Deep State comes undone as Trump congratulates President Putin and pledges to curb arms race

Lordy, lordy the Deep State has come undone.  Just when Theresa May set the stage for war with Russia based on the unsubstantiated debunked lie that Putin poisoned an ex-spy and his daughter in Britain, Trump called Putin to congratulate him on his win in the presidential election in Russia.  Trump went even further agreeing to meet with Putin in the near future to work together to end the arms race that has escalated to a fevered pitch.

Putin makes Russia great again
 

The British and American media immediately bombarded the people with lies calling Putin a dictator and the Russian election a sham sounding like the ignorant losers they are.  American and British elections have been a sham since the days of Tony Blair and George W. Bush with their Iraq war debacle.  I wish we had free and fair elections like the election held in Russia.  From RussiaInsider:

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Russian Elections Show How Russia is Becoming Great Again

On March 18 Russia held presidential elections. Everybody (with a brain) fully expected Putin to win, but hardly anyone expected him to win this big, or with this high a turnout: 67.47% of the eligible voters turned up at the polls; of them, 76.67% voted for Putin. In case you are still wondering whether Crimea is part of Russia (trust me, it is) the turnout there was 71.53%, of whom 92% voted for Putin. And in the once separatist republic of Chechnya the turnout was 91.54%. Record turnouts were also observed outside of Russia, among the very large Russian diaspora. Over half of all Russians voted for Putin.

Equally notable was the manner in which the elections were run: the process was public and transparent, using paper ballots counted by hand. Polling places were equipped with video cameras. Ballot-stuffing, which was a problem with previous elections, was detected in a couple of places, and the tainted results were disqualified. While during previous elections people could only vote where they were registered, now they could declare their location and vote wherever they found themselves, even at airports if they happened to be traveling.

While the previous presidential elections in Russia were followed by a wave of protests, with numerous people complaining about fraud at the polls, this time these voices were scarcely heard. And while in previous elections opposition candidates got considerable traction among the Western-leaning educated elites in Moscow and St. Petersburg, this time the entire country was quite uniformly pro-Putin.

Clearly, the Russians are politically engaged, and clearly the vast majority of them trust and like Putin. It is easy to understand why. During the last decade of the last century Russia came close to being destroyed, but its fortunes turned around dramatically right at the turn of the century. Most Russians can see that their country has made a rapid recovery from its previous setbacks. It is indisputable that Russia is now a far more stable and prosperous country, and Putin can and does take credit for that.

Under his watch Russia has withstood the collapse in oil and gas prices, fought off terrorist onslaughts, resisted Western provocations and sanctions, and has decisively won the arms race against the United States (and can now cut its defense spending). Russia has made progress toward regaining its stature as a major world power.

Given his wonderful record and the high level of trust and respect he has earned, Putin could simply rest on his laurels, but that’s not what he plans to do. Instead, he wants to dramatically improve the well-being of all Russians and to have them achieve true greatness. So far, he has managed to fashion Russia into a “normal country”; now he wants to lead it to outright triumph. This, I believe, is what is behind the record turnout and his equally record-setting landslide victory: for once, the Russian people are actually inspired and optimistic about their future…

A lot can happen in the intervening years—both good and bad—but at the moment the project to “make Russia great again” appears to be firing on all cylinders.

Cambridge Analytica is small potatoes compared to i360 (Kochs) and DataTrust (Paul Singer)

The media has failed to ensure voting integrity in America and has aided and abetted election fraud over and over again in state after state.  Now we are being bombarded by the media claiming that in addition to “Russian meddling” in the 2016 US Presidential election Cambridge Analytica is responsible for bending the minds of voters.  From Gregory Palast:

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Cambridge Analytica Ain’t Nuthin: Look Out For i360 and DataTrust

There are two dangers in the media howl over Trump’s computer gurus Cambridge Analytica, the data-driven psy-ops company founded by billionaire brown-shirts, the Mercer Family.  The story is that Cambridge Analytica, once directed by Steve Bannon, by shoplifting Facebook profiles to bend your brain, is some unique "bad apple" of the cyber world.

That's a dangerously narrow view. In fact, the dark art of dynamic psychometric manipulation in politics was not pioneered by Cambridge Analytica for Trump, but by i360 Themis, the operation founded by… no points for guessing… the Brothers Koch…

The Koch operation and its competitor, DataTrust, use your credit card purchases, cable TV choices and other personal info — which is far more revealing about your inner life than the BS you put on your Facebook profile. Don’t trust DataTrust: This cyber-monster is operated by Karl Rove, "Bush’s Brain," who is principally funded by Paul Singer, the far Right financier better known as The Vulture…

The second danger is to forget that the GOP has been using computer power to erase the voting rights of Black and Hispanic voters for years — by "caging," "Crosscheck," citizenship challenges based on last name (Garcia? Not American!!), the list goes on — a far more effective use of cyberpower than manipulating your behavior through Facebook ads.

Just last week, Kris Kobach, Secretary of State of Kansas and Trump's chief voting law advisor, defended his method of hunting alleged "aliens" on voter rolls against a legal challenge by the ALCU. Kobach's expert, Jessie Richman, uses a computer algorithm that can locate "foreign" names on voter rolls. He identified, for example, one "Carlos Murguia" as a potential alien voter. Murguia is a Kansas-born judge who presides in a nearby courtroom.

It would be a joke, except that Kobach's "alien" hunt has blocked one in seven new (i.e. young) voters from registering in the state. If Kobach wins, it will, like his Crosscheck purge program and voter ID laws, almost certainly spread to other GOP controlled states. This could ultimately block one million new voters, exactly what Trump had in mind by pushing the alien-voter hysteria.

The Cambridge Analytica story was first reported by The Guardian and Observer in 2015. Did we listen? Did any US paper carry the story the British paper worked on for years?...

US papers will sometimes re-report Guardian news, but American media almost never initiates deep investigation. And THAT, fear of digging out the truth, is a greater threat to America than Steve Bannon.

In America everything is done to keep eligible voters from voting.  It’s not just the voter fraud that has destroyed free and fair elections in America it’s the corrupt, engorged with money two-party system. 

CIA permeates congress and media
 

More and more we see the candidates funded by billionaires like the Koch Brothers and Paul Singer who buy off whole sections of government.  Since the 2008 election we have been seeing more and more ex-CIA running for office and working as staffers for powerful politicians like Paul Ryan and it is prevalent in both parties.  From World Socialist Website:

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The CIA takeover of the Democratic Party

In a three-part series published last week, the World Socialist Web Site documented an unprecedented influx of intelligence and military operatives into the Democratic Party. More than 50 such military-intelligence candidates are seeking the Democratic nomination in the 102 districts identified by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as its targets for 2018. These include both vacant seats and those with Republican incumbents considered vulnerable in the event of a significant swing to the Democrats.

If on November 6 the Democratic Party makes the net gain of 24 seats needed to win control of the House of Representatives, former CIA agents, military commanders, and State Department officials will provide the margin of victory and hold the balance of power in Congress. The presence of so many representatives of the military-intelligence apparatus in the legislature is a situation without precedent in the history of the United States.

Since its establishment in 1947—under the administration of Democratic President Harry Truman—the CIA has been legally barred from carrying out within the United States the activities which were its mission overseas: spying, infiltration, political provocation, assassination. These prohibitions were given official lip service but ignored in practice.

Scary stuff.  Don’t forget that the Never Trump cabal candidate for president was Evan McMullin, and ex-CIA agent and staffer to Paul Ryan in order to keep Trump from winning the Electoral College votes.  From Real ClearPolitics:

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Evan McMullin: Goal Of Candidacy Is To Prevent Trump Electoral Vote Victory

Write-in candidate Evan McMullin admits his purpose in running for president is to prevent Donald Trump from winning. McMullin acknowledged his strategy is "not conventional" and the goal is not to win 270 electoral votes. The write-in candidate said he hopes the race is a close one because he wants to play spoiler and stop the authoritarian candidate from taking power, Donald Trump.

"We're not trying to win 270 votes," McMullin said bluntly. "What we're trying to do is earn enough electoral votes to block Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump if the race between both of them is so close that we are able to do that by winning 1 or 2 states."  "We will be happy to have prevented someone who I believe is a true authoritarian from taking power in the United States and that's Donald Trump," McMullin added…

Right now we're either on the ballot or registered as a write-in in 34 states. By the time we get to November 8th it will be 40 to 45. And that's plenty for our strategy which is not a conventional strategy. We're not trying to win 270 votes. Of course that would be great but it's just not going to happen, his is a three-month presidential campaign.

Who the hell gets on the ballot in 34 states after running for President of the United States for only 3 months?  I bet being a CIA agent with powerful connections from billionaires, government officials and media opens a lot of doors for you. 

Deep State goes berserk over firing of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe

After the FBI recommended the firing of virulently anti-Trump Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe former CIA Chief Brennan became unhinged threatening the President.  From Real Clear Politics:

  

Kallstrom: Brennan And Obama Are The People Who Committed Felonies, Not Gen. Flynn 

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Former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom told FNC's Maria Bartiromo on 'Sunday Morning Futures' that "high-ranking people throughout the government... had a plot to not have Hillary Clinton indicted so that she could remain the flawed candidate that she was."

Kallstrom said the "plot" to fix the 2016 election goes "right to the top," meaning President Obama and former CIA director John Brennan.  Kallstrom cited text messages from FBI counterintelligence chief Peter Stzrok which appear to show "they had a backup plan to frame Donald Trump" as a Russian agent.  "This whole thing is a total phony," he said about the Muller probe. "How would you feel... if someone had a phony scheme about you go on for months and months and months?" 

Asked if Comey was necessarily aware of McCabe's actions, Kallstrom said: "Jim Comey is not a stupid individual. I think he's naive and has an ego the size of the Empire State Building, and he has a lot of other faults, that got him into this trouble.

But I could be wrong, they could have been in lockstep. But there is no question that he, and McCabe others in the FBI, and we'll find out the State Dept., and the National Security Advisors to the president, and John Brennan. Did you see John Brennan's remarks?"

John O. Brennan

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@JohnBrennan

When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you.

"The animus and the malice against Trump is prima facie exposure of how he felt about Trump before the election," Kallstrom said. "My sources tell me [Brennan] was leaking almost weekly or daily, and he was taking that bunch of phony crap supposedly from Russia, and peddling that through the Congress and the media, he was one of the active people. I've known him a long time and I think he's involved, and quite frankly, I think it goes right to the top, quite frankly."

Bartiromo asks: "To President Obama?"

"It goes right to the top, and it involves that whole strategy. They were going to win [the 2016 election], nobody would ever know this stuff, and they just unleashed the intelligence community. Look at the unmaskings? We haven't even heard about that yet. Look at the way they violated the rights of these American citizens?" Kallstrom explained.

"I hope Gen. Flynn sues a lot of people, because he was handled so bad... He didn't lie to the FBI. They didn't even interview him about a crime. He was in his legal authorized mode when all that happened," he said.

"They are the people who committed felonies, not the General. They've ruined [Flynn] - and because they threatened his son, you know, they bankrupted this guy that gave his life to this country. Just the whole dealings. Look how they dealt with the IRS? There are so many things they have done badly."

Mueller is corrupt and Jeff Sessions is an enabler

The Deep State has come undone.  According to TheTrumpet:

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Sessions Blackmailed, Comey Memos, McCabe Memos, Mueller, Russia Leak: Why AG Jeff Sessions Must Resign

Corrupt Robert Mueller reminds us of that frightening show “Hoarders”. The latest news is that Robert Mueller is hoarding Andrew McCabe’s memos. Robert Mueller is also hoarding the memos of James Comey. Robert Mueller is also hoarding the testimony of George Nader. For reasons we explain below, Mueller’s precious darlings Comey/McCabe/Nader do not have value as witnesses but they do have value in an election year.

Robert Mueller is a hideous hoarder of lies and corruption enabled by Jeff Sessions. Evidence emerged today that Jeff Sessions might have been blackmailed into recusal so that Mueller could rise as an election year weapon against President Trump…

Because of Jeff Sessions the Department of Justice and the F.B.I. continue to be houses of filth. The self-imposed recusal by Jeff Sessions allowed Rod Rosenstein to appoint Robert Mueller as Special Counsel. It is not just by his absence that we can all see the terrible job Jeff Sessions is doing. Even when Jeff Sessions says he will do something, he doesn’t get the job done.

Consider leaks. On Tuesday night the national security briefings given to President Trump before he spoke with Russian leader Putin were leaked. President Trump knows how to negotiate with people like Putin (and that North Korean creep) and that has infuriated the national security idiots President Trump ignores. These national security idiots and the rest of the Deep State are the ones who controlled American foreign policy for decades and led this country to the mess it is in.

In order to thwart President Trump the Deep State leakers continue to leak. Trump hater, Marco Rubio said “If you don’t like the guy, quit. But to be this duplicitous and continue to leak things out, it’s dangerous.” The Deep State squads rather leak than quit however.

It should be noted that Marco Rubio’s Deep State financial backer is none other than Paul Singer.

The Deep State's haphazardly laid plan to start a war with Russia is coming apart at the seams. The reign of terror by British and American intelligence is over and their dirty deeds are being exposed. 

Donald Trump has reached out to Vladimir Putin, congratulated him on his excellent victory and intends to work with Russia to end the arms race begun by George W. Bush and Tony Blair.  The Deep State has come undone. Good riddance now Trump can make America Great Again!

By Patricia Baeten

British intelligence colluded with FBI to defeat Trump in American election

There was collusion to subvert the will of the American voters in the 2016 election alright, but it wasn’t Russia it was Great Britain.  All of the ridiculous charges Theresa May has made against Russia are lies, particularly the latest accusation that the wily Russians chemically poisoned ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.  The scurrilous, reckless lies of the spy agencies are designed to incite World War III.  These spy agencies must be held accountable for their treasonous actions and there needs to be a dismantling the intelligence juggernaut called the 5-Eyes.  From The Guardian:

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History of 5-Eyes – explainer

Partnership forged in wartime to monitor enemy radio transmissions now scoops up data about ordinary citizens

During the second world war intelligence officers from Britain and the US would crouch over bulky radio transmitters listening in on crackling enemy exchanges. In the years since then, communications technology has changed drastically – and intelligence gathering is far easier in the digital age.  But despite the changes it is the same agreement that still governs the sharing of signals intelligence between Britain, the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada – known in shorthand as the "5-Eyes" countries…

“In the days when the agreement was put together, your main source of signals was high-frequency radio that could be transmitted for several thousand kilometres around the world, so you had a whole network of stations to monitor HF radio…”

“As communications moved into much much higher of the frequency spectrum with mobile phones and then cell phones, they moved into facilities that could intercept those much shorter range signals, so there has been an evolution which has matched the change in means of communications,” Ball says.

Intelligence gathering has developed even further with digital communication interceptions, and as leaked NSA documents have shown, Australia has been operating listening posts around the Asia-Pacific region, passing data back to the US.

But high-frequency radio transmissions are vastly different from the internet, in both form and purpose. The executive director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, David Vaile, says the internet should not be seen as a medium designed for this kind of mass data collection.  

"With the vast amount of information that's exposed online there is a greater need for more protection," Vaile says.  The original agreement was created to share information about intelligence gathered on foreign countries, not domestic surveillance. But that purpose and the scope of the intelligence being gathered also appears to have changed…

The 1946 agreement specifically related to "foreign intelligence", which is defined as "all communications of the government or of any military, air, or naval force, faction, party, department, agency, or bureau of a foreign country, or of any person or persons acting or purporting to act therefor, and shall include communications of a foreign country which may contain information of military, political or economic value". It specifically excludes the US, the British Commonwealth and nations, and the British empire from the scope of this sort of information.

But we now know from documents provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden that the NSA has been able to retain vast amounts of data from Britain and other 5-Eyes nations, allowing information about ordinary citizens to be caught up in the dragnet.

In a draft 2005 directive in the name of the NSA's director of signals intelligence, the agency prepared policies that would enable spying on 5-Eyes partners, even without permission of the other country: “[The March 1946 UKUSA agreement] has evolved to include a common understanding that both governments will not target each other's citizens/persons. However, when it is in the best interest of each nation, each reserved the right to conduct unilateral Comint action against each other's citizens/persons…

This shift in the agreement is what Vaile says is one of the most serious risks, because it helps facilitate spying on the citizens of other parties to the agreement.  "If you actually did want to spy more on the local people then it appears that with co-operation of the other partners this is easier, because they would have the legal right in their own domestic law to treat the citizens of the other countries as foreigners, and that appears to be where the rot has set in."

Yep, that is where “the rot set in" and British and American intelligence agencies began spying on ordinary citizens for political reasons.  After the 911 attacks took place under W. Bush’s watch we were told we needed an Orwellian Homeland Security Agency to coordinate our security efforts.  It’s time to get rid of that boondoggle.  From New Republic:

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Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security

The case for abolishing the wasteful, incompetent, and abusive mega-agency has become especially urgent under Trump.

The Department of Homeland Security’s first problem is its name… “The word ‘homeland’ is a strange word,” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld mused to his staff in one of his infamous “snowflake” memos in February 2001. “‘Homeland’ Defense sounds more German than American. Also, it smacks of isolationism, which I am uncomfortable with.”

But after the September 11 attacks, the George W. Bush administration rallied around the phrase to describe its anti-terrorism efforts… The White House established an umbrella Office of Homeland Security under former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, then proposed the creation of a massive, Cabinet-level department by the same name to oversee the nation’s domestic security.

It’s now been more than 15 years since the U.S. government reorganized itself in response to a terrorist attack committed by 19 people. International terrorism’s threat to the United States has largely receded: Al-Qaeda is a remnant of its former self, and the Islamic State has been largely defeated in Iraq and Syria. At the same time, the bloated Department of Homeland Security turned into a boondoggle—an opinion shared across the political spectrum for years.

As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approached, in a paper for the libertarian Cato Institute, David Rittgers argued that the department’s unusually broad mandate is a recipe for waste and inefficiency. “This arrangement has not enhanced the government’s competence,” he wrote. “Americans are not safer because the head of DHS is simultaneously responsible for airport security and governmental efforts to counter potential flu epidemics.”

Matt Mayer, a Homeland Security official under President George W. Bush, argued in 2015 that DHS has too much responsibility. “It goes without saying that I observed up-close the dysfunction, turf battles, and inherent limitations in an entity that does so much,” he wrote in Reason magazine…

Rittgers and Mayer both called for eliminating DHS and distributing its responsibilities among various independent agencies… But the last year has seen the emergence of a deeper problem than mismanagement. Under Trump, some of the department’s agencies have turned openly abusive towards vulnerable members of American society. The case for abolishing DHS has never been more urgent… 

Homeland Security has been incompetent, wasteful, redundant, and abusive—and Congress knows it.  The result was a sprawling new federal bureaucracy. In its current form, DHS employs almost a quarter-million people and doles out tens of billions of dollars in grants and programs each year…  In all these efforts, DHS has been either incompetent, wasteful, redundant, or abusive—and Congress knows it…

But lawmakers are hesitant to cut funding for a department designed to fight terrorism, and reports of wasteful spending abound…  A damning 2012 Senate Homeland Security Committee report found that the 77 fusion centers scattered across the United States “often produced irrelevant, useless or inappropriate intelligence reporting to DHS, and many produced no intelligence reporting whatsoever.”

Funny that the 5-Eyes never detected the chatter that was occurring before the 911 attacks.  But then Tony Blair and George W. Bush were planning on attacking Iraq before the 911 attacks took place.  It was Tony Blair who provided the “sexed up” intelligence report on Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction.  No one ever paid a price for the British intelligence lies.  Now Theresa May is claiming Vladimir Putin poisoned the Skripals with the weapon of mass destruction Novichok.  From Executive Intelligence Review:

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Former British Diplomat Craig Murray Debunks Russia Nerve Agent Allegations

March 15, 2018 (EIRNS)—Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray has debunked the allegations about a Russian poison nerve agent on his website, using sources he says he cannot disclose now. However, he charges that “The Novichok Story Is Indeed Another Iraqi WMD Scam,” as the headline of his blog reads.

Basically, the U.K. government is claiming that former Russian GRU turned MI6 double agent Sergei Skripal was killed by “Novichok,” a substance no one has ever seen and whose existence is even doubted, so that if indeed it was used, this would be the first time, and British experts wouldn’t be able to identify it. Furthermore, they should have delivered a sample to the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), of which the U.K. is member.

He summarized his conclusions as follows:

·        Porton Down [the U.K. government laboratory dealing with chemical weapons] has acknowledged in publications that it has never seen any Russian ‘Novichoks.’ The U.K. government has absolutely no ‘fingerprint’ information, such as impurities, that could safely attribute any sample to Russia.”

·        Until now, neither Porton Down nor the world’s experts at the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) were convinced ‘Novichoks’ even exist.

·        The U.K. is refusing to provide a sample to the OPCW.

·        ‘Novichoks’ were specifically designed to be able to be manufactured from common ingredients on any scientific bench. The Americans dismantled and studied the facility that allegedly developed them. It is completely untrue only the Russians could make them, if anybody can.

·        The Novichok program was in Uzbekistan, not in Russia. Its legacy was inherited by the Americans during their alliance with [Uzbek President Islam] Karimov, not by the Russians.”

Yep, same bullsh*t different day.  This collaboration of the British and American intelligence seems to be clownish at best.  If there were a free press in either country they wouldn’t be able to get away with this crap.  This is just another attempt to start WWIII.  From Paul Craig Roberts:

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Lies Can Lead To War

Notice that the governments of the US, UK, France, and Germany did not require any evidence to decide that the Russian government used military-grade nerve gas to attack two people on an English park bench and a UK policeman. It makes no sense. There is no Russian motive.

The motive lies in the West. It is the latest orchestration in the ongoing demonization of Russia. The demonization is a huge boost to the power and profit of the military/security complex and prevents President Trump from normalizing relations. The military/security's budget and power require a major enemy, and Russia is the designated enemy and will not be allowed to escape that assigned role.

The false accusations against Russia are damaging the Western countries that make and support the accusations. There has never any evidence provided for any of the accusations. Consider them: the Malaysian airliner, Crimea, the polonium poisoning of a Russian in the UK, Putin's alleged intention to restore the Soviet Empire, Russiagate and the stealing of the US presidential election, other charges of election theft or interference. The current Skripal poisoning. Accusations abound, but never any evidence. Eventually even insouciant Western peoples begin to wonder about the transformation of evidence-free accusations into truth.

What do leaders and peoples of the few independent and sovereign countries think when they see a signed condemnation of Russia for poisoning a long-retired UK double-agent without a scrap of evidence by the political heads of the four major Western countries? What do the Chinese think? The Iranians? The Indians?

We know that the Russians are beginning to think that they are being set up by demonization for invasion, as was Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad, Yemen, and the attempt on Iran. It is finally dawning on Russia that all these accusations are not some kind of mistake that diplomacy can straighten out, but, instead, the setting up of Russia for military attack.

So many lies spread by British and American intelligence it’s hard to keep up.  Oh, and that dodgy dossier of British Intelligence lies that was given to John McCain to bring an FBI eager to publish was just a bunch of hooey.  It was all part of the collusion between British intelligence and the FBI to launch a witch hunt against President Donald Trump.  From The Federalist:

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REVEALED: Peter Strzok Had Personal Relationship With Recused Judge In Michael Flynn Case

Text messages obtained by The Federalist show that Peter Strzok and Lisa Page conspired to collude with Judge Rudolph Contreras, a FISA judge who presided over Michael Flynn's guilty plea and was later removed from the case.

Newly discovered text messages obtained by The Federalist reveal two key federal law enforcement officials conspired to meet with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) judge who presided over the federal case against Michael Flynn. The judge, Rudolph Contreras, was recused from handling the case just days after accepting the guilty plea of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser who was charged with making false statements to federal investigators.

The text messages about Contreras between controversial Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) lawyer Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, the senior FBI counterintelligence official who was kicked off Robert Mueller’s special counsel team, were deliberately hidden from Congress, multiple congressional investigators told The Federalist. In the messages, Page and Strzok, who are rumored to have been engaged in an illicit romantic affair, discussed Strzok’s personal friendship with Contreras and how to leverage that relationship in ongoing counterintelligence matters.

“Rudy is on the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]!” Page excitedly texted Strzok on July 25, 2016. “Did you know that? Just appointed two months ago.”

“I did,” Strzok responded. “I need to get together with him.”

“[He] said he’d gotten on a month or two ago at a graduation party we were both at.”

Contreras was appointed to the top surveillance court on May 19, 2016, federal records show.

The pair even schemed about how to set up a cocktail or dinner party just so Contreras, Strzok, and Page could speak without arousing suspicion that they were colluding. Strzok expressed concern that a one-on-one meeting between the two men might require Contreras’ recusal from matters in which Strzok was involved.

“[REDACTED] suggested a social setting with others would probably be better than a one on one meeting,” Strzok told Page. “I’m sorry, I’m just going to have to invite you to that cocktail party.”

“Have to come up with some other work people cover for action,” Strzok added.

“Why more?” Page responded. “Six is a perfectly fine dinner party.”

It is not known whether the proposed party happened as planned.

While working as one of the top counterintelligence officials at the FBI, Strzok reportedly took part in the FBI’s interview of Flynn on January 24. Flynn later pleaded guilty to one charge of providing false information to federal investigators. Strzok later left the FBI to join Mueller’s special counsel team, which obtained the indictment of Flynn.

Flynn’s guilty plea was accepted in federal court by Contreras on December 1, 2017. The New York Times reported the next day that Strzok, who left the FBI to work for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, had been removed from the case by Mueller due to inappropriate text messages between Strzok and another federal official, now believed to be DOJ attorney Lisa Page.

On December 5, 2017, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to FBI director Christopher Wray demanding text messages from Strzok as well as any notes he took regarding his interviews with Flynn. Contreras was recused from the Flynn case on December 7, 2017, and the case was reassigned to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, according to federal court documents.

Neither Contreras nor federal judiciary officials have publicly indicated the reason for Contreras’ removal from the case. Contreras’ office declined to comment on inquiries asking about his relationship with Strzok, or why he was not recused from the Flynn case until after he had accepted Flynn’s guilty plea…

Hmmm, so Strzok, the senior FBI counterintelligence official set up Flynn how much more corrupt could the FBI get?  That is just the tip of the iceberg.  The whole Mueller investigation is a set up to remove America’s elected President and replace him with one more liking to British Intelligence, the FBI and CIA.  The set up began in July right around the time that the British government was planning on banning Trump from Britain.  Oh there was collusion in America’s 2016 Presidential election alright, but it wasn’t between Trump and Russian President Putin, it was between the British government and Obama’s FBI and CIA.  Nice.

By Patricia Baeten

Trump agrees to meet with Kim Jong Un as the Deep State recoils in horror at peace prospect

The foreign and domestic policies of America since the neocons and neoliberals seized control December 12, 2000 has been an unmitigated disaster for America.  In every election campaign Democrats and Republicans alike have lionized North Korea, Russia and Iran in order to create boogie men that justified trillions in spending for the military industrial complex.  Every administration has demonized Russia and Iran as the greatest threat to world peace. 

Both GOP and Dem administrations have attacked small countries that posed no threat to America to engorge their financial backers at the expense of the American economy, national security and humanity.  

In 2016 President Donald Trump campaigned against the Deep State status quo and won.  The fruits of Trump’s labor blessed America this week when President Trump levied tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum and then announced he is willing to meet with Kim Jong Un of North Korea.

The failed policies of the past have caused financial and physical devastation across the planet.  Many are pleased to welcome a new day in America.  Not so for the Deep State and its operatives in the media and in the many Washington think tanks who control the majority of congress.  For the masters of war it is time for hysteria and increased attacks on Trump using the Mueller witch hunt and character assassination just as they did to President Clinton in the 1990’s. 

This is not the 1990’s this is today and Donald Trump is not Bill Clinton.  Trump is not wedded to either party and is a strong, independent capable leader.   The lunatic fringes of the two parties will not be able to impeach President Trump for having an affair like they did to President Clinton.  This is a new day.

President Vladimir Putin displayed Russia’s highly advanced military equipment that Russia was able to produce while America was bogged down in multiple wars while spending trillions on military equipment development while their infrastructure crumbled at home. 

The difference between Russia and America is that, while spending a fraction of what America spends enriching contractors, Russia’s military equipment is far superior to America’s overpriced failures.  President Putin put America’s political dilemma succinctly into focus saying “America is eating itself up.”  From Veterans Today:

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Putin: US political system “eating itself up”

Putin should be credited with making a positive difference in the political landscape. Granted, he does have his shortcomings, as we all do. But he has continued to tell the truth about the New World Order and its most revealing puppet, the United States of America.

Putin has recently declared that the U.S. political system has “demonstrated its inefficiency and has been eating itself up.”[1] That is a bold and factual statement, and one needn’t be a politician to realize that the U.S. “has been eating itself up” since the first time it embarked on an imperialist/Zionist mission in the Middle East and elsewhere.

As I have argued elsewhere, the United States overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran in 1953. We destroyed Iraq in 2003; we literally created chaos in Libya; we made a mess in Afghanistan; we created sodomy at Abu Ghraib; we almost went crazy because Assad is still alive and well in Syria.

All those wars have serious consequences, and the only people who will pay a huge price are the average American, not the Neocons and Israelis who were pushing those wars in the first place. In fact, those Jewish Neocons don’t give a damn about you, your country, your children, and your future.

This is not my opinion at all. Perhaps we should summon Jewish Neocon Jonah Goldberg once again. Quoting approvingly another Jewish Neocon by the name of Michael Ledeen, Goldberg declared:  “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.”[2]

Goldberg continued: “Saddam Hussein deserved to be overthrown by the United States at the end of the Gulf War, and it does not seem to me that a statute of limitations has expired on that verdict.”[3] 

It was calculated that the Iraq War will cost America at least six-trillion dollars.[4] Goldberg’s response? Well, you guessed it: “Iraq was a worthy mistake.”[5]

Neocons like Goldberg want to kill, steal, and destroy. They invent conflicts where there are no conflicts, and they create monsters and then destroy them—all in the name of “democracy” and “freedom.” They are always interested in creating multi-million dollar jobs for the military industrial complex, which never ceases to see monsters and terrorists everywhere in the Middle East.[6]

What has the average American gotten in return? Well, we all know that we have already passed the $20 trillion mark when it comes to debt. Sounds like Putin was right on target when he stated that the Deep State is actually “eating itself up.”

The Zionists in the Democratic and Republican Parties care nothing about the American people, nor any people for that matter.   Both refuse to pursue peaceful resolutions to conflict. This attitude was borne out of the great election theft of 2000 that opened the door for the “Pearl Harbor-like event” of 911 attacks that kicked off the New World Order concocted by the Zionist cabal.  That was the Bush/Obama Doctrine of preemptive war.  From Patrick Buchanan:

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Time to Get Over the Russophobia

George W. Bush abrogated the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that Richard Nixon had negotiated, Putin responded with a buildup of the offensive missiles he put on display last week.

The U.S. helped to instigate the Maidan Square coup that dumped over the elected pro-Russian government in Ukraine.  To prevent the loss of his Sebastopol naval base on the Black Sea, Putin countered by annexing the Crimean Peninsula. 

After peaceful protests in Syria were put down by Bashar Assad, we sent arms to Syrian rebels to overthrow the Damascus regime. Seeing his last naval base in the Med, Tartus, imperiled, Putin came to Assad’s aid and helped him win the civil war…

Russia is acting again as a great power. And she sees us as a nation that slapped away her hand, extended in friendship in the 1990s, and then humiliated her by planting NATO on her front porch.  Yet, what is also clear is that Putin hoped and believed that, with the election of Trump, Russia might be able to restore respectful if not friendly relations with the United States.  Clearly, Putin wanted that, as did Trump.

Yet, with the Beltway hysteria over hacking of the DNC and John Podesta emails, and the Russophobia raging in this capital, we appear to be paralyzed when it comes to engaging with Russia.  The U.S. political system, said Putin this week, “has been eating itself up.” Is his depiction that wide of the mark?

What is the matter with us?

Three years after Nikita Khrushchev sent tanks into Budapest to drown the Hungarian revolution in blood, Eisenhower was hosting him on a 10-day visit to the USA.  Two years after the Berlin Wall went up, and eight months after Khrushchev installed missiles in Cuba, Kennedy reached out to the Soviet dictator in his widely praised American University speech.

Lyndon Johnson met with Russian President Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, just weeks after we almost clashed over Moscow’s threat to intervene in the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. Six months after Leonid Brezhnev sent tank armies to crush the Prague Spring in August 1968, an inaugurated Nixon was seeking detente.

In those years, no matter who was in the White House or Kremlin, the U.S. establishment favored engagement with Moscow. It was the right that was skeptical or hostile…  Russians today enjoy freedoms of speech, assembly, religion, travel, politics, and the press that the generations before 1989 never knew…

Japan negotiates with Putin’s Russia over the southern Kuril Islands lost at the end of World War II. Bibi Netanyahu has met many times with Putin, though he is an ally of Assad, whom Bibi would like to see ousted, and has a naval and air base not far from Israel’s border.

We Americans have far more fish to fry with Russia than Bibi.  Strategic arms control. De-escalation in the Baltic, Ukraine and the Black Sea. Ending the war in Syria. North Korea. Space. Afghanistan. The Arctic. The war on terror.

Yet all we seem to hear from our elite is endless whining that Putin has not been sanctioned enough for desecrating “our democracy.”

Get over it.

This insane foreign policy of not talking to your adversaries can no longer be tolerated.  There is no reason not to talk with Kim Jong Un of North Korea.  It is the Zionist cabal that wants to keep the cash flowing into the war coffers that is preventing the talks from happening.  From Consortium News:

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Who’s Afraid of Talking With Kim Jong Un?

Americans should welcome President Trump’s apparent willingness to speak with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, but instead naysayers are warning of dire consequences, Jonathan Marshall explains.

Three months ago, I quoted approvingly Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to supporters in Atlanta that he would “absolutely” speak to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un even if there were only a “10 percent or a 20 percent chance that I can talk him out of those damn nukes.”  “What the hell is wrong with speaking?” the candidate said. “We should be eating a hamburger on a conference table.”

This week, the ever-mercurial President Trump agreed to take Kim up on a surprise offer to meet face-to-face in two months to search for peace. The meeting will be the first ever held between the leaders of the United States and North Korea, two countries that remain technically at war.

Whether the two men agree to eat hamburgers or kimchi, Americans should applaud Trump’s renewed willingness to talk rather than fight. Instead, all manner of naysayers are warning of potentially dire consequences. A few of their points have merit, but none outweigh the likely consequences of doing nothing to stop an impending war…

In recent months, experts have put the odds of a catastrophic war—which would likely kill hundreds of thousands of Americans in addition to countless Koreans and Japanese—at between 25 and 50 percent…

Yet instead of hailing the prospect of talks as a great win for the life expectancy of people on both sides of the Pacific, some analysts insist on treating Kim’s proposal as a zero sum game.  “By some assessments, this is really a victory for Kim, who for years has sought proof of his status and North Korea’s power by dangling the offer of leader-to-leader talks with the United States,” writes Karen DeYoung, senior national security correspondent for the Washington Post.

And liberal New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, while claiming that he is “all for negotiations,” focuses on his “fear” that Trump “has given North Korea what it has long craved: the respect and legitimacy that comes from the North Korean leader standing as an equal beside the American president.”

Does Kristof really think peace will be easier to achieve by disrespecting Kim and insisting on his illegitimacy? Deep down, does Kristof care more about one-upmanship than preventing nuclear war?

Will Trump Flub the Deal?

Many critics also warn that North Korea will take advantage of Trump’s ignorance and lack of preparation to gain some unspecified advantage.  “President Trump’s infamous penchant for going off script and his admiration of authoritarian types could weaken our negotiating position,” declared Suzanne DiMaggio of the Washington-based New America Foundation, who helped arrange backdoor diplomatic contacts between the two countries last year.

Zack Beauchamp, a news analyst for Vox.com, warns that Trump is “very easy to manipulate” and “easily swayed by flattery,” weaknesses that make it “easy to imagine the North Koreans tricking Trump into a deal that, in the long term, helps their strategic position while hurting America’s.”

Not to be outdone, senior White House and national security reporters for CNN caution, “there’s a real chance Trump could be walking into a massive trap…”

But what is Trump likely to bargain away out of ignorance or vanity? Perhaps, critics fear, he will relax sanctions, agree to scale back military exercises with South Korea, or start exploring a long-term peace deal with North Korea before first nailing down iron-clad guarantees of North Korean nuclear disarmament.  But none of those measures would put the security of South Korea, much less the United States, at risk…

Trump should go into the talks with the more modest but absolutely vital aim of heading off an impending war. Realistic near-term goals include freezing further missile and warhead testing by North Korea and eliciting guarantees against proliferation of North Korea’s technology to other countries.

To achieve those ends, he may need—in consultation with Seoul—to restrain U.S.-South Korean war exercises and partially relax sanctions. He and Kim should also map out a reasonable timetable for negotiating a final peace settlement between our countries. But Trump should refuse to let critics at home dissuade him from seeking an alternative to war.

I can't help but wonder if the Kim Jong Un offer to meet with Trump is in part due to Putin’s display of strength.  With the warming of relations between North and South during the Olympics and the confidence that Russia could provide protection from an American attack its possible he doesn’t feel the need for nukes.   Putin certainly has some American politicians worried.  From Russia Today:

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‘Urgently engage with Russia’: US senators call for dialogue after new nuclear arsenal unveiled

A group of US lawmakers have called for strategic dialogue with Moscow. They feel that the matter is “more urgent” following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unveiling of a number of cutting-edge weapons systems.

“A US-Russia Strategic Dialogue is more urgent following President Putin’s public address on March 1st when he referred to several new nuclear weapons Russia is reportedly developing, including a cruise missile and a nuclear underwater drone,” a letter signed by US Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reads.

The letter, addressed to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, was published on Thursday. The senators stressed that while the countries have many “significant” disagreements, including alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections and the “annexation” of Crimea, Moscow and Washington need to come to the negotiation table.

“Due to these policy rifts, not in spite of them… the United States should urgently engage with Russia to avoid miscalculation and reduce the likelihood of conflict.”  The lawmakers are concerned that some of the brand-new Russian nuclear weapons are not covered by the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, commonly known as the New START, and thus call for the agreement to be extended. The weapons in question include a cruise missile with virtually no range limit and a nuclear-powered underwater drone.

However, the letter did not miss a chance to accuse Russia of non-compliance with the 1982 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), and called on the State Department to address the alleged violation. Moscow and Washington have traded accusations of INF-Treaty violations for several years…

There had been rumors that the Russian and American top diplomats, Sergey Lavrov and Rex Tillerson respectively, may meet while they are both in Africa. However, the US State Department denied that there had been any discussion of possible bilateral talks. When asked about it, the Russian Foreign Minister said the claims that such discussions never happened are “untrue.”

On March 1, the Russian leader presented a set of advanced Russian nuclear weapons, some of which are not yet named. During his state of the nation address, Putin stressed that Russia would not need all these new weapons had its legitimate concerns been heeded by the US and its allies. “Nobody wanted to talk to us about the root of the problem. Nobody listened to us; so listen to us now!” he said.

The speech drew a hysterical reaction from the Western media and accusations of saber-rattling and starting “a new arms race,” Putin told NBC Washington was in fact to blame for it. The Russian president referred to the US decision to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) back in 2002.

What did Americans think would happen when that idiot W. Bush and lunatic Dick Cheney unilaterally withdrew from the ABM Treaty and announced a new policy of preemptive war?  What did they think would happen after Bush’s idiotic Axis of Evil speech threatening North Korea?  This all goes back to the great election theft of 2000.  North Korea’s economy isn’t the only one suffering from America’s belligerent bellicose policies.  America is on the brink of financial collapse.  From Covert Geopolitics:

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Unprecedented Trump and Kim Meeting on NK DeNuclearization Soon! 

There is now talk about a North Korea-US dialogue on a possible peaceful resolution of the Korean conflict with the US. The NK leader is said to be committed to putting a stop on the series of nuclear testing, after a series of talks conducted between the two Koreas.

Any action towards peace is always highly appreciated. But will the Deep State just sit idly by and do nothing?  It’s too early to conclude that this will be an indication that the White House may be departing itself from the Deep State control for good. Or, that the Deep State is indeed losing control of its US intelligence and military arm. But if peace will come to the fore, then it will be the harbinger of great things to come.

No, it’s not only the North Korean economy is collapsing as the video suggests, but also that of the US.  

·        Imminent collapse of US dollar & other major currencies will push gold to $10,000 – bullion analyst.

Meanwhile, Ghouta Syria is still burning. Fortunately, the Syrians there are openly resisting the CIA Al Nusra militants’ desperate attacks.  Some analysts are saying that this is the endgame in Syria.

In 2016 President Donald Trump campaigned against the Deep State status quo and won.  The fruits of Trump’s labor blessed America this week when President Trump levied tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum and then announced he is willing to meet with Kim Jong Un of North Korea.  The foreign policy launched in America in 2001 has been an unmitigated disaster and it’s time to reach out to our adversaries with an olive branch not the same old dinged up rusty iron fist.  Peace and prosperity begins at home, time to invest in America.  God Bless.

By Patricia Baeten