From the impeachment testimony one thing is clear, the
embeds in the NSA, State Department, and Executive Branch want Trump impeached
for refusing to continue the failed foreign policy of Bush/Cheney and continued
by Obama/Biden. At issue is their deeply
seated hatred of all things Russia and their disgust with presidential
candidate, now President Donald Trump and his stated foreign policy. Candidate Trump repeatedly stated his desire to
normalize relations with Russia endangering the trillion dollar per year
Pentagon budget to fight against nonexistent “Russian aggression.” Trump’s foreign policy threatened the very
livelihoods of the Deep State embeds in the CIA/NSA and State Department whose
lucrative salaries have made them rich.
The impeachment of President Donald Trump was set in
progress before he was ever elected President.
When candidate Donald Trump decimated the fable that President George W.
Bush kept America safe after the 911 attacks by massive military spending and
massive domestic surveillance, his fate was sealed. Trump went where no politician was allowed to
go, “Bush should have kept America safe BEFORE the 911 attacks.”
In 2001 after being in office only 7 months, W. Bush
languished on a month-long vacation in Crawford, Texas as the intelligence
community ran around desperately with “their hair on fire” warning that Bin
laden was determined to launch a major attack on US. Bush ignored all the warnings and simply
couldn’t be bothered. From Slate.com:
Excerpt:
The Out-of-Towner
While Bush vacationed, 9/11
warnings went unheard.
In an otherwise dry day of hearings
before the 9/11 commission, one brief
bit of dialogue set off a sudden flash of clarity on the basic question of how
our government let disaster happen.
The revelation came this morning,
when CIA Director George Tenet was on the stand. Timothy Roemer, a former
Democratic congressman, asked him when he first found out about the report from
the FBI’s Minnesota field office that Zacarias Moussaoui, an Islamic jihadist,
had been taking lessons on how to fly a 747. Tenet replied that he was briefed about the case on Aug. 23 or 24,
2001.
Roemer then asked Tenet if he
mentioned Moussaoui to President Bush at one of their frequent morning
briefings. Tenet replied, “I was not in
briefings at this time.” Bush, he noted, “was on vacation.” He added that he
didn’t see the president at all in August 2001. During the entire month, Bush was at his ranch in Texas. “You
never talked with him?” Roemer asked.
“No,” Tenet replied. By the way, for
much of August, Tenet too was, as he put it, “on leave.”
And there you have it. National
Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has made a big point of the fact that Tenet
briefed the president nearly every day. Yet at the peak moment of threat,
the two didn’t talk at all. At a
time when action was needed, and orders for action had to come from the top,
the man at the top was resting undisturbed.
Throughout that summer, we now well know, Tenet, Richard Clarke, and
several other officials were running around with their “hair on fire,” warning
that al-Qaida was about to unleash a monumental attack. On Aug. 6, Bush was given the now-famous
President’s Daily Brief (by one of Tenet’s underlings), warning that this
attack might take place “inside the United States…”
And now, we learn today, at this peak moment, Tenet hears about
Moussaoui. Someone might have added 2 + 2 + 2 and possibly busted up the
conspiracy. But the president was down on the ranch, taking it easy. Tenet
wasn’t with him. Tenet never talked with him. Rice—as she has testified—wasn’t
with Bush, either. He was on his own and, willfully, out of
touch.
Yes, Tenet should have been fired and relieved of all duties
and Rice should have been charged with lying under oath. Tenet’s only job was to make sure America was
safe, but like Bush he too was on vacation.
Tenet was actually a traitor, meeting regularly with Saudi foreign
nationals. It was Tenet who handed the
torch to his buddy John Brennan who served under Obama. From 911 Truth:
Excerpt:
CIA Director George Tenet Facilitated 9/11
After becoming Director of the CIA
(DCI) in 1997, George Tenet did what Louis Freeh had done after his appointment
as FBI Director. He began to cultivate close personal relationships with the
rulers of Saudi Arabia. Like Freeh,
Tenet grew especially close to Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the
United States. Bandar and Tenet often met at Bandar’s home near Washington yet Tenet did not share information from
those meetings with his own officers who were handling Saudi issues at the
Agency.
The CIA’s Saudi specialists only
learned about Tenet’s dealings with the Saudi authorities inadvertently,
through their Saudi contacts. It seems
that Tenet was operating within a network that surpassed the interests of
the American public. Therefore the unsolved crimes of 9/11, attributed
largely to young men from Saudi Arabia, should be considered in light of
Tenet’s actions.
As Deputy Director for the
CIA, in 1996, Tenet had worked to install one of his closest friends and
confidants, John Brennan, as CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia.
Brennan is now the DCI but, in his previous role, Brennan often communicated
directly with Tenet, avoiding the usual chain of command. At the time, as an apparent favor to the
Saudis, CIA analysts were discouraged from questioning Saudi relationship to
Arab extremists.
The unusual relationship that both George Tenet and Louis Freeh had
with Saudi intelligence (and George H.W. Bush) recalls the private network
that was created in the mid-1970s to accomplish covert actions though means of
proxies. This private network included disgruntled CIA officers who had been
fired by President Carter, as well as the group known as The Safari Club, and
the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)…
The BCCI network grew, with the blessing of DCI George H.W. Bush,
through the guidance of the Safari Club, which needed a network of banks to help fund proxy operations, including
off-the-books operations required by the CIA. This private network was utilized in the arming of the Mujahideen,
the precursor to al Qaeda.
For Tenet’s treachery George W. Bush award Tenet the
Presidential Medal of Freedom making a mockery of the award.
Guess the Presidential Medal of Freedom has basically become
the Deep State Medal of Freedom as Obama awarded the medal to George H.W. Bush and
Joe Biden.
After Trump quashed the Deep State’s excuse for exonerating
George W. Bush’s total incompetence leading up to the 911 attacks, Trump went
on to decimate the Deep State’s concocted fairy tale about Obama’s superior
intellect that negated any need for experience.
Obama’s college transcripts, which have been sealed and hidden from the
American people, had revealed a mediocre student with family ties to the CIA
who had been groomed by none other than the Deep State’s Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Trump was not persona non grata having acquired the hatred
of the Deep State’s loyal servant John Brennan.
Trump even toyed with the idea of unsealing the sealed records of who
was responsible for the 911 attacks so the 911 families could be compensated. The embeds in the CIA and FBI are virulently
opposed to that happening and are fighting Trump to keep the records sealed in
order to protect themselves.
Even before President Donald Trump secured the Republican
nomination for president, the Deep State embeds had begun their dirty work in
Ukraine to ensure that if Trump were to be elected president, the groundwork
for impeachment was laid. The Trump
Administration would be infested the Deep State operatives ensuring the deadly
status quo put in place by Bush/Cheney and Obama/Biden remained. From Aletho News:
Excerpt:
What Republicans Must Ask the Whistleblower
The
whistleblower needs to be front and center in the impeachment proceedings on
TV. Here’s why.
As the latest public spectacle
unironically displaces daytime soap operas, the picture is starting to become
clearer. The people testifying aren’t
there to save America. They are a
group of neo-somethings inside the administration who disagreed with Trump’s
Ukraine policy and decided to derail it.
The plan was unlikely intended to
lead to impeachment when things began to move back in May, after
then-Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was fired. Contrary
to the president’s policy the taxpayers paid her to represent, she had her own,
and promoted confrontation with Russia over Ukraine and sought more military
aid.
Bill Taylor was then installed as a
figurehead in the embassy and Ukraine policy was taken away from
hardliners at the State Department and NSC and handed over to America’s favorite knucklehead, Rudy Giuliani,
and the inexperienced, Trump-appointee, Gordon Sondland.
The bureaucracy called a Code
Red. They were needed on that wall to stand against Russia. It
seemed easy enough. Ukraine was off most of the public’s radar, so some Op-Eds,
Trump’s men nudged aside, and the mini-coup over Ukraine policy would have
worked. John Bolton,
who could have stepped in and told everyone to return to their seats or no
snack time, was agog at the amateur efforts by Giuliani, and certainly no fan of a less robust Ukraine
policy anyway.
Things got out of the group’s hands when Democrats, desperate for
something to impeach on after Russiagate imploded, seized on the objections
over Ukraine policy as slightly more than the nothing they otherwise had (the
alternative was resurrecting the Stormy Daniels-Michael Avenatti-Michael Cohen
sleaze fest.)
An objection over policy and who would run it was transformed into a
vague smatter of quid pro quo based on that July 25 phone call, using a
whistleblower’s undergrad-level prank “complaint” as the trigger.
And that’s why the whistleblower is very relevant. He
knows nothing first-hand himself (neither does anyone else, see below, but
someone had to go first) admitting in his complaint all his information is
second hand. He is not anonymous;
Google “who is the whistleblower” and you too can know everything official
Washington and the media already know about him, back to his college days. So
no one needs to fret about his safety, and no one needs to ask him any
questions about the July 25 call.
Here is the question the
whistleblower must be asked: how did
this jump from policy disagreements among like-minded people (you, Vindman,
Taylor, et al) to claims of an impeachable offense? Who engineered that jump? Was it Adam Schiff’s staffers who first
met with the whistleblower?
Schiff lied about that contact. Or
was it a partisan D.C. lawyer who has
been trolling Twitter since Trump’s election looking for someone to hand him
raw material he’d lawyer into a smoking gun (an organization he is connected with had mobile billboards advertising
for whistleblowers circling the White House, the Capitol, the Pentagon, the CIA
and the National Security Agency to try to attract clients)?
Did the whistleblower make himself
into a pawn, or was he made into a pawn? The answer is very important because
at this point how the whistleblower came
to be at the ground zero of electoral politics tells us if this is a legitimate
impeachment or a political assassination…
The popular impression is men like the whistleblower, Bill Taylor, and
Alex Vindman are non-partisan, and there is some truth to that. They came
up through a system which strongly emphasized service to the president,
whomever that is. But it would be wrong to equally claim they are policy
agnostic; in fact, likely quite the opposite.
They see themselves as experts, and in Vindman’s case, a native son,
who know better. That’s why they were hired, to advise, and under Obama
their advice (for better or worse, they wanted to bring us to war with
Russia) was generally followed.
They knew they knew better than the Orange Clown who somehow ended
up in the Oval Office and ignored them. They knew he was wrong, and talked
and texted about it among themselves. That’s OK, normal even. But
it appears they came to see Trump not just as wrong but as dangerous. Add
in some taint of self-interest on Trump’s part, and he became evil…
With their testimony focused mostly on their disagreements with Trump’s
Ukraine policy, and their own intellectual superiority, it seems such proclamations of conscience have more to
do with what outcomes and policy the witnesses support and less to do
with understanding that without an orderly system of government with a
functioning chain of command all is chaos.
The Trump-deranged public is
overlooking the dark significance of serving officials undermining the elected
president because of policy disagreements. They
hate Trump so much they are tolerating insubordination, even cheering
it. Now that’ll bite America back soon enough. You don’t join government to do whatever partisan thing you think is
right; you serve under a system and a
chain of command…
So let’s hear from the whistleblower and all the witnesses about
that, not their second hand knowledge of Trump’s motivations, but their first hand knowledge of their
own motivations.
Americans in government and
military are mostly decent people. Unlike some who hold power in banana
republics, they are unlikely to be convinced to undermine the president for
personal gain. But give them a
crusade, tell them they are heroes Mueller failed to be, and they will convince
themselves anything is justified.
Those impure motivations are what
transformed the witnesses now driving impeachment from being dissenters to
insubordinate, into convincing themselves they needed to make a stand. Vindman
gives it away, saying he twice “registered internal objections about how Mr.
Trump and his inner circle were treating Ukraine,” out of what he called a
“sense of duty.” Duty to what?
The not very anonymous
whistleblower is only 33-years-old, but of the mold. Ivy League, CIA, language
guy, a Ukraine specialist who found himself and his knowledge embraced by
Obama and Biden — the right guy in the right place — UNTIL HE WAS SET ASIDE BY TRUMP WITH NEW POLICY.
Taylor fancies himself the last
honest man, shepherding U.S.-Ukrainian policy through rough waters, having
been ambassador to Ukraine 2006-2009. Yovanovitch
was a partisan, representing her own vision, not that of the elected
leadership, because she was sure she knew better after her years at State.
Best and the brightest. They were professional, seasoned dammit,
look at their resumes! The uniform!
If they came to being
whistleblowers and then players in politics honestly, then were simply
side-slipped into becoming pawns, they
should be quietly retired, this generation’s Colin Powell. But
if they are agent provocateurs, they need to be fired. That’s why we need to
talk to the whistleblower, to understand that difference.
That’s for them, now for us. If
this all was just a hearing on bad policy planning and what happens when
knuckleheads like Rudy Giuliani get involved, it would make interesting
history. If this was a long-overdue review of U.S. relations with Ukraine,
it would be welcome. But as an
attempt to impeach the president, it is a sordid, empty, brazen, political
tactic hardly worthy of the term coup.
It
sets a terrible example of what we will tolerate from the bureaucracy if we
hate the incumbent president enough. It opens the door to political
opportunism, and informs real would-be insubordinates how to proceed more
effectively. It signals chaos to our allies and opens opportunity to our enemies.
There’s
a fine line between necessary dissent and wicked insubordination, between conscience and disobedience,
but there is a line and it appears to have been crossed here. The
attack is no longer on policy, on which Taylor and Vindman may lay some claim,
it is on the president and only the voters should have that say.
Peaceful transition of power in America after an election my
ass. But then peaceful transition of
power was blown up in 2000 when the Deep State’s George W. Bush lost the
election and Deep State operatives in the Republican Party with a nod from Deep
State Democrats violently stopped the vote recount in Florida. Deep State operatives violently protested
outside Vice President Al Gore’s residence in the Naval Observatory screaming
for the Gore Family to get out of “Dick Cheney’s House.”
The incoming Bush/Cheney Administration violently cracked
down on protestors and rounded them up and shoved them into caged areas called
“free speech zones” out of the vision of George W. Bush. The passing of the “Help America Vote “the
right way” Act” the codified into law paperless, unverifiable vote tallying
machines and insane redistricting to subvert the will of the voters. That
status quo has remained since the overthrow of the American government December
12, 2000.
When President Trump upset the Deep State apple cart and won
the election on a platform of ending a war-based economy and rebuilding
America, the fix was in. That fix being
impeachment. The people you saw
testifying before the impeachment committee are Deep State operatives who have
been in charge of maintaining the status quo their livelihoods depend on.
The ever-wars promoted by these “civil servants” have
bankrupted America and left our homeland rife with drug addiction, completely
decimated infrastructure and an electorate on the verge of civil war. But the mantra of the lunatics is “ever-war
means never having to say you’re sorry.”
They believe, as Churchill said “Success is the ability to move from one
failure to another without loss of enthusiasm.”
From RT:
Excerpt:
Iraq invasion ‘Godfather’ berates Trump for not thinking of NEXT WAR in
Syria
Unreconstructed neocon Paul
Wolfowitz has slammed President Donald Trump for ‘abandoning’ the Kurds, insisting the US will need them next time
there’s a war in Syria. Trump’s blunder,
then, is thinking wars can “end.”
The man once described by CNN as
“the heart and soul of the Iraq war” points out in an op-ed in the New York
Times on Thursday that decades of
meddling in the Middle East have made the US some friends in the region –
namely, the Kurds. Casting them aside,
he says, will make future meddling much more difficult.
The failed war’s mastermind reminds Trump that because the US’ Kurdish
and Arab allies were gracious enough to serve as cannon fodder in the fight
against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq, the
US lost just six soldiers, compared to 11,000 from the US-backed opposition. A less belligerent mind might see this as
exploitation, rather than alliance – but friendship means never having to say
“sorry I turned your homeland into a hotbed of sectarian conflict.”
When the next war comes around – and
Wolfowitz assures us there will be a next war – the US will be
sorry it spurned its Kurdish friends, he warns. The inveterate warmonger calls Trump short-sighted for viewing all
engagement in the Middle East through the lens of the Iraq and Afghanistan
quagmires, and holds up a failed Shiite uprising against Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein as a cautionary tale of what happens when the US isn’t lurking
in the shadows ready to play World Police at the drop of a shell – but
glosses over the fact that every war Wolfowitz has backed in his lengthy career
has ended with the “liberated” country all but turned to dust.
IN WOLFOWITZ’S VIEW, THERE IS NO
“RIGHT” WAY TO LEAVE A WAR. “Walking away from [the Middle East] has a way of
sucking America back in,” he warns – as
if the power vacuum he warns will develop in the absence of a firm American
hand to guide backward local politicos is an actual literal vacuum, capable of
sucking American troops through space. The only way to prevent this is to prop up US “allies” at the helm of
these countries and surround them with American “advisers” so they don’t
make the mistake of listening to their people.
But even as he warns against
allowing power vacuums to develop, he
tears into former President Barack Obama for not backing the Syrian
opposition’s efforts to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, lamenting that a bit of support in the
right place could have “toppled the regime…with little risk to
Americans.” Apparently, some power vacuums are more dangerous than others.
Wolfowitz admitted in 2013 that the Iraq War was a disaster, but
insisted this was only because he wasn’t actually its “architect,”
all CNN plaudits aside – he had wanted Iraqi leadership from the start, rather
than the embarrassingly colonialist look of having American “viceroy” Paul
Bremer running the show.
Americans would still be behind the
scenes pulling the strings, however – he
has bemoaned the lack of “leadership qualities” in Iraqi politicians as
recently as 2017, insisting the US must
maintain a presence in the country to keep it from “going to hell literally.”
For a man who spends so much time mouthing platitudes about democracy, HE IS WILDLY ALLERGIC TO SELF-RULE BY
MIDDLE EASTERN PEOPLES.
Had the Bush Administration
simply done things according to his plan – adopted the properly colonialist model of backing one group of
Iraqis against the others – everything
would have been peachy.
That complete lack of insight has
made Wolfowitz one of the loudest cheerleaders for any and all wars since his
tenure. He was a big fan of invading
Libya, and wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal begging Trump to bomb
Syria (which Trump did).
It’s astonishing that any serious
politician still listens to the man
who infamously promised in 2003 that the
Iraqi people “would greet [American troops] as liberators,”
obviating the need for a heavy troop presence in the country.
Trump’s repeated attempts at leaving Syria have all crumbled in the
face of opposition from the entrenched interests that Wolfowitz represents.
But if he stops even trying to pull
Americans out of the region, Wolfowitz will be right – these wars will keep
happening.
Yep the Zionist traitors installed in every government
agency by Bush/Cheney never left. They
have been running a shadow government covertly financed by American taxpayers
and banking cartels. The CIA/FBI, State
Department and congress itself are corrupt beyond the point of redemption and
must be completely eradicated. FromStrategic Culture
Excerpt:
Rethinking National Security: CIA and FBI Are Corrupt, but What About
Congress?
The developing story about how the US intelligence and national
security agencies may have conspired to influence and possibly even reverse the
results of the 2016 presidential election is compelling, even if one is
disinclined to believe that such a plot would be possible to execute.
Not surprisingly perhaps there have
been considerable introspection among former and current officials who have
worked in those and related government positions, many of whom would agree that there is urgent need for a considerable
restructuring and reining in of the 17 government agencies that have some
intelligence or law enforcement function.
Most would also agree that much of the real damage that has been done has been
the result of the unending global war on terror launched by George W. Bush and
Dick Cheney, which has showered the
agencies with resources and money while also politicizing their leadership and
freeing them from restraints on their behavior.
If
the tens of billions of dollars lavished on the intelligence community together
with a “gloves off” approach towards oversight that allowed them to run wild
had produced good results, it might be possible to argue that it was all worth
it. But the fact is that intelligence
gathering has always been a bad investment even if it is demonstrably worse at the present.
One might argue that the CIA’s
notorious Soviet Estimate prolonged the Cold War and that the failure to connect dots and pay attention to what junior
officers were observing allowed 9/11 to happen. And then there was the
empowerment of al-Qaeda during the Soviet-Afghan war followed by failure to
penetrate the group once it began to carry out operations.
More recently there have been Guantanamo, torture in black prisons,
renditions of terror suspects to be tortured elsewhere, killing of US citizens
by drone, turning Libya into a failed state and terrorist haven, arming
militants in Syria, and, of course, the Iraqi alleged WMDs, the biggest
foreign policy disaster in American history.
AND THE BAD STUFF HAPPENED IN BIPARTISAN FASHION, under
Democrats and Republicans, with both neocons and liberal interventionists all
playing leading roles. The only one
punished for the war crimes was former CIA officer and whistleblower John
Kiriakou, who exposed some of what was going on.
Colonel Pat Lang, a colleague and friend
who directed the Defense Intelligence Agency HUMINT (human intelligence)
program after years spent on the ground in special ops and foreign liaison,
thinks that strong medicine is needed and has initiated a discussion based on
the premise that the FBI and CIA are
dysfunctional relics that should be dismantled, as he puts it “burned to the
ground,” so that the federal government can start over again and come up
with something better...
On the domestic front, he cites his
personal observation of efforts by the Department of Justice and the FBI to corruptly “frame” people tried in
federal courts on national security issues as well as the intelligence/law enforcement community conspiracy to
“get Trump…”
But the fundamental problem may not
be with the police and intelligence services themselves. There are a lot of
idiots running around loose in Washington.
Witness for example the impeachment hearings ludicrous fact free opening statement by House Intelligence Committee
chairman Adam Schiff (with my emphasis) “In 2014, Russia invaded a
United States ally, Ukraine, to reverse that nation’s embrace of the West, and
to fulfill Vladimir Putin’s desire to rebuild a Russian empire…”
Another former intelligence
community friend Ray McGovern has constructed a time line of developments in
Ukraine which demolishes the establishment view on display in Congress relating
to the alleged Russian threat. First of
all, Ukraine was no American ally in 2014 and is no “critical ally” today.
Also, the Russian reaction to western supported rioting in Kiev, a
vital interest, only came about after the United States spent $5 billion
destabilizing and then replacing the pro-Kremlin government. Since that
time Moscow has resumed control of the Crimea, which is historically part of
Russia, and is active in the Donbas region which has a largely Russian
population.
It should really be quite simple. The national security state should
actually be engaged in national security. Its size and budget should be
commensurate with what it actually does, nothing more. It should not be
roaming the world looking for trouble and should instead only respond to
actual threats.
And it should operate with
oversight. If Congress is afraid to do it, set up a separate body
that is non-partisan and actually has the teeth to do the job. If the United States of America comes out of
the process as something like a normal nation the entire world will be a much
happier place.
America is anything but a normal nation at this time. The only way to return to normalcy is to
remove the traitorous Zionist war mongers from our government and turn them
over to the international criminal court.
The coup in Ukraine has cost the lives of thousands and continues to
this day with the “military aid” we supply being used against the Russian speaking
people of Ukraine. What about the “rule
of law” the Democrats and “never Trump Republicans” speak of? From Information Clearing House.
Excerpt:
Imperialism and the Rule of Law
Watching the Trump impeachment
hearings, one hears again and again the phrase, ‘the rule of law’ uttered with
great solemnity. The phrase is followed
very closely by another slogan, ‘fighting corruption’. The American public is told by the
congressional democrats on the House Judiciary Committee that in effect, impeaching President Trump is an imperative
action needed to set an example to the world that the United States upholds
‘democracy’ and the ‘the rule of law’.
Furthermore, the public is told that U.S. policy in the Ukraine is designed to
counter ‘Russian aggression’ and reverse the ‘Russian invasion’ of that
beleaguered country. That no such ‘aggression’ or ‘invasion’
has taken place is irrelevant to democrats and republicans alike.
Several questions should be asked by way of
examining the political rhetoric currently being used to justify U.S. foreign
policy in Ukraine. FIRSTLY, was the 2014 U. S. sponsored coup d’état of President Victor
Yanukovych an example of upholding democracy?
SECONDLY, was supporting
ultra-rightwing and neo-Nazi shock troops in the 2014 Maiden uprising as did
U.S. senator John McCain an example of respecting the rule of law?
THIRDLY, was the
intervention undertaken by Assistant Secretary of State for European and
Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt into the
domestic political affairs of Ukraine that resulted in the selection of that government’s pro-Western
Yatsenyuk leadership in the wake of the coup an example of democratic
governance?
FOURTHLY, was placing the Ukraine in debt to the
IMF to the tune of $18 Billion and requiring that the government slash its national
gas subsidies thereby contributing to a 50% increase in gas prices an example
of exercising the rule of law?
FIFTHLY, is funding a war in the Ukraine that has cost the lives of an estimated
13,000 people by delivering military aid to the pro- Western Kiev government
an example of the United States promoting democracy and human rights?
In effect, the answer to all of the above
questions is ‘yes’ if we mean the law of the imperialist jungle. The answer is ‘no’ if we mean international
and constitutional law. U.S. imperialism
is above the law in the latter sense. Imperialist diplomacy is conducted by
gangsters who routinely make offers to other leaders that cannot be refused. Yanukovych was deposed after
refusing to take loans from the IMF.
His replacement, the Ukrainian businessman and oligarch, Petro Poroshenko, had no such qualms. The popular Ukrainian actor and hapless new President
Volodymyr Zelensky is left to pick up the pieces of a broken state wrecked by
war, neo-liberal privatization and the attendant oligarchical corruption that
flows in its wake.
Since the 911 attacks Americans have been brutalized by the
banks and insurance companies and driven into bankruptcy. Our infrastructure is almost beyond repair
and no end to the carnage in sight.
However members of congress, their families and staffers are now mostly
millionaires. How does that happen?
There’s millions to be made in wars, with almost zero
oversight of where the money goes. The destruction of the World Trade Center
was a controlled demolition, so was the financial collapse of 2008. Trillions in savings, pensions and stocks
went from ordinary people’s portfolios into the coffers of predatory lenders,
banking cartels and bailouts. From
Washington Examiner:
Excerpt:
Hunter Biden-linked company received $130M in special federal loans while
Joe Biden was vice president
An investment firm linked to Hunter Biden received over $130 million in
federal bailout loans while his father Joe Biden was vice president and
routed profits through a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, according to federal
banking and corporate records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
Financial experts said the offshore
corporate structure could have been used to shield earnings from U.S. taxes. Rosemont
Capital, an investment firm at the center of Hunter Biden’s much-scrutinized
financial network, was one of the companies approved to participate in the 2009
federal loan program known as the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility,
or TALF.
Under the program, the U.S. Treasury Department and the
Federal Reserve Bank issued billions of dollars in highly favorable loans to
select investors who agreed to buy bonds that banks were struggling to
offload, INCLUDING BUNDLED COLLEGE AND AUTO LOANS.
According to federal records, 177 firms participated in TALF, many of
them well connected in Washington or on Wall Street. FOR INVESTORS, THERE
WAS LITTLE RISK AND A HIGH CHANCE OF REWARD. The Federal Reserve funded as much as 90% of the investments.
If the bonds were profitable, the borrowers benefited. If not, the department agreed to take over the depreciated assets
with no repercussions for the borrowers.
“It's very complicated to become
qualified as a TALF borrower or as a TALF fund, if you will,” Carol Pepper, a
wealth management specialist, told Forbes in 2009. “But that's an example of
where, if you can get into a TALF fund,
you can benefit from this government program.”
Under the terms for the program,
any U.S. company looking to invest in select categories of bonds was eligible
to apply for the loans. However, the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve
maintained the “right to reject a borrower for any reason,” and the internal selection process was
criticized by some lawmakers as opaque and open to corruption.
“How can my constituents in Vermont
get some of that money? Who makes the decisions? Do you guys sit around in a
room — do you make it? Are there conflicts of interest?” Sen. Bernie Sanders asked Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke at
a March 3, 2009, Senate hearing. “Do you have to be a large, greedy, reckless
financial institution to apply for these monies?”
JOE BIDEN WAS A KEY ADVOCATE
FOR THE FINANCIAL BAILOUT, which
was approved under the Bush administration and expanded under President Barack
Obama. He delayed his Senate
resignation in January 2009 to cast his final vote to increase funding for the
Troubled Asset Relief Program before taking office as vice president.
“These guys are not the most likable guys in the world,” Biden said about
the banks and hedge funds aided by the government intervention. "But here
are the facts ... Had we not bailed out the largest bank institutions in the
world, there would have been a flat-out depression.”
One of the firms that benefited was Rosemont Capital, a company led by
Hunter Biden’s business partners, Chris Heinz and Devon Archer. The firm
received the loans at a crucial time for Hunter Biden. The younger Biden had
stepped down from his lobbying business in late 2008, reportedly due to
pressure on his father’s vice presidential campaign.
Biden, Heinz, and Archer incorporated Rosemont Seneca Partners in
Delaware on June 25, 2009. The “alternative investment and market advisory
firm” was an offshoot of Rosemont Capital, which held a 50% stake in the new
venture. Rosemont Seneca and Rosemont Capital shared the same office address in
lower Manhattan and the same New York phone number, according to Securities and
Exchange Commission documents.
Three weeks after Rosemont Seneca was incorporated, a subsidiary of
Rosemont Capital, called Rosemont TALF SPV, received $23.5 million in federal
loans through the TALF program. THIS INCLUDED $13.4 MILLION TO INVEST IN
STUDENT LOANS AND $11.1 MILLION TO INVEST IN SUBPRIME AUTO LOANS. Over
five months, the company received a total of $130 million from the program in
multiple installments for investments in subprime credit cards and residential
mortgages.
“This is a great example of the
suspicion of many Americans that these
bailouts were used to benefit connected insiders while ordinary Americans went
broke,” said Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at
the National Legal and Policy Center, an organization that was critical of TALF
at the time.
Although the government stopped
issuing the loans at the end of 2009, the names of the well-connected borrowers
and investors were later released — prompting new criticism from lawmakers and
the press. In April 2011, Rolling Stone
reported that millions in TALF loans had been issued to the wife of Morgan
Stanley Chairman John Mack, Miami Dolphins owner H. Wayne Huizenga, and Wall
Street titan John Paulson, DUBBING THE
PROGRAM “WELFARE FOR THE RICH...”
“It has been estimated that each
year corporations and wealthy individuals avoid approximately $100 billion in
U.S. taxes through the use of abusive and illegal tax shelters,” wrote Sanders
in a letter to Bernanke. “Why would the
Fed lend to material investors located in the Cayman Islands?”
Federal Reserve records show Rosemont Capital was one of the companies
that set up an offshore limited partnership, called “Rosemont TALF Investment
Fund LP,” to participate in the TALF program. The fund was incorporated in the Cayman Islands on May 14, 2009, and
dissolved on Nov. 14, 2014, according to corporate records in the
British territory. The fund was managed by a Delaware-based subsidiary of Rosemont
called “Rosemont TALF GP,” SEC records show.
Another investor in Rosemont’s TALF
fund, called “Rosemont TALF Opportunities Fund II,” was also based in the
Cayman Islands. Additional Rosemont TALF
investors included two Greek shipping magnates, a California class action
attorney and a financial trust based in Liberia.
Tax experts said the Cayman Islands were a popular location
at the time for hedge funds and corporations to set up subsidiaries in order to
avoid paying certain U.S. taxes. Didier Jacobs, a senior policy adviser at
Oxfam America who focuses on international finance, said an estimated $2.7 trillion was
parked in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens prior to the U.S. tax reform
in 2017…
“It seems like a pretty basic
ask that any recipient of these TALF loans would act in certain ways. And one
of those ways would be to not organize their businesses to avoid taxes in the
Caymans,” said Gardner.
Joe Biden was one of the biggest proponents of bankruptcy
protection for banks legislation that enslaved a generation of young people
with non-dischargeable student loan debt.
While serving as Vice President, Joe Biden and his family became very
rich off of war and bank bailouts.
Barack Obama who entered the White House in 2008 supposedly with student
loan debt became very rich as well. Obama
was installed as president by Wall Street Banks who laundered over $300 million
dollars into his presidential campaign in October of 2008. In return Obama would oversee the bank
bailouts. Not only did no one on Wall
Street get charged fraud, but Obama bailed out the corrupt bankers, bonuses and
all. When Obama left the White House he
received $65 million dollars laundered through a publishing house for his “memoirs.” The American people didn’t fare so well.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump understood the anger,
outrage and pain that was bubbling up in the American psyche. Trump spoke to the unfairness and the
injustice that was commonplace in America, where billionaires buy politicians
in return for tax cuts, bailouts and government contracts. In America there is one set of laws for the
American people and one set of “get out of jail free” cards for the rich.
Trump called out billionaires like Jeff Bezos who owns the
monopoly Amazon and the CIA funded Washington Post. It was those billionaires and their bought
and paid for politicians and spooks that decided to destroy Trump and those
that supported him. Now their dirty
deeds and self-dealing are being exposed.
From Epoch Times:
Excerpt:
Court Filing: Obama Holdover Heading Office Under Investigation for
‘Illegally Leaked’ Classified Document
The Obama holdover heading the Pentagon office reportedly under
investigation by the U.S. attorney who is conducting the criminal probe of the
Trump–Russia investigation was accused of leaking a classified document, in
a recent court filing for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
According to a Nov. 21 report by
independent journalist Sara Carter, U.S. Attorney John Durham is questioning
personnel in the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA). ONA awarded about $1 million in contracts
to FBI informant Stefan Halper, who appears to have played a key role in
alleged U.S. intelligence agency spying on 2016 Trump campaign advisers
Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
In addition, however, a court filing indicates that ONA’s
director, James H. Baker, “is believed to be the person who illegally leaked the transcript of Mr.
Flynn’s calls” to The Washington Post. Specifically, the filing
states, “ONA Director Baker regularly lunched with Washington Post Reporter
David Ignatius.”
The filing adds that Baker “was
Halper’s ‘handler’” at ONA. Moreover,
according to the court filing, the tasks assigned to “known long-time operative
for the CIA/FBI” Halper “seem to have included slandering Mr. Flynn with
accusations of having an affair with a young professor (a British national of
Russian descent).”
Baker didn’t respond to a request
for comment by The Epoch Times as of press time.
The filing notes that Flynn’s
defense team has requested phone records for then-Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper, likewise in order to confirm contacts with
Ignatius. The filing singles out records for Jan. 10, 2017, when, according to
the filing, “Clapper told Ignatius in
words to the effect of ‘take the kill shot on Flynn.’”
Clapper didn’t respond to a request
for comment by The Epoch Times as of press time.
The Pentagon’s current inspector
general has already found that Baker’s office “did not maintain documentation
of the work performed by Professor Halper or any communication that ONA
personnel had with Professor Halper.” As
a result, according to the inspector general, ONA staff “could not provide
sufficient documentation that Professor Halper conducted all of his work in
accordance with applicable laws and regulations.”
Acting Pentagon Inspector General
Glenn A. Fine in November 2017 started an investigation into charges that Baker
retaliated against a whistleblower who red-flagged “rigged” contracts,
including Halper’s. Another $11 million in contracts under scrutiny
went to the Long Term Strategy Group (LTSG), which is run by a schoolmate
of Chelsea Clinton, whom she has referred to as her “best friend.”
According to the whistleblower’s
attorney, “Baker’s interest was his awareness of the LTSG-Clinton connection;
his presumptive desire to exploit that to his advantage in the event of a
Clinton election win; and the fact that
contractors like LTSG served as a lucrative landing pad for ONA retirees.”
The attorney charged that Baker’s claims about the whistleblower
were “demonstrably false,” calling Baker “partisan and highly vindictive...”
Raising additional questions, a 2016 report further revealed that the ONA
had failed to produce the top-secret net assessments the office was established
to conduct for more than 10 years,
even with a yearly budget approaching $20 million.
Baker was named as ONA director on May 14, 2015, during the Obama
administration. A contemporaneous report called his appointment “part of a wave of
new Pentagon personnel moves in recent days, senior-level officials who will
outlast President Obama’s final term in office…”
The House Judiciary and Oversight
committees—which interviewed almost two dozen witnesses—concluded in December
2018 that the Obama Justice Department
treated Trump and Clinton unequally, affording Clinton and her associates
extraordinary accommodations, while potentially abusing surveillance powers to
investigate Trump’s associates…
Jacqueline Deal, president of LTSG,
wrote in an email to The Epoch Times: “My
colleagues and I began performing work in support of the Office of Net
Assessment during the George W. Bush administration, over a decade before the
office’s current director was appointed. … None of the awards received by LTSG from the Department of Defense resulted
directly or indirectly from the actions or influence of Secretary [Hillary]
Clinton. Any statement or implication otherwise is false.”
The entire purpose of the Russia-gate/Ukraine-gate
impeachment is to preserve the 911 cover up.
The attack was perpetrated by the CIA/NSA and State Department Zionist
traitors in order to subjugate the American people to slaves of unending
wars. From State of the Nation:
Excerpt:
9/11 FACT: The Pentagon Was Hit By A Cruise Missile From The U.S.
Military Arsenal
The Whole World Has Waited For 13 Years For 9/11 Truth And Justice.
Nations Everywhere Plead With The
US Citizenry To Take Back Their Country.
Why?
Because the very same people who are responsible for the 9/11 terror
attacks continue to conduct false flag operations across the planet,
starting new wars and bringing armed conflicts to once peaceful lands.
The shadow government controlling the USA has used the pretext of 9/11
to wage wars wherever they are in competition for resources, especially oil
and gas reserves, oil and gas conduits, oil refineries and sea ports.
The same unelected criminal cabal routinely uses the overwhelming US
military capability to shock and awe any defenseless nation which presents
an attractive geopolitical advantage.
Likewise, they invade countries at will that disobey their orders or
attempt to go their own way.
How are the same people, who pulled off the 9/11 INSIDE JOB, still in
power? ! They’re still being paid by US taxpayers or collecting government
pension funds or covered by state-run health insurance programs.
This state of affairs is no longer
acceptable, not that it ever was.
Only the American people can demand the justice due to the 125
unfortunate souls who perished in the Pentagon on 9/11. As well as to the thousands of office workers
who died in the Twin Towers.
WHO was killed in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and WHY? Isn’t it time to seriously investigate
9/11 truth so that the real perpetrators can be brought to justice? Especially
when those same misguided individuals are still running the country.
If not now … WHEN?
If not us … WHO?
If not here in the land of the free
and the home of the brave … then WHERE?
Indeed, this impeachment is all about the 911 cover up by
the CIA/NSA and State Department and their hijacking of the American
government. Americans must take back
their government from the Zionist traitors who have seized control of the levers
of power and used American military might to destroy not only America, but
countries and peoples across the world.
Let this Zionist backed impeachment be the bridge too
far. Let this Zionist backed impeachment
show the world once and for all that Americans are a good and decent people
whose government has been seized from them under the guise of a war on terror. These Zionist backed terrorists must be
excised from the American government and be brought to justice once and for
all. God help us because we no longer
know who we can trust but one thing is for sure, we cannot trust those pushing
this impeachment hoax for they are the terrorists among us who will keep the
world in a constant state of war.
