FOR EIGHT YEARS BARACK OBAMA AND ERIC
HOLDER SABOTAGED HOMELAND SECURITY TO EASE MORE MEXICANS OVER OUR BORDERS AND
INTO OUR JOBS AND VOTING BOOTHS.
OBAMA NEEDED THESE ILLEGALS TO FINISH OFF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS, WHAT WAS
LEFT OF THEM AFTER OBAMA'S CRONY BANKSTERS' PLUNDER.
“The watchdogs at
Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's
close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the
fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times
(Obama communist dem party)
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE DICTATOR
Barack Obama’s Russia Connection
If Obama was a fully recruited agent
of Moscow, tasked with giving Russia a significant military advantage over the
United States, and economically weakening and socially dividing the nation, how
would he have conducted his presidency (or his post-presidency) any
differently? TREVOR LOUDON
*
We are all victims of the Obama
cabal’s collusion with Russia – President Trump’s voters and all Americans who believe
in our free and fair election process.
///
Democrats
Allow Communists to Infiltrate Their Party Across the Nation
“Obama’s
new home in Washington has been described as the “nerve center” of the
anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney general Eric Holder has said
that Obama is “ready to roll” and has aligned himself with the
“resistance.” Former high-level Obama campaign staffers now work with a
variety of groups organizing direct action against
Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features
lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
*
“Professor
Paul Kengor has extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny
include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the
openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who
put Obama into power.”
*
We are all victims of the Obama cabal’s
collusion with Russia – President Trump’s voters and all Americans who believe
in our free and fair election process.
///
DESTABILIZE AMERICA TO LAY
GROUNDS FOR A MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP
*
“Obama’s new home in Washington has been described as the “nerve
center” of the anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney general Eric Holder
has said that Obama is “ready to roll” and has aligned himself with
the “resistance.” Former high-level Obama campaign staffers now work with
a variety of groups organizing direct action against
Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features
lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
///
BARACK OBAMA: Was he America’s first closet Communist
president?
Obama choose
Communists and Marxists for the highest, most powerful positions in our land,
including his closest political advisors, and his head of the CIA. These
facts are not in dispute. Most are openly admitted by the people in
question, as necessary damage control. Our press chooses not to report
them.
*
Professor Paul Kengor has extensively researched the
Chicago communists whose progeny include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and
Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and
you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.
(OBAMA THIRD TERM)
WAS THE RUSSIAN HOAX ONLY OBAMA’S ATTEMPT TO PUT
ASIDE TRUMP FOR AN OBAMA THIRD TERM FOR LIFE???
*
*
They Destroyed Our
Country
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)”
*
These
people were engaged in a massive political conspiracy. The Democrats made a
decision from the outset—beginning with the election campaign of the favored
candidate of Wall Street and the CIA, Hillary Clinton—that they would not
oppose Trump on his anti-working-class social policy or his authoritarian
hostility to democratic rights and promotion of anti-immigrant racism, but on
issues of imperialist foreign policy.
*
“Obama’s new home in Washington has
been described as the “nerve center” of the anti-Trump opposition.
Former attorney general Eric Holder has said that Obama is “ready to roll”
and has aligned himself with the “resistance.” Former high-level Obama
campaign staffers now work with a variety of groups organizing direct
action against Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features
lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
///
Barack Obama’s plot
for a third term for life
A Muslim dictatorship
like his crony paymasters, the 9-11 invading Saudis who have financed him for
decades.
“Obama has the totalitarian impulse. After all, he went around saying he
didn't have Constitutional authority to legalize the illegals, and then he
tried anyway. The courts stopped him.”
*
What was
Obama’s motive? Simple, he knew if he did that for Hillary, he’d own the next
President of the United States, and could blackmail her with the truth till the
end of time. It literally would have given him a 3rd and 4th term.
///
THE OBAMA – CLINTON RUSSIAN
CONNECTION
*
WITH THESE TRAITORS, JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!
*
How President Barack Obama and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aided Russia’s quest for global nuclear
dominance.
///
OBAMA’S WAR ON THE JEWS
The Democrats are now officially the party of Jew-hatred. This is largely
due to the disastrous presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. PAMELA GELLER
*
*
Abunimah’s
piece -- and Obama’s numerous anti-Semitic associations -- got little
attention. Throughout his life Barack Obama has been close friends with
numerous virulent anti-Semites: Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Khalid al-Mansour,
Rashid Khalidi and others. PAMELA
GELLER
(HARVARD – SAUDIS)
OBAMA AND HIS SAUDIS PAYMASTERS… Did he serve them well?
*
Michelle was the next to
attend Harvard, in her case Harvard Law School. “Told by counselors that her
SAT scores and her grades weren’t good enough for an Ivy League school,” writes
Christopher Andersen in Barack and Michelle, “Michelle applied to Princeton and
Harvard anyway.”
*
Barack Obama’s back door,
however, was unique to him. Before prosecutors send some of the dimmer
Hollywood stars to the slammer for their dimness, they might want to ask just
how much influence a Saudi billionaire peddled to get Obama into Harvard.
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CRONY CAPITALISM
Barack Obama created more debt
for the middle class than any president in US
history, and also had the
only huge QE programs: $4.2 Trillion.
OXFAM reported that during Obama’s terms, 95% of the wealth created
went to
the top 1% of the world’s
wealthy.
GET THIS BOOK!
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You
Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs , GE, Pfizer, the United
Auto Workers—the same “special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from
the temple—are profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that
crush taxpayers, small businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics ,
investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media
ignores and the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and
Change, Obama is delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming
he’s battling corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory
robbery—it’s OBAMANOMICS TO SERVE THE RICH AND GLOBALIST BILLIONAIRES.
PATHOLOGICAL LIAR BARACK
OBAMA MOCKS TRUMP
Obama orchestrated the
greatest transfer of wealth to the rich in U.S. history!
THE WALL STREET BOUGHT AND
OWNED DEMOCRAT PARTY
SERVING BANKSTERS,
BILLIONAIRES and INVADING ILLEGALS
THE
CRONY CLASS:
Income inequality grows
FOUR TIMES FASTER under Obama than Bush.
“By
the time of Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, the Democratic Party had
completely repudiated its association with the reforms of the New Deal and
Great Society periods. Clinton gutted welfare programs to provide an ample
supply of cheap labor for the rich (WHICH NOW MEANS OPEN BORDERS AND NO
E-VERIFY!), including a growing layer of black capitalists, and passed the 1994
Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious “three strikes” provision that has
helped create the largest prison population in the world.”
GET THIS BOOK!
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and
Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs , GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same “special
interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are profiting
handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers, small
businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics , investigative reporter
Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and the White
House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is delivering
corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling corporate America.
It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s OBAMANOMICS TO SERVE THE
RICH AND GLOBALIST BILLIONAIRES.
INCOME PLUMMETS UNDER OBAMA AND HIS WALL
STREET CRONIES (THERE'S A REASON WHY GEORGE S OROS RUNS OBAMA'S BID FOR A
THIRD TERM FOR LIFE).
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MICHELLE OBAMA ANNOUNCES SHE WILL RUN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE AND
BE BARACK’S THIRD TERM FOR LIFE.
MEXICO WILL ELECT HER!
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/01/michelle-obama-ill-be-baracks-third.html
The main objective of “political
animals” like Obama and the Clintons is to get elected; it’s not to fix a
broken America, nor to protect her. There are people who govern and there are
people who campaign; Obama and the Clintons are the latter. Just look at the
huge Republican electoral gains under Obama and the Clintons. It’s amazing that
Democrats who still care about their party still support the very people who have
brought it down.
“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful
and angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist,
class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was president for eight
long years. MATTHEW VADUM
Editorial Reviews: Obama Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s
Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same
“special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are
profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers,
small businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics , investigative
reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and
the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is
delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling
corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s
Obamanomics. TIMOTHY P CARNEY
*
GET THIS BOOK!
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and
Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs , GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same “special
interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are profiting
handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers, small
businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics , investigative reporter
Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and the White
House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is delivering
corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling corporate America.
It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s OBAMANOMICS TO SERVE THE
RICH AND GLOBALIST BILLIONAIRES.
BARACK Hussein OBAMA: THE CLOSET MUSLIM
PSYCHOPATH WHO HATED AMERICA!
"But the Obamas are
the center of the most delusional cult of personality that the media has yet
spawned. And so we get bizarre pieces like these."
The mullahs
rolled in cash as a result of rolling Obama and his gullible team over the
deal, knowing that Obama was desperate for some sort of
legacy. MONICA SHOWALTER
MUSLIM
DICTATORS, INCLUDING THE 9-11 INVADING SAUDIS, FUNDED THE PRESIDENTIAL
LIBRARIES OF BUSH, CLINTON and OBAMA!
(FARRAKHAN MUSLIM)
ISLAMIST BARACK OBAMA
*
“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation
is now “divided, resentful and
angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack
Hussein Obama was president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
*
"But
the Obamas are the center of the most delusional cult of personality that the
media has yet spawned. And so we get bizarre pieces like these."
MONICA SHOWALTER
*
"Along
with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to
this country over the eight years of that administration." PATRICIA
McCARTHY
GLOBALIST BARACK OBAMA AND NANCY
PELOSI’S CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY AND KEEP AMERICA FLOODED WITH DEM VOTING
ILLEGALS
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and
Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the
eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
One of the most disgusting things to come out
of the Obama administration was "Operation Fast and Furious," where
members of the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
allowed illegal gun sales to go through – commonly referred to as "gun
walking" – in order to track buyers and sellers they believed were
connected to the Mexican drug cartels. Nearly 2,000 firearms were sold and were
eventually found throughout the United States and Mexico. Two of them were used
to k ill Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. BETH BAUMANN
*
The Democrat Party’s secret agenda for wider open borders,
more welfare for invading illegals, more jobs and free anything they illegally
vote for…. All to destroy the two-party system and build the GLOBALISTS’
DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR WIDER OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
Demonstrably and irrefutably the Democrat Party became the
party whose principle objective is to thoroughly transform the nature of the
American electorate by means of open borders and the mass, unchecked
importation of illiterate third world peasants who will vote in overwhelming
numbers for Democrats and their La Raza welfare state. FRONTPAGE MAG
(JEWISH –
ANTI-SEMITICISM)
Anti-Semitic,
open borders for cheaper labor and funded by criminal banksters… and these pols
are making vast fortunes sucking the blood of America!
We must not let
them cheat their way to power over the rest of us. Their ongoing
vote fraud must be stopped and the Democrats need to take a look at themselves
and at what they have become. It's not a pretty picture. What they
have become threatens to destroy the greatest nation on the planet and they are
doing it on purpose. They have nothing but contempt for the US as
founded and for those of us who love this country. PATRICIA McCARTHY – AMERICAN
THINKER
“Then we suffered
the rattling election of Barack Obama, whose active membership in a white-,
Jewish-, and America-hating church was well known to the
electorate. His close personal relationship with the likes of
his adored Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan was no
secret. Obama was open about his goals. He told us he was
out to "fundamentally transform America" and the world.” ALAN BERGSTEIN
“There is a deep
racist and anti-Semitic disease in the leadership of the Democrats. As Senator
Cory Booker brings his hatred for the Jewish State to the Senate, he should be
asked whether he agrees with his hero, “The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist
we must take a lesson from Hitler”. DANIEL GREENFIELD
February
16, 2016
The United States at the Point of No Return
There
is an unquestioned disconnect between the vast majority of the American people
and the so-called elites or ruling class. Whenever I am in the company of
those that are members of this exclusive fraternity, and when the conversation
inevitably turns to the subject of the irascible mood of the electorate, I
offer what I consider to be a valid theory as to one of the primary reasons
why. That is: a plurality of the populace, myself included, firmly
believe the United States is approaching the point of no return to its founding
as a nation of individual freedom and opportunity, and that the 2016 election
is the most significant in 150 years insofar as determining the long term fate
of the country.
More
often than not these acquaintances react as if Chicken Little had just escaped
the asylum and was running amok claiming the sky is falling.
However, in an effort to be kind to the loon in their midst, I have been
told, as a figurative pat on the head, because of my personal background as
displaced war orphan from World War II that I am hypersensitive and what is
going on in America really isn’t as bad as I claim.
Not
as bad as I claim?
Not
since the presidential election of 1932 has the American electorate been so
mired in discontent. Despite the best efforts of the media to portray
this discontentment as limited to the Republican base, a variety of polls have
confirmed a vast majority of the populace shares this same sense of disgruntlement.
Innumerable polls taken over the past seven years are consistent in showing
nearly 7 in 10 Americans believing the nation is headed in the wrong
direction.
Further,
nearly 60% think that the next generation will be worse off than they are. And
few have any faith that the economic outlook for the country will improve in
the near or distant future.
Beginning
in the late 1980’s, the cognoscenti declared that expansive government
spending, globalization and free trade, combined with a comprehensive and
overarching regulatory regime determined to root out so-called corruption and
inequality as well as save the planet from the over blown evils of global
warming, would be the course the nation should pursue. The result of this
foolhardy and myopic scheme:
1.
In 1988 the national debt of the United States stood at $2.6
Trillion, today it is over $19.0 Trillion-- an increase of 635% (and projected
to reach $29.0 Trillion by 2026). On the other hand the debt of all the
nations on earth has grown by only 135% since 1988.
2.
Since November of 2008 the working age population has increased by
over 18 million. However, the number of those employed has increased just 5.5
million. Meanwhile those unemployed or no longer in the work force has
ballooned by 12.4 million to a staggering total of 102 million or 40.4% of the working age population .
3.
Another factor impacting on the economic health of the American
people is immigration. In 1988 there were 16 million immigrants (including
less than a million illegal aliens) living in the United States. Today
that number has skyrocketed to 42.4 million (including an
estimated 12 million illegal aliens). This enormous increase (165%) in
the immigrant population has not only put pressure on a stagnant job market but
it has also been a major factor in the decline of median income in the country.
4.
The upshot of all the above is that since 1988 the income of the
top 5% has risen 39.3% (adjusted for inflation) and the income of the bottom 50% has fallen by 1.9% .
5.
Since 2008 the Obama cabal has added
over 18,000 pages to the Code of Federal Regulations. It is estimated that
complying with federal regulations costs the economy nearly $2 Trillion per
year and is, along with taxes and innumerable mandates, one of the principle
reasons for the lack of new business start-ups and loss of jobs to other
countries.
One
of the primary hallmarks of the United States had been that of a classless
society wherein economic factors allowed the citizenry to take advantage of the
marketplace in order to move up or down based on their efforts and willingness
to work. However, this scenario is disappearing as the opportunities for
upward mobility cease to exist. In its place a class driven society,
similar to all other quasi-socialist nations past and present, is now becoming
inevitable as even the Bureau of Labor Statistics admits that the level of
Americans working and in the labor force will continue to decrease over the next 8 years.
Another
of the primary factors in the decline of the United States is that the nation’s
elites, rather than view education as the means for the people to attain
success in a competitive world, have recast it into a vehicle for their pet
theories and political views. Whether it is the promulgation of faux
self-esteem, the obsession with the so-called evils of capitalism and the
nation’s past, and the theoretical joys of socialism among other inane
curricula, the education establishment has assured that the American people are
rapidly becoming among the least well-educated populations in the world.
In
2013 American 15 year olds ranked 32nd among
industrialized countries in math, 20th in reading and 24th in
science. In 1988 this same age group ranked among the top 5-10 nations in
the world in these same categories. Further, recent polls have indicated that
as a byproduct of the radicalized education establishment, nearly 7 out of 10 between the ages of
18 and 29 would vote for an avowed socialist. Thus it is clear that the
future of the country is on very shaky ground.
As
for the issue of freedom: in a recent analysis it was determined that the
United States now ranks 12th among the nations of the world in
economic freedom (6th in 2008) but a dismal 31st in
personal freedom (17th in 2008). The authors of the study commented:
The
decline reflects the long-term drop in every category of economic freedom and
its rule of law indicators. The US performance is worrisome and shows that the
US can no longer claim to be the leading bastion of liberty in the world.
In addition to the expansion of the regulatory state and drop in economic
freedom, the war on terror, the war on drugs and the erosion of property rights
due to a greater use of eminent domain all likely contributed to the US
decline.
Using
the cudgel of the mainstream media, the entertainment complex and the education
establishment, the Left and its surrogate, the Democratic Party, have
successfully inculcated into a plurality of the American people a belief that
there are no moral absolutes and that the state can grant any rights that it so
chooses to whomever it chooses. Further, the nation’s founding documents
are arcane, racially insensitive, and unsuitable for today. Thus
religious liberty, property rights and freedom of speech are under aggressive
assault. The Judiciary is now almost under the complete control of these
same statists, and with the death of Justice Scalia the last line of defense,
the Supreme Court, is in peril.
The
vast majority of the American people sense that the future of the nation and
that of their progeny is in serious jeopardy. However, one of the most
troubling aspects of the current unease and angst among the general public is
what this portends: when anger and frustration evolve into deep seated passion,
reason is too often a casualty. As Thomas Sowell recently wrote:
Too
many nations, in desperate times, especially after the authorities have
discredited themselves and forfeited the trust of the people, have turned to
some new and charismatic leader, who ended up turning a dire situation into an
utter catastrophe,
This
has been true throughout history whether in England in the 1650’s, France in
the 1790’s, or Russia, Italy and Germany in the 20th century.
In
the current campaign for the next president, there are candidates attempting to
tap into the ire of the citizenry by either promising that a purer form of
socialism will magically solve the problems or by claiming that they, by sheer
force of their will and personality, will part the seas and save the
nation. Unfortunately, due to the ill-education of the populace as well
as their angst, far too many seeds of this demagoguery are falling on fertile
ground. The election of any of these candidates will only exacerbate and
make permanent the nations woes.
So
to my ruling class friends safely ensconced in Washington, New York and other
enclaves among the like-minded and wealthy, this nation is at the point of no
return to the country of freedom and opportunity that allowed you to be where
you are. The folks in fly-over country know it and so should you.
*
AMERICA AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN
THE LEGACY OF CORRUPTION OF BARACK OBAMA AND HILLARY CLINTON
Inequality, class and life expectancy in America
15 February
2016
A study by Brookings
Institution economists released Friday documents a sharp increase in life span
divergences between the rich and the poor in America. The report, based on an
analysis of Census Bureau and Social Security Administration data, concludes
that for men born in 1950, the gap in life expectancy between the top 10
percent of wage earners and the bottom 10 percent is more than double the gap
for their counterparts born in 1920.
For those born in 1920, there was a six-year differential between rich and poor.
For those born in 1950, that difference had reached 14 years. For women, the
gap grew from 4.7 years to 13 years, almost tripling.
Overall, life expectancy for the bottom 10 percent improved by just 3 percent
for men born in 1950 over those born in 1920. For the top 10 percent, it soared
by about 28 percent.
Life expectancy for the bottom 10 percent of male wage earners born in 1950
rose by less than one year compared to that for male workers born 40 years
earlier—to 73.6 from 72.9. But for the top 10 percent, life expectancy leapt to
87.2 from 79.1.
The United States ranks among the worst so-called rich countries when it comes
to life expectancy. But its low ranking is entirely due to the poor health and
high mortality of low-income Americans. According to the Social Security
Administration, life expectancy for the wealthiest US men at age 60 was just
below the rates for Iceland and Japan, two countries with the highest levels.
Americans in the bottom quarter of the wage scale, on the other hand, ranked
just above Poland and the Czech Republic.
Life-expectancy is the most basic indicator of social well-being. The minimal
increase for low-income workers and the widening disparity between the poor and
the rich is a stark commentary on the immense growth of social inequality and
class polarization in the United States. It underscores the fact that
socioeconomic class is the fundamental category of social life under
capitalism—one that conditions every aspect of life, including its length.
The Brookings Institution findings shed further light on the catastrophic
decline in the social position of the American working class. They follow
recent reports showing a sharp rise in death rates for both young and
middle-aged white workers, primarily due to drug abuse, alcoholism and suicide.
Other recent reports have shown a dramatic decline in life expectancy for
poorer middle-aged Americans and a reversal of decades of declining infant
mortality.
It is no mystery what is behind this vast social retrogression. It is the
product of the decay of American capitalism and a four-decade-long offensive by
the ruling elite against the working class. From Reagan to the Obama
administration, Democrats and Republicans alike have overseen a
corporate-government assault on the jobs, wages, pensions and health benefits
of working people.
The ruling elite has dismantled the bulk of the country’s industrial
infrastructure, destroying decent-paying jobs by the millions, and turned to
the most parasitic and criminal forms of financial speculation as the main
source of its profit and private wealth. Untold trillions have been squandered
to finance perpetual war and the maniacal self-enrichment of the top 1 percent
and 0.1 percent.
The basic infrastructure of the country has been starved of funds and left to
rot, to the point where uncounted millions of people are being poisoned with
lead and other toxins from corroded water systems. Flint, Michigan is just the
tip of the iceberg.
Under Obama, this social counterrevolution has been intensified. The financial
meltdown of 2008 has been utilized by the same forces that precipitated the
crash to carry through a reordering of social relations aimed at reversing
every social gain won by the working class in the course of a century of
struggle. A central target of the attack is health care for working people.
Obamacare is the spearhead of a worked-out strategy to reduce the quantity and
quality of health care available to workers and reorganize the health care
system directly on a class basis. Corporate and government costs are to be
slashed by gutting employer-paid health care, forcing workers individually to
buy expensive, bare-bones plans from the insurance monopolies, and rationing
drugs, tests and medical procedures to make them inaccessible to workers.
The rise in mortality for workers and the widening of the life span gap between
rich and poor are not simply the outcome of impersonal economic forces. In
corporate boardrooms, think tanks and state agencies, the ruling class is
working to lower working class life expectancy. In late 2013, the Center for
Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank with the closest
ties to the Pentagon and the CIA, published two policy papers decrying the
“waste” of money on health care for the elderly. The clear message was that
ordinary people were living much too long and diverting resources needed by the
military to wage war around the world.
The social and economic chasm in America finds a political expression in the
vast disconnect between the entire political establishment and the masses of
working people. Neither party nor any of their presidential candidates, the
self-described “socialist” Bernie Sanders included, can seriously address the
real state of social conditions or offer a serious program to address the
crisis.
In his final State of the Union Address last month, Obama presented an absurd
picture of a resurgent economy. “The United States of America, right now,” he
declared, “has the strongest, most durable economy in the world… Anyone
claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.”
In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton and
Sanders are seeking to outdo one another in seizing the mantle of the Obama
administration and praising its supposed social and economic achievements.
They cannot address the real conditions facing the masses of working people
because they defend the capitalist system, which is the source of the social
disaster. The remedy must be based on an understanding of the disease. It is
the building of an independent socialist and revolutionary movement uniting the
entire working class, in the US and around the world.
Barry Grey
February 13, 2016
More 'legacy lies' from
outgoing Obama on economy
Here is what President
Obama said on the Ellen show on Abe Lincoln's birthday:
Since I came into office,
we reduced the deficit by two-thirds, but if you ask the average person,
they're sure that spending has shot up. And the reason is because there are a
bunch of folks who say that we're wildly overspending, even though we aren't.
Here are some actual
numbers: in FY 2007, the last year President Bush and Republicans had 100%
control of Congress, federal spending including both wars was $2.7 trillion.
The budget President Obama just submitted is $4.1 trillion. That is
up over 50% despite record-low interest rates and his continually bragging that
he has ended the wars. Median family income around the country is
actually down or flat, so I do not understand how the president could pretend
that they aren't overspending and taxing.
The deficit
was down to $161 billion in FY 2007, including the spending on the wars and
because of President Bush's across-the-board tax cuts in the summer of 2003.
In FY 2003, federal income tax receipts had decreased to around $900
billion prior to the tax cuts, due to a recession and a collapsed stock market.
By FY 2007, due to the stimulus of the tax cuts, the economy rebounded,
economic growth was substantial, unemployment was way down (not because of a
lower labor participation rate), and income tax receipts had climbed to over $1.5
trillion. The tax rate cuts did not cause receipts to go down, as
Democrats and CBO had projected; they actually skyrocketed by over 60%.
The tax cuts obviously did not cause the deficit.
The
projected deficit for FY 2016 is projected to be over $500 billion. Think
how high it would be if the Federal Reserve weren't keeping the interest rates
artificially low.
Despite the
record-low interest rates and massive increases in federal spending, economic
growth has been some of the slowest on record after a recession.
Keynesian economics is obviously not that stimulating.
The
president also continually says that his policies brought us out
of the great recession. The recession actually ended by June 2009,
four months and ten days after he took office. This is obviously before
any of his policies could have had any effect.
On February
10, in Springfield, Illinois, he gave a speech where he said his opponents are
not entitled to their own facts. It would be nice if he paid attention to
that lecture, and it would be great if the media would call him out on his many
false statements.
February 2, 2016
The ‘Right Stuff’ for the
Presidency
By Jon N. Hall
An old joke
I heard during my brief time in the opera business went something like this:
There are four types of tenors: leggiero, lyric, spinto, and heldentenor. The
leggiero tenor has no balls. The lyric tenor has one ball. The spinto tenor has
two balls. And the heldentenor has two balls, and he’s standing on one of them.
The joke might be funny
only to opera goers, especially those who attend the Bayreuth Festival. But
allow me to add that the recently-departed Canadian heldentenor Jon Vickers had
three or four balls and never needed to stand on any of them. (As you might
guess, I’m a fan of that late, great singer.)
In any
event, balls bring us to Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister of the U.K.
Some might think it rude to say that the “Iron Lady” had more balls than the
men of her day leading other European nations -- rude, that is, to Lady
Thatcher, who was every inch a woman. However, it could be said that compared
to some of her male counterparts, Mrs. Thatcher certainly had no fewer balls.
What is
meant by “balls” is: guts, grit, courage, will, determination, and resolve. But
those attributes can also work in the service of evil; Hitler certainly had
“will,” didn’t he? So there must be other qualities that are needed in the
leader of a nation besides balls. Just what are those other qualities that make
a person fit to be the prime minister or the president of a great nation?
At a recent
rally in New Hampshire, former president Clinton spoke of his wife Hillary: “I
spent a lot of time thinking about this. I do not believe in my lifetime
anybody has run for this job at a moment of great importance who was better
qualified by knowledge, experience, and temperament to do what
needs to be done now to restore prosperity, to deal with these human issues, to
make us as safe as possible. Thank you very much [ short video ].”
Okay, but
why believe him? After all, the former president has a record of lying, even
under oath in a grand jury. Perhaps Bill’s just trying to get himself back in
the White House. And I’d like to remind the former president that he was alive
in 1946. So his “lifetime” includes the runs for president of Truman,
Eisenhower, JFK, and Reagan. Hillary’s more qualified than those guys? C’mon,
Bill.
“ Going the Distance ,” a January 2014 article
in The New Yorker , is often cited for Pres. Obama’s reference to
ISIS as a junior varsity basketball team: “The analogy we use around here
sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms
that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.” (And getting elected president doesn’t
mean one is fit to be president, Mr. President.)
Another
Obama quote from that same article is germane to our issue of what are the
essentials, the “right stuff,” for being president: “I have strengths and I
have weaknesses, like every president, like every person. I do think one of my
strengths is temperament.”
Is that a
fact? Does Obama have the correct temperament for the presidency? When Bill
Clinton spoke in New Hampshire about his wife, he stressed the word
“temperament.” So, what exactly is the ideal presidential
temperament ?
One
important aspect of temperament is the ability and willingness to be collegial.
“ Collegiality ” involves respecting
one’s colleagues and listening to their ideas; it involves being open to
others’ input. So many of the monumental achievements of the modern age, like
going to the Moon, were massive collegial efforts, where folks pool their
knowledge and expertise. Together, we’re smarter.
Barack Obama
demonstrated a lack of collegiality at the Healthcare Summit in 2010. Senator
McCain had just presented a very respectful call to revisit certain issues in
the healthcare legislation that would become ObamaCare, and finished his
comments saying, “I thank you, Mr. President.” Obama responded thus: “Let me
just make this point, John, because we’re not campaigning anymore; the election’s
over.” Some might have wished that McCain had responded in kind: Yes, Barry, I
know, and I can’t explain the electorate’s bad judgment.
Fortunately,
Sen. McCain was a gentleman and refrained from payback. Had he done so, it
would have further poisoned the summit, (and he would have lowered himself to
Obama’s level). There was nothing in Sen. McCain’s comments that was
unreasonable, but the president couldn’t resist putting McCain in his place.
What would possess someone to be so rude to a genuine American patriot? Was it
that Sen. McCain wouldn’t let Obama cut him off: “Can I just finish, please?”
Maybe that ticked off our little princeling. (You can watch McCain’s entire
presentation by starting at the 2:21:10 mark of this C-SPAN video , or you can watch just the end , or this split-screen
version positioned at Obama’s snark .)
Throughout
his presidency, Obama has demonstrated a singular deficiency at collegiality.
When Obama encounters questions he doesn’t like, he tries to shut down the
questioner and end the discussion. When asked if the healthcare bill’s “individual
mandate” were actually a tax, Obama would have none of it, and laughed at his
questioner dismissively. Obama’s belief in his own pet ideas is so absolute
that he is even comfortable overriding the best advice of his generals. Obama
seems not to have an ability to work with others; it’s all “my way or the
highway.” But there’s no need for collegiality if you already know everything.
In “ The Confident Ignorance
of Barack Obama ,” Thomas Sowell writes:
As Professor Richard
Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School has pointed out, Obama
made no effort to take part in the marketplace of ideas with other
faculty members when he was teaching a law course there. What would be the
point, if he already knew the truth and knew that they were wrong? [Italics
added.]
The main objective of
“political animals” like Obama and the Clintons is to get elected; it’s not to
fix a broken America, nor to protect her. There are people who govern and there
are people who campaign; Obama and the Clintons are the latter. Just look at
the huge Republican electoral gains under Obama and the Clintons. It’s amazing
that Democrats who still care about their party still support the very people
who have brought it down.
America is
so beaten up and broken right now that she needs a “savior,” like a Lincoln. If
Obama doesn’t do the right thing and proceed with an indictment of Mrs.
Clinton, then Republicans should “ fight fire with oil ” and nominate a woman.
And they should also insist on a minority for running mate. Just to be sure,
they probably ought to do those two things anyway. Carly Fiorina might just
have the right temperament to be president, but there are other terrific
conservative women that convention delegates could draft.
America
needs a collegial president, not a “lyrical” one.
House Appropriations Boss Initiates
Crackdown on Sanctuaries
Today the chairman of the
House appropriations subcommittee in charge of funding the Department of
Justice, John Culberson (R-Texas), put the Obama administration on notice that
it must take steps to rein in sanctuary jurisdictions or risk problems getting
approval for its own budget requests. In addition, Culberson announced that he
will begin requiring local jurisdictions to follow federal law and stop
obstructing communication with immigration agencies as a condition for
receiving certain federal law enforcement funding.
BLOG: LIKE ALL OF OBAMA'S CABINET, ONE MUST FIRST BE CONNECTED
TO THE BANKSTER SECTOR AND SECONDLY BE AN ADVOCATE FOR OPEN BORDERS, SABOTAGE
E-VERIFY AND PROMOTE THE INTERESTS OF LA RAZA ABOVE LEGALS. THAT IS EXACTLY
WHAT LORETTA LYNCH HAS AND WILL DO.
In a sternly
worded letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Culberson said that he
has a responsibility to ensure that state and local law enforcement agencies
are following federal law before they can get federal grants. He said that
sanctuary policies restricting communication between local and federal
officials are a clear violation of Section 1373 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act. Among the jurisdictions that have imposed such policies are
San Francisco, Cook County, Ill., and New York City. In addition to prohibiting
local officers from communicating with immigration authorities, these
jurisdictions bar federal officers from coming into jails to interview or
arrest deportable criminals.
State and local sanctuary policies obstruct immigration
enforcement and cause the release of criminal aliens back to the streets of
American communities. According to ICE records that the Center obtained in a
FOIA request, in 2014 more than 9,000 criminal aliens that ICE was seeking to
deport were instead released. More than 2,300 of these criminal aliens went on
to commit additional crimes within just a few months.
The three law enforcement funding programs that could become off-limits to
sanctuaries currently dispense more than $1 billion a year to state and local
agencies.
Mr. Culberson contacted the Center shortly after the publication of this information in July, saying that
he had long sought concrete information on the extent of this problem and that
he was determined to use his authority to address it. The Center has compiled a
list of over 300 cities, counties, and states that have laws, ordinances,
regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that protect criminal
aliens from deportation — either by refusing to or prohibiting agencies from
complying with ICE detainers, imposing unreasonable conditions on detainer
acceptance, or otherwise impeding open communication and information exchanges
between their employees or officers and federal immigration officers. These
jurisdictions are noted on a map here .
Culberson's letter outlines several steps he expects the Justice Department to
take:
1.
Beginning this year, amend the grant application forms for the
Byrne/Justice Assistance Grants (JAG), Community Oriented Policing Services
(COPS) grants, and State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP)
reimbursement program to require agencies seeking these funds to swear that
they do not have policies that violate Section 1373; and
2.
Work with sanctuary jurisdictions to change their policies, and
if they do not, take legal action to compel their compliance with federal law;
3.
Deny funding to any non-compliant sanctuary jurisdictions.
In addition, he
asks the attorney general to look at whether jurisdictions that release
criminal aliens sought by ICE are in violation of 8 USC 1324 , the federal felony statute
that prohibits anyone from shielding illegal aliens from detection. After all,
these jurisdictions have been notified in writing by the detainers (federal
Form I-247) that the aliens' identities and status have been confirmed by
biometric fingerprint matching, and that federal agents wish to take custody of
the aliens, and/or to be notified of the date, time, and place of release — so
the sanctuaries are knowingly releasing deportable aliens sought by ICE. He
said that he will consider applying this section of the law next year to block
funding to jurisdictions that release criminal aliens sought by ICE. This
action could affect the hundreds of agencies that fail to comply with or accept
ICE detainers, for example.
Culberson warned that if the administration stubbornly continues to tolerate
sanctuaries, he will find it hard to look favorably on any spending requests
from DOJ in the coming appropriations season: "I hope the attorney general
will do the right thing here so that I am not compelled to object to relevant
portions of the Department's spending plan and reprogramming requests. Any
refusal by the Department to comply with these reasonable and timely requests
will factor heavily in my consideration of their 2017 budget requests."
Even following public outcry over a series of cases of murders committed by
criminal aliens after release by sanctuaries, including the killing of Kate
Steinle in San Francisco, the Obama administration has resisted calls for
action to discourage or punish the jurisdictions that obstruct immigration
enforcement. Instead, it has pressed ahead in implementing the so-called
Priority Enforcement Program, which explicitly allows sanctuary policies that
violate federal law. It's clear that the administration is more interested in
protecting criminal aliens than in protecting the public from their acts; now
we'll see if the Department of Justice is willing to jeopardize its own funding
to spare sanctuaries from being sanctioned, and if the sanctuaries are willing
to sacrifice federal funding in order to protect criminal aliens.
Surge in Illegal Aliens,
500% Increase in Some U.S. Ports of Entry
Judicial Watch
Corruption Chronicles, December 30, 2015
The agency’s own statistics certainly contradict that, showing
that the southern border region is as porous and vulnerable as ever. Other
entry ports that saw large hikes in Central American illegal immigrants during
the first two months of this fiscal year include Del Rio, Texas (269%), El
Centro, California (216%) and Rio Grande Valley, Texas (154%). The Border
Patrol breaks the stats down by “family unit” and illegal immigrants under the
age of 18, referred to as “Unaccompanied Alien Children” or UAC. The Rio Grande
Valley port of entry topped the list in both categories with 8,537 family units
and 6,465 UACs during the two-month period. In all, the nation’s nine southern
border crossings saw an average of 173% increase in family units and a 106%
increase in minors during the short period considered.
Some of the illegal immigrants are Mexican nationals, but the overwhelming
majority comes from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The government records
show that somehow 4,450 family units from El Salvador evaded our topnotch
border security and entered the United States in a period of only two months.
Guatemala and Honduras had 3,934 and 3,203 respectively. Mexico had 538 family
units. Of interesting note is that, during this period, the Border Patrol reports
35,234 apprehensions in the region of foreigners labeled by the government as
“Other Than Mexican” or OTM. This is a term used by federal authorities to
refer to nationals of countries that represent a terrorist threat to the U.S.
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/12/surge-in-illegal-aliens-500-increase-in-some-u-s-ports-of-entry/
Houston Slayings Fueled
Border Security Debate
·
Jan. 31, 2016
Dan Golvach, father of Spencer Golvach, at his son's grave in Houston
Tuesday, October 20, 2015.
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HOUSTON — Julie Golvach remembers that something felt “off” the
night she lost her only child.
It was exactly one year ago today, a few minutes before 1 a.m. Standing in the
driveway of her Houston home, waving goodbye to her sister under a clear winter
sky, something didn't feel right. The stars didn’t look the same.
Golvach tossed and turned in bed for a while but was sound asleep when a knock
on the door came at 6 a.m.
“I jumped up and I knew,” she said.
She stopped by her son’s boyhood bedroom, the one with the window looking out
onto the driveway. He’d slept there a week earlier, the evening they went to
see "American Sniper" together. She slipped past the picture of him
and his best childhood friend on the wall, skirting the bed with the stuffed
toy lamb — a baby shower relic — lying on top.
Out the window, Golvach saw three people — two uniformed police officers and a
woman wearing a shirt that read “chaplain.” Her chest pounded as she made her
way to the front door and opened it.
“Is it Spencer?” she asked.
The second those words tumbled out of her mouth, she knew the answer, just as
she had known when she uttered that exact phrase the day he was born, before
anyone told her if the baby was a boy or a girl. She just knew.
It was Spencer.
One night off
Spencer Golvach grew up in the sprawl of northwest Houston, surrounded by
guitars and destined for a career in music, his father’s passion.
When he turned 16 in 2005 and got his driver’s license, the easygoing musician
started working at a local guitar store in a strip mall not far from Jersey
Village High School, where he excelled in shop class and anything he could do
with his hands.
He had always fiddled with his dad’s guitars, and he developed a knack for
fixing and rebuilding them at the store. A few years later, when the shop owner
announced his retirement, Spencer decided to buy the Cy-Fair area business.
Enlarge Photo courtesy of Golvach family
Spencer Golvach, at the age of three, pictured with a guitar.
Authorities say Golvach was killed by Victor Reyes, an undocumented immigrant,
during a random shooting spree in January 2015 .
With nine employees and a soft economy, life as an entrepreneur
proved tough sledding. He struggled to turn a profit, and he took a second
full-time job as a receiving lead and forklift operator at a local warehouse.
Even that wasn’t enough to cover the bills. By early 2015, Spencer was
preparing to move into a smaller — and cheaper — space in the same shopping
mall. He could hardly wait for Saturday, Jan. 31 to arrive, the day the
slimmed-down version of Spencer’s Guitar Shop was set to open. Between giving
guitar lessons, working an 8-to-5 day job, building out the new store and
playing bass in his band — The Dead Revolt — Spencer needed a break.
“The guy was burning the candle at both ends for a long time,” recalled Dan
Golvach, his father. “He takes one night off, to go take his girlfriend out for
her birthday. That was Jan. 30. And he drops her off ... and 15 minutes later
he pulls up to that red light.”
Less than a mile from his apartment, Spencer steered into the left turn lane at
18th Street and Mangum Road and waited for the green light. The details of what
happened next are captured in the records of two police agencies, more than a
dozen news articles and the unceasing nightmares of Spencer’s parents and loved
ones.
An undocumented Mexican national named Victor Reyes, a native of Reynosa along
the Texas-Mexico border, pulled up next to Spencer's beloved white Toyota
pickup. He pointed a pistol at Spencer’s head and pulled the trigger.
The bullet went through the passenger side window and into Spencer’s skull, at
the top of his right ear.
“I choose to believe it killed him instantly,” his father said in an interview
months later. “I think he was just there and then it’s like someone turned the
lights off. I don’t think he suffered.”
But the Golvach family’s suffering — compounded by the feeling that Spencer’s
death could have been prevented — was just beginning.
Houston police, their report indicates, found 25-year-old Spencer dead in his
truck at 12:56 a.m. — right around the moment Julie Golvach, waving goodbye to
her sister, couldn't shake the feeling that something was off.
A few hours later, she was phoning her ex-husband to break the news.
“I couldn’t make out
what she was saying and I finally just said, ‘is my son dead?’” — Dan Golvach
“She was just inconsolable,”
he recalled. “I couldn’t make out what she was saying and I finally just said,
‘is my son dead?’ She said, ‘yes.’ Then of course I started. I joined the
chorus.”
More than a thousand people attended Spencer’s memorial service, a tribute to
his fun-loving nature and penchant for making friends across generational,
ethnic and gender lines.
Those who knew Spencer universally describe him as fun-loving and strikingly
calm. After he died, a family friend ordered up a batch of commemorative rubber
bracelets emblazoned with his laid-back motto: “Chill Don’t Freeze."
A bloody rampage
More than once since the funeral, Julie Golvach has found herself wishing that
her son’s attacker had gotten to know Spencer. She’s convinced he never would
have pulled the trigger. But the official evidence of the crime, while scant,
suggests Spencer was chosen randomly. And he wasn’t the only victim.
Police say Reyes shot a man in the face, wounding him, in the suburban city of
Jersey Village minutes before killing Spencer, and they connected him to at
least two more random shootings shortly thereafter. All told, Reyes shot two
dead and wounded three others before a Harris County Sheriff’s deputy took him
down after a violent shootout, officials say.
John Weston, 67, says he’s lucky to be alive after encountering Reyes on the
Hempstead Highway near Pinemont, about 10 minutes north of where Spencer had
just been killed. He remembers seeing a big, dark truck driving aggressively
behind him. When he got to the stoplight, it pulled up alongside him.
“All of a sudden I hear this ungodly noise,” Weston recalled. “I don’t know if
you can imagine how fast your mind works, but I saw a shattered window and I
saw a bullet hole in my window. My mind is thinking, ‘Oh my goodness,
somebody’s shooting at me and this guy at this light.’”
He pressed his foot to the accelerator to get out of the line of fire, but not
soon enough. He heard the second shot, and its impact felt like someone “hauled
off and hit you upside the head,” he said.
Weston realized the truck's driver was the gunman. “I saw blood everywhere,” he
said. His hands were covered in it, so he could only manage to re-dial on his
cell phone. He finally reached his wife, who told him to go to the nearest toll
booth. An ambulance was called. Doctors found that a bullet had entered his
left cheek and stuck in the other side of his mouth.
A year later, after reconstructive surgery to replace a badly shattered jaw,
his mouth remains completely numb below the tongue. With his health woes and
lost time at work, he’s struggling to keep his printing business afloat.
“Everything I do now is a little more difficult, but considering I’m here
talking, I’m blessed to be here,” Weston said. “It’s scarred me forever. I
don’t break down and cry, but I think about it all the time.”
Had Reyes been a homegrown criminal, the story might have ended in the empty
field where the deputy shot him — chalked up as another random act of violence
in a city and nation all too used to them.
But as word spread about Reyes’ long criminal record and multiple deportations,
the case was thrust into the volatile debate over illegal immigration and
control of the southern border: first in local news stories, then at the
Capitol in Austin and most recently on the presidential campaign trail — on
a stage in mid-November with GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump in Beaumont,
where Dan Golvach spoke out and held up a poster of Spencer along with others
killed by undocumented immigrants.
Gunman's long record
According to the Houston office of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, Reyes had been removed from the country four times between 2003
and 2010, but little is publicly known about what he was doing in Houston prior
to terrorizing its northwest environs — or why he did it.
His criminal and illegal entry records stretch back at least to
2002 when, at age 18, he was convicted of burglarizing a building in Hidalgo
County, across the border from Reynosa, which he told police was his place of
birth. He spent a month and a half in jail before a state court sentenced him
to three years' probation, ordered him to pay an $850 fine and mandated 120
hours of community service.
Enlarge Photo courtesy of Hidalgo County
Victor Reyes,
shown in 2001 jail mug shot from Hidalgo County. Authorities say Reyes, an
undocumented immigrant, went on a January 2015 shooting spree in Harris County
that killed two and wounded three .
A year later, he
was back in the Hidalgo County Jail for breaking a beer bottle over a man’s
head at the Tejano Saloon in Pharr. He was sent back to Mexico after serving
about a month in the local jail, but he came back. By then, his previous
probation had been revoked, and he served several months in a state jail in
Raymondville.
Deported again on Jan. 20, 2004, Reyes was caught trying to cross
the border the next day, triggering a 90-day sentence in federal prison and yet
another deportation — his third.
A few months later, on Aug. 10, he was caught again, in McAllen,
and received a one-year federal prison sentence for his fourth known illegal
re-entry. His crimes didn’t end there. A few weeks before his prison release
date, Reyes beat up a fellow inmate — described by his lawyer as a rival gang
member — cutting and fracturing his face, according to federal court records.
Two new assault charges made Reyes eligible for 20 years behind
bars. Despite his history of violence, burglary and repeat illegal crossings,
federal prosecutors offered Reyes a deal: In exchange for a guilty plea on one
of the counts, and in recognition of his “truthful testimony” and “acceptance
of responsibility,” they promised to give him a sentence “at the lowest end of
the applicable guidelines” on a single charge, court papers show. Under the
plea bargain, Reyes' sentence was 63 months, a quarter of the maximum he faced
under the two counts.
That’s a few more spoonfuls of salt in the wound for Dan and Julie
Golvach. Had Reyes been given even half of his possible sentence on the two
assault counts, he would have been in prison instead of at that traffic light
killing their son.
“The people who agreed to this deal need to be held accountable,” Julie Golvach
said. “The result was the horrific murder of my son.”
The prosecutor who signed the plea agreement, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim
Hammer, declined to talk about the case, referring questions to U.S. Justice
Department spokeswoman Angela Dodge in Houston.
Dodge sent The Texas Tribune a boilerplate description of plea deals, saying
they “ensure a resolution of the case and that someone is convicted of the
crime(s) we believe they committed without going through the time and expense
of a trial,” while providing “justice for all.” She declined to say whether
prosecutors took Reyes' previous crimes into account, or if they frequently
offer plea deals to convicted criminals who commit additional crimes behind
bars.
It’s another official secret in a case with no shortage of them.
Family still seeking answers
The Houston Police Department, using its own discretion under the Public
Information Act, blocked release of all but a few details on the Golvach and
Weston shootings. The department cited a provision allowing it to withhold
criminal records absent a final disposition, such as a conviction or deferred
adjudication. Since Reyes is dead and the city’s case is otherwise closed, that
means Houston police likely can withhold the information indefinitely.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office declined to release its investigative files,
but for an entirely different reason: After every officer-involved shooting —
in this case, a deputy ended Reyes’ deadly rampage — the Harris County district
attorney’s office presents the case to a grand jury even if no one complains.
That happened last week, just days before the one-year anniversary of the
shooting spree.
The federal government holds onto its files with a tight grip, too, citing
the 1974 U.S. Privacy Act. The act covers only U.S. citizens and lawful
permanent residents, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement has decreed that its
protections apply to federal immigration detention records, even those related
to undocumented immigrants convicted of horrific crimes. The agency voluntarily
released a narrative of its multiple encounters with Reyes, but the Tribune has
not yet heard back from ICE or U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services on
its written request for his entire immigration file.
The secrecy across local and federal agencies that came into contact with Reyes
confounded and frustrated the people touched by his violence. Weston said his
wife became “very disillusioned” about their quest for even the simplest
answers.
Dan Golvach, father of Spencer Golvach, in Houston Tuesday,
October 20, 2015 at the intersection where his son was killed by an
undocumented immigrant in January.
“I mean, we asked them, ‘Who was the guy?’” Weston said. “We had
to fill out paperwork and all that kind of stuff, but we never got any
satisfactory answer. It was almost like it was top secret information.”
Hoping to break through the bureaucratic walls and get some answers about who
killed their son and why, the Golvaches eventually hired a former investigative
reporter, ex-KTRK-TV newsman Wayne Dolcefino. In a letter last year to
then-Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia, Dolcefino said the sheriff’s office
was “doing a disservice to this crime victim by not responding to this request
in a proper manner.” The local investigative files remained sealed as of late
last week, but the Harris County Sheriff's Office asked the Tribune to resubmit
its request for the records and promised a quick turnaround.
Even with new information beginning to trickle out, the victims and their
families still don't know where Reyes lived or if he had a job, who owned the
truck he was driving that night or — least of all — the motive for his deadly
rampage.
According to Harris County Assistant District Attorney Heyward Carter, some
elements of the senseless crime may never be known.
Carter, who handled a single aspect of the case — the officer-involved shooting
— was able to speak about the case for the first time last week. He revealed
that Reyes was "extremely intoxicated" and had a "significant
amount of cocaine" in his system. He also identified the weapon, a .380
caliber pistol, that he said was legally purchased at one point, but
authorities haven't determined how a convicted felon and undocumented
immigrant, barred from buying or possessing firearms, obtained it.
“We live in an age of mass shootings,
and even though this one didn’t get a whole lot of publicity, that’s what this
is."
— Heyward Carter, Harris County Assistant District Attorney
Carter also provided details
about the actions of the Harris County deputy sheriff, Javier Rojas, who
finally put an end to the deadly rampage. By chance, Rojas was patrolling the
area and heard shots being fired. He saw the truck of Reyes' final victim,
identified by police as Juan Garcia, in obvious distress, weaving randomly at
an intersection. Garcia later died from his wounds, and a woman in the car with
him was slightly injured from the broken glass.
Rojas chased after Reyes, who crashed his truck through a barrier at the end of
a dead end street and went another 200 yards or so into an empty field. Rojas
continued the pursuit on foot and found Reyes crouching behind the truck. He
ordered the suspect to drop his weapon but Reyes stood and fired at the officer
instead. Rojas returned fire and struck him in the chest. When authorities
photographed the body his hand was still gripping the pistol "with his
finger on the trigger," Carter said.
In terms of a motive, authorities can only speculate based on a conversation
Reyes had with a supposed girlfriend about three hours before the shooting
spree began. He wanted her to go out to a bar or nightclub with him, and she
turned him down. Authorities speculate he may have been taking out his rage on
couples: It's possible he saw Spencer Golvach dropping off his girlfriend
shortly before shooting him at the red light and then targeted Garcia after
seeing he had a woman in his vehicle.
But it's just a theory.
“We live in an age of mass shootings, and even though this one didn’t get a
whole lot of publicity, that’s what this is," Carter said. "I don’t
understand why he was doing it.”
Carter did confirm what the families had learned from detectives in the
immediate aftermath of the shootings: Reyes still had plenty of ammunition left
in his truck — suggesting that he was planning a more extensive shooting spree.
There were at least 20 live rounds left in the vehicle, and he appeared to be
reloading while driving near the scene of his final attack.
“Had this officer not been there just coincidentally ... there were plenty of
roads for him to go down. He had plenty of ammo, and it didn't seem like he was
stopping, that's for sure," Carter said. "As horrible as this
situation was, it could have been way worse.”
After the facts were presented to grand jury last Wednesday, the panel decided
not to proceed with any further action related to the incident. The Golvach
family calls Rojas' response heroic.
"Why was he allowed to be here?"
Julie Golvach burst out into tears again last week after hearing for the first
time some of the details of the crime that took her son's life.
“I really feel I deserve to know what brought them together at that point in
time, what caused him to shoot my son,” she said. “I think we deserve to know
why he was even here — why he was allowed to be here.”
It’s a common refrain among those who have been victimized by people in the
country illegally. They weren’t supposed to be here in the first place, and the
government's inability to keep them from crossing the southern border after
they’ve been deported — and prevent them from committing crimes — provokes a
unique brand of helplessness and outrage.
Even Weston, a lifelong Democrat who attended both of Barack Obama’s
inaugurations and favors allowing otherwise law-abiding immigrants into the
United States to work and seek a better life, said he had to fight the urge to
call Donald Trump and tell him he was “dead-on” with his focus on foreigners
who commit crimes here.
“Somebody’s got to do something about it,” he said. In the same breath, Weston
emphasized that he doesn’t support Trump for president and said keeping
dangerous felons from crossing the border or entering the vast illegal
workforce defied simplistic solutions.
“If there’s some way to filter out the ones that intend to harm people, I would
be in support of that,” he said. “It may prevent something like this from
happening to somebody else.”
Dan Golvach is more blunt and outspoken. A few weeks after his son’s murder, he
was at the state Capitol testifying in favor of 2015 state legislation —
ultimately doomed — that would have prohibited local law enforcement
authorities in Texas from adopting “sanctuary” policies that keep police out of
immigration matters.
Then late last year, he appeared with Trump at a campaign rally in Beaumont,
saying his son died as “the result of politically correct politics” — namely,
bipartisan policies that he believes go too easy on undocumented immigrants and
the people who hire them.
“When you lose the thing you love the most, you’re not that worried about being
PC,” Golvach said in an interview. “If you’re going to come here, you need to
do it legally on our terms, not your terms.”
Golvach readily admits that anger over his son’s killing sometimes hits “toxic”
levels. He says he’s still haunted by the image of Spencer in a hastily chosen
coffin, still upset he was killed right next to the stadium where he used to
watch baseball as a kid, still mad as hell that the government won’t cough up
the records they have on his son’s killer.
It would be worse without all the good memories of his son, and without the
certainty that if Spencer were alive today he would say to him: “chill don’t
freeze.”
“He’d tell me, ‘Don’t have a heart attack. You know, clear your mind and keep
it cool,'” he said. “He would tell me not to hate anybody.”
Concrete Evidence of the Continuing Plunge in Both Civil and
Criminal Immigration Enforcement
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, January 23, 2016
Two recent reports from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access
Clearinghouse (TRAC) reflect the continued erosion of immigration enforcement
under the Obama administration.
On January 20, TRAC reported that criminal prosecution for immigration offenses
fell 22.3 percent from November 2014 to November 2015, and more than 36 percent
over the course of five years, excluding magistrate court (which deals
exclusively with petty offenses).
The following day, TRAC announced that "ICE [Immigration and Customs
Enforcement] Detainer Use Stabilizes Under Priority Enforcement Program".
The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) is the replacement to the Secure
Communities Program mandated by Homeland Security Security Jeh Johnson as a
part of the president's "executive actions" on immigration. It
significantly restricts the ability of immigration agents to file detainers
against aliens arrested by police on criminal charges.
I have no idea what TRAC means by "stabilizes". A quick look at
Figure 1a of their report shows a more accurate state of affairs, if one
considers the number of detainers being filed over the course of five years,
from a high in April 2011, when Secure Communities became fully effective
nationwide and kicked into high gear, versus October 2015. I would use other
phrases: "plummeted" or "Dropped like a stone". Or, as my
colleague Jessica Vaughan has noted, particularly in relation to detainers
filed at county jails, where the lion's share of criminals of any stripes are
held after being booked for offenses small and large: "a stunning free
fall".
http://www.cis.org/cadman/concrete-evidence-continuing-plunge-both-civil-and-criminal-immigration-enforcement
BARACK OBAMA and his SAUDIS PAYMASTERS: Did they build his Muslim tower
in Chicago?
OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERS:
STILL SUCKING THE BLOOD OUT OF AMERICA
This manufactured crisis has, in turn, been exploited by the Obama
administration and both big business parties to hand over trillions in pension
funds and other public assets to the financial kleptocracy that rules America.
“Our
entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become
a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This
is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen
McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com
“This was not because of
difficulties in securing indictments or convictions. On the contrary, Attorney
General Eric Holder told a Senate committee in March of 2013 that the Obama
administration chose not to prosecute the big banks or their CEOs because to do
so might “have a negative impact on the national economy.”
OBAMANOMICS
TO SERVE BANKSTERS
AND
GLOBAL BILLIONAIRES
"One of the premier institutions of big business,
JP Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the eve of the
10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that
another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a
government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama will
produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact of central
bank actions in driving inequality between asset owners
and labor."
CLOSET MUSLIM BARACK OBAMA’S CONSPIRACY FOR A THIRD TERM FOR LIFE
First, destroy Trump and put Hillary away if she doesn’t end up in
jail.
HE PARTNERS WITH ZUCKERBERG, SOROS AND LOUIS FARRAKHAN
“Obama would declare himself president for life with Soros
really running the show, as he did for the entire Obama presidency.”
“Hillary was always
small potatoes, a placeholder as it were. Her health was always suspect. And do
you think the plotters would have let a doofus like Tim Kaine take office in
the event that Hillary became disabled?”
“Obama has the
totalitarian impulse. After all, he went around saying he didn't have
Constitutional authority to legalize the illegals, and then he tried anyway.
The courts stopped him.”
“The bottom line 2 is
this: Barack Obama is a Communist. This was all an Obama operation. Why is
anyone surprised that a communist (Obama) tried to subvert an election. That is
what Communists do. It is Barack Obama and his people like Brennan and Clapper
behaving to type. That's what Maduro does in Venezuela. That's what the Castro
brothers did. That's what every communist and socialist nation does. THEY FIX ELECTIONS!!”
“ Hillary
kept a secret server overflowing with national security info which, more than
likely, was hacked. June 28, 2016, on a Phoenix tarmac, Bill Clinton met with
Attorney General Loretta Lynch to seal a deal insuring Hillary would not be
prosecuted.”
“ Obama, of course, covered
up his own role, depicting his presidency as eight years of heroic
efforts to repair the damage caused by the 2008 financial crash. At
the end of those eight years, however, Wall Street and the financial
oligarchy were fully recovered, enjoying record wealth, while
working people were poorer than before, a widening social chasm that
made possible the election of the billionaire con man and Demagogue in November
2016.”
David Bernstein & The Heritage Foundation - “Lawless: The
Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule
of Law.”
“The Lawlessness of the Obama Administration: A
never-ending story.” Michael
Barone – American Historian – Washington Examiner
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Obama Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)
GET THIS BOOK!
Obamanomics: How Barack
Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate
Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews: Obama
Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE,
Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same “special interests” Barack Obama was
supposed to chase from the temple—are profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big
Government policies that crush taxpayers, small businesses, and consumers.
In Obamanomics , investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up
the dirt the mainstream media ignores and the White House wishes you wouldn’t
see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is delivering corporate socialism to
America, all while claiming he’s battling corporate America. It’s corporate
welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s Obamanomics.
*
OBOMB for
BRIBES:
BARACK OBAMA
AGAIN TALKS THIRD TERM.
President
Barack Obama: During
his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and
transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President
has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption
to the White House. JUDICIAL WATCH
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
"We know that
Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C. home to plan
and execute resistance to the Trump administration and
his legislative agenda. None of these people care about the
American people, or the fact thatTrump won the election because
millions of people voted for him." Patricia McCarthy / AMERICAN THINKER.com
Obamanomics: How Barack
Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate
Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You
Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs , GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same
“special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are
profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers,
small businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics , investigative
reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and
the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is
delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling
corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s
Obamanomics.
BARACK OBAMA’S NOT SO
SECRET PRO-MU$LIM, ANTI-SEMITIC MOVE FOR A THIRD TERM FOR LIFE.
"When former
president Barack Obama, former president Bill Clinton and Eric Holder, a top
DOJ official in both administrations, have been caught hanging around with
Farrakhan, there’s a racism problem." DANIEL GREENFIELD
"Then we suffered the rattling election of
Barack Obama, whose active membership in a white-, Jewish-, and America-hating
church was well known to the electorate. His close personal
relationship with the likes of his adored Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis
Farrakhan was no secret. Obama was open about his
goals. He told us he was out to "fundamentally transform
America" and the world." ALAN BERGSTEIN
Attorney General Eric Holder: Tim Geithner can be sure he
won't be hounded about his tax-dodging by his colleague Eric Holder, US
Attorney General. Judicial Watch strongly opposed Holder because of his
terrible ethics record, which includes: obstructing an FBI investigation of the
theft of nuclear secrets from Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory; rejecting multiple
requests for an independent counsel to investigate alleged fundraising abuses
by then-Vice President Al Gore in the Clinton White House; undermining the
criminal investigation of President Clinton by Kenneth Starr in the midst of
the Lewinsky investigation; and planning the violent raid to seize
then-six-year-old Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint in order to return him to Castro's
Cuba. JUDICIAL WATCH
BARCK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S MUSLIM HERITAGE
Earlier this month, jihadists of the
Al-Shabaab terror group hijacked a bus heading to Garissa and ordered all the
passengers to exit the vehicle. The assailants asked for identification cards,
then proceeded to separate the Muslims from the Christians.
When two Christians refused to recite
the Islamic statement of faith, or Shahada, they were executed.
THE RISE of
BARACK OBAMA, sociopath huckster from Chicago, and the FALL of AMERICA
“My guess is that the students and employees at the
U of I who listened to Obama's self-righteous speech believe that Obama is
ethical because most of the media intentionally hid the mass corruption, or if
they reported on it, they downplayed it. The corruption and
unethical behavior started as soon as Obama took office.” JACK HELLNER / AMERICAN THINKER.com
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
JUDICIAL WATCH TEN MOST
CORRUPT
President Barack Obama : During
his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and
transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President
has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political
corruption to the White House. JUDICIAL WATCH
BARACK OBAMA
POSITIONS MARK ZUCKERBERG of FAKEBOOK to be his global controller of propaganda
for the Obama bankster-funded third term for life.
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
FAKEBOOK and
GOOBLE ASSAULT FREE SPEECH TO BUILD THE GLOBALISTS’ BILLIONAIRES’ DICTATORSHIP
FOR THE RICH
*
*
TRAITOR
BARACK OBAMA and the MEX FASCIST MOVEMENT of LA RAZA “The Race”
Reconquistas
Muñoz, Solis present at Obama sovereignty sellout session ...Obama was joined
at the meeting [about a push to amnesty millions of border-hopping job thieves]
by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Senior Advisor Valerie
Jarrett, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs Phil Schiliro,
and White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs [and former 'Tan Klan'
minion] Cecilia Muñoz ...
*
"Of course none of this comes as any
surprise considering that Obama's point person on illegal immigration, Cecilia
Munoz, once worked for the ultra-radical National Council of La Raza [aka the
Tan Klan], a racist group that is committed to staging a takeover of the
American Southwest and returning it to Mexico...."
GLOBALIST FOR BANKSTERS, THE SUPER RICH and
OPEN BORDERS
ADVOCATES TO FINISH OFF THE AMERICAN
MIDDLE-CLASS.
There’s a reason why Soros, Bezos, Zuckerberg,
Bloomberg, Gates and the Koch Brothers love the Obomb!
“Democrats Move Towards ‘Oligarchical
Socialism,’ Says Forecaster Joel Kotkin.”
JUDICIAL WATCH’S TEN MOST
CORRUPT LIST
President Barack Obama : During
his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and
transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President
has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political
corruption to the White House. JUDICIAL WATCH
Obamanomics: How
Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends,
Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You
Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs , GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same
“special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are
profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers,
small businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics , investigative
reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and
the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is
delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling
corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s
Obamanomics.
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the creation
of a one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open borders.
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal
aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an
assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor,
uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens
and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit
California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to the economy in any
meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE
BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
YOU WONDERED WHY OBAMA-HOLDER WORKED SO HARD TO SABOTAGE
AMERICAN VOTING FOR MORE ILLEGALS???
Those
are the subliterate, low-skill, non-English-speaking indigents whose own
societies are unable or unwilling to usefully educate and employ them. Bring
these people here and they not only need a lot of services, they are putty in
the hands of leftist demogogues as Hugo Chavez demonstrated - and they are very
useful as leftist voters who will support the Soros agenda.
Banksters’ rent boy Eric Holder declares that Obama is ready
to roll for a third term!
BARACK OBAMA and ERIC HOLDER: BUILDING OBAMA’S MUSLIM-STYLE
DICTATORSHIP requires destroying white middle class first.
(BANKSTERS)
NO POLITICIAN
IN HISTORY SUCKED IN MORE BRIBES FROM BANKSTERS THAN BARACK OBAMA, AND HE DID
IT BEFORE HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE.
What did the
Wall Street banksters know that took us so long to find out???
"One of the premier institutions of big business,
JP Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the eve of the
10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that
another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a
government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama
will produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact
of central bank actions in driving inequality between
asset owners and labor."
Obama, of course, covered up his own role, depicting
his presidency as eight years of heroic efforts to repair the damage caused
by the 2008 financial crash. At the end of those eight years,
however, Wall Street and the financial oligarchy were fully
recovered, enjoying record wealth, while working people were poorer
than before, a widening social chasm that made possible the election of
the billionaire con man and Demagogue in November 2016.
“The
response of the administration was to rush to the defense of the banks. Even
before coming to power, Obama expressed his unconditional support for the
bailouts, which he subsequently expanded. He assembled an administration
dominated
by the interests of finance capital, symbolized by economic adviser
Lawrence Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.”
Trump criticized
Dimon in
2013 for supposedly contributing to the country’s economic downturn. “I’m not
Jamie Dimon, who pays $13 billion to settle a case and then pays $11 billion to
settle a case and who I think is the worst banker in the United States,” he
told reporters.
(END
BANKSTERS)
*
(BANKS
DEPRESSED WAGES)
Crony Capitalism, Economic plunder by Wall Street, Bottomless Bailouts
and Wider Open Borders to Keep Wages Depressed and Profits up.
The stupendous run-up on the global
stock exchanges and vast increase in the personal fortunes of the
financial oligarchy have depended on the relentless downward pressure on
workers’ wages and conditions.
This is a class-conscious decision by the central bank
executives, who understand that investors tend to make far more money when the
sword of mass unemployment and poverty is kept swinging over the heads of
workers.
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VIDEO:
JUDICIAL WATCH GOES AFTER CLINTON AND OBOMB… will they see
prison time?
THE OBAMA-CLINTON SWAMP…. How close they came to destroying
American democracy…. It’ what happens when two psychopath lawyers are permitted
to run for office!
“If the Constitution did not forbid cruel
and unusual punishment, the sentence I would like to see imposed would place
both Bill and Hillary Clinton in the same 8-by-12
cell.” ROBERT ARVAY – AMERICAN THINKER com
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
They Destroyed Our Country
“They knew Obama was an unqualified
crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to
happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of America and the
world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet
they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)”
THE RISE TO POWER OF BANKSTER-OWNED
BARACK OBAMA
'Incompetent' and 'liar' among most
frequently used words to describe the president: Pew Research Center
The larger fear is that Obama might be just another corporatist, punking
voters much as the Republicans do when they claim to be all for the common guy.
OBAMA'S ASSAULT ON AMERICA -WHY WALL STREET, ILLEGALS, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS
and the 1% LOVE HIM, AND THE MIDDLE CLASS GETS THE SHAFT TO PAY FOR HIS CRONY
CAPITALISM
CEO pay is higher than ever, as is the chasm separating the rich and
super-rich from everyone else. The incomes of the top 1 percent grew more than
11 percent between 2009 and 2011—the first two years of the Obama
“recovery”—while the incomes of the bottom 99 percent actually shrank.
Meanwhile, Obama is pressing forward
with his proposal, outlined in his budget for the next fiscal year, to slash
$400 billion from Medicare and $130 billion from Social Security… AS WELL AS
WIDER OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, NO LEGAL NEED APPLY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
INCOME PLUMMETS UNDER OBAMA AND HIS WALL STREET CRONIES
WELFARE
CHEAT BARACK OBAMA FUNDS HIS EGO TOWER off tax payers backs!
I am sure
that Obama and his friend and former chief of staff Rahm would not like to see
pols running for mayor on a platform of halting the giveaway. "
But that halt to lawlessness hasn't stopped the
Windy City's politicians rushing to hand over almost 20 acres of precious
lakefront park land to the private foundation controlled by Barack and Michelle
Obama. The Obama Foundation (Obama.org) promises to build a monument
to his presidency, called the Obama Presidential Center (OPC). It
has to be called the OPC because it will not be an actual presidential library,
under the control of the National Archives, but rather a privately controlled
entity, free to focus on whatever pleases the 44th president.”
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NO PRESIDENT IN HISTORY SUCKED IN
MORE BRIBES FROM CRIMINAL BANKSTERS THAN BARACK OBAMA!
This was not because of
difficulties in securing indictments or convictions. On the contrary, Attorney
General Eric Holder told a Senate committee in March of 2013 that the Obama
administration chose not to prosecute the big banks or their CEOs because to do
so might “have a negative impact on the national economy.”
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BARACK OBAMA and
the RISE OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA ‘The Race’, now calling itself
UNIDOSus.
“The watchdogs
at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
Obama Funds the Mexican Fascist Party of
LA RAZA “The Race”… now calling itself UNIDOSus.
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the
Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN,
belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and
California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers
via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERISM destroyed a 11 TRILLION
DOLLARS in home equity… and they’re still plundering us!
Barack Obama created more
debt for the middle class than any president in US
history, and also had
the only huge QE programs: $4.2 Trillion.
OXFAM reported that during Obama’s terms, 95% of the
wealth created went to
the top 1% of the world’s wealthy.
PATHOLOGICAL LIAR BARACK OBAMA MOCKS TRUMP
Obama orchestrated the greatest transfer of
wealth to the rich in U.S. history!
THE WALL STREET BOUGHT AND OWNED DEMOCRAT PARTY
SERVING BANKSTERS, BILLIONAIRES and INVADING ILLEGALS
THE CRONY CLASS:
Income inequality grows FOUR TIMES FASTER under
Obama than Bush.
“By the time of Bill Clinton’s election
in 1992, the Democratic Party had completely repudiated its association with
the reforms of the New Deal and Great Society periods. Clinton gutted welfare
programs to provide an ample supply of cheap labor for the rich (WHICH NOW
MEANS OPEN BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY!), including a growing layer of black
capitalists, and passed the 1994 Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious “three
strikes” provision that has helped create the largest prison population in the
world.”
(TOP - THIRD TERM, PAY-TO-PLAY – BIDEN)
JOE BIDEN DOES NOT WANT YOU TO
KNOW THIS!
THE SECRET LIFE OF A BANKSTERS’
RENT BOY.
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THE OBAMA MARXIST-MUSLIM
BANKSTER-FUNDED THIRD TERM for life:
"Cold War historian Paul Kengor
goes deeply into Obama's communist background in an article in
American Spectator, "Our First Red Diaper Baby President," and in an
excellent Mark Levin interview . Another Kengor article describes the Chicago communists whose
younger generation include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein
Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers , and you have many of the key players who put Obama into
power." Karin
McQuillan
*
"We know
that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C.
home to plan
and execute resistance to the Trump administration and his legislative
agenda.
None of these people care about the American people, or the fact that
Trump won
the election because millions of people voted for him."
THE RISE OF
BARACK OBAMA an American Traitor
LOOKING LIKE 30 YEARS FOR HILLARY CLINTON …. OBAMA MAY FOLLOW
HER!
MICHAEL BARONE
“The Lawlessness of the Obama
Administration: A never-ending story.”
GLOBLIST BARACK OBAMA,
AND HIS GLOBALIST CRONIES WANT WIDER OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
OBAMA’S ASSAULT ON
ARIZONA
SENATOR JEFF FLAKE’S STATE of MEX-OCCUPIED ARIZONA:
1.
SECOND ONLY TO MEXICO CITY IN MEX KIDNAPPING.
2.
PHOENIX IS U.S. FIRST PLACE FOR MEX HOME INVASION
3.
PHOENIX IS U.S. FIRST PLACE FOR MEX CAR THEFT.
4.
MILLIONS PAID OUT TO MEX ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS
The
Mexican fascist separatist movement of M.E.Ch.A's goal is even more radical: an
independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name this organization gives to the seven states of the U.S.
Southwest – Arizona, California,
Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah."
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The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney
General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of
migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per
year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials
only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two
pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
*
More than half a million
illegal immigrants of several dozen nationalities have been apprehended on John
Ladd’s sprawling cattle ranch in southeastern Arizona. Ladd has also found 14
dead bodies on his 16,500-acre farm, which has been in his family for well over
a century and sits between the Mexican border and historic State Route 92 .
*
We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within
our borders that promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of
California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico.
*
“While the Obama Administration downplays violence along
the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities in Texas reveal that Mexican have
transformed parts of the state into a war zone where shootings, beheadings,
kidnappings and murders are common.
FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA “THE RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
Only in America could critics of a group
called "The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of
left-wing identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors
have succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."
JUDICIAL WATCH
OBAMA HANDS TAX DOLLARS TO LA RAZA MEXICAN SUPREMACIST:
Previous
generations of immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to
Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica , by Jose Vasconcelos,
Mexico’s former education minister and a presidential candidate. According to
this book, republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal
State LA, students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards,
blacks are ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack
enterprise. The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is
replacing them, and all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD
BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
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 21 st 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 was closely 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 u nder 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.