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The Speech and Other Thoughts on TrumpÂ…So Far
Post Date: 2017-03-04 10:17:43 by Ada
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I return to the podcast of Lew Rockwell interviewing Angelo Codevilla, where Codevilla offers, and I will paraphrase: the media talking class are wrong about Trump voters, that they will stick with Trump no matter what. If Trump doesn’t continue along the path on which he campaigned, they will look for someone else, someone even stronger and more belligerent. They voted for Trump because he is the one who gave the establishment the middle finger. This, perhaps, should be considered throughout this post. Trump gave his first of four (maybe more, maybe less) annual speeches to congress. I find one proposed action that a libertarian could get behind: Why are the most advertised Gold ...
What Is To Be Done?
Post Date: 2017-03-03 18:11:59 by Ada
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The question in the title is V.I. Lenin’s question. His answer was to create a revolutionary “vanguard” to spread revolutionary ideas among the workers, the economic class that Karl Marx had declared to be the class rising to the ascendency of political power. Finally, democracy, frustrated by upper class interests in its earlier manifestations, would become reality. The workers would rule. Given the presence of evil and human failing, it did not work out in that way. But Lenin’s question remains a valid one. Americans whose economic life and prospects for their children have been destroyed by the offshoring of American manufacturing and tradable professional skills ...
France's Marine Le Pen loses EU immunity over IS atrocity tweets
Post Date: 2017-03-02 09:46:53 by Ada
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Brussels (AFP) - The European Parliament on Thursday lifted French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's immunity from prosecution over her tweeting of images of Islamic State atrocities. The move paves the way for France to pursue a case against the far right National Front leader, after prosecutors launched a probe in 2015 over the graphic pictures, which included the decapitated body of US journalist James Foley. "The result is clear, a big majority is in favour of the lifting of immunity," acting parliament speaker Dimitrios Papadimoulis said. The ruling is effective immediately for Le Pen, a National Front MEP, European Parliament officials told AFP. But ...
How the Press Serves the Deep State
Post Date: 2017-03-02 09:22:12 by Ada
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Exclusive: Mainstream U.S. media is proud to be the Deep State’s tip of the spear pinning President Trump to the wall over unproven allegations about Russia and his calls for detente, a rare point where he makes sense, notes Daniel Lazare. The New York Times has made it official. In a Sunday front-page article entitled “Trump Ruled the Tabloid Media. Washington Is a Different Story,” the paper gloats that Donald Trump has proved powerless to stop a flood of leaks threatening to capsize his administration. New York Times building in New York City. (Photo from Wikipedia) As reporters Glenn Thrush and Michael M. Grynbaum put it: “This New York-iest of politicians, now ...
Nikki Haley Watch: Trump’s Disaster UN Ambassador Loses it Over Syria Sanctions Vote
Post Date: 2017-03-01 05:44:03 by Ada
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Although Russia signaled that it would veto the US/UK/France UN Security Council Resolution adding sanctions on the Syrian government over allegations that it used chemical weapons on its own people, the Resolution was brought to a vote anyway today. In the end, it was vetoed by Russia, China, and Bolivia, with three additional countries abstaining. The Resolution and accompanying sanctions were a classic case of guilty until proven innocent, as the investigations into the alleged use of chlorine gas are ongoing and have established no definitive proof of Syrian government culpability. That did not stop President Trump’s “Disaster Ambassador,” Nikki Haley, from once again ...
Poll: Public Opposes Dems Federal Transgender Rule by 2-To-1 Margin…
Post Date: 2017-02-27 12:02:20 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Why should over 324 million Americans be inconvenienced by the demands of fewer than 25,000 people with the mental disorder of gender confusion? The U.S. Census Bureau has an interactive map which shows the estimated number of transgenders per state. Via Breitbart:Only 28 percent of Americans support former President Barack Obama’s pro-transgender claim that the federal government should decide bathroom policies in elementary and secondary schools, says a new poll by Rasmussen Reports. In contrast, 36 percent said local governments should set “bathroom policies” governing youths who say they want to live as members of the opposite sex. Another 28 percent of respondents said ...
Slain SEAL’s dad wants answers: ‘Don’t hide behind my son’s death’
Post Date: 2017-02-26 15:55:18 by Ada
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William ‘Ryan’ Owens was killed in Yemen on Jan. 28, 2017. Owens is the first known combat casualty under President Trump. William Owens, clutching a photo of son Ryan, the SEAL killed in a January commando raid, says the administration is wrong to say that anyone who questions the raid does his son a disservice. William Owens’ home in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea holds the medals his son earned, some of them posthumously. He was determined ‘to be the best,’ the father says. A family photo of William ‘Ryan’ Owens, who was killed in Yemen on Jan. 28, 2017. Owens was the first known U.S. combat casualty under President Trump. A family photo of William ...
The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost
Post Date: 2017-02-23 10:26:17 by Ada
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Last week, The Wall Street Journal revealed that members of the intelligence community – part of the deep state, the unseen government within the government that does not change with elections – now have acquired so much data on everyone in America that they can selectively reveal it to reward their friends and harm their foes. Their principal foe today is the president of the United States. Liberty is rarely lost overnight. The wall of tyranny often begins with benign building blocks of safety – each one lying on top of a predecessor – eventually collectively constituting an impediment to the exercise of free choices by free people, often not even recognized until it ...
The CIA vs. The Presidency: This is Not the First Time
Post Date: 2017-02-21 07:49:36 by Ada
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—In 1947, the president of the United States, Harry Truman, decided: I’m going to create a snake and call it the CIA. Its watchword will be secrecy. It will collect secrets of our enemies and hold them secret and report the secrets to the president, who will decide what to do. Of course, the snake will remain under the president’s control. Its entire personality will be based on deception, but it will remain loyal to the president. No problem. Sure. I’m thankful for Charles Hollander’s challenging piece on Thomas Pynchon’s novel, The Crying of Lot 49: “Pynchon, JFK and the CIA: Magic Eye Views of The Crying of Lot 49.” Hollander offers vital ...
Justin Amash Emerges as Leading Critic of Fellow Republican Donald Trump
Post Date: 2017-02-20 11:51:37 by Ada
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The libertarian congressman uses Twitter to challenge and taunt the president President Donald Trump’s “constant fear-mongering’’ about terrorism is “irresponsible and dangerous.’’ He needs to “stop attacking the legitimacy of the judiciary.’’ He picked an attorney general with “anti-liberty” positions on surveillance and police seizure of property. Those tough assessments come not from one of the president’s critics in the Democratic Party, but from a conservative Republican House member whose district decisively backed Mr. Trump in the election. Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan has emerged as one of the leading Republican ...
An impeachment rally is set to take place Monday in Atlanta
Post Date: 2017-02-19 07:12:14 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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An impeachment rally is set to take place Monday in Atlanta, another anti-Trump event on President’s Day. Thousands of people have pledged to spend their weekend protesting President's Day and Trump's policies at "Not My President" rallies across the country. Events have been scheduled in at least 25 cities, NBC News reports. In Dallas on Friday, high school students walked out to protest Trump's immigration policies. On Saturday, nearly 1,000 protestors chanted "Immigrants are welcome here" in the city. Group about to march pic.twitter.com/3oMCK4Fh0H — Claire Ballor (@claireballor) February 18, 2017 Similar protests were carried out in ...
The Stakes for Trump and All of Us
Post Date: 2017-02-19 07:01:36 by Ada
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We need to understand, and so does President Trump, that the hoax “war on terror” was used to transform intelligence agencies, such as the NSA and CIA, and criminal investigative agencies, such as the FBI, into Gestapo secret police agencies. Trump is now threatened by these agencies, because he rejects the neoconservative’s agenda of US world hegemony that supports the gigantic military/security annual budget. Our secret police agencies are busy at work planting “intelligence” among the presstitute media that Trump is compromised by “Russian connections” and is a security threat to the United States. The plan is to make a case in the media, as was ...
Is the NSA the real president of the United States?
Post Date: 2017-02-17 09:06:13 by Ada
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The US intelligence community continues its war to kick Donald Trump to the curb and destroy his presidency. Obviously, the NSA, the CIA, and their silent partners want to continue to run this country. So they spy and leak, spy and leak. We’ll get to the guts of the problem in a minute, but first a word from Bill Binney. Breitbart: “William Binney, a former highly placed NSA official turned whistleblower, contended in an exclusive interview today that the National Security Agency (NSA) is ‘absolutely’ monitoring the phone calls of President Donald Trump.” “Binney was an architect of the NSA’s surveillance program. He became a famed whistleblower when ...
The Deep State Targets Trump
Post Date: 2017-02-17 07:49:09 by Ada
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When Gen. Michael Flynn was forced to resign as national-security advisor, Bill Kristol purred his satisfaction, “If it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state.” To Kristol, the permanent regime, not the elected president and his government, is the real defender and rightful repository of our liberties. Yet it was this regime, the deep state, that carried out what Eli Lake of Bloomberg calls “The Political Assassination of Michael Flynn.” And what were Flynn’s offenses? In December, when Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats, Flynn spoke to the Russian ambassador. He apparently counseled the envoy not to overreact, saying a new team would be ...
The Trump Presidency: RIP
Post Date: 2017-02-16 08:07:43 by Ada
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Has Donald Trump overestimated his presidential power? The answer is yes. Is Steve Bannon, Trump’s main advisor, politically inexperienced? The answer is yes. We can conclude from the answers to these two questions that Trump is in over his head and will pay a big price. How large will the price be? The New York Times reports that US “intelligence agencies…sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election.” Former National Security Agency (NSA) spy John Schindler tweeted on Twitter that a senior intelligence community colleague sent him an email stating that the deep state had ...
Deep State #Resistance: Spies Withhold Intel from Trump, Says WSJ
Post Date: 2017-02-16 07:55:37 by Ada
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“Deep state” officials are withholding intelligence from President Donald Trump, despite the fact that he is the nation’s commander-in-chief, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal published Wednesday evening. Journal reporters Shane Harris and Carol E. Lee cite “current and former officials” who say that “U.S. intelligence officials have withheld sensitive intelligence from President Donald Trump because they are concerned it could be leaked or compromised.” The intelligence officials who are withholding the information are doing so because they fear that Trump could leak secrets to Russia, or because of political battles with the president, ...
WikiLeaks: ‘Destabilization Campaign’ Responsible for Flynn Resignation Online publishing organization points finger at intelligence community, Democrats and media
Post Date: 2017-02-15 14:00:39 by Ada
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A “destabilization campaign” by opponents of President Donald Trump is responsible for National Security Adviser Michael T. Flynn’s resignation, WikiLeaks alleged Tuesday. The online publishing organization specifically blamed the intelligence community, the Democratic Party and the media in a tweet surrounding the incident. “Trump’s National Security Advisor Michael Flynn resigns after destabilization campaign by US spies, Democrats, press,” WikiLeaks stated. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, called the back-and-forth between the Trump White House and U.S. intelligence Wednesday a “battle for dominance.” “Amazing battle for ...
America's spies anonymously took down Michael Flynn. That is deeply worrying
Post Date: 2017-02-15 10:23:45 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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The United States is much better off without Michael Flynn serving as national security adviser. But no one should be cheering the way he was brought down. The whole episode is evidence of the precipitous and ongoing collapse of America's democratic institutions — not a sign of their resiliency. Flynn's ouster was a soft coup (or political assassination) engineered by anonymous intelligence community bureaucrats. The results might be salutary, but this isn't the way a liberal democracy is supposed to function. Unelected intelligence analysts work for the president, not the other way around. Far too many Trump critics appear not to care that these intelligence agents leaked ...
Trump backs away from two-state solution ahead of Bibi’s visit
Post Date: 2017-02-15 04:08:59 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... US President Donald Trump will not pursue decades of American policy in favor of the so-called two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an official says. "A two-state solution that doesn't bring peace is not a goal that anybody wants to achieve," a senior White House official told Reuters on condition of anonymity on Tuesday. The statement came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was about to visit the new US president at the White House on Wednesday. The official asserted that for the Republican president, "Peace is the goal, whether that comes in the form of a two-state solution if that's what the parties want, or something else ...
Military Judge Questions Trump’s Impact on Bowe Bergdahl Trial
Post Date: 2017-02-14 08:12:32 by Ada
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Prosecutors: Trump Condemnation Was Just Political Rhetoric Military judge Col. Jeffrey Nance says he has questions about the “disturbing” string to public condemnations of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl by President Trump, and whether those comments are going to seriously impact the public sense that Bergdahl is able to get a fair trial. Bergdahl was a prisoner of war in Afghanistan from 2009 until 2014, when the US finally secured his release. He is now facing desertion charges for having been off-base at the time of his capture. The issue was widely politicized, with some Republicans condemning President Obama for even securing Bergdahl’s release. President Trump was among the ...
How RFK Could Have Saved His Life, and His Country
Post Date: 2017-02-13 19:29:11 by Ada
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In our previous article on the subject, we explained why it was absolutely essential to the plotters of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that Vice President Lyndon Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover be involved in the plot at the very least to the point that they would have given it the green light. We also pointed out that they would have to have been assured of the complete cooperation of the American press. How that was so might be explained by a combination of my two poems, “Spook News and Views” and “Mister Big.” Another key actor in the drama had to be, at the very least, neutralized. That was President Kennedy’s brother, Attorney General ...
Could Reince Be On His Way Out As Chief Of Staff?
Post Date: 2017-02-13 08:48:43 by Ada
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The opening weeks of the Trump administration have been described as tumultuous by many, potentially leaving White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus’ head on the chopping block. Chris Ruddy, founder of Newsmax Media and one of President Trump’s friends, said Sunday on CNN that the “White House is showing not the amount of order that we need to see. I think there’s a lot of weakness coming out of the chief of staff.” After his comments on CNN, Ruddy told The Washington Post, “I’ve gotten three text messages from sitting Cabinet members praising my appearance. They realize this whole government depends on this chief of staff.” The significance of ...
Trump Wars
Post Date: 2017-02-13 07:47:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Wars by Stephen Lendman While it’s too early in his tenure to draw definitive conclusions about his geopolitical agenda slowly unfolding, what’s known so far is disturbing. He appears to be the latest in a long line of US warrior presidents - a huge disappointment, though hardly surprising. The last US president favoring peace over endless war was assassinated for wanting all Pentagon forces out of Vietnam - before things heated up after his elimination. The lesson of Jack Kennedy’s state-sponsored assassination wasn’t forgotten or ignored by his successors. Candidate Trump said “I was against (Middle East wars). And I was against (them) very early. And ...
First on CNN: Trump nixes Elliott Abrams for State Department job
Post Date: 2017-02-10 21:15:52 by Ada
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Trump nixed Abrams after learning of his biting criticism of the then-GOP candidate (CNN)Elliott Abrams, who served Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, will not get the No. 2 job at the State Department, three Republican sources told CNN. But Abrams was nixed from the list of contenders after President Donald Trump learned of Abrams' biting criticism last May of his fitness to become president, the Republican sources said. The President found out about Abrams' outspokenness against Trump after meeting with him on Tuesday to consider him for the position, which would have made him Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's deputy. The meeting went well, but Trump could not ...
Cut, Don’t Reform, Taxes
Post Date: 2017-02-10 10:03:15 by Ada
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Many Americans who have wrestled with a 1040 form, or who have paid someone to prepare their taxes, no doubt cheered the news that Congress will soon resume working on tax reform. However taxpayers should temper their enthusiasm because even in the unlikely event tax collection is simplified, tax reform will not reduce the American people’s tax burden. Congressional leadership’s one nonnegotiable requirement of any tax reform is “revenue neutrality.” So any tax reform plan that has any chance of even being considered, much less passed, by Congress must ensure that the federal government does not lose a nickel in tax revenue. Congress’s obsession with protecting ...
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