Thursday, January 28, 2016

HILLARY CLINTON: THE FACE OF HIGH TREASON!

Memories of the Walker family spy ring and British double agent Kim Philby could be resurrected if a new angle of the FBI investigation works toward its logical conclusion.  Catherine Herridge of Fox News reports that the FBI is going directly t...

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"It was not long ago that reports surfaced about Hillary's informal intel network and the Clinton tactic of securing patronage jobs in the intelligence community for promoting their own interests."


Hillary's email scandal now potentially a matter of high treason

Memories of the Walker family spy ring and British double agent Kim Philby could be resurrected if a new angle of the FBI investigation works toward its logical conclusion.  Catherine Herridge of Fox News reports that the FBI is going directly to the intelligence agencies that generated the assessments to determine the original classification level.

The investigators "will go directly to depose specific individuals in agencies who generated the highly classified materials."

This is the prudent and smart thing to do in order to get specifics on the classification authority and to compare original documents with those that were stripped of classification markings.  But there is potentially something deeper and more sinister going on.

Recently, Col. Mike Ford reported to A.T. readers and scooped the rest of the media, explaining how U.S. classified computer systems work and how material stored on the systems cannot electronically "spill" or "jump" between systems.  In other words, it takes a conscious act to print, copy, scan, etc. classified documents and then put them on an unclassified system.

That the investigators are going to the source of the documents is actually just scratching the surface of what could be a major scandal encompassing the agencies themselves.  Just because the State Department has JWICS (Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System) and connectivity to the I.C. (intelligence community), that doesn´t mean Hillary, Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, or even most people at State INR (Bureau of Intelligence and Research) would have access to SAP (Special Access Program) material.  There are only certain people who read on to specific programs.  Bosses would not necessarily have access to programs their own analysts are working on and vice versa; that's why they're called compartmented.  In fact, Fox News confirmed that at least one email had an "HCS-0" marking, which is extremely sensitive HUMINT information.

The JWICS recognizes those individuals who have been read on to the different compartments – or not.  In my opinion, the underlying reason to go to the sources of the assessments is to not only determine original classification, but to root out those who had access to those programs.  This means Clinton-friendly members of the I.C. who were read on were not only "grossly mishandling" classified information, but committing espionage within the I.C. itself.

It was not long ago that reports surfaced about Hillary's informal intel network and the Clinton tactic of securing patronage jobs in the intelligence community for promoting their own interests.  This is why the intelligence source in the Fox News report said, "The bureau [FBI] does not waive its primacy in espionage cases."
The FBI appears to have moved from a criminal investigation into an espionage investigation.

A NATION LOOTED FROM WALL STREET - Wall Street falls on global growth fears

Wall Street falls on global growth fears

BY 2008, AMERICA'S BIGGEST BANKSTERS HAD SUCCESSFULLY LOOTED THE AMERICAN AND GLOBAL ECONOMY OF OVER A TRILLION DOLLARS.

NONE WENT TO PRISON BY VIRTUE OF OBAMA'S PROMISE TO PROTECT THEM. NO PRESIDENT IN HISTORY HAS SUCKED UP MORE BRIBES FROM BIG BANKS THAN OBAMA!

AFTER THE BANKSTER CARNAGE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE FORCED TO HAND OVER BILLIONS IN NO INTEREST LOANS AND WELFARE SO BIG BANKSTERS COULD BUY THEIR COMPETITORS.

DURING OBAMA'S FIRST TWO YEARS (FIRST TERM) BANKSTERS CONTINUED TO SUCK UP MORE MONEY THAN THEY HAD DURING ALL EIGHT YEARS OF BUSH'S TERMS

WILL THIS TIME BE DIFFERENT?

Wall Street falls on global growth fears

By Nick Beams
28 January 2016
Wall Street fell sharply yesterday despite the fact that the US Federal Reserve left interest rates on hold after a 0.25 percentage rate rise in December.

There was a general perception that the Fed had moved away somewhat from earlier expectations it would initiate four interest rate increases this year. But in the wake of earnings downturns for major US firms and growing criticisms of the Fed’s December decision, the general sentiment appears to be that the Fed did not do enough to indicate that monetary conditions would be eased, given the downturn in financial markets that has marked the beginning of this year.

According to Morgan Stanley, the tightening of liquidity so far this year, resulting from market turbulence, has already had an impact equivalent to four interest rate rises.

Before the Fed decision was announced, the market was slightly in positive territory but it plunged thereafter, closing 222 points down after dropping by 290 points at one point during the last two hours of trading. The broader-based S&P 500 index dropped by 1.09 percent and the Nasdaq composite index by 2.18 percent.

One of the triggers for the sell-off appears to have been the statement accompanying the Fed’s decision, noting that “economic growth slowed late last year.” The statement also said the Fed was “closely monitoring global economic and financial development and is assessing their implications for the labour market, and for the balance of risks to the outlook.”

According to Jia Liu, a research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, the Fed statement showed that policymakers were “concerned about the implication of a weak global economy. Right now the markets are very sensitive to any kind of news.”

The underlying recessionary trends in the global economy, which have been the driving force for the current fall in markets, were reflected in some major stocks.

The aircraft manufacturer Boeing and the hi-tech firm Apple together contributed 120 points to the drop in the Dow. Boeing closed down 8.93 percent for the day, its worst day since October 29, 2001.
The fall in Boeing’s shares was precipitated by the announcement that it expected to deliver fewer passenger jets this year than in 2015. That forecast came a few days after the company said it would cut production of the 747 jumbo jet, once the mainstay of its fleet, to just six this year because of falling air cargo demand. This is an indication of the downward shift in trade—one of the most significant trends in the global economy.

The shares of Apple, the world’s most valuable company by market capitalisation, fell by 6.55 percent, its worst day in two years. The company reported that sales in the March quarter of its key product, the iPhone, would record their first ever decline since the model was introduced in 2007.
In a call to investors on Tuesday, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said sales of iPhone units in the March quarter would contract to $50–$53 billion due to worsening international conditions, including volatility in China, as well as in currency and financial markets more broadly.

Cook said the company faced an “environment now that is dramatically different” from the second fiscal quarter with “extreme conditions, unlike anything we’ve seen before, just about everywhere we look.”

Sales in the quarter ending in December were up by just 2 percent to $75.9 billion, a major slowdown compared to the 30 percent increase in the same period a year earlier.

Apple’s chief financial offer Lua Maestri pointed to the fall in commodity prices, of which the decline in oil is only the most significant. “When you think about all the commodity-driven economies—Brazil and Russia and emerging markets, but also Canada and Australia in developed markets—clearly the economy is significantly weaker than a year ago,” he said.

So far this year, there has been a near one-to-one correlation between oil prices and the movement of the share market. The fall in the oil price, now down to around $30 per barrel, affects the markets in two key areas—finance and industry.

On the financial side, this is raising concerns in the high-yield or junk bond markets, where the viability of debts incurred when oil was around $100 per barrel are called into question now that the price has plunged by more than 70 percent. “Significantly stressed” US energy companies—that is, companies whose bonds exceed the comparable rates on treasury bonds by 7 to 10 percentage points—are estimated to account for about 20 percent of the high-yield bond market.

Banks could also be directly affected because of write-downs on the loans they have made to oil companies. Even large banks, such as Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, have expressed concern over this possibility—an indication that smaller, regional banks may face bigger problems.

Apart from expressing the general tendency of lower growth, and even recession, falling oil prices also hit major industrial firms that supply the oil producers and exploration companies.

No upturn is expected. The World Bank this week predicted that the average price for crude would be $37 per barrel this year, compared to its forecast of $52 made just three months ago.

While the conventional wisdom still remains that falling oil prices should benefit the global economy “in the long run,” the downturn is causing immediate havoc, especially for so-called emerging markets that depend heavily on the export of oil and other industrial commodities.

In what is expected to be just the first in a series of similar moves, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank officials will travel to Baku, the capital of oil-exporting Azerbaijan, to discuss the organisation of a possible $4 billion loan package.

Azerbaijan, which depends on oil and gas for 95 percent of its export revenues, has seen a series of protests against the government of President Aliyev. There has been a 35 percent plunge in the value of the currency since the end of December, when the government abandoned a peg to the US dollar because of the rapid outflow of currency reserves needed to sustain it.

The downturn is extending across a range of commodity-dependent emerging markets, with potentially significant consequences for the global financial system.

In a note to investors Oxford Economics warned: “These are bad times for oil producers and their creditors. History provides reason for extreme pessimism on the likely fortunes of commodity producers.” It said emerging markets were prone to defaults and that “commodity slumps are possibly the biggest cause of defaults.”

Such events would have major international consequences.

One need only recall that the Russian default in 1998 led to the meltdown of Long Term Capital Management in the US, requiring intervention by the New York Federal Reserve. That was more than 17 years ago. Since then, global financial markets have become ever more integrated.

COP CRIMES IN AMERICA - Manslaughter trial in police killing of Akai Gurley begins in Brooklyn

Manslaughter trial in police killing of Akai Gurley begins in Brooklyn

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Manslaughter trial in police killing of Akai Gurley begins in Brooklyn

By Fred Mazelis
28 January 2016
Opening statements and testimony began this week in the long-awaited trial of New York City police officer Peter Liang for the killing of Akai Gurley, an unarmed 28-year-old African-American man walking down the stairs in his apartment building, part of the Louis H. Pink housing projects in the East New York section of Brooklyn. Jury selection in the case was completed last week.
Gurley died more than 14 months ago, on November 20, 2014, as two cops were making a “vertical patrol,” checking the stairwells in the high-rise building. As Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Marc Fliedner put it, opening the prosecution’s case, “Akai Gurley is dead today because he crossed paths with Peter Liang.”
Liang was indicted by a Brooklyn grand jury on manslaughter and other charges last February, and both prosecution and defense agree on the immediate events that led to Gurley’s death.
Liang and his partner, Shaun Landau, were patrolling in the housing project when Landau reportedly heard the sound of footsteps. They were on the eighth floor at the time. Meanwhile, Gurley and his girlfriend, Melissa Butler, had decided to walk down from the seventh floor after the elevator never showed up, a common occurrence in public housing. They descended an unlit staircase, another product of the wanton neglect of basic maintenance in the projects.
Liang opened the door from the flight above, raised his flashlight with one hand and drew his pistol with the other. He fired his gun immediately, and then returned to his partner, saying it had been an accident and that he would now be fired.
The two men, instead of checking on whether anyone had been injured, argued for two minutes over whether their supervisor should be called, as stipulated in police rules, and which of them should do it. Meanwhile, Gurley started running. Then, staggering and in increasing difficulty, he collapsed on the fifth floor. Butler saw that he had been shot and tried desperately to get help by knocking on nearby doors.
After apparently not resolving the argument of which of them should call their supervisor, (reports after the killing indicated that Liang had instead texted his representative in the police union), the officers made their way down the stairs, came across the mortally wounded Gurley and his crying friend Butler on the fifth floor, and did nothing, even though they are required to perform CPR when needed.
In testimony on the first day of the trial, a neighbor, Melissa Lopez, said that she had called 911 after Ms. Butler rang her bell. “I saw her standing there, crying, asking for help, her hands all bloody,” Lopez said, according to the account in the New York Times. When she went out to the stairwell, she saw the police officers. Asked what they did, she replied, “Nothing.”
The police did not summon an ambulance. “The cops shot him, the cops shot him,” Ms. Lopez said in her call for emergency assistance, recorded and played in court. “There’s like a million cops, but no ambulance.”
After having seen the victim, Liang finally called his superior. During this whole period, Landau and Liang behaved as though Gurley was “collateral damage,” an unfortunate casualty in the job of policing the poor neighborhood.
The prosecution charges that the officer’s behavior makes him guilty of second-degree manslaughter, involving recklessness rather than intent to kill. He also faces official misconduct, reckless endangerment and other charges. A manslaughter conviction could bring a sentence of 5 to 15 years in prison.
Officer Landau is expected to testify under an immunity agreement. The prosecution’s outline of the case indicates that, although Landau was not the shooter, he also refused to provide any aid to the dying man.
The indictment of Liang is a rare occurrence. One recent report indicated that 54 police officers faced criminal charges in the past decade, out of the thousands of police killings, many of them involving unarmed and innocent or mentally disturbed individuals, that took place over this period. Convictions in cases like these are even more uncommon.
Liang’s lawyer indicated that the police officer would probably take the stand in his own defense. The strategy will apparently be to present him as a virtual innocent himself, a young officer trying his best and ensnared in what his defense attorney claimed was “a million-to-one possibility,” as his bullet ricocheted off the wall and struck Gurley. The attorney added that the case was “not a referendum on policing in the United States.”
The cop is clearly guilty of violating specific rules on the holding and use of guns, breaching regulations in failing to notify his supervisor for 20 minutes, and, above all, refusing to provide first aid.
These actions did not take place in a vacuum. The police are sent into the city’s housing projects to carry out “broken windows” policing, initiated under the current police commissioner, William Bratton, during his first stint on the job more than 20 years ago. The cops function as a virtual occupation force, making threats and arrests for such charges as loitering and trespass, even in one’s own building, and minor drug charges that would barely raise an eyebrow in wealthier parts of the city.
The trial in the Akai Gurley case has been delayed for nearly a year, likely to allow anger to cool. His killing came within weeks of the exoneration of the police in the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the chokehold death of Eric Garner in Staten Island that past summer. Only two days later, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a Cleveland cop. The killing of Akai Gurley, unlike these cases, was accidental, but it was an “accident” that reflects the police-state atmosphere in working class and poorer sections of the city.

AMERICA FUCKED! MILLIONS OF JOBS FOR ILLEGALS ALONG WITH BILLIONS IN WELARE WHILE WE SQUANDER BILLIONS PROPING UP MUSLIM DICTATORS AND DEFENDING their BORDERS - War and the destruction of social infrastructure in America

War and the destruction of social infrastructure in America

"Of course, it would be simplistic to say that war is the only cause of America’s social problems. The most conspicuous element of life in the US continues to be the vast chasm between the rich and the poor. However, the rise of war and militarism are interrelated and have a common root."

AMERICA'S BIGGEST WAR PROFITEER IS CALIFORNIA SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN. 

FEINSTEIN HAS AMASSED A STAGGERING FORTUNE SNIFFING OUT DEALS IN CONGRESS THAT HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM TENDS TO MAKE MILLIONS OFF OF.

SHE HAS LONG PROMOTED THE INTERESTS OF BANKSTERS WELLS FARGO and BANK of AMERICA, AND IS AN ADVOCATE FOR OPEN BORDERS AND AMNESTY.

SHE AND EQUALLY CORRUPT SEN. BOXER, HAVE THREE TIMES ATTEMPTED A STEALTH AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS ON BEHALF OF THEIR BIG AG BIZ DONORS DESPITE THE FACT THAT ONE-THIRD OF THESE EXPLOITED WORKERS WILL END UP ON WELFARE.

LA RAZA-OCCUPIED CA LEADS THE NATION IN WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS ( THEY ALSO GET THE JOBS) PUTTING OUT NEARLY $30 BILLION YEARLY IN SOCIAL SERVICES.

ACCORDING TO (LA RAZA DEM) ATTORNEY GEN. KAMALA HARRIS, NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS!

VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY???????

THEN KEEP VOTING FOR THESE CORRUPT DEM POLS.... WHICH ISN'T TO SAY THE REPUBLICANS ARE SELLING US OUT AT A SLOWER PACE!

War and the destruction of social infrastructure in America

28 January 2016
As the water crisis in Flint, Michigan continues to occupy national headlines in the United States, scientists and environmental officials have revealed a dirty secret of American life: the poisoning of drinking water with toxic chemicals is not unique to Flint, Michigan, but takes place all over the country.

Counties in Louisiana and Texas, as well as the cities of Baltimore, Maryland; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Washington D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts all reported that substantial numbers of children have been exposed to elevated lead levels, largely through municipal drinking water.
This week, the head environmental regulator in the state of Ohio called national water regulations “broken,” saying that they dramatically understate the true scale of lead poisoning in American cities. As Virginia Tech researcher Marc Edwards put it, “Because of the smoke-and-mirrors testing, Flint is meeting the standard even as national guardsmen walk the street.”

Many water pipes in the United States are over 100 years old, and a large number of cities still have 100 percent lead plumbing.

The reasons are not hard to find. According to the Congressional Budget Office, public capital investment in transportation and water infrastructure, already underfunded for decades, has been slashed by 23 percent since its peak in 2003.


BLOG: THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY STARTED TWO WARS AGAINST SADDAM ON BEHALF OF THEIR CRONIES, THE FILTHY SAUDI DICTATORS... THE VERY PEOPLE THAT INVADED US 9-11 AND ARE GLOBAL FINANCIERS OF TERRORISM AND ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-CHRISTIAN AND ANTI-JEWISH HATE!

 The year 2003 is significant as it coincides with the beginning of the illegal invasion of Iraq by the Bush administration. The “war on terror” has entailed a vast expansion of the military at the same time that spending on anything not directly related to the accumulation of wealth by the financial aristocracy has suffered from continual cutbacks.

The response of the political establishment to the poisoning of tens of thousands of people in Flint and potentially millions more throughout the United States has been characterized by indifference. The politicians responsible, from Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to local Democratic Party officials and the Obama administration, pull long faces, pretend to take responsibility or seek to shift blame, while doing nothing to address the issue.

Nowhere is there a single politician who has responded to the disaster by demanding what is clearly required: the immediate allocation of a relatively modest sum, $273 billion according to the Environmental Protection Agency, to replace all of the municipal lead pipes in the US. This is equivalent to the annual spending on the US Army, just one of the four branches of the US military. There is simply “no money” for such a proposal to be considered, much less approved.

While politicians pore over any allocation of resources for social spending with a fine tooth comb, almost unimaginable sums are made available to the military without a second thought. How many know that the US military is shelling out over a trillion dollars to defense contractor Lockheed Martin to fund its beleaguered F-35 program? Or that it is spending another trillion dollars to “modernize” its nuclear arsenal by making atomic bombs smaller and more maneuverable?

The US spends more on its military, as Obama boasted in his most recent State of the Union address, than the next eight countries combined. Yet more is continuously demanded.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recently evaluated the Defense Department’s so-called pivot to Asia, in which military hardware has been either procured or restationed in the Western Pacific to counter the economic and military rise of China. Strikingly, the CSIS report gave the US military a failing grade. It called for the expansion and development of every aspect of US military capacity in the Pacific if it was to maintain superiority in the event of a shooting war with China.

Since the early 1990s, the US military has operated on the basis of a strategic doctrine that it will allow the existence of no other power that can challenge its military authority on even a regional level. That means that the US must be able to field such overwhelming military force that it would be able to defeat another major power, such as China, in a conventional war far away from the borders of the US.

This is a recipe for the bleeding white of American society in an insane attempt to maintain its military dominance, which can only end in catastrophe for the population of the US and the entire world.

Of course, it would be simplistic to say that war is the only cause of America’s social problems. The most conspicuous element of life in the US continues to be the vast chasm between the rich and the poor. However, the rise of war and militarism are interrelated and have a common root.

In response to the the longterm decline in the global position of American capitalism, the American ruling class responded on the one hand by promoting a wave of financial speculation, mergers and acquisitions, wage cuts, and the transfer of social wealth from the great majority of the population to its own pockets. On the other hand, it has sought to use its predominant military power to counteract the consequences of its economic decline by force.\

In the insane and socially destructive priorities of the American ruling class, one sees in concentrated form the inextricable connection between war and capitalism, and at the same time the inextricable connection between the fight for all the social rights of the working class and the struggle against imperialism.

Andre Damon