse a country of
At this point the story gets even more sinister as it is one abuse or another as a signal to them that it was time to
revealed that many of the countries who donated to donate. Once they did, the weapons begun to flow. This is
Clinton’s foundation and subsequently received increased a documented fact that cannot be changed no matter how
weapons were authoritarian regimes accused of hard the vast network of Clinton shills try to confuse and
misinform.
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The case of Algeria is particularly damning as the Business sales to Algeria — nearly triple such
Times was able to prove that Clinton’s State-Department authorizations over the last full fiscal years
publicly attacked the country for numerous police state during the Bush administration. The Clinton
tactics only to change course and sell them arms, including Foundation did not disclose Algeria’s
chemical and biological weapons, at a 70 percent increase donation until this year — a violation of the
after they donated a cool half million to her family ethics agreement it entered into with the
foundation. Obama administration.

In its 2010 Human Rights Report, Clinton’s Similarly, the monarchy in Qatar was chastised by the
State Department inveighed against State Department for a variety of human rights abuses only
Algeria’s government for imposing to have Clinton oversee a 14-fold increase in weapons
“restrictions on freedom of assembly and sales to the terror supporting nation during her time as
association” tolerating “arbitrary killing,” Secretary of State.
“widespread corruption,” and a “lack of
judicial independence.” The report said the The Business Times report also revealed that the arms
Algerian government “used security manufactures on the other end of all these sales were also
grounds to constrain freedom of expression donating millions of dollars to the Clinton
and movement.” Foundation. Like I noted above, this is a transparent and
That year, the Algerian government utterly corrupt, full-scale pay to play operation.
donated $500,000 to the Clinton
Foundation and its lobbyists met with the That group of arms manufacturers — along
State Department officials who oversee with Clinton Foundation donors Boeing,
enforcement of human rights policies. Honeywell, Hawker Beechcraft and their
Clinton’s State Department the next year affiliates — were together listed as
approved a one-year 70 percent increase contractors in 114 such deals while Clinton
in military export authorizations to the was secretary of state. NBC put Chelsea
country. The increase included Clinton on its payroll as a network
authorizations of almost 50,000 items correspondent in November 2011, when it
classified as “toxicological agents, including was still 49 percent owned by General
chemical agents, biological agents and Electric.
associated equipment” after the State
Department did not authorize the export of To recap, foreign countries and American defense
any of such items to Algeria in the prior contractors donated over 100 million dollars to the Clinton
year. Foundation in exchange for a massive increase in arms
During Clinton’s tenure, the State sales that amounted to hundreds of billions of dollars.
Department authorized at least $2.4 billion
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Political Retribution? Trump Press Sec
Questions Russia Sanctions, Brings Up
Unanswered ‘China Hack’
Published Time: 2 Jan, 2017 03:28
Edited Time: 2 Jan, 2017 12:49

“Hold on let's look at this, in 2015, China


took over a million records, sensitive data
of people like me who had worked in the
government at any time, classified or
personal information, where we lived,
things we had written down on our
applications, our security clearances and…
a White House statement wasn’t even
issued. No action publicly was taken.
Nothing, nothing was taken when millions
of people had their private information,
Sean Spicer © Carlo Allegri / Reuters including information on security
clearances [compromised],” Spicer said.
The incoming White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer,
said it makes him wonder if President Obama’s anti- China has denied it has anything to do with the hacks.
Russian measures were “political retribution,” given that a After meeting Xi in Washington, DC in September 2015,
massive hack of federal data in 2015 linked to China saw Obama claimed US and China had agreed not hack each
“not one thing happen” in response. other’s intellectual property.

Spicer brought into question the magnitude of the new Spicer, however, argues that following the hack the only
sanctions approved by Barack Obama, which included the thing the White House did was to
expulsion of 35 diplomats and the closing of two
diplomatic facilities while speaking to ABC’s This Week
“send everyone who had worked in the
program hosted by Jonathan Karl and aired on Sunday.
government a letter saying that you get free
monitoring of your credit.”
“I think one of the questions that we have
is, ‘Why the magnitude of this?’ I mean you “Not one thing happened. So, there is a
look at 35 people being expelled, two sites question about whether there's a political
being closed down, the question is, ‘Is that retribution here versus a diplomatic
response in proportion to the actions response,”
taken?’ Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t – but
you have to think about that,” Spicer said, he added, alluding to the fact that it was the Democratic
adding later, “If you look at our history, you National Committee’s servers that the White House says
haven’t seen a response like that in “state-sponsored” Russian hackers intruded, and that the
modern history for any action.” information leaked was ultimately damaging to the
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump’s team member then went on to contrast
Obama’s decision with the apparent lack of action on what Spicer was cautious when assessing if the incoming
has been branded the biggest security breach in US president, Donald Trump, should reverse the sanctions,
government history, when millions of federal employees echoing Trump’s promise to get a separate intelligence
had their unique fingerprint records stolen. While US briefing on the hacking allegations.
officials have accused China of being behind the hack that
made headlines in June 2015, the furthest Obama went was “The President-elect needs to sit down
to warn Beijing of economic sanctions as President Xi with the heads of the intelligence
Jinping was visiting the US. communities next week and get a full

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briefing on what they knew, why they knew report does provide nine pages of security improvement
it, whether or not the Obama recommendations, as well as a disclaimer saying the DHS
administration's response was in proportion
to the actions taken,” Spicer said. “does not provide any warranties of any
kind regarding any information contained
When pressured by Karl with a question about whether the within.”
new FBI/DHS report made Trump “accept the fact that
Elsewhere in US mainstream media, where the story of the
Russia was behind the DNC hack,” Spicer responded that
“Russian hacking” has been aggressively pushed, the
the report did not actually talk about the Russian Washington Post had to walk back on its story alleging
government being responsible for the hack.
that “Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility” which
posed a risk “to US electrical grid security.”
“While the media played it up as this report
about the hacking, what it actually is, if you The article cited unnamed officials, but the company in
look through it, and its available online, is a question, Burlington Electric, then publicly clarified that
series of recommendations that should be there was only “suspicious internet traffic” detected on a
taken, like changing passwords, changing laptop not even connected to the grid.
administrative rights. What it shows is that
by all measures the Democratic National The Post added an editorial note saying,
Committee had a very lax IT support,”
Spicer pointed out. “An earlier version of this story incorrectly
said that Russian hackers had penetrated
Despite being menacingly titled “GRIZZLY STEPPE – the US electric grid. Authorities say there is
Russian Malicious Cyber Activity,” the December 29 no indication of that so far.” The headline,
report did not provide any evidence the hacking groups however, was still claiming that, “Russian
described there had any connection to Moscow. The details operation hacked a Vermont utility,” as of
of the hack itself remained vague, with the target being late Sunday, accompanied by a picture of
described as only “a US political party” and no indication Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)
given to which batch of leaked emails it referred – DNC’s building in central Moscow.
or Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta’s. The 13-page
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Will Trump Lift
US Sanctions On Russia?
By Stephen Lendman
1-2-2017

Some mainstream reports indicate he can at least partly do nonexistent “Russian aggression” in Ukraine, including
it, but not easily unless able to convince Congress of Crimea rejoining Russia, falsely called “annexation.”
Putin’s good intentions - despite no evidence of any
wrongful geopolitical actions on his part. Claims otherwise Imposing them was entirely for political reasons, part of
were fabricated. longterm US strategy to isolate, contain, weaken, and
marginalize Russia - a failed scheme.
What’s never explained in the mainstream is the legal
status of US imposed sanctions. Only Security Council Things turned out polar opposite what Washington
members can impose them on countries - not individual intended. Yet unsuccessful policies continue. Adversarial
nations against others. relations with Russia, China and other nations mean
lucrative contracts for war-profiteers.
All unilaterally imposed US sanctions against other nations
have no legal standing. They’re illegitimate. Trump can lift Justifying bloated military spending requires enemies,
them against Russia or any other country if he wishes - Russia considered America’s top existential threat by
not, however, without potential political consequences. lunatics infesting Washington and the Pentagon.

Lunatics infesting Washington want adversarial relations This type thinking provides a strong headwind, perhaps
maintained with Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and restraining Trump from normalizes ties with Russia and
other countries. cooperating with Putin in combating terrorism - at least to
the extent of what he may have in mind.
Neocon John McCain outrageously calls Putin “a thug, a
bully and a murderer…” Likeminded congressional GW Bush and Obama were weak presidents, putty in the
members express similar sentiments - polar opposite hard hands of America’s deep state, front men for their agenda.
truths.
Trump is strong-willed, likely the main factor contributing
Yet most Americans may be brainwashed to believe to opposition in high places, intensified by go-along media
what’s patently false, malicious and ridiculous. scoundrels, continuing even though he’s president-elect,
soon to succeed Obama.
Trump enters office the most widely disliked president in
US history. He’ll certainly try turning things around once His messages are mixed, wanting a more robust military,
in office. Whatever he does to further arouse anger will including a
complicate his task.
“greatly strengthen(ed) and expand(ed)
He’ll likely tread lightly on issues like lifting sanctions on nuclear capability until such time as the
Russia - perhaps not doing it straightaway, later some, not world comes to its senses regarding nukes”
all, at least during his early months in office. - separately saying “(l)et their be an arms
race…(w)e will outmatch them at every
Another issue is distinguishing between sanctions imposed pass and outlast them all.”
by Obama executive orders and others by congressional
action, making them US law, despite their illegitimacy. In contrast, he said

Lifting what Obama imposed can be done with a stoke of “(w)e’ve spent $4 trillion trying to topple
Trump’s pen. Undoing congressional actions is another various people that, frankly, if they were
matter entirely - risking a confrontation between the there and if we could have spent that $4
executive and legislative branches if he proceeds, what he trillion in the United States to fix our roads,
wants to avoid. our bridges, and all of the other problems -
our airports and all the other problems we
US sanctions on Russia were imposed for arms sales to have - we would have been a lot better off,
Syria, Iran, North Korea and other governments I can tell you that right now.”
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“We have done a tremendous disservice trillion dollars or 5 trillion dollars. I wish it
not only to the Middle East - (W)e’ve done were spent right here in the United States
a tremendous disservice to humanity. The on schools, hospitals, roads, airports, and
people that have been killed, the people everything else that are all falling apart!”
that have been wiped away - and for
what?” Ignore political posturing. Follow what politicians do in
office. Their actions define them. Trump’s agenda is
“It's not like we had victory. It's a mess. The unknown because he has no public record. Judge him
Middle East is totally destabilized, a total solely on how he serves once inaugurated.
and complete mess. I wish we had the 4
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Here’s What Russia Had To Say About Obama, Hacking
Accusations And US Sanctions
Posted By Daisy Luther
Date: January 02, 2017

The outgoing US administration has not given up on its


hope of dealing one last blow to relations with Russia,
which it has already destroyed. Using obviously inspired
leaks in the US media, it is trying to threaten us again with
expansion of anti-Russian sanctions, “diplomatic”
measures and even subversion of our computer systems.
Moreover, this final New Year’s “greeting” from Barack
Obama’s team, which is already preparing to leave the
White House, is being cynically presented as a response to
some cyber-attacks from Moscow.

President Obama and the US Congress have taken drastic Frankly speaking, we are tired of lies about Russian
measures to provoke Russia during the last days of the hackers that continue to be spread in the United States
administration. They’ve accused Russia of interfering with from the very top. The Obama administration launched this
the election in an attempt to delegitimize Trump’s election misinformation half a year ago in a bid to play up to the
and they kicked 35 Russian diplomats and their families required nominee at the November presidential election
out of the US today. (Get more details here.) and, having failed to achieve the desired effect, has been
trying to justify its failure by taking it out with a
Congressmen on both sides of the aisle are chomping at vengeance on Russian-US relations.
the bit, positively salivating over the idea of war with
Russia. Today, Republican House Speaker Paul However, the truth about the White House-orchestrated
Ryan expressed his delight support of Obama’s actions. provocation is bound to surface sooner or later. In fact, this
is already happening. On December 8, US media quoted
“Russia does not share America’s interests. In fact, it has Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp as saying that the
consistently sought to undermine them, sowing dangerous local authorities tracked down the origin of a hacker attack
instability around the world,” Ryan said shortly after the on his voter registration database after the election. The
White House announced the punishments. “While today’s attack was traced to an IP address of the Department of
action by the administration is overdue, it is an appropriate Homeland Security. This was followed by an attempt to
way to end eight years of failed policy with Russia. And it quickly cover up this information by a flood of new anti-
serves as a prime example of this administration’s Russian accusations that did not contain a single piece of
ineffective foreign policy that has left America weaker in evidence.
the eyes of the world.”
We can only add that if Washington takes new hostile
Russia is getting fed up. Today, in a statement, a steps, it will receive an answer. This applies to any actions
spokesperson for the Russian government said, chillingly, against Russian diplomatic missions in the United States,
“We can only add that if Washington takes new hostile which will immediately backfire at US diplomats in
steps, it will receive an answer.” Russia. The Obama administration probably does not care
at all about the future of bilateral relations, but history will
Here’s the entire statement from Maria Zakharova, the hardly forgive it for this après-nous-le-deluge attitude.
official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
the Russian Federation.
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Trump To ‘Repeal A Lot’ Of
Obama’s Actions: Top Aide
Mon Jan 2, 2017 10:15AM

He has accused Obama of jeopardizing the country’s


security by accepting thousands of refugees without using
a proper vetting process.

The Republican president-elect has pledged to deport


undocumented immigrants and build a wall on the border
with Mexico.

The New York businessman has also indicated that he


would pull out of the 2015 Paris Agreement to cut
greenhouse gas emissions. Obama was a signatory to the
US President-elect Donald Trump (L) and President Barack Obama
pact, which entered into force on November 4.
US President-elect Donald Trump will
repeal “a lot” of President Barack Trump, who believes climate change is a “hoax” created
Obama’s executive actions on his first by China, has picked Scott Pruitt, attorney general of
day in the White House, says a top aide Oklahoma and a skeptic of climate change, to head the US
to America’s 45th president. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Sean Spicer, Trump’s designated White House press On foreign policy, Trump has undermined Obama’s stance
secretary, told ABC on Sunday that the incoming president on Russia and has accused the outgoing president of
was planning to immediately annul some of Obama’s “creating” the Daesh (ISIL) terror group. He says he would
actions that he thinks have “hampered” the economy. cooperate with Russia in the fight against Daesh.

He would repeal “the regulations and Spicer said Sunday that Trump was also going to "bring a
actions that have been taken by this new brand to Washington" by banning members of his
administration over the last eight years that administration from becoming lobbyists for a period of
have hampered both economic growth and five years after they leave his government.
job creation,” Spicer said without revealing
more details.
“It's very forward-thinking,” he said. “What
we've had in the past is people who have
Trump has not held back criticism of Obama's decisions on looked in the rearview mirror. This time,
immigration, energy regulation and foreign policy. we're thinking forward. If you want to serve
in a Trump administration, you're going to
serve this country, not yourself.”
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Trump Warns Against Blaming
Russia For US Election Hacking
By Stephen Lendman
1-2-2017

On New Year’s eve, Trump said


“He’s going to talk about his conclusions
“I think it’s unfair (to blame Russia) if we and where he thinks things stand. He’s not
don’t know. It could be somebody else. I going to reveal anything that was privileged
also know things that other people don’t or was shared with him classified.”
know so we cannot be sure.”
“I think he can share with people his
“And so I want them to be sure. I think it’s conclusions of the report and his
unfair if they don’t know. And I know a lot understanding of the situation and make
about hacking. And hacking is a very hard sure people understand there’s a lot of
thing to prove.” (unanswered) questions out there.”

Asked what information he has, he said He called the FBI/DHS report alleging Russian hacking
woefully inadequate and incomplete. It’s not final, he
“(y)ou will find out on Tuesday or explained. Trump hasn’t seen it.
Wednesday,” without further elaboration.
“(J)umping to conclusions before we have
Last week, he said he’d be meeting with intelligence a final report is frankly irresponsible,”
officials to be briefed on what they claim. Spicer added. Separately he indicated
“zero evidence” linking Russia to election
On Saturday, he said hacking.

“(i)f you have something really important, It’s clear why not. No hacking occurred. Information was
write it out and have it delivered by courier, leaked by one or more Democrat insiders upset about
the old-fashioned way, because I’ll tell you Hillary getting her party’s nomination the old-fashioned
what, no computer is safe.” way - by stealing it.

Asked about what Trump may know he hasn’t explained, Claiming Russian hacking to delegitimize Trump’s
his designated White House communications director Sean election is another DNC/Obama intelligence community
Spicer said dirty trick doomed to fail.
“(i)t’s not a question of necessarily
revealing.”
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10 Ways That Donald Trump Could Try To Reverse The
Curse That Obama Has Put On America
By Michael Snyder
January 2nd, 2017

#1 Donald Trump should clearly disavow UN Security


Council Resolution 2334 during his Inaugural address.
This would send a clear signal to the rest of the world that
this new administration does not stand behind Obama’s
betrayal of Israel.

#2 Sanctions should be imposed on every nation that voted


in favor of the resolution. I know that this would be
politically tricky and would greatly upset the other
permanent members of the Security Council, but it should
still be done.

#3 There should be a congressional declaration clearly


disavowing UN Security Council Resolution 2334, and
When Barack Obama betrayed Israel at the United Donald Trump should endorse this declaration.
Nations, that put a curse on our nation. But that doesn’t
mean that we have to stay cursed. In the coming days, the #4 The Trump administration should immediately
new Trump administration should immediately start taking introduce another UN Security Council resolution that
steps to reverse the curse that we are under as a result of would include language that completely overturns the
what Obama has done. Perhaps if Donald Trump takes previous resolution. Of course that resolution would
strong enough steps to try to undo what Obama has almost certainly fail, but the point would be to show that
done, instead of being cursed we can once again return to the Trump administration is horrified by what has been
being blessed. done, and it would force the rest of the Security Council
into a very uncomfortable position.
One thing that Trump will not be able to undo is UN
Security Council Resolution 2334. It would take another #5 Trump should immediately move the U.S. embassy to
UN Security Council resolution to undo it, and the votes Jerusalem. By law this was already supposed to have
simply wouldn’t be there. UN Security Council happened anyway, but past presidents have always put the
Resolution 2334 passed by a vote of 14 to zero with the move off. Of course this would cause the Palestinians to
U.S. abstaining. And even if Trump could miraculously riot, but Trump needs to show the world that U.S. policy is
pull together enough votes, one of the other permanent not going to be dictated by threats of violence.
members of the Security Council (Russia, China, the UK
or France) could just veto it. #6 Trump should cut off all funding to the Palestinian
authority. Considering how much debt we are in, I don’t
So it looks like we are stuck with UN Security Council know why we are giving them money in the first place.
Resolution 2334, but that doesn’t mean that Trump can’t
do anything to try to address this matter. #7 Trump should publicly announce that his administration
will never recognize a Palestinian state. The rest of the
Recently, a Breitbart article suggested five steps that world would get very upset by this, but it is the right thing
Trump should take regarding Israel once he becomes to do.
president, and I would like to add another five to the list.
#8 Trump should publicly announce that it is the policy of
The following are 10 things that should immediately be the United States government that every inch of East
done once Trump becomes president to try to reverse the Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza strip and the Golan
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ever do this, but it would be the single most important step The official said the U.N. action could come in the form of
that he could take. declarations by U.N. bodies, including the General
Assembly; U.N. sessions on the Israeli-Palestinian
#9 The United Nations could be defunded in whole or in conflict; or even another United Nations Security Council
part. But we don’t want to leave the United Nations resolution. He said any further UNSC resolution would
entirely as some are suggesting. Now that Trump is going depend on the support of the U.S. and European countries
to be president, we want him to use the power that we have after the upcoming Paris Mideast summit slated for Jan.
on the Security Council to protect Israel. Because without 15.
the U.S. standing in the way, the rest of the world would
gang up on Israel in a major way. He said the U.N. action would seek to set the parameters of
a future Palestinian state with a clear timeline for
#10 Trump should make an immediate presidential visit to negotiations. If the action comes in the form of a resolution
Israel during the very first week of his presidency. This at a U.N. body, it could call for an infrastructure to
would largely be symbolic, but it would show the rest of establish mechanisms to enforce last week’s UNSC
the planet that we stand solidly with the Netanyahu resolution, which demanded a complete halt to Israeli
government. construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem and
declared those territories occupied Palestinian lands.
And if Barack Obama takes additional action against Israel
during the remaining days of his presidency, steps such as If the UN Security Council does vote to formally recognize
I have just outlined above will become even more a Palestinian state, all hell will break loose in America.
important.
Let us hope that does not happen, and let us hope that
There are still rumblings that we could see another UN Donald Trump works very hard to repair the damage that
Security Council resolution that would officially establish has already been done once he gets into office.
a Palestinian state before Obama leaves office. The
following comes from an article by Bob Eschliman…
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Trump's Self-Inflicted Policy Failures
SARTRE
January 3, 2017

Even the most avid and enthusiastic Trump supporter please Evangelicals, delight Jewish settlers
needs to be critical of their most hopeful America First and bring pleasure to Land of Israel zealots
president. For a dose of reality and objective conviction, far and wide. In many ways, Friedman will
who better to rely on than Pat Buchanan? His article, Israel seem like a turbo-charged Ron Dermer,
First or America First concludes with the fateful warning courting the extreme right in his host
for President –Elect Trump. “Having America publicly country while shunning all the rest. It will
reassert herself as Israel’s best friend, with "no daylight" upset many Israelis, including, possibly,
between us, could have us ending up as Israel’s only friend Netanyahu himself. The prime minister is
– and Israel as our only friend in the Middle East. Bibi’s always concerned more about his right-
Israel First policy must one day collide with America wing flanks than his opposition on the left:
First.” The last thing he needs is a U.S.
ambassador who supports his most feared
No other foreign policy issue can or will destroy Trump’s rivals.”
administration as clearly as becoming the lap dog for the
Likudnik sociopaths. They relish in their apartheid Even the New York Times is having a hemorrhage as
subjugation of the descendants of Ishmael, who are more reported in Donald Trump’s Israel Ambassador Pick Is
Semitic than the Khazars that made their exodus from Hazardous to Peace.
Eastern Europe and Central Asia to occupy the lands of
Palestine. “After his election, Mr. Trump suggested
that he wanted to bridge divisions within
Being born, raised and establishing his real estate empire our country. Mr. Friedman proudly
in what Jessie Jackson called “Hymietown”, it is no announces that he wants to widen and
surprise that Donald Trump has adopted the kosher culture deepen those divisions. Will Mr. Trump’s
of Jewish Supremacism. Metro New Yorkers are not stated desire to heal or will Mr. Friedman’s
known for their scholarship in authentic historical analysis, divisive calls define the direction of the
but are well renowned for their media manipulation in incoming administration?”
‘Political Correct” purity and social uniformity of anti-
traditional viewpoints. Complicate these concerns with the historic Secretary of
State John Kerry farewell speech that Israel must adopt
The Trump family daughter Ivanka preferred the company two-state solution for lasting peace. Well, Trump jumped
of Jewish men. She converted to Judaism before she on the Orthodox bandwagon with both feet. While Trump
married Jared Corey Kushner. The praxis of Zionism is Slams Obama "Inflammatory Statements", Tells Israel To
well established in their private and public life. Since both "Stay Strong, Jan 20 Is Fast Approaching" the path is laid
are slated to be intimate advisors in a Trump to adopt such a pro Zionist intervention that even the most
administration, it should be expected that the influence of hostile Neoconservative might start to warm up to Rabbi
Jewish Son-in-law Kushner Guided Trump's Triumphant Trump.
AIPAC Speech, will be substantial.
The prospects that the United States will broker a
So when Trump selects his trusted bankruptcy attorney negotiated Trump style mediation on the most
David Friedman to stake out properties to move the U.S. dysfunctional region in the Middle East and upon
Embassy to Jerusalem, the reaction received push back. quintessential eternal enemies in all of human existence
According to Chemi Shalev, Trump's Ambassador, Makes are total folly. The veritable art of the deal can and only
Netanyahu Look Like a J Street Lefty. come when all parties embrace that their own existential
survival is contingent upon renouncing violence as a
“This is not an ambassador that a rational means of extermination for deep enmity towards their
U.S. administration would send if it had any never-ending feud.
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There is no essential American national interest in dealing Mnuchin and Bannon have not worked at
with intractable zealots that view coexistence as tribal Goldman Sachs for years.
suicide. Continuous military support for Israeli’s nuclear
On the other hand, Cohn has worked at
blackmail is irrational. Trump is risking everything by
Goldman Sachs since 1990 and has been
allowing AIPIC a veto over our own foreign policy.
a partner since 1994.”

The warmongers within the Republican Party such as The New American weighs in this assessment, Trump
Senators McCain and Graham have thoroughly Picks Another Goldman Sachs Executive.
demonstrated their Neocon insanity and will do more
damage to sabotage any Trump effort to put into place a
non-interventionist shift in policy. By what fantasy “A global power structure that is
rationale could Trump use to ignore empirical reality to responsible for the economic decisions that
further Zionist imperialism? Forget coherent American have robbed our working class, stripped
self-interest, supporting Israel threatens World War III. our country of its wealth and put that
money into the pockets of a handful of
large corporations and political entities,”
Now turn your attention to the economic character of was the wording of a Trump TV commercial
continuing the strangle hold over money and commerce. late in the presidential campaign, complete
The Wall Street model for crony capitalism is a charade of with the face of the chief executive of
free enterprise. A market economy has been dead for over Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, on the
a century with the imposition of the Federal Reserve. screen.
Yet President-elect Donald Trump has
named Blankfein’s friend and associate,
the chief operating officer of Goldman
Sachs, Gary Cohn (shown), to lead the
National Economic Council (NEC), the third
Goldman executive tapped for either a staff
or Cabinet post.”

The reason why placing the perpetual clan of banksters to


control the levers of government monetary and economic
Watch the video, Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs Is Big Winner In policy is so detrimental to the well being of working
Trump Election Victory. Americans is well stated in how Goldman Sachs: Making
Money by Stealing It.
Trump has capitulated to the powers of the corporatist
elites with his appointments that Make America “It makes money the old-fashioned way,
Goldman’s Again (#MAGA): The Swamp Is Now Full. through market manipulation, the
scamming of investors, bribing political
“Removing all doubt about the Parasite Washington, having its executives in top
Guild theory, Donald Trump rolled out his administration posts, and getting open-
latest Jewish vampire squid pick as chief ended low or no interest rate bailouts when
economic adviser: Goldman Sachs COO needed.”
(((Gary Cohn))). Cohn’s specialization is
total debt strangulation.” By continuing the placement of Goldman Sachs in charge
of Treasury and the NEC, the Trump revolution lost the
Even Forbes admits Goldman Sachs Wins Again As first major battle. It also proves that international finance
Trump Eyes Gary Cohn For Top Economic Post. This rules every administration. Review the List of Goldman
appointment is especially ominous. Sachs employees in the White House for additional
documentation.
“With Cohn advising President Trump,
Goldman Sachs will have one of its own If Trump is going to make America Great Again, he will
advocating on economic policy. Much has need to refinance the national debt. With a highly
been made of Trump’s decision to add Wall overpriced dollar, now is the time to shift short term
Street-types to his administration, including Treasury borrowing into long term debt. Issue a fifty year
some with former ties to Goldman, like bond and retire T-Bill obligations so that when the dollar
Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, sinks (as it surely will) the government can retire (don’t
Steven Mnuchin, and Trump’s top White hold your breath) relatively low interest rate obligations
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Somehow, Goldman shylocks have seldom manifested Getting elected was certainly a political phenomenon, but
national sympathy for American taxpayer citizens. Just being able to effectively defy the entire federal
maybe some dual loyalist bankster will want to fund the government career class of establishment sycophants
perennial deficit in order to keep the funds flowing to pay would be a miracle.
for those newly delivered F-35 fighter jets to continue
Bibi’s Israel First policy. America First is not very popular within the chambers of
government corruption. The reign of terror system of
Donald Trump could have avoided these missteps if he bureaucratic governance fears that Trump actually wants to
was confident that the establishment could be defied drain the swamp. He is walking a tightrope already and
directly. Sadly, the reality is that Trump already has a cannot afford adding complications of his own making by
bulls- eye target painted on his administration and that doing the bidding of the viper den bourse for derivative
cutting Israel loose and firing the money-lenders may just speculation. Sincere and goodwill citizens need to give
be one bridge too far. support and have patience so that the populist movement
can take root.
As a strong supporter of the Trump Nation, the hopes and
faith in his middle class revolution was always a long shot.
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Trump Is Exactly Where The Elites Want Him
Posted by Brandon Smith
Date: January 03, 2017

I have seen endless theories over the past several months


on all the ways in which the global elites would sabotage
the Trump campaign. I believe the phrase “they will never
allow him to win” was repeated in nearly every discussion
on the election. The assumption in this instance was that
Trump is “anti-establishment” and, therefore, a threat to
the globalists. These are the same globalists that people
also claimed would “rig the election,” or initiate a “coup”
in the electoral college to stop a Trump presidency.

Of course, this never happened. So, a large percentage of


the movement needs to question — why didn’t it happen?
How did Trump win within a system we know has been
Cognitive dissonance is a powerful drug. It makes rigged for decades?
otherwise-very-intelligent people goofy and incoherent in
their thinking and blinds them to certain realities that they You’ll hear hundreds of theories and rationalizations on
should normally see right in front of their noses. I witness Trump’s miraculous victory, but a reason you will almost
it all the time in the field of economics — a key piece of never hear is also the most likely one: Trump won the
logic, a key fact that certain people absolutely refuse to election because he serves the interests of the
take into account simply because they have a singular idea establishment. Trump won because he is a fake.
of how the world works and they cannot allow that idea to
ever come into question. They would rather leap into a This is not an idea that many liberty activists want to
mental gymnastics routine worthy of an Olympic gold entertain. They were so repulsed by the proposition of
medal than examine the truth. And if you confront them on Hillary Clinton taking the helm at the White House that
it, they’ll accuse YOU of being the one in denial. they would have invested themselves in almost ANYONE
running against her, even if they thought that candidate
This is how we ended up with the credit crisis and market might be controlled opposition. However, not just anyone
crash of 2008/2009. This is how very few people saw the was fielded as a candidate; Trump was fielded, and for
writing on the wall with Syria and ISIS and the fact that good reason. I predicted before the Republican and
the funding and training of Islamic extremists by Western Democratic primaries that the final election would be
governments for the purpose of proxy insurgency might between Trump and Clinton in my article Will A Trump
not be such a great concept. It is the reason why it took Presidency Really Change Anything For The Better?,
years for the mainstream to acknowledge the advent of the published in March, and here is a quote on why:
East/West paradigm, the same paradigm that alternative
analysts warned about years in advance. This is why most “The other ingenious aspect of the Trump
mainstream AND alternative analysts completely campaign is really who he is running
discounted a successful Brexit referendum. And, it is why against — Hillary Clinton, a rabidly liberal
the vast majority of pundits could not even conceive of a candidate even more hated than Barack
Trump victory in 2016. I could write a list 20 pages long Obama. A candidate with a potentially
on all the geopolitical and fiscal developments most people serious criminal record and a penchant for
missed because they were clinging to assumptions rather an outright communistic world view far
than evidence. beyond that of Bernie Sanders. Those of us
who have been in the writing field for a long
Unfortunately, the liberty movement is also sometimes time and have dabbled in fiction know that
vulnerable to such assumptions. The most dangerous of in order to create a fantastic hero, you must
which revolve around the rise of President-elect Donald first put even more work into creating a
Trump. fantastic villain. The hero is nothing without
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The unmitigated horror inherent in the George Soros; Mnuchin used to work directly for George
prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency is Soros at Soros Fund Management up until 2004.
like adding jet fuel to the Trump campaign.
(And yes, I am assuming according to the Then, for those people that thought maybe Mnuchin was
results of the primaries so far that the final just an anomaly, Trump added Gary Cohn, president of
election will be between Trump and Goldman Sachs, as the director of the National Economic
Clinton).” Council.

My point back then as well as now is that without Clinton Trump’s chief strategist and Breitbart executive Steve
as the counter-party, Trump would not have garnered the Bannon is also a former Goldman Sachs investment
political following he did. Any other Democratic banker.
candidate would not have galvanized conservatives so
fervently. As I continued in my pre-primaries article:
It is interesting to note that over a quarter of the gains in
the delusional Dow Jones spike after Trump’s election was
“Donald Trump appears to be the perfect tied to a rise in Goldman Sachs stock value. Imagine
antithesis to Hillary Clinton. … the real that…
question is, is Trump a reflection of the
frustration and defiance of the conservative
Trump is also now “advised” on economic matters by the
population, or, is he a clever ruse by the
likes of JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon. Are we starting to get
establishment to co-opt and placate the
the picture here?
conservative population before we rebel?”
If that is not enough, then how about the fact that Trump is
The staging of the 2016 election might have appeared to
being closely advised by long time globalist Henry
some people to be absolute chaos, but to me, it could not
Kissinger (just as Vladimir Putin is advised by Kissinger)?
have been more perfectly scripted. In later articles
I’m not sure why so many people are surprised by this
covering the election I went on to give Trump a chance. I
arrangement; Trump was meeting with Kissinger months
stated that I had little doubt that he would win the election
before the election. No matter the administration, there is
and that this would be followed by an economic crisis,
ALWAYS a high level globalist behind the curtain.
probably triggered early in his first term. Conservative
Barack Obama had Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Trump and
movements would be set up as scapegoats for a crash the
Putin have Kissinger.
globalists had created. However, I believed it (marginally)
possible that Trump was not aware of this strategy on the
part of the elites. Today, I no longer hold this view. I won’t go into the numerous establishment Republicans
that Trump has tapped for his administration, I will save
that can of worms for another article, but anyone in the
The first and worst sign that Trump is not anywhere near
Liberty Movement that is not at least generally suspicious
“anti-establishment” has been his complete reversal of his
of Trump at this point is probably kidding themselves.
original “drain the swamp” rhetoric. Trump is not only
The bottom line is, Trump has already LIED to his
NOT draining the swamp that is the Washington D.C. and
political base. He has surrounded himself with globalists
corporate elitist revolving door, he is adding even more
and financial gatekeepers when he originally criticized
creatures of varying ghoulishness. As Newt Gingrich, who
Clinton for the same behavior. At this point, as long as he
describes himself as an outside adviser to Trump, recently
working in close proximity with such parasites there is no
stated:
way for us to know if he is calling the shots, or if his
handlers are making decisions for him.
“I’m told he now just disclaims that…”
[Draining the swamp] “He now says it was
I have heard it argued that Trump “has no choices” outside
cute, but he doesn’t want to use it
of D.C. insiders, which is why his cabinet is loaded with
anymore…”
bottom feeders from Goldman Sachs. I find this argument
rather naive. I would argue that there are thousands of
There is a good reason why Trump no longer wants to use brilliant professionals and people far more trustworthy
that particular slogan — his cabinet is now filled with the outside of the beltway that could populate Trump’s cabinet
exact same elitists he used to slam along with the and “make America great again.” I would even argue that
Washington establishment. ANY person with little experience inside the D.C.
corruption chamber would be better suited to the job.
Trump first placed former Goldman Sachs partner Steven
Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary. Goldman Sachs has a long It seems to me that there are some activists that just can’t
history of insinuating its alumni into vital positions within let go of the notion that Trump was the candidate the elites
government bodies dealing directly with the economy. wanted all along. After all, didn’t the powers-that-be do
Mnuchin is particularly troubling because of his ties to
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everything in their power to try and stop him from winning and yes, this did help to ensure a Trump win. The
the election? accusations of “Russian hacking” is clearly a sideshow, but
the question remains, who did feed that information to
Well, not really. The media firestorm surrounding Trump, Wikileaks? Some theorize that “disgruntled employees”
though highly negative in tone, only boosted Trump’s within the U.S. intelligence apparatus may have leaked the
exposure throughout the election. In fact, Trump received data. I think they were not disgruntled. I think that most of
more coverage from outlets like CNN than all the other the leaks were part of the election theater from the very
candidates combined. beginning. In light of Trump’s clear goal to entrench
banking vampires within his administration, I think that the
elites always intended for him to “win” the election.
This was the exact opposite tactic that the elitist controlled
media used against true liberty candidate Ron Paul in
2012. With Paul, the media went out of their way to ignore Of course, for some in the liberty movement this claim is
him; they even refused to show a single Ron Paul sacrilegious. They don’t want to hear it, they’ll hate me for
campaign sign in a crowd if they could avoid it. This was a saying it, and that’s fine. I started my work in 2006 during
concerted systematic effort on the part of left AND right the Bush years, and I remember quite well what it was
wing media outlets to ensure that no one outside of the like. I have little doubt that some people will be accusing
internet heard about Ron Paul. me of being a “liberal” before they even finish this article,
just as people called me a “Neo-Con” during the Obama
So what happened with Trump? Why did the mainstream administration. People who held fast to “conspiracy
media abandon a strategy that was very effective against theories” surrounding the election and how Clinton was
the “chosen one” will now hypocritically call me a
Ron Paul, and why did they give Trump endless free
“conspiracy theorist” for pointing out that NO ONE gets
coverage?
into the White House without being vetted by the elites,
even Trump.
The elites also did not take very stringent measures to
disrupt Trump’s candidacy early in the race. The
Working in alternative media means not caring if people
Republican National Convention undertook a campaign of
like you or dislike you. I’ve been able to make numerous
disinformation and rule changes in order to ensure that
correct predictions because I do not concern myself with
Ron Paul would have no chance of organizing an upset
against establishment choice Mitt Romney. The same the pressures of conforming to group-think. My only hope
exact kind of treachery was used by the DNC in 2016 to is that many in the movement realize sooner rather than
later that their faith in Trump has been ill invested. The
sabotage Bernie Sanders — arguably a far more popular
great danger is that the liberty movement, the best last
and effective candidate than Hillary Clinton. The party
chance for saving this nation, will sit on its collective
elites have numerous tools at their disposal to kill a
hands idle, centralizing all their hopes and eggs into the
candidate’s chances before he or she ever makes it on the
national stage, yet, we are supposed to believe that Trump Trump basket, waiting for him to gallop in on his white
just slipped through the cracks, or beat them at their own horse and save us all from oblivion. And when that time
comes, I suspect that he will do nothing, and the
game? I think not.
movement will be neutralized by its own desperate desire
for a hero and an idol.
The election itself was riddled with email leaks and data
dumps showcasing the corruption of the Clinton campaign,
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How Smart Is That?
A Message From Our Founder And Ceo
Charles R. Smith - Ceo Founder Of Softwar Inc.
January 3, 2017

features a "one at a time" delete function for messages


which is difficult to use. These two functions - or lack
thereof - make it easy for Twitter to monetize the Direct
Message service by reading them, recording them and then
selling the information to 3rd parties for spam,
advertisements and government (law enforcement)
agencies to use.

Let's consider this for a moment. Twitter, which has had


many celebrity accounts hacked by simple password
guess-work, was used by the ex-Ambassador so he could
There is a common thread that runs from the recent loss in transmit private information. Those very same open
the Presidential elections by Democrats, the Obama messages he sent are now part of a data mining strip search
administration, the BREXIT vote in the UK and the being sold on the open market as well as posted on Twitter
massive publication of DNC emails by Wikileaks. It all by a hacker who managed to get into his account.
boils down to some people are so smart they're stupid.
How smart is that?
Let's start with Michael McFaul, ex-ambassador under
Obama to Moscow, Rhodes Scholar, DPhil in international McFaul's dilemma sounds so very familiar of the smarty
relations from Oxford University, Professor of Political pants class enrolled in the Obama administration. We have
Science, Director and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Hillary, the "most qualified person to ever run for
Institute for International Studies, the Peter and Helen President" using her personal - not secure - email server set
Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a up in her basement to pass classified information around
Professor at Stanford University. You would imagine, after the globe. We have Professor John Podesta, often cited as
the breath-taking list of academic and political the Clinton go-to man on computer security policy, falling
achievements, that McFaul is a pretty smart guy. So would for a fake "reset your password" web site and suddenly
it shock you that the smarty pants trusted his Twitter 30,000 gmails that he refused to delete are sprayed all over
account to message private information? the Wikileaks pages in a waterfall of damaging
information.
How smart is that?
We also have the Director of the CIA, John Brennan who
According to the New York Daily News, McFaul's Twitter had his personal email hacked by a couple of stoned
account appears to have been hacked. His account began teenagers out for a night of cyber-fun. Worse, the same
spitting out his private messages, including one with his stoners also hacked Brennan's boss, the Director of
phone number, and plastering them all over the Internet. National Intelligence James Clapper.
The former Obama ambassador to Moscow confirmed to
the Daily News that he had sent his number as a private One of the stoners also thought it would be fun to hack the
message but that it posted for the public to see. McFaul FBI. So he called up the FBI computer help desk, told
also said that Twitter had contacted him Thursday morning them he was their boss and demanded they give him his ID
about “suspicious activity” around his account. and password to log in. The result? The stoners posted the
full bios of 30,000 FBI agents, including location, pictures
Now let's distinguish here what the mad Professor was and personal details, on the Internet.
doing. He was using Twitter's Direct Message service to
send instant communications to others - not posting How smart is that?
Tweets online.
Now how does this relate to the election and to the
It is well known that Twitter intentionally avoided putting BREXIT vote? Easy. Both votes were shoe-in - "we've got
in secure encrypted Direct Messages. In fact, Twitter even it in the bag" - events for the smarty pants running the
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global policy in America and Britain. The public certainly comprehend that humanity does not trust them with total
must trust the Brainiac nerds who made all the policy for control.
the last 20 years in the western world. Clearly, the people
who promoted "intelligent" design were more qualified to They still don't understand that their kind of intelligent
run things that a normal person. design brought us the Shih Tzu while mother nature with
her random evolution brought us the Wolf.
After all, the design by intelligence folks brought us
socialism, trade imbalance, job exodus and really
important bathroom policies for about 1/2 a percent of the
entire population. Their great achievements include a
continuous war in the middle east, massive refugee
problems, slave labor in China and the far east, the virtual
elimination of the middle class and the drive to the bottom
for everyone else but themselves.

When the election results came in - the wonks were


stunned. Now the ruling elite and the smarty pants nerds
are falling all over themselves in total denial. They are
screeching and howling like mad poodles who can't figure
out why the Internet connected dog feeder doesn't work
when the kid next door hacked it. They just can't How smart is that?
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Trump Vs The Media
Politics Has Been Turned Into Theater. And Donald
Trump Happens To Be The Best Actor.
By VNN
January 3, 2017

The trench warfare continues: Mainstream media’s Politics has been turned into Theater. And Donald Trump
coverage of president-elect Trump has changed little since happens to be the best actor. And the Media helps make
the campaign ended. Is the media setting Trump up for him that way.
failure? And can he effectively fight back?
The Media – The Washington Post and the New York
CrossTalking with David Paul Kuhn, Mark Crispin Times essentially serve as public relations firms for Hillary
Miller, and H. A. Goodman. Clinton and the Democratic establishment.

Published on Dec 7, 2016 The introspection on the part of the Media in the entire
coverage of this campaign has been paper thin.

This new meme out there ‘Fake News’…that came out is


kind of a self justification for what they (MSM) did or
din’t do during the election. Fake News is sort of a latest
version of conspiracy theory. It is an attempt to
marginalize voices of dissent or different voices out there.
That’s all it is.

Look at the corruption and collusion that Wikileaks


exposed… the dinner at John Podesta’s house with a
whole bunch of journalists from NYTImes, WPost, NBC,
CNBC, CNN, MSNBC. Chuck Todd hosting a dinner for
Brief statements from the discussion in this video: John Podesta and Jennifer Palmieri. You see the immense
collusion between the Media and the Democrats.
Trumps is a reflection of many of the worst characteristics
that have come to define our Political Media in United Will Trump go directly to the citizen? Is Trump trolling
States. the media?

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Were RT And Drudge Taken Down So Government Could
Control Anti-Russia Narrative?
Posted by Daisy Luther
Date: January 03, 2017

Drudge Report was down briefly around 7 p.m. EST, but


working hours later. The top headline read: “MOSCOW
MOCKS OBAMA ‘LAME DUCK’” Meanwhile, the
conservative Washington Times wrote:

“Matt Drudge suggests U.S. government


cyberattack on Drudge Report website.
DDoS attack comes same day Obama
announced countermeasures against
Russia for hacking of Democrats.”
Just hours after announcing the government intended
to punish Russia for “interfering in the presidential Conservatives on Twitter also accused the government of
election,” Drudge Report, a massive news aggregator with shutting down the Russian news website, RT.
over 3 million page views per day, was hit by a massive
DDoS attack. The attack occurred just minutes after people “Numerous reports of Russian state-run
started reporting that the Russian state-run news network Network RT being unavailable. Drudge
RT was “unavailable” in parts of the United States. Report also under ‘Biggest DDoS attack
since site’s inception,’” wrote one user.
It doesn’t stretch the imagination too considerably to
believe that both RT and Drudge being simultaneously No one has claimed responsibility for the takedown of the
taken down was linked to Obama’s announcement just two sites.
hours earlier.
This is an attack on non-state journalism.
The US government has been trying in
vain to regain control of the official
narrative, but citizen journalists, If a site as huge as Drudge Report can be taken down on a
independent media, and sources from whim, this doesn’t bode well for the little guys in
outside the country have been strong independent media. It’s outrageously expensive to defend
influences ever since the MSM was a website against attacks like this. The monthly server
completely discredited as a mouthpiece costs alone for a well-protected setup could be in the tens
during the election. of thousands, an amount that few of us have in the budget.

A report in IBTimes stated: After the ridiculous accusations of fake news and Russian
propaganda, one has to wonder if website attacks will be
the next effort to drive independent media out of business.
A large-scale distributed denial of service
attack, or DDoS, can cause major Internet
disruptions. In the past, such attacks have Russia is ticked off but keeping it classy.
shut down major websites such as Twitter,
Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Tumblr, and Russia is getting fed up. Today, Russian Foreign Minister
Reddit. The attack sends a server many Sergei Lavrov requested that President Vladimir Putin
illegitimate requests to make it hard for real gives permission for 35 US diplomats to be expelled from
requests to get through, effectively shutting Russian soil.
down the site.
To the astonishment of many, Vladimir Putin refused the
request.

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… in a stunning reversal, the Russian Russian media say the Russians facing expulsion from the
leader took the high road, rejected the embassy in Washington are struggling to buy plane tickets
Lavrov proposal, and in a statement posted because flights are full ahead of the New Year holiday.
by the Kremlin said that Russia won’t expel
any Americans in retaliation to US moves, They will be forced to travel to New York, where their
in a brutal demonstration of just how chances of finding plane seats are better, an “informed
irrelevant Obama’s 11th hour decision is for source” told Interfax news agency.
US-Russian relations…
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
In the just released statement, Putin laughed off Obama’s has denied a report by CNN that Moscow is shutting down
11th hour temper tantrum, and said that Russia won’t a school attended by diplomats’ children.
cause problems to U.S. diplomats or deport anyone, adding
that Russia has the right to respond in tit-for-tat manner,
She said it was a “lie” that the Anglo-American School
faced closure as retaliation.
but it will not engage in irresponsible
diplomacy.
Meanwhile, the Russian embassy to the UK tweeted a
visual gag calling the Obama presidency a lame duck.
The punchline, however, was saved for what may be
Russia’s final slam of the debacle that is Obama’s
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zhakarova took off
administration saying that “It’s a pity that the current U.S.
the gloves with several statements, telling us how Russia
administration is finishing their work in such a manner”
really feels about Obama.
saying that Russia refuses
First, on Facebook (translation from The Observer):
“to sink to the level of this irresponsible
“kitchen” diplomacy.”
“We have been saying this all along,
people [who] inhabited the White House for
Putin ended the statement by congratulating U.S.
8 years are not Administration but a bunch
President-elect Donald Trump, and the American people
of foreign policy losers, angry and primitive.
on the New Year and invited the hildren of US diplomats
Today, Obama admitted this officially. The
to a holiday celebration at the Kremlin.(source)
most amazing thing is that, having not been
able to write down into the history of the
This administration is an international Presidency any achievements on
embarrassment. international arena, the Nobel Prize
Laureate managed to put a fat blob instead
It seems that Obama, in the final days of his of elegant dot…Today, America, American
administration, is hellbent on causing as much people were humiliated by their own
international bad feeling and disruption as possible. President. Not by international terrorists or
foreign enemy’s troops. It’s a curtain time.
[The] ugly show is over. The whole world,
 Obama and his cronies are mad that Putin and Trump from stalls to the gallery, had been
will most likely get along better than he ever did with watching the crashing blow to the prestige
the Russian of America and to its leadership, caused by
 They are upset that the Turkey-Russia ceasefire in Barak Obama and his illiterate foreign
Syria – brokered and implemented without a huge policy team that opened to the world her
amount of fanfare a la John Kerry, was arranged with biggest secret—exclusiveness was a mask
no US involvement whatsoever. for helplessness.
 They still can’t get over the fact that Hillary Clinton lost
the presidential election. And no enemy of the United States
 And finally, they are angry that the Electoral College could have done worse damage.”
didn’t play ball and make waves in their allocation of
votes. Sadly, Russia may be right. The world has watched aghast
at the antics of Clinton supporters and at the last ditch
The BBC World Service has reported that the Russians attempts of President Obama to leave the worst legacy
expelled from the United States are struggling to get flights possible for his replacement.
during the holiday period. Making these individuals
persona non grata means they have to leave US soil within What a sad state of affairs.
72 hours of the order.
Article syndicated from DaisyLuther.com
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Turmoil Overshadows First Day Of
Republican-Controlled Congress
By Jennifer Steinhauer And Robert Pear
JAN. 3, 2017

Budget language released on Tuesday gives House and


Senate committees only until Jan. 27 to produce legislation
that would eliminate major parts of the health care law.
Under arcane budget procedures, that legislation would be
protected from a Democratic filibuster and could pass the
Senate with a simple majority. And debate will begin on
Wednesday, before senators have even moved into their
new offices.

The dueling over the health law’s fate will pull in both the
departing and incoming White House administrations as
The 115th session of Congress opened on Tuesday amid controversy well. On Wednesday, Mr. Obama will visit with
involving a Republican-led effort to gut the Office of Congressional
Ethics. By REUTERS. Photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York
congressional Democrats to plot how to resist the planned
Times. repeal, and Mike Pence, the vice president-elect, will meet
with Republicans to gird them for the fight ahead.
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled Congress
opened the turbulent Trump era in Washington on
Tuesday, as the new Senate moved instantly to begin the
repeal of President Obama’s signature health care law
while the House descended into chaos in an ill-fated
attempt to gut an independent congressional ethics office.

On a day usually reserved for pomp, constitutionally


mandated procedure and small children parading around in
fancy dresses, Congress instead pitched itself into partisan
battles.

Speaker Paul D. Ryan easily won re-election, but not


before the embarrassment of having his members defy him
by voting to eliminate the ethics office, only to then
abandon that effort after a flood of criticism from
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York officially became
constituents and Twitter messages from President-elect
Donald J. Trump that criticized House Republican the Democratic leader on Tuesday. Credit Al Drago/The
priorities. New York Times

It was a rocky start to a period in which Republicans had While the Senate action showed Republicans on course to
promised an end to Washington gridlock if they controlled keep campaign promises, the House got off to a messy
both Congress and the White House. There was intraparty start, brought on by Republicans who had moved largely in
conflict and a sense that Mr. Trump, who ran against the secret on Monday to gut a congressional ethics office
Republican establishment, would continue to be openly against Mr. Ryan’s wishes.
critical of his own party at times.
That provoked an outcry from both Democrats and voters
As Democrats in both chambers seethed, Senator Mitch who flooded House offices with angry calls.
McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, unveiled the
legislative language that could decimate the Affordable “Every left-wing organization is calling my
Care Act before the crocuses start to bloom in the spring, office,” said Representative Pete Sessions,
even if any replacement of the law could take years. Republican of Texas. “And we’ve told them:
‘Thank you very much. We appreciate your
feedback.’”
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After a hastily called meeting on Tuesday morning among On Tuesday, the House also adopted rules clearing the way
Republicans, the matter was dropped before it could go to for legislation to roll back the health care law.
the full House floor for a vote.
The budget blueprint introduced on Tuesday in the Senate
As the Senate moved to larger legislative matters, the is not sent to the president and does not become law, but
House kerfuffle seemed to cast a shadow over Mr. Ryan, still clears the way for subsequent legislation that
but he tried to brush it off. Republicans say will repeal major provisions of the
Affordable Care Act.
“There’s no sense of foreboding in the
House today,” Mr. Ryan said after his re- Republicans bypassed the Budget Committee so they could
election, “only the sense of potential.” immediately bring the measure to the floor. Such
resolutions are normally developed after weeks of work in
The fight over the House rules was already acrimonious the Budget Committee.
thanks to a piece of the package that would impose $2,500
in fines for filming events on the House floor, a response Under the plan, four congressional committees — two in
to Democrats who streamed their overnight sit-in over the House and two in the Senate — have until Jan. 27 to
guns last June using cellphones and video cameras. develop legislation that will be the vehicle for repealing
the health care law.
In the Senate, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. swore in
seven new members and all the incumbents who won their
races last year, their colleagues looking on cheerfully, as a
cold rain pelted the newly refurbished Capitol dome.

Members of the House and Senate brought along their


families — elderly parents with canes, small children
tugging at uncomfortable lacy hems — as well as former
senators and other special guests. Former Vice President
Dick Cheney accompanied his daughter Liz to her
swearing-in as a member of the House elected from
Wyoming.

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York officially became


Members of the House were sworn in by Speaker Paul D. Ryan on
the Democratic leader and quickly warned Republicans Tuesday. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
that the minority would be vocal, if not operatic, in
resisting much of their agenda and many of Mr. Trump’s
The document does not specify which provisions of the
nominees.
law may be eliminated and which ones may be preserved.
Nor does it specify or even suggest how Republicans
“It is our job to do what’s best for the would replace the Affordable Care Act, which the Obama
American people, the middle class and administration says has provided coverage to some 20
those struggling to get there,” he said. “If million people who were previously uninsured.
the president-elect proposes legislation on
issues like infrastructure, trade and closing
Republicans have said they may delay the effective date of
the carried interest loophole, for instance,
a repeal bill, to avoid disrupting coverage for people who
we will work in good faith to perfect and,
have it and to provide time for Republicans to develop
potentially, enact it. When he doesn’t, we
alternatives to the 2010 health law.
will resist.”
The budget blueprint allows Republicans to use savings
He added,
from repealing major provisions of that law to help offset
the cost of future, unspecified measures to help people
“If President-elect Trump lets the hard-right obtain coverage.
members of Congress and his cabinet run
the show, if he adopts their timeworn
“Americans face skyrocketing premiums
policies — which benefit the elites, the
and soaring deductibles,” said Senator
special interests and corporate America,
Mike Enzi, Republican of Wyoming and
not the working man and woman — his
chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
presidency will not succeed.”
“Insurers are withdrawing from markets
across the country, leaving many families

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with fewer choices and less access to care Republicans have said they may delay legislation to
than they had before — the opposite of replace the health law for several years.
what the law promised.”
Ms. Pelosi said that such a delay would be
The American Medical Association urged Congress on “an act of cowardice on the part of
Tuesday to explain how it would replace the Affordable Republicans,” and that “they don’t even
Care Act. have the votes to do it” because they have
not agreed on a replacement plan.
“Before any action is taken through
reconciliation or other means that would Democrats also vowed to give Mr. Trump’s cabinet
potentially alter coverage, policy makers nominees rigorous scrutiny.
should lay out for the American people, in
reasonable detail, what will replace current Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the highest-ranking
policies,” the chief executive of the Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, has written to
association, Dr. James L. Madara, said in a Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the committee
letter to congressional leaders. chairman, asking to postpone the first scheduled
confirmation hearing, set for next week for Senator Jeff
Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, who engineered Sessions of Alabama, whom Mr. Trump has chosen as
the House passage of the health law in 2010, promised this attorney general.
week that Democrats would be just as aggressive in
fighting its repeal.
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Washington Post Admits Its 'Russians Hacked
A US Utility' Story Was 'Fake News'
By Tyler Durden
Jan 3, 2017 6:54 PM

Over the weekend we noted that the Washington Post was


caught spreading "fake news" about an alleged attempt by
"Russian hackers" to take over a Vermont Utility (see
"Washington Post Caught Spreading More Fake News
About 'Russian Hackers'").

Within hours of reporting that the


"Russian hackers" had gained access to
the electrical grid, the Burlington
Electric Department in Vermont had to
issue a statement confirming that the
provocative Wapo story simply wasn't
true and that a laptop found to be infected
with malware was never actually connected
to the grid. An embarrassed Wapo was
subsequently forced to change it's
sensationalized headline and publish a
retraction.
U.S. officials are continuing to investigate the laptop. In
Now, as they often do, it appears this Wapo "fake news" the course of their investigation, though, they have found
rabbit holes gets even deeper. on the device a package of software tools commonly used
by online criminals to deliver malware.
Not only are "federal officials" now
confirming that "Russian hackers" The package, known as Neutrino, does
never targeted the Vermont electrical not appear to be connected with Grizzly
grid, but the whole mishap was derived Steppe, which U.S. officials have
from an employee's attempt to check his identified as the Russian hacking
Yahoo email account which, as Wapo operation.
reports, resulted in his computer
connecting to a "suspicious IP address"
The FBI, which declined to comment, is continuing to
that is "found elsewhere in the country
investigate how the malware got onto the laptop.
suggesting the company wasn't being
targeted by Russians."
Wapo goes on to point out that the "murkiness of the
information" makes it difficult to relay meaningful
Moreover, not only was the malware not linked to a
information to the public about alleged "hackings."
specific attempt of "Russian hackers" to penetrate the U.S.
electrical grid, the software in question isn't even linked
to the "Grizzly Steppe" group that the Obama The murkiness of the information
administration says is behind the DNC and John Podesta underlines the difficulties faced by
email hacks. officials as they try to root out Grizzly
Steppe and share with the public their
findings on how the operation works.
Of course, this is a direct contradiction
to the opening paragraph of Wapo's
original story which directly connected Experts say the situation was made worse by a recent
the Vermont "hack" back to "Grizzly government report, which they described as a genuine
Steppe"...apparently with no evidence effort to share information with the industry but criticized
whatsoever. as rushed and prone to causing confusion.

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Authorities also were leaking Here's an idea, how about you simply
information about the utility without avoid reporting "murky" information
having all the facts and before law until you have all the facts? But that
enforcement officials were able to wouldn't help advance your "Russian
investigate further. hacking" narrative now would it?
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Trump Wins Again: House GOP Reverses
On Ethics Office Overhaul
By Tyler Durden
Jan 3, 2017 12:16 PM

President-elect Trump is on a roll today. Following House The new Congress hadn't even formally
Republican's vote to strip the Ethics Office of gaveled in on before GOP leaders held an
independence, Trump lashed out with a tweet suggesting emergency conference meeting to discuss
Congress' time be better spent on other things... and just the blowback against the party's vote
minutes ago, following an emergency meeting, Monday evening to gut the chamber's
Republicans have confirmed the amendment has been independent ethics watchdog.
pulled.

As a reminder,

House Republicans abruptly voted on


Monday night to eliminate the
independence of the Office of
Congressional Ethics, the chamber’s
nonpartisan ethics board which
investigates lawmakers' alleged
misconduct, largely stripping it of its
power,

leading to pushback from Democrats and government


watchdog groups. House Republicans, meeting as a group
Monday night, approved an amendment from House
Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte that would
place the office under the oversight of the lawmaker-run
House Ethics Committee. More details from Bloomberg, which notes that

"the amendment was stripped from a rules


package by voice vote, three lawmakers
said, in a last-minute meeting called
Tuesday as criticism mounted. The
controversy over the office that investigates
lawmakers’ alleged misconduct was
starting to overshadow the opening of the
115th Congress, normally a day of glad-
handing as lawmakers bring family
And Trump responded... members to the floor to join the festivities."

Which led House Republicans to hold an emergency And so it appears Trump wins again.
meeting, resulting in... (via The Hill)

House Republicans at an emergency


conference meeting on Tuesday withdrew
a proposal to gut an ethics watchdog.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy
(R-Calif.) offered a motion to restore the
current OCE rules, and that was accepted
by the GOP conference.

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CNN Mocked For Using Screengrabs From Fallout 4 In
Russian Hacking Story
Published Time: 3 Jan, 2017 23:34

CNN has been mocked after the news network was caught
using screengrabs from the popular post-apocalyptic video
game Fallout 4 in a story about “Russian hacking.”

Vigilant Reddit user Poofylicious spotted something


familiar about a recent story about President Barack
Obama imposing sanctions on Russia over alleged
“Russian interference in the 2016 election.”

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The network had used a screengrab of the very popular
video game to tell its story. The post-apocalyptic role-
playing adventure features a mini game where players
“hack” terminals to get access to computer systems and
internal correspondence. The video clip has since been
updated and no longer shows the awkward moment.

In reality, the hacking game is more like a word puzzle in


the jumble of letters on the computer screen. Although it
doesn’t portray hacking in reality, CNN deemed the
footage ideal to use for a story about Russian hacking. Poofylicious took a screen grab of the CNN story and the
news soon spread on Reddit and other social media
platforms.

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While the Fallout image was only used for a few seconds
of B-roll during the story, the network has been lambasted
for more serious forays into ‘fakenews’. Redditors and
social media users were quick to mock the news
organization for using the video game footage, with many
describing the move as another example of ‘fake news.’

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Even Bethesda Game Studios, creators of the Fallout
games got in on the joke.

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Others used the opportunity to mock the Russian hacking
narrative.

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Trump Targets Healthcare Reform: "Obamacare Just
Doesn't Work, And It's Not Affordable"
by Tyler Durden
Jan 3, 2017 9:50 AM

Highlighting what may well be his legislative priority conditions alike, but it’s got some serious
when he takes office in 17 days, Trump tweeted out a pair blemishes right now and serious
of one-liners this morning taking aim at Obamacare. In deficiencies."
what appears to be an attempt to set the stage for a repeal,
Trump said that "Obamacare just doesn't work, and it is
not affordable."

Of course, the governor's comments came just 1 week after


Minnesota Commerce Commissioner, Mike Rothman,
The president-elect even utilized Bill Clinton words to sell posted a letter to the state's website saying that the state
his repeal effort....which is always worth another look. succeeded in preserving the exchanges for one more year
by agreeing to massive rate hikes but warned they are on
the "verge of collapse."

The letter went on to describe Minnesota's


healthcare rate environment as
"unsustainable and unfair" and noted
that "middle-class Minnesotans" were
being "crushed by the heavy burden of
these costs."
”Last year at this time when rates were
announced, I said there was a serious
need for reform in Minnesota’s individual
Trump also utilized the words of Democratic Minnesota market,” said Rothman. “This year the
Governor, Mark Dayton, who, back in October, called for need for reform is now without any
changes to the healthcare exchanges in his state saying that doubt even more serious and urgent.”
"the Affordable Care Act is no longer affordable" (we
covered it here: "Democratic Minnesota Gov. Blasts He highlighted Governor Mark Dayton’s recent decision to
Obamacare: 'Affordable Care Act Is No Longer reconvene his Task Force on Health Care Financing to
Affordable'"). make recommendations to ensure that Minnesota
consumers have access to affordable, high-quality health
“Ultimately I’m not trying to pass the insurance options in the individual market.
buck here but the reality is the
Affordable Care Act is no longer “While federal tax credits will help make
affordable." monthly premiums more affordable for
“The Affordable Care Act has many good many Minnesotans, these rising
features to it, it has achieved great success insurance rates are both unsustainable
in terms of insuring more people, 20 million and unfair,” said Rothman. “Middle-class
people across the country and providing Minnesotans in particular are being
access for people who have pre-existing crushed by the heavy burden of these
costs. There is a clear and urgent need for
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reform to protect Minnesota consumers for immediate reforms as everyone's top
who purchase their own health insurance.” priority.”

Rothman said the reconvened Task Force on Health Care Rate increases for 2017 ranged from 50% - 67% across
Financing should consider any and all feasible reforms. Minnesota.
Above all, he said, it should offer recommendations that
can be implemented in the next year to improve market
stability and rates for 2018.

“We received over 50 public comments


from Minnesotans as part of our rate
review,” said Rothman. “I personally read
each one. They told heartbreaking stories
about how hard-working families are
struggling with very tough, painful
choices because of these skyrocketing
costs. They say that health insurance is
unaffordable, and they’re right. This calls Just another example of Obama's "Remarkable Progress"
that we highlighted yesterday.
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Trump Reveals "Very Strange" Delay In Russian
Intelligence Briefing
by Tyler Durden
Jan 3, 2017 9:44 PM

The tweet storm continues into the night as President-elect  First, we are sure opposition members will feel the
Trump reveals that the intelligence briefing he is supposed need to comment on Trump's revelation on the timing
to receive on the alleged Russian hacking has now been of the briefing (was it confidential?);
delayed until Friday...  Second, the use of quotes around "intelligence" is a not
so subtle stab at the current agencies (all 17 of them);
 Third, calling the hacking "so-called" makes it clear
Trump remains unconvinced, and that is reinforced
by the comment that they need more time to build the
case; and
 Fourth, describing the delay as "very strange" seesm to
strongly implies 'CIA plot'.

We await the 'shock' from The White House at Trump's


tweet.

A few things jump out immediately:

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Globalist George Soros Claims Trump Is A “Would-Be
Dictator” Who Threatens The New World Order
Article By Paul Joseph Watson
Date: January 04, 2017

the world” (because that policy worked so well in Iraq,


Afghanistan, Syria and Libya).

Soros also slams Trump’s new cabinet as containing


nothing other than “incompetent extremists” and “retired
generals.”

Explaining how he supports the European Union because it


is a successful attempt at “social engineering,” Soros
laments the fact that the body has become

Billionaire globalist George Soros has penned a panicked rant in


which he decries President-elect Donald Trump as a “would be Soros also bemoans Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
dictator” who threatens the future of the new world order. alleged undue influence during the presidential election.

In an article for Project Syndicate, Soros begins by “At first, he tried to control social media.
mentioning how he lived under both Nazi and then Soviet Then, in a brilliant move, he exploited
rule in Hungary before asserting that “various forms of social media companies’ business model to
closed societies – from fascist dictatorships to mafia states spread misinformation and fake news,
– are on the rise.” disorienting electorates and destabilizing
democracies. That is how he helped Trump
get elected,” writes Soros.

Soros says Putin “felt threatened by “color revolutions” in


Georgia, Ukraine, and elsewhere,” without mentioning that
Soros himself played a key role in bankrolling these
contrived uprisings, as well as the color revolution being
fomented against Trump.

The irony of an ultra-rich elitist who has bankrolled the


overthrow of innumerable governments insisting he cares
about “democracy” and the will of the people is
particularly rich.

This claim is confounded by the facts, which show that, The whole tone of the piece is clearly fraught with concern
that the populist movement sweeping the west poses a
“The share of the world population living in direct threat to the plutocratic new world order that Soros
democracies (has) increased continuously.” has spent his entire life helping to build.

Soros writes that in voting for Trump, Americans “elected He concludes by warning that “the EU is on the verge of
a con artist and would-be dictator as its president,” and that breakdown” due to stagnant economic growth and the out
his defeat of Hillary Clinton means America will be of control refugee crisis (that Soros himself again helped
“unable to protect and promote democracy in the rest of create in the first place as a way to obtain political power).
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Trump Flexes Power Over GOP
By Niall Stanage
01/04/17 06:00 AM EST

President-elect Donald Trump tangled with Republicans in “The establishment will do him an
Congress for the first time since the election on enormous favor,” he said. “They will
Tuesday — and won. criticize him for what he did. But that does
nothing but reinforce to his supporters that
Trump took to Twitter Tuesday morning to criticize House he is who he says he is.”
Republicans who had voted to curb the powers of the
Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE). He argued that Democrats see things very differently. Democratic pollster
there were Matt McDermott tweeted that

“so many other things of far greater “Progressive organizations spent the last
importance.” 12 [hours] whipping calls to House offices.
That's the ONLY reason GOP backed away
Within hours, an emergency meeting of Republicans on from gutting OCE.”
Capitol Hill had agreed to abandon the controversial
proposal, which had originally been pushed by Rep. Bob But some House Republicans said that even if the slew of
Goodlatte (R-Va.). negative news headlines and constituent calls to their
offices had made it difficult to stand behind the proposal, it
There were other factors behind that decision. GOP House was Trump's Tuesday morning tweet that effectively
leadership figures, including Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.) and sealed its demise.
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), were opposed to
the Goodlatte proposal, and lawmakers’ offices were "This is an important issue to a lot of
subject to a deluge of angry calls from constituents after members who have been done-in in one
news of the measure broke on Monday evening. way or another by that group; there are a
lot of strong feelings on both sides of the
But Trump’s rebuke was an important ingredient in the aisle," Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), a
mix. His supporters say his swift victory burnishes his Trump supporter, told The Hill. He said the
brand as an outsider who is willing to challenge the status ethics overhaul didn't fit in the GOP's
quo, as well as displaying his instinctive feel for public "overall agenda."
opinion.
Trump's tweet "pushed it over the edge," Webster said.
“Don’t catch him by surprise and expect
that he will just play along,” said Barry The broader dynamic between the incoming president and
Bennett, a former senior adviser to the Congress will be of pivotal importance in the months
Trump campaign who now runs a ahead.
consultancy business with former Trump
campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Trump won the White House despite support that was
tepid, at best, from Capitol Hill Republicans. Ryan
Trump’s populist streak was an important factor in his declined to campaign for Trump in the final weeks of the
election win, helping persuade blue-collar voters in the campaign and told colleagues it was up to them whether to
Rust Belt and upper Midwest that he was more concerned support the GOP nominee.
with their welfare than playing the Washington game.
Staking out a position at odds with Congressional The president-elect’s views are at odds with many
Republicans, as he did on the ethics issue, could help him Republicans on issues both foreign (relations with Russia)
maintain his bond with those voters. and domestic (Social Security reform). Stephen Bannon,
one of Trump’s closest advisers, has made no secret of his
Bennett said attempts by pundits and Democrats to disdain for the GOP establishment.
downplay or mock the importance of Trump’s intervention
would only backfire.
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At the same time, Trump needs cooperation from the GOP was a political misstep. In a Fox News Radio interview,
Congress if he is to translate his campaign promises into Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) pronounced the original
legislative action. vote by his colleagues in the House

Republican lawmakers also have their own political “the dumbest fricking thing I’ve ever heard.”
motivations to stay on the right side of a president-elect
who elicits such enthusiasm from the party base. Others downplayed the effect of Trump's tweets,
suggesting that the conference would have backed away
“I think there are going to be some growing from the Goodlatte proposal of its own volition.
pains here,” said GOP strategist John
Feehery, a former Capitol Hill aide who is The changes would have circumscribed the powers of the
also a columnist for The Hill. “A [GOP OCE and placed it under the oversight of the House Ethics
House] majority that has dealt for the past Committee.
six years with an oppositional president has
now got to figure out how to change their
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who opposed the changes,
oppositional nature. Now they are shooting
said he had predicted an onslaught of negative media
with live bullets.”
coverage by the end of Monday night's vote. Watching TV
coverage of the vote early Tuesday morning convinced
Of course, tension with congressional colleagues is hardly him the provisions on the ethics body would be toast.
unique to Trump.
“I said, ‘Yep, this is gone,'" Simpson said.
In early 2009, just after President Obama had first been
elected, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
But Feehery, the Republican strategist, asserted that it was
told The Hill,
Trump who played the decisive role.

“I do not work for Barack Obama. I work


“I don’t think they would have backed down
with him.”
unless Trump said something,” he said.

Some Republican lawmakers needed no cue from Trump


Scott Wong and Cristina Marcos contributed.
to conclude that the move toward gutting the ethics office
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Schumer Adopts Trump Slogan:
GOP Wants To 'Make America Sick Again'
The New Senate Minority Leader Outlined In A Playbook Interview His
Strategy For Pushing Back On The Republican Effort To
Repeal The Health Care Law.
By Jake Sherman And Anna Palmer
01/04/17 06:52 AM EST

“And if they think we’re going to come in


and save their butts when they screw it up?
No.”

In the interview, Schumer said he has briefed his


colleagues on the new messaging campaign, and that
Democrats are going to use their new-ish catchphrase
again and again across the country in health-care themed
rallies beginning Jan. 15, as they try to make the case to
Republicans that there will be a political cost to voting for
repeal.
"Less health care and it will cost more," Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer said in a Playbook Interview. | John
Shinkle/POLITICO It's one piece of an all-out effort to salvage Obamacare,
President Barack Obama's signature legislative
It's a world where health insurance companies are jacking achievement. Obama is coming to Capitol Hill
up rates, Americans are losing benefits and illness is Wednesday, in an attempt to rally Democrats around the
racking the nation. shared goal of saving the law. At the same time, Vice
President-elect Mike Pence is meeting with Republicans
This is the apocalyptic picture of America offered by about rolling it back.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to describe how
he sees the health-care landscape after Republicans gut "Our message is not just on Obamacare.
Obamacare. And he has found a slogan -- borrowing from Our message is don’t cut health care,"
perhaps the most successful branding campaigns in Schumer said, sitting in his new second-
modern political history -- that he hopes to turn against the floor Capitol office Tuesday afternoon.
GOP repeal plan: "Medicare. Medicaid. Obamacare."

"Make America Sick Again."


"Less health care and it will cost more,"
Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a Playbook
Interview on his first day as the chamber's
top Democrat. "And it will create chaos.
Because you cannot repeal a plan and put
nothing in its place. It doesn’t matter if you
say the repeal won’t take place for year or
two years.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer talks with POLITICO
Schumer is taking a hard line when it comes to Republican about Republicans' plans to repeal and replace Obamacare on Dec. 3,
plans to repeal the law, and whether or not Democrats 2017. | John Shinkle/POLITICO
would work across the aisle on a replacement if
Republicans are successful in rolling it back. Schumer is remarkably confident that Senate Democrats,
who face a challenging election map in 2018, have no
interest in helping their Republican colleagues rework the
law.
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"I’ve talked to just about every one of my repealed it," Schumer said. "Some of us
colleagues," Schumer said. "Obviously would want to give the insurance regulators
they’re not going to say we won’t look at more clout to come down on the insurance
anything. But the idea of just tweaking a companies. Things like that."
Republican plan that takes away these
benefits, the bottom line is there is virtual The New York Democrat -- a 36-year veteran of Congress
unanimity in our caucus that we’re all from -- is now one of the most powerful people in an all
Missouri: Show me. If they show us a plan, Republican Washington. How he positions himself and
and it’s a plan that we can live with, of Senate Democrats is one of the dynamics that will be most
course. But we’re not going to sit down in a closely watched during the next two years.
room with them once they repeal and say
let’s figure out a joint plan."
Schumer, of course, knows Trump from New York
political circles, and the president-elect's team has tried to
Of course, the political dynamics could change. Schumer paint the minority leader as an ally. Schumer flatly rejects
is at the helm of a Senate Democratic Caucus that includes it.
red-state Democrats like Sens. Joe Manchin of West
Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Joe Donnelly
"He was a Democrat," Schumer said,
of Indiana and Claire McCaskill of Missouri -- all of
adding he never went to dinner with Trump.
whom are up for re-election next year. Some Senate
"And I asked all the big Democrats in New
Democrats have signaled an openness to negotiating with
York to help the DSCC and he had a big
Republicans on a new plan.
fundraiser at Mar-A-Lago for the DSCC that
helped us take back the Senate. God bless
And, in perhaps a nod to the competing liberal wing in his him. But I don’t know him that well. And it
caucus, Schumer warned that if Republicans decide to doesn’t matter. What matters is are the
simply tinker with Obamacare, his members would seek to issues and our values, not pats on the
drag it to the left. back. They can try to flatter me, it’s not
going to work.”
"Some of us might want to offer a public
option if you kept Obamacare, not if you
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Schumer Promises To Block Trump’s
Supreme Court Pick
By Daniel Halper
January 4, 2017 | 7:57am

For Schumer, it’s about retribution. The Republican-


controlled Senate failed even to vote on President Obama’s
last nomination to the highest court, Merrick Garland, who
was put up for the job after the sudden death of Justice
Antonin Scalia.

Republicans instead made the Supreme Court a campaign


issue, saying whoever was elected president would get to
nominate Scalia’s replacement.

The Democratic Senate leader told host Maddow that


Republicans got away with not voting on Obama’s
nominee, but that
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer
“the consequences will be down the road.”
The top Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer of New
York, is promising to block one of President-elect Donald But in June, Schumer sang a different tune, blasting
Trump’s first big initiatives — naming a ninth member to Republicans for not doing their duty and for creating
the Supreme Court. “chaos.”

“It’s hard for me to imagine a nominee that “Senate Republicans need to do their job
Donald Trump would choose that would get and give Judge Garland the hearing and
Republican support that we could support,” vote he deserves because the American
Schumer said in an interview Tuesday people deserve a fully functioning court,”
night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow said Schumer in a June 8, 2016, press
Show.” release.
“Having a deadlocked, 4-4 court could lead
Asked whether he’ll do his “best to hold the seat open” on to judicial chaos surrounding environmental
the Supreme Court, Schumer responded, protections, voting rights, and so many
other issues that are important to everyday
“Absolutely.” Americans. This delay has gone on long
enough, it’s time for the Senate to do the
job we were elected to do,” he added.
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Women's March On Washington Is Poised To Be The
Biggest Anti-Trump Demonstration
By Perry Stein And Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post
Updated 8:47 Am, Wednesday, January 4, 2017

we will not let anyone roll back the rights


we have fought and struggled to get," said
Tamika Mallory, a veteran organizer and
gun-control advocate who is now one of the
march's main organizers.

More than 150,000 women and men have responded on the


march's Facebook page that they plan on attending. At
least 1,000 buses are headed to Washington for the march
through Rally, a website that organizes buses to protests.
By the time she went to bed, 40 women responded that Dozens of groups, from Planned Parenthood to the antiwar
they were in. CodePink, have signed on as partners.

When she woke up, that number had exploded to 10,000. Organizers insist the march is not anti-Trump, even as
many of the groups that have latched on to it fiercely
oppose his agenda.
Now, more than 100,000 people have registered their plans
to attend the Women's March on Washington in what is
expected to be the largest demonstration linked to the "Donald Trump's election has triggered a
inauguration of Donald Trump, and a focal point for lot of women to be more involved than they
activists on the left who have been energized in opposing ordinarily would have been, which is ironic,
his agenda. because a lot of us thought a Hillary
presidency would motivate women," said
Dana Brown, executive director of the
Planning for the Jan. 21 march got off to a rocky start. Pennsylvania Center for Women in Politics
Controversy initially flared over the name of the march, at Chatham University. "A lot of women
and whether it was inclusive enough of minorities, seem to be saying, 'This is my time. I'm not
particularly African-Americans, who have felt excluded going to be silent anymore."
from many mainstream feminist movements.
Boris Epshteyn, spokesman for the Trump Inaugural
Organizers say plans are on track, after securing a permit Committee, defended the president-elect's popularity
from D.C. police to gather 200,000 people near the Capitol among women in an interview on CNN. While Trump did
at Independence Avenue and Third Street SW on the not receive the majority of women's votes he got an
morning after Inauguration Day. Exactly how big the "overwhelming" number of them, Epshteyn said.
march will be has yet to be determined, with organizers
scrambling to pull together the rest of the necessary
permits and raise the $1 million to $2 million necessary to "We're here to hear their concerns," he
pull off a march triggered by Shook's Facebook venting. said. "We welcome them to our side as
well."
The march has become a catch-all for a host of liberal
causes, from immigrant rights to police killings of African- That all this could grow out of a dashed-off post from her
perch nearly 5,000 miles from Washington is amazing to
Americans. But at its heart is the demand for equal rights
for women after an election that saw the defeat of Shook, who has booked her ticket and plans to be in
Democrat Hillary Clinton, the first female presidential Washington on Jan. 21.
nominee of a major party.
"I guess in my heart of heart I wanted it to
"We plan to make a bold and clear happen, but I didn't really think it would've
statement to this country on the national ever gone viral," Shook said. "I don't even
know how to go viral."
and local level that we will not be silent and
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Unsure of how to proceed those initial few days, she said women or reproductive rights. Some simply want to stand
she enlisted the help of the first few women who messaged against the crass way Trump has spoken about women.
her to volunteer, some of whom independently also had an
idea for a march. But as the march grew in prominence, it Lindsey Shriver, a 27-year old former pastry chef who is
got caught up in a broader conversation in liberal circles now an at-home mom in Ohio, said she was offended this
about race and leadership, with activists and others election cycle by Trump's rhetoric, which she
criticizing that initial planning group for its racial makeup: characterized as "hateful and misogynistic." She also wants
Shook said all the women, including herself, that she to highlight the need for paid family leave and affordable
tapped to help in the march's nascent stages were white. child care.

Some also took issue with the name Shook had proposed, "I realized that being a feminist in my own
the Million Woman March, which was the name of a 1997 personal life wasn't going to be enough for
black women's march in Philadelphia. The racial concerns my daughters," said Shriver.
set off a heated conversation on the group's main Facebook
page, with some African-American women especially Caroline Rule, 57, an attorney living in Manhattan, says
taking umbrage. she will attend with her 15-year-old daughter. While she
agrees with the pro-women message behind the march, she
For her part, Shook said her aim was not to coopt any other said she'd likely participate in any march that pushed
movement. It was just an idea that took hold after the against Trump's messages.
victory of a president-elect caught on tape boasting of
grabbing women's private parts, and the defeat of a woman
"I absolutely despise Donald Trump and
who seemed to her much more qualified for the job. She
everything he stands for," she said.
said she had no idea the race of the women she first
contacted; in fact, she said, most had an image of Clinton
as their Facebook profile photo. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has recently signed on as a
march co-sponsor, and celebrities like Amy Schumer,
Samantha Bee and Jessica Chastain say they plan to attend
Complicating matters, it became apparent that the march as well.
likely could not start at the Lincoln Memorial as Shook
had proposed, since the inaugural committee has dibs on
that space. Feminist scholars say the march reflects an emerging view
of feminism: That it is less defined by reproductive issues
such as birth control and abortion and more about how the
Overwhelmed and under pressure, the original organizers challenges faced by women intersect with those
eventually handed the reins to a diverse group of veteran encountered by African-Americans, gays and immigrants.
female activists from New York: Mallory, the gun-control
activist; Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab-
American Association of New York; Carmen Perez, head Still, reproductive rights will be a large part of the march,
of Gathering for Justice, a criminal justice reform group; with Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice
and Bob Bland, a fashion entrepreneur. America as key partners.

Together, they settled on a new name: The Women's Hahrie Han, a political science professor at the University
March on Washington, a nod to the 1963 demonstration of California at Santa Barbara specializing in political
that was a cornerstone of the Civil Rights movement. They organizations and political engagement, said it's not all that
even got the blessing of Martin Luther King Jr.'s youngest surprising that individual women instead of an established
daughter, Bernice King. organization founded this march. Established organizations
all come with at least some political baggage.
In D.C., Janaye Ingram, the former executive director of
Al Sharpton's National Action Network, has been working "The challenge with having one
to secure permits and hash out logistics for the march, organization brand it as its own, is that
including ensuring there is a proper sound equipment and each organization has its own image that
sufficient Porta Potties. draws some people, and pushes others
back away," she said.
People traveling to attend the march seem less concerned
with behind-the-scenes politics than the chance to call for
more family-friendly government policies, equal pay for
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Wikileaks Offers $20,000 Reward To Catch
Obama Admin Destroying Documents
By Kyle Olson
January 4, 2017

Wikileaks is offering cash to anyone who catches the


outgoing Obama administration destroying public records. In December, the Daily Mail reported a former British
ambassador received the documents in a Washington, D.C.
park from a Democrat whistle blower.
The group tweeted its offer on Tuesday night.

“We are issuing a US$20,000 reward for


information leading to the arrest or
exposure of any Obama admin agent
destroying significant records,” Wikileaks
posted on Twitter.
“Neither of [the leaks] came from the
The offer came on the same night founder Julian Assange Russians,” Craig Murray, former British
appeared on Fox News to once again say Russia was not ambassador to Uzbekistan, told the paper.
behind the group obtaining emails of Democratic National “The source had legal access to the
Committee staffers and Hillary Clinton campaign information. The documents came from
chairman John Podesta. inside leaks, not hacks.”

“We can say, we have said, repeatedly Murray said the leaker(s) was motivated by
over the last two months, that our source is
not the Russian government and it is not a “disgust at the corruption of the Clinton
state party,” Assange told Sean Hannity. Foundation and the tilting of the primary
election playing field against Bernie
Sanders.”
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Sean Hannity Interviews Assange: Full
Wikileaks Vs. The Establishment
By Staff Writer -
01.04.2017 @10:55 AM EST

Russia. And also the FBI and the Department of Homeland


Security -- they released a coinciding report supposedly
containing evidence that the Russian government
coordinated all these cyber attacks. But that report gives
very few details and a massive, big disclaimer.

Now, Democrats were also pointing a finger at the group


WikiLeaks, claiming that Russian hackers provided them
with thousands of the emails from the DNC and from
Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta. Now,
these emails contained explosive details exposing
corruption, media collusion with the Clinton campaign and
(INTELLIHUB) — Fox News’ Sean Hannity interviewed downright dirty politics all the way around.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange Monday, and the full
interview was broadcast Tuesday night on the Sean So in light of all these new developments, well, I decided
Hannity Show for the world to see. to go straight to the source over this ongoing controversy.
So yesterday, I traveled to London to sit down with
During the interview Assange maintains that he did not WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in an attempt to set the
receive any of the leaked Democratic National Committee record straight. Now, he rarely does these exclusive, long-
emails or any of the leaked Podesta emails from the from interviews given the nature of his current situation.
Russian government or a state party. Now, for four-and-a-half years, he has been confined at the
Ecuadorian embassy, where he's not seen the light of day
in all that time.
Additionally Assange said that he has never spoken with
Vladimir Putin, any of his surrogates, Donald Trump, any
of his surrogates, or Roger Stone. So Assange, of course, he founded the group WikiLeaks,
that was back in 2006. And in the years following, he
made international headlines after releasing hundreds of
Assange also pointed out how President Obama is very thousands of classified U.S. government documents. And
careful with his terminology, “acting as a lawyer,” when it in 2010, he was detained in England after Swedish
comes to addressing the Russians and Wikileaks. Assange officials issued an arrest warrant over allegations that he
mentioned how Obama has not said the Russians changed may have sexually assaulted two women. That is a charge
the outcome of the election, nor has Obama said Wikileaks which he will respond to later in this program tonight in
has. this interview.

The full interview: Now, in 2012, he was granted asylum in the Ecuadorian
embassy in the city of London. Now, he has been living
This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," January 3, 2017. there ever since in very, very confined, tiny quarters. So in
This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. this wide-ranging interview, which we will show for the
entire hour tonight, Assange told me what drives him to
SEAN HANNITY, HOST: And happy New Year. Happy expose government and media corruption.
2017, and welcome to "Hannity."
Take a look.
Tonight, we have a short "Opening Monologue." Now,
Democrats, they continue to make the claim that the (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
Russian government is directly tied to the 2016 election
hacking, and with weeks to go before he leaves office, HANNITY: Let me start with the American elections. And
well, President Obama announced sanctions against from your perspective, how big a role do you feel
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WikiLeaks had in the outcome of the election? You didn't Now, my interpretation is that there's either, not
think Donald Trump was going to win. surprisingly, a problem they feel with the evidence as far
as WikiLeaks is concerned. Well, James Clapper said, We
don't know how WikiLeaks got this information, we don't
know when WikiLeaks got this information.

But let's imagine that they are saying, OK, the problem
here is that WikiLeaks published information. Well, what
are they saying?

WikiLeaks published true information that the American


public read. That information was the words of Hillary
Clinton and her campaign manager, John Podesta, and
other people in her campaign. And the American public
read that information, true information, and said, We don't
like these people, and then voted accordingly.
JULIAN ASSANGE, WIKILEAKS FOUNDER: I didn't
think Donald Trump would win. I thought the -- you HANNITY: Let me...
know, the establishment, for want of a better word, would
see Hillary Clinton losing and then would pile in more
money and more energy and the various TV networks that ASSANGE: But that's -- that's not sustainable. So what
were on her side and make sure that she won. they want to do instead is conflate our publication of true
information with, say, hacking, or rather, alleged hacking,
of U.S. vote-counting machines. And even Obama has had
I think that analysis was still correct, but it missed to admit that there has been no hacking of U.S. vote-
something fundamental, which is that the amount of counting machines.
investment to the Hillary Clinton campaign was in
proportion to the degree that the establishment thought that
she would lose. And she was aggressively projecting that HANNITY: No evidence of that. So -- but the main focus
she would be the inevitable winner and was above, you for most Americans -- they are being told by Hillary
know, 5, 10 points in the opinion polling. Clinton's campaign, by the president of the United States --
there are the Department of Homeland Security, the officer
-- the office of the Director of National Intelligence, et
So she only got a billion-and-a-half directed into her cetera - - that, in fact, WikiLeaks in -- was working with
campaign. If they thought she was going to lose, maybe the Russian government to influence the election.
she would have gotten $5 billion. We'd -- we'd see a
different result.
Is that true in any way, shape, matter or form?
HANNITY: It's very interesting, post-election -- and it
didn't even really happen immediately, but the narrative
has begun that, in fact, the U.S. government is accusing
WikiLeaks of having received materials from Russia and
Russia's cyber criminals with the political agenda of
influencing the elections. And obviously, they're talking
not just about the John Podesta emails...

ASSANGE: Yes.

HANNITY: ... the DNC emails, but in other ways. I've


asked you before. I'll ask you again today. Did Russia give
you this information or anybody associated with Russia?
ASSANGE: No. That's absolutely false. And if you read
ASSANGE: Our source is not a state party. So the answer their statements carefully, you will see they don't actually
for our interactions is no. But if we look at the most recent say that. They kind of mention one fact here and one fact
statement by the U.S. government, which was on the 29th there and nothing else.
of December -- OK, we had five different branches of
government -- Treasury, DHS, FBI, White House -- In the most up to date information, on the 29th of
presenting their accusations to underpin Obama's throwing December, where the FBI, DHS, White House, et cetera,
out 35 Russian diplomats. What was missing from all of made a statement, what is completely absent from all those
those statements, the word WikiLeaks. It's very strange. statements is WikiLeaks. Totally absent.
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So what's going on? Well, I believe two things are going HANNITY: Have you ever talked to any of his surrogates?
on. Number one, they don't have the evidence that
WikiLeaks is involved in that way. Now, why am I ASSANGE: No.
confident about that?
HANNITY: Have you ever talked to Donald Trump?
Well, because there is one person in the world -- and I
think it's actually only one -- who knows exactly what is ASSANGE: No.
going on with our publications, and that's me.
HANNITY: Any of his surrogates?
HANNITY: Can you say to the American people
unequivocally that you did not get this information about
the DNC, John Podesta's emails -- can you tell the ASSANGE: No.
American people 1,000 percent you did not get it from
Russia... HANNITY: Not one?

ASSANGE: Yes. ASSANGE: No.

HANNITY: ... or anybody associated with Russia? HANNITY: There was a report that you might have talked
to somebody who was not associated with the campaign,
ASSANGE: We -- we can say and we have said Roger Stone.
repeatedly...
ASSANGE: No, that's false. I think where this Roger
HANNITY: Right. Stone claim is coming from is there's a -- a radio guy on
WBAI, which is a mutual friend, who was -- who wanted
to come and see me to see if I would set up a radio show
ASSANGE: ... over the last two months, that our source is on WBAI, but he didn't. He did come to London, but he
not the Russian government and it is not a state party. didn't meet with me.

HANNITY: There was one report in The Daily Mail that


HANNITY: So if the U.S. government is accusing
suggested somebody that you are friendly with actually
WikiLeaks of having received these materials from Russia
was handed the documents at American University in a and you say it's false, it did not come from Russia, and the
wooded area by a disgruntled Democrat who felt betrayed
president of the United States is advancing the narrative, is
because they -- the revelations showed that Bernie Sanders
the president of the United States lying to the American
had been betrayed and they didn't like the corruption of the
people?
Clinton Foundation.
ASSANGE: Well, he -- he's acting like a lawyer. If you
Can you confirm or deny that? Is that story true?
look at most of his statements, he doesn't say that. He
doesn't say WikiLeaks obtained its information from
ASSANGE: Well -- well, that statement came from Craig Russia, worked with Russia, et cetera....
Murray. He is a friend of mine...
HANNITY: He's saying Russia's trying to influence the
HANNITY: Friend of yours? U.S. elections.

ASSANGE: He's been -- been here several times. But ASSANGE: Yes. Yes. So he -- and you also note that he
WikiLeaks is a source protection organization. We are doesn't say -- from the statements that I've read, he doesn't
famous for never having exposed one of our sources over say that Russia was trying to influence the election for
10 years. That's why sources trust us and they come to us. Donald Trump. Obama doesn't say that.

So I can't comment on other people's statements about our And so you have -- you have to be very careful about the
sources, except to say what we have said, which is that our lawyerly language that is used to try and conflate different
sources are not a state party. things together.

HANNITY: Can I ask you this? Have you ever talked to The question is, WikiLeaks publications -- OK, true
Vladimir Putin? information that the American people took up and they
acted accordingly. Was it influential? Did it have a lot of
ASSANGE: No. influence?

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Statistically, yes, it's -- it was the number one topic in Our publications had wide uptake by the American people.
Facebook throughout October, it was the number one topic They're all true. But that's not the allegation that is being
on Twitter, political topic, also throughout October. presented by the Obama White House. So why such a
dramatic response?
Did it change the outcome? Who knows? It's absolutely
impossible to tell. If it did -- the accusation is that the true Well, the reason is obvious. They're trying to delegitimize
statements of Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager, a Trump administration as it goes into the White House.
John Podesta, and the DNC head, Debbie Wasserman They're going to try -- well, they are trying to say that
Schultz -- their true statements is what changed the President-elect Trump is not a legitimate president.
election.
(CROSSTALK)
HANNITY: What is -- how do you view yourself? Are you
a -- a -- a journalist? Do you view this as reporting, that -- HANNITY: Is your information...
for example, it's interesting because at one point in the
campaign, The New York Times got a hold of Donald
ASSANGE: And now you watch. They will seize on this
Trump's taxes -- which, by the way, they obtained illegally
and harp on it for the next four years. I think that's a
-- and they published the information.
mistake. I think that's a mistake not just in fact, that's a
mistake for the U.S. Democratic Party. I think it's a stupid
Is there any difference between -- you are not going to maneuver.
reveal your source, but nobody has said what you released
is not true. They went forward with the story on his taxes.
It's the same reason why they lost the election, which is
Is there any difference?
instead of focusing on substance, they focused on other
things which they think are short-term wins, but they're not
ASSANGE: There is -- there is a difference, which is our strategic, a little comment by Trump here and there, for
material is better presented, less intermediation. The public example, or this attempt to say that -- that how outrageous
responded to it more than -- than The New York Times. it is that the American public received true information
before an election. The -- the public doesn't buy that. They
But the editor of The New York Times -- he has come out want as much true information as possible.
and said that he would do the same thing as WikiLeaks. If
they had obtained that information, they would publish it. HANNITY: If the information you had was about Donald
Trump and his campaign, would you have equally released
Now, unfortunately, I don't believe that is true. I believe that?
they would selectively maybe publish just a bit here and a
bit there. They would not have done what we did, which is ASSANGE: Yes, absolutely. It's -- it would be -- once
present the American public everything that we knew. again, just think about it from our perspective. We have a
lot -- we've won a lot of media awards. We have the trust
Can you just imagine that if WikiLeaks had information of our sources. We have the trust of our readers, having
about Debbie Wasserman Schultz helping to rig the never got it wrong.
primary with Bernie Sanders and we withheld that
information until after the election? That would be an HANNITY: Well, this is an important point -- 10 years,
absolutely unconscionable act for a media organization to not one evidence where you've been proven wrong.
engage in. Unfortunately, those sorts of acts do happen.
But not with this organization. ASSANGE: Well, not even -- not even one sustained
allegation, even. We have a perfect record in relation to
HANNITY: You know, in 2015, the Chinese stole millions authenticating the material that we publish. That's a very
of personal documents, classified, information on valuable reputation to have and we try and preserve it.
individuals who are seeing and working for our
government, et cetera. So if they don't say anything about So what else do we have a record for? There's no sources
China and they selectively choose this, is it to delegitimize
coming out through other journalists -- say, for example,
Donald Trump? What's your interpretation of that?
they can still keep their anonymity. There's no sources
coming out and saying, We gave WikiLeaks all this
ASSANGE: That's exactly what it's designed to do. The -- information about Donald Trump or the president to be or -
if you look at what the allegations are, they don't mention - or Vladimir Putin, and you know what? They didn't
WikiLeaks on the -- for the 29th. They don't mention our publish it.
publications.
HANNITY: I know you...

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ASSANGE: No one -- no one has come out and said that. So my question is, does he know he's wrong, from your
If they did, that would hurt our reputation for trust for our perspective? He has to know.
sources.
ASSANGE: He's playing games.
HANNITY: I know you want to protect your sources, and
you -- when you first told me on my radio show that it was HANNITY: He's playing games.
not Russia, you said so reluctantly. Can I ask -- take it one
step further? Can you say that the source was within the ASSANGE: He's playing games.
United States?
HANNITY: He's dishonest. Fair? Is he lying to the
ASSANGE: I don't want to constrain whether it was
American people?
someone inside the United States, in the DNC, in the
service providers that provide for the DNC, or outside, et
cetera. I think we have already pushed it quite a lot by... ASSANGE: He's acting like a lawyer instead of being
honest. So he's playing -- playing games by trying to
suggest that Russia, quote, "hacked the election," unquote,
HANNITY: More than you would like?
pretending that what's going on here is Russia hacking
voting machines, for which there is no evidence, saying
ASSANGE: More than we would like by saying it's not a without -- suggesting without saying that our information
state party. That -- that was necessary to do because there was part of a plot to get Donald Trump elected.
was an -- a serious attempt to distract from the content of
our publications with this Russian narrative.
Once it -- once again, from our side, which we understand
there's no evidence, but even James Clapper, and so on,
Now, our sources are interested in two things. They're coming out and saying. We don't know how WikiLeaks --
interested in protecting their identity, but also not going we don't know when or how WikiLeaks got this
through all that effort and risk to themselves only to have information. So it -- it's a -- it's a construction to try and
the publication undermined. erect a topic that Donald Trump is illegitimately elected.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HANNITY: More of my exclusive sit-down interview with


WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Up next, I'll ask him
about the FBI and the DHS report on election hacking.

That and more straight ahead tonight on "Hannity."

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(NEWSBREAK)

HANNITY: Then what do you make of the president of HANNITY: And welcome back to "Hannity." So during
the United States, since Donald Trump may, in the next 24 my exclusive sit-down interview with Julian Assange at
to 48 hours... the Ecuadorian embassy in London, I asked him
specifically about the FBI and DHS report on 2016 and the
ASSANGE: Yes. election hacking. Let's take a look.

HANNITY: ... contradict with whatever information he's (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)


teasing that he does have -- but he made a decision to
expel 35 Russian diplomats in two sites, imposed 12 HANNITY: The FBI, Department of Homeland Security --
sanctions against the Russian government. And you know, this goes to the 29th of December this past year -- released
the Russian president, Putin, responding by inviting a joint report detailing how federal investigations and
children to a -- a Christmas party and said he will wait to investigators linked the Russian government to the hacks
deal with the new president. of the Democratic Party organization. And they gave a 13-
page memo. I'm sure you've read it.
What do you -- why would the president -- you're saying
that Russia did not give you this information. He is very ASSANGE: I have read it in detail.
closely suggesting that, in fact, they did. And he's wrong.

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HANNITY: At this point. OK. Supposedly, they give So it -- that story about the laptop at the power generation
technical details regarding tools and some of the center, that was picked up by The Washington Post and the
infrastructure of the Russian civilian and military administration, pushed everywhere, that here's the
intelligence, but they don't give any proof positive. Russians infiltrating the electricity grid, and it was
completely bogus.
ASSANGE: They -- they give five...
HANNITY: That was bogus. But there's another side of
HANNITY: (INAUDIBLE)... this which is, I think, pretty fascinating, and that is that
Hillary Rodham Clinton had a private server at a mom and
pop shop in a bathroom closet that I would argue -- maybe
ASSANGE: ... five page description of some of the tools
argue -- and other lawyers would make arguments that it
that they allege that the Russian state uses. The rest is just
was illegal for her to have. From what we understand, the
fairly boring security recommendations. On the top, there
is a disclaimer saying nothing in... Podesta emails were hacked through a phishing scheme
where it said, Click on this, give us your information, and
he did so.
(CROSSTALK)
ASSANGE: Well, there's a number of hacks of the DNC
ASSANGE: ... guarantee that any of this information is and Podesta based on the publicly available information.
accurate. This is not something coming from our sources. We
published, as part of our policy of full disclosure and not
HANNITY: Right. interfering with the material...

ASSANGE: So... HANNITY: Right.

HANNITY: It's a guess. ASSANGE: ... we published the -- several Podesta emails
which shows Podesta responding to a phishing email.
ASSANGE: ... so if you -- it's -- it's just -- you're looking Now, how did they respond?
at -- I used to be a computer expert. That was my -- my
job. This is a bad report. And you look in the -- in the rest Podesta gave out that his password was the word
of the computer security community, you will see dozens "password." His own staff said, This email that you've
of other computer security experts in the United States, received, this is totally legitimate. So it's -- so this is
absolutely not affiliated with Russia... something a 14-year-old kid -- a 14-year-old kid could
have hacked...
HANNITY: Isn't it contradicted, though, by our own
director of Intelligence -- National Intelligence? HANNITY: Based on that.

ASSANGE: James Clapper. ASSANGE: ... into Podesta that way.

HANNITY: That's James Clapper. In relation to computer security and Hillary Clinton's
security, those secretary of State emails, if you read
ASSANGE: Well, there's nothing in that report that says closely, FBI reports and the e- mails that we released
that any information was given to us. Nothing. What they related to Hillary Clinton, you will see Huma Abedin had
have is what they call indicators, so, like, a way to access to them. A variety of technicians at this very small
recognize if these tools -- these alleged Russian tools have IT company had access to them, shipped through the post,
been used on your system. you know, a laptop. She had over a dozen different devices
keyed in to have access to them, her iPad, et cetera. She
OK. So in response to that, some engineer at one of the made almost no attempt to keep them secure...
U.S. electricity companies found this signature of one of
their laptops. OK. So then this was analyzed by a wide HANNITY: Right.
range of U.S. computer security experts. I've read those
reports in detail, and it's discovered that this is a ASSANGE: ... from states. Now, was she trying to keep
commercially available tool produced by Ukraine. them secure from the Republicans? Well, probably. But in
terms of foreign states...
So it's straight -- straight out of the bat, we either have a
deliberate attempt to mislead or thoroughly incompetent HANNITY: (INAUDIBLE)...
work, straight out of the bat.
ASSANGE: ... almost no attempt.
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HANNITY: The reason we have these laws, though, are So my question to you is, now knowing what WikiLeaks
for transparency, and she wanted to avoid Congressional revealed about the Podesta emails on Clinton corruption,
oversight. on pay-to-play, on Bernie Sanders being cheated, all of this
is revealed, not a lot of this was covered. So what does the
ASSANGE: Absolutely. Absolutely. That's absolutely my say of the American people about media coverage in
interpretation, as well. Now, WikiLeaks has been a very America? Dishonest?
strong proponent of the Freedom of Information Act. This
is probably, actually, if you think about it, probably against ASSANGE: It is very dishonest. Corrupt is interesting. It
our interests as -- as a publisher. But we believe that depends on your definition. If you look at what we
people have the right to know true information about what published --
their government is doing.
HANNITY: If they are colluding with Hillary, that's not
corrupt?

ASSANGE: It's an ethical corruption.

HANNITY: They're not identifying it to their audiences.


They claim that they're objective journalists.

ASSANGE: It's ethically corrupt. Corruption also means I


can get more, which is that you take money in exchange.
So I don't think that -- --

HANNITY: Collusion.
Now, the Freedom of Information Act has been subverted.
We published Sarah Palin's emails. Why? Because she had ASSANGE: Collusion, yes.
-- when she was governor of Alaska, she maintained an
account that was being used, intentionally or not, to evade
HANNITY: Because they share her political agenda. Why
the Alaskan Freedom of Information Act. So we published
else would they collude? Or they hate Donald Trump.
them back in 2008.
ASSANGE: I think that's an optimistic interpretation that
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they share a political agenda.
HANNITY: And coming up, WikiLeaks exposed how the
HANNITY: Explain that.
mainstream media was colluding with the Clinton
campaign during the 2016 election. I'll ask Julian Assange
about that next. ASSANGE: It's more like, you rub my back, I'll rub yours.
I will give you information. You'll come to me -- I'll invite
you to my child's Christening or our next big party. You
That and more tonight on "Hannity."
know what I mean?
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
HANNITY: Or a state dinner.
HANNITY: And welcome back to "Hannity." So during
ASSANGE: Yes. So I think it is more, sadly, I think it's
my exclusive interview with Julian Assange we discussed
more along those lines.
how WikiLeaks exposed the rampant collusion between
the mainstream media here in America and the Clinton
campaign. Let's take a look. HANNITY: But I look at this list of what WikiLeaks
exposed --
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ASSANGE: Can I just go back to this media question?
What is the line now in "New York Times," MSNBC? The
HANNITY: I said in my country, Julian, journalism is
line is that WikiLeaks changed the results of the election.
dead. I said it in 2008 because I was investigating Barack
OK, as the editor of WikiLeaks, we are happy to have
Obama and his backgrounds and his associations and his
credit for exposing the corruption and behavior that was
career and his lack of knowledge and his radical belief
occurring in that Clinton team and the DNC fixing things
system. And everybody in the media ignored a lot of it.
against Bernie Sanders. We are quite happy to accept that.

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HANNITY: Was that your motivation? Was your U.S. government documents. Many, including myself at
motivation to influence the election? Or is your the time, had criticized him for doing this, and during our
motivation, what is your motivation? Is it fidelity to truth? sit-down interview, I asked Assange where WikiLeaks
draws the line. Take a look.
ASSANGE: My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with
WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you
like. HANNITY: I told you this before when you first came on
the scene in 2010, I was concerned you were waging war
HANNITY: You have no political agenda? against the U.S. I have a comment that I made back in
November of 2010, and I said, you know, that other people
ASSANGE: That is a political agenda. might be -- this classified information, releasing classified
information, my concern with classified documents could
put American lives at risk. That was my concern.
HANNITY: Expose government corruption?

ASSANGE: It is not a party political agenda. It's a


philosophical agenda. We believe that the best type of
government comes from a government that is scrutinized
by the people when they have true information about our
governments, major corporations, other power actors in
society --

HANNITY: Let me ask this. As a conservative, one of the


things that's shocked me about the revelations with
WikiLeaks in this election cycle, it drove me crazy for
years. The narrative that would be used by the Democrats
about conservatives like myself is Republicans are racist,
that they're sexist, that they're homophobic, that they're So this is what, in the meantime, what you released at that
misogynistic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, all those lines are time, the standard operating procedures for Delta, the U.S.
used. And what was fascinating and not many people Army, detention camp at Gitmo, you released a classified
wanted to pay attention to it, and I think that's because of video of a series of attacks in Baghdad by a U.S. helicopter
the media collusion, is they were exposed as using racial that killed 12 people and two journalists. You also released
language, being anti-Semitic, homophobic, which led to on the Afghanistan war logs. You released the Iraqi war logs.
the eve of the Democratic Convention, Debbie Wasserman You released diplomatic cables in November of 2010, the
Schultz being fired. That to me was the type of thing -- if Guantanamo files. You released more U.S. diplomatic
you sort of open a window and things are not often the cables, released the Syria files leading up to -- here's my
way they appear. question about this, because I've come to believe that
you've done two things that are extraordinarily helpful to
Is this now a new reality going forward in terms of if the the United States And I think journalism in a way. One is
media is not going to do their job, there are going to be you showed us that we do not have cyber security. You
more WikiLeaks in the future? acknowledge that.

ASSANGE: Well, I surely hope so. And two, I think in this election in particular, you exposed
a level of corruption that I for 30 years on the radio as a
(END VIDEOTAPE) conservative knew existed, and I was shocked at the level
of corruption, duplicity, dishonesty, manipulation. So there
HANNITY: And coming up, over the years Julian Assange is a lot of good here. Where does the line -- where is the
has released classified documents generating major line for you? In other words, if lives are in jeopardy, is that
controversy. We'll explore that and much more right here a line? Privacy for individuals, is that a line? If you were to
tonight on "Hannity." be handed information about a private citizen, a
Hollywood actor?
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
ASSANGE: Let's look at the practice. As editor of
WikiLeaks, I am very proud of three things. Number one,
HANNITY: Welcome back to "Hannity." So in 2006 we have never got it wrong in terms of what we say. A
Julian Assange founded the group WikiLeaks, and in the document is what it is.
years following he created international controversy and
outrage for releasing hundreds of thousands of classified
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HANNITY: What you have printed, what you have ASSANGE: We simply say we are withholding this piece
revealed -- of information for a limited time until such time as we
think there is not a significant risk that someone might face
ASSANGE: There's never been -- and not even it is there retribution. We are totally transparent about it. So unlike
any outstanding allegation. Number two, we have never other media organizations, you see huge redactions with no
revealed one of our sources ever. explanation as to why that information is being redacted or
being withheld. I can tell you, I know from practice
HANNITY: Today you could reveal the source of the having dealt with more than 110 different media
Podesta emails. That will make a lot of news. organizations and partnerships, that very often information
is withheld for political reasons and it is then passed off
that it is being withheld in order to protect individuals. So
ASSANGE: Yes, and that would be the end of WikiLeaks. redactions are deeply corruptive. We are fighting --

HANNITY: But you did say it's not Russia, and you don't HANNITY: You are describing the New York Times.
like to say that. You're describing ABC, NBC, CBS, Politico. You are
describing the mainstream media in America.
ASSANGE: We have in the past occasionally on particular
issues where we think that there is a distraction from the ASSANGE: And --
publications that is so severe that we kind of have to
distance ourselves from it and prevent a vacuum basically
HANNITY: WikiLeaks has shown us.
being fueled by any old rubbish.

So number three, what are we proud of? We are proud that ASSANGE: We had similar problems with The Guardian.
there is not a single instance of anyone coming into They are also fine journalists who did good work. So it's
not everybody. But they were critical cases where
physical harm as a result of our publication.
information that we shared in a partnership agreement
under the basis it would only be redacted for human rights
HANNITY: Let me ask you, have you made conscious reasons, we are protecting someone's life, it was redacted
decisions as the founder and editor to withhold information to protect oil companies working in Kazakhstan or Yulia
because you thought the release of your information would Tymoshenko, the former leader who was accused of all
result in somebody's death? In other words means, sort of murders in Ukraine.
methods.
So here is the basic problem with censorship. Once again,
ASSANGE: No. Where we thought there was a significant it creates an opaque system where people can't see what
risk. were the reasons for the censorship? In the justice system,
we say there must be open justice where there is to be
HANNITY: You are very conscious of that? justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried
before the public.
ASSANGE: Yes.
HANNITY: Is it fair to say --

ASSANGE: It doesn't happen when a media organization


is engaged in just sweeping things under the rug.

HANNITY: Is it fair to say that WikiLeaks is more


interested in government corruption that is impacting the
lives of people, not superfluous scandalous lives of big
stars?

ASSANGE: We don't publish that. We haven't actually


been, I'm not sure we've ever been put in a position where
we've had to make that determination.
HANNITY: That's an ethical standard for you.
HANNITY: Because that's not what we do.
ASSANGE: Yes. And so we are always transparent about
it. ASSANGE: Most people go to TMZ, for example.

HANNITY: You'll say that -- (END VIDEOTAPE)


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HANNITY: And coming up, Julian Assange has not journalists can't say, hey, we heard a rumor. We heard a
stepped outside the Ecuadoran embassy in London since rumor there was a journalist killed in a drone strike. You
2012. Up next, I will ask him about the controversial know anything about that? And maybe a source says, yes,
details of his confinement and much more, straight ahead. actually I heard about that. And then you go, can you
prove it?
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
HANNITY: But America, if you go back to Woodward
HANNITY: Welcome back to "Hannity." So back in 2010, and Bernstein and you go back to Watergate, they had a
Swedish authorities, they issued an arrest warrant for source. It was called Deep Throat, big source. It wasn't
Julian Assange based on two separate sexual assault revealed until the person died.
allegations which ultimately led to Assange seeking
asylum at the Ecuadoran embassy in London. I asked ASSANGE: Under the Obama administration, Deep
Assange about these allegations and more. Take a look. Throat, Woodward and Bernstein would have been
prosecuted.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
I have been detained illegally without charge for six years,
ASSANGE: Let's put this in context. The U.S. case started in prison under house arrest, four and a half years in this
first in 2010. The situation where we are today -- embassy, without sunlight, lots of spies everywhere, et
cetera. It is tough. It's tough, but that is the mission that I
set myself on. I am willing to accept that.
HANNITY: These are two Swedish women.

ASSANGE: The women did not make the allegations. So I understand the kind of game that's being played with big,
the state made the allegations. It is agreed all the way up powerful actors. They try to take revenge. It is a different
thing for my family. I have young children under 10 years
two the Supreme Court, that it is the state of Sweden that
old. They didn't sign up for that, OK? I'm the type of father
brought the case, not the women trying to file charges.
that they have. But they didn't sign up for that, and that's
There are no charges.
not something I like. And I think that is a fundamentally
unjust outcome for my children. It's not a good situation
HANNITY: Why would the state do that and not -- if the for other people to have as well. But that would be my one
women aren't making, get the U.S. case dismissed? You concern.
must be confronted by your accuser. Not the case here.
I know what I'm doing. I am prepared to weigh the
ASSANGE: No. They admit in their own filing that the consequences in the conflict in dealing with powerful
woman says that she was railroaded by the police and groups and individuals. But my family is innocent in that
others in the court's material. The police made up the equation. They didn't sign up for that fight.
accusation. And I've already been previously cleared by
the chief prosecutor. There are no charges, and twice this
year the U.N. reviewing the whole situation has said that I (END VIDEOTAPE)
am illegally detained and I should be immediately released
and compensated. HANNITY: And coming up, we will have more "Hannity,"
and your help is needed right after this break.
Now, as far as the U.S. is concerned, it's a very important
topic. The case in the U.S. continues. The Department of (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
Justice continues the whole case.
HANNITY: All right, time for our "Question of the Day."
HANNITY: Even though they said they concluded they So now that you've heard from Julian Assange, who do
would not -- you believe? Do you believe Julian or do you believe
President Obama and Hillary Clinton? We want to hear
from you. Go to Facebook.com/SeanHannity,
ASSANGE: They didn't. They didn't. This is the sneaky
@SeanHannity on Twitter, let us know what you think.
behavior of this administration. As we were complaining,
look, the Obama administration is maintain this massive
case against us, is refusing to release any document about And in 17 days, the long Obama nightmare is over. We'll
it to us or any other journalists, erecting a giant dam for all see you back here tomorrow night. Thanks for being with
the material involved and kept saying the reason that no us.
journalist can have this is because we are bringing pending
prosecution. This is the end of national security .
journalism. This is the end of investigative journalism if
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You’re Being Lied To!
By Stephen Lendman
1-4-2017

Believe nothing at face value from government at all levels Anyone not savvy enough to understand geopolitics might
and scoundrel media sources. think vilifying Russia is the national pastime. Obama,
neocon lunatics in Washington and Joint Chiefs of Staff
On all issues mattering most, especially geopolitical ones, General Joseph (“fighting Joe) Dunford disgracefully call
they systematically lie - fake news substituting for truth- the country an existential threat - a Big Lie, fear-
telling, information important to know suppressed. mongering to justify bloated military spending at a time
America’s only enemies are ones it invents.
Media scoundrels operate as virtual press agents for
wealth, power and privileged interests - willfully deceiving Hateful accusations against Russia are extreme enough to
readers and viewers to keep them uninformed on what’s make a sailor blush, utter rubbish that keeps repeating like
going on, feeding them worthless rubbish, fiction, not a bad meal - lies, Big Lies and dreadful fake news
facts. presented as indisputable truths.

Truth-telling would expose rogue state policies, complicit Russia didn’t invade Ukraine. No “Russian aggression”
with monied interests, inflicting enormous harm on exists anywhere. Crimea wasn’t annexed. It rejoined
humanity at home and abroad, ordinary people exploited Russia, correcting a historic mistake.
and abused so privileged ones can benefit.
Russia didn’t down MH17. It didn’t interfere in America’s
Hillary wasn’t the only big loser last November. Media election. It doesn’t threaten its neighbors or anyone else.
scoundrels lost big time. Shameless advocacy instead of It’s governed democratically, not despotically.
journalism the way it’s supposed to be cost them plenty,
making them more of a laughing stock than already. It favors cooperative, not adversarial relations, with all
countries. It deplores wars and instability, continues heroic
One of Gerald Celente’s top 2017 trends is the demise of efforts to resolve conflicts in Syria and Ukraine
daily newspapers as we know them, saying: diplomatically.

“The daily newspaper is on its death bed…The Fourth Russia is a good neighbor, not a menacing one like
Estate - the unofficial fourth branch of government America, Putin a world-class leader, not a lawless one like
designed to hold powerful people and institutions Obama.
accountable - is no longer the domain of the mainstream
media.” Alternative sources replaced them. Without minimal due diligence to understand what’s going
on, it’s easy to understand why many Americans believe
Lopsided coverage of America’s 2015-16 political season the opposite of what’s true.
was the worst in memory, supporting Hillary over Trump
instead of unbiased reporting - ignoring her high crimes, Where will it end? Is Trump strong-willing enough to
inventing reasons to denigrate her opponent, and all for improve bilateral relations, or will he succumb to pressure,
naught. reject change, maintain the status quo and risk eventual
confrontation?
She lost. He won, but they won’t quit, allied with dark
forces backing efforts to impeach Trump straightaway Nuclear war at some point against one or more US
after entering office office - part of a coup d’etat plot to adversaries should arouse public sentiment enough to stop
remove him after earlier schemes failed. it. Possible mushroom cloud denouement is no pleasant
way to go.
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The 'News Media' In This Country
Is Completely Controlled
Dr. Zenia Richler
January 5, 2017

The 'news media' in this country is completely controlled by a handful of Globalist, Zionist, left wing communists and their
agents - they decide what the 'truth' is - six corporations…some say five…own 95% of the MSM thanks to the Clinton de-
regulation of media ownership restrictions in America. Here are just a few of the key agents and their connections you didn't
know about...

 ABC News executive producer Ian Cameron is married to Susan Rice, National Security Adviser.
 CBS President David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes, Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic
Communications.
 ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman is married to former Whitehouse Press Secretary Jay Carney
 ABC News and Univision reporter Matthew Jaffe is married to Katie Hogan, Obama's Deputy Press Secretary
 ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of Obama's Special Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood
 CNN President Virginia Moseley is married to Clinton's former Deputy Secretary Tom Nides.
 The Left Wing Zionist Communist New York Times is owned by Carlos Slim, the richest citizen of MEXICO.

Before you believe the stuff you read in the newspapers or see on TV -- all these polls and slurs against the Republican
candidate -- think about what these elite "insiders" have at stake should they lose their crooked "providers" in government.

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WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia
Threat While Public Is Deceived
Glenn Greenwald
January 4 2017, 8:28 a.m.

subsequently note the retraction or corrections only in the


most muted way possible, and often not at all. As a result,
only a tiny fraction of people who were exposed to the
original false story end up learning of the retractions.

Baron himself, editorial leader of the Post, is a perfect case


study in this irresponsible tactic. It was Baron who went to
Twitter on the evening of November 24 to announce the
Post’s exposé of the enormous reach of Russia’s fake news
operation, based on what he heralded as the findings of
Photo: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images “independent researchers.” Baron’s tweet went all over the
place; to date, it has been re-tweeted more than 3,000
In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two times, including by many journalists with their own large
blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: followings:
one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of “fake
news,” the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid.
Both articles were fundamentally false. Each now bears
a humiliating editor’s note grudgingly acknowledging that
the core claims of the story were fiction: The first note was
posted a full two weeks later to the top of the original
article; the other was buried the following day at the
bottom.

The second story on the electric grid turned out to be far


worse than I realized when I wrote about it on Saturday,
when it became clear that there was no “penetration of the
U.S. electricity grid” as the Post had claimed. In addition
to the editor’s note, the Russia-hacked-our-electric-grid
story now has a full-scale retraction in the form of a
separate article admitting that “the incident is not linked to
any Russian government effort to target or hack the utility”
and there may not even have been malware at all on this
laptop.

But while these debacles are embarrassing for the paper,


they are also richly rewarding. That’s because journalists
— including those at the Post — aggressively hype and
promote the original, sensationalistic false stories, ensuring
that they go viral, generating massive traffic for the Post But after that story faced a barrage of intense criticism —
(the paper’s executive editor, Marty Baron, recently from Adrian Chen in the New Yorker (“propaganda about
boasted about how profitable the paper has become). Russia propaganda”), Matt Taibbi in Rolling
Stone (“shameful, disgusting”), my own article, and many
others — including legal threats from the sites smeared
After spreading the falsehoods far and wide, raising fear
as Russian propaganda outlets by the Post’s “independent
levels and manipulating U.S. political discourse in the
researchers” — the Post finally added its lengthy editor’s
process (both Russia stories were widely hyped on cable
note distancing itself from the anonymous group that
news), journalists who spread the false claims
provided the key claims of its story
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(“The Post … does not itself vouch for the repository for any propaganda intelligence officials want
validity of PropOrNot’s findings” and “since disseminated? Was it profit — to generate revenue through
publication of the Post’s story, PropOrNot sensationalistic click-bait headlines with a reckless
has removed some sites from its list”). disregard to whether its stories are true? In an institution as
large as the Post, with numerous reporters and editors
What did Baron tell his followers about this editor’s note participating in these stories, it’s impossible to identify any
that gutted the key claims of the story he hyped? Nothing. one motive as definitive.
Not a word. To date, he has been publicly silent about
these revisions. Having spread the original claims to tens Whatever the motives, the effects of these false stories are
of thousands of people, if not more, he took no steps to exactly the same as those of whatever one regards as Fake
ensure that any of them heard about the major walk back News. The false claims travel all over the internet,
on the article’s most significant, inflammatory claims. He deceiving huge numbers into believing them. The
did, however, ironically find the time to promote a propagators of the falsehoods receive ample profit from
different Post story about how terrible and damaging Fake their false, viral “news.” And there is no accountability of
News is: the kind that would disincentivize a repeat of the behavior.

(That the Post ultimately corrects its false


story does not distinguish it from classic
Fake News sites, which also sometimes do
the same.)

And while it’s true that all media outlets make mistakes,
and that even the most careful journalism sometimes errs,
those facts do not remotely mitigate the Post’s behavior
here. In these cases, they did not make good faith mistakes
after engaging in careful journalism. With both stories,
they were reckless (at best) from the start, and the glaring
deficiencies in the reporting were immediately self-evident
(which is why both stories were widely attacked upon
publication).

As this excellent timeline by Kalev Leetaru documents, the


Post did not even bother to contact the utility companies in
question — the most elementary step of journalistic
responsibility — until after the story was published.
Intelligence officials insisting on anonymity — so as to
ensure no accountability — whispered to them that this
happened, and despite how significant the consequences
Whether the Post’s false stories here can be distinguished would be, they rushed to print it with no verification at all.
from what is commonly called “Fake News” is, at this This is not a case of good journalism producing inaccurate
point, a semantic dispute, particularly since “Fake News” reporting; it is the case of a media outlet publishing a story
has no cogent definition. Defenders of Fake News as a that it knew would produce massive benefits and
distinct category typically emphasize intent in order to consequences without the slightest due diligence or care.
differentiate it from bad journalism. That’s really just a
way of defining Fake News so as to make it definitionally
impossible for mainstream media outlets like the Post ever The most ironic aspect of all this is that it is
to be guilty of it (much the way terrorism is defined to mainstream journalists — the very people who have
ensure that the U.S. government and its allies cannot, by become obsessed with the crusade against Fake News —
definition, ever commit it). who play the key role in enabling and fueling this
dissemination of false stories. They do so not only by
uncritically spreading them, but also by taking little or no
But what was the Post’s motive in publishing two false steps to notify the public of their falsity.
stories about Russia that, very predictably, generated
massive attention, traffic, and political impact? Was it
ideological and political — namely, devotion to the D.C. The Post’s epic debacle this weekend regarding its electric
agenda of elevating Russia into a grave threat to U.S. grid fiction vividly illustrates this dynamic. As I noted on
security? Was it to please its audience — knowing that its Saturday, many journalists reacted to this story the same
readers, in the wake of Trump’s victory, want to be fed way they do every story about Russia: They instantly click
stories about Russian treachery? Was it access and source and re-tweet and share the story without the slightest
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the whispers of anonymous officials and accompanied by
no evidence whatsoever gives those journalists no pause at
all; any official claim that Russia and Putin are behind
some global evil is instantly treated as Truth. That’s a
significant reason papers like the Post are incentivized to
recklessly publish stories of this kind. They know they will
be praised and rewarded no matter the accuracy or
reliability because their Cause — the agenda — is the right
one.

On Friday night, immediately after the Post’s story was


published, one of the most dramatic pronouncements came
from the New York Times’s editorial writer Brent Staples,
who said this:

Now that this story has collapsed and been fully retracted,
what has Staples done to note that this tweet was false?
Just like Baron, absolutely nothing. Actually, that’s not
quite accurate, as he did do something: At some point after
Friday night, he quietly deleted his tweet without
comment. He has not uttered a word about the fact that the
story he promoted has collapsed, and that what he told his
16,000-plus followers — along with the countless number
of people who re-tweeted the dramatic claim of this
prominent journalist — turned out to be totally false in
every respect.

That tweet from Griffin — convincing people that Putin


was endangering the health and safety of Vermonters —
was re-tweeted more than 1,000 times. His other similar
tweets — such as this one featuring Vermont Sen. Patrick
Leahy’s warning that Putin was trying to “shut down [the
Even more instructive is the case of MSNBC’s Kyle
grid] in the middle of winter” — were also widely spread.
Griffin, a prolific and skilled social media user who has
seen his following explode this year with a constant stream
of anti-Trump content. On Friday night, when the Post But the next day, the crux of the story collapsed — the
story was published, Griffin hyped it with a series of Post’s editor’s note acknowledged that “there is no
tweets designed to make the story seem as menacing and indication” that “Russian hackers had penetrated the
consequential as possible. That included hysterical electricity grid” — and Griffin said nothing. Indeed, he
statements from Vermont officials — who believed the said nothing further on any of this until yesterday — four
Post’s false claim — that in retrospect are unbelievably days after his series of widely shared tweets — in which he
embarrassing. simply re-tweeted a Post reporter noting an “update” that
the story was false without providing any comment
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In contrast to Griffin’s original inflammatory tweets about
the Russian menace, which were widely and
enthusiastically spread, this after-the-fact correction has a
paltry 289 re-tweets. Thus, a small fraction of those who
were exposed to Griffin’s sensationalistic hyping of this But only a small percentage of those who heard of it ended
story ended up learning that all of it was false. up hearing of the major walk back and debunking from
other outlets. The same is true of The Guardian story from
I genuinely do not mean to single out these individual last week on WikiLeaks and Putin that ended up going
journalists for scorn. They are just illustrative of a very viral, only to have its retraction barely noticed because
common dynamic: Any story that bolsters the prevailing most of the journalists who spread the story did not bother
D.C. orthodoxy on the Russia Threat, no matter how to note it.
dubious, is spread far and wide. And then, as has happened
so often, when the story turns out to be false or misleading, Beyond the journalistic tendency to echo anonymous
little or nothing is done to correct the deceitful effects. officials on whatever Scary Foreign Threat they are hyping
And, most amazingly of all, these are the same people at the moment, there is an independent incentive scheme
constantly decrying the threat posed by Fake News. sustaining all of this. That Russia is a Grave Menace
attacking the U.S. has — for obvious reasons — become a
A very common dynamic is driving all of this: media critical narrative for Democrats and other Trump
groupthink, greatly exacerbated (as I described on opponents who dominate elite media circles on social
Saturday) by the incentive scheme of Twitter. As the grand media and elsewhere. They reward and herald anyone who
media failure of 2002 demonstrated, American journalists bolsters that narrative, while viciously attacking anyone
are highly susceptible to fueling and leading the parade in who questions it.
demonizing a new Foreign Enemy rather than exerting
restraint and skepticism in evaluating the true nature of Indeed, in my 10-plus years of writing about politics on an
that threat. endless number of polarizing issues — including the
Snowden reporting — nothing remotely compares to the
It is no coincidence that many of the most embarrassing smear campaign that has been launched as a result of the
journalistic debacles of this year involve the Russia Threat, work I’ve done questioning and challenging claims about
and they all involve this same dynamic. Perhaps the worst Russian hacking and the threat posed by that country
one was the facially ridiculous, pre-election Slate story — generally. This is being engineered not by random, fringe
which multiple outlets (including The Intercept) had been accounts, but by the most prominent Democratic pundits
offered but passed on — alleging that Trump had created a with the largest media followings.
secret server to communicate with a Russian bank; that
story was so widely shared that even the Clinton campaign I’ve been transformed, overnight, into an early adherent of
ended up hyping it — a tweet that, by itself, was re- alt-right ideology, an avid fan of Breitbart, an enthusiastic
tweeted almost 12,000 times. Trump supporter, and — needless to say — a Kremlin
operative. That’s literally the explicit script they’re now
using, often with outright fabrications of what I say (see
here for one particularly glaring example).

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They, of course, know all of this is false. A primary focus is depressing, though once it becomes this widespread, one
of the last 10 years of my journalism has been a defense of has little choice.
the civil liberties of Muslims. I wrote an entire book on the
racism and inequality inherent in the U.S. justice system. But this is the climate Democrats have successfully
My legal career involved numerous representations of cultivated — where anyone dissenting or even expressing
victims of racial discrimination. I was one of the first skepticism about their deeply self-serving Russia narrative
journalists to condemn the misleadingly “neutral” is the target of coordinated and potent smears; where, as
approach to reporting on Trump and to call for more The Nation’s James Carden documented
explicit condemnations of his extremism and lies. I was yesterday, skepticism is literally equated with treason. And
one of the few to defend Jorge Ramos from widespread the converse is equally true: Those who disseminate claims
media attacks when he challenged Trump’s immigration and stories that bolster this narrative — no matter how
extremism. Along with many others, I tried to warn divorced from reason and evidence they are — receive an
Democrats that nominating a candidate as unpopular as array of benefits and rewards.
Hillary Clinton risked a Trump victory. And as someone
who is very publicly in a same-sex, inter-racial marriage That the story ends up being completely discredited
— with someone just elected to public office as a
matters little. The damage is done, and the benefits
socialist — I make for a very unlikely alt-right leader, to
received. Fake News in the narrow sense of that term is
put that mildly.
certainly something worth worrying about. But whatever
one wants to call this type of behavior from the Post, it is a
The malice of this campaign is exceeded only by its blatant much greater menace given how far the reach is of the
stupidity. Even having to dignify it with a defense institutions that engage in it.
.

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Fake News Russian Hacking Accusation Persists
By Stephen Lendman
1-4-2017

Months after a joint Department of Homeland


Security/Director of National Intelligence (DHS/DNI) During the 2015-16 political season, CNN was called the
statement fraudulently accused Russia of hacking DNC Clinton News Network for good reason, providing months
emails “intended to interfere with the US elections of one-sided election coverage, vilifying Trump
process,” no evidence was provided to prove it because relentlessly like most other media scoundrels - featuring
none exists. presstitution, not legitimate journalism the way it’s
supposed to be.
The accusation was fabricated, an attempt to delegitimize
Trump’s election, along with persistent efforts to vilify An early in the week intelligence briefing for Trump was
Russia, perhaps more disgracefully than any time during postponed. In response, he tweeted “(t)he ‘Intelligence’
the Cold War years. briefing on so-called ‘Russian hacking’ was delayed until
Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very
Everything thrown at this issue to make it stick failed to strange!”
make the case - from the Obama administration, Congress,
talking heads and media scoundrels. On New Year’s eve, he said “I just want them to be sure
because it’s a pretty serious charge. If you look at the
According to a mid-December POLITICO/Morning weapons of mass destruction (accusation against Saddam),
Consult poll, over two-thirds of Americans disbelieve the that was a disaster, and they were wrong.”
Russia hacking story.
Separately, incoming White House communications
Only 29% claim to “know with near certainty that Russia director Sean Spicer stressed “zero evidence” exists to
(was) responsible for hacking DNC and John Podesta prove Russian hacking.
emails.” The disinformation campaign failed yet continues
to the disgrace of government and media scoundrels After publishing a fake news story about Russia hacking a
pushing it. Vermont utility, the neocon Washington Post admitted its
account was false.
Virtually everything from these sources on issues
mattering most is fake news. CNN laughably calls itself Interviewed by Sean Hannity on Fox News, WikiLeaks co-
“the most trusted name in news.” It’s a cesspool of founder Julian Assange debunked the notion of Russian
misinformation, distortions and Big Lies. US election hacking - explaining his source wasn’t from
Russia or any other state party.
On January 2, it used a Fallout 4 video game image to
show what nonexistent Russian hacking looks like. After No hacking occurred. Information was leaked by one or
Reddit users exposed the hoax, it substituted an image of more Democrat party insiders, upset over Hillary stealing,
Obama - not before a screenshot of the fake image went not earning, her nomination.
viral.
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Trump to Take Action Against Obama Executive Orders
‘On Day One’ - Pence
© REUTERS/ Carlo Allegri US 18:39 04.01.2017(updated 18:55 04.01.2017)

Pence said that Trump's first priority when


he takes office later this month is to replace
the Affordable Care Act, known as
Obamacare.

"But the first order of business is to repeal


and replace Obamacare," Pence said.

US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said


Republicans would take action beginning on Wednesday to
replace Obamacare.
US Vice President-elect Mike Pense stated that President-elect
Donald Trump will begin immediately to repeal executive orders of
Obama administration and set in policies to implement promises he On Tuesday, Congressman Mike Enzi, chairman of the US
made. Senate Budget Committee, introduced a resolution to fast-
track the repeal of Obamacare and its replacement with a
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — President-elect Donald new program.
Trump will begin immediately to undo some of President
Barack Obama’s executive orders, Vice President-elect Trump’s spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway said on
Mike Pence said on Wednesday. Tuesday that she believes Obamacare does have some
merits, including coverage for preexisting medical
"Before the end of the [inauguration] day conditions.
we do anticipate that the president-elect
will be in the Oval Office to both repeal Congressional Republicans have made the repeal of the
executive orders and set in policies to Affordable Care Act a priority since it was first passed in
implement promises he made," Pence told 2011.
reporters.

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President-Elect Trump Endorses Rand Paul’s
‘Audit The Fed’ Bill
By Aaron Kesel
Jan 4, 2017

Sen. Rand Paul announced on Wednesday that President- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
elect Trump has stated his support for the “Audit the Fed” previously said that if an audit of the federal reserve was to
bill that Paul just reintroduced to Congress, according to take place, the dollar and the U.S. economy would be in
The Hill. danger:

“My concern about the legislation is that if


the GAO is auditing not only the
operational aspects of the programs and
the details of the programs but making
judgments about our policy decisions would
effectively be a takeover of monetary policy
by the Congress and a repudiation of the
independence of the Federal Reserve
would be highly destructive to the stability
of the financial system, the Dollar and our
Auditing the Fed is something that started with Rand national economic situation.”
Paul’s father, Ron Paul, who has been pushing for years to
have the Federal Reserve central bank audited. That Bernanke’s former advisor infamously said that “People
measure may soon become a reality if the new Congress Would Be Stunned To Know The Extent To Which The
votes in favor of the legislation. Fed Is Privately Owned” in April 2016.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) Janet Yellen shared a similar sentiment, when she said that
have re-introduced the controversial “Audit the Fed” bill, the U.S. dollar and the U.S. economy would be in danger
after a similar effort failed with the last Congress in when questioned by Senator David Vitter (R-LA) in
January 2016. November 2013:

“The U.S. House has responded to the “So I strongly support as indicated
American people by passing Audit the Fed transparent and openness on the part of
multiple times, and President-elect Trump the fed and I think with respect to monetary
has stated his support for an audit. Let’s policy in terms of the range of information
send him the bill this Congress,” Rand Paul and the timeliness of that information we
said. are one of the most transparent central
banks in the world. What I would not
Key points this time around include the fact that both the support is a requirement that we diminish
house and senate are controlled by Republicans who have the independence of the federal reserve in
long been critical of the Fed’s policies. Trump himself also implementing and deciding on monetary
has said before on Twitter that he would audit the Fed. policy. For 50 years congress has
recognized that there should be an
Under the bill, the Fed’s monetary policy would be subject exception to GAO ability to audit the fed to
to outside board review by the Government Accountability avoid any political inference in monetary
Office. However, if the U.S. central bank is ever fully policy I believe it’s critically important for
audited, it is assumed that massive fraud would be the economic performance of this country
exposed. and we’ve seen this around the world that
allowing a central bank to be independent
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assuring markets and the public that we will Fed is the type of change the American
achieve price stability and I would be very people demanded when they went to the
concerned about legislation that would polls last November.
subject the Federal Reserve that could
For 105 years, the Federal Reserve has
interfere with that independence.”
exercised almost absolute and
unquestioned authority over America’s
Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has also monetary policy. The result has been a
expressed his concern for missing money in the Federal boom-and-bust business cycle, growth in
Reserve. He confronted Bernanke in 2009, and asked, government, increasing income inequality,
“WHERE IS THE MONEY?” for the TARP bailout, and a loss of over 90% of the dollar’s
which consisted of $2.2 trillion that the Fed lent out to purchasing power. No wonder almost 80%
anonymous banks. of Americans support Audit the Fed!
While campaigning for President, Donald
There is also the case in which $9 trillion went missing Trump not only criticized the Fed’s easy
from the Federal Reserve in 2010. That’s not to mention money policies, he also endorsed Audit the
the “billions” of dollars that went missing out of the Fed. With a President who supports Audit
money the Feds sent to Iraq during the Iraq War. the Fed finally sitting in the White House,
Congress has no excuse to not quickly
Ron Paul’s statement on auditing the Fed: pass this bill and finally let the American
people know the truth about the Fed’s
“I applaud my son Senator Rand Paul and conduct on monetary policy, including its
my friend Representative Thomas Massie dealings with foreign governments and
for their leadership on the important issue central banks.”
of auditing the Federal Reserve. Audit the
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Trump Sides With Assange,
Casting Doubt On US Intel Case On Hacking
By Associated Press
January 4, 2017 1:35 Pm

Assange has said his source for the hacked emails


WikiLeaks published during the campaign was not a
government.

“We can say, we have said, repeatedly that


over the last two months that our source is
not the Russian government and it is not a
state party,” Assange told Fox News.

President-elect Donald Trump and Julian Assange. (AP Photo/Matt


Rourke, File-Carl Court/Getty Images)

NEW YORK—President-elect Donald Trump is siding


with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, casting doubt on
the U.S. intelligence community’s case that Russia was
behind hacking of the Democratic National Committee
ahead of the 2016 election.

He’s suggesting that the DNC is to blame for the hacking The American intelligence community and Republicans
of its computers and emails, including those of top Hillary and Democrats on Capitol Hill insisted, without supporting
Clinton adviser John Podesta. evidence, that Russia was behind the hacks, but Trump has
repeatedly dismissed that allegation, challenging
intelligence experts who are supposed to help him make
Trump continued his tweetstorm the weightiest possible decisions once he becomes
Wednesday by arguing the DNC did not president Jan. 20. Trump has insisted that the government
have a “hacking defense” and questioning doesn’t really know who’s behind the attacks,
why the Democratic Party had not
responded “to the terrible things they did
and said.” saying he knows “things that other people
don’t know,” according to The Hill.
He appeared to be referring to information in the DNC
emails that was made public and led to the resignation of He has said he’ll release more information this week.
the DNC chairwoman and other officials.
In a series of tweets Tuesday and early Wednesday, Trump
wrote that the timing of an upcoming intelligence briefing
on suspected Russian interference in the 2016 election had
been delayed.

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“Perhaps more time needed to build a
case. “Very strange!”

Trump’s tweets, in line with repeated criticism of some the


nation’s intelligence leaders, caused confusion among
intelligence officials, who said there was no delay in the
briefing schedule.

The fresh clash came as Trump took further steps to fill his
Cabinet and key White House positions, with his attention It was unclear if the news conference would be the venue
shifting toward the challenges of governing. for his delayed announcement on how he plans to avoid
potential conflicts of interest involving his businesses after
taking office. Transition officials said multiple topics
Trump’s plans for repealing President Barack Obama’s
could be covered, but would not specifically say whether
signature health care law are expected to be the focus as
they included Trump’s businesses. Trump was supposed to
Vice President-elect Mike Pence and secretary of state
detail the arrangements at a mid-December news
choice Rex Tillerson meet with top Republicans on Capitol
conference, but postponed the event.
Hill on Wednesday.

His Cabinet nearly full, Trump also picked a handful of


Pence issued a direct challenge to Washington Republicans
new White House aides.
Tuesday:

Omarosa Manigault, a contestant from the first season of


“The president-elect has a very clear
“The Apprentice,” is expected to focus on public
message to Capitol Hill. And that is, it’s
engagement in the White House.
time to get to work.”

Trump also hired Rick Dearborn as a deputy chief of staff


Trump signaled he would not bless all of the GOP’s
and Marc Short as White House legislative director. Both
priorities on Capitol Hill, openly questioning the timing of
previously served in chief of staff positions on Capitol
the House Republican push to gut an independent ethics
Hill. The new hires were confirmed by two people familiar
board just as the new Congress gathered. The House GOP
with the decision, who insisted on anonymity because they
later dropped the effort.
were not authorized to discuss the hiring process publicly.
The president-elect promised late Tuesday to hold his first
Trump spent time interviewing prospects for the
formal news conference since his Nov. 8 election victory
Department of Veterans Affairs as well, including Leo
next week in New York.
MacKay, a senior executive at a military contractor who
previously served in the VA under President George W.
He has already waited longer than any other president- Bush.
elect in the modern era to hold his first exchange with
journalists. Most have held such events within days of
their elections.

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Poll: Trump Election Pushes
Confidence In US Economy To Post-Recession High
© AP Photo/ Evan Vucci US 04:37 04.01.2017

The Gallup index is based on responses to two simple


questions: how Americans rate current economic
conditions and whether they believe the economy is
headed up or down, the release noted.
"The record-high confidence is largely the
result of increased optimism among
Republicans after November's election," a
press release explaining the poll stated on
Tuesday. "Before President-elect Donald
Trump's victory, the index score was
President-elect Donald Trump has sent confidence in the US economy negative in nearly all weekly and monthly
soaring to the highest levels since the Great Recession, a new Gallup readings Gallup has recorded since 2008."
poll revealed.
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and the United States has struggled with lackluster
economic growth throughout the administration of US
President Barack Obama.

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BUSTED: FBI Never Even Examined The DNC Servers
Over Allegations Of Russian Hacking
Claire Bernish
January 5, 2017

According to a report, the FBI has never examined the


servers of the Democratic National Committee — not even Relying on a single, ‘pretty good’ organization to examine
for the six months during which the bureau claimed to be a putative breach of national security would seem
investigating allegations of Russians compromising cyber foolhardy, but the unnamed official confirmed that was the
networks. case.

In fact, according to unnamed officials who spoke to “Beginning at the time the intrusion was
Buzzfeed News, discovered by the DNC,” Walker explained,
“the DNC cooperated fully with the FBI and
its investigation, providing access to all of
“the bureau has still not requested
the information uncovered by CrowdStrike
access to the hacked servers, a DNC
— without any limits.”
spokesman said. No US government
entity has run an independent forensic
analysis on the system.” Reports indicate the DNC discovered their system had
been infiltrated in March 2016, but didn’t summon the tech
security firm until May — and although the FBI had been
While it would seem intuitive for the U.S. Intelligence
given all relevant information concerning the alleged hack,
Community to perform a detailed and methodical analysis
of its own, Eric Walker, deputy communications director apparently the bureau never investigated further.
for the DNC, told Buzzfeed,
According to the outlet,
“The DNC had several meetings with
representatives of the FBI’s Cyber Division “BuzzFeed News spoke to three
and its Washington (DC) Field Office, the cybersecurity companies who have worked
Department of Justice’s National Security on major breaches in the last 15 months,
Division, and U.S. Attorney’s Offices, and it who said that it was ‘par for the course’
responded to a variety of requests for for the FBI to do their own forensic
cooperation, but the FBI never requested research into the hacks. None wanted to
access to the DNC’s computer servers.” comment on the record on another
cybersecurity company’s work, or the work
Although the FBI declined to comment on the report, it’s being done by a national security agency.”
notable the bureau has relied solely on third-party
technology security company, CrowdStrike — whose But the FBI apparently did not do forensic research of the
controversial report early last year noted Russia-linked alleged DNC hack on its own — no matter if that is
hackers penetrated DNC systems — for its analysis and common practice or not.
assessment, rather than performing one of its own.
A subsequent report from the Washington Post —
But the official who spoke with Buzzfeed — and expressed notorious for publishing Fake News — cited unnamed
confidence Russia coordinated the ostensible ‘widespread officials from the CIA claiming the U.S. Intelligence
hacks’ — didn’t exactly add an air of confidence to the Community concluded Russian government-associated
CrowdStrike report, noting, actors had performed the hack and handed over documents
for Wikileaks to publish.
“CrowdStrike is pretty good. There’s no
reason to believe that anything that they However, that article contradicted the unanimity it
have concluded is not accurate.” intimated, stating no formal report would be forthcoming
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conclusion remained. Further, an unnamed Corporate media has made a mess of the situation, citing
counterintelligence official with the FBI came forward that report as if it were indisputable evidence of Russian
rejecting the unnamed CIA officials’ allegations — despite hackers infiltrating every computer system in the U.S.
FBI Director James Comey standing in agreement with the
report. But as Leonid Bershidsky wrote for Bloomberg View,

Intelligence officials — most of whom remain anonymous “The confusion has already begun. Last
— who share the view Russian State actors hacked Saturday, The Washington Post reported
systems of the Democrat Party infrastructure have yet to that ‘a code associated with the Russian
proffer conclusive and unassailable evidence to explain hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe’
their position. Although they assert the supposed hackers was found on a computer at a Vermont
sought to undermine Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White utility, setting off a series of forceful
House by swaying the vote in favor of Donald Trump, comments by politicians about Russians
none have explained why that would be a motivation. trying to hack the U.S. power grid. It soon
emerged that the laptop hadn’t been
If what Buzzfeed reports is indeed true — and the FBI connected to the grid, but in any case, if
relied only on CrowdStrike and never performed its own PAS was the code found on it and duly
standard forensic examination of DNC systems before reported to the government, it’s
Comey concluded The Russians threw the election — than overwhelmingly likely to be a false alarm.
questions about the bureau’s political agenda must be Thousands of individual hackers and
raised. groups routinely send out millions of
spearphishing emails, meant for an
Again, no evidence has been provided to the public for unsuspecting person to click on a link and
further scrutiny — except for a rough and disclaimer- thus let hackers into his computer. Now,
emblazoned joint report from the FBI and Department of they have a strong incentive to use
Homeland Security, since criticized for its lack of content Russian-made backdoor software for
damning to the Russian government. That report — U.S. targets.”
although cited by President Obama prior to imposing
sanctions and expelling 35 Russian diplomats — largely In other words, Russians hacking the election, the DNC,
focused on defensive methods cybersecurity experts could John Podesta, the electrical grid of Vermont, and all other
employ in the future, rather evincing details of the alleged accusations stand hollow and as-yet unproven — making
hacks. the FBI’s lack of forensic investigation and reliance on a
third-party tech security company both alarming and
And, as even mainstream Buzzfeed points out, suspicious — and exponentially more so as the lame duck
administration repeatedly provokes Moscow in the
eleventh hour.
“Nowhere in the report does it say that
the government conducted its own
computer forensics on the DNC With sanctions in place, diplomats sent packing, and news
servers.” special forces have been deployed to the Russian border,
the public deserves unassailable evidence — conclusive
proof — The Russians hacked anything at all.
.

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Democrats Scramble To Convince And Prevent
Their Own From Joining Trump’s Team
By: Mary Wilder
Date: January 05, 2017

According to a report published by Fox News, the


Democratic Party “recently launched a ‘full court press’ to
retain Sens. Joe Manchin, of West Virginia, and Heidi
Heitkamp, of North Dakota, after each met with
Republican President-elect Donald Trump … Manchin
now appears less likely to bolt — after saying he wants to
remain in the Senate and being passed over for Energy
secretary — which puts the focus squarely on Heitkamp.”

It is no wonder why so many people are leaving the


Democratic Party after all this time. It is clear that the
captains have lost complete control over the ship and if
people want to succeed, it is becoming more and more
apparent that they need to distance themselves from the
DNC if they ever want to be taken seriously again.
The Democratic Party has been fearing President-elect
Donald Trump for well over a year now. Since it first Furthermore, it is not surprising that those same people
became clear that he was going to be a problem for want to be connected to Donald Trump. He has proven in
recent months that he doesn’t know how to lose.
whoever he was up against — Crooked Hillary Clinton —
Politically, everything he has touched has worked out in
they have been doing everything in their power to discredit
him and pass his supporters off as being mindless racists. the end. Who wouldn’t want that rubbing off on them?
It’s too bad for them that America at large is too smart to
fall victim to this unfair character assassination. Since it doesn’t appear as though they will ever learn their
lesson about this, it is only a matter of time before the
entire party fails to exist. Their only option at this point is
What has followed since has left the Democrats
scrambling to try and figure out what to do and none of to learn to live with Donald Trump and his cabinet or they
them seem to have any answers. After Donald Trump’s will lose party member after party member. It’s time for
massive victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 the United States to come together instead of fighting each
other. Our country needs it now more than ever.
presidential election, many people associated with the
Democratic Party quickly began to jump ship and join the
so-called Trump Train.
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Trump Aims To Cut The Neocon
Deep State Off At The Knees
Charles Hugh Smith
Thursday, January 05, 2017

The Neocon-Neoliberals must be fired and put out to If you want documented evidence of this
pasture before they do any more harm. split in the Deep State--sorry, it doesn't
work that way.
I have long held that America's Deep State--the
unelected National Security State often referred to as the Nobody in the higher echelons of the Deep State is going
Shadow Government--is not a unified monolith but a to leak anything about the low-intensity war being waged
deeply divided ecosystem in which the dominant Neocon- because the one thing everyone agrees on is the Deep
Neoliberal Oligarchy is being challenged by elements State's dirty laundry must be kept private.
which view the Neocon-Neoliberal agenda as a threat to
national security and the interests of the United States. As a result, the split is visible only by carefully reading
between the lines, by examining who is being placed in
I call these anti-Neocon-Neoliberal elements the positions of control in the Trump Administration, and
progressive Deep State. reading the tea leaves of who is "retiring" (i.e. being fired)
or quitting, which agencies are suddenly being
If you want a working definition of the reorganized, and the appearance of dissenting views in
Neocon-Neoliberal Deep State, Hillary journals that serve as public conduits for Deep State
Clinton's quip--we came, we saw, he narratives.
died--is a good summary:
I have also long held that Wall Street's political
a bullying, arrogance-soaked state-within-a-state pursuing dominance is part and parcel of the Neocon-Neoliberal
an agenda of ceaseless intervention while operating a ideology, and the progressive elements in the Deep State
global Murder, Inc., supremely confident that no one in the also want to (finally) limit the power of the big banks and
elected government can touch them. the rest of the Wall Street crowd.

Until Trump unexpectedly wrenched the Is the Deep State Fracturing into Disunity? (March 14,
presidency from the Neocon's 2014)
candidate.
The split in the Deep State is a reflection of
The Neocon Deep State's response was to manufacture a the profound political disunity that is occurring in the
mass-media hysteria that Russia had wrongfully deprived U.S. In other words, it isn't just disunity in the masses or
the Neocon's candidate (Hillary Clinton) of what was the political elites--it's a division in all levels of our
rightfully hers: the presidency. (The Neocons operate their society.
own version of the divine right of Political Nobility.)
The cause is not difficult to discern: the concentration of
The Neocon-Neoliberals' strategy was to wealth and political power in the hands of the few is
delegitimize Trump's victory by generating levels of inequality that threaten democracy, the
ascribing it to "Russian Hacking," a social order and the vitality of the economy:
claim that remains entirely
unsubstantiated. Now that this grasping-
at-straws Hail Mary coup attempt by a
politicized C.I.A. and its corporate media
mouthpiece has failed, the Neocon Deep
State is about to find out the
Progressive Deep State finally has a
president who is willing and able to cut
the Neocon-Neoliberals off at the knees.

Trump Is Working On A Plan To Restructure, Pare Back


The CIA And America's Top Spy Agency.

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As someone who has studied the Deep then the U.S. military is one of the few national institutions
State for 40 years, I find it ironic that so that hasn't been corrupted by top-down politicization and
many self-identified "progressives" do worship of Wall Street.
not understand that the U.S. military is
now the Progressive element and it's the Shinseki et al. did not amass a fortune from Wall Street
civilian leadership--the Neocon- like Bill and Hillary Clinton. The simple dictum--follow
Neoliberals-- who are responsible for the money--maps the lay of the land rather neatly.
leading the nation into quagmires and
handing the keys to the chicken coop to the The Neocon-Neoliberals have run the
wolves of Wall Street. nation into the ground. They must be
fired and put out to pasture before they
When military leaders such as Eric Shinseki questioned the do any more harm.
Neocon's insane "strategy" in Iraq--essentially a civilian
fantasy of magical-thinking--the Neocons quickly That includes the Fake-"Progressives" and the fake-
cashiered him (Shinseki was a wounded combat veteran of "Conservatives" alike who have enriched themselves
Vietnam who rose through the ranks--the exact opposite of within the Neocon-Neoliberal Oligarchy.
the coddled never-get-my-hands-dirty Elites in the civilian
Neocon-Neoliberal leadership.) If you are surprised that the Democratic Party, the C.I.A.
and Wall Street are all hugging each other in the same
To the degree that the U.S. has become cozy Neocon-Neoliberal Oligarchic embrace, you
a Third World Oligarchy owned and shouldn't be. Open your eyes.
controlled by a financial-political Elite,

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Democrats See A Rich Future For US Under Trump, Now
Attempting To Block Him From Profiting From It
By: Mary Wilder
Date: January 05, 2017

urging him to follow the advice of a top


government ethics office. Twenty-three
senators sent a letter to Trump this week,
warning that his financial ties ‘have the
potential for serious conflicts between the
national interest and your personal financial
interests.'”

It isn’t healthy for the Democrats to be fighting against


actual progression this way. They’re trying to make the life
of the president-elect absurdly difficult for no reason other
than the fact that they lost and are being sore losers. We all
rejected Hillary Clinton for extremely understandable
reasons and they just cannot seem to come to terms with
The Democratic Party has been waging war on Donald that.
Trump since before he even announced that he would
officially be running for president. They decided that he Our country has been traveling down a dark path for years
would be the worst possible choice for America before now and we most definitely need to reverse the course.
they even had a chance to hear his policies. From there, Donald Trump has promised that he will do everything in
things got progressively worse and worse as they his power in order to make America great again. While it
constantly went out of their way to portray the president- may be a longshot, we should all be supporting him and
elect as being a racist bigot. hoping that he succeeds. The Democratic Party, however,
is proving that they have no interest in allowing our
When that didn’t work, they tried to portray his supporters country to reclaim its former glory. They are willing to do
as being an army of hate-filled monsters. Hillary Clinton anything in order to keep Trump from being successful —
even went as far as to refer to them as “a basket of which goes to show that they care more about themselves
deplorables.” Unfortunately for the Democratic Party, this than their country.
didn’t work out to their advantage. The American people
rejected their taunts and decided to elect Donald Trump in Whether or not you supported Donald Trump in the
spite of all the controversy. Now the powers that be are election is irrelevant. We need a leader that is going to
doing everything they possibly can in order to prevent actually lead our country to greatness and Trump could
Trump from being successful. very well be that person. It is time for the American people
to reject the desires of the Democratic Party and stand
Jordain Carney of The Hill reports, behind the president-elect. It could be the difference
between the success or failure of our country.
“Democrats are showing no signs of
backing down from their monthslong
hounding of Trump over his financial ties,
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Are Violent Left-Wing Anarchists Plotting Major
Disruptions During Trump’s Inauguration?
By: Usafeaturesmedia
Date: January 05, 2017

Reports have only grown more dire since then. What’s also
true is that rather than accept Trump’s ascension to the
White House, the angry Left and the federal
establishment–full of big government careerists including
many who work for in the Intelligence Community–are
doing all they can to disrupt, derail and de-litigimize the
incoming Trump administration.

As reported here:

#DisruptJ20: Call for a bold mobilization


against the inauguration of Donald
Trump on January 20, 2017
(Bugout.news) There have been rumors and various On Friday, January 20, 2017, Donald
reports claiming that a myriad of groups are planning Trump will be inaugurated as President of
major protests and other disruptions during President-elect the United States. We call on all people of
Donald J. Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, thus denying him good conscience to join in disrupting the
the same courtesies of a peaceful transition of power that ceremonies. If Trump is to be inaugurated
were afforded his predecessors, including the country’s at all, let it happen behind closed doors,
first black president not named Bill Clinton. showing the true face of the security state
Trump will preside over. It must be made
But there are other, really disturbing, reports beginning to clear to the whole world that the vast
surface that could produce very chaotic and, perhaps, majority of people in the United States do
deadly results. not support his presidency or consent to his
rule.
As reported last month by Zero Hedge, various groups Trump stands for tyranny, greed, and
advocating anarchy may be united under the hashtag misogyny. He is the champion of neo-nazis
banner of #DisruptJ20, for “disrupt January 20th”– and white Nationalists, of the police who kill
Inauguration Day: the Black, Brown and poor on a daily basis,
of racist border agents and sadistic prison
It may be that even with the post-election guards, of the FBI and NSA who tap your
riots that have swept the country, we ain’t phone and read your email. He is the
seen nothing yet. harbinger of even more climate
catastrophe, deportation, discrimination,
This country is fissuring. Its people are
and endless war. He continues to deny the
sharply divided, but more than that, covert
existence of climate change, in spite of all
finance is pushing things towards unrest
the evidence, putting the future of the
and martial law.
whole human race at stake. The KKK,
If Soros money and its ilk proves effective, Vladimir Putin, Golden Dawn, and the
inauguration day on January 20th will Islamic State all cheered his victory. If we
become one of the largest demonstrations let his inauguration go unchallenged, we
on record, with a group calling itself are opening the door to the future they
#DISRUPTJ20 planning to block “peaceful envision.
transition” and disrupt Trump’s swearing in.
Trump’s success confirms the bankruptcy
of representative democracy. Rather than
using the democratic process as an alibi for
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inaction, we must show that no election And no one is going to convince them otherwise, except,
could legitimize his agenda. Neither the perhaps, a couple Army and Marine battalions who may
Democrats nor any other political party or indeed be ordered to shoot to kill to protect the president-
politician will save us—they just offer a elect and the people, should they judge them to be in real
weaker version of the same thing. If there danger.
is going to be positive change in this
society, we have to make it ourselves, Will there be bloodshed on Inauguration Day? There seem
together, through direct action. to be several groups of people, and the man at the center of
it all may well be billionaire Leftist George Soros.
None of these accusations are true–except to diehard, Left-
wing #nevertrumpers who want them to be true, so they If that’s the case, Soros should be hunted down like a dog
have made them true…in their minds. and arrested for treason and inciting domestic terrorism.

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Twitter Pulpit: Trump Already Breaking
Mold Of The Presidency
By Adam Shaw
Published January 05, 2017

independence of the Office of Congressional Ethics. While


Trump conceded the office was “unfair,” he questioned
why it was so high on the House agenda.

President-elect Donald Trump’s outsider candidacy defied


all political convention during the 2016 campaign – and
with two weeks to go until he’s inaugurated, the billionaire
tycoon already is breaking the mold of the presidency
itself.

He proved this once again this week as he deployed his


Twitter feed to jawbone Republican colleagues into
backing off a controversial ethics rule change and to
pressure automakers to keep jobs in America. Hours later, the House dropped the plan.

The prospect of the president governing, negotiating and Trump also is using the platform to pressure businesses to
conducting foreign policy by tweet has riled Trump's keep jobs in the U.S. After he tweeted earlier this week
critics. But like it or not, his social media megaphone is that he'd seek a "border tax" for General Motors for
just one way the president-elect is changing the nature of making a model of the Chevy Cruze in Mexico, he turned
the Oval Office, before President Obama even finishes his his attention Thursday to Toyota.
term.

The Twitter Pulpit

The American president often is referred to as having the


“bully pulpit” – the power and visibility of the office to
advance an agenda. Trump will have that, plus a growing
“Twitter pulpit” speaking directly to his roughly 19 million
followers.

To be sure, Obama has far more followers – but he doesn’t


use Twitter like Trump. Toyota responded:

From the very start of the 115th Congress, Trump used "Toyota has been part of the cultural fabric
social media to help get Republican colleagues to back off in the U.S. for nearly 60 years. Production
their ethics overhaul. volume or employment in the U.S. will not
decrease as a result of our new plant in
House Republicans already were facing a public backlash Guanajuato, Mexico announced in April
and tough media scrutiny over plans to reduce the 2015. With more than $21.9 billion direct
investment in the U.S., 10 manufacturing
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facilities, 1,500 dealerships and 136,000 Trump used a similar tactic against Lockheed Martin,
employees, Toyota looks forward to saying its F-35 was too expensive, and has asked Boeing
collaborating with the Trump Administration for an estimate on “a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!”
to serve in the best interests of consumers
and the automotive industry."

Even before that, Trump was using Twitter for what some
saw as diplomatic gamesmanship. He announced in
December he had spoken to the president of Taiwan –
which provoked anger from China. And just last week, he
praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for not
responding in kind to President Obama’s sanctions on the
country – calling him “very smart.”

The tweets have had an impact by themselves, with


Lockheed’s stocks tumbling in the wake of Trump's
complaints. It remains to be seen how successful the tactic
will be, but it could put pressure on companies to jump at
White House requests quickly in order to avoid being
publicly attacked on Twitter.

Inauguration Slim-Down

Asked about the president’s social media use, incoming Inaugurations have become glitzy, extravagant, star-
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer recently told studded affairs in recent presidencies.
David Axelrod for his podcast,
Expect Jan. 20 to still bring the pomp – but the inaugural
“Of course he's going to keep doing it.” balls themselves reportedly are being cut down.

FDR pioneered the use of radio in the presidency. JFK The Daily Mail reported that Trump wants to reduce the
used television to great effect. And @RealDonaldTrump number of balls from Obama’s 10 in 2009 to just three.
has Twitter. The Mail reports he wants just two official inaugural balls
with a separate ball to celebrate military members and first
Contract Negotiator responders.

Trump also has used Twitter as part of his muscle to blast TMZ reports that Trump also is planning on one of those
government contracts he sees as problematic. balls having a New York City theme, complete with
cutouts of the Empire State Building and the Statue of
The “Art of the Deal” author took the unusual step of Liberty.
delving into contract negotiations within weeks of winning
the election by threatening to seek the cancellation of a He has repeatedly said he is not interested in “so-called
Boeing deal for the new Air Force One. ‘A’ list celebrities” attending, saying he instead wants “the
people!”

This may be in part because many of those celebrities have


been outspoken critics of Trump and overwhelmingly
backed opponent Hillary Clinton during the campaign.

A New York President?

Where does the president of the United States live? The


White House.
Boeing has since vowed to reduce the cost.
This elementary-school civics answer could get an
important caveat in the Trump administration, as he
considers spending at least some time at his Trump Tower
home and headquarters in downtown Manhattan. The New

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York Times reported in November that Trump is believed Some of these picks have raised concerns from Senate
to be talking to advisers about splitting his time between Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who cited
the two residences. Tillerson, Ross, Mnuchin and Puzder as four of the eight
“most troublesome” of Trump’s picks, and indicated
New Kind of Cabinet Senate Democrats are likely to oppose the nominations.

Obama’s Cabinet was full of academics and former Trump also has tapped a number of generals for top posts.
government officials. Trump’s looks considerably different In addition to retired Gen. James Mattis for Defense
– full of military brass and wealthy business tycoons like secretary, Trump has tapped retired Lt. Gen. Michael
himself. Flynn for national security adviser, retired Gen. John Kelly
for Homeland Security secretary and former Navy SEAL
Ryan Zinke for Interior secretary.
On the business side, the most notable pick is Exxon CEO
Rex Tillerson, whom Trump tapped for secretary of State
in part based on his record doing deals in hot spots like The picks led Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., to dub
Russia and parts of the Middle East. Trump also is Trump’s Cabinet
nominating CKE Restaurants boss Andrew Puzder for
Labor secretary, investor Wilbur Ross for Commerce “the three 'G' Cabinet: Goldman, generals
secretary, and Wall Street financier Steven Mnuchin for and gazillionaires.”
Treasury secretary.
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FBI Didn’t Examine DNC Servers
Russia Wrongfully Accused Of Hacking
By Stephen Lendman
1-5-2017

Accusing Russia of US election hacking is a malicious Big


Lie. It’s a clear attempt to delegitimize Trump’s election. “things they did and said (like giving the
questions to the debate to H). A total
It aims undermine him before taking office, along with double standard! Media, as usual, gave
provocatively pushing for confrontation between the them a pass.”
world’s dominant nuclear powers - utter madness, but
that’s the mindset of neocon lunatics infesting “The ‘Intelligence’ briefing on so-called
Washington, forces Trump will have to deal with after "Russian hacking" was delayed until
taking office. Friday, perhaps more time needed to build
a case. Very strange!
It’s up for grabs whether he’s strong-willed enough to go
his own way or intends serving America’s deep state America’s tweeter-in-chief has 18.7 million followers -
exclusively, wanting uninterrupted continuity - dirty able to reach them directly, circumventing media
business as usual across the board, especially scoundrels overwhelmingly against him - giving bully
geopolitically. pulpit influence new meaning.

It takes a giant leap of faith to think he’ll diverge In his waning days in office, Obama seems determined to
positively from longstanding deplorable practices. Yet he try undermining Trump before he’s sworn in and begin
hasn’t begun to serve so it’s unclear precisely what he’ll serving - instead of graciously smoothing the transition
do. process the way previous administrations operated.

Bipartisan congressional headwinds alone will challenge Pat Buchanan said he’s acting with “bitterness” and
whatever monied interests oppose. Presidents are front “despair,” exiting with a “let’s wreck the place” attitude,
men for wealth, power and privilege. Their choice is going an outrageous end to a disgraceful tenure, more evidence
along to get along or running into storm of trouble - of his diabolical nature.
enough to sabotage their agenda unless willing to support
consensus. On Wednesday, he awarded himself the Medal of
Distinguished Public Service, Defense Secretary Ashton
Disputing the fake news Russian hacking allegation, Carter pinning the medal on him ceremonially.
Trump responded with multiple tweets, saying:
One tweeter asked if it has an ISIS emblem on it? Another
“Julian Assange says Russia wasn’t his said he can wear it like other brutal despots display self-
source & Pres Obama is trying to awarded medals.
‘delegitimize’ Trump with Russia hack
claims (@sean hannity exclusive).” He long ago should have been arrested, prosecuted,
convicted and imprisoned for high crimes of war and
“Julian Assange said ‘a 14 year old could against humanity. America honors its worst, denigrates its
have hacked Podesta’ - why was DNC so best, the way all rogue states operate.
careless? Also said Russians did not give
him the info!” The Russian hacking story gets increasingly shakier.
According to Buzzfeed News, the FBI never requested
“@FoxNews: Julian Assange on U.S. access to allegedly hacked DNC servers.
media coverage: ‘It’s very dishonest.’
#Hannity pic.twitter.com/ADcPRQifH9' Months after claiming they were compromised, they’ve yet
More dishonest than anyone knows to examine them for alleged hacking evidence, according
to DNC spokesman Eric Walker, saying:
“Somebody hacked the DNC but why did
they not have "hacking defense" like the “The DNC had several meetings with
RNC has and why have they not representatives of the FBI’s Cyber Division
responded to the terrible……” and its Washington (DC) Field Office, the

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Department of Justice’s National Security Clearly it’s because emails were leaked by one or more
Division, and US Attorney’s Offices, and it Democrat party insiders, not hacked by Russia or anyone
responded to a variety of requests for else.
cooperation, but the FBI never requested
access to the DNC’s computer servers.” Accusations otherwise were fabricated. Months after
initially made, no credible evidence was presented. None
Instead the agency relied on tech security company exists.
CrowdStrike. It claimed Russian hacking without
providing evidence proving it. Whatever comes out ahead, if anything, will be fake news
like everything else about this concocted issue - a shameful
Its standard practice for the FBI to do its own end to a disgraced administration.
cybersecurity investigative work. Why not this time?
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What's Inside? Obama Gets Report On
Russia Hacking, As Republicans Spar On Claims
Published January 05, 2017
Foxnews.Com

Democratic National Committee that the FBI did not


examine their servers.

A spokesman confirmed to Fox News that

“the FBI never requested access to the


DNC's computer servers,”

though the DNC had several meetings with FBI and other
officials during the investigation. BuzzFeed first reported
the FBI did not inspect the servers before issuing their
report.
President Obama has received a much-anticipated
classified report on alleged Russian and other foreign That 13-page report, issued with the Department of
meddling in American elections, heightening interest in Homeland Security, also has faced some scrutiny for being
what evidence the file contains as Republicans spar over light on hard evidence confirming Russian government
the cyberattack claims – and wait for their chance to see involvement.
the findings themselves.
The report sent to Obama – and soon to be shared with
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other Trump and others – could offer more.
top intelligence officials visited the White House Thursday
afternoon, to brief the president on the materials.
Trump tweeted earlier this week that it was “very strange”
his briefing on Russia hacking will not be held until
President-elect Donald Trump is to be briefed on the report Friday.
on Friday.
He speculated, “perhaps more time needed
Clapper also testified before the Senate Armed Services to build a case.”
Committee that they plan to brief Congress and release an
unclassified version of the report to the public “early next
Intelligence officials said there had been no delay.
week.”
Trump also has drawn attention to WikiLeaks founder
In its earlier assessment, the intelligence community said
Julian Assange’s recent interview on Fox News’ “Hannity”
Moscow interfered in the election to help Trump win.
in which Assange insisted the Russians were not his source
for thousands of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton
"We stand actually more resolutely on the campaign chairman John Podesta.
strength of that statement than we did on
the 7th of October," Clapper said.
Some Republicans, though, have made clear they harbor
few doubts about Russia’s cyber-meddling -- and do not
The administration’s allegations of Russia-directed see Assange as a reliable source.
hacking of Democratic organizations during the 2016 U.S.
elections – and punitive measures taken against Russian
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John
officials and agencies last week – continue to drive fierce
McCain, R-Ariz., said at Thursday’s hearing that he
debate in Washington, especially among Republicans.
believes Assange is responsible for publishing names of
individuals who work with the U.S. government and
Trump and his allies have cast doubt on the claims. The putting them at risk.
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Clapper said, “Yes, he has,” adding that he Accusations Russia interfered in the 2016 election by
does not find Assange to be credible. hacking Democratic email accounts have roiled
Washington for weeks. Obama struck back at Moscow in
McCain also said Thursday that "every
late December with penalties aimed at Russia's leading spy
American should be alarmed" by Russia's
agencies, the GRU and FSB, that the U.S. said were
alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential
involved. The GRU is Russia's military intelligence
election.
agency. The FSB is the main successor to the Soviet-era
There is "no escaping the fact that this KGB.
committee meets today for the first time in
this new Congress in the aftermath of an But Trump easily could rescind the sanctions. So far, he
unprecedented attack on our democracy," has publicly refused to accept the conclusion that Russia is
he said. responsible for the attacks. Trump suggested Wednesday
in a tweet that one of Russia's primary targets, the
In prepared testimony Thursday, intelligence officials said Democratic National Committee, could be to blame for
Russia poses a major and growing threat to U.S. being "so careless."
government, military, diplomatic and commercial
operations -- as well as America's critical infrastructure. CIA Director John Brennan said in a Dec. 16 message to
Russia is among at least 30 nations that are developing employees that the FBI agreed with the agency's
capabilities to launch cyberattacks, according to their conclusion that Russia's goal was to support Trump in the
statement. Clapper on Thursday stood by claims that the election. Brennan wrote that he also had spoken with
Russian government was involved in the 2016 hacking. Clapper and said

In new tweets early Thursday, Trump backed away from "there is strong consensus among us on
Assange somewhat. He blamed the "dishonest media" for the scope, nature, and intent of Russian
portraying him as agreeing with Assange. interference in our presidential election."

Moscow has denied the hacking allegations and dismissed


Obama's sanctions as an attempt to "harm Russian-
American ties." Although Russian President Vladimir
Putin rebuked the Obama administration for trying to
punish Russia, he said his country would not immediately
retaliate and would instead wait for a new U.S. approach
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The "Russian Hacking" Story Changes Again
By Tyler Durden
Jan 5, 2017 3:26 PM

Today at 9:30 am, senior U.S. intelligence officials face


questions at a Senate hearing that will be dominated by the
intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled
in the presidential election to help Donald Trump win.
Participating will be James R. Clapper, Jr., Director Of
National Intelligence. Marcel J. Lettre II, Under Secretary
Of Defense For Intelligence and Admiral Michael S.
Rogers, USN, Commander, United States Cyber
Command.

In keeping with the theme of providing no


The Armed Services Committee's cyber threats hearing on
proof to the general public, the officials
Thursday comes a day before the president-elect is to be
declined to describe the intelligence
briefed by the CIA and FBI directors — along with the
obtained about the involvement of a third-
director of national intelligence — on the investigation
party in passing on leaked material to
into Russia's alleged hacking efforts. Trump has been
WikiLeaks, saying they did not want to
deeply critical of their findings, even appearing to back
reveal how the U.S. government had
controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's
obtained the information. So just trust
contention that Russia did not provide him with hacked
them, please.
Democratic emails.

The shift in the narrative is curious because as a reminder,


The committee's session is the first in a series aimed at
officials had concluded "months earlier" that Russian
investigating purported Russian cyber-attacks against U.S.
intelligence agencies had directed the hacking, but had
interests and developing defenses sturdy enough to blunt
been less certain that they could prove Russia also had
future intrusions.
controlled the release of information damaging to
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. It now
"We will obviously be talking about the appears that along with lack of evidence, the attention has
hacking, but the main thing is the whole shifted to an "intermediary" as being the responsible party .
issue of cybersecurity," the committee's
Republican chairman, Sen. John McCain of
In an interview with Fox News, WikiLeaks founder Julian
Arizona, said ahead of the hearing. "Right
Assange said he did not receive emails stolen from the
now we have no policy, no strategy to
DNC and top Hillary Clinton aide John Podesta from "a
counter cyberattacks."
state party." Assange did not rule out the possibility that he
got the material from a third party.
More importantly, however, the hearing comes hours after
Reuters reported overnight that U.S. intelligence agencies
Trump on Wednesday sided with Assange and again
obtained what they considered to be conclusive evidence
questioned the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion
after the November election that Russia provided hacked
that Russia tried to help his candidacy and hurt Clinton's.
material from the Democratic National Committee to
WikiLeaks. However, in the latest change of the narrative,
this time the allegation is that Russia provided the hacked Concern by U.S. officials over the hacking first spiked in
data through a third party, three U.S. officials said on August, when intelligence agencies concluded that Russian
Wednesday. intelligence, with the direction of President Vladimir Putin,
had been trying to disrupt and discredit the presidential and
congressional elections. Obama in August rejected
Wikieaks was quick to highlight that according to the
recommendations from some of his advisors to disclose the
report, US officials admitted that the Wikileaks "source"
Russian link and take some limited covert action as "a shot
was not Russia, and that the goal posts now shifted to the
across Putin's bow to knock it off," one official with
source's source:
knowledge of the matter said. Instead, Obama warned
Putin privately, arguing that a similar private message to
Chinese President Xi Jinping had reduced Chinese hacking
into U.S. agencies and companies.
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Ultimately, the additional intelligence informed U.S. So far not a shred of evidence has been provided
President Barack Obama's decision to retaliate on Dec. 29 confirming the Kremlin's involvement in the matter, aside
by expelling 35 suspected Russian spies and sanctioning from some Ukrainian malware code exposed in a 13-page
two Russian spy agencies, four intelligence officers and joint DHS/FBI report which could be purchased by anyone
three companies, a decision that capped four months of online.
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Trump Picks Former Sen. Coats
As Director Of National Intelligence
Foxnews.COM
Published January 05, 2017

Coats is very much beloved in the Senate, a source told


Fox News, and is considered to be an interesting balance to
some of the other personalities such as Gen. Michael Flynn
and Rep. Mike Pompeo.

The senator was banned from visiting Russia back in late


2014 for his participation to punish Russia because of
Moscow’s move to annex the Crimea region of Ukraine,
which he seemed to enjoy at the time.

Former Sen. Dan Coats (R-IN) stops to speak to the news media after a “While I’m disappointed that I won’t be able
meeting at Trump Tower with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in to go on vacation with my family in Siberia
New York, U.S., November 30, 2016. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) this summer, I am honored to be on this
list,” he said after Russia’s announcement,
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday picked former according to The Indy Star.
Indiana Senator Dan Coats as director of national
intelligence, two sources briefed on the decision told Fox The choice comes amid Trump's questioning of the U.S.
News. intelligence community's assessments that Russia
interfered with the election on his behalf, and one day
The official announcement is expected later this week, before the president-elect is briefed by senior intelligence
according to the AP, as Trump makes final decisions on officials on the Russian hacking allegations.
some of the major positions he needs to fill before he is
sworn in on Jan. 20. Trump has been considering ways to restructure
intelligence agencies to streamline operations and improve
Coats, a Republican, served as a member of the Senate efficiency.
Intelligence Committee before retiring from Congress last
year. He also served as U.S. ambassador to Germany. Transition officials have been looking at changes at both
ODNI and the CIA, but those plans are said not to be
As director of national intelligence, Coats would oversee aimed at gutting the intelligence agencies or hampering
an office created after 9/11 to improve coordination of their capabilities.
U.S. spy and law enforcement agencies.

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Trump's Cabinet and Top Officials:
Appointees and Likely Candidates
Showing confirmed members of President-elect Trump's White House cabinet as well as likely candidates as reported by the
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Email Headache Returns: New Clinton Messages Show
Passwords, Schedules Flowed Freely
By Cody Derespina
Published January 05, 2017

At the top of the message, Abedin typed out the entirety of


the new password, which was redacted on the State
Department release. Clinton responded later with even
more information, noting that

“I finally realized I had to add the [redacted]


to the password!!!!”

During the July speech in which FBI Director James


Comey termed Clinton’s server practices “extremely
careless” but not criminal, he also said “hostile actors”
could have hacked her communications. In at least one
instance, Clinton aide Cooper logged hacking attempts on
The election’s over – but Hillary Clinton’s emails are still
the server.
coming to light. And they help illustrate why the FBI
declared she was “extremely careless” with the
information flowing across her secret server. Still, Clinton and her advisers continued sending
information that could be dangerous in the wrong hands,
including detailed, advanced copies of her schedules and
A new batch of messages released by the State Department
talking points for upcoming calls and meetings with
on Tuesday shows the former secretary of state and her
foreign leaders and top U.S. officials.
team routinely shared her upcoming schedules, talking
points and sensitive items – such as her iPad password –
via the homebrewed system. On Sept. 30, 2011 – the day American-born terrorist
Anwar al-Awlaki was killed – Abedin emailed Clinton to
say then-CIA Director David Petraeus wanted to talk on a
Other newly revealed emails, which were posted as the
secure connection. She added:
result of litigation, show Clinton’s top advisers griping
about her during her time as secretary of State; an Asian
ruler who later implemented Sharia law saying he “Assume its about awlaki.”
considered former President Bill Clinton part of his
“family”; and Clinton talking about Justin Cooper, one of Other emails released Tuesday shed light on Clinton’s
the key figures who administered to her private server. relationships.

Many of the 371 emails posted on the State Department In advance of a September 2012 meeting with the Sultan
website had been partially released previously, and are of Brunei – who would later impose Sharia law on his
separate from the hacked emails of Clinton campaign country – Abedin emailed Clinton that Sultan Hassanal
chairman John Podesta posted by WikiLeaks before the Bolkiah hoped to have dinner with Clinton and her family.
election. Almost all the messages were partly or heavily
redacted. “They say sultan sees WJC as part of his
family and thus is treating you in this
Among the items redacted -- yet still sent over email -- was ‘informal’ way,” she wrote, using Bill
Clinton's iPad password. Clinton’s initials.

In an Aug. 20, 2012 conversation, Clinton’s closest aide, On Dec. 24, 2011, Clinton emailed Chelsea Clinton, who
Huma Abedin, told her boss she had the iPad password was using a pseudonym revealed previously by WikiLeaks,
reset. The device had previously given Clinton problems, asking “Who will provide tech support after Justin leaves,”
though Abedin wrote that it’s “all good now.” ostensibly citing Cooper, who originally helped set up
Clinton’s server and was typically called for any tech
issues Clinton was experiencing.

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“Let’s talk about this later – he’s actually Philippe Reines, another top Clinton aide, responded with
supported by someone else too as a FYI,” the frustration he experienced explaining to Clinton that
Chelsea replied cryptically. “I think there she had received the incorrect copy of a document.
are a couple options.”
“I emailed her that. I told her in the elevator
In an email chain from April 4, 2012 that Clinton was up from videos. I told her that in the pre-
eventually excluded from, Abedin complained about brief. I told her that in the elevator up to 8. I
Clinton’s obsession with an archiving project. made clear it wasn’t that Jake [Sullivan]’s
timeline was ‘inadequate’ – just that the
“This records thing is the bain of my wrong version made its way to her,” Reines
existence with her….” she wrote. wrote. “But [I] think it played into whatever
anxiety she has that you’re experiencing
about the topic of archiving.”
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Trump Says US Media Lies About
Relationship With Assange Over Russia
US President-Elect Donald Trump Called Media "Dishonest"
After Reports Appeared That Trump Agreed With Wikileaks Founder
Julian Assange On Intelligence Involving Alleged Russian
Interference In The US 2016 Election.
JONATHAN ERNST US 17:21 05.01.2017

Trump noted that the media lied yet again, this time to
make him look like he is against the US intelligence
community, when he is actually "a big fan."
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — President-elect Donald
Trump said in a Twitter message on Thursday that the On Wednesday, Trump said Assange stated Russia did not
corporate media misinterpreted comments on Wednesday provide him any of the hacked information from the
when reporting he agreed with WikiLeaks founder Julian Democratic Party released on WikiLeaks.
Assange on intelligence involving alleged Russian
interference in the US 2016 election. The president-elect also mentioned Assange’s claim that a
14-year-old could have hacked Clinton campaign chairman
"The dishonest media likes saying that I am in agreement John Podesta, leading Trump to call the Democrats
with Julian Assange — wrong," the message stated. "I careless. Trump has criticized US intelligence officials
simply state what he states, it is for the people to make up over their claims that Russia breached the Democratic
their own minds as to the truth." National Committee's computer systems.

Russian officials have called the US allegations of


interference absurd, and have noted the allegations are
intended to deflect US public opinion from revelations of
corruption and other pressing domestic concerns.

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Russian Cyberattacks
Against US An 'Act Of War' Says McCain
Thu Jan 5, 2017 5:16AM

stronger sanctions against Russia over the hacking, which


the US intelligence community claims amounted to
meddling in the US election.

McCain has been a virulent critic of Russia and President-


elect Donald Trump, who has repeatedly cast doubt over
the claim that Russia launched cyberattacks on the US.

On Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee, led


by McCain, is to hold the first public hearing in Congress
on the alleged hacking.
US Republican Senator John McCain

Hawkish US Republican Senator John McCain and other top congressional leaders have pledged
McCain has once again accused to press legislation on sanctions against Russia in addition
Moscow of waging a war against the to those announced by President Barack Obama last
United States. month.

McCain said on Wednesday Russia’s alleged cyberattacks On December 22, Obama announced a series of economic
against US political organizations to influence the 2016 sanctions against Russia, as well as expulsion of 35
presidential election amount to an “act of war.” Russian diplomats, over allegations that it interfered in the
2016 presidential election through cyberattacks.
"It's an act of war," McCain, a staunch
opponent of Russia, told reporters on the McCain has criticized the sanctions as insufficient and
US Capitol in Washington, DC. overdue.
"If you try to destroy the fundamentals of
democracy, then you have destroyed a However, Trump, the incoming US president, has
nation,” said McCain, the chairman of the repeatedly questioned the accuracy of US intelligence
Senate Armed Services Committee. pointing to Russia’s responsibility for the hacks and has
said it was time to "move on."
"I'm not saying it's an atomic attack. I'm just
saying that when you attack a nation's
fundamental structure, which they are The US claim has been rejected by Moscow. Julian
doing, then it's an act of war,” he Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, which published the
continued. stolen emails, has also denied that the Russian government
provided the files.
McCain also accused Moscow of committing an "act of
war" against the United States last week, and demanded
.

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Bullshit Propaganda

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Neocon John McCain Accuses
Russia Of An Act Of War
By Stephen Lendman
1-5-2017

McCain disgraces the office he holds. He’s part of


Washington’s lunatic fringe. He’s not one of Capitol Hill’s On January 5, his committee will begin holding public
brightest, graduating near dead last in his 1958 Naval hearings on the phony Russian hacking issue. Expect an
Academy class (894th out of 899 midshipmen). array of Russophobes giving testimony, truth-tellers
excluded, the way things usually work in Washington.
His public disservice shows it, hawkishly favoring wars of
aggression against nonexistent enemies, denigrating Russia Bipartisan congressional hardliners want tougher action on
irresponsibly, perhaps pushing for direct confrontation - Russia, including more sanctions imposed - dangerous
madness if ever happens. McCarthyite hysteria vital to oppose.

He chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. At McCain recklessly claims America must
yearend, he called nonexistent Russian US election “stand up to Putin.”
hacking an “act of war.”
He and likeminded neocons reject normalizing ties with
He said newly imposed US sanctions and expulsion of Russia.
Russian diplomats are inadequate.
Ranking House Intelligence Committed Democrat Rep.
“(W)e have to make sure that there is a Adam Schiff vowed to work with other congressional
price to pay so that we can perhaps hardliners to prevent Trump from reversing Obama’s
persuade Russians to stop this kind of adversarial policies.
attacks on our very fundamentals of
democracy,” he ranted. He blasted Trump’s rejection of irresponsible hacking
charges, saying
On Capitol Hill Thursday, he repeated the Big Lie, telling
reporters Russia attacked America. “(i)f he’s going to have any credibility as
president, he needs to stop talking this
“If you try to destroy the fundamentals of way.”
democracy, then you have destroyed a
nation,” said McCain. “He needs to stop denigrating the
intelligence community…He’s going to
“I’m not saying it’s an atomic attack. I’m just have to rely on them.”
saying that when you attack a nation’s
fundamental structure, which they are Its mandate is lying when it comes to Russia and other
doing, then it’s an act of war.” nations Washington considers adversaries.

Throughout months of bluster by Obama, US intelligence In two weeks, Trump will be sworn in as America’s 45th
officials and congressional members, no credible evidence president. It appears he’s heading for a rough-and-tumble
was offered to corroborate claims made. start, perhaps continuing throughout his tenure.

Without it, they’re groundless. McCain represents a clear


danger to world peace and stability. Chairing the Armed
Services Committee gives him influence for ill, not good.
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Hacker Guccifer Calls US
Allegations Against Russia 'Fake Cyber War'
Romanian Hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar, Known As Guccifer, Says The
Claims Of The Administration Of US President Barack Obama Regarding
Russia’s Alleged Interference In The November
Presidential Elections Are Fake.
© Photo: Pixabay World 05:37 05.01.2017

sanctions against six Russian individuals and five entities


over Moscow's alleged interference in the 2016
presidential election, something the Kremlin has
repeatedly denied.

Russian officials have called the US allegations absurd,


saying that they are intended to deflect US public opinion
from revelations of corruption and other pressing domestic
concerns.

Marcel Lehel Lazar, a hacker who goes by the name of


Guccifer, was sentenced to 52 months in prison by the US
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Speaking from prison in a authorities in 2016 for hacking into personal email and
Wednesday interview with Fox News, Lazar stressed that social media accounts of about 100 Americans, including
the allegations are "a fake cyber war" and that there is two former presidents, a former member of the US
"hysteria" in the United States regarding Russia stemming Cabinet, a former member of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff
from the Cold War era. and a former presidential advisor.

Outgoing US President Barack Obama's administration last


week ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats, the
closure of two Russian diplomatic compounds and new
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Attempted Coup Against Trump Continues
By Stephen Lendman
1-5-2017

Pro-Hillary, anti-Trump coup plotters keep throwing during which each member may speak only
endless amounts of dirt against the wall, hoping something once and for not more than five minutes.”
sticks to oust him or undermines his presidency if removal
efforts fail. “Then ‘it shall be the duty of the presiding
officer of each House to put the main
Various attempts so far fizzled, a final hurdle to cross on question without further debate.”
January 6 when Congress convenes a joint session to
certify November’s presidential election results and make “Disposing of Objections. The joint session
Trump’s ascension to power official, together with Vice does not act on any objections that are
President-elect Mike Pence. made. Instead, the joint session is
suspended while each house meets
Friday is the last date for filing objections, ahead of the separately to debate the objection and vote
congressional vote, the procedure as follows, according to whether, based on the objection, to count
the Congressional Research Service: the vote or votes in question.”

“Objecting to the Counting of One or More “Both houses must vote separately to
Electoral Votes. 3 U.S.C. § 15 includes a agree to the objection. (This is the form in
procedure for making and acting on which the question was put in 1969;
objections to the counting of one or more of Deschler's Precedents, v. 3, Ch. 10, § 3.6.)
the electoral votes from a state or the Otherwise, the objection falls and the vote
District of Columbia.” or votes are counted.”

“When the certificate or equivalent paper Objections can be whatever pro-Hillary dark forces decide
from each state (or the District of - nonexistent Russian election hacking the most obvious.
Columbia) is read, ‘the President of the
Senate shall call for objections, if any.’ “ Another is a new Electoral Vote Objection report, claiming
over 50 GOP electors were ineligible on grounds of
“Any such objection must be presented in allegedly not residing in congressional districts they
writing and must be signed by at least one represented, or held elective office in states barring dual
Senator and one Representative. The officeholders.
objection ‘shall state clearly and concisely,
and without argument, the ground The 1,000-page report was prepared by a nationwide legal
thereof…’ When an objection is received, team for congressional members, allegedly bipartisan,
each house is to meet and consider it clearly pro-Hillary, anti-Trump - presented to Congress at
separately.” the 11th hour, attempting to show Trump was elected
illegitimately.
“The statute states that ’(n)o votes or
papers from any other State shall be acted Can it work? Hardly likely. Even if all congressional
upon until the objections previously made members digested its lengthy contents in record time ahead
to the votes or papers from any State shall of Friday’s certification, at this stage, reversing
have been finally disposed of.” November’s result appears impossible short of an act of
God, and there’s no indication it’s coming.
“Procedures for Considering Objections. 3
U.S.C. § 17 lays out procedures for each The point is anti-Trump dark forces won’t quit no matter
house to follow in debating and voting on how often their efforts fail. They’ll keep hounding him,
an objection. (As these procedures affect including on inauguration day and after he’s in office
either house, however, they presumably serving.
are rule-making provisions of law which
that house can decide unilaterally to alter.)” While there’s no way to know for sure, his presidency may
be the most troubled since Nixon’s - possibly with a
“These procedures limit debate on the similar or worse bad ending.
objection to not more than two hours,

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Key Takeaways From Intelligence Community
Testimony On Alleged "Russian Hacking"
By Tyler Durden
Jan 5, 2017 1:00 PM

For those disaffected Hillary snowflakes looking for some Meanwhile, 30 minutes into the hearing,
level of concrete, tangible evidence from today's Senate James Clapper told the Senate
testimony from the "intelligence community" that "Russian committee that he had no intention of
Hackers" purposefully colluded with President-elect providing any meaningful new details
Trump to steal the 2016 election from Clinton, we have regarding the "Russian Hacking"
some bad news: your desire for evidence required to start narrative but instead intended to just
World War III over your candidate's loss has still not been repeat the same useless political rhetoric
fulfilled. Better luck next time. that has been slowly leaked to the
mainstream media over the past several
As we suspected, today's testimony offered up by James weeks.
Clapper and others of the "intelligence community" to the “We plan to brief the Congress and
Senate's Armed Forces Committee has largely been release an unclassified version of this
nothing more than another smear campaign rife with report to the public next week with due
political rhetoric but light on facts and tangible evidence. deference to highly sensitive sources and
methods
With that, here are some of the notable one-liners from the “We’re not really prepared to discuss
day. this beyond standing by our earlier
statements.”
John McCain opened the hearing by noting that the goal of
the day was not to "question the outcome of the Asked whether Julian Assange was credible, Clapper, who
presidential election" but to gather "facts" about what ironically has lost all credibility throughout this process
happened...even though no facts actually followed, but we with his rapidly evolving story line, was quick to confirm
digress. in the negative. Per The Hill:

“The goal...is not to question the When asked if Assange was credible,
outcome of the presidential election. Clapper responded with a very noticeably
Nor should it be. annoyed look, "Not in my view."
As both President Obama and President- Navy Adm. Michael Rogers, commander of
elect Trump have said, our nation must U.S. Cyber Command and director of
move forward. But we must do so with full National Security Agency responded, "I
knowledge of the facts." second those comments."

Senator Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island) used his time to call Meanwhile, other comments aimed at Julian Assange drew
for the creation of a "special select Senate committee" to some expected criticism from Wikileaks:
look further into the "Russian Hacking" narrative since it
spills across the jurisdictional divide.

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gauging the impact that — certainly the
Intelligence Community can’t — the
choices that the electorate made. There’s
no way for us to gauge.”
...and warned against retaliatory efforts
saying that "we and other nations
conduct similar acts of espionage."
"As I say, people in glass houses need
to think about throwing rocks. This was
Clapper, apparently interviewing for a commentator spot at an act of espionage. And we and other
MSNBC, warned that hacking wasn't the extent of the nations conduct similar acts of
efforts by Russia to meddle in the 2016 election which also espionage."
included coordinated efforts from RT, and other "fake
news" outlets, to exploit any "fissure they could find in our Finally, we leave you with this parting clip from Senator
tapestry." Graham who vows to stop at nothing until he has his war
with Russia.
“RT was very active in promoting a
particular point of view, disparaging our ***
system, our alleged hypocrisy about
human rights, etc. Whatever crack, For those who missed it, here is the intro the hearing that
fissure they could find in our tapestry, we wrote earlier this morning.
they would exploit it,”
At 9:30 AM the "Russian hacking" narrative will take
center stage before a hearing of the Senate's Committee on
Armed Services which is chaired by the maverick himself,
John McCain. The witnesses appearing before the
committee will include James Clapper, the Director of
National Intelligence, Marcel Lettre, Under Secretary of
Defense for Intelligence, and Admiral Michael Rogers,
Commander, United States Cyber Command.

Per a note earlier this morning from The Hill, there are five
In an obvious slip up, Clapper admitted that the "Russian key things to watch for as the hearing progresses:
Hackers" didn't change the vote tallies...
1. How many Republicans will criticize Trump’s
stance? - Both John McCain, who chairs the
committee, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina,
another member of the panel, have been vocal in their
criticism of Trump's unwillingness to blindly accept the
rapidly evolving "facts" presented by the "intelligence
community."
2. How strong is the evidence that Russia hacked the
DNC? - After Julian Assange again appeared on Fox
News earlier this week to confirm that his source was
not Russia, or any "state actor" for that matter, the
"intelligence community" once again changed its
narrative this morning to imply that Russia hacked
the DNC and John Podesta then provided that
information to Wikileaks via a third party. Well, how
convenient is that? We look forward to receiving some
concrete, tangible evidence from Mr. Clapper on this
new assertion.
3. What evidence does the intelligence community
have that Putin wanted to assist Trump? - The CIA,
without supplying any evidence, reportedly believes
that Russia was explicitly trying to help Trump —
“They didn’t change any vote tallies,”
raising politically explosive questions about the degree
Clapper said, but “We have no way of
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to which it succeeded. Meanwhile, the White House
has stopped short if that conclusion telling CNN that
“President Obama and this administration is 100
percent certain in the role that Russia played in trying
to sow discord and confusion and getting involved,
through the cyber domain, in our electoral process."
Will any actual evidence of collusion between
Trump and Russian officials be presented?
4. How much will the public get to see — and when? -
Will this whole charade just be more political rhetoric,
which is the only thing the "intelligence community" has
provided to date, or will actual tangible evidence
finally be presented to support the "Russian hacking"
narrative.
5. How much will either committee be able to do? -
With a new administration taking over in 15 days will
any of this actually matter or is it just a last-ditch effort
to delegitimize the incoming administration?

Of course, Trump has maintained a healthy dose of


skepticism of the intelligence community's "facts." In a
series of tweets earlier this week, Trump accused
intelligence officials of delaying his briefing until Friday
in order to build a case against Russia. He also noted
comments from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who has
repeatedly said that his leaked material was not provided
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New Twist On Fake News
Russian Hacking Story
By Stephen Lendman
1-5-2017

All the huffing and puffing and slandering and fear- making it hard, maybe impossible, for him
mongering and lying for months about Russian hacking to normalize bilateral ties.
failed to make the case.
If he tries, attempted congressional rebuff is certain,
Not a shred of evidence was presented supporting perhaps passing veto-proof legislation, criminalizing
accusations made. A previous article cited polling data, efforts to do it.
showing most Americans disbelieve it.
If he proceeds, he could be impeached and removed from
In US trial proceedings, guilt depends on proof beyond a office for treason, bribery or other high crimes and
reasonable doubt, even if not absolutely certain - a high misdemeanors as the Constitution permits (Article II,
standard to meet, defendants presumed innocent otherwise. Section 4).
America’s intelligence community can’t get its act straight. Short of removal from office, any portion of his agenda
Switching allegations shows its operatives can’t agree on conflicting with longstanding consensus could be
what fake news to go with. undermined.
Earlier accusations changed, Reuters saying three unnamed If all else fails, he could be eliminated the old-fashioned
US officials now claim way - assassinated, ending his tenure and life in one fell
swoop.
“Russia provided hacked material from the
Democratic National Committee to Four US presidents were assassinated in office:
WikiLeaks through a third party.”
 Lincoln,
The earlier version accused Russia of directly interfering  James Garfield,
in America’s election process, hacking the DNC, helping  William Mckinley and
Trump defeat Hillary.  Jack Kennedy.
No evidence suggests Moscow interfered in the election
The deaths of Zachary Taylor and Warren Harding were
process of any country, or rigged its own to assure Putin’s
rumored to be assassinations.
triumph.
Numerous attempts on the lives of sitting presidents failed,
His overwhelming popularity speaks for itself. Russians
notably against:
want no one else leading them. If he runs again in 2018,
he’ll be reelected easily, as things now stand.  Andrew Jackson,
 Theodore Roosevelt, his cousin
According to Reuters, unnamed US
 Franklin Roosevelt,
officials “declined to describe the
 Gerald Ford and
intelligence obtained about the involvement
 Ronald Reagan.
of a third-party in passing on leaked
material to WikiLeaks, saying they did not
The displeasure of pro-Hillary power brokers over
want to reveal how the US government had
Trump’s triumph leaves him vulnerable. His super-wealth
obtained the information” - code language
and privilege can’t protect him.
for nothing credible to release.
He’s used to being chairman and president of a global
It’s fake news like virtually everything else denigrating
conglomerate bearing his name. If he defiantly goes his
Russia, ludicrously calling it “an existential threat,” hyping
own way, a bad ending may await him in one form or
nonexistent “Russian aggression,” - disgraceful fear-
other.
mongering to justify bloated military sending at a time
America’s only enemies are ones it invents. Dark forces running America tolerate no one challenging
longstanding policy. Attempts to diverge significantly
Claiming Russian US election hacking is all
don’t end well.
about delegitimizing Trump’s triumph,
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Donald The Reformer:
Trump To Revamp 'Politicized' US Intelligence Agencies
The Trump Administration Is Reportedly Going To Modernize The
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) By Reducing The Number Of
Staff At The CIA Headquarters, While Increasing The
Number Of Agents Around The World.
© AP Photo/ Carolyn Kaster US 10:52 05.01.2017

On Wednesday, Trump expressed "healthy" and "sincere"


skepticism about the US intelligence community’s claims
Russia interfered with the 2016 US election, US Vice
President-elect Mike Pence said.

Trump also sided with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange


against the claims of the US Intelligence Community on
the issue of the alleged Russian hacks. Trump repeated
Assange's assertion that Russia did not give WikiLeaks
information on the Democratic Party and its members.

The CIA has claimed that Russia was engaged in the


WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The team of US President- hacking of US political institutions and individuals to help
elect Donald Trump is developing a plan to restructure Trump win the US presidency.
‘politicized’ US intelligence agencies, The Wall Street
Journal reported Thursday, citing a person close to the A 13-page report on the issue released last week by the
Trump transition. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) — seven pages of which
"The view from the Trump team is the provided recommendations – has been widely criticized for
intelligence world has become completely not providing proof. Moreover, the report contained a
politicized … They all need to be slimmed disclaimer that the DHS did not provide warranties about
down. The focus will be on restructuring the the truthfulness of the presented information.
agencies and how they interact," the
individual familiar with the matter was Russian officials have repeatedly denied involvement in
quoted as saying by WSJ. the US election, calling the hacking allegations absurd and
noting that they are intended to distract the US public from
According to the newspaper, Trump’s team plans to revelation of corruption and other pressing domestic
modernize the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by issues.
reducing the number of staff at the CIA headquarters,
while increasing the number of agents around the world.

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Joe Biden: Obama Administration Secretly 'Retaliated'
Against Supposed Russian Hacking
Komsomolskaya Pravda - Translated From Russian By Kristina Kharlova
January 5, 2016 - Fort Russ News
Biden: US "secretly" responded to Russia's alleged hacker
attacks "When the question over a month ago was
whether we will respond to hacker attacks,
According to the vice-president, some of the steps taken by I said we'll do it when (and how) we want
Washington are public, while others will remain secret. to. Some things that we had done, you
already know - other things you will never
The outgoing American administration 'retaliated' against know," - he said, stressing that Washington
our country for fictitious hacker attacks not only with new had two options to respond to Russia for
sanctions and the expulsion of diplomats, but also some alleged interference in the presidential
'secret operations' by security services. This was reported election, overt and covert.
in an extensive interview with PBS by US vice-president
Joseph Biden. "We did both," - said Biden.
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Clapper: RT Reporting On US Problems Part Of
'Multifaceted' Russian Campaign To Undermine Elections
Published Time: 5 Jan, 2017 16:18Edited Time: 6 Jan, 2017 13:54

has not been able to gauge the actual impact of any of


these action,

“the totality of that effort, not only as DNI


but as a citizen, I think is a grave concern,”
he said.
“We could do with having a USIA on
steroids to fight this information war a lot
more aggressively than we’re doing right
now,”
Lettre, Clapper and Rogers testify before a Senate Armed Services
Committee hearing on foreign cyber threats, on Capitol Hill in Clapper later said, referring to the body that oversaw US
Washington, DC. January 5, 2017. © Jonathan Ernst / Reuters government propaganda between 1953 and 1999, when it
was replaced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors
RT’s reporting on US issues was part of a “multifaceted (BBG). He qualified the statement as his personal opinion.
Russian campaign” to undermine America, according to
the outgoing Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper.
“RT was very active in promoting a
particular point of view, disparaging our
system, our alleged hypocrisy about human
rights, etc. Whatever crack, fissure they
could find in our tapestry, they would
exploit it,” Clapper told the Senate Armed
Services Committee on Thursday, at a
hearing about cybersecurity challenges.

Earlier in the hearing, committee chairman John McCain


(R-Arizona) asked whether Russian interference in the
election would qualify as an act of war.

“They did not change any vote tallies or


anything of that sort. We have no way of
gauging any impact it had on the choices
the electorate made,” Clapper responded.
“Whether or not that constitutes an act of
war is a very heavy policy call I don’t
In addition to hacking, Russia used fake news, social
believe the intelligence community should
media and RT to influence the recent US elections,
make.”
Clapper argued. Though the US intelligence community

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Flanked by NSA chief Admiral Mike Rogers and the cyberattacks need to be separated out from espionage,
Pentagon’s Undersecretary for Intelligence Marcel Lettre, which everyone engages in.
Clapper agreed with outraged Democratic Senators that
President-Elect Donald Trump was unfairly disparaging Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) went with the
the intelligence community. metaphor, arguing that it is “time to throw rocks” at
Russia and describing the current sanctions as “pebbles.”
“I think there is an important distinction
between healthy skepticism that
policymakers, including the first
policymaker, should always have toward
intelligence… and disparagement,” he told
Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri).

“We live in a big glass house,” warned


Senator Thom Tillis (R-North
The DNI also took a shot at WikiLeaks cofounder Julian
Carolina), citing a study about the US
Assange, describing him as
influencing elections more than twice as
often as Russia has been accused of.
"holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in
London because he’s under indictment by
The study by political scientist Dov Levin of Carnegie
the Swedish government for a sexual
Mellon University covers the period between 1946 and
crime."
2000, and does not include military coups and regime
change efforts following the election of candidates
Assange's publication of US documents put the lives of US Washington disliked, or election monitoring and other
spies and military at risk, Clapper argued. “general assistance” programs.

"I don’t think those of us in the intelligence President Barack Obama received a classified briefing
community have a whole lot of respect for about the reported Russian involvement in the election on
him.” Thursday morning, AP reported. He had asked US
intelligence agencies to conduct a full review of “Russian
Several times during the 3-hour hearing, Clapper and hacking” last month, asking that it be completed before he
Rogers referred to the saying that people living in glass leaves office on January 20. An unclassified version of that
houses should not be throwing stones, mainly to argue that report will be released to the public "early next week,"
Clapper told Congress.
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Donald Trump 'Orders Barack Obama's
Ambassadors To Resign Posts' In Unprecedented Move
The Move Risks Leaving The US Without Envoys In Key
Countries Like Britain, Germany And Canada
Maya Oppenheim @Mayaoppenheim
January 6, 2017

According to a report in the New York Times, Mr. Trump’s


transition team issued the mandate “without exceptions” in
a State Department order sent to diplomats on 23
December.

A senior Trump transition official anonymously told the


publication there was no “ill will” in the decision and it
was simply an attempt to ensure Mr. Obama’s overseas
appointees left the government on time.

Ambassadors are said to be thinking about appealing the


decision with Rex Tillerson, the billionaire property
developer’s nominee for Secretary of State.
Prior to the rigid timeline which is said to have been introduced,
ambassadors had the option of requesting to extend their term AP

Donald Trump has yet again proved that he is intent on


ripping up the diplomatic rule book.

In an unprecedented move, the President-elect’s team are


reported to have demanded ambassadors appointed by
Barack Obama to leave their overseas posts by
Inauguration Day on 20 January. The decision to provide
no grace period for politically appointed
ambassadors marks a significant break with decades of
tradition.

The move risks leaving the US without envoys in key


countries like Britain, Germany and Canada for months. It
also means ambassador’s families have been forced to find
places to live in America or their respective countries with
very little notice.

Vice President Joe Biden tells Donald Trump to 'grow up'

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extend their term. Republican and Democrat
administrations allowed extensions on a discretionary
individual by individual basis, with allowances sometimes
being made for those with children at school.

So far, Mr. Trump has only publicly named bankruptcy


lawyer David Friedman as ambassador to Israel and Iowa
Governor Terry Branstad as his ambassador to China. It is
unlikely Mr. Trump will have appointed all of his overseas
envoys before he is inaugurated.

Mr. Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump, has already


expressed her interest in becoming ambassador for the
Czech Republic under Mr. Trump’s presidency. While
there is no proof this will happen, the President of the
Czech Republic, Milos Zeman, expressed his support for
her bid, saying:
Some envoys are said to have voiced their shock that First-
Lady-in-waiting Melania Trump has been allowed to take
the unusual step of remaining at their Trump Tower home “They could not send a better US
in New York so their 10-year-old son Barron can finish the ambassador to Prague”.
school year, while their personal lives have been disrupted.
Ms Trump, who was born in the Czech Republic and is the
Prior to the rigid timeline which is said to have been mother of Ivanka, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric, expressed
introduced, ambassadors had the option of requesting to her eagerness for the role in November, saying she would
suggest the idea.
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US Corporate Press Selectively
Publicizes Disagreements Between CIA, President
By Robert Barsocchini
Posted on January 6, 2017

The US corporate press was abuzz with front page, top The 2003 disagreement between a president and an
stories today about the disagreement between incoming intelligence agency appears to have been far less
president Trump and some figures from the CIA and other publicized by the US corporate press and establishment
intelligence agencies regarding the leaking of facts about than the one between Trump and intelligence figures
Hillary Clinton, which some in the US speculate caused today. It was not plastered across front pages.
her to lose the election.

Some US establishment figures claim the information was One of the biggest differences between the two
stolen and released by Russia. Wikileaks and other have disagreements seems to be that widely publicizing the one
denied this, and Trump has expressed agreement with from 2003 would have undermined the hostile and
Wikileaks and has indicated claims of Russian involvement aggressive atmosphere that was being promoted in the US
are baseless. (in that case towards Iraq), whereas widely publicizing the
disagreement today promotes hostility and aggression
London’s The Independent today also reported on a towards Russia.
discrepancy between the US president and the CIA.
However, this one was from 2003 and was between the Julian Assange and others have pointed out that the
CIA and the Bush regime. In this case, a CIA team had corporate press today has barely even made mention of the
obtained information that Saddam Hussein did not possess counter-arguments to the claims that Russia released the
Weapons of Mass Destruction. (Hussein’s supposed facts about Hillary Clinton that are said to have caused her
possession of WMD was the pretext for the illegal US to lose the election. Instead, it continues to say Russia
invasion of Iraq, which ended up killing hundreds of ‘hacked the election’, causing many who identify as
thousands if not millions of people.) Democrats to believe Russia hacked into voting machines
and changed the outcome, which officials are not saying
The Bush regime thus refused to be debriefed by this CIA occurred.
team until 2008, causing disgust among CIA agents.

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Trump To Get Briefing, Intel Report Says US Identifies Go-
Betweens Who Gave Emails To Wikileaks
By Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto And Pamela Brown, CNN
Updated 1623 GMT (0023 HKT) January 6, 2017

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced at a news


conference Friday that the gang of eight congressional
leaders were briefed before those members of the
intelligence community went to New York to brief Trump.

"Stunning in its conclusions and you will


see some of it," Pelosi said.

Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview with PBS


NewsHour that an unclassified version of an intel report
provided to him will be released "very shortly" and will
Washington (CNN)US intelligence has identified the go- "lay out in bold print what" the US knows about the
betweens the Russians used to provide stolen emails to hacking.
WikiLeaks, according to US officials familiar with the
classified intelligence report that was presented to "I think it will probably confirm what a lot of
President Barack Obama on Thursday. the American people think," he said, adding
that it would "state clearly" the Russians
involvement in the hacking.
President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to receive a
briefing Friday. In response to the interview, Trump tweeted on
Wednesday,
In a Fox News interview earlier this week, WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange denied that Russia was the source "Julian Assange said "a 14 year old could
of leaked Democratic emails that roiled the 2016 election have hacked Podesta" - why was DNC so
to the detriment of President-elect Donald Trump's rival, careless? Also said Russians did not give
Democrat Hillary Clinton. him the info!"
Meanwhile, US intelligence has received new information
following the election that gave agencies increased
confidence that Russia carried out the hack and did so, in
part, to help Trump win.

Included in that new information were intercepted


conversations of Russian officials expressing happiness at
Trump's win. Another official described some of the
messages as congratulatory.

Officials said this was just one of multiple indicators to Trump has been publicly skeptical of Russia's involvement
give them high confidence of both Russian involvement in the hacking, as well as has been publicly deriding the
and Russian intentions. Officials reiterated that there is no US intelligence community for its unanimous conclusion
single intercepted communication that qualifies as a that Russia hacked Democratic Party groups and
"smoking gun" on Russia's intention to benefit Trump's individuals to interfere in the US presidential election.
candidacy or to claim credit for doing so.
Officials told CNN there's been a disconnect between
A declassified public version of the Intelligence Trump's remarks about the intelligence community and his
community's review of the election-related cyber hack will behind-the-scenes behavior when he's present at private
be released as soon as this afternoon, according to a US intel briefings.
official.
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Trump Says Focus On Russian
Hacking Is A ‘Political Witch Hunt’
By Michael D. Shear
JAN. 6, 2017

agencies. He said that “our assessment now is even more


resolute” about the Russian hacking.

In Friday’s interview, Mr. Trump also confronted


questions about whether taxpayer funds should be used to
begin construction of his promised wall along the southern
border. He said doing so would allow construction to begin
quickly, but insisted that he would negotiate with Mexico
to reimburse the United States for those costs.

On the issue of Russia’s hacking, Mr. Trump noted that


there have been prior successful hackings of the White
House and Congress, suggesting it was unfair that those
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump left One World Trade Center attacks on American institutions have not received the
following a meeting on Friday. Credit Lucas Jackson/Reuters
attention that the Russians have. But none of the
information from those intrusions was made public as it
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump said was in the case of the hacking of the Democratic National
in an interview Friday morning that the storm surrounding Committee and John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign
Russian hacking during the presidential campaign was a chairman.
political witch hunt being carried out by his adversaries,
who he said were embarrassed by their loss to him in the
“With all that being said, I don’t want
election last year.
countries to be hacking our country,” Mr.
Trump said. “They’ve hacked the White
Mr. Trump spoke to The New York Times by telephone House. They’ve hacked Congress. We’re
three hours before he was set to be briefed by the nation’s like the hacking capital of the world.”
top intelligence and law enforcement officials about the
Russian hacking of American political institutions. In the
Mr. Trump, who has consistently expressed doubts about
conversation, he repeatedly criticized the intense focus on
the evidence of Russian hacking during the election, did so
Russia.
again on Friday. Asked why he thought there was so much
attention being given to the Russian cyberattacks, the
“China, relatively recently, hacked 20 president-elect said the motivation was political.
million government names,” he said,
referring to the breach of computers at the
“They got beaten very badly in the election.
Office of Personnel Management in late
I won more counties in the election than
2014 and early 2015. “How come nobody
Ronald Reagan,” Mr. Trump said during an
even talks about that? This is a political
eight-minute telephone conversation. “They
witch hunt.”
are very embarrassed about it. To some
extent, it’s a witch hunt. They just focus on
In congressional testimony on Thursday, the intelligence this.”
officials rejected Mr. Trump’s longstanding skepticism
about Russia’s cyberactivities and told lawmakers they had
The president-elect also noted the news this week, first
unanimously concluded that the Russian government used
reported by BuzzFeed News, that the D.N.C. had refused to
hacks and leaks of information to influence the American
give the F.B.I. access to its computer servers after it was
election.
hacked.
James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence,
“The D.N.C. wouldn’t let them see the
said at the hearing before the Senate Armed Services
servers,” Mr. Trump said. “How can you be
Committee that Mr. Trump’s comments were
sure about hacking when you can’t even
“disparaging” and bad for morale at the nation’s spy
get to the servers?” The D.N.C. has
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previously said that the law enforcement In a later post on Twitter, Mr. Trump also expressed his
agency had not asked to examine the frustration that details about an intelligence report on the
computers. Russia hacking were reported by news organizations late
Thursday afternoon. The Washington Post, NBC and other
A senior law enforcement official said the F.B.I. had organizations quoted unnamed officials who said the report
repeatedly emphasized to the D.N.C. the necessity of documented intercepts showing Russian officials
obtaining direct access to servers and data. The F.B.I. was celebrating Mr. Trump’s election victory.
rebuffed and had to rely upon a third party — a computer
security firm brought in by the D.N.C. — for information.

He also said that the hacking of emails from the D.N.C.


and top campaign officials for Mrs. Clinton had revealed
that Mrs. Clinton received advance notice of debate
questions and “many, many other things that were
horrible.”

“How come nobody complains about that?”


Mr. Trump said, referring to a tip that a In the earlier interview, the president-elect said that he was
CNN commentator and Clinton supporter, eager to work with the intelligence community as
Donna Brazile, gave to Mr. Podesta ahead president, and he praised the people he selected to lead the
of a Democratic Party presidential debate intelligence agencies, in particular Representative Mike
in Flint, Mich. Pompeo, Republican of Kansas, who is his pick to lead the
C.I.A.
Mr. Trump said he was looking forward to his meeting
Friday afternoon about the hacking with Mr. Clapper; He said that Mr. Pompeo was “first in his class” at West
James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director; and other intelligence Point.
officials. He said that Mr. Clapper “wrote me a beautiful
letter a few weeks ago wishing me the best.”
“We have great people going into those
slots,” Mr. Trump said in the interview. “I
But he said that “a lot of mistakes were expect to have a very, very good
made” by the intelligence community in the relationship with them.”
past, noting in particular the attacks on the
World Trade Center and saying that
“weapons of mass destruction was one of
the great mistakes of all time.”
.

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Another Embarrassment: NYT Issues An Awkward
Confession After Caught Flip-Flopping
By: JD Heyes
Date: January 06, 2017

In addition, the editorial said that Trump “won under the


rules” but that “the rules should change,” and that the
Electoral College itself is a byproduct of “America’s
original sin” of slavery—not an ingenious system of
governance crafted by men far wiser and with more
forward vision than the last 50 member of the NYT
Electoral Board combined.

But just 16 years ago, the Times’ Editorial Board agreed


with the establishment and use of the Electoral College,
disagreeing with Hillary Clinton who was calling for it to
be banished:

The nation’s founders sought in various


It’s not been a good year for the so-called “mainstream creative ways to create checks and
media,” which has dishonored and discredited itself at balances, both inside and outside
nearly every opportunity, largely over its incredibly biased government. The Electoral College was
and slanted political coverage. first and foremost a compact among states,
large and small, designed to ensure that
The New York Times, especially, has seen its reputation one state or one region did not dominate
take a hit, which is a big deal considering it is ‘the paper of the others.
record’ in the United States.
That’s exactly right. And that compact remains just as
As reported by The Daily Sheeple, the Times was recently important and necessary today, so that voters in only two
caught in a massive lie regarding the results of the Nov. 8 populous states—California and New York—don’t get to
election—so big, in fact, that the paper’s editorial board decide who becomes president term after term.
was forced to issue an embarrassing correction after it was
called out. The founders entertained the notion of the popular vote
deciding the presidency, but determined that such a system
Following Donald J. Trump’s victory, media outed by was subject to being hijacked by fraudsters, ne’er-do-wells
WikiLeaks as colluding with the campaign of his rival, and candidates with thin consciences and plenty of
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, went right to work, baggage (like Hillary Clinton). The only way the Electoral
on cue, blasting the Electoral College and whining about College can even remotely be tied to ‘America’s original
how their favored candidate “won the popular vote,” as if sin’ is the ¾’s of a person clause in counting African
that’s ever mattered since the founding of our country. slaves of the day. That’s it.

In fact, the Times’ board wrote a piece titled, Time to End More to the point, this massive discrepancy by the Times
the Electoral College: did not go unnoticed. The most recent op-ed claimed that
the NYT Editorial Board has opposed the Electoral
By overwhelming majorities, Americans College for 80 years; obviously that was a massive lie, and
would prefer to elect the president by direct one that spurred this published retraction:
popular vote, not filtered through the
antiquated mechanism of the Electoral Correction: December 20, 2016
College. They understand, on a gut level,
the basic fairness of awarding the nation’s An earlier version of this editorial
highest office on the same basis as every incorrectly stated that the editorial board
other elected office — to the person who has been opposed to the Electoral College
gets the most votes. going back 80 years. It failed to note an
exception: in 2000, the board defended the
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college after the election of George W. establishment candidate is no matter what,
Bush. even if it makes them look like ridiculous
hypocrites,” The Daily Sheeple noted.
“This is beyond hypocritical… What it
shows is that the NYT will change positions Of course that’s all true.
and rally for whomever the chosen
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Glenn Greenwald On Wikileaks, Russian Hacking, And
Distrusting Legacy Media And U.S. Intel (Reason Podcast)
The Co-Founder Of The Intercept Doesn't Like Donald Trump But Thinks
The New President May Just Wake Liberals Up To
Reining In The Government.
Nick Gillespie
Jan. 6, 2017 4:45 Pm

Senate testimony from James Clapper, the Director of medium, or distribution platform that vastly expands
National Intelligence, about Russian attempts to influence human freedom by increasing our ability to express
the 2016 election hasn't convinced Glenn Greenwald to ourselves, engage in debate, and generate new ways of
believe that high-ranking officials in the Putin regime understanding the power of 'Free Minds and Free
successfully "hacked" the American way of life. Markets.'"

The co-founder (with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras) of Though he identifies with the progressive left on many
the investigative website The Intercept has no love for issues, his criticism of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
Putin, but he points out that the U.S. intelligence along with conservatives and Republicans has earned him
community has a checkered history at best of getting enemies on all points of the spectrum. In this conversation
things right and telling the truth. In the newest Reason with Nick Gillespie, he talks about how the concept of
podcast, he notes that two of the most recent bombshell "fake news" obscures far more than it clarifies, explains
stories about Russian "hacks"—one about how Russians what he doesn't like about Wikileaks' strategy for
flooded the internet with "fake news" to tip the election to unredacted data dumps, and discusses how Obama swelled
Donald Trump and one about Russians supposedly taking presidential power during his eight years in office.
over Vermont's electrical grid—have already been Greenwald, who spoke with Reason from his home in
thoroughly walked back and discredited. Brazil, also talked about the problems inherent in the
government dictating more and more aspects of the
A staunch opponent of the growth and abuse of economy and the health care industry, typically in the
presidential power, Greenwald is arguably the most service of crony capitalism. No fan of Donald Trump and
consistent critic of government abuses of civil liberties, fearful of the power the billionaire president will inherit
regardless of which party holds power. He's also a from his predecessor, Greenwald is nonetheless optimistic
champion of whistleblowers such as Chelsea Manning and that a growing coalition of libertarians, liberals, and
Edward Snowden, whose work he was central to making conservatives will begin to check the imbalance of power
known to the broader public. In 2014, Reason gave in Washington.
Greenwald the Lanny Friedlander Prize, which is given to
"an individual or group who has created a publication, Produced by Ian Keyser.
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New Intelligence Report Adds
No Evidence Of "Russian Hacking"
Source: Moon Of Alabama
Published: January 6, 2017

After Hillary Clinton was defeated in the U.S. presidential Gmail password and got access to his mail box. Such
election the relevant powers launched a campaign to spear phishing - sending an email which asks to
delegitimize the President elect Donald Trump. change one's password on a faked login page -
happens thousands of times each day. Naturally
The ultimate aim of the cabal is to kick him out of office prominent people with publicly widely known addresses
and have a reliable replacement, like the Vice-President are the preferred targets of such stunts. This has
elect Pence, take over. Should that not be possible it is nothing to do with real hacking which defeats a
hoped that the delegitimization will make it impossible for system's defense by manipulating computer code.
Trump to change major policy trajectories especially in  The Democratic National Council was probably
foreign policy. A main issue here is the reorientation of the hacked. "Probably" because it is still quite possible
U.S. military complex and its NATO proxies from the war that a (murdered?) insider leaked the DNC emails
of terror towards a direct confrontation with main powers and the hacking "evidence" is made up to conceal
like Russia and China. that. But even that "evidence", presented by the
DNC hired company Crowdstrike, is thin.
The cabal consists of President Obama, the defeated
candidate Hillary Clinton, neoconservatves like the State Allegedly there were two different hacks into the DNC.
Department's cookie dispenser Victoria Nuland, the One was probably harmless, the second one is said to have
Republican senators McCain and Lindsay and the military- gained system-level access. I have found no explanation
industrial complex. (One of the few neocons planted near yet how the hackers of the second attack got their first
to Trump, former CIA director James Woolsey, threw the entry into the DNC system. Was an administrator spear-
towel today and left the Trump transition team.) phished? Crowdstrike's fluffy account doesn't say. But it
mentions two well known tools the alleged hackers are
A major role in directing the plot has fallen to Obama's claimed to have used:
consigliere John Brennan, the current director of the CIA.
Another role has been delegated to the various military and "RemCOM, an open-source replacement
NATO think tanks like the Atlantic Council and the British for PsExec available from GitHub"
RUSI and reliable proxies within the media.
and
The current emphasis of the campaign is on the release of
emails and papers from the Clinton campaign through "X-Agent malware with capabilities to do
Wikileaks. It is alleged that some releases were gained remote command execution, file
through hacking, planned and executed by the Russian transmission and keylogging".
government. Trump had announced that he plans to seek
good relations with Russia, the power that the cabal had The X-Agent hacking suite has been known for some time
earlier chosen as the new enemy de jour. and is used by several actors. It is likely also in use by
other non-state and state services. All such hacking tools
But there is a problem. There is no real evidence that a use freely available infrastructure like TOR or rented
"hack" ever happened. There is no evidence that Russia is networks from cyber-crime wholesalers like the recently
involved. None at all. exposed Israeli denial-of-service franchiser.

Three cases of paper releases have to be differentiated: The tools and the infrastructure the DNC hackers allegedly
used are not evidence that points to any specific actor.
 The emails from Clinton's private basement mail-server Indeed any cyber-crime actor, like the NSA, seeks to
were released by the State Department after various disguise as a different actor when committing attacks.
FOIA requests. Something that "proves" that A did it is likely to have been
 Emails from Clinton's campaign chief John Podesta created by B, C or D to disguise as A.
were released after someone "spear phished" his
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As no evidence exists the cabal has to rely on throwing "We got nothing new. There was no real
chaff, lots of it, and on conjecture. Media who evidence before this report and there is
propagandize such are plenty. Keep in mind that some none in it now."
95% of U.S. media backed Clinton during the campaign.
Also consider this lines from a Reuters report on the new
The Joint Assessment Report released (pdf) last Friday release:
was hyped in the media. But it failed to prove hacking or
any Russian involvement. Not all 17 intelligence agencies participated
in preparing the assessment....
The new report released later today adds nothing but fluff
to it. Selected bits of the new intelligence report are The report contains some of what the officials called
systematically "leaked" by "senior intelligence officials". “minor footnotes” about open questions and other
Here are headlines from today that show how stupid the uncertainties
presented "evidence" is.
Not all 17 U.S. intelligence services signed off on the
The Washington Post: U.S. Intercepts Capture Senior report. Those who declined to be part of it will have their
Russian Officials Celebrating Trump Win reasons. Footnotes to the "slam dunk" 2002 National
Intelligence Estimate on alleged Iraqi Weapons of Mass
A lot of people all over the world celebrated when Clinton Destruction reports got some prominence:
lost - me included. So the headline above certainly carries
grains of truth. But it should have been be shortened to: Not all agencies involved concurred with
CIA finds, watches Russia Today clip on Youtube: the NIE’s conclusions. Two footnotes have
come to public attention. In one, the State
Russia: State Duma Applauds Trump's Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and
Victory In US Elections Research dissented from the intelligence
community’s majority view [...]. In another
The Russian State Duma welcomed the news of footnote, the U.S. Air Force’s director for
Republican candidate Donald Trump's victory in the US intelligence, surveillance, and
Presidential elections with a round of applause from reconnaissance questioned [...]
Moscow, Wednesday. Deputy Vyacheslav Nikonov
announced Donald Trump as the president-elect which was Back then the "minor footnotes" caveats turned out to be
greeted enthusiastically by the chamber. correct while the "evidence" in the main report was fake
and its conclusions were one big lie.
So yes, the WaPo report is correct. Senior Russian officials
celebrated the Trump win - publicly. The CIA got wind of Consider also this example on how the "evidence" about
that. the alleged DNC "hack" was gained: The FBI Now Says
Democrats Were Behind Hack Investigation Delay:
Deep down the Washington Post piece also says:
“The FBI repeatedly stressed to DNC
The new report incorporates material from officials the necessity of obtaining direct
previous assessments and assembles in a access to servers and data, only to be
single document details of cyber operations rebuffed until well after the initial
dating back to 2008. Still, U.S. officials said compromise had been mitigated. This left
there are no major new bombshell the FBI no choice but to rely upon a
disclosures even in the classified third party for information,” a senior law
report. A shorter, declassified version is enforcement official told BuzzFeed News in
expected to be released to the public early a statement.
next week.
The third party was Crowdstrike, a cyber-something
How could information from some cyber operation in 2008 company who's founder and Chief Technical Officer is the
be relevant here? The systems existing today are hardly the Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, Dmitri Alperovitch.
same. We can assume that this is only included to disguise (I fail to find biographic information about Alperovitch.
the lack of current proof that any hack of the DNC Where was he born?) The Atlantic Council NATO lobby is
happened. And the "no bombshell disclosure" line is just a sponsored by various foreign (Gulf) governments and
different way of saying: defense industry companies. Crowdstrike was hired by the
DNC.

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The FBI statement above inspired me to write this movie Whenever there is talk of "evidence" of alleged hacking or
plot: any Russian involvement ask for real evidence. You will
likely be pointed to the several (semi-)official reports and
In the public courtroom: opinions that have been issued so far. But none of these
reports, which I read a to z, contains any real evidence. It
Judge to FBI: "So you know who killed Mrs. may be that the DNC got hacked - may be. Even if it was -
Clintons Dream?" the case currently presented points only to tools and
FBI: "Yes. We think Vlad did it ... evidence methods that are known and used all over the hacking and
..." spying scene.
Judge: "You found the evidence at the
crime scene?" To say that it was a "Russian hack" is
pure conjecture based on chaff and hot
FBI: "Yes, ehem .. no. We never visited the air.
crime scene. We were not allowed to enter
it. Our assessments rely on the reports by
Keep in mind who makes those "hacking" assertions and
the private investigators. The victim's family
the motives and money behind them.
hired those."
Hollywood rejected that movie script.
"Hilarious, but too implausible," they said.
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U.S. Spy Report Blames Putin
For Hacks, But Doesn’t Back It Up
The Long-Awaited Public Report On Russia’s Role In The DNC
Hack Accused The Kremlin Of Working To Elect Trump—
Without Providing Much New Information To Prove It.
Kimberly Dozier
Noah Shachtman & Michael Weiss
01.06.17 5:15 PM ET

commander in chief who is only beginning to realize how


the chess masters in the Kremlin play the game of
geopolitics.

The unclassified report is unlikely to convince a single


skeptic, as it offers none of the evidence intelligence
officials say they have to back it up—none of those emails
or transcripts of phone calls showing a clear connection
between the Russian government and the political
intrusions. The reason—revealing how U.S. spies know
what they know could endanger U.S. spy operations.

And it contains some out-dated information that seems


U.S. spy chiefs presented their case at Trump Tower on slapdash considering the attention focused on it. Errors in
Friday that Russia was behind the hacks that rocked the the report were almost inevitable, because of the haste in
2016 presidential election. But they didn’t help themselves which it was prepared, said one U.S. official briefed on the
by releasing a strongly-worded report that is scant on new report. The report comes in three levels—unclassified,
evidence—and is, in some cases, a literal rehash of classified and then one so top secret that only a handful of
outdated information. intelligence professionals was able to view the whole
thing. That most classified report is the one that went to
President Barack Obama, and to Trump. The merely
“There was absolutely no effect on the outcome
classified version will be briefed to lawmakers in the
of the election including the fact that there was
coming days. The classification issues alone meant it was
no tampering whatsoever with voting machines,”
“hard to transmit around” to be fact-checked, the official
President-elect Trump said in a statement right
said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was
after he met with Director of National Intelligence
not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, FBI
Director Jim Comey, and NSA chief Adm.
Michael Rogers. “The unclassified report is not particularly
impressive,” Susan Hennessey, a former NSA
“Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an official, told The Daily Beast in an email. “It
influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. basically confirms what those who had been
presidential election [and with]… a clear paying attention already know. It may serve to
preference for President-elect Trump,” the limit Trump for purposes of plausible deniability.
intelligence chiefs announced through an But this is a highly risk-averse document that
unclassified report released after the meeting shows deference to the protection of sources and
that sounded like it was coming from an alternate methods over informing the American people.
universe. That’s a shame, as certainly more detail could
have been safely provided.”
The night-and-day report and reaction hint at either a
difficult relationship to come between the president and That lack of specificity makes it easier for Trump to stay in
America’s spies, or a cagey response by a future the “see no, hear no, speak no evil” column. His post-spy-
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summit statement seemed to cherry-pick the intelligence, House Speaker Paul Ryan split the baby in his reaction,
only mentioning parts of the briefing that confirmed his both trusting the intelligence community’s conclusions and
belief that election vote tallies were not tampered with, toeing the party line that Trump’s election is legitimate
rather than the part that described how the Democratic despite the hacking.
National Committee and key Hillary Clinton campaign
officials were hacked, and their emails released to “Russia has a track record of working against our
devastating result. interests, and they clearly tried to meddle in our
political system,” he said in a statement Friday.
Then again, maybe the scales did fall from his eyes behind “We must also be clear that there is no evidence
those closed doors, and he did believe the “forensic that there was any interference in the voting or
evidence” the spies had gathered, as described by current balloting process… Donald Trump won this
and former U.S. intelligence officials, including emails election fair and square because he heard the
between Russian officials celebrating the results of the voices of Americans who felt forgotten.”
election, and intercepted conversations showing they’d
hoped to sow discord and doubt, whoever got elected. This is the second official U.S. report in eight days to
undercut the government’s assertion that Russia was
Perhaps the president-elect just got a crash course in behind the election-related hacks. Last week, the
“Moscow Rules,” and is beginning to understand the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI released a
world-class hacking machine at Russian President technical document that was widely criticized by
Vladimir Putin’s disposal. The rules, established for U.S. cybersecurity experts for being little more than a hodge-
spies working in Moscow during the Cold War, include: podge of random Internet Protocol addresses and code
Don’t harass the opposition; lull them into a sense of names for hacker gangs suspected of having ties to
complacency; and pick the time and place for action. Moscow. The result was an almost immediate scare that
Russian hackers had “penetrated” part of Vermont’s power
After all, Trump did call the meeting with intelligence grid that was discredited within a matter of hours.
officials “constructive,” adding that he has “tremendous
respect for the work and service done by the men and “At every level this report is a failure,” security
women of this community to our great nation,” after a researcher Robert M. Lee told The Daily Beast
week of tweets that made derisive references to U.S. spies. about the DHS/FBI document. “It didn’t do what it
set out to do, and it didn’t provide useful data.
He also promised to “aggressively combat and stop They’re handing out bad information to the
cyberattacks,” when he takes office, appointing a team to industry when good information exists.”
give him a plan within 90 days of taking office.
And perhaps that’s the strangest thing about this new
That wasn’t enough for top Democrats on the House and Intelligence Community report. High-profile cybersecurity
Senate intelligence committees. firms have publicly released technical and circumstantial
evidence that strongly ties the DNC intrusions to hackers
long believed to be Kremlin-connected.
“Russian officials at the highest levels engaged
in an unprecedented level of interference in our
elections, and these actions had the goal of “We’ve analyzed the tools, the binaries, and the
harming the candidacy of Hillary Clinton and infrastructure that was used in the attack, and
boosting the candidacy of President-elect Donald from that we can confirm that it’s connected to a
Trump,” said Senate Intelligence Committee Vice group” long considered to be an arm of a
Chair Mark Warner (D-VA), in a statement. Russian intelligence service, Symantec’s Eric
Chien told The Daily Beast.
“The President-Elect’s statement that the
Russian hacking had ‘absolutely no effect on the “From the binary analysis point of view, I can tell
outcome of the election’ is not supported by the you that the activities of these attackers have
briefing, report, or common sense,” said House been during Russian working hours,” Eric Chien
Intelligence ranking member Adam Schiff (D- added. “They don’t work Russian holidays; they
CA), in a statement. “It is one thing to say that work Monday to Friday; there are language
there was no tampering with vote tallying—which identifiers inside that are Russian; when you look
is true—it is another thing to say that the daily at all the victim profiles they would be in interest
dumping of documents disparaging to Secretary to the Russian nation-state.”
Clinton that was made possible by Russian cyber
operations had no effect on the campaigns.” Friday’s report, a compilation of conclusions from 17
Schiff said the election results should stand, but different U.S. intelligence agencies, doesn’t add “smoking
such interference stopped from ever happening gun” details like those. It’s full of details but doesn’t add
again.
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much that’s new. It says Moscow has “a longstanding There is a strong suggestion, for instance, that human
desire to undermine the U.S.-led liberal democratic order.” intelligence—spies and informants run by the CIA in
Moscow and possibly working within to close to the
We learn that Vladimir Putin never much liked Hillary Russian government—played a stronger role in
Clinton and preferred the election of her rival, who over determining the U.S. intelligence community judgment of
several years has referred to Putin as “smart,” stronger, and why Putin ordered the hacking. All three major
more capable than the incumbent U.S. president, intelligence agencies, the NSA, CIA, and FBI, agree that
exonerated him from the killing of political opponents or the Russian government was behind it. But curiously, the
the invasion of European territory, and sought to make him one in charge of intercepting communications and running
his “best friend.” cyberoperations (like piecing together a digital breadcrumb
trail back to the hackers) is less confident than the CIA and
FBI about the motive. The CIA and FBI have “high
We learn that pro-Kremlin trolls created hashtags designed
confidence” that it was to destroy Clinton and promote
to undermine faith in American democracy when they
believed Clinton was likely to win, and then stopped Trump; the NSA has only “moderate confidence” in that
calling into question American democracy when, much to assessment.
their evident surprise, Trump did.
Furthermore, and not that this will come as much of a
surprise, the document confirms that the contents of both
We learn that, in addition to cyberespionage campaigns,
run separately by both Russia’s domestic and military the DNC and Podesta emails are indeed authentic, noting
intelligence services, the Kremlin resorted to that WikiLeaks was chosen by Putin as the designated
disseminator of the hacks owing to its “self-proclaimed
“multifaceted” forms of information warfare to weaken the
reputation for authenticity. Disclosures through WikiLeaks
Democratic nominee’s standing in the public imagination.
did not contain any evident forgeries.” That runs counter to
This included, but was not limited to, instructing its
the notion, put forward by the Hillary Clinton campaign,
English-language fake media portals, Russia Today (RT)
and Sputnik, to question Clinton’s health, her relationship that the leaked emails might not be real.
to ISIS, and where the money her charity raised actually
went. Nevertheless, Friday’s report leaves “big looming
unanswered questions, including the ones no one really
We learn that Russia has spent $200 million a year in wants to ask,” according to Hennessey, the former NSA
disinformation and propaganda, run through TV and social official. “The big one is whether there is any evidence of a
U.S. Person—whether connected or unconnected with
media platforms that are overseen or staffed by Russian
Trump campaign—who had knowledge of or participated
government officials and/or the offspring of them and
in the operation.
devoted to helping convince credulous Americans that
their country is a plutocratic surveillance state with no free
and fair election of national figures. Unlike, say, Russia. “I say it’s the big one because it is the only thing
that could be actually game changing. Currently
We also learn that the intelligence community is there is no public evidence of collusion with
Trump or his staff, but considering the President-
publishing information that is out of date. The report’s
Elect’s own statements, it’s certainly on people’s
“Annex A,” focusing on the role of RT, “was originally
published on 11 December 2012.” Because it’s so old, that minds. The U.S. government should affirmatively
put it to rest by either saying there is no evidence
annex incorrectly lists Aleksey Pushkov as the “current
of any misconduct or by acknowledging an
chair of the Duma Foreign Affairs Committee.” Pushkov is
ongoing investigation,” she added.
no longer in the Duma. It also lists his daughter Darya
Pushkova as the current head of RT’s London Bureau. She
used to work for RT years ago, but no longer does and is The government did no such thing on Friday, however,
certainly not head of the London Bureau. which means the questions will only continue.

While the document goes out of its way not to reveal much
about U.S. intelligence’s methodology and sourcing, there
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'It Is Over': Congress Certifies Donald Trump's Victory
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
Associated Press
Jan 6, 4:15 PM EST

Under federal law, if at least one senator and one House


member object to the vote from any state, the House and
Senate will meet separately to debate the merits of the
objection.

Toward the end of the count, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-


Calif., pleaded for a senator to join her in objecting.

"Is there one United States senator who will


join me in this letter of objection?" Waters
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress certified Donald said to boos from Republicans. None did.
Trump's presidential victory Friday over the objections of
a handful of House Democrats, with Vice President Joe
After the vote, Biden told some of the House Democrats
Biden pronouncing,
who tried to object why he had cut them off.

"It is over."
"Basically, it was the rules and we
understand that," said Rep. Sheila Jackson
House Democrats objected to the votes from at least 10 Lee, D-Texas, who led the effort to object
states, raising issues of voter suppression as well as to Trump's election.
American intelligence showing that Russia tried to sway
the election in favor of Trump. In each case, their
Lee and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus
objections were denied because they didn't have the
wanted to bring attention to strict voter ID laws in some
support of any senators.
states that they say suppress voters.

All 538 electors met in their respective state capitals in


"The real question was about the principles
December to cast their votes.
of Democracy and the sacredness of the
vote and the very high calling of a
Friday's vote count made it official. Biden presided over presidential election," Lee said.
the count in his role as president of the Senate.
The objections added a bit of acrimony to the end of a
Trump finished with 304 electoral votes and Democrat nasty presidential election. Not surprisingly, several
Hillary Clinton got 227. There were seven protest votes for protesters were ejected from the public gallery as the vote
other candidates. It takes 270 Electoral College votes to count concluded.
win the presidency.
Trump won even though Clinton received nearly 2.9
As expected, Mike Pence was elected vice president. million more votes. His election has generated much angst
among Democrats and others who oppose the billionaire
Trump and Pence are to be sworn in on Jan. 20. businessman. But they have been powerless to change the
outcome.
As the votes were announced for state after state,
Democratic members of the House stood up to object. But Despite rumblings of a revolt, only two Republican
in each case, no Democratic senator would join them, and electors - both from Texas - cast protest votes for someone
Biden cut them off. other than Trump. Clinton lost four Democratic electors in
Washington state and one in Hawaii.
"There can be no debate," Biden said
repeatedly. On Friday morning, Trump went on Twitter to provide
another assessment of the election.

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"Hillary and the Dems were never going to big trouble - which is why they cancelled
beat the PASSION of my voters. They saw their big fireworks at the last minute. THEY
what was happening in the last two weeks SAW A MOVEMENT LIKE NEVER
before the (election) and knew they were in BEFORE," Trump wrote.
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Tour De FARCE: US Intel Report On Russian
“Interference” A Hilarious Parade Of
Paranoia Politics… Zero Evidence…
Just Rehashed Delusional
Conspiracy Theories
By: Mike Adams
Date: January 06, 2017

includes no evidence:
https://t.co/C5yRsZsJbS
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)
January 6, 2017

In another tweet, Greenwald followed up with,

“It’s shocking how much this report was


hyped and how literally no effort was made
to include *any* evidence at all.”

In response, left-wing trolls on Twitter accused Greenwald


himself of “working for the Russians.” (That’s now the
excuse the everything the left doesn’t like. Must be the
We really have reached the point where everything that’s Russians!)
run by the political left has devolved into a parade of
delusional paranoia. Whether it’s man-made “climate A circle jerk of rehashed left-wing paranoia
change,” the purely imagined “KKK hate crimes”
epidemic, or the hilarious delusional conspiracy theory In essence, a tiny number of Obama puppets inside the
about Russians “hacking the election,” everything the left CIA and FBI just “made s##t up” and then tried to pass it
has come up with in recent memory is rooted in sheer off as legitimate intelligence.
fiction (if not slobbering mental illness).
The laughably hysterical document —
The latest laughable attempt at creating a Russian widely and blindly repeated everywhere in
boogeyman to scare all the little leftist snowflake children the obedient but mindless left-wing media
has arrived in the form of a US intel report released Friday. — is nothing more than a circle jerk
Titled, “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in rehash of delusional conspiracy
Recent US Elections,” the report is so laughably devoid of theories.
a single shred of credible evidence that actual journalists
all across the world are rolling on the floor with hysterical
Notably, there isn’t a single piece of actual evidence found
laughter.
in the entire report.

“Every time IC repackages its same


The report spends much of its time
assertions in a new form, media acts like
covering RT, a media organization funded
it’s been proven, even though it – again –
by the Kremlin: “RT’s coverage of
includes no evidence,” Tweeted one of the
Secretary Clinton throughout the US
few remaining independent journalists on
presidential campaign was consistently
the planet, Glenn Greenwald.
negative and focused on her leaked e-
Every time IC repackages its same mails and accused her of corruption, poor
assertions in a new form, media acts like physical and mental health, and ties to
it's been proven, even though it – again – Islamic extremism,” says the report.
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In other words, anyone who was critical of Hillary Clinton the Russian takeover of U.S. strategic uranium mines… a
was obviously working with the Russians, right? Never convenient fact the lying left-wing media refuses to report.
mind that she was an unlikable, deeply corrupt, criminal-
minded mob boss with an obvious neurological disorder A Tour de Farce of intelligence bullsh#ttery
who pre-sold the White House to foreign interests.
If you can stop laughing, consider the fact that the left-
Opponents of fracking are also working for the wing media takes this bogus intelligence report as “fact”
Russians, you see even though it is completely devoid of any evidence.

It gets even better. The report also implies that The entire thing is nothing more than
environmentalists and opponents of fracking are working Obama sycophants ginning up scary
for the Russians, too. (Yes, I know. It’s just beyond bedtime stories to tell each other, then
hilarious.) labeling it all “intelligence.”

“RT runs anti-fracking programming, In truth, there’s no intelligence to be found in the report at
highlighting environmental issues and the all. It’s so devoid of facts, evidence and sources — but rife
impacts on public health.” with opinions, conclusions and “analysis” of opinions —
that the whole thing should probably be renamed Tour de
Noooooo! Say it isn’t so! You mean to tell me that people Farce: The CIA’s Drug-Induced Assessment of Make-
who are concerned about the environmental impact of Believe Threats to the Kingdom of F##ktardia.
fracking are really working for the Russians? For the
record, that’s about 90% of all leftists, by the way. In conclusion, the report wildly discredits the CIA, FBI
Apparently, not only are all the people on the right and NSA with its cringe-worthy (and obviously politically
working for the Russians (because they hate Hillary), but biased) “analysis” that reads more like twisted, drug-
also all the people on the left are working for the Russians, induced paranoid delusions than meaningful intelligence.
too (because they hate fracking). The very first thing President Trump should do after being
sworn in, obviously, is to drain the swamp at the CIA
According to the CIA, then, everyone is working for the and remove every single analyst churning out this paranoid
Russians. Except, not Hillary Clinton, we’re told, even hogwash.
though she was the U.S. Secretary of State who approved
.

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Lead U.S. Intelligence Agency Admits Wikileaks’
Democratic Emails Are Authentic
Posted on January 6, 2017
By Washingtonsblog

The U.S. government’s Director of National Intelligence –


which directs and oversees the American national Moscow most likely chose WikiLeaks because of its self-
intelligence program and all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies proclaimed reputation for authenticity.
– released a report today stating: Disclosures through WikiLeaks did not
We assess with high confidence that the GRU contain any evident forgeries.
relayed material it acquired from the DNC and
senior Democratic officials to WikiLeaks. So – whatever you think about Wikileaks – anyone
claiming that the Wikileaks documents are forged or
altered is wrong.

US Intel Report Confirms Wikileaks Data On DNC,


Clinton Contain No Forgeries
© Reuters/ Brian Snyder Us 01:37 07.01.2017(Updated 22:30 07.01.2017)

(DNC) was accurate, a top level US intelligence report


said.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — A public version of the


comprehensive intelligence report assessing Russian
activities and intentions in the 2016 US presidential
elections was released on Friday.

"Disclosures through WikiLeaks did not contain


any evident forgeries," the report from the Office
of the Director of National Intelligence stated on
Friday.
The enormous volume of WikiLeaks documents exposing .
the internal workings of Hillary Clinton’s election
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Why The DNC Emails Were Leaked Not Hacked
By William Binney And Ray Mcgovern
January 6, 2017

It has been several weeks since the New York Times When Pentagon favorites like Iraqi émigré Ahmed Chalabi
reported that “overwhelming circumstantial evidence” led plied U.S. intelligence with spurious “evidence” on WMD
the CIA to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin in Iraq, Mr. Clapper was in position to suppress the
“deployed computer hackers” to help Donald Trump win findings of any imagery analyst who might have the
the election. But the evidence released so far has been far temerity to report, for example, that the Iraqi “chemical
from overwhelming. weapons facility” for which Mr. Chalabi provided the
geographic coordinates was nothing of the kind. Mr.
The long anticipated Joint Analysis Report issued by the Clapper preferred to go by the Rumsfeldian dictum: “The
Department of Homeland Security and the FBI on Dec. 29 absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” (It will be
met widespread criticism in the technical community. interesting to see if he tries that out on the president-elect
Worse still, some of the advice it offered led to a very Friday.)
alarmist false alarm about supposed Russian hacking into a
Vermont electric power station. A year after the war began, Mr. Chalabi told the media,

Advertised in advance as providing proof of Russian “We are heroes in error. As far as we’re
hacking, the report fell embarrassingly short of that goal. concerned we’ve been entirely successful.”
The thin gruel that it did contain was watered down further
by the following unusual warning atop page 1: By that time it was clear there were no WMD in Iraq.
“DISCLAIMER: This report is provided ‘as is’ for When Mr. Clapper was asked to explain, he opined,
informational purposes only. The Department of without adducing any evidence, that they probably were
Homeland Security (DHS) does not provide any warranties moved into Syria.
of any kind regarding any information contained within.”
With respect to the alleged interference by Russia and
Also, curiously absent was any clear input from the CIA, WikiLeaks in the U.S. election, it is a major mystery why
NSA or Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. U.S. intelligence feels it must rely on “circumstantial
Reportedly, Mr. Clapper will get a chance tomorrow to evidence,” when it has NSA’s vacuum cleaner sucking up
brief an understandably skeptical Donald Trump, who has hard evidence galore. What we know of NSA’s capabilities
called the briefing delay “very strange,” even suggesting shows that the email disclosures were from leaking, not
that top intelligence officials “need more time to build a hacking.
case.”
Here’s the difference:
Mr. Trump’s skepticism is warranted not only by technical
realities, but also by human ones, including the dramatis
Hack: When someone in a remote location
personae involved. Mr. Clapper has admitted giving
electronically penetrates operating
Congress on March 12, 2013, false testimony regarding the
systems, firewalls or other cyber-protection
extent of NSA collection of data on Americans. Four systems and then extracts data. Our own
months later, after the Edward Snowden revelations, Mr.
considerable experience, plus the rich
Clapper apologized to the Senate for testimony he
detail revealed by Edward Snowden,
admitted was “clearly erroneous.” That he is a survivor persuades us that, with NSA’s formidable
was already apparent by the way he landed on his feet after trace capability, it can identify both sender
the intelligence debacle on Iraq. and recipient of any and all data crossing
the network.
Mr. Clapper was a key player in facilitating the fraudulent
intelligence. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put Mr. Leak: When someone physically takes
Clapper in charge of the analysis of satellite imagery, the data out of an organization — on a thumb
best source for pinpointing the location of weapons of drive, for example — and gives it to
mass destruction — if any. someone else, as Edward Snowden and
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way such data can be copied and removed hack, as other reporting suggests. From a technical
with no electronic trace. perspective alone, we are convinced that this is what
happened.
Because NSA can trace exactly where and how any
“hacked” emails from the Democratic National Committee Lastly, the CIA is almost totally dependent on NSA for
or other servers were routed through the network, it is ground truth in this electronic arena. Given Mr. Clapper’s
puzzling why NSA cannot produce hard evidence checkered record for accuracy in describing NSA
implicating the Russian government and WikiLeaks. activities, it is to be hoped that the director of NSA will
Unless we are dealing with a leak from an insider, not a join him for the briefing with Mr. Trump.

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Propaganda Intended To Incite Americans:
John McAfee On ‘Russian Hacking’ Claims
By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor
From Russia Today, Moscow
January 6, 2017

security and academia. Their demonstrated


interest is zero.

What McAfee is doing with his banging the drum, we should have
been seeing some of the security, defense and academic trade
organizations doing. They are AWOL, and we need a hell of a lot
more public pressure to point that out to them… Jim W. Dean ]

___________

[ Editor’s Note: John McAfee is certainly having a good time.


The election is over and he is still getting lots of airtime for his
debunking of the claimed Democratic party hack.

The Intel agency briefing that Trump got today was a


Shakespearean event, “Much ado about nothing”. The
community seems to have an addiction to circumstantial
evidence, with the biggest thing reported being that high-level
Russian officials were happy that Trump had won.

Well, hello! Trump had already said he was going to rebuild “Here’s lookin at ya”
better relations with Russia, so of course they are happy he
won. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence report had – First published … January 06, 2017 –
SEVEN pages on RT alone, kind of an indication they were
scraping the barrel to fill the report with something. The sloppiness of the alleged DNC hack by
itself proves it was not organized by a nation
With the major anti-Russian sanction shift we are seeing in the state, and the “utter nonsense” presented as
EU, the sanctions appear to be on the way out in 2017; and so proof of Moscow’s involvement is rather
may be Angela Merkel for the role she played in the ill-conceived evidence of intelligence agencies being
effort, plus opening Germany to a wave of Muslim extremist “ignorant and naïve,” John McAfee told RT.
terrorism and violence that could last for decades.
Cybersecurity legend McAfee is one of the modern
One of these days, a foreign Intel agency or “contractor” is going computer tech pioneers and the developer of the first
to slip a mini-nuke into some dumb suicide jihadi’s car bomb, and commercial antivirus program, who has been in the
we are going to have another 9-11 style terror event, because the business for the past 50 years.
lack of public discussion on the proliferation of the small nukes is
the biggest security risk we all face. He is also the CEO of MGT Capital Investments, and a
former presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party.
With all the stories that VT has run on mini-
nukes, we have not had a single call from The so-called evidence of the Russian
anyone of standing wanting to learn more. It involvement in the hacks not only looks like
is the classic ostrich head in the sand “the most deceptive propaganda was
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actually proves quite the opposite, McAfee have time to remove English language, we
believes. didn’t have time to move the date stamp, the
guy could not use a Chinese keyboard, so we
“In there are four facts which they claim gave him our regular keyboard. And also
prove that Russia did this hack. It was utter there was my wife’s birthday so I could not
nonsense. The information was number one – remove the IP address.’”
Russian language was found in the malware.
Number two – a Cyrillic keyboard was used. “Please, that person would be scheduled for
The forensic science can now tell what type a suicide,” McAfee concluded.
of keyboard was used to develop a piece of a
malware,” McAfee told RT. Thus, McAfee believes, the whole “Russian
hacking” narrative is either “propaganda
“Number three – the compiler, the piece of intended to incite the American people, to
software that compiles the code so that it can anger toward Russia for some reason, or our
execute, always dated time stamps. The time intelligence community is so ignorant and
stamps were in a time zone for the business naïve that they should all be replaced.”
hours of Moscow and St. Petersburg and
other places in Russia and the number four The Cybersecurity specialist believes that based on the
that the IP address pointed to a Russian presented evidence the hack “cannot possibly be an
address.” organized nation-state.”

To make it simple for the American audience, McAfee “The hack on the DNC used a piece of
metaphorically explained the situation: malware a year and a half old and there have
been many updates since then, McAfee said.
“Seriously, if Russia declared war on us “This was done by an independent one
because we hacked Russia and the head of person kid that downloaded the software.
the CIA and the intelligence committee came Please, this is not an organized hack and
to the Congress and they ask him ‘What certainly not a nation-state that did this.”
happened?’ – ‘Oh, well you know we didn’t
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The Governor Of Vermont Is An Idiot
Paul Craig Roberts
January 6, 2017

Apparently, the CIA not only owns the US and European pursuit of opportunities to disrupt our country. We
media, university faculties, the US Congress, the heads of must remain vigilant, which is why I support
state of the US Empire, many pseudo-fake leftwing and President Obama’s sanctions against Russia and
progressive Internet sites, but also the governors of the US its attacks on our country and what it stands for.”
states.
This from a member of the legislature of a country that is
How can it happen that the citizens of Vermont are so known to spy on the entire world, to disrupt operations
incapable that they elected a mindless moron as governor? everywhere, and has slaughtered and displaced millions of
Governor Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, called on federal peoples in 9 countries during the Clinton, Bush, and
officials “to conduct a full and complerte investigation” of Obama regimes.
Russia’s alleged hacking of Vermont’s electric grid system
Where does Rep. Peter Welch get off?
“and undertake that this never happens again.”
The low grade morons at the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos
Of course, it never happened at all, as has been confirmed
trophy wife, went to their work with the totally
by US intelligence services. But this did not prevent the
unsubstantiated Fake News story of Putin’s hacking of
moronic governor from denouncing Russia for something
Vermont’s electric grid. What a godsend. Here are the
that not only was Russia not responsible for but which we
bloody Ruskies interfering with out electricity. Unnamed
now know for certain never happened.
“senior administration officials” go on and on about what
Listen to the moron elected governor by the insouciant it might mean that Russia is hacking Vermont’s electric
people of Vermont: utility.
“Vermonters and all Americans should be both The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI
alarmed and outraged that one of the world’s quickly jumped in by issuing a joint analysis report,
leading thugs, Vladimir Putin, has been alleging
attempting to hack our electric grid, which we rely
“that the Russian military and civilian services
upon to support our quality-of-life, economy,
activity ‘is part of an ongoing campaing of cyber-
health, and safety. This episode should highlight
enabled operations directed at the US
the urgent need for our federal government to
government and its citizens.’”
vigorously pursue and put an end to this sort of
Russian meddling.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-
security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-
Is this idiotic governor simply stupid behond all belief, a
through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-
half-wit, or is he a CIA asset?
11e6-b8a2-
Look at the idiots Vermonters have elected to the US 8c2a61b0436f_story.html?utm_term=.54366d2a92c7
Senate and House of Representatives. Here is Vermont’s
These false charges could not be supported, and were
Democratic US Senator Patrick Leahy:
officially disavowed by the US government.
“This [the alleged Russian hacking] is a direct
One result was yet another retraction from the completely
threat to Vermont and we do not take it lightly.”
discredited Washington Post.
Here is the imbecilic Rep. Peter Welch, a Democrat (yes
What sticks is the false image of Russia as a threat.
Republicans have their share of imbeciles):
Those who produce these fake threats are leading the US
“It’s systemic, relentless, predatory. They
into thermo-nuclear armageddon.
[Russia] will hack everywhere, even Vermont, in
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Here Is The US Intel Report Accusing
Putin Of Helping Trump Win The Election By
"Discrediting" Hillary Clinton
By Tyler Durden
Jan 6, 2017 11:07 PM

The farce is complete. process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her
electability and potential presidency. We further
One week after a joint FBI/DHS report was released, assess Putin and the Russian Government
supposedly meant to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that developed a clear preference for President-elect
Russia intervened in the US presidential election, and thus Trump. We have high confidence in these
served as a diplomatic basis for Obama's expulsion of 35 judgments.
diplomats, yet which merely confirmed that a Ukrainian
 We also assess Putin and the Russian Government
piece of malware which could be purchased by anyone,
aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election
was responsible for spoofing various email accounts
chances when possible by discrediting Secretary
including that of the DNC and John Podesta, moments ago
Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to
US intelligence agencies released a more "authoritative",
him. All three agencies agree with this judgment.
25-page report, titled "Assessing Russian Activities and
Intentions in Recent US Elections", and which not At this point a quick detour, because the intel agencies
surprisingly only serves to validate the media narrative, by responsible for drafting the report then explain how
concluding that Russian President Vladimir Putin "confident" they are:
'ordered' an effort to influence U.S. presidential election.
"CIA and FBI have high confidence in
this judgment; NSA has moderate
Specifically, the report concludes the following:
confidence."
We assess Russian President Vladimir What do these distinctions mean?
Putin ordered an influence campaign in
2016 aimed at the US presidential  High confidence generally indicates judgments based
election. Russia’s goals were to on high-quality information, and/or the nature of the
undermine public faith in the US issue makes it possible to render a solid judgment.
democratic process, denigrate However, high confidence judgments still carry a
Secretary Clinton, and harm her risk of being wrong.
electability and potential presidency. We  Moderate confidence generally means credibly
further assess Putin and the Russian sourced and plausible information, but not of
Government developed a clear sufficient quality or corroboration to warrant a
preference for President-elect Trump. higher level of confidence.

What proof is there? Sadly, again, none. However, as the In other words, while not carrying the infamous DHS
intelligence agencies state, disclaimer according to which last week's entire joint
FBI/DHS report is likely garbage, the US intel agencies
"We have high confidence in these admit they may well be "wrong."
judgments"... Going back to the report, we then read:

just like they had high confidence that Iraq had weapons of  Moscow’s approach evolved over the course of the
mass destruction. campaign based on Russia’s understanding of the
electoral prospects of the two main candidates. When it
And while the report is severely lacking in any evidence, it appeared to Moscow that Secretary Clinton was likely
is rich in judgments, such as the following: to win the election, the Russian influence campaign
began to focus more on undermining her future
 We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin presidency.
ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the
US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to  Further information has come to light since Election
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early November 2016, increases our confidence in our  Russian Propaganda Efforts. Russia’s state-run
assessments of Russian motivations and goals. propaganda machine—comprised of its domestic
media apparatus, outlets targeting global audiences
 Moscow’s influence campaign followed a Russian
such as RT and Sputnik, and a network of quasi-
messaging strategy that blends covert intelligence
government trolls—contributed to the influence
operations—such as cyber activity—with overt
campaign by serving as a platform for Kremlin
efforts by Russian Government agencies, state-
messaging to Russian and international audiences.
funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid
State-owned Russian media made increasingly
social media users or “trolls.” Russia, like its
favorable comments about President-elect Trump as
Soviet predecessor, has a history of conducting
the 2016 US general and primary election campaigns
covert influence campaigns focused on US
progressed while consistently offering negative
presidential elections that have used intelligence
coverage of Secretary Clinton.
officers and agents and press placements to
disparage candidates perceived as hostile to the Then here is the direct accusation of Wikileaks:
Kremlin.
We assess with high confidence that the
 Russia’s intelligence services conducted cyber GRU relayed material it acquired from
operations against targets associated with the 2016 the DNC and senior Democratic officials
US presidential election, including targets to WikiLeaks. Moscow most likely chose
associated with both major US political parties. WikiLeaks because of its self-proclaimed
reputation for authenticity. Disclosures
 We assess with high confidence that Russian military through WikiLeaks did not contain any
intelligence (General Staff Main Intelligence evident forgeries.
Directorate or GRU) used the Guccifer 2.0 persona
and DCLeaks.com to release US victim data Oddly enough, there is nothing in the report about the
obtained in cyber operations publicly and in latest narrative change of "go-betweens" linking Putin with
exclusives to media outlets and relayed material to Wikileaks, but it has a whole lot of "judgments" on RT...
WikiLeaks.
 RT’s coverage of Secretary Clinton throughout the
 Russian intelligence obtained and maintained access US presidential campaign was consistently
to elements of multiple US state or local electoral negative and focused on her leaked e-mails and
boards. DHS assesses that the types of systems accused her of corruption, poor physical and
Russian actors targeted or compromised were not mental health, and ties to Islamic extremism. Some
involved in vote tallying. Russian officials echoed Russian lines for the influence
campaign that Secretary Clinton’s election could lead
 Russia’s state-run propaganda machine contributed to to a war between the United States and Russia.
the influence campaign by serving as a platform for
Kremlin messaging to Russian and international  In August, Kremlin-linked political analysts
audiences. suggested avenging negative Western reports on
Putin by airing segments devoted to Secretary
 We assess Moscow will apply lessons learned from its Clinton’s alleged health problems.
Putin-ordered campaign aimed at the US presidential
election to future influence efforts worldwide, including  On 6 August, RT published an English-language video
against US allies and their election processes. called “Julian Assange Special: Do WikiLeaks Have the
E-mail That’ll Put Clinton in Prison?” and an exclusive
Or, as some have stated, just a regurgitation of already interview with Assange entitled “Clinton and ISIS
existing opinions and absolutely zero facts. Funded by the Same Money.” RT’s most popular
Some more highlights: video on Secretary Clinton, “How 100% of the
Clintons’ ‘Charity’ Went to…Themselves,” had
 Moscow’s influence campaign followed a Russian more than 9 million views on social media
messaging strategy that blends covert intelligence platforms. RT’s most popular English language
operations—such as cyber activity—with overt efforts video about the President-elect, called “Trump Will
by Russian Government agencies, state-funded media, Not Be Permitted To Win,” featured Assange and
third-party intermediaries, and paid social media users had 2.2 million views.
or “trolls.”
... and "trolls." And this is where it gets really funny:
 We assess Russian intelligence services collected
against the US primary campaigns, think tanks, and  Russia used trolls as well as RT as part of its
lobbying groups they viewed as likely to shape future influence efforts to denigrate Secretary Clinton.
US policies. In July 2015, Russian intelligence gained This effort amplified stories on scandals about
access to Democratic National Committee (DNC) Secretary Clinton and the role of WikiLeaks in the
networks and maintained that access until at least June election campaign.
2016.
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 The likely financier of the so-called Internet Research is RT's audience really that much
Agency of professional trolls located in Saint greater than the that of NBC, ABC, Fox,
Petersburg is a close Putin ally with ties to Russian CBS, MSNBC, CNN etc to overpower all
intelligence. of US media?
 A journalist who is a leading expert on the Internet That's rhetorical.
Research Agency claimed that some social media
accounts that appear to be tied to Russia’s professional
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trolls—because they previously were devoted to
supporting Russian actions in Ukraine—started to
While readers can make up their own mind about the
advocate for President-elect Trump as early as
report, here is Glenn Greenwald's quick take:
December 2015.
Then there are pearls like this, exposing the Russian "anti- Every time IC repackages its same
fracking troll army" whose every move is orchestarted by assertions in a new form, media acts like
the RT masterminds: it's been proven, even though it - again -
includes no evidence:
https://t.co/C5yRsZsJbS

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)


January 6, 2017

This new report: 1) literally half of it is about


RT; 2) contains same assertions made
multiple times; 3) includes no evidence for
claims.
... who are to blame for everything that is wrong with US
democracy because they have more YouTube watchers: — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)
January 6, 2017

It's shocking how much this report was


hyped and how literally no effort was made
to include *any* evidence at all, even stuff
like this: https://t.co/wvompG6Nyl

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)


January 6, 2017

Meanwhile, in Russia:

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ARS Technica: White House Fails To Make Case That
Russian Hacking Tampered With Election
(Article By Breitbart News, Republished From Breitbart.Com)
Date: January 07, 2017

orchestrated in an attempt to interfere with


the 2016 presidential election.

The 13-page report, which was jointly published Thursday


by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI,
billed itself as an indictment of sorts that would finally lay
out the intelligence community’s case that Russian
government operatives carried out hacks on the
Democratic National Committee, the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee, and Clinton
Campaign Chief John Podesta and leaked much of the
resulting material. While security companies in the private
sector have said for months the hacking campaign was the
work of people working for the Russian government,
anonymous people tied to the leaks have claimed they are
Dan Goodin of Ars Technica writes that lone wolves. Many independent security experts said there
the DHS-FBI report on Russian hacking was little way to know the true origins of the attacks.
in 2016 “provides almost no new
evidence to support the Obama Sadly, the JAR, as the Joint Analysis Report is called, does
Administration’s claims Russia little to end the debate. Instead of providing smoking guns
attempted to interfere with the US that the Russian government was behind specific hacks, it
electoral process.” largely restates previous private-sector claims without
providing any support for their validity. Even worse, it
From Ars Technica: provides an effective bait and switch by promising newly
declassified intelligence into Russian hackers’ “tradecraft
Talk about disappointments. The US and techniques” and instead delivering generic methods
government’s much-anticipated analysis of carried out by just about all state-sponsored hacking
Russian-sponsored hacking operations groups.
provides almost none of the promised
evidence linking them to breaches that the Read more at: breitbart.com
Obama administration claims were
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Trump Says US Intel Has 'Absolutely No Evidence'
Hacking Affected Election
© REUTERS/ Carlo Allegri/File Photo US 16:35 07.01.2017(updated 18:30 07.01.2017

an attempt to divert public opinion from revelations of


corruption as well as other pressing domestic issues.

The US president-elect also stated on Saturday that he


believes that the issue of the alleged hack of the US
Democratic National Committee (DNC) is being discussed
only because the Democratic Party is "totally embarrassed"
because of US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's loss
in the election.

"Only reason the hacking of the poorly defended


DNC is discussed is that the loss by the Dems
US President-elect Donald Trump stated on Saturday that was so big that they are totally embarrassed!"
the US intelligence services "stated very strongly there was
absolutely no evidence" that alleged Russia's hacking Only reason the hacking of the poorly defended
affected the results of the presidential election as voting DNC is discussed is that the loss by the Dems
machines had not been hacked. was so big that they are totally embarrassed!

"Intelligence stated very strongly there was — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 7


absolutely no evidence that hacking affected the января 2017 г.
election results. Voting machines not touched!"
Donald Trump said via Twitter. In December, media reported that the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) suspects that Russia had interfered in the
Intelligence stated very strongly there was course of US presidential election, hacking mail servers of
absolutely no evidence that hacking affected the US citizens and organizations, including the DNC. The
election results. Voting machines not touched! agency claimed that Moscow had targeted the presidential
campaign of the Democratic Party's Hillary Clinton,
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 7 because it wanted Trump to win. At the same time, the FBI
января 2017 г. has reportedly reached opposite conclusions from the same
raw intelligence.
On Friday, the US Intelligence Community released a
public version of the comprehensive intelligence report On December 29, US outgoing President Barack Obama
assessing alleged Russia's activities and intentions related announced the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats, the
to the 2016 US presidential election. closing of two Russian diplomatic compounds in Maryland
and New York and new sanctions against six Russian
After receiving an intelligence briefing on the report, individuals and five entities over Moscow's alleged
Trump said the election outcome had not been affected. interference in the November US presidential election.
US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan also
suggested that the assessment should not be used by Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia "will not
partisans to delegitimize Trump's presidency. expel anyone" in response to US sanctions and will
determine further steps in restoring ties with the United
Russian authorities have repeatedly denied the US States depending on the policy of President-elect Donald
allegations calling them absurd and characterizing them as Trump.
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The Surveillance State Did Not
Disappear With The Trump Victory:
“It Is Still Lurking And Completely Intact”
Jeremiah Johnson
January 7th, 2017

Spine. The information in this article is directly from


Edward Snowden that revealed exactly what the
government has been doing regarding their total
surveillance program. The surveillance did not occur
overnight, and in the manner of the “frog in the cold-water
kettle” by stretching out the time for putting it all into
place, the stultified public’s focus was either diverted or
bypassed entirely.

Here are a few other pieces worth reading over regarding


the government’s total information awareness and the
(ongoing) growth of the surveillance state:
One of the things Donald Trump has really done correctly
is to assess his future arena in the areas of intelligence-
gathering and operational security. Trump wants to return  UPI: U.S. Postal Service logs all mail for law
to a “courier” method of transmitting sensitive information enforcement. (7/4/2013)
and classified documents for the purpose of reducing the  Madison Ruppert, Activist Post: Suitcase sized
amount of material that can be hacked or stolen. There is a device can remotely disable phones, intercept
subtlety about this for a caveat, in case the compliment has communications, record unique ID’s and track you
bloomed flowers in your thoughts: in real time (11/2/2011)
 Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com:
the NSA $50 billion facility for collection Federally-Funded Street Lights Capable of
and storage of data in Utah won’t be Recording Conversations (11/1/2011)
shutting down anytime soon.  Tom Simonite, MT Technology Review: Using a
Smartphone’s Eyes and Ears to Log Your Every
Move (7/4/13)
As Snowden’s exposes clearly pointed out, the government
has clearly followed Petraeus’ glowing “internet of things”  Washington’s Blog: Is the Government also
yellow brick road to form an integrated, interconnected Monitoring the CONTENT of Our Phone Calls?
surveillance state. All CCTV (closed circuit television) (6/6/2013) [Note: This piece really delves into the
systems, all merchants with cameras, all law enforcement reasons behind all of the surveillance…straight out of
cameras…all of the camera surveillance systems the mouth of the head of the NSA]
everywhere are either tied into data collection immediately  Prison Planet: Diagram: The NSA
or can be accessed for use at a later time. Unchained (5/24/2012) [Excellent overview of the
amendments to FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act) enabling domestic agencies to spy on U.S. citizens
The latest “Jason Bourne” movie clearly illustrates how to catch foreign “bogeymen” and the actual reach of the
the government can utilize devices such as cellular surveillance]
telephones (especially the ones with cameras) to track
movements, record conversations, and be a “piggyback” to
relay information to a nearby computer or a camera. As can be seen, all of these developments require time, and
the bypassing of the public awareness/consciousness.
Time is necessary to inculcate these changes; however,
This isn’t the future: this is now. time also serves as a tool to insulate their actions from
what would normally draw outcry if all the actions were
There is an older piece written by Michael Snyder in June taken at once. A couple of pieces that illustrate this
of 2013 entitled 27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. concept are as such:
Government Spying That Should Send a Chill Up Your

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 Josh Peterson, The Daily Caller: Deadline Obama had an eight-year ride akin to a sled going
Approaches for Russia and China-led U.N. Internet downhill: unchecked and unstopped, except for his term
takeover (5/24/2012) expiring. Now (just as with the Overton Window
 Gordon Crovitz: The U.N.’s Internet Power Grab principle), the paradigm shift takes a breather with Trump,
(6/18/2012) who will continue the course, but at a slower pace.

These two pieces are extremely significant. They show The U.S. is still pointed in the direction
how the transfer of the Internet to U.N. control has been of losing its national sovereignty and
pushed for quite some time, now. Guess what? It has heading toward global governance, but
been done. Obama did it in October when he handed off the angle of descent is not so steep or
the control (through his Commerce Department) to the speed so high: this “deadens” the
ICANN, the multinational firm assigning names and public’s awareness to lull them into
numbers to Internet users and controlling content. thinking the bad years are behind us
and the struggle is done with Trump’s
See, Obama quietly did this just before the election in win.
November, and barely anyone took notice of it. Now,
legislation has been passed to “combat disinformation and It hasn’t stopped, that sled of paradigm shift: it is still
‘false’ news and propaganda,” in essence, targeting creeping forward. If we are not vigilant, the machine that
independent news media sites. Back in 2012 when those has come into creation this past decade will tighten its own
last two cited articles were written, the country had already screws and proceed on the course to global governance
suffered for four years under Obama with no sign of a let- quietly, while no one notices.
up. The UN was coming for the guns (John Kerry’s
signing the Small Arms Treaty), coming for the wilderness It is not so much giving the people what
areas (the Agenda 21 and EPA assault on private property they want, as making them believe
and public lands), and now the internet. they’re getting what they want.

It wouldn’t have been tolerated and may have thrown Bush Jr. and Obama laid the groundwork, and the
things off for the election in the fall of 2012 for Obama. surveillance state as exposed by Snowden did not
Quietly in October of 2016, Obama sneaked it through the disappear with the Trump victory. It is still lurking,
back door of transferring control to a corporation…the completely intact just below the surface of visibility.
public consciousness is bypassed…and the UN-controlled Where the ship will be taken will be largely in Trump’s
corporation now has control of the Internet. Now is the hands, and there will be others that will influence him both
time to marginalize and criminalize public and journalist where and how to steer the ship. Guess (to paraphrase
opinion to clamp down on independent thought and Pelosi) we’ll have to wait and see where we’ve gone to
alternative news sources. after the ship has docked.

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MSM Biased In Favor Of Clinton, Now Blindly Supports
‘Russian Hack’ Reports – Wikileaks Envoy
Published Time: 7 Jan, 2017 19:11

did not question the validity of the election


process and that it in some way supposes
that Putin ordered that the process be
hacked. It is nonsense,” Murray explained.

He also lambasted the document for making RT the


centerpiece of the alleged Russian effort to undermine
American democracy.

“[The report] makes it seem illegitimate and


wrong for a media organization to
Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan © Carl
Court / Reuters broadcast any information that doesn’t go
along with the American government’s
The US intelligence report on alleged Russian interference wishes. One example is that the report
in the 2016 election is uncritically supported by the same states that RT broadcast a program critical
media which was biased in favor of Hillary Clinton during of fracking, and that it proves that RT was
the campaign, WikiLeaks associate Craig Murray told RT. setting up to undermine the American
economy,” he said.
The former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, and a self- “That’s an astonishing assertion. There are
proclaimed recipient of Podesta emails, which he said were millions of Americans, who are against
received from a Democratic Party insider, called the report fracking! It’s a blatant attack on the
released on Friday by the Office of the Director of freedom of the press and an attempt to limit
National Intelligence ‘hilarious’ and ‘devoid of evidence.’ the area of legitimate debate.”

“When I saw the report the other night I He criticized Western mainstream media for accepting the
genuinely believed that was The Daily report uncritically instead of independently confirming the
Mash or some other humorous site that statements contained in it, like proper journalists are
had done a spoof. It seems such a supposed to do.
mockery of what we’ve had, which is weeks
and weeks of assertion without evidence. He said this trend was “extremely worrying.”
And it was so totally devoid of evidence,
that I thought it must be a joke,” he told RT. “They could only put out such a bad report
with no evidence to back it up if they were
He added that the report failed to cite any factual evidence already certain that the mainstream media
would report it, support it, and not
“because the assertions it is making are investigate it,” Murray remarked.
factually untrue.” “The trouble is the Western mainstream
media have very few journalists anymore.
Murray believes that the report is full of They are just stenographers who type out
the neocon narrative and don’t question the
“illogical assertions built on nothing.” official line. Nobody of any intelligence
could have read this report and believed it.
“The report asserts, for example, that
Almost certainly the MSM journalists, who
President Putin must have ordered the
are supporting the report, have only read
hacking. It doesn’t say that the hacking of
some of it at the start and have not actually
the election or influencing actually
read through the thing.
happened. But it says: ‘If it happened, he
must have ordered it.’ And as evidence, it “One of the points in the report is that it
gives the fact that after the election, Russia criticizes RT for saying that the mainstream
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media were biased in favor of Hillary where the bias laid. And now we see that
Clinton during the US presidential election. the same mainstream media’s... coming
That’s simply true. It’s like saying ‘the sky is out to support this report and destabilize
blue.’ There was no doubt whatsoever the incoming president,” Murray concluded.
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Campaign To Impeach Trump
Posted By Stephen Lendman
Date: January 07, 2017

Jack Kennedy came closest to fulfilling the obligations of a


US leader honorably and equitably. His integrity cost him
his life.

The Constitution’s Article I, Section 2 empowers House


members to impeach a sitting president, Senate members
with sole power to try them.

Article II, Section 4 states “(t)he President, Vice President


and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed
from office on impeachment for, and conviction of,
(image: © Mike Segar / Reuters ) treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

A personal note. My comments below reflect a Views on any issues aren’t impeachable offenses, no
commitment to rule of law principles, not support or matter how extreme or different from most others in
rejection of Trump as America’s 45th president. Judge him government – only criminal acts too severe to ignore, open
based on how he serves once in office, no other way. to interpretation, given how egregiously America operates
at home and abroad with bipartisan support.
Deplorable treatment he got while campaigning and
continuing post-election as president-elect is On New Year’s day, journalist Robert Kuttner sounded
unprecedented in US political history – one of many like a sedition-supporting Hillary press agent – urging
examples of a rogue state off-the-rails, bipartisan Trump’s impeachment, saying “(t)he process begins now.”
corruption too entrenched to fix.
Calling him “wildly unfit to be president,” Kuttne said
Change.org is part of an outrageous campaign to impeach he’ll reveal it by violating constitutional law. He may or
Trump straightaway once inaugurated. A previous article may not, but hasn’t because he’s yet to be inaugurated.
explained is a for-profit enterprise, not an NGO –
deceiving supporters by using the .org domain suffix, not Kuttner called for “a citizens’ impeachment inquiry, to
.com as it should. begin on Trump’s first day in office” composed of
“distinguished,” high-minded members, according to
Its business is getting people to sign petitions, along with whom he didn’t say, claiming they’ll “be no lack of
selling advertising and personal data for added profits. evidence.”

Its campaign to make war goddess, racketeer, perjurer As of now, there’s none, maybe none ahead. Who can
Hillary president by getting enough GOP electors to vote know. Judging politicians on rhetoric alone is reckless,
for her on December 19 fizzled. foolhardy and irresponsible. Judge them solely on their
actions in office.
It’s at it again, petitioning to get Trump impeached
“immediate(ly)” on entering office, “removing all Kuttner turned truth on its head, claiming Trump “already
opportunity for his control of the executive branch of our committed grave misdeeds of the kind the Constitutional
government” – even though no impeachable justification founder described as high crimes and misdemeanors.”
exists.
Examples he gave would be thrown out of any legitimate
How could it. Trump has no public record and hasn’t yet tribunal straightaway. The most egregious was accusing
entered office. At this stage, it’s unclear if he’ll serve well Trump of “dalliance with Vladimir Putin…skirting
or poorly, according to constitutional law or in breach of it, treason” by wanting better bilateral relations, including
a president for all Americans or one for its privileged few cooperating in combating terrorism – hardly an
alone like all his predecessors in the republic’s history impeachable offense.
since George Washington.

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Kuttner is disgracefully stumping for Hillary, long after America is more hypocrisy and plutocracy than
she lost, no longer a threat to humanity, something to give democracy, a fantasy notion from the republic’s inception.
thanks for in the new year, not wish it wasn’t so.
On January 20, Trump will be sworn in as the nation’s
He shamefully accused Russia of hacking America’s 45th president. He deserves the right to serve in the
election, despite no evidence suggesting it by any nation or position he legitimately won.
party – Democrat insider leaks only, disgruntled over
Hillary’s nomination theft. Efforts to deprive him by coup d’etat vindictiveness would
make America more of a lawless state than already.
DNC election rigging failed to defeat Trump. Humanity
breathed a sigh of relief with the outcome. Kuttner and If Trump commits impeachable offenses in office,
others like him want revenge, blustering: accountability should follow – not before he’s done
anything to warrant removal, the way banana republics are
“There is no way to contain him other than run.
removing him from office, before the damage to
our democracy is irrevocable. The process of
building the impeachment case needs to begin
now.”
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This Is A Coup: The Homeland
Security Takeover Of US Elections
On A Scale Of Importance From 1 To 10, With 10 Being The Most
Important, This Breaking Development Is A 500.
By Jon Rappoport
January 8, 2017

On Friday, the traditional day of the week for quietly “Such a change [in who controls the US election
releasing big news that will hopefully be ignored by the process] does not require presidential action [or
public—and also obscured by the Fort Lauderdale Airport Congressional approval], and only requires the
shooting—the chief of Homeland Security announced that secretary [of DHS] to first consult with the
his office will be taking over US elections. assistant to the president for homeland security
and counterterrorism.”
If you can’t see the coup in progress, you need to keep
looking until the message comes through. [Also known as: “this is a coup by the White House.”]

Read carefully—ABC News reports. My comments are in “Johnson said election infrastructure included
brackets: storage facilities, polling places and vote
tabulation locations, plus technology involved in
“Citing increasingly sophisticated cyber bad the process, including voter registration
actors and an election infrastructure that’s ‘vital databases, voting machines and other systems
to our national interests’, Homeland Security used to manage the election process and report
Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Friday that and display results.”
he’s designating U.S. election systems critical
infrastructure…” [Also known as: “We’re taking over every significant
aspect of the national election process.”]
[Also known as: “we’re taking over.”]
“The designation [of US elections as critical
“’Given the vital role elections play in this infrastructure] allows for information to be
country, it is clear that certain systems and withheld from the public when state, local and
assets of election infrastructure meet the private partners meet to discuss election
definition of critical infrastructure, in fact and in infrastructure security — potentially injecting
law’,” Johnson said in a statement. He added: secrecy into an election process that’s
‘Particularly in these times, this designation is traditionally and expressly a transparent process.
simply the right and obvious thing to do’.” U.S. officials say such closed door conversations
allow for frank discussion that would prevent bad
[Also known as: “we’re taking over.”] actors from learning about vulnerabilities. DHS
would also be able to grant security clearances
“The determination came after months of review when appropriate and provide more detailed
and despite opposition from many states worried threat information to states.”
that the designation would lead to increased
federal regulation or oversight on the many [Also known as: “we can intercede in the election
decentralized and locally run voting systems process and determine its outcome without any need to
across the country. It was announced on the pretend we’re being transparent; only people we
same day a declassified U.S. intelligence report approve will know the details of how we run elections;
said Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘ordered’ secrecy works.”]
an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S.
presidential election.” “The Obama administration has proposed
international cyber rules for peacetime that would
[Also known as: “we needed an excuse, a fake cover expressly note that countries shouldn’t conduct
story for our takeover, and Russia is it.”] online activity targeting critical [US]
infrastructure, which will now also include
election systems.”
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[Also known as: “in case there is any doubt, elections This is perfect for the “unity politicians” who spout empty
systems in America will be property of the federal rhetoric every chance they get—“we’re all in this
Executive Branch.”] together.” As I tirelessly point out, such slogans are
nothing less than covert ops, and their goal is roping in as
This is a coup. many dullards as possible under a messianic banner of A
Better Life for All under a Beneficent Government.
This is equivalent to declaring a national state of
emergency, including martial law: the DHS, if it deemed it Also known as: we the rulers decree, you the people
necessary, could utilize armed agents to enforce the new submit; your survival depends on us; we give and take as
directive and take over states’ offices that resist. we will, and that shall be the whole of the law.

Election-processes belong to the states. But not anymore. Eventually, why have presidential elections at all? Just
allow the DHS to determine which candidate will best
And of course, with this awesome new power, the DHS serve the needs and desires of the controllers.
could intercede, behind the scenes, in the voting process
and rig elections. It’s cleaner, simpler, and more direct.

There is an additional aligned factor at work in this op: the It’s a coup.
proposed elimination of the Electoral College—yet another
measure designed to “federalize” the election process. Will Trump cancel it?

Most people are entirely ignorant of the fact that the Obama is basically challenging him to do it—which would
Constitution was a pact among states. With reluctance, the create one more firestorm in the press directed at Trump.
independent states agreed to relinquish certain specified
powers to the newly created central government, while “See, the new president just stopped the DHS
retaining all other powers. from protecting our sacred free elections. Trump
is exhibiting more treasonous cooperation with
The Electoral College was, therefore, a natural invention, his Russian masters…he’s leaving the door wide
because the states would maintain crucial influence in open for their secret invasion against our
determining the outcome of presidential elections. State liberties…”
Electors would cast their presidential votes based on which
candidate won in their state. The timeline is clear.

Eliminating the Electoral College now would add one  One: Hillary will surely win the election.
more layer of federal control over the whole country, and
take control from the states. More centralization.  Two: Trump won the election.

Imagine it. Only the popular vote counts. The states are  Three: Trump won because Russia “hacked the
dumped. And on top of it all, the Dept. of Homeland election” in his favor.
Security has the power to run the election process as a
piece of “critical infrastructure.”  Four: We must protect our national election process
from foreign hacking.
Rigging the vote in New York and California, plus a few
other populous states, would decide the election. And in  Five: Homeland Security must put itself in charge of
time, no one would think about “New York” or national elections.
“California” as separate entities—because they wouldn’t
be. They would just be “more land and people” that are
Stay tuned.
part of “wholly unified” America.
A coup just occurred.
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Will Trump Defy Expectations &
Be A Peace President
By Stephen Lendman
1-8-2017

It’s hardly likely given America’s rage for endless wars,


gorging on them. Neocons infesting Washington demand The possibility is breathtaking if Trump is strong-willed
them. enough to make it happen. The importance of preventing
possible nuclear war can’t be understated.
Enemies are invented to accommodate them. War
profiteers depend on them. The indifferent public does His presidency will be historic if he saves humanity from
nothing to demand they stop. the scourge of potential thermonuclear disaster. What’s
more important than that!
Yet what US leader in memory said getting along with
Russia “is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only ‘stupid’ He’s yet to assume office, so his agenda is as much
people, or fools, would think that it is bad!” If Trump guesswork as likely expectations. He’ll face enormous
follows through on this rhetoric, imagine the possibilities pressure to continue dirty business as usual unchanged.
for change.
The whole idea behind baselessly accusing Russia of US
The mindset of Obama, Bush/Cheney, the Clintons, their election hacking is to delegitimize his election and prevent
key officials and advisors, along with virtually today’s efforts to normalize bilateral relations.
entire Congress and Western major media are one-sidedly
hostile to Russia. Great leaders are few and far between. History’s best used
their high office to improve the state of things they
They disgracefully consider Vladimir Putin a bad guy inherited on entering office.
when clear evidence shows he supports world peace and
stability, rule of law principles and mutual cooperation On Sunday, I tweeted Trump, saying: Defy expectations.
among all nations. Make your leadership historic. Be a peace president, not a
warrior. Only way to make Amer great again.
America’s longstanding agenda has been polar opposite,
worst of all under Obama. He boasted about being a His handlers read tweets, checking for potential threats.
warrior president throughout his entire tenure. Maybe they’ll show him mine - food for thought as he
prepares to lead the world for good or ill.
He’s guilty of raping, destroying and pillaging one country
after another. Will Trump go another way or continue Hopefully he has more of the former than the latter in mind
waging endless imperial wars? - though I have no great expectations for the second
coming of Jack Kennedy, the only US president I
Given his wanting a more robust military, including respected.
enhancing America’s nuclear arsenal, it’s unlikely peace
will break out on his watch. His agenda for good cost him his life. Is Trump up to
assuming a risk this great? His place in history depends on
Yet if he ends US hostility toward Russia, cooperates with which way he goes.
Putin in combating terrorism instead of supporting it like
Obama, imagine the enormous difference that would make Will he be a great leader or just another dirty politician?
- the world’s dominant nuclear powers united for a just Humanity holds its breath to find out.
cause.

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The Soft Coup Collapses –
Blackmail Revealed – What Next?
CIA Was Bluffing, Produced No Evidence – Russians Did Not “Hack” The
Election. Is This The Beginning Of The End Of The Deep State In The
USA? Can Trump Clean House & Wage Peace?
By Robert David Steele
1-8-2017

Secretary of State who was instrumental in certifying the


death of Bin Laden in 2001 and denouncing the multiple
false Bin Ladens created by CIA thereafter (including the
final patsy provided by Pakistan to enable a theatrical
rescue that killed many US special operators for no reason
other than to give Barack Obama an edge toward re-
election), Pieczenik was the first to announce that a
counter-coup against Hillary Clinton was being undertaken
by insiders.

I have done what I could and I am proud to stand in


Robert David STEELE Vivas
support of Donald Trump and against lies by the leaders of
the US IC. We must be careful to not confuse the unethical
Aided by enormous restraint on the part of Vladimir Putin, leaders with the well-intentioned good people trapped in a
President of Russia, the soft coup in the USA has very bad system. The leaders tried a coup and failed.
collapsed. Not only has the US Intelligence Community
(US IC) lost all semblance of credibility with incoming
The contributions of Julian Assange and Wikileaks cannot
President Donald Trump, but the blackmail by the Central
be over-stated. However, it must be made clear that
Intelligence Agency (CIA) of Senators John McCain and
without the work of retired intelligence professionals and
Lindsey Graham has been revealed by investigative
ambassadors and US cyber-specialists willing to risk
journalist Wayne Madsen.
everything to challenge the US IC lies, the assertions of
Assange with respect to sourcing would have been
Credit for the defeat of the soft coup has been earned by overwhelmed by the official narrative. The captive media
two persons and one group. Donald Trump earns the most in the USA – I single out the Crap News Network (CNN) –
credit – bringing to the matter his deep business experience has no intelligence and no integrity. This is a case of a
and common sense, he understood that the narrative small band of Davids defeating an aging arrogant Goliath.
against Russia was exaggerated, fabricated, and out of
context. With that foundation he was willing to listen to
The American people were torn between Donald Trump
the second person, Michael Flynn, whose deep personal
and fewer than 100 voices against the official narrative,
experience in the nether world of black special operations
and the traditional combination of spy mystique, captive
and green clandestine and covert action operations informs
(blackmailed) Senators and Representatives, and a media
him in a manner few can claim.
ecology – not only the “mainstream” media but the
“progressive media” as well – all saying “how dare you
The group has many members, but three stand out. not believe our spies, how dare you not agree that Russia is
William Binney, the senior executive (like an admiral or the main enemy, how dare you think for yourselves?”
general) who created the National Security Agency (NSA)
capability that has been used against US politicians and
The declassified US IC report – notably from only three
also to monitor the activity of all cyber-spies, not only
agencies rather than all seventeen – has been provided
Russia, was the first to reveal that the leaks were coming
online. Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in
from insiders. Ray McGovern, a retired CIA analyst and
Recent US Elections is fourteen pages long, provides no
founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
proof, and spends thirteen of the fourteen pages focused on
(VIPS) has been a respected voice challenging the false
how successful Russia has been at ethical, legal, overt
assertions by the CIA against Russia. Finally Steve
media operations. Only one page in the aggregate focuses
Pieczenik must be recognized. A former Deputy Assistant
on covert cyber operations.
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As I predicted since first protesting the official press while CIA has been actively spying on selected Members
release in October 2016, the US IC has absolutely no proof and selected computers, an activity for which Director
that Russia as a state penetrated the Democratic National John Brennan was censured in September 2014.
Committee (DNC) or fooled John Podesta into changing
his password via a controlled link. The US IC also has no 03 There is no discussion whatever of the proven ballot
proof that Russia as a state leaked any emails. The tampering by Hillary Clinton in stealing thirteen primaries
following is the actual suicidal statement of the Director of from Bernie Sanders, and no discussion of the larger
National Intelligence (DNI) as found buried in Annex B context in which a two-party tyranny disenfranchises 70%
(the last annex) on page 13 of the report (page 14 is blank): of the US eligible voters. The Russian IO in relation to this
election was, at best, shouting from the sidelines — it was
Judgments are not intended to imply that the two-party tyranny that “hacked” the election, as I
we have proof that shows something to be document in my Kindle Short also free online, Donald
a fact. Assessments are based on collected Trump, The Accidental President, Under Siege. The US
information, which is often incomplete or system is rigged twelve different ways, as I document in
fragmentary, as well as logic, RIGGED: Twelve Ways the Two-Party Tyranny Rigs the
argumentation, and precedents. US Electoral System to Block Out Independents, Small
Parties, and 70% of the Eligible Voters. The deep
Below is my formal evaluation of the five deep failures by hypocrisy in this report will further reduce public
the US IC in this report – it is a political report lacking in acceptance of the secret intelligence community’s value.
professional merit.
04 There is no discussion whatever of the degree to which
01 The report fails to provide evidence against the Russian Russia Today (RT) — evidently considered “weaponized
state. The report assumes, against all publicly known information” by the CIA — is offering the truth to the US
information, that Guccifer, a Romanian taxi driver with a public (for example, on fracking) versus the lies
track record of success despite antiquated equipment, was disseminated as official narrative with the full complicity
a controlled asset of the Russian state. The report, in a of the “fake news” media. Indeed, the report was supposed
most unprofessional, clearly partisan political manner, to focus exclusively on covert Russian cyber-operations —
does not mention any of the many credible sources clearly the bulk of the report focuses on — with beautiful
stating that insiders did the leaking. In UPDATE 17 of my illustrations — ethical, legal, overt Russian media
30 December 2016 post I list and link to 29 different operations. This was supposed to be a report about covert
individuals – including Barack Obama as saying the cyber, not overt media. Out of 14 pages, no more than one
Russians did not hack the election. When Obama said this page in the aggregate focuses on covert cyber. I am
(in November 2016) he was not aware that the Deep State reminded of the common high school trick of covering up
planned to persist with the narrative in an attempt to ignorance by using many adjectives and long irrelevant
overthrow the Electoral College with false testimony – the sections with many illustrations. Not only was the overt IO
equivalent in the USA of jury tampering, a very serious by Russia outside the promised focus of this report, but the
offense. They might have succeeded, had many of us not deep hypocrisy permeating this report is certain to further
spoken up and reinforced the common sense of the reduce public respect for the US IC – it may also inspire a
majority of electors, who ultimately realized there was no Trump Channel, since the USA is obviously in desperate
evidence being presented. need of a single source of holistic public intelligence.

02 The report is completely lacking in responsible context, 05 Finally, the report, which clearly was incapable of
which is to say, it deliberately represents Russia as the providing evidence with respect to specific cyber-
only state engaged in cyber-espionage and information espionage activities directly tied to specific leaks of
operations (IO) intended to influence the outcome of the truthful information about the depravities, treason, and
US election. The report is devoid of much needed attention criminal misbehavior of Hillary Clinton and her top aides,
to the far greater covert operations of Israel, inclusive of fails to observe that Russia has an overt IO program
collaborative operations with Facebook and Google that perhaps ten times better than that of the USA at a fraction
censored critical commentary and manipulated search of the cost. The US Government (USG) spends over five
results so that searches for Clinton + Crime become billion dollars a year on propaganda, another five billion or
Clinton + Love and searches for Trump became Trump + so on cyber-espionage, and one billion a year on “agents of
Hitler. Eric Schmidt and Marc Zuckerberg have much to influence.” There is no discussion of the decades of CIA’s
answer for, as do the Rothchilds – particularly Lynn intervening in the elections of others – Iran and Guatemala
Rothschild – as well as George Soros and other Jewish in the 1950’s stand out, as well as the restoration of
influencers including those who stole vast sums from fascists in Germany, Italy, and Japan also in the 1950’s
Russia. The report naturally fails to observe that the using the covert Black Lily fund documented in Gold
National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on (and Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s
to some extent blackmailing) many if not all Members of Gold. There is no discussion of CIA’s centrality in the
the US Congress as well as President Barack Obama, Gold War against Russia managed by Buzzy Krongard
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from 1998 to 2001, as documented in the Black Eagle the second repressed a million black voters. The Unity Act
Trust Fund online summary and downloadable PDF by E. accomplishes two important objectives: it frees the
P. Heidner. Members from financial dependence on the Deep State;
and it legitimizes Donald Trump with the 73% who did not
As a side note, it is not possible to understand the CIA vote for him while protecting Donald Trump from the
without first recognizing that it was created by Wall Street inevitable implosion of the Republican Party. Julian
to serve as a secret secure foundation for the Deep State Assange has promised an exciting 2017 – I believe his
within the US Government; that CIA under Allen Dulles focus will be on destroying the Republican Party, the
was the principal savior of fascists leaders and their Vatican, and the Rothschild-banking cabal that
treasures as WWII wound down and was also the principal manipulates interest and exchange rates. He may also turn
actor in the assassination of John F. Kennedy; and that his attention to insider leaks relevant to deliberate Zionist
CIA has for decades, under the guise of “national atrocities against the Palestinians.
security,” been using military aircraft and US military
bases abroad to move drugs, guns, money and gold for the Second, we need a counterintelligence renaissance in
elite. I recommend two books on these points: The Devil’s America, my sixth of seven recommendations to Donald
Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of Trump in my Christmas message as published at
America’s Secret Government; and The Secret Team: ZeroHedge. If I have learned one thing in my forty years
The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States as a professional intelligence officer – apart from the fact
and the World. More recently of course CIA has been that spies tells a lot of lies and know very little – it is that
central to regime change efforts in Georgia and the all strategy, policy, and intelligence is suspect if you do
Ukraine, in Libya and in Syria – indeed CIA has not only not have rock solid counterintelligence. Many of the
helped arm and train the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq Members of Congress are being blackmailed, not only by
(ISIS) but CIA has also been training Chechen and Uighur the CIA and NSA, but by the Vatican, the Mossad, crime
“terrorists” to send back to Russia and China – arguably an families, and beyond. They need a confessor, absolution,
act of war! and protection. I am a huge believer in Truth &
Reconciliation. My version is “everyone gets the truth, no
This was a Bunker Hill moment for Donald Trump – a one goes to jail.” We need a counterintelligence stock-
Ronald Reagan Air Traffic Control Strike at Christmas taking in Congress, and then a ruthless elimination of all
moment for Donald Trump. Reinforced by Mike Flynn and those blackmailing our Members – most of the
a very small group of deeply honest committed blackmailers being American citizens, some of them US
professionals willing to risk everything for the truth – and IC employees.
for peace – Donald Trump did not blink.
What has changed in the USA in the last 90 days? Three
There is much yet to be done. Wayne Madsen, a former “icons” have been de-sanctified. The public is now
naval intelligence officer and today one of America’s realizing that the secret intelligence community, the
finest investigative journalists, has just published a formal mainstream media, and our politicians are deeply flawed
overview of how CIA has been intervening in the US and cannot be trusted in their present form to serve the
election, to include the blackmail of Senators John McCain public with integrity. This is the opportunity of a lifetime.
and Lindsey Graham. Bringing into public view the
blackmail of US members of Congress by the US IC is a Whether Donald Trump will rise to the challenge – or take
necessary first step toward persuading Donald Trump that the $20B bribe from the Rothchilds – remains to be seen.
he needs to address this cancer with two measures: At this time he has my prayers and the benefit of the doubt.

First, we need an Electoral Reform Act of 2017 – a Unity The US IC was bluffing and Donald Trump called their
Act. The only people truly “hacking” the US election were bluff.
the Democratic and Republican Parties. The first stole
thirteen primaries from Bernie Sanders with electronic This may be the beginning of the end of the Deep State in
ballot tampering and many other non-electronic measures, the USA.
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US Report On Nonexistent Russian Hacking
Made Its Intelligence Community A Laughing Stock
By Stephen Lendman
1-8-2017
“a history of conducting covert influence
The scheme to blame Russia for US election hacking campaigns focused on US presidential
failed. It laid an egg. It made Washington’s intelligence elections that have used intelligence
community look like rank amateurs. officers and agents and press placements
to disparage candidates perceived as
Americans overwhelmingly disbelieve its rubbish for good hostile to the Kremlin.”
reason. With no evidence cited, it lacks credibility.
If Russia interfered in last November’s US election,
It’s fake news, fiction, not facts, propaganda aimed at evidence would have been released to prove it. None
delegitimizing Trump’s election and provocatively stoking appeared because none exists.
confrontation with Russia.
At his yearend press conference, Obama lied, claiming
Last year, Sergey Lavrov said “(w)e have
not seen a single fact, a single proof” of “(w)e will provide evidence that we can
Russian US election hacking. safely provide, that does not compromise
sources and methods.”
Putin earlier said
“But I’ll be honest with you, when you’re
“(h)ysterics (were) whipped up to distract talking about cybersecurity, a lot of it is
the attention of the American people from classified and we are not going to provide
the essence of” the content released. it, because the way we catch folks is by
(N)obody talks about” the damning knowing certain things about them that they
information - just bashing Russia and don’t want us to know.”
Trump irresponsibly.
“The intelligence I’ve seen gives me great
Following Friday’s release of the CIA/FBI/NSA report, confidence in their assessment that the
Russia’s lower house State Duma International Affairs Russians carried out this hack - the hack of
Committee chairman Alexey Pushkov tweeted the DNC and the hack of John Podesta.”

“(m)ountain gave birth to a mouse: all Fact: Russia didn’t hack or otherwise
accusations against Russia are based on interfere in America’s election.
‘confidence’ and assumptions. US was
sure about Hussein possessing WMDs in Fact: Obama lied like he always does. No
the same way.” US election hacking occurred - not by
Russia or anyone else.
The report targeted RT (Russia Today) for its truth-telling -
exposing US propaganda for its millions of global viewers. Fact: Information was leaked by one or
more Democrat party insiders, angry about
Its editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan tweeted: Hillary stealing, not winning, her
nomination.
“Aaa, the CIA report is out! Laughter of the
year! Intro to my show from 6 years ago is Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John McCain
the main evidence of Russia’s influence at sounded buffoon-like, saying
US elections. This is not a joke!”
“(e)very American should be alarmed by
The report lied, comparing the Russian Federation to its Russia’s attack on our nation.”
Soviet predecessor, saying they have
Every American should be alarmed about the criminal
neocon gang infesting Washington, waging war on
humanity at home and abroad!
.
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Priebus Says Democrats To Blame For Email Hack,
Thinks Trump Accepts Intel Findings
Foxnews.Com
Published January 08, 2017

Reince Priebus, Donald Trump’s incoming chief of staff, They lacked training. They allowed foreign
said Sunday that he thinks the president-elect “accepts the governments into their system.”
findings” of the recently released U.S. intelligence report
that ties Russian President Vladimir Putin to meddling in Trump has been skeptical since his November victory over
the 2016 White House race. Clinton about U.S. intelligence reports, saying the findings
are inconclusive and are an attempt to delegitimize his
“I think he accepts the finding,” Priebus victory.
said. “He’s not denying entities in Russia
are behind these particular hackings.” The declassified intelligence report released Friday also
stated that Moscow had a "clear preference" for Trump in
But Priebus also cast a lot of blame on Democrats for the White House race.
allowing sensitive emails to be hacked, which hurt the
campaign of their presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. Priebus also said that Russia and China have tried to
influence elections outside their borders for “many, many
Still, Priebus argued that the FBI warned the Democratic years” and that Trump “may very well” take action against
National Committee about the email hackings. Russia, amid publicly saying he wants to improve relations
with Moscow.
"We have a DNC as a sitting duck. ... It
matters,” he said. “They lacked defenses.
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US Aristocracy Panics
That Maybe Trump Is Serious
Eric ZUESSE
08.01.2017

The «realignment across the board within American


political parties» is actually a realignment only in the field
of foreign policy — not at all in domestic policy. What
used to be «Republican foreign policy» ever since the time
of Richard Nixon, has been called «neoconservatism» —
referring to a hard line against communism and then
against Russia and any country that’s friendly toward
Russia — but the incoming Republican President
Trump campaigned consistently against neoconservatism,
and now Democrats are almost solidly neocons, while
some Republicans are actually joining the Republican
President in condemning neocons.

Whereas Trump is generally called «conservative» on his


On January 2nd, the U.S. Republican Party’s Wall Street domestic policy statements, he could possibly turn out to
Journal headlined «Tensions Within GOP Rise Over How be more of a «progressive» than his Democratic Party
to Handle Russia», and reported that the policy toward predecessor, President Barack Obama, was, regarding
Russia by the incoming Republican President Donald foreign affairs. And this terrifies the U.S. aristocracy in
Trump is being opposed not only by Democrats in the U.S. both of the political Parties, because the U.S. aristocracy
Congress, but also by some Republicans, and perhaps even — both its Republicans and its Democrats — has
by enough Republicans to jeopardize confirmation of his been solidly neoconservative: they are virtually united, on
nominee for U.S. Secretary of State, as well as some this, against Trump.
nominees for other crucial diplomatic and military
positions. The U.S. aristocracy control not only the major American
corporations, but all influential ‘news’ media, and their
A key insightful passage in that news-report was: respective ‘news’media; and their shared fear and loathing
for incoming U.S. President Donald Trump is clear, even
though he himself is one of them. Nobody knows what will
«‘What you are seeing on Russia within the
happen to the U.S. government under his stewardship, but
Republican Party is in some ways more a
the fear amongst almost all of the other aristocrats is that
symptom of realignment across the board
maybe Trump hasn’t only been pretending to want a
within American political parties,’ said
‘populist’ government — they fear that he might really
Matthew Rojansky, director of the
have such revolutionary intentions. They are consequently
Washington-based Kennan Institute. ‘This
afraid: might it really be the case that a revolution —
speaks to something very critical that’s
especially one transforming America’s foreign policies,
going on in our political system right now.’»
which are the policies that are of the greatest interest to
aristocrats (more even than domestic policies are) — will
Trump is being significantly opposed by both Parties be led by a member of their own class? Is the ruling class
regarding his foreign policies, even though his domestic — the thousand or so of them in the U.S. — perhaps now
policies are being opposed on a far more partisan basis, by splitting, in a way that is far more meaningful than the
Democrats, and have a higher chance of congressional merely superficial (rhetorical) distinctions that still remain
passage than his international initiatives do, because of the between America’s two major political Parties, the
almost-solid support for his domestic policies on the part Republicans and the Democrats?
of Republican members of Congress — and because
Republicans control both the Senate and the House.
The old ideological political alliances within the United
States have now utterly broken down, and the reason is
that in recent decades, both the right and the left had been
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controlled behind the scenes, by America’s billionaires and instead Democratic Party politicians and ‘news’ media,
centi-millionaires, who are virtually unanimous on some who are especially fervid to conquer Russia. Republican
policy-issues (so that the U.S. has a one-party government Party ‘news’ media, such as Fox ‘News’, are now
on these matters), with no significant ideological dissent considerably less hateful toward Russia, no longer
amongst the U.S. aristocracy on those key issues, obsessed against it, like the Democratic Party’s ‘news’
especially about continuing the old ideological Cold War media have become — thereby switching political roles.
against communism, switched now into a
purely nationalistic and increasingly hot war against Consequently, too, for example, the Democratic
Russia, as allegedly an evil and imperialistic nation in Party’s Washington Post is doing everything they can to
ways that the United States itself is supposedly not (but encourage U.S. conquest of Russia, such as by spreading
actually is even more so than Russia or any other nation in fake ‘news’ stories against the few small independent
the world, and widely recognized as such, except inside the Western newsmedia that are pointing out the lies
United States itself, where the aristocracy’s ‘news’ media (especially the ones against Russia) in such media-giants;
hide this ugly nationalistic fact about the land they and some of the Republican Party’s ‘news’media now are
control — the fact of America’s being the world’s most even doing in-depth actual news-reporting about the
aggressive nation). fraudulence of the Democratic Party’s ‘news’media, on
these matters that are of such intense interest to America’s
America’s super-rich have no objection against the aristocrats.
government that they control conquering others, like the
Iraq-invasion in 2003, and the U.S. coup overthrowing and Excellent examples of this phenomenon are provided by
replacing the democratically elected and Moscow-friendly the various ‘news’media of the rightwing-populist Alex
President of that country in 2014, and aiding jihadists in Jones, which featured, on New Year’s Day, the
Syria to overthrow Syria’s pro-Russian secular video «Dems Want War With Russia To Stop Trump», and
government; and the phone-tapping of all Western leaders an associated investigative news report from their Mikael
including Angela Merkel and generally practicing cyber- Thalen, «Washington Post Stirs Fear After False Report of
invasions everywhere in the world — but they and their Power Grid Hack by Russia», exposing the WP’s lying
agents allege that Russia is doing these things even worse propaganda for «War With Russia» — Democrats’ (and a
than America is, and needs to be punished by the few Republicans’) lies basically to promote
‘virtuous’ U.S. government for (allegedly) doing what the unsubstantiated allegations by the Obama regime, that
U.S. actually does far more than any other nation in the ‘Russian hacking’ is a danger both to American
world. ‘democracy’, and to American national security.

Though Trump has reversed himself on many things that That «War With Russia» video (at 5:00-) presents the
threaten the U.S. aristocracy, such as by his saying he futurist, Gerald Celente, discussing liberal Democrats who
won’t, after all, prosecute Hillary Clinton for her crimes were saying, totally without evidence, such things
(which were never really investigated under Obama’s as »Vermonters and all Americans should be both alarmed
regime — and protecting the legal immunity of aristocrats and outraged that one of the world’s leading thugs,
is crucial to the aristocracy of both political Parties), Vladimir Putin, has been attempting to hack our electric
Trump still hasn’t — now just days before entering the grid, which we rely upon to support our quality of life,
White House — reversed himself regarding his intention to economy, health, and safety.» The infamous 1950s
improve relations with Russia. Republican, Joseph R. McCarthy, has thus non-
ideologically returned from the grave, now, in the guise of
Becoming even more hostile toward Russia is almost a liberal Democrats (or should that instead be
unanimous goal of the U.S. aristocracy. They’re thus ‘Democrats’?), as part of the U.S. aristocracy’s war
rebelling against him, in their ‘news’media, and they won’t to force the Republican President, Donald Trump, to
stop trying to cripple his Presidency unless and until he join the tradition that the Republican President George
relents on this, turns around, and continues, ever-hotter Herbert Walker Bush established, on 24 February 1990, of
than before, their (under Obama, increasing) ’Cold War’ treating Russia as being America’s enemy, no longer
against Russia: going beyond even what President Obama communism as being America’s enemy.
has been doing (coups, invasions, sanctions, etc.), aiming
to replace the Russian government’s allies by the These people simply can’t draw enough of other people’s
American government’s allies, and thus to isolate and blood. Bram Stoker might be shocked that reality has thus
weaken Russia, ultimately to take over Russia itself. produced ghouls who would make Stoker’s own legendary
vampires seem like angels by comparison. Will Trump
During the early years of the Cold War, America’s perform the role of Stoker’s hero, Abraham van
Republican Party and their ‘news’ media, especially Helsing here, or instead become just another of the
insisted upon increasing the war against the Soviet Union; vampires himself (which all of America’s major, and most
but, now, in the purely nationalistic war against Russia, it’s of its minor, ‘news’media are demanding)?

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Allegations Against Russia
Less Credible Every Day
By David Swanson
January 9, 2017

The U.S. government has now generated numerous news claiming to have any evidence that Russia was a source for
stories and released multiple “reports” aimed at persuading WikiLeaks. And, with a bit of help, it should become
us that Vladimir Putin is to blame for Donald Trump evident to anyone that the U.S. government is not claiming
becoming president. U.S. media has dutifully informed us to have any actual evidence of the Russian government
that the case has been made. What has been made is the hacking Democratic emails.
case for writing your own news coverage. The “reports”
from the “intelligence community” are no lengthier than Even the NSA will commit only to “moderate” confidence
the New York Times and Washington Post articles about in what millions of Democrats will now stake their lives
them. Why not just read the reports and cut out the middle- (and potentially everybody else’s) on. Former top NSA
person? expert on this stuff William Binney swears the claims are
utter nonsense. IP addresses produced as supposed
The New York Times calls the latest report “damning and evidence turn out in at least many cases to have nothing to
surprisingly detailed” before later admitting in the same do with Russia at all, much less the Russian government.
“news” article that the report “contained no information
about how the agencies had collected their data or had When the “17 intelligence organizations” put their
come to their conclusions.” A quick glance at the report collective multi-billion-dollar brains together and report on
itself would have made clear to you that it did not pretend anything that’s publicly available, they tend to get it
to present a shred of evidence that Russia hacked emails or wrong. The facts about Russia’s television network in this
served as a source for WikiLeaks. Yet Congresswoman latest “report” misidentify personnel, describe old
Barbara Lee declared the evidence in this evidence-free programs as new ones, and screw up dates by failing to
report “overwhelming.” What should progressives believe, recognize that in some parts of the world people list the
the best Congresswoman we’ve got or our own lying eyes? day before the month. Yet we are supposed to believe that
anything they say about topics not publicly available must
Supposedly the evidence has been made public and is be true — despite having proved false over and over again
overwhelming, but try to find it and you’ll come up dry. for decades.
Ask why, and you’ll be told that of course the evidence
cannot be made public as that would risk revealing how WikiLeaks, which never claimed Iraq had WMDs, never
the U.S. government came upon the information. Yet the alleged Gadaffi was about to commit a massacre, never
same government feeds the U.S. media with the story that sent missiles from drones into a single wedding or
it intercepted communications of top Russian officials just hospital, never concocted tales of babies taken from
after the U.S. election celebrating Trump’s victory. Did incubators, never screwed up its claims re chemical
that story not run that risk? The U.S. government feeds the weapons attacks or the shooting down of airplanes, and in
U.S. media (specifically the “free” press of the fact has never, as far as we know, tried to lie to us at all,
Washington Post whose owner makes more money from says Russia was not its source. Julian Assange clearly does
the CIA than from the Washington Post) that Russia has not think Russia used someone else to pass information to
hacked Vermont’s electrical supply, and — because this him. He could be wrong. But Craig Murray, a diplomat
was a claim that could be checked by an independent party with a stellar reputation for honesty, claims to know at
— the secret methods of the CIA quickly turned out to be least one source and to place them in either the NSA or the
these: they had simply made the thing up. Democratic Party.

If you read the “reports” that the U.S. government releases, Of course, having a plausible alternative account is not
and understand that the term “assess” is a synonym for “to necessary to recognize that the U.S. government has no
claim without evidence,” it will very quickly become clear evidence to support its account. But the fact is that
that reports on Russians’ motives for their alleged crimes Murray’s and numerous other scenarios are perfectly
(as well as for their non-criminal public actions, such as plausible. One ought to await evidence before declaring
running a television network) are purely guesses. It also one of them fact. But we can go ahead and declare the
becomes clear that the U.S. government is not even CIA’s story less and less likely with each passing day.
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NSA whistleblowers like Binney believe that if this story despise it the way they do? Would people cheer when a
were true the NSA would have evidence of it. It is safe to fascist buffoon like Trump denounces the media? Isn’t the
assume that if the NSA had evidence of it, some outline of U.S. media’s awfulness, combined with the incredible free
that evidence would have been made public by now, rather airtime it gave Trump, a fair target of blame for his
than all the fluff, nonsense, and incompetent false becoming president?
attributions of IP addresses to Russia, etc.
When I go on RT and suggest that the United States should
As each new perfumed pig of a report is released in Friday end all its wars, and that Russia should too, I’m invited
evening news dumps, we can advance ever closer to back on. The last U.S. network to have me on was
declaring that, while the Russian government has indeed MSNBC, and I opposed U.S. warmaking and was never
done far worse things, it did not do this. heard from again. Perhaps most people watching U.S.
media don’t quite realize that there are no antiwar voices
In fact, the latest report doesn’t just produce no evidence allowed, no voices that actually want to abolish war. Yet
of hacking and providing to WikiLeaks. It also tries to most people feel there is something missing, on this and
change the subject to things Russia openly and publicly most topics. There’s lots of supposed debate on U.S.
did, that nobody disputes, but that the “intelligence” media, yet a dim — or glaring — awareness among
agencies still manage to screw up all the details on. I once, viewers and readers that the debate is severely limited.
no kidding, invited a former CIA agent to speak at an
event on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and the Here’s an example close-to-hand: Whoever revealed to the
guy was late because he was unable to find it. U.S. public additional evidence that the Democratic Party
had slanted its primary against Bernie Sanders did us all a
The accusations against Russia in the latest favor. Those who still wanted to vote for Hillary Clinton
“overwhelming” report include: favoring proposals to (which was clearly most if not all the people who did
work with Russia over proposals to build hostility before) could still do so. But anyone who approved of
(shocking!), and running a television network that many Hillary Clinton’s disastrous decades-long record and yet
people in the United States choose to watch (the outrage! objected to the unfair primary could choose not to vote for
how capitalistic!). And the television network is accused of her. An informed public is a more democratic one, not less.
cheering for Trump’s election — as if the British media Whoever informed us aided our democracy. They didn’t
wouldn’t have cheered for Clinton’s — as if the U.S. damage it. And whoever informed us was not themselves
media doesn’t cheer for election winners abroad all the responsible for rigging the primary against Sanders. That
time. This network, RT, is also accused of covering third- was the Democratic Party. But this point of view is neither
party candidates, fracking, Occupy, vote suppression, permitted in the U.S. media nor consciously missed,
flaws in the U.S. election system, and other forbidden because the topic has been focused on whodunit rather
topics. than what-did-they-do.

Well why do you think people watch it? If the U.S. media A second example is this: Those in the U.S. government
gave good time to third-party candidates, would people pushing for greater cold, if not hot, war with Russia, with
have to turn elsewhere to learn about them? If the U.S. increased desperation during these next two weeks will be
media could be trusted not to claim a U.S. government benefitting weapons profiteers and perhaps “news”
report was “damning” in the same article that would later profiteers, but just about nobody else, while risking
admit it was devoid of evidence, would people in the U.S. incredible death and destruction. If I were an “intelligence”
search for alternative sources of information? If the U.S. agency, I would “assess” with “high confidence” that
media allowed honest reporting on Occupy or fracking, if corruption was afoot. And I’d get 16 friends to join me in
it opened itself up to a wide range of points of view and calling that “assessment” a “report” if it helped you to take
debate, if it allowed serious criticism of U.S. government it seriously.
policies supported by both big parties, would people
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Here’s How Goldman Sachs
Became The Overlord Of The Trump Administration
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
January 9, 2017

Trump nominated Steven Mnuchin, a 17-year veteran


of Goldman Sachs to be his Treasury Secretary. Stephen
Bannon, another former Goldman Sachs banker, was
named by Trump as his Chief Strategist in the White
House. The sitting President of Goldman Sachs, Gary
Cohn, has been named by Trump as Director of the
National Economic Council, which, according to its
website, coordinates “policy-making for domestic and
international economic issues.” Last week, in a move that
stunned even Wall Street, Trump nominated a Goldman
Sachs outside lawyer, Jay Clayton of Sullivan &
Cromwell, to serve as Wall Street’s top cop as Chairman
of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Adding to the
slap in the face to Trump’s working class supporters,
Clayton’s wife currently works as a Vice President at
Goldman Sachs.

But the Goldman Sachs’ ties don’t stop there.

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Outside 15 Central Park West, the When Alexander Blankfein, the oldest son of Goldman
Residence of Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs Sachs’ CEO Lloyd Blankfein was married in 2013, Joshua
Kushner attended the wedding. Joshua had been
During his political campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly Alexander’s roommate at Harvard according to the New
railed against Wall Street with a specific focus on York Times. Joshua is the brother-in-law to a woman who
Goldman Sachs. In the final days of his campaign, Trump will play a major role in the Trump administration –
released an advertisement (see video below) that featured Ivanka Trump, daughter of the President-elect and wife of
his opponent, Hillary Clinton, shaking hands with Joshua’s brother, Jared.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. As the image
flickers on the screen, Trump does a voice over, stating: According to Politico, Goldman Sachs partner, Dina
“”It’s a global power structure that is responsible for the Powell, President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, is
economic decisions that have robbed our working class, Ivanka’s “top adviser on policy and staffing.”
stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into
the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political
Then there is Erin Walsh who had worked at Goldman
entities.” As the ad ends, Trump bares his soul: “I’m doing
Sachs since 2010 as an Executive Director and head of its
this for the people and for the movement and we will take
Office of Corporate Engagement for Asia Pacific. Walsh
back this country for you and we will make America great
also previously worked in the Bureau of Near Eastern
again.”
Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Walsh is now part
of Trump’s transition landing team for the State
How did a candidate who repeatedly demonized Goldman Department and is engaged in prepping the just retired
Sachs as the poster child for a corrupt establishment that CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, for his Senate
owned Washington end up with Goldman Sachs’ progeny confirmation hearing this week to become the Secretary of
filling every post that even tangentially has the odor of the Department of State, according to Politico.
money or global finance? One answer is family ties;
another may be something darker.
A recent Executive Director of Goldman Sachs preparing
the recent titular head of Big Oil to pass muster to run the
Trump’s non-stop nominations and appointments of State Department is the Orwellian version of draining the
Goldman Sachs alumni have left his supporters stunned.

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swamp — and Trump’s pre-election campaign language is MarketWatch, has reported that Trump’s debt is held by
proving to have been very Orwellian, as in reverse-speak. more than 150 Wall Street firms. The New York Times has
reported that Goldman Sachs Mortgage Company holds a
And there is yet another former Goldman Sachs banker, loan on an office tower at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, a
Anthony Scaramucci, who sits on Trump’s transition team. building that is 30 percent owned by Donald Trump.

Since 2010, according to Federal Election Commission Some of the Trump debt held by Wall Street firms,
records, Gary Cohn, the President of Goldman Sachs and according to media reports, includes Donald Trump’s
Trump’s designee as Director of the National Economic personal guarantee in the event of a default. The true
Council, has given $148,800 to political candidates owners of other Trump debt are shielded behind secretive
running for Federal office. No contributions were made to Limited Liability Corporations. These serious conflicts of
Donald Trump. Despite that, Cohn will sit atop a powerful interests together with the unprecedented infusion of
body and have the President’s ear on both domestic and Goldman Sachs honchos into his administration, have the
international economic issues. According to multiple potential to set a new low in Washington politics – an
media reports, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, is a outcome that America can ill afford as it struggles to rise
close friend of Cohn’s and set up the first meeting with above the greatest economic collapse since the Great
Trump. Depression just eight years ago.

During the primary campaign, when it emerged that The Senate is set to hold confirmation hearings on nine of
Trump’s opponent Ted Cruz had received a loan from Trump’s nominees this week. Call your Senator today and
Goldman Sachs, Trump said that Cruz was “owned” by demand that he or she asks the questions that will get to
Goldman Sachs. Now the Dow Jones company, the bottom of these Byzantine conflicts.

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Trump Must Expose
Obama’s Abuses Of Power
By James Bovard
January 9, 2017

killed. A Trump administration could disclose the memos


and legal rationales on the program without endangering
anything other than the reputation of the soon-to-be former
president and his policymakers.

At the end of Obama’s presidency, the United States is


bombing seven foreign nations – but most of the actions
have been cloaked in secrecy, often supplemented by
deceit. Opening the files at the Pentagon, CIA, and State
Department on U.S. intervention in the Syrian Civil War
might explain why the U.S. plunged deeper into that
morass. Pentagon-backed Syrian rebels have openly
battled CIA-backed rebels. The U.S. has armed and
Photo by www.GlynLowe.com | CC BY 2.0 bankrolled Al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria despite federal
law prohibiting providing material support to terrorist
President-elect Donald Trump will face pervasive doubts groups. The U.S. dropped 12,192 bombs on Syria last year
about his legitimacy from the day he takes office. Trump’s – at a time when much of the Washington establishment
opponents will assert that he is governing in unprecedented and media was vilifying Obama for not intervening. We
and reckless ways. The best response to that charge is to need the bureaucratic smoking guns on this policy.
open the books to reveal how the Obama administration
stretched its power far beyond what most Americans Likewise, revealing the paper trail behind the U.S.
realized. bombing of Libya in 2011 – which Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton labeled “smart power at its best” – could
Trump should follow the excellent precedent set by Barack preempt cheerleading for similar follies in the future. The
Obama. In 2009, shortly after he took office, Obama purported rationales for this debacle have never passed the
released many of the secret Bush administration legal laugh test. Obama told Americans that “the democratic
memos that explained why the president was supposedly values that we stand for would be overrun” if the U.S. did
entitled to order torture, deploy troops in American towns not join the French and British assault on the Libyan
and cities, and ignore the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition government. Obama asserted that one goal of the U.S.
on warrantless, unreasonable searches. Those revelations attack was “the transition to a legitimate government that
proved that the Bush administration was far more of an is responsive to the Libyan people.” But there was no
elective dictatorship than most people suspected. The sober reason to expect a happy ending from blasting that
disclosures signaled a new era and helped give Obama – at regime. What did the U.S. government know and when
least temporarily – a reputation as a champion of civil did it know it regarding the likely effects of toppling
liberties. Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi?

Turnabout is fair play. Trump should quickly reveal the It is naive to assume that “truth will out” from federal
secret memos underlying Obama’s “targeted killing” drone bureaucracies. It is vital for a Trump White House to
assassination program. Administration lawyers defeated compel disclosures because the Freedom of Information
lawsuits by the ACLU and New York Times seeking Act (FOIA) has become largely a mirage in recent years.
disclosure of key legal papers on how the president While Obama boasted of “the most transparent
became judge, jury, and executioner. Obama sought to administration in history,” federal agencies slammed the
codify a presidential right to kill that would have mortified door on routine requests – especially from the media. The
earlier generations of Americans. His program has been Associated Press reported last year that the Obama
cloaked in secrecy and sanctimony from the start and most administration “set a record again for censoring
of the media have shown little curiosity and no outrage government files or outright denying access to them”
even when the feds admitted that innocent civilians were

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under FOIA. Federal agencies were also hit by a record Similar coverups and rascality permeated some areas of
number of lawsuits contesting FOIA denials in 2015. domestic policy. The Obama administration endlessly
revised the Affordable Care Act – often based on closed-
If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, some people door calculations that could not have survived sunlight.
would have blamed the State Department’s “slow walking” For instance, a vanload of senior IRS financial managers
of FOIA requests for her emails (which she improperly were summoned in 2014 to the Old Executive Office
kept on a private server). The FBI worked through 650,000 Building and only permitted a peak at a secret Office of
emails from Anthony Weiner’s computer in eight days but Management and Budget memo explaining why the
the State Department claimed it needed 75 years to fully Obama administration was entitled to spend $4 billion on
answer a FOIA request on Hillary Clinton’s aides’ emails. subsidies for consumer health insurance. As the New York
The State Department delayed for more than five years Times reported last year, the IRS officials “were told they
answering a simple request from the Associated Press for could read it but could not take notes or make copies. The
the schedule and meetings attended by Ms. Clinton. A O.M.B. officials left the room to allow their visitors a
fFederal judge and the agency’s Inspector General moment to absorb the document, and then returned to
slammed its FOIA stonewalling. answer a few questions.” The Obama administration acted
as if its rationales for spending tax dollars deserved the
same level of secrecy as a handy-dandy guide to building
The Department of Homeland Security also has a dreadful
nuclear warheads. Federal judge Rosemary Collyer
FOIA record. That agency permitted political appointees
recently slammed the administration’s Obamacare
to stifle FOIA responses in a process that “reeks of a
Nixonian enemies list,” according to House Oversight and consumer subsidies as unconstitutional.
Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-
Cal.) Under Obama, the Transportation Security Recent polls show that fewer than 20% of Americans now
Administration, part of DHS, became far more intrusive trust the federal government. As Attorney General Ramsey
and abusive. TSA launched “enhanced patdowns” that, as Clark warned in 1968,
USA Today noted, “require screeners to touch passengers’
breasts and genitals.” Millions of butts and boobs have “Nothing so diminishes democracy as
been squeezed but no terrorists have been caught. TSA secrecy.”
conceals almost all information over its groping with a
“sensitive security information” FOIA designation that Regardless of the policies that Trump pursues, it would be
justifies perpetual secrecy. Congress has been utterly a booster shot for democracy for Americans to learn the
feckless at exposing the excuses behind TSA abuses. back story of the Obama era.
Ending TSA coverups and reining in the agency would
create a bounty of early good will for the Trump
administration. (TSA is foot-dragging on a FOIA request I
filed in 2015 to see the agency’s files on me.)
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Michael Moore Announces
‘100 Days Of Resistance’ Against Trump Presidency
Moore To Attend Woman’s March In Protest Of Trump
By Caleb Stephen -
01.09.2017 @9:37 AM EST

(INTELLIHUB) — Filmmaker and liberal icon Michael “We are gonna be busy, busy, busy,”
Moore has announced his plans to attend the Women’s Moore said, adding a rallying call to “a
March on Washington to protest Donald Trump’s hundred days of resistance.”
inauguration later this month and has called for sore loser
liberals to go further — by staging protests acts of The political pundit casually chatted about hearing the hair
resistance through the first 100 days of Trump’s and makeup employees at MSNBC talking about going to
presidency. the Women’s March backstage before his appearance on
the program.
In an appearance, this weekend on MSNBC’s The Last
Word, the 62-year-old Trumpland and Fahrenheit 9/11 “That’s the new Americana. That’s what’s
director made a “call to arms” to those opposed to Trump’s going to happen. And people are going to
presidency to join the Women’s March on Washington be relentless about this, so I’m optimistic,”
scheduled for January 21, the day after the presidential he enthused.
inauguration.
In the lead up to the 2016 election, Moore labored to
“It’s important that everybody go there,” persuade voters to vote for former Democratic presidential
Moore told MSNBC’s Ari Melber. candidate Hillary Clinton.
“This will have an effect. We need to throw
everything at this. This man is slightly Just weeks before election day, he released a critical
unhinged, if I can say that, and he’s a documentary of Trump called Michael Moore in
malignant narcissist. He cares very much TrumpLand. Interestingly, a portion of the film in which
about what people think of him. He wants Moore extols Trump’s appeal to Rust Belt voters was
to be the popular guy. And he’s going to be subsequently cut from the film and posted on the Internet
very upset if there’s a lot of people there.” where it went viral among Trump supporters.

Moore, who was one of the first liberal political pundits to Moore previously called for protesters to “disrupt”
predict a Trump victory, also urged protesters to “get up Trump’s inauguration on January 20th and even offered to
off the couch” and to be a part of protests during the first bribe GOP elector’s to do a protest vote.
100 days of Trump’s presidency.

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Declassified US Intelligence Report On Russia:
A Critical Review
By Vincent Emanuele
January 9, 2017

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently outcome of the 2016 election. The US
released a declassified report concerning Russia and the Intelligence Community is charged with
2016 US presidential elections. The report is titled, monitoring and assessing the intentions,
“Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US capabilities, and actions of foreign actors; it
Elections.” The report is the joint effort of The Central does not analyze US political processes or
Intelligence Agency (CIA), The Federal Bureau of US public opinion” (i).
Investigation (FBI), and The National Security Agency
(NSA). Here, an important distinction must be made because many
Americans, particularly liberals and Democrats, assume
It’s an easy read (25 pages). I suggest reading the entire that Russian influence had a direct impact on the 2016 US
report and forming your own conclusions. I was originally election results. Right now, even the US intelligence
going to dissect the report line-by-line, but instead decided community suggests there is absolutely no evidence for
a quick overview would be more useful. Plus, most of the such a claim.
report is redundant and provides virtually no new
information, let alone evidence or sources. Sourcing

Background “Many of the key judgments in this


assessment rely on a body of reporting
The report suggests that this “assessment” was “highly from multiple sources that are consistent
classified,” which again, I find quite amusing as this report with our understanding of Russian
reveals nothing new: behavior” (i). One might ask what, exactly,
is the intelligence community’s
The Intelligence Community rarely can “understanding of Russian behavior?”
publicly reveal the full extent of its
knowledge or the precise basis for its Here, the US intelligence community, either knowingly or
assessments, as the release of such unknowingly, is making the same mistake it made during
information would reveal sensitive sources the Cold War, where the US not only overestimated the
or methods and imperil the ability to collect projection of Soviet power, but also miscalculated Soviet
critical foreign intelligence in the future. intentions.
Thus, while the conclusions in the report
are all reflected in the classified The report goes on,
assessment, the declassified report does
not and cannot include the full supporting “The Russian leadership invests significant
information, including specific intelligence resources in both foreign and domestic
and sources and methods (2). propaganda and places a premium on
transmitting what it views as consistent,
In other words, the public is supposed to take the self-reinforcing narratives regarding its
intelligence community’s word at face value and accept desires. . .” (i).
the conclusions reached in this report with no evidence.
Here, again, it’s important for Americans to recognize that
Scope and Sourcing all state apparatuses around the world, including and
especially the US, do the same thing to varying degrees.
The report reads,
Key Judgements
“We did not make an assessment of the
impact that Russian activities had on the
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The wording of the report, especially in this section, leads clearly notes, “DHS [Department of
one to believe that Putin had a profound role in the Homeland Security] assesses that the
operation, types of systems Russian actors targeted
or compromised were not involved in vote
“We assess Russian President Vladimir tallying” (iii).
Putin ordered an influence campaign in
2016 aimed at the US presidential election” Again, this is important to note as many liberals and
(ii). Democrats have hinted that the Russians tampered with the
actual vote totals, which is an entirely different charge.
This is quite the claim. The notion that Putin directly
ordered the campaign will be difficult, if not impossible to Russia’s Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US
corroborate if the public is provided no evidence. Presidential Election

Furthermore, the report suggests that Russia’s The main charge in this section, once again, is that Putin
directly ordered an “influence campaign,” whose primary
“activities demonstrated a significant goals were to “undermine public faith in the US
escalation in directness, level of activity, democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm
and scope of effort compared to previous her electability and potential presidency” (1).
operations” (ii).
First of all, the US public doesn’t need the Russians to
Again, difficult to prove without adequate and available “undermine” our “faith in the [so-called] US democratic
evidence. Let’s assume this is true. How would one go process.” Americans are already quite cynical about their
about determining whether or not this is true? If the public so-called “democratic processes.” Further, Secretary
isn’t allowed the details and evidence, can we at least get Clinton’s personal baggage and neoliberal-hawk legacy
clarification about the methods used to examine the “denigrated” her campaign more than any supposed
evidence? Russian interference could ever dream of accomplishing.
As many people have pointed out, Secretary Clinton’s
The fundamental judgement is not only that Vladimir Putin campaign was a complete disaster – both ideologically, but
also organizationally.
and the Russian government, or portions of the Russian
government, preferred Trump over Clinton, but that these
entities also “aspired to help” Trump win. The CIA and The report also suggests that Putin used the Panama Papers
FBI have “high confidence” while the NSA has “moderate and the Olympic doping scandal as a way to “defame
confidence” this is true. Russia” and cast the US as hypocrites. Again, even if these
claims are true, is one to believe that such efforts were
On a side note, I would warn that the Russian government, necessary? Doubtful. The world already recognizes
like all governments, is not a homogenous entity. It doesn’t American hypocrisy – they live it. Many Americans
hold one party line. Even in the most dictatorial recognize their government’s hypocrisy, without the help
governments opinions vary and internal disputes and of Russian propaganda.
conflicts of interest are inherent in governmental
processes. This section also contains one of the most important
statements in the report:
The report suggests that Russia used,
“Putin most likely wanted to discredit
“covert intelligence operations—such as Secretary Clinton because he has publicly
cyber activity—with overt efforts by blamed her since 2011 for inciting mass
protests against his regime in late 2011
Russian Government agencies, state-
funded media, third-party intermediaries, and early 2012, and because he holds a
and paid social media users or ‘trolls'” to grudge for comments he almost certainly
saw as disparaging him” (1).
discredit the Clinton campaign and
“unfavorably contrast the two candidates”
(ii). This sentence is typical of the way the US government
uses language as a propaganda tool. In other words, the
While the report insists that the public is led to believe that Putin and the Russian
government make political decisions primarily based on
Putin’s emotions and interpersonal disputes as opposed to
“Russian intelligence obtained and their very real national interests. This is a very important
maintained access to elements of multiple rhetorical/ideological tool. The lesson, for the US audience
US state or local electoral boards,” it also

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at least, is that foreign leaders are emotional and childish, This section of the report claims that Russia used the
whereas US leaders are reasonable and rational. Guccifer 2.0 persona, Wikileaks and DCLeaks.com to
release data about the DNC and broader US electoral
Most importantly, the report suggests that Putin preferred process (3). The US intelligence community claims,
Trump over Clinton because of Clinton’s aggressive stance
on Ukraine and Syria. Once again, this makes sense not “with high confidence that the GRU relayed
only from the Russian perspective, but also from the material it acquired from the DNC and
perspective of someone who seeks to live in a decent senior Democratic officials to WikiLeaks”
world. Some commentators have downplayed the risk of a (3).
new Cold War, while others, such as Stephen F. Cohen,
insist that the US and Russia are currently engaged in the The remainder of this section seeks to tie RT (formerly
most dangerous set of relations since the Cuban Missile Russia Today) to Wikileaks and Julian Assange, primarily
Crisis. because Assange had a program on RT (hardly a
substantial relationship to the Kremlin).
Russia Campaign Was Multifaceted
Russian Propaganda Efforts
“By their nature, Russian influence
campaigns are multifaceted and designed “RT and Sputnik—another government-
to be deniable because they use a mix of funded outlet producing pro-Kremlin radio
agents of influence, cutouts, front and online content in a variety of languages
organizations, and false-flag operations. for international audiences—consistently
Moscow demonstrated this during the cast President-elect Trump as the target of
Ukraine crisis in 2014, when Russia unfair coverage from traditional US media
deployed forces and advisers to eastern outlets that they claimed were subservient
Ukraine and denied it publicly” (2). to a corrupt political establishment,” the
report states (4).
Here, again, it’s important for Western audiences to realize
that the US, UK and various other governments have also While this may be the most truthful portion of the report,
used “agents of influence, cutouts, front organizations and this section still doesn’t provide any evidence showing
false-flag operations,” to a much greater degree, and with how these efforts are directly ordered and/or coordinated
much greater success. That being said, the public is once by the Kremlin.
again supposed to take the intelligence community’s word
at face-value. The report, as noted above and admitted by It’s unquestionable that RT consistently aired anti-Clinton
those who wrote it, does not provide any specific propaganda and disinformation, but the question remains:
information, evidence, sources, facts, etc. to what extent, exactly, did the Kremlin play in
disseminating such information? These are questions we
Cyber Espionage Against US Political Organizations will return to in the Annex A section which will be listed
below.
According to this section,
Influence Effort Was Boldest Yet in the US
“In July 2015, Russian intelligence gained
access to Democratic National Committee The report claims,
(DNC) networks and maintained that
access until at least June 2016” (2). In “Russia’s effort to influence the 2016 US
addition, “The General Staff Main presidential election represented a
Intelligence Directorate (GRU) probably
significant escalation in directness, level of
began cyber operations aimed at the US activity, and scope of effort compared to
election by March 2016. We assess that
previous operations aimed at US elections”
the GRU operations resulted in the
(5).
compromise of the personal e-mail
accounts of Democratic Party officials and
political figures. By May, the GRU had Yet, the evidence is missing. This section goes on to note
exfiltrated large volumes of data from the that Russia has learned from the success of Wikileaks and
DNC” (2). thus seeks to utilize the leaked material on a more regular
basis and in a more effective manner.
Again, these claims are unsubstantiated.
Election Operation Signals “New Normal” in Russian
Influence Efforts
Public Disclosure of Russian-Collected Data
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This section claims that of these candidates. The RT hosts
asserted that the US two-party system
“Russia has sought to influence elections does not represent the views of at least
across Europe” (5). one-third of the population and is a ‘sham'”
(6).
While this statement is most likely true, the report lacks
the evidence necessary to back up such a claim. In this case, RT is simply reporting what US media outlets
should be reporting: namely, the truth.
What elections?
Interestingly, this section of the report finds a way to not
only badmouth Russia and Putin, but also Occupy, as the
When?
report asserts that RT aired documentaries about the
Occupy movement and other “revolutionary” movements
How? in an attempt to stir violent resistance to the US
government (7).
And with what intent?
RT Conducts Strategic Messaging for Russian
Those are the questions the public should ask when Government
confronted with such claims.
The report notes,
ANNEX A: Kremlin’s TV Seeks To Influence Politics,
Fuel Discontent in US “RT Editor in Chief Margarita Simonyan
recently declared that the United States
This section primarily deals with the media entity itself lacks democracy and that it has ‘no
commonly known as RT, or Russia Today: moral right to teach the rest of the world’
(Kommersant, 6 November)” (7).
RT America TV, a Kremlin-financed
channel operated from within the United Indeed, Simonyan is correct: the US lacks credibility.
States, has substantially expanded its Again, in this section the US intelligence community seeks
repertoire of programming that highlights to cask Occupy in the same light as the Russian
criticism of alleged US shortcomings in government and in some dubious way tie its actions to RT:
democracy and civil liberties. The rapid
expansion of RT’s operations and budget “Simonyan has characterized RT’s
and recent candid statements by RT’s coverage of the Occupy Wall Street
leadership point to the channel’s movement as ‘information warfare’ that is
importance to the Kremlin as a messaging aimed at promoting popular dissatisfaction
tool and indicate a Kremlin-directed with the US Government. RT created a
campaign to undermine faith in the US Facebook app to connect Occupy Wall
Government and fuel political protest. The Street protesters via social media. In
Kremlin has committed significant addition, RT featured its own hosts in
resources to expanding the channel’s Occupy rallies (“Minaev Live,” 10 April; RT,
reach, particularly its social media footprint. 2, 12 June)” (7).
A reliable UK report states that RT recently
was the most-watched foreign news
The report continues:
channel in the UK. RT America has
positioned itself as a domestic US channel
and has deliberately sought to obscure any RT’s reports often characterize the United
legal ties to the Russian Government (6). States as a ‘surveillance state’ and allege
widespread infringements of civil liberties,
The report claims that RT escalated its critiques of US police brutality, and drone use (RT, 24, 28
policies just prior to the 2012 US presidential election, and October, 1-10 November).
added shows that were extremely critical of US political
systems and “liberal democracies.” This section of the RT has also focused on criticism of the US economic
report also notes that system, US currency policy, alleged Wall Street greed, and
the US national debt. Some of RT’s hosts have compared
the United States to Imperial Rome and have predicted that
“RT broadcast, hosted, and advertised
government corruption and “corporate greed” will lead to
third-party candidate debates and ran
US financial collapse (RT, 31 October, 4 November) (7).
reporting supportive of the political agenda
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It’s almost as if RT is attempting to tell the American “RT’s website receives at least 500,000
public the truth, as opposed to the sensationalist nonsense unique viewers every day. Since its
regurgitated by US media outlets on a daily/nightly basis. inception in 2005, RT videos received more
The fact that these sections were even incorporated in the than 800 million views on YouTube (1
report is a clear indication of not only who the report is million views per day), which is the highest
meant to be read by, but also whose interests the report among news outlets [higher than CNN, Al
reflects. Jazeera and BBC]” (10).

This continues as the report goes on to question RT’s anti- Unsurprisingly, the report goes on to note that social media
fracking programming, as well as its programming (commonly demonized by mainstream press and political
highlighting Western military intervention in Syria (8). elites) helps expand RT’s coverage, and that the Occupy
Wall Street movement helped boost RT’s numbers (10).
“In recent interviews, RT’s leadership has
candidly acknowledged its mission to Without question, RT is a growing media empire, with
expand its US audience and to expose it to
Kremlin messaging. However, the “the most rapid growth (40 percent) among
leadership rejected claims that RT all international news channels in the
interferes in US domestic affairs” (8). United States over the past year (2012)”
(10). Moreover, “RT states on its website
Such statements indicate that the US intelligence that it can reach more than 550 million
community isn’t only, or even primarily interested in people worldwide and 85 million people in
Russian meddling in the internal affairs of the US – its the United States” (10).
primary concern is the expansion of Russian influence vis
a vi social media and alternative media outlets such as RT. Clearly, the issue is RT’s influence on public opinion, not
the Russian government’s actual influence on US election
RT Leadership Closely Tied to, Controlled by Kremlin results.

The main claim is that, Formal Disassociation From Kremlin Facilitates RT


US Messaging
“RT Editor in Chief Margarita Simonyan
has close ties to top Russian Government According to the report,
officials, especially Presidential
Administration Deputy Chief of Staff “RT America formally disassociates itself
Aleksey Gromov, who reportedly manages from the Russian Government by using a
political TV coverage in Russia and is one Moscow-based autonomous nonprofit
of the founders of RT” (9). organization to finance its US operations”
(12).
Again, while this may be true, it’s no different than the sort
of connections Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner enjoy with The remainder of this section is, for the most part,
top US officials. concerned with media licensing and financing. Like most
media outlets,
RT Focuses on Social Media, Building Audience
“RT hires or makes contractual agreements
Like any media outlet, with Westerners with views that fit its
agenda and airs them on RT” (12).
“RT aggressively advertises its social
media accounts and has a significant and Toward the end of the section, however, the report
fast-growing social media footprint. In line manages to take one more crack at activists and social
with its efforts to present itself as anti- movements in the US,
mainstream and to provide viewers
alternative news content, RT is making its “Some hosts and journalists do not present
social media operations a top priority, both themselves as associated with RT when
to avoid broadcast TV regulations and to interviewing people, and many of them
expand its overall audience” (10). have affiliations to other media and activist
organizations in the United States (‘Minaev
The section notes that, Live,’ 10 April)” (12).

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Conclusions The reason I methodically went through the report is so
average folks can understand what they should be thinking
As mentioned above, this recently declassified US about when reading such reports. These reports, like
intelligence report tells us very little, and virtually nothing legalistic language, are meant to confuse people. The
new. Any geopolitical analyst, professor, activist or average person becomes intimidated when they see a
conscious person already knew what the US intelligence report by the CIA, FBI and NSA. My review hopes to
community’s claims. The primary task of this report is to challenge those assumptions and provide an accessible and
reinforce existing assumptions about Russia and Putin, and critical review.
to mislead the public.

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Senate Minority Leader Gleefully
Warns Trump That CIA Will Go After Him!
Schumer Airs Veiled Threat Against President-Elect Trump
By Staff Writer -
01.09.2017 @4:42 PM EST

(INTELLIHUB) — In a little covered segment on a hard This brazen threat to use an intelligence agency that
left anti-Trump MSNBC show, new Senate Minority supposedly only operates outside the country on the
Leader Charles Schumer seemingly threatened incoming elected president is by no means the only disgusting and
President Donald Trump with retaliation for his ongoing attack against all things Trump.
questioning of intelligence agency “findings” that
Russia specifically helped him win the election. Not only are members of the Democratic establishment
openly planning to use the CIA to attack the new White
Schumer, speaking to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow about House, a group that includes Weather Underground
Trump taking on the CIA assessment about Russian terrorist mastermind Bill Ayers is positioning to actually
meddling in US elections, unleashed what can only be steal it from Trump.
described as a threat to use the Central Intelligence Agency
to attack a soon to be sitting president. As Intellihub’s Alex Thomas recently noted,

“Let me tell you, you take on the “A group of radical leftists that includes
intelligence community, they have six ways activists, entertainers, artists, professors,
from Sunday at getting back at you,” writers, and at least one known terrorist
Schumer told the admittedly hardcore anti- has launched what amounts to a sort of
Trump media personality. soft coup attempt in America with the
“So even for a practical, supposedly hard- release of a full page New York Times ad
nosed businessman, he’s being really and accompanying website that lays out a
dumb to do this.” concrete plan to prevent Donald Trump
from ever taking office.”
[Schumer comments begin around 7 min mark] “The website, refusefascism.org, makes it
clear from the start that this is not about
simply protesting Trump’s inauguration but
rather about actually preventing him from
being inaugurated to the office he rightfully
won.”

We are essentially seeing a two pronged attack in which


Soros backed radicals are attempting to stop Trump from
ever reaching the White House despite him winning the
election and, if that fails, CIA backed politicians will then
use intelligence agencies to attempt to destroy the new
president.

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The World Is “Fake News”
By Andre Vltchek
January 9, 2017

Imperialist demagogues, as well as religious fanatics, are At some point, all major philosophical and existential
known to live in their grotesque realities. They erect huge topics ceased to be discussed, in official academia, in
sand castles, invent mascots, and bombard the public mainstream media, in the film houses, libraries and best
relentlessly with self-promoting messages. selling books.

Those who refuse to listen and believe, those who dare to No one paid any attention. The world simply ‘moved
doubt and resist, are sidelined, starved to death, humiliated forward’.
or simply liquidated.
The ‘issues’ did not disappear. Genocides are still
Western religions and European/North American brutal administered by the West in order to plunder the world, the
colonialist practices are intertwined culturally. Hand in world of the ‘un-people’.
hand, for centuries, they have been destroying our Planet,
from corner to corner, on all continents and even on the Western colonialism was never really stopped or defeated.
high seas.
Great ideologies based on humanism were successfully
All conquests, all genocides, all plunders have been smeared, even erased from the sub-consciousness of the
eternally rationalized, painstakingly justified. Grand bogus people. Gutless masses, but especially cowardly
concepts of charity, of ‘altruism’ have been erected. intellectuals, got convinced that it would be the best ‘not to
Subjugated nations have always been ruined in the name of take stances’, and not to wear ‘old labels’ and gather under
some higher principles, in order to save them from ‘old flags’. Passivity combined with the extreme
themselves. For centuries, the West has portrayed itself as selfishness eventually mutated into collaboration with the
a sacrificial lamb, as a hand chosen by some divine power, regime.
as the greatest civilization that is continuously and
altruistically liberating the world. The environment has been getting ruined, progressively
and irreversibly.
In the West, scribblers and ‘scholars’ have been paid to
soften every barbarity committed by the rulers, soldiers
The press, mass media, gained mastery in saying nothing,
and even common citizens.
addressing nothing, criticizing nothing related to the
plunder of the world, and to the suppression of new and
The cults of formal learning, of facts and information have truly revolutionary ideas.
been erected. Holed in innumerable officially recognized
institutions, the scholars, certified demagogues,
Enormous hordes of teachers, lawyers, scientists, and
researchers and media people have been ‘studying’ each
bureaucrats got converted into fundamental idiots, but
other, recycling and quoting each other, filling millions of armed with their licenses, bar exams, patents, contracts and
books with essentially the same narrative. other ‘feel-good’ sheets of colorful papers.

‘New’ and ‘revolutionary’ academic discoveries


Tens of millions of lawyers failed to form even one single
mostly lead to the same old conclusions, to stale
powerful international organization fighting for justice,
intellectual and moral passivity, cowardice and against the terror of the Empire.
spinelessness.
This make-believe world has by now managed to expel
Endless libraries have been filled with useless volumes,
Reality and become ‘real’ itself in the minds and brains of
first arriving in print, then later in electronic form. Tens of
billions of men, women and children.
millions of young and not too young men and women are
busy wasting their lives, chasing diplomas, those colorful
pieces of paper with the seal of approval, certifying people True Reality went underground. She had to become a
as fit to serve the Empire and the victorious civilization. fugitive, a refugee, paperless and disrespected, belonging
nowhere.
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She is roaming our Planet, searching for scattered allies, While the ‘Real News’ package is being disseminated all
for those few human beings who are still not fully over the world by the Imperial propaganda machine,
indoctrinated, or fully sold. hundreds of millions of ‘un-people’ are continuing to die
annually, aimlessly.
Whenever she is caught, she is beaten, stripped naked, and
humiliated. A piece of paper saying ‘A Lie’ is hanged Many are actually vanishing while still fully believing in
around her neck. every word of what they had been fed by the news
channels and newspapers. Would they be told the truth
Those who are still standing tall, defending great ideals, (now also known in the West as ‘Fake News’), they’d most
fateful to the ‘old labels’, are being ridiculed. Old flags, likely refuse to die, even opting to fight for their survival.
under which millions used to march forward, often
victoriously, are now being dirtied, defecated on. Fight against whom, against the Empire? That would be
unacceptable. Therefore, alternative sources of information
Whatever contradicts the Empire is gradually labeled as must be immediately suppressed – exactly what the Nobel
Fake News. Peace Prize laureate President Obama has been aiming at
during the last months of this year, before stepping down
from his throne.
In the West, no one seems to be noticing. There are no
mass demonstrations, no clashes with police, as laws and
regulations are being changed and entire Constitutions The Empire is in panic, because resistance in the form of
violated. alternative thoughts and concepts is now coming from
various parts of the world, especially from those places not
yet infested with the English-language (as well as French
It is because an overwhelming majority is actually
collaborating with the regime. or German) standardized storyline. It comes from such
places as China’s Academy of Social Sciences, from
several Russian institutions and many fiction and non-
It is because it is suddenly so frightening, or at least fiction writers, as well as from numerous new and not so
impractical, to think outside the box. new media outlets in Latin America.

It is because there are very few examples of intellectual It is now easy to imagine that the Empire might soon
courage left in this world. introduce some fascist institution like a “Department of
Truth”. Its employees could start demanding that each
Fake News, fake history, fake emotions, and fake ideals… essay and book is ‘well researched’, insisting on ‘facts’.
Everything that is not supporting the official narrative is
slowly but seemingly irreversibly becoming ‘fake’. Writing and philosophy could be reduced to the level of
present-day academia: only recycled thoughts would be
The only way forward, and the only way for our humanity acceptable. It would not be enough to say that last week it
to survive, would be for at least one group of extremely was raining four days a week. A suitable alternative would
bright people to fully break from that straightjacket put on be: “Last week it was raining four times a week, according
the world by the Empire, to reject official perceptions and to Professor Sigmund Brown.” Or even better: “Both
‘knowledge’, and to completely cast off all major tools of Professors Brown and Green agreed that last week it was
analyses of Christian and Western supremacy ideologies raining four times a week”. Then, footnotes would have to
which are still functioning as the main ‘intellectual’ pillars be supplied, as well as other information.
of the Empire and its collaborators in the colonies.
Otherwise – it could be defined as Fake News.
One’s thought, in order to be original and revolutionary,
would have to be almost completely cleansed, even The Fake News clause could be invoked if someone wrote,
isolated, from the official propaganda of the Empire, from for instance “the true and the most brutal terrorist in
its movies and music, from its schools on all levels, from modern history is the West.” Or “Several hundreds of
its professionally manipulative narratives. millions of people were slaughtered by European empires,
and then by the US Empire, in the last several centuries.
Diplomas and licenses supplied by the indoctrination This holocaust took place in Africa, Asia, what is now
institutions should be used as a toilet paper for extremely known as Latin America, in the Middle East and Oceania,
severe cases of intellectual food poisoning, and flushed basically everywhere. No alternative system including
immediately, together with all that toxic shit that consists those of the Soviet Union or China ever came close to the
of so called ‘facts’ and ‘news’. barbarity committed by the West.”

*** Anyone spreading such blasphemy, such sacrilege, could


be caught, charged, tried, punished, and ‘neutralized’.
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Just imagine, someone writing this: “All basic narratives Even many common folks in non-Western places know
on which Western propaganda is based, are either false, or things and pronounce them freely. However, ‘unapproved’
at least have been heavily twisted and manipulated. This people cannot be trusted, can they? Especially when it
includes all storylines related to the Soviet Union, China, concerns such explosive pieces of material! Also,
colonialism and the anti-colonialist struggle, Cambodia, foreigners speaking their strange twisted tongues cannot be
Cuba, and even Rwanda. The list is long. Ignorance of the trusted.
Western public is almost complete.”
Actually, nothing and nobody can be trusted!
How could this not be identified as ‘Fake News’? No
Professor Blue would utter such judgment, and no Fake News is everywhere, creeping, ambushing us behind
Professor Pink would confirm it. You can spend your time each corner. If the Empire is not vigilant, Western
digging your snout into millions of books in official supremacy may one day collapse. Which would be against
libraries, but a only handful of them would mention it. God’s will… Oh, sorry, that was a slip! The correct way to
put it: It would be against all reason, against all logic and
Therefore, it is all fake, all fabricated. It does not exist, and all facts.
should be forbidden, censored.
President Obama cares, he understands.
You can of course hear all this in Havana, Caracas,
Beijing, Moscow or Johannesburg. In Beijing, in a normal And now we will be defended with even greater fervor:
big state-run bookstore there is much greater variety of now comes Donald Trump!
political opinion than on the entire island of Manhattan.
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A Christmas Message For Donald Trump
And The 73% Who Did Not Vote For Him
By Robert David STEELE Vivas
1-9-2017

of Wall Street and the two-party tyranny


that fronts for Wall Street -- if you want
to prod him and empower him, join the
Libertarian Party and demand that an
Electoral Reform Act of 2017 be its
signal demand from this day forward.

Dear Mr. Trump,

I am among the tens of millions who voted for you, and


also among the twenty thousand or so that spent fifteen
months obsessively devoted to getting you elected. I went
to bed in tears on election night, only to be woken at
midnight by my wife to watch the miracle unfold. I have
Robert David STEELE Vivas never had an answer to over twenty-five attempts
including three personal visits to Paul Manafort’s office in
Alexandria to tell you what I am going to post below.
Robert Steele is a former spy, co-creator of the Marine Perhaps someone will read this and in a second miracle,
Corps Intelligence Center, and the most published
you will hear my voice. I am going to make seven points
intelligence reformer in the English language. In 2011,
with seven paragraphs and seven graphics.
inspired by Occupy, he focused on electoral reform,
briefing Occupy (the video went viral after it made the
front page of Reddit), and running for president under the #1 You are not only an accidental president, you are a
Reform Party banner his web site, We the People Reform fringe president. 27% of the eligible voters elected you
Coalition, is still online. He has published eight books and (1% more than elected Barack Obama). 26% of the eligible
many articles and chapters on intelligence reform and two voters hate you with the passion common to the brain-
books and many Kindle Shorts on electoral reform. He is washed or brain-dead, and 47% did not vote at all. My
the top Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, reading in 98 best-selling Kindle Short, Donald Trump, the Accidental
categories, with over 2,000 published reviews. He curates President Under Siege! (also available free online here)
over 80 contributing editors at Phi Beta Iota Public documents how you won against all odds (20-1 at best,
Intelligence Blog; learn more about him at 200-1 at worst) because Hillary Clinton was not able to use
http://robertdavidsteele.com. the same electronic voting fraud against you that she used
to steal thirteen primaries from Bernie Sanders. That was
the big one; in combination with her calling us all
Executive Summary: “deplorables,” her spaz attack in NYC, her doctor and
nurse in constant attendance, and of course the emails
To Trump: only an Electoral Reform Act leaked by insiders not the Russians, John Brennan is a liar
will persuade the 73% who did not vote plain and simple she lost more than you won. A miracle.
for you that you could possibly be the Get a grip. You do not represent all of us, you represent
first modern president not owned by 27% of us, and fixing that should be your first priority.
Wall Street and the two-party tyranny Here is the political landscape note that the Establishment
that fronts for Wall Street. It will also the two-party tyranny that opposed you to the bitter end
make you Emperor the undisputed controls 30% of the vote. Your mission is to mobilize the
leader whom Wall Street and the two- 47% who did not vote in 2016, toward joining the
party Establishment must fear and obey. Movement you lead in time to impact on 2018, while
embracing the Sandernistas and the Libertarians and Tea
To the 73%: like him or not, Trump was Party Conservatives to the fullest extent.
elected in spite of the virulent opposition

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#2 You cannot govern responsibly as long as our prison complexes. Second, you must break the back of the
electoral system is corrupt. The electoral system is rigged two-party tyranny and open the halls of Congress to a
twelve different ways not counting George Soros’ funding swing vote Independents and members of small parties. I
of protestors and the occasional false flag shooting of cops had to run for president in 2012 to learn that there are six
to be blamed on blacks. Although you spoke to a rigged accredited small parties (eligible for matching federal
system, and your allies blocked Hillary Clinton from funds) that are blocked from ballot access by the two-party
leveraging the electronic voting fraud option she used so tyranny. The Republican Party is delusional in thinking
successfully against Bernie Sanders, there are at least two that it can avoid the same implosion that befell the
sucking chest wounds in our political process that you Democratic Party. Now is the time for you to go direct to
need to address, ideally before you submit a single the public, mobilize the 47%, and demand an Electoral
nomination to the Senate. First, you must free the Reform Act of 2017 a Unity Act. Free the Members,
Members from their dependence on campaign finance mobilize the 47% and you will be our first Independent
controlled by the extreme wealthy, the banks, and the President truly representing all of us, not just the 27% that
various industrial complexes, from the agricultural to the elected you. Challenge Senator Chuck Schumer on this,
educational to the military to the pharmaceutical to the and if he fights you, bury him.

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#3 The media purveys fake news you need (we all of Trump appointees, subject matter experts, and regular
need) a Trump Channel. Between now and Inauguration Public Briefings that cannot be filtered or manipulated by
Day you should ask Mike Flynn, your National Security the corrupt media and are vastly superior to the crap you
Advisor, to sit down with Kellyanne Conway, Brad are getting in the President’s Daily Brief; a presidential
Parscale (Giles-Parscale), Andrew Garfield (Glevum polling unit under Kellyanne’s direct control but
Associates), and me, to discuss the repurposing of the leveraging the extraordinary methodologies of Andrew
White House floor space and resources now wasted on the Garfield and Glevum Associates as well as others far
fake news press. Create instead a Presidential Media superior to the mediocrities used by the media during the
Center with Trump Studio as its centerpiece. In my view campaign; and an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
(illustrated below) this space could house the National element that can give you 90% of what you need in the
Security Advisor and a Grand Strategy Cell that is directly way of decision-support at very low cost with the added
supportive of your thinking about Whole of Government advantage that being unclassified, this intelligence can be
strategy and policy; a Trump Studio that broadcasts a mix shared widely and used to educate the public, Congress,
allies, and the media.

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#4 Ike Eisenhower was the last president to have a level threats to humanity (eight of which the secret
grand strategy you need one. The US Government intelligence community ignores); it would have a broad
(USG) has not had a Grand Strategy since Project range of subject matter experts present to brief on the
Solarium was commissioned by President Ike Eisenhower documented 50% waste across each government domain
in 1953. As you strive to overcome decades of and the true cost of proposed alternative courses of action;
irresponsible spending and bad management across all the and it would illuminate how you can end borrowing,
government stovepipes, the single fastest way to get both achieve a balanced budget, and still finance your ambitious
your Cabinet nominees and the leaders of the objectives with tax reform far beyond what you are
Congressional oversight committees on the same page is to contemplating now (see #5). Below is half of a Grand
have a one-week retreat in which a Grand Strategy is Strategy for your consideration the National Security half
devised for Whole of Government not only for national from my recent three-monograph series on Re-Inventing
security, but for domestic security and prosperity as well. the U.S. Army. A similar approach can be taken to address
Do this before you submit a single nomination and it will the major domestic policy domains, especially Agriculture,
radically alter the dynamic of all your hearings. Such a Economy, Education, Energy, Health, Infrastructure,
retreat would begin with a proper briefing on the ten high- (Domestic) Security, Society, and Water, as a whole.

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#5 Eliminate All Taxes Less the Fractional Tax on All end all borrowing and double real government revenue by
Transactions. The tax code is a how Congress extorts imposing a tiny fractional transaction tax on all
money from banks and corporations seeking exemptions transactions. Edgar Feige, the University of Wisconsin
and special treatment. Simplifying it is not going to professor who has documented the simplicity and the
increase your revenue and is not going to change the fact utility of this approach online, is available to brief you
that we are not taxing 80% of the transactions including personally. Note: this is probably the one thing that your
stock and currency transactions. Kill the entire tax code Goldman Sachs nominees have been ordered to sabotage
and eliminate the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). You can without fail this is their loyalty test.

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#6 You are surrounded by traitors financial, generation hand-picks and promotes the next
ideological, and religious. The Federal Bureau generation of “protectors.” Other secret societies
of Investigation (FBI) is a theatrical agency. It within the FBI respond to the Vatican, to Israel,
has not been allowed to go after traitors within and to Wall Street. Within NSA and CIA there
the USG (I estimate 500 not now being are numerous traitors who consider it their
investigated) or across our nation-wide primary duty to spy on US politicians including
commercial, industrial, and scientific & technical the President, and who use blackmail to protect
networks (I estimate 5,000 not now being their budgets and their ability to run drugs, guns,
investigated). It is not possible for you to be money, and children, often leveraging military
effective in devising strategy, making policy, and assets conscripted for “sensitive” programs.
managing the budget if you are constantly and Sensitive, indeed. Separately I have published a
invisibly sabotaged from within. Within the FBI concise vision on Fixing Intelligence II (Mike
itself there are secret societies including the Flynn wrote Fixing Intelligence I). The FBI
original pedophile protective association started needs to be scrubbed, and then unleashed, with
by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, himself a its budget tripled, toward the below priorities.
rampant pedophile and cross-dresser each

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#7 You are being set up by Wall Street a financial located on a website to be created by Brad Parscale and
melt-down looms. More than one observer including funded privately, would strive to register 100 million
David Stockman and Richard Fisher (former Dallas debtors each a potential new member of the Movement
Federal Reserve President) and Brandon Smith of Alt- you lead representing $2 trillion in crushing debt that has
Market.com, has documented the massive bubble that will put our national economy into grid-lock. Each citizen-
pop deliberately during your first four years. You appear debtor would be explicitly authorizing you as a President
to be aware of the threat but may not have considered at to re-negotiate that debt. Michael Hudson, the most honest
least one radical idea that could “checkmate” your visionary economist we have in America, suggests that you
financial opponents: a call from you to all US citizen need to orchestrate a debt jubilee anyway, but I see this as
debtors, particularly the young with student debt and the a superb early check on the financial community and its
elderly with medical debt but also including those with plans to crash the system on their terms. You can organize
credit debt and small business debt, to sign the Debt a soft landing on your terms.
Renunciation Pledge shown below. This pledge to be

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electoral relevance as the system is now structured rigged
twelve different ways. What this means is that the 47%
who chose not to vote and the 13% that wanted Bernie
Sanders as well as the roughly 13% like myself who are
totally disgusted with the Republican Party and its lack of
intelligence with integrity could form a critical mass of
73%. Donald Trump is not now, but could be, “our”
President, and like him or not, he could be the one chance
we have to force through an Electoral Reform Act that
restores integrity to our electoral process and thence to our
government, economy, and society.

Fourth, we all now realize that Donald Trump is tone


deaf. He simply does not hear all of us that are trying to
And now, a word for the 73% of eligible voters who did help him. One story was headlined, “what to do when
not vote for Donald Trump. Donald does not love you back.” Now, between today and
Inauguration Day, is when we can all deluge
First, please join me in praising the Lord for our @realDonaldTrump with a link to this post in The Mind
accidental president. Accidental and fringe he may be, Unleashed, urging Donald Trump to pay attention.
but he was elected legitimately within a severely flawed Whatever flaws he may have, he is not Hillary Clinton, he
system and his greatest attribute one we should treasure is is not substantially obligated to anyone (although I am sure
that he is “unshackled.” He was elected against the he has side deals with Goldman Sachs and Israel and a few
opposition of the two-party tyranny that fronts for Wall others, deals he will break when the time is right), and he
Street and the various complexes; he was elected without has the power he has the absolute power to channel our
taking substantial funds from any major donors including energy into an Electoral Reform Act of 2017 a Unity Act
Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Brothers; and he was that puts a swing vote in Congress, liberates all Members
elected without the aid of the wide variety of lobbying from corporate money, and makes possible evidence-based
firms that spent over a billion dollars for what they thought governance in the public interest.
was a “sure thing” the election of the most flawed
candidate ever to be put before the American public. I’ve done all one man can do. Now it is up to you, the
73%, to decide if you want your country back. The only
Second, please acknowledge that Bernie Sanders, not thing standing in your way is you.
Hillary Clinton, is the rightful nominee and the
spiritual leader of the Democratic Party. We now know Merry Christmas and God Bless America.
as incontrovertible fact that Hillary Clinton stole thirteen
primaries from Bernie Sanders (Stanford University has Robert David STEELE Vivas
documented this) and that the Democratic National
Committee (DNC) was a criminal conspiracy against
Note to the Trump Team: Stop sending me mail addressed
Bernie Sanders throughout the primary campaign. We
to Robert Vivas. Vivas is a Latino matronymic, if you had
must, however, also acknowledge that Bernie Sanders was
any Latinos on staff you would know that. In fact, if you
complicit he knew he was being cheated and he ultimately
had any blacks on staff you would know that, they are
went along, just as Al Gore rolled over and played dead
more culturally clued in than all the pasty faced old white
when Warren Christopher delivered the bribe offer from
guys (and one gal) you have now. My legal name is Robert
Wall Street -- $100 million to accept Jeb Bush’s
David Steele. I am a son of New York, born in Oceanside,
“reasonable dishonesty” in rigging the Florida general
Long Island on 16 July 1952, to a naturalized Colombian
election. The Democratic Party is dead.
mother and a father who went from Brooklyn Polytechnic
to a career with Esso (Exxon).
Third, and this is really important, please consider the
very real prospect of the Republican Party imploding
CONTACT:
between now and 2018 just as the Democratic Party has
imploded. The next batch of leaked emails could be Cell: (571) 748-9749
focused on Scott Walker, Reince Priebus, and the Skype: robert.david.steele.vivas (by appointment)
Republican National Committee (RNC). There are six Email: robert.david.steele.vivas@gmail.com
accredited national political parties that have been blocked Web: http://robertdavidsteele.com
from ballot access, with the Libertarians being the largest
followed by the Greens. Emerging parties such as Working The Mind Unleashed (23 Dec 2016) and Zero Hedge (24
Families are easily kept from growing, and Independents Dec 2016)
solitary individuals by nature, have virtually no prospect of
.
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.

Obama Regime Moves


To Federalize Elections
Paul Craig Roberts
January 9, 2017

The ruling establishment has responded to Donald elections without declaring federal authority over the
Trump’s election by laying the groundwork to federalize, elections as “critical infrastructure.”
and thus control, future elections. Read Tyler Durden’s
report: This is a disturbing development for which explanation
and reason are lacking. Trump, if inaugurated, can
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-06/stunning- overturn it or use it to ensure his reelection. Moreover, this
last-minute-power-grab-obama-designates-election- last minute act of Obama is based on nothing but the false
systems-critical-infrastru allegations of Russian interference. Despite the total
absence of any evidence, the Obama regime continues to
The federal government does not have the constitutional insist that the election was tainted by Russian interference,
authority to administer elections, only to set the date. The and the presstitutes repeat the lie as if it is true. For a
Obama regime’s designation of elections as “critical media that ridicules “conspiracy theories,” it is certainly
infrastructure” seems to have no function other than to put hypocritical for the presstitutes to be hyping the Russian
in place a way to prevent voters from overthrowing an hacking conspiracy.
entrenched establishment, as the establishment fears the
voters did when they elected Trump president. What is the point of this lie to which the Obama regime
and the presstitute media are committed? Is it merely to
The distrubing question is: Why do it now after Trump’s throw mud at Trump? Or is it to lay the foundation for a
election? Could there be a plot to rescind Trump’s election coup?
on the basis of the ongoing lies that Trump was elected not
by the voters but by Russian interference? Federalization Mike Pence, an admirer of Dick Cheney, is a strange
can be used to remove the states from the picture and choice for Trump’s vice president.
prevent the states from challenging an establishment coup
against the voters. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-pence-looks-at-dick-
cheney-as-a-role-model-for-vice-presidency/
US elections are decentralized in the hands of the states.
There is no national network that would make hacking By making this choice, has Trump set himself up for
possible. The Department of Homeland Security can make removal?
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Does Trump Now Accept The
Phony Russian Hacking Claim?
By Stephen Lendman
1-9-2017

Since his Friday intelligence briefing, he hasn’t refuted his was so totally devoid of evidence, that I thought it must be
earlier assessment, debunking the notion. I check his a joke.”
tweets daily to see what he’s saying.
Its “assertions…are factually untrue.” Its contents are
No Russian hacking occurred. No evidence proves it. Yet “built on nothing.”
on Fox News Sunday, his incoming White House chief of
staff Reince Priebus said otherwise, accepting the fake “The report asserts, for example, that President Putin must
news report as factual. have ordered the hacking. It doesn’t say that the hacking of
the election or influencing actually happened.”
Was he speaking for himself alone? Or was he also stating
what Trump now believes? The president-elect hasn’t said “But it says: ‘If it happened, he must have ordered it.’ And
either way since Friday so it’s unknown. as evidence, it gives the fact that after the election, Russia
did not question the validity of the election process and
I tweeted him a number of times, this morning, saying: that it in some way supposes that Putin ordered that the
Hopefully you don't now buy the Russian hacking fake process be hacked. It is nonsense.”
news story. Information was leaked, not hacked, Russia
uninvolved. It’s intentionally provocative, wanting Trump’s election
delegitimized, adversarial relations toward Russia
According to Priebus, he wants an intelligence community continued, increasing the risk of US-initiated
assessment on what should be done. Unknown actions may confrontation.
follow depending on what he decides.
Murray correctly said a report this obviously fabricated
Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray acted could only have been issued, knowing Western media
as an intermediary between one or more Democrat party would support it unquestionably.
insiders, passing on leaked DNC and John Podesta emails
to WikiLeaks. No sensible person would buy the rubbish in it. Media
scoundrels accepting it are the same ones buying phony
Interviewed on RT (Russia Today), he called Friday’s accusations about nonexistent Saddam’s WMDs in the run-
intelligence community report “hilarious…devoid of up to US-led aggression, the same ones one-sidedly
evidence.” supporting Hillary, the same ones still bashing Trump.

“When I saw the report the other night I genuinely What it all comes down to is wanting America’s imperial
believed that was The Daily Mash or some other humorous agenda continued - responsible for endless wars on
site that had done a spoof,” he explained. humanity at home and abroad.

“It seems such a mockery of what we’ve had, which is Heavy pressure is on Trump to maintain the status quo or
weeks and weeks of assertion without evidence. And it risk removal from office by impeachment or more sinister
means.
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The Op: Unelected Agents Now
Infiltrating ‘Critical Infrastructures’
Massive Collection Of Data A Covert Op For The Ages:
Technocracy United Technocracy:
“Control Of Society By A Technical Elite”
By Jon Rappoport
January 9, 2017

Note to readers: the people in charge of, yes, running the they represent a technocratic op to infiltrate and exert
future are counting on a populace who can’t think beyond power over every aspect of American life.
a few weeks or months. That’s their ace in the hole. The
long-term future must always seem blurry and vague—and The 2013 Policy Directive, issued by President Obama,
a waste of time to consider. Why? It’s obvious. The people was titled: “Critical Infrastructure Security and Review.”
in charge are always building the long-term future, brick It enumerated no less than 16 areas of so-called US
by brick, and if very few citizens can grasp what it looks “critical infrastructure” where Homeland Security would
like, how can they object or resist or sound an alarm? muscle in:

If you want to illegally take over an area, you need to  Chemical;


invent an external threat justifying the takeover. We’ve  Commercial Facilities;
been seeing exactly that recently, as Russia has suddenly  Communications;
been painted as a hostile force trying to destroy our “open  Critical Manufacturing;
democracy.”  Dams;
 Defense Industrial Base;
Therefore, the Department of Homeland Security is now in  Emergency Services;
charge of US elections, to “combat the Russian hackers.”  Energy;
 Final Services;
And it isn’t only elections.  Food and Agriculture;
 Government Facilities;
 Healthcare and Public Health;
In the release, last Friday, that gave control of US elections
 Information Technology;
to the Department of Homeland Security (a naked coup),
 Nuclear Reactors,
we also have this, from ABC News:
 Materials, and Waste;
 Transportation Systems;
“A 2013 presidential directive identified 16  Water and Wastewater Systems.
sectors as critical infrastructures, including
energy, financial services, health care,
These are the areas where the head of Homeland Security
transportation, food and agriculture and
is expected to “manage risk and strengthen security.” HS
communications.”
will also, of course, take charge of integrating and
“The designation announced Friday places monitoring ALL the data networks of these 16 sectors.
responsibilities on the Homeland Security
secretary to identify and prioritize those It sounds reasonable to the average person. But the true
sectors, considering physical and cyber theme is control. Planning, control, execution. Move in on
threats against them. The secretary is also these areas and exert operational command from the top.
required to conduct security checks and
provide information about emerging and
This IS, in fact, the technocratic blueprint for global
imminent threats.”
management of a new system. We’re talking about the re-
engineering of society.
ABC got it wrong. The responsibilities (excluding
elections) placed on the head of Homeland Security
Capturing the 16 areas (and their data) above was always
weren’t invented last Friday. They kicked off in 2013, and
the long-term aim, when the Department of Homeland
Security was invented in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. If
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you recall, there was considerable grousing then about the “Look, we need to collect, record, and store
word “Homeland,” because it emitted a strong whiff of every possible datum on you and you and
Fascism. everyone. This isn’t about our so-called
enemies, this is about us, your controllers.
If the goal is engineering a new society—and it is—all This is about the future we’re planning for
systems of data collection, communication, and you. Somewhere up the road, when we’re
surveillance must be gathered under one roof. ready, when we think we can get away with
it, we’re going to announce that the planet
is in a terminal energy crisis and shortage.
The social and political engineer (aka the technocrat)
Therefore, every person will receive a card
views every person (unit) as a biological machine that
that records his use and consumption of
must be profiled six ways from Sunday, for the purpose of
energy, and when his quota runs out, he’ll
inserting him into an overall pattern. As Patrick Wood
be without energy until the next time
explains in his brilliant book, Technocracy Rising,
period. Get it? This is where we’re
headed…”
“[technology] is being rapidly
implemented…to exhaustively monitor,
Again, as author Patrick Wood points out, when you
measure and control every facet of
encounter terms like sustainable economy, SmartGrid,
individual activity and every ampere of
green economy, Agenda 21, carbon taxes, cap and trade,
energy delivered and consumed in the life
and even Common Core (an indoctrination process for the
of such individual[s].”
young masked as education), you’re looking at
technocracy-in-progress. In fact, you’re looking at
In truth, the Dept. of Homeland Security is spearheading a declarations, in one form or another, about irreversible
movement to connect, cross reference, and integrate every energy shortages that requite drastic solutions.
major apparatus of data- collection in both the private and
public sectors.
Since 2013, when Obama announced the 16 areas where
Homeland Security has to exert its authority, a new phase
This is the ongoing op. in the authoritarian ascent to a mountaintop of control,
framed as “scientific,” has been underway.
It is not partisan. It flies the banner of no political party. It
pretends to protect the citizenry. This is the long con, the long op.

But, in fact, it is the major long-term threat to the citizenry. The bosses are counting on the inability of citizens to
grasp what is going on. The bosses are counting on the
It is planning a national and global civilization that does passivity of citizens when it comes to thinking about a
not ask for permission to exist. future of more than a few weeks or months.

No one is voting, because if a vote were required, and They are also counting on the “citizen energy quotas” I
people were informed about what is really happening, they mentioned above sounding like nothing more than wild
would overwhelmingly reject technocracy. science fiction.

Which is why new enemies must be invented on a Well, travel back, for a moment to, say, the 1960s. If
continuous basis—to justify the “proactive measures that someone had told you then,
will keep us safe.”
“Your cell phones will be collecting data on
Homeland Security, with its 240,000 employees and its 24 you, and you’ll happily be profiling
agencies, is in the business of securing untold trillions of yourselves in great detail, for the
pieces of data for the forward march of Technocracy, Inc. government, on social media,” you would
have said, “What mental institution did you
Suppose, instead of the political-speak we’ve been treated escape from?”
to, the White House and Homeland Security released the
unvarnished truth? What sounds like fiction becomes fact.

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Is Delegitimizing Trump Prelude
To Ousting Him Once In Office?
By Stephen Lendman
1-9-2017

No incoming US president ever faced more daunting


challenges than Trump - denigrated as illegitimate despite Can any even half-witted reader believe rubbish this
defeating Hillary convincingly. extreme - the stuff only truth-haters put out with relish,
shameless propaganda masquerading as journalism.
Next week he’ll be inaugurated to succeed Obama. No
grand welcome awaits him. Staged protests are planned in “Donald Trump Is Not the President-Elect,”
Washington and other cities nationwide - possibly turning huffed the Huffington Post, the same
violent if things get out-of-control. operation consigning coverage of his
campaign to its entertainment section.
Never before in US history has anything like this occurred,
the stuff revolutions are made of, on January 20 in “…Hillary is president-elect,” it roared,
America for the wrong reason - denigrating America’s claiming she won both the popular and
45th president, not a corrupted political system too Electoral College vote, the writer’s
debauched to fix. credibility instantly lost, never to be
regained.
Media scoundrels remain relentless. Thankfully their
influence waned, the result of deplorable one-sided pro- The article was a hateful spoof that flopped. It lacked
Hillary/anti-Trump reporting, continuing without letup. anything redeeming.

A Monday NYT piece calls Trump and his presidency “Trump is all we feared, but worse,” it
tainted “beyond redemption” - claiming the fake news blustered.
Russian hacking report proves it.
Relentless scoundrel media criticism consistently ignores
No responsible editor would allow this type rubbish to be mention of Hillary’s high crimes as co-president with
published. Times editors feature it daily. husband Bill, US senator and secretary of state, along with
her private sector wrongdoing - notably her foundation
“Donald Trump is as much Russia’s racketeering and money-laundering.
appointment as our elected executive,” said
The Times. Obama’s wars on humanity at home and abroad go
unmentioned along with his numerous other high crimes.
Moscow
“had its desired result…on our election day. Despite no public record on which to judge him, Trump is
This was an act of war and our presidency relentlessly bashed before assuming the office he won.
was the spoil.” Imagine what’s likely coming after beginning to serve.
.

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President Trump To Bypass The Lying Mainstream Media
And Report Directly To The American Voters
By: JD Heyes
Date: January 09, 2017

In fact, Spicer said the emphasis by Trump will be on


ensuring that the American people get a better product
(like straight talk) for less money.

“Do you expect him to keep up a regular


and as energetic a series of press
conferences as previous presidents? Do
you expect him to be more or less engaged
than previous presidents with that setting,
that formal East Room setting sort of
thing?” Hewitt asked Spicer.
“Yeah, that’s a good question, because I
think the thing that you’ve seen with Donald
Trump is that he doesn’t, he doesn’t look to
the past and say I’ve got to conform to
On the road to the White House, Donald Trump defied all these precedents,” Spicer replied. “He
odds and rewrote the rules, stumping allies and political figures out what’s the best way. And so
(and real) enemies alike in the process. But the truth is, he maybe we do, you know, a series of press
was just getting started. conferences, but maybe we do some town
hall, you know, Facebook town halls.
The political Left, as well as the establishment of both Maybe we go out and solicit input from
major parties, still have yet to figure Trump out, but that’s Twitter. I don’t, I mean, the answer is we’re
because they keep trying to put him in the same box as all looking at a lot of things.”
other politicians and presidents, without realizing to this
day that he’s not one of them, so he can’t be put in the In other words, Trump has no plans to allow the lying,
same box. discredited mainstream media as a filter to “reporting” on
his policies, putting their own spin on things and distorting
He’s not appointing careerist bureaucrats to top what Trump is really trying to say or accomplish. And
administration Cabinet posts like most other presidents that’s going to really tick off the ‘mainstream’ media, who
have done; he’s appointing can-do business figures who honestly believe if news and information do not flow
have a reputation for getting things done instead. through them, it’s “fake” or otherwise not genuine.

And he’s also figured out that he doesn’t need the lying Hewitt noted that if the Trump administration gets in the
mainstream media to get his message out—and will habit of sidestepping the establishment press and, Heaven
frankly avoid the MSM at every opportunity. In an forbid, goes straight to the American people, why, the
interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt media will just be “out of gas” and made irrelevant.
recently, Trump’s White House press secretary pick Sean
Spicer said that “business as usual” will come to an end “That’s the point,” Spicer said, adding that
with regard to how the incoming president will “business as usual is over.” Spicer said his
communicate with the American people and the press, boss’ goal is to do what is best for the
Breitbart reported. country, and if that means talking directly to
the people—using social media and town
Bypassing the lying mainstream media will be Trump’s hall events—then that’s what a President
goal Trump will do.

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Giving the American people a better product than what Spicer admitted that if Trump has to adhere to some
they’ve been getting traditions, then he would. But overall, he said Trump will
be looking at the entire system of how past presidents have
“How do we put America and Americans done things and try to improve on the process to the
first and stop trying to figure out how we benefit of the American people—not the media, not the
cater to, you know, pundits and the political establishment, and certainly not lobbyists or
establishment class, big donors?” Spicer corporate donors, the latter of which were very few in
said. “He’s putting Americans first and number.
foremost.”
“And so I think that’s where sometimes the
The White House spokesman, who himself may not have liberal media gets this wrong,” Spicer said.
much to do either, also said his boss is not interested in “It’s not saying we’re going to treat it like a
what the political elites and the donor class tell him at a business, quote unquote. It’s making sure
dinner party. He said Trump will want to know directly that there’s a mentality that says can we
what American workers and families care about, what they make sure we get the American people a
are thinking and what is going to be best for helping better product for their money…”
businesses grow and create more opportunity.

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Streep’s Anti-Trump Rant Debunked:
The Ravings Of A Hollywood Faker
If Trump Really Did Want To ‘Kick Out’ Foreigners, He’d Have To Start
With His Own Wife
By Steve Watson -
01.09.2017 @4:59 PM EST

The fake news media has continued to alienate the entirely “Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and
of America, beginning the week’s news cycle by fawning if we kick them all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but
over a clearly deluded liberal Hollywood actress delivering football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts,”
what can only be described as a barely coherent rant Streep said, prompting what CNN described as “huge
directed at president-elect Donald Trump. applause” from the gathered A-listers.

Meryl Streep, who won a Golden Globe award Sunday, Yeah except no one’s getting ‘kicked out’ of anywhere are
for… something… no one really cares what, used her 5 they, so that’s all fake.
minute speech to suggest that Trump is seeking to ‘kick
out’ all people from the US who were not born there, that In fact, if Trump really did want to kick out foreign born
he wishes to destroy the free press enshrined in the people residing in America, he’d probably have to start
Constitution, and that he wants to erase the arts from with his own wife. If his mother were still alive, he’d also
American culture. have to show her the door.

So, yeah, unlikely, and completely made up.

Streep then said while there were “many powerful


performances this year,” here was one that “stunned” her
and “sank its hooks in [her] heart.”

“Not because it was good. There was nothing good about


it. But it was effective, and it did its job. It made its
intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that
moment when the person asking to sit in the most
respected seat in our country [Trump – she cannot say his
name even] imitated a disabled reporter- someone he
outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight
back. It kind of broke my heart,” she said, starting to cry.

“When the powerful use their position to bully others,” she


added, “we all lose.”

Streep began by not only revealing she had lost her voice Right, so Trump mocked a disabled reporter in 2015.
from ‘screaming in lamentation’, but also that at some Except he didn’t. He’s used the same ‘flustered’
point last year she ‘lost her mind’… mmmmmkaaaay, so imitation time after time to jab at Army generals, bankers,
immediate ‘crazy old lady’ vibes there. Ted Cruz, Donna Brazile, and even himself. Everyone in
fact. So again, FAKE outrage.
In a vomit-inducing name drop session, she then reeled off
a list of Hollywood actors who hail from different places,
and suggested that they were all somehow in danger of
being deported by Trump.

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This being the same press that admittedly and openly
planted its flag in the corner of Hillary Clinton, saying that
it no longer had to ‘pretend’ to be non-partisan.

This being the same press that repeated Clinton talking


points, as proven by WikiLeaks.

This being the same press that told America it was a


‘dangerous’ conspiracy theory to question Clinton’s health,
just days before she collapsed in a heap in public.

This being the same press that colluded with the Clinton
campaign to ensure she received debate questions ahead of
time.

This being the same press who ran segments suggesting


that Trump will put foreigners in concentration camps.

This being the same press that put out a ‘Madam


President’ magazine before the election took place, then
admitted that it had outsourced the writing to pro-Clinton
people, and failed to even proof read it.

The list goes on. The only press that is under threat from
Next… The press. Trump is the biased press that continually puts out fake
news.
“We need the principled press to hold power to account.”
Streep urged, adding a call for the “famously well-heeled Perhaps Meryl Streep should stick to acting. Portraying a
Hollywood Foreign Press” to support the Committee to fake persona, and constantly reveling in the fake world of
Protect Journalists. “We’re going to need them,” she said, Hollywood, back slapping her colleagues, no matter what
“and they’ll need us to safeguard the truth.” they have done. It seems to be what she does best.

Oh God, the press and the ‘truth’ it safeguards is under Via Infowars
threat from Trump.
.

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Is Trump The Back Door Man
For Henry A. Kissinger & Co?
Author: F. William Engdahl
09.01.2017

Then in terms of the vested special interests of Wall Street,


Goldman Sachs has a huge power in the new
Administration. Goldman Sachs partner Steven Mnuchin is
Trump’s nominee for US Treasury Secretary. Goldman
Sachs President Gary Cohn will be his top White House
Economic Adviser. Anthony Scaramucci, Presidential
Transition Team Executive Committee member, is a
former Goldman Sachs banker as well as Steve Bannon,
Trump’s chief strategist and Senior Counselor.

We add to that assemblage no fewer than four US military


generals representing the most corrupt military industrial
The term Back Door Man has several complex in world history: as Secretary of Defense retired
connotations. In the original blues song General James “Mad Dog” Mattis, Board member since
written by Willie Dixon, it refers to a man retiring of major defense contractor General Dynamics;
having an affair with a married woman, retired Lt. General Mike Flynn, with his own consulting
using the back door to flee before the firm, as his National Security Adviser and retired General
husband comes home. During the John F. Kelly as Secretary of Homeland Security.
Gerald Ford Presidency, Back Door Man
was applied to Dick Cheney as Ford’s
Add to this collection the naming of Rex Tillerson the
White House Chief of Staff and his
CEO of ExxonMobil, the largest oil multinational of the
“skills” at getting what he wanted
United States, as Secretary of State; the ex-Governor of
through opaque means. More and more
Texas, America’s largest oil producing state, Rick Perry,
as Cabinet choices are named, it looks
as Secretary of Energy, along with pro-shale energy
like the entire Trump Presidency project
Oklahoma Attorney General, Scott Pruitt to be head of the
is emerging as Henry A. Kissinger’s
Environmental Protection Agency, and certain dramatic
“Back Door Man,” in the Cheney
economic policy flips begin to emerge compared with the
meaning of the term.
previous hapless Presidency.
Long forgotten is Trump’s campaign rhetoric about
draining the swamp. In October during his campaign Back Door for Kissinger Geopolitics
candidate Trump issued a press release stating, “Decades
of special interest dealing must come to an end. We have What emerges is not pretty and, sadly, more than confirms
to break the cycle of corruption…It is time to drain the my earlier piece on the Trump Deception.
swamp in Washington, D.C…That is why I am proposing
a package of ethics reforms to make our government However, all this misses in my view one essential
honest once again.” component, namely the shadowy role of former Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger, who is emerging as the
So far, the President-elect has already named more unofficial and key foreign policy adviser of the Trump
billionaires to cabinet and other top posts than any other Administration. If we follow Kissinger’s tracks in recent
president in US history–Betsy DeVos of the AmWay months we find a highly interesting series of meetings.
fortune as Education Secretary, Wilbur Ross as Commerce
Secretary, Linda McMahon as Small Business On December 26, 2016 the German daily Bild Zeitung
Administrator, and Vincent Viola, as Army Secretary. published what it said was a copy of an analysis by
That’s not including Trump himself as a putative members of the Trump Transition Team which revealed
billionaire. that as President Trump will seek “constructive
cooperation” with the Kremlin, a dramatic contrast to
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Obama confrontation and sanctions policies. The ignore is that that Continental Balance of Power was
newspaper went on to discuss the role of 93-year-old essential for creation of the British Empire that dominated
former Secretary of State, Henry A. Kissinger as Trump’s the world as the leading naval power for a century.
leading, if unofficial, foreign policy adviser. The report
stated that Kissinger is drafting a plan to bring Putin’s In his 1950’s Harvard University PhD dissertation,
Russia and Trump’s Washington to more “harmonious” Kissinger wrote what became a book titled, “A World
relations that includes US official recognition of Crimea as Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of
part of Russia and lifting of US economic sanctions that Peace, 1812-1822.” That study of British Balance of
Obama imposed in retribution for the Crimea annexation Power is at the heart of Kissinger’s Machiavellian
in 2014, among other steps. machinations ever since he took his first job with the
Rockefeller family in the 1960’s. In A World Restored
The kicker in this otherwise sensible-sounding US policy Kissinger states,
change is Kissinger’s sly geopolitical aim in “gettin’ Putin
back in the (NATO) tent,” as late Texan President Lyndon “Diplomacy cannot be divorced from the
Baines Johnson might have elegantly put it. realities of force and power. But diplomacy
should be divorced…from a moralistic and
What is the aim of Kissinger? Not any “multi-polar world” meddlesome concern with the internal
that respects national sovereignty as he claims, of that you policies of other nations.” Further, he
can be certain. Kissinger’s aim is to subtly erode the states, “The ultimate test of a statesman,
growing bilateral axis between China and Russia that then, is his ability to recognize the real
threatens US global hegemony. relationship of forces and to make this
knowledge serve his ends.”
The trend of the last several years since Obama’s ill-fated
coup d’etat in Ukraine in early 2014, threatened to Since his relationship began in the 1950’s with Nelson
jeopardize Kissinger’s lifetime project, otherwise called Rockefeller and the brothers Rockefeller–Laurance, David,
David Rockefeller’s “march towards a World Winthrop– Henry Kissinger has been the core strategist of
Government,” a World Government in which the Rockefeller family’s globalization or World
“supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and Government above nation states as David called it in 1991.
world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto- That included Kissinger’s role with the Bilderberg
determination practiced in past centuries,” to use Meetings, with David’s Trilateral Commission and right
Rockefeller’s words to one of his select groups during the down to the present. It was Secretary of State Kissinger
collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Bild Zeitung who asked his good friend David Rockefeller to facilitate
Trump-Kissinger memo states that the idea of warming up Nixon’s “China opening” to the West in 1971. Then the
to Russia is aimed at offsetting China’s military geopolitical aim of Kissinger’s rebalance was to seduce
buildup. In other words, a different game from Obama’s, China, then the weaker of Washington’s two great
but a game of power nonetheless. adversaries, into the Western alliance against the Soviet
Union, then the stronger adversary, at least in military and
Real Balance of Power geopolitical terms.

Kissinger is one of the few surviving practitioners of Today, as the year 2017 begins, the roles have turned and
historical British Balance of Power geopolitics. True clearly China has emerged after more than three decades of
British Balance of Power, as practiced in British military unbridled industrial and economic expansion, as the
and diplomatic history since the Treaty of Windsor of stronger challenger of David Rockefeller’s so-called
1386, between England and Portugal, always involved World Government. Russia, following the economic
Britain making an alliance with the weaker of two rivals to savagery and deindustrialization of the post-1991 Yeltsin
defeat the stronger and in the process, to afterwards loot years, is in Kissinger’s view, clearly the weaker of his two
the exhausted weaker power as well. It was extraordinarily adversaries. Both China and Russia under Xi Jinping and
successful in building the British Empire down to World Putin, are, together with Iran, the most formidable
War II. defenders of national sovereignty–the main obstacles
standing in the way of David Rockefeller’s (I use him as
the template) World (fascist) Government.
British Balance of Power is always about what power, in
this case a Kissinger-steered United States, does the
“balancing.” Following the defeat of Napoleon’s France at Kissinger’s strange diplomacy
the Congress of Vienna peace talks in 1814, British
Foreign Secretary, Viscount Castlereagh, architected a If we perceive Kissinger’s recent actions from this
treaty that insured no Continental European power could perspective–how to break the emerging Eurasian threat to
dominate over the others, a strategy that lasted until 1914 a Western-dominated One World Order–it makes much
and the First World War. What many political historians sense. He has been shockingly fulsome in his recent praise

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of the political neophyte casino mogul Trump. In an early would be useless as the head of Exxon if he did not have a
December CBS TV interview, Kissinger said that Trump, working relationship with Russia.” As with Kissinger and
“has the possibility of going down in history as a very Mattis, Kissinger also serves on a Board of Trustees with
considerable President.” He added that because of Tillerson. Both Tillerson and Kissinger are Trustees of the
perceptions that Obama weakened America’s influence very influential Washington Center for Strategic and
abroad, “one could imagine that something remarkable and International Studies (CSIS), along with such as Zbigniew
new emerges” out of a Trump administration. Brzezinski and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

“I’m saying it’s an extraordinary In true Kissinger secret diplomacy style so skillfully
opportunity.” applied during his role in triggering the October, 1973
Yom Kippur war, Kissinger has apparently won the respect
The more we look under the rocks and at the key foreign of Vladimir Putin as a “world class politician.” In
policy choices of neophyte Trump, we find the pawprints February, 2016 Kissinger went to Moscow to privately
of Henry A. Kissinger. The choice of General James “Mad meet with Putin. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
Dog” Mattis to be Secretary of Defense intersects called that meeting a continuation of “a friendly dialogue
Kissinger. Mattis and Kissinger both served until early between President Putin and Henry Kissinger, who are
2016 on the Board of Directors of a bizarre and very bound by a long-standing relationship.”
controversial California medical technology private
partnership, Theranos, together with (until recently) former And on December 2, Kissinger was personally invited by
US Secretary of State George Shultz, former Secretary of China President Xi Jinping to meet in Beijing to discuss
Defense Bill Perry, retired U.S. Navy Adm. Gary the prospects for China of the Trump presidency. Kissinger
Roughead, former Wells Fargo Bank chairman Dick is regarded since 1971 as uniquely trusted by the Chinese
Kovacevich. to serve as a mediator of US policy intentions.

Mattis, whom Trump compares to General Patton, in With Kissinger now in a unique relationship with
August, 2016 wrote a report attacking both Obama, Bush President-elect Trump as shadow foreign policy adviser,
and Bill Clinton administrations’ foreign military policy, with Kissinger allies Tillerson as Secretary of State and
blasting the last three administrations for a perceived lack Mattis as Secretary of Defense, it is beginning to appear
of national security vision, by ignoring threats posed by that the heavy hand of Kissinger and his version of British
Russia, China and terrorist groups worldwide. Balance of Power political manipulations is about to target
China, as well as Iran, and to try to use Putin and Russia to
As well, the pawprints of the sly Kissinger appear with the destroy the genuine possibility of a counterweight to
surprise naming of ExxonMobil head Rex Tillerson to be Western One World delusions, by fostering mistrust and
Secretary of State. ExxonMobil is of course the original bad blood between China and Russia and Iran.
core of the Rockefeller family wealth. Kissinger issued a
decisive and strong recommendation of Tillerson, stating There is simply too much coincidence in the recent
that because Tillerson has strong personal relations with emergence of the Kissinger–world statesman of peace–to
Russian President Putin and Russian state oil company, not think that in truth, from the outset, Donald Trump was
Rosneft, it is no reason to disqualify Tillerson: “I pay no designed to be Henry A. Kissinger’s Back Door Man, in
attention to the argument that he is too friendly to Russia. order to re-tilt global geopolitics back to a US leading role
As head of Exxon it’s his job to get along with Russia. He as Domina über Alles.

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Activists Are Hoping To Turn Donald Trump’s
Inauguration On January 20th Into One Of The Biggest
Riots In U.S. History
By Michael Snyder
January 9th, 2017

includes scholar Cornel West; author Alice


Walker; Chase Iron Eyes of the Standing
Rock Sioux; educator Bill Ayers; poet Saul
Williams; CNN‘s Marc Lamont Hill; Carl Dix
of the Communist Party USA; and
numerous others.

The ad pointed people to refusefascism.org, and it asserted


that Trump must be stopped whether he was legitimately
elected or not…

Trump promises to inflict repression and


suffering on people in this country, to
Radical leftists are planning to make January 20th the most deport millions, to increase violence up to
chaotic Inauguration Day in American history. Their the use of nuclear weapons on people
stated goal is to “disrupt” the Inauguration festivities as across the globe, and to inflict catastrophes
much as possible, and they are planning a wide range of upon the planet itself. He has assembled
“actions” to achieve that stated goal. Some of the more a cabinet of Christian fundamentalist
moderate groups are using terms such as “civil resistance” fanatics, war mongers, racists, science
and “civil disobedience”, but others are openly talking deniers. NO! His regime must not be
about “blockades”, jumping barricades, throwing allowed to consolidate. We REFUSE to
projectiles and “citywide paralysis”. My hope is that all of accept a Fascist America!
their efforts will turn out to be a big flop, but it is
important to understand that these groups are well funded, If you go to refusefascism.org, you will discover that the
highly organized and extremely motivated. The election of protests that they are organizing in Washington D.C. will
Donald Trump has been perhaps the single most begin on January 14th. They say that they want to “stop
galvanizing moment for the radical left in modern the Trump-Pence regime before it starts”, and they hope to
American history, and they are working very hard to turn have protests going “every day and every night” without
January 20th into a major political statement. interruption through at least January 20th.

In fact, just recently one activist group took out a full page Another group that plans to kick things off on January 14th
ad in the New York Times… is DisruptJ20. Of course that is short for “Disrupt January
20th”. If you go to their official website, you will find a
Thousands of activists, journalists, long slate of events that have already been scheduled.
scientists, entertainers, and other
prominent voices took out a full-page call to According to Legba Carrefour, a spokesperson for
action in the New York Times on DisruptJ20, one of the goals of the group is to block major
Wednesday making clear their rejection of transportation routes into and throughout our nation’s
President-elect Donald Trump and Vice capital. And he is not shy about the fact that they literally
President-elect Mike Pence with the simple want to “shut down the Inauguration”…
message: “No!”
“Stop the Trump/Pence regime before it “We are planning to shut down the
starts! In the name of humanity we refuse inauguration, that’s the short of it,” he
to accept a fascist America!” the ad states, says. “We’re pretty literal about that, we
followed by a list of signatories that are trying to create citywide paralysis
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on a level that I don’t think has been Michael Moore is hoping that this march will be the
seen in D.C. before. We’re trying to shut beginning of “100 days of resistance” against Trump’s
down pretty much every ingress into the presidency…
city as well as every checkpoint around the
actual inauguration parade route.” Filmmaker and liberal icon Michael Moore
has announced his plans to attend the
If Carrefour and his fellow conspirators are able to actually Women’s March on Washington to protest
accomplish that, it truly would be unprecedented. Donald Trump’s inauguration later this
month and has called for sore loser liberals
And while DisruptJ20 is not publicly advocating violence, to go further — by staging protests acts of
they are not exactly discouraging it either… resistance through the first 100 days of
Trump’s presidency.
Carrefour says DisruptJ20 has no publicly announced In an appearance, this weekend on
plans to jump barricades along the inauguration parade MSNBC’s The Last Word, the 62-year-old
route or throw projectiles at the new president, but that Trumpland and Fahrenheit 9/11 director
autonomous direct actions are encouraged. made a “call to arms” to those opposed to
Trump’s presidency to join the Women’s
“I can’t comment on specific stuff we’re March on Washington scheduled for
doing like that, mostly because that January 21, the day after the presidential
would be illegal. But, yeah, it will get inauguration.
pretty crazy, I expect,” he says. “‘Have “It’s important that everybody go there,”
fun!’ I say.” Moore told MSNBC’s Ari Melber.

After the rioting that we have seen in Baltimore, Ferguson, Of course it is easy to imagine how all of this could spiral
Charlotte and many other communities around the nation wildly out of control. If Trump cracks down on these
in recent years, I hope that authorities are taking these protests really hard in an attempt to restore law and order,
threats quite seriously. that could end up sparking a dramatic backlash against his
“police state tactics”. And if the protests become even
Once Donald Trump won the election, many conservatives bigger and more violent, Trump could respond by cracking
seemed to think that the war was won. But the truth of the down even more harshly.
matter is that many on the left were completely blindsided
by Trump’s surprise victory, and now that they are fully Let us hope for some really cold weather in D.C. at the end
awake they are gearing up for battle like never before. of January so that as many troublemakers as possible get
discouraged and stay home. Violent protests, blockades
And these protests are not going to end on January 20th. and riots aren’t going to solve anything, and they could
In fact, abortion advocates are hoping to get close to a easily open fresh wounds in a nation that is becoming
million women into Washington D.C. on the day following more divided with each passing day.
the Inauguration to protest for abortion rights. Filmmaker
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State Department Says Presenting Evidence Of Russian
Hacking Would Be "Irresponsible"
By Tyler Durden
Jan 9, 2017 9:33 PM

One recurring lament throughout the theatrically dramatic rely on them to make that determination for
campaign involving reports and emotional appeals by US themselves."
intelligence agencies such as the CIA (whose primary
function is the creation of disinformation) to ordinary And, in this case, it meant sharing no information at all.
Americans, that Russia had "hacked the US presidential
election" is that for all the bluster and "conviction", there The assessment in Friday’s report was made
has been zero evidence.
“by all 17 intelligence communities. All of
And, as it turns out, there won't be any, because according
them came to the same basic conclusion:
to the US State Department, US intelligence agencies were
that Russia interfered in the US election,”
right to not reveal evidence of their proof that Russia Kirby said. “All of our intelligence
interfered in US elections, and comparisons with communities came to the same basic
intelligence reports that Iraq had WMDs were not relevant
conclusion, over and over again.”
in the current year.
They just couldn't prove it, instead hoping that by
Asked by RT’s Gayane Chichakyan if Friday’s public repeating the same statement over and over would be
intelligence report should have contained any proof of sufficient.
Russian intervention, State Department spokesman John
Kirby said that no one should be surprised that US
intelligence agencies were keeping evidence secret in order Furthermore, the actual report, describes itself as an
to protect sources and methods.
“analytic assessment drafted and
“Most American people understand that coordinated among The Central
they have the responsibility to protect their Intelligence Agency (CIA), The Federal
sources and methods,” Kirby said, adding it Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and The
would be “irresponsible” to do otherwise. National Security Agency (NSA).”
Actually, with the Iraq WMD fiasco strill
fresh in "American people's" minds, it is Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government
irresponsible to think most Americans are
still naive idiots who will believe whatever “aspired to help President-elect Trump’s
the "intelligence agencies" will tell them. election chances when possible by
discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly
contrasting her unfavorably to him,” the
agencies assert in the report, noting that
the CIA and FBI have “high confidence” in
this judgment, while the NSA – which, in
theory, would have actual surveillance
data to prove the assertion – had only
“moderate” confidence.

Secretary of State John Kerry

“believes strongly that they handled this


matter in the appropriate way, in terms of
Alas, none of that has filtered through to the appropriate
how it was analyzed, how it was presented,
authorities, and Kirby said that it was
and how it was briefed to those who
needed to see a deeper level of
"up to the agencies to decide which information,” Kirby said.
information they share with the public. We
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When Chichakyan brought up the 2003 intelligence “We have moved on. We have learned a lot
assessment on the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction – from those mistakes,” he said.
invoked by the Bush administration to justify the US
invasion and occupation of that country – Kirby said the Ironically, somehow much of America ended up with the
comparison was irrelevant, since that was a long time ago. opposite conclusion.

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‘ODNI Report Speculative, Serves To Push Certain Political
Theories’ – Ex-Trump Aide Carter Page
Published Time: 9 Jan, 2017 21:33Edited Time: 10 Jan, 2017 11:39

while commenting on why the paper was not backed by


solid evidence. He noted that despite having no such
evidence, some political circles in the US will try to take
advantage of the findings.

The US intelligence report on alleged Russian meddling


into the American 2016 election campaign is “speculative”
and has been published under pressure to serve “political
theories,” Donald Trump’s former foreign policy advisor
Carter Page told RT.
“There is some pressure on the political
side to provide some backup for the “I think that certain political forces,
various theories that Mrs Clinton was particularly those who have been very
pushing really throughout last year,” said negative and hawkish [against Russia] in a
Page, who was Trump's foreign policy very old-school mindset, will use this
advisor during the election campaign. [report] as a way to support their broader
theories without having… much evidence,”
The Office of the US Director of National Intelligence
Page said. He also noted that the action
(ODNI) released its findings in a paper entitled,
might have been used as “a smokescreen”
“Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US
to cover up “interventionist” tactics by
Elections” on December 6. In October, Washington
circles close to Hillary Clinton.
officially accused Moscow of targeting computers and
institutions of the Democratic campaign in the US, which
Moscow strongly rejected. A significant chunk of blame for the alleged interference in
the US election campaign has been also put onto Russian
However, the ODNI report did not deliver any hard media, particularly RT. The document, which incorrectly
evidence of the assumed Russian interference, instead cited some of the so-called facts it used, claimed that RT
citing analyses of the country’s main intelligence services, served
the CIA, FBI and NSA. In fact, the 25-page document
consisted only of declassified information, while the “as a platform for Kremlin messaging to
evidence has been allegedly hidden behind a veil of Russian and international audiences.”
secrecy.
Page countered that view, saying that the US media deep
The CIA and FBI said they had “high roots with big politics.
confidence” in the results of the report,
while the NSA only had “moderate “If you compare the impact of some US
confidence.” media outlets which have been proven to
have a very close interaction and
“I think it’s quite speculative and they have relationship with Mrs Clinton and her team
been looking for some way to possibly prop and her surrogates, I think any impact or
up their theory that was just out there,” any of those accusations are very minor in
Page said, comparison,” Page told RT.

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He also concluded that Clinton’s interaction with the between Washington and Moscow, saying that by
media over the past year was way more “direct” and reviewing the US mainstream media one gets a lot of
“unfair.” During the interview, Trump's ex-campaign aide “disinformation” on Russia.
advocated for stronger “people-to-people” dialogue
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Pressure On Trump To Continue
Dirty Business As Usual
Stephen Lendman
1-9-2017

Trump scares US dark forces, the same elements backing


Hillary’s campaign. They fear his anti-establishment On January 9, a letter sent him through his transition team
sounding rhetoric, uncertain what he’ll do in office - by Eastern European officials suspiciously sounds like a
mainly what geopolitical agenda he’ll pursue. text written in Washington for them to sign - using them as
proxies, getting them to say what they wouldn’t otherwise.
Will he be a warrior like the Clintons, Bush/Cheney and
Obama? Will he pursue America’s imperial agenda Seventeen mostly unfamiliar names signed it, repeating
unchanged? lies originating from Washington, repeated by key NATO
member countries - disgracefully claiming their “way of
Will he continue adversarial relations with Russia, China, life” is threatened by Russia, an outrageous perversion of
Iran and other independent nations? Will he want them all truth.
replaced by US vassal states?
The signatories expressed contrived concern over “the
Will diplomacy on his watch be a smokescreen like now, prospect of a new grand bargain” between Trump and
concealing Washington’s aim for unchallenged global Putin.
dominance - wars and color revolutions its main strategies
of choice? They claimed “(i)t would be a grave mistake to end the
current sanctions on Russia or accept the division and
Or will he go his own way, diverging from longstanding subjugation of Ukraine…The rules-based international
US policies when he thinks it’s the right thing to do? Will order on which Western security has depended for decades
he improve relations with Russia, following through on would be weakened…American greatness would erode.”
what he suggested while campaigning, getting along with
Putin instead of treating him adversarially the way it is Fact: Sanctions were illegally imposed. No subjugation of
now? Ukraine exists. Crimea wasn’t annexed. America’s endless
wars of aggression against nations posing no threat to
Will he be a responsible leader or just another dirty anyone transformed it into a pariah state.
politician? Answers to these questions await his ascension
to power. The signatories lied, calling Putin adversarial and
untrustworthy, despicably claiming “Russia’s record of
I call him America’s tweeter-in-chief. I’ve tweeted him a militarism, wars, threats, broken treaties and false
number of comments, using his favored communication promises” during his tenure.
form when not on the stump, holding press conferences or
giving interviews. “A deal with Putin will not bring peace…(I)t
makes war more likely.”
Here’s a few sent in recent days:
Rubbish this distorted likely came from Washington.
Dark forces want you undermined. Resist. Do the right Putin abhors war, champions peace, favors multi-world
thing. Go for broke for world peace and stability. polarity, and mutual cooperation among all nations for the
benefit of all.
Defy expectations. Change longstanding destructive
practices. Be heroic. Make your leadership historic. Trump is taking heat from US dark forces and willing
foreign proxies. Will he bend or go his own way? Will he
Hopefully you don't now buy the Russian hacking fake do the right thing or match the wickedness of the Clintons,
news story. Information was leaked, not hacked, Russia Bush/Cheney and Obama?
uninvolved.
His legacy and world peace depend on the choices he
Maybe his handlers pass on some comments for him to makes.
see, selective food for thought.
.

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Sorry, Meryl But That Hypocritical Anti-Trump Rant Was
Easily The Worst Performance Of Your Career
(Apart From That Time You Gave A Child
Rapist A Standing Ovation)
By Piers Morgan For Mailonline
Published: 09:08 EST, 9 January 2017 | Updated: 04:30 EST, 10 January 2017

Oh, Meryl.

Not you, too?

Just when I thought we’d exhausted the reservoir of


Trump-hating luvvies, up pops the biggest star in
Hollywood to join the bandwagon and stick one more
stiletto-heeled boot into the President-elect ten days before
his inauguration.

Let me make one thing clear before I continue: I love


Meryl Streep.

She’s the greatest actress in history (and not, as Trump


disingenuously tweeted today, ‘one of the most overrated Trump was wrong with his response when he called her
in Hollywood’!). She’s also, and I speak from personal overrated - she's the greatest actress in history and is a
experience, a delightful woman - incredibly smart, warm, warm, funny, decent woman, but her attack on him was
funny and decent. terrible

In fact, there’s no better role model for any budding actor,


or finer example of true feminist power at its very best.

So when she speaks, the world listens.

Last night, Streep received a Lifetime Achievement award


at the Golden Globes, and chose the moment to launch a
very personal attack on Donald Trump.

She began by saying that Hollywood, foreigners and the


press are

‘the most vilified segments of American


The new luvvie in Tinseltown: Meryl Streep chose her Lifetime
society right now’.
Achievement award to launch an attack on Donald Trump in a show
of elitist snobbery At which point the cameras panned out to hundreds of the
richest, most privileged people in American society sitting
in the audience in their $10,000 tuxedos and $20,000
dresses, loudly cheering this acknowledgement of their
dreadful victimhood.

She then said that if all the ‘outsiders and foreigners’ were
kicked out of Hollywood, ‘you’ll have nothing to watch
but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.’

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Wow. head. This instinct to humiliate when it’s
modelled by someone in the public
I haven’t heard such elitist snobbery since Hillary Clinton platform, by someone powerful, filters down
branded Trump supporters ‘a basket of deplorables’. into everybody’s life because it kind of
gives permission for other people to do the
same thing.’

Hmmm.

Really, Meryl?

For starters, the incident to which she referred didn’t


happen last year, it happened in 2015. There’s even been
another Golden Globes in between then and now, at which
it was never mentioned.

Second, Trump has always furiously denied – and has


again today on Twitter - he was mocking the reporter’s
disability and a Conservative website produced video
evidence of numerous other instances where he made the
exact same gesture to fully able-bodied people when
attacking them. (See here and decide for yourself)

Applauding her were hundreds of the richest, most


privileged people in American society sitting in the
audience in their $10,000 tuxedos and $20,000 dresses,
loudly cheering this acknowledgement of their dreadful The 2016 event Streep referred to happened in 2015 and Trump has
victimhood repeatedly denied he mocked anyone's disability with his floundering
- he has done the same impression of able body people multiple times
For your information, Ms Streep, tens of millions of
ordinary Americans love football and the MMA and would Third, the reporter is hardly a powerless individual with
be quite happy watching their favourite sports at the ‘no capacity to fight back’; he’s a long-time Pulitzer-prize
expense of the next Woody Allen film. winning investigative journalist at the New York Times, a
paper that’s trashed Trump for decades.
Her real target, though, was Trump. She’d come to take
him down, and that is exactly what she proceeded to do. But putting all that to one side for a moment – and if
Trump WAS mocking a man’s disability then I agree it
‘There were many powerful performances this year that was disgraceful - let’s move to what Streep said next:
did breathtaking, compassionate work,’ she said. ‘But
there was one performance that stunned me. It sank it ‘Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence
hooks in my heart, not because it was good – there’s incites violence. When the powerful use
nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its their position to bully others, we all lose.’
job. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in
the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled At this point, I laughed out loud with incredulity.
reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege and power
and the capacity to fight back.’ Not at the words themselves, which are laudable.

Meryl’s bottom lip began to tremble. No, it was at the hypocrisy.

‘It kind of broke my heart when I saw it,’ You’d be hard-pushed to find an industry that encourages
she cried, ‘and I still can’t get it out of my more disrespect and violence than Hollywood.

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A place where rich powerful people make billions of her feet and gave child rapist Roman Polanski a standing
dollars by regularly pandering to the lowest common ovation after he was announced as winner of Best Director
denominators of sexism, racism, homophobia and for The Pianist?
misogyny.

And happily exploit ever more hideous, graphic violence


to make a fast, easy buck.

And seethe from every tinsel-encrusted pore with the very


kind of nasty, power-based bullying that Meryl Streep
claims to be so incensed by in Trump.

So great though her censorious words indisputably are,


they would be perhaps better directed at her own back
yard.
At the 2003 Oscars Streep leaped to her feet and gave child
To highlight just one example of Streep’s shocking rapist Roman Polanski a standing ovation. He wasn't there
hypocrisy, what about the 2003 Oscars when she leaped to as he would get arrested on American soil

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Assange Blasts 'Embarrassing' ODNI Report,
Says 'No Evidence' Given
Published Time: 9 Jan, 2017 14:03Edited Time: 10 Jan, 2017 12:34

provide additional information as this could


lead to their identification.
"Take the data now, keep it under your bed
or with your mother. You can give it to
WikiLeaks,” Assange said, encouraging
members of the Obama administration to
prevent information being destroyed before
he leaves office.

Karl-Josef Hildenbrand / DPA / Global Look Press He denied that WikiLeaks posessed information from
the Republican National Committee which they refused to
During a press conference Monday, publish, calling the claim "false."
WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange
criticized the recent ODNI report Assange said he believed that
describing it as "quite embarrassing to whistleblowers would continue to be
the reputations of the US intelligence persecuted under Trump's administration,
services." saying "No system of authority likes those
who undermine their authority.”

The whistleblowing site has been accused of working with


the Russian government to ensure Donald Trump’s victory
in the US presidential elections.

Assange answered questions submitted via #AskWL on Both WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange have
Twitter for over an hour, which was streamed live via repeatedly denied the leaks came from state actors, with
Periscope from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. former UK ambassador and WikiLeaks associate Craig
Murray stating the leak came from a “disgusted”
whistleblower from within the Democratic establishment.
He described the ODNI's report as
containing "zero evidentiary weight" and
being "deliberately political." The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s
(ODNI) unclassified findings report released Friday has
drawn much criticism and mockery for its apparent lack of
Asked about the source of the leaked emails from Hillary
evidence and its substantial padding with outdated details
Clinton campaign chair John Podesta Assange denied it
about RT.
was a state
It claims Russian President Vladimir Putin personally
"If our sources were a state we would have
ordered a negative online campaign to influence the
a lot less concern in attempting to protect
elections in a bid to facilitate a Trump victory, and that the
them,” he said, adding that he would not
Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate
(GRU) then fed the information to WikiLeaks.
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“We assess with high confidence that the because if you knew, you could say … in
GRU relayed material it acquired from the public ‘according to multiple sources we
DNC and senior Democratic officials to know that.’ You state facts.”
WikiLeaks,” it read.
The report states the Russian government is behind the
Among critics was former CIA analyst Larry C Johnson ‘DC Leaks’ website and Romanian hacker Guccifer 2.0,
who described the report as a “farce” and a “charade," who released emails from the DNC and other Democrats.
claiming Hillary Clinton was effective in discrediting
herself, without needing the help of Russia. While the report does state that Russians didn’t meddle
with voter tallies to influence the results of the election, it
“I don’t think they’re hiding anything claims that the Russian government smeared Clinton.
because they don’t have anything,”
Johnson told RT. “These are ‘or and how’ While the report states the CIA and FBI have “high
intelligence estimates as opposed to an confidence” the hacks were ordered to help Trump. The
intelligence analysis based on fact. There’s NSA, who deals in signals intelligence over human
no fact underlying this. There are analytical intelligence, have “moderate confidence.”
assumptions.”
“You can tell that because whenever they The report also cites Russian politicians celebrating
use the language like ‘we assess that’ or Trump’s win as further evidence. It does not, however,
‘we believe that’ or ‘it’s likely that’,” he draw the same conclusions about the Israeli government’s
added. “That means they don’t know, delight at Trump’s victory.

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US Intel Agencies Try To Strong-Arm
Trump Into War With Russia
By Mike Whitney
January 10, 2017

to offer opinions on issues that clearly conflict with those


of the new President-elect. Trump has stated repeatedly
that he wants to reduce tensions and reset relations with
Russia, but that policy is being sabotaged by members of
the intelligence community, particularly CIA Director John
Brennan who appeared just last week on PBS Newshour
with Judy Woodruff. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

“We see that there are still a lot of actions


that Russia is undertaking that undermine
the principles of democracy in so many
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countries. What has happened in our
recent election is not new. The Russians
Powerful elites are using the credibility of the US have engaged in trying to manipulate
Intelligence agencies to demonize Russia and prepare the elections in Europe for a number of
country for war. This is the real meaning of the “Russia years…the Russians tried to interfere in our
hacking” story which, as yet, has not produced any hard electoral process recently, and were
evidence of Russian complicity. actively involved in that. And that is
something that we can’t countenance.”
Last week’s 25-page report, that was released by the (“Interview with CIA Director John
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, illustrates Brennan”, PBS Newshour)
to what extent intelligence is being “fixed around the
policy”. Just as the CIA generated false information Brennan, of course, provided no evidence for his claims
related to Weapons of Mass Destruction to soften public nor did he mention the hundreds of CIA interventions
resistance to war with Iraq, so too, the spurious allegations around the world. But Brennan’s accusations are less
in the DNI’s politically-motivated report are designed to important than the fact that his appearance on a nationwide
depict Russia as a growing threat to US national security. broadcast identifies him as a political advocate for policies
The timing of the report has less to do with the election of that conflict with those of the new president. Do we really
Donald Trump as President than it does with critical want unelected intelligence officials — whose job it is to
developments in Syria where the Russian military has provide the president with sensitive information related to
defeated US-proxies in Syria’s industrial hub, Aleppo, national security– to assume a partisan role in shaping
rolling back Washington’s 15-year War of Terror and policy? And why would Brennan –whose is supposed to
derailing the imperialist plan to control vital resources and “serve at the pleasure of the president”– accept an
pipeline corridors across the Middle East and Central Asia. invitation to offer his views on Russia when he knew they
Russia has become the main obstacle to Washington would be damaging to the new administration?
achieving its strategic vision of pivoting to Asia and
maintaining its dominant role into the next century. The
Powerful people behind the scenes are obviously pushing
Intelligence Community has been coerced into
the heads of these intelligence agencies to stick to their
compromising its credibility to incite fear of Russia and to
‘anti-Moscow’ narrative to force Trump to abandon his
advance the geopolitical ambitions of deep state
plan for peaceful relations with Moscow. Brennan isn’t
powerbrokers.
calling the shots and neither are Clapper or Comey.
They’re all merely agents serving the interests
The “Russia hacking” flap shows how far the Intel of establishment plutocrats whose geopolitical
agencies have veered from their original mandate, which is agenda doesn’t jibe with that of the incoming
to impartially gather and analyze information that may administration. If that wasn’t the case, then why would the
be vital to US national security. As we have seen in the last Intelligence Community stake its reputation on such thin
two weeks, the leaders of these organizations feel free gruel as this Russian hacking gibberish? It doesn’t make
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any sense. The people who launched this campaign are What’s really going on here? Why have the Intelligence
either supremely arrogant or extremely desperate. Which is agencies savaged their credibility just to convince people
it? Here’s an excerpt from an article by veteran that Russia is up to no good?
journalist Robert Parry sums it up like this in an article at
Consortium News: The Russia hacking story has more to do with recent
developments in Syria than it does with delegitimizing
“The DNI report amounted to a Donald Trump. Aleppo was a real wake up call for the US
compendium of reasons to suspect that foreign policy establishment which is beginning to realize
Russia was the source of the information – that their plans for the next century have been gravely
built largely on the argument that Russia undermined by Russia’s military involvement in Syria.
had a motive for doing so because of its Aleppo represents the first time that an armed coalition of
disdain for Democratic nominee Clinton allied states (Russia, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah) have actively
and the potential for friendlier relations with engaged US jihadist-proxies and soundly beat them to a
Republican nominee Trump. pulp. The stunning triumph in Aleppo has spurred hope
But the case, as presented, is one-sided among the vassal states that Washington’s bloody
and lacks any actual proof. Further, the military juggernaut can be repelled, rolled back and
continued use of the word “assesses” – as defeated. And if Washington’s CIA-armed, trained and
in the U.S. intelligence community funded jihadists can be repelled, then the elitist plan to
“assesses” that Russia is guilty – suggests project US power into Central Asia to dominate the
that the underlying classified information world’s most populous and prosperous region, will
also may be less than conclusive because, probably fail. In other words, the outcome in Aleppo has
in intelligence-world-speak, “assesses” cast doubts on Uncle Sam’s ability to successfully execute
often means “guesses.” (“US Report Still its pivot to Asia.
Lacks Proof on Russia ‘Hack’”, Robert
Parry, Consortium News) That’s why the Intel agencies have been employed to
shape public perceptions on Russia. Their job is to prepare
Bottom line: Brennan and his fellow spooks have nothing. the American people for an escalation of hostilities
The report is little more than a catalogue of unfounded between the two nuclear-armed superpowers. US
assumptions, baseless speculation and uncorroborated powerbrokers are determined to intensify the conflict and
conjecture. In colloquial parlance, it’s bullshit, 100 reverse facts on the ground. (Recent articles by elites at the
percent, unalloyed Russophobic horse-manure. In fact, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institute
authors admit as much in the transcript itself when they reveal that they are as committed to partitioning Syria as
say: ever.) Washington wants to reassert its exceptional role as
the uncontested steward of global security and the lone
‘unipolar’ world power.
“Judgments are not intended to imply that
we have proof that shows something to be
a fact. Assessments are based on collected That’s what this whole “hacking” fiasco is about. The big
information, which is often incomplete or shots who run the country are trying to strong-arm ‘the
fragmentary, as well as logic, Donald’ into carrying their water so the depredations can
argumentation, and precedents.” continue and Central Asia can be transformed
into a gigantic Washington-dominated corporate free trade
zone where the Big Money calls the shots and Capital
What kind of kooky admission is that? So the entire report reigns supreme. That’s their dreamstate, Capitalist
could be BS but we’re supposed to believe that Putin Valhalla.
flipped the election? Is that it???
They just need Trump to get-with-the-program so the
bloodletting can continue apace.

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‘Insider Leaks, Not Russian Hacking’: CIA & MI5
Veterans Discuss ODNI Report On RT
Published Time: 10 Jan, 2017 06:49edited Time: 10 Jan, 2017

“The fact that WikiLeaks puts out emails, I


think there is a plausible case to be made
that they were in fact leaked to WikiLeaks,”
Johnson pointed out, adding that “what we
found out was not disinformation but actual
truthful information.”

James Woolsey, who served as CIA director from 1993 to


1995, argues that omission of key evidence from the report
is a normal practice in the US intelligence. Speaking about
abrupt expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats framed as
Former CIA chief James Woolsey, former CIA analyst Larry “intelligence operatives” in December last year as part of
Johnson, and former MI5 officer Annie Machon spoke to RT about
the US response to Russia’s alleged interference in US
what the ODNI report on alleged Russian hacking reveals about the
nature of their claims and the current state of the US intelligence.
elections on the side of Donald Trump, Woolsey said that

“any time an intelligence officer is declared


In live debates hosted by RT on Monday night, Woolsey,
persona non-grata and excluded from the
Johnson, and Machon took turns providing their expert
country, it is virtually never the case the
opinions on the Office of the Director of National
evidence is shown.”
Intelligence (ODNI) reported entitled “Assessing Russian
Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections,” which “Again, it’s a problem of disclosing sources
was released on January 6. and methods,” Woolsey argued.

Missing evidence? Machon, who resigned from MI5 in 1996 and became a
whistleblower, disagrees with the presumption of secrecy,
saying that the report in its present form looks
The unclassified ODNI report was expected to shed light
on the scope of Russian involvement in the DNC leaks and “intelligence-light.” The former MI5 agent believes that
provide evidence supporting the claims made by the US all this secrecy talk is a no more than a smokescreen to
intelligence community. Instead, the report has proven to disguise the fact that the data was mostly collected “across
the internet.”
be quite a disappointment, with WikiLeaks editor Julian
Assange slamming it as having “zero evidentiary weight.”
“Of course, they are going to claim that
Former CIA agent Larry Johnson told RT that what had they need to cut out the actual smoking
struck him about the report the most is that it contained gun, the evidence from this report. But
“not one shred of evidence” to back up the sprawling actually, I don’t think anyone would be
accusations against the Russian government. surprised at the depth of the penetration of
the internet gathering of information,” she
said.
“At some point in that process, we should
have seen either an electronic or human
Machon believes that if “indeed there had been hacking,
source that said Vladimir Putin or someone
there would be traces that could be found,” she said, citing
in his government had directed the cyber
estimates by William Binney, a former NSA intelligence
command in Russia to start a program or a
official turned whistleblower.
plan… There is not one source of
information in that report,” he said, arguing
that such negligence in failing to provide a “If… those traces have not been found,
single source indicates that the so-called have not been reported, without any
“hacks” were instead the result of internal particular scientific methodology behind it –
leaks. it does make the report very evidence-
light,” she stressed.

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Confidence discrepancies If the FBI was convinced that the DNC leaks were a result
from a hacking attack, then they would be treated as
Recent statements and reports released in connection with “criminal acts that took place in the United States.”
the alleged state-sponsored cyber activity of Moscow have
been marked by conflicting assessments of confidence and “So, at the minimum, the FBI should have
actual disclaimers relieving certain agencies of been building a case and under than, it
responsibility for the accuracy of the information. they had enough evidence, they can file a
complaint and an indictment could be
“You cannot have a consensus in the issued, indictment outstanding against
intelligence community unless there has Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for receiving
been a document circulated within that stolen material, if in fact it was hacked,”
community with which they are given a Johnson said, stressing that the fact that
chance or either agree or disagree, dissent this is not happening indicates a leak rather
or modify,” Johnson argued, pointing to the than a hack.
lack of any such written document. “The reality was, it was leaked, it was given
to him [Assange].”
Instead, “we had a change of story” in the middle of the
investigation, he said, with the perceived consensus on the Parallels with Iraqi WMDs
issue among 17 agencies being boiled down to three, with
a couple of equally important agencies such as the Defense Speaking to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos last week,
Intelligence Agency missing. outgoing US President Barack Obama confessed he had
called on Donald Trump to listen to the intelligence
“He [James Clapper] comes up and says community, even if their findings appear to be raw.
there’s a consensus among the 17
intelligence agencies. This document “When I talked to him about our intelligence
reflects only the so-called consensus of agencies, what I’ve said to him is that there
NSA, CIA and FBI. The fact that the DIA is are going to be times where you’ve got raw
not even included, who is an expert on intelligence that comes in and, in my
[Russian Main Intelligence Directorate] experience over eight years, the
GRU, is stunning,” Johnson noted. intelligence community is pretty good about
saying, ‘Look, we can’t say for certain what
Woolsey argued that there is nothing unusual about this means,’” Obama said.
different agencies not sharing the same perspective on
events, adding that although there are 17 intelligence There is a great deal of danger behind this attitude, argues
agencies in the US, most of them would not play any role Annie Machon, saying that a “flawed intelligence case”
in the discussions and assessments of the issue. At the led the UK to war in Iraq.
same time, the fact that the agencies – the NSA on one
side, and the CIA and FBI on the other – show
“In the UK, for example, MI6 was feeding
“moderate” and “high confidence” in the report,
tidbits of raw and unassessed intelligence
constitutes a “small to moderate size discrepancy.”
from unestablished sources directly into the
reports that were presented to the UK
Another detail that has cast doubt on the credibility of the parliament where the MPs voted to take us
report is Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to this war. It’s very dangerous path to go
himself, who was accused of perjury for lying under oath down for intelligence agencies,” Machon
to the US Senate that the NSA did not collect any warned, adding that publishing these types
intelligence on millions of American citizens. of reports in the first place implies “a
certain degree of politicization going on
“This thing is so ridiculous, and the fact that behind the scenes of these reports.”
you have these guys like John Brennan
and Jim Clapper who both lied to Asked whether the ODNI report should be considered a
Congress, and they lied under oath, is case of raw intelligence, Woolsey could not provide a clear
reprehensible. They should not be allowed answer.
to still be on the job,” Johnson argued.
“Well, I think it could be a mixture, the short
While not denying that Russia has a cyber-warfare answer is – I don’t know,” he said.
capability and intelligence organizations in the US – and
vice versa – he said the facts in this particular case “simply
don’t add up.”
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Johnson pointed out that the notorious assessment on “Just the fact that you can source evidence
Iraq’s WMDs and nuclear program did contain some doesn’t make something right,” he said.
factual evidence, but as Woolsey pointed out, the report
was largely misleading.
.

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Democrats Are Playing
With Fire On Russia
By Norman Solomon
January 10, 2017

Two months after the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the most critique by former Associated Press and Newsweek
cohesive message from congressional Democrats is: blame reporter Robert Parry. Stripping the 25-page DNI report
Russia. The party leaders have doubled down on an down to its essence, Parry pointed out that it
approach that got nowhere during the presidential
campaign — trying to tie the Kremlin around Donald “contained no direct evidence that Russia
Trump’s neck. delivered hacked emails from the
Democratic National Committee and Hillary
Still more interested in playing to the press gallery than Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta
speaking directly to the economic distress of voters in the to WikiLeaks.”
Rust Belt and elsewhere who handed the presidency to
Trump, top Democrats would much rather scapegoat Parry added:
Vladimir Putin than scrutinize how they’ve lost touch with
working-class voters. Meanwhile, the emerging incendiary
“The DNI report amounted to a
rhetoric against Russia is extremely dangerous. It could
compendium of reasons to suspect that
lead to a military confrontation between two countries that Russia was the source of the information
each have thousands of nuclear weapons. — built largely on the argument that Russia
had a motive for doing so because of its
At the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last disdain for Democratic nominee Clinton
Thursday on foreign cyber threats, ranking member Jack and the potential for friendlier relations with
Reed (D-RI) denounced “Russia’s rejection of the post- Republican nominee Trump. But the case,
Cold War international order and aggressive actions as presented, is one-sided and lacks any
against its neighbors,” and he condemned “a regime with actual proof.”
values and interests so antithetical to our own.” It was the
kind of oratory that would have made John Foster Dulles While stenographic accounts of official claims have
or Barry Goldwater proud. dominated coverage of the January 6 report, major flaws
are coming to light in mainstream media. For instance, a
Like so many other senators on the committee, Reed piece that appeared on Saturday in the New York Times, by
seemed eager for a new Cold War while accusing the foe Scott Shane, reported in its ninth paragraph:
of digital aggression.
“What is missing from the public report is
“In addition to stealing information from the what many Americans most eagerly
Democratic National Committee and the anticipated: hard evidence to back up the
Clinton campaign,” he said, “and cherry- agencies’ claims that the Russian
picking what information it leaked to the government engineered the election
media, the Russian government also attack.”
created and spread fake news and
conspiracies across the vast social media The article reported:
landscape.’’
“Under the circumstances, many in
The Russian government may have hacked the DNC and Washington expected the agencies to
Clinton campaign emails, and it may have given those make a strong public case to erase any
emails to WikiLeaks. But that’s hardly a slam dunk. uncertainty. Instead, the message from the
agencies essentially amounts to ‘trust us.’
Over the weekend, after Friday’s release of a much- There is no discussion of the forensics
ballyhooed report from the office of Director of National used to recognize the handiwork of known
Intelligence James Clapper, the report underwent a cogent hacking groups, no mention of intercepted
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communications between the Kremlin and give the party a long-term political stake in further
the hackers, no hint of spies reporting from demonizing the Russian government.
inside Moscow’s propaganda machinery.”
The reality is grim, and potentially catastrophic beyond
But Democratic lawmakers aren’t interested in doubts or comprehension. By pushing to further polarize with the
caveats. They believe the Russian hacking issue is a Kremlin, congressional Democrats are increasing the
political winner. Whether or not that’s true, it’s certainly a chances of a military confrontation with Russia. By
convenient way to evade the sobering lessons that should teaming up with the likes of Republican senators John
have been learned from the last election about the McCain and Lindsey Graham to exert bipartisan pressure
Democratic Party’s lack of authenticity in its claims to be for escalation, Democrats could help stampede the Trump
fighting for the interests of working people. administration in reckless directions.

At the same time, enthusiasm for banging the drum against This approach is already underway. It is worse than
Putin is fast becoming a big part of the Democratic Party’s irresponsible. It is madness that could lead to a nuclear
public identity in 2017. And — insidiously — that’s apt to holocaust.
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Note To Meryl Streep And All The
Left-Wing Hollywood Fantasy Land Inhabitants:
Being Famous, Ignorant And Loudmouthed Is Not
An Award-Worthy Achievement
By: Mike Adams
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Hollywood leftists are hopelessly out of touch with the


real world

Famous people aren’t used to being told “no.” In the


fantasy world they inhabit, everyone caters to their silly
whims, and everyone says “yes” without critical dissent.

This is exactly what makes Meryl Streep,


Martin Sheen, Cher, Jimmy Kimmel, Matt
Damon and a long list of other hopelessly
“bubble minded” left-wing Hollywood types
hopelessly out of touch with the real
The greatest mistake people like Meryl Streep keep
world (and frankly boring as hell to be
making is thinking that they are experts in geopolitics and
around, because they have no meaningful
the structure of free societies.
ideas that matter).

In truth, all the left-wing Hollywood fantasy They’re so out of touch that they don’t even
land inhabitants are pathetically realize the world is mocking them when
uninformed, unintelligent and largely they talk about politics.
unimportant to the real world.
Hearing Meryl Streep talk about politics is a lot like
They are actors, not analysts. They are experts in make listening to a Starbucks barista give you stock market
believe, not experts in reality. They’ve become so good at investment advice. The total cluelessness of these people
the art of impersonation and deception that they are even just astounds the senses and offends the mind. I cringe at
able to deceive themselves into thinking they’re the most the thought of wasting time hanging out with famous
important people in society. people who are completely clueless about world events.
While I have many friends in Hollywood who genuinely
are famous people, they happen to be the few who are well
As a result, they may have pretty faces, but
informed, patriotic and humble.
they have incredibly ugly ideas.

Meryl Streep leads Hollywood’s nauseating parade of


With notable exceptions such as Jon Voight — a true
American hero — most of the actors in Hollywood are so stupidity and ignorance
out of touch with the American people that they have no
clue how the real world works. A typical Natural News reader knows a hundred times
more about geopolitics, finance and government than
I’ve actually had famous people call me Meryl Streep will ever know… yet she parades around
and want to do interviews with me who with an air of moral superiority that demands people listen
were then completely shocked that I told to her analysis of world events for no other reason than the
them “no” because I didn’t think they were fact that she’s really convincing when pretending to be
serious enough people to give a platform other people.
on Natural News.
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Meryl Streep: You’re an actor. Nothing more. Your known as MMA. If you want to be taken
opinions on geopolitics not only don’t matter; they are seriously as a political analyst, stop being
offensive to those of us who are real analysts of world an actor and learn something real about
events. geopolitics.
 If you want to be taken seriously as a
Your secret recipe of ignorance and person, stop spending your life pretending
stupidity combined with arrogance and self- to be someone else.
importance is frankly nauseating to every
informed person in the world.  If you want to be respected for your ideas,
discover ideas that aren’t rooted in
delusion.
I still can’t believe Clint Eastwood was even willing to
work beside you in Bridges of Madison County. Eastwood  If you want to make the world a better
is a genuine American: Informed, hard working, place, first get out of your delusional
courageous and determined. bubble of Hollywood elitists who are
completely clueless about reality.
More importantly, Eastwood is a humble  If you want to live a life that matters, then
man who doesn’t run around demanding you’ll have to do more than just “play
everyone kow-tow to his political worldview pretend” in your fantasy bubble known as
just because he’s a famous person. Hollywood. Wake up and look in the mirror:
You are famous, but unimportant. You are
It doesn’t even matter how many “awards” you’ve won well known but widely despised. You have
from your fellow uninformed Hollywood cohorts. influence and a voice, yet you use it to
Honestly, to most Americans, racking up awards in spread lies and disinformation. You abuse
Hollywood is of no more consequence than gaining bonus your celebrity, you insult your audience
points in an arcade game. They’re both artificial realities and you further cement the widely held
— bubbles of self-aggrandizement that are completely belief that most people in Hollywood are
isolated from reality. Win all the awards you want… delusional, disconnected morons when it
you’re still completely clueless how the world really works comes to the real world.
and why the political philosophies you espouse always end
Frankly, you’ve just given millions of
up creating murderous tyrannies and endless human
Americans one more good reason to turn
suffering. Until you learn real history and understand the
off the TV, stop watching Hollywood
cycles of human liberty and tyranny, you should shut your
left-wing propaganda and start doing
trap unless you’re playing a character, in which case we
something that matters in the real world.
already know everything you say is “pretend.”
You are offensive to the intellect, and an insult to the arts.
Meryl Streep exemplifies the crude intolerance and
If you want to live a life that truly matters, you’ll have to
bullying of the Hollywood left do better than being famous, ignorant and loudmouthed.

Meryl Streep, let me give you an actual lesson in reality. If you really want to understand the real world, call up Jon
Voight, beg him for forgiveness, and ask him to explain
 If you want tolerance in the world, stop reality to you. Until you do that, the consensus around the
being intolerant. If you want people to be world is that you should #STFU and go back to acting.
treated with dignity, stop insulting the (Yet now, I can’t even watch a movie with you in it
incredibly diverse athletic competition without unintentionally activating a gag reflex…)

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MMA Fighters Hit Back At Meryl Streep
Following Golden Globes Jab
By Heat Street Staff
6:43 Am, January 10, 2017

“Really weird to see someone talk about


not discriminating then basically
discriminate against an entire group of
skilled, hard working ppl.”

Others reminded her that numerous Ultimate Fighting


Championship’s titleholders hail from many parts of the
world, with champions Jose Aldo, Conor McGregor,
Amanda Nunes or MMA superstar Ronda Rousey all
having roots outside the country.

Meryl Streep’s pedantic jab at football and MMA fans


during her now infamous Golden Globes anti-Trump tirade
on Sunday did not only confirm her status as a member of
the out-of-touch Hollywood elite, but also annoyed a few
people along the way. And now they’re hitting back.

Streep, who received the honorary Cecil B. DeMille


Golden Globe for lifetime achievement, used her
acceptance speech to take a swipe at Trump’s anti-
immigration rhetoric, claiming that high culture was under
threat:

“Hollywood is crawling with foreigners and


if you kick them all out all you have to
watch is football and Mixed Martial Arts,”
she opined.
“And those,” she continued, “are not arts.”
Martial Arts promoter Scott Coker went even further and
penned an open letter to the actress, saying:
Her words not only seemed to imply that MMA and
football were lowbrow forms of entertainment for paupers,
“Meryl,
but that these sports were also less inclusive of
foreigners than the Seventh Art. I’m a lifelong fan of your work but also a
lifelong martial artist who happens to
Aggrieved, several fighters and mixed martial arts promote mixed martial arts around the
supporters took to Twitter to voice their opinions on world.
Streep’s comments. Many pointed to the double standard The global sport of mixed martial art
in her speech, which called on Americans to rise above celebrates males and female athletes from
hatred and intolerance yet casually dissed an entire class of around the world who work years tirelessly
sports and their fans. honing their crafts and – yes – arts. They
come from every country and every walk of
UFC Host Megan Olivi wrote: life. We at Bellator support them and honor
their skill.

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Please be my guest at the LA forum on In a letter posted on his official Facebook page, UFC
January 21st and you will see that Mixed champion Josh Barnett also took issue with Streep’s
Martial Arts is truly artistic – which will remarks, joking that, to everyone’s misfortune, her nose
feature fighters from all over the world was “so high in the air” her glasses would never fall from
competing at a world class level.” it and stop her from reading her pompous speeches:

“While it [Mixed Martial Arts] may not have


the civil, often upper class air to it that your
art does, it is not devoid of talent, skill,
training or schooling,” he said.
“Stay classy” he added.

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U.S. Small-Business Optimism Index
Surges By Most Since 1980
By Vince Golle
January 10, 2017, 5:00 AM CST January 10, 2017, 9:52 AM CST

Optimism among America’s small businesses soared in the end of 2004, from 98.4. While seven of the 10
December by the most since 1980 as expectations about components increased in December, 73 percent of the
the economy’s prospects improved dramatically in the monthly advance was due to more upbeat views about the
aftermath of the presidential election. outlook for sales and the economy, the Washington-based
group said.
The National Federation of Independent Business’s index
jumped 7.4 points last month to 105.8, the highest since

The share of business owners who say now is a good time represent more than 99 percent of all U.S employers,
to expand is three times the average of the current according to the U.S. Small Business Administration. A
expansion, according to the NFIB’s data. More companies small business is defined as an independent enterprise with
also said they plan to increase investment and keep hiring, no more than 500 employees.
which reflects optimism surrounding President-elect
Donald Trump’s plans of spurring the economy through Fifty percent of respondents, the biggest share since March
deregulation, tax reform and infrastructure spending. 2002, said they expect better business conditions in the
next six months. That was 38 percentage points higher
“Rising confidence adds to the economy’s than in November. The net share of firms projecting higher
upward momentum,” Jim O’Sullivan, chief sales jumped by 20 points to 31 percent. Some 29 percent
U.S. economist at High Frequency say they will boost capital outlays within six months.
Economics in Valhalla, New York, said in a
note. At the same time, the “NFIB “We haven’t seen numbers like this in a
membership appears to be long time,” Juanita Duggan, president and
disproportionately Republican, so it is chief executive of the NFIB, said in a
possible that the data will start overstating statement. “Small business is ready for a
strength, opposite the pattern during the breakout, and that can only mean very
Obama administration.” good things for the U.S. economy.
Business owners are feeling better about
The NFIB report was based on a survey of 619 small- taking risks and making investments.”
business owners through Dec. 28. Small companies
.

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Media Say Hacked Emails Are Critical,
But Can't Say Why
By Eddie Scarry (@Escarry)
1/10/17 12:01 AM

Many in the national media are certain that hacked emails But news reports and journalists are asserting that the
hurt Hillary Clinton's chances in the election, but their emails, at least in some capacity, cost Clinton the election.
reports and columns rarely cite any of the emails' contents
that would have presumably affected the outcome. "Was it the Russians who turned
Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania
Members of the press have made a new push to assert that truly red?" said Times columnist Maureen
Russian hacking had an effect on the election, especially Dowd on Saturday, referring to the formerly
after last week's unclassified report that said Russia did try blue states that Trump won on Election
to help President-elect Trump, and hurt Hillary Clinton. Day.
That report made no finding of how effective Russia was,
but many in the press are deciding nonetheless that the The Trump team has maintained that its victory is
effort had a huge impact. legitimate and that it was not helped or guaranteed by
foreign intervention. That assessment hasn't been
"While Russian hacks 'were not involved in challenged by the intelligence community, at least not in
vote tallying,' the publishing of pilfered the public version of its report.
emails ... altered the zeitgeist, poisoned the
political environment and shifted public The report did say Russia's intent was to aid Trump and
opinion, all of which redounded to Trump's harm Clinton, but it also said intelligence officials
benefit," liberal New York Times columnist
Charles Blow wrote on Monday, citing the
"did not make an assessment of the impact
intelligence report. that Russian activities had on the outcome
of the 2016 election."
The night before, Blow's colleague Jim Rutenberg, who
writes a column on media, said the "spilled secrets" in the Still, in an interview Sunday on CNN, anchor Jake Tapper,
emails were "damaging" to the Clinton campaign. without discussing the contents of the emails, asked Trump
adviser Kellyanne Conway,
He noted that the email revelations saw the resignation of
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman
"How can you say that the hacking had no
Schultz, and led CNN to terminate its contract with
impact on the election when Mr. Trump
Democratic strategist Donna Brazile. But neither Blow nor
[during the campaign] kept invoking
Rutenberg explained why the emails were damaging nor
WikiLeaks which was printing, publishing
did they cite examples as to what was in them.
things that the Russians had hacked?"

The emails — first the DNC ones hacked and published An article Friday in the Times called the intelligence report
last July, followed by those of Clinton campaign chair
John Podesta's in August — contained no explosive
revelations, though they did show DNC officials preferring "a damning and surprisingly detailed
Clinton to Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary. They account of Russia's efforts to undermine
also showed Clinton aides questioning some of their the American electoral system," but did not
candidates' decisions. mention the contents of the emails.

Another email showed Podesta referring to former New The Washington Post's write up of the intelligence report
Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former Transportation referred to the emails as having "embarrassed Democrats
and Energy Secretary Federico Pena, both of whom are of and kept voter attention on Clinton's email controversy."
Latin descent, as "needy Latinos." (At the time of that But again, that story listed no "embarrassing" details that
email's publication, neither the Times nor the Washington might have swayed voters away from Clinton.
Post covered it.)
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Similarly, a USA Today report in December referred to the "Just because it's hacked doesn't mean it's
emails as "a trove of sensitive communications" but did important," he wrote, adding that, "Where
not say what made them sensitive. there's a smoking gun, there isn't always
fire."
One hurdle for the press as it tries to claim the emails were
decisive were prior assessments from the media that And PolitiFact, on Dec. 1, in a since updated article, said,
downplayed the emails. Before the intelligence findings
last week, some news outlets had actually diminished the "Based on the evidence, it seems highly
importance of the email hackings. unlikely that actions by the Russian
government contributed in any decisive
In October, Times columnist James Poniewozik dismissed way to Trump's win over Clinton."
the contents of them.
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Don’t Count On Trump Being Inaugurated
Paul Craig Roberts
January 10, 2017

The Ruling Establishment Does Not Intend For Trump To The New York Times also ran with the story but did state
Become President. that there was at the present time no confirmation for the
story.
The latest “explosive” fake news is that “multiple US
officials with direct knowledge” told CNN that they have Consider these three questions:
“classified documents” that Russia has compromising
documents on Trump that would allow them to blackmail  How would a former British intelligence operative get
the US President. The documents consist of memos such extraordinary documents from Russian
compiled by a former British intelligence operative “whose intelligence?
past work US intelligence officials consider credible.”  If he had such documents, why would he hand them
over instead of selling them to Trump for a major
According to antiwar.com fortune?
 Why would such a crazy story be on CNN and in the
“the dossier claimed several figures in the New York Times unless the ruling establishment
Trump campaign were in league with the intends to use it to block Trump from the presidency?
Russian government during the campaign,
and that Russia had been conspiring with What this elevation in wild charges tells me is that the
them to groom Trump as an ally for ‘at least CIA’s effort to sell Trump on the Russian hacking did not
five years.’ It also claims exchanges of succeed, and the CIA has escalated its attack on the
information between Trump and the president-elect.
Kremlin for ‘at least eight years,’ . . . The
dossier names former Trump adviser Here are the URLs to the CNN, NYTimes, and antiwar.com
Carter Page, his personal lawyer Michael reports:
Cohen, as well as incoming National
Security Adviser Michael Flynn as having https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/01/10/politics/donald-
personally and repeatedly met with Kremlin trump-intelligence-report-russia/index.html
officials on anti-Clinton leaks.”
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/01/10/leaked-dossier-
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is the former Director of the
claims-russia-has-blackmail-videos-on-trump/
Defense Intelligence Agency. If such a high level US
intelligence official is repeatedly meeting with Kremlim
officials and the CIA has to learn about it from memos https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/us/politics/donald-
written by an unidentified former British intelligent agent, trump-russia-
the CIA is totally incompetent. intelligence.html?emc=edit_na_20170110&nlid=3165512
0&ref=cta&_r=0
The dossier claims that in Russian hands are videos of
“wild sex parties” staged by Trump on his numerous trips
to Moscow. And it gets wilder.

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The Disgusting Embrace Of Witch-Hunting
McCarthyism By 'Liberals’
Wayne MADSEN
10.01.2017

days of McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities


Committee (HUAC), those accused of being Communist
agents knew who their accusers were and could face them
down publicly.

Rather than condemn the modern-day witch-hunting by


faux liberals and progressives, the American media has
provided the accusers with maximum support. When CBS
newsman Edward R. Murrow called out McCarthy for his
bullying tactics on nationwide television, he received
support from America’s major newspapers:

The conservative Washington Evening


So-called «liberals» and «progressives», who once derided Star wrote: «everyone... resents and
those on the political right who accused their ideological detests the bully boy tactics which Senator
forbearers of kowtowing to the «Reds» and «Soviets» McCarthy so often employs.
during the era of Senator Joseph McCarthy, have dusted
off McCarthy’s playbook and are using the very same The New York World Telegram: [describing
tactics against Donald Trump and his supporters. The McCarthy’s tactics] «Bamboozling,
modern-day McCarthyites, mostly neo-conservative bludgeoning, distorting way».
Republicans and Hillary Clinton Democrats, are hitting the The New York Times: [Condemned] «the
airwaves, print media, and the Internet hard with unwarranted interference of a
accusations of Russian links by Trump and his advisers demagogue».
while haphazardly throwing around lists of alleged
«Russian agents». Today, The New York Times has been leading the charge
against Trump and his transition team, citing an unfounded
There is very little difference between what McCarthy told U.S. Intelligence Community report calling out the news
the Ohio County Republican Women’s Club in Wheeling, network RT and Sputnik News for «interfering» in the
West Virginia in 1950: U.S. election by pushing «fake news». The Times is
engaged in a sort of demagoguery that Murrow, if he were
«I have here in my hand a list of 205 that alive today, would assuredly condemn. After exposing
were known to the Secretary of State as McCarthy before the nation as a dangerous demagogue,
being members of the Communist Party Murrow summed up his broadcast by issuing a stark
and who nevertheless are still working and warning the American public:
shaping the policy of the State
Department». «We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are,
the defenders of freedom, wherever it
In November 2016, a shadowy and anonymous group of continues to exist in the world, but we
self-described «nonpartisan» public policy wonks, cannot defend freedom abroad by
computer scientists, and national security specialists deserting it at home».
calling themselves «PropOrNot» (Propaganda or Not)
published a list of 200 websites cited as «peddlers of The list of 200 «pro-Russian» websites produced by an
Russian propaganda during the election season, with anonymous entity and endorsed by the corporate media
combined audiences of at least 15 million also crept into the U.S. intelligence report on alleged
Americans». The Washington Post, Associated Press, and Russian hacking of Democratic National Committee
other corporate-controlled media outlets dutifully reported computers and private email of Clinton campaign officials.
this diatribe as «news». At least during the witch-hunting
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The U.S. Intelligence Community, which is well-known General Michael Flynn, during his time as director of the
for marketing false intelligence on the former USSR, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Blumenthal and
North Vietnam, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, Iran, Cuba, Shaheen, mustering up their best signature Joe McCarthy
Muammar Qaddafi’s Libya, and Bashar al-Assad’s Syria, tactics, all-but-accused Flynn of passing U.S. secrets to
added its own opinionated «chapeau» on the intelligence foreign actors. The senators did not limit their witch hunt
report’s screed about RT and Sputnik: the election to Flynn’s time leading DIA but widened it to include his
interference was all personally directed by Russian entire Army career. Without a shred of evidence,
President Vladimir Putin! Just as the Central Intelligence Blumenthal and Shaheen charged that Flynn provided
Agency’s dirty hands were all over the «Prop or Not» list, «highly sensitive compartmented information and code
as they were on McCarthy’s phony list of 205 State word classified information about the Haqqani terrorist
Department «Red» employees, they were also on the network to Pakistan». This was classic McCarthyism: toss
personal attack on Putin. out a charge without proof and await the damage to the
political opposition.
Just as a number leading «progressives» were wedded to
CIA propaganda efforts during the McCarthy era, they also For the record, in 2010 Blumenthal lied about serving in
surfaced to defend the CIA’s «Russia» witch-hunt against the military in Vietnam. After receiving more than five
Trump. Bill Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich was draft deferments between 1965 and 1970, Blumenthal
among the CIA sycophants. Acting like a left-wing version received a commission in the Marine Corps Reserve in
of old Joe McCarthy, Reich wrote on his blog: Washington, DC, where he organized a Marine «Toys for
Tots» campaign. Senator Shaheen’s husband, New
 «[A] CIA assessment found that Russian operatives Hampshire Lebanese-American Democratic political
covertly interfered in the election campaign in an operative Bill Shaheen, may have more than passing
attempt to ensure the Republican candidate’s victory. acquaintances with Lebanese-American supporters of the
Saudi-supported Future Movement party run by Prime
Minister Saad Hariri.
 Several of Trump’s key campaign aides have close ties
to Putin — including his former campaign manager,
Paul Manafort. During the McCarthy era, several leading lights of the
progressive literati and glitterati class condemned the
witch-hunting tactics of the right wing. Playwright Arthur
 Trump has picked for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Miller brought to the stage «The Crucible», a dramatic
CEO of ExxonMobil, who is also close to Putin. rendition of the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials in colonial
Massachusetts. Miller’s intent was to show the American
 After becoming CEO, Exxon bet billions on Russia’s people that the anti-Communist hysteria of the late 1940s
vast oil resources through a partnership with Russian and early 1950s was no different than that displayed by the
oil giant Rosneft, owned partly by the Kremlin. Putin public during the Salem trials of the 17 th century. The
himself attended the 2011 signing ceremony for the familiar «Are you now or were you ever a Communist?»
deal». refrain posed to Hollywood performers and directors by
congressional committees was roundly condemned by such
Reich’s «list» is no different than the one Joe McCarthy well-known actors as Humphrey Bogart, Gene Kelly, Judy
waved in his hand while speaking to the old GOP biddies Garland, Burt Lancaster, Danny Kaye, and Edward G.
in Wheeling in 1950. Reich, in one fell swoop, netted all of Robinson. It is beyond shameful that many of their not-as-
his perceived Russian agents-of-influence: Trump, Putin, talented Hollywood successors, individuals such as Rob
Manafort, Tillerson, ExxonMobil, and Rosneft. Former Reiner, Jessica Chastain, Andy Richter, Whoopi Goldberg,
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid added and Albert Brooks, are now leading the neo-McCarthyite
another name to the neo-McCarthyite «list»: «Russian agent» charges against Trump and his incoming
administration from the altar of Twitter.
 Trump adviser Carter Page, who had, before the
election, committed the egregious infraction of visiting In her famous 1950 «Declaration of Conscience» speech
Moscow. on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Maine Republican
Margaret Chase Smith hit out at the McCarthyites of her
Two of Reid’s Senate Democratic colleagues, Richard day. She said the scourge of McCarthyism «spread like
Blumenthal of Connecticut and Jeanne Shaheen of New cancerous tentacles of ‘know nothing, suspect everything’
Hampshire, called for a full investigation of Trump’s attitudes». Today, it is not the right that is spreading its
national security adviser-designate, retired Lieutenant «cancerous tentacles» of suspicion, but the fake
«progressive left».
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Top Trump Aide Hints ‘Disproportionate’ Sanctions
Against Russia May Be Rolled Back
Published Time: 10 Jan, 2017 00:39
Edited Time: 10 Jan, 2017 12:16

outlets ahead of Friday’s report or possibly even briefings


to the president himself.

Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager and senior advisor to the


Trump Presidential Transition Team © Darren Ornitz / Reuters

Kellyanne Conway, President-elect Donald Trump’s


former campaign manager and choice for White House
counsel, is criticizing President Barack Obama’s
“punitive” sanctions on Russia and vowing to reassess
them after inauguration day.

In the wake of the intelligence report released Friday on


alleged Russian hacking to sway the November election,
the first woman to ever lead a successful presidential
campaign told multiple media outlets that the report did
not justify last month’s sanctions on four Kremlin officials “The White House dodged the question
and the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats. whether the administration was the source
of leaks to NBC News,” Conway said on
Sunday in an interview with CNN’s Jake
“Here the punishment seemed to precede Tapper.
the full report,” Conway told USA Today in
a Facebook Live interview Monday. “That should really infuriate Americans, that
people who possess this information are
“There does seem to be a disproportionate sending it to the media ahead of the
response,” Conway said, adding, “I predict president-elect receiving this information,
that President Trump will want to make the vice president-elect and perhaps even
sure our actions are proportionate to what’s the president himself,” she added.
occurred, based on what we know.”
Trump released a statement following Friday’s report,
Without providing evidence, US intelligence officials promising a plan from his team to strengthen US
reiterated Friday that they had no doubt that Russian cybersecurity within the first 90 days of taking office.
President Vladimir Putin authorized an “influence
campaign” to sway the election in favor of Trump. Their
report claimed that Russian hackers breached US
institutions, including the Democratic National Committee
and the emails of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John
Podesta, before passing along their findings to WikiLeaks.

Conway has also taken issue with the timeline of events


surrounding the Obama administration’s allegations and
response, raising questions about why intelligence about
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A Likely Way That Trump Would
Be Forced Out Of Office
Eric ZUESSE
10.01.2017

It is clear, from the overwhelming opposition to Donald declaration that the President is unable to
Trump’s taking office on January 20th as the U.S. discharge the powers and duties of his
President, opposition on the part of the entire U.S. office. Thereupon Congress shall decide
Establishment — the aristocrats and their agents in the the issue, assembling within forty-eight
government and media and think tanks — that any hours for that purpose if not in session.
opportunity to replace Trump with the Democratic Party’s
Establishment Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, or any Trump has appointed, as being far over a majority of the
other Establishmentarian, would be welcomed by the principal officers of the executive departments — i.e.,
Establishment. First, there were the efforts to have vote- majority of his 15-person Cabinet — Establishment
recounts in the three states where Trump’s victory over Republicans, who favor continuation of the Cold War
Clinton were the narrowest; then, there was the against Russia. This continuation of that hostility on the
orchestrated campaign to switch to her enough Electoral American side had started when the Establishment
College electors for her to ‘win’; then, there was the effort Republican U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush,
to portray Trump’s win as having been engineered in on 24 February 1990, confidentially instructed not only his
Moscow and thus illegitimate. But now, could come the Cabinet, but heads-of-state of America’s European allies,
tactic that actually has the highest likelihood of that NATO and NATO’s hostility toward Russia, was to
succeeding, and it would replace Trump with his own continue in secret, even after the Soviet Union and its
Establishment Republican Vice President, Mike Pence. communism and its Warsaw Pact military alliance would
Here’s how it would work: end, which end of those Soviet entities occurred in 1991.
Under Obama, the old American «Cold War» (henceforth
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the U.S. against Russia on the alleged basis of both Ukraine and
Constitution asserts: Syria) was getting hotter than it had been since at least the
Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, but candidate Trump was
Whenever the Vice President and a now promising to stop it.
majority of... the principal officers of
the executive departments… transmit to Either Trump will reverse his many public statements
the president pro tempore of the Senate supporting rapprochement with Russia, or else the U.S.
and the speaker of the House of Establishment — which includes almost every living
Representatives their written declaration member and former member of Congress, and virtually all
that the President is unable to discharge of the think tanks and newsmedia, and also the
the powers and duties of his office, the Vice Establishmentarian Pence, whom Trump himself had
President shall immediately assume the appointed; and, also, the mostly Establishment
powers and duties of the office as acting Republicans whom Trump had selected for his Cabinet —
President. will likely remove him from office and hand the
Thereafter, when the President transmits to Presidency to the Constitutionally assigned substitute, the
U.S. V.P., Mike Pence himself.
the president pro tempore of the Senate
and the speaker of the House
of Representatives his written declaration In either case, America’s war against Russia would likely
that no inability exists, he shall resume the resume, as it was under Obama, and perhaps even as bad
powers and duties of his office unless the as Trump’s Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton had been
Vice President and a majority of either the promising to escalate it (which would be to World War
principal officers of the executive III).
department, or of such other body as
Congress may by law provide, transmit The Democratic political commentator, Keith
within four days to the president pro Olbermann, already on 5 January 2017, was
tempore of the Senate and the speaker of propagandizing for this outcome; but he didn’t say that he
the House of Representatives their written would actually prefer Pence to be President; he
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instead showed that he wanted Pence to be President; he actually proposing this fascist takeover of the U.S.
showed it by his there urging that it happen. Government, which the 25th Amendment allows, and
which Trump himself was stupid enough to enable, by his
NOTE: Olbermann misstated there, at having chosen so many conservative Republicans for his
7:14- in that video, the U.S. Constitution, by Cabinet, and for V.P.
his saying that the overthrow would be «by
the Vice President and the Speaker of the Unfortunately, Trump seems not to have been bright
House using the 25th Amendment» — enough to have known of this feature of the U.S.
that’s not what the 25th Amendment Constitution, and so might have been tragically unaware of
actually authorizes; it instead authorizes the necessity for him to select anti-Establishment people
«the Vice President and a majority of» for his V.P. and Cabinet; and, so, if Trump himself doesn’t
the Cabinet, to overthrow the elected rule as an Establishment President (which will become
President, and it makes no mention there clear within two months at the most), a coup overthrowing
of «the Speaker of the House», at all. him would actually be fairly easy, and the major question
Earlier, on 23 November 2016, Olbermann would be the coup’s timing. Presumably, the aristocracy
had gotten that matter right. Perhaps as would delay it until there is clarity that Trump is serious
Olbermann is getting older, he's losing his about reversing some of their key policies — such as
memory (thus forgetting what he had NATO’s pushing Russia into a World War. Remarkably,
known a month or so earlier, on November this would be an entirely Constitutional coup — one that
23rd), and increasingly is just winging it takes advantage of the stupid drafting of the 25th
(instead of rechecking his key facts), and Amendment.
this might be why he now thinks that such a
coup can be carried out merely by the Stupidity might be rampant, but the American aristocracy
«Vice President and the Speaker of the (who are united behind GHW Bush’s 24 February 1990
House» — i.e., by (the two plan) take advantage of every opportunity that’s available
Establishmentarians) Mike Pence and Paul to them — and this is certainly a major one. Consequently,
Ryan. It’s fortunately not true. If it were that the next four years are remarkably likely to be a
easy, then Trump might not be able to last conservative rape of the U.S., and even of the world (along
as the President for even a month. Getting the lines of Hillary Clinton’s plan to finish GHW Bush’s
a majority of the Cabinet to participate in plan, but overseen by Pence and the Republicans instead).
the conspiracy would be far less likely than
that, even though they’re part of the
Up to the present moment at least, Trump is still displaying
Establishment. Some, even of the
the courage to repudiate the U.S. aristocracy’s top priority,
Establishment faction (and thus inclined
of continuing the war against Russia that GHW Bush
toward dictatorship), might have a
started, and that Obama had been raising to a fever-pitch.
conscience.
If Trump sticks with this repudiation, and (somehow)
survives in office, then, right there — on that one issue
What’s important here, however, is that this clause of the alone — he will be reversing the horrible U.S. history after
25th Amendment does allow the Establishment Republican 24 February 1990 (which the U.S. Establishment are
V.P. Pence, plus «a majority of» the Establishment obsessed to continue and culminate), and finally setting the
Republican Cabinet that Trump has (unfortunately) world onto the most essential path to peace and prosperity
selected, to throw Trump out and make the reactionary (prosperity, that is, in all but the ‘defense’ industries), so
Pence become America’s President in his place. Trump, by that authentic progress can, perhaps, begin to be made on
choosing an Establishment V.P. and an Establishment domestic issues, both inside the United States, and around
Cabinet, has virtually invited an Establishment coup, the world.
unless he buckles early to the Establishment and violates
every progressive promise he had uttered during his
PERSONAL NOTE: Although I expect the worst, I hope
campaign for the Presidency.
that subsequent events will prove me to have been wrong.
What is especially remarkable here is that a putative
«progressive Democrat», Olbermann, is
.

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Liberal Dems Claiming A Russian Election Hack And Putin
Control Over Trump Are The New ‘Birthers’
By: Dave Lindorff
January 10, 2017 - 1:38pm

It felt like I had stumbled into some weird kind of time While Russians struggled to survive through a period of
warp yesterday morning as I was making coffee and rampant inflation, economic collapse and epic corruption,
listening to NPR’s “Morning Edition.” There was Cokie the US, instead of lending a helping hand as it had to the
Roberts being interviewed about the current mass media collapsed countries of Europe and after World War II
obsession -- the alleged hacking of the Democratic (including our former bitter enemies, Germany and also
National Committee server by Russia, and President-elect Japan in Asia,), Washington under the Clinton
Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the evidence-free claims administration began a program of aggressively and
of the Democratic political appointees heading the nation’s threateningly expanding the North Atlantic Treaty
intel agencies that the the hack “definitely” happened. Organization (a Cold War relic of an outdated containment
policy which should have, like the Warsaw Pact, been
Cokie bemoaned Trump’s dissing of the intel agencies and mercifully disbanded), forcing an economically strapped
also his stated desire to develop friendly relations with Russia to respond by still spending precious resources on
Russia, saying, “This country has had a consistent policy restoring its hollowed out military.
for 70 years towards the Soviet Union and Russia, and
Trump is trying to undo that.”

Think about that for a moment. On one level, the long-time


NPR commentator is right: US policy towards the
government in Moscow has been remarkably consistent --
and hostile -- for 70 years, albeit with a few brief periods
of at least relative friendliness, as during the early and mid
1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But that gets
to the other point: There was, recall, a fundamental change
that happened in 1989-90, when the Communist state
founded in the Russian Revolution of 1917 collapsed, and
the Soviet Union splintered into Russia and a bunch of
smaller countries -- former Soviets in the old empire --
including Byelorussia, Ukraine, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, and a bunch of stans in Central Asia. The widespread belief among liberal Dems that Trump is a Putin
puppet resembles the Republican's 'birther' mania about Obama

The real question is, once the USSR ceased to exist and
Russia, a rump country that, while geographically the Yes, there has been a 70-year consistent policy of hostility
towards Russia, not to mention unremitting anti-Russian
largest in the world, is less than half the size of the US in
propaganda in the US, as Roberts says, but that’s because
population, found itself struggling to restructure it’s
centralized state-owned economy into a modern capitalist foreign policy in the US has been in the grip of a
Republican-Democrat bi-partisan consensus that argues
one, shouldn’t the US have changed it’s “consistent
that the US must work to maintain absolute military
policy” of hostility towards what remained of the old
superiority over all real and potential rivals, forever. And
Soviet Union -- particularly as Russia was no longer
that consensus views Russia as a major potential threat to
communist?
that superiority.
Instead of actively helping Russia recover, the US urged
That’s why we have a military budget of $600 billion,
on President Boris Yeltsin a destructive “economic shock
nearly three times as much China ($215 billion, much of
therapy” program of balanced budgets, open borders for
that for domestic control purposes), another country that
imports and investment and, most importantly, a sell-off of
state assets that quickly enabled corrupt former poses no threat to the US, and as all the rest of the world
commissars to transform themselves into insanely wealthy spends, while Russia’s budget is just 11 percent of that
new capitalist oligarchs.
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amount at $66 billion, ranking it behind third-ranked Saudi But let’s at least demand honesty about it.
Arabia ($87 billion).
Donald Trump has said, famously, that people who say the
While Obama Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and others US should not be trying to develop friendly relations with
in the Washington elite maintain that Russia poses an Russia are “stupid.” He might not be eloquent, but he is
“existential threat” to the US, presumably because of the absolutely correct.
number of nuclear missiles it maintains, it’s important to
note that Russia has those missiles because the US has a Some of my liberal friends, who have drunk the Kool-Aid
similar number, most of them pointed at Russia--the main of anti-Russia hysteria, argue that the US should not even
difference being that the US has many of its nuclear-tipped contemplate acting friendly towards Russia and its leader
missiles located just minutes away from Russia at sites in President Putin. As one put it, “We certainly at least must
Eastern Europe, while Russia’s nukes are all on its own be in agreement that Putin’s cruel kelpto-capitalist-KGB
territory, thousands of miles and at least a half-hour’s rule has harmed tens of millions of innocents in the former
flight away from the US mainland -- a difference that USSR, no?”
means one country, the US, has the ability to launch a first
strike and take out the other country’s ability to respond to
Well, actually, no, we are not in agreement. Where do
an attack, while the other has no ability to make such a
otherwise intelligent liberal-minded people get these tales
first-strike threat.
of Putin evil? Nobody’s saying that he is a Jeffersonian
democrat, but let’s at least get the history right. The “harm
This is all by way of getting to a larger point. The hysteria to tens of millions in the former USSR” and in Russia
about Russian hacking of the US election -- an action proper was done not during Putin’s tenure but during the
which while it might have happened, is by no means first decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, between
proven -- is a meaningless diversion, because there is no 1989 and 1999. That was when the entire Soviet Union
evidence at all that Russia is an aggressive nation. While was strip-mined by former Communist apparatchiks who
the US is moving Abrams battle tanks and nuclear-capable enriched themselves by cutting deals to take over former
mobil artillery up close to the Russian border in the state assets at fire-sale prices, or for nothing, robbing the
waning days of the Obama administration, forcing Russia Russian people, and the workers in those former state
to respond by beefing up its own national border defenses, enterprises blind. The US encouraged this process, and
no one could argue seriously that Russia and its leader Boris Yeltsin, a notorious drunk, oversaw it for two terms
Vladimir Putin, have any interest whatsoever in invading as Russia’s president. Vladimir Putin began his rise to
any country of Europe, however small and weak. power in 1999 when Yeltsin made him prime minister
before suddenly resigning the presidency on New Year’s
What possible advantage could come to Russia from such Day 1999.
an action? Even if Russia could succeed in invading
Poland and grabbing a piece of that country, or invading GDP during Boris Yeltsin’s catastrophic first term as head
one of the Baltic countries that were former Soviets, such of the new post Soviet Russian state collapsed by 40%
an action would make developing trade relations with the between 1991 and 1996 -- a worse disaster than the US
rest of Europe impossible, and would force Russia to Great Depression. By 1997, Russia, a huge agricultural
engage in a costly occupation which it can ill afford. producer, was importing one-third of its food. Nothing
improved during Yeltsin’s second term, with GDP
Why, one has to ask, would Russia be building, with up to remaining flat through 1999. Remember, most of the ‘90s
$100 billion in Chinese financing, a bunch of super high- was a period of economic boom throughout the rest of the
speed rail lines from eastern China and eastern Siberia all world, meaning that Russia, even standing still, was losing
the way to rail hubs in Germany and other European ground to everyone else.
countries, to facilitate vastly expanded trade overland, if it
were also secretly planning to conquer and occupy parts of As the British newspaper the Guardian, points out, in a
Europe again, as it did in the pre-1990 era? way that you will be hard-pressed to find reported honestly
in the US corporate media, Putin, during his decade and a
A cynic -- or realist -- might suspect that it is precisely this half of running Russia, rebuilt the Russian economy,
goal of economic integration of Europe and Asia, with improved the lives of average Russians immensely, and
Russia at the center, which lies at the root of US antipathy equally importantly, restored a once great nation from the
and hostility towards both Russia and China. If the US status of global basket case to a major international power
continues to cling to the insane, megalomaniacal idea of again. Not surprisingly, he is now one of the world’s most
maintaining strategic dominance -- military and economic popular leaders.
-- at all costs over all current and potential rivals around
the globe, there is a certain logic to trying to ruin this While wild swings in the exchange value of the Russian
grand plan for economic convergence on the Eurasian ruble vs. the US dollar make the figures a little squishy,
continent. Russian GDP in 1999, when Putin took over the

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government, was $196 billion, and rose to over $2 trillion In any event, let’s hope that the mostly liberal Democrats
in 2011, hitting a record $2.2 trillion in 2013. With oil and who are being taken in by the media-induced hysteria over
gas exports central to Russian international trade, the crash an imagined Russian plot to destroy American democracy
in oil prices in 2015 knocked Russia’s GDP back down to and to ensconce a Manchurian-candidate Donald Trump in
$1.3 billion, but it needs to be pointed out that for most the White House, will come to their senses soon. There are
Russians, who primarily buy goods from food to clothing myriad reasons to organize resistance to Donald Trump as
to housing on the domestic market, unaffected by we head into a very challenging four years of reactionary
exchange rates, this has had little impact on their standard Republican control of all the levers of power in
of living, only raising the cost of imported goods. Without Washington, but fear of Russian control over our next
question, in the view of most Russians, Putin has done a president isn’t one of them. In fact, let’s hope that he at
good job of managing the Russian economy. least makes good on that one campaign promise to
improve US relations with Russia!
That’s not to say he isn’t an autocrat. He is, and he’s got a
nasty record on freedom of the press and on gay rights, but Honestly, we just went through eight years of insane non-
that begs the question: when has a country’s being headed stop Republican paranoia claiming the Barack Obama was
by an autocratic leader or even a tyrant deterred the US a secret Muslim plant in the White House, or a secret
from having friendly relations with it? There’s no room in Communist, or, incredibly, both. Some even thought that
this article to run a list, but let’s just mention the Shah of he was a secret fascist too! We on the left, including liberal
Iran, the Chilean military-dictator Augusto Pinochet, the Dems, used to laugh at the naive inanity of it all. Yet now,
Brazilian and Argentine juntas in 1964 and 1976, Salazar how different are the liberal Democrats who are
and Franco in Portugal and Spain, and then the breathlessly claiming that this new president is a puppet,
dictatorships in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and other wittingly or unwittingly, of the evil Russian puppetmaster
countries of the Middle East. In comparison to these Vladimir Putin?
disturbing examples of American “friends,” Putin seems
absolutely a paragon of democratic values.
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‘It's Déjà Vu’: Why Many Equate ‘Embarrassing’ ODNI
Report To Iraq ‘WMD Fiasco’
Published Time: 10 Jan, 2017 12:33Edited Time: 10 Jan, 2017 15:55

referencing the similarities between the recent allegations


from US intelligence and the events that led to the invasion
of Iraq.

A report from US intelligence agencies claiming Russia


hacked a DNC member’s email account has been
compared to allegations that Saddam Hussein had
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), which eventually
lead to the Iraq invasion in 2003.

A number of journalists and military experts have drawn


the comparison in recent days, including respected writer
Glenn Greenwald who slammed a report by the Office of
the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). It claimed
Russia was responsible for the hack, with the intention of
influencing the result of the recent US presidential
election.

Speaking on CNN’s ‘Intel Report’,


Greenwald said the public should not
“blindly and uncritically” accept the report
without sufficient evidence “and we have
absolutely not seen that in this case.”
“In 2002...a group of bipartisan senators
assured the nation that the intelligence
community convinced them that Saddam
His sentiments were preceded by journalist Matt Taibbi
had weapons of mass destruction and was
who, in a piece for Rolling Stone on December 30 titled
in alliance with Al-Qaeda,” Greenwald said,
‘Something about this Russia story stinks,’ said:

"It's déjà vu all over again."

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“Many reporters I know are quietly freaking
out about having to go through that again.
We all remember the WMD fiasco,” Taibbi
wrote, adding that “nothing quite adds up.”

Members of the intelligence community itself have also


been highly critical of the report. Speaking to RT, former
MI5 Intelligence Officer Annie Machon warned the
ODNI’s report carried a great deal of danger, comparing it
to the “flawed intelligence case” that led to the UK
involvement in the Iraq war.

The report was described as a “farce” by former CIA


analyst Larry C Johnson who told RT,

“I don’t think they’re hiding anything


because they don’t have anything.”
“These are ‘or and how’ intelligence
estimates as opposed to an intelligence
analysis based on fact. There’s no fact
underlying this. There are analytical
assumptions,” Johnson said.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange heavily criticized the Election, is like trusting George Bush telling
report in a press conference on Monday, describing it as us Iraq had WMD,” one user said on
more like a press release than an intelligence report. Twitter, where the ODNI report was
slammed.
He said the report was

"quite embarrassing to the reputations of


the US intelligence services" with “zero
evidentiary weight."
“Being asked to trust American intelligence
agencies that Russia hacked the US

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Washington Invented Hacking And Interfering In Elections
Weaponized Hacking All Began With Stuxnet
Philip Giraldi
January 10, 2017

[Full disclosure: I have been on RT


numerous times.]

Apart from the nonsense about foreign broadcasters being


part of a conspiracy to “disparage our system” and destroy
our democracy, I confess that I was willing to be
convinced by what seemed to be the near-unanimous
intelligence and law enforcement agency verdict but, any
such expectations disappeared when the 17 page report on
the hack was actually released on Friday. Entitled
Declassified Intelligence Community Assessment of
Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections,
the report is an exercise in speculation minus evidence
indicting alleged Russian interference in the recent
election. It even came with a significant caveat,
Is the United States the victim of an unprovoked cyber and
media attack by Russia and China or are the chickens
coming home to roost after Washington’s own promotion “Judgments are not intended to imply that
of such activity worldwide? On Thursday Director of we have proof that shows something to be
National Intelligence James Clapper asserted to the Senate a fact.”
Foreign Relations Committee that while no foreign
government had been able to interfere with actual voting So I am still waiting to see the actual evidence for the
machines, Russian direct involvement and have to suspect that there
is little to show, or possibly even nothing. Saying that
“U.S. agencies are more confident than Russian government agents were employed in passing the
ever that Russia interfered in America’s stolen emails from the DNC server to WikiLeaks raises
recent presidential election. And he called more questions than it answers, particularly as it is now
the former Cold War foe an ‘existential clear from media leaks that the parties involved were using
threat’ to the nation.” what is referred to as cut-outs to break the chain of custody
of the material being passed. Does the intelligence
community actually know exactly who passed what to
Pressed by Senator John McCain whether the “attack”
whom and when or is it engaged in reconstructing what it
constituted an “act of war,” Clapper demurred, saying that
think happened? Does it really believe that intercepted
it would be a “very heavy policy call” to say so. He also
unencrypted phone calls among Russian officials
said that he could not judge if the election outcome had
expressing pleasure over the election result equate to an
been changed due to the claimed outside interference.
actual a priori conspiracy to determine the outcome? And
based on what evidence do they know that conspiracy was
Clapper also claimed that the Russian effort included “ordered” by President Vladimir Putin as is now being
including the creation and dissemination of fake stories, alleged? Or are the only assuming that it must have been
explaining that him because he is head of state?

“While there has been a lot of focus on the And what about the possibility that activity of Russian
hacking, this is actually part of a intelligence agencies to penetrate computers in the United
multifaceted campaign that the Russians States was little more than routine information collection,
mounted.” Clapper singled out Russian which Clapper conceded is normal activity for Washington
state funded TV channel RT, previously as well? And above all, where is a truth and consequences
called Russia Today. “Of course RT…was analysis of America’s global role as a contributor to the tit-
very, very active in promoting a particular for-tat, obscured by a prevailing mainstream media
point of view, disparaging our system.”

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narrative that prefers to see everything in terms of good communist parties. The Agency would fund opposition
guys versus bad guys? parties directly or indirectly and would manage media
coverage of the relevant issues to favor the non-
One can reasonably argue that Washington started the communists. The end result was that the communists were
practice of cyber-warfare and has been a long-time indeed in most cases kept out of government but the
practitioner of both regime change and election tampering resulting democracy was frequently corrupted by the
in its relationship with much of the world. The Snowden process. Italy in particular suffers from that corruption to
papers indicate that NSA hacking of targets in China has this day.
been going on for many years as has routine interception
of cell phones of allied European and other world leaders, The United States has directly interfered in Russia, using
including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the UN proxies, IMF loans and a media controlled by the oligarchs
Secretary General. NSA has deliberately sought to have to run the utterly incompetent Boris Yeltsin’s successful
the capability to penetrate nearly every electronic campaign in 1996 and then continuing with more
communications network in the world, frequently in real aggressive “democracy promotion” projects until Putin
time, and has come close to achieving that ability under expelled many of the NGOs responsible in 2015. More
Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. recently there have been the pastel revolutions in Eastern
Europe and the upheaval in Ukraine, which came about in
The information obtained in the huge dumps of part due to a $5 billion investment by the United States
intelligence obtained by NSA is, at least in theory, used to government in “democracy building” supplemented by
confront possible threats to the United States and to obtain regular visits from John McCain and the State
competitive advantage over both adversaries and Department’s activist Assistant Secretary of State Victoria
competitors. But the intrusion into systems has also been Nuland.
weaponized, witness for example the creation of the
Stuxnet worm in collaboration with the Israelis. Stuxnet And then there are Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos,
was intended to disable key elements in Iranian nuclear Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and Syria as well as endorsement
research but it also went beyond that, creating dysfunction of the ongoing carnage in Yemen. The Congress
in other economic and industrial systems unrelated to its meanwhile continues to call for regime change in Iran. So
laboratories. The assault on Iran was more of an act of war it leads to the question “Who is actually doing what to
than the hack of the DNC computers. And the damage was whom?”
not limited to Iran. There have also been concerns that the
Stuxnet virus had migrated from the Iranian systems and One can well understand the anger at Russian actions but
become viable on other civilian use computers. much of the sentiment is being fueled by a hostile press
and deliberate U.S. government fear mongering
There have been numerous military interventions in Latin orchestrated by the Obama Administration as its parting
America ever since the U.S. became involved in the region gift to the American people. A new Cold War would be
in the wake of the Spanish-American War. The subsequent good for no one. Stepping back a bit, it is difficult to avoid
interventions in the so-called Banana Wars by U.S. the conclusion that anything Russia did or is suspected of
Marines in Central America and the Caribbean were on doing in 2016 pales in comparison to what the United
behalf of United Fruit Company and other commercial States has been doing for much longer and on a much
interests. The cynical use of force to support American wider scale. The Defense Department runs a cyber warfare
business moved the highly-decorated Marine Major command with a budget of $7 billion and the White House
General Smedley Butler to describe himself as “a high has ordered military interventions to bring about regime
class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the change in four Muslim majority countries while also
bankers … a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism” while interfering in a number of others since 9/11. The Obama
declaring that “war is a racket.” More recently, the CIA response to an alleged Russian conspiracy that has yet to
arranged for the removal of populist Jacopo Arbenz in be demonstrated has been to send more soldiers to the
Guatemala in 1954, initiating 60 years of political Baltics while ordering a massive politically motivated
instability in that country while the Agency role in the retaliation that included the persona non grata expulsion
military coup in Chile that ousted Salvador Allende and its of 35 Russian officials and their families. Moscow did not
involvement with the Nicaraguan contra rebels retaliate and instead invited U.S. diplomatic families to a
subsequently are similarly notorious. Christmas celebration at the Kremlin. Sure, it was political
theater to a certain extent but it has to make one wonder
When I was in Europe with CIA the U.S. government who was actually the adult in the room whenever Obama
regularly interfered with elections, particularly in Italy, and Putin would meet.
Spain, France and Portugal, all of which had active
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Report: FBI Sought FISA Court
Warrant To Surveil Trump Campaign Officials
Court Turned Down Application, Saying
Request Was Too Broad
By Jason Ditz
January 10, 2017

A new report released today features both the FBI seeking ranking members of President-elect Donald Trump’s
to launch a surveillance operation against an active US campaign during the election, claiming them to have had
presidential campaign, and the ultra-rare case of the FISA contact with Russian officials. The FISA court turned the
courts actually turning down an FBI request to conduct request down, telling investigators they needed to narrow
surveillance against somebody. the request.

Though the four are not directly named in the report, it is


related to claims in a dossier of Russia having substantial
blackmail dirt on Trump, and that dossier centered heavily
around accusations against a handful of Trump campaign
personnel, including Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Lt.
Gen. Michael Flynn, along with Trump’s personal lawyer
Michael Cohen, meaning some of them may well be
among the targets.

Secondary reports speculated that the FBI may well have


sought a more narrow application for surveillance, though
details on that are even less clear than the previous reports.
Though a lot of these reports don’t end up substantiated, if
true this could well add to the expected acrimony between
The report, originating at the Guardian, claims that the FBI the incoming administration and the intelligence
had sought broad surveillance powers over four high- community.

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Despite Weak Stream Of Proof, 4chan
Claims It Invented The Trump Golden Showers Story
The Forum Alleged An Anonymous User Invented Tuesday’s Bombshell
About Donald Trump And Russian Prostitutes. But Its Lack Of Evidence
Is Turning Out To Be A Bit Of A Wet Blanket.
Gideon Resnick & Ben Collins
01.10.17 10:40 PM ET

Wilson’s access to a shocking Donald Trump story had


been flaunted by himself and others many weeks before
the 4chan post. Wilson himself had been publicly
pronouncing that a bombshell involving Trump was set for
imminent release a month before the election, even going
so far as to say that it could end the race.

The report made public Tuesday, which was reported to


have been shared privately with both Trump and President
Obama, was not a well-kept secret in media and political
circles in the run-up to the election, making it possible to
leak to 4chan, where users post anonymously.
As news broke of an unverified document detailing
supposed Russian dirt on President-elect Donald Trump— Wilson dismissed all of r/The_Donald and 4chan’s claims
including sordid allegations involving urine and prostitutes in a tweet Tuesday night.
in Russia—users on the subreddit r/The_Donald and
4chan’s /pol/ forum took a victory lap. “You’re wrong if you believe 1. What we
had came from /pol 2. That I was
Not because they found the story funny, but because they Buzzfeed’s source. Try again, boys,” he
claim they planted it as a fake. Proof that it’s all an wrote.
elaborate 4chan ruse, however, is thin.
“The information was out there looooong
before the 4chan posts,” he replied to
Reddit’s r/The_Donald users pointed to an anonymous another user.
4chan post from Nov. 1, exactly one week before the
election, that Redditors say proves “/pol/ really invented
Reached by phone earlier in the evening, Wilson told The
this rumor” involving Trump’s alleged business and
Daily Beast that the Russian allegations were “making the
personal ties to Russia.
rounds before anyone talked about it publicly.” He said
that they were being discussed as early as a year and a half
“So they took what I told Rick Wilson and ago.
added a Russian spy angle to it. They still
believe it. Guys, they’re truly fucking
“Trump always knew it was out there,”
desperate—there’s no remaining Trump
Wilson said. “He thought he could bullshit
scandal that’s credible,” the anonymous
his way through it.
post from Nov. 1 reads. Wilson is a
Republican operative who managed Evan “This stuff is real and it’s bad. It’s going to
McMullin’s independent campaign and has be something that weighs on him,” he
been an outspoken critic of Trump. added.

There are no details in the post, which is archived here, For what it’s worth, Wilson has been the object of ire and
about what was allegedly told to Wilson—simply that the ridicule on 4chan before, particularly after an MSNBC
user purportedly gave him fake information. It also doesn’t appearance in which he referred to some Trump supporters
explain how this would have gotten to intelligence as “childless single men who masturbate to anime.” So it is
agencies.
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conceivable 4chan’s story was invented to seek further “/pol/acks (/pol/ users) mailed fanfiction to
retribution. anti-trump pundit rick wilson about trump
making people piss on a bed Obama slept
The intelligence-community documents had reportedly in” and that “the cia has concluded that the
been shopped to several news outlets in the months leading russians plan to blackmail Trump with this
up to the election, and were alluded to in a Mother Jones story we made up.”
article the day before the 4chan post.
The memos, which were presented after intelligence
The New York Times reported Tuesday night that details of agencies asserted that Russia was involved in various
the reports were swirling in the fall of 2016. hacking campaigns during the presidential election,
purport that the Russian government has been seeking
ways to influence Trump for many years, including with
Then last week, the heads of America’s intelligence
real-estate deals. Trump did not complete major deals in
agencies were said to have provided a summary of the
the country despite discussing them.
unverified reports to both President Obama and President-
elect Trump. No one has been able to confirm the veracity
of the information contained within the documents. According to American officials cited by The New York
Times, the former British intelligence officer who was
allegedly responsible for gathering the material was
Reacting to published reports on Tuesday night, Trump
considered a reliable source with experience in Russia.
tweeted in all-caps: “FAKE NEWS—A TOTAL
POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”
“There’s nothing they can’t push him to do,”
Wilson told The Daily Beast when it comes
Trump fans seemed to agree.
to Russia and Trump.
The top post on r/The_Donald, the largest pro-Trump
community on the internet, links to a screenshot of a 4chan
post that claims
.

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Here Is The Full 35-Page Report Alleging Trump Was
"Cultivated, Supported And Assisted" By Russia
By Tyler Durden
Jan 10, 2017 8:23 PM

As reported moments ago, CNN is leading with a story the Trump presidency as a puppet of the Kremlin. As eve
about a 35-page dossier compiled by a former member of BuzzFeed observes,
British intelligence, which had been distilled into a 2-page
appendix presented to Trump last Friday by the US intel "the document is not just unconfirmed:
community, and which contains "explosive, but It includes some clear errors.
unverified, allegations" that the Russian government has
been "cultivating, supporting and assisting" President-
The report misspells the name of one company,
elect Donald Trump for at least 5 years and "endorsed by
Putin" gained compromising information about him, with
the aim of "encouraging splits and divisions in the western “Alpha Group,” throughout. It is Alfa Group.
alliance." The report says the settlement of Barvikha,
outside Moscow, is “reserved for the
residences of the top leadership and their
The memo has allegedly been circulating among elected
close associates.” It is not reserved for
officials, intelligence agents, and journalists for weeks. anyone, and is also populated by the very
wealthy."
However, where the first warning flags should go off, is
that the operative collected the information from Russian Even more amusing is that the documents have circulated
intelligence sources while he was doing opposition for months, and were available to the Clinton campaign
research for a project financed by anti-Trump should she have chosen to use them to discredit Trump yet
Republicans. The information the operative collected for some "odd reason" she did not, and furthermore
indicated that Russia had compromising information both
Trump and Clinton but chose to release information that
was potentially damaging only to the Clinton campaign. "acquired a kind of legendary status among
journalists, lawmakers, and intelligence
officials who have seen them."
The dossier, which is a collection of memos written over a
period of months,
Mother Jones writer David Corn referred to the documents
in a late October column. Harry Reid spokesman Adam
"includes specific, unverified and Jentleson tweeted Tuesday that the outgoing Senate
potentially unverifiable allegations of Democratic leader had seen the documents before writing
contact between Trump aides and a public letter to FBI director James Comey about Trump’s
Russian operatives, and graphic claims ties to Russia. And CNN reported Tuesday that Arizona
of sexual acts documented by the Republican John McCain a gave “full copy” of the memos
Russians" according to Buzzfeed. to FBI Director James Comey on December 9, but that the
FBI already had copies of many of the memos.
Of course, the question on everyone's lips is what are these
"unverified and potentially unverifiable allegations"
It is worth noting, that Mother Jones cited
contained in the memo. We now know the answer, the dossier in a report on the alleged
courtesy of Buzzfeed which fill published the full Trump-Russia connection in October.
document However, as noted below, the author of
that story, David Corn, said he chose not
"so that Americans can make up their own to publish the full dossier because he
minds about allegations about the could not confirm the allegations.
president-elect that have circulated at the
highest levels of the US government." So with all this information floating around "for months",
and duly noted by everyone in US government, from
There are just a few problems with this revolutionary intelligence to the FBI, and certainly peopple in the
Rosetta stone that should, at least superficially, discredit unsuccessful Clinton campaign, it only emerges now, ten
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days before the Trump inauguration? Coincidence? As a final point, the memos authored by the operative
Readers can decide on their own. claim that the Trump campaign and the Kremlin had
established an "exchange of information" of "mutual
*** benefit," and that Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, met
secretly with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016.
So how did a memo, which in BuzzFeed's own admission
was full of errors and incomplete, get posted by However, Cohen quickly denied that he has ever been to
BuzzFeed? This is how Ben Smith, the editor in chief, Prague, promptly demolishing the entire argument.
defended his decision in a memo to staff.
"I have never been to Prague in my life.
“Our presumption is to be transparent in #fakenews," he tweeted, attaching a photo
our journalism and to share what we have of his passport.
with our readers,” he wrote in the email that
he subsequently shared on Twitter. “We
have always erred on the side of
publishing. In this case, the document was
in wide circulation in the highest levels of
American government and media.”

Yet even Smith cast doubt on whether the story his


published was true.

“As we noted in our story, there is a serious


reason to doubt the allegations,” he wrote.
“We have been chasing specific claims in
this document for weeks, and will continue
to.”

Smith's decision drew sharp rebukes from other reporters.

“Not how journalism works: Here’s a thing


that might or might not be true, without
supporting evidence; decide for yourself if
it's legit,” tweeted Brad Heath, an
investigative reporter for USA Today.

Julia Ioffe, a journalist who left Politico after suggesting in


a tweet that Trump might be having sex with his own For those pressed for time, here is the best - as in most
daughter, tweeted Tuesday that she had been approached laughable - part, discussing "Trump's personal obsessions
with the story that BuzzFeed ran with but declined to and sexual perversions", in which we learn that when
publish. staying at the Ritz Carlton Moscow hotel, in order to defile
a bed in which Obama had stayed in previously, he
“Because it was impossible to verify. (I employed "a number of prostitutes to perform "golden
tried.)” showers" show in front of him." Good stuff.

New York Times reporter Adam Goldman heaped


criticism on both BuzzFeed and CNN, which aired a
version of the story Tuesday but did not publish all of the
unverified details.

“Sequence of events: @CNN finds way to


talk about report and @buzzfeed uses that
as reason to publish. Media critics are
gonna be busy,” he tweeted.
The full memo, for your amusement pleasure only, is
*** below (link).

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