After Michael Bloomberg’s Robert Mueller moment Deep State launches Russia-gate II, They’re baaack!

The DNC is so desperate to stop the Bernie Sanders that they changed the requirements to participate in the Democratic debates to allow Michael Bloomberg on the stage.  Of course they made sure that anti-war candidate Tulsi Gabbard would not be on stage lest she blow up the Deep State globalist agenda. 

Self-financed billionaire ex-mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg was to be the savior of the Democratic Party, just like the testimony of Robert Mueller in Russia-gate was to be the savior.  We were told over and over Mueller was the great inquisitor who had the goods on Donald Trump for colluding with Russian President Vladimir Putin to steal the U.S. election from Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. 

After two years of investigation Robert Mueller’s testimony proved to be far more damaging to the Democratic Party than anyone could have imagined.  His stumbling, mumbling, fumbling, incoherent testimony was a major embarrassment laying bare the baseless foundation for Deep State spying on the Trump 2016 campaign.  The Deep State smoking gun turned out to be a water pistol. 

The Deep State is desperate to defeat President Trump and the current Deep State approved roster of candidates is failing to garner any support among the American voters.  With complete control over the mainstream media by the CIA, they cannot understand how the American people can remain averse to their propaganda campaign.  Bloomberg, who is as Deep State as Deep State gets, with his rise to the governorship on the heels of the 911 attacks would be a continuation of the W. Bush/Obama globalist agenda.  From Consortium News:

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Bloomberg Surrogate Was PR Guru for Bolsonaro

Arick Wierson, who is pushing the billionaire’s presidential bid, devoted himself in 2018 to softening the image of Brazil’s extreme-right leader, reports Ben Norton.

A Michael Bloomberg surrogate pumping up the billionaire’s 2020 campaign for president helped to elect Brazil’s extreme-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro, an open supporter of military dictatorship who frequently threatens violence against his political opponents.

Arick Wierson is a public relations strategist who served as a political aide and the top communications adviser to Bloomberg when the Republican media mogul was mayor of New York City.

Wierson worked with Bloomberg for nearly nine years, he noted, “first as an aide in his 2001 political campaign, and later as his chief media advisor at City Hall.” Wierson is so close with the billionaire he sarcastically refers to himself in his Twitter profile as a “Former Media Hack for Mayor Bloomberg.”

In 2018, Wierson joined Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign, devoting himself to softening the image of the Brazilian demagogue who pledged to imprison or exile leftist rivals and said in a newspaper interview that a congresswoman was not “worth raping; she is very ugly.”

Since coming to power with the help of Bloomberg’s former chief media adviser, Bolsonaro has waged a full frontal assault on Brazil’s political system. He has signaled his real agenda by openly praising Chile’s murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet and taunting the United Nations human rights chief over her father’s torture at the hands of his military junta…

Although Wierson no longer appears to have an official position in the Bloomberg campaign, he is aggressively promoting him and has become a prominent advocate for the billionaire candidate in corporate media.  In his media appearances and on his social media accounts, Wierson has vigorously attacked self-described socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, the most popular presidential candidate in the Democratic primary.

On both Twitter and Facebook, Wierson posts nonstop pro-Bloomberg propaganda. He openly fantasizes about a brokered convention, in which the DNC hands the nomination to the oligarch. A banner on his Facebook profile reads, “I’m with Mike Bloomberg 2020.”

Wierson has found a reliable platform to defend Bloomberg’s candidacy on corporate cable news media. Back in November 2019, he made the early case for the billionaire running for president in a CNN op-ed titled “Michael Bloomberg is the antidote to Donald Trump.” The piece celebrated his “serene disposition and courage” and declared that he “can resurrect America’s standing in the world.”

Then on Feb. 14, Wierson published another column for CNN promoting Bloomberg as “the ideal standard bearer for the party in 2020, representing Democrats’ best chance for taking back the White House from Trump.”  Four days later, Wierson was invited on CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, where he proclaimed that “Michael Bloomberg represents the Democratic Party’s best chance to take on Donald Trump in 2020.”

Wierson portrayed the Democratic primary as a battle between the billionaire and the self-declared democratic socialist. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s a two-person race: it’s Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg,” he said.

In his CNN appearances, Arick Wierson advised the billionaire to avoid the presidential debates, because “Bloomberg is not exactly a warm and fuzzy guy,” he conceded, and “the chances of him coming off as dry, lacking empathy, and somewhat mechanical loom large.”  This advice echoes similar counsel Wierson gave to Jair Bolsonaro during his presidential campaign. The former Bloomberg adviser successfully convinced the far-right Brazilian leader to skip the final debate.

Wierson’s role on the Bolsonaro campaign was trumpeted by Bloomberg Media, the billionaire candidate’s personal media empire. In an October 2018 puff piece titled “Bolsonaro’s Message on Love and Peace Tested in Brazil Media,” Bloomberg.com credited Wierson with helping to soften the demagogue’s personality with a heartwarming ad about loving one another and combating hate.

Wierson heaped praise on the far-right presidential candidate, writing on social media that Bolsonaro “is going to clarify a lot in the Manifesto. Brazil will be able to sleep in peace.” He even complained that Brazilian journalists were treating Bolsonaro unfairly — while the far-right president has gone on to threaten media outlets that exposed his dirty secrets, particularly his links to the assassination of socialist feminist activist Marielle Franco.

Michael Bloomberg himself has rubbed elbows with Bolsonaro henchmen like Sergio Moro, a mastermind of the political coup against Brazil’s left-wing Workers’ Party government and the jailing of its leader.  In 2018, the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce held an opulent gala dinner at which the powerful lobby group gave its top award to both Moro and Bloomberg.

As a senior judge with extensive ties to the U.S. government, Moro oversaw a Washington-backed supposed “anti-corruption” operation, known as Lava Jato, which was used to orchestrate a soft coup against Brazil’s democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff and then imprison Lula da Silva, by far the most popular candidate in Brazil’s 2018 presidential election.

After conspiring with Bolsonaro allies to bring the far-right demagogue to power, Moro was rewarded with a promotion to justice minister. Bolsonaro and Moro immediately proceeded to visit CIA headquarters…

The links between the Bloomberg camp and Bolsonaro’s allies also reflect the role the billionaire’s own media network has played in shaping both leaders’ images.  When leaked recordings exposed how Moro blatantly politicized Lava Jato with the express intention to oust the Workers’ Party government, Bloomberg’s news agency published columns defending the supposed “anti-corruption” operation.

Bloomberg Businessweek also honored Moro in 2016 by dubbing him No. 10 in its list of the 50 most influential people of the year.  Many Bloomberg columnists sang the praises of Bolsonaro, celebrating him as the “pro-business candidate.” Among them was Admiral James Stavridis, a former commander of NATO and Bloomberg columnist, who proclaimed that the rise of “Brazil’s Bolsonaro Completes a U.S. Sweep of South America.”  The caption on the featured image did away with any pretense of subtlety: “Yankee come back…”

To forge that unshakeable bond with the junta-happy Brazilian leader, Wierson clearly sees his other former boss, Bloomberg, as the perfect candidate.

Bloomberg would have been wise to take Wierson’s advice, Bloomberg’s performance at the Wednesday night debate was an absolute disaster.  He came across as an out of touch plutocrat trying to buy his way into the presidency.  He may as well get aboard the Biden “No Malarkey Express.”   As Moon of Alabama puts it, Bernie Sanders won the debate.

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Sanders Wins Democrats Primary Debate

The various reflections of last night's debate between Democratic Party primary candidates give a consistent picture.

·        Bloomberg lost. He had brought a wallet to a knife fight and made a generally bad impression. Even the news service that carries his name headlined: Bloomberg Hammered.

·        Buttigieg was again exposed as the soulless fluff he is.

·        Biden is frail, confused and talks too much.

·        Warren gets some points for hammering Bloomberg. But that is it.

·        Klobuchar gets points for hating Buttigieg but is otherwise too mechanic to attract votes.

·        Sanders ably defended his positions against attacks from all sides.

·        Tulsi Gabbard was unfortunately not invited…

The Democrats will likely have a brokered convention. If there is no candidate who gets a majority in the first round, hand selected 'superdelegates' will also vote. They will select the candidate the party's paymasters want. They may even try to rerun Hillary Clinton through this backdoor.

Op-eds that argue for such sham democratic processes already get published. Even under the slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness":

All candidates but Bernie Sanders seen to be fine with such anti-democratic schemes. When the moderators asked if the candidate with the most delegates should automatically become the party nominee the answers were:

- Bloomberg: No

- Warren: No

- Biden: No

- Buttigieg: No

- Klobuchar: No

- Sanders: Yes, the inclusion of superdelegates is not indicative of a democratic process.

The Democrats are now desperate and abandoning any facade of a fair primary election as they put in place Deep State “super delegates” to once again overrule the Democratic voters and nominate a Deep State globalist like Bloomberg. According to Greg Palast:

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California: Screwing Bernie Sanders Again?

In the 2016 California Democratic Primary, 750,000 votes were DISQUALIFIED, mostly cast by No Party Preference (NPP) voters — three out of four of whom were Bernie Sanders supporters, according to a Roper poll.

While the media is misdirecting concern to touchscreen machines in Los Angeles, this November the BIG steal will happen by mass exclusion of NPP voters and provisional ballots. They know that if NPP voters are allowed to vote in the California Democratic primary, Sanders walks away with it.

In 2016, California had over 1 million provisional ballots — equal to half of ALL provisional ballots cast in the United States. The vast majority of these provisional ballots were never counted, which is why we call them placebo ballots.

By the raw numbers, there is no state which is more expert and more vicious at vote suppression than the state of California. Alex Padilla, the so-called Democratic Hispanic Secretary of State, has been an absolute pro — he’s been the Kemp and the Katherine Harris of California.

NPP voters, if you want to vote in the California Democratic primary, you MUST ask for a “CROSSOVER Democratic ballot”. But why not make your life easy? Register as a Democrat. It doesn’t mean you have to vote Democrat in the general or anywhere else. It just means you have the right to vote in the primary without getting hassled and with less risk that your ballot will be thrown out...

Yes the DNC is utterly corrupt, but that is not to say that the RNC is not equally corrupt.  In 2016 the media colluded with the RNC to defeat Trump just like the DNC is colluding with the media to defeat Sanders.  From Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone:

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New Hampshire 2020: In Supreme Irony, the Horse Race Favors Bernie Sanders

Sanders and Trump are political opposites, but they’re on the same path to victory.

Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night. Second-place finisher Pete Buttigieg earned 24.4 percent of the vote, while Amy Klobuchar, not long ago polling in single digits, came out of nowhere with 19.8 percent, a classic New Hampshire outlier result.

The words “eked” and “narrowly” are getting a workout in headlines today. There is a Yeah, but… passage in nearly every major media write-up of Bernie’s win. “Sanders cements his front-runner status, but his narrow margins… show how volatile this race is,” is how The New York Times put it.

In reality, the results for Sanders cut both ways. On one hand, it’s amazing he can win any state after years of propaganda depicting him as a half-dead cross of Hitler and Stalin (MSNBC before New Hampshire outdid itself with Looney Tunes commentary about “executions in Central Park” and a “digital brownshirt brigade”).

On the other hand, there are signs after New Hampshire that some of the relentless corporate messaging against Sanders is landing. This will inspire orgies of excitement — it’s already happening — as pundits revel in every storyline suggesting Democratic voters are scrambling to find an “electable” alternative.

Good. Let them. I saw this movie in 2016 and have a fair idea of how it ends. It just won’t be horrifying this time.  Four years ago, after New Hampshire, it was crystal clear that Donald Trump was not only going to win his party’s nomination, but that his path was being actively cleared by the Republican Party establishment and the national news media, whose half-baked efforts to stop him were working in reverse. I wrote this in February 2016:

The [Republicans] sent forth to take on Trump have been so incompetent, they can’t even lose properly. One GOP strategist put it this way: “Maybe 34 [percent] is Trump’s ceiling. But 34 in a five-person race wins…” The numbers simply don’t work, unless the field unexpectedly narrows before March.

Early mixed results guaranteed that Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio would not drop out soon enough to give any of the others a chance. As a result, the following was obvious at this time four years ago: “Trump will probably enjoy at least a five-horse race through Super Tuesday.”

In hindsight, those Republican challengers were so villainously terrible that none would have beaten Trump in a two-person race. Still, Bush’s backers knew their man was roadkill by New Hampshire, yet didn’t pull the plug. Kasich, who in a rare moment of self-awareness was ready to bail after Iowa (“If we get smoked up there, I’m going back to Ohio,” he fumed in New Hampshire), let himself be fooled by one surprise second-place finish.

All pledged to be committed to stopping Trump but accelerated his victory by staying in too long. Popular disgust was also enhanced by delusional news-media hype surrounding a succession of would-be “real” candidates.

All of this is happening all over again, only this time it’s Democrats who are committing ritualistic self-abuse, seemingly in a conspiracy with one another and the news media to push as many votes as possible to a hated outsider. I thought this outcome might be possible for Bernie nearly a year ago:

The 30,000-foot pundit view on Sanders’ chances should be that he, of course, has a chance, one rooted in the same logic that saw Trump win. He is an unconventional candidate with an at least somewhat insoluble base of support, running in an overlarge field of mostly traditional politicians, many of whom will take votes from one another.

Still, no one could have predicted that even the idiosyncratic particulars of the 2016 and 2020 races would be so alike.

In 2016, Iowa’s Republican caucus was won by Cruz, but press wizards gushed over the “Marcomentum” of third-place Rubio, who acted like he’d won with a soaringly pompous address that somehow evoked both Obama and Henry V:

They told me that we have no chance because my hair wasn’t gray enough and my boots were too high… But tonight, tonight here in Iowa, the people of this great state have sent a very clear message.

Four days before the New Hampshire vote, Rubio stepped on a rake in a debate, repeating the “let’s dispel with the fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing” schtick four times in a viral fiasco. The New York Times declared “the End of Marcomentum” roughly 10 days after it began.

This year the standout haughty victory declaration in Iowa was given by a different human haircut, Pete Buttigieg, who told Iowans “you have shocked the nation,” with zero percent of the vote in.

Unlike Rubio, Pete could argue he technically won, but otherwise, the story was the same. Press swooned – “#Pete-mentum is no joke,” declared the Daily News – only to watch as the Great Electable Hope stepped on a rake in the New Hampshire debate, with Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar both kicking him in the balls on his race record.

Like clockwork, Pete was no longer the new hotness. With about 10 percent of the results in Tuesday night, Gloria Borger on CNN opened the floodgates on the inevitable next gambit.  “Klomentum?” she asked Anderson Cooper. The latter responded, correctly, that the horrible word sounded like something he took for his sciatica…

One of the lessons of 2016 was that cheeseball clichés like “the Big Mo,” “straight talk,” and the “beer test” no longer had traction. Voter calculations were about rage and nihilism: They were done with catchphrases. Like amputees who still feel a leg is there, pundits continued speaking in this dead language, which widened the credibility gap further.

Four years later, they’re still doing it. Kasich of all people was on CNN Tuesday night talking about “the Big Mo.” Van Jones wondered about the “beer lane.” “Klomentum” is the relic being flogged this morning. The “firewall” might be next.

The hapless Joe Biden, 2020’s clear answer to 2016 establishment Hindenburg Jeb Bush, finished a disastrous fifth in New Hampshire. Joe should drop out. The world knows it. The man shouldn’t be driving, much less running for president.

Nonetheless, because Biden is perceived to have a “firewall” in the South — the “firewall” of minority voters enjoyed by this or that corporate-funded candidate is one of the more vile campaign clichés — he will certainly not drop out. His campaign, even before Tuesday, was directing reporters to ignore New Hampshire and look to Nevada, South Carolina, and Super Tuesday.

This means once again, it will likely be (at least) a five-person race through Super Tuesday, this time between Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Biden, Sanders, and Mike Bloomberg, the detestable oligarch who has not even test-driven his eleventy-gazillion election-buying dollars yet. If Elizabeth Warren stays in [checks Twitter], the pie will be split in at least six big parts.

The Democratic Party’s argument against Sanders for years has been his alleged inability to grow beyond his base. Now, things have been arranged so that he may not have to dispel these notions before Super Tuesday. This may or may not be a good thing — beating Trump is important and the Democratic nominee should have to demonstrate the widest appeal — but the brutal irony of Bernie Sanders boosted by horse-race luck and conventional-wisdom miscalculation is difficult to miss.

As with Republicans in 2016, the defining characteristic of the 2020 Democratic race has been the unwieldy size of the field. The same identity crisis lurking under the Republican clown car afflicted this year’s Democratic contest: Because neither donors nor party leaders nor pundits could figure out what they should be pretending to stand for, they couldn’t coalesce around any one candidate.

These constant mercurial shifts in “momentum” — it’s Pete! It’s Amy! Paging Mike Bloomberg! — have eroded the kingmaking power of the Democratic leadership. They are eating the party from within, and seem poised to continue doing so.

For Sanders supporters, the calculation has always been simpler: Are you bought off, or not? Just by keeping to the right side of that one principle, Sanders will hold his 20-to-30 percent and keep grinding toward victory, “narrow” wins or not. It’s a classic tortoise-and-hare story. When you know where you’re going, you tend to get there.

Taibbi is right the Democrats have no clear message.  If they appoint an “electable” candidate, meaning a “centrist” that will continue America’s decline, Trump will win in a landslide.  Even if Sanders were to be the candidate it will be an uphill battle, and Sanders doesn’t seem averse to continuing forever wars.  Any which way the Democrats lose and they know it.  Already the cries of Russia-gate have started.  Gawd, as if Trump needs the help of Russian President Vladimir Putin to beat the clowder of clowns.  From James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com:

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'The Russians Are Coming...Again' - Exposing The Resistance's Poverty Of Imagination

We’re reminded this morning by The New York Times, America’s official psychotic fantasy generator, that the Russians are coming (again!) as an ad hoc arm of the committee to re-elect Mr. Trump.

You have to ask yourself: Does Mr. Trump actually need their help? His opponents have been self-meddling so diligently that their party now looks like a Frankenstein creature assembled from the spare parts of Herbert Marcuse, Tupac Shakur, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and Jame Gumb. Imagine that monster running a government.

If Vlad Putin happened to express an aversion to the idea at an international cocktail party, can you really blame him? Plenty of Americans surely feel the same way. Anyway, the Times’ story never gets around to saying much about the alleged new Russian campaign besides this:

They have made more creative use of Facebook and other social media. Rather than impersonating Americans as they did in 2016, Russian operatives are working to get Americans to repeat disinformation, the officials said. That strategy gets around social media companies’ rules that prohibit ‘inauthentic speech.’”

Wow, that’s pretty scary! Except when you consider that Americans have done a crackerjack job of mind-fucking themselves with disinformation the past several years, coincidentally via this very The New York Times, a figment machine so demented that it has come to resemble the proverbial crazy aunt locked in the attic.

The true wonder is the Times’ poverty of imagination, reviving a tattered cockamamie story that bombed abjectly the first time around. I suppose, in a culture addicted to stupid sequels, they expect Robert Mueller will be called back on-duty to sort this one out like he did so nicely before.

Actually, you could make a credible argument that the vaunted US “Intel Community” is a bigger threat to American life than anything the Russians might do on Facebook.

Hence, the good news that Mr. Trump has just appointed Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, to the pivotal job as Director of National Intelligence, a position created in 2004 to supposedly coordinate the farflung activities of seventeen armies of spooks and snoops, lately notorious for feeding disinformation to The New York Times and its “Resistance” media allies.

Note: right off the bat, The Washington Post characterized Mr. Grenell as a “partisan propagandist,” seeking to disable him from the get-go. One could reasonably assume that the officers of the seventeen intel agencies will do everything possible to work around Mr. Grenell, but he does have the power to ask questions, and to ask additionally the reason why is isn’t getting straight answers, and then to do something about it.

Of course, that’s exactly what the Resistance is afraid of.

It was Mr. Grenell’s Predecessor, Joseph McGuire, who fecklessly allowed the “whistleblower,” and that phantom’s enabler, ICIG Michael Atkinson, to play the nation on UkraineGate, a hideously embarrassing episode of engineered political subterfuge that instigated the grave process of impeachment, so that the whole world could see exactly how dishonest we are amongst ourselves — more proof that we don’t need Russia’s help sowing disorder and ignominy in our country.

Mr. Grenell might commence by asking some questions about that caper. There’s so much do dig into at the CIA, FBI, and the NSC after three years of deceitful shenanigans that he’ll need a Bucyrus RH400 hydraulic excavator to get the job done.

The Attorney General sure can use some help. No doubt you saw the circus around the Roger Stone case develop into another Lawfare operation to oust Mr. Barr when a thousand-odd former federal attorneys — including some who signed off falsely on FISA warrants — mobbed up a petition for his resignation. I suspect it only pissed him off and made him more determined to bring cases against some of them.

Stone, of course, is a political clown with a weak sense of boundaries who made some legally foolish moves, considering the parlous times. But you can still argue he was treated rather unfairly, since his jury forewoman outed herself as a Resistance activist as soon as the trial concluded and no one, including Judge Amy Berman Jackson, has addressed how that happened.

The General Flynn matter is something else, and goes far deeper into the seditious misuse of US intelligence. Flynn has become the American Dreyfus, an honorable army officer dragged through the muck unjustly by the Intel Community working “six ways from Sunday,” in the immortal words of Senator Chuck Schumer, to prevent its dirty laundry from being aired.

His ordeal has gone on for three years and is coming close to climax. The legal devices used to screw General Flynn are known to the public now, including the initial deceitful interrogation by FBI agents Strzok and Pientka, the withholding of exculpatory evidence by his prosecutors (and plenty of other misconduct), and the unethical behavior of his former lawyers from the Swamp firm of Covington and Burling. He’s going to eventually get off this ignoble rap sooner or later, one way or another. Silencing him was probably the key objective in the long train of seditions that I sum up as CoupGate.

It would be best if the federal court itself could clean up the Flynn mess by Judge Emmet Sullivan declaring it a malicious prosecution and throwing out the case, because that would begin to repair the institutional damage. But Mr. Trump might have to pardon him in the end. If he does, I hope he goes on national television and provides a detailed explanation of the aforesaid DOJ misconduct for the public, and I hope he does it off the teleprompter so it will come off clearly and coherently.

The smell of desperation is in the air.  After Michael Bloomberg’s Robert Mueller moment Deep State launches Russia-gate II, They’re baaack!  Good luck Democrats, I predict that Russia-gate II will be every bit as successful as Russia-gate I.  Way to ensure the reelection of Donald J. Trump.

Obama/Bush corrupt MI6, DOJ, CIA and FBI conducted sting operation against Trump campaign

 “We’ll Know Our Disinformation Program Is Complete When Everything the American Public Believes Is False.”  William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987

Oh what a tangled web has been weaved.  Remember when we were told “17 intelligence agencies have agreed that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign?”  It was a lie, but then when you have the heads of the National Intelligence Agency, FBI and CIA lying under oath before congress with zero accountability that’s what you can expect.  America no longer has a free press, our major news agencies are extensions of the intelligence apparatus whose job is to lie to the American people. 

When the lies are exposed, those scoundrels shriek “it’s a matter of life and death secret” or “it’s classified and exposure is a threat to national security” memes the media tosses into the echo chamber to be repeated ad nauseam.  We now know an FBI asset that was embedded in President Trump’s campaign was a well-known spy named Stefan Halper.  Halper was part of a sting operation to derail the Trump campaign on behalf of the Deep State.  From John Rappaport at Op-EdNews:

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Say hello to the FBI mole inside the Trump campaign

Well, you see, the mole wasn't a spy, he was an informant. Aha. Let's use a microscope to tell the difference.  The mole: Stefan Halper, a Cambridge professor.  Supposedly, Halper was gathering information for the FBI about a suspected Trump-Russia connection…

Well, what else has Halper done? At The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald reports: "Four decades ago, Halper was responsible for a long-forgotten spying scandal involving the 1980 election, in which the Reagan campaign -- using CIA officials managed by Halper, reportedly under the direction of former CIA Director and then-Vice-Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush -- got caught running a spying operation from inside the Carter administration.

The plot involved CIA operatives passing classified information about Carter's foreign policy to Reagan campaign officials in order to ensure the Reagan campaign knew of any foreign policy decisions that Carter was considering."

Oops. That doesn't smell good. CIA operatives, managed by Halper, infiltrated the presidential campaign, spied on Jimmy Carter and his advisors, and relayed information about Carter's foreign policy to Reagan's team.  But we're supposed to believe, without evidence, that in 2016 Halper was only trying to dig up information on a Trump-Russia connection.

What more do we know about Stefan Halper, the mole for hire? Breitbart: "Halper...served as an assistant to all three of President Gerald Ford's Chief of Staffs -- Alexander Haig, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney..." Quite a trio of politicians. I don't think you'd want to list them on your resume, if you were applying for a job with an organization that showed a shred of ethics.

The Deep State's tentacles are deeply embedded into both the DNC and RNC.  There is no discernable difference.  Both parties are attempting a coup against President Trump in order to protect themselves from the will of the American people.  Robert Mueller is a dirty cop who has been assigned the task of politically assassinating Donald Trump.  When there’s a dirty job to do, you can always depend of the MI6, FBI and CIA.  But Donald Trump is a fighter and he has had enough and is demanding an investigation into the FBI and CIA shenanigans.  From Executive Intelligence Review:

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Justice Department Forced To Open Probe of FBI Sting Operation against Trump Campaign

May 21, 2018 (EIRNS)—President Trump on Sunday finished off a string of nine tweets tearing into the fraud of “witchhunt” against him, with the announcement,

 “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes—and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!”

Within hours, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the Justice Department Inspector General (IG) had just been tasked with investigating whether the FBI surveilled President Trump’s campaign for “inappropriate purposes,” promising to “take appropriate action” if that had occurred. Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores issued a contorted statement attempting to preserve the lie that Russians had interfered in the presidential election, while specifying that the investigation into

“impropriety or political motivation in how the FBI conducted its counterintelligence investigation of persons suspected of involvement with the Russian agents who interfered in the 2016 presidential election”

will be now be included in the IG’s ongoing “review” of the legality of the FBI/DOJ Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court application to open surveillance of the Trump campaign, who will refer “any potential criminal activity” to a U.S. Attorney.

In other words, the higher-ups who deployed Stefan Halper, a longtime CIA operative with extensive ties to George H.W. Bush and British foreign intelligence MI6, to run a typical FBI sting operation to set up the Trump campaign for the charge of “working with Russians,” could soon face criminal charges.

No wonder Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan went ballistic. Brennan retweeted Trump’s tweet on ordering an investigation, accompanied by a threat to the Republican leadership to shut down any such investigation, “or else.” Brennan wrote:

“Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump’s self-serving actions.”

President Trump took note of Brennan’s hysteria today, retweeting a tweet from conservative commentator Dan Bongino on how “John Brennan is panicking.... This was a Political hit job, this was not an Intelligence Investigation.... He’s worried about staying out of Jail.”

An hour later, Trump followed up with his own tweet: “The Wall Street Journal asks, WHERE IN THE WORLD WAS BARACK OBAMA? A very good question!”

The chickens are coming home to roost.  Dirty cop Mueller’s investigation should never have been started.  Dirty cop Mueller has too many deep conflicts of interest and should wrap up his witch hunt that was started under false pretenses of Russian collusion that is costing the tax payers money and is hamstringing the Trump Administration.  This abomination has been going on for two years with nothing to show for it but some trumped up charges against Russians that are dubious at best.  From Law and Crime:

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The Russians Try to Call Mueller’s Bluff, File Request to View Secret Grand Jury Info

Attorneys for an alleged component of Russian trolling efforts during the 2016 presidential election are demanding that special counsel Robert Mueller be forced to reveal the grand jury instructions used in count one of the government’s indictment against Concord Management and Consulting LLC.

The nine-page motion (plus supporting documents) filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia relies upon Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e)(3)(E)(ii) which provides:

The court may authorize disclosure—at a time, in a manner, and subject to any other conditions that it directs—of a grand-jury matter…at the request of a defendant who shows that a ground may exist to dismiss the indictment because of a matter that occurred before the grand jury.

The motion further specifies that Concord Management is requesting a private “inspection of the legal instructions provided to the grand jury regarding Count One of the Indictment…in order to determine whether the instructions provided could support a motion to dismiss Count One of the Indictment.”

Concord’s argument is that Mueller failed to include a necessary knowledge requirement in count one of the indictment against Concord Management and other Russian entities and therefore, may need to be dismissed… The motion notes, “violations of the relevant federal campaign laws and foreign agent registration requirements administered by the DOJ and the FEC require the defendant to have acted ‘willfully,’ a word that does not appear anywhere in Count One of the Indictment.”

The motion continues, “As such, Count One of the Indictment appears to be facially invalid because it fails to charge an essential element of the offense of conspiracy to defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing and defeating the functions of the FEC and the DOJ, that is, that the Defendant acted willfully, in this case meaning that Defendant was aware of the FEC and FARA requirements, agreed to violate those requirements, and ultimately acted with intent to violate those requirements.”

Concord Management’s Monday motion contains at least one reference to U.S. case law where similar indictments were dismissed because they failed to adequately track statutory language. In other words, Concord Management is arguing that Mueller and his army of attorneys charged Concord Management (and other Russian entities) with a vague-sounding “crime” that isn’t actually a crime.

In fact, Concord Management’s motion explicitly says as much, claiming, “[T]he DOJ never brought any case like the instant Indictment, that is, an alleged conspiracy by a foreign corporation to ‘interfere’ in a Presidential election by allegedly funding free speech. The obvious reason for this is that no such crime exists in the federal criminal code…”

The motion also takes some rhetorical license to savage Mueller’s mandate and his apparent focus on private Russian businesses. A representative section reads, in relevant part:

[T]he Deputy Attorney General acting for the recused Attorney General has rejected the history and integrity of the DOJ, and instead licensed a Special Counsel who for all practical political purposes cannot be fired, to indict a case that has absolutely nothing to do with any links or coordination between any candidate and the Russian Government. The reason is obvious, and is political: to justify his own existence the Special Counsel has to indict a Russian – any Russian.

One such footnote alleges, “Count One of the Indictment is devoid of any specificity about what any officer or employee of Concord actually did other than to generally allege that Concord funded an ‘Organization’ that the Special Counsel imagined and created.” Ouch.

Dirty cop Mueller didn’t expect the Russians to fight their indictment in a court of law.  Dirty cop Mueller is very dirty indeed.  Funny it turns out that Mueller has the Russian ties not President Trump.  From The Hill:

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Mueller may have a conflict — and it leads directly to a Russian oligarch

Special counsel Robert Mueller has withstood relentless political attacks, many distorting his record of distinguished government service.  But there’s one episode even Mueller’s former law enforcement comrades — and independent ethicists — acknowledge raises legitimate legal issues and a possible conflict of interest in his overseeing the Russia election probe.

In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007.  Yes, that’s the same Deripaska who has surfaced in Mueller’s current investigation and who was recently sanctioned by the Trump administration…

They said FBI agents courted Deripaska in 2009 in a series of secret hotel meetings in Paris… “We knew he was paying for his team helping us, and that probably ran into the millions,” a U.S. official involved in the operation confirmed.  One agent who helped court Deripaska was Andrew McCabe, the recently fired FBI deputy director who played a seminal role starting the Trump-Russia case, multiple sources confirmed…

Two months before Trump was elected president, Deripaska was in New York as part of Russia’s United Nations delegation when three FBI agents awakened him in his home; at least one agent had worked with Deripaska on the aborted effort to rescue Levinson. During an hour-long visit, the agents posited a theory that Trump’s campaign was secretly colluding with Russia to hijack the U.S. election.

“Deripaska laughed but realized, despite the joviality, that they were serious,” the lawyer said. “So he told them in his informed opinion the idea they were proposing was false. ‘You are trying to create something out of nothing,’ he told them.” The agents left though the FBI sought more information in 2017 from the Russian, sources tell me…

So why care about some banished Russian oligarch’s account now?

Two reasons. 

First, as the FBI prepared to get authority to surveil figures on Trump’s campaign team, did it disclose to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that one of its past Russian sources waived them off the notion of Trump-Russia collusion?

Second, the U.S. government in April imposed sanctions on Deripaska, one of several prominent Russians targeted to punish Vladimir Putin — using the same sort of allegations that State used from 2006 to 2009. Yet, between those two episodes, Deripaska seemed good enough for the FBI to ask him to fund that multimillion-dollar rescue mission. And to seek his help on a sensitive political investigation. And to allow him into the country eight times…

Melanie Sloan, a former Clinton Justice Department lawyer and longtime ethics watchdog, told me a “far more significant issue” is whether the earlier FBI operation was even legal: “It’s possible the bureau’s arrangement with Mr. Deripaska violated the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the government from accepting voluntary services.”  

George Washington University constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley agreed: “If the operation with Deripaska contravened federal law, this figure could be viewed as a potential embarrassment for Mueller. The question is whether he could implicate Mueller in an impropriety.”

My, my, my.  Dirty, dirty, dirty.  The intelligence agencies seem to believe they are above the law.  Everyone knows they interfere globally with elections in other countries but to have proof positive that they are conducting sting operations against candidates they don’t like in America is outrageous.  Attorney General Jeff Session is responsible for this, he must resign.  The corrupt and conflicted Mueller investigation must be shut down.  The lunatics have taken over the asylum.  From Jonathan Turley: 

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With New Referral To The Inspector General: The FBI Finds Itself Caught In A Crossfire Hurricane

It was called “Crossfire Hurricane,” the FBI counterintelligence operation that targeted Trump figures as part of the investigation into possible campaign ties to Russia. It was a poignant choice of a Rolling Stones song, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” that describes a man “born in a crossfire hurricane” who “howled at the morning driving rain.”

It could be an apt description of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. After a year of media denials of his claims of surveillance targeting his campaign, Trump can legitimately claim some vindication. Indeed, with his rising poll numbers, the president must feel, in the words of the song, like “it’s all right now, in fact, it’s a gas.”

The New York Times this week disclosed that the FBI made a conscious effort to use secret counterintelligence powers to investigate Trump officials and may have had a confidential informant who was used in connection with key Trump figures long before the November 2016 election…

In early 2017, President Trump was widely ridiculed for alleging that the Obama administration placed his campaign under surveillance. The response from experts on CNN and other sites was open mockery. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper came forward to assure the media that he could categorically deny the allegation and stated, “There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign…”

We now know there was, indeed, surveillance ordered repeatedly on Trump campaign figures before and after the election. Rather than acknowledge the troubling implications of an administration investigating the opposing party’s leading candidate for president, the media shifted to saying that there was ample reason to order the surveillance…

Now the plot has thickened even further with the added disclosure of not just national security letters to gather documents related to Trump figures but also at least one confidential informant who met with campaign figures like Page and George Papadopoulos to gather information…

It should be a serious concern that the Obama administration used secret counterintelligence powers to target officials in the campaign of the opposing party. That is a practice we have widely criticized in other countries from Turkey to Russia to Iran.

Worse yet, the New York Times wrote that the decision was made to use the secret FISA court and counterintelligence personnel to conceal the operation for political purposes… FISA was not designed as a convenient alternative for the FBI and the Justice Department to avoid political costs or scrutiny…

The FISA investigation was based on loose claims of foreign influence and a little cognizable evidence of actual crimes.

As a nation committed to the rule of law, we need a full and transparent investigation of these allegations. All of the allegations. That includes both the investigation of special counsel Mueller and the investigation of these latest allegations involving the FBI.

Until then, many Americans across the country will continue to believe that, like “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” Trump was greeted after his election by being “crowned with a spike” right through his head.

Oh what a tangled web has been weaved.  Professor Turley is correct, Trump was greeted after his election by being “crowed with a spike” right through his head.  That spike was wielded by the Obama/Bush corrupt MI6, DOJ, CIA and FBI who conducted an illegal sting operation against Trump campaign.  Attorney General Sessions must resign so Trump can name a replacement who will show up for work.  Bring on the investigations.

By Patricia Baeten

Unhinged: Part II – Congress and CIA wage war against Trump and American people

Congress and the intelligence agencies didn’t want Donald Trump to be elected president and used every tool at their disposal, especially the intelligence agencies and the media to upend his campaign.  Against all odds the American people prevailed and elected Donald Trump. 

Once Trump was elected, instead of congress working with Trump to pass an agenda selected by the people, congress devised a plan to impeach Trump before he even took office.  The CIA has superseded the presidential powers and launched an agenda of its own with the consent of congress for unending wars draining the America treasury and leading the world into physical and financial Armageddon. 

In collusion with congress and British intelligence, the CIA has hatched a plan to destroy Donald Trump and the American people.  From Geopolitics:

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Three Factions of the CIA that Control the World

Every American is a target in the CIA’s domestic espionage war whether they know it or not. The bullets are digital and only a key stroke away from being fired at you.  This is clearly evidenced in the current internal conflicts of the 17 federal intelligence agencies that have arisen from the new Russian “Trump blackmail” scandal and the DNC hacking scandal that was an attempt to derail the presidential election.

These scandals happen again and again and involve warring federal agencies who are theoretically supposed to be protecting Americans… Instead, there is open warfare between the three different factions of the CIA and their enemies who are considered the “lesser agencies…”  

The CIA overrides all other intelligence agencies because it can always pull the “international security” card from its sleeve and trump the lesser agencies which only have the lower priority “national security…”

Essentially, the president of the United States currently conducts “international” warfare without the U.S. Congress, Supreme Court, or U.S. citizens even knowing those wars exist. The president can also wage all types of war secretly within U.S. borders because Obama changed the National Defense Authorization Act, with congressional approval, to give him those powers…  The president now holds more power than ever and these powers are unconstitutional, illegal, and unethical…

It is scary enough to know that under the auspices of “national security,” the president can seize all assets in America under these new powers. But scarier than this is that the CIA can still trump the president under the auspices of “international security…”

The power of the CIA was demonstrated with the recent scandal of “fake news” about President-elect Trump being blackmailed by Russia. The fake dossier of “evidence” was brought into this country from Britain through the CIA…

Scary stuff but that is what President Trump and the American people are up against.  What’s even worse is that is the people that Obama put in charge of the CIA had conflicts of interest in that they served in the British intelligence agency and begs the question, where do their loyalties lie.  For instance James Clapper, who Obama put in charge of all the intelligence agencies who has repeatedly lied under oath before congress has led the charge against President Trump.   

Clapper currently controls an annual budget of around $75 billion and was a former British private spy but could not figure out that the recent fake news propaganda against Trump was complete garbage. Yes, fellow patriots, you read this correctly. A man who is in charge of a $75 billion a year intelligence budget with a professional spy background couldn’t see through the CIA’s attempt to smear Trump’s integrity. But We the People armed with our independent truth media saw through it in a New York minute…

Ultimately, James A. Clapper (known liar and globalist) controls all intelligence in America YET has demonstrated himself to be an enemy of America. After gaining the highest security clearances in America, Clapper then worked for GeoEye, was on the board of three government contractors, worked for Detica (British military intelligence), BAE Systems, SRA International and Booz Allen Hamilton…

He demonstrated his true nature when he left the services of America and worked for British and international private spy agencies, spying on America and using his security clearances as weapons against America…  When the intelligence is false, as it has been since Clapper was appointment by Obama, America can more easily be sold out to transnational, international, and globalist interests…

America is surrounded by CIA control and the Washington D. C. is besieged with CIA swamp monsters…  Bush Jr. followed in the footsteps of his father and did everything his dad told him to do – even though he was not smart enough to understand the orders. Bush Jr. kept the same Neoconservatives and Vulcans in his cabinet as Clinton and Bush Sr. had appointed…

Bush Jr. and Sr., Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Obama are all the same party – CIA Globalists pushing for the New World Order which was Bush Sr. greatest dream…

Comey is a very good example of what has been the revolving door of CIA operatives in the government. Comey is an ex-CIA intelligence operative who works for the Bush-CIA… Comey, Brennan, and Clapper provide the intelligence for the president, the military and all agencies in the U.S. government…

Fake news about the DNC election hacking, nonsense about Trump being blackmailed by Russia, and Homeland Security’s pathetic attempts to hack into voter databases have all been a smoke screen to distract from Obama’s personal war in Syria…

Clapper, Brennan and Comey were happy to agree that 17 intelligence agencies all agreed to these false flag attempts at perception management. All these ridiculous attacks on Trump have backfired and instead have shown a glaring light on the corruption, collusion, globalism, and Anti-American disposition of the three factions of the CIA…

Trump has become enemy number one for all three factions of the CIA because he stands against globalism and promotes the rule of law. The CIA factions thought they were above the law and had become so lax in their gross misuse of power that they are in “shock and awe” at the victory of Trump’s anti-globalism, anti-New World Order platform…

The biggest dog of war, Republican John McCain pushed the fake dossier that British Intelligence prepared for James Clapper to bring down Donald Trump.  From McClatchy News:

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John McCain faces questions in Trump-Russia dossier case

Sen. John McCain faces questions in a defamation lawsuit about leaks leading to publication of the now-infamous dossier that alleged Donald Trump’s campaign had connections to Russian operatives, McClatchy has learned.

The dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and his London firm, Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd., amounted to a collection of uncorroborated reports of collusion gathered as political research for sale to Trump’s opponents. It proved explosive when published by online news site BuzzFeed on Jan. 10.

Now, two lawsuits — one in the United States and a second in the U.K. — are being brought by lawyers for Aleksej Gubarev, a Cyprus-based Internet entrepreneur whom Steele’s Russian sources accused of cyber spying against the Democratic Party leadership.

According to a new court document in the British lawsuit, counsel for defendants Steele and Orbis repeatedly point to McCain, R-Ariz., a vocal Trump critic, and a former State Department official as two in a handful of people known to have had copies of the full document before it circulated among journalists and was published by BuzzFeed…

In recent congressional testimony, ex-FBI Director James Comey, fired by Trump amid a widening probe, acknowledged receiving the dossier from McCain on Jan. 6.

The Democratic Party elite has conspired with McCain many times on behalf of the war party.  Any real liberals were purged from the Democratic Party a long time ago and now there is nothing left but a bunch of faux liberal lunatics who serve only themselves.  From Black Agenda Report:

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Democrats Gone Mad: The Year of Living Stupidly

 “The corporate media’s standing among the public erodes by the day.”

For more than a year now, the collective U.S. ruling class, with Democratic Party and corporate media operatives in the vanguard, has frozen the national political discourse in a McCarthyite time warp…

Clearly, the Trump White House has been crippled by the tsunami that never ebbs, but the Democrats have not been strengthened in the process, and the corporate media’s standing among the public erodes by the day. A poll conducted last month showed majorities of voters want Congress to ease up on Russia investigations and get to work on healthcare, terrorism, national security, the economy and jobs...

Sixty-two percent of voters say there is no hard evidence of White House “collusion” with Russia, and 64 percent think the investigations are hurting the country.  “That two out of three Americans believe the so-called ‘mainstream’ press is full of ‘fake news’ -- including a majority of Democrats…”

The Russiagate blitzkrieg, designed to delegitimize Trump and demonize Vladimir Putin, has exacerbated an already existing crisis of legitimacy for the entire U.S. political system…

The only unequivocal winner is the bipartisan War Party, which has used the manufactured crisis to drench the nation in anti-Russian hysteria – worse than back in the bad old days of the Red Scares… 

So insane have the Democrats become, that we are probably better off with war powers effectively in the hands of Donald Trump, than with California’s Barbara Lee, the only member of Congress that voted against the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

She was in her “right mind” then, but no longer. Trump’s willingness to talk with the leader of Russia, in Hamburg, infuriated Rep. Lee, who tweeted: “Outraged by President Trump’s 2 hr. meeting w/Putin, the man who orchestrated attacks on our democracy. Where do his loyalties lie?” A better question is: When and where did Lee join the War Party?

The dogs of war at U.S. intelligence agencies have led the charge against Trump since they encamped at Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters, last year. The spoiled oligarch was not trusted to maintain the momentum of the U.S. military offensive begun by Barack Obama in 2011, with the unprovoked war against Libya. The state of war must be preserved, whatever the cost to the empire’s domestic institutions.

Skilled in the arts of regime change, the spooks joined with their longtime partners in corporate media propaganda, to foment a “color revolution” at home. Barbara Lee is a recent recruit.

“The Lords of Capital effectively shut the Democrats down decades ago.”

Although the Democrats will ultimately harm themselves with the electorate by folding into the War Party, it suits the purposes of party leadership and the fat cats that finance them. The ruling class has nothing to offer the people except the total insecurity of gig-jobs and austerity…

They can campaign as if there really is a clash of ideas about the organization of society, but they must propose nothing that fundamentally conflicts with the steady consolidation of wealth and power by the oligarchy (the American one, not the Russians). That goes for Bernie Sanders, too. Heard anything about single payer from him, lately?

Glen Ford is right, “the dogs of war at U.S. intelligence agencies” have led the charge against President Trump.  Our corrupt politicians, like John McCain keep feeding the war beast with trillions of our tax dollars and no oversight whatsoever.  McCain has been the latest Vietnam Vet to be diagnosed with brain cancer from his exposure to Agent Orange.  While McCain has enjoyed the luxury of the kind of healthcare only available to the rich and famous, he has repeatedly denied that same care to other veterans who suffer from the wars McCain supports.  From Phoenix New Times:

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John McCain's Fame is Based on His POW Status, But He Has Abandoned Fellow Veterans

If you want to know what it's like to be a veteran in John McCain's home state, stop by the Justa Center in downtown Phoenix…  On any given day, about half the participants are veterans.  There's a special unit reserved for veterans at the shelter, but the waiting list is long, so many vets sleep in a parking lot euphemistically called "the overflow." Justa gives them a mailing address, a place to shower, access to the Internet and phone, lockers to store their belongings.

When Ritchey, a Methodist minister, started the program — which operates on about $260,000 a year, all private donations — one of the first things he did was call the local office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to get some help for the vets.  It took a year for anyone to show up. And in three years, Ritchey says, the VA has yet to place a single Justa Center vet in housing. There are programs in town that offer housing for veterans, but they've got to prove they're employed…

Almost all his clients have diabetes; many have dementia. Add untreated depression and post-traumatic stress disorder and you have a bad situation, particularly when you have to battle the VA's bureaucracy. Ritchey regularly finds vets napping on the floor by the Coke machine; the sleeping area is too dark and claustrophobic, they tell him.

Bobby Collins, 59, is a homeless Vietnam vet who shows up at Justa from time to time. He's been waiting for a benefits check from the VA for eight months. Collins was shot in the throat in Vietnam, and his leg is full of shrapnel. He's got two Purple Hearts, but he didn't claim his medical benefits for years — he didn't need to; he had steady jobs as a welder and a carpenter. Then, last Thanksgiving, he came to Phoenix and couldn't find work, and quickly found himself homeless. Now he needs the money.

Collins says he's working hard to not be bitter, but when he arrived in Phoenix and saw what few services there were for him as a veteran, he was mad at John McCain.  "I have a lot of respect for Senator McCain as a war hero," he says, but "I would never vote for a veteran who lets veterans in his state be treated this way."

Veterans groups are finally speaking out about their frustration with McCain, who rides on his reputation as a war veteran while sitting on a long record of opposing legislation that would benefit vets…  On the campaign trail, he pledges support. Listening to him, you'd think he's been the veterans' greatest champion. An examination of his record both in Washington, D.C., and Arizona just doesn't bear that out…

The senator didn't support a measure that would have closed tax loopholes to fund improvements at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., though he surely must have wished he had when he saw the stories last year that documented deplorable conditions at the hospital. He has voted against help for victims of post-traumatic stress disorder. He has voted against programs to provide housing to low-income and special-needs veterans. He did not support the latest GI Bill.

While John McCain has tirelessly worked for funding of the military industrial complex, his work for veterans’ funding is abysmal.  The millionaire Senator has access to the best healthcare in America reserved for the elite and receives a $10,000 a year taxpayer subsidy for Obamacare.  While military vets suffer from slashed funding for their medical care the money trough for expanded, endless wars is refilled by McCain and his cohorts in the Senate every year.  From The Hill:

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Senate panel passes $700B defense policy bill

The Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously passed its $700 billion version of the annual defense policy bill, the committee announced Wednesday.

The bill, broken down into $640 billion for the base defense budget and $60 billion for a war fund, follows the funding levels Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) has pushed for months and flies past the administration’s budget request…

The Trump administration requested a $603 billion base defense budget and $65 billion for the war fund, known as the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account.  In addition to going beyond the administration’s request, the Senate version now stands in contrast to the House version of the bill.

The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday is marking up a $696.5 billion version of the bill. That version is broken down into $621.5 billion for the base and $75 billion for OCO.

Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) for months argued for a $640 billion base budget alongside McCain, but late last week agreed to lower his bill’s top line to match up with an emerging budget deal in the House.

In the Senate version, the extra money would go toward 6,000 more soldiers in the Army than requested by the Pentagon, as well as 1,000 more Marines than requested.

It would also authorize 24 more F-35s than requested by the administration, broken down in 14 more F-35As, four more F-35Bs and six more F-35Cs. In total, 94 F-35s would be authorized.

The bill would also provide 10 more F/A-18s than requested, for a total of 24. And it would add $5 billion for shipbuilding above the request, for a total of 13 ships.

Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), ranking member of the committee, commended the bill as an “important step” but said Congress still needs to repeal the Budget Control Act, which has hampered defense funding…

The bill would also authorize the Defense secretary to establish the Asia-Pacific Stability Initiative, a program conceived by McCain to better address threats in that region, including North Korea and China.

THE BILL WOULD ALSO AUTHORIZE 4,000 MORE VISAS FOR THE SPECIAL IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM for Afghans who helped U.S. troops.

That is insane, almost a trillion dollars for endless war passed UNANIMOUSLY while congress wants to slash a half trillion dollars from Medicare and give tax cuts to the rich.  The war party is America’s enemy.  So much for Bernie Sanders being a champion for the people.  If congress wants to charge someone with treason they should look within their own body.

This bill plows even more cash into an engorged defense bill that goes directly into the CIA through its Overseas Contingency Operations, a completely unaccountable war funding slush fund when war hasn’t been declared.  This is insane especially given that President Trump has now ordered the end of funding terrorists in Syria end.

With congress passing an almost trillion dollar annual war budget the CIA needs a Wall Street tycoon schooled in the corrupt practice of theft to run the agency’s budget.  Mike Pompeo is not a friend to Trump, neither is he loyal to America.  He is hiring his longtime partner in crime Brian Bulatao to oversee the CIA slush fund.  From NBC News:

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CIA's New "Mayor" Comes From Finance Firm, Not Intelligence World

Brian Bulatao, a private equity investor from Dallas, is slated to become the No. 3 official at the CIA, according to current and former intelligence officials.

The job has traditionally, but not always, been filled by career intelligence officers. It is not subject to Senate confirmation.

The position has long been known as "executive director," but CIA Director Mike Pompeo is changing the title to "chief operating officer." The executive director has been called the CIA’s "mayor," responsible for the internal workings of the agency that employs an estimated 20,000 personnel worldwide.

Bulatao is no stranger to Pompeo, the former Kansas congressman who was named director by President Trump. The two were West Point classmates, graduating in 1986, and later business partners, according to officials…

Pompeo and Bulatao were among several West Point alumni who in 1998 founded Thayer Aerospace, a Wichita machining company. The firm received financing from a venture capital company funded by the Koch brothers, according to a 2011 story in the Washington Post.

The company was sold in 2006 and Bulatao moved on to executive roles at a packaging company before entering private equity in 2010. He is currently a senior adviser at Highlander Partners, L.P., a Dallas-based investment firm that claims more than $1 billion in assets under management.

America has become unhinged.  Members of congress serve the CIA not the American people.  No politician can be elected without the express consent of the CIA; at least that was the way it was until Trump.  Donald Trump didn’t need the CIA’s slush fund to get elected.  Donald Trump cannot be bought, tempted with vices nor bribed.  He is a threat to the status quo.  Congressional members now “serving” in Trump’s administration are not his friends, especially Mike Pompeo, Jeff Sessions and Mike Pence.  From Paul Craig Roberts:

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Trump Cannot Improve Relations With Russia When Trump’s Government and the US Media Oppose Improved Relations

President Trump Has Been Contradicted by His Own Government, Which Has Lined Up Against Him in Favor of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, and the Russophobic Presstitute Media that serves the military/security complex and the neoconservatives…

On the same day that President Donald Trump said “it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia,” and the day after he said “I had a tremendous meeting yesterday with President Putin,” the ignorant, stupid, Nikki Haley, who Trump appointed as US UN Ambassador, publicly contracted her president, forcefully stating: “we can’t trust Russia and we won’t ever trust Russia…”

Joining Nikki Haley was Trump’s Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. Tillerson, allegedly a friend of Russia, is also working overtime to worsen relations between the two nuclear powers by publicly contradicting the President of the United States, thereby making it clear that Trump is barely even a cipher…

There is no one in “his” government that supports him. Every one of them works to undermine him. And he sits there and Twitters…   “His” administration is staffed with violent Russophobes. Wars can be the only outcome…

Trump is beginning to see what a serious mistake it was to trust Mike Pence with the selection of his cabinet.  If Trump really wants to drain the swamp he must start with his own cabinet and remove the swamp scum brought in by Pence.  Trump has already said he regrets the appointment of the lunatic Jeff Sessions as his Attorney General. 

Under Robert Mueller’s FBI banks conducted massive terrorist and drug cartel money laundering operations in history with no one being prosecuted.  Deutsche Bank who was fined $41 million in March for money laundering has agreed to hand over Trump’s banking records to Robert Mueller.  According to Bloomberg News, "A settlement on the Russian mirror trades with the U.S. Department of Justice is still outstanding."

  

The appointment of special investigator, Robert Mueller who is a lifelong Deep State handmaiden and Comey crony, ensures Trump is going to be either impeached or assassinated.  If either happens, it will be a death blow to the American people. 

The CIA controlled GOP and DNC, through its Election Integrity Commission will ensure the American people never again choose their president or even their congress for that matter.  For that is the logical conclusion to congress and the CIA’s unhinged war against Trump and American people.

By Patricia Baeten