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AFTER DESTROYING THE DEMOCRAT PARTY and the AMERICAN MIDDLE
CLASS, OBAMA NOW VOWS TO BUILD A PRO-MUSLIM DICTATORSHIP FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS
AND OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERS.
Barack Obama and his henchmen would not have been emboldened in
their ostensible machinations to undermine an election and then a presidency if
it were not for the fecklessness of the Republican Party and the blind eye as
well as the tacit support of the mainstream media.
*
In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency,
Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington. He’s working behind the scenes to
set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his
threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular
“America First” agenda.
AMERICA'S SORRY STATE
“And the causes are complicated. A big part of the story is the
ascendency of corporate America at the same time that Americancommunities were
being defenestrated.”
It gets worse. We are at a point where 1-in-8 American men over
the age of 18 has a felony conviction. Where the average life expectancy of big
chunks of the populace is moving backwards.
America's Sorry State
Art Credit: Thomas Fluharty
I'd point you to two recent pieces that you simply have to read in
order to understand America as it exists now. The first is by my colleague
Christopher Caldwell, writing about the opioid epidemic over at First
Things. It's an amazing, magisterial piece.
In taking full measure of where we are and how we got here,
Caldwell argues that the scope of the problem we face is difficult to fully
comprehend:
Salisbury, Massachusetts (pop. 8,000), was founded in 1638, and
the opium crisis is the worst thing that has ever happened to it. The town lost
one young person in the decade-long Vietnam War. It has lost fifteen to heroin
in the last two years. Last summer, Huntington, West Virginia (pop. 49,000),
saw twenty-eight overdoses in four hours. Episodes like these played a role in
the decline in U.S. life expectancy in 2015. The death toll far
eclipses those of all previous drug crises. . . .
A heroin scourge in America's housing projects coincided with a
wave of heroin-addicted soldiers brought back from Vietnam, with a cost peaking
between 1973 and 1975 at 1.5 overdose deaths per 100,000. The Nixon White House
panicked. Curtis Mayfield wrote his soul ballad "Freddie's Dead." The
crack epidemic of the mid- to late 1980s was worse, with a death rate reaching
almost two per 100,000. George H. W. Bush declared war on drugs. The
present opioid epidemic is killing 10.3 people per 100,000, and that is without
the fentanyl-impacted statistics from 2016. In some states it is far worse:
over thirty per 100,000 in New Hampshire and over forty in West Virginia.
And the causes are complicated. A big part of the story is
the
ascendency of corporate America at the same time that
American communities were being defenestrated.
But it also has something to do with a culture that can't say no
to anything, that doesn't believe in taboo, that feels the need to excuse and
expunge and relieve people of agency.
The other blockbuster essay comes from my friend Nick Eberstadt in
the new issue of Commentary.(And by the by, if you haven't
subscribed to Commentary, you should. It's
a truly great magazine.) In "Our Miserable 21st Century" Eberstadt
takes a more general, 30,000-foot view of modern America. He examines
reams of data—on finances, income, health, social mobility, and more—and the
picture he paints is one of a nation in serious trouble. Decline, even.
Take economic growth: Economists now
believe that the potential growth rate for the
United States—that is, the rate at which the economy would
grow at full employment—is just 1.7 percent. Which means that the long-term
growth rate is under 1 percent. The work rates for the population
have similarly been revised downward. The rosy unemployment numbers
you hear on the news are based on the assumption that the percentage
of Americans in the labor force will never again be as high as it was in
2001.
BLOG: DURING OBAMA'S EIGHT YEARS of OPEN BORDERS, 2/3 OF ALL
JOBS WENT TO FOREIGN BORN OR ILLEGALS!
Here's Eberstadt:
As of late 2016, the adult work rate in America was
still at its lowest level in more than 30 years. To put
things another way: If our nation's work rate today were back up to
its start-of-the-century highs, well over 10 million more
Americans would currently have paying jobs.
There is no way to sugarcoat these awful numbers.
They are not a statistical artifact that can be explained away
by population aging, or by increased educational enrollment for adult students,
or by any other genuine change in contemporary American society. The plain fact
is that 21st-century America has witnessed a dreadful collapse of work.
What's worse, this collapse of work post-2000 has coincided with an
explosion of wealth for the wealth-holders.
There's no way for these opposing trends to lead to either
economic or cultural or political stability.
It gets worse. We are at a point where 1-in-8 American men over
the age of 18 has a felony conviction. Where the average life expectancy of big
chunks of the populace is moving backwards. Where
geographic mobility is in its third straight decade of decline and social
mobility is collapsing, too. In 1977, the average 30-year-old was almost a sure
bet to be earning more money than his parents were making at the same age—he
had an 86 percent chance. Today, his odds are just about even-money—51 percent.
Like I said, go read Eberstadt's sensational
piece. This is the America of 2017. Donald Trump isn't Reagan. And
morning isn't coming.
UNDER BANKSTER-OWNED BARACK OBAMA, TWO-THIRDS OF ALL JOBS WENT
TO FOREIGN BORN, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL.
Poverty has become more concentrated under Obama
By Nancy Hanover
2 May 2016
Under the Obama administration, more Americans have found
themselves consigned to economic ghettos, living in neighborhoods where more
than 40 percent subsist below the poverty level. Millions
more now live in “high poverty” districts of 20-40 percent poverty, according
to recently released report by the Brookings Institution.
Stacey Dash: Obama 'Bamboozled' Us: Actress and Fox News cultural pundit Stacey Dash said on Thursday
that President Barack Obama was elected because Americans believed the first
black president could heal racial divides in the country but the opposite has
happened.
Stacey Dash: Obama 'Bamboozled' Us
(CNSNews.com)
– Actress and Fox News cultural pundit Stacey Dash said on
Thursday that President Barack Obama was elected because Americans
believed the first black president could heal racial divides in the country but
the opposite has happened.
“I think he bamboozled us,” Dash said at the Conservative Political Action
Conference in Maryland. “I think we all got blacked into it.
“We all voted for him because we believed, ‘Yes, it’s time to have a black
president. He is going to unite us in a very profound way,’” Dash said.
“What did he
do? The exact opposite,” she said.
CNSNews.com
asked Dash about Obama’s election and the hope that he would heal racial divides
and why the country now seems more divided than ever.
“I think that’s the case, because I think he bamboozled us,” Dash said. “I
think we all got blacked into it.
“We all voted for him because we believed, ‘Yes, it’s time to have a black
president. He is going to unite us in a very profound way,’” Dash said.
“What did he do? The exact opposite,” she said.
CNSNews.com also asked Dash what the next president should do to improve race
relations.
“So what’s the next guy going to have to do?” Dash said. “He’s going to have to
unite us in a very profound, blatant, hardcore way.
“It’s not going to be easy,” she said. “It’s going to be war. It is.
“It’s going to be war, because there’s going to be people who say, ‘Oh no,
white people, I don’t want to have anything to do with them,’ and ‘black
people, I don’t want anything to do with them,’ and we the people, who do want
to be united have to say, ‘Okay, we’re going to educate you,’ because I believe
education is the big integrator,” she said.
“If we educate you, then unity will come, and until we understand that, unless
we’re united, we will never be a great country until we understand that we’re
in this conundrum,” Dash said.
Source URL: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/stacey-dash-obamas-election-and-race-relations-he-bamboozled-us-we-all-got
WHO
ASSAULTED THE AMERICAN ELECTION OF 2016?
PUTIN
or BARACK OBAMA?
The
Obama’s Lay the Grounds for a third-world Muslim-style dictatorship funded by
open borders advocate George Soros.
“Mark Levin called Obama’s effort “police
state” tactics, and suggested that Obama’s actions, rather than conspiracy
theories about alleged Russian interference in the presidential election to
help Trump, should be the target of congressional investigation.”
*
Daniel
Greenfield, the award-winning Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center,
believes (OBAMA'S POLITICAL PARTY) “OFA will be far more dangerous in the wild
than the Clinton Foundation ever was.”
THE
OBAMA WAR ON AMERICA: His OFA Party is Dedicated to Destroying
American and Building the Obama Muslim-style dictatorship funded by crony
banksters.
Daniel
Greenfield, the award-winning Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center,
believes (OBAMA'S POLITICAL PARTY) “OFA will be far more dangerous in the wild
than the Clinton Foundation ever was.”
*
"Obama
is no fool and he understands -- having encouraged Black Lives Matter and the
war on police and law enforcement, having facilitated ballooning welfare rolls
and doubling student debt to $1.35 trillion, having presided over a flood of
immigrants illegally crossing the southern border, and having pushed unprecedented
deficit spending that added nearly a trillion dollars annually to the federal
debt and doubling that debt in eight years to $20 trillion -- that the U.S. is
nearer collapse than at any previous time. And every Marxist knows that
socialist transformation first requires collapse of the old order."
*
PSYCHOPATH!
THE
LEGACY of BARACK OBAMA: MUSLIM PSYCHOPATH AND BANKSTER RENT BOY WHO CAME NEAR
TO CREATING A MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP BY SABOTAGING AMERICA’S HOMELAND
SECURITY AND FUNDING THE MEXICAN FASCIST RACIST PARTY of LA RAZA.
The WSWS has reported several times that during Obama’s
administration the wealth of the richest 400 Americans grew from $1.57 trillion
to $2.4 trillion and the stock market enjoyed one of its most successful runs
in history.
Wikileaks exposes Obama’s bankster-infested
administration!
BARACK
OBAMA …… the banksters’ RENT BOY!
“Citigroup’s recommendations came just three days
after then-President George W. Bush signed into law the Troubled Asset
Relief Program, which allocated $700 billion in taxpayer money to
rescue the largest Wall Street banks. The single biggest
beneficiary was Citigroup, which was given $45 billion in cash in the
form of a government stock purchase, plus a $306 billion
government guarantee to back up its worthless mortgage-related assets.”
MUCH MORE HERE:
“As president, Obama not only funneled trillions of dollars
to the banks, he saw to it that not a single leading Wall Street executive
faced prosecution for
the orgy of speculation and swindling that led to
the financial collapse and Great Recession, and he personally intervened
to block legislation capping
executive pay at bailed-out firms.”
“So when Clinton was hobnobbing with Goldman Sachs CEO
Blankfein in 2013, while investigations of wrongdoing by
Goldman and the other Wall Street banks were still ongoing, she
was consorting with a man who belonged in prison.”
CRONY BANKSTER LOOTING OF AMERICA
THEIR GOLDEN AGE OF PLUNDER IS NOT OVER!
NO PRESIDENT
IN HISTORY SUCKED IN MORE BRIBES FROM BANKSTERS NOR INFESTED HIS ADMIN WITH
BANKSTER CRONIES MORE THAN OBAMA!
*
And while the Obama administration worked systematically to bail
out the banks and make the financial oligarchy richer than ever, shielding the
architects of the Great Recession from criminal prosecution, it did impose
fines for some of the banks’ grossest swindles, including the sale of worthless
subprime mortgage-backed securities, the rigging of key global interest rates
such as the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), drug money laundering,
illegal home foreclosures and other illicit activities.
BARACK OBAMA , HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTERS AND THE LA RAZA
MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS….
There’s more than one way to destroy America’s white middle class!
HSBC laundered hundreds of millions and perhaps billions of
dollars for drug cartels responsible for the deaths of tens
of thousands of people over the past two decades. The bank
transferred at least $881 million of known drug trafficking
proceeds, including money from the Sinaloa Cartel in
Mexico, which is known for dismembering its victims and
publicly displaying their body parts.
March 6, 2017
Obama, president of 'historic firsts'...and not in a
good way
Now that the #Obamagate wiretapping scandal is on us, with voters wondering
"did he or didn't he" bug the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump,
as the latter charged Saturday, it's worth it to look at the president's style
of governing. The estimable Doug Ross of Director Blue has a list of historic "firsts" of the Obama presidency, most of which show abuse of power in a
pattern so repetitive it's impossible not to think this could go farther.
You can be the judge of whether or not
Obama had it in him to bug the candidacy of Trump. But check out
Doug's list to see what Obama's leadership character pattern amounts
to.
As an old journalist buddy of mine from
the foreign correspondent front in Africa said upon his return to the states:
"I spent 20 years in the jungles here, serving my country in a way ...
only to return home to an African dictator." He saw the pattern
then. Ross's list might show the pattern to many more.
President Barack
Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated]
Yes, he's historic, alright (new items
denoted
by ••• prefix). You can bookmark this
link
Law and Justice
• First President to Violate the War
Powers Act (Unilaterally Executing American Military Operations in Libya
Without Informing Congress In the Required Time Period - Source: Huffington Post)
• First President to Triple the Number
of Warrantless Wiretaps of U.S. Citizens (Source: ACLU)
• First President to Refuse to Tell the
Public What He Did For Eight (8) Hours After Being Informed That a U.S.
Ambassador Was Facing Imminent Death During a Terror Attack (Source: Mediate)
• First President to Lie About the
Reason For an Ambassador's Death, Blaming it on an Internet Video Rather Than What
He Knew to be the Case: the Al Qaeda-linked Terror Group Ansar al-Sharia (Source: House Oversight Committee, et. al.)
• First President to Have an Innocent
Filmmaker Thrown in Jail After Lying About the Cause for a Deadly Attack on
U.S. Diplomats, Using the Filmmaker as a Scapegoat (Source: CNN)
• First President to Use the IRS to
"Unfairly Target Political Enemies" as Well as pro-Catholic and
pro-Jewish Groups (Source: Sen. Ted Cruz)
• First President to Unlawfully Seize
Telephone Records of More than 100 Reporters to Intimidate and/or Bully Them (Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Witness a Single
Cabinet Secretary Commit Multiple Hatch Act Violations Without Acting, Speaking
Out, Disciplining or Firing That Person (Source: New York Times)
• First President to Systematically
Release Detained Illegal Aliens Charged With Homicide Into the U.S. Population (Source: USA Today)
• First President to Release 40,000 Illegal Aliens with Serious and/or Violent
Criminal Records Inside the U.S. (Source: Judicial Watch)
• First President to Create Secret Police Units Inside Government Agencies to
Block Lawful Investigations by Inspectors General (Source: Associated Press)
Scandals
• First President to Attempt to Block
Legally-Required 60-Day Layoff Notices by Government Contractors Due to His Own
Cuts to Defense Spending -- Because The Notices Would Occur Before the Election. (Source: National Journal)
• First President to Intentionally Disable Credit Card Security Measures (in order to allow over-the-limit
donations, foreign contributions and other illegal fundraising measures - Source: Power Line)
• First President to have the EPA conduct hazardous experiments on the ill,
infirm and elederly to push a radical environmental agenda, in a manner not
dissimilar to the Third Reich's inhuman medical experiments (Source: The EPA Office of the Inspector General).
• First President to be Accused by His Own Party of Ordering the CIA to Spy on
Congress (Source: Washington Post)
• First President to allow deadly Ebola
disease-ridden patients to enter the U.S., refusing to restrict travel from
infected countries like other Western allies (Source: New York Daily News)
• First president to order his EPA to
unilaterally overturn a Federal Statute (changing the borders of Wyoming
established by an act of Congress, Source: Casper Star-Tribune).
• First president to systematically delay enacting a wide variety of
controversial rules until after a presidential election (Source: Washington Post)
• First president to have Politifact designate one of his statements "Lie
of the Year" (Source: Politifact)
• First President to Strip Inspectors General of Ability to Investigate
Corruption and Fraud in the Federal Government (Source: Washington Times).
• First President to Create a Secret Racial Database of Americans in Order to
Determine "Inequities" in Housing, Employment, Banking, etc. (Source: New York Post).
• First President to Intentionally Release Thousands of Illegal Alien Rapists
and Child Molesters into the U.S. Instead of Deporting Them (Source: Boston Globe••• First President to Tell Killers 'They Are Product of Racist
Criminal Justice System' (Source: Sheriff David Clarke)
• First President to be Named by the Associated Press to Have Operated the
Least Transparent Administration in History (since the advent of the Freedom of
Information Act; Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Have Its Own Watchdogs Report That More Than $125 Billion
in Fraudulent/Improper Payments Were Made by the Federal Government (Source: Associated Press)
Economy
• First President to Propose Budgets So
Unreasonable That Not a Single Representative From Either Party Would Cast a Vote in Favor (Sources: The Hill, Open Market)
• First President to See America Lose
Its Status as the World's Largest Economy (Source: Peterson Institute)
Energy Policy
• First President to Endanger the
Stability of the Electric Grid by Shutting Down Hundreds of Coal-Fired Plants
Without Adequate Replacement Technologies (Source: National Electric Reliability
Corporation - PDF)
National Security
and World Affairs
Miscellania
But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs,
affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc.,
etc., etc.
AFP
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Government transparency activist group
Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the United States Department of Justice
(DOJ), and the Department of the Treasury (DOT) seeking records related to the
investigation of retired United States Army Lieutenant General Michel Flynn’s
communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Breitbart
News spoke exclusively to Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, who said, “We’ve
been looking into this story for months now and the only crimes connected to
this Russian scandal we’ve been able to find so far are the illegal leaks of
information and the violations of privacy by the Obama gang.”
Judicial
Watch filed a FOIA on January 25, 2017 and only filed the lawsuit after the
agencies failed to respond. The FOIA request was for “Any and all records
regarding, concerning, or related to the investigation of retired Gen. Michael
Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey
Kislyak between October 1, 2016 and the present.”
The
suit claims that “Defendants are violating FOIA by failing to search for and
produce all records responsive to Plaintiff’s requests or demonstrate that the
requested records are lawfully exempt from production.”
In
a prepared statement, Tom Fitton commented:
President
Trump is on to something. The Obama-connected wiretapping and illegal leaks of
classified material concerning President Trump and General Flynn are a scandal.
Judicial Watch aims to get to the truth about these crimes and we hope the
Trump administration stands with us in the fight for transparency.
The
lawsuit points out that on January 23, 2017, CNN reported that the
government was investigating Flynn, former national security adviser to
President Trump, and said:
The
calls were captured by routine US eavesdropping targeting the Russian diplomats,
according to the intelligence and law enforcement officials. But the officials
said some of the content of the conversation raised enough potential concerns
that investigators are still looking into the discussions, amid a broader
concern about Russian intelligence-gathering activities in the United States.
The
officials all stressed that so far there has been no determination of any
wrongdoing.
Radio
host Mark Levin has outlined a sequence of events — expanded on by Breitbart News — that
shows how, starting in June 2016, the Obama administration filed requests with
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications
targeting Donald Trump and several advisers. Just prior’s to CNN’s report cited
by Judicial Watch, theNew York Times reported that the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the CIA, the National Security Agency
(NSA), and the Treasury Department were monitoring several associates of the
Trump campaign.
"Barack
Obama is turning his new home in the posh Kalorama section of the nation's
capital – just two miles away from the White House – into the nerve center of
the mounting insurgency against his successor, President Donald J. Trump."
"Barack Obama and his henchmen would not have been emboldened in their
ostensible machinations to undermine an election and then a presidency if it
were not for the fecklessness of the Republican Party and the blind eye as well
as the tacit support of the mainstream media."
March 6, 2017
The Enablers of Obama’s Wiretapping Scandal
As the news of the
potential wiretapping of the Trump campaign has finally found its way into the
headlines and the never-ending leaks emanating from the Obama Administration
holdovers continue to be exploited, whatever national chaos and retribution
that may ensue rests not only on the shoulders of the perpetrators but on
enablers in a sycophantic mainstream media and a feckless Republican Party.
Since 1989 and the
election of George H.W. Bush, the vast majority of Republicans elected to
national office have chosen to worship the twin gods of civility and compromise
rather than vigorously defend and promote liberty, free enterprise and limited
government. Meanwhile, their political adversaries, the Democratic
Party and the Left (now one and the same) had no such compunctions as they were
determined to achieve their ends regardless of the means. Among the means
were endless intimidation, extortion and ridicule of the Republicans in
Congress or either of the two George Bushes. All this without fear of
retaliation or even the slightest hint of a vigorous defense or response.
In conjunction with their
accomplices in the mainstream media, Democrats quickly ascertained that any
outrageous accusation on their part, such as that Republicans are determined to
starve children, would eventuate in the near complete surrender of any
opposition to their proposed policies -- all of which are now embedded in
American society. Further, rather than support their colleagues in the
Party who were oftentimes the victims of specious and malicious accusations,
the spineless elites in the Republican Party sacrificed their members on the
altar of civility and faux integrity.
Having experienced so much
success with these tactics, it is little wonder that after nearly three decades
the Democrats’ overconfidence could be their potential long-term downfall.
That eventual bridge too
far may well be the wiretapping of the Trump campaign by the Obama
Administration and the putting in place of the apparatus for the subsequent
leaking of hitherto confidential information by the Obama holdovers in an
effort to delay, marginalize, or destroy the Trump Administration.
Apparently, Barack Obama
and his minions were supremely confident that Hillary Clinton would win.
Or if by any remote chance she did not, the assumption seemingly was that
Trump and the Republicans would be their usual spineless selves and succumb to
the customary intimidation tactics and would never retaliate once in
office. Additionally, the Democrats could count on the mainstream media
never exposing their treachery.
Despite all their
voluminous opposition research and Trump’s own words, the Obama-Clinton cabal,
brimming with overconfidence, refused to accept the reality that he was not a
prototypical Republican or someone easily extorted. Any cursory
review of his business career and tactics would have disabused them of that
mindset. Had Obama not been so arrogant, he would have realized if his
administration pushed for the wiretapping of his political rival in a contested
election campaign that Hillary had better damn well win or Trump could and
would retaliate once in office. As the President of the United States can
declassify and make public anything he so chooses, Obama’s allies in the media
would not be able to sweep the potential scandal under the rug.
That hypothetical
eventuality may have come to pass as President Trump has decided to use the
power of his office to expose the potential duplicity and unscrupulous behavior
of the Obama Administration in the wiretapping of his campaign. A story
first reported last November in an expose by the website Heat Street and followed up by The Guardian (UK) in
January.
There is another
component in this intrigue that is part and parcel of the overall Obama
deviousness.
On January 12, 2017,
a week before Trump was inaugurated, in a dramatic reversal of a longstanding
policy, Obama issued an executive order allowing the NSA to share with 16 other
agencies, filled with Obama holdovers, vast amount of data gathered on private American
citizens. Data collected without warrants, court orders or congressional
authorizations. Thus, assuring that innumerable leaks, such as those
surrounding General Mike Flynn and others in the Trump Administration, could
occur.
The wiretapping and the
deliberate strategy to undermine one’s successor are perhaps the most egregious
political actions by any president in American history, far surpassing
Watergate or the Teapot Dome scandals. In fact, they are tactics that
would have been applauded by some of the despots of the past century.
Complicit in this
skullduggery is the mainstream media. For the past forty years, they have
been virtually unquestioning in their dealings with the Democrats while
vilifying the Republicans at every turn. They became, in essence, the
Praetorian Guard for the Democratic Party, allowing its members to get away
with virtually anything. The latest example is the mainstream media’s
willfully choosing to ignore the wiretapping reports already in the alternative
and foreign media while gleefully accepting the leaks in their collusion with
the Democratic Party elites.
There is little doubt that
the media in this nation is now more polarized than ever. As its
traditional income sources evaporate, the mainstream media is increasingly
dependent on web traffic for advertising revenue. Therefore, the
incentive is either to produce and promote sensationalism or publish stories
tailored for a specific audience regardless of the overall veracity in
reporting.
Jonah Goldberg at National Review recently
explored this phenomenon (as he noted the following at the Washington
Post):
(Ben Domenech) told me the
Post has a giant screen on the wall of the newsroom that displays in real-time
their web traffic. Ben noted that nearly all the most read stories were
anti-Trump. He asked whether we can rely on the press to be objective
when market incentives are for Trump-bashing all the time.
The media in the United
States is now split between the anti-Trump and pro-Trump venues. During
the previous 8 years, the mainstream media was almost exclusively pro-Obama
primarily because of ideology and today they are almost exclusively anti-Trump
primarily because of revenue. As a counterweight, there is now a
significant pro-Trump media, chiefly on the internet, which also relies on web
traffic for their livelihood. The schism is now a fait accompli and will
not be reversed anytime soon. Unfortunately, the anti-Trump media is
still dominant but seemingly hellbent on losing that status, as they have
tossed to the wind many years ago any pretense of objectivity.
Barack
Obama and his henchmen would not have been emboldened in their ostensible
machinations to undermine an election and then a presidency if it were not for
the fecklessness of the Republican Party and the blind eye as well as the tacit
support of the mainstream media.
Judicial Watch: Only Crimes in
Russia Scandal Are from ‘Obama Gang’
AFP
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Government transparency activist group Judicial
Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the United States Department of Justice
(DOJ), and the Department of the Treasury (DOT) seeking records related to the
investigation of retired United States Army Lieutenant General Michel Flynn’s
communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Breitbart
News spoke exclusively to Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, who said, “We’ve
been looking into this story for months now and the only crimes connected to
this Russian scandal we’ve been able to find so far are the illegal leaks of
information and the violations of privacy by the Obama gang.”
Judicial
Watch filed a FOIA on January 25, 2017 and only filed the lawsuit after the
agencies failed to respond. The FOIA request was for “Any and all records
regarding, concerning, or related to the investigation of retired Gen. Michael
Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey
Kislyak between October 1, 2016 and the present.”
The
suit claims that “Defendants are violating FOIA by failing to search for and
produce all records responsive to Plaintiff’s requests or demonstrate that the
requested records are lawfully exempt from production.”
In
a prepared statement, Tom Fitton commented:
President
Trump is on to something. The Obama-connected wiretapping and illegal leaks of
classified material concerning President Trump and General Flynn are a scandal.
Judicial Watch aims to get to the truth about these crimes and we hope the
Trump administration stands with us in the fight for transparency.
The
lawsuit points out that on January 23, 2017, CNN reported that the
government was investigating Flynn, former national security adviser to
President Trump, and said:
The
calls were captured by routine US eavesdropping targeting the Russian
diplomats, according to the intelligence and law enforcement officials. But the
officials said some of the content of the conversation raised enough potential
concerns that investigators are still looking into the discussions, amid a
broader concern about Russian intelligence-gathering activities in the United
States.
The
officials all stressed that so far there has been no determination of any
wrongdoing.
Radio
host Mark Levin has outlined a sequence of events — expanded on by Breitbart News — that
shows how, starting in June 2016, the Obama administration filed requests with
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications
targeting Donald Trump and several advisers. Just prior’s to CNN’s report cited
by Judicial Watch, theNew York Times reported that the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the CIA, the National Security Agency
(NSA), and the Treasury Department were monitoring several associates of the
Trump campaign.
PERHAPS
THE FILTHY SAUDIS WILL BUY UP ALL THEIR BOY'S BOOKS! THE OBOMB SERVED
THEIR INTERESTS FOR 8 YEARS!
“Under Obama, not a single leading banker was prosecuted for
the
criminal activities that
led to the biggest financial disaster and
deepest slump since the
1930s, destroying the jobs, life savings
and living
standards of tens of millions of workers in the US and
around the world.”
"Sixty-five
million dollars—or even $267.5 million— is a small price to pay for
the contribution the former president made to enriching the
already
fabulously rich, defending the American ruling elite’s
geopolitical interests
around the world and continuing the assault on the wages,
benefits and
living standards of the working class."
IT LOOKS LIKE THE OBAMA'S WILL SUCK IN MORE LOOT
THAN THE CLINTONS AND THEIR PHONY PAY-TO-PLAY
CHARITY FOUNDATION DID.
"A
month ago we commented on a study that concluded “the Obamas could earn as much
as $242.5 million from speeches, book deals and pensions.” That study estimated
a book deal for the couple would be worth $40 million. The Obamas have topped
that by $25 million, or 62.5 percent. This pushes their estimated post-White
House earnings toward the $300 million mark."
The Obamas sign reported $65 million
book deal
The Obamas sign reported $65
million book deal
By David Walsh
2 March 2017
Executives at Penguin Random House,
the global publishing giant, announced Tuesday that the firm had reached an agreement
to publish books by former President Barack Obama and former First Lady
Michelle Obama. Vanity Fair commented, “The couple will write
their books separately but sold the book rights jointly.”
The Financial
Times reported that Penguin Random House had won a record-breaking
auction between publishing houses and will buy the two books for more than $65
million. It is not known which one of the company’s numerous imprints will
publish them. The previous record for a presidential memoir belonged to Bill
Clinton—$15 million.
In
a press release, Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle (the publisher is owned
53 percent by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann) explained: “We are
absolutely thrilled to continue our publishing partnership with President and Mrs.
Obama. With their words and their leadership, they changed the world, and every
day, with the books we publish at Penguin Random House, we strive to do the
same. Now, we are very much looking forward to working together with President
and Mrs. Obama to make each of their books global publishing events of
unprecedented scope and significance.”
A
month ago we commented on a study that concluded “the Obamas could earn as much
as $242.5 million from speeches, book deals and pensions.” That study estimated
a book deal for the couple would be worth $40 million. The Obamas have topped
that by $25 million, or 62.5 percent. This pushes their estimated post-White
House earnings toward the $300 million mark.
As
we noted in early February, Obama is being paid for the services he rendered
the financial oligarchy during his two terms in the White House. Sixty-five
million dollars—or even $267.5 million—is a small price to pay for the
contribution the former president made to enriching the already fabulously
rich, defending the American ruling elite’s geopolitical interests around the
world and continuing the assault on the wages, benefits and living standards of
the working class.
The
man who promised “change” and whose election was termed a “transformative
event” by the American pseudo-left proved to be an implacable defender of big
business.
The
WSWS has reported several times that during Obama’s administration the wealth
of the richest 400 Americans grew from $1.57 trillion to $2.4 trillion and the
stock market enjoyed one of its most successful runs in history.
Now
Obama plans to vacation with billionaires, play golf and “cash in.”
The
announcement of the $65 million deal has not been accompanied in the media by
any criticism, much less shame or revulsion, nor are the Obamas presumably
embarrassed in the slightest. On the contrary, the media and Obama’s admirers
treat the book deal for the most part as a tremendous accomplishment, something
to be immensely proud of, just as the news anchors now gloatingly report record
share prices or billion-dollar box office successes.
Political
life in the US has reached a stage at which the representatives of the
immensely wealthy are immensely wealthy themselves, or the immensely wealthy
rule directly, as in the case of Donald Trump. Official American politics is a
closed-in, sealed-off universe of money and privilege.
The Chicago
Tribune pointed out some years ago that, after completing his term in
office, “Thomas Jefferson was forced to sell his 6,000-volume book collection
to the government—forming the core of the Library of Congress—to pay off his
creditors; his debt-ridden successor, James Madison, pleaded in vain for a loan
from the new Bank of the United States; and the next president, James Monroe,
was so impoverished upon his death in New York that his family could not afford
to send his remains back to his native Virginia.”
None
of those ex-presidents requested a pension. “In these early years, with the
revolution against King George still a fresh memory, a lifetime government
sinecure smacked too much of royal privilege.”
Now
we have this, according to the New York Times: “Speculation about
the Obamas’ books and how much they would sell for have been circulating in the
industry in recent weeks, as executives at the top publishing houses met
separately with the former president and first lady. Some publishing executives
who followed the bidding process said that the opening offers for Mr. Obama’s
book alone were in the $18 million to $20 million range.”
BLOG:
THE HISTORY OF A PSYCHOPATH - THE MAN THAT YELLED "HOPE & CHANGE"
AND BECAME GEORGE BUSH'S THIRD AND FOURTH TERMS ON STEROIDS!
If Barack Obama were to write an honest book, it would be worth
something. If he were to reveal the forces that picked him up at a relatively
early age, seeing in him a marketable political commodity (both white and
black, liberal and conservative, foreign and American), and how those forces
assembled and packaged him and carried him into the White House, well, that
would be valuable.
Of course, that will never happen. The
new book will no doubt be even more repugnant than the last one, The
Audacity of Hope (2006). As we observed in our review of that work on
the WSWS in February 2007, “Is there a single honest or original thought in
Barack Obama’s new book? If so, it does not immediately come to mind.”
We
wrote that Obama’s work was “a calculated effort, from its title to its final
page, designed to demonstrate his readiness to take the reins of political
power in the US. That is to say, while Obama directs portions of his book
toward sections of the more well-heeled and complacent Democratic Party
faithful, those most inclined to wishful thinking, the audience that primarily
concerns him consists of the powerful corporate, financial and media figures
who organize and ultimately shape the campaigns of the two major parties’
candidates.”
But
Obama’s new memoir will have so much more to cover up or ignore: the
multi-billion dollar Wall Street bail-out, the halving of auto workers’ pay,
the illegal drone strike murders of thousands, the unprecedented growth of
social inequality, the reactionary health care initiative, the disastrous wars
or interventions in Libya, Syria, Yemen … And one could add, the
election of Trump itself, the fitting climax to two terms during which Obama
disappointed, disillusioned and angered tens of millions, opening the door to
the most sinister administration in American history.
The Times editors,
of course, have only one thing on their collective mind, or rather two, race
and money: “A frank discussion of his [Obama’s] time in the White House, and of
issues like race relations in America, could reach an even wider audience,
becoming a worldwide blockbuster. Penguin Random House, a global publishing
house with more than 250 imprints, has worldwide rights to the books, which
means the company can make a good deal of money overseas and in translation.”
Meanwhile,
contrary to the Obamas and their apologists, Penguin Random House and the
corrupt media, great numbers of people will be disgusted by the $65 million
payoff and the profound discrediting of the entire American political system,
with its ultimately revolutionary implications, will continue apace.
SOARING POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT UNDER OBAMA’S OPEN
BORDERS POLICIES.
AMERICA’S TWISTED ROAD TO REVOLUTION:
Fighting back Wall Street’s Looting and Rule
AMERICA’S ECONOMIC ARMAGEDDON
The Impact of OBAMA-CLINTONIMICS FOR THE SUPER RICH
Under
Obama-Clintonomics, the rich became VERY rich and we got the tax bills for
their bailouts and crimes!
Trump and his Goldman Sachs regime will double the numbers of rich and
quadruple the number of LEGALS living in poverty.
"Secondly, for eight
years Russian businesses and businessmen closely aligned with Putin pumped
millions into the Clinton Foundation slush fund, paid her husband a
half-million dollars for a single speech, and got in return a substantial
portion of our uranium assets when, as Secretary of State, Hillary okayed their
purchase."
HILLARY CLINTON: SERVANT TO (paying) DICTATORS
HER PUTIN CONNECTION
March 26, 2017
Obama Did Wiretap Trump: It’s Like Putting Together a Russian
Nesting Doll
Matryoshkas are Russian
nesting dolls. Inside each doll are several others, smaller but identically
shaped characters, until you get to the smallest one inside. Studying what we
have learned of the timeline -- and we still don’t have the entire story -- we
see Wikileaks, the smallest, at the core, and Obama as the largest piece in
what is the most historically outrageous misuse of the people and institutions
of government for partisan advantage.
Wikileaks
During the campaign,
Wikileaks posted a number of email messages from the DNC -- largely Podesta,
but Hillary as well. The communications (not well reported, but, in any event,
more embarrassing tittle tattle) had been on unsecured accounts, poorly guarded
and easily accessed because of carelessness on the part of the Hillary team.
Assange, who published them, denied the source of this information was Russian
hackers. This now has been confirmed by the heads of our intelligence
community, but the Clinton camp claim that the Russians did it set the stage
for the notion that her opponent was the favored candidate of the Russians.
Apart from the fact that
our intelligence services have denied the claim, there are a number of reasons
to believe that the Russians would have preferred Hillary to Trump. For one
thing, Russia is in terrible financial shape and relies on its sales of oil and
gas to Europe to stay afloat. Is it sensible to believe that the Russians would prefer Trump,
who made clear he wanted to vastly increase U.S. oil and gas production, over
Hillary, who gave every indication of keeping it down and the worldwide price
of oil and gas higher? (I
can’t imagine -- for the same reason -- that Iran and OPEC wouldn’t prefer her
as well.) Why you do suppose the Russians have been funding “green” groups in
Europe -- and possibly here -- who oppose fracking?
Secondly, for eight
years Russian businesses and businessmen
closely aligned with Putin pumped millions into the Clinton
Foundation slush fund, paid her husband a half-million dollars
for a single speech, and got in return a substantial portion of
our uranium assets when, as Secretary of State, Hillary okayed
their purchase. Finally,
John Podesta, chair of Hillary’s presidential campaign wasclosely aligned with Russian interests. His brother was hired by the Russians to
lobby for the uranium sale. He was on the board of a company closely aligned
with Putin.
As the crack investigative
reporter Richard Pollock notes:
John Podesta, national
chairman of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential
campaign, may have opened himself up to a Russian “influence campaign” designed
to temper his views of the Kremlin, The Daily Caller News Foundation (TheDCNF)
Investigative Group has learned.
Influence campaigns are
conducted by many governments -- including the United States -- with the aim of
influencing decision makers in other countries to realign their geopolitical
worldviews more closely to the influencing country.
Some national security
experts interviewed by The DCNF wonder if Podesta may still be a target of
Russian influence. They trace the campaign back to his company board
membership, in which one-third of the board were top Russian businessmen with
direct ties to the Kremlin.
The last time Podesta
talked negatively about Russia was Dec. 18, 2016, when he charged in an NBC
“Meet the Press” interview the 2016 election was “distorted by the Russian
intervention.”
The former Clinton
national campaign chairman has since been silent, even as other former top
Clinton aides, such as Robby Mook, Brian Fallon and Jim Margolis have
repeatedly aimed high-decibel rhetoric at President Donald Trump about Russian
“meddling” in the 2016 presidential race.
[snip]
Podesta’s silence is
particularly striking, according to retired Air Force Col. James Waurishuk.
“We haven’t heard very
much from Podesta lately, particularly on the subject of Russia’s interference
in the elections,” Waurishuk told the DCNF. He served on the National Security
Council and worked on “information operations” for military intelligence.
The suggestion is that
he’s staying out of it because the Russians want this chatter about their
influence silenced.
In any event, Russia has
now been cleared of the claim, yet in the recesses of the dimmer voters’ minds
the charge remains a cogent explanation of why their candidate lost the
election.
The National Security
Agency and the FISA
The NSA engages in global
monitoring for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence. It does by passive
means (signals Intelligence) and active means like physically bugging systems
and through subversive software. It assists and coordinates SIGINT elements at
other government organization like the DIA.
Domestic communications
can be intercepted under two circumstances: in the first instance to protect us against sabotage or
international terrorism or sabotage. In such a case, when authorized by the
president through the attorney general, it can be done without a court order
provided that it is for only one year and only to acquire foreign intelligence
information and there is real likelihood that a U.S. person is a party to the
communication. Even then it must be done in such a way to minimize the impact
on the U.S. person. The attorney general must report such surveillance under
seal to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and report their compliance
to both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.
Surveillance can also be
done on a court order from FISA when the attorney general persuades the court
that there is probable cause (i.e. a reasonable suspicion) that the target is a
“foreign power” or an “agent of a foreign power” and the minimization
requirements for information pertaining to U.S. persons will be followed. Such
orders may be approved for 90 days,120 days, or a year.
FISA court authorization
is almost always granted. Reliable reports indicate that the Obama
administration sought authorization in July of last year when Trump appeared a
likely opponent (the application is still secret) and it was denied. These
reports also state that a pared-down application was sought in October and
granted by the court. We have no idea on what basis the Department of Justice
sought these warrants nor who the purported target was.
From the chairman of the
House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, we learned this week that Trump
team’s conversations were caught in the surveillance, that for over nine months
this was never reported to his committee. Moreover, it is public knowledge that
three days before the inauguration in January, for no legitimate purpose,
President Obama authorized wide distribution of the surveillance reports to 16
other agencies, the names of U.S. persons involved in the conversations were
not redacted, the contents were of no intelligence value and they were widely
leaked -- a perfectly predictable consequence of spreading the raw data so
widely in contrast to normal redaction and dissemination patterns. Suspicious minds like mine think may well
be to further hamper the incoming administration by leaks designed to embarrass
members of his team. Nunes also reported the post-election spying “had nothing
to do with Russia.” By January 20, for example, the New York Times reported that Trump had
been wiretapped.
We learned this week from
Nunes’ work that the investigation is continuing.
On his own Mike Rogers,
head of NSA, met privately with Trump shortly after the inauguration. We have
no details of their discussion, but my guess is he told him what had happened
and how. At the moment, Rogers appears to be the sole white hat in our
intelligence network. But he may not be the only one, which, I think, would
mean a number of former Obama officials have to be looking for lawyers.
Tom Lipscomb, a former
reporter and online friend, thinks the white hats in the intelligence community
fed the truth about the wiretapping directly to Trump so he could weed out from
their ranks the Obama confederates. Like him, I think the Trump tweet that he
was wiretapped was smart. He’s giving “fair warning to what is coming,” and the
claims that Trump was engaged in some “crazy conspiracy” are evaporating
just as had the earlier nonsense that he and the Russians were conspiring via
Wikileaks.
Christopher Steele and
John McCain
Christopher Steele is a
former British intelligence agent of dubious character and credibility. He had
been hired early by the Clinton camp to dig up dirt on Trump. When Hillary
ended that agreement, unnamed Republicans engaged him to continue, and when
they stopped paying him, the FBI -- for as yet unexplained reasons -- took him
up. His “dossier” is preposterous, based on accounts to his aides from
unnamed and thus unverifiable sources. In the rare instance when they
provide recognizable details, they have been proven false. As incredible as the
“dossier” was, it was used to tar Trump with salacious nonsense and to further
encourage the ridiculous notion that he and his team were Russian agents.
There are three different
versions of how John McCain, a bitter #NeverTrumper always seeking media
cuddles and enamored by globalization, came to get the dossier -- he says, in
December. In one version, he got it from a member of the McCain
Institute, in other published accounts he dispatched someone abroad to get it,
and in a third he first heard of it from a former British ambassador while at a
meeting in Halifax. That he’s offered various tales in itself suggests some
dissembling on his part. Nevertheless, he concedes he widely distributed the
scurrilous dossier to the media and members of Congress. He was either a useful dupe of those
determined to bring down Trump or a willing partner of theirs. Right now, he’s flailing about abroad, attacking the
president and moaning that Trump hasn’t yet met with him.
The Media
John Nolte, writing for the Daily Caller, highlights how it is apparent that the media knew of the spying
operation and later covered it up:
“Of course the media knew
what the Obama administration had done. First off, when they thought the news
would hurt Trump, the national media publicly reported on the fact that the
Obama administration had spied on Team Trump. It was only after that knowledge
became a liability for Precious Barry that the media pretended otherwise. In
other words, they LIED.”
On January 12, the
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius
wrote:
According to a senior U.S.
government official, Flynn phoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several
times on Dec. 29, the day the Obama administration announced the expulsion of
35 Russian officials as well as other measures in retaliation for the hacking.
What did Flynn say, and did it undercut the U.S. sanctions? The Logan Act
(though never enforced) bars U.S. citizens from correspondence intending to
influence a foreign government about “disputes” with the United States. Was its
spirit violated? The Trump campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for
comment.
This is a leak of
classified information. Michael Flynn was not, as far as we know, a target of
any U.S. government surveillance. He was one of the figures whose conversations
was “incidentally” recorded, presumably as part of the regular monitoring of
Kislyak.
People within the U.S.
government are not supposed to take the information that is incidentally
recorded and then run to David Ignatius because they don’t like the American
citizen who was recorded. That’s not the purpose of our domestic
counterintelligence operations. Even if Flynn had violated the Logan Act --
which, as we all know, no one has never been prosecuted for violating -- there
are legitimate avenues for dealing with that, namely going to law enforcement
and a prosecutor.
(Invoking the Logan Act in
this circumstance is particularly nonsensical, because the interpretation
Ignatius floats would criminalize just about any discussion between a
presidential candidate, a president-elect or his team and any representative of
a foreign government on any matter of importance. If you ask a foreign official
if his country would make a concession on Issue X in exchange for a U.S.
concession on Issue Y, BOOM! Call out the SWAT teams, we’ve got a Logan Act
violation!)
There are a lot of reasons
not to like Michael Flynn, but that doesn’t change the fact that somebody broke
the law and leaked classified information in an effort to get him in trouble.
That is wrong and that is illegal, and Nunes is right to point out we’re going
down a dangerous road when information collected by U.S. intelligence agencies
about American citizens starts getting strategically leaked for partisan
purposes.
No matter how many dolls
are hidden in the nest -- Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Lynch -- it is undeniable
that they all fit under the big one -- Obama. It was he who authorized the
surveillance and multiagency distribution of intelligence -- in Bob Woodward’s
reading, “highly classified gossip” -- about political opponent Trump and his
team -- invading their privacy in violation of the law. If you were inclined to want Americans to
lose faith in their intelligence community and media you couldn’t have done a
better job than they did themselves. The Russians didn’t have to do a thing.
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