Worse than Watergate: Neocon's FBI in panic over FISA memo urges war with Turkey in Syria

It’s déjà vu all over again.  For those of you, who like myself were glued to the TV in the 1970’s watching the Watergate hearings, the FBI’s panic over the release of the FISA memo is déjà vu all over again.  The FBI, formerly an august agency was packed with partisan political neocon appointees under George W. Bush and maintained under Barack Obama. 

It was George W. Bush’s FBI that ignored the warnings of FBI field agent Colleen Rowley about suspicious foreign individuals taking flying lessons without a need to be able to land the plane.  The FBI’s deliberate negligence led to the “Pearl Harbor-like” event on 911 that opened the door to endless war, torture, banking theft, media consolidation and massive election fraud.

Under the direction of the Department of Homeland Security and with the blessing of the US Senate, the FBI and the CIA have become lawless agencies threatening members of congress, whistle blowers, nation states and the American people. The difference between Watergate and now is that during Watergate there were members of the Senate who actually believed in the rule of law.  That no longer exists with this congress.

It was in this atmosphere of invincibility and lack of congressional oversight that these corrupt agencies believed they could overthrow the will of the people in the 2016 Presidential election with impunity, after all it worked in 2000 in Bush v. Gore and in the Democratic primary in 2008 when the loser Barack Obama was gifted the nomination.

As a last ditch effort to salvage the tainted, partisan “Russia Collusion” witch hunt launched by the FBI, CIA and US Senate against our elected President Donald J. Trump, Senator Lindsay Graham has threatened that if Donald Trump expressed the desire to fire the Deep State’s Mueller that he would be guilty of Obstruction of Justice.  What a laugh.  And it’s not only Graham lobbing baseless, desperate threats, House Intel Chair Devin Nunes was threatened with prosecution if he released the FISA memo.  From The National Sentinel:

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Far Left in PANIC over FISA memo release; former FED prosecutor threatens CHARGES against House Intel chairman

(National Sentinel) Panic Mode: A former federal prosecutor has said he will publicly call for a criminal investigation of House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., if the full panel votes to release a classified “FISA memo” to the public.

Frank Figliuzzi told MSNBC that the memo may contain “secret or top secret” information that would allegedly compromise intelligence “sources, methods and techniques that simply cannot be exposed.”  As such, he believes that Nunes, as chairman, should be held legally responsible for any release of information…

The White House has already said the president supports releasing the memo, which he and others feel will not only vindicate his earlier claims of being “wiretapped” by the Obama administration, but that special counsel Robert Mueller’s entire “Russian collusion” investigation is based on a false premise…

As to Figliuzzi’s legal claims against Nunes, the House Intelligence Committee has the authority to declassify any documents on a majority vote and release them to the public. The president does not have to agree or authorize it.

“The Deep State is panicking alright,” said The National Sentinel editor-in-chief J. D. Heyes. “They keep coming up with all of these reasons why the memo shouldn’t be released instead of ways to ensure this kind of political abuse of our legal system never happens again…

Sounds like less of a national security threat than a direct threat against an out of control agency using its power to remove an elected president on specious charges.  But it isn’t enough for partisan Republicans to release the memo that they crafted, they must release the supporting documentation.  From Glenn Greenwald at TheIntercept:

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Republicans Have Four Easy Ways to #ReleaseTheMemo — and the Evidence for It. Not Doing So Will Prove Them to Be Shameless Frauds.

ONE OF THE gravest and most damaging abuses of state power is to misuse surveillance authorities for political purposes. For that reason, The Intercept, from its inception, has focused extensively on these issues.  We therefore regard as inherently serious strident warnings from public officials alleging that the FBI and Department of Justice have abused their spying power for political purposes…

This memo, which remains secret, was reportedly written under the direction of the chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, GOP Rep. Devin Nunes, and has been read by dozens of members of Congress after the committee voted to make the memo available to all members of the House of Representatives to examine in a room specially designated for reviewing classified material…

Given the significance of this issue, it is absolutely true that the memo should be declassified and released to the public — and not just the memo itself.  The House Intelligence Committee generally and Nunes specifically have a history of making unreliable and untrue claims (its report about Edward Snowden was full of falsehoods, as Bart Gellman amply documented, and prior claims from Nunes about “unmasking” have been discredited).

Thus, mere assertions from Nunes — or anyone else — are largely worthless; Republicans should provide American citizens not merely with the memo they claim reveals pervasive criminality and abuse of power, but also with all of the evidence underlying its conclusions.

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have the power, working together or separately, to immediately declassify all the relevant information. And if indeed the GOP’s explosive claims are accurate – if, as HPSCI member Steve King, R-Iowa, says, this is “worse than Watergate” — they obviously have every incentive to get it into the public’s hands as soon as possible. Indeed, one could argue that they have the duty to do so…

Anyone who is genuinely concerned about the claims being made about eavesdropping abuses should understand why the issue of evidence is so critical. After all, the House, Senate, and FBI investigations into any Trump collusion with Russia have so far proceeded with many startling claims in the media, but to date little hard evidence for the public to judge. Nobody rational should be assuming any claims or assertions from partisan actors about the 2016 election are true without seeing evidence to substantiate those claims.

The good news is there are at least four easy ways for congressional Republicans and/or Trump to definitively prove that all the right’s darkest suspicions about the Obama administration are true. If this memo and the underlying documents prove even a fraction of what GOP politicians and media figures are claiming about them, then what could possibly justify its ongoing concealment? Any or all of these methods should be promptly invoked to ensure that the public sees this evidence:

1. Trump can declassify anything he wants…

According to the Supreme Court, the presidential power “to classify and control access to information bearing on national security … flows primarily from the constitutional investment of power in the president…”

That means presidents can also declassify anything they chose to — for any reason or no reason — as they have done in the past. George W. Bush, under pressure in 2004, declassified the section of the 2001 presidential daily brief headlined “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” Barack Obama declassified the Justice Department memos produced during the Bush presidency on the legality of torture.

2. The House (and Senate) intelligence committees can declassify any material they possess.

3. The Constitution protects members of Congress from prosecution for “any speech or debate in either House.”

It is this constitutional shield that protected Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska from legal consequences in 1971 when he read sections of the Pentagon Papers during a meeting of the Senate Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and then placed the rest of the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record.

Ordinary citizens — like Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning — have risked prison in order to expose what they believed were serious official crimes; these members of Congress can do this without any of those consequences. So what justifies their failure to do this?

4. Republicans can leak everything to the news media.

If for some reason Trump and the congressional leadership refuse to use any of the above options to vindicate themselves, a brave member of Congress could turn whistleblower and transmit the classified proof of the GOP’s claims about the memo to the news media…  Many outlets now have secure methods of sending sensitive material to them, such as Secure Drop.

If they do not, Republicans will conclusively demonstrate something else. They will prove conclusively that all of this is about them shamelessly making claims they do not actually believe, fraudulently posturing as caring about one of the most vital, fundamental issues facing the United States: how the U.S. government uses the vast surveillance powers with which it has been vested.

The FISA memo now goes to President Trump to determine whether it will be released to the public.  Now the real fight begins, who will win, Trump or the Deep State?  From State of the Nation:

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RED ALERT: FISAgate Proves Deep State Will Do ANYTHING To Remove Trump

Toward that end, every traitor who participated in this massive criminal hoax ought to be expeditiously indicted and arrested to face a military trial.  The dire necessity for this dramatic response is to send a message to all accomplices (particularly those operating under the radar) that an insurrection will not be tolerated.

That the seditious cabal continues to grow their criminal enterprise is quite shocking; nonetheless, they persist in the face of daily exposure.  Hence, the ongoing neglect to apprehend these traitors only encourages their serial lawbreaking.  Much more significantly, the Trump administration remains under the dire threat of a full-blown coup d’état.

Surreptitious plots of treason and sedition, insurrection and rebellion are still being carried out each and every day.  How in the world do these perps continue to act with such impunity even after FISAgate has been blown wide open?

Virtually every major organ of the U.S. Federal Government is involved, to varying degrees of course.  Most of the co-conspirators are operating in the shadows and unknown even to the de facto leaders of this Purple Revolution.  That’s because it’s being coordinated by rogue elements within the C.I.A. which always compartmentalize their stealth insurgencies, just as they implement these black ops on a strictly need-to-know basis.

The Mainstream Media (MSM) is the primary communication platform by which the insurrectionists speak to each other without being found out.  Corresponding in code in this manner permits the collaborators to avoid the Internet and especially social media. It also prevents an incriminating digital record from being created which exists practically forever.

In view of these stark realities, the Trump administration must invoke the various legal justifications for shutting down the MSM.  The establishment media has already broken several laws just as it has violated various FCC regulations.  The contravention of various FCC rules and regulations alone serves as a lawful pretext to shut down the largest MSM platforms.  For it is the blatantly subversive establishment media that is guilty of incessantly propagandizing the body politic against the POTUS.

Indeed, the Mainstream Media is nothing more than a propaganda tool for the neocons populating the CIA and FBI ushering America into one ill-conceived war after another with no justification.  The FISA memo reveals much more than the Deep State’s attempt at a coup against an elected president.  The memo reveals that the Deep State, using the Mainstream Media will now escalate their illegal intervention in Syria into a war with Turkey to save their own asses.  From Information Clearing House:

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Syria - Neo-Conservatives Demand "Action" - Hope For A Larger War

January 29, 2018 "Information Clearing House" - The U.S. polity and media now acknowledge what we reported on December 21. The U.S. announcement to build up a 30,000 strong PKK army in north-east Syria was a disaster. It prompted Turkey to initiate its attack on YPG/PKK Kurds in Afrin. It threatens do drive it out of NATO and into Russia's open arms. It gives the Syrian government new leverage against the Syrian Kurds.

Under Turkish threats to attack U.S. forces in Syria the Trump administration had to pull back - at least in its rhetoric. Independent of who rules Turkey the country will never acquiesce to an armed Kurdish entity on its southern border. The U.S. should have know this.

This failure of the Trump administration's plan has prompted a new push from neoconservative propagandists for a full U.S. war on Syria and its allies. The lobby shop of the Kagan family, the Institute For The Study of War, had its junior staff pen an op-ed for Foxnews to argue for a new study object:

The U.S. must face reality in Syria. It must recognize the threat Russia poses. It must acknowledge the limits of its current partners on the ground. It cannot put faith in a diplomatic charade. It must implement a real strategy against al Qaeda and Iran. And it must recognize the value of American action over American rhetoric…

A second neocon op-ed, this by Josh Rogin, was posted at Jeff Bezos' blog: Team Trump must match its new rhetoric on Syria with action.  It is not useful to quote the nonsense but here are some of the rhetoric figures it uses:

... the will and leverage needed to lead a solution to the Syrian crisis - defend U.S. interests - confronting the ongoing terrorist threat - Iranian expansion - Bashar al-Assad’s brutal aggression - on-the-ground influence - herculean effort - a contingent that wants to cut and run - a real plan - fundamental flaw - a lack of sufficient leverage on the ground ...

After having set the scene for a massive U.S. occupation of Syria, Rogin claims that "nobody is advocating" a "large increase in U.S. troops". His advice then is to do more of the stuff that evidently just failed:

…stick to the Kurds, pay some Arab tribes (aka former ISIS), arm rebels (aka al-Qaeda) in Idleb.

But then comes the real blopper:

the Trump administration should raise the pressure on Assad, Russia and Iran, including through sanctions, the credible threat of U.S. force and whatever else might persuade them.

Now what please is a "credible threat of U.S. force" against those three countries? And might they have the capability to credibly threat back? Who will win the thermonuclear war over the Tanf desert base in south-east Syria?

A year into Trump’s presidency, his administration is saying the United States has a long-term interest in Syria. The next step is to match those words with action.

I have no doubt that the two op-eds were coordinated. More of this kind will likely come. The common theme is "action" and - while not openly said - they demand a larger U.S. war over Syria. The unmentioned beneficiary of such a war, next to the weapon producing financiers of those writers, would be Israel and Saudi Arabia.

The neoconservative writers and their op-eds should be ignored.

What’s even more frightening is that our corrupt politicians have just authorized the neocon’s unlimited resources for war escalation with NO oversight from congress.  From The Intercept:

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TOP REPUBLICAN WARNS THAT UNDER NEW SPENDING BILL “THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY COULD EXPEND FUNDS AS IT SEES FIT”

IN A DRAMATIC moment on the Senate floor Monday afternoon, as the upper chamber rushed a spending bill through to end the government shutdown, the top Republican and Democrat on the Intelligence Committee warned that the bill contains language that would kneecap Congress’s ability to oversee secret covert actions and surveillance programs. Their effort to amend the language was rebuffed.

The intelligence community, in its latest grasp, has gone too far even for Richard Burr. The Republican chair of the Senate Intelligence committee has long been one of the Senate’s staunchest advocates for the intelligence agencies, leading the fight to reauthorize surveillance programs and fighting to bury the results of the Senate’s five-year investigation into CIA torture. But he took to the Senate floor Monday to warn that it would compromise Congress’s ability to oversee secret intelligence programs.

“This language could erode the powers of the authorizing committee,” Burr said. “Effectively, the intelligence community could expend funds as it sees fit without an authorization bill in place and with no statutory direction indicating that an authorization bill for 2018 is forthcoming.”

The provision, first reported by The Intercept, appeared in the House version of the spending bill last week and modified the 70–year-old-law that first chartered the CIA. It removed language requiring intelligence agencies to spend money according to Congress’s instructions, and replaced it with a provision that allows the agencies to move money around freely and without Congress’s knowledge. Blackwater founder Erik Prince has recently pitched the administration on a private intelligence force that would report directly to President Donald Trump and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

Scary stuff.  Will congress take on the neocon driven Deep State?  Will they have the courage to rein in the unlimited power of the out of control neocon dominated intelligence apparatus?  From Consortium News:

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Will Congress Face Down the Deep State?

The House Intelligence Committee’s vote on Monday to release a memorandum describing alleged malfeasance at the DOJ and the FBI could test constitutional principles, writes Ray McGovern.

With the House Intelligence Committee vote yesterday to release its four-page memorandum reportedly based on documentary evidence of possible crimes by top Justice Department and FBI leaders, the die is cast. Russia-gate and FBI-gate are now joined at the hip.

The coming weeks will show whether the U.S. intelligence establishment (the FBI/CIA/NSA, AKA the “Deep State”) will be able to prevent its leaders from being held to account. Past precedent suggests that the cabal that conjured up Russia-gate will not have to pick up a “go-to-jail” card. This, despite the widespread guilt suggested by the abrupt way that several senior-echelon DOJ and FBI rats have already jumped ship. Not to mention the manner in which FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, was unceremoniously pushed overboard yesterday, after Director Christopher Wray was given a look at the extra-legal capers described in the House Intelligence Committee memorandum.

Granted, at first glance Deep State’s efforts to undercut candidate Donald Trump at first seem so risky and audacious as to be unbelievable. By now, though, Americans should be able to wrap their heads around, one, the dire threat that outsider Trump was seen to be posing to the Deep State and to the ease with which it held sway under President Barack Obama; and, two, expected immunity from prosecution if Deep State crimes were eventually discovered after the election, since “everybody knew” Hillary Clinton was going to win. Oops.

There seems to be an outside chance, this time, that the culprits who did actually interfere in the 2016 presidential election in an effort to make sure Trump could not win, and then did all in their power to sabotage him after he his electoral victory, will be held to account by unusually feisty members of the House.

It is abundantly clear that members of the House Intelligence and House Judiciary Committees are now in possession of the kind of unambiguous, first-hand documentary evidence needed to get a grand jury convened and, eventually, indictments obtained.

It is no exaggeration to suggest that the Republic and the Constitution are at stake…

The Media’s Role

I almost feel sorry for what is called “mainstream media” and – even more so – for the majority of Americans deceived by the prevailing narrative on Russia-gate.  Even though that narrative now lies in shreds, there is no sign so far that the pundits will fess up and admit to spreading a far-fetched, evidence-impoverished story that was full of holes from the get-go…

Even vestigially honest journalists of the old school, who may themselves have been taken in, will have a Herculean challenge if they attempt to write to right the ship of journalism.  As for brainwashed Americans, pity them.  It is far easier to deceive folks than to convince them they have been deceived, as Mark Twain once wrote.

From today’s online version of the New York Times, for example, the lede headline read, “Taunted by Trump and Pressured From Above, McCabe Steps Down as F.B.I. Deputy.”  The Times quotes Representative Adam B. Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, giving hypocrisy a bad name. Schiff said yesterday that it had been a “sad day” for the committee and that Republicans had voted “to politicize the intelligence process.”

And this just in: an op-ed from NYT pundit David Leonhardt, titled – you guessed it – “The Nunes Conspiracy.”

“Instead of evidence, the memo engages in the same dark and misleading conspiracy theories that have characterized other efforts by President Trump’s allies to discredit the Russia investigation,” Leonhardt wrote. “But the substance of the claims isn’t really the point. Distraction is the point, and the distraction campaign is having an impact.”

And so it goes.

Yes, indeedy the more things change the more they stay the same.  It’s déjà vu all over again.  It’s Watergate redux.  The FBI, formerly an august agency was packed with partisan political neocon appointees under George W. Bush and maintained under Barack Obama.  The only difference between Watergate and FISA-gate is that during Watergate there were Senators, both Republican and Democrat that believed in the rule of law and were willing to take on the Deep State and right the Ship of State. 

Will there be enough honest, untainted Senators to take on the corrupt Deep State?  Time will tell, but I for one doubt it.  Any honest Senator like Al Franken has been forced to resign by the corrupt Deep State sans the rule of law and due process in accusations of sexual misconduct.  I pray I am wrong.

By Patricia Baeten

The Caca on DACA it's not about the kids

In the movie The Exorcist the young priest, Father Karras must wait with the possessed Regan until the seasoned priest Father Merrin arrives. When Father Merrin finally arrives the following exchange takes place:

Father Karras: I think it might be helpful if I gave you some background on the different personalities Regan has manifested. So far, I'd say there seem to be three. She's convinced...

Father Merrin: There is only one.

That is where America stands today, there is no Democratic Party and there is no Republican Party there is only one party, the Satanic Fascist Corporatist Party herein known as the SFC Party.  The two parties only come together for one goal, to fund endless war and destruction across the planet at the expense of everything and everyone else.

DACA or the Deferred Action in Childhood Arrivals is just the latest sham foisted upon the world by the SFC Party.  They don’t give a rip about the DACA young adults, they don’t give a rip about natural born young American adults, they don’t give a rip about anything or anyone other than serving their Fascistic Corporatists masters. 

Recently PBS reran an episode of their documentary series Frontline entitled “Rape on the Night Shift.” The piece centered on millions of women janitors almost all of whom are in America illegally with their families, who form an invisible nighttime workforce that clean malls, banks, big box stores and offices as well as the Pentagon. 

PBS’ report centered on two multi-billion dollar companies, ABM a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of facility solutions with offices throughout the United States and various international locations and SMS, a janitorial company based in Nashville, Tennessee, with contracts throughout the country. 

These two multi-billion dollar companies almost exclusively employ illegal alien women who speak limited English exploiting their unfortunate situation for massive corporate profits.  If they were deported, ABM and SMS would have to hire a legal workforce paying a living wage with benefits, therefore they heavily lobby the SFC Party to keep this enslaved workforce.  That is why the SFC Party is grandstanding to pass DACA.  So let’s break this down and see what DACA actually means in terms of immigration in America.

What is the Visa Lottery?

According to The Center for Immigration Studies, the Visa Lottery is described as such:

The Immigration Act of 1990 permanently established the Diversity Visa category. The program benefits individuals from nations that send relatively few immigrants to the United States. Eligibility is straightforward: One needs only a high-school education or two years of work experience in certain jobs to qualify. Millions of people apply every year for the 50,000 green cards distributed by lottery, which does not take age, skills, language ability, or connection to the United States into account.

Is that nuts or what?  Does America need 50,000 immigrants per year in regardless of age, skills, language ability or connection to the United States to enter into their workforce??  No wonder American workers cannot find good paying jobs when our economy is flooded with low skilled workers from foreign countries with no loyalty to America to fill jobs for multi-billion dollar companies that exploit them like ABM and SMS. 

What is Chain migration?

According to the Bi-partisan Policy Center, Chain Migration is described as such:

“Chain migration” is a term commonly used by advocates of restricting immigration to describe legal, family-based immigration. Under current U.S. immigration law, citizens may sponsor certain relatives for green cards. Green card holders may, in turn, sponsor a smaller group of relatives for green cards. Collectively, this ability of immigrants, who later become green card holders and citizens, to sponsor their family members is described by some as a “chain” of migration.

Family-sponsored green cards have been part of immigration law since at least 1965 and account for about 65% of new legal immigrants to the United States each year.

Wait a minute, are they saying that the 50,000 winners of the annual Visa Lottery then can bring in their relatives who can bring in their relatives to be given green cards to work in the U.S.?  That sounds crazy, it’s like turning over the American immigration policy to immigrants.

What is DACA?

But the DACA or so called Dreamers are in neither category.  As the Bi-Partisan Policy Center puts it:

There is broad support among members of Congress, President Trump, and the public for legislation that would provide a permanent status to so-called DREAMers, undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. Many of these individuals held work authorization under the Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Some have raised concerns that allowing DREAMers to sponsor their parents to get green cards would generate “chain migration” since the legalization would extend beyond this population.

I say it’s a valid concern.  So what is it that President Trump is proposing that has members of the SFC Party so concerned that they are willing to shut down the government causing undue hardship to 850,000 federal workers to preserve the current immigration system?  From Citizen Path:

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RAISE Act Threatens to Wreck Family-Based Immigration

Last week President Trump put his support behind legislation that would dramatically reshape the U.S. immigration system. If successful, the plan would significantly limit the number of green cards that are issued each year through family-based immigration.

Instead, preference would be given to hopeful immigrants that offer the best skills to the American economy. Known as the “Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy” (RAISE) Act, the legislation would be the most significant change to U.S. immigration policy in almost five decades…

The RAISE Act proposes to slash what supporters term “chain migration.” This includes ways of immigrating to the United States that are based on family relationships, not based on skills. Approximately two-thirds of green cards issued each year are given to immigrants with a family member that is already in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. Critics of the current system claim that this inflow of immigrants displaces blue collar American workers.

Bingo, that is exactly what the SFC Party desires, a permanent low skilled, low paid immigrant  workforce with limited rights to replace America’s blue collar workers so multi-billion dollar corporations like ABM and SMS have a permanent slave labor force to line their pockets.  That is who the SFC Party is looking out for, not the DACA young adults.  It is reprehensible. 

Now the SFC Party has shut down the government so “non-essential” government employees won’t get paid until the SFC Party decides to stop holding them hostage.  What does that mean for American government workers?  From the World Socialist Website:

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In contrast to the presentation in the bourgeois press, many functions of the US government do not shut down during a budget impasse. Immigration agents and border patrol will continue to round up families for deportation, American warplanes will carry out their sorties over Middle Eastern countries, and the National Security Agency will continue its mass surveillance of the American and world population.

However, some 850,000 federal workers, many of whom are mid- and low-level domestic agency staff, as well as janitors, cafeteria workers and other service employees will stop receiving paychecks. These workers do not always receive back pay for furloughs and many face economic devastation as a result of even a brief shutdown.

Over 60 percent of Centers for Disease Control employees will be furloughed in the midst of the worst flu epidemic in years. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, HOWEVER, WILL BE PAID FOR DAYS THE GOVERNMENT IS TECHNICALLY CLOSED DOWN.

Seems to me the only non-essential government workers are those in the SFC Party who will continue to receive their taxpayer funded Obamacare, lavish salaries, travel, special interest paid lavish vacations and their millions of dollars they receive from their “legalized” insider trading schemes.  In The Exorcist Father Merrin says:

Father Merrin: Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. We may ask what is relevant but anything beyond that is dangerous. He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that - do not listen.

Words of wisdom from Father Merrin.  Those words apply to the Satanic Fascist Corporatist Party.  Do not listen “they are liars, they are demon liars.”  “They will confuse us, they will mix lies with the truth to attack us, the attack is psychological and powerful, do not listen.”  Amen.

By Patricia Baeten

Wake up people, the bankers have turned all countries into “Shit Holes”

Tent City 3, under I-5 in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered....  Thomas Jefferson

President Donald Trump kicked up a shit storm this week when he was accused of calling Haiti and African countries “shit holes.”  It didn’t take long for the Deep State operatives in the Senate and House to cry “racist”, a moniker that has become the refuge of scoundrels.  President Trump was absolutely correct, but he should have expanded the term to include America and the European Union whose wealth has been extracted by the central banks leaving their people sick, broke, uneducated, hungry and homeless. 

In the year 2000 America had a surplus in its Treasury after our last President elected by the American people had raised taxes on the wealthy, created 24 million good paying jobs and encouraged the American people to invest in 401Ks and other funds to supplement Social Security for their retirement.  President Clinton’s rising tide lifted all boats and it was a prosperous, peaceful time in America.  Republicans and Democrats in the United States Senate impeached President Clinton on behalf of the central bank but were unable to remove him from office due to his high approval ratings.

The 100 year charter for America’s Central Bank known as the Federal Reserve Bank was set to expire in 2013.  America on solid financial footing and its people prospering was a grave threat to the existence of the Federal Reserve Bank that relies on America being in a constant state of war and indebtedness.  For that, the same Senators who impeached President Clinton colluded with the Supreme Court and the Bush cartel to install George W. Bush as president no matter how the people voted.  Bush had vowed to privatize Social Security and usher in private Charter Schools that were highly desired by Hedge Fund managers.

Vice President Al Gore handily won the election in spite of the widespread election corruption in Florida where candidate Bush’s brother Jeb was Governor.  On December 12, 2000 five corrupt members of the U.S. Supreme Court ordered an end to the recount of the Florida votes and installed the losing candidate, George W. Bush president.  Three days later the U.S. Senate in a lame duck session, passed the Commodities Futures Modernization Act that deregulated banks and insurance companies that opened the American economy to the biggest financial heist in the history of the nation.

After the messy election of 2000, congress passed the Help America Vote (the way the banks want) legislation that led to the corrupt two party system that has allowed congress to override the election results and install the candidate of the banks’ choice.  President Trump was able to beat the two parties at their own game and become President and has been under attack since.  From Lew Rockwell.com:

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Love Him or Loathe Him, Trump is Liberating us All From The Empire's Lies

Trump and the Fine Art of Dialectics

Alexander Blok, one of the smartest and most noble of Russians, wrote this amazing essay on Catiline, a Roman rebel whose plot was crushed and who was utterly maligned by the father of all bullshit, Cicero.  So Catiline was this patrician, a decadent SOB who, when mistreated and challenged by the Roman establishment, organized the Roman deplorables and started a rebellion.

It was squashed of course, but for Blok, he remained a hero. Blok calls Catiline the Roman Bolshevik, and insists on approaching him not from Cicero’s moralizing NYT-like perspective, but from the perspective of World Revolution.

For Blok, as he puts it, the heart of the Roman Empire stopped when Christ was born. It continued for another few hundred years, but in a zombie-like state until its petty, militaristic, provincial, materialistic character was finally exposed as the bluff it always was, and it collapsed under the weight of its own corruption. And here is Blok’s paradoxical view: Catiline’s rebellion makes sense only from this perspective.

Catiline might have been corrupt, decadent, debauched and what have you. Yet, he did expose how rotten Rome was. For that, both Blok and Ibsen (another rebel against stifling bourgeois order) place Catiline in heaven. 

Which takes me to Trump. Whatever his critics say, he has it, and then some, but like Catiline, he fully exposes how corrupt, venal, and petty the established order is. The genie cannot be put back into the bottle. Mass media is exposed for what it is: a spinning machine for the militaristic oppressive order, a purveyor of fake news. And this is not the view of some obscure academic like Chomsky. It is the view of the President of the United States.

Isn’t it liberating?! No more butchery, bombing, and destruction, while the press conducts its cheer-leading campaign in support of another “humanitarian intervention”, be it Serbia, Iraq, or Libya. The genie is out of the bottle. People are not buying it anymore.

Very true, people are no longer buying the bullshit pumped out by the corrupt billionaire owned media that has become a war driven propaganda tool that was ushered in under the corrupt W. Bush Administration.  If Haiti is a “shit hole” it’s because the Bush/Obama Administrations made it that way.  After all it was the Bush-Cheney Administration that removed Haiti’s democratically elected president.  From Global Research:

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The Kidnapping of President Jean Bertrand Aristide

Violates International Law and US Law

Beginning in early February 2004, the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, faced an armed rebellion starting from the North of his country and moving South.  The rebel leaders, whom U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell characterized as “thugs and criminals,” include former members of the dissolved Haitian army, drug dealers, and members of the former paramilitary organization universally recognized as having operated terrorist/execution squads during the 1991-1994 military coup…

The movement of the rebel army towards the South was rapid, as it was armed with M-16s and M-60s of American manufacture, and the national police had been eviscerated by the financial and arms embargo imposed on Haiti for the past few years, under the false pretenses of faulty elections…

On Feburary 26, the rebel army threatened to enter Port-au-Prince, and threatened President Aristide’s government and his life.  The civil opposition that had been calling for President Aristide’s resignation rejected the international proposals.  At this point, Colin Powell stated that the U.S. would not send troops to protect the democratically elected government until a political solution had been reached.

Two days later, the Steele Foundation, a U.S. company which had provided President Aristide with security under contract, informed him that the U.S. government had forbade the company from bringing in additional security forces to protect President Aristide.  The same day, U.S. diplomats told the President that if he remained in Port-au-Prince, the U.S. would not provide any assistance when the insurgents attacked, and that they expected the President, his wife and supporters would be killed.

Later that night, the U.S. Depute Charge de Mission (DCM) in Haiti, Luis Moreno, accompanied by a contingent of U.S. Marines, met with the President.  Moreno told him that only if he left at that moment, the U.S. would provide aircraft for him to leave, but that assistance was contingent on the President providing the United States with a letter of resignation…

In the early morning hours of February 29, the President and some family members were taken by Moreno and the Marines to an airplane rented by the U.S. State Department.  Moreno told the President that he must give Moreno a letter of resignation and agree to ask no questions about where he would be taken, or the President and his wife would be left at the airport and they would be killed.

Under extreme duress, President Aristide signed a letter of resignation and boarded the plane.  During the flight, despite their repeated requests, the President and his wife were forbidden from communicating with anyone in the outside world… 

Although both George W. Bush and Colin Powell had said they would not send U.S. troops to Haiti until there was a political solution, U.S. troops were ordered to Haiti within one hour of President Aristide’s departure.  Dick Cheney denied that the United States arrested or forcibly ousted President Aristide, saying that President Aristide, who had “worn out his welcome with the Haitian people,” had “left of his own free will.”

Shortly after President Aristide’s “resignation,” Boniface Alexandre was named acting president of Haiti.  All 3,000 people held in the National Penitentiary were freed on March 14, according to the Associated Press.  Several of these prisoners had been convicted of massive human rights violations, or were awaiting trial for massive human rights violations.  The UN news wire reported on March 5, that in Fort Liberte, recently released prisoners were said to be in charge of security…

The Observer reported a security vacuum throughout the country, and the BBC reported that rioters in Port-au-Prince looted stores, ransacked police stations, and set fire to gas stations.  There have been many brutal reprisal attacks on political opponents, extra-judicial arrests and killings, lack of effective civil authority, and disruption of humanitarian aid efforts.  Serious human rights abuses, political violence, and social turbulence have escalated to the level of a humanitarian crisis.

There has been a serious attack on the freedom of the press since February 29.  Staff from the Aristide government media continue to be attacked and beaten, some journalists have been forced into exile, and the U.S.-supported opposition now controls most of the airwaves.

And that my friends is how Haiti became a “shit hole.”   George H.W. Bush removed the democratically elected Aristide in 1991 but he was reinstated under President Clinton.  During Clinton’s Administration Haiti and America were peaceful prosperous places.  Once Bush Jr. was installed, Aristide was removed and Haiti and America were turned into “shit holes” once again.  All shit holes across the world have been victims of the Central Banks.  From Lew Rockwell:

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As Sisyphus Fails Gold Will Ascend

Welcome to 2018 – a year that will be the culmination of at least 105 years of mismanagement of the Western financial system by governments, central bankers and the elite…

The year will also be marked by inflation increasing a lot faster than expected. This will include higher interest rates, much higher commodity prices, like food and oil as well as a falling dollar…

For a century, a reckless elite has controlled the system for their own personal gain and thus accumulated massive wealth. Ordinary people have been totally cheated into believing that they have benefitted by having all the material things that most of them can’t afford – be it a house, car, computer or iPhone. All on credit of course.

Whilst the elite owns most of the assets, ordinary people own the debt. Not just their own debt but also the public debt burden which irresponsible governments have built up including unfunded liabilities like pension and medical care. And when the financial system fails, ordinary people will suffer the most.

We have seen a century of debt buildup from virtually zero to $240 trillion. Global debt has doubled since the beginning of the Great Financial Crisis in 2006. This has led to asset bubbles and overvaluations never seen before in history. If unfunded liabilities and derivatives are included, the total burden amounts to $2 Quadrillion.

That is the enormous Sisyphean task that the world will have to struggle with in coming years. Although central banks and the elite seem clueless, they can clearly not be unaware of the gigantic size of the problem.

We know that these liabilities can never be settled. What happened in 2006-9 was only a rehearsal. In the last minute central banks orchestrated a massive rescue programme which included interest rate reduction, money printing, guarantees, liquidity injections plus allowing banks to value toxic debt at maturity instead of market. These measures temporarily postponed the inevitable collapse. They are unlikely to work next time but since the central banks have few other options left, they will try the same things again. But this next time they will fail…

Through manipulation they can easily create unlimited cryptos and hype the value. They can also electronically totally control individuals’ money and their transactions. This is the perfect Big Brother system and thus another frightening attempt to severely limit the money and freedom of individuals.  It is now very likely that Western governments will attempt to introduce such a cryptocurrency system in the next few years.

But there will be many obstacles since it is extremely unlikely that countries like Russia and China will accept a US, EU or UK cryptocurrency. These countries understand that all the new fake cryptocurrencies would be just as worthless as the currencies they would replace. China and Russia have a very different plan. They will introduce a gold and oil backed (crypto)currency which will be far superior to any new money that the West would produce. With this currency, China and Russia will become the dominant economic powers as the West declines into obscurity.

These major changes in economic trends clearly don’t happen quickly but over an extended period. Nevertheless, 2018 is likely to be a significant year, marking the beginning of the end of the latest, but certainly not last, corrupt financial system which has lasted 105 years.

Donald Trump calling Haiti and African nations “shit holes” wasn’t a racist slur but a recognition of the inevitable outcome of a financial system created by Central Banks to strip every nation of their wealth and enslave their people.  All countries across the globe dominated by Central banks have become “shit holes” by design.  On Christmas Eve 1913 Woodrow Wilson signed into law the illegal Federal Reserve Act dooming America and everyone they came in contact with to “shit hole” status.  That is just a fact that President Trump was acknowledging. 

As Thomas Jefferson said "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered....  Wake up people, the central banks have turned the planet into a giant “shit hole” and that’s a fact.  

By Patricia Baeten

Trash talking Fire & Fury: The US/UK media war against Trump is a war against humanity

The latest trash talking book being hyped by the media in the US and UK is just another attempt by the Deep State to destroy the presidency of Donald Trump who has vowed to drain the Deep State swamp.  The book “Fire and Fury” written by Michael Wolff sounds like a sequel to the discredited Steele dossier prepared by an ex-British intelligence officer.  The dossier was used by the Obama Administration to obtain a FISA court order to spy on the Trump campaign prior to the 2016 presidential election.   

During 2016 it was Donald Trump who backed the people of the UK in their bid to leave the Rothschild plantation called the European Union.  In response the politicos in the UK threatened to ban Donald Trump from entering Britain.  In spite of a massive media blitz of trash talk against Donald J. Trump and false accusations in the lurid dossier prepared by an ex-MI6 spy in collusion with Russian enemies of Vladimir Putin, Trump was elected President of the United States. 

The US and UK have waged a war against humanity for the last 20 years in service to the Rothschild banking cartel.  The US and UK have rigged their elections to raid their treasuries through wars, recession and bone crushing austerity bypassing the will of their people. 

Trump did not get elected because of any collusion or any person other than himself.  Trump spoke directly to the American people and vowed to “Make America Great Again” by putting the American people first and for that he is reviled by the Deep State.  Now the only arrow in the Deep State quiver is trash talking and hoping it will lead to impeachment of President Trump.  From State of theNation:

Only Trump can destroy Deep State

President Trump is the right man for the job who showed up at the perfect time

Love him or hate him, Donald Trump was probably the only one in America who could begin the process of knocking down Deep State.  SOTN was the first alternative news platform to call Trump exactly what he is—a wrecking ball.  Google it and it’s clear that this meme has been almost as prescient as “Drain the swamp!”

There is no other time in American history when a wrecking ball was more needed than in 2016… 2017… and 2018.  And, there is no one else who could have performed this function like The Donald.  Likewise, the swamp inside the Beltway needed to be drained like yesterday!  Of course, many still intensely dislike Trump because of his “wrecking ball” style.  They all fail to realize that the System was in desperate need of such a wrecking, especially Deep State.

The political establishment is so deeply entrenched that only a one man wrecking ball like Trump could do the necessary job.  The salient point here is that a wrecking ball in action is not a very pretty sight.  It’s very loud and tumultuous and can swing any way at any time.  This is precisely why the Trump movement was formed; his supporters were thrilled with his ability to take the whole place down.  The Trumpsters knew that he was quite experienced at demolishing the old buildings before he could ever construct the new towers.

With this crucial understanding, the reader ought to apprehend that a bigger ego was needed to destroy all the other lesser egos in the Washington, D.C. swamp.  What better man for the job than a straight-talkin’, truth-tweetin’ New Yorker who cares not a whit about being politically correct—EVER! 

Now there is a downside, and that is his foreign policy is also a bit mangled.  In this particular regard, it’s important to understand that one must take the bitter with the sweet.  And what could be sweeter than forever branding the mainstream media (MSM) with the meme: “fake news”?!

Of course, Trump’s has also exposed the FBI for being a taxpayer-funded protection racket for RICO criminals, the CIA for being a black-budgeted terrorist organization, the Democratic Party for being guilty of a multitude of crimes they accuse other of, the Republican Party for being full of traitorous RINOs, the Obama Administration for being guilty of treason and sedition, the Clintons for running an international crime syndicate, the NFL for being a haven for hypocritical beefcakes, the entire MSM as the propaganda arm of the U.S. Intelligence Community,  etc. etc. etc.

Amen.  While the Trump wrecking ball is smashing its way through the entrenched establishment, the U.S. and U.K. have unleashed their intelligence apparatus to manufacture “evidence” of collusion between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to steal the US election from the Deep State.  From LaRouche Pub:

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Rogue Spooks, The Intelligence War on Donald Trump

Aug. 17—Dick Morris and his wife Ellen McGann have written a new book, Rogue Spooks, the Intelligence War on Trump. It is to be commended for its dramatic and detailed account of the British government’s wholesale interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election in favor of Hillary Clinton...

In the first four chapters, Morris shows how the dodgy British MI6 dossier, compiled by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele and Sir Andrew Wood, one of the highest ranking agents in the Queen’s Service, was used to start the FBI investigation of Trump in the Summer of 2016, conducted by former showboat FBI Director James Comey.

According to widespread British reporting, both Steele and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) surveillance agency, were tasked to produce dirt on Trump, or those associated with him, which could be used to paint Trump as a Putin stooge. Morris demonstrates that the entire dossier was fake, and that the FBI, the Clinton campaign, and the British had to know it was fake…

After the election, the FBI under Comey wanted to pay Christopher Steele $50,000 to corroborate the phony dossier, and the FBI continued to collaborate with him through the efforts of Senator John McCain, former CIA director John Brennan, and James Comey. Just after President Trump’s inauguration, Comey, and Obama’s intelligence chiefs, went to Trump and presented him with the fake and salacious British dossier, in a fashion guaranteed to ensure its publication by the national news media…

The British account states that GCHQ and other elements of British intelligence had become concerned about meetings between Trump associates and the Russians, and Trump’s “soft line” on Russia, as early as 2015…  This aspect of the British account, however, is designed to make it appear credible that the DNC computers were hacked by the Russians in a normal act of cyber-espionage…

What happens to this story line if the alleged GCHQ surveillance of “Trump associates” in conversation with the Russians does not exist, but was actually another faked report, to provide the basis for unparalleled intelligence community surveillance and attempts to entrap Presidential candidate Trump even before election day?

Morris also cites James Comey’s efforts to set the President up, leading to the appointment of intended Grand Inquisitor Robert Mueller to finish the job.  He accounts for the great number of illegal classified leaks which have damaged the Presidency…

He is very clear that the only way that the American people can defeat this coup, is to mobilize to prevent their Congressmen and Senators from entertaining the orchestrated media and “spook” lies intended to destroy President Trump.

The people of the US and UK have no voice to reach their “elected” government, both governments serve only their central banks.   The Brexit vote that Trump supported as well as the election of President Trump was a seismic shift in the world in that the Deep State was unable to stop.  The most interesting develop throughout 2017 was that every attack on Donald Trump has ended up doing more damage to the attackers leaving Trump unscathed. Case in point, the corrupt Senator Bob Corker.  From the trash talking New York Times:

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WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation “on the path to World War III.”  In an extraordinary rebuke of a president of his own party, Mr. Corker said he was alarmed about a president who acts “like he’s doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something.”

“He concerns me,” Mr. Corker added. “He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.”  Mr. Corker’s comments capped a remarkable day of sulfurous insults between the president and the Tennessee senator — a powerful, if lame-duck, lawmaker, whose support will be critical to the president on tax reform and the fate of the Iran nuclear deal…

On Sunday and Monday the TV news was all abuzz about Republican Senator Bob Corker’s comments in an interview with Jonathan Martin where Corker said “It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center.  Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.”

So trash talking Senator Bob Corker cares so much about America, isn’t that special.  Corker is a prime example of what is wrong with America’s “elected” officials.  From Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone:

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Bob Corker Facing Ethics Questions? What a Surprise

The Tennessee senator's financial success has been one of Washington's open questions for years

So Tennessee Senator Bob Corker is in trouble now, because he flip-flopped to vote for Donald Trump's tax bill after a provision was included that reportedly helps him personally.  Color me not shocked. I spent most of this past summer investigating Corker, whose personal finances have been the subject of inquiry for years…  Corker's net worth has risen by millions since before being elected, to the point of being the fourth wealthiest man in the upper chamber, worth $69 million as of 2015…

It wasn't until Corker took office and filled out disclosure forms that his finances became public – sort of. Few in the media seem ever to have read the "liabilities" section of Corker's first disclosure, where the former mayor and construction magnate listed a series of massive outstanding loans. At the low end, Corker appeared to owe a hair-raising $24.2 million. At the high end, $120.5 million.

He had been in debt to some of the nation's biggest lenders – including somewhere between $12 million and $60 million in debt to GE Capital alone…

Ten years before reporters would swarm over Trump for (among other things) raising fees at his Mar-a-Lago resorts before making a series of taxpayer-funded visits, Corker tested the limits of the moonlighting possibilities in the legislative branch, essentially becoming a full-time day-trader who did a little Senator-ing in his spare time.

In the first nine months of 2007, Corker made an incredible 1,200 trades, over four per day, including 332 over a two-day period…

By 2014, when Corker sat on the Senate Banking Committee, a position that gave him regular access to prime information about the future direction of the markets, the Tennessee Senator still had his foot on the gas. He made 930 stock trades that year.

Of his colleagues on the committee, Rhode Island's Jack Reed made 39 trades, Pennsylvania's Patrick Toomey 26, and nobody else made any – meaning Corker made 93.5% of all trades made by the legislators most plugged-in to the country's but finances.

That is just one Senator in the US government, now multiply that by 535 members of congress to see why the US Treasury is in debt over $43 trillion dollars.  Somehow the mainstream media doesn’t feel that is worth covering.  Instead the media are breathlessly covering the unsubstantiated claims made in Michael Wolff’s tabloid trash talking book and questioning Trump’s mental stability.   In America there are $700 trillion dollars in derivative trades per day, unregulated and untaxed and with corrupt politicians like Corker that’s not likely to change.

Now Paul Ryan and the GOP have America’s safety net in their cross hairs blaming social programs for the massive debt after passing an almost $2 trillion dollar tax cut for the Wall Street banks.  Donald Trump has promised the American people he would not cut the social safety net, therefore the US congress and media are going all in on removing Trump from office.  The UK has already begun slashing their safety net.  From World Socialist Website:

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British National Health Service faces escalating crisis due to chronic underfunding

The British National Health Service (NHS) is in the midst of an escalating crisis caused by prolonged underfunding and a surge in demand this winter. Patients face extremely long waits, and many hospital trusts are unable to provide adequate care.

At least 21 trusts—responsible for multiple hospitals—have reported this week that they are on “back alert,” meaning they cannot guarantee patient safety and provide the full range of their services. Many other hospitals are severely strained.  British Prime Minister Theresa May and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt both issued statements this week seeking to deflect growing public outrage.

Bob Kerslake, chairman of the board of Kings College hospital trust in London, resigned from one of the UK’s largest NHS trusts…   Kerslake quit after a long dispute with the NHS watchdog over finances, saying that ministers are in denial about the reality of how much extra money the NHS requires…

The hospital had agreed a plan with NHS Improvement that it would have a deficit for the year of £38 million. Instead, the deficit is likely to be in the region of £96 million.  In an article written for the Guardian, Kerslake explained that he was standing down because hospitals are being asked to meet unrealistically demanding savings targets.

Kings has drastically reduced spending on expensive agency staff and consultants. However, the overall financial situation has gotten worse since it took over the running of the troubled Princess Royal hospital in Bromley in 2014. In the last two years, the hospital has made savings of £80 million, twice the average of other hospitals, yet has not in any way resolved the financial crisis it faces…

The chief executive of the NHS, Simon Stevens, had asked for an extra £4 billion a year from the government. What was offered in the Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond’s recent budget fell far short of this, a mere £1.6 billion. There was no increased spending for social care, which has faced unprecedented demands and is at breaking point with a funding gap of £2.5 billion.

Several years ago, the NHS was asked to find £22 billion in savings by 2020…  A joint statement by the three institutions in response to the government’s autumn budget raised grave concerns about the impact of seven years of austerity, a growing demand for services, and the devastating toll this is taking on the NHS.

                                                                                                                                         

The US and UK have waged a war against humanity for the last 20 years in service to the Rothschild banking cartel.  This latest trash talking attack on President Trump is an attack against humanity itself.  The good news for humanity is that they have a warrior in Trump and the loser in this battle will be the Deep State and their corrupt minions in the government. 

By Patricia Baeten

Paul Ryan and GOP’s Final Solution for America: Death by trillions of tax cuts

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."  ~~ Thomas Jefferson

Make no mistake about it, the GOP’s latest tax scam plan is designed to further enrich the banks and Wall Street on the backs of the middle class, the elderly, children and the infirmed.  After years of horrific legislation that has left America a hollowed out vessel unable to care for its own citizens, Paul Ryan and the GOP are ready to plunge a dagger into what’s left of the heart of America with their final solution, death by trillions in tax cuts for the rich.   From Salon:

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Why are Republicans so cruel to the poor? Paul Ryan’s profound hypocrisy stands for a deeper problem

Paul Ryan has dreamed of slashing Medicaid since his keg-party days — and that blithe hostility is widespread.  Republican Paul Ryan, like most other members of the U.S. Congress, is a millionaire.

Christa Patton is 68 years old. She is frail and no longer able to leave her home. She lives on a fixed income. Patton told Van Jones on a recent episode of his CNN show "The Messy Truth" that she would not be able to eat without the Meals on Wheels program.

Paul Ryan is the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. By his own account, in college he used to hang out with his friends and drink beer while sharing his dreams of cutting Medicaid. When Ryan was 15 years old, his father died from an alcoholism related heart attack. Ryan and his family then received his father's Social Security survivor's benefits. Ryan used that money to attend college. This was not the only money that Paul Ryan received from the federal government. His family built its wealth from receiving government contracts.

Like his idol Ayn Rand (who argued against the very idea of government and the commons yet received Social Security and Medicare), Paul Ryan has combined meanness, cruelty and callousness toward the weak and the vulnerable with gross and unapologetic hypocrisy.

Republicans like Ryan — along with the millionaires and billionaires who comprise Donald Trump's Cabinet and inner circle — literally want to take food, shelter and health care away from poor people like Christa Patton. Today's Republicans view these Americans as useless eaters to be disposed of by means both passive and active.

The rape and pillage of America began in 1913 when an illegal cabal meeting at Jekyll Island sold out America to the Rothschild banking cartel.  The cartel reached its zenith in 2000 with the overthrow of the American government and the installation of George W. Bush as President of the United States.  With all the chessmen in place the 911 attacks gave cover for the cartel to plunge America into endless war and the destruction of everything America ever stood for.  From Veterans Today:

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NEO – America Beaten, Down for the Count

The world knows America is done for… We could give dates, 9/11; or back in 1913 when America took on an illegal Rothschild central bank. Perhaps it really is 1913; and the America of today is the result of bleeding that began then.

It is always about debt. When nations take on a central bank, and all central banks are foreign owned, all controlled by the Rothschild family, their institutions crumble, the family, religion, their government, the courts, their media, all are targeted…  The reason 9/11 is critical has nothing to do with the endless war sweeping the world that it began, proxy armies, phony terror groups and teeming millions of refugees.

For America it announced the largest robbery in history, $10 trillion in assets, enough to buy the entirety of Europe, simply “disappeared.” Only days before 9/11 it was learned that $2.4 trillion was missing from the US military budget alone, according to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

What few know is that the group investigating, in their entirety, were killed on 9/11 during the incident at the Pentagon. We call it an incident because calling it a terror attack or even an airline crash is unsupportable without throwing away any reason whatsoever.  Then we ask, who does such a thing, who would take down America, destroy their government, collapse their economy as in 2008, and allow a nation to be led by a leader known to be clinically insane? … 

By the end of 2007, America’s 5 leading investment banks were bankrupt, having “misplaced” trillions in assets. Most major corporations were the same, broke, hopelessly, to the extent that the Down Jones Industrial Average had to be reconfigured as the leading companies in America were no longer viable…

Between 2008 and 2010, unemployment in America rose to over 10%. Personal savings collapsed and personal debt rose to unimaginable levels while key industries like arms, oil and pharmaceuticals … made record profits.  With interest rates dropped to almost nothing by Bush 43, millions of America families sought to protect assets through buying homes that would otherwise be unwise, overlarge, unaffordable, sold on the idea of a ballooning real estate market by media pundits…

Most homes lost 60% of value across America and those forced to sell took on a lifetime of debt. Similarly, retirement savings typically lost 72%. A million dollar 401k that would return $5000 a month for life based on Clinton era rates and market performance was now only worth a little over $200,000 with an income potential of $200 a month. America’s middle class would work into their mid to late 70’s, with skilled and management retirees sentenced to a decade of menial labor on behalf of the banks that organized the crash…,

This is the business model of the world’s banking system. This is what is meant by “globalism.”

“This is the business model of the world’s banking system” carried out by the traitors “elected” to congress, not by the American people but by the banking cartels who control the elections in America.  Now their lackey Paul Ryan, who has Social Security to thank for his education and leg up in life after the death of his father, will usher in the “final solution for America” on behalf of his benefactors.  From World SocialistWebsite:

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Following passage of Senate tax bill, US ruling class takes aim at Social Security and Medicare

The passage by the Senate of the Trump administration’s tax bill is a landmark in the decades-long ruling class offensive against the working class in the United States.

With no serious opposition from the Democrats, and with final passage of a tax bill by the end of the month following negotiations with the House all but assured, congressional Republicans are moving on to the next stage of the class war agenda: the gutting of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

The Senate version of the bill adds $1.5 trillion to the federal budget deficit, triggering automatic cuts in spending for Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly, of half a trillion dollars over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, and setting the stage for massive cuts in other social programs.

Last week, Trump declared at a Missouri rally, “We’re going to go on to welfare reform.” On Wednesday, Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida told business executives: “Many argue that you can’t cut taxes because it will drive up the deficit.” On the contrary, he argued, the costs can be offset by imposing “structural changes to Social Security and Medicare for the future.”

After eight years of Obama’s pillage of Social Security, first through “GOP designed payroll tax holiday” followed by higher deductions of income from working people’s pay checks, along with no increases in SS benefits the truly savage attacks on the American people is under way by both parties.  Make no mistake about it, no one in congress is there to benefit the American people.  Both parties are responsible for the miserable state in America with their insatiable appetite for war.   Spending for war is never offset, and the military industrial complex is engorged with funds stolen from the American people.  From The Free Thought Project:

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In 2018 The US Gov’t Will Spend Nearly $2 Billion a Day — Solely on WAR

The price tag on the latest National Defense Authorization Act is $700 billion, which will cost American taxpayers nearly $2 billion every day in 2018.

While the United States Congress has struggled to pass legislation governing taxes and healthcare, it had no problem uniting on the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act—a bill that will ensure the U.S. continues to wage wars around the world, and that promises taxpayers will cover its costly expenses.  The price tag on the latest NDAA is a massive $700 billion, which means that for every day in 2018, American taxpayers will spend nearly $2 billion on war…

“This bill passed the House 356 to 70, including more than half of the Democratic caucus. It passed the Senate by voice vote—not a single Democrat opposed it…”  The 2018 NDAA approves $634 billion for the Pentagon.

This was done despite the fact that a recent report on the budgets of the Department of Defense and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, found that between the two departments, they have lost over $21 trillion in the last 17 years—enough money to pay back the U.S. National Debt…

Almost a trillion dollars a year is spent to overthrow elected governments in countries that have the audacity to sit on top of some of the world’s largest mineral reserves.  With almost a trillion dollars a year given to the Pentagon and its slush fund the Overseas Contingency Fund, America’s warriors must receive the best medical care in the world after they are wounded.  But alas no, the only ones receiving gold plated medical care through the Pentagon are our arm chair warriors in congress.  From Veterans Today:

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NEO: The Unseen Victims of America’s War Machine

How many more lives will America’s wars claim?

When the war drums begin, the first victim is reason, this is no secret at all. I recently met with a group of Russian war veterans about this issue – how those who fight wars are victims just like the armies of refugees and the dead strewn across the landscape, and are now called “collateral damage”, which may well represent a countless multitude…

In a world where America openly supplies al Qaeda with weapons of mass destruction, where Israel and Saudi Arabia fight side by side, and where “alternative facts” are used to support government policies, dissent itself is now a form of terrorism.

Military veterans aren’t all equal. Just visit Washington DC or towns like Annapolis, Maryland. There the strutting peacocks in uniform have profited greatly from war, wars they risked nothing fighting, wars they were paid to support and defend, not the nation, the United States mind you, but war itself, the business, the racket, the game…

In 1970, I returned from Vietnam and began medical treatment in the huge government system run by the Veterans Administration. My own injuries seemed minor as I entered the filthy hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan where amputees lived on gurneys all over the building, stored in kitchen areas, storage closets, overflowing urine bags, the stench of gangrene, the moaning of endless pain and hopelessness…

This is what was really there, I saw it, I remember every minute of it. In 1938, American author and screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo, wrote an anti-war novel called Johnny Got His Gun. Trumbo was later blacklisted as a Russian sympathizer and banned from writing though…

In 1938, disabled veterans were an inconvenience. They still are, except at election time when each new candidate promises to address the wrongdoing of their predecessor and, of course, in the end, nothing whatsoever changes…

In a facility where there are luxury suites for members of congress to receive the most expensive medical care in the world, free of charge, paid for by American taxpayers, disabled combat veterans lived in filth, in many cases medical treatment withheld until they agreed to sign away their rights to disability pension benefits...

Yes, Paul Ryan and his cadre of millionaire politicians receive their medical care in luxury suites free of charge while combat veterans live in filth and are forced to sign away their rights to a disability pension for fighting in wars that benefit the Federal Reserve Bank and its shareholders.  That is life in Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand’s America.  All their wealth and perks aren’t enough, now they want to pillage what is left of Medicare and Social Security to pay for tax breaks for their billionaire campaign contributors.  From Lew Rockwell:

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The Stupid Party’s Tax Plan

In 1986, big gubmint tax and spending slasher Ronald Reagan unveiled a tax “reform” plan that continued the massive transfer of wealth from the poor and working classes upwards to the very wealthy. Reagan’s plan eliminated essential deductions for consumer loans (auto, credit card, personal) and overhauled the deduction for medical expenses, so that they had to have amounted to 10% of an individual or married couple’s income.

Donald Trump, as always dominated by the disastrous neocon thinking of Republican leaders like Paul Ryan, has released a new tax “reform” plan… Perhaps the most inexplicable aspect of this plan is its attack- and there is no other word to describe it- on home ownership…

Homeowners will no longer be able to deduct the property taxes they pay on their home under this plan….  Eliminating or nullifying the tax incentives for home ownership puts home values and middle-class homeowners at risk…  The Republican tax plan also eliminates some of the remaining deductions that poor and working class Americans still benefit from.

Student loans will no longer be deductible. The medical expense deduction that Reagan slashed dramatically will be eliminated. There will no longer be deductions for alimony expenses or moving expenses.  As perhaps the most laughable aspect of the entire plan, it leaves the dreaded Obamacare mandate intact, which means Americans can still be penalized for not having health insurance… the elimination of the Alternative Minimum Tax, which served to force the very wealthy with numerous loopholes and deductions to at least pay some tax.

And the centerpiece of the plan is a huge cut in the corporate tax rate, from 35% to 20%. Making a mockery of Trump’s rhetoric about forcing companies to move their industry back home, the plan permits companies to keep their profits offshore. The estate tax is also being eliminated, a benefit which will only apply to the absolute One Percent…

This tax plan will negatively impact a struggling real estate market, offer little if any tax relief to anyone except corporations, and eliminate the remaining deductions that the poor and middle-class most benefit from. It isn’t populist, won’t help the economy, and it certainly won’t make things any better for the majority of citizens…  The Stupid Party mantra regarding the lower corporate tax rate is that this will “create jobs” and an incentive to give pay raises to employees… 

True tax reform would start with auditing and abolishing the Federal Reserve, and adopting an honest money system that isn’t based on fractional lending, or more bluntly counterfeiting. “Our” debt belongs to the bankers, and isn’t our responsibility. It should be repudiated.

Our spending should reflect American interests, as candidate Trump stressed repeatedly, but President Trump has ignored. Rebuild the infrastructure. Bring all the troops home and stop starting pointless wars. Guard the borders and deport illegal immigrants. End the foreign visa work programs. America First and all that.

So there you have it, the GOP’s latest tax scam plan is designed to further enrich the banks and Wall Street on the backs of the middle class, the elderly, children and the infirmed.  Paul Ryan and the GOP’s real plan has always been the same, the Final Solution for America, death by a trillion tax cuts.  Now Ryan and the GOP can collect their blood money and retire their flag lapel pins, they have served their Wall Street masters and themselves well.  Trillions stolen from the Treasury by Wall Street and no cop on the beat.  This is Paul Ryan and the GOP’s Final Solution, death to America.

 

By Patricia Baeten