Thursday, July 13, 2017

Unhinged: Part I – The failed 2000 Russian coup and the Putin/Trump conundrum



“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” ― Adolf Hitler

The lunatics who overtook the American asylum in 2000 with the overthrow of the American government had a plan to invade Russia and take over their country, its resources and treasury long before Donald Trump announced his run for the Presidency.  With the installation of the Bush/Cheney regime and the 911 attacks on the World Trade Center nine months later, the grand blueprint for world hegemony was launched.  Every horrific illegal chemical and conventional weapon known to man was used against the innocent people of Afghanistan and Iraq by the monsters embedded in every American institution.

The Bush/Cheney cabal, backed by the Zionist warmongers of both corrupt parties believed they were unstoppable.  However a wrench was thrown into the gears of the neocon war machine when an unknown Vladimir Putin was elected President of Russia.  To understand the machinations that were taking place, and are taking place today, one must delve deep into the evolution of the Magnitsky Act, the law that was passed in America to punish those who commit crimes against humanity, excepting America of course. 

The CIA’s overthrow of elected governments


In July of 2015, after the neocons’ Orwellian named “National Endowment for Democracies” began infiltrating Russia, President Vladimir Putin banned the NED from entry into his country.  Putin was well aware that the NED had instigated riots in Ukraine in 2013 and overthrew the elected government of President Yanukovych.  From BBCNews:

Excerpt:

Russia warns US as NGO blacklisted as 'undesirable'

Russia has said it will not tolerate "interference" by foreign organisations after it put a US pro-democracy foundation on a blacklist.  The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), funded by the US Congress, is the first organisation to be labelled "undesirable" under a new Russian law.

Russia's Foreign Ministry warned that "we will never tolerate mentoring and open interference in our affairs by foreign structures".  US officials condemned Russia's move… 

Russia's Foreign Ministry hit back by saying the NED's name was "deceptive" because "it is only non-governmental on paper…  The ministry said that analysis of NED projects "shows that they are aimed at destabilising the internal situation in countries which pursue independent policies in line with their own national interests, rather than following instructions from Washington".

According to Russian official data, the NED gave financial assistance worth about $5.2m (£3.3m) to various Russian organisations in 2013-2014.  Russians can now face fines or up to six years in prison if they work for a non-governmental organisation (NGO) branded "undesirable".

The genesis of the Shadow Government

So Putin claims the NED is not a “nongovernmental agency” at all, it’s funded by the American government and is deeply embedded with CIA operatives. The US State Department claims it is a benign benevolent agency spreading peace and joy across the globe.  So who is right?  From Consortium News:

Excerpt:

A Shadow US Foreign Policy

Exclusive: A shadow foreign policy apparatus built by Ronald Reagan for the Cold War survives to this day as a slush fund that keeps American neocons well fed and still destabilizes target nations, now including Ukraine…

The National Endowment for Democracy, a central part of Ronald Reagan’s propaganda war against the Soviet Union three decades ago, has evolved into a $100 million U.S. government-financed slush fund that generally supports a neocon agenda…

NED has invested in projects in Russia’s close neighbor, Ukraine, that fueled violent protests ousting President Viktor Yanukovych, who won election in 2010 in balloting that was viewed by international observers as fair and reflecting the choice of most Ukrainian citizens.

Thus, a U.S.-sponsored organization that claims to promote “democracy” has sided with forces that violently overthrew a democratically elected leader rather than wait for the next scheduled election in 2015 to vote him out of office.

For NED and American neocons, Yanukovych’s electoral legitimacy lasted only as long as he accepted European demands for new “trade agreements” and stern economic “reforms” required by the International Monetary Fund. When Yanukovych was negotiating those pacts, he won praise, but when he judged the price too high for Ukraine and opted for a more generous deal from Russia, he immediately became a target for “regime change.”

Last September, NED’s longtime president, Carl Gershman, took to the op-ed page of the neocon-flagship Washington Post to urge the U.S. government to push European “free trade” agreements on Ukraine and other former Soviet states and thus counter Moscow’s efforts to maintain close relations with those countries. The ultimate goal, according to Gershman, was isolating and possibly toppling Putin in Russia with Ukraine the key piece on this global chessboard…

The 2000 blackmail of Yeltsin and attempted coup against Russia

The NED is part of the shadow government receiving hundreds of millions of dollars through the CIA.  They have overruled the elected government in America for years and controlled presidents from both parties.  Vladimir Putin has been on the neocon hit list since he became President of Russia, so let’s look at how Putin came to be President of Russia.  From Armstrong Economics:

Excerpt:

So Who Really Tried to Blackmail Yeltsin & Takeover Russia – NSA-CIA-or Investment Bankers?

Perhaps the number one question I always get about the ordeal I went through and the sheer chaos that surrounded everything, was just who really was behind the plot to blackmail the former head of Russia Boris Yeltsin to stop him from running for reelection in 2000 and hand-pick Boris Abramovich Berezovsky?

It is true I even had a meeting with the US Attorney Office on the subject when they realized that Republic National Bank and Edmond Safra had set up even Bank of New York as the center piece in the plot…

Bereszovsky, who fled to Britain obtaining political asylum, suddenly hangs himself. Then there is the lawyer/accountant Sergei Magnitsky, who represented Safra’s Hermitage Capital Management mysteriously dies in prison awaiting trial and then is given a posthumous trial and found guilty. While he was portrayed in the West as a whistle-blower, don’t forget so was Safra against Bank of New York. This then led Congress to strangely pass the Magnitsky Act to A bill to impose sanctions on persons responsible for the detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky…

This is curiously strange for a foreign act to prompt Congress to pass a law in the USA. We cannot leave out Edmond Safra’s own mysterious murder in Monaco (Death in Monaco) that took the fire company hours to reach being just 10 minutes away while his more than 20 bodyguards were all given the night off and reported bullets in his body with his nurse saying Russians dressed as ninjas showed up.

What I do know is there appears to have been a plot to take over Russia and that came from sources directly in Russia at the time…   Safra was linked with Boris Abramovich Berezovsky and allegedly Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky, the media tycoon. As the plot was laid out by Russian sources, Yeltsin was convinced to take $7 billion from the IMF funds to refurbish the Kremlin – a staggering amount of money.

The funds were wired to a largely unknown company in Switzerland. The wire was steered through Bank of New York and as soon as it was made, Safra had his bank run to the Feds and report that Bank of New York had just conducted a money laundering event. The Feds ran in wide-eyed and of course announced their action to the world before thoroughly investigating the allegations of Safra…

It was at this time that THE CONSPIRATORS threatened Yeltsin with exposure of his theft of $7 billion on the world stage. The demand was to appoint Berezovsky as the new President of Russia and for Yeltsin to step down and not run in 2000. Yeltsin, realizing he was set up, turned to Putin who nobody had heard of.

As the story goes, Putin promised to take care of everything if Yeltsin appointed him instead, Yeltsin resigned on December 31, 1999, after Safra was killed on December 3rd in Monaco. The Presidential elections were held in Russia on the 26th of March 2000 formally electing Putin.

Berezovsky and Gusinsky fled Russia with their assets confiscated with the former gaining political asylum in Britain and the latter taking off to Israel…  Finally in 2009, the lawyer representing Hermitage Sergei Magnitsky died while he was in pretrial detention in Moscow, who has now been found guilty of tax fraud posthumously…

It was Edmond Safra’s Republic National Bank then ran to the US Government in August 1999 and informed them that the Bank of New York had just wired $7 billion to Switzerland in a money laundering scam. The US authorities ran in immediately.

The wire was sent to Mabetex, which was the Swiss based company ran by Kosovo/Swiss entrepreneur Behgjet Pacolli who claimed to have the contract to refurbish the Kremlin. He became President of Kosovo in 2011. The Bank of New York broker Lucy Edwards pleaded guilty but did no jail time because she “cooperated” with the government…

At her sentencing, the Judge simply asked who was the $7 billion money laundering for? She replied it was a “ransom” for a Russian businessman. The Judge did not bother to even ask any names. The classic cover-up as if anyone would ever pay $7 billion ransom…

The Hermitage Capital Management Fund, which BILL BROWDER started in 1996 with the late billionaire Edmond Safra, WAS THE LARGEST FOREIGN OWNER OF RUSSIAN SHARES.

Many have begun to ask questions since the NSA exposure, was Safra involved with the NSA or CIA to take over Russia? What about the Boris Abramovich Berezovsky murder? He suddenly hung himself? The whole Safra & CIA connection I am not sure about. That was the story since the CIA was reportedly using his private jet in the Iran-Contra scandal.

Jeebus.  Remember that name, BILL BROWDER because here is where it gets really interesting.  The latest revelation that Donald Trump Jr. met with Natalia Veselnitskaya is beginning to look like Trump Jr. may have been set up by Obama’s Department of Justice.  From The Hill:

Excerpt:

Exclusive: DOJ let Russian lawyer into US before she met with Trump team

The Russian lawyer who penetrated Donald Trump’s inner circle was initially cleared into the United States by the Justice Department under “extraordinary circumstances” BEFORE she embarked on a lobbying campaign last year that ensnared the president’s eldest son, members of Congress, journalists and State Department officials, according to court and Justice Department documents and interviews.

This revelation means it was the Obama Justice Department that enabled the newest and most intriguing figure in the Russia-Trump investigation to enter the country without a visa…

Just five days after meeting in June 2016 at Trump Tower with Trump Jr., Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Moscow attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya showed up in Washington in the front row of a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Russia policy, video footage of the hearing shows.

Hmmm, sounds like a set up to me.  Something just doesn’t smell right about this whole Trump Jr. meeting with the Russian lawyer who was allowed into the U.S. without a visa and given special treatment by the DOJ because of “extraordinary circumstances.”  What were those extraordinary circumstances?  From Business Insider:

Excerpt:

The lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. is well-connected in Russia

Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who took a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. in June 2016, denied to NBC on July 11 that she worked for the Russian government, or that she had connections to the Russian government, answering "Nyet" to both questions in a TV interview…

But the US Senate Judiciary Committee will hear next week FROM A SOURCE who believes Veselnitskaya has several connections to the Russian government, according to The Daily Beast.

That source is William Browder, an American hedge fund investor whose Moscow lawyer was beaten to death in a Russian prison in 2009 after he discovered a fraud in which Russian government officials had divided $230 million in bogus tax refunds amongst themselves. THE LAWYERS' NAME WAS SERGEI MAGNITSKY, and the US Magnitsky Act — named after him — prevents the Russian officials responsible for his death from entering the US.

Bingo, the Senate’s source is WILLIAM BROWDER the founder of Hermitage Capital Management Fund along with his partner in crime Edmond Safra who were the largest foreign owners of Russian shares and likely recipients of the $7 billion dollar money laundering scheme.  Both are believed to be involved in the NSA or CIA attempted takeover of Russia.  WILLIAM BROWDER has a financial interest in Donald J. Trump’s impeachment. 

The crucifixion of General Michael Flynn

The regime change in Syria then Russia was scheduled to take place right after the regime change in America. Trump’s election blew those plans out of the water.  When Donald Trump selected General Michael Flynn as his National Security Director and announced his support for normalized relations with Russia, the systematic destruction of the Trump Administration was set in motion.  Flynn had to go and it helped that people at the FBI had an axe to grind with Flynn:  From Circa.com:

Excerpt:

Did the FBI retaliate against Michael Flynn by launching a Russia probe?

The FBI launched a criminal probe against former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn two years after the retired Army general roiled the bureau’s leadership by intervening on behalf of a decorated counterterrorism agent who accused now-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and other top officials of sexual discrimination, according to documents and interviews.

Flynn’s intervention on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz was highly unusual, and included a letter in 2014 on his official Pentagon stationary, a public interview in 2015 supporting Gritz’s case and an offer to testify on her behalf. His offer put him as a hostile witness in a case against McCabe, who was soaring through the bureau’s leadership ranks.

The FBI sought to block Flynn’s support for the agent, asking a federal administrative law judge in May 2014 to keep Flynn and others from becoming a witness in her Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) case, memos obtained by Circa show. Two years later, the FBI opened its inquiry of Flynn… 

The deputy director’s testimony provided some of the strongest evidence in the case of possible retaliation, because he admitted the FBI opened an internal investigation into Gritz’s personal conduct after learning the agent “had filed or intended to file” a sex discrimination complaint against her supervisors.

McCabe eventually became the bureau’s No. 2 executive and emerged as a central player in the FBI’s Russia election tampering investigation, putting him in a position to impact the criminal inquiry against Flynn.

Three FBI employees told Circa they personally witnessed McCabe make disparaging remarks about Flynn before and during the time the retired Army general emerged as a figure in the Russia case.

The bureau employees, who spoke only on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said they did not know the reason for McCabe’s displeasure with Flynn, but that it made them uncomfortable as the Russia probe began to unfold and pressure built to investigate Flynn. One employee even consulted a private lawyer.

“As far as the troops in the field, the vast-majority were disgusted with the Russia decision, but that was McCabe driving the result that eventually led [former FBI Director James] Comey to make the decision,” said a senior federal law enforcement official, with direct knowledge of the investigation.

FBI agents’ concerns became more pronounced when a highly-classified piece of evidence -- an intercepted conversation between Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak -- suddenly leaked to the news media and prompted Flynn’s resignation as Trump’s top security adviser.

The lunatics who overthrew the American government in 2000 believed they were unstoppable.  Both parties belong to the same orthodoxy of world hegemonic control.  They control the political establishment in the US.  The two parties control who may run for office, what rules must be followed, who may vote and when they may vote.  The parties decide whose votes will be counted and which votes will be discarded.  Through the primary system the Democratic Party has “super delegates” who are all politicians.  Those “super delegates” can override the votes cast in their states.

In the 2008 primary Hillary Clinton won the State of Massachusetts by 15% points.  Super delegates Ted Kennedy and John Kerry overrode the Massachusetts voters and gifted Massachusetts delegates to Barack Obama.  The two parties did not want Hillary Clinton in 2016 but believed that if she won and they could impeach her and restore the party to the neocon Zionists headed up by Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden.  The parties had a foolproof system in place and planned that Jeb Bush would be the GOP candidate and ensure the continuation of the current system, and the overthrow of the Syrian government, followed by the overthrow of Russia. 

It never occurred to the GOP that anyone not pre-approved by the establishment could win the Republican nomination without the financial backing of the party.  Big mistake. The big bang exploded and blew up their world; that big bang was Donald Trump. 

Trump dismissed the ridiculous notion that George W. Bush kept America safe right out of the gate.  That was the shot heard around the world.  When Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin one on one for two hours at the G20 and barred the media and intelligence apparatus, it was the last straw.  The establishment became unhinged.  As the following exchange between Tucker Carlson and Max Boot one of the architects of the Iraq War shows the level of insanity Russian President Putin elicits in America.


Talk about unhinged, it’s frightening that people like Ralph Peters and Max Boot are considered experts on foreign relations. 

The American people no longer trust the politicians, the media nor our intelligence agencies. They have all become unhinged and as far as we’re concerned they are just howling at the moon.  This saga is not going to end soon so stay tuned.



By Patricia Baeten


Sunday, July 9, 2017

G20 - The end of the age of ignorance, Putin and Trump lead the world into the age of enlightenment



“The commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.” ~ Lord Salisbury


U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s trip to the G20 Summit was wildly successful as Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin forged an alliance to lead the world out of the age of ignorance ushered in by the George W. Bush Administration in 2000 and escalated under the Obama Administration.  Gone were the rehashes of age old disagreements, baseless allegations and history rewrites and in was a new relationship based on future common goals for an age of enlightenment, cooperation and peace.  From LaRouche Pub:

Excerpt:

Trump and Putin Agree They Have Same Goals, Different Approaches

July 7, 2017 (EIRNS)—The separate press briefings on the Putin/Trump summit presented by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson were in total agreement on this: The two presidents disagreed on many things, but agreed that it was more important to move forward on solutions for the future than to settle the disagreements of the past.

Tillerson said, "The two leaders, I would say, connected very quickly. There was a very clear positive chemistry between the two. The positive thing I observed, and I’ve had many, many meetings with President Putin before, is that there was not a lot of relitigating of the past. I think both of the leaders feel like there’s a lot in the past that both of us are unhappy about. The perspective of both of them is that this is a very important relationship, the two largest nuclear powers in this world.... We simply have to find a way to move forward."

Tillerson illustrated the strength of their commitment to a productive relationship by saying that as the meeting went beyond the 35 minutes scheduled for it, he began coaxing the President, other people came in to see what was going on, and at one point, "They sent the First Lady in ... That didn’t work. We went another hour after she came in to see us, so she failed."

On Syria, Tillerson said that the military advances against ISIS had reached a point where they can make concrete arrangements for "de-escalation. Both parties agreed on a ceasefire involving a zone in Southwest Syria near the Jordanian border. The United States, Russia, and Jordan agreed to maintain that ceasefire…. Putin retains his view that Assad is the legitimate President of Syria, and that transparent elections by the Syrian people should continue to decide on their leadership.

On Ukraine, Russia requested that a special channel be opened to resolve differences on this issue. In response, Trump has appointed Ambassador Kurt Volker to serve as the United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations. His appointment was announced by the State Department this morning. On July 9, he and Tillerson will travel to Kyiv, and he will collaborate with Russia, Germany, and France, the other members of the Normandy Four, who have taken responsibility for resolving that situation.

On cyber-security, both sides agreed to establish a working group to collaborate on this issue…   When asked about Russian hacking of the election, Tillerson said that there was a lengthy discussion of this and that Trump pressed very hard on the issue, but Putin firmly denied Russia’s involvement. When asked if Putin asked for evidence, he said that he did…  Trump said that, in the absence of evidence, he would accept Putin’s word

On North Korea, Putin supports the double freeze approach advanced by Xi Jingping, but Trump believes continuing sanctions are necessary. Neither Tillerson nor Lavrov mentioned the possibility of military counter-measures nor their promotion by U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.

Both foreign ministers stressed that although many issues were discussed, few were resolved, but that both presidents were firmly and enthusiastically committed to their resolution. Tillerson said, "By and large, our objectives are both the same. Now, how we get there, that’s another issue."

The strides accomplished by the Putin-Trump one-on-one meeting was reinforced by France’s new President, Emmanuel Macron who also desires a new age of enlightenment and cooperation between Russia and France.  From Russia Today:

            Excerpt:

Macron to Putin: ‘We can move to new phase in Russia-France relations’

Russia and France can now move to a new phase in bilateral relations, French President Emmanuel Macron told his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.
                             
“On the subject of bilateral and regional issues, I welcome the quality and the intensity of the work that has been established since [meeting in Versailles in May],” Macron told Putin.  “So I think now we can move on to a new phase because we both saw that we were doing what we were saying,” Macron concluded.

Putin said that Russia continues to implement all the Versailles agreements concerning bilateral relations between Moscow and Paris.  “We are moving towards all directions which we discussed in Versailles,” he said.  Putin and Macron vowed to improve relations and jointly address international problems during their first official meeting in Versailles in May.

The French president admitted at the time, however, that he had “some disagreements” with his Russian counterpart, but said that the two leaders discussed them openly in a “frank exchange of views.”  According to Macron, serious international problems cannot be resolved without Moscow. France is interested in intensifying cooperation with Russia, particularly in resolving the Syrian crisis, he said, adding that this issue demands “an inclusive political solution.”

President Putin welcomed Macron’s statement, saying that Moscow and Paris are determined to cooperate in resolving the crises in Syria, Ukraine and the Korean Peninsula, as well as to fight terrorism together.

What a difference a new administration in America can make.  The belligerent, self-serving age of ignorance of the past sixteen years appears to be dissolving before our eyes.  Remember the G8 summits of 2014-15 that was turned into G7 summits when Russian President Putin was snubbed by the smarmy, self-aggrandizing leaders met without Putin?  From Russia Today:

Excerpt:

‘G7 countries completely destabilized Middle East region’

There is huge irony at the G7 summit: those picnicking on sausages, pretzels and beer today, earlier created a military, political and social vacuum and destabilized the whole Middle East region, says political and social commentator Mo Ansar.

Today the G7 leaders are discussing the main security challenges their countries face. Some of the countries have been victims to terrorist attacks over the last 6 months. US, UK and Japanese have become victims of Islamic State beheadings. The inflow of illegal migrants from North Africa and Syria to the EU is rising. However these are the problems created in some way by the G7 countries that at least approved the bombing campaigns in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen…

At the end of the day, these are the countries that have completely destabilized the region. They decided a bombing campaign in battle-torn Iraq would be the best solution of course… What we’ve seen them do is create a military, a political and a social - and more importantly - an ideological vacuum in Iraq and Syria which everybody with a sensible head said would be taken up by the extremists. And that’s exactly what we’ve seen. I’m not sure these nations are looking to do anything other than continue the conflicts…

We’ve seen world leaders, like Blair, Obama, the former head of NATO, Rasmussen, continuing to extol the virtues of NATO and Western European alliances and the Anglo-American alliance. And meanwhile, we’ve seen them continue to ratchet up tension against Russia over Ukraine while arguably and demonstrably it’s been the West, the US, the NATO who is looking to destabilize the region and provoke Russia into a conflict.

Yes, what a difference the G20 summit of 2017 has made.  Presidents Trump and Putin are truly moving away from the Age of Ignorance and guiding the world on a new path, an Age of Enlightenment.  Sixteen years of wasted American lives and treasure to feed a caveman mentality ushered in by the knuckle dragging neocon/neoliberal war mongers. 

There were some very unhappy campers in the media that despise Presidents Trump and Putin that are putting their negative spin on the summit and lament the loss of the Age of Ignorance when fake media lies were celebrated sacrosanct fact.  Here are some of the headlines circulating the globe:

The Independent UK:

The G20 proves it. Because of Donald Trump, the world no longer looks to America for leadership

The US President was out of step with almost everyone and didn't seem to care

Until recently, the world looked to the US for leadership at such international forums. But in the six months since Trump entered the White House that has all changed.

ABC News US:

G20: Does Donald Trump's awkward performance indicate America's decline as world power?

The G20 became the G19 as it ended. On the Paris climate accords the United States was left isolated and friendless.  It is, apparently, where this US President wants to be as he seeks to turn his nation inward.

Donald Trump has a particular, and limited, skill-set. He has correctly identified an illness at the heart of the Western democracy. But he has no cure for it and seems to just want to exploit it.  He is a character drawn from America's wild west, a travelling medicine showman selling moonshine remedies that will kill the patient.

CNN Money

No Trump press conference at G20

The president of Russia did it. So did the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Turkey and Spain. Not President Trump.

The heads of state of at least a half dozen nations took reporters' questions at the conclusion of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany on Saturday. Trump, however, did not hold a press conference.

It marked a major break with precedent. Former President Obama had a press conferences at each of the eight G20 summits he attended. So did former President George W. Bush in November 2008, as he did the four prior years after G8 meetings.

What an embarrassment the American and British media have become.  Look at this display of the American media’s disdain for Trump and you can understand why Trump passed on a Q&A session with the American media.


 The media fell all over George W. Bush and Barack Obama like they were some fearsome mythical leaders instead of the cowed servants of the neocon military industrial complex’s New World Order.  Remember Bush’s embarrassing pawing of Angela Merkel at the G8?


The American media has become an international joke.  This article from Russia Insider really lays bare the international reputation the American media has today:

Russia Insider:

Suicide by Stupidity - US Media Coverage of the G20 Summit

But if Mr. Trump agrees to work with Mr. Putin despite a list of Russian transgressions beginning with the annexation of Crimea and ending with its interference in the 2016 presidential election, he will also look weak while Mr. Putin can claim that he reconstructed the relationship.  —The New York Times

America wakes up to astonishing bull tickey from its so-called Newspaper of Record in this lead front-page propaganda dump du jour. Granted, American education has succeeded in destroying the critical faculties of at least three generations so that the public drowns in a soup of unreality every day. In the news business now, as in the national life generally, anything goes and nothing matters.

One has to wonder, though, about the editors who serve up this baloney. Are they mere servlings of the Rand Corporation, Raytheon, and other parties with an interest in the war business, or can they possibly believe their own extrusions of fabricated agit-prop?

For instance, the imputed Russian “annexation of Crimea,” as if the place was some kind of nostalgic, sore-beset Ruritania of independent princes, colorful peasants, and earnest postal clerks cruelly enslaved by bloodthirsty Cossacks. No, Crimea had been officially a province of Russia since exactly 1783 — which was, by the way, the same year that the American Revolution officially ended via the Treaty of Paris…

When the elected president of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych, was overthrown in 2014, with the help of the US State Department and CIA, Russia was obliged to secure its naval bases in Crimea — where the overwhelming majority of citizens were culturally and linguistically Russian anyway. A referendum ratified the transfer of Crimea back to Russia. Apart from these procedural details, it must be obvious that Russia would never have ceded its strategic naval bases on the Black Sea to Ukraine, especially when that beleaguered country was being manipulated by the USA and NATO into becoming an adversarial presence on Russia’s border…

That last question applies equally to the incessantly repeated trope that Russia interfered in the 2016 US election. What is supposedly at issue? The New York Times has been making this empty allegation for a year now, without every specifying exactly how Russia might have “interfered.”

In the process, the newspaper has squandered its credibility on what looks exactly like a witch hunt — a campaign against dark and mysterious supernatural forces. It is doing great harm to an already badly-educated, misinformed, economically distressed, drug-addled American public. It also looks like plain old war-mongering.

Coverage of the Trump-Putin meeting during the G-20 conference this week is being played like a WWF championship bout. Which president is weak or strong? Which one will be a loser or a winner? This is no way to cover geopolitical relations. The United States and its news media look like they want this country to commit suicide by stupidity.

Ha ha.  “Badly-educated, misinformed, economically distressed, drug-addled American public” they’ve got that right.  Between Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” and Obama’s “Race to the trough” hedge-fund profit driven charter schools that is what America’s education system has become.  Americans don’t even know American history, let alone Russian history.  No wonder media is never held accountable for their lies.

So there you have it, the summary of the G20 summit.  The summit was highly successful with U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin forging an alliance to lead the world out of the age of ignorance and ushering in a new age of enlightenment.  Donald Trump has returned home to America and now the American media can fire up the fake news Wurlitzer and spin their damage control.  They will do their best or worst to breathe life into the fake Russian election interference lies but as far as Trump is concerned the matter is closed.  It’s a new day and here come the sun.


By Patricia Baeten


Sunday, July 2, 2017

Politicians can’t be trusted with life and death healthcare decisions for your family

ILLUSTRATION BY LYNE LUCIEN/THE DAILY BEAST
The politicians in America hold their political seats by the grace of billionaires who make or break them.  They are in the seats they hold to ensure a death rate that provides cover for the rich to enrich themselves at the expense of everyday Americans.  The politicians view our military families as dumb animals who do what they are told to protect the assets of the billionaires. 

The Democrats’ party died with the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and the installment of George W. Bush by the Zionist wing of the Democratic Party.  The Republican Party has devolved into the party of death and destruction tasked with destruction of humanity in the cruelest ways possible.  No politician should be allowed to make any decision regarding the health, education, and financial well-being of the American people as they are devoid of morals and compassion.  Any life and death decision must be brought before the people in the form of a referendum that the politicians must abide by.


As our millionaire, pampered, underworked, overpaid political class leave for another vacation/recess before their month-long August vacation the American people are left to fend for themselves against a predatory medical/pharma/banking/military prison system of state sanctioned apartheid.  From Connie Schultz at Creators.com:

Excerpt:

No Recess For The American Public

On Tuesday, public outrage forced the Republicans to postpone their vote to gut the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid.  Two hours later, I stood with a loved one in an emergency room in small-town Ohio and got an earful from the nurse taking care of him.  The nurse, with more than 20 years in the profession, had spent the workday running nonstop and hadn’t heard the news. When I told her, she was relieved — and outraged.

“Thank God,” she said. “They have no idea.” She pointed out toward the row of other examining rooms. “Those senators? They have no idea what we’re dealing with here.”  She was talking about the opioid epidemic.  She was also talking about her daughter.

“We’re one of the lucky ones,” she said. “My daughter was addicted, but she survived — and went to prison.” She waved off my sympathy. “No. She’s 32 years old, and this was the best thing to happen to her. She’s clean now and doing so much better. She told me, ‘Mom, I’m so glad I have a roommate who doesn’t want to date me or kill me.”

Others, she said, are not so fortunate. She sees those addicts every week. Many of them live — thanks to an emergency dose of Narcan, an opioid antidote…  Without Medicaid insurance, more of them will die.  The Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that focuses on major health care issues in America, offers sobering numbers about our growing opioid epidemic.  A few snapshots:  In 2015, more than 2 million people in America were addicted to prescription opioids, and another 591,000 were addicted to heroin.

Between 2002 and 2015, opioid deaths tripled.  Medicaid covers a range of treatment services for more than 650,000 non-elderly adults with opioid addiction. This is in the states that expanded Medicaid coverage. Of the 26 states with an above-average rate of opioid overdose deaths, eight have not done so…

Between 2000 and 2014, opioid-related inpatient stays increased by 64 percent. Opioid-related emergency department visits increased by 99 percent.  That ER statistic — that’s the one all of us should be citing: Opioid-related emergency department visits increased by 99 percent.

It is impossible to believe that congressional Republicans don’t know this… 

McConnell said there will be no vote to repeal health care until after THE SENATE HOLIDAY RECESS. We have no idea how many of the Republicans will return to their states and face their constituents over the holiday weekend.  What we do know is that there is no recess for the American public.  I keep thinking of that emergency room nurse’s lament: “Those senators? They have no idea.”

The Republicans in congress never intended to get rid of Obamacare, the Republican written healthcare law.  As a matter of fact, they have been quite content with the generous subsidies they have given themselves to pay for their Obamacare while demanding to slash subsidies for the American people who are underserved and actually abused by Obamacare.  From CNS News:

Excerpt:

$174K-Per-Year Congressmen Will Get Special Obamacare Subsidy

Under the OPM deal arranged in August, the average member of Congress who makes $174,000 a year will be able to keep his approximately $10,000 health insurance subsidy, like he used to get under his old plan, before Obamacare.  Congressional staffers who buy through the exchange will also get to keep the subsidies they were receiving.  (See Congress Salary CRS Report.pdf)

Before Obamacare, Congress’ plans were administered by the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and the government paid a yearly contribution to those plans of $4,966.80 for singles and $10,048.76 for families.  The Obamacare law was supposed to eliminate that FEHBP subsidy but the OPM essentially put it back in.

Here are two hypothetical examples of families buying health insurance, under the current rules, through the Obamacare exchanges: 1) a family of four – two adults both age 58, and two children under age 21 – living in D.C. who run their own small business; and 2) a female member of Congress, age 58, with a spouse and two children living in D.C.

Using the Kaiser Family Foundation Subsidy Calculator, the D.C. family of four making $94,250 a year, or just $50 above the 400% of poverty level, would pay $15,481 a year for their family health plan if they chose the silver plan (the middle-tier plan used by Kaiser). They would receive $0 in subsidy.

The congresswoman and her family living next door makes $174,000. Her income is 739% of poverty level and her insurance plan, at the Silver level, would also cost $15,481.  But the congresswoman would qualify for a subsidy of $10,048.76.

(The Kaiser calculator uses the Silver tier plan for its calculations and the OPM rule requires Congress to purchase at the Gold tier, but the federal subsidies are applicable to either tier plan: Gold, Silver, Bronze.)

UNLIKE THE D.C. FAMILY THAT GETS NO TAX-CREDIT SUBSIDY UNDER OBAMACARE, THE MEMBER OF CONGRESS GETS MORE THAN $10,000 BECAUSE OF THE DEAL ARRANGED AMONG THE CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP, THE WHITE HOUSE, AND THE OPM IN EARLY AUGUST 2013.

Congressional staff members would also qualify for subsidies even if their income exceeds the 400% of poverty level.

It is one set of subsidy rules for the electorate, and a different set of subsidy rules for those who work in Congress.

The American people have been removed from the election process through the legislated campaign finance laws, the exemption for members of congress and their staff from insider trading laws, the ALEC written voter I.D. laws and redistricting to dilute the will of the American people to choose their legislators.  America has become an open air prison with our elected officials our jailors deciding who will live and who will die.  Who will eat and have a roof over their head is dependent upon their degree of subservience to their political masters. 

If there is any doubt that the members of our pampered oligarchical congress serves only their wealthy donors and the special interests who ensure their lifestyles of the rich and famous, one need look no further than the abomination of Obama Care.  The health insurance program written by the Republican funded Heritage Foundation codified into law a healthcare program designed to enslave the American people into a system of government funded profits for the American Medical Association and big Pharma. 

When the American people elected a Democratic President, House and Senate who promised Medicare for all, the Democratic Party betrayed their voters.  Barack Obama, Rahm Emmanuel and the Chicago gang of thugs proceeded to pass a Republican agenda that no Republican administration had been able to pass since the 1970’s.  From The Intercept:

Excerpt:

DEMOCRATIC SUPERDELEGATE, IN ROOM FULL OF HEALTH INSURANCE EXECUTIVES, LAUGHS OFF PROSPECT OF SINGLE PAYER

ACTIVISTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY have provided real momentum to the idea of a single-payer health care system, pressing the issue in California and among leading figures in the Democratic Party.  The mere prospect of single payer, however, has elicited swift derision from some corners of the party, with Dick Gephardt, the former Democratic House minority leader, laughing off the idea at a health insurance conference earlier this month.

“Not in my lifetime,” scoffed Gephardt, when asked if the United States will ever adopt such a system.  Gephardt, who serves as a Democratic “superdelegate” responsible for choosing the party’s presidential nominee, was asked about the possibility of single payer at the Centene Corporation annual investor day conference at The Pierre, a ritzy five-star hotel in New York City…

“There is no way you could pass single payer in any intermediate future,” Gephardt declared. America, he added, has the “greatest health care system in the world, bar none.” And while single payer would provide universal coverage, there would be less quality and innovation without the “involvement of the private sector.”

Haley Barbour, the former Republican National Committee chair, another speaker at the event, chimed in to agree. “Hear, hear. Put me down as agreeing with Leader Gephardt as usual,” Barbour chuckled.

The claim that single payer suppresses innovation is an old argument that does not stand up to scrutiny. Most medical innovation in the U.S. are already government funded, through universities receiving federal subsidies and grants, as well as through the National Institutes of Health. A single-payer insurance system, like Medicare, would simply negotiate for lower prices from providers… 

Despite well-entrenched opposition from much of the private health care industry, political momentum for single payer has enjoyed a rapid boom of late…  When Colorado debated a ballot measure to adopt single payer during the election last year, a small army of Democratic Party consultants descended upon the state to help health care industry interests defeat the measure.

Gephardt, notably, became a corporate lobbyist after serving as a populist Democratic lawmaker from Missouri. His clients have included Peabody Coal and Goldman Sachs, among others. He also serves on the board of Centene, receiving annual compensation of around $315,965 in cash and stock awards.

Yes, Dick Gephardt formally the Minority leader in the Democratic Party and Super Delegate who defied the American people’s will and installed Barack Obama as president in 2008 believes “America, has the “greatest health care system in the world, bar none.”  That is true if you are a pampered, super rich politician in America, but if you are a normal American not so.  Congress has a hatred and disdain for the American people and wants them to “hurry up and die.”  The GOP plan keeps congress’ subsidies while removing subsidies from Americans to give themselves yet another tax break on their ill-gotten gains.   From The Intrepid Report:

Excerpt:

Trump, Republicans seek to euthanize 80 million young and old Americans

 “These county lessons are significant because Medicaid is the largest funder of preventive health, births/pregnancy, drug recovery and mental health treatment services. When we talk about the growing costs of Medicaid, it is prudent to remember the population being served. Of the 80 million individuals covered by Medicaid today, more than 34 million are children under 18 years old, 7.3 million are low-income elderly and 11 million are disabled…

“Low income people—an estimated 23 million—will be stripped of all health coverage. Millions of people will suffer needlessly, and many thousands will die an early death. For the authors of these bills and their corporate backers, this is not an unfortunate byproduct, but the deliberate aim of their health care reform.

For the richest 10 percent who tower above the lower orders and control the political system and its two major parties, the diversion of money from profits and private bank accounts to keep working people alive and reasonably healthy—especially those too old to serve as a source of surplus value and profit—is an intolerable affront.

Life expectancy in America is already declining and mortality rates are rising for the working class, in tandem with the colossal growth of social inequality. The ruling class wants to accelerate this process…”

Blood is flowing from the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. Lingchi, or death by 1,000 cuts, is the Republican’s preferred method for turning the American Republic into a corporate and security state while culling the non-productive human herd in America…

Trump and the Republicans—and their woeful Democratic “opponents”—have taken wickedness to a new levels of savageness...  The butchers in the Office of Management and Budget and Treasury could care less about 70 percent of the country’s populace.

In case the death rate isn’t escalating fast enough the “Liberal” Democrats delivered another blow to the American people to ensure death and destruction of the American way of life.  Corey Booker, the Obama wannabe and whore extraordinaire who gained fame as Mayor of Newark trotting around for a photo shoots helping to shovel out his constituents after a snowstorm, is now shoveling favors to big Pharma in the U.S. Senate.  From The Slot Jezebel:

Excerpt:

For Some Reason, Cory Booker and 12 Other Dems Helped Kill a Bill That Would Lower Drug Prices [Updated]

Last night, Senate Republicans took their first leap towards repealing Obamacare by approving a budget procedure that would allow them to avoid a Democratic filibuster. The 13 Democrats who subsequently voted against making drugs cheaper for people deeply undercut the ability of that party to speak with credibility on behalf of the working class.

The amendment, which was proposed by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sen. Bernie Sanders, would have allowed the importation of drugs from Canada. Trump has taken a more Democrat-friendly tone on drug prices—at one point during yesterday’s maniacal press conference he accused pharma companies of “getting away with murder,” which sent stocks tumbling—and 12 Republican senators, including John McCain, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, ended up voting in favor of the bill…

Between 2010 and 2016, a handful of the Democratic senators who voted “nay” were amongst the top Senate recipients funded by pharmaceutical companies: Sen. Booker received $267,338; Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) received $254,649; Robert Casey (D-PA) received $250,730; Michael Bennet (D-CO) received $222,000.

As the former mayor of Newark, Cory Booker faced corruption scandals and increased crime and unemployment levels as his star power outside the state rose. He is heavily favored by Wall Street, with securities and investment firms donating $1.88 million to Booker during the 2014 midterm elections; their second-favorite candidate was Mitch McConnell.

Facing a 2020 lineup that apparently also includes fucking Andrew Cuomo, Democrats certainly appear to be setting themselves up for a massive failure, don’t they?

Corey Booker has his snout firmly entrenched in the Wall Street lobbyist trough.  But no matter how much pay, kickbacks, bribes and perks congress receives it is never enough, they want more.  The Tea Party, the Koch Brothers’ caucus has portrayed themselves as fiscal policemen in congress.  Although much showboating has taken place to give the illusion that they are fiscal warriors for the people, they are just the same politicians with a different mask.  From Huffington Post in 2012:

Excerpt:

Living Large on Capitol Hill

Last year, 21 freshman members of the House of Representatives made a show of sleeping in their offices. Instead of renting apartments and living among the city’s lobbyists, reporters and political hacks, the incoming Republicans wanted to be seen as outsiders, unsullied by the ways of Washington…  Despite a series of ethics reforms targeting things like outside income and unseemly junkets, members of Congress receive grandiose compensation and live a lifestyle that’s too big to fail.

At a town hall meeting in Wisconsin last year, a constituent challenged Rep. Sean Duffy, one of the new Republican couch surfers, about his salary. “I’m just wondering what your wage is and if you guys would be willing to take a cut?” the man asked, according to a video of the event.  The man seemed surprised by Duffy’s answer: Members of Congress make $174,000 a year, the congressman said, after some hemming and hawing.

“That’s three times—that’s three of my family’s­—three times what I make,” the constituent stammered. He described himself as a builder who’d been having a hard time finding work since the economy tanked.  Duffy pushed back against the perception that his salary meant he was a member of the nation’s white-collar elite.

“I guarantee that I have more debt than all of you,” Duffy told the town hall attendees. “With six kids, I still pay off my student loans. I still pay my mortgage. I drive a used minivan. If you think I’m living high off the hog, I’ve got one paycheck. So I struggle to meet my bills right now.”

Duffy may have debts, but the reality is that, when compared to the population at large, members of Congress still manage to live on the uppermost portion of the hog. A congressman’s salary is more than three times the median income of American households—currently about $49,445. That paycheck comes fully loaded, with generous health insurance, retirement benefits and other perks that set lawmakers apart from average Americans—AND SET THEM UP FOR A LIFETIME OF FORTUNE AND COMFORT.

So, all gestures of austerity aside, the guys and gals on the couches are still doing very, very well, thank you.

Amazing that with $174,000 per year and unbelievable package of perks reserved for the rich and famous members of congress, they actually feel that they are underpaid.  They don’t receive enough they want more money so they can move out of their offices.  From Local Kicks.com:

Excerpt:

Chaffetz calls for $2,500 legislator housing stipend

WASHINGTON, DC. - Just days before he resigns from Congress, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said Monday that House and Senate lawmakers should receive a $2,500 per month housing allowance — something he explained would help ease housing costs for members who can’t afford two mortgages or rents.

“I really do believe Congress would be much better served if there was a housing allowance for members of Congress,” Chaffetz told The Hill in an interview in his Capitol office, where he sleeps whenever he’s in Washington. “In today’s climate, nobody’s going to suggest or vote for a pay raise. But you shouldn’t have to be among the wealthiest of Americans to serve properly in Congress.”

The comments from the fifth-term lawmaker suggest that financial considerations were a big part of his surprise announcement in April that he was stepping down from Congress and relinquishing his Oversight Committee gavel.

Yes, American people ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to better “serve congress.”   Unbelievable but that is what our “Democratic Republic” has devolved to.  Our elected officials do not serve America, the American people serve our “elected” officials. 

These are the people who are deciding whether you and your families live or die.  These are the people who decide whether or not your child will have access to an Epi-pen when they are lying on the ground writhing in pain unable to breathe.  These are the people who decide if your parents after working a lifetime must forfeit everything they have earned in life just to live their   last days in dignity.  From Forbes:

Excerpt: 
Draining The Swamp? Not With Tom Price As Head Of Health 
Rather than “draining the swamp” and appointing respected and ethical cabinet members, PEOTUS appears hell-bent on surrounding himself with people who will rapidly deepen the quagmire.  Explosive new information has come out further suggesting that Rep. Tom Price is one of those, mired in questionable ethical practices. 
Price, ethics and conflicts of interest 

In December, the Wall Street Journal reported that Price “traded more than $300,000 in shares of health-related companies" in just four years, “while sponsoring and advocating legislation that potentially could affect those companies’ stocks.” He did this while serving on powerful, health-related committees in Congress.  In 2015, Price also became Chair of the House Committee on the Budget. 

In August, Price purchased between $50,000 and $100,000 of stock in an Australian biotech company called Innate Immunotherapeutics (ASX: IIL).  The company’s key drug is for multiple sclerosis, known as MIS416, and it is seeking FDA approval. Price bought shares at a steep discount of just 18 cents a share. The offering was not public. The stock price subsequently rose to 90 cents and could go as high as $2. (A second, larger investor was Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), who also sits on an important health committee, and whose family now owns 20% of the Australian company. Collins also sits on the board of Innate Immuno—but hey, there’s nothing to see here.) 

The Kaiser Health News Report notes that Innate Immuno is specifically targeting a U.S. market, given that new drugs here can carry a higher price tag—likely $5,000 per month or more.  The 21st Century Cures Act, which Price supported and which passed Congress in December 2016, will be an asset for Innate Immunotherapeutics, as it will weaken safety testing and clinical trials in order to expedite approval of drugs and devices… 

CNN just reported that last year Price bought shares in Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH), a medical device manufacturer…   What is quite disturbing, however, is that less than a week later, Price introduced the “HIP Act,” a bill that greatly benefited Biomet financially by delaying implementation of certain new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regulations.

Zimmer Biomet expressed its appreciation by donating to Price’s reelection campaign.  “Devices cost $76 billion annually in the United States alone, and the profit margin for devices like defibrillators and prosthetic hips is over 20%...”  “Providers of home medical equipment have ranked as key Price backers, contributing $52,600 to his campaign since 2013.” Home health companies contributed an additional $24,000.

The days of the voters choosing their representatives is over, today the politicians choose their voters.  Our political elite have made insider trading for members of congress and their staff legal.  The laws they pass financially benefit themselves, especially healthcare related laws.  Every agency of the American government has been infested by special interests that effect our lives. 

This 4th of July as we celebrate Independence Day, we find ourselves enslaved by the very politicians that were elected to preserve our independence.  I guess freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose and that’s all the politicians have left us.  God bless America land of the enslaved, sick and dying for profit.  Politicians who are enriched by the suffering of Americans should never be allowed to make life and death decisions for us and our loved ones.


By Patricia Baeten

Monday, June 26, 2017

Russia-gate: America’s descent into madness


The neocons that seized control of the United States government December 12, 2000 now have complete control over our intelligence agencies and their media propaganda arm, Treasury, Pentagon and State Department.  Congress is packed with highly paid merchants of death in both parties hell bent on the destruction of America for a New World Order.  The entire Russia-gate investigation is a manifestation of how deeply America has descended into madness. 

The purpose of the investigation of the baseless claims launched by the Deep State is to remove Donald Trump from the Presidency in order to install the religiously insane Mike Pence with his cabal of Russo-phobic war mongers to complete the total annihilation of America to advance the Zionist hegemony that began with the 9-11 attacks.  Donald Trump was elected to end the insanity and now all of the chessmen have been placed on the board to facilitate the removal of Trump and the advancement of war with Russia, China and Iran.


The latest betrayal of America by the war mongering U.S. Senate is the usurpation of the Presidential powers through an insane sanctions regime launched against Russia based on lies.  From The Atlantic:

Excerpt:

Senate Approves Russia Sanctions, Limiting Trump's Oversight

A new bipartisan deal prohibits the president from rolling back sanctions without Congress’s approval

In an overwhelming vote of 97-2, the U.S. Senate approved a new round of sanctions on Russia in response to the nation’s likely interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as its involvement in the Syrian civil war. The deal also prevents President Trump from loosening or rolling back restrictions on Russia without Congress’s approval, representing one of the most significant GOP-enforced checks on the president to date. Only two GOP senators, Utah’s Mike Lee and Kentucky’s Rand Paul, voted against the sanctions.

This is an outrageous rebuke of the American voters who rejected the GOP/neocon approved candidates during the Republican Primaries of 2016.  This massive abuse of power on the part of the United States Senate to overturn the results of the American presidential election is just one more step by the Deep State to end Democratic elections in America.  James Comey, who was fired by Donald Trump for his gross incompetence as well as his treachery against America, laid the ground work for the Russia-gate investigation by the Deep State’s go-to guy Robert Mueller, the man who covered up the truth about the 9-11 Zionist attack on America.  From the Daily Reckoning:

Excerpt:

The Little Putsch That Could Beget a Great Big Coup

So let’s start with two obvious points about the whole Russia fiasco…

Namely, there is no “there, there.” First off, the president has the power to declassify secret documents at will. But in this instance he could also do that without compromising intelligence community (IC) “sources and methods” in the slightest…  It would just document the unconstitutional interference in the election process that had been committed by the U.S. intelligence agencies and political operatives in the Obama White House…

RussiaGate is a witch hunt like few others in American political history… Even Senator John Thune, an ostensible Swamp-hating conservative, had nothing but praise for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, that he would fairly and thoroughly get to the bottom of the matter.

No he won’t!

Mueller is a card-carrying member of the Deep State who was there at the founding of today’s surveillance monster as FBI Director following 9/11. Since the whole $75 billion apparatus that eventually emerged was based on an exaggerated threat of global Islamic terrorism, Russia had to be demonized into order to keep the game going — a transition that Mueller fully subscribed to…

Meanwhile, the GOP leadership could not be clearer about what is coming down the pike…    So there should be no doubt. A Great Big Coup is on the way…  There is nothing like a demonized enemy to keep the $700 billion national security budget flowing and the hideous Warfare State opulence of the Imperial City intact. So why not throw in an allegedly “stolen” U.S. election to garnish the case?

The unrestrained fascism emanating from Washington is beginning to cause great concern in the European Union countries as Washington unilaterally exacts punishment against anyone the Deep State views as a threat to American hegemony.  When America went all in to support the election of the Rothschild’s banker Emmanuel Macron as France’s puppet President, it was expected he’d support the Deep State’s sanctions against Russia.  From Veterans Today: 

Excerpt:

French President Emmanuel Macron: The West must stand with Russia in Syria

Macron seems to betray the Neoconservatives. He shows that he has some political backbones, for we all know that it takes courage to stand against the New World Order ideology in Syria and warmongers in the United States.  Warmongers and New World Order agents are obviously having a bad day. French president Emmanuel Macron has recently ruined their ideological worldview by saying that the West must stand with Russia in Syria in order to eradicate terrorist cells and organizations in Syria.

Jim W. Dean has recently reported: “Macron is rocking the boat even more than on the Syrian controversy. He is coming out swinging again against US Neo-Conservatism, which he does not want in France.  And he has shown his independence also from Israel with both this and his Assad stance.” Macron has argued quite frankly:

“The new perspective that I have had on this subject is that I have not stated that Bashar al-Assad’s departure is a precondition for everything, because nobody has shown me a legitimate successor.  “My lines are clear: Firstly, a complete fight against all the terrorist groups. They are our enemies. We need everybody’s cooperation, especially Russia, to eradicate them…”[1]

Macron added something that obviously makes him an enemy of the Neoconservatives in America and England—the same people who are spreading perpetual wars in the Middle East in the first place. Macron was reported to have said that he “will not allow US ‘neo-conservatism’ to seep into France, and that the focus of French policy will be aimed at achieving ‘stability’ in Syria, rather than getting dragged into a Libya-style conflict.”[6]…

My, my.  Seems the neocons miscalculated the degree of subservience Macron would have to the New World Order.  They were positively giddy when they managed to ensure the election of Macron.  Seems like France may be the first domino to reject American fascism.  Old Europe is getting weary of the American belligerence and reckless foreign policy.  They are not alone, from Veterans Today:

Excerpt:

Germany mulling over sanctions against the US

The EU folks seem to have finally figured it out. If US sanctions can be dished out against Russian interests, for a benefit the US wants to obtain, then why not use them against others? The justification is the same, the phrase used most often is “pursuing” or “protecting our interests,” the bottom line being the US can do anything it wants under this magic umbrella… 

the Senate effectively vetoed EU energy policy by attempting to punish those involved in the Nordstream II project to diversify gas deliveries around the highly untrusted Ukraine route, where the gang of thieves there…

It seems that the geopolitical divorce between the US and the EU may take place sooner than anyone expected, Ivan Danilov, a Russian economist and author of the popular blog Crimson Alter, notes in his op-ed for RIA Novosti. In his earlier articles Danilov called attention to the growing dissatisfaction with Washington among European leaders, highlighting that the US-EU “marriage” had begun to crack. However, there is a factor that could accelerate the process, the economist pointed out.

“When the US senators voted for a new package of sanctions against Russia, they were solving domestic political issues, and also tried to limit the freedom of foreign policy maneuver for President Donald Trump…

Indeed, the recent package of anti-Russian measures which is meant to be codified into law has caused a storm of criticism from US allies in Europe. The problem is that the new bill is targeting Russia’s energy sector, most notably the Nord Stream 2 project which is intended to carry cheap natural gas from Russia to Europe…

Germany and Austria suspect that Senate’s anti-Russian bill is an attempt to “occupy” the European energy market on the part of US corporations.

“Germany and Austria went one step further, too — accusing the US of looking to promote the role of US LNG in Europe at the expense of Russian gas,” the S&P Global Platts writer underscored, adding that the US apparently wants to kill two birds with one stone by exerting sanctions on Nord Stream 2: to “punish” Moscow and promote US LNG supplies in Europe, “which would have the knock-on effect of supporting domestic US gas industry.”

In this context, Danilov wrote, it is most likely that potential anti-American sanctions would be aimed not at inflicting any economic damage on the US but at sabotaging Washington’s attempts to seize the European energy market.

Man oh man, what a mess our corrupt government has wrought.  Over $8 trillion missing at the Pentagon you’d think America would have the most advanced military dominating land, sea and air but you’d be wrong.  All those unaccounted for trillions have gone directly into the pockets of the neocons to run a shadow government leaving the American government with duck taped, old useless equipment to wage unending wars.  Case in point the recent stealth attack on the USS Fitzgerald.  From State of theNation:

Excerpt:

Stealth Attack On USS Fitzgerald Proves US Navy No Longer Controls Seven Seas

The Official US Navy “Fitzgerald” Narrative is not only totally implausible, it’s beyond ridiculous!

“The U.S. Navy controls all the oceans. We are an order of magnitude more powerful than anyone else. Undermining that kind of power can happen, but it normally takes wars, and it certainly takes generations.”[1]— George Friedman,  Founder & Former CEO, Stratfor…

Nothing illustrates better just how wrong Mr. Friedman was about US naval supremacy than the recent successful attack on the USS Fitzgerald.  And make no mistake about it, this was a stealth attack with great purpose.  That purpose, of course, was to show the whole world that every U.S. warship is now a sitting duck.

It’s true, given the highly advanced scalar-wave weapon technology developed in Russia, no navy is safe on the high seas.  In fact, the radar, navigational, communication and weapons systems of any warship can be incapacitated with the push of a button.   The Russians proved that with the flyover of the USS Donald Cook in the Black Sea in April of 2014.  Even the sailors who witnessed that unparalleled incident on the ship were profoundly affected.  According to some specialized media, 27 sailors from the USS Donald Cook requested to be relieved from active service…

The first time the container ship approached the USS Fitzgerald, the Fitz was still fully functional.  An airplane or drone flying overhead was responsible for the energy pulse that killed all electricity on the warship…

The container ship was required to turn back toward the Fitzgerald to do its job as commanded by whoever empulsed the ship.  In turning back to do the “job” the container ship did not have great positioning to destroy the vessel and so ended up only disabling rather than sinking the thing.

Thus, the CIA-planned story (aka false flag attack) could not be used as many on board the Fitzgerald saw what really happened, and survived.  The CIA plot was probably an attack by Russia or China or NK.  A contingency plan was then quickly implemented; one that they could feed to those present as a legitimate story.

The bottom line here is that this attack was quite likely a false flag operation in the tradition of the USS Maine (“Remember the Maine!”), the RMS Lusitania (World War I false flag), and the USS Maddox (aka the Gulf of Tonkin incident)…

When described by a former seaman it’s quite apparent that this naval assault was well planned and well executed…  The ship’s electronic capabilities were blocked, and the ship was blinded, before the cargo ship rammed it. Fitzgerald was able to avoid being cut in half but sustained a serious blow on the starboard side…”[3]

Russia, China and other BRICS-aligned nations now possess weapon technologies which far exceed the capacity of the United States and United Kingdom (the former rulers of the seven seas) to defend against.  There have been a number of incidents (most unreported) during which Russia has demonstrated to the U.S. Navy that they are as vulnerable as “sitting ducks”…

With this new understanding, it greatly behooves the countries of the Zio-Anglo-American Axis to accurately assess the true military calculus which undergirds today’s global geopolitical chessboard.  Not only is this Great Game rapidly changing, all the old paradigms are dissolving in real time.  This developing situation is not too unlike what will soon happen when Free Energy renders obsolete the fossil fuel, hydrocarbon fuel, nuclear power and hydroelectric energy paradigms.

Make no mistake about it this whole Russia-gate fiasco is a Deep State plot by the GOP/DNC cabal to remove Trump and install Mike Pence in the presidency to kick off a war with Russia.  From Stephen Lendman:

Excerpt:

Slow-Motion Plot to Dump Trump

Dark forces in Washington want him removed, things headed toward replacing him with Pence, a deep state puppet he erred in appointing as vice president. GHW Bush was smarter, choosing political lightweight Dan Quale, unqualified for any public position.

Trump’s hold on the presidency is shaky. On Thursday, he tweeted “(w)ith all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign & Obama Administration, there was never a special counsel appointed!”  “This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history..!”

He’s not targeted for serious wrongdoing demanding accountability, or deplorable policies warranting strong criticism - solely because he’s not entirely and easily controllable and predictable, unlike other post-JFK presidents…

Despite months of investigations, no evidence suggests Russian US election hacking or improper dealings or ties to Moscow by Trump, his team or campaign.

Yet Mueller was appointed anyway, a deplorable choice with an unstated mandate to keep the anti-Trump pot boiling - for the wrong reasons, not the right ones, the end game wanting him ousted from office.

Former FBI special agent/whistleblower Coleen Rowley blasted his appointment, explaining his longstanding deep state ties, not someone of impeccable character as falsely reported.

He was part of the false flag 9/11 coverup. In the run-up to US 2003 aggression on Iraq, he, his CIA counterpart and other intelligence heads “saluted smartly and went along,” including then-US Attorney for the Southern District of New York James Comey, Rowley explained.

Mueller enforced post-9/11 police state harshness, presided over persecution of Muslims in America, the 2001 anthrax deception, and other disturbing activities demanding condemnation, not praise.

Rowley called him and likeminded US officials “sycophants to power,” complicit “in numerous wrongful abuses of power…”

As special counsel, will he go all-out for Trump’s removal, providing further service to America’s deep state, wanting nothing impeding their monstrous agenda?

Indeed, the criminal cabal that seized control over the American government on Deccember 12, 2000 that has packed the U.S. Senate asylum with lunatics from the neoliberal and neoconservative fringes have entirely divorced themselves from reality.  Whatever tenuous grip they may have had on sanity has become totally unhinged.  Russia-gate is America’s final descent into madness. 



By Patricia Baeten